skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he was not [great - ] he was typical
of a pop culture humorist

You're presenting "great" and "pop cultural humorist" as mutually exclusive terms.

It feels fundamentally incorrect to compare him to writers producing conspicuously deeper and denser stuff.

If you judge him by standards and goals to which he never aspired then I'd agree he comes up awfully short.

Reminds me of the old days when people derided the Beatles and other rock and roll acts because they didn't meet the standards of classical music. Or when people derided e.g. Shigeru Miyamoto because video games didn't measure up to the narrative achievements seen in the best movies.

It's true: The Godfather and Super Mario Brothers are both things that appear on your television screen. Just like Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Lolita and Finnegan's Wake are all books. Not sure they're trying to be the same thing, though.
Yeah, it definitely seems to be overfitting.
While I use teamspeak myself and will probably use the new one when it comes out (provided I can still host the server), I don't think they have much of a place in the future because they failed to innovate in time. As the top comment for this article is arguing, Microsoft isn't buying discords shitty js based software or their company for the great culture they might have, they're buying the mainstream teenage communication market. That market isn't interested to switch to a copy of discord where the only perceivable difference is a total lack of users.

The only thing teamspeak will achieve with this update is further alienate it's current userbase that stuck with them for various reasons, may that be the familiarity, the native client, the ability to selfhost or the availiable plugins for games like arma.

There's no solution to this, they're in a position where the only possible move is to lose.
The backlash from people finding out about a quiet discussion can be just as bad. If they favor openness then they don't lose points for secrecy.

And it's clear enough that literal anti-vax people don't need a real reason. It's hesitancy that is the addressable issue, which is going to be better addressed by building trust than by saying what sounds right.
At least you can write/bundle your own render engine on Android, something which is not possible on iOS.
>Skype could make direct P2P connections with outstanding fidelity

I used to be absolutely in awe of the technology Skype had... got bought for $8+B back then and Microsoft managed to ruin the p2p part and stability/latency of the calls
If I'm running the numbers right, then using the Hubble's maximum theoretic angular resolution of 2.8e-7 rad[1], something 400km up would still not resolve features smaller than 11.2cm. That's the absolute best, diffraction-limited case. Don't know how close we are to that on real-world optics.

[1] https://opentextbc.ca/universityphysicsv3openstax/chapter/ci...
> I don't think teenagers being racist is a normal activity that is whimsical fun.

Bullies think bullying is fun. Spectators think the event is fun. The bullied one pays the price (don't ask me how I know).

Some bullies never grow. They think it's fun, it's a way of expressing themselves.

Yes, neither racism nor bullying is normal, but exhibitor of these behaviors normalize it.
This started happening for me last night. Just updated webview to 89.0.4389.105 and everything works now.
That's the British narrative at the moment; self-identification with this vaccine mixed with a constant feeling of being punished for Brexit.
Yes; see this Reddit post by their CTO from 5 years ago: https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/43lqyb/why_is_d... which says:

"CTO of Discord here.

We do not record all your processes and send them to our servers.

We watch the process list for 3 reasons.

Detect games to show on your status message. You can turn this off anytime in the privacy tab of settings.
Detect games to hook the overlay into if it is enabled.
Detect games run as administrator to warn that Push to talk won't work.

You cannot disable the scanning as the 3rd reason is always required.

If you use the overlay we send information about your DirectX and GPU to our metrics server to track success rate of the overlay as we test it and improve it. We will probably stop sending this to our server as soon as overlay moves out of the experimental phase.

Nothing else is ever saved to disk or sent over the network.

Also the IP address you listed is an address of one of our US East voice servers which has no relation to our primary data center. Nothing is sent over it that would involve games. Our primary IPs (where we send your status) would be something else. Whatever data you saw being sent continuously was probably related to voice chat."
> Are there really cultures where inflicting suffering on others is not "within their cultural frame and value system"?

Yes!

* Consider treatment of children in Korea, where kids are forced, by their parents, to study 16 hours per day.

* Consider tactics used in many resistance movements against oppressive governments in Slavic cultures (and similar tactics recently adopted by oppressed African American communities in the US), which are explicitly about making people feel uncomfortable about wrongs.

* Consider Spartan culture (or any other macho culture). Even in the US, why would Marines do the things they do?

* Consider historical Catholic culture of denial and self-sacrifice.

* Consider "drink from the firehose" culture at elite tech schools like MIT.

* Heck, consider the way many cultures temper kids to be resiliant to discomfort (e.g. dipping in cold water in parts of Eastern Europe)

... and so on. Contemporary progressive Western culture is almost uniquely focused on concepts like fun and personal comfort.

The way your comment conflates "comfort" with "things they care about" is an example of that.

Broadly speaking, Western culture is also (both currently and historically) more focused than most other cultures on surface politeness. "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" is an middle/upper-class WASP concept. In China, if you're fat, you'll get called fat. That's not uniquely US (Japan is even further in that direction), but it is a place a lot of people have to code switch in the US, since the US (with a few other countries, like England, Germany, and Japan) are outliers there. I can't raise my voice in a professional middle-class US workplace. I can do a lot of things on international conference calls (to the relief of both sides!) which would get me instantly fired in the US.

It's a signalling and oppression mechanism too; if a construction worker learned to code but didn't learn to code switch US cultures too, they'd likely never achieve socioeconomic mobility. Google would say they're an aggressive, sexist, white male (or if not white, at the very least, not a "culture fit"). It's how I let you know I'm part of your in-crowd.

Fortunately, I can code switch now!

> By their very nature things that make someone uncomfortable are things they care about. If they truly didn't care they would not experience discomfort.

You're conflating two different things (which are deeply conflated in US culture, so this isn't a comment about you). I'll give a couple of examples:

* I care about personal growth. Personal growth requires discomfort. Whether that's grinding through a complex math text, learning to code switch through immersion in a different culture, being told I'm wrong, or otherwise.

* My girlfriend has a mental health issue. She cares about resolving it. US culture has conditioned her to "manage" it by seeking ways which avoid "triggering" situations. As far as I can tell, that's leading to a spiral where it's getting worse. In my culture, you'd do the opposite; you'd seek out those situations to habituate to them (which is exceptionally uncomfortable).
Show me a vaccine that is 100% efficient with outliers. Until then it's scientists that are failing.
Apple expands free professional learning to help teachers champion creativity
Since I didn't see it mentioned, I assume those are 1000 noisy qubits, so they'll require error correction. I wonder how many ideal qubits they are equivalent to.
> debating what "life" is as a general concept outside of biology is not a profound issue

I'm not sure this is true. I think I disagree with much of your neat frame-setting here. For example, some of my favourite recent podcasts from complexity science involve clever folks like Sara Imari Walker discussing "life" as what emerges from a dense information well.[1] These questions are not just simple inventories.

But yes, I do agree that this may be just "a language issue". But there are other streams of thought that are actively promoting language into a more respectable realm of complexity science, where "just a language issue" actually downplays what may be going on in that "resolving" process of language itself[2] (h/t Nicole Creanza, whose research in birdsong & human cultural evolution is profiled)

tl;dr - I would argue that these questions are "profound" all the way down, if we start looking at it in the right way.

[1]: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/40-ImRdTdBt

[2]: https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/22-yTXhvGCS
Ah, OK. I wouldn't characterize the use of a preexisting regulatory channel that is present exactly for this purpose as "easing" but it is a perfectly fair position to take. Thanks!
Human rhinovirus blocks SARS-CoV-2 replication in respiratory epithelium
Theoretically, if Starlink satellites had cameras of that sort of caliber on-board, pointed down with wide enough lenses, they could capture the entire planet continuously and feed that data back down at close to real-time.
But even if I agree that it's almost impossible in 5 years it's better to be cautious and assume it could be broken in 5. And there's also the fact it could be broken by some governments long before anyone finds out I guess.
Live previews with Rails and Stimulus 2
Every time I read these testimonials from Asian students - how they're basically devoting their entire youths for some entrance exam, or college majors, I can't help but feel incredibly thankful that I'm from a western/nordic country.

It just sounds so alien that people would live like that - but at the same time, it's completely understandable. The payoff can be life-altering, so it's really no different than would-be athletes here, that devote their lives for the sport, because first prize could be pro-sports contract with multi-million salaries, while second prize is basically a set of stake knives, in the long run.

When I grew up, I spent maybe an hour on homework? If that. Granted, we had very, very little rote learning, and the school system put a lot of emphasis on conceptual understanding. We simply did not participate in problem-grinding.

Same for college and university. Undergrad was quite hectic, but the workload was much higher than anything I had experienced before. Still, I don't know a single student from my class that studied from morning to night.

If anything, I hope they got the payoff they were hoping for.
The link between personality and success
Been hearing the 4K Switch rumor since last year. After playing on the PS5 @ 4K 60Hz, last gen begins to feel ancient. Frame rate becomes crucial for competitive multiplayer. Compression tech like RAD tools Oodle makes netcode prediction viable. Even classic fighting games like Guilty Gear will experience a renaissance. Of course, Nintendo will have to respond in kind ;)

I think the biggest stunner is load times now cut to zero. Was never into Spiderman games. Or even single player brawlers in general. But the new Miles Morales launch title feels like being in a Marvel movie. With cinematics and gameplay flawlessly intercut. By end-of-cycle, it will be really interesting to see what designers come up with to take advantage of this.
Nitpick, but they’d only be up 44%. 0.8*1.8 = 1.44, not 1.6.
Frontier - sold 7Mbit down that actually operated at about 1.5mbit during business hours and would peak at 5mbit from 2a-4am if I had to download something - that despite the modem actually syncing up at 7mbit. It was entirely their network too, my SNR was good enough to do 25mbit+ if they had offered it.

Latency generally in the hundreds of ms because their network was so congested any traffic leaving it was a joke. Netflix was literally the only thing that worked for content (sometimes) and I'd assume that only worked through a combination of excellent bandwidth management on the part of Netflix and a caching server somewhere local on the Frontier network.

My dial-up in the 90s was better from a reliability and consistency perspective. I ended up having to install mosh on all of my systems because SSH sessions would timeout so frequently on Frontier's garbage network.
TIL a gram of tapioca has twice the calories of a gram of fat? "For every 15 g of regular boba topping, about 280 kcal are added to the drink."
The "may have" appears to come directly the NIAID's news release. If you think that NIAID or the DSMB is trying to smear AZ, then sure.

Otherwise, keeping things vague provides maximum room for maneuver for both groups to resolve the issue without either group losing too much face. This way things can get chalked up to "mis-understandings" of what the requirements were, and AZ can reclarify their data in light of these new requirements.
Wikipedia: Talk-Covid 19 Misinformation
Bloomberg Terminal: The best product too few people have ever used
It may not convert as well, but this is why I really appreciate the payment confirmation type screen before the charge is actually made.
PyWebIO is a Python library which provides a series of imperative functions to obtain user input and output on the browser. The input function of PyWebIO is blocking, and the output function will output content to user in real time.

You can use PyWebIO to build simple web applications or browser-based GUI applications without the need to have knowledge of HTML and JS.

The way of writing PyWebIO applications is more like writing a terminal program. You can think of the browser as a rich text terminal while writing PyWebIO app. If you have a terminal script, you only need to replace the input and output functions with PyWebIO's functions to turn your terminal script to a web application.

Features：

- Support click events, layout and output updates.

- Support integration into existing web project, currently supports Flask, Django, Tornado, aiohttp
framework.
- Support for asyncio and coroutine.

- Compatible with data visualization libraries, e.g., plotly, bokeh, pyecharts.

Links:

- Demos: http://pywebio-demos.demo.wangweimin.site/

- Documents: https://pywebio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

PS: I am not a native speaker of English, so the documents may be a bit obscure. If you have any questions, please feel free to discuss on https://github.com/wang0618/PyWebIO/discussions
I certainly know what ZFS was designed for. I've been working with replicated checksummed file systems for decades, including WAFL, NetApp's file system, which ZFS was "inspired" by (see the Sun vs NetApp lawsuit). They had both block- and sector-based checksums in 2002, albeit designed for RAID-4. I wholeheartedly endorse checksummed file systems for maximum data integrity.

ZFS will not protect you (by default) against bit flips in memory (please use ECC) or kernel bugs. If the disk buffer is corrupted in the kernel, on its way to the file system layer for dispatch, ZFS will happily checksum and perfectly store the bad data. Checksums are like Rust's borrow checker: a very good idea that makes your data safer, but not a panacea that prevents all errors.

Finally, as with all complex file systems, ZFS is notorious for difficulty in recovering from multi-bit errors, often requiring "pool surgery" and multi-day disk scrubs to remount the file system. Perhaps your data is eventually recoverable, but do you have a week to finish the scrub to get it back online?

If any this sounds unlikely to you, I assure you, it is! But it can happen, I've seen it happen, and for things that really matter, one of your backups should always always always be logical.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24119838
It links to [1], which appears to be their meta "fill out a form" web page, but has specific fields for more information that differ from, say, their generic Internet Problem form [2].

[1] - https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?tic...

[2] - https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/requests/new?tic...
I believe some US military bases are hidden on Google Maps. But it's not an issue if you're trying to find them. You can derive their location from soldiers doing laps around the base and uploading their run data to Strava.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/28/fitness-tracki...
It is my favorite too! I can quickly work in Bash/Zsh without starting any WSL sessions.
Yes, this also works in Mumble/TS3.
Rally.io – A Cryptocurrency for Creators
Scala compiles to java bytecode. Scala can only be faster then Java, in that Scala can leverage all functionality of the JVM and on top provide extra smarts that Java cannot due to backwards compatibilty it has to offer.
I have two arguments against this:

1. If there's a serious issue with the vaccine and we kept it quiet, the consequences would be catastrophic. Not only in terms of public health but also in terms of public trust. Even a small chance of this outcome far, far outweighs the number of people who will die due to people wrongly deciding not to get the AZ vaccine.

2. We have a moral obligation to have conversations in public that involve the safety of injecting substances into people. Regardless of "cost benefit analysis," people simply have a right to be privy to these conversations. It's better for things to go worse and respect this right than for things to go better and not respect it.
Fair enough. There definitely is a lunatic fringe.

I'm not sure they are that big of a threat though, seems like a small minority to me amplified by social media.

I know there is a heavy focus on "killing the fringes" atm. but i don't know if i agree.

The focus must be on good education, and generally better and more research journalism which is sorely missing, leaving large parts of politics / economics / lobbyism / tech-policy making in the darkness creating a landscape where people speculate from correct "hunches" that sadly quickly becomes fantasy and community for these people that for the most part are searching for some grounding in a large chaotic world.
Casaba-Howitzer
> That announcement came after top Taiwanese medical officials had seen those social media posts, realized how serious they looked, and started asking China about them.

The first announcement from the Chinese government came on 30 December 2019, one day before the events described in your second article. ProMED-Mail sent out an alert on 30 December 2019,[1] and the next day, the outbreak was even reported on CCTV.[2] Social media posts gave additional information, but the existence of an outbreak of likely viral pneumonia was publicly declared before those posts, and people who follow emerging infectious diseases were following the story.

1. https://promedmail.org/promed-post/?id=6864153

2. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-pneumonia-id...
You can't catch SIGSTOP or SIGKILL. If you're trying to eliminate a rogue process, you wouldn't as nice as to ask it to politely shut down. It could just refuse. So if you're killing it forcefully, it shouldn't get to print anything. If you're asking it politely, then it can just refuse to die and doesn't need a monitor process to restart it.

In this story this isn't Unix but I imagine the same should apply. If you're trying to terminate something with extreme prejudice, it shouldn't get any chance to print anything.
We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
Study reveals plunge in lithium-ion battery costs
Teams have integrations with other MS products (Outlook, Sharepoint). They are clunky and look like they were bolted on, but they're there which is better than not having them at all.
Kurosawa-san may be too humble to add his own Ikiru (生きる, "To Live") to this list. But it well deserves its place in the pantheon. A film to restore your faith in the simple act of surviving ;)
I thought you where making up words, saying “rectangular cylinder”, but apparently it’s a thing:

https://www.quora.com/Geometry-What-is-a-rectangular-cylinde...
The organization and mode of operation of automotive dealerships bears more resemblance to an illegal cartel than a legitimate way of organizing a business. The fact that "traditional" dealerships are trying to influence lawmakers to maintain their cartel only furthers this perception.
> Black holes are wrapped in event horizons.

Not really - the event horizon is the effect of the black hole, not something separate from it. Also, from one perspective there is nothing mysterious about it - an observer passing through it would not notice any kind of border there (though an observer who is not passing through it would see it as some kind of barrier emitting Hawking radiation).

Also note that physicists do not believe that there is any infinity at the center of a black hole. With a theory of quantum gravity we may even be able to describe the structure of the core of a black hole (though it would remain forever an un-testable model). Just like classical mechanics allows a particle to gain unbounded speed, GR allows a mass to gain unbounded gravity, but that is likely incorrect, we just don't know how to describe the limit yet.

> The digits of pi would require all the energy of the universe to calculate.

This makes no sense - pi has an infinite number of digits, so all of the energy in the universe can't possibly be enough to compute it.

> Calculating the brain with sufficient accuracy (using our current computational framework) would require a computer so large it would generate a black hole...

I find this hard to believe. Regardless, there is no infinity in the human brain.

Note that in general infinity is an inherently non-scientific concept - there is no way to experimentally distinguish an infinity from a quantity larger than the largest possible experiment.
I have a vastly different experience regarding quality in comparison to e.g. TeamSpeak.

Maybe it's because I mostly use free Discord servers, but the sound quality is much worse and, more crucially, Discord is apparently completely unable to automatically filter out any system sounds that get picked up by my microphone. My headset is really not the best, but in many years of TeamSpeak use I never once had a problem with my sounds playing back to other users, even on default settings.

In Discord, if I use automatic voice activation levels, other users can hear practically my entire system sound and I have to crank the activation threshold up so high that apparently sometimes my voice will cut off. Even then, particularly loud sounds on my headset still get picked up by Discord.

It's really been a subpar experience.
Trial review board raises concerns about AstraZeneca vaccine data
So, then I am definitely good using 4096 RSA?
> Given the Shield 2019 features DLSS or some variant with it's Tegra X1+

Does it?

But either way, a new tegra with a new switch seems reasonable. But switching SoC manufacturers isn’t out of the question. NVIDIA is focusing less on the tablet form factor for tegra, more on automotive for the past few years. I guess the Xavier chip could fit in that lower power envelope, but it’s not really what it’s built for I think.