skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I see it, the problem is not the so-called "hygiene theater". It's rather the fact that a large part of humanity (mostly in developed countries) are:

- Living in an artificial urban setting with a disrupted and unbalanced ecosystem.
- Eating mass-produced industrial food, both lacking in pro-biotics and a vector for viruses and bacteria.
- Getting regularly vaccinated and consume antibiotics.
- Leading a physically inactive lifestyle.
- Being exposed to pollutants with grave consequences to our digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular and reproductive systems.

It seems to me that had we been leading a healthier way of life, one that is integrated with our ecosystem, an active life that pollutes less, based on healthy, local food production and consumption, the current sanitary crisis would have looked much different.
Agree. Everyone wants to have their cake and eat it too.

Live by the patent, die by the patent.
I disagree with their conclusion, because if you changed the question to say “the structure must be at least 3 Lego blocks high” without telling people to subtract blocks then I think it would probably solicit similar results.

Their conclusion is that people will add rather than take away, so you should tell people to take away. My conclusion is that people will add rather than take away if not provided enough information about the problem space. I think the solution is to better define the problem, otherwise you can come up with lots of proposals that aren’t suitable.

If I don’t know if making the guy lie down is allowed I’m going to have to make an assumption and either under-optimise or over-optimise.

My view is saying you can remove bricks implies that roof height isn’t important, which changes the users assumption on requirements. The learning should be more clarity on requirements, rather than just “ask people to reduce rather than increase”.

Additionally, if you changed the rule and said “participants will be scored based on the number of blocks removed”, I assume you would also get people creating silly scenarios like the ones I described and wholly unsuitable designs. This is more realistic in the real world where less material = less cost.
— and jasmin rice.
The core argument of your Reddit post addressing gain-of-function research is that GoF research causes the sugars on the surface of the virus to be lost.

But that doesn't address the recombination event / recombinant virus, which is what the proponents of the lab-leak hypothesis seem to be arguing (spike protein from one virus combined with backbone from another virus)
Try it. You can’t unless you’ve found some exploit in a given wayland compositor.

Linux only grants permission to keyboard/mouse events to root or to display “owner”, which is the one who requested it on a given tty.
Not to take a horse in this mask-or-no race here, but the "One Way" thing is about air velocity and distance.

The asymmetry comes from the shorter distance of the mask from the source of exhalation, faster/wetter air, when you breath out vs your intake which is ambient air pressures and speeds.
Nvidia GPUs seized after high-speed boat chase
HackerNews usually: But they're a private company, they can do what they want!!!

Reality is Spotify and other companies are trying to corner the podcast market, this is going to lead to more censorship in this space. You might be inclined to say creators can just avoid these platforms but it will become harder not to use those platforms when looking for an audience.

Rogan despite portraying a right leaning / freedom of speech angle doesn't actually really care so it's not surprising he just grabbed the money and accepted censorship.
I don't it's that strange of a thing to point out on a site that's mostly known to harbour people with some rather extreme views. I created an account for a HN discussion some time ago[1] and it wasn't especially pretty. They've also been sending me hilariously delusional emails.[2]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25926564

[2]: https://twitter.com/arp242_martin/status/1374197605022887939
How Do Scientists Know the Structure of the Earth's Interior?
I read from a book one thing that changed this cycle for me.

You expect to get motivation first, then start working. This thing not always work like that, it's self-enhancing cycle. Work -> Motivation -> Work -> Motivation...

The thing is you can start this cycle from any point. I.e. if you want to get motivation for work just start doing a little.
A little later during the Roman empire there was the need to travel distances, but it also didn't get invented.
It seems though, that shimano has effectively taken several market chunks where no competition exists - I’ve yet to see a cargo bike or electric bike with a derailleur that’s not shimano. From conversation with some mechanics I gather that no competitor produces sprockets with the required strength to survive the increased torque. On some high end models you see Rohloff hub shifts or sometimes even pinion, but I’ve yet to see sram or any other. Granted, that’s observational data from my limited view, so I may well be wrong.
Induced a demand for increased local point-to-point transport (notably of horse-powered drayage)

Railroads introduced a last-mile problem. Rail freight dates from about 1930. Big stuff moves fine by rail, but if you don't have your own railroad siding, there's a problem on delivery. Heavy trucks didn't appear until about 1905 (from Mack Truck, still in business), and they weren't produced in volume until 1914.

One solution was to breed big horses. Really big horses. Clydesdales and Shires were bred up to huge size and pulling power. That was the best short-term fix available.

It took three quarters of a century to get motor trucks working, even when it was obvious that trucks were needed and there was the industrial capacity to build geared machinery.

Yes, the Roman Empire probably could have made a bicycle. They had lathe-turned iron axle bearings on carts, and lathe-turned spokes in wheels. But it would have been a crappy bicycle. Not worth lugging around. The tension wheel only appeared in 1802. Someone might have hand-made a tension wheel for a Roman emperor as a one-off. They had steel, but in low volume and not of uniform properties.

Always remember, when looking at early technology, that before 1880, steel was about as rare as titanium is now. With no strong, cheap materials, what you could do was limited.
GitUI: A terminal user interface for Git
Just don't let it become acceptable. People will try and push and make it sound like it should be obvious that banana republic(and many others) is xenophobic, but just don't accept it, fight it, point out that it's a stupid connection to make and trying to shame others for it is not what modern society should be doing.
I agree with you in general, but even if you use jailed apps in X, they can keylog. It can be solved with nested X sessions, but that would only add yet another hacky patch.
The "Gun Assault" category needs more breaking down. How many of those were innocent people -- i.e. store clerks shot by robbers, spouses shot for infidelity, victims of serial killers, murdered victims of child predators, and so on -- and how many were "asking for it" -- i.e. they were a criminal whose victim shot them in self-defense, it was gang-vs-gang violence, they got shot in a drug deal gone bad, they were shot by police or armed guards (presumably while resisting arrest or threatening a victim with imminent harm), they were soldiers who were killed in battle, and so on.

Likewise with the "Opioiod overdose" situation. How many of those were medical mistakes, like the doctor wrote X milligrams and the nurse accidentally put X grams in the IV instead, or a patient forgot whether they'd taken today's pills, accidentally took an extra dose and died from it, or unknowingly got prescribed multiple drugs that all contained opioids, or happened to have an allergy to opioids and died of anaphylactic shock? How many were "asking for it" -- deliberately swallowing too many pills in a suicide attempt, or taking illegal street pills / injections created by unknown persons, containing unknown substances at unknown potency?
Think from the point of view of a tools/productivity engineer at a large company.

Yes, you invest some of your time to create the faster tool. Then hundreds to tens of thousands of people all use that faster tool to save time, day in and day out.

Just to put some concrete numbers to this, if you have a 100-person engineering team and you ask one of them to spend all their work time ensuring that the others are 1% more efficient than they would be otherwise (so saving each of them 5 minutes per typical 8 hour workday), you about break even. If you have a 500-person team, you come out ahead.

Now it's possible that the switch to a compiled language we are discussing would not save people 5 minutes per day, or that you don't have 100+ engineers. Obviously for a tool that only the developer of the tool will use the calculus is very different!
Cortex-M. Lots of Bluetooth LE solutions. WiFi getting there - Nordic is working on a solution here as well.
It’s not the gambler’s fallacy since they’re treating each flight as an independent event:

Probability of dying on one flight: 1/10,000,000

Probability of surviving one flight: 1-1/10,000,000 = 9,999,999/10,000,000

Probability of surviving 100 flights: (9,999,999/10,000,000)^100

Probability of not surviving 100 flights:
1-(9,999,999/10,000,000)^100 ~ 1/100,000.

I don’t know if the initial assumption of 1/10,000,000 survival rate is accurate, but the math is correct.

And when you have a probability that’s very small, you can skip all that and approximate by multiplying the probability by the number of events: 1/10,000,000 * 100 = 1/100,000. That’s thanks to the binomial approximation.
Looking at the article, it looks like if the patent holder John Harvey had spent his post-Yale life simply resting and investing in the S&P 500, then the "infringing" technology in question would have happened just fine with out him. And Mr. Harvey would probably have been richer doing that, too.
That's unsubstantiated, as we have at least second-hand evidence of people getting harassed over using the name Coq, while we don't have evidence for something similar for git.

And if you were really affected by the word git, you would understand the issue of the Coq developers. Since you feigned ignorance in your first response, we can conclude, you're just arguing in bad faith.

You should really start to regard other people's feelings as something not necessary to be hurt, if it could easily be avoided.
It looks like it does take cycles from the CPU but the expensive cryptographic processing is still offloaded to a dedicated chip.

Old ESP32 has a dedicated protocol CPU:
https://www.exploreembedded.com/wiki/Overview_of_ESP32_featu...
It's the jury system that seems to be one of the craziest things about the US system. Luckily other countries don't have it, or only have it for the most serious of crimes(murder trials). Like....who ever thought that having 12 random people decide if you're guilty or not is a good idea?
We had mandated precautions here that were ultimately meaningless, but could have been meaningful and I can accept those as acceptable in the absence of information.

However, when new information came in and counties all around us were completely removing certain precautions that weren’t helpful, my county merely “eased” some of the same precautions and in some cases did other things that effectively forced the same precautions on us. (For instance when parks were re-opened, they made it difficult to park near them.) We also had precautions here that I suspect wouldn’t have been meaningful even if the virus had been Captain Trips.

I find myself loathe to trust the county with something like this in the future. (The state, on the other hand, did a pretty okay job all things considered.)
Looks like I'm wrong judging by the other comments, that'll learn me to not make comments on things I'm not sure about...
You seem to be comparing the cost of one additional lane to the cost of a railway. That doesn't seem fair since trains have a much higher capacity than a single lane of a highway. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
How China's online hate campaigns work
Microshift is Taiwanese, not Chinese. Which also makes sense because the great majority of bicycle components are manufactured in Taiwan (also including Shimano components).

There are also some other high end companies like Rohloff and Pinion.
IIUC that's what DNS-over-HTTPS is trying to do, methinks.
Fascinating to see how something can be so prescient in many specific predictions, from technology to even certain political developments, yet essentially miss the mark on the net outcome.

Yes, we've had substantial economic growth, but the sort of emergent benevolence of unfettered globalism hasn't exactly come to pass. Yes, many fewer people now live in extreme poverty, but the gap between rich and poor has become shockingly large and continues to grow, with highly un-democratic ramifications. And the slow motion ecological disaster we're witnessing hasn't been enough to motivate businesses to curtail their negative externalities.

I think the author's ideological bias is most revealed by this passage:

> Right around 1980, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan begin putting together the formula that eventually leads toward the new economy. At the time it looks brutal: busting unions, selling off state-owned industries, and dismantling the welfare state. In hindsight, the pain pays off.
This is a false dichotomy if I ever saw one. The fight is not between the ones that legitimately use patents and those that've merely bought (or created) them to make money off of the IP itself.

There are, in fact, four alternatives here and not two:

1. Producing company, legitimate patents;
2. Producing company, illegitimate patents;
3. Non-producing company, legitimate patents;
4. Non-producing company, illegitimate patents.

What I think grinds most people's gears are #4 suing #1 (or #3, though I don't think _this_ is common.)

So your attempt at making this out to be a (false) choice between #1+2 on the one hand and #3+4 on the other is disingenuous.
Why is Fastvideo SDK better than NPP for camera applications?
For a catastrophic event that maybe happens once per decade?

https://xkcd.com/1205/
Well, you can imagine some evil behind everything if you wish..

Or just look at a technical video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQh_DmDLKQ

I don’t see these conteos regarding linux, especially goddamn desktop with the minuscule user share. It is literally a hobby thing for some graphics enthusiasts without any sort of money. Yeah sure, red hat or whatever..
Realtek RTL872X - it has 5Ghz!
What's the sodium content?
Hah. This bit me once when a tester worked on my SQL server .NET app. As .NET supports dates before 1753 but sql server does not. Presumably because the original sybase devs didn’t want to add logic to deal with it.

First time a unit not integration test bit me as the first thing the tester did was try year 1. Unit tests for that worked perfectly, and I who had been confident at that point learnt a lesson about hubris.
> prediction articles from the past -- I loved the specificity, depth, and unbridled optimism

Talking about Wired's unbridled optimism:

I recall a Wired article from approximately 20 years ago that predicted that someone born 20 years later (i.e. born today) would ride the technology curve to infinite lifespan. As he or she got older, more and more longevity problems would be solved keeping pace with your age. Today would be date to be born at which technology could outrace death.

I wish I could find the article to re-read it to see how the arguments hold up. A phrase from the article that sticks in my mind is something like if you're born negative 20 years ago, then bingo, where the author meant that "negative 20", from his perspective, is 20 years in the future.
I mean, sort of like it depends.

Some of these NPE bought those patents from previous PE that actually put the work on some of those innovation. That could be from Video Codec, 3G/4G Telecom Spec, Wireless Spec etc. I think those tends to have some merit. They never stayed around long enough to have a return of investment on their R&D. So patent is part of those asset, they should be of some value.

Whether you agree the price for those patents is entirely different. Although you could also argue those are bogus patent with no value.

It is also worth mentioning companies tend to file and fill as much patents as possible to some sort of spec in order to gain at least some form of ROI. The reason being the thing / part they work on for years may never had made it to the spec, but in the process of competing they might have made the official spec better. So despite their tools not ending up within the spec they might still want to get as much from the patent pool as part of their work.

Again, whether they are asking for too much of it is somewhat a different question. If you spend enough time on HN in the past few years most people would think 4G and 5G patents are absurd and Qualcomm is evil. I tend to hold a contrarian view they are not. ( At least not as evil as most would think )

What I cant stand is things like "Single Button Purchase" Patent from Amazon. I give some benefit of doubt to pull to refresh from Twitter. But single button purchase is .... I dont have a word to explain it. Although there may be people who disagree with me and think a single button purchase is genius.
China fines Alibaba US$2.78Bs for alleged market abuses
Back in the 90's I had a Linux kernel panic with the message "fucking Sun blows me," with no further explanation. As in, this was actually printed to the console.
Mesh networks are relatively new to the Standard. True LE 5 SoCs should have what you need to get started.
You might be right, but from cursory look [1] [2], there were 300 fatalities / 5000 millions passenger ~ 1 / 17 millions for 2019

so your probability of dying from one flight (all of the world considered - way lower for US afaics) looks to be 1 in 17 millions in 2019

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263443/worldwide-air-tra...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/564717/airline-industry-...
Really exciting to watch the developments in OCaml/Reason web frameworks/libraries. I love the language and wish I could use it instead of Ruby for my personal projects at least. Others that have caught my interest are:

Sihl: https://github.com/oxidizing/sihl

ReWeb: https://github.com/yawaramin/re-web/

Of course, if you're interested in OCaml/Reason and don't know about Revery you're missing out.
Come to Sweden, we have cake and we eat it too :)
That's... Not at all the core argument.

The core argument is actually one of occam's razor. Is such a recombinant /technically/ possible? Yes.

How many new assumptions does it require? A lot. Lots of people who help cover it up, lots of people who get sick and say nothing, lots of samples destroyed. And then also the epidemiological and genetic evidence doesn't support it.

How many new assumptions do you need for the zoonosis theory? Very few. It consists almost entirely of phenomena we know occur in nature, via mechanisms already described and known to occur at a frequent enough time scale to make it not just plausible, but probable.

That's the core argument.
Singapore's main natural resource is its importance in trade, based on its location. Its natural resource is like the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal.
Unfortunately, no. The closest to a writeup is this: https://webapicontroversy.com/
Power isn't a huge concern, although it's a battery powered device, so having a longer battery life is a plus without needing to include a larger capacity battery.

I'll look into the nRF5. I've been using some of Nordic's code to test and build my prototypes already, although I feel like adding a proprietary profile on top will just make it harder to interface. Once I make the connection currently, all I need to do is enable notify on the specific characteristic which isn't too complicated (just a lot of code to actually get the characteristic)
I rather run a single compositor, than run X that works as a fancy IPC doing nothing interesting and a compositor on top. Also, it is needlessly chatty as well.
I’ve been looking for something like this to tempt me away from Flask and get me using an ML-derived language. Best of luck with it!
> the limit is essentially (x - x)/(x - x)

I agree with the intuition, but this is not so simple. A limit such as yours can still be anything, can't it? It depends on the higher-order terms. For example, the limit ((x+5x^2)-(x+2x^2))/((x+7x^2)-(x+6x^2)) is also "essentially" (x-x)/(x-x), but it turns out to be 3, not 1. In the given example, there are cancellations of even higher order terms, that you have to check that they cancel correctly. Following the links on the answer by admissionguy I found two nice arguments for the computation, an algebraic and a geometric one.
I have zero sympathy for the shady Carlyle Group losing money. Go Taylor!
Would like to see a Wifi benchmark with latency and bandwidth.
Other than vindicating much of Trump's rhetoric, you're mostly right. There's just no piece of evidence that could come out to definitely prove this came from China that wouldn't immediately have the plausible deniability of having been planted to frame China.
I think joining a meeting itself is what doesn’t work (for me at least) under linux. I can log in and use other features.
We have lots of observations of spiral galaxies at ever-increasing redshifts, and they don't look very different at different times -- closer galaxies are not collapsing more slowly than the distant ones.

We also have good views of the Lyman-alpha forest through galaxy clusters at different redshifts, and the distribution of the spectral lines are another line of evidence that members of galaxy clusters closer to us have smaller radial components in their peculiar velocities than those at higher redshift/smaller angle/lower brightness.

To get to a big rip you have to impose a further time derivative and figure out how to keep it small now and make it big later. AFAIK nobody who has tried this has avoided significant complexity to match the observational data we have today, except by pushing the Big Rip so enormously far into the future that we don't have enough data to constrain that future. The wikipedia article refers to WMAP9, which ended 2013 (~ 9 years after WMAP turned on in 2003). There is more recent data from Planck and other observatories, and they make it harder and harder to justify a Big Rip for the reasons half-admitted in the "Observed universe" section of that wikipedia article.

Moreover, MESSENGER and other spacecraft sent to parts of our solar system have given us a lot of data about the metric of our solar system, and it is non-expanding; orbiting clocks support this more locally. Likewise, there are plenty of sensitive terrestrial experiments that highly constrain any expansion term in plausible Standard Model + gravity Lagrangians.

It can't be ruled out but it has been effectively pushed back so far that it's the least of our worries about "what happens hundreds of trillions of years in the future" : if one accepts there there is a Big Rip field, there's no compelling reason why it should have significant effects on matter in the local group that soon, and several arguments about why it shouldn't.

You'll find a bit more substance (and higher difficulty) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintessence_(physics)#Tracker...
We would have still needed a reliable code like Morse. Hard to develop, since it's a non obvious invention.