skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article notes that opposition political parties are trying to leverage the new wave of cases to attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but that just seems like an opportunist political tactic. Reading this article and others, this situation sounds like bad luck and tough circumstances more than anything else. Some of the approaches being taken there seem far more restrictive than anything I've seen in the US:

> For example, apartment buildings where people test positive for the coronavirus have been sealed off, with no one allowed to enter or exit. Police patrol their perimeter. In India's two biggest cities, Mumbai and Delhi, local lockdowns are already in place. Only essential travel is allowed, with a permit. Everyone except for front-line workers have been told to work from home. Residents aren't allowed to go for a stroll or jog, or they'll be fined.

It seems that Modi previously had announced a charitable policy of exporting half of India's vaccine doses to other countries that need it. One article (https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/indias-vaccine-com...) notes that over 60 million doses have been exported, and 52 million were administered to Indians. Another article (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/jugglebandhi/vexin...) notes that India even donated vaccines at no charge to some countries. I'm sure Modi is facing immense pressure to focus on Indians first, and some articles note that they've temporarily paused exports, but their export approach hardly seems like it deserves blame as much as applause.

India is the world's largest vaccine producer, and while they pursue a charitable strategy, they're themselves facing export constraints from countries like the US. India's Serum Institute (world's largest vaccine manufacturer) has asked Joe Biden to relax export constraints for vaccine components (https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-global-trade-india-coro...). While many are using this moment to find a way to critique India's handling of the virus, it makes me feel bad as an American to see others attempt to be generous leaders for the world while we do the opposite. I don't think anyone is "evil" for putting their nation first - but putting COVID to rest requires we eradicate it worldwide.
>The hell means 'being Googler'?

a person who works at google. That's an official name for them, much like how college alumni may call each other their mascot. I wouldn't read too much into it.
It’s typical to get a larger 4-year grant at hire. It’s common to complain about comp drop after 4 years
One major change is that it now defaults to select with left click, which should help things.

There's also an official Pie Menus add-on that lets you fit more controls in a smaller laptop keyboard. Numpad is the normal way to switch between view directions, but having them in a radial menu keeps it reasonably usable.

Lack of middle-mouse drag could be awkward and I don't know the solution off the top of my head, but I imagine there's something. You need to have both pan and zoom, I'd guess one is via two-finger scrolling and the other adds a modifier key?
If the folder/contents was not calling for violent action I do not see why this is acceptable.

What part of their acceptable use is this violating?
Seriously tried, yes. Seriously effective, no (at least so far). At least that was the state of things last I looked a few years ago.
That is not even close to how this thread turned out.

Would you please not post low-quality disses like this? They break the site guidelines, like this one:

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

- and they lead to extremely low-quality discussion, as seen below.
Meanwhile, I've been at the same company for longer than a couple of my coworkers have been alive (though I've changed jobs twice in that time) so "only five years" sounds comparatively short to me.
For as much as I disagree with this comment, it also isn't really wrong.
Sure, but it's still very short.

How are they even going to deliver this plane? That's not enough range for a ferry pilot to deliver it to Europe or Asia, even hopping at every available airport around the Arctic.
Thats fine, but if they choose to handle money with a joke app, they should eat the losses
probably contained content related to Hamas, which is a terrorist organization
(A less evil approach that might still lead to reduced costs would be detecting old, unaccessed data of sufficient size and flagging it for users, with a small refund or service discount if they purge it. Though that assumes you have 'power users' who are storing massive amounts, to where the savings in storage costs would be worth it)

(And if you don't already, I would also consider making it so items that are in the trash for some period of time, say 30 days, get deleted automatically as well, possibly with a reminder email a few days before)

(And lastly, depending on user profiles and usage, incentives around reducing resolution/quality of photos and video, and automating that in the app as part of the sync process, might provide some opportunities to reduce costs of storage > the lost revenue of cheaper plans.)
How long did it take for you to write the machine code that posted this comment?
During a gold rush it's far easier to sell a shovel than a golf club.
Purdue Pharma Cash Transfers of Value Analysis [pdf]
Sometimes I wish COBOL style hadn't won over mathematical style as the convention for every general purpose language except possibly Go.
It's certainly not production situation, but I quickly made this [1] a while back to help with "watching" certain queries for debugging. It uses a polling approach.

[1] https://github.com/grouparoo/db_watch
I don't know anyone who failed their viva entirely, but it's standard to be asked to make corrections to the thesis after it. Getting passed without corrections is a significant achievement. Those corrections can relate to weaknesses in your general knowledge uncovered in the viva: if there is something the examiners think you should know about, and you don't, you can be asked to add it to the thesis.

My impression was that someone failing their viva was seen as a serious failure on the part of their supervisor, who should not have let them submit without being more prepared.
The corruption is low among general population and low-level government offices. High business is very corrupt. Moreover, Germany used to have laws that didn't punish corruption abroad, so they exported massive corruption to Eastern Europe. If you see Eastern Europe as being corrupt, it's because of the sums that arrived there from the West - basically creating a friendly mafia.
But it's the exact opposite in reality, no?
Any reasonable consumer would believe' that purchased content would remain accessible to them indefinitely.

On Steam, even content who's publisher has been banned off of the platform entirely is still accessible to customers who bought it before, and can be redownloaded at any time.
Taking HN into nationalistic flamewar is exactly the wrong thing to do here and we ban accounts that do it. Please keep this sort of off-topic flamebait off this forum.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

By the way, HN users were about 50% in the US, last time I checked.
I am learning Phoenix and Elixir by building a complex personal website
I'd suggest taking a road trip and go out to Panamint Springs outside of Death Valley. I forget if it was Zabriskie Point or Father Crowley Vista Point when I was there... but I felt that I could see all the stars that night. There was a distant glow to the east that was Vegas and another glow to the south west that was LA.

This also has an advantage that it's dry and so you don't get clouds as much.

Though, specifically for the Milky Way: https://darksitefinder.com/how-to-see-the-milky-way/
Really?! I read 8032 because people told me I should and all the strings in there are bit or octet strings, anyone looking for textual serialization is going to come up empty. Also 8032 is way too heavyweight for mere mortals. Also bear in mind that lots of languages aren't as transparent as Go and their devs, given something purporting to be a public key, aren't going to look inside, they're just going to ask "where's the API to serialize/deserialize this so I can post it on the Web?" So yeah, I agree it would be a short RFC, but once it existed, people would arrange for those APIs to exist.
On Tiger Moms, Scissor Statements, and the Permanence of Shit-List Membership
You have an interesting definition of scam. For me "selling" you something by misrepresenting what it is, is pretty much the definition of a scam to me. It does not matter if it had some convenience to me. E.g. If I was sold a new iPhone online (maybe when it was currently not available on the apple store) and I later found out it was used (and I e.g. can't get warranty) I would say I have been scammed, even though it was convenient for me to buy it from some vendor online and I didn't have to wait for it to be back in stock at apple.
This article has some detail: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318554-a-massive-chip-...

The summary there seems to be "Insufficient investment in 200mm wafers". Combined with everyone's demand forecasts being screwed up due to COVID and being either too high, or too low. Finally, you can't just move from FabA to FabB (even for the same wafer and process size) quickly, so customers can't just quickly migrate to whatever fabs ended up with excess capacity.

"200mm fabs are older facilities that process chips at mature nodes, which range from 350nm to 90nm" - https://semiengineering.com/demand-picks-up-for-200mm/
https://wiki.factorio.com/Processing_unit
Sorry for the late reply, but it was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391659

The main comments were people complaining about the foundation but I see you may have been pointing out the pocket recommendations.
So instead of that what is done is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_barrage

You open gates; let high tide naturally fill a reservoir; close the gates; let the water back out through a turbine.

They have been built but the largest are only producing ~250 MW (ETA: thats 250 PEAK, actual generation is more like 50MW) which is nothing compared to what it takes to get that, like if you're already building a seawall it only might be worth installing turbines.
If they offer a high salary and you have no plans to self-develop hobby projects on the side, then that may not be a breaking factor.

In any case, these laws are hard to enforce unless you are working on company hardware. And people who really care may sign off existing projects to get around this.
Check out this spot in northern Siberia:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=5.58&lat=67.9757&lo...
I think it's also worth adding that the memes didn't even really start on 4chan. They mostly started on ytmnd and then 4chans beta site started on servers that belonged to ytmnd/max. 4chan did however lower the bar to entry for sharing memes. Making gifs/mp3's for ytmnd was a put-off to many.
Long time HN lurker here -- I find the mention that he was a PM with Google Maps to be particularly interesting. In case it has gone unnoticed, "Google Maps" and Google's associated business product "Google My Business" appear to be silently being developed into Google's successor product for Google+. Google My Business now allows business owners to "post" updates to their Google Business listing which appear on Google Maps as posts "From the owner," and, once posted, users with Google Accounts can interact with and "share" these posts. Google My Business also appears to be replacing Google Beacon, a physical device once needed for location-based ad-targeting, now deprecated in favor of directing businesses to connect their Google My Business listing to their Google Ads (AdWords) account.
Widespread supply of mosquito nets treated with an insecticide is one of the more successful measures.
>>paid for by whoever did such a bad job on this system.

Blame whoever signed off on the system. Can't fix bugs that aren't reported.
I think I always figured the “demon” part implies awareness. Otherwise it’s just a simulation, which, as you say, doesn’t necessarily understand anything in the process of doing. Why anthropomorphize something if you’re not going to follow through?
Most comments I've seen on this and other related articles on HN are too focused on the high-end chips doing fancy stuff. There are not only supply constraints on these sorts of high-compute chips, but also big shortages on practically all ICs in general.

I'm a hardware engineer for a medical device company, and we've been dealing with supply constraints not only with our MCUs but other ICs like high-side power switches, LDOs, memory, and more. It's tough when we're low volume (a few thousand a year) and the huge automakers and other huge consumer electronics giants are gobbling up all the parts.
> Parent poster seems to be posting conspiracy theories that apple will maliciously kill machines in 3-5 years at their whim.

I didn't insinuate anything like that. I was just pointing out that it exists.
It's probably just because oil installations tend to be very well lit, probably for safety.
It still looks very US-biased.

I can think of several dozen places and parks in northern Scandinavia, western China, Mongolia, Canada that are almost devoid of light pollution that aren't even on this list.

Also almost the entire country of Iceland and all of its parks are excellent dark sky and not even mentioned here.

And that's just places I have personally been. I'm sure there are huge parts of Africa, Australia and the Middle East, and South America are excellent as well, and one would think that if I were to travel to those continents that I could look to a website called the "International" Dark Sky Association to find out where the best dark sky parks are in those places. But no.

It just seems a bit hypocritical to me to call it "International" but with very little attention to the wealth of excellent dark sky areas outside the US.
I wrote this, after a very long break in blogging. I hope someone finds it helpful!
Let's Light It Up
Apple – Environmental Progress Report [pdf]
They've been asking if you want to unsure from unread subscriptions for a while now, and not just political. Anecdotally, I've been getting those notifications for over a year.
Ugh Lego and trademarks. My wife and I had Lego threaten to sue us for trying to import "legos" of mass destruction, it seems. We ordered a lego-compatible kit, which is ok I think, since it's only the lego figure that is patented Lego, the logo and name of course trademarked to Lego, and any brand cooperation to respective rights holders (eg Star Wars).

However, a kit without Lego names or logos, and without Lego-figures, and without any branding or copy of existing Lego-kit, should be ok.

But no. In some way, our customs withheld the package and we had lawyers for Lego threaten to sue us if we claimed rights to the package. They attached the Lego figure patent with the threat. We said, burn it, forget it, and acknowledge that we can sleep at night again please, but they forgot the last part.

It was a kit worth about 10€, and we have hundreds of €'s of Lego. Now we've stopped buying Lego. Also, less plastic crap.

Not to sound bitter, but the big friggin majority of kids toys industry is shit and the world would be a better place without it. Sorry for the steam :S.
human capital management
It’s like a classic old style type but if the press was low on ink. It weirdly gives me a very honest vibe as it reminds me of cheaply printed books.
Climate Scientists: the concept of net zero is a dangerous trap
Yes, the site refutes this. It says not word one about "acceleration". If you're ready to take upper grade math, you take it. This is laying out the primary course.

That's because the Facebook post is shitting its pants about the wrong thing. The thing that they're supposed to be shitting their pants about is that they're reorganizing the math in such a way that the regular path allows students to take the main math courses by grade 10, rather than a course focused on getting every single person into calculus (even if it means stopping in a weird place like pre-calculus).

So some students can finish their math by grade 10 and stop (and in the process focus on more everyday math rather than STEM-focused math). That's the things that's supposed to be filling their Fruit of the Looms with fecal matter, not banning gifted students from jumping ahead.
What the Horizon saga is all about
I think the bugs left in by the SV culture are less important than the one they do fix.

The most important bug is that the software doesn't solve the problem that you have. It doesn't matter how reliably it doesn't solve your problem
Can the title be updated? This is more “10 tips for using Google”. It says nothing about why it’s an important skill for developers.
For interest sake: what language carries your blessing instead?
I understand your point, but children are not guaranteed to be like their parents, and many gifted people are actually poor parents.
I think it's time to turn your view locally. Barring larger disasters, the rest of the world is mostly a simplified model viewed through a computer screen or TV.

Given the current social direction and inertia, maybe it's best for people to begin channeling their own Saint Leibowitz.
It seems that the Jaguar I-Pace production is not stopped. It is produced by Magna and not Jaguar but perhaps it gets priority on the parts.
One final blast from the past, to you (I can break my own rules about not replying to frigtards, if I choose, and this is more to let other newish HN users see the kinds of slimy tricks people like you use to confuse issues when they are caught out in lies):

>Nonsense has no right to a reply.

True. I guess that is why you keep replying to me. /s

HN user lolthishuman, you are clearly an attention-seeking missile, probably because of having no good life, as I said about you here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26904682

As said there, I saw from your HN comment history, that you were downvoted by users in many other HN threads, sometimes to a shade of light grey. Shows what many HNers think of your comments, lolthis(sub)human.

Downvoted, baby, downvoted.
You even said in one of your comments that you feel like a "trapped animal".

We can understand, that is why you feel like striking out randomly at people. Trapped animals do that.

>Trying to shed some light is only right.

Wow, now animals can rhyme. Progress. /s

"Trying to shed light" on "nonsense that has no right to a reply"? Hee hee hee. You are fucked and exposed as a liar and fool by your own words. You cannot even be internally consistent in your statements about me, moron.

>May you be well.

Don't try to sound morally superior after attacking me earlier, fraud. I much prefer an honest villian to a dishonest seemingly mild person. FO.

May you soon be tranquil(lized by an animal dart gun).
> This is clearly wrong as they are still selling Intel versions of the MacBook and MacMini

They're only doing that until they can replace the entire line with "Apple Silicon", which they said will take less than 2 years from when they announced the first M1 Macs. It's simply a stop-gap measure.
:) It was hard to tell what was what back then.

Thanks for sharing those notes on your character animation background.

I'm curious what drove you to be interested in mixing CGI / live action. Jurassic Park, perhaps?

When I was a kid Roger Rabbit and Cool World were amazing to me. JP's CGI seemed different, as though the dinosaurs were real.
DRAM refresh takes power. I don’t have the numbers, but I’m not sure that, in the average smartphone or tablet of today that energy usage is negligible compared to that of the CPU.

Reason for that is that DRAM must be refreshed 24 hours a day, while the CPU is sleeping a lot of the time, even if the device is in use.
It's a reasonable decision to make if ya think about it.

First, Facebook has been under massive scrutiny recently for not exerting more control over combating fake news, fake accounts, posts that depict or could incite violence, etc...

Second, because she's leader of the BLM movement, I think everyone would agree that she is at a greater than average risk for being targeted with violence. If your position at a company requires you to identify such conditions and attempt to reduce this risk if possible, you'd likely feel a sense of responsibility to block the article.

Finally, given their recent string of negative media attention, finding themselves in the spotlight with accusations that they contributed to her harm were she to be attacked, is something they're likely keen on avoiding.
> I know there's very little expectations when it comes to reporting on web subcultures but come on, this is common knowledge

To you and I, maybe! But even arstechnica's readership may not be aware of all this stuff.
Oil installations are extremely well lit.
True, other manufacturers have been trying to ape Apple and solder RAM and other parts on the x86-64 platform too. Thankfully it hasn't yet fully spread to the desktop platforms - I can still build my own PC. I pin my hope on government regulations and right to repair to stem this - EU has already emphasised that they are serious about their "right to repair" legislation. I also like the attempt being made by indie engineers to create more repairable phones and laptops.
All countries that did well during the pandemic did a few steps:

- immediately recognize the risk and call on domestic producers to increase mask production

- freely, easily and regularly distribute masks to everyone, either for free or subsidize

- rigorous regulation (not necessarily lockdown) of mask usage in places with either centralized(china) or decentralized(taiwan) contract tracing in every building.

- a leadership that publicized and communicated the risks regularly

- a leadership that led by example by wearing masks themselves

- and a population that had some sort of sense of unity(common enemy)

ALL countries that downplayed the pandemic ended up with second or third waves. I don't understand why you think it's bad luck.
As a developer who is also a Xamarin Forms user I can say - I get really nice performance out of Xamarin Forms these days. I'm not interested in React Native because it doesn't give me anything I can't do pretty quickly. This is also why I'm not interested in Kotlin and the Android SDK. I've been more or less exclusively developing Android Apps using Xamarin Forms for the last 18 months and Maui is way more exciting than anything else I see from other frameworks.
"The "proof", ..what they had sold didn't tally with what was sent to the Post Office"

Post office looses packages all the time, should someone go to jail for that too?

If their stuff doesn't tally, they are disorganised, they loose stuff or have idiots. Thats their problem. Maybe it's post office employees stealing shit.

Why do we immediately assume postmasters have abything to do with it without a shred of evidence?
Because articles are meant to sell ads through sensationalism not to inform?

Propaganda to teach that anything free is dirty/salacious to keep people in their walled gardens.
Having witnessed "privatisation" during the 90s and 00s in post-Communist Europe, I know what you mean. "Capital has no nationality", they were seriously saying and printing this all over.
Anyone admitting that they browse 4chan risks losing social cachet. Risk is too great either in an internet forum or news articles.
The recent Q documentary on HBO was refreshing in that the person doing it actually knew how to explain things even if it feels like it's filler though. Then again that's someone on HBO who's been given permission to be edgy (try pausing some of the posts in the first few minutes).