skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unless you culture those viruses and test them in the lab, you can't say for sure. At this point, there is no reason to believe that they are expanding or if they can be dangerous, but we flagged it so that we keep our eye on the ball

The headline is only responsible if you interpret "could", as "yes, literally it could, just like many other other spike protein mutations"

Variants are dangerous and research should be done, but it's not responsible to indicate that every variant is uniquely dangerous. It will weaken the response when/if a true escape variant emerges.
New York mayor calls off ‘creepy, alienating’ police robo-dog
You are right, hard drives should only be available to mega international corporations like Google and Facebook to make money off of.
> If someone presses a button it goes directly there, otherwise it goes floor by floor.

This is also a good compromise to let people follow their religious practices without imposing the impact from them on everyone else.
It's weird.

I have developed the same intuition about the economy.

My thought process is this: basically, any time dependent system can be modeled with a set of ODEs, no matter how many parts of the system, no matter how many feedback loops and inputs and outputs, you can still develop a reasonable model that is fundamentally just a gigantic vector of poles and zeros. When you have such a system, there is a region of stability: if there are are any positive real parts, one or more of the outputs will begin to climb exponentially towards infinity, until the whole thing comes crashing down.

Pokemon Cards, houses, stocks, bitcoins, NFTs, microchips, used cars... every single output is looking like an exponential response curve to an unstable system. We are doing something fundamentally wrong, in a critical part of the system.
hell yeah me too, this will make it get back to Emacs again :D
I agree that's important! Delta's screenshot colors are so ugly that yours looks like the far superior product. It also seems more focused on diffs. I feel like I could drop in your project instantly, while delta seems to expect configuration.
Zillions of websites have active discussion boards, despite the success of Reddit and FB Groups.

A handful of webmail providers have centralized a large fraction of all email users. They already have the control you're concerned about.

Non-federated email means you have accounts at several sites, and most sites have membership requirements (customers-only, employees-only, etc). A client app keeps track of all your accounts. A webmail intermediary is unnecessary. The mnm demo gives a sketch of this [1] and the FAQ gives more detail [2].

[1] https://mnmnotmail.org/demo.html

[2] https://mnmnotmail.org/faq.html
Agree with you on the general idea that dimension reduction is a very important tool. But from my experience performing a PCA first and then trying to make sense of the coefficients is a level 100 reverse engineering task.

The coefficients will most likely be numerous and noisy, making sense of them will be impossible. You need to have an hypothesis first of what the principal components might be, and only then compare your idea with the PCA coefficients to see if that works.
is there any official native-comp build for windows?
Just the amount of buzz and interest I'm hearing. One data point (which is the only one I can share without revealing personal info on this public site) is that my local hardware store sold out of 8TB+ HDD drives and, according to the employee there, that hasn't happened in many years.
While true, that's a bit of a non sequitur. The value represented by a currency isn't measured in units of that currency, but in terms of what can be bought with that currency. If that purchasing power goes up, then so does the incentive for launching an attack. Therefore, to maintain bitcoin's security, there must be a corresponding increase in mining costs to prevent such an attack from occurring.

Bitcoin requires energy expenditure proportional to the value represented by bitcoin. Anything less, and it is vulnerable to attack. Bitcoin fundamentally does not scale.
I think you'd be surprised. Piracy went down when Netflix came along, because it made it easier to do "the right thing" (pay for your shit). I wouldn't underestimate the difference making it easier to pay for something has on revenue.

The gates in London do in fact close to prevent people from doing that. London doesn't have emergency doors like you have in NYC either, so that probably helps too.
If I were to own a transit for the purpose of profitting from proof-of-bandwidth, ignoring the regulation and law for the communication infrastructure, would I?

A) Let everyone have their fair share of bandwidth

B) with DPI, choke other miners so I'm relatively better in the whole miners.

Also, bandwidth will be wasted just for the sake of proof-of-work instead of traditional work that have real values on its own.
Austin votes to reinstate Camping Ban
>What would you like for Email on your phone from the Linux world?

Thunderbird

>A web browser?

Firefox/Chromium

>Contacts app?

kAddressBook
Do emergency services work on Shabbat?

If their apartment catches on fire would a very orthodox person be allowed to use an extinguisher / carry out some of their belongings?
I had other studies in mind (done in China) regarding that specific point, it's what I had assumed a lot of posters here were referring to because it's normally a favorite of people who are eager to jump to certain conclusions about genetics.

There are other problems with twin studies, most importantly that developmental health starts at conception which means that genetics are not the only thing that twins are sharing. Once again I'll refer you to Wikipedia for further criticisms of twin studies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Criticism
I don't know what their plans are. Just from the amount of buzz I'm hearing around me. Reminds me of the early days of Ethereum.
Today, to get a game to work on an older system.

Several times last week when I needed to use an old proprietary program that used several outdated libraries.

Every single time I want to run a program (usually a game) that has a runtime dependency on pulseaudio[1]. (apulse[2] usually works to translate the libpulse ABI back to ALSA).

One time I had to write my own version of a library that specifically emulated the ABI used by an important program from an outside vendor. Obviously this didn't "just work"; it required a couple weeks of work to write the new version. The point isn't that future versions of a library will magically "just work". With a dynamically linked dependency replacement is at least possible. If the program in question was statically linked, nothing could be changed.

The question isn't about which method is less work or easier to maintain. The question that matters in the long run is if you want the basic ability to modify program's dependencies in the future to fix an important problem?

[1] As of a few years ago, the stupid design decisions in pulseaudio make it make it highly incompatible with my needs. Just having it installed makes runtime linking issues even worse. It also add insane amounts of latency (>5ms is bad. >50ms is insane) by design.

[2] https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse
I bought some address space (like for a web server) in ETH the other day. I think the Ethereum contracts system is quite nice and logical to put on the block chain.

Changing stock trading protocols to go on a block chain with full public transparency would be a useful application. No need for PoW, you can just have the Fed mint new blocks out. This would prevent a lot of the shenanigans and gatekeeping that occur in capital markets. It would greatly improve price discovery.

On a less directly applicable level, I feel that the only realistic strategy for governments in the long term will be to become more competitive with the crypto-ecosystem (currencies, contracts, encryption, etc.). The hope being that by allowing individuals to freely choose their own legal and financial rule-sets the systems that will remain relevant will become better. Having more freedom of choice for which government you'd like to be a part of is ultimately a good thing. Whether that will actually shake out is anyone's guess, but I believe something along those lines is the fundamental hope of this area of technology.
Those giant offices are often built in downtown areas next to shopping, eating and renting places that will all go bankrupt if nobody comes to the offices. I can totally see how the top brass at google owns a part of that commerce and that there are contracts with deadlines there, so if they don't bring employees on time, they'll suffer massive personal losses.
We can hope, but, if you're going to need hard drives in the foreseeable future, you might want to go buy them now.
A Linux smartphone is like a Linux car. If Linux is the important part to you, your priorities might be a bit off
A cellular platform for the development of synthetic living machines
On the topic of Linux phones, I have expressed my desire for more powerful hardware in the past. However, when I think about it, starting with modest specs means that things would have to be made to work properly on those. That means eventually when we move to more powerful hardware, the performance would be that much more better. Atleast that is how I imagine the silver lining to be.
It’s perfectly possible, you just can’t take shortcuts, you’ll lose quite a bit of performance. And of course if you really ‘share’ a resource the users are going to know a bit about each other. If each users share grows and shrinks as others are using more or less they are going to know that. But if you don’t want that you could just reserve a fixed part of the resource and they wouldn’t know.
If you haven't, try mastodon. There great conversations happening over there, depending on the instance.
If you're interested in FOSS check out fosstadon
It makes LSPs usable for me on my desktop 5950x. Still a bit laggy on my laptop.
Fewer and fewer people are interested in the benefits provided by "coherent whole" distributions. And more and more people are interested in the benefits provided by "it's own island" applications.

The future is statically linked and isolated applications. Distros need to adapt.
I will go rebuild some grandfathered antique car.

The classic car community continues to thrive and the aftermarket has plenty of parts available. My daily driver (perhaps not so daily for the past year or so...) doesn't need any software to start and drive, and that's the way I like it. It doesn't have the fuel efficiency or cleanliness of a modern car, but I guess that's just the cost of freedom and comfort for which I don't mind paying.

...and every time someone brings up the "safety" argument, I tell them that motorcycles are still legal.
Because NASA knows valuable it is to under-promise and over-deliver.
> This lets you isolate what is purely personally genetic.

No it doesn't. Not at all actually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study#Criticism

Maybe an actual geneticist can jump in here, but it's my non-expert opinion that you all are jumping to conclusions about a topic that you're not experts in either.
Yeah but I got tired of making things nobody else used lol
Is anyone familiar with a good way to programatically create a diff like this as an image?

I wrote a small script that tracks changes to your kubernetes cluster and sends a diff of the yaml to Slack. It works but I want to prettify the diff with a GitHub style diff and I need it in image format to send to slack.
That's a good idea, like a torrent but renting out unused capacity that's agnostic of the content. Maybe like a hyper-distributed S3.
See also the Eruv wire that encircles Manhattan:

> This thread conceptually turns public space into private domain, and allows observers of the Sabbath to carry their essential belongings with them.

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/inside-lines-eruv-wir...
The worst virus you can see without microscope that none gonna fix up... Is a mammal entity that you know well... :Ð

the most involved you are... the more crazy you end...
> Is the speedup during editing or does it also improve startup time?

During editing/usage for sure: it is noticeable. Not that it was slow before but nearly everything now feels really snappy.

As for startup I don't know as I rarely relaunch it but I just tried (only for the native-comp branch):

time emacs -Q -eval '(kill-emacs)'

gives 160 ms. Or launching Emacs with -Q and then calling emacs-init-time gives basically the same (-Q bypasses the config files).

Starting with my entire config which is quite beefy takes 1.2s. I could probably speed it up but haven't really looked into optimizing Emacs startup in a while.
I've been using delta: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

It can be easily set up...
Thank you for your eloquent comments in this discussion.
That's how we do it in most cities in WI. Except the city gives you a written warning by mail. If you don't do it, they just charge you some flat fee to have a city worker do it. It's expensive, but nowhere near that ludicrous.
This. The two MER rovers were supposed to last 90 Marsian days but instead made it to 10+ years.
If I'm foolish here, then I am to still be less foolish than someone who doesn't know when to simply keep their opinion to themselves.
Unusually political for HN, surprised this hasn't been modded away already.

My uninformed prediction for blue urban areas: by July, 90% of businesses will let unmasked people in. The number of people wearing masks outside will drop to 30%, but not lower than that for a long time.
Current engineering team is 2 women, 2 men. 2 over 50, 2 under 40. All white.

Leadership team is mostly female, only 1 male, who is CTO. 1 is Latina, others white.

In the past, I joined a company where entire leadership team was Indian and male. I never would have thought to not work there because they didn't share my race. That would have been bigoted.
Signal doesn't currently support them or allow third party clients to connect to its servers
Can they not ask Google to put a short note and the funding link on his fonts so people who is looking for fonts can know about and support his family?
I think a lot more people should know about this tragic story.
I love the contrivance of this need. Somewhere between indolence and observance. Or between humor and insanity. Interesting nonetheless…
great question. Never knew about Suska. My guess is that it's just not worth it to build custom boards when you can use MISTer with a commodity FPGA dev board.
You could try a WTO-style tit-for-tat sanctions on individual dumping cases.

Or you could ban all trade with China.
The requisite libgccjit AUR package was broken for a bit, fixed just a day or so ago.
There are some really interesting companies that play alongside this space. The one I'm familiar with is Z2Data [1] (not affiliated).

They provide component-level part risk and sourcing information factoring everything from active litigation against sub-tier suppliers to geopolitical risk affecting associated manufacturing facilities and supply lines. I rarely encounter data as a service in my line of work. I usually think of that as typically market research, so it's been interesting getting a different angle on that.

[1] - https://www.z2data.com/
That is going back to the same issues with containers, where everything works just fine... as long as you build it from your own statically-configured repo and you rebuild the whole system every update. It's useless once you try to install any binaries from an external package source. And IMO, a world where nobody ever sends anyone else a binary is not a practical or useful one.
Transgender people are about as safe as anyone else in the u.s.
Does this inherently support Filecoin like use cases?
I just make sure I supply a detailed what, why and how comment with each commit and then copy and then just export that for documentation. Also spending time putting thought into a standard system for properly naming variables in your app goes a long way. A lot of people like to abbreviate things just to avoid typing. Modern IDEs allow autocomplete so there is little excuse for this. The only time that is acceptable is in a very small very self evident class, method or function that does something very simple and atomic. I try to avoid this as well since I like to be able to do named search and replaces later if needed. Too simple of a variable name will lead to collisions with sed/awk ect
All the manufacturers will seek innovative ways to milk users, and whenever any of them succeeds, all the rest will follow suit.
I think the analogy is a bit off. I don't expect to mess around with my car the same way I do with my phone. A messed up software setup in a car can actually kill me instead of just having to restore from recovery in a phone. Purpose of phones have expanded greatly from just making calls and receiving messages to being in the center of our digital activities which means my expectations there have greatly grown and Linux fills the gap of freedom/flexibility. However, irrespective of the software, a car's overarching purpose is still getting one from point A to B; sure, great if I can also ssh into it but that is way lower down the usual list of things you expect to do with your car.
Orchid is a decentralized crypto market for bandwidth:

https://www.orchid.com/

You can run a node and sell bandwidth to people who want to proxy traffic through your node
> People are still somehow maintaining Perl 5 libraries and putting out bugfix releases, which are functionally equivalent to dynamic linking.

Not to be pedantic, but having multiple versions of any Perl library, or multiple versions of Perl on a single server without things getting stepped on is trivially easy. There's utils to switch Perl versions as well. I mean, it's Perl.

Perl has a long, long, long history and culture of testing, backwards compatibility, Kwalitee Assurance, and porting to every system imaginable behind it as well, so if some Perl script from the 90's still runs with little to no modification, that should not exactly be seen as a rarity.
It's a side effect of abstraction. Even a language like C makes it extremely hard to figure out the binary interfaces of the compiled program. There's no way to know for sure the effects any given change will create in the output.

The best binary interface I know is the Linux kernel system call interface. It is stable and clearly documented. It's so good I think compilers should add support for the calling convention. I wish every single library was like this.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html
The answer is: it depends.

The first two weeks while the body adapts, can have worse things than brain fog, and they are known as the keto flu.

Some people can suffer from it, others are just fine all the time.

After your body adjusts, you can feel sharper for a longer time than in carb heavy diets.

In my particular case: I used to work fine for about two or even three hours after lunch (getting my carbs to be able to work).

Now, with a keto diet, I can work for eight hours straight. I am and feel sharper. I have been in Keto for years now.
I suspect this is more about Google asserting greater long-term control over apps in the store than anything else. If Google holds the keys it makes it harder, if not impossible, for an author to say 'no' to some unspecified future change(s). As an app developer having watched Google play this game over the last decade, I'd bet money on it.
I didn't have a problem with the statement.

I disagree with catering to candidates own biases though.

If a candidate assumes my startup is bigoted because it's all white, despite talking to us, I don't want them here. Stereotypes are stupid, useless, and immoral, no matter who they are directed at. Imagine if I had a problem with all but 1 of my leadership team being female? That would be me making decisions about them based on their immutable characteristics. Fuck that.
Why would it have to be someone's "most important priority"? That's such needlessly superlative phrasing.

I would choose a Linux phone because I want a platform that's not controlled by a single profit-drive company which is so huge they are essentially unaccountable for any harm they do to their users, developers, or even society at large. It's not the "most important priority" in my life or anything, it's just something I'd like.
Can't help as I'm on Linux (also I use ivy/avy/counsel and not consult/marginalia/vertico).
This business of we've only planned 4-5 flights in the main mission but will extend by 30 more days seems like intentional under-committment to me. NASA seems to have done this with most of the previous rover missions as well - all of them significantly extended missions.

Maybe there's politics around funding. I wouldn't be surprised if the major costs are people costs over months and sometimes years to support the science vs. the actual core mission costs but it may be a big sticker shock to ask the Congress at one go. So possibly they ask funding for a short under balled-mission (which no one really scrutinizes) and then keep getting funding extensions citing opportunity costs (the probe is already on Mars, we can get extended value etc). I can imagine there's massive politics here, so it maybe is the only smart game to play
You do yourself.

If "normal" diet works, keep on it. Cheers.
Which reinvented 5ESS MERT which was the intended purpose of UNIX, which reinvented MULTICS. It's about more than real time reliable systems though. It's about software freedom too. Ask yourself: "Am I authorized to pick an arbitrary pointer address, and store what I want there?" If the answer is "no, you can't, because some DLL or SO or DYLIB file might have been randomly loaded there" then you are not using a Free as in Freedom operating system.
Interesting ideas in the article. Could have been still interesting without the thinly veiled political jabs. Not everything has to be political. If we could have honest discussions around the idea of masking/vaccines/distancing/etc, maybe we could make progress. If we can stop playing into this polarizing game, we can begin to find common ground and take power away from those who gain from our division.
Trying to understand something here: when COVID-19 first came out, there were reports that it would be difficult to produce vaccines for it because it is was a mRNA virus (as opposed to a DNA virus for which it is easier to produce a vaccine for.) One of the reasons I remember reading was that a vaccine could work for one mRNA variant, but not for the multiple variants that mRNA viruses are known to mutate into.

Is this what is happening? The current vaccines are effective against existing / known variants, but the new variations / mutations would require new vaccines?
This again. Yes, static linking is better in every way except semantics, because the bloody linker is stcuk with 1982 semantics while ELF has gotten way more interesting.
I find that issue very confusing. How is a GPL-2 license not acceptable for being listed on a website of GNU projects?

I note they went along with the relicense but the site only currently lists "GNU FM" and "GNU Social". Is there an actual compelling argument for a project to choose a license just to be listed alongside those?
Emacs has been pretty slow in editing, ever since Visual Code came along to set the bar higher. Good thing that Emacs is back in the game though, that editor has heart.
Eh, I don't know... I suspect the speed up depends a lot on how a person uses Emacs.

I've been using it for a few months as well, and I haven't noticed any change. My start up time, as measured with 'emacs-init-time, is 0.6-0.7 seconds instead of 0.7-0.8, but that's about all I've noticed, and there hasn't been any difference in day-to-day editting.

I haven't had any problems, so that's good at least.