skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition, the vaccines currently in use -- at least in the West -- are either mRNA or vector vaccines containing only parts of the virus (as far as I know only the spike protein from the virus's surface). I would expect them to result in a more specific immunity which is easier for the virus to circumvent, my mutating only its spike protein. Conventional vaccines however, which are more prevalent in the developing world, as well as having gone through COVID, should provide a broader immunity - at least in my half-educated view.
The book Disciplined Minds goes into some of this. It helps one understand the answers to questions like why companies prize things like performance on coding tests that don’t correlate very well to the job.
Even FANGs are not looking for truly innovative engineers. Most of the innovation comes via acquisitions or when they hire some industry luminaries to lead projects. The rest are only there to fill in the lines and be highly productive coding machines that will learn the “syllabus” just like they learn to leet code.

These deep technical skills don’t matter as much because a lot these highly paying companies don’t have work that is deeply technical. Their challenges are primarily around management and scaling the number of engineers.

This requires reducing people down to something very simple and being able to treat engineers as fungible resources. Hiring and evaluating each person as a special snow flake is not the most profitable thing to do at large scales.

This is exactly the thesis behind Paul Graham’s ideas on startups and innovation. The scaling of a large corporation inevitably jams up the gears of the system and a small team can completely outflank a large company with employees keeping more of the returns and the work being more fulfilling.

Unfortunately the incumbents have sucked in most of the revenue so even though you regularly have small teams of people knocking out work that puts the biggies to shame making money is hard to impossible. So everyone on “Hacker news” is now left reverse engineering every detail of how big co works to get ahead .
WTF did I just read.
>In that case, wouldn’t the real solution to their plight be to learn to save money?

That is not something you learn. You just sit in your house and wait for the paycheck to come in. I have never learned to save money. It just happens to me.
They probably rewrote the entire taskbar because reasons and when the deadline neared, they cut features.

I would not rule out the possibility that the team that rewrote the taskbar does not include a single person who wrote the original taskbar and now nobody knows how to get drag and drop to work reliably with all formats.
I don't feel like buying it this time because I have just bought a rather good new laptop recently and don't have money to spare, but I really hope this isn't going to be a one-time single-batch device project. I will definitely lean towards this (if something like Purism won't beat it too hard) for the next laptop I buy.
Lets not listen to yours either then.
They can allocate it but that's got nothing to do with ownership that's customisation. In practice you basically have ownership in that you are able to move it around with you to whichever provider you want.
A couple of comments:

> [...] vaccines reduce the chance of severe (symptomatic) illness but do not necessarily prevent infection and transmission.

My understanding is that at least the RNA vaccines are sterilizing when titers peak, i.e. in the first weeks (months?) after full vaccination. This is due to the presence of a certain type of antibody in the mucosa of the respiratory tract. We also know that levels decrease over 6-12 months, at which point you can get infected, but illness will be mild due to T cell activity. (assuming the immune system of a young, healthy person).

> My understanding is that this is a relatively new and perhaps highly understudied phenomenon.

I don't have the impression it's understudied. With the widespread prevalence of genetic sequencing we have a pretty good understanding of the mutation activity. Once a variant has an evolutional advantage it is studied quite closely whether it is a fitness escape, an immune escape or both. E.g. Delta is mostly a fitness escape but fortunately only a slight immune escape.

> or just trade relevant links with others who are diving into primary sources as a way to form an educated and well rounded opinion.

The best resource I can give you is a German podcast with two of Germany's leading virologists [1]. Personally listening to experts in their field in a long form interview has been orders of magnitude more insightful. It's one thing to read an article in Vanity Fair whether the virus has escaped from a lab, it's a totally different thing to listen to an expert that actually knows how to do gain of function research.

Maybe it's worth translating the transcriptions?

[1] https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/podcast4684.html
What a bunch of nonsense. These are tiny laptops, and every bit of space inside is used. Soldering on RAM chips is an obvious optimization to make the laptop thinner. What were you expecting, a DIMM slot that's taller than the actual laptop body?
Good. No young people should be "required" to take the vaccine. Freedom of choice and respect of the body first.
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Aegis may not be the best general purpose system, but let's hear it for niche.
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It was safe for a few days...

I am choosing the luddite route again and use a piece of paper. That happens concerningly often these days.

Had we better smartphone operating systems...

Although to be fair, if such a certificate can be faked, what gives? Not sure what they even try to achieve here.
Big enough companies are the stereotypical paper clip AIs everyone fear, but with money. Anything seemingly moral action by them is simply a cost-analysis on how the public opinion will effect their profits.
There are companies who's livelihood is replacing a 4 cylinder engine in an MX-5 with an LS V8.
Before the council cut down the gum tree, they used to deliberately drop branches on me when I was outside. Any they could bite through, up to maybe 1.5cm thick, they would wait until I walked around the car then drop them on my head, and scream their heads off. Crafty bastards
Absolutely not, or at least not yet, because:

1) the most contagious variants have emerged from countries with little to no vaccination: UK before vaccination and with very little protective measures (pubs, etc.), Brazil with Bolsonaro, India with a very high population density who are mostly unvaccinated, etc. These variants appear thanks to the high number of contaminations. Vaccination means fewer contaminations, and thus the less likely arising of mutations and a new variant.

2) Current vaccines are very effective against the current variants. This observation is inconsistent with the assumption that one of the variants could have been naturally selected to resist to vaccination. This is also expected as the percentage of vaccinated people is low in most parts of the world, thus there is little pressure to select a vaccine-resistant variant for now.

If we had made the variants "worse" because of imperfect vaccination, we would have seen a vaccine-resistant variant emerge from one of the vaccinated (>50%) countries.
Bizarre article. We don't use this to type Chinese. We just type pinyin without tones, and the IME system offers us the most likely matches. There was no need to decode anything.
Angus of Maker’s Muse posted a video last year about creating puzzles for the local wild cockatoos. They’re very smart birds.

[1] https://youtu.be/A5YyTHyaNpo
A agent with black sunglasses and a national security letter is a very different case from cops going on a fishing trip. It's a bad idea to ignore the former. But there is probably (IANAL) no requirement to answer to queries of the latter, unless they also have a court order.
Is there a chance you might produce a fanless configuration? Since I first bought a fanless machine, I'm a total sucker for them and just stopped considering fanless computers for home use anymore (100% confirmed by my later buying choices). I'm happy to notice that the fan seems to be on the mainboard in your DIY Build video, so at a first glance it looks not impossible; but I also understand there's more to that, in overall heat transport and airways design/considerations, that's why I'm still asking and really interested to know the answer!
Thank you for your insight! Hm so perhaps statistics and probability are actually more valuable for companies like that?
I've worked in gamedeve since 2007 and interviewed a lot of people. Small games portfolio doesn't matter, because small games, just like beginner tutorials from Unity, don't teach you skills necessary to work on a large-scale project with multiple developers. When you're working on small-scale projects, you can follow bad practices and don't hit their limitations.

However, if I would be interviewing a game designer and not an engineer, this portfolio would have been incredibly relevant.
I think the best hard sci-fi can include cutting edge theories or even ideas that the author themselves are proposing, based on a reasonable understanding of the existing science.

At the time many of Greg Egan's early books from the 90s/00s were written, there were a lot more competing ideas or theories in quantum mechanics compared to now. In his books he basically explores some of those ideas, and pushes the boundaries.

The best sci-fi to me inspire future scientists or engineers to explore novel approaches.
All of them.

Recently I've been fascinated by the PLATO system, although I have never used it in hardware or emulated form.

Unfortunately you can't personally emulate it because the system images are not publicly available. There seems to be a public access emulation however.
>the widespread observations that COVID-19 vaccines reduce the chance of severe (symptomatic) illness but do not necessarily prevent infection and transmission.

that puts worksplace/etc. mandates into spotlight as their main rationale is to prevent the spread, ie. supposedly "it is not for you, it is for the others".

So, it sounds like as a result of such mandates we may end up in a situation where the only people spreading virus at work/hospitals/government offices/etc. would be the ones with a highly virulent variety less susceptible to vaccines.
> I would expect them to result in a more specific immunity which is easier for the virus to circumvent, my mutating only its spike protein.

This is not clear at all - actually the opposite might be the case.
Natural immunity focuses on a number of 'markers' that are more likely to change than the spike protein.

As far as I know we don't know yet. Here is a comparison with other vaccines [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/ENirenberg/status/1412865782862725125
> Now we'll wait until someone find / use a way to distribute hidden files using this method.

No need to wait. Microsoft does this in their file formats. (E.g., PowerBI's pbix files have this pattern.)
Another +1 for AMD from me, only reason I haven't bought one yet was I was hoping to get an AMD chip for my next laptop.
Yeah, but we were talking about "user upgradeable" here. Even my local dealer won't upgrade engines and most car owners have no idea how to change their oil or a tyre, let alone perform engine transplants.

One-off custom cars are a different thing same how there are YouTubers putting headphone jacks in their iPhones or upgrading the soldered VRAM of their Nvidia graphics cards.
The developer Audacity threatened to doxx is asking for political asylum help
Customise the order and there is an bring your own OS option.
Your first paragraph is good news driven by higher Chinese labour costs. More investment in countries with higher costs will raise their standards of living too. More manufacturing in the US, even with automation is still good. Those robots need to be monitored programmed and serviced, the factory needs supplies which need to be delivered. All income generating activities.

Managers and investors do useful work growing companies and capitalising them to grow and prosper. There is a better balance to be struck though.
You don't but you should already assume the internet is unsafe. The press is clickbait, wikipedia is a clique, and everything else is social media in disguise which implies political bias. The internet is a communication platform not a truth platform.
The amount of abstract certainty present in this comment is truly astonishing. Please just cite the RCT on this.
Could that just be the archiver? I often skip UIs since they seem to take longer to show the file contents than it takes me to unpack the entire archive on the command line. Worse I am convinced some UIs end up unpacking the entire archive repeatedly when you select only two or three files.
Why would I want to vaccinate if I'm still going to get restricted?

I mean the whole deal here was that if we got vaccinated we'd be back to normal life. If that wasn't the case they should've been sincere up front and most of us wouldn't have gotten vaccinated.
> Also, Gopher, gopher revival is the "new" teletext :D.

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Gemini yet.
(Yes, Gemini is the new Gopher now.)
Oracle, compared to their image is quite technically adept — they did a splendid job with OpenJDK and they have plenty of long-term R&D projects like GraalVM.
Completely untrue. The reservoir of selfish unvaccinated individuals is what is providing a place for Covid to hide and mutate. Vax critics were silenced and ridiculed because they are dangerous deceivers who need to be called out and held to account for the consequences of their lies.
Many websites have that problem nowadays. This is why I prefer RSS anyway. But RSS feeds have been degraded to the first paragraph on many sites, so you have to use a full-text RSS service or host your own.

If you want a clutter free version of this post, simply add https://morss.it/https://www.math3ma.com/blog/rss.xml to your RSS reader of choice or click on the link and read it in the browser. However, in this particular case there's a problem with the inline math expression, because they are rendered with js, but I find it still readable.
That looks very plausible. It looks low resolution and video like. Remember, the Scanimate is SD video.
My guess is that nobody really knows the answer to that question. It's also entirely plausible that the only way to have true sterilizing immunity to COVID is to have antibodies to the spike protein. shrugs
Looks like HN strips certain parts of the URL -- the comment I mean to link directly is

https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader/issues/130#is...

>Thanks.

>Rather than money, more importantly, I need good lawyers for copyright, immigration status / status of political refugee

Context: the Audacity owners threatened to doxx this Chinese expat dev's online politics to the Chinese government, as discussed in several threads (don't think I've found all of them),

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27891005

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27902546

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/audacitys-new-owner-...
No, the inability to work is still a disincentive from wrongfully claiming refugee status.
If you were able to apply for refugee status whilst working, there's literally tens of millions of people that would gladly try their luck in going to Germany. If they get kicked out, hey-ho we tried and atleast we got to briefly work and probably saved a ton (relatively speaking).

Edit: I'm in Europe now, my former domestic worker would earn her monthly salary in 2-3 days here and she was paid well relative to others in Africa.
I hope you guys slay the market and are able to keep up with the demand that is coming at you.

I hope this is the Tesla moment for the consumer electronics industry where the incumbents are forced, through the hubris yet popularity of an upstart, to start innovating again and doing what is good for humanity rather than peddling incrementally changed products each year that are designed to become obsolete within an ever-shortening timeframe because....it appears to be good for the bottom line.

Good on you
No one, certainly not any club, is requiring young people to get the vaccine. They're simply saying, as you are, that they have freedom of choice and that choice is to deny unvaccinated patrons from entering.

If you are for freedom of choice on one end, you should also be for freedom of choice on the other end.
Just wanted to say: great job! Am generally skeptical of modular consumer designs but this looks very tidy. As another hardware developer really appreciate the thought that went into this.
So, you just gave the economy a one-time spending boost while "destroying the billionaires as a class". Let us also say that this action had no effect on purchasing power of the dollar, which is now mostly based on willingness of the rest of the world to trust it. (There are countries where 100 000 units of local currency won't buy you a nice dinner, but the US has never gone down this road, so most Americans just do not take this risk into account when modeling revolutionary changes.)

A year passes. Now what? No more billionaires to fleece, but the population demands some more, because spending windfall money is such a fun. So the next move is to fleece the millionaires...

Already the Ancient Greeks knew quite a lot about populist rule and its consequences. And the 20th century definitely tried it out in much larger dimensions, to much worse outcomes.
Install how? My Samsung won't let me run .apk:s.
Congress wants the ability to sue people/companies over talking about the vaccine...but
of course the makers of the actual vaccines are immune from lawsuits...
That is entirely the applications fault. Win32 supplies APIs for the clipboard and drag and drop. The application developers chose to not implement them.
Currently the only reason I use windows at all is because Fusion 360 only runs on windows. As soon as I find a seamless workaround, I can finally dump it completely. Pretty excited about that!
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Someone in my family is a “plant reader” , he goes all over the world to help with production methods. He can just look at plants, examine it by hand and tell you what the plant needs. It’s quite incredible really. He always says all the factors need to be right, it’s a question of balancing.
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Which accounting measure looks at actually receivables rather than booked revenue? Surely that would have uncovered this practice?
I think the overall point is the risk of forgetting something judged as "fundamental."
> I always remind people to learn something first before you try to teach other people.

Teaching is one the greatest ways to learn and develop your relation and vocabulary for what you are currently learning. It’s one of the greatest tricks a good college class will pull, having students continually drag each other a step further as they learn something new and then have to explain it to their peers. Most blogging is this kind of “I’m not writing it down to remember it later,
I’m writing it down to remember it now.”, so it’s seems to me you might be dismissing some eager learners if you think the act of blogging is self-important.
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The people impacted include US Diplomats, so I'm not sure being poor and living in poverty is an easy explanation here.
I looked into it and it is because I have a folder in "my documents" that is named "powershell". If I rename that folder typing "powershell" opens a new powershell prompt.
> there is no “public good” from getting vaccinated, it’s solely for personal benefit.

Even if your other claims were correct, the conclusion still wouldn’t be. Severe cases put massive strain on the health care system.
There is even more and it's not nature, it's WHO (and representatives from GISAID, Nextstrain, Pango).

Currently designated Variants of Concern: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta

Currently designated Variants of Interest: Eta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-varian...
This. I should take the risk of enabling javascript to read about the risks of spreadsheets? No thank you.
>but most consumers outside of tech enthusiasts have no idea which stuff in their laptop is upgradeable

That goes for everything though, most people don't know how a car works, yet you can replace every single component. The same goes for desktop computers and household appliances.

This has been the norm across many technical devices that have become part of everyday life. How many regular users know how a radio works? The point is that regardless of how technical they are, these devices have remained repairable by anyone who is so inclined.

The movement to proprietize basic maintenance on the part of manufacturers is purely profit driven, and is carried out at the expense of consumers, the environment, and overall innovation.
Lots of engineering calculations are indeed done in Excel, it's very common.
Reading the author’s three previous articles, it seems like the author did get fired. However, it probably didn’t happen during probation period.
This is a misconception that new features introduce more bugs than eg. patches/minor version upgrades. I can only bring up the OpenJDK project as example but this sort of change happened there as well - what used to be JDK 8.xxx and everyone jumped to that without second thought is the exact same thing as JDK 9->10. It’s just management’s backwards thinking that somehow the former is safe to apply while the latter is not.
I've submitted that call for help as a separate HN story. Seems pretty damn important!
Binary search? I would never hire anyone who couldn’t implement it from scratch. There’s no complex idea or trick to remember, it’s the most basic algorithmic around.
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It used to not work for the longest time because Apple used to have a patent for it, which I presume expired.
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Yes, that is correct. I believe the difference is that most of us were exposed to the flu when we were younger, building immunity to the strains that are seasonal.

This is not the case for new strains. There are reports from the 1918 influenza strain that it killed young people over night: Folks went to bed with fever and didn't wake up the next day.

If you had the flu or know somebody who had, it's no joke.
I think you’re overestimating most people’s ability to withstand the stress that quiz show style Leetcode interviews can put on people. I’ve literally blanked on an interview before when I was tasked with writing a simple parser and I’ve written entire compilers. The interview processes are broken in most companies. Pair programming sessions with debugging and incremental graduation of the problem scope are way better at assessing programming competency, because you also get a sense for how well the candidate can collaborate and communicate.
I realize you have caught the ire of the goderator and maybe offended a well-meaning MSFT dev, but I appreciate your diligence in attacking our kind for implementing bad features, you're not entirely wrong.
Wait. I love that idea - Flipping the goal from getting acceptance to getting rejection is a really good idea. It suddenly seems way more plausible to achieve.
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