skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but the information we have now is that viral load declines much more quickly in vaccinated people than non-vaccinated people. These kinds of discussions where we just fling links we've barely read at each other never go anywhere, and it'd better if this unproductive thread wound itself up now.
Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26665469
Somebody is still paying for it.
Modern Nuclear plant designs can throttle and peak. Even older reactors can react pretty well to changes in demand. Solar produces 0% at night and wind can vary dramatically with calms lasting for days. If wind calms at night then you are on either stored energy, peakers, and/or black-outs. Ideally we would use stored power. But, at the current rate, even accounting for expansion of supply, we can expect that it will not nearly be enough to meet climate targets.

https://www.wind-energy-the-facts.org/understanding-variable...
Believe it or not but for some of us making love with different people is part of what makes life worth being lived. But why do you care? You are not "sleeping around" or, are you? Btw, ever heard of condoms?
Web fonts are so weird, to display this site I had to download the advertised font as a .WOFF file to my computer. I now have a fully featured copy of what they are selling.

I know they are actually selling the license to use it but still it seems weird that any site that licenses and uses this will also be mass distributing it to peoples machines.
Just keep pumping that Co2 into the air for the rest of us why don't you
Any extra salary? No of course not. Lol.
"the main objective of the NIF is to assist in the stewardship of the nuclear stockpile"

I suspect that's always been a funding fig leaf. The nuclear stockpile stewardship claim is highly dubious.

Not that I mind. There are worse things diverted DOD money has been squandered on.
SF Bay's tides are going to rise. Should we dam the Golden Gate first?
Yes, there is version of zoom specifically for government. https://www.zoomgov.com/
I could be wrong so please correct me. To my knowledge the generation capacity of renewables is dependent on the surrounding environment whereas nuclear capacity is constant 24/7.

Also, I don't believe nuclear power plants just throw away the energy vs just consume less fuel [1]. Finally, you can have a mix of nuclear reactor designs to handle load follow needs in addition to base needs, proving it more versatile.

Unrelated, but also important, nuclear can handle industrial needs that depend on extreme temperatures that are out of the range of renewables and is why, for example, Germany coal usage has remained constant/increased despite an increase in renewables (they phased out nuclear) [2]

[1] https://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2011/load-following-npp...
[2] https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shellenberger_why_i_change...
coolest blog post I've seen here in a while. :)
And actual liability for directors. None of this “oh, just take all my shareholder’s money for my mistakes in exchange for jail time”
It actually depends on who their partner is. In my last city, it was USPS, so I could in fact put it with the mail.

Where I live now, Amazon delivers but uses UPS for returns. I can either drop it off at a Kohl's location, a UPS store, or pay for them to come pick it up.

Normally it's not a huge hassle, but it's a really nice gesture to me, especially for heavy items. I almost kept a TV stand, new in box, that I didn't need because I didn't feel like carrying it back into the store. Luckily, that's when I noticed they'll do free pickup on returns.
Is this a genuine spelling error, or did you make a magnificent joke?
In a First, U.S. Declares Shortage on Colorado River, Forcing Water Cuts
Also, what technical reason could there be for a keyboard to work fine without network access when used with VoiceOver on, but not when it’s off?

What do they use the network access for?
Double yikes to "these Africans." Pretty sure misplaced belief in homeopathy is not a distinctively African phenomenon.

But to the point: the major driver of the early explosion of HIV on the continent was almost certainly large-scale vaccination and medical treatment campaigns by colonial governments, which injected staggering numbers of people in rural areas without adequate disinfection of needles.

In the present, the sociological drivers of HIV spread do include rates of nonconsensual sex (particularly between teen girls and older men). More important factors, however, are historical and contemporary patterns of urban/rural migration and long-distance transit networks. The distinctive forms of cyclical migration created by the shape of the mining industry in apartheid South Africa are the largest reason that the pandemic is so much worse in that region than anywhere else on the continent.

Research is pretty clear that Africans understand that condoms work to prevent HIV transmission - there have now been decades of public education campaigns on the subject. That doesn't mean they are always used, of course, but it's not a knowledge problem.
In the high mountains there are many places that are not accessible to tracked vehicles.

Moreover, of the places that are accessible to tracked vehicles, many are accessible only to small tracked vehicles, smaller than a typical car, and not at all to tank-sized vehicles.
The same line of questioning can easily land in "why use csv?"

It is a terrible format that has very few redeeming qualities. It happens to also be the most widely used one.
> something is working, for large groups of people.

Yeah, it's called having a mating instinct. People will put up with all sorts of horribleness to satisfy it.
I haven't read the book. Can you please summarize Richard Dawkins's explanation? I am quite curious how something this complex can be generated by nature.
I'm a landlord with 24 properties. We're suffering during Biden's eviction ban
Baseload isnt a real thing. Its just a conceptual framework for combining nuclear and coal with gas peaking plants.

We need to ditch the gas and coal. I'm happy to keep the nuclear as long as someone can explain how it actually helps achieve a carbon free grid. But apparently no one can.
My neighbor gets regular deliveries of live roaches, which he feeds to pet lizards. They come by US mail from a roach farm in Arkansas. Some farmer must be laughing his way to the bank every time he ships roaches to Los Angeles.
The author wrote great stuff, I hope he will update his vue2 handbook to vue3 one day.
The military didn't originate this policy, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) did.

> IN LIGHT OF RECENTLY ESTABLISHED CROSS-AGENCY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS PERTAINING TO ISSUES SURROUNDING THE LOSS OR BREACH OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY FEDERAL AGENCIES, THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET HAS ESTABLISHED ONE STANDARD TO DESCRIBE PERSONAL DATA.

I don't think I'd want to be tried on evidence that fell into the hands of protestors or rioters. Provenance is a pretty important part of the evidence of any court case.

It's probably safe to assume that they have confidential informants at play that could be involved in serious crimes like human trafficking or drug trafficking. The consequences for this data getting in the wrong hands would be life and death.

Whether you want to call the people who would do bad things with that information an "enemy" or not I think is entirely up to you, but at the very least you could think of it as risk-mitigation.

It also seems the government has some amount of intent to try to contain the leakage of PII, however ineffective they may be at it aside, given this statement

> IN LIGHT OF RECENTLY ESTABLISHED CROSS-AGENCY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS PERTAINING TO ISSUES SURROUNDING THE LOSS OR BREACH OF PERSONAL INFORMATION BY FEDERAL AGENCIES
Zorin OS 16 is Released
When absolute compiler perf isn't required, I love nanopass compilers for this. Each pass slowly massages a slightly different IR towards the final form and there isn't really a limit to how different the code source and end target can be, just needs more passes.
If you open the csv file with Excel you get those errors. If instead one uses Get&Transform (aka Power Query) then it is possible to specify the type of each column.
Users agree to a EULA which stipulates how they can and can't use the font. This contract provides the legal basis on which a foundry would pursue someone for suspected misuse. Here's Monotype's EULA for Helvetica Now[0], Section 9 specifically addresses copies and derivative works. From there, it becomes a legal matter.

[0] https://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/helvetica-now/licenses#
Is there a legitimate way for Apple to fix their review system to both block less legitimate apps and more scammy apps? AFAIK following is true about app store:

1. Number of apps/updates is huge.

2. The process of app review is based on a lot of policies (not talking about developer guidelines from documentation). Some of the policies, let's be charitable and say supermajority, are pro consumer. Some exist to protect business interests. Some are probably outdated or based on miscommunications, misunderstandings, or just plain misguided. Apple is a big company, and it is likely there is a lot of politics that goes into crafting app review policies.

3. App policies change as Apple tries minimize false positives/negatives and keep control of the ecosystem.

4. Because of 1, number of people working on this has to be substantial.

5. Because of 4, it's fair to assume some of those people will be bad at their jobs or at least have more protectionist interpretation of app policies which will result in more false positives.

6. Because of 2, 3, and 5 some of the cases will be misjudged. We mostly hear about good apps being blocked and terrible apps being let through, so it's hard to estimate the error rate in review process.

7. Big enough companies have Apple people embedded to smooth the process over. This is interesting, because it inherently gives big companies an advantage.

8. It is fair to assume that Apple has internal app review false positive/negative metrics that they optimize for. Given the size of the company and amount of investment here, those metrics are probably somewhat high.

Looking at the above, two most obvious to me ways Apple could try to improve the process:

1. Make process review more transparent - this will definitely help false positives, but also likely will increase amount of false negatives.

2. Put someone in charge who could cut through the politics of app review policies and instill a better culture. Problem here is that situation could turn out worse as well.
Price controls. It's always (AFAI can tell) price controls, whether de facto or de jure. That seems to be the uniting factor in successful healthcare systems. Even Singapore, the closest thing I know of to a "free market healthcare can work!" darling, has some price controls (and uses the very real threat of imposing more to keep the rest of the prices under control).
Ask HN: Do you want help replacing Windows with Linux?
Do you want help replacing Windows with Linux? I would like to help you!
The reduction in expensive-to-treat cervical cancers is paying for it.
The option to filter by seller is still there— barely.

It only shows up if you restrict your search to a specific department, e.g. “Sports and Outdoors”.
Mainstream Waferscale Closer Than It May Appear
Show HN: A Chrome extension that translates text to Chinglish
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28210113

Doesn't HN scan for exact dupes?
All of Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Letters to Shareholders in One PDF
It's very hard for some people to see and understand digital storage, in terms of capacity, redundancy, and reliability. Physical storage is very visual and very easy to understand: You put crud in a room and it sits there until someone does something with it.

One of the things I find nontechnical people tend to fail to understand is the importance of organizing and cleaning up data. Often when we are running out of space, I get asked why we can't just buy another hard drive at Best Buy for $50.

Then when people do clean up their data, they don't understand file space. They'll spend hours cleaning up old Word documents, but not touch the decade-old AVI video files which could at least be stored in a better format.

Ask a government entity to buy a SAN, they complain. Ask them to buy a backup storage appliance, they ask why we need another SAN. And then in five years, they ask why you need another SAN if you bought one five years ago...
> Just tell people the risks of side effects, and if they are ok with that risk then the manufacturer is off the hook.

If a for-profit corporation includes a warning in a EULA they're off the hook?? That's definitely not the principle we should use to evaluate new drugs.

If the company decided to take it off the market, when there are always lawsuits about new drugs, what should we do? Should we liberate the drug from the company and let others sell it? The system we have now lets Medical Doctors decide when a drug should be approved, and when it should be on the market.
Hi Colin

Do you know if there is any plans on FreeBSD creating a super minimal server version that can be used as a docker host ... similar in size to Alpine Linux.
I am sorry I did not mean indefinitely sustained. Surely not all of the fuel "ignites" at the same time? Shouldn't a larger mass of fuel increase the energy output (there's more of it to "burn")?
”If robots can eventually respond to their environments with the same level of dexterity as the average adult human, the range of potential applications will be practically limitless. ‘Humanoids are interesting from a couple perspectives,’ Kuindersma says. “First, they capture our vision of a go-anywhere, do-anything robot of the future. They may not be the best design for any particular task, but if you wanted to build one platform that could perform a wide variety of physical tasks, we already know that a human form factor is capable of doing that.”

No, they’re not “humanoids”, and it’s chilling to hear them call it that.

But more simply than that: this will be used for war and human surveillance and response. It is already underway.

TL;DR: Why?
I enjoy using https://love2d.org/ to make small games but I often hit a point where the codebase gets complex enough that I find myself wanting things like types and fancier editor features than any IDEs/editor plugins for Lua provide.

Biggest pain point was always having to check what properties exist on a given object. I love that Lua gives you enough power to add a prototype/object system at runtime but this means IDEs need to understand what you're doing to figure out what you want. You can do some metatable magic to error upon accessing undefined variables/properties but that's only doing anything at runtime.

On my current hobby project I decided to try out various typed versions of Lua and TypeScriptToLua is what stuck.

It was really cool being able to port my code over file by file, replacing weird custom lua objects with typescript classes (with a factory wrapper for unported Lua to use to instantiate an instance) and everything just smoothly working every step of the way. Now I get much more powerful linting and editing since I get to use the tooling people use for actual typescript.

I was worried the generated code would become unreadable but to my surprise it's not at all bad. I haven't done much benchmarking but also haven't noticed any performance impact. Whatever performance hit there is is more than worth it for the confidence the typechecker gives me in areas that are difficult to write tests for.
Ask HN: Is experience in raising a startup valuable in a CV for a soft. eng.?
I am a bachelor graduate and I’ve almost finished my MSc in computer science, I had this startup idea in mind for a year now but I don’t know if it is in my interest at the moment to purse this thing.

In the past month I’ve tried to send my CV to some big companies but nobody reached back, I feel the pressure that I must find a job as soon as possible because otherwise I will be too old to be interesting for companies. This is what it’s holding me back at the moment.

I am afraid that if I carry on with the startup idea and then fail my experience in the field will not be considered as “good” as the same period of time spent in a good company that has a big background and reputation.

So, if there’s some recruiters in here, how do you value a CV with no previous experience but maybe a year of two trying to raise a failed startup (ages <30)?

Don't get me wrong, I would love to try the startup thing and I am very motivated and passionate for software engineering, but I also have to consider the downsides so that I can take responsibility for whatever I choose
Yeah but I reckon these kind of robots won't be deployed strictly against human snipers. The average enemy won't have the skill nor equipment to retaliate against long range, rapid fire sniping.

A robot, maybe with drone support, could be really accurate at launching grenades or unguided mortar rounds. Or hell, attach it to an artillery gun. Much cheaper than missiles.
Hey there, thanks for checking us out!

The error that you pointed out has been fixed, and now the sentence matches the coach's sample -- feel free to double check this on the app. Both "part of" and "a part of" are grammatically correct. That said, we definitely agree that the coach sample should match the written sentence.

By the way, potential issues such as these is exactly why we added the flag feature on the practice cards, through which you can report any errors in spelling or other types of issues. We strive for 100% accuracy, but there are still real people behind this making all the content, so we appreciate user input to make things always better.

If you would like to delete your account, we can help. Just email us at support@boldvoice.com with your account details.
The Walmart.com and pickup/delivery division on their website is not a thing anymore. They seem to be testing a new beta version of the website, and I got to try it yesterday. I have Walmart plus and this is how it went:

One seamless search option, no pickup/delivery and Walmart.com options. I added everything, including groceries and other non groceries to my cart. I selected delivery. Some items were not available in my local store but it didn't matter. Walmart automatically divided my order into two parts, where it decided to ship me some of the things I ordered (chips and club soda) that weren't available at my local store. It was definitely great experience and the UI was clean. I didn't get any out of stock errors at checkout too. Can't wait to use it full time.

The only reason I use Walmart is that I don't trust the products from Amazon anymore, even when they are sold by Amazon. I once ordered shampoo sold my Amazon that was obviously fake, and then I searched around and realized Amazon has a program where they gather the products from different sellers and put it in one huge bin and call all of them sold by Amazon.com
Do you need it explained why a document published in 2005 is not a reliable guide to modernity in 2021?

Cppreference.com is an excellent resource to help you get caught up. BoostCon vids on Youtube are also helpful.
Home Depot stores the receipts by credit card; so that if you use a card saved to your online account you automatically will see your in-store purchases show up.
How about Apple stop telling people what they can and can't do with the hardware they purchase? Their reach shouldn't extend this far.

This company is a money-grubbing dragon and is shitting on innovation left and right so it can maintain control over its money pile.

After the initial purchase, Apple should no longer have decision power beyond patching their software. If they do a good job, you buy a new one.

Apple got lucky enough to ride two of the biggest growth engines in modern history, but that does not entitle them to behave like mobile computing is their own totalitarian state. Just because you own some land doesn't mean you can tax air and tell people when and how they can breathe.

Support congress in their attempt to break up the App Stores and prevent this sort of strong-arming. Call and email your reps. Tell them you want the "Open App Markets Act" to be a strong system of protections for individual small businesses and device owners. People deserve choice, a fair playing field, and the right to repair and use their devices as they see fit.

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati...

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

The future of open computing and right to repair depends on it.
> So you are basically saying they should make every car significantly worse in terms of weight and driving performance

This assumes it would be impossible for telsa engineers to design around modular cells. And I don't think that is a fair assessment
Finally. I use a browser to view and use websites so the browser UI shouldn't be obscuring it. I would have been fine with it being fixed to the bottom, just not floating over the actual content I want to view.
The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release
It does a server-side check.
Hi everyone :) This is very much a WIP. Two areas I'm most interested in getting feedback on are:

- improvements to the translation algorithm (detailed in the README) that don't require training new bilingual networks

- frontend improvements (eg. would you prefer to have the in-page text modified or would that be annoying, how would you even go about implementing such a feature, etc.)
F-droid does it, here are their rules: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Inclusion_Policy/

So do most Linux distros, which have very similar rules.
yes agree - I posted here about methane, small "cowboy" oil and gas in West Texas, and some conflict with Big Oil at the time.. remote methane detection using specialized sensors and Deep Learning on the sensing data, has pulled the kimono from this situation.. Big Oil saw a political liability, and did advocate to that US Fed Administration to be strict, and the opposite happened. I very much appreciate the Daylight here on this topic, much needed
IMHO if you can convince people that you don't need "brand identity" the best font is not choosing a font at all and using the browsers default. (Or maybe "sans-serif" because a lot of browsers have serif defaults which isn't always the best).
Is there a better way than google shopping to find deals across sites for products?

I try to avoid using Amazon out of practical (e.g. products often being cheaper elsewhere, often have less worry about getting some SKU-identical knockoff that amazon absorbed from some FBA hack) and sometimes ideological (a CEO who rides a particularly phallic rocket into space and then gloats about it while his employees are treated like subhuman machines is an infuriating character to say the least).

However, I'm not sure if there is a reliable non-Google way to search a wide variety of other shopping sites without getting hits for bad aliexpress or ebay auctions for clearly stolen / counterfeit items. I already own a pair of Abibas and that is more than enough :/
If the option is "not use any closed-source E2EE video conferencing platform because of ideological purity" or "conferencing platform which promises E2EE and has SLAs and legal contracts backing these claims with the client", for practical purposes the latter wins.
Why PLG companies dominate the Forbes Cloud 100 list
Telemetry is collected and stored and potentially linked to a user. This is not.
Manjaro 21.1.0 Pahvo Released
Could Graph Optimizations Help Deliver Donated Covid Vaccines Overseas PreExpiry
I like how they didn't expect it:

"The lab is still analyzing the results from the shot. It’s not yet known which or what combination of advances to the targets, laser pulse lengths, or other variables led to the leap in performance. Some of the instruments were saturated by the unexpected yield of the reaction. A few that are used in the target chamber for other, non-ignition experiments will need repair."