skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Covid-19: New 'Mu variant' from Colombia could be vaccine resistant -WHO
> It seems to me that some proponents of it really believe in it so they can tell other people what to do.

"Some", perhaps. But this is a really disingenuous way to characterize open source.
> If we're looking at the end result, a mitigation of a loss of privacy is an increase in privacy compared to the alternative, no?

I guess you could say that in the same way that you can say that a gambler who just won $10 is "winning", even though their bank account is down $100,000. It only works if you completely lose all perspective.
Just as a reference point. Apple sells approx 2,200 macs an hour.
Even font rendering is inconsistent: notice how Win32 widgets use subpixel antialiasing but the modern ones don't.
I don't think it's just because of bootcamp education, I think people are growing up in a world where error messages are either never displayed, or displayed in the from of "The program has did a sad :( try again later."

They're not used to reading error messages because they've been brought up seeing nothing but completely useless error messages.
Going to CVS is a timesink now that I have to walk around and ask employees to open cases for me.

Why can't they use vending machines?
Optimizing yield often sacrifices resilience in other ways. Let's also avoid a monoculture.
Many people are sensitive to VOCs at levels most people aren't. I know several people that cannot be around strong synthetic fragrance (aka, unregulated VOCs) or it makes them feel ill.

Whether it's a barrel of waste, or just chemical laden construction materials, most likely she was very much experiencing real health problems.

Her blog is kind of hard to follow, and she seems a little nutty, but if her boss indeed tried to 'hook her up' with somebody, that seems like it could be considered harassment in some form.
I personally think one of the best things you can do is turn off icloud and automatic updates. No doubt they collect that telemetry. That sends a bigger "vote" than complain on HN, although both are welcome. I turned it all off and set idrive as my backup for now. Not optimal but the best I could do on short notice.
https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/editing/2021-yu.pdf
There are a million reasons. The main one being that you can't put the same UI on different platforms and have it fit in, no matter how well you use the native components.

The components are just one part of what makes up a UI. Different platforms have different conventions of how they are used on a higher level, and how everything fits into the rest of the platform UI.
That sounds like a good idea tbh.
I think the fact that all Amazon corp employees still sign a non-compete yet there is an LP titled "Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer" whose definition includes "Leaders have a vision for and commitment to their employees’ personal success, whether that be at Amazon or elsewhere." highlights what the company actually values, i.e. internal propaganda and external litigiousness. Good luck quoting LP's to an Amazon lawyer.
Windows sucks, what's new.
I got a new job right as the pandemic started and also unfortunately stopped commuting by bike.

That combined with the uncertainty of even being near people outdoors for a few months killed the rhythm I had for mountain biking, hiking, and climbing. It took me about 9 months to adjust my food intake for this, and as a result I gained 15 pounds.

Luckily in the last three months I've gotten back on to a good active hobby schedule and adjusted my diet a bit and I'm just a few pounds above where I was!
You're right, but it is multiple things. These giant foods do lose flavor concentration. Additionally, a lot of these things are not allowed to ripen naturally. They are picked early and put in storage with nitrogen gas to suspend ripening. This is also why produce seems to spoil after 3 days in the fridge. You'll see quite a difference if you can get fresh grown vegetables from your own garden.

I think in the future, a lot of this produce will be grown at home in hydroponics devices. However, the bigger question there is figuring out the color of LED light to still produce a pleasing tomato.
> I borrowed a cheap-ish ($100) air quality monitor from a friend. I think it’s made by some company in China and then re-sold by various white-label brands. I can’t figure out who the original manufacturer is. Based on data I’ve seen for the reliability of other air quality monitors, I wouldn’t trust the absolute numbers, but the I think the relative measurements should still be OK.

That seems like a pretty big assumption.
A more charitable take is that both are true. Apple blinked, and one of several large contributing factors (probably a very big one) is the upcoming iPhone launch.

When the tech news cycle is dominated by bad press about a move like this, and every tech nerd community is discussing this topic almost daily, it would be insane for Apple not to take some notice.

I know many are pessimistic about this, but Apple has learned from bad mistakes before. They rarely directly admit they're wrong, but conceding to pressure from the community is not unprecedented: see the return to the "Magic Keyboard" in their laptops.

Edit: removed the word “never” and replaced it with “rarely directly”.
Because it treats Dev and Ops as having identical, equivalent skill sets. Attempting to make this true invariably leads to disaster. In over 30 years of professional software development, I've never seen the problems it purports to solve.
"wearing pants" is, i believe, an allusion to "engage in adult social behavior", not a literal exhortation to cover one's legs.

the vaccine technology is both new and old. most vaccines come with various levels of immediate side effects, and anecdotally, the COVID-19 ones seems to be at least as safe in this regard as any other vaccines that have been administered to hundreds of millions of people. It is true that the long term effects are unknown, and there could be some. However, most immunologists seem to be of the consensus that most after-effects from vaccines take place within a fairly narrow window, which we are now firmly out of for very large numbers of people. That doesn't rule out some hitherto unknown and unforeseen long side effect, but it does make it rather unlikely.

Consequently, taking the vaccine is reasonably considered "adult social behavior" at this point, and is therefore analogous to "wearing pants".
> It’s not gate kept behind needing C++ developers and makes it easier to have JS developers work on it

That’s not true gatekeeping. Any JS dev is free to learn to write C++ and it's a fairly meritocrital process. I could flip it around and make the same accusation: for decades, "the web" was "gatekeeping" because C++ devs had to learn JS to write apps for the web. Not fair, right?

The C++ (or just not-JS) requirement for desktop software was also not necessarily a bad thing either because writing (correct) C++ or other lower-level code is why native apps are better. They’re written by people that are more likely to understand the cost of memory allocations, cache locality, off-main-thread compute, and the inner working of the OS. The good ones understand how the thread pump works and why just as some things need to happen off the main thread, other things need to happen on it. Web devs are used to everything being on the server (meaning "very, very far away" in terms of latency) but native app devs understood/understand "in memory" vs "on disk" vs "on a different machine." (There are tons of crappy "native devs" that don't get these things and it's painfully obvious when you use those apps.)

I understand why people might be miffed at that, but if technology x comes out tomorrow that lets VC-backed play dough architects build real skyscrapers, are we better off?
Nah, I use both. They're good for different things.

With induction, I can't put a controlled char on something, get anything like wok hei, grill a yakimochi, or even cook using the sides of any cookware. I can't even use it to set a pasta noodle on fire to light a candle with or to quickly sterilize glassware.

I like induction for its efficiency, but it's only marginally superior for a narrow range of applications.
Motion capture and image processing give ABBA artists the same look as in 1979
Don't use comments, use code
I think in some areas, especially the one you are interested in, do progress. We have Descartes, a bunch of people responded to him, that got us to Hume, who has a fairly modern outlook a scientist will resonate with. People like Kant tried to respond, not so well in my opinion. Enter the 1800s, we learn that Euclid's axioms are just that, not provable, that resonates through (some) philosophy, until we get to the early 1900s when people like Russell and Whitehead get pretty far into defining the limits of knowledge via their formidable knowledge of mathematics. At this same time the logical positivists were doing there thing, trying to establish exactly what we can know from observation and pure logic. Move ahead into the 50s or so and you have Quine, Kuhn, and Popper re-examining their work and establishing new ways of thinking about the topic. These days you have philosophers like Dennett who engage scientists to ensure he is starting from the best available evidence, and then philosophizes about what might be true. This is, IMO, valuable in that how else do you figure out research directions? That's overstated, usually the next question to try to answer is apparent based on our current understanding and experimental apparatus, but at the least Dennett is very entertaining to read. In any case, you don't have to read Descartes et al to have a modern, scientific understanding of knowledge, but all of this built from that foundation. Knowing some of the flawed reasoning that occurred along the way is vital to not repeat those same mistakes, in my experience.

So, there you have it, a (extremely reductive with huge gaps) history from early 1600s to the present, of philosophers building on each other's work into an intellectual framework you probably hold. There are of course many other branches; I just followed one, briefly, to the present to a tip that is probably pretty close to the thinking that informs your coursework.
My biggest bugbears for anyone in tech are an incurious nature, and an inability to search documentation/Google.

Your code threw an error? Did you read it? Did you search Google?

A monitored metric dramatically changed with the last deploy? Have you investigated why that might be?

I am more than happy to help troubleshoot a tricky problem if you tell me what you've already tried. If you truly don't know where to begin, I'm also happy to teach you. What I am not going to do is fix your problem for you, with you retaining nothing.
cool. i want to do some mushroom automation, but in the woods. trying to dream up an automated pulley system to force fruit some inoculated logs in a spring while i'm gone during the week. now that i'm sharing this out loud, might be overly complicated. this system might be a better way to do it.
An app that helps employers kick in cash for child care is taking off
Nobel Prize winner for treating River Blindness
Stanford’s Behavior Benchmarks 100 Activities from Everyday Life for Embodied AI
What prevents a criminal buying a chef's knife and committing a crime with it?

I am surprised that selling tools which potentially "enable murder" hasn't triggered some overzealous regulator in DC yet. It seems like low-hanging fruit. /s

Pro-authoritarian sentiment keeps going strong. Why is it so normalized these days?
Weeds somehow manage to become giant and prolific in soil that wouldn't grow any food crops. I don't think we're near any limits of soil or biology with our foods.
Sweet!

I'm making an android game and UTF8 emojis are great for UI icons. I'm currently using the Google Noto one but it's certainly not usable in games.

I'm waiting for Godot 4 to allow me to display android native emojis from the system font, but I'm not sure yet it will really work.

I now want to try if I can use this font for my icons, as long as godot allows me to load a font and pick UTF8 character by their codepoint.
It's about a still life photographer. These are very beautiful photos.
Gitpod shipped GitHub a launch cake for Codespaces
Ask HN: Best GSM Fail over setup with a WiFi router?
I'm looking to upgrade my wifi router and want to setup GSM failover should the WAN port go down. What do you guys recommend for such a setup?
I usually notice severe metabolism slowdown when sitting for prolonged periods of time. I can eat 800-1200 kcal and not lose any weight (and I’m 200lbs).

After I start hiking for 4 hours a day I’m losing weight even on 2300 kcal.

So it seems my programmer lifestyle is messing me up.
In my opinion, CICO works when you start from a high point but tapers off afterwards.

Like when I weighed 235 (which is high for my 5 foot 2 inch frame) I had breakfast, lunch and I could, literally, eat two burgers and some fries and a soda for dinner and still lose weight cause I ate no snacks in between but after I got down to 200 lbs CICO had little bearing on anything I did.

Now I really had to watch the quality of the food I ate in addition to the amount of calories. (i.e. simply eating less wasn't good enough).

Also, it bears mentioning that alcohol was not a thing for me. I barely drink (i.e I have like the equivalent of a beer for every 2 months). So it wasn't an option to give it up because it really wasn't a part of my diet anyways.

But it's not hard to see why those who give alcohol up have a positive response.
The last time I evaluated these for use in my app, I found that the "consistent" and "minimalist" visual style makes it really difficult to recognise object/plant/food emoji from one another by shape or at a distance. Other emoji have clear shapes, but not enough internal detail to understand what they mean. this is especially problematic with a set of non-Android, non-Twitter, non-Apple emoji, where users haven't learned the shapes yet, but have to go by looks. It looks like the creators of this project wanted "function over form", or at least "form follows function", but in their pursuit of Bauhaus they accidentally ended up with Droodles.
>and the cursor moved so smoothly it was uncanny

If you want that feeling again you should definitely get a 144hz monitor.
the actual paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.09293

previous discussion including comments from lead author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28279365
You should check out Julia's built in notebooks. It's basically a script / source file with comments that get rendered as markdown, which means you can add images and it is all rendered nicely in editors that support it. It's better than jupyter notebooks, because they're not big blobs of Json that can only be edited efficiently in the rendered environment, but not as plain text.
They were trying to make a small press release about it and be done hoping no one would notice. Instead everyone got mad and called them out on it. That is where they attempted to sneak it in. Not everything is black and white and the terminology is sufficient to describe the situation.
Excel is even worse. Perform any action between the time you copy and the time you paste and everything on your clipboard is lost.
Surely you've seen skin-based allergy tests. Allergies don't just affect the digestive system.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

— Upton Sinclair
This appears to be part of a long running PR campaign by large corporations that are happy to lock up poor, mentally-ill and drug-addicted people at the taxpayers expense if it lets them fear monger, while at the same time stealing from their own employees.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/923844907/when-shoplifting-is...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/San-Fr...

There's some telltale signs that people are trying to swap between thefts and violent organized theft in a dishonest way, trying to conflate the two.

They're also using it as cover for closing stores that they were going to close anyway.
One other thing: for Bitcoin specifically, the energy used by proof of work is guaranteed to drop every 4 years at the block reward halving, until it reaches a cost which is no more than the value users derive from their use of the network.

After the block reward dwindles to nothing, the only money made by miners is paid directly by users in the form of transaction fees. Users will not pay more than the value they derive from their use of the network, and miners cannot buy more electricity than is funded by their income.

I think it is still an open question whether users will pay enough to make the chain secure from attack in this inevitable scenario. So we may end up with miners using less energy than they should. Using too much is unlikely. The current state of excess is temporary.
>Things felt more secure because there were fewer actors trying to exploit them.

It is true that there were fewer threats back then.

It is also true that things were more secure. The hardware respected the write protect tab of your boot disk. The OS could easily be copied, and the copy verified, in a few minutes. The hardware was dumb, and didn't have anywhere to stuff trojan horses.

We have modern hardware, but no modern operating systems to protect that hardware and make it secure. There are no modern systems as secure as an IBM XT with dual floppy disks and a CGA display running MS-DOS. (and it isn't because MS-DOS was amazing)
Ive gone to many retail stores at night an they have almost no one working there they are victims of efficiency and the people working there dont care about the store they are not paid enought to care ... if your making 7 dollars an hour in a retail store in Boston you by default hate your employer
At least IoT seems to have settled a bit so that the things that are still around are often actually pretty useful. I just wish vendors would stop trying to get nontechnical customers to base business-critical systems around cloud-based services. No, your feed bin level should NOT have to get to your dashboard 1km away via a 4G connection, a SIM not under your control, and a vendor's cloud service. Install some fiber or a wireless bridge with a couple of cantennas and then if some goober dredges up an undersea cable or you forget to update your credit card and your subscription fee bounces all your cows don't all die.
In this case both Pylance and Pyright are developed by Microsoft.

I suspect that open-sourcing in anything at all is essentially a long-term PR/marketing/recruiting investment, as well as as positioning Microsoft as the keepers and main developers of what has become an important standard.

That said, by "reuse" I mean that end-users are free to install the non-free binaries extracted from VS code, which interoperate with any text editor that implement a language client. They are all on NPM.
This article makes a strange contradiction.

"people visit websites for information they’re interested in, not design and not the font in which text is rendered in"

If that's the case, then what's the problem? You can use plenty of attractive fonts already installed on client devices, or something like Google Fonts for free. If the design isn't important, then that's more than enough.
Architectures of Neuronal Circuits
Hasn't that always been the trade-off of GNOME over KDE? GNOME is very much the "we know what's right for you" desktop environment for Linux, KDE is the "customize ALL the things" desktop environment.
Pet hate: they're not operations' logs, they're developer logs. Developers write the code to create log messages on the principle "more is better". Logs are another example of the systemic hoarding problem with people and computers.

They're a ratchet pattern, adding more is easy but once they exist it's very difficult to find someone with the authority to authorise removing them and the willingness to stick their neck out and declare that they aren't required and the willingness to spend time on low-importance maintenance. As a consequence logs build up until something gives and they become high importance urgent failure. The middle bit where they "aren't important" but they still waste storage space and networking bandwidth and processing power (and money) and when there is something to debug they waste people's time because the important details are needle-in-haystack among tons of low-value filler, all gets ignored.

At the limit, it isn't sustainable to print the complete internal state of a system at every clock cycle. It "should" be possible to do a lot better troubleshooting_power-to-log_weight ratio than "print every state change which feels important at the time in whatever semi-English message format is convenient", shouldn't it?
Sorry, category error. I was using index to refer to the category of which index is a member. Maybe areas is better. These are the 4 ... things...:

working directory - this is the project directory in the OS file structure

index - a.k.a the staging area

repository - in the .git directory

stash - a kind of scratch pad or clipboard for the developer

Understanding these different areas and how and why to move data into each is essential to understanding git
Architect of architects. In other words not just an astronaut, but someone who has transcended into a parallel universe of abstract irrelevance.
Something similar happened at my company like 5 years ago.

A developer was tasked with adding a major new feature to one of our older monoliths. He added MongoDB as a dependency. The application already had a well managed Oracle database. Nothing about the feature required MongoDB.

When it came time to go to production, the DBA and ops teams responded similarly to how you did. I wish I could say sanity prevailed, but the business mumbled something about contractually obligated release dates and forced it through to production. Pretty sure it is still there rotting away.

I've worked mostly on the app side of things and this sort of thing just makes me shake my head.
I use a slightly different strategy. I made https://closetab.email so that a weekly digest of my bookmarks are delivered to my inbox, every monday.
This has been my experience as well. I used to work between infra and development and I saw first hand a constant stream of clueless devs that don't read documentation starting shit with infra and networking because they don't know what's wrong and just assumed it was the monkey-brained infra people who had something screwed up. The infra people were equally disdainful of the "stupid devs." Honestly, no one worked together effectively but the devs would just pull in a new framework or language, roll it out because some blog posts said it was cool, and then gripe at infra about perceived problems.

Now I'm in a dev ops team (as a dev) and we spend a very large swath of our time---troubleshooting infra issues. It's all AWS and our problem now.
Yes i have seen the articles to much if the same content in different places to be spontaneous
Often the choice is between a cross-platform app vs a native Windows application only. That is because Mac users are of course important, but maybe not enough to pay for a separate native Mac app.
> wait a minute, you're going to blow up our logs.

You really need to have that pointed out to you?