skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ah yes, the asymptomatic aspect of Covid, a disease so deadly most people need to be tested to know they came near it.

Wow. Yes, because while you might have zero symptoms, you still spread it, and will probably infect multiple other people ( the so called R), especially without masks and other such precautions. Those people will infect many more in their turn. Among those, some will develop symptoms, sometimes heavy, and it's highly probable there will be people with comorbidities who can die even with abundant care, which isn't a given if hospitals are full from all those with heavy cases.

> My local playgrounds were officially closed until late into 2020 (obviously, I ignored that), as well as all sorts of other places that were obviously harmless

The point of those restrictions was to stop people from meeting, at all. Of course parks are a better place to be than a store, Covid-wise, but not if you gather in groups.

> How did the "connected" nature of our existence make it necessary to shut down entire countries, as well as the air travel links

People travel between cities, all around the world, daily. Whereas before there'd be a few traders going from Milan to Geneva in the space of a few weeks, now you have multiple daily trains with hundreds of people each. Don't you see how that changes the equation and how that helps spread a virus which is usually without symptoms ?
Until we have some outrageously horrible events which will affect directly general population, all this facts will be comfortably avoided and "mitigated".

This is systemic problem derived not only from bad management and absence of responsibility.

This is "business as usual" with any big corporation. There is no problem until perception of the problem affects sales directly.

And in the case with Apple, reality is professionally managed toward "reality distortion field" of uneducated masses who are addicted to "latest tech" and "social validation psychology".

I don't know any other corporation which can comfortably keep silence on issues like NSO/Pegasus or just "postpone" intrusion on user privacy as CSAM.

People love their shiny toys. This is exactly the dynamic with tobacco companies in the past.
People believed in one point in time that cigarettes are "healthy things, recommended by physicians".
https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/24/health/gallery/tobacco-he...

It is always psychology first, technology second. Or sales and shareholders first, services and tech appliances second.

You can thank "geniuses" like Edward Bernays and his contemporaries for this.
Great article (but maybe a little too hagiographic?).

The most jarring thing about this article is the author insisting on using "Johnny Von Neumann" rather than "John Von Neumann".
Yes, at least as of a month ago.
What about the polite ones?

Or perhaps I should also add "reasonable" to the list of qualifiers? I can see that a larger project might be overflowing with well-meaning but mostly clueless people with unreasonable requests.
Is this the magnetic complement of the piezo-electric sensor/actuator?
We're not supposed to question it, but in this case it seems salient: your account was created just to post this and it's got a lot of upvotes for something seemingly banal.

Is this part of a competing "diplomatic program"?
I can put up a "pretend ad" on my two blogs and maybe I can be a bit creative and get it feqtured elsewhere too if someone provides "artwork" and somewhere to point it too.

Anyone else in?

PS: If you do it later, send me a mail (it is in my profile, click my username to see it.)
Samsung has the greatest marketshare in the the Android ecosystem[0][1] and they've pledged to provide security updates for 4 years for >130 models[2] – which is pretty good!

[0] https://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-manufacturers

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/271496/global-market-sha...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/samsung-now-updates-...
Spotted this published recently and been digging through the preview and text, it's looking like a pretty good read for aspiring game designers.

This is based on reading the first exercise, where the authors give us an example trading card game and walk us through balancing it. A friend of mine and I are really excited about doing this and have already booked a weekend this coming month to sit down and go through that exercise.

I don't know the authors personally, but I figured there would be people here who found this interesting, seeing as I've seen similar things pop up here before from time to time.

If anyone spots a good pdf version of the book please let me know where to buy it! A lot of the Excel examples in the epub versions I've spotted are tiny and hard to read, which is the only criticism I've found so far.
We hear the desire to fully hide the Spaces sidebar loud and clear. It wasn't a blocker for leaving Beta, but we are tracking that request in https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/18898
Why is this (almost) at the top of HN? Nothing really stood out for me after a quick skim of the wiki page. Is there some additional context that I'm not aware of, or is this just a case of "huh, cool"?
I think MS Teams is worst about this, because they have so much functionality crammed in the app.

I constantly find myself switching between the Calendar view / channel view when planning a meeting, or between channels when referencing a PDF shared in the "Files" section of a different channel. Super annoying.
Steve Jobs famously said a good artist copies, but a great artist steals.
Where do you get this data from? It's not in the press release.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Are these changes actually needed, though? As much as it makes sense to use service workers, for instance, this seems like a rationalization to shoehorn in Google's anti-features.

It's not like background webpages are broken or even hard to use. It's not like everyone's clamoring for their ad blockers to use less resource or for Chrome to be faster.

There was a time when I switched to Chrome because I believed it to be superior. Now that I find the extensions I use to be nearly as important as the browser itself, I can't imagine why ad-hating privacy-focused individuals would punish themselves by using Chrome. Firefox has a few performance quirks in contrast to Chrome, but overall it's in a state where it competes in most cases. As much as I can complain about Mozilla's organizational issues, I can be far more assured that they aren't going to cause my extensions to become nerfed for A Good Reason (TM).
Researchers develop a robot that can effective navigate sidewalks in environment
Seems a lot more doable when all the equipment is made in the USA. With or without permission from the public, there will be back doors.
That's an individual (Darren Grimes), who pursued and won an appeal.

The organisation (Vote Leave) withdrew their appeal, and paid the fine.
Generation 1 headsets were focused at infinity, these days they're focused around 2 meters[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1130973138362294272
> Whereas Blink gets that work for free from Google.

For now.

My bet is they are already planning how to boil the frog.
This isn't a single, monolithic change, there's plenty of changes between manifest V2 and V3. GP said he thought most of these changes are a step in the right direction, while expressing concern about one of the others. That seems like a cohesive and nuanced opinion to me.
Or you could use a client which doesn't support spaces.
TiDB is MySQL compatible
You still need to go through the whole process of creating a Space even if it's just some place in a chat that you want open while you're having a conversation in another chat.

You still have to use the same window to switch between them.

These are not tabs.
She really is a marvelous hacker! Great to see how far she's taken IceStorm, but my favourite project of hers is still OpenSCAD .. some kind of madness went on there, that turned beautiful.
> The entire point of remarkable is to interact with the text.

You might be surprised. I just ordered one, and for me the point is to read scanned PDFs of large books.
Another alternate take: everything since Firebug has been cake icing, what differences there are now on top of that base feature set are minimal.
The h264ify add-on will let your computer load YouTube videos more efficiently on Firefox, if it supports hardware acceleration for H.264 but not VP8/VP9.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/h264ify/
This may be heretical but... I just use Element in my browser. If I need another tab, I open another tab. Did the same thing when I worked at a company that used Slack.
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They only have to make it work as good as the Signal iPad app.
Yes.

> The alloy has the highest magnetostriction of any alloy, up to 0.002 m/m at saturation; it expands and contracts in a magnetic field.
The steppe people evolved to raid and invade agricultural communities; and those communities evolved to grow larger to fend off the raids.

"pressure from the steppe selected for the unification and scaling-up of agricultural societies into larger groups to more effectively counteract these incursions. This in turn would select for greater size in pastoralist communities, and also other neighbouring agricultural groups who were now relatively smaller and at a competitive disadvantage with their neighbours. This effect would be amplified by the diffusion of such military technology from the steppe"

From this awesome modeling paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0516-2
I hope you like ads, cause Chrome will be choking on them.

Used Chrome on mobile once. Remembered why I don't.
Thanks, yeah, that's where I ended up last time hehe. I should've just asked about it on HN, of course.
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gbps on FreeBSD [Video]
Moved to start my own company. So not to do with the culture.
Which makeshift morgues? Which people dying in the streets? Remember that video from China in early 2020, showing people literally dropping in the street? You can't be talking about that, surely.

>And where do those beds and oxygen come from? Are they not "bed numbers and equipment"?

Remember how I explained that the total number of patients treated every month in the UK since March 2020 is less than average?[1] It very clearly follows that we were not limited by beds.

>Your country is an unmitigated disaster managed by clowns.

Yet it has a Covid mortality rate per capita of around the same as most other developed countries. Admittedly a little on the high side, although the US has now overtaken the UK in recent months. Certainly about the same as France and Spain.

[1] https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/sta..., click on the link under "Provisional Monthly Hospital Episode Statistics for Admitted Patient Care and Outpatients Dashboard ", and then go to page 2 of the silly web app. Observe how the NHS runs at near 100% capacity, until March 2020, when it has run consistently less than that (and continues to do so).
defining terms is important. What is a "false" account? How do you distinguish a genuine pro-china account from cynical manipulation?
Can an existing room be moved to a space ?
The point really is that most folks having children are younger: You aren't, and you still aren't the hippie generation.

Generations are a horrible measure of time, to an extent, but they do bind people together with events and movements at times and I'm pretty sure this is one of those. Plus, I'm not sure what would take their place that is actually better.
The presentation slides was originally discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
> Neo-Luddite Automation Restriction

Excellent, board the Butlerian Jihad Hilux then, we're riding at dawn.
> Afaik there are no studies about it, but I would guess a blackout does not result in any long lasting injuries.

That is exact opposite of what I would intuitively guess. I would guess that it is way more likely that blackout means you body is getting injured rather then opposite.
doesn't seem to be a difficult challenge for facebook.
> The Trump era likely deepened psychology’s conventional wisdom that authoritarians are almost always conservatives; the insurrection at the Capitol earlier this year showed the urgency of understanding the phenomenon.

I suggest people to watch the recently released footage from inside the Capitol. You could call them idiots, fools, etc, but I don't think you can call them insurrectionists. They just bumbled in and took selfies for the most part. The FBI have been investigating these people for months, and the best they found for some form of plot was a Lego model. It's exactly this kind of inflammatory talk about your fellow Countrymen that is causing greater division.

> In the U.S., though, Costello hypothesizes that right-wing authoritarians outnumber left-wing ones by roughly three to one.

In the US, the left-wing (Democrat voters) clearly dominate the cities and Universities, and thereby have a much higher probability of being more educated. I would suggest people to consider that on average, the right-wing is less able to elegantly express themselves.

For example, when you hear "immigrants are bad", when you nail them down, what they actually mean is "current immigration is unsustainable and affects my local community". There is currently this really dangerous assumption of assuming the political opposition are fundamentally evil, rather than people who want to see the betterment of their Country, but through different means.

P.S. If you're going to downvote, at least do me the courtesy to explain why.
> The point of those restrictions was to stop people from meeting, at all. Of course parks are a better place to be than a store, Covid-wise, but not if you gather in groups.

So the idea of the citizen in these - sorry, _decadent_ - societies is not that of an educated, rational and reasonable (with voting rights) agent who will act responsibly and with appropriate proportionate care,

but that of an unreliable liability which will act with the property and wisdom of a problematic child. ("They could go in the wilderness but then they may mingle".)

A few of us will ask: so, where is dignified Society to be found nowadays?
A lot of people are concerned about their online history based on what is happening in Hong Kong with people being arrested and charged for things they said in the past.

Once you set foot in China and now even Hong Kong, all bets are off.
> I think doing a PhD is one of the worst things a person can do them financially long term

Strongly disagree. Somewhat true only if you're doing phd just for the sake of completing it, without any particular plans on what you're going to be doing next, and how/why your degree will aid you in that (both from time-spent perspective and from financial perspective).

Sometimes, pursuing a graduate degree is a great idea if you're looking for a specific type of job that requires it. Example: many quant roles in high-echelon trading firms require a phd in math / stats / cs.

Depends on the uni / advisor / field / topic, but in my particular case (math/stat/quant-finance) completing the dissertation was fairly easy, all things considered. I had enough free time to travel, party, tour with a rock'n'roll band, record music, work in another country for over a year, and find myself a wife. Then defend the dissertation and immediately find a job in the field.
I think that would be electrostriction <=> magnetostriction. The ...striction effects are non-linear, while piezo... is linear.
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I guess touch is still something to think about (trying to move that 3D box)

Cool website. 3D is so cool, I struggled with it using 3js but it's neat. The basic cube rotation tutorial/camera rendering pane... I hope to get into this stuff again.
I thought it is some opensource clone of Nintendo 3DS when I see the title.
Two forks exist, Waterfox and Pale moon.

They work beautifully for me but I don't dare to use them on machines that I type customer data, work credentials or use internet banking on.

Not because I doubt the mainteners but because Internet is an extremely hostile space - technically.

One missing patch and one exploit that snuck through one ad network and you can be compromised.

That said I'm happy to donate to see someone starting a soft fork of latest Firefox.

A good starting point could be to make a rudimentary fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1332447
mental fortitude in what sense? insight ability or toughness?
> - many meetings can be replaced by an update email

Highlights from the feed(s); GitLab has the better activity view IMHO but I haven't tried the new GitHub Issues beta yet.

3 questions from 5 minute Stand-Up Meetings (because everyone's actually standing there trying to leave) for Digital Stand Up Meetings: Since, Before, Obstacles:

## 2021-09-28
### @teammembername
#### Since
#### Before
#### Obstacles

Since: What have you done since last reporting back? Before: What do you plan to do before our next meeting? Obstacles: What needs which other team resources in order to solve the obstacles?

You can do cool video backgrounds for any video conferencing app with pipewire.

You can ask team members to prep a .txt with their 3 questions and drop it in the chat such that the team can reply to individual #fragments of your brief status report / continued employment justification argument

> - decisions often work better through docs + feedback than big meetings

SO, ah, asynchronous communication doesn't require transcripting for the "Leader Assistant" that does the Mando quarterly minutes from the team chat logs, at least

6 Patterns of Collaboration: GRCOEB: Generate, Reduce, Clarify, Organize, Evaluate, Build Consensus [Six Patterns]; voting on specific Issues, and ideally Chat - [x] lineitems, and https://schema.org/SocialMediaPosting with emoji reactions

[Six Patterns]: http://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/team-building#six-pat... , Text Templates, Collaboration Checklist: Weighted Criteria, Ranked-choice Voting.

Docs and posts with URLs and in-text pull-quotes do better than another list of citations at the end.

> - you don't need frequent contact with the team if the goals and constraints are communicated very clearly

Metrics: OKRs, KPIs, #GlobalGoals Goals Targets and Indicators

Tools / Methods; Data / Information / Knowledge / Experience / Wisdom:

- Issues: Title, - [ ] Description, Labels, Assignee, - [ ] Comments, Emoji Reactions;

- Pull Requests, - [ ] [Optional] [Formal] Reviews, Labels & "Codelabels", label:SkipPreflight, CI Build Logs, and Signed Deployed Documented Applications; code talks, the tests win again, docs sell

- Find and Choose - with Consensus - a sufficiently mature Component that already testably does: unified Email notifications (with inbound replies,) and notifications on each and every Chat API and the web standard thing finally, thanks: W3C Web Notifications.

- Contribute Tests for [open source] Components.

- [ ] Create a workflow document with URLs and Text Templates

- [ ] Create a daily running document with my 3 questions and headings and indented markdown checkbox lists; possibly also with todotxt/todo.txt / TaskWarrior & BugWarrior -style lineitem markup.

What does an engineering manager do all day?

A polite answer would be, continuously reevaluate the tests of the product and probably also the business model if anyone knew what they were up to in there
I think the main difference between my suggestion and yours is that mine has more brackets. I think type hinting and 'constructors' are basically the same thing, but I like the types to be extensible, so even in your version, I'd make the type hints things that could be provided into the NuJSON.parse function.

Obviously, in your version my approach would be

sounds: Map {
cow: "moo",
fox: null
},
possibilities: Set ["she loves me", "she loves me not", 42]

I suppose that the idea could be that type hints are entirely ignoreable, and if you strip them the file just becomes normal JSON?
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If you're at risk of Covid, stay at home (which is behaviour very common in old folks anyway, during flu season). Frankly, even then your risk is very low. I know several people in their 90's who tested positive for Covid and survived just fine.

>The point of those restrictions was to stop people from meeting, at all.

Yes, the insidious and damaging idea that meeting people at all is dangerous, as we are all disease-ridden carriers of death. When I made a complaint at work that the Covid policies were making the workplace demoralising and miserable, the head of the Health and Safety committe specifically told me that government guidance was to "eliminate conversations". How is this at all healthy for us as a society?

You're also still taking about planes and trains, when I was asking how does that justify being literally shut in my house. Saying that, I understand your point of view. Covid is so bad, that absolutely no risk of passing it must be tolerated, and policy should be set accordingly.
Being picky but they are fake UK native tweeters. They are true Pro-China accounts. Allegedly from the artical.
Firefox has always felt a bit clunky to me hence the reason why I went with brave: it's built on top of chromium but with a built-in adblocker, also some crypto rewards if you are into that(I'm not). Give it a go if you ask me.
Perhaps something that could be used in the MEGA drive.
What is the advantage for Sweden here when they have higher wages and can people and cities in Romania compete against the Swedish ones to not pull the most educated out of the country?

Completely disregarding the language barriers, which are quite extensive so practically freedom of movement would be easy for corporations to use the benefits but not the wider population even if you neglect family ties.

These questions need to be answered and I don't think the educational elite has an answer without painting flowery pictures not too many might be inclined to believe.