skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same happened almost a decade ago to Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. At least my collueges working in the South told be so.
Those darn Etruscans.
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Ah yes, the asymptomatic aspect of Covid, a disease so deadly most people need to be tested to know they came near it.

How did the "connected" nature of our existence make it necessary to shut down entire countries, as well as the air travel links? 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. In fact, the worst place to go was hospital, where the infection rate was pretty bad.

It became obvious quite quickly who was at risk of Covid, and I do not understand why patients were not sent home for bed rest with a portable low-flow oxygen kit (as that was found to be the most effective treatment), and the rest of us allowed to continue with life as we saw fit.
To address the (?) in your comment: The downloadable Teams app is electron-based.
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Considering this article is actually very good, I am sure they have heard of him. While he is absolutely impressive and one of my favourite divers, the pure numbers speak for Alexey.
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Make this happen and I am going to do my best to publicize this.
On the other hand, chrome is making it increasingly tough to use any other browser by sheer intuitive and useful features. Grouping tabs for eg. I know other would do it one day. But there is a lag. I wonder why other browsers (OSS) do not straight up copy any good features and release. Assuming there is good enough dev resources.
Or is it really that hard to do it?
Afraid Netbook and Notebook are two very different categories.

Had a couple of netbooks in my time, they were pretty good for what they were.

But no, I'm talking about full-blown 15-17 inch laptops that were so poorly built that if you tried to rest them on your lap, the trackpad would stop working, or keys on the keyboard would randomly press, and repeated lap-use would make it worse over time.
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If you already have a list of possible real numbers 6 of 10 sounds like it could narrow it down a lot.
Here is South Africa during our last Covid lockdown there were also a shortage going on. But then the government banned the selling of petrol to people who were bringing random containers, which apparently made up a big portion of the total sales.
Try vSpatial - they have an approach where each PC window is displayed as a completely separate screen in the VR environment. Everything is seperated into layers so you work in a cockpit instead of on a desktop. I like their design a lot for most tasks although some display scaling edge cases just don't work. They have a web cam emulator that projects your workspace with you as an avatar & its very cool in zoom calls. Definitely worth checking out for any extended workflows like TFA.
High speed, maybe. The German railway gave up night trains as well, only to have the Austrians step in to take the night lines over. Which are now massively popular, and profitable.
In my case, what go me the jobs were:

Job 1: Knowing a very niche domain (that I happened to work on as a serious hobby for a couple of years) and lucking into a startup that works in that very domain (not really replicable).

Job 2: Applying to a startup which interviewed solely based on algorithmic puzzles, and apparently acing all of them.

Job 3: Knowing a fairly uncommon technology (Scala) and getting into a startup which had a super-hard time hiring Scala devs in Bay Area.

None of which is directly replicable, but I guess the more you develop your skills, the more likely you're to get in one way or another. I didn't even have a github account back then FWIW.
I think every single new car from the past decade requires proprietary software to reset all the anti-theft features which would block you from changing the engine or ECU.

Some manufacturers are more willing to share this software than others. I don't really know when exactly we're crossing the line where it becomes deliberate DRM instead of just poorly available proprietary software. The end result is the same.

Another interesting situation is when you lose all of your car keys. Usually it's easy for your authorized repair shop to fix this, although they might need to have the manufacturer do it remotely(!). For independent shops it's not necessarily as easy as just plugging in a laptop, often they'll have to actually physically replace parts of the car in order to pair their new keys.

Of course, there's a huge market for reverse engineering all this stuff so the indie shops continue to thrive despite many repairs now requiring extensive software reverse engineering.
I remember some people saying Safari's extension changes and specific content blocker API would be a good thing because ad blockers would use less resources.

The change happened, uBlock Origin broke for Safari and here we are several years later and the Safari ad blocker ecosystem is an absolute joke and most of it barely works or demands subscription fees (and the ones that do are certainly not worth paying for because they don't even block YT ads)
Question: what happens when you open a webpage that shows 3D content?
Read it, and well sure it is a challenge to work on an old codebase, and you need to jump through a few hoops that you don't need in pristine projects. Something tells me this guy wasn't able/willing to make the effort. (Could be a language problem, naming a "bug" a "bag" for example, u and a are not even close on the keyboard).
I'm simular but the other way around.

Coke is bland and awful to me. I only drink Pepsi max, yet they are all fairly similar and cola's, Pepsi max is far better than anything else.
> No queuing in airports, no security checks, just the pure pleasure of traveling. Wouldn't it be nice?

All those things are self imposed, and they are strangely only enforced on airplanes.

Like the 300+ lives aboard a train are worth nothing
Discussed this with co-workers 2 years ago, seems this could be reality.
I think for offices this might be a usecase for office mainframes coming back
I thought the comments to this were well above average on the entertaining scale. Pretty embarrassing, though, that probably the majority of comments seemed to take it seriously, even reprimanding the creator for not being serious enough, not taking his Business seriously enough. It seems to create dissonance among many that such a thing even exists. People seem deeply confused it's not full speed ahead, like every other commercial site, trying to grab money from users. We on HN constantly complain that the internet was taken over by smooth, malevolent, lying mega-corporations, with 1GB ToS's and thousands of employees..and here's something completely different and people entitledly shit on it.

It's a joke, people! From HN's own Stavros. Or, who knows what it is. Something Stavros did for fun and uses himself. A thing. Can't things just be allowed to be what they are? It's like people can't tolerate the existence of unique things, and have to see them as just really bad versions of a known category of things. "This round thing is bad because I can't force it into this square hole." And I guess when someone posts something to HN it gets judged as if submitted by the author and designed, badly, for the person now reading it. Ugly font! Bad colours! Unprofessional tone! Bad marketing! etc. ..Wasn't the internet 100% like that in the good old days?
The reason is that whether the vaccine is donated or not isn't relevant with regards to exports numbers.

Same trick as people proudly touting that US is the #1 philantropy country, ignoring that other countries actually run efficient mutualized welfare services.
Wouldn’t touch chrome with a ten foot pole. Why would people who know about explorer go to chrome? Stockholm syndrome? Jeez
IMO the secondary source provides more context in this case, such as a comment from diversiFi.
The log handling is one aspect of how poorly Discourse is failing them here. A proper bug triage system would solicit the information they needed at the time of posting. It would also do a better job of filtering out duplicates. That their employees have to go round and do these janitorial jobs manually is a waste of everybody's time.

But there are so many widespread issues that appear ignored. Things like AMD VCN support, Android clients forcing transcoding on some streams. The problem get acknowledged but there's no easy way to track progress. You don't have to dig far to find others users in there who feel habitually ignore, usually as replies ~"I reported the same thing 7 months ago, good luck getting an answer!", eg https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-anybody-working-at-plex-going-to...

It's a shame because it's not a bad product.
Do you have any more information on the Chevron carbon capture failure? As far as I understand it, the failure had nothing to do with Geology.
In Element (on desktop at least) spaces act like tabs to order the massive vertical list of chats. On mobile these spaces are hidden in the slide-in menu.
The distances and population densities involved are also vastly different.
I don't understand why this (and all the rest) is not driving people back to Firefox. Are we really going to wait for Mozilla to die, and then lament that Google has taken over the web?
I have the feeling that this is almost exactly the opposite of what these methodologies and principles were originally about.
Leeching off other competitors.
One useful thing about summaries for good high information density books like Rob's[0] is that they're a good way to help anchor information found in the book. Which will help you remember the key points in context.

They also present you with alternative takes which can sometimes help in seeing the information from an alternative viewpoint which can also be really valuable.

So from that perspective even though there's some ground covered by a summary, I don't think of them as a replacement for a well written book.

-[0]: It's a good book, if you've not done so read it! http://momtestbook.com/
Don't forget bugs. Bugs in git is nightmare scenario. There are so many complexities with just plaintext, there's no way AST diffs get broad support. Also, AST needn't always be simpler than plaintext, e.g. C++ macros.
Can't wait for this to land on the iPad. I despise WhatsApp with a passion but it's an undeniable reality in large parts of the world, including here in India, so I might as well use it where I find convenient.
I think that's backwards. Gecko requires constant and expensive work to keep up with Blink. And it has been falling behind.

Whereas Blink gets that work for free from Google.

If you want to offer a legitimate counter argument to Chrome by using Gecko then you have to find some way to bring in the hundreds of millions of dollars of necessary funding to bring Gecko up to Blink's quality.

If you want to create a counter argument to Chrome using Blink, then you have everything you need already.
> Find me some actual numbers on those things you describe, and not just fear-laden imagery spread in the media and online, or I'll stick to my opinions of who is spreading BS.

So you think that the makeshift morgues and people dying in the streets was just a media operation? Hospitals were over capacity in many places, if you have a hard time believing this you really are trying to hard to ignore reality.

Here are the numbers for France, since March 2020 - https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/synthese-des-indicateur...

All in French, but Google Translate should help you. The column you're searching for is TO (Taux d'occupation, occupancy rate). You can see it's over 1 many times, in many different regions, for weeks at a time. And this is in a country that did heavy lockdowns the first two times, and then very strict curfews (18h at one time). It doesn't matter that for people under 50 in perfect health the mortality rate is minimal - if the hospitals and emergency services are over capacity, those people can't get help for anything. And of course that's discounting the fact that even many U50s have comorbidities.

> It was quite quickly discovered that the most effective care for a Covid patient was fairly simple - bed rest, and low-flow oxygen. Healthcare was not limited by bed numbers or equipment.

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

Your country is an unmitigated disaster managed by clowns. And even they realised that lockdowns are needed after weeks of insisting on the opposite. Why do you think that is?
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What writing tools you use?
I dislike that distinction a bit. Spaces are just like rooms. You can just create one (that's a personal space), invite some people in (private space), and make it public with a public link (public space).

The distinction is artificial. I mostly want public or private spaces to regroup existing rooms, so the "private" space that wants to force me to create new rooms (in element) is a bad fit.

I also think it's a bit early to come out of beta without peeking: you have to be joined to subspaces as well so that sub-rooms are sorted.
> if someone robs you, would the prosecutor handwave it away saying it's fine because they only got $20

Yes.

In fact, when my mother's grandfather was in conservatorship, his conservator (my mother's cousin) embezzled over $600,000 from his estate, and the prosecutor refused to prosecute.

We were able to get somewhere over half of the amount back through a civil suit.

Don't ever expect that the prosecutor is there to help you.
Mozilla for all its flaws is far, far preferable to Google as a steward of the web.

Switching to Firefox should be a no-brainer for people who care about the future of the web.
> If they can reach the parents at all they often indicate they don’t even care that their kids were absent because they don’t believe in the distance learning. The indifference is mind-boggling as a parent, but it’s real.

maybe because for the working class the classroom is seen as one of the last places where working class children can receive a tiny bit of the patience and encouragement that is needed to help develop a child's own learning process. i am talking about 'holding hands during the first attempt' encouragement. encouragement together with a viable learning path/trajectory that is focused on creating resilient learners.

the parents say that they don't believe in 'distance learning', not school it's entirety. it's disingenuous for you to insinuate that the two are the same. they're not.
This not true. Indo-European diffusion in Europe preceeded Roman influence by at least a half to a full milenium. For example in 500 BC the Celts, the Germans and the Scythians were all speaking indo european tongues while rome was a relatively small republic or kingdom in italy. The italic peoples surrouding the latins all spoke indo european languages except for the etruscans.
I think this feature enables a much more discord-like environment, in which case it totally makes sense why they enabled to for everyone.

Like it or not, discord has taken the market for a lot of younger software projects and geeky communities. If we could get them to use foss matrix instead that’d be a huge win.
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We might have different definitions of "bleeding edge". I meant cryptography research, with implication that work is publishable.

Google Research employs 2000+ people. I believe not only they all have PhDs, but also from top-tier schools.

a PhD is really an absolute minimum requirement for those jobs, and with extremely fierce competition for those jobs, I would be seriously surprised there is anyone there without a PhD who is doing actual cryptography research. Not aware of any exceptions to this general rule.

"a job" could also be a janitor. yes, don't need a phd for that. for some jobs it's a bare minimum qualification.

(not to say people should necessarily strive for those, but such is life)
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There are lightfield displays that can synthesise arbitrary focal planes, but they're still experimental afaik.
I use spaces to organize different bridged services, Whatsapp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal and Matrix itself.

As a subset of rooms to organize a team, I think it would make more sense to host a separate matrix instance.

But it can be nice to give access to a set of rooms in a public community akin to:

- General
- Dev Product A
- Dev Product B
- Watercooler
- Sysad
FWIW, you can adjust the tab bar by editing UserChrome.css, I use this:

.tab-content {
background: #ffffff20 !important;
border-radius: 4px 4px 4px 4px !important;
margin-bottom: 4px !important;
margin-top: 4px !important;
}
At least to me procedural generation is anything created by computer code (ie. a procedure) rather than a human artist. Typically geometry, textures, or music. Randomness is a useful tool for creating "natural" forms but by no means a required or defining feature. Size-restricted demos (eg. 64k, 4k, or 1k intros) are a great example of procedurally generated everything.
I'm fairly sure you can collapse most UI elements though.
I would say that Russian Empire and USSR were similar in the methods of achieving their goals — a lot of rigid hierarchical structures, top-down management, a certain level of brutality. But the goals were very different.
Not OP, but the main reason for me to use adblockers is not to prevent tracking, but to block ads. This alone makes websites load significantly faster and it sometimes prevents dozens of annoying ads per webpage.
Groups ("Communities") are a legacy, underspecified extension to the Matrix protocol; it's best to ignore them as they will go away soon. Spaces are the properly specced replacement for Groups.

From a user perspective, Spaces are containers which can hold an arbitrary number of Rooms or other Spaces. Like Rooms, Spaces can be public, private (invite only), or "restricted" (only joinable by members of another specified Room or Space).

At a technical level, Spaces are actually implemented as Rooms.

In Matrix, Rooms maintain state. Spaces are just rooms whose state indicates that they should be treated as a space ("type": "m.space" on the m.room.create event), and which have pointers to other rooms/spaces which it considers as children (m.space.child events). This means that a single Room can exist in many Spaces, as membership points from the space to its children, rather than in the opposite direction.
> For me (I imagine a lot of others as well), it's simple. If Chrome removes adblock, I'm going back to Firefox.

uBO is already hampered and less powerful on Chromium based browsers right now (CNAME un-cloaking doesn't happen). I imagine this will keep on happening with the advent of Manifest v2.

Not sure if gorhill will choose to maintain different codebases for different browsers.
I agree with you, but he's right in a way: The original purpose of "open source" was to dilute the free software movement, so even though the OSI doesn't recognize such licenses as "open source", it's no surprise why the "average person[/developer]" sees it that way.
> "don't ever engage with anyone or anything for any reason whatsoever."

On Facebook. Yeah probably a good idea and not really paranoid considering Fuckerberg's history.

> What we've seen of ML really _isn't that good-_

... Yet.

And, after Brexit and Trump we've seen the difference a few percentage points can make. Add another point every couple years as the tech improves and you're mad not to be paranoid.
I'd pay for an app that could do the same for Apple News links.
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Underrated?

Man, he was one of very few geniuses who is celebrated everywhere. May be not in pop culture but everywhere else.

On the other hand, in a sense, Neumann is truly underrated. I mean you can talk about him for days and still you'd barely scratch the surface. His genius is so mysterious to me.
At high volumes, at my job, we have yet to find a good third-party log SaaS that performs not only better than self-managed Elastic but actually to perform good enough to be used.

New Relic could not handle the query aspect of having at around 5TB+ terabytes of logs (I know, a ludicrous amount of logs, but that's what it is) per day. Their architecture does not really allow for that. For small volumes I guess it would be enough. Not to ingest, that it did fine, but to query them under a reasonable time frame without a timeout, that's where it couldn't handle the high volume.

Also, their support service, while trying to win us over, that is, in their best moment, was nothing really stellar. Favouring sending us sales/presales people to solve technical problems.

It didn't leave us a good aftertaste.
While it is physically 10cm from your eyes, there are collimating lenses, resulting in a picture that is apparently much further away from you, I think 1.3m is a typical distance, but it can vary by headset.
It is much further away than a typical monitor. As for the light itself, it is light, no UV, not overly bright, sunlight is orders of magnitude brighter (which is a problem for AR btw). The image is also in front of you so no weird eye movement. I don't really see how it can damage your eyes though maybe some people know better, maybe the low resolution/screendoor effect can be a problem on current-gen headsets.

There are things that can cause strain. For example, items too close to you can be out of focus, the low FOV makes you move your head a lot more, and it has extra weight strapped to it, there is the heat, the motion, etc... But a well designed desktop setting like in the article avoids many of these problems.