skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest pressure on variant mutation right now is vaccine-evasion - so the reason the Delta variant has out-competed it is likely because the Delta variant does an even better job of evading the vaccine.

In general, I'm disappointed that we are not rolling out updated boosters with variant protection. Flu vaccines are updated each year - and here we are almost two years from the initial outbreak, and we're still vaccinating people against the original form of the virus - which isn't even spreading anymore

That's not to say that it's not still lifesaving to get the current vaccine - but F - we can do better!
but the tusks had a purpose to defend and now they are defenseless.
Look at some objective measurements segmented by race, such as earnings or life expectancy, and revisit whether you think race has "suddenly" mattered
For people who are not from the region but are criticizing poaching...maybe you should make sure your own house is clean before throwing stones at others. How many people critiquing this have industrial animal farms in their country, for example?

And just to be clear: I don't mean that vile acts like poaching shouldn't be criticized, I more find the hypocrisy extremely grating, especially when it comes from meat eaters.

And ah yes, the downvotes. Sorry, but if you eat animals and yet critique poaching, then you are a hypocrite who does not give a fuck about animal welfare (because if you did, you wouldn't kill them).
The fact that MS wants "to SELL extra Azure services for $$$" and the fact that RUS, CCP and other nation/state actors often attack those services are not mutually exclusive.

Claiming that the notice is false simply because some aspect of it it may also align with some profit sounds like an entry-level fallacy spouted by Qanoners, or an actual RUS twitter troll posting their daily dezinformatsiya, or just the everyday paranoia of those who flock under those banners.

Do you have any actual evidence that the notice is false?
I’d say the opposite is true. These days studio quality equipment is affordable so often when you pay for studio time what you’re paying for is more the producers talent. So it really depends on the style of music and how prepared you are going into the studio / how much work the produce needs to do. I see can’t the cost running into tens of thousands unless your basically using the studio time to compose your track.
The downside is that it means if there is a regression you have to use an old kernel version to fix it. And likewise if there is a new driver you need a newer kernel.

Here's another thing you can't do with Linux's driver model: install a new video driver without rebooting.
Older, less elegant programming languages like C have no memory model, you manually allocate and deallocate everything, and play with a lot of pointers. The syntax is designed to be as compact as possible, without regard to danger, because it was created in the days when programmer time was far less valuable than CPU time.

Older, more elegant programming languages like Pascal also had you manually dealing with allocations, but were far more careful about pointers, and made it very easy to see when you were dealing with pointers instead of normal variables, by using a carrot ^ to denote indirection. This made it fairly safe for programmers to think about things, and make far fewer mistakes. Turbo Pascal upped the game by including a quite complete run time library, and by avoiding the mistake of null terminated strings that was made in C. Additionally, it reference counts strings and makes allocation automatic, so you can do things like delete the first character from a string, with no need to deal with pointers.

Unfortunately, the lesson learned was that programmers can't be trusted with anything dangerous, instead of making it easy to see danger. This is why Rust exists, and is given so much praise, despite a better alternative having languished in the shadows for so long.
I think it's good for society that we care about things which may not directly affect us.

Having said that, the original poster is an artist, and the NFT craze is driven by a scam which disproportionately affects artists. I can see why they might be upset about that.
Erlang and Elixir are not good at number crunching tasks like crypto mining.
> When you eliminate the unnecessary from your life, you certainly live a happier life.

Unnecessary for you maybe, it doesn't look very happy to me
The multiple monitor experience on Windows depends hugely on the exact hardware used and can range from "ok" to "absolute shitcan trashfire", but with modern stuff it's mostly tending towards the latter.
What size is bezel in new MBP?
QOA brings in seed round to do for chocolate what Oatly did for milk
Superstition. Elephants and tigers are not hunted for inherent qualities of their bodies, but for the belief that consumption of their parts in various ways helps health/virility/...
This appears broken on Firefox 93b7 on Ubuntu.
Won't that annoy most distributions as they now have to update their package build script for X.org?
Driver regressions are not unknown on Linux. Just because it never happened to you personally doesn't mean it never happens.
Pedantic arguments don't change the substance.
The studies for this are scarce, but this is curious and counterintuitive:

"The research also found that modern cars, with a more aerodynamic body shape, killed more insects than boxier vintage cars up to 70 years old."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windshield_phenomenon
Ultimately, a good number of people will want "the real thing", even if it is virtually identical. There are plenty of people who think lab grown diamonds are illegitimate, despite having the exact same chemical composition as mined diamonds. For the rich and powerful, the Ivory is more important as a status symbol than anything else. Synthetic Ivory is effectively useless as a signal.

Plus, there are people out there who sincerely believe that Ivory works as an ingredient in medicine and they will seek it out.
Reminded me of this fun video in the reddit thinkpad community of someone "reloading" their R500 swappable bay.

https://old.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/lygrl9/tactical_r...
I guess one man's overly dramatic is another man's laughter at the absurd. Or, perhaps you missed the "laughing so hard I'm crying" emoji?

Anyway - this is exactly what Apple wanted. They knew it would make people talk. They also knew that some faction of Apple worshipers would come along to downplay any and all issues with it.

Apple can do what they want and the zealots can think what they want, but we can enjoy laughing at them when they fall flat on their face too right?
“Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.”
I remember different. It used to be controversial when compilers of old had embedded some identifiers into the binaries they produced - like the infamous MSVC-added "Rich" header or I think Borland compilers used to have something like that too.

Some people used to strip or blank out all sort of identifiers for various reasons (IIRC, primarily to complicate analysis with automated tools).
There's no point in reasoning with you, if you believe that someone's private health information is a blanket reason to completely ruin their livelihood.

Would be lovely if you were put in a position where it's something you don't want to (or can't) do, or your own government takes away your entire livelihood. But it would be fine, because that's how civilisation works, through society making decisions on whats acceptable and what isn't. There's all sorts of sensible.

I would have a sweet, sweet "I told you so" moment, but I would still stand up for your rights.
I thought the touchbar was great idea but I hated that the function keys (and especially esc for a while) were sacrificed for it. They could have taken that 1cm of vertical space from the ridiculously huge touchpad instead and given us a ridiculously huge touchpad along with function keys and a touchbar.
Unfortunately (even ignoring chemistry/matsci), one of the answers to that is simply "natural ivory is becoming a scarce resource". When something is scarce, it becomes sought after, which can result in it even becoming a Veblen Good[1] over time.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/veblen-good.asp
Its important to realize what this "response" actually is. Nature isn't actively doing anything. You have 100 elephants, maybe 5 are typically born without tusks. Suddenly you kill the other 95 for their tusks, leaving behind those 5 to survive and reproduce and next generation, 33 of your 100 elephants are without tusks or something like that. Over time, humans are acting as a predator in the environment, driving a selective pressure that reduces the fitness of the tusk trait relative to the no tusk trait
What is this "society" you speak of and when/where does it make these decisions?
If the mosquito frequency is less than half of the sampling rate of these mics, then yes. Very basically, these algorithms work by looking at the delay between each mic picking up a certain frequency, and calculating the direction of the sound wave from that.
Do you have the Retina model? How long did the swap take you?
Nvidia’s $40B takeover of Arm faces in-depth investigation from EU
This is actually quite significant, I must have missed that.
I'm glad you're honest.
Depend so much where in the world you are . And your age.

In the US cities, say around 30 years old - most likely $5 million. Rural areas $2 million
Just a warning: I tried following his recipe and it came out too dark. Still tastes fine, but it turns all my cocktails copper brown which isn't appetizing. So I just buy higher-end stuff now - still has the crisp "Red Dye 40" color but tastes like real fruit.
True, but he died before he ever published anything about it. I was dating a girl that worked there at the time is the only reason I got to see any of this. There were hundreds of these large 6-10ft tall cylinders with lots of science looking stuff in them that were made I guess? for interchanging between some sort of system in a sub zero room full of other equipment. I was kind of impressed at first then more disappointing that literally no one could even tell me what the stuff was or what he was working on. I didn't get to really see what was in the cold room since everything was already disassembled and boxed or piled up in the case where it didn't fit in boxes. Also I don't know what the room is really called but it was made to be cold and was not active at the time I was there.

There were also piles of very expensive scientific machinery that he gutted for single parts. Because apparently simply sourcing the part he needed for say $250k less was beneath his time so since he had tenure and budget he would just order something he already knew had what he wanted and gutted it leaving behind a very expense broken machine/instrument.

He also believed that women brains were incapable of doing science so she didn't really like him much as you could imagine.
> portfolio site for coders

So many red flags here.

It's true that some of the best devs in the world are active on GitHub. So what I started seeing are bootcamps trying to emulate that by having their grad work on (basically their homework) on github and the whole bootcamp becomes structured around building this "portfolio".

Then when you interview more than one candidate from said bootcamp and actually pay attention to the repo they show you, you realize it's 80% similar. Actually, everyone from that bootcamp has almost the same code checked-in...
THIS! Touch bar is cool but when they went and removed _the ESC key_ they failed. Both would be ideal
It has been a while since I checked out Open EdX, but my experience then was the getting it up and running was fairly complex, and that the platform from the instructor side was very heavy to work with. We have tried building a platform that feels more like Notion than like Blackboard to instructors.
> Apple has a long, long history of doing this. Headphone jack? Gone. Ethernet port? Gone. VGA port? Gone. Floppy disk drive? Gone.

The MBP designers still bravely include the 3.5mm headphone jack [0], though it is certainly true that the iPhone designers courageously jettisoned the jack.

[0] https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-14-and-16/specs/
- Add uppercase characters (lowerCamelCase, UpperCamelCase, ALL_CAPS). The sample code contains uppercase characters only in the font names.

- Allow line-height adjustment.

- Add Lucida Console (still my favorite coding font at 8 px cap height). :)
> I mean let's be honest, how many of us are road warriors that need every single type of connectivity known to exist?

Road warrior? It also meant you could grab it and go to the conference room and not have to take anything else with you, or go back to your desk for something. Packing for a business trip? Maybe you need to throw the power brick in the bag. That's all. Every single type? It had, what, five, including the rather niche Thunderbolt ports? Those are what should have become USB-C ports, as that change would have been 100% an improvement. Keep the rest, including USB-A, which might finally not be the most useful USB port to have in, oh, 2030 or so, if trends continue. Should be right about the time USB-C is being replaced ("Can you believe anyone ever thought that cable situation was OK? LOL.")

> Having a single port type on your device simplifies one half of the equation.

I don't think it's been most people's experience that having only USB-C makes their device simpler to use with a broad range of peripherals, even ~5 years after Apple went all-in on it.
It better translates as "labor" as in "manual labor", or as "toil".
Surely? I wouldn't discount the power of intention when applied to the all too common occurrence of deep emotional stress of experiencing the loss of your family in such a violent display.
Sounds like they have better self driving tech.
Nice find! This is a great answer to OP.
The touch bar was fingers on glass. It's not appropriate for a professional device since it requires you to look down and doesn't lend itself to the "mechanical" use of devices that high-paced work requires.

Also, you can actually add the analog inputs yourself. The DIY keyboard community -- which is flourishing with options and new vendors -- has lots of options available. I myself have two analog knobs and one trackpoint on my keyboard. It's absolutely amazing.
> This does not necessarily mean any new genetic material or "nature responding".

But this is exactly how evolution works. There are always mutations in every generation, and sometimes those mutations are beneficial. These genes are being selected by the organism's environment, and if the environment changes, then the genes that are selected will be different. That is "nature responding". Elephants without tusks (or very small ones) are more likely to survive and produce offspring.
I would argue what you describe is Evolution as broken into the two pieces: Genetic Drift and Natural Selection.

Genetic Drift is always occurring randomly. Some elephants had a "genetic defect" to live without tusks before poaching. Some humans had the 0.1% resistance to the hypothetical super-covid before the disease.

As new environmental conditions emerge (human poaching, hypothetical super-covid, etc), some genes are far better adapted to the new environment (tuskless, covid resistance, etc). Those genes then thrive in the new environment and consume the available resources left by those killed off.
Novels didn't exist as we currently think of novels before the printing press. A lot of novels were serialized in magazines and authors paid by how much they wrote. Now some of that creative and gotta-earn-money energy goes elsewhere, because we invented a different mass distribution method (internet) that does text, audio, and video all at once.

I don't worry that the decline of the literary novel means anything negative about the present era. Still got a lotta new words and sounds and images worth reading, listening to, seeing.

I am also sure that a lot of the "significant" creative work from our time that future historians will dwell upon will be popular mass culture that engages with recent changes in technology. Shakespeare falls under that definition!

This may be leaping ahead of where you're going with this, but: Earlier in life I went down the line of thinking that society/arts etc is getting spiritually or creatively worse compared to some earlier era I valued and it's important for me to resist this and notice how contemporary trends are bad. All I found down that path was a lot of loneliness, suffering, and being oblivious to great things that were happening around me. I only did creative work I still feel good about after I stopped feeling so negatively about the present era from an arts/culture perspective and started enjoying and being curious about contemporary arts/people around me. I never consciously decided to change but what finally worked for me was trying a lot of new creative stuff on purpose that I wouldn't normally think I would enjoy and giving myself permission to have a great time even if it something first struck me as silly, bad, not my thing, etc. I was able to do this and it only deepened my love for any old, obscure, highbrow, acquired taste arts I already valued.
It turns out you aren't the first person to have considered this problem, and the answer is well-understood: border adjustments. Basically, these are tariffs on imports from countries which don't have an adequate price on carbon. If you want to do business with the West (probably 70+% of the global economy), you need to clean up your economy.
There's a lot of engineers out there who wouldn't count as engineers by that metric.
What is the fastest way to buy Bitcoins?
Nature is never doing anything.
My guess is socialization. The people I have in mind have found above average success in life and probably got good grades themselves. They have internalized the "fact" that education = worksheets + tests + grades. And this is the lens through which they manage their children's education.
I too would like to see a peer to peer IOU based system where anyone can issue credits. It doesn't necessarily have to be built "on top of bitcoin" though. Indeed, you can have credit money systems that don't require an explicit settlement currency. I did a tonne of research into this and wrote a bit of code but sadly not many people seem to be interested in credit money systems, instead favouring what crypto is currently. I guess the reason why is that credit based systems don't have the feature whereby issued credits can increase in value far excess of their nominal value. Sad because I think a P2P credit money system would add real value to the World.
Amish are strapped. They have lots of guns. They also have a lot of abuse that they sweep under the rug.
Did you know that polio is survivable in 99.8% of cases and asymptomatic in 92% (up to 99% by some estimates) of cases?

Mention this to people that think covid is mild non-issue.
This will probably be downvoted but the reality is it's because there's a ton of new money in China where they're still valuing things like Ivory culturally. There's no cultural stigma at this point. The government has banned it but the black market trade is still strong. See shark fin soup as another example.
In highschool my best friend and I discovered LBA and fell in love with it. I'd love to play it again sometime. And look forward to reading more about it. I had completely forgotten about it until now!
Sounds similar to https://github.com/mozilla/uniffi-rs. Hopefully Oso open source their library.
If such a program ever terminates, then the result is rational. If it doesn't terminate, then pausing at any point will always describe an infinite number of irrationals.
It's a good rewording of Occam's razor: the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is best.

You could believe that a cabal capable of eliminating any trace of itself in a world where Wikileaks and whistleblowing is becoming a more frequent occurrence. Or, you could invoke the simpler explanation that if there is no concrete/verifiable/reproducable evidence of it, it just doesn't exist.

I'm just going to assume it doesn't exist === I'm going to assume it wasn't aliens.
Stomping is a common way for elephants to deal with predators. Tusks are used a lot as a tool though.
Even with inflation, seems pretty cheap in comparison to other stories you hear about groups being given hundreds of thousands of dollars upfront to record and then having these groups bitch about how they blew through their money and didn't get their record done OR they got their record done and it was shit and sold like shit.

Sticky fingers has sold like ~20 million copies (last I checked) and is regarded as one of the best Rolling Stones albums and one of the best '70s albums altogether.

Not bad ROI on two songs.

Also, even though everyone seems to know 'Brown Sugar', 'Wild Horses', and 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking', IMHO: 'Sway' and 'Moonlight Mile' are some of the best songs but, honestly, I can always put this record on and listen to the whole thing start to finish. Certainly one of my faves while driving for long periods.
aha, now that then explains the decision more then.
Not everyone says the touchbar is useless. I absolutely love it! I will miss it. And the new Macbook may be a beast but it looks terribly old - like a yesterday-machine. For the first time Apple released a product i will buy because it will be more capable - but not because i want it!
Tried it out for a while, and it's clear that it's trying to get people to be faster at writing boilerplate, not get people to write better code.

I'm a bit scared for what this means as I don't think being able to faster write boilerplate is something worthwhile. The example ed_elliott_asc made is one of those examples where instead of fixing things so you don't have to repeat yourself, copilot makes it easy to just live with the boilerplate instead.
The conspiracy theory about area 51 was that there was alien tech there, not that it existed.
> What's up with gaming related jobs being at the top though

If I had to stereotype based on US gaming companies:

-Long hours

-Relatively low pay

-Typically located around urban centers (so a higher CoL)

-If the controversies at Riot, Activision Blizzard, and Ubisoft are any indication then many game related employees are emotionally stunted and immature.
I hate the term "jerk". It's really just not specific enough to categorize, or correct, bad behavior. I am always concerned about coming off as a narcissist or elitist.

I was turned down recently after a well-executed technical interview because the company was concerned that I might be a jerk, which is actually great feedback. They based this on a "vim-mode sucks" comment I left in the notes section of online editor they were using to conduct the technical round when it froze up. Whoops.

I’ve definitely been a jerk sometimes in the past, and it’s something I work on frequently with a psychiatrist. I’ve also worked for some very successful narcissists in the past, so I don’t have a lot of great examples to reference. And my socialization skills sometimes come off as stilted since one of my parents is on the spectrum. Emotionally it can be hard to tamp down on frustration, but I’ve gotten a lot better since I started seeing a psych a few years ago.

I really hope people can get back to treating each other like human beings rather than labels.
https://datarob.com/information-vs-data-vs-knowledge/
You better not switch your keyboard layout to dvorak... 'ls' are both right pinky letters. ;)
This is beyond stupid.
If the probability to get killed for the tusks is higher than get killed by predators then it's an advantage.