skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't a big deal when breaking who the Kardashians are dating, but it's very dangerous when talking about public health policy.

https://twitter.com/ungeneva/status/1244661916535930886
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1234871709091667969

Also remember, it's not airborne and sanitizing surfaces is all it takes.
Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
Researchers are racing to determine whether a fast-spreading variant in South Africa poses a threat to COVID vaccines’ effectiveness.
Oh man nitter is so much better - twitter is just full of ad/promoted content. Never knew about nitter.
This list feels like two lists got pasted onto each other. There's a bunch of historical SF (like The Blazing World and Frankenstein), and a bunch of recently published SF (like The Martian and The Three-Body Problem), but not a lot in between.
RSA is faster for signature generation. RSA is faster by more than an order of magnitude for signature verification[1] and encryption[2].

All these libraries listed here are bad in some way for RSA?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_cryptography_lib...

[1] https://www.ijser.org/researchpaper/Performance-Based-Compar...

[2] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02926106/document
To be honest, I quite like modern PHP. On the other hand, I tend to stay away from it, exactly because of the big prevalence of spaghetti code projects.

There just is so much legacy in the PHP world that separating the wheat from the chaff in itself becomes tedious. And don't understand me wrong: legacy in itself is not a problem. It's the combination of PHP being easy to pick up, lots of outsourcing, people writing procedural code without any notion of code readability, lack of tests, use of global state, etc that usually just make me cry and move on. For me the percentage of worthwhile PHP projects to chase is too low in comparison with many other technologies.

Even though PHP was what got me into programming in the first place, I nowadays thus chose to pick other battles. But every once in a while I still nostalgiously float back in time to my childhood days, enjoying every line of the almighty 4MB imagemagick monstrosity scripts I conspired. And then I'm happy that you nor I have to solve these enigma puzzles.
>I respect your interpretation

What's your interpretation of her panicked crying? You just spent 4 paragraphs outlining how you think her allegation is ambiguous. Now you're attempting to outright dodge a perfectly valid counterpoint.
This is honestly a bad joke right? Python packaging could not possibly get worse.... Or could it
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if anyone's curious what it is :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAD_(programming_language)
I think that restaurant analogy is pretty bad. Driving customers to a competitor is a risk you take when locking them out of your restaurant, and those customers could also be lucrative VIP customers as well, not just schleps from the street. If that mega VIP ever stops coming to your restaurant, and you've lost your other VIP/customer base, you'll be hurting big time. This can lead to leverage the mega VIP has over you, as they know you've overcommited to them, and can tighten the screws.
How do you know 98% Chinese people are happy if there is no credible, independent study? Surely any study saying Chinese are unhappy would be censored.
For Linux to conquer the desktop you'd need for it to beat out Windows or Mac for market share. For it to do that you'd need it to be have competitive usability for everyday people, and this is still far off. When I use my linux box at work I have to google for things like, "how do I enable this resolution for my monitor which isn't showing up" and then punch in a bunch of commands into the terminal.

The advantages of windows and mac these days are that a lot of stuff 'just works' and secondly that due to their 20-30 year history their desktop application ecosystem is much richer and also much more widely used. User interfaces are also more friendly in general.

There's no technical reason why these faults cannot be overcome, but there are significant hurdles in getting a third OS to gain major market share from the incumbents MS and Apple. The reason they have market share in servers is because the experience is better to develop on and it is free. The reason they have market share in mobile is that it was free and Google could build on top of it, and secondly that mobile was a brand new market so there were no incumbents with decades of history. I don't see those conditions replicated for desktop, especially when you consider that desktop is in decline and therefore less attractive to spend capital on.

If you want to make Ubuntu as nice as MacOS I think you need a private company willing to spend money and time in a concerted effort to get it to that point, which IMO won't happen.
Why can't they come up with a better name like security vulnerabilities have nowadays?
> It only leaves lower tiered hierarchies worse off and only in the short term.

This is the refrain of those who do not understand reflexivity, and third-order analysis.

This analysis is correct to the first and even second-order effects, but completely misses the importance of slipstreaming floor expertise / experience into design and engineering iterating, or even holistic support. This kind of economic caste system thinking just as surely shackles the US as the Indian social caste system shackles that nation with enormous untapped potential.

I routinely make LinkedIn friends and actively solicit input from the operations people in all of my client organizations, and this has repaid me many times over. Where others within their very own organizations, much less outside consultants, snub these "lower tiered hierarchies", shedding light upon their experiences and expertise has taught me many valuable lessons about software design, debugging, implementation, and product management, among many other areas.

I learned to do this from reading about the nuts and bolts of how Japanese automakers applied Deming's quality principles. IMHO the buried lede in those stories wasn't all the charts and reports artifacts (similar to the Agile artifacts we use in our industry), but to my mind it was the attitudinal changes that flew in the face of common human hierarchical predispositions. Because it is a massive organizational cultural shift often enmeshed in wider prevailing ethnographic contexts, it is one of the most difficult leadership-led transformations to conduct.

One can get away with the hollowing out effect in the beginning, and if there is sufficient "mass" of value to strip in the industry to mask the effect, it can even be carried out through a couple more product and technology cycles to second-order ramifications as various affiliated supply chains are also stripped out. But once it reaches third-order ramifications often loftily projected as, "while we lead the toiling-for-peanuts offshore masses with our brilliant sales/marketing/product/accounting insights, the supercharged stock bonuses will just roll on in!", it is when reality slaps them in the face and they find out that those same "junior", "lower tiered hierarchies" toss aside the "onshore leadership" to cut out the middlemen to the customers.

After one is never too proud nor too lofty to lead from the front, be happily willing to (if even for a moment) do anything one would ask their direct reports or even their recursive direct reports to do, so to speak "sleep on the factory floor" if need be, a torrent of insights that would normally do not occur during design and engineering stages become available.
Teenagers are dumb, news at 11.
The parent comment may look like a baseless conspiracy theory, but it is worth considering the unintended consequences for privacy of bombarding public areas with more radio data. For example:

> Researchers in the US have used WiFi signals to detect the gait of people through walls and match it to video footage in order to identify individuals.

https://www.theengineer.co.uk/wifi-walls-walkers-gait/
Is it? What's the danger? Now that B.1.1.529 is out there, what changes for you? The entire western world already pretends Covid is over.

Like, there is no call to action here. No one is looking to deceive you into buying an ape for the good of the arts.
unfortunately I can only really work for long stretches on a kinesis split keyboard - with the modifiers all the on the thumb. if they would finally make a bluetooth one maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
The danger is that they can completely lose touch, and depending on what they do, that can make them worse at their job.

I know of CEO that made several blunders leading to reduced retention that I’m convinced were at least partly a result of this dynamic.
I hear you man, I hear you
Ach, I added this comment to the wrong parent - it was meant as a response to @boomskats's comment mentioning Julian Assange.
That is what happens when you don't act early.

You end up with aggressive, last-resort measures like extended lockdowns.

Hence my point that there is minimal downside to being overly cautious when you first hear about new variants.
Suffering for people who have never suffered. This comes up on here again and again (the last one was why rich people do triathlons). People who have done well in life need to justify themselves with some organised (and usually artificial) suffering. No-one does middle-class guilt like a Brit.

Also, this guy lives in Manchester. He lives next two spectacular national parks (Lake District and the Dales), and he goes to Morocco. Could have gone to the Highlands if you wanted remote. Inexplicable. Smh. Embarrassment.
Tough call here. If it ramps up the pressure to stop this before it spreads to quickly thats a win - the risk is if it isn't as dangerous and the new rules cause backlash amongst the fatigue.

Also putting that information out into twitter will get to the right people and the wrong people (i.e. people who can understand whats she's saying and people who aren't) and then the information gets used in multiple different ways.

Yes hot takes are risky.
I think it depends quite a bit on the circumstances.

And as long as the kernel is decently fresh, one can run new shiny software using containers instead.
I don't have a definitive answer, but I've flown to quite a few places around the world and coming back to the UK, the patchwork of fields and hedgerows is really quite distinctive. I can't think of anywhere else that really has them.
...and the UK just banned all flights from South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho and Eswatini: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-59424269
Dunno, but those are adorable! I think it is less of an issue because it is recessed.
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Fibers!!! Who wants to bet we are a few releases away from async/await syntax now. Giving credit where it’s due Microsoft with C# pioneered the syntax and every classic (including a few modern) language has adopted the syntax.

I believe we are a few steps away from a fully builtin production ready server and db connection support.
Toyota also had to do a large number of recalls over the past decade for airbag issues.
Israeli PM's 9-year-old son gets Covid-19 vaccine
US I-series savings bonds are yielding 7.1% (and is tax advantaged) which seems to be better than the staking yields of the more reputable PoS coins.
It’s true that ITER will not produce net power and that the administrators have misled the public about the difference in Q factors. You can have a reactor which produces more thermal power than you put in to it that is still a net power drain when you factor in the rest of the plant operations to keep it going. All clearly explained in this great video.

https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY

There is a real risk that by focusing on the wrong Q factor you sink all your budget in to plants which can never work as a real power plant.

Still I am hopeful that ITER will be sufficiently valuable as a research system that we do move closer to commercial fusion power.
Climate change action, lifting people from poverty, so yes.
I'm confused. You seem to be conflating TV OS updates (which I'm stull getting) with third party App updates, which I'm definitely still getting.
He’s referring to Jamie Dimon from JPMorgan. I thought Dimon has quite the balls to come out on China like that, touching CCP and Taiwan (“China’s Vietnam” he called it, referring to America’s war) in a way that no one with business interests in China would.
I think you’ll find it’s a popular opion, but not one you’ll find espoused much on Twitter. I like to think you and people like me are the “silent majority”.

While it’s fascinating to see this stuff out in Public, it’s the same kind of fascination I had when Trump started diplomacy via Twitter, or when I saw my neighbours have a shouted domestic argument on their front lawn…
I thought there was something in, like, Powerman10k or something, which managed to avoid that issue?
I like software where you don't need to spend hours or even days on configuration and it just works out of box. Unfortunately the different syntax is no go for me. I have a bunch of scripts which I can run on my local machine and remote interchangeably. Even if syntax is better I want to learn rather `one syntax` that work everywhere. But that is only one thing that prevents me from trying it.
What, more exactly, is illegal? Reverse engineering is not illegal (in no jurisdiction that I know of). And neither being in violation of a EULA or a TOS.
There's also Moodle which got extremely more important because of the pandemic. Nothing that ever becomes as popular as PHP and continues evolving for 2+ decades disappears quickly. I think 10+15 years... I don't know... I think it will last longer. COBOL and FORTRAN are still alive, there was more heavy money into both but there are more minds in PHP.
Technically they could - if they had the skills (a restaurant with programmer staff?), had a the reason (risking to alienate the customers?) and had the guts to go against GDPR (somebody will spill the beans). So...
I don't think hedges are really woodland areas? It's only a small line of hedge for many acres of corn or grass or something.
AMD CPUs typically have a very accurate SoC power measurements that's within 95% of reality. Obviously that is not the case for the M1 Max, which is not abnormal. This is probably because of the offsetting Apple does to avoid counting RAM power consumption, storage power consumption, etc..., that on the M1 Mac Mini amounts to something like 5W.

Yes, using wall power masks the efficiency of the charger. That said, the charger is >94% efficient : https://www.chargerlab.com/apple-87w-usb-c-power-adapter-a17.... VRM efficiency at the middle-power range is generally >95%.

On the other hand, using wall minus idle also has some advantages - you don't take into account the baseline power consumption of the memory controller, the baseline power consumption of the GPU, or the PCI/storage controllers, or the baseline power consumption of the USB controllers, and so on and so forth - that's easily 2-4W even on an M1, on a Ryzen chip this is included in package power, whereas it's not for the M1 Max.

Because of that I judged the two numbers to be the closest to each other, and the minimal power consumption losses are more than offset by excluding a fair amount of power consumption that is reflected in the package for an AMD chip (and indeed any chip).

I didn't explain and justify all of this because I didn't have the time to do so and I don't think it was necessary to clutter up the text this much. I'm not cherry-picking either. There is a reason why wall-power is included for Intel and M1 reviews but very rarely for AMD, including in AnandTech's reporting, and it's obvious from reading the Apple data on idle power usage for the M1 Mac Mini, from everything that the M1 chip does on-package and from the 7.2W idle, from which only the screen, fans and NAND chips (not controller) are outside the package, that this is not a package power reading, but an estimate of what on the PC World would be called "Core+SOC", which is typically significantly lower than actual package power. If there was a Core+SOC number provided for the 5980HS I'd compare that but I don't have one and I didn't find any. In either case in the real world the two measurements are going to be at most 1-2W apart and I'm not sure if it advantages the M1 Max or the 5980HS.
Technically, that's not a monopoly but rather a monopsony—a market dominated by a large buyer.
I’m not sure why people are posting Twitter threads but this is headline news, at least in the UK, and that news doesn’t seem to stem from this thread. The UK has also added several southern African customers to the travel red list again and they aren’t doing that late in the evening based on a random Twitter thread.
But most of the things you do require a certain amount of tinkering, even basic stuff like setting up C indentation, making Emacs not use tabs, and configuring keyboard shortcuts - especially in the early days, when you might not quite understand how things fit together.

Compare and contrast with Visual Studio Code, which has a much smoother onboarding experience.
I travelled in UK and it seems you do have to do an antigen tests when you get in as a traveller. Is antigen test able to detect this variant?
That sort of blows my mind. How can you not learn to touch type? It will take you a month at most and it greatly improves life at a keyboard.
Is there any reason to believe that higher infectivity should correlate with lower lethality? i.e. the virus which keeps its host alive the longest has greatest opportunity to replicate and spread?
im sorry do web results have 3 pages?

how much time do you have to browse a bad search hit?
This is true! If the hardware can't be trusted, we can generate seed phrases from any secure source of entropy.
> For the majority of us the virus poses no danger.

It does if emergency services and ICUs are at capacity and nobody can get treated for anything or medical personnel is so overworked they make mistakes or burn out.
“Two weeks” is quite the litotes. COVID-19 has been around /two years/.
Just add #!/usr/bin/env bash?
The Cartier Foundation for contemporary art had an exhibit on "geometric art" from South America some time ago, and there remains a 7-minute video (in French only, but the automatically-translated subtitles seem fine) on Youtube about Freddy Mamani, the architect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0odbR7FOZpU

Very beautiful images from these buildings.
Agreed about the onboarding experience. However, the person I was replying to seems quite well versed in Emacs.
This is the framework, not the plugins.
In that sense no it's not needed. In fact computers aren't needed at all. We made due without them for thousands of years.
I started with Ruby, and I imagine my code there was just as bad. But I totally agree about the prevalence of bad PHP projects. My theory is that it’s the dominant language and so there are just more projects, and (like the opposite of survivorship bias) shit codebases are often looking for good developers to save them which is why you see so many of them.
If you want to go into the Canadian wilderness, a chance to go places where no 'man' has set foot before, for 30,000usd - I know a few guides.
Those "recently independent" countries are fecked without EU, so they better jump on the train or be consumed by eastern threats
One comment I heard at a programming meetup recently was "I hate how frameworks like laravel have brought PHP back in to popularity when we had the chance to finally kill it off".

I do wonder if there really was value in salvaging PHP when we have a wealth of other languages and frameworks that do a perfectly fine job without any of the legacy mistakes sitting around.
I grew up in Illinois. The fields there are often surrounded on all sides by a narrow woodland area, sometimes only 10s of feet thick.

I was told the woodland areas are maintained as wind barriers for the otherwise flat plains. Not sure how true that is, but they’re definitely home to normal woodland fauna: dear, squirrels, rabbits, turkey, etc.
Hedgerows pre-date the enclosure act by centuries, land has always been demarcated. The enclosure act relates to the takeover of common land.
There might be more to it than that...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576425
I like the idea of geared pagination https://github.com/basecamp/geared_pagination which is another gem out of Basecamp.

Their philosophy is to show less initially but as you start paging through additional pages it'll show more results per page until you hit a maximum amount. For example you could get 25 results on page 1, 50 on page 2, 100 on page 3, etc..

It's a happy medium. Keep your initial result minimal and focused but if a user wants more then keep giving them more in an efficient way (less clicking).
Give Thanks to the Green Revolution
A similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29344274
Even things like not having to budget for groceries and the occasional going out to eat is something I often take for granted. I stay frugal, but have never really had to hem and haw about whether I should spring for the organic produce or fair trade coffee.

"I can't afford this" is a lot more difficult of a circumstance to be in than "boy that was a dumb idea to purchase some pricey, fancy, but nasty cheese on a whim"
> what Intel needs above all is tech and manufacturing advancements.

Intel needs a reliable door into the phone industry. Currently they don't have anything to offer and people will think twice before choosing Intel chipsets if it's not sure Intel will even stay in the market. Acquiring MediaTek would bypass that.
Sorry for the reality check: said states make requests all the time to Google and Apple and also receive the requested data, and we have apparently no issue with this. Instead we use an imaginary feature no scanner outside China has (phoning home) and complain about that.
This assumes that a correction or retraction will necessarily spread with the same dynamics of the original statement. The distribution network, and the motivations of other actors spreading the information, is more important the person making the original statement. In this case, much of Twitter is the appeal to emotional responses, not rational ones. And as a medium for information conveyance is just terrible (16 tweets for something like this is evidence of that fact). Given that, I expect that any real value to the message here will be completely lost, as would that of any correction or retraction, because those amplifying the message will be doing so on the basis of their own prior sentiments on response to the diseases.

All considered I feel the point of the original comment.
Personally I am delighted that the low end has been replaced by fully managed platforms. The average small business does not have the ability to run a website. Actually building the site and getting it online is the cheapest and easiest part but its the only part these places budget for. Then the inevitable problems come when the site is 2 years old, falling apart, getting hacked, etc. Allowing these low end customers to just have something that is set and forget truly is an improvement.
I use C#, Javascript and PHP a lot.

PHP always wins when it comes to deployment and productivity. In my opinion that's the power of PHP.

It's also versatile. I used it for small projects, multi-million € projects, COM-port communication, API communication, prototyping and what not.

The syntax is not great, but to me PHP is this multi-tool that just gets the job done and will run reliable for years.