skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone actually have source to that?

Yesterday we've seen WHO's update about Omicron which was basically "it looks like something we need to investigate, we don't know a lot yet"

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373066

Today there's anonymous WHO representative (no mention in article who exactly and when gave the statement) that there's global risk on Reuters and there are dozens of re-publications about the same, linking to Reuters as source of truth.

Did position change overnight or was there any unpublished conference?
Wait, I think they misspelled “Porn …”
good twitter thread that provides a level-headed perspective based on what we actually currently know:

https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/146422268073182004...
Unwise to post when pissed, it will bite you on the arse at some point, but not today.
M$ teams web doesn't work in Firefox. I was forced to install Chromium under Kubuntu just to use teams at work, as I avoid to install the crappy full teams application like the plague, given it is proprietary, resource heavy and tries to auto-launch whenever it can.
10000% this

We need more computing resources dedicated to scientific work rather than the (in my biased opinion) bullshit consumer apps that don't actually help anyone with anything besides making their owners assloads of money
s/surprising/irresponsible/

If I run my pc as root, I'm the master of my own demise. If I run a device with software running as root, my demise is not even in my own hands.

I can't wait for drive-by malware to install the Ask Jeeves toolbar on someone's Remarkable.
Translation: "Give us more power"
Can’t edit, but this was unnecessarily combative. What I should have said is that I do not understand this claim or the numbers presented.

An adult individual able to burn only 100 Calories/hours is not merely “unconditioned”, but quite ill.

Someone capable of burning 600 Calories/hour would be considered quite fit by most people (especially if they do this 2-3 times/week), but is also nowhere near maximum caloric burn per hour.
For those commenting that it's just common cold and about herd immunity, I think we should not miss out on overload on our medical system.

This is what happened in India, due to high number of cases (even if mild) the medical infrastructure completely crashed under the load and lead to far more deaths than just a flu could have caused.

Wear mask and stay indoors if possible
I feel the same about Resharper. I stopped using it after many years simply because I could no longer bear the typing latency that is causes. I even bought a new laptop thinking the old hardware was to blame, only to discover the latency has barely improved. I'm now happy with "bare" Visual Studio 2022 - it may have fewer niceties, but I'm so much more productive!
I remember using Konqueror in the middle of 00s. It was much better UI-wise, but a lot of web sites were broken in it so I had to default to Firefox often.

Guess what, today using Firefox is the same, even if it's better than Chromium derivatives for you, too often will you need to switch to Chromium when faced with Google Hangouts / Google Meet / Zoom / the fad of the day, or some random websites.

And this time it does not worth it since it's the same US corporate product, so I jumped this ship more eagerly. I'm on Yandex (the web browser) now.
Travel bans have never worked either. The variant almost certainly already reached community transmission in Northern Africa, they're just not reporting it. Travel bans reward this behavior.

Furthermore, airports are good places to track and study infections. Assume that this variant will spread worldwide. We've already been through this with the wild type, with Beta and with Delta/Gamma.
> They want it to (more or less) stay the same and not move forward and make changes to compete with Chrome.

Most of the negative feedback from users comes from two paths, changes that break add-ons, changes that remove customization. Either of those two effectively reduce the value proposition, so I think negative feedback is granted.

The problem most 'core' users have is this UX ethos that some how we are not having more MAUs because we fail to "make changes to compete with Chrome". This has penetrated the Firefox team and has lead to a copy cat of UX features from Chrome and a 'dummyfication' of UX.

The reason Firefox is unable to compete with Chrome or Edge is not because of missing features or performance. Both Firefox and Edge have million dollar advertisement and OEM agreements. Talk to anybody on the street and everyone and their dog will know Chrome, Firefox not so much. The average users will use whatever is pre-installed. They will not go out of their way because of Chrome-like features.

This causality that somehow Firefox is missing market share because of features or UX is flawed. Firefox is playing a Goliath and David game, with billion dollar revenue companies. Accepting and embracing it's niche nature is a necessary first step.
It's so hard to know if it was used as jewellery, or if it had some practical application as well, and was also decorated. We'll likely never know. I agree that calling it a pendant just because it has two holes, is a bit of a leap.

For all we know, it was a fishing line (or net) float.
To me that is not good. Firefox just suck.

I insisted on Firefox for a while because Google hegemony but in the end I switched to brave.

1. Firefox often loses settings

2. Also it is really, really bad at saving your session. After losing important tabs I ignited that but...

3. After painstakingly preparing a bunch of docked tabs, it lost these too.

4. Frequent interface changes, often for the worse (to be honest my favourite interface was firefox 2.0)

5. It often breaks extensions too, this is felt heavily on Thunderbird where I have to often teach my family all over again how to do what they want or have to code more extensions myself because some critical extension does not work anymore.
I am of the belief that there are many types of intelligence. With that said, I am most impressed with three traits of intelligence as they apply to almost any situation:

1. Knowing what you don’t know and knowing your limitations. Most people struggle with this.

2. People that ask good questions. Most people either ask no questions out of fear of being seen as dumb or ask, well, dumb questions.

3. Being able to figure things out on their own, without explicit instructions or directions. Sometimes a teacher or trainings help, but more often than not the answers are out there or can be discovered with a little bit of effort.

These traits show a good understand of one self and the situation.

Again, I don’t like to say intelligence is any one thing. The linebacker that reads the play perfectly pre-snap and shoots the gap as soon as the ball is hiked shows incredible intelligence that doesn’t translate to much these days outside of sports.
This is where it's headed. The complete Disney-ification of ski towns. 2 or 3 mega resort companies will control the entire economy surrounding the resort: hotels, restaurants, spas, theaters, etc. Some of the amenities will operate at a loss, but their presence will push up the value of the higher margin amenities.
I use the Fastmail app on Android, and it works very well regarding this, it sounds like its iOS app is the same, great!
from what I understand, based on current evidence, travel restrictions will not do much at this point:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/1...
It’s disappointing that we can go from computers in the 80s with 1mhz processors and 64k of ram being considered powerful, to 2ghz, and 4gb of ram being unusable. I get that we require way more from our operating systems now, but does it really add up to that much more?
> ... that wouldn’t simply be kicking the can down the road more.

Kicking the can down the road is a good thing. It buys us more time to look for a more impactful solution.
Buzzword bingo alert:

"'The inequity that has characterized the global response has now come home to roost,' he told the talks, noting that Botswana and South Africa had fully vaccinated less than a quarter of their populations."

We get it. Only continuous vaccination will save humanity, like in Portugal (87% vaccinated):

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-11-25/...

It is a new religion at this stage.
No it wasn't?

The known coronaviruses in the 1980s were four of the ones that cause the cold, but virology hasn't stood still since.
> Finally, and this is a bit of a tangent, but I've never quite understood why Mozilla got such a hard time from users about telemetry.

That's the consequence of marketing themselves as "privacy first". Many people use Firefox because they don't want to be tracked, and therefore, any tiny bit of tracking/telemetry will be frowned upon. Google makes no such claim with Chrome, in fact, it makes it pretty clear that it tracks you.
This is a great question. The answer imho is that large creators can use crowd sourcing and leverage their reputation.

All they have to do is ask the public for money to make the next [say] Mad Max, Riddick, Startrek, Batman, etc etc

If the public doesn't want a new Startrek movie funding will be insufficient. It might have to happen on a smaller budget, not at all or simply have to wait until funds are sufficient.

New things (not sequels) can be done/advertised on the reputation of the studio, director, actors etc etc

I pay for production, I pay in advance for a cinema ticket, I get a digital download some months later.

Whatever copying happens after that is pure promotion.
Redistributing heat across an object does not make the object as a whole any cooler.
I've been meaning to write almost exactly this blog post for a while now, glad that someone else did it.

Two things that I think are worth calling out:

1. In many ways Apple's anti-competitive behaviour on iOS/iPadOS is a blessing. It's one of the few things that keep Chromium's dominance in check. Of course, it's not great that Apple are stifling innovation like this, but consider the alternative: Chromium dominance on all platforms.

2. Why it's worth caring about this at all? So what if Chromium is the only engine, it would make things easier for developers after all. To this I say, go read some of the discussions in standard bodies(for example about FLoC). Engineers from Apple and Mozilla are largely our bastion against Google's harmful proposals for the web. Pushback from Apple and Mozilla are only relevant as long as they have market share to speak of. The recent lawsuit against Google(summary[0]) by many US states should be extremely worrying to anyone that cares about the open web and it should make handing over any more control to Google a terrifying prospect.

Mozilla maintains a list[1] of their positions on various standard suggestions that is also a useful resource.

0: https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/145205393819534131...

1: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
Your disrespect for other jobs (than tech) is appalling to me. Have you ever stopped and considered that if everyone started doing tech, there'd be no one making food, clothes, laptops, buildings, and just about anything in the planet?
> my understanding is that passive house is 3-4x better ACH than a typical recently built house in the UK

Part L1A of UK building regulations stipulate an air permeability of no more than 10m3/hr/m2 of building envelope at 50pa of pressure. My home has approximately a 1:1 ratio of building envelope to volume, though this will vary a great deal. But for such a home this works out to 10ACH at 50pa. There are various studies on how to convert these measurements to natural ventilation rates, but the conversion rate is around 10-30, with the typical house being adjusted by a factor of 20, i.e. 0.5ACH, however this can be as high as 1ACH.

Some homes will be constructed to higher standards, but will not likely achieve less than half this rating.

This also ignores the presence of trickle vents inside windows in homes without mechanical ventilation, and that the majority of homes in the UK were built to lower standards - typical values for homes built prior to 2010 are 15-20m3/hr/m2.

Therefore, 0.5-1ACH is a pretty standard background ventilation rate for homes in the UK. Your typical Passivhaus home with 0.4ACH from mechanical ventilation has less ventilation than a typical home, not more.

Only very large homes built to strict modern standards and with a high interior volume to building envelope ratio could possibly have 3-4x less ventilation.
prove you wrong about what? I don't even know what point you are trying to make
But, out of the box, the interactive performance is awful, and getting worse with each version.
IIRC English - Indian English, not British or American - is the second language of the most people in India. Otherwise, they have so many local languages they would be mutually incomprehensible. But everyone learns English, and so they can talk and do business.
What Happened: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 19 Months of Covid
We don’t have to prove you wrong. You’re the one making the statement, so you have to prove you’re right.
I'd like to understand this better. If I was a software engineer for 20 years and had cover and savings etc then was between jobs for a few months for whatever reason and got into a car crash how would that work.

Would I get medicare/aid?

Are all people students / unemployed expected to be paying monthly premiums to get any kind of cover?

I have had healthcare in the US for a serious accident, but I had travel insurance (UK based) which likely saved me 100,000s of dollars. Fortunately they paid up without question. I'm not sure how that would have worked if I was just some regular student from the US travelling around, would I be bankrupted for life or hoping for crowdfunding? Sounds like if you have an accident in the US you need to be rich or popular (or maybe really poor).
Great explanation, also astonishing at how relatively well this system works in response to lax training. All things considered.
WayRay Concept Brings 3D Augmented Reality to the Car
If there is any validity to crypto and DAO governance, someone would start a DAO to buy Mozilla and run the org in a decentralized way. Why are people messing around with buying copies of the constitution and NBA teams?
Unfortunately the modern web is the perfect definition of bloated software, and you cannot really get stuff done without it. At minimum, it's needed for banking, government documents, and e-learning/collaboration platforms.
Several years ago I read an article (I don't remember where) explaining and arguing for a libertarian approach to traffic rules (in the US). The argument was if you get rid of stop signs, people will tend to stop at intersections more, not less, because they don't know what to expect. I don't really agree with it but it was an article that I started reading with astonishment for how silly it was and by the end became convinced it was very reasonable even if you disagreed.

Part of my skepticism about libertarian traffic control is that I was once in an area where there was a sort of legislative experiment with certain kinds of traffic lights. The legislature made the argument that they were unnecessary, the DoT pointed to studies that they improved traffic, and after awhile of this the DoT said "fine, we'll shut them off for awhile and see what happens." The result wasn't bad accidents, but it was absolutely horrible traffic congestion, and people begged the DoT to turn them back on. So they did and no one argued about it again.

Now that I argue about it, the libertarian argument article was focused on safety, not traffic flow, so maybe they'd say their arguments still stand. But for me getting rid of the lights was a very negative thing.
I use my Pi4 with 8GB as a daily machine. It sits as a SSH box so I can remote in from outside and use the other devices on my network if I need to. It runs a VNC server on the main desktop.

It also runs piHole to block adverts on my network. It also periodically updates DDNS so I can connect to my home via a domain name, since my house is on a dynamic IP.

It also acts as a CUPS printer server so my wife can actually print something from her iPad/iPhone to our dumb wireless printer.

It also runs as an AirPlay receiver so I can play music to it from devices (if necessary) over the good pair of speakers it is plugged into. (I don't use the native audio interface - I use a USB interface plugged into it).

I also use Moonlight on it so I can run games on my nVidia PC downstairs (plugged into the TV) but I can use them upstairs on the Pi, so that my wife can use the TV downstairs... bit of a first world problem really.

I used to use WindowMaker but now am using mate desktop with some Apple/Mac icons and theme, with wbar running so it really looks like my Mac. I turned off compositing on the desktop else it ran too slowly and battered the CPU for every screen update.

I did use Chromium on it but Firefox seems to run better.

I did try using box86 on it to run the 32 bit Intel DEB version of Zoom on it but despite the impressive performance of box86, Zoom is still too heavy to have smooth framerates on the USB webcam I plugged into the Pi.

I did use the PlayStation 3 camera plugged into it running a mjpeg webcam at very low resolution but fast framerates to stream to the PC downstairs, which ran a MJPEG -> local Windows webcam piece of software (it makes a MJPEG stream appear as a native camera in Windows). I used headtracking with this so whilst using Moonlight to play games, headtracking would also work over the network. Clever really.

I also tried gl4es since the Pi doesn't have "proper" OpenGL as far as I am aware? That seemed to run very well on the few test apps I tried (can't remember what they were). You might get better framerates with that perhaps?

It also acts as a Fossil SCM "server" or remote that I can check code into/out of from the other machines. Kind of like a git "server"/remote, acting as a central hub for other development machines to use (I do other work on Mac/Windows). I think gitea would run fine on it if you wanted to use it from other machines for git.

In any case, I think the Pi is a great as a daily driver! I am happy that there's a power-conscious machine I can leave on all the time, silently running (I use a heatsink on it) and also use USB3 NVMe to boot from.

I imagine that using a SD card isn't much fun, but you might have more joy if you use log2ram on it and/or also mount your browser's cache directory in tmpfs.
I recently moved back to chromium from Firefox. FF tended to waste a lot more cpu; and, I tend not to restart my machines for days on end, and those memory leaks were killer.

Chromium is just much better built.
Seconded. "Horn Please" / "Sound Horn" / "Blow Horn" is the actual message. OK is often painted on a separate line. Sometimes above, sometimes below the "Horn Please" message.

I don't think any of these have a meaning though. I think they are just memes (in the Dawkins sense). Also a meme on truck art: some sappy line about lost love. Also, "We Two Ours Two", which became "We Two Ours One" (usually in Hindi)
So the Bible was right about the fig leaves all along?
> Wear mask and stay indoors if possible

For all we know about transmission, you should stay outdoors, if possible. If this isn't possible, maximize ventilation. Limit contacts in general. Masks have a very modest impact on transmission.
Don’t be so appalled. It’s appalling someone builds iPhones and sneakers for a few dollars a month. That’s appalling.

Once upon a time that job paid well, but now it doesn’t. It’s appalling that people don’t accept these facts. It’s fine, the pyramid of life depends on the morons at the bottom. Smarten up.

Even your dumbest college idiot that majored in Trombone or Art managed to accept the reality and went to a bootcamp, the literal king dumbasses - even they smartened up.
> the common idea is that civilization arrived later into northern, colder Europe

Some people interpret the notion of "civilized" people vs not-civilized people as racist. I don't agree with that - but that is why that word gives people negative emotions. I subscribe to the literal definition of "civilized" to mean the use of written civil laws (civil society) - which would make its use in this context meaningless since a piece of jewellery does not the codification of laws.
Telematics & remote interaction. Want to get remote diagnostics/problem notifications on your car, have emergency 911 service in the event of a crash, be able to unlock it from your phone, preheat it in the winter, precool it in the summer, get notified when your 16-year old child is driving over 70mph, get software updates for the ECUs in your car, enable remote charging notification & management, etc.? Cellular.

Note that the HN crowd is extremely outside the mainstream in its collective view on these kinds of features. The actual mass market for cars embraces most of these even though HN tends to vilify attempts to add connected tech to vehicles.
Because it has already spread world-wide in all likelihood, we just haven't noticed yet. Targeted travel bans are worthless and very few nations are willing to close borders altogether.
not to be a spoilsport but no annotations?
>pain of having 'do taxes' be something you have to do

You mean pay someone $300 and send them a bunch of forms that you download from various websites?
Sorry for the snark at the beginning of my post, but I read the article, felt like it was off.
My telco is most definitely not able to determine which particular restaurant, shop or highrise apartment I visited (I know because I have direct experience with requesting this data from telcos via courts and how precise it actually is).

Telcos can calculate approximately where I was (with accuracy worse than raw unaided GPS - so ±10m at least, and unpredictably wrong if I'm behind a wall or in a vertically built-up area) at a particular point in time - but they don't know the exact timestamp to look for.
The analogy to companies doesn't work because there isn't a legal mechanism by which you can make your short predictions come true. It's illegal to manipulate markets and most ways by which you could destroy a company (without spending more than you hope to gain) are also probably illegal. If you can think of any legal ones I'd be curious to hear

If it were legal to take a short position in a company and then take actions which blew the company up AND there existed cost-effective ways to do so, then you would definitely have seen more legitimate companies taken down by short-attacks. In contrast, here you have an entity where (a) there isn't the same legal safeguards and (b) there exists a claimed cost-effective way to tank the entity after taking a short position

If you disagree with (a) or (b) empirically then cool but it's clearly a totally different scenario to regular companies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold#Causes

The common cold is an infection of the upper respiratory tract which can be caused by many different viruses. The most commonly implicated is a rhinovirus (30–80%), a type of picornavirus with 99 known serotypes. Other commonly implicated viruses include human coronaviruses (≈ 15%), influenza viruses (10–15%), adenoviruses (5%), human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), enteroviruses other than rhinoviruses, human parainfluenza viruses, and human metapneumovirus.[36] Frequently more than one virus is present. In total, more than 200 viral types are associated with colds.
Weird they don’t mention that South Africa had so much of a vaccine surplus they asked other countries to stop sending vaccine [0]. Their low vaccination rate is due to hesitancy amongst the population, not access to doses.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/s-africa-...
>Edit: Prove me wrong.

That's not how the burden of proof works, Mr Crowder. Go home.
cue the inevitable stream of comments about RISC-V
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