skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biomass is a rough proxy for prevalence.

There are remarkably few mamallian species with > 1m population. Virtually all are grazing animals, sea mammals, or rodents.

I'm not sure what species SARS-COV-2 is compatible with, though I've mostly heard of animals > 5kg mass (e.g., domesticated cats, dogs, deer, wildcats), with the very notable exception of bats.

The virus has been detected in 20--40% of sampled deer in the US in multiple states, which is a particularly bad sign.

If it's gained foothold in rodent populations ... well, it could be around for a while.

From April of 2021:

Results obtained from experimental studies indicate that animal species such as cats, ferrets, raccoon dogs, cynomolgus macaques, rhesus macaques, white-tailed deer, rabbits, Egyptian fruit bats, and Syrian hamsters are susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and that cat-to-cat and ferret-to-ferret transmission can take place via contact and air. However, natural infections of SARS-CoV-2 have been reported only in pet dogs and cats, tigers, lions, snow leopards, pumas, and gorillas at zoos, and farmed mink and ferrets. Even though human-to-animal spillover has been reported at several instances, SARS-CoV-2 transmission from animals-to-humans has only been reported from mink-to-humans in mink farms.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8128218/?report...

That's not to say that broader transmission isn't possible (the abstract doesn't mention deer, and I'm aware they're found to be infected). The science is still being established.
It looks amazing, but how do I actually EDIT the contents of things in the editor?
It's what led me to uninstall their app, and ultimately to basically stop using their website bec the desktop version is impossible to use and the mobile version is also kinda annoying. the result is I don't use it.
I've been trying for several years! I have worked hard to acquire many acquired tastes, I don't want to have to flash my snob card here. But this taste just completely eludes me. My only hope is that other comments elsethread are right, and my town in Yorkshire maybe isn't home to the most talented or knowledgeable baristas and roasters, and they genuinely are serving garbage. In the meantime, when I need a coffee, I will have a cup of coffee and not a mouthful of the water at the bottom of my fridge's vegetable drawer.
I have a hard time imagining a particle associated with the curvature of spacetime.
that's what I said. The only real solution would be: Everything open to every one, the only condition should be a negative test, valid for 24 hours. Like it is today, the vaccinated still carrying virus around and the unvaccinated do home party with other people and no tests are involved. The only benefit from the vaccine is that it reduces the changes to go ICU. The RKI institute in Germany says that 94% of people on ICU are unvaccinated.. P=0.94 is a strong correlation.

https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/panorama/corona-studie-impfdu...
> The genius of it is that it is a note for note send up of ideologies of every kind, literally, the logic of an idea, where when you project it on something, the reflection doesn't illuminate the object so much as reinforce the underlying idea itself as a lens.

Could you expound on this? I’m afraid I don’t quite understand what you are saying
> If a stream was considered a radio play the far, far more money would go to the artists.

Doesn't that still imply that the problem is really just the labels negotiating contracts that are exceedingly in their favor?

Artists are getting screwed over because they signed away their distribution rights but there's not a lot Spotify can do about that. Spotify doesn't know where the money goes when they send it to the only place that can legally sell the rights to the content, and it probably shouldn't.

Artists across the board need to stand up for themselves and make better deals. More and more big names are standing up against the industry and causing a ruckus, so we may see a revolution in that space in a few short years. Until then, the music labels will continue to profit from their artists as they always have.
Politics. Shrinking copyright from 90 years to 20 years for most uses might work if you can say that content creators get to still charge big corporations from charging royalties for the remaining 70 years.
Body fat also stores Vit D (and A, E and K), so you also need to consider how much has been deposited there and how much of one’s body fat turnsover.
> Best done with extreme caution, as near boiling water will do your fingers in if it goes over. I set the bottom on a grippy surface, wind the top on, and only have to get a grip on the base for the final cinch.

Yeah, that's probably the most troublesome part of my daily moka experience too.

I use a paper towel and grip it at the valve to minimise contact.
Nuts... I thought this was going to be a fun article about people that actually shave yaks and, a little bit about "a New HTML Element for Markdown". :-p
Try doing something physically exhausting.

Otherwise, if you're just hacking in the lab, you're going to be up all night. I think this is normal and inevitable. Even the fictional Dr. Frankenstein had similar habits.

My strategy has been to binge on a project and go all out, then recover with periods of no computer, just necessary emails. I use this time to binge on outdoors or gym. Sleeping 10 hours is a plus for recovery time.
Used to love my moka pot but got rid of it. This post inspired me to get another one.

Any recommendations for fair trade coffee? I usually drink equal exchange, but it's not the best coffee.
Is this comment supposed to make sense?
Stop feeding the antivaxxers then.

We do precautionary actions that may not save us all the time. Seatbelts, shelter in place during tornadoes. Crossing at intersections. Just because these activities fail for a lot of people doesn’t make the practitioners sheeple. This insistence that all of the societal technology that we’ve developed that got us from 100,000 humans to 7 billion is bad is pastoralism at best, a suicide cult at worst.

Sheep weren’t that numerous before humans either, which makes me wonder of the “sheeple” comments are projection, accidental or otherwise. Going back to pre-enlightenment society will reduce us to just another animal.
Doses vary by person. Consult a physician.
EVO: Thank you for your service.
That's like saying a bag is too expressive because I can put all kinds of things into them.
That's true.

Perhaps increase tax such that even giant companies can't afford the copyright after one or two decades. Let's say start with 10% and increase by 2.5% every year. The twentieth year the copyright would cost 60% of the declared value.
Movies at record stores are kind of a novelty. You can go there to browse, but chances are that you will not find the movie you were looking for. I’ve actually had better luck at thrift stores. That being said if they happen to carry a copy of a movie that you want to see and don’t mind adding to your collection it is definitely a joy. But it is kind of a rare experience compared to music.

DVDs at amazon range from fine to terrible. It is almost always better to just torrent the movie. Quite often the DVD has no extras, terrible subtitles, wrong aspect ratio, etc. I have quite a few DVDs which I’m never going to watch again, if I want to rewatch the movie I would rather torrent it, even though the DVD is right here.
Data comparing US gun culture with the world
i thought we'd all agreed 15 yrs ago to not use vietnam analogy to discuss orms.
Ugh, this is why it is so hard for me to hate YouTube despite how awful they and Google can be as companies (a company?). The amount of information on YouTube is just epic. Before YouTube I'd have either needed to buy physical copies of lectures or actually attend them in person. Now I can watch videos from professors on quantum physics and see people ask questions they might not have otherwise asked in a physical setting.
The pharmacies in Germany will issue you a certificate if you ask nicely, with your native vaccination documents and your passport.
what is the truth that ancient aliens is revealing? that people are gullible? i don’t get it
> nearly led to physical violence, racial slurs, and more

Nearly led == did not lead. So nothing happened?
Believe it or not, not everything needs to be bleeding-edge creative and new.

I have personally found Shuffle to be a fantastic tool for personal projects, especially when I cannot or do not want to spend much time on design but want things to look halfway decent. That was half the appeal of frameworks like Bootstrap and I’m not really sure what value your comment adds, if anything (on a throwaway, to boot).
> I would have relocated to China where I can at least get some benefit from all these ridiculous rules

What are those benefits?
Wow!

I like the idea and the execution very much.

However, the pricing model is not so much my taste. The Lifetime license seems somewhat cheap, but $24 per month feels a bit expensive for a casual user.
Yea, this. 100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through your thumbnail every second. This number is not substantially different at night, either.
Which wasn't the case back then due to WW1, by 1921 half to two thrids of the world became infected with the flu
Public service announcement: there are many, many awful HN comments. They just hide behind an authoritative tone, so it is much harder to spot the bullshit. This becomes obvious when you read comments about topics that you are an expert in. Even then we still tend to fall for the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

That being said, there are indeed many experts around here and I find it interesting to read their opinions (if they fall in their area of expertise :-)
I used hand gesture detection to create a game on Omegle
Then the company would find someone who buys the content whenever they need it.
Some toasters have a simple timer circuit that releases an electromagnet to trigger the toast to pop up. There is usually a resister to adjust darkness that controls how long the timer runs.

The cheapest toasters apply current to a bimetallic strip that heats up and bends away from the contact causing the heating to stop and the toast to pop up. These are variable due to ambient temperature and because the bimetallic strip is still warm if you do a second batch of toast and will trigger too soon.

These are both indirect proxies for doneness of the toast, not a direct measure like the toaster featured in the article.
What if there are no layers and you can’t think outside hierarchy?

There’s no reason for anyone else to take your view as sacrosanct since many many many apps and services are working just fine without ORMs.

You might accomplish something interesting today if you set aside protecting unimportant ephemera you talked yourself into believing.
I started milling and selling flours at farmers markets in Northeast Illinois this year. My supply comes from an organic family farm a few hours away. The farmer, whose family has been farming for several generations, switched to organic methods because of the impacts of the chemicals used in conventional farming on his health, and the health of his children. Uncertainty around what chemicals my neighbors would be using prevented me from buying my own farm. I have a feeling that the premise of the article is correct, i.e. that not all farming can be organic, but we likely need to factor in the health and safety of farmers when considering how sustainable farming is.

Developing a working relationship with a local farmer is incredibly interesting. Especially on an organic farm, the operations are all interconnected. The goats eat weeds, fertilize fields; the chickens eat pests. They produce milk and eggs for baking. Everything is symbiotic. Everything feels harmonious on a small farm.
Majority of malware (intended for average users) still primarily targets Windows, so there is just less chance you will ever encounter it on other platforms. It just makes sense to target 95% of people, and not care that much about the rest.

Most if not all vulnerabilities on up-to-date iOS/Android are used for targeted attacks (people with power, journalists, etc.) and not to reach regular people.

AFAIK most malware is still delivered when users install some software, so it would be nice if Windows would become a bit more locked down by default, and only allow installing from approved stores (i.e. Microsoft Store, Steam, and similar.)
It doesn't matter what the future is like if there's no one there to enjoy it.
And despite that, they're still not ashamed to extract the full price of the service even from those people to whom they can't offer 80% of the content.
names are not unique.

i can probably find at least half a dozen people sharing the same first and last name as me.

how does someone opening a bank account with the same name as you enable them to affect you?

if it does, then there is a system that is seriously broken.
array.'foo = bar

Is clearer. Or, at least, would be, if one were accustomed to the (fictitious) adverb '.

There's no need for all the ceremony around specifying "for x in y: <some function describing what to do with x>"
Likely true that we'll see market consolidation.

But that sounds to me like it will make it worse in the end. Fewer and larger competitors will likely wind up like ISP services, consistently and overpriced as if they were colluding, without even having to collude.

Sure, each service will have a larger selection, but like the cable companies now, we'll be paying for a lot of cruft that we don't want, and still not getting some content really important to us.

IOW, it seems like the A La Carte that we all want started to appear, and now it is going away before it ever really got established.
Very nice! I like the idea of randomness.

For my website business I made something alike. It combines some general styles with random colors. Some very ugly things are possible with it. ;) But it also has some preset templates that give you an idea of how nice it can look.

https://try.hellowebsite.online/quickdesign/ (best tested on a screen bigger than your smartphone)
I still have never been able to post my paper about my Grassmann.jl geometric algebra foundations research on arxiv.

https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl

Seems like a useless overrated website.

I was able to post my article on my own website instead.

Arxiv is really a useless website.
Heavily depends on the channel/video, I would say.
Does Facebook actually have any recent or upcoming product launches that offer anything resembling the metaverse? Or was it just a convenient time to rebrand?

It’s amusing to me that the Roblox stock, after hovering between $80-90 for most of the year, suddenly increased to a current price of $122 since Facebook announced their name change to Meta.

Does Facebook announcing their (intended) “pivot” into the metaverse really have a meaningful effect on the outlook of a company that bas been pitching this vision for 10+ years? Or are investors herd animals that are unable to think for themselves?
With numpy, this would just be item.foo [:] = bar. Much more readable to me - the whole «for» thing is superfluous.
I've seen the moka on the Croatian side as well, where they call it a "kafeterija." Here's one neat trick some of the moka users there have: put about 1 teaspoon of sugar in your cup, then as soon as the water starts to percolate (about 1cm of coffee in the top compartment) take it off the heat and pour about 1cm over the sugar. Put back on heat to finish percolating. Meanwhile use the back of a teaspoon to grind the sugar into the coffee, really press into it like a mortar and pestle. You need the consistency to be about the viscosity of honey. Then fill your cup and stir. You end up with a delicious, rich, sweet white foam at the top.
Path Integral Control Theory
HD starts at 720p.

The difference between Netflix 1080 and 720p is often pretty small, so you might've really just not noticed. They're generally streaming with pretty poor bit-rates

The first time I watched a pirated episode after years of streaming from Netflix was pretty eye opening for me wrt video quality.
the inability of current science to square relativity and its predictions of space-time with quantum mechanics is exactly the reason why we aren't sure, and one of the biggest open questions in physics.

I mean it could all be strings, or quantum gravity, or Wolfram's crazy graph theory automatons, or maybe something else entirely.

We don't know.
The commercials for the old Time Life series, "Mysteries of the Unknown" keeps popping into my head recently.
It's not a public website, I'm not even able to post my math research on arxiv

https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
Show HN: Configurable and auto-formattable markup language
A language like markdown but has fewer and simpler rules, can be configured, and comes with auto-formatting (like go fmt or pretty). It is an attempt of a next step for markdown (https://johnmacfarlane.net/beyond-markdown.html). It has a lightweight core feature set but provides an escape hatch for teams that need more of those extra features through config.

Would love to anwser any questions. I also wrote the README just now in one go so for any clarifications please reach out (here/github/scout at touchlabs.io).
Linux hasn't been a "toy project" compared to alacritty since maybe like.. 1992? I got my first CD-ROM with linux on it (yggdrasil) in 1993 or 1994. The scale difference here is so massive, even going back quite far.

I think you're really underestimating the rapidity with which linux grew, as well as the pure cachet that linux (or any project associated with Linus, like git) has and has had for most of its existence that makes it fundamentally different in terms of motivation and appeal from basically any other OSS project.
Using Lithium-Ion and adding electronics to make it "modular" - I think it would closer to a cubic foot.
Because relational databases are very good at (surprise!) relations. So in SQL you can query data from several joined tables, query only certain columns, aggregate columns etc. etc. And all of these things are made needlessly complicated by using ORM. Even with the best ORM, you still have to learn an arcane new syntax for stuff you could write in 30 seconds when using SQL...
Yes, it's a clever but unfortunately click-bait title. I was duped to reading the article (which is very short too, not very much meat). The core idea of the article is interesting, but very shallow coverage, somewhat even obvious.
Should be `(*a)++`

Noob mistake
If it works for you, great, but to me, 175 at the breast is insanity.
We have a new, shiny Afghanistan analogy to use!
Maybe we could start with processing nuclear waste though.
More practically, a List is too expressive, if all you need is a Set - which is true and generally good advice to use Set instead of List, if possible.
It's been fun watching the Trek fandom take a flying leap onto Pirate Bay in response to Paramount pulling the Trek content from Netflix internationally without offering Paramount+ in all those markets.

... And not just international viewers. US viewers with existing Paramount+ accounts started pirating Discovery in solidarity.
The infection rate in South Africa when this variant arose was extremely low.

This variant has not had to compete with Delta at all.

It established itself in a vacuum of infections, and it may all be due to founder effects, with a new wave of infections due to behavior or other changes.

I'm also very skeptical that P681H is suddenly going to flip the script and start displacing P681R.

SA also has low vaccination rates and its not obvious that this variant arose because of selection for immune evasion (even if it did, immune evasion from NAbs is probably inevitable and will happen forever).
I‘d like to point out stackexchange.com

Variety of topics, highly competent answers, low noise
There's also psychological, not just physical, implications to hacking in the lab til late: recently, I've been dreaming about the problems I've been working on, and I think so hard about them in the dream that I wake up. :D As though the brain goes, "There isn't enough CPU for this; let's quit sleep mode so we can work on this with all cylinders." (Even if all I wanna do is sleep! Mentally pretending that I already fixed the problem seems to disarm things and lets me go back to sleep.)
You're probably more likely to get salmonella from dirty produce than undercooked poultry.
Some small points:

> The ORM was a natural culprit: it’s easy to see that many ORMs will make use of object introspection to build SQL statements, hydrate results, or both. Gorm’s memory footprint is extreme although sadly not uncommon. Bridge started with Python on the backend and we used Django’s ORM to interact with the database which had similar problems.

I believe these are both active record ORMs, which are not as good for various reasons (including default memory usage) as good data mappers such as SQLAlchemy and Hibernate.

As for where enums etc are "mastered" - this is still a decision to make with or without ORMs.

I think the main tricky bit of ORMs is that objects are trees and relations are graphs; this causes problems. Not so much anything about encapsulation etc.
That's only true for languages that don't support looping over an iterable directly. Or if you need the index while iterating too.

Python, Rust, Swift, C++, ObjC and more all support the equivalent of a foreach loop today. That perfectly shows intent
A beefy camera would be very interesting to work with. As of now, our phones do a ton of proprietary processing which makes open source/external solutions... suck. I'd love to have a decent open source camera app with the capacities of something like GCam.
The hate isn't in the mapping. It's perfectly reasonable to abstract away mapping of relational data to objects.

It's the translation of objects to SQL queries that's the problem. ORMs typically output inefficient and mostly obfuscated SQL, when a human can do a better job of hand-writing the SQL, knowing the data usage patterns needed.
I am super satisfied with the Containerise extension https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/containerise/) as alternative for Multi-Account Containers. It lets you map whole classes of domains to unique containers, which is an awesome and robust solution for logins involving a lot of redirects. Here are some example mappings which also catch all real subdomains (but not "fakeamazon.com"):

@^(.+\.|)amazon\.(de|com) , Amazon

@^(.+\.|)spotify\.(de|com) , Spotify
Take a joke, it's free

One can't argue that walking is more environmentally friendly because bikes maximize efficiency so you have less waste.

I believe in 20 years you'll agree with me that spent batteries are a huge problem for humans and the environment

Until then have fun.
https://nitter.kavin.rocks/CT_Bergstrom/status/1464058581502...

Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1464058581502738435.html
Because Germans monumentally hate subtitles.

I know that because I am Deaf and I would like to have subtitles even using German services, but they hate subtitles so much that they even won't have optional subtitles. Probably because some Hinterwäldler accidentally turned on subtitles and bogged down support by being livid and not listening to the simple solution of turning subtitles off.
The last reference to Vietnam that I saw in the MSM was that it had done a good job of handling COVID-19. Maybe the article is describing a good use of an ORM.