skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you shut down entire industries not because of poor vents in a concert, but because some overly powerful, yet replaceable and hysterical bureaucrats decided to cover their asses (from being eaten by the exact same bureaucrats) with arbitrary loud and visible policies that had little correlation with actually solving any problems.

Notice similarity between places like Florida (less power-hungry governments + freedom-loving population) and places like Belarus and Russia (more authoritarian central gov that does not fear for losing its seat in the next election): both were shutting down things to a much lesser degree than everyone else. I think the reason is exactly the combo of "I can have arbitrary power as long as I have good PR" in the average democratic political environment.
> "small creators getting destroyed", "piracy doesn't have any dent on so called big producers"

Quite the opposite, one of the very few scientific articles on the topic piracy has been found to help small-mid level artists (but hurt big artists), explanation here:

https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-can-help-music-sales-of-many...

For instance and as said in the article artists like Ed Sheeran became popular thanks to piracy among college students.
HUDs are not a dumb gimmick even if you don't have turn-by-turn directions.

Turn-by-turn in the HUD is awesome and really helps - but don't tell me that it's not a little bit dangerous to try to check your speed while you're driving without a HUD!

The ideal solution is a HUD that communicates with carplay/android auto. Once that is here I will feel like the future has finally arrived.
That looks really cool! What graphics library did you use or did you make your own?

Also how did you compile rust code for the web? And were there any challenges with it like weird browser issues?
Yes, we need all of that at the same time. Having Spotify running or not doesn't really change the equation much. Not having an IDE when you want to show something in development or want to do a quick Hangout over some code is a bummer.

Every new tool changes your workflow and is a distraction that doesn't benefit the customer or our work-life balance anything. Some people on our team run Windows, because they feel at home there. I am not sure you can do a quick 'choco install spotifyd' and be done with it.

SSDs are fast, but switching windows is faster. People just forget, what a hassle it is to wait 5 seconds here, and 5 seconds there. We are used to hot-code reloading and basically instantaneous response like more than 95% of the time when developing. That is the power of Clojure/ ClojureScript. It eats a bit more RAM in development. We can live with that as long as the RAM fits in a normal laptop and doesn't cost a fortune. We save much, much more by not running on Heroku/ AWS. :-)
Nitpicking is fun
> I find it highly dubious that any HR endorsed riots

People who denied the fact that many BLM protests turned into riots, and then still used their company to platform their public supported them are... numerous in HR in silicon valley.
We also shouldn’t burn people deemed witches at the stake. Being ancient doesn’t make it right, either.
> Like "I'll have 3 loaves please". I guess it would be like 三个 or similar?

That's it exactly, and it's very common. Any time the noun is clear from context, you can leave it out. (You shouldn't leave out the measure word though - where in English you might have "I'll take three", in Chinese you'd still want 三个.)

If you walk into a restaurant, someone will ask 几位 "how many?". 几 is a question word for small numbers, and 位 is a (formal, polite) measure word for people.
And the two other links?
Mandatory arbitration is mandatory in the sense that it takes the normal justice system away, if as the parent posits the normal justice system does not exist then everything becomes "Mandatory arbitration", right?
We're discussing LaTeX.

TeX itself is a set of typesetting primitives. LaTeX is a set of structurally-semantic, document-oriented macros built on TeX.
Me too, I only read technical PDFs. I've tried Remarkable 1 for this and it was pretty decent. How is version 2?
There's nothing you can do. All language library distribution systems ever made are insecure, and backed by willful ignorance.
We definitely shouldn't oversimplify. Delta was simultaneously more infectious and more deadly than the original variant.

Virus mutations can be better for us, and they can be worse. This article https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095397/ paints a sensibly nuanced picture.
This is not necessarily the case for a virus with such a long period of asymptomatic transmission.

There is very little selective pressure for the virus to become less deadly; in fact, higher viron count is positively associated with both transmissibility and mortality.
Silverblue has its own restrictions and might not be ideal for your specific workflow, but it works for me as a sort of base OS.

There's a lot more that could be done to advance the security aspect of Linux. Flatpak is an improvement as it requires applications to declare the permissions they need, however it still has a ways to go. I wish there was a tool to monitor if some random process is accessing folder X or has high network usage, a'la Little Snitch on Mac. Linux desktop doesn't have a ton of manpower behind it though, so it all takes time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek%27s_disease#Prevention is the canonical example:

"However, the leaky vaccine changes this evolutionary pressure and permits the evolution of highly virulent strains. The vaccine's inability to prevent infection and transmission allows the spread of highly virulent strains among vaccinated chickens. The fitness of the more virulent strains is increased by the vaccine."

See:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4516275/

Andrew Read on the issue:

https://theconversation.com/vaccines-could-affect-how-the-co...
1. The Python code calling the Rust code raises a runtime-related exception, but it doesn't crash the process.

2. Building Python extensions out of PyO3 code is easy with maturin: https://github.com/PyO3/maturin
It’s my go to for sure, excellent recommendation.
Only one camp is hysterical.
I agree. This will continue to get worse, the general quality of search engine results is deteriorating.
I wasn’t a huge fan of his design ethos but there is no doubt he is one of the most influential designers of the past decade. Rest In Peace Virgil.
Sorry, but that's just wrong, the maximum you're paying for public health insurance (as an employee) in Germany is around 7.5% of your pre-taxed income. BUT, there is a limit called "Beitragsbemessungsgrenze" which caps the amount of yearly income when calculating the amounts. The cap is currently at 58050 Euros, which translates to roughly 385 Euros.

Only if you also include the public pension and unemployment insurance deductions (both of which are also percentage based and capped) you'll max out at about 1050 Euros.
There have been documented cases of infections happening in seconds.

Yes, longer exposure time increases infection probability, but the 15 min threshold is arbitrary, like the 2 meter social distancing.

A bit like the "you can pick up food from the floor if it sat there for less than 5 seconds" meme.
Do you really mean that government acts primarily to avoid being voted out of office? Should we be shocked or disgusted by that?

I guess someone like Putin doesn't have to be worried about being unelected, so they were able to go soft on the virus in Russia. But, I don't think that turned out well for them.
I really wanted to program starcraft back when I played it. At the very least, to bind some key to scatter packs before storming into splash. At most, use scripts to organize complex military operations. Starcraft has a good macro, but it also requires micro, but rather than stressing myself with apm, I’d better “train” my forces between the battles. It was very annoying and un-immersive to see advanced tech protoss to fail simply because they got stuck on a ramp.
For a lot of use cases, there really isn’t any important difference between 100% and 0.1%. If any of the source tarballs are unavailable, then I can’t produce a build, and the fact that some of them are available isn’t much consolation. I’m blocked either way.

Especially for an organization like Arch Linux, the solution is really obvious; maintain your own mirror. Debian and Fedora do it, so can they.
> Yup, tradeoffs forced to select towards survival.

Viruses don't have a plan, or intent. It's not impossible for a virus to screw itself over and kill off all its hosts, or one species of hosts.

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/yes-disease-can/
It's not, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373722
No, not really. Milder symptoms is better, but it could still be worse than getting vaccinated and have long-term effects.
Source for the Delta variant being more severe? I hadn’t heard that.
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If your windows are open you will trend toward outside weather. If you’re in a dry climate then yeah it’ll be dryer but the reverse is also true. Outside air is far better than inside nearly everywhere in the world
Raking is the simplest way to bypass common locks. I don’t recall ever seeing LPL bump a lock. It’s certainly not his first attack.
Every time I listened to live conferences with the prime minster, or a premier, there was never, ever any talk of zero covid.

The local media however, seemed to think it was a goal.

Thus, I am often hesitant to accept the media blathering on about such nonsense, and generally suspect hyped and click baitish behaviour.

I suppose a few crazy places thought this was possible, although I cannot imagine why, so I suppose I am wrong with my all encompassing statement.
> Wasn't that the most up-to-date data at the time?

No, China was already arresting doctors for warning about human-to-human transmission in December.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/world/asia/Li-Wenliang-ch...
I searched last result page on a google search with 1M results announced. On page 20 or so it is shown "display more results" then I clicked it and it still shows 1M results or so. Then I go to last page and it is only on page 40 with few hundreed results in the end.

I guess google knows this and I wonder what is the intention to display 1M result available and let users reach so few in reality. Is it commercial argument ? I hardly belive this is an error. Does it reveal how maybe very fewer data google indexes / retains to keep result efficiency ? Does it reveal some sort of data management / algorithm mechanics from their search engine ?
Usually when people say "the media", they mean the mainstream liberal leaning news companies like CNN[1] or New York Times[2]. When talking about Fox (conservative media), people usually just say that.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/28/world/coronavirus-omicron-var...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/28/us/governors-omicron-covi...
So you’re just ignoring the countless lives saved and lost?
Nope.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PirateBay_Proxy/comments/qkax5j/pir...
> The only reason a CI should ever fail is if it catches a defect from making it into production.

Mechanical checks for things like formatting rules, linting errors, and reasonable tools to verify code complexity, as long as they don't produce false positives, are all important to run as part of CI.
Earth has been hit by asteroids before and survived so far, but sure, it's possible it could be hit by enough, eventually, that it loses its atmosphere, as people think the Earth has already lost 60 percent of its atmosphere from an asteroid strike that they think created the moon[1].

[1]: https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/earth-lost-60-per-cent-of-...

I don't think humans will be around long enough to deflect an asteroid that's big enough to do this, as it could easily be hundred or thousands or tens of thousands of years before it might get hit by one big enough to do this again.

When I was young I would assume we would be around that long, but I don't see a path to escaping our own destruction (possibly not total, but 90% or more of the total population, probably) within the next few hundred years at most, possibly sooner.
And we all use 80-column wheels because that's what the ancients used, by Zeus!

Oh wait, we use wheels sized for their use cases…
This is a novice interpretation of the data. Most early cases are recorded as mild. Severe cases and hospitalizations lag infections by 2-3 weeks, and deaths lag by 2-3 months.

It's frankly irresponsible to report this factoid without that caveat.
Multiple countries have sustained mass testing of at least certain groups of population. The argument about undetected asymptomatic cases would be valid in early 2020 when tests were scarce, but now there are good continuous metrics from people who get tested even if asymptomatic.
I hate this trend. Give me back menus and toolbars.

I avoid using VS Code for this reason.
>Contrast with the length of the recurrent laryngeal nerve

Yes but that is noteworthy precisely because it is the exception to the general rule. It is almost always (99%+) correct that a strange structure has some kind of meaningful purpose.
Asymptomatic spread is a myth - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
That's a large part of my larger point. It wasn't, however any aspect of the question you'd asked, and I'd answered.

That said, and despite some quite strong semantic elements to HTML (and HTML5 especially), and the semantic/presentation separation of HTML/CSS, what we're getting, what seems to be encouraged by, and what the adtech-profiting browser vendor and driver of Web browser development seem to be encouraging, is not in fact well-structured, meaningful, high-value, high-relevance documents.

You're absolutely correct that the core of the problem isn't the technical format. But the technical format's become infected by that core problem.
No.

If a job is expecting you to be oncall is the part of your job, they are looking for ways to not pay you for the work. (This is not talking about an occasional once a year expectation. ) This is a rotating or permnant basis of where you are expected to be ready to work and they're not paying you.
I'm not sure I get this assumption. Few other countries were "pissed off" when borders were closed to them. I still cannot travel recreationally to Japan from the US, and that's fine.
The "concern" in "variant of concern" is a function of the number of potentially significant mutations in the spike protein. It's an indicator of unknowns (and therefore unknown risks), not a positive indicator of risk.
I haven’t noticed anything in Safari
I don't understand how what you are saying refutes ass-covering at all. Yes, you have a pile of people in government with all sorts of opinions, but ultimately there is someone who has to make the decision.

If you present that person with a cloud of information from a bunch of different conflicting sources it actually incentivises ass-covering even more.

You say "ulterior ass covering agenda" but an Agenda is entirely the opposite of what an ass-coverer has.

When you don't know what you should do, you pick safe option that nobody is going to blame you for.
In a word: Bullsh*t.

You fail to have the slightest understanding of how politics works, beyone that of a 5-year old child.

Sure, some politicians may like to 'flex', but in the real world, that is not how they do it, even for the petty motive to feel their power, beyond perhaps some petty sheriff in a no-account town. There are far better ways to 'flex' and feel one's power that do not involve making a large portion of your voters hate you. Moreover, for something like this to be implemented, MANY bureaucrats and politicians need to be involved, all with different motives, so one emotionally stunted politician could not pull it off without a lot of help, which would not be available absent decent reasons, at least in any democratic system (autocracies are an entirely different story, but AFAIK, few of us on HN currently live in one).
They supported lockdown of the healthy when no major western country had it as a tool in their pandemic plan and specifically recommended against it.
> stack of papers

The trick is to get a spiral paper notebook. When full, run it through a sheet-fed scanner, and throw the notebook away.

You'll need a scanner anyway, for all those other random papers.

Also, a sheet-fed scanner is infinitely faster than a flatbed, and it'll do both sides at once.

Don't forget to back up your disk drive. If you drop it on the floor (like I did) it's gone.
I don’t really agree. Unless one is actively seeking a diverse media diet, what we see of both parties is heavily influenced by media concentration. As a country, we largely see what Murdoch’s media wants us to see, so any kind of progressive action or policy of the Labor party is going to be painted in a negative light for most people.

This was a huge problem for Julia Gillard in particular. Despite being one of the most effective prime ministers in Australian history[0] you didn’t hear about this from the MSM at the time. Supposedly serious commentators complained in the Murdoch press about her _choice of clothing_ [1].

With powerful filters like this, blurring the achievements and policies of even the very leader of the government of the day, it’s always going to be difficult to distinguish between the parties.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jun/28/austra...

[1] https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2021/09/09/australias-f...
Viruses aren't trying to kill their hosts, they're trying to replicate. But to replicate they kill the cells they're in.

COVID's severity is because it's making a tradeoff between the time it takes the immune system to destroy it, vs the need to get a host walking around and socializing while breathing it out onto new hosts. The lethality is a side-effect of its replication strategy.
Spotify is retiring Car View, and users are understandably pissed
Anyone else getting an edgy anti ddos message?
The WHO says this may be because of where the early infections were noticed, and that we'll need some more time to know for sure.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/u-k-buying-time-mideast-111736790....

> The initial reported infections were among university students, WHO said, adding that younger patients tend to have milder symptoms.

> “Understanding the level of severity of the omicron variant will take days to several weeks,” WHO said in a statement, adding that “there is currently no information to suggest that symptoms associated with omicron are different from those from other variants.”

Keep your fingers crossed that it holds. A rapidly spreading milder variant would be a bit of a godsend.
If you're thinking of what I'm thinking of, I haven't had it happen on HN but have on other sites. It's like the links aren't being recognized in iOS Safari as links, only text.
> Can someone explain what a synthesizer is to a non musician?

Keyboard = input device, usually generates MIDI. Synthesizer = creates sounds from scratch, usually generates audio from MIDI.

Some keyboards are not synthesizers (sometimes called a "master keyboard") and you have to plug them into something in order to get sound. Some synthesizers are not keyboards, and you have to plug something into them to control them. For example, the DX7 is both a synthesizer and a keyboard. The TX-802 is a synthesizer but not a keyboard... it is kind of like two DX7s in a 2U rack-mount unit without a keyboard. The Akai MPK249 is a keyboard but not a synthesizer. You can buy a TX-802 and an Akai MPK249 and plug them into each other, and it's kind of like having a DX7.

> Also, in today’s world, do these need to exist in the same form? That is, can’t all these sounds simply be digitally produced rather than relying on circuitry?

Circuit emulation has varying degrees of accuracy. I like to think of digital synthesizers as computers that don't ever need software updates, and are therefore more reliable than software running on a computer. They also often have purpose-built UIs (knobs, buttons, sliders) which are critical to some people using them.

If you are going to make a custom input device, why not just make the custom input device and the synthesizer one single package? This is called a "sound module" -- something that makes sounds but does not have a keyboard attached. They come in both rack-mount and desktop versions.
On the topic of different programming-driven games, Mind Rover is a robot simulator in which you program by connecting wires, carrying something like analog data.

I'm not aware of anyone else ever having played it, but it seems to have some internet significance.
No one still thinks Covid is ever going away, right? It's likely something we'll just have to deal with like the flu. For one thing, there are now Covid-19 reservoirs in various animal populations.

It's hard to say how this will evolve but there's a lot of evolutionary pressure on viruses to become more transmissible and less deadly. Why less deadly? Because a virus that is too deadly will likely die. It's why the Spanish flu is now just H1N1.

This isn't guaranteed and will no doubt join the ranks of many other anti-vaxxer straw man arguments alongside "you said the vaccine was forever", "you said the vaccine would stop transmission", "people with the vaccine still can get Covid", "people with the vaccine can still die" and so on.

It's actually quite depressing how staggeringly selfish, wildly irrational and willfully ignorant so many people are. I don't mean just being ignorant. I mean taking pride in that ignorance. Particularly in the US, it seems the anti-intellectual chickens have come home to roost in droves.

Seeing all of this I really hope there's no one out there who believes for a second that the world as a whole will sacrifice anything or even mildly inconvenience themselves when it comes to addressing climate change. It's never going to happen.

Like there are still people who believe the millions that have been killed is fake news and part of some media conspiracy.

So, I see a future with annual Covid shots just like annual flu shots. I'm personally beyond caring if any individual chooses not to get one. We've blunted the initial onslaught of a novel disease appearing in a population of >7 billion with no natural immunity (albeit at the cost of millions of lives). At this point, it's now evolution in action.
After reading this whole article, I find it really scary that something like this can get so much attention.

It looks like the author read about PoS circa 2014 and hasn't read anything written or done since then. It's true that the "nothing at stake" problem exists, but there are tons of practical solutions and mitigations that work, many of which are already deployed and protecting >$100M. Soon ETH will be securing trillions with such mitigations.

To address the specific points the author makes:

1. If a node signs another version of the same block within a reasonably short time period, “slash” their deposits (e.g. punish them inside of the system)

You don't have to know which came first, just like in BTC. You just need a longest chain rule with the property that the longest chain is final after a certain point (subject to certain assumptions about the % of stake that is honest). This is how nearly every blockchain works and it's not special in proof of stake.

2. If a node signs another version of the same block, like, a year later, just ignore it.

Yes, that's fine. Lots of chains do this. It's called a "finality mechanism". Even ETC has one called MESS while still using proof of work (although MESS is probably broken). Bitcoin could add one too. This is orthogonal to PoS vs PoW.