skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delta has petered out in SA. This is perhaps the beginning of a new wave. Hopefully not. https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463956690743742470
Yeah, that makes much more sense than a mutation to better infect those with HIVE.
Plus they may have hidden performance costs - or benefits. They may have function invocation and memory layout costs, but they may also be parallelised and optimized transparently. A regular for-loop is super efficient in terms of memory layout / access but it's by definition singlethreaded.
The real answer
Seeing as the K5 manufacturer processor ID was “AMDisbetter!”, it seems they’ve had some light hearted messages hidden for quite a long time.

It’s a fun way to pique interest, when folks find these in the wild on actual machines.
Yep, all about the heat work.
well that's one way to see it.
however, in germany, we don't want to have homeless and extremely poor people, so we solve it by taking money away from the rich and middle class. for some people it might be called communism, for germans and in general europeans however that's just the baseline they expect from a functioning state.
Also consider your grind size. If it's bitter, try a slightly coarser grind. I see a lot of people using espresso grind for their Moka, but personally I find going somewhere around halfway between espresso and pour over (erring on the side of pour over) to give a much nicer flavour.
Ask HN: Studying/Note Taking Software
Hi All,

Does anyone know of any note taking/study software that has the following features ?
- search
- notes
- mind maps
- flash cards
Maybe refresh?
"As an open source author and maintainer, I think you're looking at this from the wrong way around. Good contributions are not the norm, they're the exception, "

I've contributed to hundreds of projects, and maintained a ton, so i feel this pain, so please take what i say in that vein :)

The question i usually ask when i see this is: "What is the thing you did that you think should have caused people's behavior to change?"
Assuming you want this to be different, what actions are you taking that should have changed this? If they didn't, what did you learn and try?

I'm not suggesting you will get to some perfect place where all contributions are great, but if you really want to improve them overall, you have to be doing things to improve the behaviors you see, seeing whether they work, and iterating, until you get the behavior you want out of most contributors.
Are you joking? Do you want to join the angry crowd?
Except our current vaccines only act as a reduction in severity/spread of disease.

We could have 100% worldwide vaccination including animal reservoirs and still get mutations.

There is no easy out here unless we develop sterilizing immunity. Life is just a bit more dangerous now and that's that.
You have a very good point. Cars give people a lot of personal autonomy.

Yes, cities could be built with better/smarter public transport options, but even Londoners and New Yorkers (two cities with very good public transport) will say they need cars from time to time. And I suspect pre-COVID-level jam-packed public transport will find few takers in a post-COVID world.

Outside cities, even in suburban areas, the need for cars is a no-brainer.

But I'd still like to know how the parent poster manages.
Well, dark matter at least to this layperson’s eye a label for observations that are most easily explained by matter, which is not quite the same as a “thing that behaves like matter”.
Is there any actual evidence of decreased spread because of the vaccine? I was under the impression that it simply changed the intensity of the disease.
A lot of disgruntled contributors also forget that beyond code quality, projects have opinions, and their PRs opinions may be incompatible... We need to be grateful even when maintainers disagree with us, because opinion soup makes for bloated, unfocused, buggy, crappy software.

Perhaps this part explains all the commotion around rust... being a popular new language with strong opinions, but today there is a lot of entitlement going on in software communities, assuming that it makes sense to integrate inclusivity to such a degree that it's actually incompatible with what makes a cohesive opinionated project.
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I usually do a 10lb turkey, and it fits nicely on a baking sheet.
Be a real person, submit links to web sites that are not your own, participate in comments, etc.

Watch out for signifiers that your post is spammy.
I suppose it depends what it is. If a very specific fact is mentioned, they ought to have a source in mind already, or how else would they know. For example, if specific figures or statistics are mentions, it should require no work to find those because where else would they come from - you shouldn't be stating such things from memory if you can't recall their source.

> Just someone else saying the same thing.

Not really. "proofs" aside (e.g crypto or math), someone else can have positions or credentials that qualify them to comment on something, making them a legitimate authority.

> we can't have original ideas

An idea or concept isn't the same things as a stated fact though

> just because a citation can be provided doesn't make it true or false

Not sure what this means. I think it affects perceived probability, but this feels like a philosophical point.

> comes off as if commanding to provide a citation is purely used for shutting off the commenter

I feel this is often the case, but I think the inconsistency is the issue.

> the implicit assumption that the citation is _needed_. No it's not.

Depends what this means, which again can go off into the philosophical. Keeping to the guidelines isn't needed in some sense; nor is obeying the law or staying alive. If we stick to what as a community is desirable, I think it some cases citations should be required, or at least posts should be downvoted as unhelpful/misinformation if they spread assertions of fact that they don't care to support.

> often, it's impossible to provide citation

again, I wonder what kind of thing you are suggesting here: anything purported as "factual" should have a reason to believe it is true, or be explicitly labelled otherwise (anecdotal, for example, or "IMHO" are both "non-factual").
The ban isn’t on users setting a basic password on the device. It’s a ban on device manufacturers shipping devices from the factory with the same password for each one.

Unique passwords has been a thing for a while. It’s just a random code printed on a sticker slapped on the device.

Wireless access points supplied by ISPs (which are the majority of the routers provided by UK ISPs) have been using generated/random keys for years now. Most routers (I know BT and VirginMedia have been doing this for many years, Sky started doing it atleast 12 months ago. When I say most I mean that the majority of new routers issued by the big ISP's in the UK which is what the vast majority of the population use) have been doing the same with the password to the control panel too for a while and the world hasn’t come to a halt yet.

One of the issues with default passwords is that it can lead to other issues, take SKY for example, they used a default admin user/password combo of admin/sky (or admin/nowtv on their Now brand). Along with another bug it would allow malicious JS running on a website to change router settings such as the DNS settings for everyone using that connection - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59332840

Having a non default username/password combo on the router helps prevent such an attack because even with a CORS bug it’s now turned into a brute force attack.

The other part of the new rules is that device manufacturers have to tell the consumer how long they can expect security updates for, even if that period is none. You can still sell a device that will never get updates, just got to be upfront about it now.

EDIT: Right in the article it sets out what these new rules for device makers will be.

> easy-to-guess default passwords preloaded on devices are banned. All products now need unique passwords that cannot be reset to factory default (my note: presuming this means you can not reset the password to admin/admin, but it will reset to the unique user/pass it came with)

> customers must be told when they buy a device the minimum time it will receive vital security updates and patches. If a product doesn't get either, that must also be disclosed

> security researchers will be given a public point of contact to point out flaws and bugs.
Yeah I come from a house using mokas and the Nespresso in comparison is much more idiot-proof: nothing to spill, (almost) nothing to clean, nothing to get burnt with, and the result is extremely consistent. Mokas and traditional espresso machines are much more temperamental, the latter don't even make decent cups until everything is warmed up properly - which is why bars literally throw away the first half-dozen coffees every day.

I get the environmental critique, and the Nespresso system is definitely more expensive, lock-in, etc etc, but DAMN it's so convenient and good enough for the everyday workload of a single or couple.
I made meatless meatballs that were crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside. My family gobbled them up promptly with mushroom gravy and dairy free mashed potatoes
Sure, but despite global leaders knowing that this would be a forever thing, barely anyone has even begun to train more healthcare professionals.
I fail to see how their prediction was "almost exactly correct."

The prediction expected a bell curve peaking at the end of December, at around 400 7d incidence, assuming ~65% vaccinated.

We are at then end of november, ~68% vaccinated, and the 7d incidence is already above 400, and still rising.

We can only hope that they got the shape right, the timing slighly off and the peek not too off.
Please refrain from name calling and phrases like "shut up". They don't really add to the conversation.
Would there be any good reason or theoretically practical way to use neutrinos for communication?

Asking because in 3 Body Problem it’s seen as a “civilized” way to communicate compared to radio waves.
How does immunity from prior infection play into these numbers?
https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-Li...

It's a pain to do, but it really helps to opt out of data broker lists. I have a reminder to do this once per year, and only the "diff" of my life updates show up (e.g. address reappears because I moved, changed voter registration as a result, etc).

There are also services you can pay to do this, but they are usually priced extremely high or are straight up scams (i.e. they'll take your PII and then scam you with it).

It's better to just do it yourself so you know there's no middlemen to be forced to trust.
>the issue is that this time around, the variant doesn't have just one or two tropisms associated with lower antibody binding efficiency, but perhaps a couple dozen.

Can you share a source for this? I'd like to hear more.
Happily, my in-laws don’t complain when the turkey is juicy. I also smoke mine, spatchcocked on the grill each year and it’s always come out great. Hard to screw up with a good thermometer and two-zone setup. (The Amazing Ribs technique has been pretty fool-proof if tough to navigate on the website)

I’ve found carving it out of sight also means folks don’t see the juice / pinker sections until they hit the table. Maybe an option to avoid the whining and overkill cooking? :) Good luck.
>The World Health Organisation?

Completely fucked up their response to covid, mostly of of a fear of Xis ego.

>The World Food Programme?

The world has fought famine by economic growth, not charity

>The UN Security Council?

Can't stop a genocide in Rowanda, Bosnia, let alone in China.
Countries can also independently accept other countries certificates.

Turkey initially procured Chinese vaccine which is not accepted by EU but some EU countries with strong ties to Turkey will accept people who are vaccinated using that vaccine too. Also, Turkey had a certificate system before the EU Green Pass and were accepted by those countries.
> It makes excellent expressos with cream and all (if you buy appropriately ground coffee).

Most cheap espresso machines achieve crema and pressure via a pressurised portafilter [1].

Nothing wrong with having one as a beginner, but you're stuck with using coarser grinds because of the always-there pressure, and it limits the number of variables you're able to play with to "dial in" beans.

[1] https://coffee.stackexchange.com/questions/2641/how-big-of-a...
cases in SA are low because the testing infrastructure there has been complete garbage. real numbers are unknown.
> This is missing the whole point of Kafka consumers

It's not missing that because it doesn't even address that. I'm answering a specific point.
+1

I want pure keywords-based search engine back [1]. If the keywords verbatim are not there, give me zero results back. It will be less time consuming to refine my query, or conclude that the stuff I am looking for is just not there. It's much better than sifting through low-precision results.

Google has 'verbatim' mode as such, which used to work well. I can't figure what they are doing to it, and why.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24609881
For me the key words in this conclusion are “[…] largely vitamin D replete” but for example, during winter in the Northern hemisphere, are we as a population really Vit. D replete?
> Does anyone know how reliable South Africa's #s are?

This is what I was going to comment on as I was reading your post but glad you brought it up here at the end.

I would have a difficult time believing the COVID numbers in South Africa are being reported reliably (regardless of the reason).

SPECULATION:

I'd love to know more if this is incorrect but I think even in countries like the United States, or Denmark, or Germany, or wherever the numbers are likely to be undercounted based on people just getting sick and not doing anything about it. My intuition is that numbers in countries like South Korea, Singapore, and perhaps Israel are more likely to be closer to the "ground truth". Other countries in Asia I have less confidence in (Japan and China). We probably need to develop and deploy more rapid at-home testing.
Good on you for asking this. I have a few perhaps less conventional Big Lever answers for you:

Read every damn day. Read in your field proactively - stuff you don't need to know yet. Read stuff tangentially related to your field. Read the stuff most people in your field don't know (sales! business! negotiation! psychology!) This has been the bedrock of my entire career. I now make a comfortable upper middle class salary working 20-24h a week as a consultant, allowing me to do grad school in areas of personal interest, and I didn't even do comp sci in uni, or start programming professionally until I was 30. But I probably read 1-2 hours a day and have read a lot over the last three decades. It has paid off massively. Learning to write is important too, but recently there has been a trend in telling everyone they need to write daily. If you write more than you read, you're doing it wrong and are probably a shit writer wasting your time. (Real Writers who have done an extended period of MASSIVE reading excluded..)

Learn soft skills: writing, communicating, negotiating, reading a room. I did this by doing door to door canvassing in my 20's for an environmental group, haha. Trial by fire. Once you've spent some time hitting rich folks in West Vancouver for money to save trees, you aren't afraid of any meeting. (No German Shepherd ready to roam out onto the road and scare me off? I got this.)

Have a hobby that you can build a life-long practice habit around. I recommend this be something that you don't plan to pivot your career to so you don't ever take your eyes off long term development for short term gain. Music is a popular one, but there are lots of other options. The point of it is to get good and consistent at highly focused solitary skill development. Warren Buffet famously credited playing an instrument as his biggest advantage. I've taught a bunch of juniors to code now, and the ones who already had this skill basically had rockets on their feet. One of my friends who has been a silicon valley exec many times over said "I always hire the musicians".

Lots of other things are important, but for me, those are the big three. Start doing those now and you'll have a very attractive career in your 30's and 40's.
A significant portion of the people that end up in an ICU don't make it out. It's not surprising that expanding ICU capacity (beyond an emergency basis) isn't a huge focus.
If you can both get invited under a fake name and show interesting enough research that Paul seeks you out I suppose.

I think the first part would be rather difficult, probably more so than pwning a server.
While I disagree with your conclusion due to the measurable increases in human development through our aid, i am somewhat sympathetic to your argument on a philosophical level. That being said, most of the HN Crowd would still cry over the opression from our trade with africa in that scenario because its always the evil capitalist west thats at fault and any disagreement on that point and you are considered a goat fucker (see comments above)
I had to travel for work around europe. Some countries (norway for example) are very strict, I had border police/military (not sure what they were, but armed to the teeth) checking everything, and others, just seem like they dont care (I had a trip last week where to Denmark,and then back and I didn't show anyone at all my normal passport or covid passport. Just showed ticket and all was good).

So yeah, this shit will never end until countries that aren't dependent on tourism actually start to care about it.
The 1918 pandemic also killed 17-50 million people at a time that there were many fewer people.

While it is probably an under-count, it appears that Covid has killed at least 5 million.

Public health measures and vaccines have prevented a rather spectacular number of deaths as we have worked to find a way to coexist with this virus.

It seems likely that with a sufficient number of infections and waves, yes, humans would eventually force Covid to evolve in the direction of other more-benign viruses. The question at hand is really: how many waves and variants are we willing to tolerate to get there (and how much human suffering is acceptable?)?

We have tools and tactics that can help to speed the end of the pandemic and decrease the number of people who die. We should use them well.
But have they become relatively more garbage in recent weeks? If not, then the relative number of cases is much lower.
If that were true, why has New Zealand failed to stop COVID? They're a couple of islands surrounded by over a thousand miles of ocean between them and neighboring countries, they did lockdowns and achieved over 90% vaccine compliance, and after all this time they recently admitted that they no longer believed they could stop the virus.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/zealand-once-paragon-covid-zero-0...

Don't forget that, yes, a certain percentage of that remaining 10% have either natural immunity or aren't going to experience symptoms.

I'm pretty skeptical at this point that any doubling-down is going to lead to anything but more doubling-down.
The other important thing is to stuff the cavity (if you don’t have stuffing in the bird). We do lemons and rosemary. Otherwise you are steaming the thing from the inside while cooking the outside. Having water or broth below it in the pan helps too.
SQL injections for me are solved problem.

Frameworks and ORMs are making it easier on back-ends to tie data access to user credentials. The same with multi-tenancy if you use good framework with ORM you have all the tools to do filtering on higher level of abstraction. The same with referential consistency on database if it is there - ORM will help you to load data that is tied to that account. Making user like web app users on database level would make all development/ops really costly.

If someone is writing SQL queries directly, he has to have a good reason for it. Like if it is plugin for Wordpress it probably is not that easy to use ORM.
Yes, low voltage means high current. OK for consumer devices but scary for stuff like heaters. AC is very convenient to convert to the required DC voltage, which will always vary. Switched mode adapters are light weight and efficient. Not convinced this is going anywhere.
The Logit-Normal: A ubiquitous but strange distribution
> and if ICUs are still out of capacity after two years of this pandemic then clearly there's a different, more readily solvable problem

You can't just spawn medical personnel, especially in the conditions that are prevalent due to Covid cases ( lots of work, burnout, etc.). It literally takes years to educate medical personnel, you can't just YOLO it.
Mine was not dry. We brined it for 24 hours then cooked at 325 on the smoker. Came out moist and perfect. This is how I've done it for the last 3 years. Easiest way I've found to cook a turkey.
"12: That private life exists and that markets, while we all (some?) appreciate their power to allocate resources, don’t permeate every single part of life, that there are moments of beauty and grace that aren’t best understood as competition and harnessed selfishness."

Hackernews/Facebook in annoyed response: Um, we're WORKING ON IT. Sheesh, penetrating all aspects of off-time via social networks will have to wait for Meta.
and Aaron Swartz
keepa.com is an alternative. It has a Chrome extension that embeds the price graph on Amazon. Extremely useful.
There really ought to be more single board platforms making use of ECC RAM.
You're differentiating the function f(y) = e^y with respect to y
Perspectives on Digital Humanism
Ask HN: How is your experience with an electric toothbrush?
Yes, the evidence is there - it is less likely to transmit and less likely to be caught. Most of this evidence comes from testing of contacts because unfortunately there are pretty large confounding effects around likelihood to get tested based on severity of illness.

Also, the vaccine has been shown to reduce viral load which has an impact on rate of mutation even if you are infected.
NattyNarwhal/vmwmouse: VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1
It's my understanding that more upvotes and fewer comments is considered good on the HN ranking algorithm.
> The OO stuff is basically like an old version of Java and a bit tedious to write. An IDE is definitely required

The OO 'stuff' in PHP is far better. Notably, Traits, Statics and Testing.

Java (and JUnit) do not work well with static methods/classes, when it's unironically the most effective way to limit state. In PHP you can create a static class, that has static utility methods. Now you can ensure you have no side effects - unless accessing static properties somewhere, ofc. Then PHPUnit has no trouble helping you test these. It's a huge improvement over the acrobatics of booting up Spring to manage a singleton (which isn't the same thing as a static class) whenever you want access to those real static methods.
I think you left out the part where the recipe says to start at 450 for 15 minutes or so (probably to kill any bacteria in case you weren’t all too careful in handling) and then turn down to 325/ 350.
These days, in France, you can go to basically any pharmacy and get a CDC card converted into an EU Digital COVID certificate for €36. This certificate is then valid in all EU countries.
How do the recycling schemes cause more harm than good?