skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically outsourcing IT work made it a much more expensive service overall. A lot of former IT workers are now freelancer and contractors. Their cars got bigger and they have to occasionally wear expensive suits now. I don't think you can hire them back into your office to be honest.
AFAIK There's no good measure of inteligence.

I personally like to differentiate raw power (int), smart (usually derived from int), wise (data quality, breath) and memory.
To compare to NNs:

Int = compute
Smart = architecture
Wise = test data
Memory = ?

Types of "intelligence" depend most likely on dominating architecture.

There are people that have math, social or artistic skills from my observations and each seems important to me.
Depending on those different excellece niches.
There's little that can be done, sadly. We had so many shutdowns/lockdowns that did not really help (here in Germany, lockdowns were usually announced when the growth rate had already leveled off). Closing schools and kindergarten hurts kids. Home office might be an idea, where it is not already standard.

What I wonder is: Instead of only restricting movement in the general population, why are there not many more tests? Why can we not PCR test the whole population every single day? Using a relatively straightforward pooling scheme that should not be too difficult, should it?

At the same time: Why on earth is it so difficult to coordinate vaccination? Why is no industrialized nation capable of vaccinating 10-20% of its population on a given day?

I really feel like government response has been disproportionate so far: Many restrictions and few, if any, actual actions.
Really? My view is that people who care so much about optimizing their own income miss the larger picture of the systems they work within. I see so many people creating pointless bullshit just to make more money and this is the opposite of intelligence

We need more people thinking about ideas instead of thinking about money and how they compare to the next person
Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing
Complex information processing: a file structure for the complex, the changing and the indeterminate
MiSTer FPGA is great, and I love it. But I would recommend it mostly to people willing to spend several hundreds to be able to play with higher fidelity and less input lags than emulation. It's almost the perfect solution (you can even play on CRT and OG controllers), but I tend to think it's mostly for passionate people.
This is genius! So te get the award on SQL Injection you just need to SQL Inject?
Users don't care.
Which data are you talking about?

The only thing I know of that's similar to that is how Mozilla has Google Analytics on some pages as part of the Firefox interface, but there they have a contract restricting how the data is used: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
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What happens if everyone do that?
This is a follow-on from the June 2020 Initial Enforcement Order (IEO) that Facebook repeatedly breached and, after two appeals, was fined £50.5m in October 2021

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-fines-facebook-over-e...
But similarly my nano feels faster then youur VS setup, the important part is if how productive you are. Sometimes is a good idea to see what makes your IDE or plugins slow, for web dev you can probably improve your IDE performance but telling it to ignore certain files and folders like the node_modules folder or the .min.js files.

Though the conclusion is that ReSharper slowness and price is worth it because Microsoft IDE is substandard and for some reason all the MS billions can't find a few competent devs and a competent manager to handle the problem( they are probably still fighting on merging the GUIs or how to name their garbage APIs in Azure ... yeah I am working with some backend MS APIs and their are garbage like created by teams that hate each other)
not sure why you are bringing up Portugal as if it's some sort of gotcha. It's doing very well in terms of deaths, similar to the UK, Canada etc. who also have high vaccination rates.
> We still don’t seem to know if this variant is more or less contagious (R0 of 2)

we already know it's far more contagious but not if it's more deadly than delta with an r0 of 2:

> The estimated reproduction number, the average number of people that an individual is likely to infect, is almost 2 in Gauteng compared with nearly 1.5 nationally. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2299194-omicron-how-dan...
why should we trust this weird twitter account?

where is this person even from? She/he says senior scientist? Of what?
Common flu doesn't leave people with long-term reduction in cognitive and/or physical ability.
I imagine they mean, avoid leaving home as much as possible.
I’m fairly certain you can create an account in iOS mail with whatever address you want, leave the incoming credentials blank, and choose an existing SMTP account for outgoing. At least that’s how I used to do it.
This does look like a great project for in-the-field devices. Especially in literal fields where power is hard to come by.

But I see no mention of atomic operations, which would be critical in such a device. Even the trivial action of associating a timestamp with a sensor measurement would require an atomic method.

Sure, one could take the timestamp before and after a method runs and reject it if the stamps surpass some delta. But then this is no longer a "your code doesn't know about it" solution, as they advertise.
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You can get a reasonable second hand laptop for £100. Pi 400 is £60 without the screen.
Just go to the source: https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron
What makes Firefox seem less polished to you than chrome? When I use chrome, the feeling I get is one of standing in an unfurnished office space with white walls and few windows. To me, that is the opposite of polished.

Firefox in comparison feels like being in a grand old house that was built before plumbing and electricity. You can tell that it used to be beautiful and polished, but the luster has faded over time.
I use PyCharm for work and what frustrates me about JetBrains is they're constantly pursuing these greenfield projects while bugs in the IDE that are ten years old are still unresolved. I can't trust them to develop this when their other "new" features like CodeWithMe session-sharing are still very buggy and incomplete.
Is self-hosted open source the most secure option for remote login?
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Mind if I ask when you've last used Firefox?

I've had these problems before (on rare occasions) but ever since Firefox did its Quantum leap, these issues were pretty much resolved.
GitHub documentation is down 503
What power does the WHO currently have?
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No but if it affects albedo it has an effect on the incoming radiation. I.e more ice - higher albedo - radiation is not absorbed at the surface.
The entire history of humanity is the fight between those who work, and those who make others work. Workers never won this fight, ever. The pyramids got built for free, serfdom, slavery, wage slaves, it’s the the only fight there is.

Millions died in the trenches in WW1, millions died in every war. Dumbasses, they played you.

Have you ever woken up at 6am to go to a job? Did you take a 30 year loan to buy a house? Did they tell you can only really quit working at 65? Sorry, If you don’t optimize for income, you are beyond retarded.

There’s 8 billion people on this planet, and I intend to have people do my work for me.

Or even better, have them pay me for doing something completely useless like building a web app, or even better, managing people to build said web app, or even better, hiring the manager to manage the slaves and then collect most of the check, dole out crums. I don’t know, seems like a small subset of society gets it, so I can’t be that crazy. This is how a lot of the world works, no? Am I making this up? Isn’t that what being smart is? Getting it.

If you don’t get it, you are probably not intelligent.
Never underestimate the power of large groups of people to do irrational things in a state of mania, and to pressure/harass the rest of the population into silence.
Not entirely same, but I have a similar project at https://circles.gallery

Love the minimalism in yours! Maybe I should also put a URL for generating a single image like /random

Thank you a lot for this :)
Microsoft used these same anti competitive practices with Windows and Internet Explorer and they got an antitrust lawsuit.
I can confirm all of it for Germany as well (except the Italian serpentine road synchronization hack).

I flash lights for oncoming traffics because of danger or police checks.

I flash warning lights (or raise right hand) for thank you. Others do as well (especially buses, when you let them out of the bus stop, since in Germany they don't have the right of passage leaving a bus stop)

I learned that truck drivers (and buses) flash left, when it's not safe to overtake.

There are also some official rules regarding bus flashing at a bus stop (right, warning). But most of drivers ignore that.
We might have to, there is no guarantee that mRNA vaccines or lockdowns will ever stop covid to to point where no one ever gets hospitalized with covid.

This is the inconvenient truth that absolutely nobody in the establishment is even remotely willing to even consider and a big part of the debate that is being replaced with an accusation contest.

What do we do when the vaccination program only works as promised by the scientists developing it, and not as hoped for by the politicians ordering it?
>Masks have a very modest impact on transmission.

Please stop propagating this BS.

If someone positive coughs in your direction but wears an FFP2 mask on and so do you, then the chance of you getting infected is much lower. That's why it's mandatory in Austria and why healthcare workers wear them, not because it's fashionable but to limit the spread of airborne disease which COVID is one.

Granted, Austria failed to contain the spread of COVID, but not due to the FFP2 enforcement but mostly due to skeptics who refused vaccination, social distancing and other measures, plus lots of pointless and half-assed measures from the government that were more of a theater and were enforced too late in an attempt to not piss people off and not hurt the economy which turned into a self fulfilling prophecy and a negative feedback loop, creating more skeptics and more infectious in the long run.
It's interesting and says something about the state of tooling that, in response to those requirements, it was easier to switch to an entirely different language and ecosystem than it was to build off the existing work and convince the toolchain you were using to produce output with those properties.
Yes, okay, but the algorithm described just before that treats the vectors as tangents to the path. The pseudocode does a complicated-seeming grid lookup instead of just evaluating the function, but apart from that it's just following the vectors as tangents.
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Travel restrictions bought Taiwan and South Korea lots of time in the beginning. Other countries who usually follow scientific guidance have implemented them (israel).

There seem to be no real papers linked to the base of this guidance, except that they feel like a attack on the freedom of movement for a globalist elite and the tourism industry. I rather prefer to be healthy and safe, then to put a blind eye to some elite favoured cultural blind spot.

>Reply: Families are even less a reason to visit internationally in a global pandemic. Why should it be a right to bring a potentially deadly disease to your loved ones? Others cant visit there dying family in a hospital, why should one be granted exemption to visit the living?
I have both. VSCode is noticeably faster. How do you know jetbrains new editor isn't a "Dom editor"?

I kinda hope JB built it as a native editor and just uses a scripting language for plugins.
> Masks have a very modest impact on transmission

Do you have a source for that?
I am sorry but no. I have already lost 2 years of my life just following and obeying the orders. Enough is enough.

This is not on me to solve. The government had enough time to convince everyone to vaccinate or prepare the healthcare sector for influx of cases of unvaccinated.
Death rates look pretty low in Portugal. Not sure if that counts as "saving humanity", but it does seem to be saving lives.
MAGA hat wearer, I suppose.
Was just watching this interview with Dr.Coetzee who first encountered this

https://youtu.be/k_BaSdDNnVw
The exponential part of the rocket equation makes time reduction too difficult even if you have a bigger budget.

I found this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mission_to_Mars

> Shorter Mars mission plans have round-trip flight times of 400 to 450 days, but would require significantly higher energy. A fast Mars mission of 245 days round trip could be possible with on-orbit staging. In 2014 ballistic capture was proposed, which may reduce fuel cost and provide more flexible launch windows compared to the Hohmann.
In the UK we can order boxes of lateral flow tests for free online. You can easily test daily before going out with friends/going to work etc. but for some reason, despite the ease of this most people still don’t bother. Obviously governments can do better but we have free daily testing, vaccines available for almost every one, and still laziness/stupidity win in too many cases.
This is quite interesting. Are there any competitors/similar companies?

Not looking for IAC, but smaller upcoming companies.
at that point why don't they just use native + skia ? Seems weird to build a web based editor to then just use canvas.
Yes it does. It’s just rare.
Correct - and term limits would make that situation much worse.
More like:

> Wear mask and stay (in your) home.

As in no contact > contact outside > contact inside

Also assuming you are not in tight crowds outside or "outside but bad ventilated" areas (e.g. tends):

longer contact outside without mask > longer contact inside with mask

Not because masks don't work but because being outside has such a strong effect (assuming you are not in a crowded area, or some area which wrt. ventilation is only pseudo-outside or you stick very close to other persons outside of a crowd, or you insist to always be direct facing a person instead of being beside that person etc.)

Or in other words beside outside being good ventilated you also have often less chances to directly cough at the face of a person, as you e.g. walk besides a person when taking a walk and activities being less crowded and as such it's easier to cough in a direction where no one is close by.

It also means that there are good reasons to ware masks if you are in a crowded area outside, it's just most "outside activities" are not in very crowded areas and hence outside infection rates are way lower. We are also less outside then inside etc.

Or at least that is how I understand it.
Well, it's been a Variant of Concern (VOC) for some days, which was a sign that it's being considered a significant risk.
This season isn't finished yet, but we are seeing far fewer people sick and dying than last year. This trend is bound to continue, even if vaccines fail, if for no other reasons than the herd getting thinned out, cynically speaking.
Is VS Code slow? I mean, Notepad is faster, but considering that VS Code is JS-based, it's actually fast and responsive.
This is great just to get standard video controls. I mostly don't mind YouTube ads, except for two things:
1) they allow ads significantly longer than the ad break, forcing you to interact to skip the ad (i.e. all those stupid music videos as ads), and;
2) Text ad pop over the video content. Their entire business is showing us videos we want to watch, and they cover it with a text ad overlay. Its like they want to go out of business.

I also don't like that ads are spliced in at inopportune times, breaking the flow of many videos.
That’s the beauty of it, everyone won’t lol. You want to be smart, realize that and move on up.
Even today truck drivers use their right blinkers to show its ok to overtake. Atleast in Kerala. Yes, its ambiguous.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29361910
"Just trust us"

The way people(as in the vast majority, the non-rulers) responded to this virus and the measures following it will remain a stain on humanity.

You don't even have to wait to see the negative effects the restrictions, panicking rhetoric & messages(not about the severity of the virus per se) and dividing political hacks will have on the current/future generations, it's already here.

Again, this authoritarian top->down approach of "let's shut everything down because a _small_ segment of the population is kind of in danger"[and even then, most people are fine given good levels of vit. D and general immunity] is everything there was to say about it.

This is not about the virus, it's about control(and money, though that's a bonus).Thinking otherwise is just delusion at this point.Vaccinated and 2-3 boosters already? Tough sh*t, the new conveniently-renamed variant Omicron will require you to have another "jab", you don't want that 1-5% chance of grandma dying, do you?
Say what you will about Jupyter notebooks and all that, but the talent pool for Python is still at a higher level. Then, this could be the worse-is-better equilibrium, but there's also a market-for-lemons situation regarding web dev these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
Why hasn't Java added an option for automatic heap sizing for the desktop application use case (or any use case, for that matter)? Seems like a no-brainer thing to add, so I guess there are Reasons(tm).
I’m not sure what your point is. That article literally says Portugal is not experiencing as large a surge as other countries (probably due to their high rate of vaccination) and that the lockdown proposed is not necessary.
People dont travel just for leisure. Millions of people have families scattered all around the world.
I do agree with all your points, except:

> Masks have a very modest impact on transmission

They are an effective measure which has lead to significant decrease in infection rates.

There are of course parameters like the type of mask.
I dunno, I feel it better to consider floats to not be a single discrete number but an interval.
The same applies in southeast Asia/China/Japan, for both. It isn't exactly ubiquitous just in Europe.

Not in USA though.
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I really want you to be right, but what incentives does your run-of-the-miil web dev hav for switching to WASM + (pick language here)?
And they require the driver to have recirculate off, fresh intake on.
> ...somehow I don't think there's any big-oil type conspiracy to prevent the FDA from checking for heavy metals in spices, specifically

Of course there isn't, but that's also not an argument I think I made. I was indicating the more general trend towards de-regulation in the majority of the US, which likely affects all government agencies, including the FDA and the FCC (see, for example, the unchecked monopolies of most ISPs).

I think of it as a chilling effect by appointment. If you put the oil lobbyists in charge of environmental protection and a lawyer from Verizon in charge of the FCC, it seems to me that, for instance, increased FDA funding for anything, (including food safety) is not going to be the top priority of the Government.

Now, it's possible you're asserting that moves like putting oil and coal lobbyists in charge of environmental protection are somehow unique and do not indicate a general skepticism towards regulation.

I suppose there is no way to emphatically demonstrate that without waiting for a few decades, but would refer you to various surveys about political attitudes towards governmental regulation of companies.
I can see that, I was using fairly broad strokes in first part of my original comment.

I think it’s the second part that is more important than my initial (potentially unfair) generalisation.

In order to fund further development of gecko it needs to become a competitor to WebKit/blink and grab that market share in this new world of many browser front ends that are cropping up. Explore new business models, for example sign revenue share agreements with new browser developers in exchange for supporting (or even helping with initial funding) their development.
For some people, what they want is to be challenged. Here in my 6th decade, I’m teaching myself clojure.

Not because someone's making me or because it’s going to pay me a nickel more, but just because I love being mentally challenged*.

* https://explosm.net/comics/3286/
Hey HN folks! Do you ever wish you could just bypass the entire life story at the beginning of every recipe? It drove me crazy the other day when I was just trying to find a recipe for some chicken wings so I decided to do something about it, just in time for the Holidays.

Rapid Recipe automatically detects when you’re reading a recipe and renders just the recipe without all of the backstory. It’s an App Safari Extension for iOS and macOS that you buy, set up once and it runs forever!
What is the performance impact of execute-in-place? Does a CPU executing instructions out of external RAM offer enough performance to be worthwhile?
CDMA is 1G.
Parent suspected of sock puppeting / astroturfing.
You’ll learn the hard way then not to address nature at your convenience
I know Zuck is greedy but I can't believe he is so greedy that he wants even usage data from GIFs. Facebook has thousands data points and signals from Facebook app, Instagram app, Messenger app and WhatsApp. If he wants even more data points from GIFs then I suppose it needs to get blocked. But looking from market competition perspective Giphy is irrelevant; it does not compete with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat or TikTok. I mean you can say it competes for attention but that's it. GIFs are not that relevant as photos or videos are.
Pardon me while I vomit.

> Rich people are generally smart or else they would not be rich. They commit less crimes than any other sector or demographic group. They don’t drain the public coffers because they don’t use public resources. Most of them are very nice people because they can afford to be nice.
A browser installed by default that can't be removed... where have I heard that one before? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....
XULRunner was mostly like Electron before Electron.

And it could have take succeeded before Electron arrived if Mozilla didn't decide to let the project die.
Mozilla has been trying to build an Electron alternative based on Gecko, but it has been discontinued

https://github.com/mozilla/positron
I love VS code, but insisting that its parsing is even nearly as good as anything from Jetbrains is laughable. Working with Rust in VS code is no where near as good as IntelliJ for example, and their Javascript `intellisense` is best in class.
In my opinion, this is a great resource for game developers.
That's what I heard as well. Your recollection is good.
As far as I know the WHO's official position is still closer to "we still don't know a lot about this variant".

I'm most interested to see how severe of a disease it causes. If it's less severe but more transmissible, that's arguably a good thing.

Does anyone know where this data gets published, as we learn more about this variant? Preprint papers? The WHO website? Somewhere else?
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