skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current vaccines don't prevent infection, reinfection, or transmission -- which eliminates much of the selective pressure for lower mortality. We could end up with a situation where everyone alive on earth is vaccinated, carries the virus, receives regular boosters, and anyone who isn't or who misses a few boosters, faces certain death. Similar to Marek’s disease in chickens.
It won't change my habits. I'm not going to ask every business owner to provide their facilities maintenance info before I go to a place of business. If I get sick I get sick. It may or may not be the fault of the business.
I swear I am never clicking on any blackbird post on any forum or social network again, because this stupid shit is ALWAYS the top comment.
Right, but they do handle the security screening and it’s all DHS
Ha, at the University where I work, they are "upgrading" the windows to more energy efficient (good) but they will no longer be able to open up to the outside. All of the occupants complained, but sorry too late to change the plans, even though we don't have a contractor picked yet. We also have a relatively mild climate where opening the windows 10 months out of the year would insure adequate cooling.
It would be great to see any of it that is completely wrong, but not "my plain old I used to do it this way" type of thing.
Australia's largest meat pie company is named after this. Although I doubt most people realize it actually means "24".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%27n_Twenty
Emacs always has an embryonic version of that with M-x, but with a simple autocomplete. That’s is, until Helm arrived in 2011: it made everything that is a list something to be dynamically filtered (commands, shortcuts, buffers, files, etc).

IntelliJ has a command palette too (Ctrl-Shift-a), but it’s horribly slow and has many items with the same name doing different things (try looking for “settings” for example). But it does allow you to add a shortcut to a command you find on the fly, which is great.

[0] https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
>Chinese Mandarin isn't quite as challenging, but they too essentially use multiplication 40 is "4 tens"

This is exactly what forty means, except it goes back to the Proto-Germanic fedwōr tigiwiz and so the meaning is obfuscated. Much simpler to use the same word, no?
> Why less deadly? Because a virus that is too deadly will likely die. It's why the Spanish flu is now just H1N1.

Given how slowly SARS-CoV-2 kills you (if it does), there isn't any selection pressure to do it less often.

Indeed, my understanding is that no human virus has evolved to become less virulent. It is unclear why H1N1 disappeared a few years after it emerged as the Spanish flu, most likely it simply ran out of susceptible hosts. In particular, we have no evidence of a successor virus, evolved from H1N1, that was both less virulent and drove out H1N1 at that time.

I agree that annual shots are a very real possibility. I also share your pessimism about our response to global warming.
Every time I've seen this (and I agree that it's ubiquitous), it seems to make a ton of work that could be much better spent on making a better product that people actually want to use.
The issue seems to be about unreasonable work hours. On-call time is work time - perhaps not "full" work time, but definitely not free time or rest time. If you're on call for 24 hours of Saturday, that's fine, but then work is taking up 24 hours more than your usual week, and deserves a major change in compensation or extra rest time (e.g. the following monday off) as it's a big change from a 40 hour or 50 hour week. If your team has allocated every engineer to an on-call day every week, that's the equivalent of expecting all of your engineers to devote 60+ hour weeks every week to their job - and IMHO that's not okay; some of your engineers may be fine with that (and would deserve what essentially is overtime compensation), but having that as a requirement for everyone is not reasonable in non-toxic workplaces, if there's no good place in your team for people who will only work 40-ish hours, then that would be pretty much discriminatory on multiple groups. Having a "week of on-call" is equivalent to a continuous 168-hour shift, which is simply not done anywhere else and should not be a thing.

If you want 24/7 production services, then you need to map shifts of support. For continuous work you just run 3x8 or 2x12 hour shifts; but outside of IT industry where you need "spotty monitoring", 24 hours on / 48 hours off is a commonly used system - but it's not a 24 hour shift on top of another full time job.
I use urllib instead of requests just to get rid of a dependency. It does all the same stuff with slightly uglier calls. More to the point, Python Central seems to now favor shovelling off stuff to external dependencies.
what's considered good graphics performance? I've never had an issue with plain old hardware accel/software rendering when just doing standard desktop tasks. It's generally fast enough.

If you're serious, then you want to search for GPU passthrough. This allows a VM to take control of an entire GPU. But you'll need a 2nd GPU for your main, bare metal OS.
Rearrange the letters and you get moronic.
It is annoying, but CMD+? (help menu search) I think makes up for it. It's far more useful for when you're navigating an unfamiliar interface.
Trent Reznor started doing that 15 years ago.
ctrl+k → focus the search bar

ctrl+l → focus the address bar
see: the blackberry storm, which had hovering with a touch screen. I loved that phone.
You can't do analog FM with DCOs because they're numerically controlled. You'd have to modulate the frequency of the clock, which displaces the problem without really solving it, and also wouldn't work polyphonically.

This Synclavier and Fairlight CMI were hybrid designs with a digitally controlled clock per voice producing a variable rate sample clock driving memory and a DAC. The hardware was more expensive but the digital part was much simpler, because you basically just clocked the sample data straight into the DAC without having to do any interpolation or resampling.

The DX7 was the first successful fixed rate polyphonic DSP system. With some reworking, the FM subsystem could have been replaced with sample RAM. But RAM was still ridiculously expensive, so FM was a workable solution for expressive acoustic-like sounds that weren't sampled.

It absolutely was a game changer. I remember playing one for the first time and it wasn't just the novelty of the FM sounds or the 16 - 16! - voices. It also looked great, was easy to carry, was less than a quarter of the price of some of the bigger polysynths, and had an extremely playable velocity-sensitive keyboard.

When you put all of those together it completely eclipsed the older designs as a playable keyboard instrument.
No issues in Safari or Chrome. I’m on an iPhone 13 with the latest iOS.
Vaccination is less of a supply problem and more of a distribution and demand problem. One vaccine administered in the western world does not mean one vaccine has been made unavailable to the third world. It's similar to food scarcity, the primary problem is poor infrastructure making distribution networks extremely inefficient.
Reading all the reviews I remembered researching reMarkable about a year ago. Seems like the new model still has the same problems for my use case. Hope a manufacturer out there will eventually upgrade to the level I need.

I want two things: (1) take notes (including sketches), never lose them, and be able to search for them (2) read downloaded scientific paper PDFs, read them and highlight them, and make marginal notes.

At 10.3 in diagonal screen size, the reMarkable wont let me page flip through scientific articles in their natural size, you need 13.9 in for that. Scientific articles have graphs and diagrams in color, and the color is key to making sense of them. None of the 13.9 in paper substitutes had color.

So still waiting for the basic specs to be available.
Current amzn employee working on the retail website. Unless a team is jumping/ignoring all standard operation precedures, everything must go through an A/B test to prove that it works at increasing the revenue or whatever the KPI target is. This includes text that might need to go through legal in some cases
Polio was a different kind of virus, though, with a different kind of vaccine. We never got a vaccine for other coronaviruses either, it's unlikely that we will get it for this.

Also, there is solid literature on the fact that vaccines during an epidemic cause stress that induces the virus to mutate. https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org
> I always assumed it was to avoid potential bacteria, amoebas, etc.

You nailed it. Misuse can be fatal due to proximity to the brain.
Actually, from skimming the linked white paper:
https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-unde...

It looks like there's no way to watch DVDs legally with FOSS (still) in the US?

On the other hand the precedent for ebooks seem a bit better?

https://www.eff.org/es/press/archives/2008/04/21
I think I’ve seen what you’re talking about but also forgot where. I tried finding it again and this seems to be close: http://aprovecho.org/?paybox_id=79
And how much has that affected access to guns?
There's a lot wrong with this design. It is perhaps reasonable to use on new wine with pristine corks. But corks are a natural material, so they have a lot of variability, and they do degrade over time. If you open a lot of wine (e.g., if you are a waiter or sommelier) or you drink wine at many ages (e.g. if you are an aficionado or collector) then you need more control in where you place the worm in the cork and how you control the extraction of the cork (for instance giving lateral pressure). This is why you will never see people who routinely open wine as part of their jobs with a wing corkscrew.

(Even worse, wing corkscrews are most likely to have an auger type of worm rather than an open helix. This is not inherent in the design of the corkscrew, of course; many wing corkscrews have open worms. Just something to watch out for if you are buying one.)
In case you are wondering, the Swiss Army knife featured on the header is a Victorinox Climber: https://www.sakwiki.com/tiki-index.php?page=Climber
What is the liquid?
The biggest problem to me seems to be confabulation: 9 out of 10 answers may be correct. But then the model will give you an answer that is completely, utterly made up.

This even happens when you specifically instruct the model to only chose from a set of given facts.

I tried to build essentially a knowledge retrieval system on top of GPT-3: I‘d have a corpus of text. The user would ask a question. A separate semantic search engine would pick out the top 5 or so most likely answer candidates from the corpus. And GPT-3‘s job would have been to select the right answer and to rephrase it as an answer.

And GPT-3, it seems to me, cannot do this. Because as soon as you give it enough flexibility to select or transform sentences, it will also start to bring up „knowledge“ from its internal parameters, i.e. to confabulate (or „hallucinate“, as OpenAI calls it).

I believe the fundamental reason for this is that the model has no concept of „a fact“. It just fills in gaps, based on patterns it has seen before. That is the source of its ability to impress us with its „human like“ answers. And it is, at the same time, the reason why you can never factually trust its output.

I like to joke that this is why, as far as I know, pretty much all commercial applications of GPT-3 seem to be clustering around marketing. Where making stuff up is pretty much part of the job description, and factual accuracy is not.

That being said, it is still an impressive piece of technology. And if pattern-completion, rather than factual reasoning, is what you are after, then it can also be a great labor saving device. Things like transforming sentences from active to passive voice are a piece of cake, and work quite well even on the smaller models. For tasks like that, I find GPT-3 much more reliable than, say, MTurk.
That's the standard on Android, especially for the built-in apps.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/tooltips
WP link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_nose_syndrome
The question is whether it's abusive or not, not whether you personally are willing to accept being abused for X amount of money.
Increasing the window of contagious spread is likely to be inversely correlated with deadliness.
But of a dodgy source. Anyway, Microsoft word and photoshop are only standard because people pirated them.
This is the exact same for me. The exception for this is when I dream, in which case I perceive mental imagery the way I assume most people do. Sometimes, a dream will turn lucid, and in that case, the mental imagery quickly devolves into the tactile/proprioceptive representation you describe.

An interesting note: taking bupropion (or, I assume, any similar stimulant) at bedtime drastically improves both the frequency and visual imagery of my dreams. Moreover, while taking it, should a dream turn lucid, my subjective experience in the dream is one of suddenly being unable to fixate on specific details of objects or direct my gaze (as if my visual field is entirely peripheral), rather than the 3D-modeled resin.

My brain is definitely capable of generating mental imagery, and I'll get flashbulb imagery as an automatic response to cues, but something interferes with the ability to visualize things while I'm awake.
Maybe a covert hand-delivered sample of some sorts?
Replication-incompetent adenoviral vectors? Lex Fridman had a virologist on his podcast talking about the mutations done to the adenovirus to make it safe for the delivery of the s-protein (used in viral vector J&J + AstraZ vax). Maybe I misunderstood that?
Also not after this: https://text.npr.org/1016436749

They very confidently ruled out the lab leak theory (while admitting that they know basically nothing else about the origin, except that it couldn't have been a lab leak), then had to backtrack on that.

This makes me suspicious of their current claim (that they know that "Current vaccines remain effective against severe disease and death." while at the same time claiming to know basically nothing else).
Have you tried to play https://screeps.com/ ?
Sometimes a variable is for checking whether a value is kerfuffled by jingleberry so isKerfuffledByJingleberry can be a good name
Yeah it’s my understanding that you can’t make a very effective or lasting vaccine for a coronavirus. It’s my opinion that this mRNA vaccine is just a great way to make money and an excuse to bring about rapid social changes.
Our newer buildings don't have windows that open and have interior hallways, so some rooms don't have doors to outside. They have better building ventilation and per-room standalone air filters, though.

Even just a single door open makes a big difference, IMO.
>"The lead oxidises to lead monoxide, then known as litharge... Some of the litharge evaporates,"

This sounds vile. The article doesn't discuss the health impact this process had on the metallurgists!
Caveat: this is probably still not legal. Just a comparison / thought experiment.

Are you planning on keeping the Apple TV subscription? Are you only going to to torrent something that is currently running on Apple TV while you have a paid for subscription?

If so, what would really be so different from you "taping" something on regular TV back in the VHS days? (apart from it nowadays probably not being legal - go figure).
I read somewhere that the new strains are probably created inside people whose immune system is not able to clear the virus, thus allowing it to mutate and create new strains.

I guess those people would be more likely to be exposed at all in countries with less vaccination though.
Indeed, even in San Francisco I measured indoor humidity as low as 18% before I got a humidifier, and dryer+colder places (e.g. Salt Lake City) could be even lower inside. Humidity below 40-50% at indoor temperatures has noticeable negative effects for me.

As other comments have mentioned, in the long run for maximum health and maximum energy efficiency we really need to design our buildings to be air tight, with energy-recovering ventilation systems and humidity control.
Oh! I never thought of talking to indie film makers, but the cross over in process seems to be hugely similar. If you don't mind me asking, how have you found their reception to you? And, as cinema has become a large part of selling games (even indie ones) given that "sizzle reels" seem to account for a decent amount of interest, have these meet ups lead to collaboration?
The number and type of recommended polio vaccines depends, but the WHO recommends at least four doses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio_vaccine#Schedule
One word: PBMs
Except they dropped the feature when they switched to GNOME 3 in 2017.
Up until about 2 months ago contact tracing in Australia was very effective. Contact tracing teams were able to trace who and where each person got infected. They were also notifying/testing/isolating first and sometimes secondary downstream contacts (up to 400 people in the case of one country town outbreak).

One of the infections was traced to a department store and the interaction between the two people was caught on cctv. They walked past each other and didn't talk. It was seconds.
I have had the flu twice. The first was in college and then second was when my kids were in pre-school/elementary school.
I love latex for papers, but come on.
The number of confused comments from PMs when engineering timelines are provided for “easy tasks.” Why does moving an ad above the fold require 3 weeks? Because it implicates 6 different teams.
In general, we will always start from a position of considering a developer machine to be infected. This is part of the Zero trust approach to security. We work with defense in depth. If the developer machine isn't trustworthy, and the developer isn't trustworthy, how do we best protect our systems and client data?

As you move through from code to production we have multiple stage gates and steps.

- From a code perspective, we use dependency and code scanning (yarn audit, sonarcloud, sonarcube etc). Sonarcloud has nice IDE integrations.

- Code is pushed and is picked up by a pipeline, further scans are done looking for vulnerabilities/CVEs etc. If any significant ones are found, the pipeline fails (yarn audit, sonarcloud, sonarcube, Palo Alto container scanner, docker bench etc)

- The pipeline deploys to test and does automated checking

- Prior to a production deployment, the pipeline must be manually approved.

- Once in production, we use further scanning and monitoring (Security Hub/Centre, Tenable, SIEM)

Our developers have no direct ability to change the production systems in any way. But, they can write code and commit to our Git repository as much as they want. Everything from that point is automated (except for manual approvals).
Consuming an API with Go
> Imagine all those anti vaxxers' complaints about "It's being rushed out too quickly" and "It hasn't been studied yet"

Listen, CNN [0] and Biden [1] changed their mind about all of that as soon as the election was over, so don’t be too hard on them.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/01/health/eua-coronavirus-vaccin...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/biden-trump-c...
Mark of the beast
I find any of these numbers pointless.

I’ve seen enough 100% or close to completely broken applications.
I'm not sure how related they are, but I noticed an inverse correlation with users have full access to their systems. As companies locked down systems, users had less opportunity to explore, learn, optimize (and also break or infect) their systems.

Given solid UI design, the security tradeoff is probably worth it if the two are actually connected.
It's clearly satire. They're pointing out how silly it is that ancient mature programs are still at version 0.x
You’re not helping anyone else by getting vaccinated, it doesn’t prevent transmission. If anything it could make transmission more likely because if it makes symptoms less severe (the only thing it is suppose to do) then you might not realize you’re sick and should stay home.
I found that between "I already have it digital", and "I will have it digital once I get to a scanner with a paper-feeder" the distance is too big to my liking. Also it's easier to name/annotate my handwriting (to make it searcheable) right after I finished scribing, then to sort out a whole notebook later. That said, I can imagine a paper-fed scanner to be well enough solution for many people, who already have an easy access to it.
Torrenting died because things like Netflix and Spotify came along, and they were “good enough” - they didn’t have everything but they had enough stuff that it would leave most people happy.

Now though, things are becoming so fragmented again that I think it’ll pick up. Most people are already sharing accounts to get around it partly.
i'd never heard of a "feature factory" before, but after reading about them, holy hell, that explains a ton of friction i had in a recent engagement.

they had a laser focus on just shipping and success theater, but little attention on actual utility of the end product. i was berated constantly for slowing things down or wanting to be more careful and do things that weren't necessarily easy but actually had potential to be useful. it's relieving to learn this is a common management deficiency.
Reddit does that to me on iOS pretty frequently, though they try to push the app so hard for ad revenue I don’t think they care much about improving the experience otherwise.
Have you tried KDE Connect? Despite the name, it doesn't require KDE
3'000 to 4500 USD monthly for a SRE
At work (generally, inclusive of but not only my company) you’ll find power users in Solutions Engineering implementing and automating nuts and bolts integrations and performing data wrangling on BI teams. There’s a lot of work to be done by people who don’t really code, and if they do it’s light scripting. They take a huge load off of the Engineering staff. I’ve also seen power users make their way into UI Automation.

It seems like once they get a few years under their belt they move into Product or Project Management or gain sufficient scripting experience that they move into an entry level Software role.
Considering how much of Facebook's production engineering old-timers came from Google SRE, I am surprised to hear it is very different there. Perhaps it indicates the lack of a strong leader like Treynor setting the tone for the organization.
Why is this on HN? Flights divert to refuel all the time.
Transmissibility is highest before symptoms appear.

This the distinct characteristic of COVID-19 that separates it from most viruses and has enabled it to spread rapidly on a global scale.
ha-ha, they just blindly copy it from tesla, without copy profiles and other features. In all new tesla's including expensive ones' you don't have manual regulation. You do everything with one gesture, saving so many manual frictions. Once you set it up it remember your profile, so you don't need to change it every time your family member decide to use your car e.g. every day or more often.
Lol does anyone but a chump believe anything the WHO says?
We don’t see html raw either dude
Amazing to see all these awful takes. This _is_ America I suppose.
PoS is a class of consensus protocol, not any particular blockchain. It's orthogonal to signature algorithms. A blockchain can incorporate any combination of consensus algorithm and signature algorithm. So yes, please use your terms correctly.

If sufficiently powerful quantum computers become readily available to anyone, sure, everybody will upgrade. Given the exotic hardware they typically require, it seems likely that for a while only a few large organizations will have them.
The worst thing about this site is it hijacks ctrl-f.
Don't do that.
How would they even address it with police? Do the police ever actively stop murders?
I’d like to be able to go straight to my file picker in word. Is that asking too much?