skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This narrative is so silly to me. Same with those who think that mandating mask wearing is some flex by the government to exert control.

It's common sense that in order to stop the spread of highly contagious respiratory viruses, having folks stay away from one another for a bit works... if people follow the lockdown, which too many don't. If anything, politicians are hesitant to invoke a lockdown due to the vocal minority's tantrums over them.

People don't like them, the same way that people don't like wearing masks. But most understand the value of both. And it's not like the local government is gaining anything from slowing down the local economy and annoying its citizens--aside from trying to save lives and put less stress on the healthcare system and its already overtaxed workers.
I just quit my job to pivot to full time indie game development - what serious indie game dev communities can you recommend, if any?
You shouldn't be allowed to drive around in four-wheel killer metal boxes.
With modern software distribution infrastructure you are entirely fucked at this point. It’s number one business critical risk from our analysis. And it’s not just from developer workstations but from stuff sneaking into production during a build cycle as well which is flagged through or missed by any of the participating tools which are supposed to stop stuff going through. The developer workstations aren’t even a worthy target.

Imagine if someone managed to inject malware into a core kubernetes component which gets pulled from docker hub or something.

The only reasonable way to prevent this is do development work in a fully constrained environment both from a hardware and software perspective and that means taking on a hell of a lot of compromises which will cripple your productivity entirely.

My efforts to investigate this pretty much lead to the conclusion that you need to have two computers available attached to different physical networks. The first computer has internet access and allows things like email, www access but has no administrative capabilities and no development tools installed and no way of installing tools as an unprivileged user. The second computer is the only one you are allowed to do development work on and has no internet connection.

Obviously when proposing this, it was laughed out of the room. This is exactly what I intended to prove: you can’t fix this reasonably at this point so don’t bother doing it.

At least not unless you have an airgapped machine and solely write in something standardised, with no external dependencies or libraries and no possibility of pulling something from outside your trust boundary.

I hope you sleep better than I do knowing this as well.

Edit: I was actually most happy writing C in an airgapped network about 25 years ago on a Sun machine with some manuals and some Oreilly books on my desk. The very thought of downloading something there was laughed out of the room. I wonder what they do now.
There is also a problem of comfortable humidity levels. If you just have open windows, it seems like you will have very dry air.

There are modern solutions for air exchanges that do retain some of the heat and moisture while allowing for fresh air to ventilate the indoor space.

https://www.explainthatstuff.com/heat-recovery-ventilation.h...
There’s no “even if”. Xi is not a common name, including all the variants. It’s a simple fact, which has nothing to do with your other reasoning.
I read the article and it seems like what she is saying is more nuanced than that. There is significant concern, not least for potential impacts on the elderly and those with co-morbidities.

To the point about lockdowns, nobody in govt in the UK is looking for an excuse for another. The exact opposite is true in fact.
Well that notion is wrong anyway because every European country has their own system. Some are mainly public with a purely optional private option, like Spain. Some are kinda forced private because otherwise you have to wait for years, like Ireland. Some are absolutely mandatory private like the Netherlands.

And yes in most countries some classes are purely private. I think Britain is a big exception though I've heard the NHS is also not what it used to be.
People like power, in particular politicians. The have a bias towards any measure that makes them feel powerful and in control.
If you want to write denser you can just zoom in. I don't feel the need, because the fineliner pen does great, but sometimes I do it to fit notes into pdf margins.
I saw this for the first time on my parents’ Mac computers, where Microsoft Word’s weird save dialog shows OneDrive first and has a button for choosing a location on the local file system.

Meanwhile my Windows desktop does not have behavior like this in the apps I use, mostly web browsers and Discord. I don’t believe I installed or uninstalled onedrive. Maybe I disabled some easy to find settings in Windows for the very annoying bits.
There are enough Disney fans that the rational thing to do would be to price it for the true believers and not one penny less. My assumption is that there is a huge value drop-off for people who don't spend a lot of time on the franchise, and that's why (or at least why I tell myself) my kids are going someplace else next year.
The Swiss French speakers found a way around that: nonante. Ninety, the Swiss way, not bothered by the French Academy.
> then scroll through recent destinations with a button on the steering wheel and be done

This, but with a voice control option, please, so I don't even have to distract myself looking at the options.

> I want the turns in the HUD

And IMHO - ideally - on a real HUD, the one projected over the windshield. I drove a Volvo that had it, it was nowhere perfect (especially in sunlight) but if the conditions were right it made a whole world of difference compared to the under-windshield or worse (behind-the-wheel) displays.

Not to mention that real HUDs are typically quite limited and thus not crowded with useless graphical bells and whistles.

I really loathe car dashboard designs. It's either something straight out of 60s, huge round dials without any thought put behind their meaning - like the engine rpm being the largest one, on a car with automatic transmission; or "modern" designs with lot of colorful icons and those animated blinking moving parts showing how engine braking recharges the battery right this moment.

An HUD like this https://www.volvocars.com/images/support/imga73646cb4d8984f3... (sadly, cannot find a real photo, but it looks quite similar in real life) is almost perfect.
Bracing for the worst :very scared:
I completely agree with this. I am considering an ultra-wide monitor(the only thing really missing from my home setup at this point) but even at a 1920x1080 on all my monitors, 80 characters occupy at most 25-30% of my entire screen. The rest of the screen is just sitting there, being all "OK, black pixels all day long, gotcha boss". 130-140 characters is perfectly usable for any 1920x1080 screen which is what most people have. My old laptop is 13 inches fits those perfectly and still leaves plenty of unused space, even in the context of an IDE where you have your directory structure on your left for instance. Not to mention something like vim where a vertical split would still leave plenty of space laying around. I think most standards need to be updated and ditch the whole "Someone is using an 800x600 CRT monitor and they need to be able to work". I am sorry, no, I used to have such monitor in the 90's as a child from eastern Europe in an average income family. 2021, I cannot name a single developer with anything less than HD. People should seriously wake up and revise those standards-they are the equivalent of wearing the same underwear for 30+ years. Even side by side diffs work perfectly fine in those scenarios. 3 way diffs might be an issue on a 13 inch laptop but honestly I don't know anyone who actually likes working with those(one notable exception but I'd definitely disregard his opinions on anything to be quite honest).

Side rant, I have a lot more issues with people writing functions that are 500 lines long and contain 10 individual sets of logic which would make sense to be fragmented in different functions. As a matter of fact I had a fight over this at my now old job. Ideally the body of a function should fit in one screen: ideally 60-80 lines. In fact there is a study on the subject described in "The Psychology of Computer Programming" [1]. If it's something larger, in 90% of all cases you can segment your logic in a way which allows one component to be responsible for one specific thing and take that out in a separate function. With good naming, this makes the code infinitely easier to read 6 months down the line when you have to figure out what someone else or even you have done. The argument I got was "Well what if I have an ultra-wide monitor set up vertically, then it's not a big deal?". Fffs, are you stupid??? What if I start coding on my 4k projector and I can fit 1000 lines in a single screen? Fetch a vector from one place, iterate over it, populate a hashmap, compute some standard deviation, save a backup on disk, check the bounds of the values, store them somewhere for future reference and call an async function to a message queue, check if a set of conditions are met and have 8 different fragments of code handling those based on the conditions that were matched. Function name: fetch_history_data. There's a lot more than fetching history data in there now, isn't there? End of rant, I think I had to get it out of my system.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1660754.The_Psychology_o...
They reduce at around 33% with Delta. Used to be 50% with Alpha. Not any breathtaking amount.
Yeah that’s right. He started a foundation to provide long term hospice care in a setting that would allow relatives to be with their loved ones for extended periods - based on his own experience. I’m not sure what happened to it - could not find with a quick Google. But it’s mentioned at the end of his book.
Flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted for “technical specifications”
WD-40 is also widely miss used as a lubricant where oil or grease should be used.
I think this might be the most level headed information I’ve seen so far: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/go-get-your-v...
Could you add some keyboard shortcuts to make it skip a few dozen generations?
The argument one frequently reads/hears on this is, that a virus has no evolutionary advantage to kill its host and if the virus becomes fitter in terms of infecting new hosts, they can neglect functions in their genome that lead to deadliness.

A respiratory virus may have an evolutionary advantage if it doesn't hit the organism so hard that the host stays home and isolates. Mild symptoms may increase the likelihood for socialising for example, thus there could be evolutionary pressure for a milder form to develop.

I would assume that these are just general observations and it won't allow a clear prediction where COVID19 variants are headed. But there are theories that other coronaviruses have been more aggressive initially until they became the milder forms that are nowadays endemic.

Of course we know plenty viruses that have evolved and are still deadly, so this isn't something I would bet on.
True but it's not all about money. It would worry me a lot if I would have recurring costs that high. Especially if it was directly tied to employment (e.g. getting healthcare through the employer).

It makes it much harder to change jobs in case of difficulty and a much bigger blow to getting fired.
Just turn off javascript if you want to copy and paste. It's a pretty hostile and anti user design.
Rowing is pretty dependent on good form, I have noticed after not doing it too long.

Pulling faster/harder will make it more difficult. Try that, I guess?
The linux kernel doesn't have an autoformatter script that stops stupid conversations like this, where certain code files can look different than others?

One of the most productive policies you can do to a company is make autoformat mandatory and move formatting discussions from specific commits to discussions about the formatting rules themselves. If you want to make a change in formatting, you have to write a rule to make it done automatically at the very least.
Whoa. This goes against common sense. Stop and think for a bit: How would there be transmission going on in the world at all if there were no asymptomatic spread?
In order for there to be an evolutionary pressure toward becoming less severe, having higher severity has to give some disadvantage - e.g. killing the host before it can spread the disease or giving stronger symptoms so hosts can be isolated before they can spread it. The corona virus is pretty unique in how much it can spread before/without any symptoms showing up, which should mean there's relatively less room for improvement by lowering the severity.
Always preferred PB Blaster myself
I saw this last night, this is an incredible watch, from the deep analysis to the excellent commentary. The economics lens for queuing was especially interesting.

Didn’t know it was going to be almost 2 hours long but worth the time.
The only rational thing to do is amend all the dictionaries so that the Greek letter has a different English spelling, and erase all evidence of the past. After this year, I expect nothing less.
Atomics International
You’re volunteering?
Dude that’s 2019 science. Get with the times!
julia's package manager is quite modern (and very well designed relative to the mess that is either C++ or python, no experience in modern fortran for me), so something being external or in the core language is not as important as it is with other languages. this is also the same model as in for example, Rust or Javascript.

in fact, it appears to me that they intentionally made the core language with fewer amounts of intrinsics relative to other languages.

Many of the packages in JuliaArrays/ might as well as be in the core language, especially things like StaticArrays:
https://github.com/orgs/JuliaArrays/repositories
Once a creator reaches a (likely fuzzy, undefined, needs more study) threshold, they gain the ability to negatively influence the laws in their favor, against the laws' original intent. Regulatory capture and all. Look at all the lobbying that happened by the Walt Disney Corporation, among others, to extend the copyright term to the insanity we see today. Some people/corporations also want perpetual copyright that never expires, and they tend to be the larger ones (although not all, so that is sort of almost orthogonal).
Only guessing, but https://oeis.org/ ?
Thanks for sharing your experience, you've inspired me to go find an allergist. I'm tired of feeling like crap for months every spring.
I don't know how much you think D-League players make but the current base salary (for what is now called the G-League) is $37k a year, and I imagine it was much less when he was playing in the late 2000s.
i've wanted an e-ink tablet for reading (full size for stem docs as well as casual reading) for quite some time. as the remarkable doesn't support kindle, it was sort of out for me... moreover, i have similar handwriting issues as the op and can only write legibly under very specific conditions that the tablet is likely not to work out for. (lots of space, no lines, no distractions, large desk. it's complicated)

i've been eyeing the onyx boox series, but they weren't gpl compliant at the time i was looking into them and perhaps more seriously, i didn't want to introduce any android devices into my life that didn't clearly have a rigorous security update program behind them.
Visited Disneyland last Friday and once I started watching first 5min of this video I could not stop... It really highlights how complex this issue is. I feel the main problem is that it collides now with original idea of bringing experience to all and modern economics that require constant expansion. It is interesting that they have tried price per ride in 70s. I think the flaw was that A-E ticket system was fixed and could not adopt to change in demand or behavior. Perhaps it is time for a futures stock exchange to fine tune price/demand.
SR-71 speed check

One time we were going fast

a small plane got on the radio and said "how fast am i going"

the tower said "you are going fast"

and then a bigger plane got on the radio and said "haha i think i am going faster how fast am i going"

and the tower said "you are going a little faster"

and then a jet fighter was going really fast and talked like a really cool guy and said "hey there, I sound like a cool guy, tell me how fast I'm going"

and the tower said "you are going very fast" but he sounded totally normal

And then I wanted to say something but that was against the rules, and then the other guy in my plane said "hey tower, are we going fast"

and the tower said "yes you are going like a million fast" and then the guy in my plane said "I think it's a million and one fast" and then the tower said "lol yeah ur plane is good"

and then I said "did we just become best friends"

and the other guy said "yes"
I'd say your maximalist view is not maximal enough, by requiring tabs. Why not store code in the most minimal way possible (one-liner, no whitespace [assuming whitespace-insensitive languages]) and let viewers and editors wrap and indent it however they want.

That aside, I'd say the reason your vision is not achievable today is due to lack of great view/edit tools.
If you care about the reasoning behind whatever feature they are implementing.
But, if it's actually true that symptoms are milder than those of Delta (which has been the indication), should we be embracing Omicron with open arms?

Just hypothesizing here - it'll take a good while until we have actual useful data.
Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?
In the past couple of months I have noticed much more difficulty having my taps on links in Chrome iOS register. I'll tap the same link multiple times with no response whatsoever. When this happens scrolling the page a bit and retrying does seem to help. I would estimate that about a third of my initial taps fail to register. This is on the main article links as well as the harder to hit tiny links for comment, upvote, etc. I have no idea if this is an issue with recent updates to iOS, Chrome or this site. It has been quite frustrating. Has anyone else been experiencing this?
I propose a challenge, similar to the Obfuscated C challenge, to devise code that is impenetrable to the human mind and yet fantastically clean to all metrics.
I do wish people would be more specific when saying “the media”. There are a lot of media outlets out there, some are level headed, some are hysterical.
Nobody drives because the traffic is so bad
I wonder if copyright will still be around in 50 years? It's easy to record music. It's easy to share music. It's hard to untangle what inspired a piece of music, and how much an artist reused previous work. I wonder when the whole scheme of copyright will collapse under its own weight.
What a coincidence. I have a Samsung Galaxy III Mini in front of me that I installed Postmarket OS on the other day. It's so satisfying to be able to view this phone as a normal computing device instead of a locked down phone.

And the installation process was so easy. No fiddling around "rooting" a phone - just "pmbootstrap init" and answer a few questions.

I've not actually used it as a phone yet, so for me so far the usefullness is limited, but I read it works, and I can write graphics to the framebuffer. Of my own phone! How cool is that!

It also boots into a variety of desktops in various states of usability.
Recommending vaccination for a "variant" we know nothing about - isn't this plain misinformation?
Even earlier, I believe. I test drove a 7 series from 2003 that had the wheel (in the UK).
I'm not sure how they get there. I have a Kobo and ~100% of my hundreds of books are epub.
My current personal belief is that the universe is currently rife with life on a number of planets, but they're all so far apart that they might as well be the only ones from the perspective of each planet. I feel that it's highly arrogant of humans to presume that "there is no other life in the entire universe, except for Earth".
That’s right. The significance for pilots is that, with low airflow over control surfaces which gives a mushy feel, you also have a high angle of attack which means you are approaching stall as flow over the wing separates. So the plane is harder to control but you’re also about to fall out of the sky.

Stalls can also occur at higher speed in high g maneuvers, so mushiness isn’t the only indicator of approaching a stall. But it’s pretty reliable in straight and level flight.
I’ll be damned, I just tried that and it was exceptionally easier to do in Mandarin, a language that I have to think to count in, than in English.
This is definitely not correct. For many SIMDable workloads it's possible to achieve order of magnitude improvements over the compiler.
Jar files are a single file portable to all major platforms (and many minor), that can run offline and have entirely acceptable performance with modern versions and modern hardware (i.e. slower than C but perfectly good if JS in a browser is the comparison). They have inferior security vs browser sandboxing but better no worse than a native binary. Other than being "old", what exactly is the regression?
I Finnished Google Twice
Wait, that does OCR?! I only realized the other day that you can pinch to zoom on it…
In the book “spillover”, notably written before Covid (so quite prophetic read from today’s perspective), the author discussed this claim. Although it often happens, it is by no means guaranteed (at least on satisfactory timelines), and there are counter examples.

One is the evolution of myxomatosis in Australia, it is a disease affecting rabbits. The disease split into 4 strains. Eventually the dominant one become, IIRC, one that had the slowest progression, but also was the deadliest overall.

Buns infected with that strain had larger chances of passing it on (since they were alive longer), and yet they would be more likely to die.

I guess evolution doesn’t care, and if a strain is more deadly, yet more persistent, it will win.
> LibreOffice lacks no features I would remotely consider using

That right there is EXACTLY the problem with LibreOffice. You see no problem with it. Other programmers see no problem with it. Programmers convert their grandmother to using it and their grandmother doesn't even notice. Success! Right? Wrong.

It's missing a lot. Just not the things a programmer would notice.

Here's a simple example:

I have a document with multiple languages in it. Sometimes multiple languages in the same sentence (it's a guidebook for translating between two languages). When I open it in Word, it detects where one language starts and another ends. It provides spell-checking for both languages automatically.

LibreOffice? I had to dig through the config panels to enable this feature, and even then, it was on a global basis. Not per-document. If I type a word in language B into some random document now, but it's really a word in language A with a typo, now LibreOffice will silently accept it. Maddening.
> I don't know their exact definition

So it is not clear contrary to your previous comment.
A nitpick, 365.2425. Don’t forget 400 year cycle!

But I wouldn’t mind to have a lunch at ‘43’ (from 43200) and go home at ‘65’, without redefining SI.
How do you masturbate (without video stimulation)? Do you make up a story/setting? How do you visualize an attractive nude body without visualizing?
A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone