skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yersinia Pestis is a bacterium, not a virus, and it can be killed by antibiotics. It's not gone. It's still around in fleas that live on squirrels and rats. In the mountains near where I live, the squirrels have it, and people get it every couple years.

But that may or may not be what caused the black death in medieval Europe, in my view. There's reason to think it might have been a really nasty hemorhagic virus like Ebola. See: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/black-de...
All versions get this update(well, apart from ones which are unsupported already - Vita, 3DS, WiiU)
In all likelihood, you’ll never actually need to separate systems out in this way, so I think it’s a wiser business decision to kick that can down the road indefinitely.
The Yesterweb is the equivalent of the 80's — Greatest decade in terms of creativity. Be it music, movies, gaming or fashion. But I wouldn't wanna go back in time.
> The article suggests that "more realistic" is correlated with "boring".

I wouldn't say so. With the increased mountain height I'd argue the terrain is more realistic than ever, and not boring.
Minecraft has supported cross platform multiplayer for a while now, so it would be really weird if they broke compatibility with PC like this.
for all the cool machine learning stuff and libs involved the results look like what i could do in the 90s in photoshop. it doesn’t really look like hand drawn pixel art IMHO.
Either it is detaching from the cable or there is a "conveyor belt" for boarding on some simpler chairlifts
Good luck and have fun in going to courts against Apple for suspending your iCloud account.
Care to suggest a preferred method?
> how do people who switch to a bluetooth mouse/keyboard adjust their boot/bios?

Most wireless mouse/keyboard use the same USB HID drivers as the wired equivalents. So they work just fine in the BIOS/EFI. At least that’s been the case for every device I’ve used; I’m sure there are exceptions.

That aside, fuck Bluetooth keyboards/mice. Even if you don’t play games, Bluetooth latency is very noticeable. I much prefer logitech lightspeed mice.
I love usb-c to death but "occasional incompatibility with cheap cables" is a bit misleading.

There is frustratingly little relation between price and quality. I have literally spent hundreds of dollars on usb-c-cables and I haven't even attempted to do displayport or thunderbolt through one, and I still don't own any that I'd expect to work on a lot of scenarios.
i wouldn't mind C if every program written in it was written to the standard of seL4, but alas, that isn't the case, and usually it's not even close. i'm also quite sure that getting even close to it would make you want to use another language instead.
Nice feeding
> (To all the free software folks to whom I said ‘Free Software is the same as Open Source’ — I’m sorry.)

Though it's clear that the author is trying to remove these labels from their identity, there are a bunch of ideological movements that strive for being more than just open source.

It'll be interesting to see which of these, if any, pick up momentum.

* Indieweb

* small Internet/web

* free software

* humane tech https://github.com/humanetech-community/awesome-humane-tech

Some people just want things that work, and choose to focus on other issues. That's fine too.
You would need to define natural language to engage with this debate. What you will find is that a definition that makes the dialect of sanskrit refered to in the paper 'natural' will include other languages that have similar lack of ambiguity.
OK, i have to ask: why not just use a wifi-enabled pi? Maybe with a repeater inside the garage?
Because there is no alternative. Google is much much worse. And not using Google or Apple ecosystems for at least phones and general media/photo backups limits your experience in day to day life sadly.
That was my thought too. It's nice to try making an MYP without any nasty technical debt, but only if it's a hobby and you can pay your bills without needing to ever launch.
I hate this description too, because client software is needed, it's just that special or dedicated client software is not needed. It's just misleading to add flavor to the description.
Squeezing Customers does not automatically follow from Serving Shareholders.

A healthy coorporation has these aligned: serving customers well, treating workers well results in shareholder value.
> But why would anyone assume that n horses, for arbitrary n, are the same color?

because that's how inductive proofs work. You assume something is true for N and show that this implies that it's also true for N+1. This combined with base case (for example for N=1) proves that it's true for all N >= 1.

The assumption is just a tool used to check if you can prove the implication, the real "meat" of the proof is in the implication.

Are you aware of proofs by contradiction? A: "assume N is the largest natural number". If that's true then there shouldn't be any natural numbers larger than N, but we can create N+1 and show it's larger AND natural, so assumption A leads to contradiction, so there is no such thing as the largest natural number.

We used false assumption in our proof, but the proof was correct.

It's a similar idea with inductive proofs - you make an assumption and see where it leads you. You don't use the assumption for the proof, you use the implication A(N)=> A(N+1) for the proof, the assumption A is just a way to see if you can prove the implication.

> You might as well say "We can prove that coconuts can migrate. First, assume that coconuts can migrate. Thus, coconuts migrate". It's equally valid logic.

The logic isn't actually circular, your coconut analogy is wrong. Correct analogy would be:

"when we assume N coconuts can migrate we can formally show that it implies N+1 coconuts can migrate" + "we can show that 1 coconut can migrate". You only need these 2 facts to prove all coconuts can migrate.
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I agree with this, with one big exception: if you are a SaaS company and want enterprise clients you need to be multi-cloud and able to silo customer data in flexible providers and regions.

At $previousjob I watched in glee as a conference room full of sales people smugly told us the whole product was "cloud native" on AWS, and then the realization slowly spread from face to face that they were pitching Amazon's biggest competitor and we wouldn't allow our data to reside on their systems.
Xmake 2.6.1: Supports Rust and C++ mixed compilation
Creating Scalable Machine Learning Systems for Analyzing Realtime Data in Python
The trees are mostly several centuries old - long abandoned when we arrived.
Won't you still need rare cables in case you need them (idk, a usb-b cable for instance...), and couldn't you already throw away whatever cable you wanted and buy some more as it pleases you ? What I mean is, the previous situation also little issues if you were willing to throw money at it, as you seem to be doing now.

Even as beard shavers and display monitors have come to support USB-C, I still don't see how people can get rid of their A->C cables, or not keep around lower standard 3m long cables because thunderbolts ones aren't sold in these length, or still need a cable for their camera etc.
Not dogs but mice. Mice are members of the supraprimate superoder (the euarchonta). Dog are more distantly related to humans than are mice and they live much longer and they cannot be genetically engineered as easily. We have already established causality for aging in mice using classical genetic methods—down to the level of large chromosomal stretch that usually contain 10 to 200 candidate genes. But we do not yet know the causal single gene variants that modulate lifespan in mice but we are systematically getting closer.

Will these putative genes also modulate healthspan in humans? That is a reasonable presumption that will need to be tested, with the recognition that gene-by-environment interactions will be most important.
I was going to suggest CO2 might be an issue in a room. CO2 in the bloodstream upto 30% saturation has a stimulating effect which make no ventiliation in bedrooms a common reason sleep is not restful, over 30% saturation level it has the opposite effect and can then be viewed like a noble gas and the effect noble gases can have on the body, namely it can kill and the body doesnt react.
It was interesting to me as someone who's been adjacent to, and by necessity somewhat versed in Christianity, for 20 years, but the need to make the audience sit through all 40 lashes, that felt very hardcore "if the Mass isn't in Latin, it doesn't count" Catholic to me.

I was mainly there for the Aramaic.
don't all thermostats have some kind of builtin hysteresis algorithm? so it does it's best to keep temperature steady... ideally without feeling the wind?
Yet there is a key difference in trust - that a centralized actor (say, Kickstarter) will not mutate their private database, will not go under, and will not fail to meet its promises in how the funds are managed.

There is also an ease of use (for developers building these applications), particularly in terms of finances: say, an escrow that holds $1M worth of value and may need to return those funds to 100K donors across the globe should the fundraiser not meet its goals before a set deadline.
exactly, that was the catch.

the point I wanted to make is that the snippets presented seem carefully crafted to make pipelines look bad, but usually that's not the case.
> It makes me really concerned in fact how Google would handle something similar

Very poorly, it seems. There are a bunch of stories scattered around HN about Google not only irreversibly deleting personal accounts, but entire paid Google Apps for Business setups. A whole company gone because the admin uploaded one ripped movie to their personal Drive, for example.

Many of these did get mostly resolved after someone carefully exploited the Kevin Bacon rule to get in contact with a Google employee, who then made some noise internally. But many couldn't be even with insider help, as some deletions are (were) apparently instant and irreversible.
I think that's the most well-executed and on-topic mapping of the GNU+Linux diatribe onto a new subject that I've ever seen. I didn't realize what was happening until I got suspicious around "there really is a Mormon" and started reading from the beginning again, more carefully. Bravo.
I don't want to head too deep into the "wrong for their time" versus "wrong in hindsight" calculations, because it turns into a game of "pretend it's 1996"

Things Quake did "wrong" mostly boil down to game design and level design problems. Most base levels and episode 4 suffer from various problems... poor layout, inconsistently sized spaces, samey areas, unnecessary teleporters, too many corridors, overuse of traps, under-lit areas, etc. Chthon is boring. Shub-Niggurath is obtuse. Vore missiles track too perfectly. Spawn (the blobs that explode) are just no fun. Ammo balance could be a lot better (e.g. Ogres give you grenades). Weapon balance could stand some tweaks (e.g. between the two nailguns).

I think a lot of these problems could have been fixed if Quake had been less rushed--but may not have been fixed. The development team had a bunch of ideas for Quake that were questionable. Quake 2 was worse in many ways, except when it came to multiplayer and the mod scene. The Quake 2 engine fixed so many of the technical problems with the Quake engine, but the game is saddled with an awful story, and some of the slight slant towards more "realism" in Q2 level design did it a major disservice.

Various Quake 1 mods address balance issues, and the single-player maps you can find these days are simply phenomenal. Some of them would not have been possible in 1996 (like Tears of the False God in Arcane Dimensions) but then there are level packs like DOPA which just seem like, well, better levels, and there are mods like Copper which directly address various game design issues.

So I think it's interesting to ask "What did Quake do right, so that in spite of its flaws, people still like it?" I think that it's an enjoyable game as a game, not just as a retro game you play for nostalgia.
They let something like 80,000 foreigners into the country for the Olympics. I'd say if there is an anti-lockdown that would be it. The virus surged during this period, and one of the hypothesis floating out there was that the voluntary lockdown suggestions were ignored due to the government holding the Olympics. The case numbers went down when they instituted the state of emergency again.

But that being said I'm not sure we fully understand why the virus didn't hit Japan as hard. The country does have a stronger mask wearing culture (where people actually fully cover their faces) and a homogenous genetic makeup.
This. As soon as I first heard about web3 I thought did I miss web2?
The point is that blind commentary is prevalent everywhere, and it is foolish for the commentator to presume that the decisions that were made were done without proper foresight and thinking, especially when the results seem to have worked. Chesterton's fences and all that.

Journalists should be sued for libel if they are libelous - wrapping oneself in the cloak of "journalism" is not free license to slander and spread untruths. Much of the American / western media has this sickness, which is why there is so much anguish over "fake news".

I don't know why you think it's fear-mongering about heroin - you think heroin/drug abuse in a society has no detrimental effects?
That time he cursed the fig tree, was used to great humour by a web comic.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/biblical-literalism
There is an alternative: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5. It probably limits you in some ways, but the more people support it, the better it will become.
Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994)
my man you can delete the files once youre done
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I am almost certain that IP law overrides and voids any abusive contract in the UK.

Bumble would have to prove in court that the employee did the open source work on either company time or using company resources for this to hold.
He didn't destroy it. Merely cursed it. Going to share this link again, because it's still on my clipboard.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/biblical-literalism
And this is why regulation of private corporations is a necessary evil, to provide an incentive to corporations to treat their customers better...
> Note that everything is copyrighted by default. It's not necessary to add a (c) or register it or anything.

Exactly.
These contracts intentionally only deal with tokens and virtual data/assets. A “web3” Kickstarter alternative built on a common set of OSS and fee-less escrow contracts does not need to manage anything other than tokens - that is the currency being exchanged.

If you are concerned about price fluctuations in the cryptocurrency, you could set this contract to operate only on a stablecoin like DAI.
> Plenty of people living in Oslo have exactly the same problem

Plenty of people in Oslo means the same population of one neighborhood of one big city like Rome, Milan, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, etc.

The entire Norway population would fit in Rome.

> I saw plenty of houses with off street parking

True, and those are the areas where generally infrastructure is lacking behind and you have to travel to a close town to find a gas station.
For exactly this reason I never trust online photo storage for anything other that disaster recovery. Google Photos still, after nearly two decades, won't tell you if they're storing an original copy or compressed facsimile of your photos. And after having the Android App randomly and surreptitiously turn on compression for uploads, there is simply no trust left.

So. SyncThing on my phone and laptop, and an a little herd of external drives. It makes me feel like a digital prepper or something. Sigh.

Actually. I think I have just self identified as a digital prepper and I like it. Time to download my Google content.
You seem to be conflating rich and poor and rural and urban, which have very little relation. Singapore was very poor, baring some rich businessmen, mostly Chinese IIRC, and had ethic tensions to boot between the Chinese, Malay and Indian populations it had ( one of the main reasons it was expelled from Malaysia).
> The hazy vision of new decentralized internet, built on the blockchain

Ten years ago, web 3.0 was supposed to be the semantic web (whatever happened to this fad).
Giving me -1 for telling the truth.

How mature ...
It saddens me that they chose "web3" for the latest crypto pyramid scheme.

Call it what you want, but please don't sully the web with your plat du jour crypto antics.

Also for what it is worth, the web has been decentralised from the very start, I don't see what the fuss is about apart from just everyone getting rich selling the next hot coin/token/whatever.
Creating a project whose cash-strapped members pay to be a part of is rare. Good for them to find each other and be a part of this project to bring a science fiction story to market,
So far, all "WebX" names turned out to be bullshit (or at best, pointless). Besides, the cryptobros seem to have a somewhat short memory: "Web3" was going to be the "Semantic Web" (which of course turned out to be bullshit too), so if anything, we're now at "Web4" for the next pointless hype cycle.
I think most actors are genuinely acting in good faith. The problem comes when the machine gets so big that people don't understand that their good faith actions lead to overall bad outcomes. It's not so much evil corps as I think it sometimes is clueless corps.
I'm new to Minecraft. Does anyone know if I will need to start a new world to benefit from the 1.18 terrain improvements, or will it work it's way into an existing save game?
So like "agile development", everybody will define it by themselves.
The fact Apple, Facebook, Google, Steam, etc. does not have a proper customer support is appaling. All they can do is parrot back canned responses, without the ability to actually do anything. This will have to change.
Maybe the headline does, but the article does not.
What do you mean having then load on exploration? That's the current state - a chuck isn't generated until you need to load it. This means when you take an old save to a new version any already-loaded chucks you're stuck with but any new exploration causes new world gen on the new version.
From TFA:

> Thoughtful, detailed coverage of everything Apple for 31 years
and the TidBITS Content Network for Apple professionals

If you don’t want to read about Apple, you probably should find other websites.
social networking 'web2' had little lot to do with web also
Valid point and totally agree that it will stretch into the following years.

One point to distinguish is the "price winter"(aka correction) vs product winter (halted development) - according to Chris Dixon.
> object initialization is not a thing anyone needs to pay much attention to

So it's perfectly fine for me to leave objects uninitialized because of lack of attention?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_...

The npr "article" is less than helpful. This is basically tdcs head gear, and there's a lot of quality equipment out there, and lots of very helpful communities doing experiments.

The uw research will involve a particular protocol, or series of protocols, of electrode placement, voltages, and durations. I can't find any details on current experiments, but they've got a lot of public material, and 6+years of published papers on the subject.

https://old.reddit.com/r/tDCS/
Ok from pcgamer:

> Always remember to back up your old save files before loading them into the newest version of the game. With the new changes to world generation, Mojang say that new chunks generated in worlds you bring forward to 1.18 should better blend with the existing terrain in your save file. So long to big flat chunk borders in old worlds!
I'm sure they have some small print stating that it's not actually yours.
Yes. Now let’s move on to more worthwhile endeavors
Shut up you little lesslinh
Very valid!
Yes, fifteen to twenty years ago, it was used to refer to the emphasis on user-generated content and the generalization of social media.
Awesome! I wonder why no one has done this before.
Added it to https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless
VLC had no styled subtitle support at the time, and often didn't seek to keyframes so clicking around would corrupt the video. It was also pretty inefficient on macOS.
Bumble has a wave of abuse incoming. Everyone checking their Twitter account will see a stream of wokeness and be triggered by the discrepancy to their petty evil behaviour.

This kind of ignorance is and should be pretty damaging to their brand, although I already sympathize with their poor social media workers who will have to deal with the onslaught.
It's no wonder that ID fraud is so rampant in countries like the US and UK in comparison to countries like Norway that have a national ID service (BankID).

There is no way that my Norwegian bank would accept a utility bill as any kind of support of ID. Instead they send a letter to my registered address (national population register) with instructions to take it and my driving license or passport to the post office who will act as a notary and report to the bank that I am the person that the letter is addressed to.

From then on BankID (using a one time pad, SIM card, or code generator) can be used to log in to pretty much all banks and government services.
Web 2 was the idea of user generated content and commenting etc - digg/reddit, twitter, youtube etc have no content of their own (c.f. a news website or whatever) but everything there came from the users.

Now it seems obvious and not worthy of a label, but at least at the time I guess it kinda captured the imagination and people imagined new/different ways to do things (I think it also coincided with a lot better tooling and tech around javascript).

Perhaps web3 will do the same, but so far it just feels like "it's the web as you know it, but now you need to also buy some bitcoin to use it"
- Define a new file format, yaml-plus.

- Create a parser for the new yaml-plus format across all supported languages.

- Migrate all build processes to handle yaml-plus with the new parser. In a large-org, it's likely impossible to track down all the usages of YAML. Someone will have a bash script that hasn't been touched for 10 years that implements an adhoc YAML parser.

- Modify the YAML mode for all supported editors to support the new syntax.

This doesn't sound like minimal effort. Mandating that all new configs must be JSON (or similar, newer alternative like cue) is way easier since JSON already exists.
It'd be good it Github did "wrapped" videos for repos. Commits made, issues answered, PRs merged, number of releases, a graph of when stars happened, etc. That'd be fun.

(This is probably where someone points out that they do.)
> Ideally it would still play the video with reduced quality. Whether that's at all doable I don't know.

It isn't really. It's possible if the video has B-frames but it's hard to predict how much dropping will cause how much recovery, and if you drop almost anything else the possible error is unbounded.