skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Urban centers used to have kids congregating in non-purpose built places all the time, before that was all stratified away. That's precisely what GP was saying I think.

#2 wasn't about suppressing the virus to zero (true, no place succeeded at, not even China), it as about avoiding long stretches of strong countermeasures by applying lighter countermeasures earlier. They still required some escalation for maybe a few weeks but that's far from what people had who had to dig themselves out from underneath a massive wave they ran into at full speed.
We are well and truly fucked! There's just no way people are going to accept exponential and non-linear worsening conditions, before after step 99 of 100.
Its not only in space, but very far away from the Earth and the Moon, so it doesn't become saturated with IR.
That apart, there is a lot of important IR a spy satellite would search for. The heat signature from a fighter jet is much larger that its visual signature, for example.
True. But in the case I cited (the doctor was actually asking our company to do the backend transport for the device), the device works. It will bring quality of life improvements.

However, as you well know, nothing is ever 100%. Even if the detector was 100% (and nothing ever will be), the network carrying those alerts is most certainly not 100% (all the cellular carriers in the US have specific language barring medical usage because they know they're terrible). And when, not if, some notification doesn't go through you're on the receiving end of a lawsuit.

So, the problem is that if the device doesn't obviously make enough profit to cover the legal settlement cost from the case where it fails, it's dead in the water. Indemnification tips that balance a bit to allow devices that might be a net win but it will be difficult to prove that a priori.

It's such a problem that I have a black-humor question to everybody who thinks they want to do a biotechnology device: "That's a great idea! So, how many people are you allowed to kill?" If they get over the shock of the question, I start doing back of the envelope calculations for how many people the device will kill. If they're still with me after that, we can have a real discussion about whether their device might be feasible.
In fact, it would be a lot like Microsoft deciding to sue Ingram Micro for having Micro in the name, and being in the IT business, despite that being a common term at the time of founding (microcomputers being what they're deriving from).

Or Microsoft suing NCSoft for being a software company.

Etc.

I hope this gets thrown out.
Looking forward to the footage of the explosion they will need for that.
Bravo Oscar?
IMO this is less about IP laws and more about the incorrect incentive structure of frivolous litigation. The penalties incurred by Match for filing this lawsuit (assuming the court agrees with the interpretation in this post) should be not only that they have to cover the defendant's legal expenses, but they should have to pay 10x that in punitive damages on top of it.
Deltachat can do that.
I fully agree that the risk tradeoffs made on these designs are highly unlikely to fail. The point is, though, that if they DO fail there IS NO redundancy. There aren't two jackscrew mechanisms. It's a single point of failure. Highly reliable single points of failure don't become redundant because of their high reliability -- they are still single points of failure. And sometimes those must be accepted -- even in safety critical systems.
> ... it is a well-known type of problem, called a multiple integer program (MIP)

Is this meant to be "mixed integer program"?

Nice read. I find this especially interesting as I'm familiar with everything you've talked about here except only in Australia (AEMO). What you've written is like a parallel universe to what I know - very similar, but distinctly different.
Colloquy link is dead (again), https://github.com/colloquy/colloquy/releases is probably the most relevant link at this point. A couple of guys keep it limping along when there are breaking OS changes, but it's pretty much in a coma. A pity, since imho it's still the best-looking UI IRC client on any platform.
To offer some explanation in defense of this, though I can't cite it right now:

There's two major tests for the efficacy of depression-treating drugs that I am aware of. One is a "willpower" test, which in one incarnation is attempting to drown a mouse. A compound more likely to be efficacious in humans if it makes a mouse attempt to swim longer before ultimately succumbing to exhaustion. Taken by itself this test seems promising, though one could argue it might blunt whatever mechanism makes you give up and try a different approach.

The second is a bit worse, and done in humans. A compound more likely to be efficacious in humans at treating depression also seems to be effective at disrupting short and long term memory. So, they give the sample and a short term memory test and see how you do. If you do worse it is likely to treat depression.

You will see, if you go back through past threads, people stating that their ADHD diagnosis was comorbid with or developed after a diagnosis of depression. It is extremely likely that they developed focus problems due to being treated with SSRIs.
Not at all ironically, you didn't present anything scientific either. And I don't stigmatize people for seeking help. I am skeptical if medications help because I haven't seen them work for the several people I know who tried them.
"Secure boot" and "remote attestation" are complementary features.

Specifically secure boot is what makes it so that "your" computer is unwilling to run software that has not been approved by the company that made it. This has existed for quite some time, and is responsible for the locked down mobile ecosystem as well as the inability to remove the Intel ME and AMD PSP embedded malware from recent PCs.

Remote attestation has not been widely implemented yet, but will make it so that remote services refuse to work unless you are running only software that the service approves of. I'm not sure how much Pluton moves the needle forward, but any amount is not good. If remote attestation comes into full effect, many websites will only be usable on newer computers and websites will be able to forcibly disable software the website finds objectionable, like say Adblock.
Right now it is politically unthinkable for Western governments to demand people install MITM root CAs, and technically infeasible that they would re-encrypt every TLS connection (and check for encryption being layered inside the decrypted streams). (When Kazakhstan tried, they also faced resistance from software makers, but I wonder what would happen if those software makers happened to be based in the same country that was implementing this policy.)

It is much more thinkable, however, especially in 5 years, perhaps after a (false flag?) cyber-attack takes down an electricity grid in some country, that a government could prevent "insecure"/"unpatched" devices from going online. This wouldn't require any personal information to be shared with the government (at least, no more than current ISP data retention laws already require), and Microsoft would be all too happy to build support for this right into Windows for free, as it would make it harder for "unapproved" operating systems to be used in that country.

> the tickets are invalid if you weren't the one driving

I guess what I meant was "the government will punish you unless you can prove someone else was using your device" so you won't be able to escape prosecution by sharing a device and saying "I can't remember who was using it at that time". Similarly, I believe in some jurisdictions a car owner is expected to know who was using their car at any given point in the past so that speeding tickets can be assigned to the correct person.*

Anyway, I can imagine the law going further and matching the dystopian vision of "The Right to Read", which includes this passage: "Of course, if the school ever found out that he had given Lissa his own password, it would be curtains for both of them as students, regardless of what she had used it for. School policy was that any interference with their means of monitoring students' computer use was grounds for disciplinary action. It didn't matter whether you did anything harmful — the offense was making it hard for the administrators to check on you."

* "It is also illegal [in the UK] to decline to provide the driver's details, whether it was you or another person." https://news.jardinemotors.co.uk/how-to/speeding-fine-faqs-w...
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California did way better than Florida [1].

[1] http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/?chart=states-...
I mean, it's a federal law, why should state law enforcement even be involved - especially if the state disagrees with the law that is being enforced?
And it's not great. The loss of attention in general.
> Are school budgets being cut?

Absolutely! Sometimes it's explicitly sold as an education budget cut (like Texas in 2011, narrowly averted in 2021 but there was a whole campaign for it), and occasionally it's cloaked in carrot/stick incentives where district that "excel" get more money, and the underperfoming ones get less. The lately, there's an attempt in red states to go around Brown v. (IMO) by promoting tax-funded charter schools, which take money away from public schools - so, technically the budget hasn't been cut, but public school districts (and schools) are getting less money.
I don't know. If the fuel coupling design is compatible with robotic access, it might be doable. That would seem easier than the dozens of repairs that astronauts did with Hubble. I assume we learned a lot with the Hubble servicing missions, some of which will be applicable to robotic work. The full list of Hubble service/repairs is quite remarkable if anyone is interested:

https://hubblesite.org/mission-and-telescope/servicing-missi...
My life became much easier when I adopted a "work uniform" and can just grab any pair of pants and any shirt out of the work section of my closet, reducing my morning cognitive load to zero. I can get ready for work in the dark if I want.
> Other example of this phenomenon btw is note-taking apps. There appears to be a non-trivial amount of people who are so obsessed with the process of note-taking they spend more time optimizing note-taking than they take actual notes, or do something to write about.

Yes! This and the "life management systems" that seem to be a popular trend on HN, seem to ignore the fact that people with messy lives are often just doing more than people who spend all their time cleaning up loose ends. At a certain point there is no value to cleanliness if there isn't any increased productivity to show for it.
Quebec, Ontario, Australia, France, Italy, Ireland, South Africa...
We have been for a long time. Try opening a restaurant called "The Mouse" and you'll probably be fine. Try starting a TV channel with the same name, and I guarantee you'll be sued the same day it's announced.
This. Millions of workers, "essential" or not, went to work day in and day out in 2020. The only reason that so many teachers did not is that they have strong unions, who turn out in droves to donate and vote for politicians that do their bidding in return. The teachers unions openly advocated for policies that were terrible for our kids.

I will never forget how the union in my district fought us at every step as we tried to restore normalcy in our children's lives.
Oh wow, I've noticed that a lot of Netflix Originals blur out regions of the frame that aren't front and center and it bugs the hell out of me. I assumed it was some weird post-production attempt to mimic depth of field, I didn't realize it was a lens choice.
> Why do you need opengl when you have support for D3D, Vulkan, Metal, OpenglES, and WebGL2? What amount of the market are you missing?

My take: Software isn't used exclusively on new computers.

I was just reading a forum thread full of complaints that a certain emulator won't work on 4th-gen i5 laptops. I want the software I write to be accessible to owners of machines at least as old as that, and I hope I can do that with Bevy.
There are other considerations. The atmosphere is wobbly. You can have a mirror 100f across. That won't help the distortion. The only option is active optics, mirrors that adjust in real time, something very hard to on the ground let alone in space.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for asking a question, but hopefully this page helps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_graph
https://github.com/rust-lang/www.rust-lang.org/pull/1620
I just want to emphasize, for those that don't know, that they own basically every dating site you've heard of and it's a giant monopoly:

> including Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, Ship, and OurTime totalling over 45 global dating companies

The ones not in that list are owned (at least in part) by Andrey Andreev: Badoo, Bumble, Lumen, Chappy and Hot or Not.
There are a lot of legal problems like this. Like, all fines should be n*damage/probability_of_getting_caught where n is like a punishment coefficient. But law is weird. It tends to only be n*damages, and it’s hard to get everyone on board with the notion that justice should be asymmetrically applied based on things like company size or probability of getting caught.

Edit: I just learned you can use escape characters in HN text boxes
nice read neel
Most commercial crops also benefit from shade. Even grass. Apparently most plants can do some maximum amount of photosynthesis in a day, and in full sun get it done when the day is not. The rest of the time is spent just enduring the heat.

This matters because it means a commercial farm gets better yields, with less irrigation, in a field shared with solar panels. The panels just need to be mounted high enough to enable access to the plants underneath. This is easiest in pasture, but is wholly feasible for row crops, too.

So, for anybody who was worried that deploying solar panels will remove land from food production: surprise! Deploying solar panels on existing productive land increases yield and cuts water demand.
Glad that there are studies and inquiries. We desperately need them yesterday because the culture of "take the magic pill and let's pretend you're OK" is not helping anyone.
I care about color customization only because I assign everyone their own color scheme so I won't message the wrong person. One time telling my father to "Have a good day at work sugar pie" was enough.
I was estimating based on NHS numbers that showed a CFR of 1.9% for alpha and the estimates showing delta at being double the CFR. Not trying to spread misinformation, but I'm specifically talking about delta in a fully unvaccinated group in the case that everyone gets it (which is the colloquial talking point for people who say "everyone will eventually have covid" used to dismiss the precautions)

EDIT: HN won't let me reply to the comment below me until the cool down period. They say my argument is not in good faith, which is an odd assertion to make. Their comment assumes a higher case count than reported, which while likely, is not an assumption I'm making because it's hard to discern whether there is also therefore uncounted mortality.
Planes have what? I think that your text-to-speech understood you improperly, but I cannot figure out what it was.
It would be nice if this integrates with existing standards for microblogging like ActivityPub or XMPP.
> To get to the point: In some older games I've seen blurring (possibly due to hardware limitations) of further-away detailed textures reducing aliasing.

It sounds like your complaint might actually be with anisotropic texture filtering [0] which reduces the blurring you're describing, and is generally considered to improve quality.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/pc-graphics-options-explained/3/
I understand what you are claiming, but it's a narrative not based on what actually happened.

The places that locked down earlier stayed locked down, and the places that locked down later re-opened earlier. No state stayed locked down to "dig themselves out of a hole"; that's not how any of the waves played out.
Comments like this makes wish HN had a downvote button
I share a similar story. I grew up on IRC, becoming a moderator for a jailbreaking website's support channel, and for the first time experienced friendship outside of school and outside of my typical age range. This directly impacted my career aspirations and is probably a very large reason why I felt like I could become a software developer and successful businessperson in middle school.

It shows that communication is important no matter what medium it's undertaken on. Humans thrive off of maximizing connections.
In my country they said medical masks should be prioritized for hospitals. Experts doubted they would work well for untrained people, but later research changed that bias. Very few died of Covid as a result of how leadership acted fast, but they admitted it could've been wrong.
Closing primary schools was hysterical overreaction. Some countries like Sweden kept those schools open and they did fine.
This FUD is not going to convince anyone to stop using Discord and IRC is not immune from this kind of childish meddling. Just a few months ago freenode underwent a hostile takeover and unlike most Discord communities, it is probably not coming back from that BS.
How so? What technology specifically would give the JWST an advantage in discovering new life? Genuinely curious.
The point of medication is not to always numb your brain but temporary ease the pain until you can stand on your own feet again. When life goes so wrong for some people and their brain pain signal is so high that you can't even get out of bed, those medications help. It helps them to sleep and think less until they start to think correctly.

The issue today, is that people are expected to be productive all the time despite the isolation, low wages, lack of ownership, purpose, meaning and the raising inequality. And it is often those who are perceptive enough that tend to suffer more. If you don't want medications, then people need to have enough safety net to be unproductive for at least 3 to 6 months with some basic care, and this is luxury few people have.
> Professors are rewarded for publications and almost nothing else

This is true for professors at research universities in grant fields. Their job is to bring in grants. Teaching is of minor importance in those fields, to the point that they don't need you to teach at all if you're that bad at it. Other fields don't have much in the way of grants, so teaching is given considerably more weight at all but the wealthiest institutions.
Case fatality rates are completely irrelevant. Most infected patients are never tested and thus never officially counted as a "case". Everyone is aware of that now, so if you're still citing CFR numbers then you're obviously acting in bad faith.
There are multiple reports that these are reported deaths with Covid, not because of Covid. And there is a big question of bias given how hospitals were financially rewarded by covid cases. Also strong lockdowns and high do not strongly correlate with hospitalizations or deaths.
Economic costs. For example, the US deficit in 2020 and 2021 is 3T dollars each, compared with .5T - 1T of previous years. This will weigh on generations to come. We are on the brink of completely wrecking the US economy and the US dollar.

Human costs. Spike in suicides, spike in drug overdoses, spike in crime, people disconnected from family and friends, spike in people abandoning their jobs, a generation of kids lost a year of school, mass delayed medical procedures, mass missed childhood vaccinations. Does any of this matter?

Some places (Austria, Canada, France, Germany, NY, CA) are openly forcing complete isolation from society of unvaccinated people (no work, no trade, no travel). The unvaccinated population is not negligible, 10-25%. This is on the level of crimes against humanity, surpassing even WW2 casualty lists. Is this a cost we should consider, or we'll simply dispense of 10-25% of the population with no second thoughts?

The cold reality is that we simply do not have the technology to stop the virus. We are using sand bags to fight a tsunami. Perhaps we can delay it for some time in a few select areas, but the wave is going to raise either way.
This above is exactly the example I would give.
Raising and lowering operators and Christoffel Symbols are critical to having an ability to talk about Reimann Curvature (General Relativity).

However, there are many abstract concepts (zero, I, infinity, pi, e) where notation and symbolism can dramatically improve intuition. Similarly, there are notations for different groups, or simply types number systems, N J R C. Hey, why not floats and strings too?

In addition, there are also many functions that we use/define (sin, cosh, B, P Y), which are basis sets for the solution of various differential and partial differential equations.

Failure to use some of these notations makes explaining oneself (even to yourself) almost impossible and using a different notation will frustrate others.
Reading comments in this thread is so weird because in my own millennial bubble (west coast US), which includes many people of all socioeconomic classes, including some affluent tech people, 90% of people use Android (usually Pixels) and everyone uses Signal. Having a Signal account is the default expectation among most people I know.

The kids use Discord though I've been trying to sell Signal to them too. The end to end encryption is a pretty good selling point—I pulled up the FBI chart the other day showing that iMessage is effectively plaintext for most people.
Covid kills only old people. All the billionairs and politicians are old. (Think "don't look up")
If HN turns into the thought police when it comes to COVID, that would be a very bad sign for this site.

Don't you understand where all of the animosity from so many people comes from? It comes out of disdain for people like you, who suggest that other opinions and interpretations of statistics are wrongthink and that wrongthink must be punished.
Which AFAIK Apple does not use. I have RCS enabled on my Android phone but it only works to other Android users who have a compatible phone that also has RCS. Still does not resolve the OP's issue that Apple refuses to send/receive messages to/from other vendors' devices unless it is via SMS/MMS. It's a sad state of affairs indeed.
NFS, and also just sneakernet. It means you don't have to worry about formatting large external disks with something weird like exFAT.
My take on Marie Kondo was people were more willing to listen to an outsider that told them to get rid of old things and clean up their house than someone they knew.

If your local friend came over and said “clean up your shit” you’d just ignore them. But when Marie Kondo asks what items spark joy (with some subtext of eastern wisdom) - suddenly it’s statusy to listen.

Western people have been joining dumb cults and gurus for decades for similar reasons, at least this variation is less harmful than average.
In About the Author section at the bottom, it should at least mention his name.
The problem is that salaried work is still coupled with time requirements rather than goal requirements. If you meet your goals early and announce that, you just get more work.

Pretending to work covers the difference between expectations of time worked and expectations of goals met. As long as you meet your goals, I don't think most employers care about the fake work.

Trying to work knowledge employees as if they are on an assembly line clocking in and out won't work and most employers know this. The only improvement to this situation is if employers let you not show up after completing your goals, within some unit of time like a two week sprint.