skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggested immune-compromised people as a group who might need to avoid a vaccination because their immune response isn't working.

They won't exhibit an immune response to COVID spike proteins. From the virus, from a conventional vaccine, or from their own cells' production following an mRNA vaccine.

There are certainly degrees of immune system pathology. If you are receiving medical care for such a situation, by all means please follow your doctors instructions and not mine!
very interesting ...

I've had tremendous frustration from optometrists insisting that I have a fixed prescription, but invariably whatever they prescribe me ends up wrong. In the end I ignored my optometrist, found a way to order online and ordered every single prescription for contacts from -5.5 to -6.5 with a couple of options for other parameters and literally just tried them all.

What I found was that my "correct" prescription really, truly varies, ... even over a period of just days. So I ended up just switching between different contacts as needed. But one effect I observed is that a great sequence was to wear slightly under-strength lenses for a week or so and then switch up a level. This seems to do what you suggest ... my eyes then slot into the correct strength with improved comfort and vision and often stabilise there.

Every now and then, everything tips over (often if I get a really bad sleep for some reason) and then I go back to the "slightly under strength" option to try and reset.

All of this I've figured out purely empiracally because I've been so unhappy with the options that multiple optometrists provided me .... so its nice to hear someone say something vaguely similar to what I experience!
So we don't know her identity? Which was my point above.Glad we agree.
Here are a few general tips for you:

- Make sure every interview starts with everyone sharing their pronouns, and that everyone involved has been educated to be gender-affirming.

- If your company is located on Indigenous land (which it almost certainly is, as the whole continent belonged to Indigenous peoples before colonization), don't forget the territory acknowledgement.

- Do your due diligence by monitoring the social media of candidates (and employees) for h*teful content.

- Consider setting up a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) tracker, so that you can show the receipts to your boss.

- Do not ask overly technical questions, those things that can be learned on the job. Focus on what really matters: the uniquely fluid lived experience of each candidate.

- Ask every candidate to reflect on their privileges. However, make sure that you let them know that privilege is not a dirty word.

- Avoid non-inclusive words. There are many lists and resources which address these. You can get creative and make a list of the most commonly used ones, and provide it to each candidate before the interview.

If you are interested in a more concrete and tailored action plan, my email is in the bio. I've worked in this area since 2015.
Yeah, it's really powered by favors, in my experience. This doesn't have to be an inherently bad thing in small communities, as it gets things done, but it's obviously unfair to outsiders.
> Plenty of Youtube teachers put out good quality stuff without access to any of that. People would listen to Terrence Tao using a cheap ass webcam and drawing on screen using a Wacom tablet. It's a justification for something that doesn't add value for learning mathematical thinking. To me it sounds more like he gets paid a passive income and a lump sum to make infotainment.

That's possible. It's also possible that Terrance Tao is correct in his judgement that using Masterclass was worth it for him. Personally I'd give him the benefit of the doubt that he's not lying.
Ah yeah, that would make a difference; my reading was that it would stay that way until someone hit the magic key sequence. If the salesperson could fix it inside 5 minutes I agree (effectively) no harm.
I got the impression that Swift Playgrounds was really Xcode in the background with most of the UI hidden. It certainly didn't feel snappy to me when I last tried it.
The thing about transnational corporations like Apple is that due to their size they are, to some extent, independent of the diktats of any one state like the US. While the usual power relationship between the state and a corporation is, roughly speaking, obey the law or we will dissolve you and lock up your executives, that relationship is less clear when it comes to a company such as Apple. This is due to two reasons. First its' transnational nature means it is not wholly reliant on remaining on the good side of a single state for its continued existence and income, and secondly the state itself comes to rely on the transnational corporation to provide employment, resources and expertise by way of its products, and tax revenues because of its' outsize nature. The result of this is that states find it difficult to wield corporations as tools in geopolitical conflicts and, at the margins, find themselves being wielded. There is thus a tension between the state's need to protect transnationals and promote their interests, and its' need to protect itself (and secondarily its citizen consumers) from their depredations. Actions such as this can be seen within this context. It is partly about protecting citizen consumers from the predatory behaviour of transnational corporations, but it is also about protecting the state and its ability to act independent of the interests of corporations. Finally the state itself is a consumer and has interests as such.
GDP Surged but Americans Are Struggling with Inflation–Record 79%
With Threema[1] you don't need to reveal a phone number. Great app love it, just doesn't have the userbase to drop WhatsApp. Paying for a messenger is asking too much apparently.

[1] https://threema.ch/en
It doesn't seem unfeasible to make a search that would support both.
He considered it, but at his size it would have been kinda unhealthy to shed that many pounds in a short period of time:

> “I was trying to figure how I could drop 80 pounds in six months, which, I mean, it’s possible, but it’s not the most healthy thing in the world to do,” Hippchen said.
I think this is the most satisfying answer I got in this thread yet, the WHY makes sense, and I like the WHY, because it is the simplest way to understand the how. I guess I'm in camp 2.
A remote cryptographically-signed attestation is not reproducible

https://developer.android.com/training/safetynet/attestation
Semiconductor shortage has reached 'crisis' levels, Commerce Secretary says
Ultimate Plumber
https://github.com/akavel/up

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644110
It became popular because it was faster and better, despite the memory hog memes.

One of the rare cases where a non default option overtook the defaults.
How much weaker is "slightly weaker"? What if you have astigmatism?
> It will probably be easy to see for the Ninth Circuit that those who support Epic do so because it's the right and necessary thing to do, while those who will support Apple are just going to have reasons to do Apple a favor.

Call me cynical but I have my suspicions about this claim.
Rising food prices and lowering supplies.
Yes, I already run the native build of macOS in a bespoke hypervisor for experimentation purposes (most of the hardware is passed through), and macOS already has a VM-specific ARM kernel that in principle doesn't even require any proprietary CPU features and would run on any ARM machine (the native one wouldn't, it needs custom Apple instructions). I'm pretty sure someone already tried the macOS vmkernel on QEMU/KVM on another ARM box and it boots to a shell. I think it even has virtio support and there's a QEMU Guest Agent built into macOS these days (yes, really).

There's just one catch. The desktop environment requires GPU acceleration to even start, and your two options are emulating the proprietary Apple GPU, or emulating the paravirtualized Metal GPU they developed for VMs. Neither is likely to be particularly easy... it's why I tell people to not expect to be able to run a macOS VM on Linux on an M1 Mac, unless they want to write a whole Metal implementation. A plain kernel in single user mode? Sure. macOS desktop? Good luck :-).

For macOS on macOS on Apple hardware, Apple have their paravirt GPU support on both sides so it basically "just works" with minimal work from the third-party hypervisors that build on those frameworks.
I avoided saying just "host" because it's confusing.

- You would not be able to host (SaaS style) the modified code either way; you would be able to host (store in your server) the modified code either way. Basically, if you use the project hosting the files and modifying them is fine. In this case, you would be able to modify Hibiki to your liking and _use_ it in your website. If you want to resell the project, that's a no-go either way. In this case, you would not be able to modify (or not!) Hibiki, possibly call it Yamazaki, and make an online editor for others to use.

> - Regarding “no forks”: Mayyyybe this would work for some smart home projects? I wouldn’t touch anything with a license like this, too often my side projects become a thing I post on my website or use in a hobby thing that then gets intertwined with a work thing. You may say “fine, then stay away”, but if you want people to use your stuff, then it matters if people are scared of the license

And yet people buy and use proprietary software everyday with licenses waaaaay more restrictive than this. Remember I'm not trying to say the "no forks" variant is open source at all, just saying that it should be better for the end user than proprietary since you can still fix your own bugs and make customizations.

- Sure the "ethics" and "indie" ones I haven't thought so much of since I'm not personally interested on.

> I honestly think if you’re a developer who doesn’t want their work exploited by corporations, do what the Janus team at meetEcho does: AGPL for everyone so no one can build on it without contributing back changes, and if you’re a corporation who wants to use it without the AGPL, prepare to cough up for a commercial license.

I really don't like this solution; I've used it in a couple of projects of mine, but it feels the worse of two worlds; individuals won't touch that AGPL, and for corporations it wouldn't matter if it's all just proprietary.
The fact that they gave the previously-elected guy the same runaround gives me the impression that it isn't a misunderstanding.
Any country, including the US, would do well to not swallow up the propaganda of the big tech PR departments, using foreign nations as an excuse to prop up national oligarchs.

What's best for any country is creating a healthy ecosystem that is long term competitive. We already went through 20 years of shitty cars because of Japan scares in the 80s, wasn't that enough?
If they do my guess is it will be in the cloud.

>And storyboards? Don’t get me started.

Does anybody use them?
> One of the observations that you had to account for was why the older grad students/professors had this "vibration".

Microsaccade amplitude is correlated with uncorrected myopia, actually. If you have visual blur it seems fixational eye movements have higher amplitude. (Proper corrective lenses generally remove this effect).

Of course, if someone has astigmatism, often it won't be properly corrected looking far right or left, too. I'm guessing this is the effect you measured.

https://iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2281647
Apple Store and Play Store are both headquartered in CA and provide a lot of state tax funds. CA doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds it.
I think that has been the case for a very long time.
And where did they refuse?

It's a dumbass game of telephone. Idiocracy incarnate.
For me it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXAbE870b8Y
> Asian are prone to nearsightedness. Of people aged 20 and under, 96% of South Koreans, 95% of Japanese, 87% of Hong Kongers, 85% of Taiwanese and 82% of Singaporeans are affected by the condition, according to Kubota.

Wow, this is so stark. Is it genetic or is it something lifestyle related?

It would seem strange if it was genetic as glasses were invented quite late and vast population suffering from near sightedness without glasses seems like such a disadvantage.
> Another point, hyperinflation, 50% devaluation per month, technically hasn't occurred in Argentina.

Man oh man, the fact that you had to throw in the word "technically" speaks volumes.
They're anti-cancel culture.
Correct with the Gameboy. In fact, that is literally all the very small ROM (256 bytes) in the Gameboy does: Display the logo from the cartridge and then compare it with the one in the ROM (makes it seem even tinier).

If the comparison fails, the logo was still displayed scrolling down and making the bing sound, but the Gameboy now just halts. Everyone who had one in their youth knows the black block scrolling down with no cartridge inserted, and various variants of corrupted logos if contact was bad or the cartridge broken.

This also means the Gameboy has no “OS” whatsoever, it’s all done by the games. But the system is too simple to need one anyway.

That’s also why it’s so good for writing your first emulator.
Agreeed. Crufy MIT OpenCourseware stuff is way better than almost all paid options.
Yes you can never rule out the unknown, even the supernatural is in this category. Nevertheless it is just speculation until some evidence that it exists comes about. That being said, even if what I said is true, it does not really effect anything since we still live as if free will exists and I don't think we have the ability to choose differently :)
Ask HN: How many people needed to continue progressing civilization?
Disaster movie speculation time, in all these movies where most of the planet dies off or in extreme climate change speculation scenarios, there are some millions of people left alive.

Assuming population able to be centered at some location, how many people are needed to maintain current level of civilization and progress.

I wonder if it isn't impossible to do because so many things are distributed, even if you were centered at point X well the necessary minerals to maintain specifically technologies are all at point Y so that means you need to have distributed population, but that means necessary redundancy of services like health etc. distributed.
It's possible to implement, but it makes confusion than benefit until all existing software support it.
Hard to think of this as almost 40 years ago, but it was... my dad drove me up to MacWorld Expo in San Francisco in 93. We got badges and walked the whole floor a few times, looking at stuff. I was
13. Dad was a lawyer who had no interest in computers or my nerdy addictions and I think it was the only time in my life he and I ever took a trip alone, without the family. But he realized I was really, really obsessed with Macs, and what I didn't know was that he was about to divorce my mom and leave us. He so didn't realize I was using the house phone to run a pirate bbs for the last couple years. But he knew how to get around at trade shows. I remember just losing my mind at a few booths... VistaPro and Infini-D and the guy doing the Claymation demo, sculpting and rigging simple characters in almost realtime.... Dad got me my first Wacom tablet at that show. We stayed the night at the SF Hilton. Drove home to LA feeling like it was the best weekend of my life.

(edit) I just realized I'm drunk and this has nothing whatsoever to do with your post. Just a memory that seemed vaguely relevant. Disregard.
Yes. That's beside the point however.
Or the city admin thinks "we hired a CPA so we don't need the local elected auditor".
I keep losing track of if they're supposed to be so powerful they answer to no one, or so cowed that they're going to get me extradited to China and sent to jail for life for looking at Winnie the Pooh cartoons.
Probably more that they can control the scope of any audit the CPA firm manages. The power to scope inquiry is often underestimated.
KDevelop was released in 1999, rewritten (version 3) in 2001. XCode was released in 2003. Eclipse was around. Emacs and vim-based development environment were immensely popular.

And Visual Studio was much better than Xcode (and probably still is). Yes, it was not free, but it was worth its money. I know guy who used Visual Studio to write code for Linux.

Xcode is not even open source. Intellij is open source, Eclipse is open source, Visual Studio Code is open source.

At this point they should just write VSCode plugin to edit storyboards and language server for objective c and swift. Xcode is beyond redemption.
Pulumi looks really interesting.
Do you really believe the entire world works at Facebook or Google? US salaries are the exception, not the rule.
While the revenue comes from Hardware, Driver is actually the centre of value. Just look at the history of Graphics Card ( even before the term GPU was born ), there are plenty of decent graphics hardware that fail to compete simply because of poor drivers.

Of course this also means there is potential for a competitor to gain competitive advantage when they dont have to rely on GPU for revenue and profits generation. I expect or hope that to be Intel. ( That is ignoring GPU's potential patents issues )
This was inevitable, and not even because of online shopping.

America has been over-retailed for a long time. Retail per square foot around the world looks like this, in decreasing order

US - 23.5 sq ft of retail per person

Canada - 16.8 sq ft

Australia - 11.2 sq ft

UK - 4.6

Japan - 4.4

etc.

US stores got here by taking on more debt than they could handle, expanding aggressively, and then collapsing under the burden. When the big box stores and department stores went bankrupt, they often took whatever mall they were anchoring down with them. The question has always been not if this would happen, but how quickly.

Source: https://i.insider.com/5bb37815ac0a6314735194e8?width=1300&fo...
Last time people were accusing him of being an Apple shill, because he correctly analyzed the ruling as pro-Apple when the tech press and commenters were thinking Apple had a huge defeat. Shill accusations make more sense when backed up by actual argument and reasoning. Instead they're used when those things are lacking.
That's why physicists are so opposed to super determinism because like you say it would make life 'utterly meaningless' (I dont agree, a bit dramatic).

Super determinism is the unpopular answer that solves many problems in quantum mechanics and relativity.

It also makes a lot of sense if you think of the universe as pre-rendered, just like you would a CGI movie. Determine where all the particles land upfront throughout time and then play it back like a movie.

Life can still be fun even it is pre-rendered. Like a movie you don't know what's going to happen next anyways.

It could be like an atheist's version of God, taking in comfort in knowing whatever happens was going to happen anyways. Enjoy the ride.
I sometimes wonder what happens to these gamblers afterwards. The worst losses seem like people losing their entire life savings and/or taking on massive debt.
"EXACTLY! That's a whole pizza and a couple beers EVERY WEEK! And all they have to do is show up to a multi-hour meeting every single week and risk some dumbass making a big deal to the whole damn world about them not providing a bible to give an oath over! These corrupt bastards! I have to work for like 10 minutes for those benefits every week! These corrupt bastards!!1!" - HN tonight
Nova – Erlang Web Framework
Playwright Python is excellent
Persistent bias on Wikipedia: methods and responses (2018)
Perhaps living in cities with tall buildings produces a higher rate of nearsightedness since the eyes don't get to look to the horizon much.
I do. In small towns like this, it's not really money. They tend to just favor people they know. It's more bias or conservatism than corruption. Things are more comfortable when you're dealing with people you know. Sure people get favors and side business and such but in total, it doesn't really add up to a whole lot.
> Life goes on. (Me: triple vaxxed and have had Covid 2x)

I can't agree with a lot of what you are posting here, but this totally got my attention.

You've had all your shots, and had covid twice so far? Can you say more about that? How bad was it for you?

My daughter had a mild case, weeks after 2nd vaccination, when she returned to college last Fall. She was ok.

I think that if everyone could do what you've done, we'd be able to figure out if we're at a modern influenza situation already. But the crush in the hospitals is real. We're not there yet.
> What were we expecting from jetpacks though, really?

Something easy-ish to use and safe.

Yeah, probably unrealistic, but nevertheless.
So--what--if he was a "good citizen" they would have "let" him lead a normal life and build something good? But instead they (the "government" or some corporate or whatever) made him go crazy?

Well it won't work on me, I know that. I'm too strong for that.
That seems extremely unlikely to me. There are 1D and 2D cellular automata that are Turing complete and could arguably support life if they were scaled wide enough. Any virtual reality you can simulate on a computer could have been a physical reality. There isn't any requirement for it to have a spatial topology, there isn't any requirement for it to support life or any kind of complexity. Reality could have been a sprawling Mandelbrot fractal. Why not?
I've been following the development of eye drops which promise to reach the lens and make it flexible again:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04806503

That would be really something.
And does it look like they'll be able to restore it? :)
That doesn't have anything to do with case count and lack of spread, though.
Ok looked it up: Steam switched to CEF in 2010 (announcement read „WebKit based“), CEF3 with Blink was considered stable and recommended in 2013. So they probably used a WebKit base for at least these three years. But, unless they still use CEF1, it’s not WebKit anymore today.
Some people are not concerned with being handcuffed, if the chains are polished, shiny, and look good.
It seems that, like the way that environmental factors affect jaw development[1], environmental factors that are different between modern lifestyles and pre-historical ones drive the development of myopia.[2] But there have always been a percentage of people who are myopic due to other factors, as well, so it's not a single story.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-15823276

[2] https://www.aao.org/editors-choice/sunlight-exposure-reduces...
It depends what you mean by character, there are lots of single codepoint emojis though.
The commpage had a different message that came from the DSMOS kernel extension which implemented the encryption stuff.

Your karma check for today:
There once was was a user that whined
his existing OS was so blind,
he'd do better to pirate
an OS that ran great
but found his hardware declined.
Please don't steal Mac OS!
Really, that's way uncool.
(C) Apple Computer, Inc.

The ARM builds don't have DSMOS.kext, so I imagine the commpage message is gone.
Olric: Distributed Data Structures in Go
I get your point, it is a vast simplification, perhaps inaccurate, it is possibly that more exists in nature that we don't yet understand that could make free will possible (even God) but is not much more than speculation or chimera.
I think we expect of them full self driving from the get go.
LUKS2 is supported with some know limitations [0]

Argon2id (cryptsetup default) and Argon2i PBKDFs are not supported, only PBKDF2 is.

grub-install does not support creating a core image that could be used for unlocking LUKS2.

[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#LUKS2