skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't know if it's worth updating the covid vaccine, because updating it to be more like omicron would make it less like the original type, and we don't think that's a worthwhile tradeoff.

The answer is a "pancoronavirus" vaccine that'd work against all of them, but it seems that using mRNA or not doesn't actually help with that.
If Gemini pods could be more easily deployed (think Vercel), I could see it being more used for personal blogs.
> ~5% of the total population is pregnant at any point in time

That seems (literally) unbelievably high. If you take an average life expectancy in the US of 78 years (it was 79 in 2019), assume roughly equal number of males and females, each female would have to be pregnant for 7.8 of the 78 average years, or 10.4 full-term pregnancies per woman in the US. That can’t possibly be the right figure.

Total estimated pregnancies in US in 2009 (most recent figure I could readily find) was 6,369,000 (4,131,000 live births, 1,152,000 induced abortions, and 1,087,000 fetal losses). If you give all 4.1 M as full term and treat all the others as half-term (a gross over-estimate), you get around 5.2M full term pregnancies or 3.9M years of pregnancy against a US total population of 307M (person-years in 2009) or a bit over 1/4 of your figure.
They also have a ridiculously huge and dense urban population.
Maybe we can build on top of HTML but only allow a restricted subset. Something that will allow pages to load fast and avoid obnoxious advertising. How could we get people to use this subset vs. pulling in other parts of the web we don’t like? We could create a validator for that subset and make certain web properties exclusive to content which passes that validator.
> We even kept our sport/dance group running via zoom

You and me are very different people. Maybe that would be acceptable a couple of months in but not after TWO YEARS
It already runs on M1. The chmod thing is an issue with the CI that should get fixed soon, hopefully.
> So basically + Cohesive world + Ease for artists + Doesn't need to look so real

I think this is the basic principle as to why Nintendo was able to get away with underpowered consoles for as long as they did. At least in comparison against other beefier consoles out during each releases duration.

So long as the aesthetics and quality are consistent, people are willing to accept a lot.
Amazon moves employees out of downtown Seattle office due to crime
1 covid + 1 vaccine seems to be the "best" exposure, since the vaccine only has spike, but the obvious downside is that you catch covid which you really should avoid if you can.

However, it does seem like it's not necessary to make people get 2-3 vaccines if they caught it.
I feel like way too much old world journalism doesn't value or prioritize the visualization of data.

They waste paragraphs of words describing things that would be infinitely better communicated in a second as some kind of visual.

Maybe this is just a holdover from the pre-computer days when making visualizations was hard?
> You need to understand problems to solve and turn those into requirements for a product

One subtly for me is that what you said is 100% true of the parts of the organization which interact with customers, or even design partners who want to become customers. But since not every member of engineering is in that role, the requirements which come back from those meetings still need to be "MVP accurate" and (IMHO) need to specify just as much what it *won't* do as what it needs to do

For example, "customer wants to query for names" is a shitty requirement. Of course they do, we all want search engines for everything, but that's not how software works. Do they want it case sensitive, case insensitive, the ability to indicate by using special search syntax (like "quoted"), do they want "starts with" or "contains" searches, wildcard characters?

Getting to MVP means not building the wrong or extraneous things just as much as building the right things, and only a handful of people bear responsibility for distinguishing between those sets
Sounds like a pretty good case for enhancing gopher instead of starting over.
Because there is no obvious way to translate your own upvotes in to a general search engine. If I want to find info on headphones, there is no way to use my upvotes to show a blog post by a non sponsored non SEO site. At most it could work out I'm interested in headphones and show more of that. But Google already does this.

We have the smartest people working on this problem on both sides. Pretty much every easy / obvious solution has been considered already.
Ah! I wrote a really long-winded sarcastic joke response only to see you lay it out so explicitly :p
It isn't required (in the strict sense) to keep the dedup table in memory, the problem is that performance is dire when it doesn't. It would be pretty similar to virtual memory thrashing, when the table is not fully in memory.
How will China's Belt and Road Initiative fare when partners Russia Ukraine?
That's fair. I definitely see a lot more harm in specifying "everything has to use USB-C" than in requiring that something is relatively easy to service.

Still, there are valid reasons to make more integrated devices and it's not reasonable to expect everything to be as easy to service as it becomes more advanced. My father could take apart and rebuild all kinds of car engines in the 80s and 90s, but would never be able to do that with a Tesla. It was still a great thing for Tesla to drag the auto market kicking and screaming into an age of electronic vehicles, though.
How is Gemini a "proprietary" protocol? The protocol specification is entirely out there in the open. [0]

[0] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi
There are some in development, but they don't use mRNA.

https://www.technologynetworks.com/vaccines/articles/the-hun...
This is a fallacy. All materials and compounds are harmful, in certain degrees. Along with gas, anti-adhesive coatings and potentially maybe even some of those glass ceramic compounds those induction cookers use (especially at high heat)? It's a slippery slope.

I didn't say we shouldn't do anything about either, but banning natural gases that are found in nature because of "lung-irritating pollutants" is not particularly smart. I'm not in any lobby groups. I care about freedom and energy independence. Some NYT article pushing an agenda of "all electric" and climate change is contorted logic.

Put all of your trust in some on-grid electric power utility company where in some cases are not stable(cough cough PG&E), all the while power grids are huge targets for foreign "attacks", and even a solar EMP (Nuclear bomb? Solar flare?) could render all electronics useless. All the while, you make cooking with natural gas illegal? I suppose at that point, we could rub sticks together and cook by a wood fire (since the dawn of Man)? Or that is illegal now too?

Uh...Yea, no thanks.
Anyone know how they managed finances? 22 years on the road is amazing given the fact they gave birth and raised two kids along the way!
It's only going to keep getting easier as the tools get better.
Good to know for me who used EF5.
Dedup (if it worked like it might have!) could solve the backup use case without needing to dictate your workflow.

In theory, it could also really help with virtualized disk workloads where there may be a lot of duplicated data from the base OS, but you can't use a snapshot (easily) because windows won't run from a zfs filesystem. You could maybe do snapshotting on zfs volumes, but that's not as flexible as a dedupe that worked as imagined.

Personally, I think online dedupe ends up being too expensive in memory and computation and ends up missing things because of divergent block sizes or offsets as another poster mentioned. ZFS doesn't support an offline dedupe, but I think btrfs does. That might be more interesting. It's still expensive to find duplicates, but it's possible, and it'd be neat to be able to rewrite the metadata to refer to a single copy and free some space, maybe.
The episode 111 of "Darknet Diaries" describes how Bullitt County, KY was hacked. 25 people were added to their payroll system and paid! They did it with a "man in the browser" attack so the transactions didn't raise red flags:

https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/111/

Multiple people needed to sign off on these transactions, and the attackers were able to fake that once they had remote control of the browsers.
Getting to the point of being stamped by a reputable standards body is something that comes after experimenting in public for a while in a non standard way
If the public knows exactly what the algorithm is, they will game it. If they don't know but can approximate its behavior by observation, they will game that.

I also think that lots of upvotes on influential sites will soon turn into improved page rank so don't think that it will make a difference. Google isn't using the original, naive page rank algorithm, they have repeatedly refined it to fight the SEO folks.
It directly and indirectly does - directly because it affects monthly payments and indirectly because it eliminates people who are opposed to HOAs
The problem isn't really affording vaccines so much as being able to administer them. Africa is a big place; it is literally hard to get very cold mRNA vaccines to people even if we donate them.

Similarly, a lot of people have been claiming we're evilly withholding patents from the world, but that can't be a real issue or China and Russia would just have stolen the IP from us. They literally can't produce them any faster even with the rights.
Similar story here.

Had G-Suite Legacy for my domain from many years. I was using two secondary accounts like a data archive - rarely logged in, just old files stored in their GDrive spaces.

Found out last month that Google makes it impossible to log in to these old accounts. Username/password says there's something suspicious and sends a OTP to my mobile number. Even after entering the right OTP, still calls it suspicious and suggests to log in "at a later time."

Even as the site administrator, I found no way to bypass this. I suspended and restored the accounts. I reset their passwords. I tried to turn off the suspicious login detection in policies (...not allowed).

Basically, Google elevates its bot to a super site admin that can't be reasoned with.

I ended up deleting each account, opting to transfer their GDrive data into site admin account during deletion. Then kept that data far away from anything Google now.

Given my experience, I'm reluctant to upgrade to Google Workspace. Makes me wonder how less tech-savvy site owners are coping with such problems.
There's a large amount of room for developers with low level knowledge (data structures are a huge gap for new devs) and devs that know how to manage a codebase over years.
These are certainly superb scientific results.

The problem is that even 1 DPA is significant for structural materials, and is basically a nightmare for electrically or mechanically sensitive ones. For example light-water fission reactors achieve about 50 DPA to their reactor pressure vessels over their 40-50 year lifetime. Its hard to imagine that anything called a super-conductor could maintain Cooper-pairs after getting the average atom displaced from its original position.

Additionally CFS ran at 20 Kelvin... which again is hard to imagine happening at scales other than CERN-like efforts (ie one-of-a-kind installs):

"In September 2021 Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) created a test magnet with ReBCO wires in which flowed a current of 40,000 amperes, with a magnetic field of 20 tesla at 20 K." [1]

Edit: Also magnets have 1/R^3 field die-away, in direct competition with 1/R^2 particle dispersion die-away.... meaning your magnets control better as you make cavities smaller, however it also means the magnets get much more DPA :(.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_barium_copper_oxide
Aren't e-readers perfectly able to display e.g. MD over HTTP on existing clients instead of gemtext over Gemini on a one off client? Or even gemtext without it being over Gemini or a dedicated client? Similarly how does being incapable of doing something enhance just not doing that something?

I get Gemini as a way to form a clique of like minded people who know of it but I don't get Gemini as enabling anything that couldn't or wasn't already being done before.
It runs on M1 under Rosetta emulation. Performance and stability would be better with an M1 native version.

It looks like the chmod issue has been around a long time. I found Reddit posts going back a year or two. If it's not going to be fixed, why not put a note on the downloads page so people can actually run the game?
Robert Becker wrote a book about the em field on the effects of the body, though I don’t think the book talked much about its effect on the mind. He did write the book to raise the flag about the unintended consequence of electrifying everything.

If consciousness is not exclusive to neurons, then how much affect does the consciousness have on shaping the body … and how much does the body shape the mind?
Linus Torvalds ponders limits of automation as kernel release delayed
Will countries around the world actually have the balls to do something about it if it does happen?
There are materiality guidelines. I don't know what they are for government, but general rule of thumb is 0.5 - 1% of gross revenue.
Noone has ever thought the CDC was infallible; we traditionally ignore everything public health officials tell us to do, since it's mainly things like "never eat medium-rare hamburgers".

That is unfortunate that we switched to directly getting mask policies etc. from them, because it's not their job to consider tradeoffs and they aren't good at it.
I should test this
Comments like these really amaze me. What sort of competent editor cannot handle such simple refactorings?
As an example of the flakiness: if I use my PinePhone heavily, the screen tends to stop working spontaneously, so that if on at the time of failure, it ceases to update, and when turned off and on again it will be black. Touch input still works. Restarting the graphical session (e.g. ssh in and run `systemctl restart phosh` for phosh or `systemctl restart tinydm` for sxmo) fixes it.

“Heavily” tends to mean at least three of (a) heavy hotspot usage, (b) heavy CPU usage, (c) plugged in/charging, and (d) screen on, but if I’m physically using it it seems less likely to happen. Note that this is mostly with ambient temperatures of 25–30°C; come winter, I suspect it will happen less often.

Plus there’s also the screen flickering thing, that sometimes, mostly when it’s been being used heavily but sometimes when it’s been idle and barely even warm, the screen is all flickery and ghosty when you turn it on one time, in which case it will normally stay like that for quite some time. That I observed right from the very start, under whatever the default OS was (Alpine, I think?, with Plasma; I subsequently switched to DanctNIX Arch with Phosh, and more recently from Phosh to sxmo).

I have no idea if these things are typical or not, or if there are known solutions. I haven’t looked. They don’t tend to bother me much, I don’t really depend on a phone except for my internet supply.
Having a single language for Chinese diaspora functionally makes sense. Similarly (kind of), Bahasa Indonesia was created to help address the linguistic challenges of having an archipelago nation.

I've lived in Singapore for 10+ years. I work with a mix of Singaporeans (native and naturalized HK'r's) and Malay Chinese (coincidentally all from Penang). Day to day chats in the office is English/Singlish and hokkien. Calls with vendors in Penang are in English and Hokkien. Calls with Taiwanese vendors are in Mandarin. When we have calls with our Taiwanese vendors, one of my older Singaporean colleagues always attends because he has the strongest mandarin on the team.
Is there any comparable non Apple device for easily capturing rgbd images?
> iOS app development is already inaccessible in it's nature; only MacBooks can run the required software (XCode) that is needed to develop an iOS app. If you don't have access to a laptop, you sure aren't buying a MacBook as your first.

You can usually purchase a second hand machine. Mac Minis are listed on EBay for < $400. Granted that’s still too high in much of the developing world, but to argue that any curriculum should focus on only the lowest common denominator seems short sighted.

> Another program I don't like is SheCodes which to me seems to prey on women trying to transition to a career in tech by teaching them web development (people specializing in web development is increasing quickly, and the field is becoming very inflated. Telling people that learning web development will get them a job or high salary may not be true in a few years. I also personally don't like web development). Oh, and it's not free.

I’d argue there’s a significant shortage of people who can actually problem solve and build the right solution. Tons of people have flocked towards web development or programming in general, but are they skilled enough to actually get hired? In my experience, no.

Learning React basics doesn’t mean you’re a quality hire.

And it’s also not clear why the author is mixing in their personal feelings on web development.

> For instance, one three-week KodeWithKlossy program cost 8795 USD.

Yeah that’s obscene. There are plenty of free or significantly cheaper alternatives online.

On their actual website, I see:

> Kode with Klossy’s flagship program provides the opportunity for young women and non-binary individuals across the country, ages 13-18, to attend free two week bootcamps that introduce them to key computer science concepts and skills.

Not sure where the $8K+ figure came from, but I thought this organization is a non profit
How can we solve the chicken and egg problem here? Is there a way we can bootstrap the use of Gemini off of the main web?
I feel the same way. I gravitate towards smaller projects, where I can have a significant impact quickly. It feels good to write code that gets something done, even if the task isn't complicated.

Some problem domains are unsolvable without sophistication and expertise, but those often don't appeal to me. E.g., I wouldn't want to work on a database engine; a lot of the work goes into things that are aren't especially visible or into deliverables which I don't find interesting, and it tends to take a lot of work to improve small things.

Some people really like that stuff. They may enjoy the challenge, or the personal growth, or the cleverness and reasoning. Myself, I enjoy making things happen through making stuff. I don't particularly care for puzzles, and making things more challenging hurts as often as it helps.

I like working on things where I'm glad whatever I made now exists. Whether it required senior skills or junior isn't so important to me.
And there was a Tony, but there wasn't an Emmy or a Grammy.
Russia-Ukraine War – What happened March-13-2022
Well, we didn’t complain about 70 years of leaded gasoline exhaust either … but maybe our society had collectively lost the capability to understand the damage.
> Another issue is that these programs (KodeWithKlossy and SheCodes) only teach "front-end" web development, which is quickly becoming a woman dominated field. Is that good? I don't think so. Historically, when women enter certain fields, it "lowers" the value of it. Front-end development is now seen as "easier" then backend or frontend. I'm a firm believer women should not pick up front-end as their "path" into tech.

What? I don't understand this on a bunch of levels.

* What's the difference between "front-end" and "frontend"?

* Woman-dominated? I have been interviewing for a bunch of "frontend" roles and I've gotten a grand total of one woman to apply. Some of that's on me for not recruiting in woman-friendlier places, but this is not my experience at all.

* Frontend has been "easier" for my ~20 years in the field. A lot fewer things can go wrong, with a lot lower stakes. Women entering "frontend" development aren't newly creating this sense, it's been there the whole time.

I definitely want to improve my recruitment pipeline to involve more women, but some of the stuff here just seems very different from my experiences. I also firmly disagree with discouraging people from pursuing an area of software dev they find interesting; if a woman wants to write code on the frontend, why on earth would anyone want to discourage that?!
It’s hopeless. I got the same email, but I can’t log in to the account, because Google is confused about whether it’s a personal gmail account or a Google Apps / G Suite account. So it goes around in an error cycle and of course there’s no support contact.

If you have critical information make sure never to keep it on Google free tier stuff without support.
Related:

Gemini is a little gem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30072085 - Jan 2022 (122 comments)

Gemini is Solutionism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067400 - Jan 2022 (218 comments)

Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29291392 - Nov 2021 (90 comments)

Gemini: The Misaligned Incentives - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688232 - Sept 2021 (84 comments)

What is this Gemini thing, and why am I excited about it? (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28600436 - Sept 2021 (208 comments)

Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27490769 - June 2021 (193 comments)

Gemini Space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26670464 - April 2021 (27 comments)

Agate, a simple Gemini server written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401158 - March 2021 (34 comments)

gemini:// space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986378 - Feb 2021 (170 comments)

The Tragedy of Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25807633 - Jan 2021 (28 comments)

Hacker News over Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25225810 - Nov 2020 (21 comments)

A Gopher View of Gemini - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005307 - Nov 2020 (9 comments)

A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternative to the web - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23730408 - July 2020 (347 comments)

Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161922 - May 2020 (75 comments)

Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23042424 - May 2020 (62 comments)
>The reality is the actual engineering is usually the easy part. The hard part is logistics

I disagree. It's the opposite. If you have a hard logistic problem to solve, there is a very large number of companies who can solve all your issue very quickly. Moving cargo around the globe, renting buildings, buying off-the-self industrial equipment, etc.. that's a problem that has been solved a long time ago. All you need is money and a few phone calls.

Designing a good product on the other hand is not something that gets a lot more complicated and most companies can't do it even with best efforts, good talents, and lots of cash.
Really? The reality between socialism and capitalism?

Okay look at USSR, pre-capitalist China, North Korea, Communist Cambodia etc. And compare them with USA, Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Germany.
I tried it.

I found it harder to use. I even wrote tests for my use cases and what I learned was a real appreciation of what ssh does, is, and provides and I went the other way and use it in more places than I did before.
I have Bosch washer and dryer. I’m in rural no-where about an hour from Reno, NV. Getting a repair person is a challenge and they don’t carry the parts. So far, I’ve been able to handle little things. I’ll probably replace them when they go out. I’ve had them about 6 years now.