skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all of Worobey's or Pekar's reasoning starts from the assumption that there was no significant cryptic (unsampled) human spread.

They don't assume that. See the discussion in Pekar. ("The high extinction rate [...] Failed introductions of intermediate haplotypes are also possible.") The whole point of their epidemiological modeling is to disentangle the likelihood of this happening. (See: "Separate introductions of lineages A and B")

The tMRCA doesn't allow enough time for any deep cryptic spread. The authors show this. It's not assumed.

> We show that it is highly unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 circulated widely in humans earlier than November 2019 and that there was limited cryptic spread, with, at most, dozens of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the weeks leading up to the inferred tMRCA, but likely far fewer.
Simulation theory is a useless, perhaps even dangerous, thought experimen (cont)
Their attempt to copy TikTok is a sign they're still competing - they copied snap and won, so it'd be more concerning if they didn't do it again.
The short answer is "yes," but I would be in favor of it being added. Of course, it's not going to secure your data if somebody that isn't you is the one under threat of imminent harm or death and Google believes the data you are holding could save their life.
What's the irony? Those deepest in the rut know it the best!
Same. Regardless of your feelings towards Meta (which I'm not fond of), as a Quest 2 owner, their VR gear, ecosystem and most apps are absolutely top notch, immersive, fun and polished. Especially the ones developed in house, which this clearly isn't, as stated.

Feels like OP is fishing for some karma farming based on the community's well deserved hate for Meta.
Really? I feel like these two in written form are pretty different, and I don't have any real knowledge of South Asian languages.

Personally I feel Thai and Lao are harder to tell apart (I've resorted to: Lao is more curvy, Thai uses more straight lines), and also how to tell apart Czech from Slovakian, or Danish from other Nordic languages. Of course there are other ways to tell where you are, and if you only rely on written language you will not become a great player.

I'd watch GeoRainbolt[1] and all the pros that play in his tournaments.

1: https://georainbolt.com/
Instructions unclear, have developed expensive drug habit and high blood pressure.
Cockroaches are evolving to prefer low-sugar diets
If gnome's menu is a "start menu", then surely macOS classic's apple menu also counts as a start menu ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.p...
For CLI apps, performance may be important, and Rust offers a performance profile similar to C++. This is exactly the niche where relying on an automatic GC may be undesirable.

But also, I feel that it's generally incorrect to position Rust's safety model as the opposite of automatic GC. It kinda makes sense if you only focus on management of memory as a resource, but it ignores the whole race condition angle (which very much still exists in GC'd languages like Go or Java).
When I saw my first (300Baud) modem at my dad's friend, and he had a 1200 so gave me his 300 and some software for my commodore 64 to poke around, this completely changed my life from a bored small kid with way too old and religious parents + boring family activities nowhere near adequate to a fully stimulating learning journey into telecom and BBS.

Then he showed his amiga, I'll never forget my first time ;) That drove me in media and tech for a good part of my life.
The partisanship on Wikipedia is becoming more and more visible. Here’s my favorite example [0]. One of the candidates has clearly been given a subpar picture and then had his profile locked from editing so that it can’t be changed. A quick Google search shows scores of better pictures, leading me to believe that this is intentional sabotage by the opposing candidate.

Fortunately, this is the kind of thing we can all sit back and laugh at. If a candidate can’t be arsed to hire a competent PR firm to handle their public profiles, then they probably don’t deserve the position.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_New_Mexico_gubernatoria...
Good. Honestly DSLRs have gotten "more than good enough" for just about anything you'd throw at it 15 years ago. Newer DSLRs might be a little stronger in lower light but not by as much as you'd expect. Video capabilities are also a lot better in the new ones, but if you don't care about that, there isn't much you are losing buying a camera like a 5d mkiii (or even an older 5d) today. Unless maybe you are a pixel peeper.
I worked in a game company that used discord. I much prefer it to slack.
"sudden" acceleration
0: position
1: velocity
2: acceleration
3: jerk
Very well said, I'm writing a book (popular narrative non-fiction) and the research process has led me to the exact same conclusion. Find a couple "pinnacle" books related to the domain/subject/question you're interested in, and read the Preface, Introduction, Ch. 1, etc. This is often the only place in a book authors are candid enough to directly answer the question of "why am I writing this and how does it relate to what other's have done?"

No shade intended, if anything I need to work on this style. I'm too nervous of making it sound like other people's ideas are my own, but then I end up writing a block of defensive-sounding citation & qualification, and nobody wants to read that...

Anyways, well said.
It has also revealed as many scandals that turned out to be pure libel. It is basically an anonymous postbox for journalists to publish papers that were turned down by their own editor.
"HN" is millions of people. All kinds of views are represented here and I'm sure many people agree with you.
Firefox has done a wonderful job of building first class privacy features into their browser. It's fast, and responsive. They have some leadership issues, but the technical side of things seems to be doing well.

I switched to it as my main browser a few years back and it's been fine and hiccup-free.
Whatsapp is really deeply embedded in business in Latin America and it's deeply concerning to me. It was already reading your conversations. At best, it's going to start serving ads soon.
Really? I use Chromium and feel nothing of the sort. I don't get any notifications asking me to "Try the new Chrome!" when I upgrade my OS, and I don't get my links hijacked when I try opening arbitrary files. It doesn't have a weird crypto scheme funding it, there's no weird virtue-signally marketing team ruining things with every update... Chrome is one of the few browsers that isn't pushing that stuff on you, at least when you remove the Google bits.
Inflation over half a lifetime is not really relevant. For investors, large savings should be in productive assets (debt or equity), and real rates (on bonds) or real returns (on shares) have been positive. For non-investors, real wages are much more important.

But even including the high inflation in the 1970s and early 1980s (which Paul Volcker famously vanquished), that period from 1970 to 2020 averages less than 4% inflation a year. The four decades from 1982 to now have been pretty good on the inflation front.

Which is much preferable to +20% one year, and deflation another year, as in decades prior.
I've been left out in the cold a small handful of times. Glad to hear you're off the streets now.
The point is that the model itself is broken and unfair. I'd recommend looking into Islam's Zakat system for something that works.
TrueNAS used to be designed to boot off of smaller SataDOMs that were used only for boot. They were effectively WORM. At least, it used to be a few years ago. Everything that was written for the server was either a RAM disk or spread out amongst the RAID drives (as a separate partition, which has its own issues, but still).

I had assumed this is what he was using the TLC SSD for. If that’s the case, so long as there isn’t much writing to it, it should be fine.
Argentina is way more socialist as measured in a controlled economy than europeans - some taxes are higher than 80% of net income and often exceeding gross income as well.

It is also way more capitalist than the US by having a large part of the population paying less than 5% income taxes.

The country is hard enough to explain without the constraints of a browser textbox.
> Every minute of 4K ProRes LT footage (which is a very lightweight format, compared to RAW) is 3 GB of space

Do you really need to save all of that footage? I would think keeping the pro res footage for the current projects on the workstation and reencoded archive video on a NAS would be sufficient. I'm not a video professional, but I suspect it's easy to fall in the trap of thinking that you need to save everything in highest possible quality in case you need it later, but what are the realistic chances of that? If you end up needing some old footage again, AV1 coded 4K or even HEVC 1080p would probably be just fine. The final result are Youtube videos after all.

I know he mentions editing from it, but that's enough space for more than a week of pro res video.
It seems like they need about 5-10 big fundamental improvements in technology to make the headsets work well enough for consumers. In the next 5-10 years, it's very possible that this bet will pay off.
If it was a monolith I would have access to the same codebase, so I could just go look at stuff in the code?

Versus microservices where I might not have permissions to look at their repos.
Midwest Multistate Outbreak of Monkeypox (2003)
> Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features".

-- Doug McIlroy
Yes, delight has been overused and dumbed down to industry vernacular for any positive user emotion.

It has a connotation that includes rarity or almost... (and I am putting on my over the top sales person hat) "something to be treasured". But I chose the word intentionally to reference stumble upon which I think a lot of folks on HN feel nostalgia for.
> Your other comment said:

>> The content creators I've subscribed to are now rarely in my feed which is full of "recommended for you" videos and movies for rent.

It is, and I presume so is everyone's. I wasn't asking for help, I was explaining a bunch of problems I'm seeing.

> This also wasn't a few months ago.

No, something seriously changed a few months ago. 5 different channels are all suddenly have the same problem where their views are all down to 50% or less without explanation.
At the time I remember the discussions seemed to be "this how the GNOME team have decided things will be, it's better, deal with it"

There was no discussion I saw that they doing all this under the threat of legal action, although maybe they didn't want to paint an even larger target on their backs by naming Microsoft or be seen trying to change things just enough to avoid the patents.
Rust has traits (similar to interfaces). And limiting to single inheritance like Java/C#/etc. makes things quite manageable.
I stopped using debian for a while after a botched upgrade (bo->hamm, some sort of libc4->glibc issue) and switched away. But that was almost 24 years ago, so I guess this system predated that.
Google is adding Flyover-like aerial views to Maps
>Mozilla is a c++ and javascript shop. What do they ship in Rust? How much of Firefox is written in rust for example?

Mozilla created the Rust project and funded the language's creation and several years of maturity. They replaced a large chunk of the layout engine with a Rust version.

>Large firms have lots of devs and consequently lots of toy projects.

Yes. But they don't tout the languages they use in those toy projects in their official communications, help create the language foundation, support the language with devs, or build their critical infrastructure or new in-house mobile OS in those toy languages.

Here's an example from Amazon:

"At AWS, Rust has quickly become critical to building infrastructure at scale. Firecracker is an open source virtualization technology that powers AWS Lambda and other serverless offerings. It launched publicly in 2018 as our first notable product implemented in Rust. We use Rust to deliver services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon CloudFront, and more. In 2020, we launched Bottlerocket, a Linux-based container operating system written in Rust, and our Amazon EC2 team uses Rust as the language of choice for new AWS Nitro System components, including sensitive applications, such as Nitro Enclaves.

At AWS, we believe leaders create more than they consume and always leave things better than they found them. In 2019, AWS was proud to become a sponsor of the Rust project. In 2020, we started hiring Rust maintainers and contributors, and we partnered with Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Mozilla to create the Rust Foundation with a mission to support Rust. AWS is investing in the sustainability of Rust, a language we believe should be used to build sustainable and secure solutions."

And here are more:

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2021/02/08/micro...

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/02/google-joins-rust-...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-environment/rus...

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/d4f9b980f18fc6722b06...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/why-aws-loves-rust-a...

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/sustainability-with-...

https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-rust-is-the-industrys-best-...

>Where’s the big project written in rust? Servo and the rust compiler are the only two large rust projects on github.

I don't think you'll find Google, Amazon, Dropbox, etc backend code in GitHub, if that's your metric.
Having looked at their Features page, I really don't understand how they're accomplishing each of their listed features - even with the demos. It seems like the marketing and product list is written for a specific company, or person rather than some random person on the internet.

I have no desire to use their product. It doesn't do anything new, except maybe the way the interface is structured. If that's so great, why isn't it immediately obvious?

This is the modern internet. Make a killer demo. Make it fast. Make it fun.

This is boring.
How big of a majority needs to decide that the federal government should be what they want and not what you think it is supposed to be before it can change?
The bar at the left of the desktop on Unity is very much like the Windows 7 taskbar, which can optionally be placed at the left. This doesn't seem credible to me.
I read that part too fast, and apparently I can't edit the comment you responded too. I thought the author of the article said that "gay" was a pejorative description of someone.
I think that MS here is being used as a convenient scapegoat. This worry was never expressed at the time in significant terms. The FAT and SMB patents were much more of a worry than anything related to the desktop interface - only outright clones were being pursued.

At the time, KDE, GNOME and Ubuntu developers alike, were simply drunk on popularity. Linux usage was in ascendancy, money was being thrown around, and the FOSS world was starting to attract young designers who saw it as a cheap way to build professional credibility. And then the iPhone happened and the whole UX world just went apeshit. The core teams really thought they had a shot at redesigning how people interact with computers, "like Apple did with phones". Interaction targets moved from keyboard+mouse to touch screens, because "convergence" and the fact that the mobile sector was suddenly awash with cash.

It's sad that people try to justify their missteps in this way. Microsoft was (and is) a terrible company and a constant threat to the FOSS ecosystem, but defining some of the biggest design choices of the Linux desktop only in antagonistic or reflective terms does a real disservice to those projects and the people who worked in them.

If experience is the name we give our errors, refusing to accept errors were made means stating you've learnt nothing.
Bingo! I'm always astonished by the amount of cluelessness displayed by HN crowd -- supposedly at the cutting edge of things. Like all other platforms, about 5% of the posters at HN provide extremely valuable content. The rest just parrot current popular pitchfork (anti-capitalism, anti-corporate, anti-advertisments -- stuff that I can get from TikTok in a more entertaining format).
I doubt any Oracle SSD performance enhancements will
make it into OpenZFS though.
Should move to Puerto Rico and avoid federal tax.
Security is at the top of all needs.

A country that can't defend itself will be pray to everybody else and will not be able to do anything about environment or education.

You can bitch and moan all you want. Go visit Ukraine and see what happens when you live in a country that can't defend itself. Everything else is being put to side. Do you think they are discussing how much they should be spending to help with the effort to control global warming?

The simple fact is that having US reliant on chips supplied by a hostile power will eventually be US downfall.
That was beautifully written. I've never played Nethack, but I have spent countless hours playing ADOM, in all its text mode glory. These games managed to be so much deeper with so few resources available to them than most modern games.
GNOME already changed direction rather radically between v1 and v2. I specifically remember many people complaining about all the simplifications and removal of various configurable options, and blaming GNOME for drinking too much Apple kool-aid.

For example, it was GNOME 2 that removed the address (path) textbox in the file picker by default: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605608
Academic citation graphs are invaluable WHERE the topic is academic, but this post (like most citations I would venture to say) is an example of citing Wikipedia that would generally not be considered academic or in the results of the articles and case law of scholar.google.com.

There is a huge body of knowledge that lies (dare I say) in a Google search. You just need to know how to evaluate the search results with a reasonable criteria of notability, relevance, accuracy, etc.
TLDR:

> SUSE signed a patent-sharing deal:
https://www.theregister.com/2006/11/03/microsoft_novell_suse...

> Note: SUSE is the biggest German Linux company. (Source: I worked for them until last year.) KDE is a German project. SUSE developers did a lot of the work on KDE.

> So, when SUSE signed up, KDE was safe.

> Red Hat and Ubuntu refused to sign.

> So, both needed non Windows like desktops, ASAP, without a Start menu, without a taskbar, without a window menu at top left and minimize/maximize/close at top right, and so on.

I remember Unity was born because GNOME (Red Hat) wouldn't accept Canonical changes. I remember GNOME 3 was born like a long term project that could adapt better for the future (nascent adaptive UI's) just like KDE4. It was known to be slow in its first iterations to get better over time.

Of course, if the described reasons really make sense, it is not something that would be discussed in the open, but is not what I felt at the time. I even vaguely remember the "genie" effect in Compiz needed two curves when minimizing a window to be "different enough" from apple, but that was all. I also remember you couldn't play a DVD or an MP3 out of the box because of DRM and patents. Everything else... never had the vision the author described.

Disclaimer: around 2010-2013 I was a sporadic contributor to Compiz and GNOME.
Also, they run three of the top five most used applications in the world.

I love how people keep saying Facebook is dying, yet TikTok still doesn't have as many active users as Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.

The only application that does is YouTube.
Federal legalization of cannabis
I assumed that it either had something to do with filesystem patents[0] or the vague patent claims they made on early Android vendors. UI design didn't even cross my mind - I didn't even know those were patentable, and Apple's foray into "look and feel" lawsuits was something Microsoft adamantly fought against. Hell, if I've heard correctly[1], Microsoft was the reason why those early UI design flourishes like faux-3D highlights made their way into CDE and Motif.

Given that Miguel de Icaza already is calling BS on this I'm starting to doubt the veracity of any of this.

[0] Microsoft still claims ownership over ExFAT, for example

[1] It was vaguely mentioned somewhere in NCommander's very, very long "Installing every version of IBM OS/2" stream
I am fighting this battle myself, absorbing and retaining raw knowledge is easy for me but I am not that good at CTFs because I don't practice RE and pentesting enough.

One of my big regrets is spending too much time in chatrooms and forums in my 20s instead of practicing. Now I have less capacity to do that because I do this stuff (and love it) as part of my job, I need a break afterwards.

In CTFs either I get distracted or I follow red herrings because of curiosity and waste time.

One thing that helped me before and I am recently considering is getting rid of TV/netflix/prime and social media (maybe exempt HN? Lol) to help with time.
DSLRs always lap mirrorless cameras for battery life. There's practically no battery drain when its on until you actually shoot the shot since you are taking in light with a passive prism to compose your shot, versus the sensor having to be on and a display somewhere being powered with the mirrorless camera. Sony A7 shoots like 400 shots per charge. 5d mk4 lasts for twice as many shots otoh.
I hate to refer you to a search engine, look for any major issue where the population differs in opinion to the donor class. An obvious place to start is with healthcare, where even slight majorities of Republicans wanted it socialized (at least before 2016) but picking out issues is a waste of time. The vast majority of the public has no influence on public policy. The elite consensus becomes policy 100% of the time. If there isn't an elite consensus (on around 11% of studied issues), the median public preference is chosen 1% of the time; instead one of the elite factions not aligned with public opinion usually carries the day.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

People's opinions are highly correlated with elite opinions, of course (because elites control what they hear, read, and see, and whether they'll progress in their careers or be employed at all), but when there's a divergence, public opinion is followed 0% of the time.
I have never seen it in Pakistani Punjab.
I recommend this post on the/r/UnresolvedMysteries subreddit for more context and commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/w8eu1i...

It's interesting that he turned out to be Australian. Almost every theory I read assumed he was a foreigner.
Yes, it's funny. It ought to be trivial to differentiate between Bangla and Sinhala/Tamil because Bangla has the top horizontal line joining letters of a word whereas Sinhala/Tamil have the round jalebi-like letters. But somehow the streamers always forget about it.

(They're busy commentating, and they're not dedicated GeoGuessr streamers. It's understandable.)

But even if they could, it will still be harder when it comes time to differentiate between Hindi / Gujarati / Marathi / Bangla etc, which is why I'm looking forward to it.
Using "green" wood in timber framing is quite common. The important thing, like you mention, is that it is all of similar dryness.
On a 5 year period:

-MSFT: up 267%

-GOOG: up 143%

-AMZN: up 131%

-AAPL: up 316%

and META? down 6%
Thinking they had an aggressive hiring for metaverse
Parasitic Computing (2001) [pdf]
Nextstep 1.0, 1989, with a dock.