skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 1975 US Household median income was ~$13,000 (approx $65,000-70,0000 in 2019 dollars) [0][1]

Chinese household median income is around $4,700-4,800 in 2021, with massive disparities between First world comparable regions such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin, and rust belt regions like Wuhan [2]. Even the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has noted that 600 million Chinese earn less that $140/month [3].

This of course leads to the larger discussion about GDP per capita being a weak metric to use when analyzing regional development, but in general China is by most standards still a developing middle income country with a (relatively) small and overperforming hinterland.

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1977/demo/p60-10...

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1975?amount=1

[2] http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t2022011...

[3] https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1189968.shtml
I started using fossil for this very thing. I was using git, however I like that fossil allows you to put the repository where ever you want on the file system. I don't have to worry about alias's, using .gitignore, or setting it it up where it doesn't show untracked files.

As far as fossil is concerned, once you close the repo, it's out of site of mind. I still use git for most everything else. Only my dot files and my personal obsidian vaults are backed up to fossil.
> There were two variants in the market...

No, there were two distinct lineages in the market. That's different than variants.

The lineages are important because although the differences between the sequences are small, they are distinct, and there are no known transitional haplotypes.

> given the speed at which SARS-COV-2 variants have mutated in humans, well, how likely is it that the market was the source?

See Pekar et al:
https://zenodo.org/record/6342616

They deal with this question directly.
> their pronoun pin

That's... a new one for me. Ah, they're all over Etsy—if anyone else was thrown by that, they're exactly what your first guess would be based on the name: a big round pin with your preferred pronouns printed on it. Interesting.
Dang I wanted to hear their reply
Yes, good point, a switch from a GC-based language to a memory ownership -based language is definitely non-trivial, but you can always just forget Rust references altogether for the time-being and start hacking with Rust with its reference-counted smart pointers, effectively learning Rust as if it were Go. (You will have to switch back to Rust ownership/references later on to get back the performance and the respect of other Rustaceans 8) .)
In Dr. Birx's recently released book she claims to have known it came from a lab origin from the start, based on evolutionary reasoning. As she describes: A virus takes years to learn/evolve the ability to infect humans, and does so poorly at the start. But covid was extremely effective at infecting humans "right out of the box." In a lab environment the virus is repeatedly exposed to human cells and gets better at infecting human cells with each iteration.

Evolutionary biologist Heather Heying similarly reasoned the origin of the virus through an understanding of evolution. Covid doesn't appear to transmit outside. If covid evolved naturally, it would be capable of spreading outside, where animals live. Instead, it appeared to evolve to spread in lab-like air conditioned conditions only.
Still availible on amazon. I bought one last xmass. They also make adult-class versions with metal fittings to connect air compressors.
People in this thread: unlimited
means what I want it to mean, and today, it means "limited". Why, that's just how the world works!

People who own dictionaries: this is a completely idiotic line of thinking. By which I mean "reasonable". Why, is there a problem?
Sorry, I misspoke. The theory of gravity is actually a really interesting physics problem, but the fact that gravity acts on objects is pretty much undisputed.
Lovelock ultimately agreed with you. From The Guardian:

> Lovelock "has warned that the biosphere is dying due to human action. He said two years ago that the biosphere is in the last 1% of its life."

https://archive.ph/I3dog
Governments in the West make it a matter of explicit policy to increase consumption. That is what immigration rates are for, to prop up GDP, then every newcomer from the 3rd-world gets a larger carbon footprint overnight. It makes no sense to blame consumers for that.

If the serious consideration for those posturing starts and ends with consumption, then the consistent approach would be to oppose immigration. They do not, because it was never the point. Self-righteously indignation and signaling is.

Saying this with the awareness that both right-wing detractors and far-leftists like to target consumers/consumption, as for the latter it dovetails with their anti-Capitalism. Just look at the fusion energy thread from the other day, people are voicing concern that carbon-neutral and cheaper energy would lead to people buying more things. Westerners are struggling to get by, with purchasing power stagnating for years, and yet it's being projected they're practically drowning in useless stuff compared to their grandparents.
Actually yes. If someone is trading hundreds of live animals for meat on a weekly basis, and the animals aren't obviously seriously ill, why would you expect them to use any standard more rigorous than 'looks fine to me'?

Consider how things like hoof & mouth disease have ripped through agricultural herds in western countries, where there are much higher regulatory standards for food production. Diseases can spread fast before the symptoms become obvious.
Putting 1k bucks in a lense is such better investment than putting the same in a camera body when it comes to image quality. Another benefit of a low resolution body, lenses don't need to be as absurdly good as they have to be for 24/66 MP plus bodies abd are correspondingly cheaper. Which leaves more money to travel to all those nice places to take nice pictures and enjoy yourself. Not that I would say no to Z9 with corresponding glass if someone gave it to me!
The article even mentions Star Wars and George Lucas, something that happened 20 years ago, yet pretends this is the start of a dangerous trend. Cause it's TV (or streaming) instead of a movie / home video release I guess?
I had not considered this hypothesis. I think my area may be small enough where it's not just a crime against me, but a crime against the community. For what it's worth, I hope your situation gets better. That has to be unsettling.
Don't see a problem here.
> Suddenly the US government has a multi-billion dollar reason to provide political support for whatever is good for Intel.

That's one of the reasons we're doing this in the first place. National security is in the mix as well. What would actually change [edit: beyond citizens gaining ownership and some say in what happens]?
Indeed seems to be the case. [1] I expect it's widely ignored however unless the Swiss use the internet differently from the citizens of just about every other country on earth.

[1] https://www.ifolor.ch/en/inspire/image-rights-in-switzerland
This felt off to me as her goal wasn't to figure out how to work with the person, it was to win. Her strategy is to fully shut the person down using seniority and peer pressure. She claims anything softer will result in an argument.

It just feels wrong that the interpersonal tool she likes best gives no consideration to her coworker being a rational individual who can have a discussion, I don't know about her "interpersonal toolbox".
That's an example of very poor communication skills.

All points for the 'why' given by the author are fair enough

But if you can't explain, in very simple terms and briefly why "we don't do X here", you probably have nothing to stand on yourself to make such a statement in the first place.
Grab torrents of the originals while they're still available if you wish to preserve access to the unadulterated versions.

Is there a better option?
Worked at a place that used on-disk XML as their database with multiple (10s of) writers. Started off fragile, ended up hideously complex and fragile. Unfortunately it was originally written by one of the powers that be and his word held sway over every technical decision, good or disastrous.
Have you seen dogs?

You can breed for traits.

I'm fully capable of realizing that forced breeding/sterilization is inhumane and also be aware that it is capable of getting results.
I keep my life notes in plain text in a directory called "notes", usually formatted with markdown. I rarely render the markdown but I still find it useful for structuring my notes. I also incorporate a very lean take on getting things done (GTD). I host it on github and sync it between devices with syncthing.

My main requirement is that it should be very easy to start writing the note. This means not many decisions to make first (deeply nested directories or tags), and not being bound to a certain application or having an internet connection.

Plain text is great because it's small, portable, and I like being able to use grep against my note directory to find things.

basic structure:

- One file per year for a basic daily log in (log/2022.md) this is where I do at least half of my notetaking and journaling.

- a few GTD files in the top level, in.md, next.md, somedaymaybe.md

- a projects directory, prj/, which has a sub directory for various projects, these can be small stuff that take weeks, or longer things

- a list directory, lst/, which has lists of thing, example: books to read, groceries to buy, etc.

- a reference directory, ref/, for storing things that I'd like to remember but aren't active projects or notes that I expect to add to often (those should be projects or just go in log/), example: a recipe

I've been doing this for a few months now and I am liking it quite a bit and expect to stick with it. The biggest headache is getting syncthing to work with ios so that I can reliably have my notes on my phone, open to suggestions on that.
My friend, the person you are replying to was saying that daily highs of 50C aren't far off.

Not that average temps will increase by 50C. That would be silly.
No you've got it but maybe don't see the value of it fully.

It's pointing out an instance of transgression, not articulating a general rule. There probably is or needs to be a rule as well, but this doesn't by itself tell you what it is or define its bounds.

You want to separate the definition of a rule and its enforcement. Even if the rule is just an informal social one among a friend group this is valuable. Think about the common trope of someone in a group making a joke about a car accident, potentially funny, but not knowing someone else in the group recently lost a parent in a car accident. You shut them up tactfully and then give them the context of the transgression later and potentially debate its boundaries then if that's valuable.

What you absolutely don't want is, on the spot, having a public group-wide conversation about jokes about car accidents. Are they ever ok? Ok when someone isn't grieving from one? How long a buffer do we give for grief? Those are probably useful questions for this group to tackle, but this is the wrong time for it. "We don't joke about that" is good enough for now.
Commendable attempt! I've considered writing a datalog storage backend on sqlite just like your prototype. Thank you for sharing, now I can lazily study your prototype instead of doing the hard work myself. :) I'm curious, what kinds of limitations of SQLite indexes are you referring to?
I also heavily used callgrind/cachegrind to tune critical paths in our high performance web proxy, we’re each micro/milliseconds counts… For example, in media type detection that is called multiple times per request (minimum twice for request/response), etc.
I completely agree with you but I don't really think it's relevant to this situation. The situation is not a decision between 2 different possible truths. It's a decision to sweep something under the rug. Something that we know will have an effect, we just don't know the magnitude of it. When faced with ambiguity we should take a best guess (even if it's a "conservative" guess) not ignore everything because its more politically convenient

The "best guess" was clearly not taken here
Tell HN: Lost access to my Apple account even though I have the password
Hi HN,

I'm trying to access my Apple account for the first time in years. I have the email and password in my password manager, but apparently Apple recently got 2 factor authentication mandatory. Problem is, right now, the second factor is security questions to which I don't have the answers (I probably entered random gibberish years ago).

I tried to reset them, but Apple asks me for at least one answer to a security question. I got on a chat with the support, and they can't do anything, except telling me to create another account.

I therefore lost access to everything I "bought" on iTunes and the App Store even if I have the correct login and password for my account.

How is this acceptable ? Of course, the support told me that my data is secure ... so secure I cannot access it !
Does "much less likely to be deadly" mean it's not a problem?
I grew up in suburbs and we used to leave our garage door open often up until day our bikes were stolen out of it.
They surely mean temperatures of 50C not an increase, although it's ambiguously stated.
What an excellent introduction.
I have too many ideas and too few resources to actually implement them. So I deliberately do not write down my ideas, otherwise I will be distracted easily (I have heavy ADHD and it is very difficult for me to prioritize between ideas to work on).

If some idea is really important, it will come again, and again, and I will have to start doing something about it. Otherwise, it is better to forget it. Just writing something down is the best way for me to never get back to it, I have a lot of ideas written down in Evernote like this, I call it my “cemetery of ideas”.

I have very intricate systems for reminders, documents and events (I have to set up 3-4 reminders before any event, otherwise I’ll happily ignore it). But writing down plain notes never did any good to me.

(tl;dr ADHD sucks)
Oof these comments.

Let's take the "woke" part of this whole argument out, and apply this to technical bikeshed debates over inconsequential minutia that go on for days, that you're probably very familiar with as a tech worker.

Would be nice to employ a Thought-terminating cliché like of some sort to nip these things in the bud, instead of "fostering a culture of questioning everything".

Well, the same applies to those wishing to engage in an inconsequential cultural debate in a workplace. I welcome this "We don't do that here" thing.

Or maybe y'all are right, this is literally 1984.
From what I've read the UCs are above-average state schools though. Doesn't UCSD rank just below UCLA and Berkeley?
Weird, I can do this on Android.
Novacene was a little more optimistic than this obituary ended.
Top Mistakes Organizations Make to Become Agile
yah, i have a strong preference for the first option, and don't mind that it requires using an & token relative to scss that requires none.

the @nest always option seems overly verbose, and adding more brackets visually overloads them in a way that makes it harder to parse quickly when scanning.
Well, should really look into the history of communication technology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Television, the telegram, and radio were all dominated by private cos that crushed open competition at every opportunity. Do you ever give that any thought? I recommend The Master Switch by Tim Wu if not!
Obsidian has daily notes, though as a Core Plugin which needs to be enabled in settings. I haven't used NotePlan or LogSeq, so maybe those daily notes are very different, but once I made a nice template I found Obsidian's to be quite nice.
Are you referring to the linked paper or something else?

As far as I can tell (the writing style is not very clear IMHO), the Fig 2(B) blue cases are not second-stage cases, but rather a plot of "cases with no known link to the market".

As for your second point, I don't see any discussion in the paper that this cluster "occur[s] in an area of high density housing with a preponderance of elderly people". Where are you seeing this?
I mean that's only two things! /hj
That's disingenuous. I don't think anybody anywhere is just taking the CCP party line at face value.
I learned the mechanics of this from Conscious Business [1]. The point of view is in business, but you can transfer all of these lessons to personal communication too.

Fighting over semantics is like negotiation or discussions on 'alignment' in business. Ensuring you're talking about the same thing by ensuring you have a common point of understanding and purpose in the discussion.

[1] https://www.embracepossibility.com/blog/conscious-business-h...
I find it ironic that the article itself was edited after the initial posting, per the disclaimer at the bottom. If Netflix added such a disclaimer in the credits of the episode, would that make it more acceptable to the author?
> It's interesting to see how certain regulatory requirements of countries can disrupt the ubiquity of google maps.

It was done for the right reasons - security. You don't want foreign governments to have data on physical government assets, especially military and critical infrastructure. Moreover, the Google street view vans also collect other data (including scanning for WiFi networks and collecting associated metadata) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285928324_The_Googl... ... I think it also collected atmospheric data (pollution levels etc).
Hell, we could even resume the prohibition on buy backs in general.
It's 2022 and I still use this program since I read that article so many years ago.

It's handy but sometimes a bit of manual preparation must be done on a new clean machine. For example if you want to stow only some files under ~/.config/program/ and not the whole program/ directory, you must first run an mkdir and then run stow to put the appropriate symlinks in place.
Common Lisp OpenGL programming tutorial #6 – Hierarchies
The writers claim [1] the story is untrue and others have apparently independently verified that scenes don't seem to have changed.

ADDED: They did apparently retro-edit around a plot hole but not what people were getting upset about.

[1] https://twitter.com/strangerwriters/status/15519011967005900...
Hear you on this, as mentioned in other comments, we have the edge agent to address performance/reliability concerns and are definitely looking into providing full on-prem/self-hosted options.
From the creators: "We have George Lucas’d things also that people don’t know about"

It's baffling that they are apparently aware of how much fans hate these kinds of changes and went ahead with it anyway.

EDIT: People are replying with valid points about not all changes being bad. I guess this was a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that they invoked one of the worst examples of retroactive changes as a reference.
"I remind us all that an “outbreak at the Wet market” “natural origin” “not designed” “not a bioweapon” and “nothing to do with a virology lab” are all VERY different things that keep, oddly, getting conflated."

~ Eric Weinstein

This study seems to potentially shine some light on only the first item in that list, an outbreak at/near the wet market.
Lol, why? Northern Europe respec the law, but at the cost of having people snitching all the time. Maybe it doesn't fit him, I know I don't like it and find it oppressive. Also he'll lose the nice weather, the community etc...
7.3 billion :o did I hear it right ? Is it going to only one individual ?
Built the template for western and civilization which influenced most of the rest of the world. And spread it.
Besides for lack of evidence of arson and evidence of negligent construction practices, how exactly do you guess one could root out anti-church extremists?
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It might turn into another woke crusade to make old movies inoffensive.
Worse things have happened... like inserting ads in old reruns:
https://www.slashfilm.com/516453/wtf-zookeeper-advertising-i...
Blog post author here - great questions.

My understanding is that some, but not all, shaping libraries will handle fallback fonts. For example, I believe Core Text (on MacOS) will specify which sections of a laid-out line should be rendered using which fonts, factoring in fallback font selections. Kerning should work within a run of a single font, but I'm not sure there's any way to "properly" kern a glyph pair from two separate fonts - there wouldn't be any information available about proper alignment (as kerning data is part of a font file). In terms of sizing, one would hope that font creators all respect the em-square when constructing glyph vectors, leading to two different fonts using the same point size having comparably-sized glyphs. If one doesn't want to rely on that, font metrics like ascent and descent could be utilized in an attempt to normalize sizing across different fonts.

In terms of cache size: at the moment, we rarely empty out the cache (but we should do it more often). I have some ideas around triggers for emptying the cache and letting it get rebuilt (e.g.: changes to font size, changes to font family), but haven't wired it up yet. In addition, we could consider clearing the cache periodically when the application is sitting in the background (allowing us to re-rasterize the needed glyphs without blocking painting a frame). So tl;dr: we don't currently but we should and will do so in the future.
"We don't do that here" usually doesn't mean "not now" or "not in this setting." It usually means "not ever while you are employed at this company."
Ask HN: I'm burnt out: frustrated, distracted, pessimistic. How do I fix this?
Background: I'm a sole founder of a startup with about 10 people.

I find it difficult to maintain an optimistic state-of-mind. I often slip into pessimism.

I have times where I feel very optimistic, I know I’m in the right mindset and ready to be productive, charismatic, effective etc.. Sometimes that can be in a social work situation, it could be while giving a talk, it could be while meeting someone new, or it could be feeling good about some new piece of work, and focussed to make progress with it. The feeling is optimistic, focussed, driven, confident and clear minded. Like I can dive into any tricky problem and solve it, or roll up my sleeves and get a certain piece of work done in a phenomenal way. That’s the best version of me, I’m happy in those moments, and I’d like to be like that at all times, from the moment I wake up.

However, I frequently am not in that state. I feel distracted, un-motivated, pessimistic. I ruminate, I feel stressed and frustrated with situations. Sometimes, I have a meeting coming up which I know it’s important to be optimistic and effective, to be in that state of mind. But sitting there, feeling pessimistic, it feels like it’d be impossible to switch to feeling optimistic. The meeting can go, and I end feeling unsatisfied with how I was - not warm, not projecting energy or focus, but actually un-focussed and potentially de-railing the conversation.

In other words, I spend most of my time in a pessimistic state of mind, and I can’t easily change that. Googling all of this, the most typical result is "burn out", which may be the case. I haven't taken a _really long_ break, but I have taken breaks, holidays, disconnected etc.. for up to 2 weeks. I feel refreshed, but quite quickly I'm back to the same place.

Advice for dealing with this?
This is just a study of the distribution of early cases which was centered around the market. But the WIV is in the same area so I don’t see what this proves. Still doesn’t isolate an animal or explain how they had a bat virus that 95% matched sars cov 2 genome back in 2013 in WIV.