skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been a half dozen challenge studies[1] of influenza in the last 50 years. They're interesting in that there are threshold effects and a dose response relationship. None of the small numbers of test subjects get sick or seroconverted at low doses. Medium doses produce seroconversion without illness. Higher doses produce illness.

Before covid I found a Thai study on the effect of masking nurses in healthcare clinics. Masks reduced infections with some respiratory viruses and not others.

Can't be stated strongly enough is you cannot use the behavior of one virus as a proxy for the behavior of an unrelated one.

[1] Lack of rigorous studies of respiratory infections in the last 70 years caught public health policy makers completely flat footed. Because they were working off out of date textbook knowledge that was low quality.
And doesn't look a day over 6!
> expecting a bunch of unpaid open source developers to go and re-implement everything

We are really wondering why those "unpaid open source developers" would want to "re-implement everything". Fixing existing systems is hard, i presume. /s
This sounds like an awesome pattern, and I had no idea it exists!
Or what about games made on previous version of the engine? They certainly didn't include a phone home to Unity but still according to the pricing on January 1st any new installs of old games is going to have a cost at that point...

Web Games? So every single person that open the web page is going to cost me 0.20$?
At this level, yes. For the family sedan, ehhh.
It was bad for me too. But I assume that the next infection won't be nearly as bad, because of built up immune response, several vaccine injections, and current variants being much milder than the initial one.
I appreciate that you rephrased this from your original comment, which was incredibly dismissive.

But this is still condescending and hyperbolic. I'm as surprised as the next guy that anyone would go through multiple iPhone cases per year, but I don't know anything about him, his family/habits/clumsiness, so I would not make such judgmental remarks.

And from a practical perspective, you will win zero converts by telling strangers on the internet that they are "killing our planet".
And then there's Miller, which calls itself "The Champagne of Beers"
I mean if connector brakes inside your phone - I had 2 iphones that was hard to charge even after cleaning the port. The idea is that you keep adapter inside the phone all the time so iphone female connector doesn't brake because of constantly plugging in and out charging cable.
> Wasn't that a reaction to users who refused to pay for games and just sideloaded them instead?

My impression at the time was that the supply of games in the app store was just too great, with hundreds of casual games being released every day. Thus driving down prices.

And Apple was more than happy to commoditise their complement; if 20 developers decided to clone Flappy Bird that was fine with Apple.
Apple struggling to cope their products have reached maturity heh
Thank you for clarifying my mistake!
My father managed to 'adopt' a feral cat that should have been 1-2 yo at the time. That cat used to kill up to three birds a day from April to September, and even with cats food and a bell, managed to regularly catch birds. He even killed a magpie once (he's a thick boy). If the population of feral cat is really 40 million, 2 billions killed seems a bit low.
This is effectively what is happening. The key phrases to look out for are "strategic interests" and "critical infrastructure". See: repatriation of chip-manufacturing, for example.
>Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding.

I never claimed that DRM was the only reason.

>making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free

No, it's because of competition. The PC being so open and not locked down to a single entity who can engage in rent-seeking like the console vendors, means not just piracy but an unlimited ways and sources you can get media on the device which means competition, which drives down prices.
It depends on what else you have available. If you have natural gas available at your house then a heat pump is probably not the most economical choice. Here in New Hampshire though NG is not available at many homes and a cold weather heat pump ends up being the cheapest option versus heating oil or propane.
The first paragraph on its own fits quite well, given the average amount of article-reading that happens here.
I believe magsafe charges slower than the port, and I've also heard concerning things about the long term effects wireless charging has on battery health.
> And I wonder if the new OS update will improve the performance of this feature on older AWs.

Given Apple’s way of adding new features as exclusive to new devices or making some features better in new devices, I believe it’s quite unlikely that older Apple Watches will see any improvement on this gesture.
From the precious little that has been heard about what he’s doing nowadays he’s been quite checked out already for some time.
For those that want the rest of the Pro features like newer SoC which don't require additional physical space in the phone.
Steam controller. I waited for them to release a v2 with embedded battery and better build quality and it never came. I guess the Steamdeck benefitted from it, but I'd still like it as a controller.
Figured I was about to read how fierce competition degraded margins in a highly competitive industry - everyone has their biases
By "Warming potential" I guess you mean "contributes more towards global warming," not "I feel warmer with natgas heat"?

I had a heat pump in an apartment many years ago, and the big down-side to me at the time was that it felt like it was always blowing cold air on me in the winter. I definitely valued the warm feeling I got from natural gas heat! But I suspect that heat pump design has improved a lot in the last 30 years, so I'd be willing to give it another try.
Some of the more concerning research this year has been the immune dysfunction showing the same CD4/8 inversions and progression towards immune deficiency. Initially the goal was to look at the immune systems of Covid Long haulers but they had a hard time finding controls as a lot of the people who were apparently well were also developing immune issues. Both of the studies I read had to pay people who have never had Novid and put in substantial mitigations to ensure they didn't catch it to participate in the research.

This might not be all that dissimilar to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in impact on the sufferers other than the immune effects are showing up faster and its airborne and 95% of the population has had it. I sure hope it turns around at some point and it doesn't become C-AIDS, but it explains why Flu and RSV and sepsis et el are going crazy at the moment, immune systems are in bad shape.
Back when I first got an xbox, I got the Halo remastered collection or something like that on DVD. Wanted to fire it up again ... no idea where the disc is. Wish I had just gotten digital at this point.
This one? I recently watched it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH6r6J3WsDk
9.6% of Firefox is Rust as of today https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

That is 3.4 million lines.

And frankly I am upset by the way you characterize my post there. First of all, as I said, it was in a personal capacity, not a statement from the team. Second, as I was not employed by Mozilla at the time, of course I care more about Rust than I do Mozilla. However, that does not mean that I did not care for those who were let go, we were all very upset at how unfortunate the situation was. And the broader community stepped up and hired everyone, as far as I know.

And also language like "already notorious for lone language decisions," that is how both the Rust project and Mozilla wanted it! They actively did not control language decisions, even when Rust was small enough that the only folks who worked on it were at Mozilla. Nobody wanted Rust to be a single vendor technology, because of the exact risk of the situation that came to pass. Imagine if Rust were 100% Mozilla at that time, and they abandoned it. Instead of it being a bump in Rust's development, it would have been a catastrophe.

And, your original post: "the entire fsking Rust team." Again, Mozilla employed a very small number of people that made up the overall team. Yes, they were critical people, who did a lot of important work, but "fired the entire team" is straightforwardly inaccurate.
> X11 is dead. After decades of serving us well it's not maintainable

Why not ? Is the wayland "maintainable " ?
I don't think I've ever intended for the phone to be anything but silent. It's a much better experience for users to be able to remap what the button does, instead of depending on the few users who still depend on ringtones.
> Tor has been broken

I think you have to clarify what you mean by that. Citation needed.
Make it global.
I m just surprised that they said that leather is unsustainable.
Azure Devops existed well before GitHub was owned by MS under Visual Studio Online moniker.

It was intended to be a SAAS version of the on Prem offerings MS has provided since before GitHub even existed.
Whoa yeah this looks like it would be easier than doing it all by hand. $466 at Mouser. Interesting!

Looking around on Google, I don’t see anyone that has tried using this for interferometry yet but the KrakenSDR team explicitly mentions that it can be used for interferometry.
Tell that to the parallel port cable I still have sitting in my cable box just in case I need to fire up an ancient dot matrix printer.
I wouldn't get excited yet. TMK they are only required to implement the connector and certain charging requirements, not any particular complete USB protocol spec, so it seems likely they'll continue the same MFi program over USB-C cables.
Unlock early access to the X Hiring Beta
I have many clocks and typically I am sure about the time. I keep them in sync or know which one is off.
"The Covid vaccine didn't have any effect onbthe severity of my infection" is the most utterly idiotic take if have read given the mountains of evidence that it massively reduces the severity of the infection
I've had multiple family members wait months to sort things out like that. Visa fraud experience is usually immediate, checking/savings accounts not so much.
> I have zero faith that they move the gaming needle

My faith is placed in the fact that they have been pouring resources that amount close to billions on making gaming a thing on iPhones and Macs.

As a long time Mac and iPhone gamer, I have seen slow and steady incremental progress. I'm personally excited for the new GPU.

Besides, I think they get the benefit of the doubt at this point. This is Apple, not Google, after all.
Yeah, it is pretty hard. Mine actually moved back to the UK but we have more immediate family there than usual. (Except for me since the tech industry isn't as good.)

Apparently Australia is actually the only country with net immigration from the US.
Several of the phones I've upgraded from were due to the onboard storage wearing out. A couple were because of water damage, which is less of a concern these days.
I'd love to see Apple's slick marketing video about how your new Apple Watch strap was tanned with cow brains.
Ask HN: Best Storage for Large Personal Backups?
I currently use iCloud for my 1TB of personal photos and videos but lack a physical backup.

What storage solutions (brand, model, configuration) do you recommend?
Apple has a history of inconsistent colors between models for the same color names, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s no exact match.
I'd imagine most people offload them to iCloud, and don't keep copies on the iPhone. At least that's what I do.
I could totally see Apple turning the iPhone into a Nintendo Switch type device. You can connect it to your Apple TV (maybe even wirelessly) and stream games + play with a controller. The HW is definitely impressive.
Using the opportunity of this thread to share a neat trick I discovered lately.

If you have a gaming Windows desktop and a MacOS laptop, you can get any game to be playable on your Mac by installing the game via Steam on your Windows then use a program called Steam Link [1] to stream it on your Mac.

I've been playing BG3 from my bed with this method and it works surprisingly well!

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/steam-link/id1246969117
I have an A70..I was just looking for when it will lose its software updates. The last update I have is from Dec 22, but I can't find information when it will expire.
It *doesn't matter* wtf windows does in the future. you don't have to run it, you're not beholden to it.

Once a game works on wine it will continue to work FOREVER. Steam controls the update process so there's nothing microsoft can do to break it.

Beyond that, I don't give a shit. If I can't make a new game work on my steam deck, I won't buy it, and that's clearly where valve (who still control most of the windows gaming market) are pushing things.
I want to see a scanner app that nails flattening out book pages. The spatial data is needed to triangulate depth accurately.
iPhone SE 2022 is $429 and will likely get updates for a similar amount of time as the OP mentioned.

Not every iPhone is over $800.
Speaking of domain squatting - what the hell happened to nissan.com? I remember it being all about some guy's personal page and how he's rejected every offer from Nissan to buy the domain. Now it looks like some weird scam site.
Writing this on an iPhone mini. It’s the best form factor for me. I don’t want to lug an iPad mini everywhere, and that’s what big phones feel like to me.
I have a 2016 Apple phone and it was updated until last year.
I moved anything critical out of it.

Still work like a charm
Distribution builds, especially to consoles, need full shader compilation of all variants in the build. This can take hours. For some pc games they also can prebuild some shaders for common hardware to speed up loading times.
> "I will be forever bound to Valve. What if they go out of business?"

Not that this isn't a valid concern, it certainly is, but I guess what we've learnt is that you don't need to be bound to Valve for games to be bound to a big corporation.

Look at Minecraft, which was never on Steam. You could've brought that a decade ago, and now you're told you need to bind yourself to Microsoft to continue playing it.
I do wonder what happens to my library once I die. Can my family inherit it? Is it gone? Is it against the ToS to give my user to my children?
Funny Tilt5 Promo
You just described a great starting point for a small shop, I would recommend this route 100%.

Initially your CI/CD needs to be close to the code. It needs to be close to developers. Not a DevOps department. It needs to be almost forgettable. Include a config in your repo, bam, welcome to the pipeline.

Where this breaks down is when you don’t have LDAP, you have Azure IDP + Amazon’s Cognito + Keycloak 3rd Parties + SAML (barf) + Form Login for contractors + JWT/OAuth for services.

This is the inflection point where you need DevSecOps + Architecture + Cloud Engineers to ensure everyone’s playing nicely. Enjoy your pods. Let us know when you need that VPN tunnel to your customers backend because they don’t trust SSL.
Wrong. I am running 8bit GGML with 24GB VRAM on a single 4090 with 2048 context right now
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2023/05/06/apple-ip... (there were a number of articles around this time which are now buried by Google et.al.)

However, it does look like Apple may have walked this back post-rumor. I genuinely hope they did. We'll find out soon enough.
Every compliant charging cable is a data cable.
In the early days of 2 year contracts and half year batteries there was no out of sync, and that's a very different environment to release a product into. Even someone who still buys the best for themselves and hands their phones down is probably sitting the average year out.
Having thought about this when I retrofitted a heat pump in my house, I don't see how a buffer helps here.

For a buffer to work, it necessarily needs to be hotter than supply temperature, which means more losses and more work for the heat pump.

Since heat pump can easily adjust the supply temperature, the most efficient system will be the one where the energy delivered to underfloor heating or radiators is just balanced out by heat loss of the building.

Where buffers are useful is heat sources whose power cannot be modulated (my old diesel furnace for example- when it fired, it produced roughly 20kW, with the only adjustment being supply temperature at which it turns off), or where there is a cost to frequent starting/stopping the heat source (I.e. you probably don't want to get up in the middle of night to add wood to a wood-fired furnace, and pellet-fired furnace needs to be maintained more often in such operation mode).

If one really needs 25kW heat source, one really needs a 25kW heat source. There is no clever way around it. The real question is whether one really needs 25kW heat source (which can be answered definitively by either measuring the delivered==required power, looking at the peak continuous fuel consumption (let's say the coldest day or week), or by having accurate heat loss model of the building. In a heating season, the buffer cannot realistically be large enough to significantly reduce the power requirement. For example, 1m3 of hot water when used as a buffer can store roughly 30kWh (when heated 25 degC above supply temperature). My house needed 240kWh of energy in the coldest day, so the buffer would only cover 10% of the needed heat.

I had set up monitoring for my diesel furnace, so I could see for myself what was the peak heat requirement over two heating seasons (10kW continuous in the coldest winter day). So, I selected an 11kW heat pump, which, if needed also has 9kW of resistive backup heaters. It also matched the numbers in energy-efficiency certificate of the house (theoretical calculation based on materials/thickness/local outside temperatures) within 10-15% or so.
Apple is out of things to market because they have reached maturity.
I haven't used Rust professionally, but have often wondered if Rust's RAII [1] meshes decently with the lifetime of a RefCounted in Godot. [2]

While Godot's profiling has a lot of room for improvement, I appreciate how intuitive memory usage is from both a design and technical standpoint.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/scope/raii.html

[2] https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_refcoun...
A student-built EV just set a new world record for 0–62 MPH
I wasn't going to go Pro but between the borked USB port on the regular models and the better cameras and native Resident Evil on the Pros, I think they got me. Their fucking marketing department is too powerful.
Source? I've heard rumors but I don't think they mentioned MFi at all in this event.
That's not what I'm asking.

Those replicas and recreations are recreations of a... single, scarce work.

That's famous precisely because there is one original.

But if that's not true, it should be possible to point to, say, a series of similar paintings or musical compositions that are all famous.

Generally, that's not the case though.

Because people want one thing.

The one Mona Lisa. The one officially-blessed Taylor Swift album. The one version of Beethoven's Fifth.

Complexity and variety confuses simple people and the market.
Outline of the 9/11 Plot [pdf]
"We estimate that the 9/11 attacks cost somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000 to
execute."
.NET 8 RC1
The reason that P2P Matrix (arewep2pyet.com) exists is precisely to provide a 1st class P2P mode to Matrix - it's not just for awesome reliability and network resilience, but for easier onboarding; killing off public-service homeservers like matrix.org; etc. The onboarding and identity piece is covered by MSC4014 (which just got implemented in Dendrite.)

However, you're totally right that our main focus is on the federated use case, because that's where everyone is today, and its own fair share of Hard Problems (e.g. reliable decentralised E2EE, byzantine-fault-tolerant conversation replication, decentralised ACLs, lazy-loaded conversation state) before we chuck P2P into the mix too.

The P2P Matrix project is currently focusing mainly on MSC4014 (i.e. pseudo-IDs, account portability, multihomed accounts) which benefits both P2P and normal Matrix... although I'm hoping that we'll get back to Pinecone & actual P2P work eventually (especially if someone explicitly funds it).

Meanwhile, it's super cool to see the progress on Quiet and OrbitDB. It's come a long way since Orbit launched at the 2016 Decentralised Web Summit, and I'm glad to see the tech is still progressing. FWIW, We did the first versions of P2P Matrix on top of libp2p (but then switched to Yggdrasil and then Pinecone in order to work with a monolithic stack, for better or worse). Might be interesting to figure out how the projects could interop in future :)
Can you set a restriction so that each user cannot change the email if it has already been changed during the last hour/day? In this way you won't need to ban IPs while still allowing legitimate users to change their emails or to create new accounts.
Usb c devices i own: Apple MacBook laptop, Lenovo laptop, Sony headphones, Bose headphones, bike lights, headlamp, probably more. Lightning is the odd one out for me.
My guess is that this is so e.g. US CBP can scan imported wheels that purport to be legitimate, and (eventually) reject counterfeits.
Yeah, exactly. They’ve been playing up how the latest iPad/iPhone/etc. is just as powerful as <some previous generation console> for years now. And I don’t doubt that. But it doesn’t do much good when barely anything approaching AAA gaming shows up on the platform. The potential is wasted on lots of garbage freemium games.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03787...

I think the other aspect of “always on” is that the operator isn’t going to pick up the sensor years down the line. They’re just going to leave it dead and buried, especially if the sensors have to live inside the earth There’s ongoing work on harvesting electricity out of soil
(P)rick is an “”entrepreneur””!

> we monetize domain names. Investor in Al, high-quality domain names

I don’t think anyone hurts the entrepreneur word more than these leechers and crypto bros.
There was C# support for Unreal (contributed by the Mono maintainers) at one point but Epic actively blocked it. They want everyone on C++ and nothing else
Which model? I am talking about 70b as mentioned clearly. 70b 8b is 70GB just for the model itself. How much token/second are you getting with single 4090?
Asp.net Core updates in .NET 8 Release Candidate 1
One chip per wheel..

I think this is for further up the supply chain. Some importer claims to have a great deal on a specific cheese, is it the real deal?

Personally, I'm fine with eating a Parmesan that says it's a slightly different Parmesan.
its $799. Also if you are an apple fanboy you probably have a 13 or 14 which you can trade in to bring your total price to <$400. Not a crazy tab for something you use 40 times a day.
I’d posit that worrying excessively about someone else’s behavior that does not affect one’s own seems to align well with a neurotic personality type.
I'm at 5yrs(iPhone XR), though I do plan on replacing my phone with a new iPhone 15 later this year or early next.
It well demonstrates the pervasiveness of faith though, and is thus glorious by my reckoning.
> X has many warts, but it being synchronous isn't one of them.

I seem to remember that there was a command line switch to run X (or some clients) in syncronous mode. It was mostly used for debugging.
The thickness also increased by 0.4 mm.
The ever-excellent Derek Lowe has a deep dive on this from a year ago:

"The Uselessness of Phenylephrine"

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/uselessness-phenyl...
Increasing Pinecone upsert speeds in LangChain by 5x