jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well vaccines as a field is super-mega broad, there are so many pure research sub-disciplines one can choose to be an expert on due to the intersection of medicine/immunology/chemistry/biology. And even those are super broad themselves. From an applied sciences standpoint again there are various disciplines depending on the particular vaccine technology - fermentation, protein purification, conjugation chemistry, formulation, drug delivery, etc, etc, etc. From an analytical chemistry/biology standpoint there are dozens more fields that come into the picture when testing. You can spend years and decades in any of these niche fields and still not probe the depths of our accumulated knowledge. And once you have a product, you get into the regulatory domain - finding the quickest and shortest path to the market - which is its own nightmare.

I don't know much about the particulars of the vaccine you are referring to, but when it comes to investing, I think it is always safe to assume that all major investing firms have ready access to SMEs that can give them the scoop on any company they're interested in.
We at least know for sure that 1 dose is highly effective against actual COVID-19 before the second dose. We have indications from titrating antibody responses that a lower dose might be useful, but that's not quite the same thing.

Just delaying second doses for a month would drastically change our posture against the disease, and it's an easier thing to try (same materials, we have lots of people halfway done with the trial condition, etc).
From the MIT Technology Review article about the incident:

> His blog post also did not acknowledge that public health orders had banned gatherings between December 3 and January 25 in California. Diamandis would not respond when I asked whether he was aware that he was violating state health rules by holding his event. “I knew that there were challenges. But I don’t know that I want to answer that on the record,” he said.
This so much. People don’t realize how much ubiquitous NAT has eroded individuals’ online capabilities and freedoms and shifted the internet from what it was meant to be (much more bidirectional than it is now)

I shudder when tech folks themselves insist on NAT as a core security tenet - sure it might be a convenient extra layer but it’s so sad what’s been sacrificed in its name
My Insta feed is pretty much only nebula and galaxies. I find them extraordinary beautiful and calming
OTOH, the homes are probably gonna be heated somewhat anyway, even if no one as homes, and if the offices are shutdown, it's probably a net win.
Hey there, sorry for going off topic, but as a FPGA designer, are there any learning resources you would particularly recommend for someone starting with FPGAs by themselves? With the goal of learning more about computer architecture and the way CPUs work on a lower level.
What's your point? That EV conversion shouldn't be a goal? That because of a freak, instant spike in demand in 2020 means grids and production can't be more robust in 2035?

A TV pulls what, 50-100 watts? A space heater pulls 1500W on high. Now think about many people who, for better or worse, are running multiple space heaters in their house. Now imagine millions of households doing that, on two days' notice.
You're making the assumption that either party can solve homelessness simply by being in power.

Homelessness is a deeper problem that requires cultural change. It's not simply an economic problem.

For example, when I lived in Taiwan in the early 90s there was nary a homeless person. That's not because Taiwan's government had a better social net, nor was it because Taiwan . It was simply because in Taiwan's culture it was unheard of for anyone to let anyone else in their family go homeless. That in America people could have a homeless sibling or child or parent was almost unfathomable.

I'm not suggesting America adopt Taiwan's culture. But I am saying American culture's hyper-individualistic sink-or-swim culture has consequences. It's only in the context of such a culture that the neoliberal Democratic party appears "left", when in fact it is quite center if not center-right.
Science is a process. I repeat: science is a process. It is not a collection of special knowledge. It is not "truth". It is not the opinion of some expert or group of experts. Science is a process.

I get so sick of people talking about "trusting science". What they always seem to mean is "trusting some specific scientist or group of scientists". At this point I'm inherently cynical regarding anyone who claims to have "science" on their side.

Science is a process for establishing trust in an idea. It is a process for evaluating theories. It is a process for creating evidence. Science is a process.
Yes and no. It's a bit like saying "Oh, I didn't know it was going to rain - it was lovely and sunny outside when I wrote the code".

A big (some might say forgotten) part of the procurement and development process is research - know your customer, know your market, know your niche.

In this case, that includes

- know how prisons work

- know how the system will be administered

- know how recent law changes might be handled by the system

- know how often prisoners need / deserve workarounds

- know how quickly law changes need to be reflected in code

Also, I'm not saying that the user interface needs to contain this. But we should always advocate for modular systems that are easy to maintain through addition, rather than through re-writes.

If it is genuinely difficult to add a new type of inmate release schedule, then that is poor planning.

But again, I'm not necessarily subscribing to that theory. Money is involved, so facts are in the eye of the sales team.

But I'm also not not subscribing to that theory.
Re-think the comparison I gave. The point I was making is the fact some people can keep things under control and suffer no ill effects does not change the fact it's an addictive substance whose consumption leads to ill effect.

While you do caveat things in your second comment, both your original and second comment basically minimize the OPs "not even one" stance, even calling it "nonsense". Replacing everything you say with alcohol shows the disconnect; you wouldn't say similar things to an alcoholic who said "alcohol makes you intoxicated", saying that's nonsense (since there are plenty of substances that can make you intoxicated) and then proceed to tell them that one drink is fine.
Vagrant, for the time being, only works on 32-bit windows. I'm going to take a guess that you didn't get this working because it kept saying "VirtualBox not detected!" and you're on 64-bit. If this is the case, then work is currently underway to fix this.

If you're not on 64-bit windows, I'd love to work with you to hear what your experience was and what went wrong.

Negative experiences like the one you had are unfortunate, but through them we can fix it and make it better for everyone else.

You don't have any contact info in your profile, please contact me at mitchell.hashimoto@gmail.com or through github, irc, etc.
I know for a fact that professional poker players are willing to play privately with chips from well-known casinos, including the Bellagio. And the Bellagio doesn't discourage them by being too particular about which poker player returns which chips. I'm sure other kinds of gamblers do the same. This gives them real street value.

And if a random professional poker player shows up with a random stolen chip that was won in a private poker game, the Bellagio has a choice. They can refuse to accept the chip back, knowing full well that word will get around and poker players won't want to trust Bellagio chips, or they can stand by the official rules and not accept the chip.
While we're being paranoid - why not use them to frame someone.
Why is a casino site with a black background a bad idea? I'm honestly curious...
'Ticking time bomb' isn't even effective in theory let alone practise. It's just a weak and puerile excuse for sadistic bullying.

This thread speaks volumes about the low moral character found in people like 'Ronco' and much of the SV wannabe culture.
Let me borrow your valuation calculator for a sec...

Oh it says here that my dream to solve world hunger is worth north of a gazillion dollars.
I wonder if he will still be in love with his job after another 12 months pass. :)
Except if that was true, in the sense that PG used in that essay, we wouldn't be talking about Silicon Valley at all.

Instead, it's absolutely central to all of these discussions, they're all about how area X is a, the, or a potential new Silicon Valley or how the latter is potentially losing its dominance.

It's not simply irrelevant like Microsoft, a company you no longer measure yourself against (except on gross financial terms, e.g. Apple), worry will destroy you, etc. In this space of web based startups, the only worries about Microsoft are WRT accommodating their browsers.
How many shares do you have to sell before it's not $crime_for_hire?
I can warmly recommend the Gigabyte Brix GB-BXBT-2807 to anyone looking for a completely fanless, quick, and fully supported device. As of OpenELEC 5.0 wireless and bluetooth has been working out of the box. They're on the expensive side of the spectrum, but very quick and neat little boxes.
Sounds about right, but the benefit is that reading through every single person's personal index would be very fast. This can be useful in many ways, and it alone was probably the goal.

In fact it was probably already developed long before this feature was deployed to the general populace, and this new feature is just a token gesture of "giving back to users."

I doubt it'll see much use from end-users themselves.

Yes the search terms from users will be useful, but I don't see this as being a replacement for Google.
> Its not a payment system (unless the transaction is sufficiently large).
> It's more like digital gold.

As explained by the famous paper: "Bitcoin: Definitely Not A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
As an owner of 50 bitcoins that I bought in 2010, I must say I agree with you. I don't see bitcoin as a future of money nor payment.
I've very skeptical for cryptos, specially about their regulatory survival, but I've been studying it a bit, and aside some obscure cryptos that are propably genius, I found nano worth mentioning as currency, and Cardano seems on track for a blank sheet replacement of Ethereum.
If the actual collector's item is freely available and all you get is your name listed as having paid for it, you're not really "collecting" so much as showing that you paid money for each item.

If I collect stamps, it's fun to show off your stamp collection because you have those stamps. It's different if everyone can also have all of those stamps, and the hobby is reduced down to "I have these stamps and also my name is on the blockchain next to each of them". There's no physical scarcity for the stamps, there's scarcity for your name being listed as a buyer in a ledger. Call me old fashioned, but that seems to suck the fun out of it.
Yea... the Apple Card doesn't have RFID chips.
Most of the self driving industry is not operating at scales like Tesla, or in as diverse environments.

I'm extremely skeptical they're going to fair much better on scale up: its notable that the Uber crash had LIDAR and still hit a similar object (a metal mesh with lots of gaps and a person).
Because the technology is a non-starter and will never work unless accepted terms of public safety are redefined in its favor. "Just draw a bigger bullseye!"
TMobile's bank is offering 4% on the first $3000 and 1% on anything after that and they treat it like a checking account with their own debit card.

It was going to be a total no brainer to move nearly all banking to them until I realized they block all automated financial tracking software. No budgeting with YNAB makes it a non starter for a checking account, but luckily YNAB can note transfers in automatically by looking at other accounts. When treated strictly as a basic savings its fine if my total cash on hand is missing the occasional interest payment.
We can't keep supporting old tech in new world. 2G and 3G is already two decades old, we gotta move on. And I am not talking about killing SMS. 2G/3G will still support SMS, only 4G/5G has to adopt to RCS and use SMS as fallback (like it already does)

Having RCS is still better than being in current situation where you're locked into Whatsapp/iMessage/Some proprietary solution from a carrier
just look at Brooklyn yo.... while it has some tall building, near Manhattan, it is mostly 2-3 story buildings (brownstones) or 4 / 5 smaller apartment buildings, and further down it has single family homes.

It has higher density than SF, Yet is provides lots of public space and it is not car hostile either.

Not everything has to look like either Manhattan, or Surburbian Sprawl like most other cities.
Boston is unique in that area as well, especially around Brookline, Allston, South End, and Cambridge/Sommerville areas as they were built pre-car era.

It think Brooklyn and Boston (especially Cambridge) are the most 'human' scale it gets in the States, and they are fine places to live.

SF is not there yet. The density (is pretty low if you go off downtown) and hills make it a bit hard to create the european feel.
PCs, using the web version. One is "Verify your login" with no option to verify, only skip. The next one is "Are you sure you want to skip?", which is insulting/ironic because skipping is the only option. The third one is "Help us improve Element", which doesn't accept a no and keeps asking again and again. And just now I closed element and trying to open it again results in a white page.
Yes, it shipped at the same time as the original iPhone, and was pretty much gone by the 3GS era.
I've never thought of "senior engineer" or "principal engineer" as something you are, like a title, but instead a part of the description of a role.
As well as the huge danger of street side parking with drivers swerving in/out and opening doors without looking.

In my city there is a single city block which has no roads (special vehicle access only) and consists of a bunch of high rise apts buildings with restaurants on the bottom level.

I stumbled on this area by accident and I was blown away, it was like I had walked in to an alternate universe. There were a group of kids playing in what looks like your typical suburb parkland except this is right in the middle of the city which would normally be packed out with cars and concrete. Makes me wish more of the city was like this.
seems people upgrade their vans significantly(additional batteries, solar panels etc) before living and remotely working from it. Is it because there is no good ready-made options, or vans like that are too expensive?
Sanskrit is a possible exception. I know very little about it, but it is an ancient language that one of my professors explained is still read today allowing direct access to ancient literature.

Of course, any language thousands of years old is going to have a complex story, see [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit
About "Rust has nothing"? That wouldn't be a productive conversation.

On privsep being rare outside of C? What's the measure? I suspect privilege separation is present or not more based on the type of software, not the language used. And I'm sure you can find bad/good examples in software written in C, Go, Rust, Zig, etc.
That honestly doesn't seem very likely, given the content and audience of the epistles. The epistles repeatedly mention that Paul considers himself the apostle to the gentiles, and most are written to Greek cities. Even saying the Jewish diaspora in those cities retained Aramaic as a daily or religious language, Paul (or even a committee posing as Paul) would have been unlikely to write the letters in such a way as to exclude the Greek christians in those cities.

Further, as others have mentioned, the consensus is overwhelming that Greek was the original language for the pauline epistles, to the point where I can't even find any contradictory views. That's not to say the consensus is correct, but if there is debate, it's not widespread.

Do you know what evidence your dad had for Aramaic being the original language? A search for "aramaic manuscripts of pauline epistles" turns up no results discussing the topic.
This looks great! You have a lot of algorithms here. Which ones do you find to be the most promising for general use and why?
“People can use the platform without the liability that their contributions will be automatically saved as posts. This can embolden some users to make abusive or derogatory remarks, thinking they won't be recorded and won't face consequences.”

Incredibly disappointing to see Ars jumping on this bandwagon. People are having ephemeral conversations that censors can’t police after the fact. Truly, the horror!
Having just had to spend £380 to replace the receiver on my Ford I thought it did not have a physical key at all, then the nice dealership assistant lady told me on the phone "you need to open you keyless fob, there is a key inside"... I never knew!
I couldn't tell you. Personally I'm all for static typing in Python, I'm pro static typing everywhere, really. I'll even take dependent types (most of the time).

I didn't intend to say "this is really hard, therefore let's not do it", I merely meant to provide additional background on the excerpt

> Static typing inherently requires you to prove things about your program

that you replied to. I assumed they were referring to this theoretical connection rather than a practical concern and wanted to elaborate for those previously unaware of this correspondence.
Hi HN readers. I created this command-line tool called svgasm to automate the generation of an SVG animation from a lot of SVG files. Originally I made this tool to create a dumb SVG animation from a bunch of matplotlib SVG exports. Then, I had the idea of using this method to sequence traced/vectorized versions of raster frames extracted from a GIF to create a time-discretized SVG animation, which is found to be generally aesthetically pleasing and smaller in file size. I created a bunch of GIF vs SVG side-by-side comparison examples with some interesting GIFs that I found online. The examples can be viewed on https://github.com/tomkwok/svgasm. Please tell me if the SVG animations work on your laptop/PC, especially the more complex SVGs like the infinity spiral example.
For years I thought sudo just had to take seconds to startup. Then one day I stumbled across the fact that this is caused by a missing entry in /etc/hosts. I still don't understand why this is necessary.

https://serverfault.com/a/41820
Property-based testing libraries are good for this. They're usually not /quite/ fuzzing, as they're not as advanced, but they generate millions of tests are reduce failing examples to their simplest forms.

I talk about it in a few of my recent posts, if anyone's looking into it.
The better question is why are you struggling to volunteer your time to help make hibernation on Linux better?
I think there are a few convenience sacrifices you're neglecting. Not everybody has the luxury of living in such a mild climate as Berlin. In north Texas for a quarter of the year anybody will be a sweaty mess in a few minutes after stepping outside. Berlin has average of freezing temperatures in the winter months. That's not suitable for biking in a raincoat. You're fortunate that your job/school is a brief bike ride away. How does your choice in employment/school change when your spouse needs to commute 30 minutes in the opposite direction. What about children working or attending college? What about multigenerational households? Each person in the home that needs to commute somewhere constrains what they can do, where your family can live or both. Should everybody just waste more of their day with less flexible modes of transportation?
Depends on the framework you use. Rails and Django have a lot of this built in or as widely used plug-ins. In node.js you have to do a lot from scratch every time, or you can use a service that provides this like Auth0
As a side note, if you have a recent laptop, there is probably a setting in the BIOS for sleep mode, Windows 10 vs Linux.

This makes a huge difference on Linux, and I hear the windows mode is somewhat experimental and not working so well yet even with Windows.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dorfsmay/status/13629639921094778...
I suppose the other appellation you are referring to is “Master”, but I understood its standard abbreviation to be M., not Mr., and it to be conventionally used for boys too young to be addressed as Mister (and before that, it was the term from which Mister was derived, and, before that, a title of guild rank), not a general title of unmarried (gentle- or otherwise) men.
I don't use Windows so I didn't know what Modern Standby is. I googled this page https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

TLDR: "enables the system to stay connected to the network while in a low power mode" [...] "with the added benefit of allowing value-added software activities to run periodically" [...] "When a system service or background task requires network access, Windows automatically transitions the networking device to an active mode" [...] "longer active intervals occur for a variety of reasons, for example, processing incoming email or downloading critical Windows updates."

Details about what can temporarily activate Windows in Modern Standby at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/dev...

Don't you have a way to disable it and go back to what Microsoft calls Traditional Sleep?
The CBO has some great graphs on this. It literally starts at $0 and can go--obviously depending on a lot specifics--all the way up to $225k, where your marginal income is zero dollars. Every dollar you earn is taken, every dollar your don't is covered.

The basic income + flat tax system is ethically superior but politically impossible. What's worse is we're still actively going in the other direction, to more progressive taxes and more regressive subsidies.
So pretty much what I gathered from watching this video is that your ankles, socks, pant legs or shoes will be caked with dirt and sand, and optionally soaked by sprays of water.

Does it come with a splash guard because if not, I can't really see this ever being a serious commute option.
Are there no legal consequences for telling the user one thing in the UI and another in the TOS? Obviously this would require some sort of challenge in court, but there's at least some avenue for a remedy to this kind of behavior, no?
Is a 20% tip the norm for cabs? I don't live in NY and don't take cabs often, but I would just assume tipping would be similar to eating out in the US (10% for bad service, 15% norm, and 20%+ for good service). Anyone care to weigh in?

Also I always heard how "cheap" taking a taxi was in NYC. That's why people did it all the time. But looking at his example fares ($40+), that doesn't seem cheap to me, in fact quite unaffordable.

Still cheaper than London's insane taxi fares however.
I agree, but then... what?
Some great tips here for budding data scientists:

* Form a hypothesis before you start looking at data, else you're susceptible to post-rationalization.

* When in doubt, have the raw data available to reconcile with aggregate data.

* When publishing results, include your data sources, so that others can verify your findings.