skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Variolation refers specifically to smallpox. The terminology for a similar approach against COVID is "inoculation" not "variolation." I understand the proponent of it for COVID is an economist and not a medical professional, but keeping the terminology clear is important to avoid confusion. Inoculation is not guaranteed to be effective against covid. Just because there was a version of it called variolation that worked against smallpox before being eliminated because it was not as good as other approaches does not mean inoculation is automatically safe and effective against a completely unrelated virus. Other coronavirus are known to display antibody dependent enhancement, where a weak immune response makes following infections worse, and we already don't see consistent, strong responses from people who were sick.

What the economist Hanson is essentially suggesting is that we take a worse method of immunization (just the normal live virus) and waive the regulatory burden to show safety and efficacy because a similar approach worked with smallpox. If we are getting into the business of ignoring the requirement for an immunization approach to be clinically validated, then there are a few dozen vaccines with far better theoretical safety and efficacy profiles that we should be using instead. The reason a vaccine isn't coming immediately is because we have to show they wont kill people and that they'll work, and then we have to scale up production. You dont get to rebrand your worse vaccine approach as "variolation" and then say it should be held to a different standard so you can get the economy humming again.
Have you tried https://wiki.js.org/? Curious if it fits your needs, given they are open source.

P.S.

I use GitHub for all my personal writing and only now realized that a big part of it is due to its open source nature and data portability. I use emacs org-mode for my todo lists for the same reason. You're so right about how critical these features are.
Bear is pretty dumb and limited. If it covers your use-case, great, but if you step outside of the narrow path at all, it fails.

I actually tried to use Bear as a MD-based publisher to my WP blog, and it just ran aground badly.
Don't worry, the US only lets them host Nukes, it won't let them buy secure communications equipment.
For the people complaining it’s not open source: Why does that matter ? It’s not like your markdown disappears if they do. You would just have to write software or purchase another software with the same conventions.
This is a key insight. All of the benefits of variolation today skipping tests can be had by vaccination today skipping tests.
The point is that those two words are (in China) associated with being against the CCP. It’s kindof similar to “black lives matter”. To some, it’s a symbol of hate (with re. to the police). To others, it’s a symbol of fighting back.
I'm not sure YT doesn't delete other kinds of spam, in particular other instances of hate speech.
Corey is both on-point and hilarious and his newsletter[0] is worth reading. This particular post really resonated with me because AWS gets so much run for being impossible to compete with, but really it's not hard... you just have to pick an appropriate axis on which to compete. It's not likely you'll ever win on availability or integration with AWS services, but the farther you get (in terms of abstraction) from running a data center, there are places where AWS falls flat.

[0] https://www.lastweekinaws.com/
Yes, Embraer's offerings are more comparable to Bombardier's C-series (now Airbus' 220 series).
Last time I was interested in space was the Mars Lander.

Going to ISS is easy afaik but when are we ever going to try landing on the moon again (don't even talk about Mars).
No, but there's definitely a correlation, on average.
How convenient for the Chinese government, huh? It’s almost like this Pandemic came at a perfect time for them.
Global Consciousness Project
A mobile version is planned in the long term.
Your notes are in plain markdown files though, so you can use any markdown editor your phone supports. I have seen 1Writer (ios) and Markor (Android) recommended a lot.
Panasonic and LG also make batteries for VW...

Note that Samsung does not make batteries for Tesla's vhicles, only its stationary products like the powerwall. This is the same for LG outside of the Chinese market.

Additionally, Tesla's battery factory is actually Panasonic's battery factory. Panasonic is the primary partner in that joint venture.

Tesla still has the same dependence on external parties as VW, they were just first to the ball and have contractual priority on production capacity existing or planned at the time the contracts were signed.
Hmmm If they also launched some paid model at the same time, I’d consider paying...
The appearance is disqualifying on its own.

They're gonna get dragged for these tweets any time they fact check anything, even if their judgment is always impeccable.
> It's 100% not sponsored or run by SpaceX

but it feels like it is sometimes
I emailed the mods about this using the contact link in the footer.
London Underground seeks ideas to remove heat from its tunnels
Or the UK, or really anywhere else outside of CCP control.
I agree. I think in it's current state, the graph is just a neat toy but even with just the help page, it already looks like a jumbled mess. It would be nice to be able to customize the graph or at least have it present the information in a cleaner way. For instance, have the ability to separate intra/inter document links. It would also be nice to be able to view a link hierarchy by treating a single file as a root.
The idea is that if you're creating value with Obsidian, your employer should expense that, ideally it shouldn't impact you financially. If you're working for a non-profit for example, it's all free.

> (Also, their license page could do with some proofreading)

Interested to hear more! We did a few rounds of proofreading, did you find any typos?
Over-simplifying, but in general a link should take you to a different url/destination.

So if you want something that takes an action on the current page via JS but looks like a text link, it should be a <button> element styled as a link.

Here's a good, extensive article on the differences and use-cases for links and buttons: https://css-tricks.com/a-complete-guide-to-links-and-buttons...
>"LinkedIn is pretty much useless for my level of contracting. I get tons of inquiries and the second I mention my rate they either laugh or think that I'm being difficult."

I've found this to be the norm for me also. I have highly specialized skills and I know I'm top 5 in the world in my skills with this specific software. I know this because I know basically everyone that does this type of work. When these recruiting firms contacted me they always wanted like $60 an hour rate when the company I used to work for would charge up to $300 an hour for my time. I would always start at like $120/hour, which I feel is actually kind of low for an enterprise software consulting, and they would either try to get me to $60 or ghost me. I finally took a job as a full-time employee doing gov consulting work at a pretty good salary for me.
The victims are not the only people to whom this comment is addressed.
They deleted you comment if it contained one of multiple "words" (compound words, short phrases).

It's like censoring someone commenting "It's FBI sponsored" or "Russian propaganda". Sometimes a view words in a context can say as much as a long sentence.

Also in Chinese thinks are a bit more complicated due to how different glyph can be combined and/or used in conjuncture. So I wouldn't be surprised if there is a situation where commenting with a single Chinese glyph is saying as much as a long sentence!
Sometimes you need an outsider. I don't think that the issue with this is scientific -- basically we know that it might work, but we'd have to test it to know. The problem is that medical ethics deviates from everyday ethics, and also ethics in other government regulated fields.

This is mostly the legacy of Josef Mengele and to some extent the Tuskegee experiment, but collectively we essentially said "we never want to do that again, so let's make rules that keep us well away from that line."

The reason the idea isn't getting much attention is that anyone in the field that is serious knows that the study would never get past an Institutional Review Board, so it's pointless to even try.

It seems to me that we need to revisit our tenets of medical ethics in borderline cases like this one, where the stakes are so high. To me, you should be able to do riskier experiments in these cases if the subjects are truly informed volunteers, and you keep the risk to them to an absolute minimum consistent with doing the experiment. There's a very similar issue with vaccine challenge trials.
And how about this https://www.localdvm.com/news/west-virginia/mail-carrier-cha...

It’s come to a point that even the general public is aware that certain democrats are willing to lie, ignore the truth, or flat out say “it doesn’t matter” just to gain power.
Probably made from leftover Tesla upholstery :).
Thanks, this helps!

> Surfboard actually builds on LibROSA for a few of its components (e.g. MFCCs) and its functionality (e.g. loading .wav files into memory). In that sense it is the same as LibROSA for a lot of their communal functionality.

> LibROSA was built to extract individual components for music analysis. The components we built into Surfboard are largely different to those in LibROSA (apart from a few). If you are interested, please read our paper and documentation to find out more!
As long as the meaning of "Cold War" stays poorly defined, there will be no point to this conversation
Now maybe we can acknowledge the US shouldn't have axed development of a robust high speed train system.
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I'll bite: how does signed exchanges provide control to Google?
I must be totally missing the point here, I don't see the problem at all (as a non-FAANG developer in my mid-30s).

I've read that companies like Google evaluate employees in an up-or-out manner up to a certain level; before level X, if you've been a satisfactory junior engineer for Y years but have not been promoted to the next tier on schedule, your performance reviews will nonetheless begin being judged against the next tier's performance criteria and the "meets expectations" junior level work you've been doing will become unsatisfactory (even though you're still a junior engineer). You either grow according to expectations as you gain experience or you are managed out. Happy to be corrected if I've misunderstood the system.

Given that, if companies require current employees to progress in their careers to stay with the company, why should prospective new hires from outside the company with umpteen years of experience (for which they will be compensated with higher-than-new-grad pay) get a pass on that same expectation of showing growth throughout their career?
That doesn’t make any sense. An opinion cannot be hate speech, that’s a categorization error and not at all how hate speech works.

It’s the other way around: an expressed hateful opinion may be considered hate speech by the law or someone. And an opinion may be considered hateful. But the other way doesn’t make any sense.
I’m a dev/creative and need an OS that:
- Is not a total nightmare for software development

- Runs Adobe CC

- Does not throw ads at me

I‘m happy to take suggestions for an alternative to macOS.

Also, the seamless integration (call it lock-in) across devices is a nice bonus.
Readers beware: it's basically useless to argue either side of this position because the level of nuance, complexity, and convolution involved in such a discussion is beyond the limits of what a threaded comment board can accomplish.
I dont really agree with your assertion that Boeing is unable to fund future development - they have a big bucket of cash, they appear to have no trouble borrowing, and they have profitable military programs. They should be able to fund a new narrow body jet with ease. Heck, a modernized 757 would be fairly cheap to design/build and its effectively still a pretty modern airframe too.
In some ways, this may have taken some pressure off them, and given them some time to catch up, though it seems likely this recession will just hurt Boeing less than Airbus (as the latter was in a better sales position going in).
Help you to build pull-down refresh and pull-up loading
Even if you assume those comments are written by Chinese trying to fight for their rights - and I doubt it is the case - there's still a fundamental difference: #blacklivesmatter was a tag that accompanied actual content. Here, there's nothing but the "tag", copy/pasted all over the place without adding any value.
You can always do both. Order the big heavy stuff online that keeps for ages (e.g. beans, rices, canned tomatoes, flour, sugar, spices) and go into the shop for a few extra perishable ingredients you need for a meal when you need them for a less stressful experience. This applies even more if you don't have a car.

For balance, 90% of the item substitutions I've had have been fine (most stores in the UK email you the substitution list before delivery, and you can give substitutions back to the driver when they arrive) and the picked fruit + veg have been good for me too.

I had a quick look, but is there any data on store food delivery being better for the environment? Wouldn't it save a lot of car trips if done properly?
Exactly, what a crock!
Many reddit communities are like that. Not sure what they did to collect such folks on single place, but reddit is something else.
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Space Countdown – Unofficial SpaceX Mission Tracker
Boeing is looking at restarting 757 production as an interim product until a new aircraft can be brought online.
AMA: Stripe on recent $1M carbon removal purchase
It's often possible to choose DC for the final metres to the lamp itself, whereupon you've reduced the problem to ensuring you deliver a nice clean DC feed or nothing. As a side benefit to the extent you're successful you also eliminate flicker, which some people find extremely annoying in LEDs.

You may find that your retail options for DC lamps are more limited depending on where you shop, and it will likely require a more extensive change than just unscrewing a "bulb" and putting a new one in but it's an option. Certainly worth considering if you're remodelling for example.
Set up a partition and find out! Won't be possible if your mac is newer than mojave, though.
I am not saying fluid dynamics is boring, but a lot of people are really interested in small and large things - on whole other level than turbulence. This is not just pr, i think people really care. Of course i could be wrong...
Obviously the choice of name wasn't made by the beer. It must have sounded like a good name too. Homer Simpson's alias Max Power came from a hairdryer but that wasn't the point of it.
NASA's Artemis project has got you covered on that one:

https://www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
Twitter censoring good, YouTube censoring bad.
Anthropomorphising companies is not that weird.

You could also consider a company a higher-level multi-cellular organism. Where humans have cells, companies have... Humans. It lives across several generations of its cells, continuing operation with its own self-interest in mind.

I have also heard people put companies as odd forms of AI, usually in the context of paperclip maximization.
I’ve been having mild anxiety about this mission ever since it was announced.

Working on manned space flight is not for me. The stakes are just too high.
Doesn't bode well for bald/balding people :-(
I have to agree that DDG seems to struggle with developer terms, but that is probably a cost of not knowing that I'm a developer. E.g. compare search results on Google and DDG for "Rust http". Google knows I'm looking for a crate, but first result on Duck is for the Steam game, Rust.
It isn’t funny when your opinions get categorized as hate speech and it’s your ox getting gored.
from a cute colored congelese girl that didn't have a gag reflex
Won’t Airbus be hit very hard by covid for the next 5 years too? Airlines are probably not too eager to order new planes for a long time
Is this Vancouver, BC? If you're comfortable would you mind privately sharing what sort of companies treated you like that? Just started my career here and would greatly appreciate any insights about the market.

Thanks
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Interested in hearing more about the graph view!

As of the latest release our graph view can be zoomed in and out, and we've rewritten it to generate the graph with WebGL rather than SVG, so it's a lot more performant for 1,000+ notes.
We Need an Alternative to Centralized Social Media
Learnings from integrating Google calendar API
> Gatsby has slick looking docs

I think you might be on to something; I don't even bother with projects without good docs or a readme.

Edit: Not sarcasm. I value my time.
First of all, they should be seriously taxed. It's ridiculous that air fuel is untaxed.
I mean "Skin in the Game" in the Talebian sense, so yes, I am saying that he may write anything he wants, but I will only give any credit to his ideas if he actually follows through himself, or at the very very least if he accepts responsibility for any damage that he's done and is penalized accordingly.

Losing money in a prediction market does not count as a proportional penalty for the damage that he might be causing to others.
That Boeing website you note may be referencing old data. Based on their 2019 annual report, on page 18 under item 6, Boeing cites that they had a year-end workforce of 161,100 employees. The annual report is available here: https://investors.boeing.com/investors/financial-reports/def...

So, the article is roughly correct.
I wonder what is behind the comment that french/german works better than french/UK
What are some features you like about Camtasia besides the basic recording features? I know there's a lot that Camtasia provides, so I'm curious what you get out of it that other screen recording apps don't include.
Thanks for the informative comment & 2003 story!
We had a Whole Foods delivery yesterday with poultry that was delivered without any cold bags. Who knows how long the driver was out and about before he delivered to our house, but the food wasn’t very cold when we got it.
I think you might have missed their ridiculous 'smart' bulbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BB6wj6RyKo
Which would be unusable due to the same conditions?
I experience this in a lot of different apps on catalina. just a brief flash of something. Seems to have gone away in 10.15.5, but I've only had the update for an hour.
I think it makes sense to be a lot more skeptical of the claims of companies like Imperfect Foods who have a vested interest in getting people to buy unappealing produce (from them, of course) than an independent food scientist staking her personal reputation on these claims.
When we engaged the AMP team early in it's lifecycle to try and dissuade Google from it's course, it was very apparent that the AMP team, and especially it's lead, Malte Ubl, strongly believe that Google is the web, and AMP is the only way to "save" the web from being app-ized by things like Facebook Instant Articles, which seems to be the existential threat Google is scared of.: https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/solutions/instant-art...

Obviously, the AMP team does not, in any way, believe the web needs to be saved from Google.
Well, it remains to be seen if that actually matters. Let's hope it still does.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/27/after-twitter-fact-check-t...
Because its cover to allow them to subsume content and serve it solely from google.com, and deny the originating page any traffic or recognition, or swap it out transparently when they feel like it.

This is literally already happening with the info sidebar, the reason signed exchanges matter is so they can throw up the smokescreen about how its cryptographically verified to come from the original page, so why are people upset.

Any site that objects and refuses to implement this stuff will just disappear from the first page which is reserved only for Accelerated By Google sites. (Which is already happening for AMP links on mobile searches).
So you did. Thanks!
Well we got some ideas for further stimulus for this and next year
Yes. But DynamoDB basically requires you to know your access patterns up front and isn’t that flexible when it comes to querying - yes I’ve watched all of the reInvent videos about how to properly model your DDB tables.

That being said, if I needed the flexibility and wanted to stay in the AWS ecosystem, I would use DocumentDB with Mongo compatibility. It uses the same storage engine as Aurora, it’s much more flexible and it doesn’t have any of the well known downsides of Mongo.
Congress should revoke immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, for any online community the size of YouTube that imposes their own "code of conduct" independent of US law. This is a very controversial idea but anything else will lead to censorship, as we're seeing again and again.
I knew about LED heat dissipation issues but I'd be surprised if at equivalent light output the incandescent would heat less..
I'm too lazy to look this up, and probably a bit too cynical, but how much stimulus money did they receive?
Malcolm Gladwell and Growing Your Startup
The production quality of the SpaceX feed is amazing and emotional. Right now (9:40am or so) the bios on the astronauts are great. They have really invested over their launches in making space inspirational, and this feed is clearly something they spent a ton of time on.

Very emotionally uplifting, I highly recommend watching the feed now if you like space.
Defense contractors never go out of business, the US government will save this company.
> Furthermore YouTube comment are full of spam and YouTube doesn't delete them, so why is it that if they contain certain Chinese keywords (in Chinese) they do delete them?

I think this just shows their spam filtering is not perfect. They delete lots of spam, in both English and Chinese, but some slip through.

Your comment seems to imply that the ONLY comments that are being deleted are the ones with the Chinese keywords. That is certainly not true. It tries to delete all spam, but the spam detection has both false negatives and false positives. That doesn't necessarily mean there is a conspiracy (doesn't mean there isn't, but provides no evidence that there is)
Think a lot of people in the same house for a large group of it.
They have no trouble borrowing because the Fed essentially signalled they’ll pull out all stops to help Boeing bonds.
That much I understand. But then, if you want it to act like a button -- do something on the page but not link anywhere -- why not leave it to look like a button so the user has the right expectation for what it's doing?

As I thought, this use-case comes down to "How do I trick the user into treating something like a link when it's really a button?" Or, more generally, "How do I subvert user expectations for a website?"

How about, don't? Maybe the fact that it's hard to do within the web spec means you should re-think what you were trying to do?
I posted this below, but since you mention Nikki -

Funny story, Supabase was originally a placeholder name - it was a joke so that Ant (co-founder) and I could entertain each other with Nikki Minaj "Super Bass" memes while we were brainstorming.

But the name grew on us once we made the initial design. Thankfully Nikki Minaj isn't well-known amongst techies.

I hope I haven't just ruined our credibility