skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your overall point that to put the fire out, you've got to extinguish all the embers.

But, as an alternative to synchronization, you could also require vaccinations for everyone who travels.

If a country gets it under control within its borders, it could require visitors to show proof they either (1) have tested positive for the disease and then recovered or (2) have been vaccinated recently enough (but not too recently) and also tested negative for the disease.

That way, you'd know they do not have it and have some degree of protection against picking it up while traveling to your country.
Newer Epsons do have refillable cartridges. I'm not sure that's the solution, I'm sure they're not giving the ink away. My older Epson seems to be mostly ok, but the last time I let it sit for a couple of months I did notice that I had to run the calibration and head cleaning a couple of times before the colors came out right again.

I suspect you're right about it being mostly a money generation effort.
Do you have an issue with undercover cops? Plain clothes cops? They all have unmarked cars. I dont hear anyone complaining....

The only reason people are freaking out is because they are going directly after antifa. You attack federal buildings, you get arrested.. or let go because NLG is a legal arm of Antifa and pays your bail.
If you are having issues with the site loading you can try this archive link https://web.archive.org/web/20200717131125/https://www.waves...
Unproductive: The Procrustean Bed of Modernity. My experience has been that a person is either enjoying it so much so that he or she doesn't give an f about hours spent, or is bound by responsibility. The feeling of being unproductive is more often than not a byproduct of not being in one of these situations --- all it says is neither am I enjoying what I'm doing nor am I in a position of responsibility. A net negative term, says nothing of essence at all, squeezing every bit of life out of you by inducing unwarranted guilt!
> Contrary to your assertions, you don't want employees spreading effort like peanut butter, you want to focus them on executing one or two things quickly and getting value out of that quickly.

That's not quite what I was driving at. Optimisation is made on the measurement. Measurement is only necessary because the Agent is not perfectly observable, there is an information asymmetry between Principal and Agent.

That's why Austin's model is so helpful. There are many things that must be done in order to best satisfy the Customer. Some of those are measurable, some are less measurable. But a rational Agent looks at any basket of measurements and will optimise for one of them: the one that pays best.

It's not enough to say "just this one feature and no peanut butter please". You have to define what the one feature is. You have to provide an exact measure for it. Agents can then either optimise honestly, or they can go further and optimise fraudulently. If honestly, the Principal realises that they actually need a basket of values to be optimised. But then they need to apply equal compensation, because the Agent will simply ignore any measurement that doesn't maximise their results.

I believe measurement is useful. But I also believe that connecting it to even the whiff of reward or punishment is beyond merely futile and well into being destructive.
Would large tents + mosquito netting be a viable workaround?
Even as a C++ type I still shudder when I see Perl.
I maintain a web app that would really benefit from an E2E suite, but we don't have the developer capacity to write one right now, so this looks like it hits a potential sweet spot for me. To use Reflect, I think we would need to understand the plan for what happens if the SaaS goes under -- ideally, we'd be left holding our test definitions and some open-source version of the test runner that we can instantiate on our own VM.
My last remaining grandparent is far more at risk from being left alone for long periods, than COVID. Deaths from poor or non-existent care in care homes due to lockdowns are certainly a contributor to excess deaths e.g. in Spain where panicked care home staff abandoned the elderly to die:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52014023

The virus isn't dangerous. I understand this is hard to accept given what's happened but the data is uniform and consistent on that. Swiss excess mortality data shows nothing unusual even now the epidemic is over:

https://swprs.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/schweiz-todesfaell...

In fact Switzerland is now experiencing below average mortality, indicating that some of the people who died with COVID were at the end of their life and going to die in the next couple of months anyway.

Moreover about half of all deaths were in nursing homes, where lockdowns have no effect and certainly masks on ÖV have no effect

https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/coronavirus-zuerich-aendert-nun-d...

Your response is sadly typical of too many people now: running from data, from the truth, and claiming anyone who tells you what really happened must hate their own grandparents. Sorry but it's a shocking and dirty tactic.
In general I do agree citations are a good thing. But in this case and ones like it, does it really matter? Someone is making a humorous statement, it’s not of particular importance to me if it was made 100 years ago first or not, so why should I care to look it up?

Rephrased: what would change if you found the image was “fake”?
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This is a great solution to what is mostly a non-problem. It's also not the first one of its kind.

Regular expressions should be used so sparingly that you don't need an entire library to write them safely. If you're ever writing a regular expression and find yourself needing something like this to keep it under control, IMO you should step back and consider just writing some actual code instead. Use a proper parser if you're doing a complicated parsing job, or if you're doing data validation, you can generally just reify your predicates as boolean functions, or you might reach for something like joi or a similar library.
I do need a Windows system though, I ocasionally need some Adobe programs to work for exporting assets, and I'm not ready to go 100% with Linux in my "work workflow".

What do you mean by "doesn't handle virtualization"? Do you mean running VirtualBox or a similar tool?
You can add them to RAID0/1 vdevs; you can't add them to RAIDZ vdevs. Which you don't have if you don't run ZFS. You might have RAID5, but then you also have a write hole.
An app with a higher percentage of the population enrolled is probably more successful than sheer numbers in this case.
The article actually _does_ mention challenges to the real virus, at the end of the "What are the next steps in the trial?" section:

> There are also calls to perform "challenge trials"[1] in which vaccinated people are deliberately infected with coronavirus. However, there are ethical concerns due to a lack of treatments.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53426367
That's why I said "in principle". In practice, plenty of fraud/miscalculation/complicating-factors exist. I was simply arguing that derivatives are not, by virtue of their fundamental properties, illusionary or non-productive wealth.
I have been using Ubuntu + LXD + RaidZ for as long as it was available. Recently (a year ago?) I first had noticed some kind of unclear performance issue with a FLEX container. Heavy file streaming/download would hose and make entire server unusable. I had no idea what to do, and I pretty much randomly converted the LXD storage to BTRFS, and everything was fine. Last few months I ran into same problem with a bunch of PostgreSQL containers doings lots of writes, and same solution helped. Not sure if it's a ZFS problem or LXD, but I will not use ZFS in high load scenario again.
"written in the early 20th century". Are you sure it's not public domain by now?
You invest into something like the S&P 500 (maybe better: MSCI World/FTSE Developed World) precisely to outrun inflation. In the OP's example, the million would be worth that million, not 300k. Look up compound interest.
To be honest, lately I've been coming around to the idea that a culture that permits you to simply punch someone who walks up to you and flagrantly insults your spouse is probably more civilized than our culture where the puncher faces years of jail time, while the troll gets to do it risk-free.

Let me explicitly say I don't mean this as something to draw out much farther than the example I give. I don't mean to punch people who merely disagree with you politically, or beating them excessively, or any other bizarre extrapolation you may want to accuse me of. It doesn't even particularly apply online since there's no physical interaction component. I'm just thinking, you know, you get what you reward, and when you permit endless, endless trolling but punish the natural human reactions to it, you're going to get a culture of trolls and churlishness. We're paradoxically both too nice and too churlish as a culture right now.

https://centerforinquiry.org/news/buzz_aldrin_punches_moon-l... (& note the punch wasn't for the conspiracy or denial, it was for flat-out insult.)

(There is moderation in the process, in that generally the people around you are going to need to mostly agree that was justified. This prevents total chaos. One must aggressively, persistently, and willfully step over the cultural lines for this, it is not something that would be deployed for every minor disagreement.)
Some people are less susceptible to biases/anchoring than others.

I know where you're coming from, but you also have to accept that you have anchored yourself at the $25 price.
> Without government help there wouldn't be any airlines left.

Could you elaborate on that please?

Edit: It's just another round of socializing risk while privatizing profit. Too big to fail is a hoax. When a firm is declared bankrupt only 1% the of value is lost to bankruptcy costs.

The other 99% is recovered by creditors through asset sales, restructuring, layoffs of people that use their knowledge in other companies.

The ratio of direct bankruptcy costs to the market value of the firm appears to fall as the value of the firm increases.

As measured here, the cost of bankruptcy is on average about one percent of the market value of the firm prior to bankruptcy.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2326766?seq=1
I think they mean don't block the release for not knowing whether it confers long-term immunity. I don't think they mean to remove all conditions (like safety) for blocking the release.
Many news sites will do this to keep you on-site instead of bouncing elsewhere.
Another way of putting is that lockdowns won’t end with a vaccine, they’ll end if there was enough hospital capacity for congressmen and rich people.

Why not build more hospitals?
but then you run into the old saw about damn lies and statistics. the argument needs to stand on its own and be taken in good faith, otherwise discussion is futile.

(edit: that's not to say provide no links, just that it won't make the argument, per my other comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23899088, ironically, a citation.)
Stuff that's just so insanely out of the money, and so close to expiry, that even by "YOLO" standards, it's stupid.

You usually get burned right off the bat because the bid/ask spread is huge, so to even get the order filled, you need a limit order with a really unfavorable price
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The unfortunate side effect if this became standard is that there may be far less motivation for wealthier nations to help poorer nations vaccinate everybody.
"There is a beautiful selfie at timestamp 6:41"

Where's the camera in that selfie? Perhaps edited out of the mosiac?
Simple case of dependencies failing. Not much to elaborate.

e.g. NPM.js uses CloudFlare DNS, so services which needed to talk to NPM.js weren't able to do so.
>What? Cases take years or decades to make their way through the court system. You might be thinking of the fact that some laws get an injunction on their enforcement until they are ruled on, but that is not mandatory.

It's implied that we're talking about what happens after it's decided. We obviously can't talk about the action of the court before it's been decided. What matters is what happens after a decision has been made. The grandparent comment gave me the impression that in germany, after a law has been found to be unconstitutional by the courts, it doesn't get struck down. Instead, it gets sent back to the legislature for revision, while remaining valid in the meantime.

>And of course if the legislature changes the law, the case becomes moot by the time it reaches the court (this happens semi-regularly, where the court refuses to rule on the constitutionality of a law that is no longer on the books).

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Is this supposed to be a flaw? What purpose does it serve to rule on laws that have already been revoked? To throw some shade on the legislative branch? To punish them somehow? Moreover, is this something that doesn't happen in germany?
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Raph's technique relies on compute shaders as a core part of the processing technique. That wouldn't work on an overwhelming majority of phones these days. Pathfinder has a compute-less approach which moves the binning to the CPU, not the GPU. And we're talking about bandwidth-constrained devices. I don't think you're going to out-perform H264.

Slug is not applicable to this scene -- it makes several core operating assumptions (being able to pre-process curve data into a friendlier format, and its shape bounding boxes are well-defined and pre-processed. These hold for font / text assets but not real-time glyphs)
Doing that loses the benefits of UUIDs. You can get duplicate IDs and they can be guessable.
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> almost nothing is sold directly by Amazon itself

What do you base that statement on? I order lots of stuff from Amazon and almost all of it is sold by Amazon and not a third-party. Sometimes I do have to pick Amazon from the list of alternate sellers.
It depends on the person too. I struggle to remember six digits and forget them in hours, but my partner somehow manages to instantly memorize credit card numbers at a glance and retain them for months. I thought she was tricking me at first, but I tested her and its genuine. I guess some people are just gifted with very good memories.
Something that an observer said when Trump was elected has really struct with me : "the next 4 years are going to be a stress test for the checks and balances of the US political system".

I could not have been truer and damn ... the system is not faring well.
With these things, you're really trying to get saturation (I think it's usually estimated that they need to get to about 60% adoption to be very useful), so in that context 1.5 million downloads in Ireland is more successful than 100m in India (though neither is good enough).
What does that make the right?
You could of course describe it the other way around.

The population starts out hating mask wearing - don't see many people volunteering for that in America before 2020. And then it was labelled as "caring" and "protecting others" and despite vast piles of evidence indicating it achieves nothing, half the country is immediately influenced into hating non-mask-wearing.
I want to add that it's hilarious to me that "long term store of value"'s value proposition is as fiat as the USD :)

Honestly maybe more so
Yes! There were some DDoS attacks. Had to add some rate limits through Cloudflare to address those. Been a rough week managing it.

Try now. Should be working fine.

https://twitter.com/sushant_kumar/status/1285207620530257920...
Gnus is a thin veneer over raw elisp -- it's a framework like any other with
mail objects and "best practices" ways of manipulating them. You'd need to be
a green belt in elisp to "Gnus" a workflow. It's only a few steps away from
building it from scratch in perl or python.
Yes, and then they banned 8Chan just the same (I think? One of those sites where a shooter talked to his friends) as soon as they were under pressure.
> The foundational invention is the TileDB universal storage engine

Obviously what he's saying is that the secret sauce is that they have invented a secret sauce ;)
Wouldn't that be 4fpm (frames per minute)? Which is no problem for signage, but not really practical as a secondary display...
That's the whole point of using it in the first place. And the solomon reed encoding/replication.
I don't know about UV itself, but the spec sheet on my 7" Waveshare eInk display says to avoid direct sunlight and extreme heat.
It's funny how we circle back to reputation - or, in other words, authority. People like to point out "appeals to authority" as fallacious (particularly when they don't like what's being said), but reputation is still one of the best heuristics for rapid evaluation of information that we have.

But then there's the issue whether the quoted authority actually said what's being quoted. Reputation is transitive, so you could technically chain it (a "web of trust" :)), but then again, looking at most regular people I know in real life, this doesn't work - it's hard to trust second-hand information even from a friend or family member, unless you know they're way above average in being pedantic about information provenance in their speech.

Unfortunately, most people I know will say "X is Y", where the correct thing to say would be "I remember reading 2 years ago in Foo that they claimed Bar said X is Y". This makes reports from such people pretty much entirely noise, as it's impossible to evaluate provenance.
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> despite your claim this isn't some paid ad (quote: "This really isn't any sort of paid or sponsored content crap for Bunny."), it's exactly that.

I don't understand this comment. Do you have some sort of proof that the CDN reached out to the author, or even knows he exists outside of a CMS?

I've seen this sentimentality a lot, where people aren't allowed to talk about a service or a product positively without some sort of money being involved or sneaky guy-in-a-trenchcoat bs. I really don't understand it.
I am unsure how common it is, but I do know that for many entrepreneurs it can sometimes be painful to sell your company/product/culture/idea that you have worked on for so long and for so hard, so I think it is a way for creators to remain part of their creation. :-)
Why is this marked as a dupe, when the "original" doesn't mention the other 6 VPNs leaking data? Yes, UFO VPN's leak in this article is based on the "original" article, but I looked at this to see if it included any VPNs I use, and I never clicked on the UFO VPN article because I don't use UFO VPN.
You are misunderstanding the point of this study. This is a Phase 1 study designed to show that the vaccine itself doesn't directly make people sick and to measure their antibody responses via blood tests.

The on-going Phase 2/3 trials in the UK, South Africa and Brazil are designed to establish the efficacy of the vaccine under viral challenge. The idea is that you vaccinate a bunch of people (and an equally-sized control group) and wait around until a subset of them test positive for the virus. Then you unblind the groups and make sure that the people who got sick were in the control group. You also check for ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) to make sure the vaccine doesn't amplify the strength of the virus.

All your questions are valid, but this study doesn't claim to answer them. Those results are still forthcoming. Additionally, the risk of ADE is well understood and carefully considered in the design of these trials.

(Disclaimer - I'm a participant in the UK Phase 2/3 trial)
The extension’s author here. Just wanted to let you know that—apart from Chrome—it’s also available for Edge, and a beta version based on a (still unfinished) polyfill for Firefox. The same code also works on Safari 14, we hope to release it there, too. Install links: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment#in...
The Oort cloud around the Solar system ranges halfway to the next star. That far out the Sun is probably not the only relevant influence anymore. Even though stars would have to get really close to be able to mess up orbits of the inner Solar system, a large comet can absolutely wreck the biosphere if it hits us.
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I'm not sure common personal websites are a great analogy to Mastodon... Does your website allows millions of people to interact with each other bidirectionally WHILE being decentralized - in the sense that no single authority can takeover/remove content over ALL the ecosystem? Because that's what Mastodon tries to be.

I know that a disproportionately large instance may attract the level of attacks that twitter gets, but - while I'm ignorant of all possible attack vector of activitypub or all mastodon instances - I think it would be hard to take over all those celebrities accounts if they are split among several instances.

Each instance admin could potentially try to interrupt the attack on their users on their own.

I'm sure ActivityPub and Mastodon are not flawless but I think that if they decentralized in the right way, it does prevent this type of attacks such as the ones witness on Twitter. It's not even through obscurity, it's just through friction of having multiple admins to deal with.
This assumption (i. e. that everything bad is done anyway, only in secret) is a truism. People who buy into this sort of cynicism will rely on the non-existence of evidence as evidence of their theory of all-powerful government able to suppress all evidence.

The idea is also destructive for any effort to improve matters: if everything and everyone is corrupt, there's no point in trying to hold anyone to account. And if those in power continually get hit with the wildest accusations people can think of, they will at some point abandon the idea of trying to do a good job and/or being honest because there are no incentives whatsoever when the discourse is dominated by narratives that are no longer in any way tied to their actual behaviour.
If you want good cache hit ratios, you probably want to use segments as files rather than segments as byte ranges. Off the shelf http caching software tends to have filesize limits and may not cache large files in ram or even on disk if they're large enough, and may do unexpected things with range requests like request the whole file, then serve the range to the client. CDNs may be running totally custom http stacks or off the shelf stacks with tuned configs or somewhere in between, but if you intend to use one, it makes sense to build your content so it'll be easily cached.
The US isn't exactly on the forefront of efforts to halt the spread of the virus, if you compare and contrast our numbers with places like Germany.
You could (sometimes) view it as a benefit though. Somebody trying to poke holes into your position, even if they are not being fair, is still practice for defending your position. If you're not well-versed in defending it, then you might end up discovering better evidence or it could make you vary of problems with your position.

Obviously you can't do this every time. It's not at all wrong to blow off those that are simply trying to get a rise out of you. However, in the rare cases that you do engage them, you can rest knowing that you didn't entirely waste your time.