skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol, most suggested here are garbage. Childish 'solutions' designed to just suck money from people pretending to help.

Elons stuff is all amazing. Starlink looks world changing.

Grab I also think is an amazing one. But it bought out a lot of smaller companies. So you can argue who made the biggest change, I haven't tracked down the evolution. But I think it'll be acknowledged for what it did at some point as world changing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_(company)
> I’ve always thought that people should need to get a license to have a baby.

what a perfect idea! Then Trump could sign an executive order saying "no licenses for black people" and bam - racism is solved forever.

/s (obviously)
> It would be tragic, for example, to see any serious side-effects from a vaccine in people under the age of 20, who have essentially no risk from infection.

They have little risk of death if they have no comorbidities, but even for a 20 year old, just getting COVID-19 is likely gonna be worse than the side effects from almost any vaccine imaginable. I've had vaccine side effects and I've had COVID and I'd take ten more vaccine side effects over one COVID, please.

There's also the fact that vaccines are never 100% effective and that herd immunity is important, so the 20 year old still needs the vaccine to protect the older people they may run across. So even if the 20 year old is personally somehow guaranteed an asymptomatic, no-damage infection from COVID, they still need the vaccine. Vaccines don't just protect you, they protect everyone else, and a large part of their efficacy in reducing total population mortality is through these herd immunity effects, not just from protecting the individual people who've been vaccinated.
I think one big thing is that Fortnite is no longer available on iOS devices. I didn't think it was a big deal, how many people game on iOS?

But the little people in my life are missing the corporate synergy of Marvel and Fortnite for the new season. This makes just having iOS devices in your world less palatable and teaches a valuable lesson on walled gardens.

Saddly Fortnite is one of the rare games that is cross platform online playable. It took their weight to make that happen.

Wish Epic would work to make linux a more viable native gaming platform now (steam does a lot of work with Proton, but I think native might be better...).
Do you have a citation for such a figure, or is it something that appeared self-evident, like sticky electoral support for historical, authoritarian leaders?
Who is the Australian woman arrested for her Facebook post?
They can’t easily be “much, much, much” worse for a vaccine that has already been through orders of magnitude more screening than the Swine Flu vaccine.

The Precautionary Principle cuts both ways, and I think this breaks peoples’ brains.
It's like when they used Radware for _protection_ but I do give them credit for abandoning them after all the public outcry.

I'm very curious op, where/when did you first read about them using Neustar? I didn't know that until I read your comment.
I think it makes more sense to think of the human population globally, rather than on a per-country basis. We have one planet, and environmental problems are not self-contained inside a country's borders.

You're right we need a next generation for society to continue. But right now we're trending in the opposite direction. Just like your first concern about a fast-growing invasive species is whether it becomes extinct if it doesn't reproduce enough.
Use something like Fastmail. Perfect middle ground.
This is a mark of a sick and decaying society. Without everyone having more or less two kids, who is going to pay for social security? (Or work at Amazon, etc., so your 401k isn’t worthless?) And no, immigration isn’t a solution, it’s a cop-out. Us immigrants still have to raise our kids amongst co-workers who are complaining why parents get more slack during Covid. (I mean, I don’t, because my coworkers aren’t psychotic.)
_chip layout_, this wiki article is about silicon, it got its own laws specifically to protect chip layout at the time Western believed they had the upper hand in the high end design engineering. PCB is free game everywhere except I think UK, but good luck fighting it in courts.

Not schematics, actual fab files you send to pcb manufacturer + ones you put in a pick&place machine to populate the board. From China, where else, most likely "backed up" by middle level worker to make extra $ on a side. Still no laptop straight clones despite 25 years worth of designs ready for the taking.
Binary Dino Puzzle
Cars is probably a really good example. I think it would be interesting to be able to see the road I need to turn into or the building I'm looking for or what late I need to be in indicated in some subtle way (subtle so as to hopefully not cause an accident by stealing all my focus).
Jenkins deploy Docker images to Amazon
I had no issue exporting/importing serveral Gmail inboxes about a year ago when I made the transition.
Gotcha. Yeah, that timeline seemed really aggressive, but I would hope that the FDA uses it's standard set of evaluating criteria for any new vaccine. Even though the phase 3 might only have a few months of data, you can pool phase 1 + 2 data as well, which would give you a bit more confidence as to potential long term side effects.

It would also depend on what they approve it for. You could see them restricting it to high-risk patients. In that case the risk-benefit is much better, so you'd be willing to take a chance on some hidden adverse event popping up since you'd be looking at avoiding a significant risk of death from Covid).

At least in my experience, there isn't a set formula for evaluating new drugs. The FDA really does look at every piece of data it can find. I've also found the FDA to be pretty conservative - if they are unsure, they lean towards not approving, or approving with significant restrictions.
I had a manager who kept saying "don't use fear-based estimates" since he had been picked to right the train. He looked good in front of the directors until he had to deploy the thing that was obviously rushed since "we can't use fear-based estimates". He wasn't able to pat his own back before the alert on the outage went out (all system outage)
So that when a teenager types "fortnite" in on their phone they can install it. That's the only reason. It's a little different from organic "discovery", like search and recommendations.

FWIW, Google (illegally? according to Epic, anyway) blocked Epic's attempts to address this through partner deals with phone manufacturers, so their hand was relatively forced.

If Google and Apple didn't require all installs to go through a blessed path, people would just type "fortnite" into their search engine of choice and install that way instead. Of course, Google & Apple have good reason for not allowing that, but in the case of Fortnite they really are not delivering much for the 30%.
That’s great if you can do it, unfortunately companies with big slow IT departments that don’t like making changes they didn’t ask for tend to see “MFA on all remote services” as a multi year project and widespread use of hardware tokens as impossible. For companies in that situation using something like the HIBP domain notifications can be helpful.

When MFA is in place you still have to keep loopholes in mind, things I’ve seen recently at various companies include a user blindly approving Duo prompts and letting an attacker on to the VPN, a Fortinet appliance that was supposed to be decommissioned a year ago that wasn’t, allowing an attacker to log in with credentials stolen previously, and legacy HTTP basic auth in Office 365, which bypasses MFA unless it’s disabled.
Ticketmaster for concerts

Scientific journals

Vehicle firmware and apps

The list goes on.

Apple’s policies aren’t monopoly by any historic definition: it’s complaining about commission rates, not about blocking market access, since you always can just pick a different platform.

Unless iOS and Android needs to be declared a public utility.
> That's the "herd immunity" fraction for a disease with a growth rate of 3.

Only if you assume (1) perfectly homogeneous mixing and (2) nobody is naturally immune (either due to cross-reactivity with immune responses to other coronaviruses or for any other reason).
You're not entirely wrong, but the flip side of the coin is that people won't comply with a rule just because we as a society would like them to. People will lock down for immediate severe outbreaks, as they used to for polio, but the longer lockdowns continue the more people will just say "no" and ignore them.
TView is popular and active in the Golang world

https://github.com/rivo/tview
The other way to look at it is that I as a user hire Apple to vet and QA the apps released for iOS and manage my relationship with all those developers on my behalf. That’s the deal I knowingly enter into when I buy an iPhone and I’m quite happy with it.

If others aren’t happy with it that’s fine too, just get a different phone. I don’t see any justification for coercing Apple into entering into commercial arrangements and developing product features they don’t want to support.
Covid-19 may cause prolonged gut infection–stool may test pos/resp sample neg
I signed a waiver for a non-approved yellow-fever vaccine in the US recently (supply of the approved vaccine is either non-existent or very limited); there must be some level of testing/certification required before reaching that threshold?
> Or lineage with MicroG

One major thing to note: Don't expect support from LineageOS devs for MicroG stuff. They explicitly do not support it and are slightly rustled at people using unofficial builds with MicroG and then complaining in their support channels.
Don't forget to enunciate properly on the phone:

Four Fife Niner Alfa Six Fife Bravo Foxtrot Bravo Alfa Alfa Eight Four Delta Fife Niner Niner Fife Fife Two Six Delta Echo Seven Fife Charlie Fife Four Fife Seven
Who hands out the licences?
Couldn’t have said it better myself: “Epic’s lawsuit is nothing more than a basic disagreement over money,” Apple said in its filing Tuesday. “Although Epic portrays itself as a modern corporate Robin Hood, in reality it is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that simply wants to pay nothing for the tremendous value it derives from the App Store.”
KDE has decent performance these days. Then again, if one goes out of their way to avoid the default DE, it stands to reason they might want to avoid the distro and its questionable choices entirely.
Epic is a company that reserves the right to sell your data for marketing purposes, says so in their privacy policy.

Remember that on Android they first tried to workaround Google Play's limitations by distributing Fortnite outside the store. They caved later. So this isn't about having no ability to distribute Fortnite, rather it's about them wanting easy distribution without paying the tax that everyone else is paying.

I dislike Apple's walled garden approach very much, but on the other hand it's their app store and this is still capitalism. If you don't like it, as a consumer, buy another brand, and as a developer, avoid developing for Apple. Develop for Android, develop for the open web. Voting with your wallet still works, the problem being, of course, that Apple fans are happy with the current arrangement.

And seriously, I can't side with a company willing to sell people's data for marketing purposes. Sorry.
The analogy with videogame console is i think the best one. I hate Apple rules on the app store, but i’ve always wondered if they hadn’t just copied the gaming console business models.

Which makes me wonder : is there any way to distribute your own game to playstation users, without having to ask or pay anything to sony ?
I help to maintain an isolated network of desktops running Windows 95. It's a complex EHR system with multiple clients.

It's a family business, and the software works really well (a medical niche), so the investment to update the stack doesn't make any sense. (And there's no need to bother clinicians neither with things that don't add value) I have a VM for tweaking and working with it. I have multiple ETL scripts that extract the data to a modern ERP.

I don't have access to the source code, but I have tried to reverse engineer it from multiple angles. Essentially it's a 16 Bits client written on Delphi with a database (dBase) that doesn't support multiple readers or writers, shared via a network drive. Clients read files from the shared drive and create locks to avoid multiple clients working in the same data. That's the main source of pain, but the clinicians adapt to it in a week or so.

I haven't seen yet a modern system as complete as this one. There are multiple clinical centers in the area using the same software (25ish) and the 2-3 that moved into newer systems regretted greatly.

The market is too small for any new developments. But the guy who built it in the 90's maintains it and earns enough to live happily.
This one is wrong on the OS side of thigs.

KB = Kilobyte, which from SI definition of kilo means 10^3.

KiB = Kibibyte, was formaly defined later by IEC in 1998 as 2^10

OSes (Windows/Mac/Linux), are the ones doing it wrong, using 2^10 internaly, but presenting using SI prefixes.
I advocated at my own risk to try and improve our working conditions. Being honest and carrying out my work in the way I was most comfortable doing, directly and assertively asking for better physical and social conditions to perform our duties, and using my own equipment where theirs was a hindrance. The tech stack was relatively ancient, but I accepted that as part of the role, because it wouldn't have improved much of anything to swap YUI for another. Anyway, I learned after I was fired that our group cubes were replaced by something less soul crushing and more configurable, the sales guy who screamed on his bluetooth headset every hour while typing on his mechanical keyboard was moved, and the guy in charge of the failed project I was assigned to was promoted. So honestly idgaf about improving whatever company I'm at anymore. I just try and pick one that will not suck so bad and plan to stick around for 6 months.
Even wor... really?

That is less than the coffee bean budget for a month at most of these organizations. They probably spend more than that a year on parts and labor for the coffee equipment.

That organization fee is a token fee. A little friction so that it makes you serious and it stings a bit if it gets cancelled. To maybe not faff about and get down to shipping a product. A few bucks to cover things like CA maintenance and help fund some outreach programs I suspect.

$100 for individuals might be a bit on the steep side, I'll grant you. Or a stick to get you to become an organization as soon as possible.
> My friends and family aren’t socially distanced...Social interaction is not a risk for the vast majority of healthy people.

Have you considered that this attitude might be the reason this pandemic has so affected the US in particular?
What does user paying have to do with Epic lining their pockets with this move?
Yeah, sounds like p-hacking.

Still, supporting a proper army is a massive economic undertaking, so it seems likely that army sizes (and battle sizes) started relatively small and grew over time. Maybe this new finding actually does suggest that scale-up happened earlier than most previous legitimate estimates.

My money's on p-hacking though.
That's definitely employer specific. That's has not been the case where I work.
By 2001 you could get a cheap 32MB SIMM with $10 and run W95 relatively well. Add a 486 which for sure where like $5-$10 (A Pentium MMX was about $20-30) and you'd be relatively well. Opera 6? still ran on 486 aceptability, and Lynx flew.
> just getting COVID-19 is likely gonna be worse than the side effects from almost any vaccine imaginable

Do you have any non-anecdotal articles that quantify this?
The Apple platform is more than just the AppStore.
>Evidence for Gastrointestinal Infection of SARS-CoV-2 (full paper)

https://www.gastrojournal.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0016-5085%...
In modern society it's basically required that both parents work full-time jobs. It's not the 50s anymore; you can't support an entire household with children on one income. So you can't have the expectation that one of the parents give up a large chunk of their salary just to have kids. If you do structure society in this way then you get rapidly declining birth rates and very bad long-term population demographic problems (which many countries are already dealing with). Personally I think the best solution would be to have universal child care going down to age 0 (rather than just age 5 as it is now), which is common in many other countries. Because of efficiencies of scale, that's cheaper than subsidizing all the foregone salary required by parents all individually giving up one of their two household jobs to devote to child-rearing.
Things literally do go from fine to anti-competitive or illegal over time, because context matters and both laws and circumstances change.

In one case, the US fought a whole war over something that was previously legal for decades!
I hope that the benchmark for approval is "for a given group, the risk of the vaccine is lower than the risk of COVID".

This has some good commentary:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/09/on... some thoughtful commentary.

I believe that for at risk populations it is very likely that taking a phase III vaccine candidate is the safer option right now, let alone after another month of data.

I think let anyone who wants to volunteer to take it make their own risk assessment but be required to send data back. The only real arguments I have seen against this are political or paternalistic. But I also think people should be allowed to run human challenge studies on volunteers, which is also an ethical no brainier. But that doesn't seem to be happening either.

It basically feel like the world in 2020 decided the answer to the "trolley car problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem. 2020 society's action seems to be: "inaction causing 5 deaths is better than action causing 1 death".
"A manager responded that the employee was expected to work full time, or not at all."

Wow, I have no words... What a shitty leader.
What do you trust, then? You must put your trust some place I suppose?
Again, schematics and PCB layout are not covered by neither copyright nor patents. This is the reason behind Apple, Commodore, IBM and others fighting clones with bios/firmware lawsuits.
I can definitely envision fascist-lite elected officials using lockdowns in the future willy nilly, because the people precisely have gone along with it.
In the Pre-Covid Age that scam was pretty common in NYC, too. Usually it's someone dressed as a Buddhist monk in a tourist area like Times Square who will walk up to you and press a charm into your hand, then ask for payment. This happened to me when I first moved here years ago. I wasn't sure what was happening so I thanked him and kept walking, thinking it was some kind of religious proselytizing thing. He came after me and angrily demanded money, so I handed the charm back and left.

Here's an article from a few years ago about these fake monks being a nuisance on the High Line park: https://gothamist.com/news/the-high-line-is-struggling-with-...
"When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no lands left to conquer."

Skyler: "If I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family..." Walter: "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. I was really alive."

The way I see it, conquerors aren't driven by greed or morality. They conquer because they enjoy it, are good at it, and want to be the best and greatest.
A New Theory Asks: Could a Mask Be a Crude ‘Vaccine’
Epic’s big mistake was assuming that enough consumers care. Certainly Fortnite is popular, but it’s not popular with a large enough percentage of the entire iOS market to support that kind of action.
That's not a "really good deal." Do 20% of your normal expenses magically go away? And if you have to spend any extra money of your own for care or related things (maybe none of your old clothes fit anymore!) it gets worse. Plus, you know, there's the HORRIBLY ILL part of it.
So it might depend on the individual and company in question, but not everyone is "loosing" time parenting, and in many cases the allowance they're seeking is the ability to flex their schedule so they can do something like a 4hr schedule in the AM and a 4hr schedule in the late afternoon/evening. They're not seeking fewer hours for the same pay, but the ability to work their 8 hours when they can instead of a standard 9-5 schedule.

Yes, this may not work for everyone, but in plenty of situations there's no reason that should be a difficult ask. As long as I complete my sprint work, why should it matter whether I wrote that code or report or graph between 12-4PM or 6-10PM?
Here is a recent video from a meetup hosted by LinkedIn where an engineer explains exactly how LinkedIn advertising works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2YLoyFXvIY&list=PLihIrF0tCX...
If there are fewer people working the managers should be scheduling less work.

In your “tax rebate” example you should be upset with whoever decided to issue rebates in that way, not the people who received the rebate.
Ok fair enough, I will have a look again.. It is indeed all over the place, I went through it all once about a year and a half ago, so it could be some things have changed.
Maybe I misunderstood, because I'm on board with everything you're describing here. Most people I've seen who say they don't want to return to "business as usual" mean that we should just have restrictions in place forever, but if we're just talking about additive changes to let people avoid diseases if they'd like, I'm all in favor.
It may be more the level of organization. Warfare was common but thought to be more on the family/clan scale.
Shouldn’t Netflix be in favor of remote work for business purposes?

I would think there is a correlation between the amount of wfh across the world and Netflix viewership.
This is a fair point that I had not considered. The more positive spin is that it's a sacrifice to move toward an egalitarian society where women have the same career options as men.
You’re mistaking the platform for the product.

I bought an item through Amazon recently and it did come with a bunch of materials inviting me to visit the manufacturer’s website.

I bought an app through the App Store and it is prohibited from inviting me to visit the vendor’s website.

In contrast, I bought a MMORPG through the PlayStation store and the first thing it did was direct me to the maker's account sign-up.
It's clear that they aren't going to return the data to you, so it's not, strictly speaking 'free genome sequencing'.

Google's Baseline project offered something similar, though their initial marketing information leaned much more heavily on the implication that you would be receiving your genomic data in exchange for sharing it. Instead, they eventually fobbed off the actual genetic test results they returned to a healthcare startup looking for publicity, that took their own samples and ran a handful of cheap, common tests that were quite unlikely to provide anyone with actionable data.

I'm unclear why companies don't seem inclined to provide access to this data in exchange for it's extraction, other than liability and 'customer management'.
> Why doesn't the IRS just have a web app like turbotax for everyone

Because capitalism blah blah. The government isn't supposed to compete with businesses.
You are correct, under federal law, and for non-government jobs.

But, states and localities often add protected classes beyond federal requirements. As has the executive branch of the US government for federal jobs.