skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This just confirms what I said above.

Why? Because you said so?

> The cognitive dissonance of not having a real theory is causing you to lash out at me, for no reason other than pointing out your missing theory.

I wasn't aware that you're a mind reader.

> It's pretty simple really, if there's a way to determine value then there must be a way to say that it's correct in one way or another.

There's a shortcut: I simply define value in terms of supply and demand, the exchange of goods and services, based on subjective disposition.

If you are clamoring for some other theory of value, feel free to do so. I think that's a waste of time.

> If things are always just worth whatever someone will pay for them "because of the market" then you aren't saying anything at all.

If you believe that, then any further discussion must be fruitless.

> Plus you can't explain a number of common observations.

I probably can, but you won't like the explanation.
15 years ago I ran into a govt agency relying on win95 to run a terminal client to access some as/400 app[0]. It was a tailored win95 under some special maintenance contract. Still surprising but alas.

[0] application being the nicest job ROI I've ever had the pleasure to witness, bare terminal UI, zero learning time, zero waiting time, fully dedicated to help you do your task quick and right.
It doesn't even have to be a "bad" vaccine. The FDA has already said that 50% effectiveness would be sufficient, which would put it about on par with the seasonal flu vaccine.

Combined with a high baseline infection rate, and an aggressive testing regime (at least compared to flu/other non-pandemic diseases), there will be a lot of people who get vaccinated and proceed to get sick and test positive.

The real evidence of the vaccine working would be by the herd immunity it creates. But that is a population level effect, and people are terrible at understanding population level effects.
Wouldn't that depend on how far inland the mine is? Certainly, mining operations tend to pollute groundwater, but I wouldn't expect that a mine that's more than a few miles inland would significantly pollute the ocean via runoff.
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You can get it through food as well. The name was given when science was not as developed as today. Finally, names tend to stick once given.
Yam is a markup language, except it's not because it's a tuber
"Because the article is about is about political involvement tainting public trust" - and how does quoting a political candidates opinion on something she knows nothing about not doing exactly that to this article? .. you have to be kidding me.
I had a blind friend that wanted to code, or allow blind kids to code. I didn't have the skills to build this sort of thing,but you are very close! If it helps motivate you to get rid of all clicks and visuals, this would be hugely welcome in the blind community.
The carnation revolution Portugal was not violent have you got those revolutions switched
That it doesn't mean shit seems to be indeed "legal" practice.
Keybase has KBFS, which is incredibly well thought through, but sadly their acquisition by zoom spells bad things for the platform...
Would you be so kind to post an example Postscript file generated by WordPerfect?
Oh definitely. I wasn't trying to imply this is the situation in Belarus and I apologize if it came off that way, just that poll watching (like most things) can be used for both good and for evil, so it important to make sure there are safeguards in place for the latter.
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Even a slim mainstream linux distro would blush seeing your old 20mb setup.
Why not? It's a plausible (not impossible) state of reality, is it not?

I was just asking, as there are people that truly seem to believe the "mainstream" media is indeed truthful. Some of my relatives, for example.
>> some lessons or takeaways though

The lesson to learn is often "just don't go". Fire season in california is becoming like avalanche season in places like BC. When the danger level is high, the only real answer is to avoid the area altogether. You check the prevailing conditions (the posted avalanche/fire danger) and if you choose to go you do periodic spot-checks on the terrain you are walking over. If the underbrush is too dry, the temperature rises, you see/hear thunderstorms, or you get reports of fires in similar areas, it is time to evac. Waiting until you see smoke is not good.
Are there any Technical Details of how this work?
And that strategy still doesn't account for word of mouth.
...I can't argue with that unassailable logic. Particularly since I use the same when I insist on using my own domain for my email address now, regardless of what provider I use behind it, after the difficulty of handing out my replacement address to everyone who used to have my old Gmail account...
Honestly I really like this, I can't wait to use it, but my concerns are around certain features being behind a paywall, especially HA and Clustering on the self-hosted version.

I understand that the cloud hosted version should cost more for these features but without a way to get pricing for the self-hosted HA and clustered version it will be a tough sell for me to deploy it, use it and have to scrap it in the future.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm, about half-way down.

Excess all-cause mortality in 2020 vs. previous years. (Note: data from recent weeks is incomplete.)
I wonder if package weight is available in the tracking information that Amazon or other seller service can access?
There was VBScript but Microsoft gave up on that idea early on.
https://www.howtogeek.com/437372/what-is-vbscript-and-why-di...
> the figures are similar in European countries.

Do you have a source ?
If the statistics warrant it then yes, but for a vaccine, even waiting to finish these trials is an incredibly rushed schedule. This isn't even about stopping the trial early - this is about approving it conditionally before the trial is done and then waiting for the trial to end to really approve it. I don't think the concern is about fabricating phase III data. The concern is that extreme political pressures mean no matter what the interim results say, the FDA may feel inclined to approve the vaccine. Considering that we need healthy people to willingly take these vaccines to end the pandemic, losing that trust in the process would be devastating. People need to believe that the FDA approved it because the evidence shows the vaccine is most likely effective without safety concerns. If they don't, then they won't take it, and if the vaccine then fails phase III, its not clear how you regain that trust as a regulatory agency.
So... I'll repeat what I said to sibling: why did Windows take minutes to hours to fsck after a hard reset when Mac OS didn't between 2003 and 2012 (Windows 8)?

I'm even being generous by using past tense here because I still have to live with Win 7 and this particular problem (no, I can't just upgrade, it's a $40k industrial tool). I'd be ecstatic to learn that the ungodly slow fscks are redundant or easily disabled and the whole thing is just a matter of extremely poor defaults.
Who better to ask about politics than a politician?
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Why do you use such an old phone? I tried a “minimalist” (obsolete) phone setup and while it was nice, I couldn’t stick with it.

What are your favorite things about your Nokia?
The amount of computational power in biological systems is simply staggering.

In extremely simple organisms like roundworms, there are on the order of hundreds of neurons; for most insects you're in the 10k-1M range.

A honeybee contains one million neurons, which are computational devices that we have a hard time fully and accurately mapping, and something like a billion connections between them.

Each of those neurons contains the entire genome for that honeybee, around 250 million base pairs. Those code for all of the ~thousands of proteins that make up a honeybee - proteins are made up of sequences of amino acids which arrange themselves into shapes with different molecular interaction properties. Figuring out that shape given the amino acid sequence is so computationally difficult that it spawned the Folding@Home project, which is one of the largest collections of computing power in the world.

The process of translating from DNA through RNA to a protein is itself substantially harder than it sounds - spend time with a bioinformatics textbook at some point to see some of the features of DNA, such as non-coding regions in the middle of sequences that describe proteins, or sections of RNA which themselves fold into functional forms.

None of this is even getting down to the molecular level, where the geometry of the folded proteins allows them to accelerate reactions by millions or trillions of times, allowing processes which would normally operate at geological scales to be usable for something with the lifespan of a bacterium.

The most complex systems we've ever devised pale in comparison to even basic biological systems. You need to start to look at macro-scale systems like the internet or global shipping networks before you start to see things that approximate the level of complexity of what you can grow in your garden.

Nature builds things, we're playing with toys.
You seem to be trying to say something but trail off into weak points all the time. Why would you not talk to the opposition about a politically motivated issue made by the President?
Has anyone done or know of anyone who has done a third party security review of Karbiner-elements?
Same with gas (not petrol), it's the one thing in my house I absolutely would not under any circumstances touch.

Electricity I understand and how to work safely with it, water is the same (and the outcome isn't likely to kill you) but gas, gas will blow out the walls.

It's remarkable how safe we made it actually when you think about it but all of those lessons where often learnt in blood and strife.
balenaEtcher has spyware?

The size versus Etcher -- 256 kb to 210 MB -- makes this worth checking out!
Make sure to opt out of personal info sharing before doing this. There's a subtle disclosure permitting selling info to affiliates before enrolling in their tax program that can be declined (it looks required at first glance but isn't).
wget directly to /usr/bin. Am I the only one who cringes upon such a pattern? I am probably too old. I recently almost doubled over when I saw that /sbin is now a symlink to /usr/sbin on bullseye. Even worse, /lib/modules is a symlink to /usr/lib/modules. Try $ find /lib -name \mlx5\ and learn how find treats symlinks.
1. Simplify - as a rule of thumb, if something looks too complicated it probably is. If you think there are too much "ifs" in the code, there certainly are.

2. Remove any "shiny-new-toy". A perfect example would be my bank, which operates in ~15-20 countries: Their interface isn't a shiny web interface with pretty animations to cover up a slow response time. The interface all employees use is built with ncurses. That speaks volumes.

3. Profiling the code and by doing so find unnecessary bottlenecks.

4. Never blindly reinvent the wheel. If a solution looks absurd but is highly used, chances are the solution is there to cover an edge case. Ask before you decide to "fix" it.
I get the feeling that I'll be downvoted again if I don't make myself clear with a disclaimer, so here goes: I support the idea of democracy in Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the current movement has many problems (understatement) and cannot be called a true democratic movement. Here are some Hong Kong'ers with a different perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk-m6FDMYg0

Note: there's no great firewall in Hong Kong, so it's normal that they post to Youtube.

Those US flag wavers were limited to some in Hong Kong only. The rest of the population (including Hong Kong) has a very different opinion. See the above videos, posted by Hong Kong'ers.

Furthermore, how exactly does the US plan to liberate people? Here's what's done so far:

- Hong Kong Human Rights bill, which damages the Hong Kong economy.

- Banning Chinese companies, which damages both the Chinese and the US economy.

I believe that your intentions are genuine, but I don't believe the US govt's intentions are. To them it's all a political game, like "liberating" Iraq from that evil dictator who conjured weapons of mass destruction out of nothing.
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Oh shut the fuck up you passive-aggressive autistic cunt.
There was also an ancillary study to VITAL that focused on looking at depression & vitamin D3. Here's some good commentary on that study:

https://peterattiamd.com/randomized-controlled-trials-when-t...

tl;dr Due to the study's flawed design, you can't claim there's no connection between depression and oral vitamin D3 supplementation.
My first time through first aid training was just after princess Diana died. The trainers from the local level one hospital were convinced that if the accident had happened in the US she would have lived. They even had a local case of a very similar accident just a month before where those involved lived, in large part because it wasn't on doctor in the ambulance trying to do things it was over a dozen doctors specializing in different things working on their part at the same time.

Of course the point of all the above is call 911 (or the local emergency number) ASAP, the faster you can get experts involved the better.
Yes, I have subscribed to both the blog and the Telegram; on the Discord I'm given the impression this may be unreliable.

I don't get why I can't pre-order now; if I'm willing to spend money on a promise, like with Kickstarter, then I should be able to do so here.
"Years later, Verne often took to quoting his tuning teacher, J. D. Ansell, whose favorite aphorism was “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”"

That's a lovely line.

There is a similar person living in Toronto who tunes pianos for Lowrey, his name is Mark Zillman. Incredibly good at what he does. This must be one of the few professions where not being able to see well or at all is an advantage.

Edit: here is an article about him:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/mark-zillmann-o...
because she's a public leader and vaccines dont work if people don't take them, and if people see people in positions of power avoiding the vaccine, they're going to be inclined to do the same. The science of getting the vaccine to work is only a part of the process of ending this pandemic. The enfire endeavor is useless if people don't take the vaccine because they don't trust it. And the everyday person is not a virologist.
It's a moving target, so it's hard to say. Phase 3 trials depend entirely on the number of infected in the control group. Current estimates seem to indicate we may start seeing preliminary results in early Q4 with vaccines on target for an early 2021 date for implementation. These are the most aggressive schedules of course. Few are giving conservatives estimates right now, but I've seen June floated for more reasonable timelines.
Even if it did take off, the slate would be clean for a while then eventually it would become bloated just like the current mess we're in.

It would be probably be a better idea to be more conservative with the adoption of new technology.
I'm funding them too, so no.
"Experts": 400K people for a few days is a "superspreader event"

Also "experts": there is "no evidence" hundreds of thousands of people yelling slogans in the street for 100+ days are spreading COVID.

The two can't be true at the same time.
You misunderstood, it's not you who's being criticized.

n8n used to write "open source" on their webpage while publishing the product with a proprietary license. A lot of discussions ensued.

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
Working means correct, otherwise it would be broken no?
Winning a drag race with a prototype is one thing, bringing down Tesla on its knees is a totally different story. You will need a leader par excellence such as Musk to conquer Tesla.
I feel ashamed and powerless for not being able to help Assange
CloudFormation instead of Terraform.
I guess it would come down to a combination of the companies risk tolerance and the cost of the worst case scenario. Eventually the system is going to blow w/out possibility of repair, now you have the expenses of downtime + replacement. So one argument in favor of replacing "prematurely" is to prevent just that. Like how you might sell a car for higher towards the end of its life instead of waiting until it's EOL, since now you get less money for the car and suddenly need to buy a new one. Granted, a replacement system could be worse than the original.
They also paid Dell to make it the default, but I suppose that's more ethical than tricking people to install it by bundling it with Adobe Flash or whatever other junk.

But to be super fair to Google, it certainly was an excellent browser initially, far far better than the competition - in terms of simplicity, performance, ease of use etc. Now its just a data collection/spying apparatus for Google, and I can't ethically use it anymore. I finally managed to convince our IT to switch everyone over to Firefox, and block Google's tracking completely. The later should probably be a best practice for IT anyway.
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The statement does not actually commit these companies to completing the entire Phase III trials regardless of outcome. The relevant paragraph from this article (with quote) is:

> In a statement, the companies pledged to “make the safety and well-being of vaccinated individuals our top priority.” The vaccine developers said they would continue to impose high ethical and scientific standards on the vaccine-testing process, and apply for government authorizations only “after demonstrating safety and efficacy through a Phase 3 clinical study.”

"Through" in that last quote is being taken to mean "at the completion of". But it can also mean "through the use of."

I disagree with the headline that Stat put on their article. To me it seems clear that the commitment from these companies is to the quality of the process, not a particular rigid timetable.

Edit - here is the full statement for those who want to read it.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
I don't think they typically stop the trial as much as they go to the FDA for emergency authorization with data from their midpoints showing overwhelmingly positive effects to get approval to proceed to Phase 4, while still finishing Phase 3. It's meant to compress the timeline, not to skip steps.
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Correct, and this announcement is, among other things, a response to that.
My impression is that this was done to specifically counter Donald Trump rushing a vaccine prior to the election. I don't think it was really made to give any security beyond that
The virus is pretty bad, right? Ought we be making a cost-benefit analysis where we compare the risks of side effects from the vaccine to the risks of the spread of the virus? In comparison to a vaccine like Gardisil, which surely prevents far fewer deaths than a covid-19 vaccine will, wouldn’t such an analysis actually indicate that the trials be rushed to some extent?

I’m feeling anxious that the current political milieu has a few factors pushing against deployment of a vaccine:

1. Republicans have been downplaying the virus the whole time, so they don’t take the need for a vaccine seriously.

2. Democrats are justifiably afraid of Trump pushing out a vaccine to get a pre-election “win”.

What I’m worried about:

1. Huge numbers of people dying every day from covid-19, with so many people out of work and struggling, with no end in sight other than a vaccine.

What’s the worst-case scenario for undiscovered side-effects on a treatment that has already been tested on thousands of people for months, and how probable is that risk?
You just did when you posted this comment
Seems very US centric. Where are you getting your data from? Facebook?
It is a political decision. The kind leaders are supposed to make, the kind they don’t like making.

A leader has to decide on either pushing early and either saving/condemning hundreds of thousand of lives.

Or playing it safe and condemning/saving hundreds of thousands to death while we complete years worth of trials.

Oh because that’s not enough pressure the economy is burning, which will cost many lives as well.

It’s a horrible decision to make anyway you slice it.

Politician is going to be hated no matter what.

If it works, they are bad for taking so long, taking risk. If it goes south...
It's not just the account number.

I work in the american bank industry. Just the status that 'bob jones has an account here' is considered personal information.

This might seem silly, but there are good reasons for it.
That sounds cool, consumer always needs a discount and price drop. Thanks Peloton!
I've said this before on HN but No Agenda started off as a great podcast. It wasn't until Obama ran for president that it descended into a infowars knock off with their non stop talk about the Clintons are really lizard people, sarah palin is a rockstar and we gotta stop pizzagate.
"If it's your goal to assume as little risk as possible, you're right that you probably shouldn't go backpacking (or engage in any other outdoor pursuit). You probably also shouldn't be living in California." What a load of bollocks. Lived here all my life and certainly understand the risks associated with outdoor lifestyles - what makes you more "Californian" than me (or anyone else), regardless of your hobbies?

Personally, I do not agree with your assertion that this was "a classic late season heatwave". Weather patterns in my neck of the woods were severely disrupted, and we had temperatures for days that would have been unfathomable just 10 years ago. Places in California that have never burned in recorded history are ablaze. California's firefighting forces are at a record high rate of deployment, and response times have been unfortunately diminished due to the scale of their deployments. This is not normal weather. Looking at the situation and assessing that "normally" the trip would not be excessively risky in an incomplete analysis in my opinion.
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He's doing a PR tour for his new book ("no rules rules"), which is released today... already had an interview in the guardian today:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/sep/08/a-new-k...
Do you really believe polls like this are accurate?
There are 170+ covid vaccines being developed, 7 of which are in stage 3 trials: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/covid-va...

So it's a bit misleading to talk about "the vaccine".
I care because she is my future vice president. It was clear what her intent was.
Naming conventions might be important, but more important than working software?
Ah I gotcha yea, I just misread the article. That makes more sense and seems much more reasonable.
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I am curious to know what security holes you can exploit in a fully patched system with a firewall.
For the common-case en masse compromises, not a concern. For targeted attacks it can still be an issue. Stuxnet is an example of this where they compromised an air-gapped system. Stuxnet was obviously extremely sophisticated, technically and for the overall operation, but the principles still apply. Also people frequently misjudge how big of a target they may be & what their risk profile really is (not saying for this use-case specifically, just in general).
Political comments suck. > 90% of them are just rehashed talking points and they quickly devolve into echo chambers for the dominant voting bloc. I'd much rather see an aggregator using something like an argument map.