skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your input!

The worrying trend is the ,,signed contracts with governments'' part even though the clinical trial results are not out yet. It seems that vaccination gets highly political, just like how EU made a mistake of paying for Remdesivir even though we knew that it's not worth it at that point.
Damage to the heart, the brain, even for mild or asymptotic cases. My references are previous posts on HN or on phys.org as you can easily search it.

As you said there are scarce data yet, but the risks are scary. In these conditions, it's obvious one should avoid relying on a herd immunity induced by the virus.
> leaves long-lasting damage to the body (in particular, but not limited to, the brain).

In what percentage of people who get COVID-19 is there long-lasting damage to the body? What other conditions did the people who get long-lasting damage to the body have? How does these numbers compare with other diseases?

Would appreciate citations.
Yes, instead of collectively punishing direct recipients of ill gotten gains, lets just punish the whole planet, and collectively punish everyone who has their taxes go up and their quality of living go down.

Jesus Christ, sometimes people have some really ridiculous reasonings for their apathetic understanding of the world.
Perhaps the Raspberry Pi is used to control a robot, collect sensor data, whatever. Perhaps it was just for the fun of it.

I've used similar techniques for doing a wide variety of operational tasks, so it can be worth it to take the time to figure out how to easily set up tunnels and reverse proxies.
I couldn't figure out how to email the author and I don't have twitter, but I found a few mistakes in the "More power" section that tripped me up a bit as I followed along, so just posting here in case it helps anyone else:

The end of the second last code block should be:

`data.instructions.forEach(...args.map(parseInstruction));`

And the full definition of `data.instructions` that demonstrates the use of this modification would be something like:

`[["rotate", ["rotate", ["drawLine", { x: 0, y: 0 }, { x: 1, y: 1 }], 90], 45]]`
I don't understand how that kills them. Blunt trauma?

Seems like you'd just have a huge pile of mostly-alive wasps in your shop-vac.
It is the same. But you cannot expect a vaccine to work similarly in people of two different regions having major differences in their diet, climate and lifestyles. That's why many vaccine candidates are being tested in multiple countries( read potential markets).
Also, I think the UK has preferential rights at least on the initial yield of the vaccine.
How Many Potatoes Does It Take to Run Doom? [video]
ESP8266 costs ~0.90 EUR.

ESP32 costs ~1.80 EUR.

And dev boards with usb, voltage regulator, pinout, etc. cost ~1.6 EUR for ESP8266 and ~2.8 EUR for ESP32.

It all depends on what code you plan running on the device.
If you just need a basic micro-controller with wifi and bluetooth, esp8266 is cheaper.
This huge uncertainty is in favor of avoiding taking the risks, rather than the other way.
This looks really neat. I noticed a typo on https://tuition.treena.org/

"Enrol Now" should be "Enroll Now" :)
That’ll be extra rough for folks in the depths of winter.
I think they're mostly producing this on a break even/no profit basis for at least the initial roll out?

If there is some sharing of risk, but no profit to be had (and ultimately profit is what buffers you against risk) then why would you be involved at all? Let some other company take the risk?
> It uses a weakened live virus that can (and apparently has, in the case of the J&J vaccine, which is using very similar tech) cause serious adverse systemic reactions.

There is no evidence to prove the vaccine has caused any serious adverse effects so far. If that were the case, it is unlikely the Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would recommend resuming the trial.

> After a thorough evaluation of a serious medical event experienced by one study participant, no clear cause has been identified. There are many possible factors that could have caused the event. Based on the information gathered to date and the input of independent experts, the Company has found no evidence that the vaccine candidate caused the event.

https://www.jnj.com/our-company/johnson-johnson-prepares-to-...
Fire your Stockbroker
Parking tickets aren't meant to be an income stream

Some DMVs are selling customer data to private companies. People who are supposed to wear ankle bracelets are charged rent by private companies with govt contracts to do so. Those are just two examples that I could think of, without even googling. They are gonna do whatever they can, for revenue.

A good percentage of the population believes government should be run like a business, without understanding the implications. Also people don't like taxes, even justified ones. All this leads parking tickets style situations.
I'm doing the same! Remote extension or more precisely code-server/Theia as of recent times is an excellent remote workspace environment.
> That’s not so clear, but YouTube does obfuscate its code to make the task of tools like youtube-dl harder.

Not for tools like youtube-dl, but for tools that let user manually extract links, such as viewing the source code of the document. Because YouTube also provides an algorithm to deobfuscate it, which humans can't run in their heads, but tools, browsers can.
Author here.

Yeah, I've found myself never really needing that functionality. I use bookmarks principally as time savers and secondarily as ephemeral reminders; I think the habit people have of stacking up bookmarks they'll never come back to, likewise having hundreds of tabs open, is an antipattern.

In rare cases where I've wanted to keep a link for documentative purposes, it's always been more appropriate to keep it alongside that source material, which is typically a markdown file.

All that said, it'd be quite easy to implement tags and descriptions provided you'd be willing to write them yourself (and given how messy some websites' metadata is, I would). You could just grep for what you want.
Thanks for the feedback. Depending upon the devicePixelRatio, interactions with the first chart would misbehave. I've just pushed a fix to the code, and updated the post, which should rattle through the various CDNs before too long.
> but for unrelated procedural crimes discovered during the investigation

The "unrelated" is completely false, which invalidates your entire argument.

Name an American indicted for unrelated crimes and maybe I can fill in the connection. It's mostly covered in the wiki under each of their paragraphs though.
> No it's not. A HDD failing or getting lost? That can be guarded against with backups.

Exactly. Back up your cloud data.

> With getting banned by Google or Facebook? When all your accounts, your identity is tied to that address/account and you get banned, you cannot be reached anymore by people who don't know that you got screwed over.

I thought the fact that I consider this perspective to be absurd was kind of obviously built in to my statement.

You can use a new email to contact people. Especially when you have your backups.
More “false positives” reported in Munich
> My references are previous posts on HN or on phys.org as you can easily search it.

And you could cite a claim you are making. Without numbers it is hard to say if this is a good basis for decisions.
All positive results from Heidenheim, Bayern München and Türkgücü München and were wrong ("false positives").
>No-one is talking about putting people in jail, but also (in my opinion)

Every law, no matter how small and well-meaning, has implicit threat of prison behind it. You can't be so naïve as to believe that this enforcement action won't result in prison for some, destroyed lives for others, and because laws and enforcement are man-made, there's also a guarantee that your dragnet will punish some innocents, and let some guilty go (maybe because they can afford great lawyers and/or bribes). And of course, because this would be a very controversial measure, it would be highly politicized.
I've started playing around with Tailscale [1], which is based on WireGuard. Free to use for a single user, and I've tried it out on Raspberry Pi, Linux x86_64, Windows and Android. Seems to work well, except there appears to be some issue with accessing Windows via the secure IP (neither ping nor Remote Desktop appear to get through the Windows firewall, despite having a specific firewall rule for Tailscale) [2]. Can SSH into e.g. Linux hosts using PuTTY from Windows without issues.

[1] https://tailscale.com/

[2] https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/854
What DDT is would typically be clear from the context: "L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground".

What do you think we dump?

> Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is bad and what it does.

TFA is explaining quite well. Do your homework instead of going straight to the comment?
It's a surrogate outcome.
"Prompts immune response" means "we hope it prevents infections". It doesn't necessarily mean it will.

This is still good news. But it should be put in perspective, this does not automatically translate to "this vaccine will work fine in both young and old". It just means we can have some higher hopes that it will.

Only RCT results of the real infections will show if it really works. (RCT for the vaccine is running and first results are expected soon.)
> I think the lack of eye contact is a big problem, possibly the biggest.

Interestingly, we do audio-only calls in my company and I don't miss the video at all. Maybe that's because the implementations I've seen so far have all the issues listed in this thread and if it the video was actually good enough it would prove to be an enhancement.
Imagine throwing your phone at the wall and it shatters into 1000 pieces. Now try calling someone with one of these pieces.
So punishment for everyone because someone, somewhere may have done something that decades later was made illegal?

What kind of bizarre sadism is that?
Yes.

The only think which could in anyway get close to legality would be to:

- Legally hold a case against whoever did it and win it. (Can even legally have a case against a dead person?) This requires thinks to have been illegal when done.

- Requiring that (likely dead) person to pay a fine based on existing law.

- Arguing that whoever accepted an inheritance did inherit the fine, too.

But as far as I know every point of this list has many legally questionable aspects.

But what you MUST NOT do under any circumstances in a state of law is to not base judgement on law but arbitrary "I feel like this should be done" arguments. This is also why it's of upmost importance to fast adapt laws make them general instead of specific and not put any loop holes in them. Because then you can judge people to some degree even if they do something bad even if that specific think wasn't explicitly forbidden. (E.g. based on a generic law which makes any form of causing environmental damage in a context where it's reasonable to assume it the person should have been aware illegal. Sure you need some threshold, too. Else driving your care is illegal.)
Use ESP32 along with ESP Rainmaker.

Source: Used to work at Espressif :)
Ideally proceeds from a bank robbery would be removed from the estate. From a purely practical standpoint, once the estate is settled, it should stay settled and no one should be forced to answer for the actions of another adult.
Wow, okay, never experienced that myself.

OTOH, sounds like you made the right call on hiring :)
I want a free house too.
shark tank 2 years ago https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/20/shark-tank-entrepreneur-pitc...
We don't know if it does yet. We know it causes an immune response. We don't know if that stops you from catching it, and we don't know if it stops you from being infectious. It tips the scales in that direction, and all we really need is for it to be effective enough to drop R0 low enough that coupling it with reasonable restrictions makes the virus go away, which is why it's worth pursuing, but that's a different goal to ensuring you can't catch it at all.
stb actually went to extreme lengths on his SDL/GLFW-like library where he didn't even depend on windows.h, i.e he put just the structs and function(pointers) he needed into the header (under stbxxx_ prefixes), hardcoded magic numbers instead of windows.h's #defines, bootstrapped with __declspec(dllimport) GetProcAddress (and even that symbol can be omitted with some trickery, there is a way to get to kernel32.dll functions from any .exe)
The consumer value of locked down platforms where you can only install approved software is that you mostly don't need to worry about viruses. It's really hard to protect systems against malware if they make it easy to run arbitrary code. People paying $60 per year for antivirus software is a symptom of this.

Of course, Android malware exists too. But Google's approval process, application sandboxing and the ability to remotely remove applications after they're found to be malicious makes it a much smaller problem. It's not something consumers cheer about, but rather something we mostly don't think about when using phones and tablets.
Thanks for the details. I hear what you've said. I agree that Go was built with limited capability in order to make it easy for junior developer. And I agree it can slow down more senior developers at times. Although not nearly as much as I expected when I first started using it.

I don't know Pandoc so I'll take your word for it. I'll also agree that there are entire of classes that Go isn't sell suited for, but we'll have to disagree as to whether it's limiting for the types of applications it was created for. I must not be building the same class of application as you are.
I was commissioned to write an admin guide to Ubuntu Server a decade or so back. It didn't happen in the end, for various reasons, but it taught me one thing -- books don't make a lot of money, unless they're bestsellers, or you write very fast and you don't need to spend a long time on research.

So, my ideas are a low priority. Saying that...

I did two well-received talks at FOSDEM in 2018 and 2020. I'd like to develop those ideas into a biased, directed history of the development of modern computers. There are many works talking about the history of computing, but few are sufficiently analytical. They might dissect why one company or product or technology succeeded or failed, but few look at the entire field analytically. I'd like to fix that.

A friend suggested a great idea: what he described as "a book that does for climate change what _the Selfish Gene_ did for Darwinian evolution." That needs to be done.

I'd also like to do a fun guide to critical thinking, presented in a jokey way that makes it fun and approachable.

All I need is someone to pay for them...
Descriptions are not prescriptions
The problem with your approach, besides the immorality of arbitrary post-hoc rationalization for punishment, is that it is not pragmatic. What's done is done, and you need people to get behind making it better. If you come out and push a policy that in part entails rooting and punishing those responsible (or even descendent of those responsible), you'll have people come out against it just for that reason and the environment will suffer. I would be one of those people, because I would never give that power to the kinds of people who would argue for the arbitrary execution of collective punishments on people today. If given the choice to fix environment/punish wrongdoers or do nothing, I would go with 'do nothing'. It's why 'The Green New Deal' is so terrible because instead of focusing on pragmatic solutions we can all get behind, it suffers from scope creep of socialist and progressive policies that have little to nothing to do with climate change and environment - and therefore I'd rather have none of it.

To circle back on collective punishment - there's a reason why the North, after winning the civil war, has largely chose not to collectively punish the South - in much the same way that other regions which suffered through terrible civil wars where terrible crimes were committed, frequently choose to replace punishment of many of those responsible with something like reconciliation committees, where symbolic gestures are accepted in lieu of prison or capital punishment.
Not sure what this is supposed to be, but that looks like a generic esp8266 relay board with Olimex branding, pushed as being 'open source hardware' ? Shrug
The people. People like me, and I would hope you, would demand the government pass laws to not do these things.
The EU situation sounds much better. To be super clear, we ignored the legal advice, because we considered that it was much fairer to provide the best feedback possible to clients who asked.
The IQ lowering serum is soon ready for deplyment,Trump and Brexit may never be allowed to happen again.
As with many things, nuance is important. Sensitize people to larger issues is one thing, creating a cult they have to submit to is another.

You can tell people about factory farms without screaming "cow rapist". You can tell people about privilege without spiraling into some racist cult. But that would probably be class privilege, which is much better at predicting success than the color of your skin.
Yes let us just start collective punishment, because we have such a justice boner. Jesus christ, sometimes HN has some wild opinions.

FYI this does happen for companies. It's not that wild. Businesses like Lloyds of London and Greene King are paying slavery reparations today despite the fact that no one in the company had anything directly to do with that part of the business. I guess if you had stock that had been passed down through generations you would indirectly lose out on some money if the share price fell as a result.
Interesting, thanks!
I got a book [1] covering similar topic from Bitmap books earlier this year - was stunned by quality of production and ordered a bunch of others. Turns out I don't actually have time/inclination to play through a bunch of games from my childhood - but tremendously enjoy reading quick blurbs for that hit of nostalgia :-)

1: https://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/collections/all/products/commo...
But that doesn't happen as you say. What people do is just take 2 year sabatical at the expenses of all the taxes while they go Thailand, etc. That is what happens with most of the unemployment checks.
I suppose no Docker containers were allowed in prod either?
We don’t know yet. It’s a gamble.

A uk study suggests 12% have symptoms longer than 30 days. Beyond that, hard to say. We also don’t havea good measure of invisible damage: do survivors have reduced lung function from pneumonia? Damage to endothelium predisposing to pneumonia? Too soon to tell.

About 20% of people are hospitalized.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54296223
So we should tax the crap out of everyone's estates on the premise that they probably wronged society and that society will need to pay to un-screw up whatever they did?!? Whatever happened to giving people the benefit of the doubt? Whatever happens to presumption of innocence?

Firstly anyone with a brain is gonna conveniently go broke before they die if you try and pull something like that.

Second I'm struggling to find words for just how fundamentally wrong, unethical and dystopian the assumptions that underlie your comment are. I and a hell of a lot of people don't want to live in a society where assuming malice is the default like that.
Los Frikis
If you have some background on neural networks McCormick's post is a good start.

https://mccormickml.com/2019/11/11/bert-research-ep-1-key-co...
AstraZeneca is licensing the "recipe" for the vaccine to other countries so yield won't be an issue.

Australia is part of this group that will be manufacturing all the dosages locally and independently.
> A new 57-story office tower opened just last week

Surely this didnt start or finish as a result of the last 6 months?
There are a number of misplaced points in this article, but I will focus on two.

UEFI, properly implemented, is a huge improvement over old BIOS. It isn't required to be 'locked', and I have never encountered a Windows laptop or desktop that didn't not allow you to disable secure boot within the BIOS. I am not as familiar with Apple hardware so I will not comment on that.

UEFI and it GUID partition layout is superior to traditional BIOS. I develop within embedded systems that rely on GUID partitions to provide granularity of storage. One current system I support has 34 partitions, to support redundancy, safe image updates, and soft recovery.

With UEFI on the desktop, you can implement the same strategies.

So those are two statements in the post that I found to be misleading, if not outright wrong.

On the hardware front, yes, current era consumer laptops have become completely sealed boxes. If you want to own a laptop that can be upgraded and maintained, you need to buy either a gaming or enterprise laptop.

For most people, and enterprise laptop is only going to be slightly more expensive than a consumer grade device. It is not going to be as slim and 'sexy'. It t will likely have useful ports down the side.

On desktops, as long as you are buying a full sized desktop, I have not seen any (yet) that are not completely equipped with appropriate connectors and cabling to support upgrades.

I have seen 'mini' systems that are completely soldered down, but that is the price you pay for small. Connectors consume real estate.
That's not a citation. That links to an alex Jones styled YouTube channel with breathless conspiratorial text superimposed over cherry pickedclips of what appears to broadcast tv, however their origin and veracity is as suspect as the person running the account.

Trump has never said: "I condemn white supremacists". Four words. Dead simple.

Here I'll say it. I condemn white supremacists. I condemn white supremacy. Your turn.

Saying they should be condemned is different.
Who does estate tax punish?
What's RCT? You mean voluntarily injecting the covid on vaccined very young humans (so negligible risk of death) ?
From your first link: 10% had any symptoms lasting longer than four weeks. That’s not “severe long-term effects”.

The actual study seems to say 1 in 20 have symptoms for eight weeks, which might be closer to what you could fairly describe as “long-term”, but says nothing about the severity (though I haven’t waded through the whole article).

Anyway, the drop-off from 10% having symptoms at 4 weeks to 5% at 8 weeks is encouraging - it intuitively suggests that the negative symptoms aren’t permanent, even if they take a long time to go away.
And in the US too
The implication that we even slowed the trajectory isn't well established. It's likely, but not proven. Let's not get ahead of ourselves by pretending there's evidence millions would have died when there's not even a strong correlation between mandates (as defined by the Oxford stringency index database) and reduced death.

and nowhere that I'm aware of came close to running out of ventilators. New York, one of the hardest hit places in the world may have used a third of their available ventilators. They used around 1/2 of the ventilators they reported available to them in 2015 so it wasn't even close to being the limiting factor in healthcare.
> Los Frikis ... is a Cuban punk subculture that originated in the 1980s.

> During the ... 1990s, many Frikis purposely contracted AIDS in an attempt to escape the effects of the economic crisis by entering state-run AIDS clinics, referred to as sanatoriums.

If you want to know more, check out the 2015 RadioLab podcast episode:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/los-f...
A certain amount of 'reactogenicity' is expected with most vaccines. ie: "expected" adverse reactions.
LOL, was wondering why it had such an unnatural grid layout... But this explains it!