skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chy-na imports a large portion of it's food supply, and the recent floods have destroy a large portion of it's own supply. people don't eat consumer electronics.
Anything can happen however we've been using weakened, inactivated and closely related viruses in vaccines for a long time now without any such natural selection accidents occurring.
Agreed. While I was responding from the perspective of disposable would be more acceptable if they were actually usable for a significant period of time, I do look for a replaceable SDD. Granted, that is mostly because I expect a data recovery path should the machine break.

Overall though, I would be happier if manufacturers were clear on what you are getting. While I do some real work on my laptop, I tend to offload most of my work onto a desktop. This means that I look for a handful of key features and don't care about the rest. Unfortunately, my last laptop purchasing experience was a nightmare. Researching a couple of laptops took more time than deciding upon parts for a desktop build and, of course, you have to look at more than a couple of laptops to find something that is acceptable in terms of features, performance, and price.
Is it needed to hold the patent to be profitable as a manufacturer ? If the research has been already paid out, I'd prefer healthy competition.
Also, while it's easier to just include another header file, it can have a pretty serious impact on build times. If you compare the same program with header-only libraries to one with libraries using the normal header declaration/source definition split, it's much faster. I never worried about this too much in C, but C++ takes long enough to build as it is.

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As a sidenote, I remember my brain hurting when I learned about C++ just redefining `inline`. It would have made much more sense to just define a new keyword.

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The moving average of daily deaths in the US has been stable or declining for the past two months.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
So i understood that its basically done well already.

Okay good so just lets get it shipped!
SARS-CoV-2 relies on superspreading much more than e.g. the common cold. When you hear, for example, that each patient in a given area infects 1.2 other people on average, this doesn't mean that everyone spreads it to one or two people. It means that out of 10 infectious patients, 9 patients don't spread it to anyone else and the tenth patient spreads it to a dozen people at once.

Because of this high dispersion rate, it may make sense to earmark a certain amount of vaccine doses for people who are not themselves at risk of complications when contracting Covid, but who are at risk of becoming a superspreader.

(Disclaimer: I'm not an epidemiologist.)
I care. Just like about the bailouts. Socializing the funding/losses and privatizing the profits is just pure corruption.
All: I made some redactions in this thread after we got a complaint about (possible) doxxing. All of the changes are marked [redacted].

More explanation at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24895704
My guess is two primary factors:

1) size
Non-linear diseconomies of scale mean that all other things held equal smaller companies are more likely to be able to pull it off than larger companies

2) first mover / selection
I’d guess that there’s a relatively small fraction of employees that can be competitively productive in an indefinite WFH scenario. Companies that were always remote first and got there before everyone else were able to pick off these outliers. Companies trying to convert to it have the luck of the draw and further as the market saturates everyone will have a harder time chasing after these few.
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After experimenting with Amazon price tracking with my other project [0], I decided to dive a bit deeper within a specific product category -- k-cups! I spent a lot of time pulling together the many brands and flavors, although there's certainly more.

My goal was to make it somewhat reminiscent of restaurant menus (remember those?), but highlighting the price that you pay per pod. I find this site useful for myself, so that's why I made it. (Yes, I drink k-cups... But hey, I have two young kids, so I think I have an excuse. I had to put a pause on the french press.)

For all of you who are also working from home and drinking k-cups non-stop, I'm hoping you, too, will find this site useful. I'd love to hear any feedback you have, good or bad!

[0] https://unitprice.org
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When I was small and played 'Sim City' I used to think it was really artificial and created very unnatural cities, then I visited the US for the first time and realised that no they really do have grid layouts with hundreds and hundreds of cross-roads with lights and really do have 'zones' like that and it's pretty accurate for the US!
Please provide evidence for this.

(To avoid misunderstandings, evidence does not mean your unverified opinions).

I'm particularly interested in your methodology for arriving at 0.5%, so a detailed data dump on that from you would be very useful.
I think of the gift tax as just the pre-death version of the estate tax. IRS Form 709 and Publication 559 make fairly clear that this is not inadvertent.
This is actually a cool idea and an example of thinking outside the box.

You run a Tor proxy (bind to 127.0.0.1:9050) on a server on the Internet, and then run a Tor hidden service inside your LAN.

Then, you acquire an .onion domain for the hidden service (running inside LAN), and configure the Tor proxy (running on a server on the Internet) to access the hidden service via the .onion domain (for example, use Nginx to reverse proxy the hidden service).

This should work. However, I imagine it could be quite a bit slower compare to "normal access", and requires extra steps to secure the transport connection between the hidden service and the proxy as you might not want to have everybody on Tor to be able to access that hidden service.
Unfortunately, that’s not how a disease with a likely limited duration of immunity works. Also, the knock on effects of uncontrolled spread over the winter will almost guarantee that next year won’t be normal across many domains.
From the Wikipedia article: “Several studies have shown that there is a mother-to-infant transfer of bacterial strains belonging, at least, to the genera Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, and Bifidobacterium through breastfeeding, thus accounting for the close relationship of bacterial composition of the gut microbiota of breastfed infants with that found in the breast milk of their respective mothers.”
The patent protects from somebody simply copying the formula. Which is many orders of magnitude cheaper than doing research and development, especially on human subjects.
What I mean is, that if someone creates a net negative, the descendants are not forced to pay it, yet, if they generate a net positive, they are entitled to receive it.
In the same way we're removing master/slave and terms like 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' we should also take the opportunity to remove the de-facto sexism in our language. Just because the definition is in the dictionary, doesn't mean it can't be updated.
Sure, I just use the smallest size hetzner or DO available. I point its IP to a subdomain just like the article described.
Interesting solution. Also as alternative to a VPN.

A VPN is often just too complex to set up, and also requires some hardware in your local network; though often your router will have that already. Off course a Rpi can act as VPN gateway/server.

But solving it by flipping the "servers" around and running the "appserver" in your network then tunneling it to remote seems a really neat hack to avoid going into VPN hell.
I agree that there is no easy way when it comes to build systems on C/C++ (other than known environments for specific platforms, like Visual Studio).

Also, following the reasoning line of your comment you can make a parallel conclusion: the C/C++ community and level of adoption are so big that the people of Rust & Go had to put together a "decent & standardised build system" to gain traction and consideration.
> Julius Caesar was an early c-section birth. IIRC, his mother did not survive.

This is a myth. Julius Caesar's mother _did_ survive, which would be almost unheard of at the time for a c section. Some contemporaries thought that an ancestor of his was born by c-section, but there's no real evidence for this.
Between the socialists years, 2006-2010 they've spent so much in consume programs that we will be paying for that many years. We're lucky that we have euro, but the proof is unemployment is hight as crazy every year and there are no signs of investement. People also changed mindset from savings to spendings, and now they are demanding more money from the goverment for anything. Please check also Chile, they had couple of programs made by Bachelet, they all failed.
Comparing the case fatality rates makes no sense unless you have the same ability to get a test in both countries. If one country were to test everyone, including asymptomatic people, then their CFR would be lower than a country with more limited testing, simply because the denominator would include those large number of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic patients that would be missed in the other country.

Also, the CFR is likely intrinsic to the virus, modified slightly by patient population and type of medical care available (both of the latter are probably very similar between the two countries). So any differences in CFR between the two countries mostly reflects the testing issue.

If you do want to compare the two countries, then compare the per capita death rate from covid (assuming everyone who dies in both countries actually gets a covid test - that might not be the case for old people who die at home, where even in developed countries, their primary doctor will just issue a death certificate saying “old age” or “heart attack” in the absence of any information to the contrary. )
Billions of doses. There are only a few vaccines that will be approved any time soon. 7.8 billion people on the planet.
SML over lisp:

* Doesn't have macros, which in my 16 years of experience is a plus, macros pollute, should at most be an implementation detail

* Has types

* Doesn't have parantheses and the annoying prefix notation

* Your knowledge of SML can be translated easily to OCaml, Java, Scala, which are more or less part of the same family

SML over Rust:

* I don't have to reason about lifetimes, I'm not in a constrained environment

* TCO (tail call optimization)

* At its core, Rust is still an imperative language, it was influenced by ML but not that much as many believe

SML over Scala:

* It doesn't suffer of Haskellism and Extreme Bipolarity (oop/fp) and gets the job done.
What did you build? The only real use cases I've heard of were in language prototypes or proof assistants (i.e. HOL, Isabelle).
Just because they hold the patent doesn't mean they won't license it out. We're talking about the entire world here.

I know a lot of people, Americans in particular, are weary of 'big pharma' and for-profit healthcare. And Americans have good reason for that mistrust. But this isn't just an American issue.

Other governments such as the EU and India will force their hand if needed for the public good. As they've done countless times in the past. We just need to get this developed and manufactured as fast as possible.

And the linked article said the clash was between this pharmaceutical behemoth or a startup from the university. I'll take the behemoth now.

"The scientists’ small biotech company—a spinout partially funded by Oxford—was refusing to hand over intellectual-property rights. To outflank their bosses, the scientists asked a London investment banker to help explore other potential deals."
I'm wondering if MPD is still a thing.
I've not used it in years, but it split the UI and server side meaning multiple people in an office could all control the same playlist and player that worked rather nicely. There were also a mix of cli and gui front ends catering for different user preferences.
...shared dependencies are more often a problem and not a solution, even when a standard package manager exists (see the deep dependency trees in many Javascript projects where nobody really knows what's actually going on and what code ends up running).
> If the research has been already paid out
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

The mayo clinic suggests it could be 70%, and I have seen others suggest 80%. I have not seen anyone suggest as low as 10/20% so I think that suggestion is a huge outlier and even the paper you link says as much.
> new intern gets promoted and fixes also the Pinterest spam on google images

A man can dream.
Good news but still a long way to go. How's it going to be rolled out? Here in the UK we have tried and failed to get a regular flu jab (our GPs have run out of a very small supply and the pharmacies don't have any to sell) and I'm not optimistic about our chances of getting this next year or whenever it arrives.
Some of the longer term effects are scary though - I suspect that younger people might not be so blasé about chronic illness.

At minimum younger people who have had covid are looking at a lot more regular check-ups for the rest of there life.
Actually now that I look, the one formatting tool I saw come out this year is based on a parser that apparently SML/NJ exposes.

https://github.com/ProjectSavanna/autoformat/blob/master/run...
This looks nice, Free tier even supports up to 50 devices.
My personal assistant runs on my pi. When I'm out I can use its chat app to talk to it. The chat uses a cloud real-time db like firebase. If I want to connect I just ask it to setup a reverse proxy.

It can also turn on my machines via wake on lan. I'm quite happy with the setup since I can leave home anytime for long periods and always know I have access to the "home base".
I wonder how long it will take for browsers to go beyond the cache concept and implement an integrated package repository so I can upload my manifest + my 3kb app.js and tell the browser to download (and store) all the dependencies I need.

It will not only help with performance, but will also stop the absurd tooling madness that front-end has become.
A disease isn’t something you can solve by pretending really hard that it doesn’t exist. People getting their news from irresponsible politicians get sick like everyone else, and that’s why it won’t get back to normal before there’s a vaccine or very effective treatment: it’ll be the same cycle of open-spike-close and businesses not having enough customers to be viable.
Good thing that twitter pretends to be the arbiter of truth and fact check every world that comes out of a republican's mouth. meanwhile accusations from the ccp's minister of propaganda run rampant
It's wonderful to have a hivemind that rejects factual misstatements. Fair use does exist, in law. It's the only reason we use that particular, awkward phrase.

I agree that they should have stayed away from copyrighted material as if it were radioactive, but I'm not forced to support every bad argument that agrees with my conclusion.
Fair use copying, in any amount so deemed, "is not an infringement of copyright". The statute lists four tests. Any one of these, or other conditions, may be sufficient.

The third test is "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Again, Hagemeister establishes that a bare minimum copying is performed, sufficient to verify code function. A fact which would overwhelmingly tend to a fair use finding.
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When you're tunneling VPS to a home connection and rpi, the performance of the rev-proxy is not going to be a concern. Anything including a trivial script implementation of the proxy will be able to saturate this setup.
yes. but to be fair is more like typical humans being typical humans.
quit gaslighting. did you even read my original comment? intent is taken into account when claiming fair use. their test cases clearly show the software being used to bypass a security measure in place which is not fair use.
I've added an "Alternatives" section [1] to the README with several of the sites/services/etc mentioned in this HN thread.

[1] https://github.com/redirect2me/which-dns#alternatives
As with any vaccine, you'd need about 80% of the population to vaccinate in order for herd immunity to kick in.

Wrong. The herd immunity threshold (HIT) for influenza is 33%-44%. HITs are different for every infectious disease. Current estimates for COVID-19 are 60-75%.
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I used Anki for maths with complex cards full of proof outlines and it worked just fine.
One of the things I like doing is taking an Arduino project and rewriting it without using the Arduino libraries, and the benefits go beyond complex problems like timing. It is possible to trim a lot of memory and flash usage if you are tailoring your code to a specific project. The end result is you can do more without purchasing and learning a new microcontroller.
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Why does that matter if the research and development costs were publicly funded?
> But you cannot expect a vaccine to work similarly in people of two different regions having major differences in their diet, climate and lifestyles.

Can you? Do you have any examples of successful vaccines that are only given in one region because they have been proven ineffective in a different region?
Herd immunity is relative.

For example, I'm a professor at the University of South Carolina. Here we've had around 2,500 confirmed Covid cases, and perhaps around 10,000 cases in actuality. Nearly all of them happened in the first few weeks of the semester, and now the positive test rate is extremely low.

Looking around town, it's pretty clear what happened. There are some students that have acted like nothing is happening, partying and drinking constantly. That population has presumably hit herd immunity already. Meanwhile, there are many students (and staff) that are exercising precautions, and not venturing out a lot, and probably few of them have contracted the disease.

Now, we can't just go back to normal, or else cases would spike among this second group -- but locally it seems that we can afford to relax a bit.

And, also, we're at 8.8 million confirmed infected -- the actual numbers are presumably much higher.
> It is the most successful social welfare system ever implemented, saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime. It is a testament to the power of compounding interest, to the power of a focused plan executed violently for decades.

A social welfare plan? Are you for real?

Both Walmart and Amazon are pioneers of modern union busting practices. They screw workers over as much as they can get away with to squeeze out the maximum amount of labour. Instead of writing this you could as well spit in the face of working class people.

The premise of this article so willfully ignorant of material reality, that it is impossible to take this serious.
hundreds of thousands of people died preventable deaths.
> I'm assuming you also don't know if you got the active substance or a placebo?

You don't want to bias the study by revealing that information. People who knew whether they'd gotten the real thing might behave differently.
This seems a lot more reasonable than having a cartel comprising three record companies literally owning human culture!
No, I didn't even try. I gave them to a company which gave them second life as recycled paper. I'm still missing my amiga, that was a fine piece of hardware and started my programming career, essentially made me who I am.
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> I thought tensorflow was mostly for training models

You need tensorflow to actually use the models trained with tensorflow.
this is all going to end in X12.
> Wouldn't it have been better if healthy kids and adults caught it in q2 2020?

No.

We have one population. There's no way to segment it to allow people at low risk to catch the virus without also allowing people at high risk to get it.

How do you think it could work otherwise?
I think that's thinking about it backwards (at least partly).

My children are not entitled to my estate. My wealth is my private property, not theirs; I am free to direct its disposition as (my spouse and) I see fit. That's the essence of private property rights for the net-positive case.

For the net-negative case, it's a matter of practicality. Your personal debts die with you (they are settled as part of the estate settlement process and if the estate runs out of money, some creditors go without).

If you think inter-generational wealth continuity is a problem now, just imagine how much worse it would be if debt were passed along via negative inheritance.
That's correct, but it is still useful (IMHO). The ASN value should be the same (or at least related). If it isn't, there is something going on that you should probably investigate.
Do you have a source for the Bitcoin addresses being reused? I ask because YLE is running an article claiming each address is unique, meaning the extortionist could identify who has paid. If that is not the case, I'd like to notify YLE about it as it's a pretty important point.
I upvoted here 50% because I found it interesting, 50% because I wanted to hear criticism from people knowledgable on the matter and 50% because I'm actually too stupid to fully comprehend it and hope for an ELI5 (as you may tell, I'm not hot on math).
There are speech therapists here in the states offering online speech therapy. I think it would be a good idea to get some input from a professional at least an evaluation, even online.

I would try contacting local speech therapists directly and see if they offer or would try online sessions.

https://www.sprintfrance.org/speechlanguage-pathologists
Rely on them? I agree, certainly not. But at least they describe a plausible scenario.
Compilation time realistically is not a big problem. Managing compilation units by grouping up what changes infrequently actually make compilation faster in general and much faster incrementally.

Even visual studio's compiler compiles sqlite's 6MB in under a second.

> Again this is specific to header-only libraries, but to avoid code bloat you'll need to turn on link-time optimisation

This is nonsense. This list seems like you are trying to invent problems that aren't there. The vast majority of the time you decide what compilation unit to put the definitions into and that's it.
Where did you read 6-8 months between? I’ve just seen the timespan between shots be listed as 1 month almost everywhere.
We should tax the crap out of everyone’s estates because it’s aligned with the American value of equal opportunity. Do you want to live in a society where everyone has a fair shot? Then you need the estate tax. It’s the great equalizer. We can the funds to improve our schools, roads, and social services so that everyone is a bit better off.