skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I have to partially take that back. According the Pfizer they intentionally did not confirm the data until last Wednesday.

> The first analysis was to occur after 32 volunteers — both those who received the vaccine and those on placebo — had contracted Covid-19. If fewer than six volunteers in the group who received the vaccine had developed Covid-19, the companies would make an announcement that the vaccine appeared to be effective. The study would continue until at least 164 cases of Covid-19 — individuals with at least one symptom and a positive test result — had been reported.

> In their announcement of the results, Pfizer and BioNTech revealed a surprise. The companies said they had decided not to conduct the 32-case analysis “after a discussion with the FDA.” Instead, they planned to conduct the analysis after 62 cases. But by the time the plan had been formalized, there had been 94 cases of Covid-19 in the study. It’s not known how many were in the vaccine arm, but it would have to be nine or fewer.

> Gruber said that Pfizer and BioNTech had decided in late October that they wanted to drop the 32-case interim analysis. At that time, the companies decided to stop having their lab confirm cases of Covid-19 in the study, instead leaving samples in storage. The FDA was aware of this decision. Discussions between the agency and the companies concluded, and testing began this past Wednesday. When the samples were tested, there were 94 cases of Covid in the trial. The DSMB met on Sunday.

Discussions between the agency and the companies concluded, and testing began this past Wednesday.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/09/covid-19-vaccine-from-pf...
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"there is no clear or easy path to making this goal a reality everywhere"

There is also no clear and easy universal path for proprietary software companies to be successful. Running a business is hard. I fully support efforts to make it easier to find financial success, especially with open source. Our expectations need to be reasonable, though. It seems that too many folks think that having a bunch of stars on Github should directly translate into rolling in the cash. But creating a product is only one part of building a successful business.

Again, better tools, better education, and more support are always great!
It is better than an ESTA, though. It has some rights attached to it. Though I wonder if the immigration agent will find it suspicious that he has a Visa when he could "simply" get an ESTA. Might hassle him on entries.
It was horrible until I decided to stop filtering my opinions just a few days ago.
I think what AdmiralAsshat means is: There's a gigantic gap between typical market prices for retail computer software and the hourly wage of computer programmers

When you buy a $70 AAA game, you pay what, 1/100,000 of the development cost? 1/1,000,000?

So when you try to directly fund the development of almost anything, it's gonna seem real expensive, because you're paying 100% of the cost when you're used to paying 0.001%.
>For instance, what if Faker.js and other similar libraries banded together into a corporation, and sold a multi-language mocking/stubbing/faking toolset?

Nobody would use them. Ultimately they would lose out to someone like Thoughtbot that puts out open source tools as a loss leader to drive consulting business.
s/a decade/in perpetuity

We'll almost certainly need an annual covid vaccination for the same reasons we get annual flu vaccinations - with our current medical technology we can neither rid the planet of the virus nor obtain permanent immunity.
I had a similar experience. I was flying to the US for a job interview, so I ticked the box that said I was seeking work. I was denied and missed my flight. I've been told I will never be eligible for and ESTA again. I got the job and am now on an E-3 visa, however if I ever want to visit and don't have an E-3, I need to apply for a proper tourist visa.
My preferred answer would be: no batteries required.
> for the last 4 years that Russia "hacked" the 2016 election

There is a difference between disinformation before the election and actually changing ballots, as you well know.
And what is MRR? The original link doesn't seem to define it.
I recommend the musical instead. It has that theatrical lensing you don't really get with an action thriller.

IMO, it suggests that the logical conclusion has already been met long ago, and it's not something to anticipate in some imagined dystopian future.
“The populace” doesn’t really have dollars as leverage for private firms. Certainly not in a fashion similar to voting, however imperfect voting may be.

Especially not for monopolies.
Plus, as folks in tech from the days of IBM/Microsoft dominance can attest to, simply having multiple options doesn’t necessarily create the same kind of level playing field that we (imperfectly) inspire to in the electoral process.

Plus of course there are the non-customers of said private firm, who, in the case of massive companies like Amazon, Google, telecoms, etc.

While with voting the only barrier is (ideally) being a citizen of voting age.
Thanks. It seems to answer my question below, a common consensus is "nomad" in your own country, and maybe don't think about it as the trip/time of your life.
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How will it work if multiple vaccines are approved and similarly effective? Does that allow us to roll out vaccinations more quickly, or are there shared bottlenecks in the supply chains? Would individuals get whichever is available in their city first, or are there other factors at play?

Apologies if this is answered somewhere else in the comments!
This makes me feel better about dealing with the staff at the office instead of ever hearing from the MP themself.

Though I did email an MP about how Bell was trying to destroy Teksavvy and out lacklustre telecom competition (my DSL line was stuck at 1mbps...). Their office responded that our MP was a retired Bell linesman and Bell’s competitors use poorer quality lines.

I guess Bell was good to him at the expense of their customers...
And that's true, but then we circle back to the OP (original problem), if you can't make a living out of OSS you're generally very limited in how much you can achieve, which then stiffles innovation in all other sectors that depend on OSS.

So the question stands, how do we allow OSS maintainers to contribute without forcing them to find ways to monetize their project, which would be against the very nature of OSS?

And I'm loving this discussion, because then why can't you apply it to other fields, like arts? In fact similar discussions are already happening in most creative fields. I know where this is going, and it's great.
That laser printer goes on sale often, frequently for $50, and periodically for $40. [0]

Also, it comes with toner. Just a starter cartridge, granted, but if you're not printing much it will last years.

[0] https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B00NQ1CLTI
They're probably busy processing the requests where somebody (e.g. a congressperson) intervened to get them expedited?
> It doesn't make any sense to compare niche productivity tools to it.

It makes complete sense to compare because Apple likes to claim that it imposes its rules and guidelines perfectly uniformly.
I'm new to this, but from the link:

> Our pilot partners have already started using this technology to build previously impossible new products and services; ones that truly benefit their users.

So, users are not their users?

Just an enterprise release?

When can I install one for myself?

EDIT: Interestingly, from the "About" page, Bruce Schneier is involved.
As opposed to AT&T / Comcast?

Whoever it is I would like their behavior to be meaningfully regulated under the law.
> these trials have been independently reviewed

That's how clinical trials are done.
Monthly Recurring Revenue - aka subscriptions.
Overloading the word 'censorship' is going to get a bit confusing here ;)

"Censorship", meaning: "malicious server or ISP silently blocks or withholds traffic from you" is a risk in Matrix today, completely independently of the reputation stuff being discussed here. The mitigation is to get rid of servers (and even ISPs), as per https://matrix.org/blog/2020/06/02/introducing-p-2-p-matrix/

"Censorship", meaning: "your server admin subscribed to a blocklist of child abuse content published by someone like iwf.org.uk" would stand out to users by the server publishing the names of the blocklists that their server admin has deployed. I'd call this server-side filtering or something instead, given the filters are visible. If the server admin withholds info about their filters, then you're back in the traditional sense of censorship from the prior paragraph.
"DRM Kitty Litter: The Only Thing Stupider Than DRM Coffee"

https://www.ifixit.com/News/6900/drm-kitty-litter

I thank that article for mentioning this :)
It's not just vector, it's an incompatible version of bitmap too.

I presume "brave" was used ironically. It would be very unfortunate if it fractures the ISA but I'm optimistic that it will not.
Right, most recently I was looking at the reference for buildGoModule, which produces two derivations--one for pulling the dependencies (e.g., go mod download) and another for building the package. Basically the idea is to avoid re-downloading dependencies if only the package's source code has changed. Anyway, buildGoModule takes a `goModHash` field (or something like that, anyway) which is supposed to be the hash of the dependencies derivation; however, it completely omits any information about how to actually get that hash (and if you think you can just build the package and get the correct hash from the error message, you're mistaken). Googling around a bit online you'll find that you can use nix-prefetch, but it appears to only work on Linux. Note that this quirk is particular to Go, but this is the same sort of thing that you run into all the time in the Nix ecosystem.
You have to stop reading propaganda. If we had a vote around the world, russia and china together would win over the "west" by a long shot. It wasn't russia and china brutalizing the world for 500 years. It isn't russia and china destabilizing much of the world today.

We have to stop believing that the "west" is the world. It's going to bite us in the end one day. The only thing people around the world like is wealth. As china and russia get wealthier, even that won't matter as much.
Monthly recurring revenue
Oops... MRR - Monthly Recurring Revenue (before expenses typically)
Ugh. We were moving and donated books to a local goodwill type charity. Later we found out that they literally were sending all donated books to a paper recycler. I could understand that with some books, damaged or foxed (or dragoned) but it was an unexpected emotional blow.
My takeaway was that these people were more like "hustler types"

I mean, who decides to create a startup incubator focused on "sports technology" (whatever that is) after their "conference business" (again, whatever that is) becomes nonviable?

Not that it matters, hustler types and people with money and privilege often overlap.
If you ever need a proof that only money matters in this world. All the rest are empty words. Kids, dont pay attention to anyone who tells you otherwise.
Marketers should think more about handbrakes than accelerators
And even then, a consumer inkjet doesn't do that great a job on photos. You're much better off having someone like Walgreens do it for you. Faster and better, still cheap.
A VISA (credit card) won't be of any use, you need a visa (in your passport). SCNR...
Federal funding for internet connections at schools and libraries specifically requires content filtering.

They can get away with it because it's for children. I would not be surprised if you see something similar to what was tried in the UK - block pornography by default and require an embarrasing support phone call to lift the block.
> Here in the UK (though I'm sure this applies globally)

Your problem is on word 4 - tomatoes do not grow well in the UK.

Places were tomatoes grow well locally do have good tomatoes (in season). I can confirm this personally for Switzerland, California, Bulgaria.
HP's historic printers were fantastic though. It's sad to see the company that produced the Laserjet III and battletank of a Deskjet (I think I saw the "plus", black only with two slots for font cartridges) fall so low.
I want to be able to directly modify the path of the files/folders being compared like in other diff tools. This is mostly used for diffing across logs and releases with structured folder hierarchies like:

<project>/releases/<n>/<resource>
or
<project>/logs/<instance>/service/<worker>/<resource>

In essence what I think I want is just more of a meld/bcomp like workflow but with more mac-native UI/UX.
Except this is community broadband.

There's basically no way a city could create the NSA on their own. If you think a city is violating your constitutional rights, you sue the city (which is way easier than suing the State or National Government).

With luck, you can get national forces on your side. If anything, if the city is violating civil rights, you might be able to get FBI on your side (Department of Justice after all) to leverage the heavy-lifting.
Yes, because Korea, Taiwan, and Australia can all be defined by lack of human rights and a collectivist society.

And yet, just like China, they have also beaten the virus. Meanwhile, Russia has failed on all counts.

The West has the laws on the books, and the legal precedent necessary to enforce them, when it comes to epidemics. What it lacks is the political will.

It doesn't matter how effective these measures are, or how bad an idea it is to let the virus run unchecked - under it's current leadership, states like Kentucky will never do what is necessary to get the virus under control, because these measures are anathema to it's current regime. And states like Washington won't either, because while those measures are not anathema to them, their governments are afraid of a backlash that will replace them.

This wasn't an inevitable outcome - nothing fundamentally stopped bipartisan cooperation on this point. Political expedience and the desire to own the libs did. Had the right not used the pandemic as an opportunity to grab power, and start a culture war, we wouldn't be where we are today.
PS5 power consumption in standby (2.1Wh) is less than when off (5.1Wh)
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. My neighbour's work permit was stuck in limbo pre-covid. On my advice, she contacted our Liberal party MP, and although the MP signed off on a letter asking for it to be expedited, IRCC basically told her to pound sand. It still took an unreasonably long time to arrive, pretty much what they guaranteed.

I still think it would have been worse without the letter, and at least it helped my neighbour's spirits. She comes from a part of the world where nothing happens without a bribe, and even then it ain't very effective.
At the beginning of the pandemic my sibling, who lives in the US, left Silicon Valley expecting to work remotely permanently, bought a big house in a much much cheaper location and is pretty happy about that.

Not sure if any of the travelling digital nomad lifestyle stories are even real, people who have managed to fly somewhere usually got stuck there for many months with all the touristy stuff not working and had to live like regular people, rent regular rooms, apartments, houses, shop at regular supermarkets, etc.
Is it that the courts don’t care or that you yourself disagree with their ruling and think it was wrong?

Which would be fine but isn’t the same thing.
My last interaction with a homeless person, in the park next to my house: he yelled at me, and talked about grabbing his hatchet... while I was walking with my pregnant wife. So yes, I a have a reason to fear for my families safety around the homeless.

I live and work in the Portland, OR area. Homelessness is a real problem here, and they are moving out of the city into the suburbs.
I think it is Monthly Recurring Revenue.
We're jumping around a bit. Even in a may-issue context, if it were clear that a particular sheriff only issued CCW permits to e.g. Asian-Americans, other people would have their day in court.
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Does it say how many people got the real vaccine?
> It's true that you use this way of programming so often in functional languages that it earned itself a name, so that it's easier to talk about it. However calling it a 'pattern' feels weird (to me), even though it technically is one.

> The equivalent of accumulators in imperative languages would be the 'pattern' of having some variables outside of the loop and mutating them from within the loop. Maybe you can appreciate that it feels weird calling this a 'pattern' — and now you can better understand how I feel about accumulators being called a pattern.

That's a fair point, actually. I read "patterns" as "design patterns" a la the book of same name, based on the implied^Wlater stated title "accumulator pattern", but I agree it does fit a weaker notion of "pattern" such as "less-than-maximally-entropic (aka compressible in the information-theoretic sense) feature of code".
I see my parents regardless. They are happy to see me. There are always a risk of some kind regardless of covid. My parents are old too, they have high chance of death and likely also have some kind of existing condition. Covid or not they have high chance of death at anytime.
Exactly what I was trying to get at.
Yeah, in no way does that suggest minorities don’t have a right to exist.
It's not a social credit system!! It's empowering users to track their own view of reputation, as opposed to having an authority determine it.
Network demand seems to be the best answer. There were key network switches and fibre that was located at those sites which was destroyed during the events. I remember nothing was working or loading. News sites went to plain text with minimal content during this period.

The book "The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11" appears to deal with this fairly well: https://www.nap.edu/read/10569/chapter/4

This was the era where a major computer consultant (IBM) failed to provision for the Olympics: https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
Why not use this model? Open source away basic MVP version and give it away for free. Have a second version based on customer requests that is closed source and commercial. Could this work model work for faker.js?
> HTML6 should remove a lot of clutter ...

I'd actually agree.

> Something with vector graphics..

And I'm wary of the idea, because it would probably end up as wasm on webgl, with websock and input via webusb, while banning HTTP, HTML and CSS, yet somehow still require javascript.
A tourism visa does not allow work in the US. He really shouldn't head to an all hands meeting on a tourist visa. The CBP officer will ask his purpose of travel and he'll have to lie about it, after putting it in public writing. This is a mess that he should fix ASAP.
Having been on both sides of that pay discrepancy, I have come to the conclusion that most of our economic theory about the nature of business and competition is bullshit. I now see corporations as social organizations which exist to keep educated people fed and controlled, everything else is secondary. The sums are big because the money has to get divvied up amongst everyone, even if the work involved is just changing a hex value by the lowest paid and probably most technically skilled person in the network.
Some of the contact tracing apps collect full GPS history; some just use the BLE token exchange mechanism. Unfortunately, the former is the mechanism my state has chosen to roll out in their app.
Yes, but in the context of GDPR, which doesn't really go into detail about cookies, "…throughout its’ 88 pages, it only mentions cookies directly once" - https://gdpr.eu/cookies/.

The issue is handling of PII, tracking users and the hoops companies are jumping through to try to trick users into agreeing to allow this. In reality forcing users to select through the myriad of cookies that many sites set isn't practical, and doesn't get round the fact that you still would have to "Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies."

A better technical solution would be to enforce that web applications respect a client header that specifies the level of cookies the client will allow (see https://gdpr.eu/cookies/).

An even better solution to this would be to stop the invasive tracking and profiling of users that has brought us to this point at all.
We really need to design a Free (as in freedom) open source printer. It _is_ sort of ironic there are quite a few open source 3d printers but no open source 2d printers.

I really like the simplicity of the Creality Ender3. The controller board is an Arduino and it uses commodity stepper drivers and stepper motors. The complicated specialized parts are the hot-end, which has now been somewhat standardized.

Would an open source laser be out of reach? Maybe we could pick a cheap, readily-available toner cartridge and design a printer around it.
If a public person is pretending to be serious and is trolling they do not deserve to be taken seriously by anyone.

When anything you said can be turned into 'I was just trolling' you do not deserve an ounce of consideration. As your statements hold 0 value.
Does anyone have a good explanation of why internet service in much of America is so crappy? What are good ways to change that?
Sure! Sheet2api is sort of thinking along the same lines (but different enough, don’t worry, founder...)

Not even close to launch but think data transformation & automation, but for BAU, not analytics. So yeah automatic APIs is part of it.
Reading the comments here, when did HN get invaded by the conservative/libertarian conspiracy theorists? Were they always here and just quiet? Was there an influx or a slow growth?
We already know how to drop the R value in a given place. It is pointlessly expensive to do so for long enough to eliminate the virus in any place that is going to be reconnected to the air network until travellers have a very low chance of infection.

Sure some places will find total vaccination the best option, but places with out the infrastructure and money can simply do one lockdown that isn't compromised again by air travel.

China is an example that would have left the pandemic if not for the need to resume Air travel.
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America launched a fake vaccination campaign to catch osama-bin-laden; many villagers in surrounding areas are refusing to take vaccine because they have lost trust.

Western governments are no doubt better for their own citizens than say Russia or China, but we outsiders have absolutely no reason to trust one government over the others. Russia's vaccine has only passed phase 2- now that's a good point, "Trust" absolutely isn't.
Right... And iraq was invaded because of the truth?

You think russia and china lie because of propaganda. Their citizens believe we lie because of propaganda.

Whether one views another country favorably relies entirely on propaganda.
No it’s not possible to use this solution for autocomplete code/content writing but it’s quite interesting to think of the possibility. I wonder what would be required to make that happen and how it would turn out.

Also I’m not sure I understand what you mean when you say tokens, what are you referring to there?
I've had my Brother laser printer since '11 and have replaced the toner cartridge once in '15. Still works great. I probably would have gone through 5 HP printers in that span.
Depends what you mean by settled matter. In discussion, I'm sure you can find a lot of people that think it's a bad idea, and I'm ambivalent myself. But as a matter of reality a strong federal government is what we now have. I think the federal government and the executive in particular is much stronger than the founders thought it would ever be.