skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They simply deny services to new customers. You buy the headset, you can't use it until you register and sign in with FaceBook.

If you have an existing Oculus account, however, it is still valid for use until January 2023.

I've filed an FTC complaint, because we built an AR/VR research lab and invested heavily in Oculus, and it's not going to be usable in two years because our organizational policies prohibit registering Facebook accounts on behalf of the organization. If this had been a requirement prior to our buy-in to Oculus, we would have chosen a different platform.

Jailbreaks are in the works to bypass the Facebook requirement but aren't yet public. This will likely lead to permanent account bans, since like with Wii, the ability to sideload largely is used to run apps customers did not purchase from their store.
Because this is a phase 3 trial, which has not been completed by any other vaccine.
Hopefully there is more better scientific data on this vaccine before rushing it to top of HN and judgement. I am not sure how to explain 90% immunity from a disease in scientific language, because there are only two states a person get infected with COVID-19 or does not get infected with COVID-19. Not sure how this vaccine will make a person 10% infected and 90% not infected with COVID-19.

This is one of the vaccine Trump referred to in his debate, not sure how much it’s really useful or its another one like Sputnik and Coronavac.

I think the best details for Corona related vaccine efforts are from WHO. [1]

[1] https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/draft-landscape-of-c...
The RNA is read by human cells and the spike protein antigen is created by human cells; it’s not particularly viral RNA.
Fascinating logistics problem here - distributing a vaccine that needs to be stored at -80C.

This is significantly colder than the standard cold logistics chain. I believe Pfizer are working on a special transport box that can, unpowered, stay at the right temperature for a week as long as the box is only opened for something like 1 minute a day.

That's a good thing, but with a capacity of I believe 10k vaccine doses, anywhere with fewer than 10k people to vaccinate, or anywhere that can't keep the demand level for the vaccine at the right level each hour/day as they progress through their vaccine stock, will have a hard time. This is going to disproportionately affect small communities and developing countries.

We've got hard logistical challenges ahead regardless of these details, but they make this even harder. Given this it's probably important that we continue to develop more vaccines and diversify our strategy for immunity.
Also if anyone gets the China Convid

This is the actual Cure without a magic needle:

* Hrdroxy chloroquine (HCQ) and Azithromycin
for 6 days cures a person

Take 2 200mg HCQ chloroquine pills per day,
along with Azithromycin 500g once a day,
+ Zinc Supplments 200mg once a day

Also supplment that with Vit C+D

Above is 100% cure rate
no magic needle
Draft landscape of Covid-19 candidate vaccines
I'm the author. I've been asked to review results of mine in the past, taken form arxiv.org and resubmitted by senior academics. I've also seen partial reimplementations of Pijul, from the source code, with a different license, which is absolutely clear.
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> I'm sure that politicians are just envy over China and want to replicate their measures.

China has the same goal as the Western powers have: to be able to keep spying on anyone they deem enemy of the state.

The difference is who they define as enemy of the state. In China, that includes pretty much anyone that criticises the Government, as well as what they see as hostile nations (probably the USA, maybe UK, which openly call China their enemies mostly without real provocation, and perhaps Japan due to its closeness to the US and its past of barbarities committed during the occupation of nearly half of the Chinese territory).

In most western democracies, the enemy would be terrorists (they claim) and, as we now know, pretty much any other Government, ally or not... and that's what we currently know, there is probably a much wider reach still that we may never know for sure... the Snowden leaks show that they will collect mass surveillance not only on foreign heads of state, but on their own populations without any restrictions, just in case they need it later. Given that, I am not even sure China actually has more surveillance in place than the USA and the UK, for example. It's a huge disappointment for anyone thinking the western world holds the moral ground, we who live here need to get our Governments understand we will not accept this!

Europe and some developing countries did not really react when it was revealed the US was mass-spying on its Government officials because they obviously are doing the same, they just didn't get caught in the same way yet. The people behind all this spying believe they are doing good as they're keeping world peace. I think they do the opposite: because other governments' counter-intelligence probably know more or less who is doing what against them, they're kept in a constant state of readiness for conflict. True world peace can only come when there's mutual trust between countries... While everyone spies on everyone else, we'll continue to live in a world on the brink of WW3. You think WW3 is impossible? Well, read about WW1 and how basically no one expected it at all. Circumstances today are even more heated than at the time WW1 broke out. Funnily enough, the only thing that's holding WW3 back is the nukes behind the big armies which make full-on conflict a very uncomfortable prospect indeed.
You've rediscovered the ancient art of drawing lines on a map to make some people more powerful than other people. Usually preferred by the 'some people'. Always followed immediate after by attempts to justify why cheating is good.
I would like to add some different advice to what I just read here. I meditate and in addition to helping me know my connectedness to the universe, all people, and nature here on earth, meditation is exercise to improve the ability to concentrate on work, art, cooking, really listening to people, etc. In my experience meditation == super power.

I also believe that what we eat strongly affects our lives. For myself, I avoid processed foods. I simply suggest paying attention to what you eat and how you feel, and act accordingly.

I also think that taking many short work breaks during the day helps productivity, especially if you are stuck on something. I live a 90 second walk from a trailhead leading to national forest land. Amazing how 15 minutes in nature will bust through solving technical problems. Five minute breaks to play ping pong or racket ball on an Oculus Quest is also a good way for me to pause work and sometimes return with new ideas of perspectives.
Yes I suspect the same. I personally find deadlifts by far the most effective and easy exercise for preventing back pain and generally feeling healthier and more comfortable with a sitting desk job that I have found. However I have experimented a lot and I can get that benefit from lifting just 1x body weight, which is trivially easy for me and doesn't seem to pose any real risk of injury.
So whenever I see an article about this topic I like to open the Network tab of Developer Tools, disable cache and refresh to see how this work out in practice.

This page loaded in just under a second, and had 1.30MB of data in total. Pretty good!

However, when looking at where all the data is there seems to be something fishy going on. Basically, for some reason it loaded both a .webp and .webm file for the sticky header animation. The webp is a 450 KiB choppy animation, the webm a 770 KiB smooth one. If we skipped the webp that would be a 33% reduction in data and presumably equivalent speed-up of page load, so why bother loading a choppy gif?

Looking into the page source I get this tag:

<video autoplay="" loop="" muted="" playsinline="" poster="https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/pos-sticky.webp">
<source src="https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/pos-sticky.hvec.mp4" type="video/mp4; codecs=hvc1">
<source src="https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/pos-sticky.hvec.mp4" type="video/mp4; codecs=hevc">
<source src="https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/pos-sticky.h264.mp4" type="video/mp4; codecs=avc1">
<source src="https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/pos-sticky.webm" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9">
</video>

So I'm wondering if there is a point in adding a poster like that, given that it's not going to be seen for most people and probably going to be a major part of the data budget on any page that has any number of video tags on it.

(Also, my browser acts a bit funny here: if I refresh again it only downloads the webp, but still shows the webm - despite cache being disabled. Could it be that the video tag ignores my cache settings?)
=> projected cost to the customer seem to be ~ 80/100 per shot with 2 shots needed (if we go with a $20 base + $80 premium)
I wonder if the people scared of permanent damage caused by Covid (for which there is no evidence) will be equally scared of the permanent damage caused by this experimental vaccine (for which there is no evidence either).
Where do the existing "readily available, off-the-shelf encryption solutions" mentioned in the link fall in this dichotomy? Are they unbreakable because no network administrator can read my WhatsApp messages? Or are they broken, because Apple can push out an OS update and steal messages without the user knowing?
The places that would need to worry about building cold chain infrastructure capacity probably won't have the cash for permanent installations on top of the money they'll need to buy the vaccine.

Better to invest in companies that make and lease refrigerated semi-trailers, I'd think.
I get automated emails that I didn't sign up for from GitGuardian:

"GitGuardian has detected the following Google Key exposed within your GitHub account."

My understanding was that they could use an API to check whether it was a real key, but perhaps that doesn't say whether it is a client-side or server-side key?
First reason: writing servers that are easy to secure and maintain.

Second reason: SSH on Windows used to be the most nightmarish thing you can imagine.
Definitely, it would be nice. A key to this approach is being able to survive based on tips alone.

It will make me really frustrated if I play for tips and then yell about how listeners should pay be $100k.
https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...
I gave up half way through the copywrite claim crap, didn't want or need to know anything more...
Some people like this lifestyle and are enjoying working from home and not having social commitments anymore.
One just have to wonder would Biden win without Covid-XIX . Talk about conspiracies
Nah, didn't imply that. Just that ragel would be suitable to generate the parser for this kind of data.
I have an old Soekris Net6501 which I would love to use OpenBSD on. However, they don't have any support for the Sierra WWAN modem I have.

Unfortunately these days finding an alternative Linux distro which supports an installation process which uses the serial terminal interface is really, really hard these days. So the device sits unused in one of my desk drawers.
I suspected quite similar to how people are vaccinated against the flu every year.
Small but important nitpick: since at least 2005 there is no "on the NYSE", the price you're likely seeing is the best price consolidated across all national market system venues, the primary listing exchange is mostly only an administrative entity in recent times. Actually some of the largest premarket trading is occurring on NASDAQ and a CBOE-owned exchange called BATS
You can do lots of other things, it just depends on what's important / what do you want to achieve. In almost any online storage you can implement backups as close to immutable by having two amounts. One for upload, another one for long term storage with the second one only ever written to via an isolated, non interactive, simple process (think AWS lambda).

Or use you access policies which allow file creation and nothing else. Or many other ways.
I would understand it to mean that for every 100 people in the placebo arm who were diagnosed with COVID, only 10 people in the treatment arm were diagnosed with COVID.
There's work that you do for yourself and to benefit yourself and your community, but this kind of work is the kind which doesn't benefit you, only your boss. In the case of the USSR, your boss was the state, hence why the USSR's economy is often referred to as "state capitalism".
I suspect scrollbars are among the most underrated source of unexpected CSS bugs across different browsers/platforms. I never see anyone online complain about them, yet at work we constantly have to work our way around them.
Pretty much any biology lab in the world has -80 °C fridges. For shipping, a styrofoam container with some dry ice is probably good enough.
> I also really like my Oculus. It's helped me escape a bit, and gotten me moving around more.

I'm thinking about getting an Oculus for the same reason. What software would you recommend? Are there any good titles with just scenery (e.g. beach, mountain, etc.)? Are the YouTube VR channels any good? (I sure hope they don't get interrupted by 3d advertisements).
Where have you seen this before?
How AI chatbots are helping healthcare companies acquire and retain users?
There's both free and paid version

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.paveldog...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=games.paveldog...
You’re way too late to the party. Peloton became a $30 billion company during covid. Down over 10% in premarket trading
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But now consumer can choose who will spy on them!
It’s a 90% reduction in cases in a vaccinated population vs unvaccinated. Basically how good is the vaccine at preventing symptomatic infection upon exposure
> The left have been opposing voting requiring identification (on the grounds that it discriminates against those without it) for years.

The left is worried that any ID scheme would be used to disenfranchise voters. Studies have shown that requiring an ID does not impact voter turnout for the most part, but we only need to look towards voter registration rules to see how the system can be gamed to prevent people to vote. Some states allow same day registration while others require 30 days, etc... I could think of similar rules around voter ID to add another hurdle to voting.
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My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone
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Vincent Houzé is an artist who works with 3D fluid sims quite a bit. These run in real-time and are interactive. He’s a wizard.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Z2ZUYndxL/?igshid=15jc8xisc171...
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> If a server sends my browser text, however, and my idiot browser executes it as code, that's also a server flaw.

XSS is not the server sending your browser text, that your idiot browser executes as code. XSS is the idiot server sending the browser code that the server thinks is text. The browser's job is to execute code the server sends it: the browser trusts the server, and it's the server's job to ensure what it's sending as code is code and what it's sending as text is text.
Edit:
The article states
“ Pfizer believes it will be able to supply 50 million doses by the end of this year, and around 1.3 billion by the end of 2021.
The UK should get 10 million doses by the end of the year, with a further 30 million doses already ordered.”

So the UK will only get 10/50 Millionen doses produced this year.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has freezers that hit these temps. About $10-20k per unit it appears.

https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-te...
Really hoping they don’t crack down on this!
Comparing nukes which killed millions to a zero day in a browser is a bit much.
Testing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (1999) [pdf]
Daniel Stenberg gets his US Visa after 937 days
Google Android Turns 13. It’s Been a Wild Ride for Developers
I‘d like to see this statement discussed more. It‘s easy to brush it off as some very US-American PoV, point at food culture, feeling full and vitamins / minerals, and imagine some person who doesn’t watch their health at all.

But given above article about declining nutritional values and the availability of more efficient ways to avoid deficits (supplements, soylent variants) it can indeed be questioned why we are wasting so much time, resources and energy globally on what is essentially a pretty bag of water nowadays.

Additionally, cooking at home (which I did for years), including produce shopping, cutting, preparing, cleaning the waste is a huge investment of time, money and energy. If it doesn’t even lead to better health because you are essentially transforming bags of water into other forms it should probably not be considered more essential than other time consuming hobbies.

After including a soylent variant in my diet I somehow started only buying fruits and vegetables that I’m sure have some nutritional value (i.e. garlic or avocado but no more lettuce or oranges). Otherwise I mostly get them im restaurants, but rather for foodie reasons.
Except Zoom's, which fell from 514 to 410 in less than an hour.

Really puts the nails in coffin of the whole "we're gonna work more remotely after the pandemic" narrative.
The citation for this is:

* Hagerty, M.R. Testing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: National Quality-of-Life Across Time. Social Indicators Research 46, 249–271 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006921107298
>You’re way too late to the party. Peloton became a $30 billion company during covid. Down over 10% in premarket trading

He's mocking people who are making obvious short sighted covid-based stock plays.
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Small nitpick : "people have fought and died for the rights to create borders (or a nation, as they saw it)"

Well people have fought and died for many many stupid pointless things so it hardly constitutes an argument in favour of it. People have fought and died for conquering other's people land, to enforce the "true" religion, for money, for glory...

"Are you sure all those people were that wrong that they sacrificed so much, for something they shouldn't have wanted?"

The more wrong, the more stubborn. More seriously : This a a very abstract reasoning. How do you apply it to WWI? What did "people" want then? Did it matter what they wanted?
I've been programming professionally since 1984, most of last 20 of those on a Mac (the first Mac that launched with a NeXT OS). I've never really wanted to "dabble" with my core computer's OS, and I've done FreeBSD and Linux kernel hacking.

Not everybody is a tinkerer. I get why, but I'm just not interested.
The variations are enough to have differences in infectiousness and to allow us to trace the spread a bit, but as far as we know immunity to any of them is immunity to all of them.
You don't have to deliver the vaccine into every community. People can travel to nearest next place that has it.
I also find that handwriting notes forces a kind of “hear or read, digest quickly, rephrase in a short hand way the keep points so I can pay attention to the next thing I am hearing or reading”

That forced summarization I think does a lot for the brain. I find handwritten notes are almost not needed after the notes are written... your brain already put the summarized information in your head because you had to work with it to pick what was important.
Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech is strongly effective
"However, there are logistical challenges as the vaccine has to be kept in ultra-cold storage at below minus 80C."

Does anyone know how many of the other vaccine candidates have this limitation? It seems to me that a vaccine with easier logistics might still end up having a bigger impact overall, despite not being the first - although that of course needs to be combined with the ease of production too (I don't know how easy it is to mass produce these new RNA vaccines compared to more traditional ones).
No, not according to the Open Source Definition of the OSI, which is generally recognized to be the authority in terms of what we call "open source".

> No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition
> Back to square one.

It's an open source processor, right? (Not just the RISC-V instruction-set, but the specific chip.) Could the chip be compared against that design to check for backdoors?
In Germany it is the normal way to pee (I am not German but all my German friends told me so).

I also do it at home (I am French so this is not a typical thing to do here) and noticed that one of my kids (two boys) spontaneously does it too (at home).

I hope that everyone pees sitting when going to the toilet at night, without switching on all the lights...
My frame of reference there is the UK. Should've been more explicit stating that. Sorry :)
We'll have to find out. If the virus is suppressed for 6-12 months, it's basically eradicated, and vaccination would only have to start once it starts spreading again.

The rate of spreading will depend on factors such as international travel and how much people will have learned from this period. I expect/fear that everyone will try to get life as before as soon as possible, so the extra delay after the vaccine wears off might be negligible.
>I remember that in March somebody posted here an entry saying that mutation of the virus will make vaccinations only useful in the short term. Were these concerns already addressed at this stage?

Regardless of whether the mutations are significant enough to affect vaccine efficacy, it won't likely be a problem. These new mRNA vaccines have a development/production time measured in weeks and months, not years. It changes vaccines from a hardware problem to a software problem. Once the underlying delivery technology is proven safe and effective, reacting to new strains will be as swift as patching a codebase. It's hard to overstate what a massive advance in vaccine tech is happening here.
That is more than enough for many applications.
How much RAM does your home router have?
Quest 2 won't work without FB. Atleast not until the jailbreak is released.
apple apologized?!
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Thanks to Google you can now do this under some circumstances at the Skywater 130nm foundry

https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk
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In Uk I have recently recieved a vaccine, and it was in a commercial refrigirator. I don't know if they have a UPS, but it appears like a normal thing to do.
> as far as we know immunity to any of them is immunity to all of them.

What are you basing that on, when there are known cases of people getting coronavirus and then still contracting the other strain of it?
Do I notice a hint of resentment?
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Immunity isn't binary