skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Low-light conditions are relatively rich in ultraviolet light, and UV vision is generally thought to be important to nocturnal animals.

Clearly there is not enough UV light at night to activate the glow in most cases, as otherwise people would notice. Also since it’s actually glowing pink, not sure what this could have to do with UV vision.

I wonder why nighttime would be rich in UV light though. I’d have guessed that IR light would be a better pathway to night vision, since warm bodies generate IR regardless of the time of day.
If a stocks price is $100, and tomorrow there will be a news event where there is a 50% chance it will be worth $50, and a 50% chance it will be worth $200, the trading value today should probably be around $125 (it's expected value or EV, $200 + $50 / 2).

When the defining event actually occurs, it will either move from $125 to $50, or $125 to $200.

So the news event in this example is priced in at $125, but there is still scope for big moves when certainty is realised.

Obviously in real life the values are never as certain. In the above example if the stocks ever trades < $125 before the event, you would make money in the long run.

EMH shouldn't be taken seriously as the market actors are compromised of irrational humans.
"The West" is a bit more restricted in how much they can lie to their own citizens (even with the recent efforts from Mr Trump and Mr Johnson to change that for the worse).

Of course, in Mother Russia it is widely believed that everyone lies more or less, and those looking to expose "the truth" generally live dangerously, often with tragic results.
All of your concerns are real. However it is important to remember that this is also routine. The amount of vaccine to ship this way is not that large compared to all the other things shipping in this way. Shipping companies already know how to handle this type of thing and have systems in place. They have the monitoring in place and systems to watch it because this is already done on a large scale.
Does anyone know if the Russian vaccine is “live,” “deactivated,” or his new RNA type?
Oh man, wait until someone chimes in saying they buy Rolexes because they have absolutely superior timekeeping. Which sure, they do, but that's definitely not a reason why people buy them.
Athenian slaves had a lot more rights than modern slaves. Sort of close to the lowest rungs of other caste systems.

Modern Capitalist workers actually have a very large spectrum they encompass, from very rich to very poor. Which is not totally unlike Athenian slaves, some of whom could become quite rich. But doubtless the modern worker has far more freedoms, and elects to restrict their life, in part due to institutionalized fear of no wages.
IMO that could be a great selling point if this works even remotely like SVN partial checkout.

Big problem on Git in game dev, is the fact that you often don't want to download everything. And then you have to use subtree and submodules... And that's a nightmare.
I think we can eradicate it by contact tracing. With 90% efficiency it will be extremely tough for the virus to spread. For any new cases you simply test everyone in the vicinity of the infected person.

But I don't think even that will be necessary. 90% efficiency reduces R so much, it will probably die out on its own.

The real problem is mutations that are not covered by the vaccine. If it mutates as efficiently as flu, it will be a challenge.
> When using Solid, how is data stored?

> It depends on the Pod Provider. From a user point of view, how the data is stored is not as important as how it is accessed and controlled. No matter who the Pod Provider is, in order to be Solid compliant, it has to expose data the same way: as resources in folders. However,the implementors of the standard are free to pick the underlying technologies according to their own purposes and constraints. That is why performance may vary from one Pod Provider to another.

> As any standard, Solid only describes the interaction model the system must be compliant with. The Pod Provider only exposes a REST read-write interface to the clients, to which the storage technology is irrelevant, as it is in most Web-based systems. How this interface binds with the storage is specific to each Pod Provider.

https://solidproject.org/faqs#pod

Solid is just the standard. It's up to others (e.g. inrupt) to build the actual thing.
Usually comments on BBC articles are pretty horrible. However, I'm very pleased to see that the top comment on that article is:

"This is the power of science. Step aside celebrities- these people are who should be famous."

Edit: I should also point out that I am, of course, in complete agreement
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> Ebola was localized. COVID-19 is not

You could easily localize COVID-19, just make a vaccination passport. No entry to a country if you're not vaccinated.

> How many locations globally have this level of refrigeration

Almost all developer countries, urban centres, where majority of people live anyway.
Last job, there was a client who fired my employer before I was hired. They went through >12 IT people before crawling back. My coworker got the client and was fired within 3 days. His replacement another coworker lasted about 2 weeks. I then was given the client. I went onsite, was stoic as usual and they loved that. They could be abusive as much as they pleased to me and I never responded to any of it. It worked for many months but I got busy. I was booked weeks in advanced. So they sent a coworker onsite and they flipped their lid. It was about a 45 minute drive there, this coworker billed them for 4 hours of driving. Like as if they wouldn't realize?

They complained so badly but never named my coworker because they never got his name. My boss assumed they were talking about me and he flipped out on my about fraudulent fluffing my numbers and all that. I had no idea what he was talking about and couldn't defend myself. He just tore me a new one for awhile and said they had to 0$ out all their recent bills.

Afterwards I looked it up and after finding out it wasn't me. I was not too pleased.
Duplicate -- flagged -- story covered at top of HN.
We manage to get $1M cruise missiles anywhere on the globe quite quickly. If the world can mobilize for WWII - the US alone built 1,200 warships in a four year period, 2,700 Liberty ships, 300k aircraft, etc. - we can mobilize for a global pandemic... if we choose to.
As a counterpoint, I just want to mention that I once wrote perl that wrote Javascript that wrote HTML.

And I'm not even ashamed of it.
Which of course didn’t happen hear - Biden is on track to win by a clear electoral and popular margin. Florida in 2000 was decided by hundreds of votes though.
Looks a lot like the I Robot movie.
The meta-strategies help market prices be accurate, faster, by beginning to move prices towards the “right” number in advance of information that would do the same thing. In the long run they don’t misinform.

This obviously excludes strategies based on fraud, misinforming the public, etc.
in the mean time, there's a more recent version of the document obtained by statewatch.org. It's from november 6th and you'll find it at https://files.orf.at/vietnam2/files/fm4/202045/783284_fh_st1...
My first interaction with the internet was in the mid-to-late 90's, first AOL then IRC (if ZithTar rings a bell, please reach out), and other than a few super-specific niche communities I also feel looking back that it was a cesspool. I was maybe 10-12 years old then but I can't ever remember a time when the internet was objectively pleasant in a broad sense.
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Any reason for not providing binaries?
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> show 90% protection is achieved seven days after the second dose.

What is 90% 'protection'? Need to see the data, I don't think the hospitalization rate is above 10% of positive tests, vaccines often conflate 'reduction in symptoms/duration' with 'immunity'.
This is how it's done in Texas.
It doesn't really need studies per se because [specifically for web] justification doesn't work properly without significant overhead. You can easily justify badly (normally with a single property applied to the text), but to make that work well, the browser (or app, same is true there) will blindly split words and drastically adjust the tracking between words, leaving huge rivers in the text which unequivocally make things difficult to read. When setting text on the web, it's far more practical to set it ragged right, as it avoids this problem (with the trade-off that it may not be as pleasant to read as properly justified text).

In print, if I'm typesetting, I a. have a fixed container size within which to apply justification, b. have access to advanced justification settings that allow for smart word breaking based on word length, language and regex patterns, and c. on top of that as a final step I can work forwards through the text, manually breaking words or adjusting tracking on a per space basis to remove any remaining rivers.

On the web, this isn't available, so justification there is an extremely blunt and not particularly useful instrument
I think the point being made is the federal government was originally given a very limited charter, over time that charter has expanded to the point where factions are battling for control of it, because it is now the seat of power. When the republic, as it was designed, was intended to deal with things at the state level. The foundational republic looked more like 13 small countries that bound together by a federated agreement on defense, taxes, liberties, citizenship. This was the idea, that the states could look very different from one another on the way they governed. The problem was while this was great for the individual to find a representative government, it creates a horrible business climate for those so inclined. So gradually business money wanted to move more of their regulation to the federal level and avoid state regulation as they had to comply with each state to conduct business. It started with banking, then the railroad barons, then electric companies and other public works, then moved on the the military industrial complex and now we have the tech companies getting in on the actions. So in today's context, due to distortion towards business interests, it is very disjointed and does not make sense, but under the limited federalist contract of the founding republic it made sense that each state had equal representation at the table that bound them together. Now we have gotten to the point where we are pushing social issues to the federal level and it is not going to end well. That being said, the remedy is not just go to a popular vote, a popular vote is just mob rule by the majority. The republic was designed to co-exist with people that don't agree on everything, federalization forces them to agree, and the popular vote, just silences the minorities voice and will eventually lead to their rights being revoked, which is not a formula for success.
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> Central database of all citizens.

That's like saying a shotgun can cure cancer. The tradeoffs required are so laughably bad your solution is not worth considering.
The original idea around the NHS spine was that people would have a legitimate relationship with the customers data. So a doctor treating them but not someone random they had no intreaction with. The key was keeping an audit of all the access and updates so at the very least you could determine after the fact if a breach had occurred. Patients don't have access to their spine data however so its impossible for them to administrate it and ensure only those they want to see things do.

It doesn't ensure its owned by you only controlled with trust in the NHS spine but still it could have been a lot better than it has been if the project had continued.
Does this convert a TTF font to an SVG somehow?
>Great news and the markets are reacting very positively to the news as well which indicates to me this could be the beginning of the end!

I'd argue that has a lot more to do with the election uncertainty being over with. This is incredibly promising news, but probably not enough to account for SP500 jumping 400 points this morning.
more random than irrational
For what it's worth, one of the organizations that I've been following regarding COVID vaccine's in less developed economies is GAVI:

- https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/cold-supply-hot-demand

I don't have much more on that front, but it's worth a look to see what well developed agencies are aiming at.
Many supermarkets carry dry ice. Any city of >50,000 people will have a company supplying dry ice and liquid nitrogen. CO2 is a byproduct of several industrial process, so that market it glutted. It is easy to turn CO2 into dry ice (if you don't care about efficiency - with the supply being virtually unlimited there is no reason to care much)
> Almost all developer countries, urban centres, where majority of people live anyway.

At -80C?

Edit: There are hardly storage places right now for these temperatures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byW1GExQB84
I’d argue that his perspectives on interconnected data are not only more deeply thought out for his continual thought on it over the past decades, but they are even more relevant today.

I’d also say in a very real way that for reasons beyond his control, the WWW fell short of what Sir Berners-Lee envisioned, giving him the opportunity to start over and make sure it’s on the right course this time.
There are companies out there willing to help with this. Mass arbitration, when actually -done- can quickly wind up more expensive for the company than a class action.

Uber and Lyft had their mass arbitrations handled by a specific law firm that deals with consumer as well as employee issues, perhaps they are worth reaching out to.
Providing basic services should be more efficient than universal basic income
> GPL on the other hand doesn’t have an expiry date.

Of course it does. 70 years (or was it 95?) after the death of the author, like for any copyrighted work.
I honestly forgot what the argument was about at this point. I thought it was me saying that the lack of android auto contributed to my decision to change the car. I don't recall supporting anyone, but then again it was a long time ago now.
I wake up long time ago when I realized the virus is not as dangerous as the media reported it. You too should wake up right now and live your life. Stop being afraid.
Just discovered this! You can enable this feature with Command + K, then Z (same command to disable).
That doesn't solve the SPOF for leaks/breaches/corruption that is the problem for these kinds of systems at all.
I would say that developers have been able to create a lot of value building on top of Android (Google), Flutter (Google), and .Net Core (Microsoft).

I could probably dig up specifically an Amazon open source example, but I think you can convincingly argue that devs have created a ton of value building on top of the work on AWS.
I don't think the stock market should care about lives of human beings directly. It's not meant to do that.

I do agree that using the stock market as an indicator of quality of life, general well being of human beings or anything else than the financial viability of publicly traded companies is not a very good idea. That's a frequent mistake made by financial journalists and politicians alike, however, especially during election season.
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That is immunity after illness, isn't it? I would not be sure you can extrapolate that for immunity after a specific vaccination. The vaccine from Mainz / Mayence for example trains your immunity by introducing just parts of the shell / shell dna / rna. Could work even better for immunity or worse, one has to study that for every vaccine seperatly, I think.
I'm guessing that's why it hasn't been called yet, despite trending very red. It'll probably still end up in Trump's column, but with such a disparity in voting methods by party it's more uncertain than usual.
Corona viruses cannot mutate as efficiently as flu. They are very different beasts.
AMP is a cancer on the internet [0].

Here's the non-Google-AMP version of your link:
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/app-hoi-schweizer-klone...

[0] https://www.theregister.com/2017/05/19/open_source_insider_g...
Do you have a source for this? I am curious if this is true.
Now you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing.

There was 150,000 + 200,000 reported deaths. Those are also rounded figures. So 350,000.
Yup. But we do need the government to step in and do this (contact tracing etc.). Hopefully, with the new administration...
I don't know the answer, but which particular limitations do you have in mind with the term "home garage"?

I.e.:

- space

- power and cooling capacity

- freshwater and wastewater capacity

- legality of storing / disposing of toxic materials

- proximity to a residential dwelling

- equipment cost

- amount of noise produced
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What kind of an argument is that?
Just because somebody owns more stocks than you do doesn't make their price development less relevant to you.
I thought it was that 90% show production of antibodies.
> someone submitting stolen work to a fellow he stole the work from

When you submit a paper to a journal, you don't get to pick your reviewers. In fact, you most likely don't ever get to know who the reviewers are because the process is anonymized.

But given that many areas of scientific inquiry are highly specialized, it isn't particularly surprising that if you rip off someone's work, that someone is going to be picked as a reviewer for your paper by chance.
"Rendering the federal government impotent" is a good thing in the eyes of the ~50% of the US that lives outside your filter bubble.

Having a strong federal government is not the settled matter you seem to imply it is.
We need a coterie of well paid, humble, independent and responsive architects who can design protocols which will let smaller players build interoperable software for this stuff - prescriptions, appointments, etc.

At the moment we have behemoths trying to do the spiderweb vendor lockin thing.
what's your point? owning .0001% of something is still owning something
Books etc. expand to fill the space allotted to them. At some point, I decided that the (considerable) space in my house devoted to books and other media was at a peak. Since then, I've done an annual or so winnowing to keep inflow (though a lot of that has shifted to digital) and outflow approximately matched.

I could still get rid of a lot though if I wanted to.
Netlify offers this.
Suicide in England since the Covid-19 pandemic -early figures from surveillance
Seems like yesterday was a good time to buy shares. Now it's not so clear!
And time is a circle.
At least in north america, the supermarkets have to label where the food is from. You’ll begin to notice the difference between seasonal NZ and seasonal California, for instance.

I do suspect that there are sites and apps, but don’t know of any off-hand.
Haskell and Scala are top notch in this area. Probably one of their biggest advantages.

I always feel a bit sad when I see that other programming languages try to solve the same problem and come up with an inferior solution that they then try improve by fixing edge cases. I wish programming language authors would learn more from each other.
I second buying the chair... if you spend any significant portion of your day with a specific piece of furniture (chair, bed), it's worth spending a little more on it.
Until your body kills the infected cells. Viruses stick themselves into your cells all over the place. It's how you get the common cold. Approximately 8% of your DNA is made of past viruses that humans and their ancestors caught.
So would it be possible to create an API to be able to control your robot from the web?
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How dangerous did you assess it to be?
I think Free Software was intended to receive money and replace proprietary software in its entirety.
I’m just stating what happens; all other arguments you’re mentioning are purely figments of your own imagination.
With all these drawbacks why does thewirecutter recommend an HP printer as the top choice?

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-laser-printe...

Edit: spelling
Skip to 3:20 if you don't want to hear a few minutes about why COVID is a big problem.
The big difference is that it's been clearly shown that Russia did interfere [1]. The arguable point is did Trump's campaign know and direct the interference?

And if we're really talking about shaping elections, disinformation and voter suppression is the way to get it done. Once votes are cast, it's too hard to move enough in order to have any meaningful change. There are too many checks, rechecks, and processes in place to commit fraud at the scale needed for a large election.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_20...
This is a bit of a hobby interest of mine. While it's possible that your statement is true, I think it misses the point. Gun murders in the U.S. are a very low percentage of deaths (0.39%) and preventable deaths (~1.1%, there's some disagreement about what's "preventable"). This excludes suicides. You may wish to include them if that makes sense given your interests. People love to focus on relative comparisons (e.g., Scotland vs. US), but miss the forest for the trees. Some tiny proportion being 5x some other country's tiny proportion is irrelevent.

If your goal is to prevent untimely, unwanted deaths there are oh so many other ways to apply your resources that will yield orders of magnitude more improvement per dollar / per minute.

People like to pay attention to it anyway for a few reasons. One is that we evolved to think specifically about interpersonal violence (~5-15% of prehistoric deaths, but way more than that for non-old people), which makes us good at luridly imagining interpersonal violence, and so comparatively we're bad at thinking about an early death due to diabetes and therefore bad at caring about it. Another reason is it's a hot-button red team/blue team political issue, so it's not so much about the issue per se but rather whether $OTHER_SIDE gets what it wants or not.
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I only switch to paper for UI and math.

I love a fullscreen, empty text editor.

I prefer to learn to focus instead of forcing myself to focus. Putting my editor in fullscreen is against visual clutter, but I don't have to shut down my laptop not to read HN instead (or do I? excuse: was not doing a deep focus task right now, but waiting for slack replies. Waiting makes me jump to other apps right away... So glad I don't have build times in my job).
With no intervention, healthy people start to die because they cannot receive medical care. There is a lot of COVID care going on in hospitals other than ventilation. Ventilators are somewhat of a last resort.

We are on track for COVID to have 10x the deaths of the seasonal flu, and that is after the effects of the significant interventions that have happened here and around the globe.
Those 1.1 billion doses are not for the US alone. The vaccine was actually developed by Biontech in Germany before Pfizer was involved. Pfizer is the partner to scale up the studies and production. But you can assume that those doses are not US only. And then I'd doubt that a healthy 30 year old will get it in summer of 2021.
How much do you bet though that in 6 months Biden will claim: you see, I got elected and I solved Covid!
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