skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The phase 3 only did two shots. Afaik the only one shot vaccine in phase 3 trials is the J&J one.

Looking at the phase 1/2 results, the booster shot seems to help a lot in getting the antibody levels up. See Figure 4 of their paper, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027906
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Yes. Engineered for fast growth, not for nutrition.
Services reminds me so much of IBM.

Apple should make a blockchain and partner with old banks to swipe the new trend.
At least this one has a decent looking 'n' value. The BBC also address this in part

> There are still questions - how long does immunity last, does the vaccine work as well in high-risk elderly people, does it stop you spreading the virus or just from developing symptoms?

I'd rate the news as "vibing" on a scale of clickbait to party for the world
retirement accounts--pensions are legacy technology
The reason that response is so rare is that people forgot the origin of open source. Once I solve my problem, it costs me nothing to give you the solution.

If you just want me to solve your problem when I don't also have it, you need to compensate me for my time.
> Then there’s an ever-growing suite of services that Apple conveniently puts in front of iPhone holders.

I wonder just how popular many of those services would be if Apple competed with them on a level playing field instead of leveraging their control of the hardware and operating system to advantage their own services.
Sure, but what's a reasonable price to offer? $1? $10? $100? At what point does it not make sense for the end-user to sponsor a FOSS project in order to bring it up to feature parity with a proprietary equivalent if it costs more to pay for the feature than just buying the proprietary version?

To use a real-world example, I used to use a program called Tag&Rename for managing my mp3 metadata for years.[0] It had a method of scraping Amazon for album info, which I loved. When I switched to Linux, I switched over to EasyTag[1], which is a fine program, although I still find T&R still easier to use, and I miss the Amazon integration.

I would be willing to pay up to $30 to get Amazon scraping into EasyTag, because I believe in the long-term benefits of well-supported FOSS software. But beyond that, it's hard to justify, because I could just as easily pay $30 and run T&R under Wine/in a VM.

[0] http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm
[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/EasyTAG
Ask HN: What is the solution to the Seinfeld “Frogger” problem?
There was an episode of Seinfeld where George purchased a Frogger arcade machine on which he still held the high score. His problem was how to get it home without unplugging it.

I've been thinking about that, and I can't come up with a solution. Is it possible to keep something continuously powered while changing its power source to something portable?
I think you are thinking about this talk by Richard Hamming [1] at Bell. Search for “door closed” for the part you’re referring to.

[1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html
WeChat is practically running its own OS inside of iOS and Apple is okay with it. It has its own app store and while they are web apps the WeChat API provides a lot of native integrations that makes them feel less like web apps.

I'm not an iOS dev but I believe that it also uses some weird iOS APIs that I've never seen other apps use. The way it makes your phone continuously vibrate with certain notifications is one example.
I'll post here on hacker news once I get a web site up and running. Look for a post from this user name (another_comment). I'll also post here in the comments of appropriate posts.

Thanks for the interest.
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> What constitutes a small margin?

I'm sure that within the context of the discussion and the number of votes cast, you can come up with a meaningful number.

> Fraudulently casting that many votes undetected would be a non-trivial task.

Non-trivial is a low barrier.
Disagree. They have sucked up TSMC's low nm bandwidth. They are becoming the Intel of ARM, and it wouldn't surprise me if they become a hyperscaler as a service.
FB owning Oculus is the reason I'll never buy an Oculus.
this is basically an advertisement for an IE spin-off.
FPGAs could replace GPUs in many deep learning applications
If you're fortunate enough to live near a farmer's market, consider going there first to get your produce and meats. Then go to the grocery store to fill in what you couldn't find there.

Not only are you going to be helping the local economy, you'll be getting more nutritious food that tastes better and is usually better for the environment.

Do a little research on the farm and especially support the ones that practice bio-dynamic farming. It only takes 5 minutes and can have a big impact on the earth.
Not just a big part, THE big part. :-)
The thing with owning books is that your family eventually finds your way to them if you own any. My family found my old books recently when looking for something to read - I saw it on their desks. Had to tell them "Yea, that's good, throw that one away, I wasted my time on it, don't waste yours." So that's an argument for keeping stuff, but extremely filtered.

Kind of like code, I guess.
This is a fantastic feature IMHO. I use this as part of my dev env every day.

Remote to WSL and particularly Remote to container.

This is also a great way to try programming in a new language as you can install demos for a bunch of them in containers that are all prepped to work.
You can do anything you want to with your own phone.

The law allows you to hack on it in any way you like.

What you are saying is that you don’t have the capacity to make the phone do what you want.

You want Apple to do that work, and you want the government to force them to do it for you.

That is not the same thing.

You didn’t have to buy it if it didn’t do what you wanted.

Are you claiming you didn’t know it was locked down before you bought it?
It was not meant as a jab, and certainly not bad faith. I'm just telling you that your comment was of exactly the same character. Either refrain from making a political comment yourself or have it be responded to.

Making a political comment but then trying to shut down discussion of it by stating that you will not participate in political discussions is a double standard, though perhaps you were unaware that you were doing it.
Pricing your SaaS product (2020)
> But for a while now large companies have been adopting a model of taking from open source contributions and raking in billions.

I've been working at a large corporation for about five years now. I've been on more than a few projects where we wanted to use an open source product/tool to help build an application and it was roundly rejected by the security team. After two back-to-back requests were rejected, we were told corporate policy was 100% against using any open source tools or products in anything we did.

The ironic part is this monolithic, hulking corporation is losing chunks of market to smaller, more nimble companies who can get their product to market in three months. Whereas, it takes us 18 teams and 100 people and two years to get the same product to market. Their solution? Just buy the technology instead. We've had dozens of acquisitions over the past year or so.

Which now creates another new set of problems I'm sure you can already see. . .
> Requesting work in an economic context without offering compensation in some form is morally indefensible.

Not even close to all open source work is in an economic context though.
"Also, this is a German result, and people trust Germany more."

Like with the diesel emissions?
> Developers have made massive gains overall by commoditizing their complements

Sorry, I am not following. What is the implication here, that application developersand Free Operating Systems are complemetary products?

> How many fewer developer jobs would there be now if every OS installation cost what Solaris used to cost?

Of course the market would be much smaller without FOSS, but how does this relate to what I am talking about?

I wish we had more FOSS, not less. I wish people were willing to refuse the short-term apparent benefit/convenience of closed source and started at least hedging their investments on FOSS alternatives.
Glad we’ve proven dogs can look up
I run my own copy of bind, and use https://dns.he.net as a slave pulling the zones from it. As a result I can actually use all DNS features.

I find it super frustrating that most dynamic DNS providers use their own custom API rather than just using the update mechanism that's in the protocol itself. That said, if they support v6 then you can probably use them by installing their update client on each machine that you want a hostname for. It just won't integrate with pfsense.
It's basically a market question. Either side should be able to make an offer and you either agree on a mutually beneficial price or not.
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Organic Redox Flow Batteries – The true path to grid scale energy storage?
Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations
The NHS's project is not the only pilot and the NHS is not the only partner: https://inrupt.com/enterprise-server-release
The US has the manufacturing capacity for ships and planes before WW II. Do we have any factories left making refrigerators? Or are we just going to have to order them from China?
Proportional allocation of the electoral college is just a slightly less accurate popular vote. If we're gonna do that, might as well just do pop vote.

You don't hear the same argument against the senate as often because it's practically impossible to get rid of it. But many people are still against it (myself included).

>why shouldn't they allocate all federal funds to themselves and deprive other states entirely?

That's a funny argument, because red states currently receive a lot more federal funding than what they pay in taxes, and blue states pay more taxes than what they get back in return. Plus, blue states actually want to give red states even more money, when you consider that blue states support more federal funding for healthcare and other programs.

Everyone is always concerned with protecting the smaller, less dense states, but really it's those states that have disproportionately more power. California contributes so much to red states, and what do they get in return? A bunch of senators and presidents who do nothing about climate change, thereby letting California burn even more. California is the one that needs more protection here, not the states whose farmers are getting six figure checks as bail-outs because the president they elected doesn't understand how trade wars work.
You start with f having type 'a0 -> a1', and g having type 'a2 -> a3'.

Looking at the body of f you infer that a0 = a2 and a1 = Foo | a3, after the substitution f has type 'a0 -> Foo | a3' and g has type 'a0 -> a3'.

Looking at the body of g you infer that a0 = a0 (whew!) and a3 = Bar | (a3 | Foo). Now, the last one is tricky, and here is the point where you can easily get your type inference engine to diverge, but the (least) solution is given by a3 = Bar | Foo (because A = A | B iff A is a superset of B).

So, after the final substitution you have 'a0 -> Bar | Foo' for f and 'a0 -> Bar | Foo' for g, generalize 'a0' as appropriate.
You seem to be looking at it backwards.

You're complaining mostly about Apple charging too much for not enough.

But since people are signing up for these things in droves, Apple is making $$$$, which means Apple's strategy is succeeding.

Apple's services strategy pays off when it makes a lot of profit, not when when you feel like you're getting amazing deals on everything. Apple's never been a budget-product company, it's always been high-end.
All the Intel CPUs with RDRAND, although I guess that's not exactly hidden anymore.
> We know being on a respirator will cause damage. We know antibiotics or steroids or whatever causes damage. We know being in a coma will cause damage.
> What's being talked about is new/additional/unknown damage caused by this virus. The real data on this is slim.

We know that similar viruses (e.g. SARS-COV-1) can cause long term damage to heart/lungs. We know that several viruses can cause post-viral chronic fatigue.

> The real data on this is slim.

I think what most people are calling for is more investigation into this. And in the meantime some caution is warranted regarding the possibility.
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How often do the faang companies actually make change requests to these projects? My understanding, not working in the space, is that they will many times upstream improvements they develop. But I wasn't aware that they were hitting oss authors with a deluge of unpaid change requests.

Now I know that reviewing an upstreamed change is also work. That's a big part of my job at work so I could hardly fail to recognize it. It would be completely reasonable to apply this policy even to code reviews. Of course in that event forking the project might be exactly what the companies would do, and I'm not sure if that would be a preferable outcome from the perspective of oss authors either.
I've read that pesticide use impacts the types of fungus, bacteria and other critters in the dirt. I understand that they can break down components of the dirt and convert the minerals into more available forms for the plants.
Not so good: Safety data is for 2 months only
_Requesting_ it is fine. _Expecting_ it is not
> You don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism

More likely, you hate modern hyper-specialized ways of production (in the broadest sense). Capitalism is what brought that mode of production about, but it's a prerequisite for any economic system that wants to be productive.

I think market socialism is a great idea and we should move towards it. I also think that it can occasionally give us all more agency, by increasing the power of employee representation and participation in firms.

However, I have little hope that it will truly move the needle on subjective/perceived alienation from our work for most people.
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> Or are we just going to have to order them from China?

It's a global pandemic. Order them from anyone who can make them at scale. Coordinate with the WHO to avoid silly bidding wars.
That's going to be true to some extent of every library your company uses, but for every library someone writes and offers as FOSS, you don't have to spend the cycles designing, developing, and maintaining your own, nor training new hires on using it. You're fundamentally misunderstanding the value of having good quality tools developed by someone else.

And I'm not even going to _start_ on what I think of your attitude towards test tooling vs "central libraries" other than to note that if you don't consider test tools central to your development process, I think you have bigger problems.
AAPL is not a company anymore, it's a store of value like Bitcoin. Except it's centralized and relies on countless intermediaries.

It doesn't matter how many phones they sell. The only thing that counts is how much of all newly printed fiat currencies their stock can capture from investors and if the next generation will agree to continue the ponzi.
My reason is simple: I got an environment with the following features (as of the mid-2000s):

* Unix shell

* X

* Virtual desktop support

* Runs my editor of choice

* Runs on a laptop

* WiFi just works

* Audio just works

* Updates don't break nearly as much (e.g. I don't have to mess with X configuration after every major OS update).

I had pretty much stopped trying to do advanced configuration on Linux by that point, because every single major-version OS update would break nearly all of it.

There are some tradeoffs, sure, but the amount of time I no longer had to spend to keep up basic functionality was worth it to me. Others may make other tradeoffs.

Note that this is for macOS. I'm not sure how I feel about iOS yet.
> There is at least one SaaS tool for this (that takes its own cut too, of course)

BountySource? Yeah their name escaped me too for a moment and when I was able to figure the name out I came across a post from a while back about them. Apparently they turned evil.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23551098
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That's why I made it clear that I'm talking about this in an economic contest.

If you are making a SaaS for organizing church group outings, I wouldn't expect that 'pay for your change requests' would be a great model.
How do you plan to get others to go along with your interesting definition of violence? It sounds very much like something coming from fanatical "meat is murder" folks - at which point, it becomes hard to place trust in what the person is saying because one begins to doubt his/her motives.
Fortunately, it isn't the only vaccine in the pipeline. Curevac, another German company located pretty close to BioNTech, is also working on a similar vaccine which can be cooled in normal fridges, so is easier to roll out. They supposedly are only a few months behind.
The -80c storage should be no showstopper for all densely populated regions and these are where the vaccine is most urgently needed. Over time, there will be easier to handle alternatives or we just build more deep-freezers.
The possible long term side effects of the vaccine are unknown.
In the name of creating a warm welcoming community, they ejected someone for something so minor that most people aren't even convinced rises to the level of social faux pas. And only after it's made public how they barred and privately harassed the "perpetrator" does NumFocus take two tiny steps to roll back their own actions as damage control.

I think it's time we dispensed with the idea the presence of a code of conduct has any correlation to the quality of a community.

Even if NumFocus were to fire everybody on their code of conduct committee and perform a public postmortem on how their processes fucked up so hard, the Code of Conduct will still have contributed a net negative to their community.
"Sally and their friends."
I really hope TBL puts together a sound platform before companies like Apple fuck up the platforms like they did in mobile operating systems.
You can take your phone to anyone you like and have them make whatever changes you pay for.

That is currently your right.

It’s not clear what your complaint is.
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Coronavirus: Overwhelmed India hospitals turn Covid patients away. Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with the number of patients they’re getting. Many are dying without getting the treatment they need. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-53014213
I'm torn as well.

Part of me is massively envious of a country being able to field TBL for its NHS. That's kind of like getting Banksy to design your birthday invitation cards because he happens to be your neighbor or something like that. Another part of me suspects that he might get seriously lost in overoptimism for some theoretically appealing but highly impractical idea that yields nothing in the end.

Ironically, both those parts of me claim to be the one that majored in semantic web.

(edit: punctuation for readability)
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Perfect timing, right before Biden is elected.
Eye tracking with your phone
This would fall under the "generic mirroring" rule of the App Store. Apple only takes issue if you make your remote apps look and behave like a local apps.

The overarching rule for the App Store when it comes to these things that the implementation details are completely irrelevant, the only thing that matters is what a user sees when they open the app.
Pfizer and BioNTech say they will have enough safety data by the third week of November to take their vaccine to regulators. Until then it is not possible for countries to begin their vaccination campaigns.

Can't wait to see what happens next.
The problem with this is that Redis isn't used because it is particularly good. It's used because everyone else uses it. And everyone else uses it because it's free.

If you tried to charge for Redis then "everyone else" would stop using it and pretty much all of the value disappears. It becomes a niche product that you shouldn't build on. You're vulnerable to high license fees and experienced developers become harder to find since few get experience with it.
Many people think it is best for them.

If you don’t think it is best, nobody is forcing you to trust them.
Thanks for the article, that really hit the spot. I've been on a Chyrosran22 [1] binge lately (he's got a general Model F review [2]), and I'm toying with the idea of making a 75% with ALPS switches, once I manage to find switches or a board at an acceptable price.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/Chyrosran22

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Jds326gks
The developer has also released an app on the Play Store, which I use as a live wallpaper.
This market became a “requirement” (which is a bit BS since Android ecosystem is still much larger than iOS, but anyhow...) because people voted for this system consistently over many years (again and again). They voted with their wallets for it when the iPhone was a tiny newborn dream and RIM/Nokia were king, they continued to vote for it year on year after Android was released, and they are still voting for it... as is.

With this in mind: It’s arguably also intellectually dishonest to pretend that we all woke up today in some kind of “iOS only world” and should now regulate it. a) It’s not, and b) you would be killing the very thing that made everyone want this ecosystem in the first place.

If all the “regulate them!” and “open the store!” people win, then history says most will eventually move on to a new ecosystem that works like the old one (which people evidently like). Android has been open the whole time and the money gravitates away from it... If highly regulated and fully open phones worked so well then iOS would be a footnote in history books, and not the powerhouse that you want to squash.
E-readers, can they replace printed books?
Assuming 50% split between placebo and vaccine group, it's a 9:1 ratio - so 85 : 9 for Placebo : Vaccine COVID case.
I thought the EU were the good guys.
I don't understand this post.

It's worth $30 to you, so offer some amount above $0 and below $30. If the core developer won't do it for less than $30, find someone who will, or use a different tool, or live with the deficiency.

This is literally how all other markets work, or are supposed to work. Imagine having a completely unrelated market in which you are totally free to negotiate, and then complaining that it's too hard to settle on a price.