skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I much prefer to use handtools wherever possible. One has much better control over what one is doing as there's tactile feedback from the tool's cutting edge and the wood's surface to one's hands. This allows one to achieve very fine control over one's work.

One develops a feel for one's favorite tools and learns to use them with great ease and facility. One becomes to understand the feel of one's tools so well that one can change stock from say hardwood to softwood and do so automatically without ever having to think about the necessary differences in approach that's required between the different varieties.

Handtools also offer more control by the fact that there are more sizes and varieties of them than there are of machine tools. Take the range of Stanley-type wood planes available for instance, the sheer range and number of sizes available is huge whereas there are comparatively very few sizes of electric planes available.

That said, there's no sense in being a martyr. Electric saws, thicknesses and surface planes, etc. do the hard bulk work and using them is not inconsistent with what I've already said.

Laser cutting is interesting from the perspective that it straddles the two concepts. Manually controlling laser cutters requires considerable skill, so does planning the G-code for an numerical controlled laser cutter require considerable skill, but it's a skill of a different kind. Planning the shapes and designs for the laser to cut is yet another quite different skill.

Wood is a wonderful material to work with and I get considerable enjoyment working with it irrespective of what kind of tools I'm using at the time.
Great!

Don’t worry. I have an MS in biostatistics and I’m in my sixth year of a PhD in statistics. I and everyone I know struggled with these concepts for a really long time. It just takes time and some hard work. It’s hard, unintuitive stuff!
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Fixed, I had my webp fallbacks setup wrong.
Anti-snooping would be much more useful than anti-circumvention in fact.
> Each person has different limits and each experience outside of your comfort zone pushes their own personal limits further. I think it's good that people want to learn about what their limits are as well as challenging those limits.

That's not what the OP said he was doing. He said he was wanting to find out what it was like to experience blindness.
> Why do you publish your work in the first place? To get donations? That's not what open source was invented for.

I don't know about everyone else, but if I publish something as open-source it's because it's something I made and needed in the first place.

Open-sourcing it is just a way to enable other people who have an itch to scratch to be able to do so. More often than not, such scratches comes back benefiting me as the original author.

I don't get this fixation on everything having to be profitable, but then again I don't work on any FOSS projects full time. I only do it to scratch an itch, to make the software work for me.

And when it works... I go do the actual work I'm paid to work on, using the software I've helped make better.
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!
Couldn't find said study. I would be interested how they measured productivity.
My kids play with this casually now and then (both <4yrs). My 3yo practice reading the instructions which is a intuitive way for us to explore letters/text (mainly "time" and "pixelate" but in Swedish). They love stopping time, enabling pixelate and draw their names. Really love the android app, I even unlocked all the settings :)
"Law
enforcement and judicial authorities must be able to access data in a lawful and targeted manner, in
full respect of fundamental rights and data protection regime, while upholding cybersecurity."

For me it sounds like banning legal weapons in the expectation that all criminals are going to follow the rules.
Exactly. If you feel this is unjust, put a non-commercial clause in you license.

And watch everybody avoid your lib. You think you are special? A competing lib will soon show up without that restriction. And that lib will get attention from corporations and they will have thousands of eyes use the lib and test it and beat the hell out of it and fix issues and send them upstream (since maintaining a fork is too much work) and eventually this commercial-permissive alternative will thrive and be 100x as stable and streamlined and your alternative will cease to exist.

But you are free to do this. Nobody prevents you from it. But please don't cry later when seeing effects that you don't like.
Consider non ASCII characters?
Great. This is the one that has to be kept ultra cold. Hoping for good news about some of the other vaccines in Phase 3 trials soon.

The vaccine reportedly needs to be held in storage at -94° Fahrenheit (-70°c), and will last for only 24 hours at refrigerated temps between 35.6° and 46.4°. (about 2° to 8° c)

from https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/pfizer-moderna-s-...
I am blown away at how quickly the world/science/this company produced this. Clearly this is not the end of it but this is something positive.
No problem per-se, but to give a simple example:

Suppose a developer, let's call him Salvatore, lives in a modest apartment in, say Italy, and would live very comfortably indeed on three hundred thousand euros a year.

And let's say three cloud providers, call them, Jungle, Blue, and Lots, agree to give Salvatore a hundred thousand a year each to keep developing a, I don't know, a high-performance in-memory database. Lucky Salvatore, plenty of money for doing what he loves anyway.

Let's say that this database is quite good, and Jungle, Blue, and Lots each make a cool hundred million a year in pure profit renting out instances that run Salvatore's code.

So, whilst Salvatore has done perhaps better with the cost-plus model than he was before, he is capturing just 0.1% of the economic surplus that is being generated by his code.

And that is the problem in this scenario: if all elements of the value chain are cost-plus except one, that one element captures all of the surplus even though it may not be deserved.
Some things are not too bad. Here in Norway it is pretty easy to pick wild blue berries or easy raspberries when out walking. The ones I get in the store don’t actually taste that different. But it probably differs from where you live. I thought in particular when living in the US that stuff tended to be really large great looking but quite tasteless.

However I have noticed from when visiting small towns in Italy that tomatoes taste way better there than in Norway. Ours don’t have the explosion of taste I felt in Italy. I had no idea a chibatti with just tomato and mozzarella could taste that amazing.
Not the main commentator, I think farmers market or the weekly markets that happen in few places in cities are good and depending on when they have been imported asian/turkish stores can have fresh veggies(debatable), or if you are in a small town you could actually have a small local market nearby.
At the time of writing (2020-11-09 12:04 UTC) the article uses "90% of people" and "90% protection" interchangeably. I assume it means "90% of individuals achieve immunity", rather than "individuals achieve 90% immunity".

EDIT: See child comment re: Pfizer press release.

EDIT 2: See [1] for said press release, which has more detailed information than the BBC article.

[1] https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...
I’ve never met an elite lifter who would describe cleans as being completely leg and upper body dominant. That’s a very odd statement.
If you think this is cool, have a look at the Zhuangzi.
Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers threaten to resign 'en masse'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
I mean scary to authorities used to be able to do targeted surrveillance of messages in transit such as law enforcement. Not to people.

It's obviously even more scary (an existential threat) to authorities that are used to be able to do mass surveillance of messages in transit (Such as the NSA).
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On the other hand:

"BioNTech CEO expects vaccine can be fridge-stored for two weeks"

"Speaking at an online media briefing on the purchase of an additional German production site, Chief Executive Ugur Sahin said tests have recently confirmed the genetic compound remains stable at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius for five days but he expects storability at those conditions to be two weeks or longer."

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-biontech-...
Even though I believe it is more about the principles than the economics, where am I saying otherwise?

The problem I am talking about is the asymmetry: Apple (Amazon, Google, MS, etc) can create value from the work from FOSS developers, but FOSS developers can not create value from the work of Apple (Amazon, Google, MS, etc).
UK already ordered 30M out of the 50M avail for this year. So no going on winter break to Thailand just yet!
Wondering who will grab the next 20M, and how much this vaccine is being sold per dose.

(edit: PFE is currently trading +13% pre-market on the NYSE)
The problem with that simple answer, is that fish move. If you don't catch them on your patch, you don't get to reap the benefits next year - the person with the patch north of yours gets to catch them next month.
I was thinking about buying a Quest, and I do have a Facebook, but it has been years since I post or like something in there.

So that leaves me a bit insecure on buying it, and ending up getting banned and have an expensive paperweight.
PureOS was already shipped on their laptops. Debian (what it's based on) already supports ARM as well as many other architectures. Lots of software works with basically no needed change because of their decision. The only changes really happening are to make things work better on a small touchscreen, but no one's stopping you from running the desktop version of mpv and plugging in a keyboard. (or using any terminal programs, which all seem to work great)

I even saw recently someone was running openmw (morrowind) on the Librem 5. Stuff doesn't have to be ported to Android this way. There are so many more exciting possibilities.

They've got support similar to a Raspberry Pi or other SBC out of the gate in addition to being a phone. It's like a real computer.

It strikes me as simple impatience to want Android on one of these phones. By taking the time to make a better base to build on, we can be free of the current ecosystem and its problems, it may just take a bit longer, or maybe not every average Joe will want to be a part of it, but the end result should be much better.

If you really do want an aosp base, though, there's glodroid[0], which supports the PinePhone. I haven't seen any reviews or tried it myself, though.

note: I do not own a Librem 5 or any other Purism product, nor do I plan to get one in the near future, but I have a PinePhone and I'm very on-board with the direction things are going.

[0] https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_manifest
>The developers - Pfizer and BioNTech

False. The first vaccine was developed in Russia.
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> Except that your anecdote is completely misleading given that the patched version was intended for creating Nix packages. You could've just used the unmodified version instead.

The package was called rebar3, not rebar3-nix or something. If the fork was called differently then no one would complain. Also this fork was based on hacks, like patching rebar3's internal files and messing with caches. If you don't see anything wrong about this, then this way of thinking just proves what I said in the parent.

But forking rebar3 wasn't needed at all, because rebar3 _already_ had all the features needed for Nix. Namely, it has get-deps command producing fixed output derivation, and it supports _checkouts directory, needed for hermetic build.

> Then use the unmodified rebar3 for your project instead. But anyways, if your threat model involves not trusting SHA256, you likely have a problem with your said cryptographic chain of custody too.

There's no reason to use SHA256, if you just replace it with a different SHA256 whenever it doesn't match with the upstream.

> Nix even alleviates some of the problems because you can use different versions of the same software, meaning that different packages don't have to share dependencies as aggressively as other distros do.

Docker exists. Although it's not perfect by any means, it doesn't require reinventing the entire world. I extrapolated my experience with Erlang to the rest of NixOS reinventions, which in theory could be wrong, but it was convincing enough for me.

> That's an outright lie. NixOS doesn't prevent you from storing secrets in a file and applying your usual UNIX permissions. FHS has absolutely nothing to do with it.

I was not talking about "storing secrets in a file", but rather about the whole live cycle of the secrets, including transferring them between parties, storing, provisioning, rotation, etc (imagine you have to solve a problem of changing some secret on 100 machines securely and reproducibly via blue/green deployment). As far as I know, Nix doesn't provide facilities for solving this problem at scale. I would be happy to be proven wrong.

> FHS has absolutely nothing to do with it.

It absolutely does. Some pieces of software look for secrets in /etc/ (Kafka, for example). When etc (or its analogue in /nix) is world-readable hilarity ensues.
This is a longer experiment wherein shit happened

Scientists made people wear blindfolds for 4 days. The resulting hallucinations were incredible.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/scientists-mad...
I follow primarily esports players, a handful of folks like Patio11 and Paul Graham, some constitutional conservatives, a handful of John Locke style liberals, a few gun people (Colion Noir, and others) and that's it.

Despite this, I am rarely shown anything conservative on Twitter. If the algo gods have decided I'm extreme left, then they are broken beyond repair. It seems more likely to me that Twitter simply de-prioritizes conservative media.

Meanwhile, stuff like this is pretty mainstream.

WAPO opinion writer and MSNBC contributor - https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1324792225260253184

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1324807776510595078

The Trump Accountability Project (There are two, the original has now distanced themselves from this one) - https://www.trumpaccountability.net/

MSNBC Host Chris Hayes - Tweet deleted, found this instead https://twitter.com/VoteMarsha/status/1325477249697673217
It might be more helpful to link to Pfizer's press release versus a media summary of it.

https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-det...
The OP mentions things like Nextjs, which I find odd. A well crafted site built with the help of Nextjs (and similar) works w/o JS just fine: The site becomes progressively enhanced through hydration, but if you disable JS altogether, you can still read and navigate the site.

For sites with minimalist designs, straight forward data models and low to no interaction (like a blog or similar) I agree that any sort of JS can be overkill. But professional web devs use these technologies because they tick some important boxes (trade-offs) ranging from expressivity, structure to performance and provide a uniform way to write front-ends.
In the book “Gang Leader for a Day” the author detailed how the local gangs and building mangers of various housing projects would coerce their members and tenants to vote and who to vote for. With retaliation if the person(s) didn’t comply.

For instance, the building manager could withhold things you needed. The gangs would also ensure they’d get preferential treatment from their aldermen, etc.

No idea if this was effective in influencing any outcomes.

My biggest concern with widespread mail-in voting is ballot stuffing (bribe for votes becomes easier) and abusive relationships forcing their family members (or community members) to vote a certain way by filling in the ballots themselves.

There’s a good reason the voting booth is private.
No, the question was supposed to illustrate that if you have that approach to language, then communication is impossible. There needs to be a shared notion of what certain words and concepts mean. You claimed that they mean whatever some person claims them to mean. So the question to you was what do your words mean, since with that entirely freewheeling approach to language, nobody here can know what you meant.
From Pfizer's press release, they use "vaccine efficacy" which has a very specific definition.

"Vaccine efficacy is the percentage reduction of disease in a vaccinated group of people compared to an unvaccinated group"

So basically a 90% reduction in Covid infection.
Treat it like code. Do some refactoring and that's it. I do see your point, if the license had to be written from scratch.
But you already have a template. Use it.
In both cases, the server is the thing that's actually in control. Your browser doesn't know if code is malicious or not and has no choice but to run it as the server says to.

The server, on the other hand, does know if some text is potentially malicious and can take steps to prevent it from being malicious.

So the server is responsible in both cases because it has all the knowledge necessary.

If the browser tried to prevent code execution then no code would execute. It can't know the original origin of the text.
The See also list really stumped me, but then I figured it out, it's clever.
Having access to coroutines and having a predefined lifetime for them is quite different.
I come from a rural "wasteland" in Croatia. The soil is very infertile to say the least. Yet, the same plants that survive there taste much much better locally then the "same" ones from presumably better controlled environment.

The older I get, you could blindfold me, and I could tell you I'm in my home area just by smell alone. It's almost like it's perfumed.

In the plant, you can taste the struggle.
And what are the side effects.
Ocaml's Lwt lets you set this up quite easily.
Yeah, I've seen it on other apps where the payment flow screens block screenshots for this reason.
I don't see any proposal to "weaken protocols." Why would the government try to mandate the use of provably unsound end-to-end encryption, weakening security for everyone, when it could just order Apple and Google to spy on the user's end, which they control?
By not knowing how long the immunity/protection lasts, it could mean people would have take the vaccine every 6months?12months?
Yes, my point was that it wasn’t true that voices in certain states are ignored even if they don’t directly produce EC votes. A Republican Presidential candidate isn’t going to ignore California and New York voters who still elect members of Congress they’ll need to work with, donate the increasingly large amounts of money needed to run, and whose presence in the primaries affects who’s going to make it far enough to care about the EC.
I think regardless of the repository, participation in the FOSS ecosystem strengthens it and encourages more people to join. The very act of doing so makes the world a better place, indirectly.

It's not the same as boots-on-ground charity work, no. But it's something.
At least in the US "Pfizer and BioNTech will sell their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine to the U.S. government at an estimated cost of $19.50 per shot..."

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/pfizer-biontech-s-u-s-su...
Thank you, do you happen to have a link?
First phrasing makes more sense than the second one to me -- what would it even mean for somebody to be "90% immune" to a disease?
Until iOS are like computers, Apple is free to strong-arm the tech industry. They've locked up 50% of US internet users behind their walled platform.

Imagine if this were Facebook. People would be screaming in the streets.
Vaccine Against Covid-19 Successful in Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study
Pfizer's press release with more information: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201109005539/en/

- Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis

- Analysis evaluated 94 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in trial participants

- Study enrolled 43,538 participants, with 42% having diverse backgrounds, and no serious safety concerns have been observed; Safety and additional efficacy data continue to be collected

- Submission for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) planned for soon after the required safety milestone is achieved, which is currently expected to occur in the third week of November

- Clinical trial to continue through to final analysis at 164 confirmed cases in order to collect further data and characterize the vaccine candidate’s performance against other study endpoints
Sorry I don't know as I am not the author. I found the game on twitter and posted here. Omar Wagih is the author (https://twitter.com/omarwagih)
Seems like a good time to buy shares in whoever manufactures industrial sized extra cold freezers.
For one, a blockchain based voting system would allow individual voters to ensure that their votes haven't been tampered with, without breaking anonymity. If one or more voters fail to check their vote registered in the blockchain, they could submit a complain providing their voting key and voting receipt (this receipt could be any proof of vote, like a public verifiable signature provided by the blockchain at the time of voting)
On iPhone, it's a triple press of the home button, there's something else for the new devices. If that doesn't work for some reason, you must do it via iTunes.

On Android, it depends, sometimes it doesn't work at all, usually it's pressing and holding both volume buttons at the same time, I believe there was also something involving double tapping and holding with two fingers in some older Android versions. It's especially bad when you want to do the setup in something other than English and your manufacturer doesn't include the tts for your language, which might leave your device in a half-broken state. Fragmentation is a huge problem here, and the general guideline is to have a sighted person handy, or get an iPhone and be done with it.

Windows 10 has ctrl+Windows+enter. For older versions of Windows, you either needed someone sighted for first install, used a special Windows PE image donwloaded from god knows where, or prepared your own unattended installation media if you knew how.

MacOS has Command+f5, not sure about the new ones with the touchbar, but they have something too.

On Linux it depends, usually Super+Alt+S for distros that boot straight into a GUI. For other distros, it's either a special image that talks (Arch), or a certain action you need to do in the boot menu, (s then enter in Debian). There are also special distributions for the blind that talk on boot.

Older devices of any kind usually required sighted help for setup. For a long time, WIndows didn't have any usable free screen reader for example, nevermind a built-in one, so you had to find a sighted person to do the setup and launch the screen reader's installer.

The methods for Android, Windows, MacOS and Linux work both on first install and during normal usage, the method for iOS works only on setup and needs to be manually configured later.