skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's great, but try to work with 25-50 other frontend developers on the same product. You will soon run into challenges which you can only solve by adding more and more layers abstractions. It's not a defense of bloat, but just an explanation that why some products look incredibly complex on the frontend stack.
Using “Virtio-Fs” on a Unikernel
That's a separate conversation, though. I agree reducing poll locations can make some people less likely to vote, but it's not in the same category as fraud.
Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection
If only it's that accurate... IMO market participants just react to news because they expect others to act a particular way, and I as a participant would try to see how I could profit from how others act.

In this case, no one probably bothers to dig deeper, it's the BBC and it's good enough, everyone will think the world will soon be rid of Covid, so they will buy stocks, so I should also join the up wave...
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Is the data in solid encrypted at rest? If your pod gets hacked does all your data get exposed?
Awesome!

I couldn't use existing DNS tools because they were not written in Rust, I'm so glad it exists.
I mean, to be fair, the timing is interesting but I wouldn't go any further than that.

I don't think (and find it incredibly unlikely) there's any correlation per se, but quite a few people were hoping to hear certain news on the political front and the COVID front. They heard both in a pretty short window and I'd say that and the effects nationally are interesting.

Many many people are now feeling a lot of stress relief in a short period of time. Should be interesting how this effects morale around the country.
Can we spin this in a massive public campaign that govt wants encryption backdoors so they can see your privates and be the pedophiles?

Snowden did expose that yes indeed, NSA did share around private pictures of people within themselves and joked around.

The way Uber+Lyft made a giant stink by making everyone acknowledge how Prop22 will affect them before they could hail a ride, tech companies coukd create awareness of anti-encryption in a similar manner right ?
> there is more than enough data to support that most people do build up immunity of several months at least.

OK, some (needed) good news..
One of the striking things about "Long Covid" patients is that many of them didn't have severe covid symptoms (they didn't require hospitalisation, etc), and yet they have still had ongoing problems months later (some people have reported symptoms clearing up a few months later, some people still have unresolved issues).
I have no idea how to do that and I have never attempted this myself.
I'll take the other side of that bet.
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Not fraud but she did write an entire book blaming Russia, and a whole host of other things.
> In what way does thousands of people self-reporting new and ongoing medical issues after a positive COVID diagnosis not constitute evidence that this is happening?

What we see every single day in society by massive amounts of people. People getting ill from nocebos.

Given the issues we know around self-reporting why on earth would you believe it?

And given the massive amounts of hours and funding put into the coronavirus, the missing clinical data matters.

Getting away from the trolling of the op, pretending they didn't know about the deaths.

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.
Feel the same. Can't stop smiling. Never felt like a more accurate time to use the phrase "light at the end of the tunnel".

The US government is paying like $20 for each dose. I'd pay 100x that without batting an eye.

Thank you thank you thank you to everyone working on this vaccine and related Covid treatments.

Can't wait to get the needle in the arm!
I'm doing the farmer's walk for a couple of months now, and I have to say it seems my posture is getting better. Alongside this, I'm using the blackroll for the legs and back.

I'm quite fond of loaded carries. So, if I may pester you, do you have an opinion on loaded carries regarding correcting bad posture and back problems?
Do Spoilers Harm Movie Box-Office Revenue?
The problem here is that selling your closed source project requires a significantly distinct skill set from writing good code. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Venn diagram of a good project and being able to sell the project for a decent living is much smaller than 5%.
It's a highly formalized clinical trial, it would be nonsensical to misrepresent or exaggerate the results. The preliminary analysis is based on 94 cases; not a huge number, but totally reasonable to draw conclusions from.
But there are also people with millions at stake who are metagaming that other people will think this is important enough to increase the future outlook of top companies and thus changing their strategies to profit off them.

The market is a weighted function of an insane number of variables, and we know none of the weights. Any attempt at reading the market to understand those variables is going to be about as useful as trying to observe butterflies by looking at hurricanes.
What is the most advanced and performant processor which may be reasonably manufactured in a home garage?
True, but it's the first time we see those technologies in action. Some (many?) of the vaccine projects for example use paths that have previously been considered, played through in "toy" projects that never made it to production and so on, and now they are suddenly standing in the limelight, going live. For some sub-fields of biotech this must almost be like the mindboggling aviation had from roadshow curiosities to a major war factor in hardly more than a decade.
Practical Introduction to Quantum Computing: Qubits to Quantum ML and Beyond
I see your point, but it seems to be overstated as having a promised $2B out there surely had a positive impact.
shrug The Unreal engine mentioned elsewhere in this threat also seems very simple (an order of magnitude more straightforward as what we're talking about here I'd argue), yet if you go on the Id forums you'll find many questions from people in various edge cases that fall under one category in spirit and another in the letter of the license. But hey, I'm just some guy on the internet, what do I know, we'll just have to agree to disagree until someone really tries to find out.
You were expecting Trump to question the results in states he won?

An accusation of hypocrisy doesn't tell you which time they were wrong to do it.
At the risk of damaging Pfizers bottom-line, if someone manages to produce results before them, and at the risk of getting fired and sued for doing so.
People hate Capitalism in the same way they hate Country Music.

They say, "I like all music except Country. I hate Country." And you say, "So you hate Johnny Cash?" And they say, "Oh. No, I like Johnny Cash. But I hate the rest of Country."

This is the Tao of Labels.
Can you give an example of an chip with a hidden backdoor?
I deeply agree with your last paragraph, but the first one is quite naive. It is simply their PR “mission”, their only real mission is the good ol’ dollar, nothing more.
Just because the top owners skew the share of ownership so much doesn't mean that "very few people" are invested.

Our pensions might be nothing to the top earners of the country but that doesn't mean they're nothing to each one of us individually.
Or you could pay the author for his/her work from your income.

I could be wrong but it seems obvious to me that semi-commercial licenses would explode the amount of open code available, because instead of devs working for corporations, corporations would end up working for them.

Commercial licensing - open code, free for non-profits, per-seat or per-user pricing for for profits with an official license, forks are considered a derivative work, clean room clones aren't. There would be details, but there are always details, and they don't stop two hundred page EULAs from existing and being (mostly) binding.

But we don't have this because Stallman is a zealot and he wanted to Make A Point about purity. So instead of creating a market where devs could actually get paid for original work and corporations would be the ones paying, corporations get millions of hours of development effort for free - because he thought he could somehow magically strong-arm them into playing to his rules.
Since you asked, also the pension funds of almost everyone you know.
They could do that, but it's far more likely to be just dry ice. -80 being a class of freezers is a thing because that's what dry ice can provide.

-80 transport often consists of good insulation and a good chunk of dry ice instead of active measures.
Given how messy that POD concept was when I looked at it upon release a couple of years back, I'm going to suggest that the answer to the headline is 'No'.
I think the lacking hyphenation is the main problem for web content, since it creates large empty spaces in conjunction with justified text.

But having hyphenation would mean that browsers would need to have an extended dictionary for all languages.

For reading I actually prefer it when done right, but that is subjective, I never stopped the time.
I don’t understand, so Mozilla actually has their own API for this, but uses Google’s? How does that make any sense?
Assuming you are really interested.

Mostly because the world is not one-dimensional.

"Hard lockdown" has drastic socio-economic implications.

"No lockdown" has dramatic/catastrophic socio-economic implications. The easiest to understand: In very short time the ICUs are overrun and people die. A lot of people die.

"Soft lockdown" depends on the people to play along. Which seems more difficult than the people in charge thought it would be (and some still don't believe).

Notably I am not arguing here for what the "right" choice is. It is simply not that easy.
Everybody also produces different antibodies, potentially targeting different aspects of the virus. Having a vaccine means you can make sure everyone gets the 'right' antibodies that generalize the best.
Why you should care about privacy (even if no one else around you does)
First business day after the election was called, but not after the election itself (i.e. people couldn't vote after 11/02). Or are you saying that they were planning on not releasing this at all in case of a Trump win and not just trying to influence the election?
1. Halt counting (or at least 'reporting') in critical swing states simultaneously. We all saw this happen.

2. Kick out poll watchers

3. Figure out how many votes your preferred candidate needs.

4. Examine the voter rolls and see who never turned in a ballot.

5. Fill in ballots for those people (and if you're in a rush, don't even bother to vote in any down-ballot races) and mix them in with the legitimate ballots.

If you control a few key urban centers in a few key states - you can definitely pull this off. Given the behavior of the left over the last 4 years, I absolutely believe they did something like the above.
Do you actually see it as a practical solution?

When you use those features only when you're a web dev, not only you're actually using them anyway (which defeats the purpose by driving demand), but you also increase supply by creating new websites of the kind.

Also, if you not use the websites "that think they're an OS", you're ending up not being able to function in today's world to an increasing extent. e-governments are all about web applications, often with "bare metal functionality" such as legacy Java, ActiveX or Flash applets. They should be long gone, but given that somebody pumped millions into them, it will take them years to go away.

Hell, even regular JS is bare metal today with all the complexity of JIT. I'm getting the impression that suggesting to go away from this realm is naive and a better solution would be to look at it from the perspective of "OK, it happened. How can we make it more secure?".

After all, becoming an OS isn't an excuse to doing less. In fact, browsers now have more responsibility to keep their security philosophy up to date.
> That's not an unreasonable decision for a blue-leaning businessperson or scientist to make.

I just want to make the obligatory point that the way the Trump administration has handled the Covid response in the US goes beyond red and blue ...
> The right reaction is not to stop producing open source software. The right reaction is to adjust the license.

I think the kind of software written also needs to be adjusted. Most open source software I've encountered recently has either been created to solve a business problem that only happens at a large scale or solves a developer tooling problem that only occurs when working in large groups.

When the open source software is being made to address the problems of corporations and their employees, of course corporations are going to be the ones that benifit.
JIT Compiler of PCRE2
Does anybody have a good suggestion for figuring out which produce is seasonal? Do you just buy stuff grown in/around your home country? It seems like I can usually buy any vegetable I want, regardless of the time of year, so I have no sense of when anything is in season.
FWIW like you I was always much better at deadlifting than squatting (my deadlift was always about 50% more than my squat). Since the pandemic, I've been using kettlebells and really been enjoying them, specifically kettlebell front squats. The weight being offset forward allows you to stay very upright and it destroys your upper back and core. Feels so good, the way I imagine squatting feels for people who are naturally good at squatting. I feel like I'm able to power through the sticking point at the bottom instead of wondering if I'll be crushed under the weight.
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I would +1 that I use dig for this all the time.
The greatest predictor of wealth is your family background, not your knowledge/interest of the stock market:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/economi...
I don't really understand the underlying science but the nucleic acid based vaccine platforms seem really, really exciting. Getting an effective COVID vaccine is obviously huge, but the ability to rapidly develop vaccines in the future for emerging pandemics is amazing.
Any sense if this is going to become an annual or a one-time vaccine?
The latest data (preprint, not peer reviewed etc etc) mention memory B and T cells up to 8 months after recovery from the illness. This means that an immunity of one year is probably likely. This would be probably enough to quench the spread, but not to eradicate the virus.
And I'm sure the government doesn't expect a perfect ban. By going after platforms you'll take the ability to engage in secure E2EE messaging away from a large part of the population.

E2EE messaging that required coordination was already possible for decades and the governments didn't mind that as much.

Users that send too many encrypted blobs can simply be banned by platforms as suspicious (and I wouldn't be surprised if that's happening already). Exchanging files is easiest to detect by centralized platforms and hardest to do efficiently with good delivery assurances in reasonably anonymous decentralized systems.
Try opening a publishing paper in China that runs #NotMyPresident with a picture of Xi. You may find yourself being re-educated somewhere
Soccer's 'brain disease' ticking time bomb
This particular store happens to be the only store in town.
Luckily I have moved off of my Yahoo account years ago. 3 months is a somewhat reasonable amount of time for you to do an audit of what is still pointed at that address and update them. Of course you won't catch everything in 3 months, but it could be much worse.
Plus, I think forcing them to change their name means they aren't sure the rest of their system will remain secure, despite their claims. If it was, that name wouldn't be a problem.
Based on this NYT article [1], some logistics companies planning to store and transport the vaccine are using freezers from Stirling Ultracold. It may just be a curiosity, but their freezers (as the name would suggest) use bona fide Stirling engines rather than the typical two-stage compressors used in most ULT freezers.

As someone in life science research who uses plenty of -80 freezers, I've always been curious about Stirling Ultracold. Maybe they're on to something after all.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/coronavirus-covi...
Depends on the scale - we are talking mass vaccination of the whole planet here.
It's more than zoom, everything that's gone up from the pandemic is dropping: amzn, meli, jmia, se, shop, sq. The markets had them valued at a premium due to their monopolies in the pandemic but retail stocks are now trending up premarket: bbby, etc.
Covid-19 can harm your heart, study shows
+ ~90% of individuals achieve immunity

It could also refer to 90% reduced severity.

A 60% vaccine can reduce the severity of the illness by 40% so only 40% of the expected number end up in hospital.
I'm the author, I understand how that comment of mine could be misinterpreted, which is why I removed it. It was just a reaction to a number of plagiarism events that have happened to me in recent years. At some point I've even been asked to review papers claiming to prove my own results.
This is a nice thread on the subject: https://twitter.com/nataliexdean/status/1310613702476017666?...
So why shouldn't I buy stock??
An English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8k Years
Arguments against your theory:
1. Inefficiencies of labor distribution / shortages in USSR.

2. There were bosses in the USSR, called party members. Someone needs to manage.

3. Decreased motivation for high performance due to smaller "CEO"/common laborer wage gaps.

4. Inability of USSR to compete in both consumer goods and other areas except in a few focus points (mainly military) such as - small scale nuclear, rocket propulsion, certain areas of medicine, certain sports (far more actual research done than in the US), cavitating torpedoes, stealth subs, IR seekers, thermobarics, fighter wing leading edge vacuum generation from the SU27 copied in the F-15/MIG29, VTOL lift, etc

P.S. - I do agree with your parent comment.
Summer/autumn is easy - you can feed your kids new things every day. Jars (and cans) will help you go through winter/spring. I buy mine from the same folks I buy fresh vegies/fruits from.
Good points!

The issue that I see is that many (most?) people want a middle ground:

On the one hand, it's not important to them to use some sort of viral copyleft license that forces people who use their project to make their code free.

On the other hand, they don't want people who use their project to be aggressively anti-competitive or anti-developer.

So for example, it would be fine if Apple charged for their OS and kept it closed source as long as they allowed anyone who wants to develop apps for their OS to do so.
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I think the first misstep the Free Software movement made was relying on corporate money. Not because "corporations are evil lololol", but because they aren't focused on the what we care about. For instance, when a webpage is bloated with ads/trackers the website itself is usually relatively lightweight, but has to embed ads/trackers to make money, and the ad/tracker companies don't care about the user experience. Fundamentally, even if the money ultimately comes from the customer, it comes more directly and more short-termly from businesses, so we focus on meeting business use-cases. So if you cut out indirect payment and get money directly from users, I expect we'll have a much healthier ecosystem.

But let's talk more broadly: Servers. Linux is great for servers. But remind me: who gives a flying fuck about servers? Surely not the FSF, because most real people use personal computers (that means desktop/laptop/tablet/phone/smartwatch/anything else you the typical user can physically unplug/open) and don't administer servers, and on top of that the FSF dislike services in the first place! (See: "service as a software substitute").

People don't have control over enterprise software in most cases - even at the office, your IT department literally chooses what you can do on "your" computer. So why do we have so much free software aimed at business, and so little aimed at e.g. games? Because that's what our money systems are set up to get funding from. Point is, enterprise software being open-source is not an end in itself, it's only useful as a means to an end.

So while corporations can be a useful tool when our interests align, they should not be our primary pillar of support. That should be the actual users, who pay money.

I think the biggest mistake we ever made was leaning into the "free" in free software. It's not as hard as you'd think - let me ask you, why is paying with ads and data-sucking so popular? I'd say, because they're convenient and ubiquitous. Every browser and user on the planet has support for ads/tracking, so every webpage supports them. They make PayPal niche in comparison! They're also incredibly convenient, having zero-click autopay!

Distros should have had payment models built into the OS (available) from the start. There should have been "app stores" selling free software from repositories - it's absurd that selling free software is claimed as a way of making money, but distros do absolutely nothing to accommodate such sales and will in fact undercut* potentially sustainable free software by repackaging it and putting it in repositories gratis, so now there's not even the slight convenience benefit to buying!

Yes, it's legal for a distro to do that. It's also legal for corporations to be parasitic, that doesn't make it moral.

Anyway, move towards patreon-style funding or traditionally proprietary models that take money directly from the consumer. Then you won't see desktops stagnate due to all the money coming from servers.

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/619/
A vulnerability that isn't an RCE isn't necessarily shallow:

https://xkcd.com/1200/
MSP work in a nut shell.

You blow this off but in being able to handle this kind of client you will be given more and more of these difficult to manage clients. Until you can't take anymore and you break.

Worse yet, when you are breaking you don't realize you should have quit long ago.

In my experience, taking this approach is a short term thing only.
I would assume that the countries are the only ones with a factory that is capable of making this. Give me a few billion dollars and a year and I can set up another factory, but it would have been too risky an investment 1 year ago (before COVID), or even 3 months ago . Even now it is too risky an investment as the current factories can produce a lot of vaccine, and there are other candidates that also have factories, so odds are the world will be vaccinated before my 1 year factory comes online.

A 1 year factory build is extremely fast - freely trading money for time. A more reasonable schedule would be several years (a lot cheaper)
I spent over 30 years in the U.S., mostly in the upper Midwest, and the only gun advertisements I remember seeing were in sporting magazines or in sporting goods stores. I think your perceptions of U.S. gun advertising is either greatly exaggerated, or your experience is from a very different part of the country. Maybe things have changed drastically in the 8 years since I left, but I doubt it.