skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about the following interpretation?

"Up to 2.5 billion people will not have to compete with those who actually depend on a vaccine that can be easily transported because the infrastructure in North America and Europe allows a continuous ultracold chain as it is required by the Pfizer vaccine."

Suddenly, this sounds good, doesn't it?
Anyone seen something like this for medicine? I'd look to show my daughter that wants to be a medic...
> I welcome this new world

And you'd be wrong, because it's extremely hypocritical. I too grew up a nerd. I got very in shape in my 40s, and the amount of respect I got after less than a year of diligent weight lifting was incredible -- and that was from people who would praise the feminized society, too.

> I can't understand a world where it is normal to have a bar fights.

I have to say, it has to be a very American thing. I remember two American guys telling me they were surprised to never see a bar fight in Paris, and I was shocked to hear such a thing existed. I thought it was a Western movie trope, 19th century frontier thing. But apparently not.
> How are companies still releasing hardware with 8GB RAM?

8GB is a huge amount of RAM. I cannot imagine writing a serious program that needs more than 2% of that. The real problem is programmers using "frameworks" and shit that requires inordinate amounts of unused memory.
So then I conclude that this version of sortition will shift the political power now held by experienced politicians onto experienced public servants (in addition to the power they already have).

I am not sure if this would be worse, but it would be quite a different political power structure.
Where did Java interop go?
>- Young men are more likely to be victims of false accusations, because women are never reprimanded for falsely accusing anyone.

If we were to compare this statistic honestly with what women experience, we'd find that women experience sexual assault at a much higher rate than men are falsely accused of it. It's hard for me to see this as a 'privilege' we afford "young women".

>because more and more women do not want to bear children until early to late thirties.

Why is "tough luck" always a bad thing? Why did you list this as a 'privilege' that women have when it's just a case of exercising reproductive agency? I'm sure we can name a myriad of things women also look for in relationships but don't get.
I understand that it's less convenient but you actually can buy that 2TB NVME SSD as external drive too. It should operate in the same ballpark as decent to higher end internal NVME SSD options.
Stop raining on the rust parade!
I'm not so sure that both events are not linked, given that the peasants were 'seceding' they probably prepared themselves against an army which would explain why they were able to fight against the Vikings..
Did it? Can you point me to the relevant paper? It's been a while since I read their phase 1 data.
Some additional links:

- Drew Berry (https://www.drewberry.com/)

- Janet Iwasa (http://onemicron.com/)

- Irving Geis, one of the pioneers in biomolecular art (https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/about)
Am I missing something as to why anyone finds this outrageous?

My understanding of the "wrongness" of insider trading is using privileged information to make profit and thus "stealing" from other investors - at least that's what I've picked up from Matt Levine.

In this case he's trading on very public information. Anyone who has held Pfizer stock for a while must have at least considered if this news was the moment to cash some of it in.

When he made the decision to sell he'd have known the trial results would have been coming in, but couldn't have known what they'd be. If they'd just come back with a "no go" the stock would have tanked. If anything it seems like an unfair disadvantage, every other long term investor in Pfizer can decide on the day of the announcement what to do, the CEO has to bet months in advance.
I can assure you that most of the world is not moving in that direction. Partly because its not useful, partly because some things are very difficult to change. Unlike most people, I want my daughter and nieces to be able to handle themselves physically and mentally tough to chew. But that job has been given to the state to decide how I should raise kids.

The most concerning thing however, should be the danger of assuming everything will be alright.
I'm not saying write your whole program in C. I'm saying, at worst, write a tiny corner of it in C so that you don't have to restructure the rest of your application - overall it would be simpler, even for most mostly-Python devs. Or, much more likely, use a library like numpy which you were probably going to do anyway. I regularly use numpy and don't find myself thinking "I wish didn't have to write all this C code...". (I must admit, an unfortunate consequence of this is that I've interviewed a few junior candidates that were so used to writing vectorised code that they seemed to be terrified of using a for loop!)

I admit I didn't watch the whole of the talk. (Personally I much prefer learning from text than video, and I was put off by the GIL bit anyway.) From the parts I saw, it seemed like the GIL issue was critical for motivating everything he did afterwards, but perhaps there were other reasons that became clear later. In that case, he could have avoided mentioning the GIL altogether (given that he ended up being so misleading about it).

> The real world usecase, as with basically all python, is io.

That is just straight up not true. Yes, IO is a valid use case of Python but it definitely isn't "basically all Python". I'm sure the vast majority of data scientists use Python, and for most of them their workloads are almost entirely computational (using deep learning libraries with C/C++/CUDA backends).
Hacker News doesn't show comment points, though. And post points are easy to guess based on leaderboard position, age, and number of comments.
Original URL was https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1325564321141678080 where it's called Snood Bloober.
> - Young men who want to start families are in tough luck because more and more women do not want to bear children until early to late thirties.

Basically, you are saying that males are more family oriented then women and more likely to want kids?

Around me, yes it seems that often it is man who wants more children then woman (who is more likely to not like impact another kid would have on her), but the stereotype was the opposite.
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A slightly wrong number is not "fake news".
"just how contingent the world is"

I must admit I have a morbid fascination with alternate histories of the Cold War and all the terrible things that almost happened in that period but for the good judgement of people on both sides of that conflict. We were so close on so many occasions to utter oblivion...

[NB I'm in the UK - which would, like most of Europe, come out rather badly had the nukes started flying].
I don't think the time that the forecast is for should be the main index. Rather the time that the forecast is created should be the main index. In general I think the time index is about what happened at a particular point in time.
For the CEO of a company like Pfizer I'd imagine that this amounts to little more than one month's salary.
You obviously didn't read it very carefully then.
> How exactly would Epic ship this open platform when Google and Apple expressly control what apps run and do not?

By sidestepping Google's Play Store and encouraging sideloading (whether by directly downloading a game's .apk or by pushing an alternative app store like what Amazon and F-Droid do), for one.

That is: any Android ROM that allows sideloading (which, last I checked, is most of them) is already that "open platform" (in the Windows sense of not restricting what software runs on it, rather than the free software sense).
This is due to the fact that typescript needs to interop with javascript, and existing js ecosystem has some very weird "typing" decisions. In TypeScript you can express types that you would never ever do in a "sane" language like C# which has proper typing design in place.
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I honestly have no faith in multi user linux. I would never give someone I didn't trust an unprivileged account on my system, nor physical access to my device.

There are so few multi user machines in existence that I doubt this mode of usage will ever get enough attention to be even moderately secure.
I never understood this particular viewpoint. The Times is fairly centrist to begin with, and we have to balance that out by inviting the occasional fascist to write a column? What does anyone gain from that?
Do you only ever run a single process in some non-multitasking OS?

The rest of us are using Linux, Windows and MacOS, where many processes run side by side, each with memory requirements.
Nice idea, I've seen similar accountability groups pop up on various platforms and it makes sense that a platform would appear to serve that need.

However this is a catch-22 kind of problem: this platform needs people, but people won't join it unless there are people using it. So, how do you intend to get your first 100 users?
It's a tiny fraction of what we know.
Mostly Electron. I don't like it either, but Electron is a fact of life now.

While you don't have to join in on that as a developer, you still have to be aware that 95% of users will have no idea that their instant messaging application uses 800mb of RAM to idle, or whether that's a bad thing.
There is tons and tons of great content on sites like Youtube (search for what you want: anatomy, neurology, physiology, organic chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, statistics,...) or courses on edx or Coursera (mostly free without the useless "certificates"). Never mind even more sites Google will show you.

Some of it dumbed down, but lots of it is from professionals and lecturers for actual medical students. I won't post examples because there really is so much that it's useless for me to do so, apart from pointing out the sites I used myself.

On another note, I continue to be amazed by the fact that so often I see people asking in forums instead of Google. It shows how important humans are to humans, no matter what service machines will offer, or how great recorded content is, live content from/with an actual human will be preferred to a large degree.

Just yesterday in some forum somebody asked a question to find a certain novel. I copy-pasted his exact question into Google and found the novel immediately. This is quite common. Is this a topic of discussion at companies like Google? No matter the automation, a lot of humans are very reluctant to interact with the machine(s). It seems to me this is quite an obstacle for companies on the business of putting machines in front of customers instead of humans.
I know a lot of Trump voters, and I’m not aware of any who believe these things. It might be my own bubble, though. They voted almost exclusively due to the abortion issue.
tell that to websites auto-playing videos (in muted state) or even better, using videos as page background that play without interop.
machines in universities are typically multi user
It is logically impossible that this was predetermined (unplanned) in any reasonable sense, no matter what the law says.
You jest but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they did this.
Why is the mRNA technology of Pfizer/BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine a big deal
Extending a bit on what Alexei is talking about (Full eBPF summit talk: https://youtu.be/jw8tEPP6jwQ?t=639)

Many people seem to make an assumption that kernel code is perfect and that when code is merged into the Linux kernel, it is automatically secure. That is definitely not the case. Kernel developers make mistakes as well and they have devastating consequences.

Right now, the security of the Linux kernel code depends on a combination of code review, fuzzing, controlling the pace of code changes, and running LTS releases to increase the chance others found the bugs already.

eBPF further increases the security model of kernel development by adding a verification step to the model. It means that there is an additional layer of protection in case of code imperfections.

The focus on eBPF safety is awesome. eBPF is software, software will have bugs, eBPF is no exception. The best way to improve the security of software is to question it. Given the wide spread use of eBPF in highly critical and exposed scenarios, the pressure on making it as bug-free as possible is very high so it's probably fair to assume that the scrutiny put in place, will lead to a high quality implementation of the verifier.
No, a privileged process can't regain privileges after setuid(2).
I have two friends whose parents have gone down first the anti-vaxx, then the flat earth, and more recently the QAnon rabbit hole.

They describe it like losing a family member to a drug addiction, or a cult. Quality time with their own family is no longer a thing that can happen, because how dare the children suggest that basic pandemic precautions be taken, or even think of supporting the vast pedophilic democratic conspiracy.

Pray tell, how should they bridge that chasm? This is a serious question.

It's well and good and morally smug to suggest that the problem is that 'you don't spend enough time talking to people holding insane beliefs'. The problem is that you can't use reason or empathy to get someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
Under the current system, people who don't become representatives get to vote to choose those who do. Under sortition, they don't.
But in that case, should Pfizer wait an additional x amount of days before they announce the vaccine just because the CEO had a sell order planned? That wouldn’t be great for the world either I think. Or how did you mean?
I worry about any survey that excludes results: "We do not show results for respondents who describe themselves as “moderate” or “not sure.”

Is there any chance that this brookings institute has an agenda to push the idea of the liberal vs conservative totally polarised society?
You can do something similar with Macs. Using Migration Assistant I was able to transfer all my data (.zsh, git repos, configs, Docker containers, everything.) Took less than an hour. In fact, I did this because I needed to upgrade my RAM
It may not seem obvious to everyone, but the value is taking the notes (helps learning significantly), not reading them without context after the fact.

People who are interested in learning a subject without attending lectures would be better served by a textbook in the field.
> This doesn't mean anything at all if you've actually built a game before. You can do this with ENet alone, which means they haven't done anything for you.

I write multiplayer games for a living, and the thought of an built in multiplayer system that does more than ship bytes around and maybe help out with serialization is a red flag.

Do you want to build a strategy game, an FPS, a MMO or a fighting game? Well that's four completely different architectures.

Engines that ship with built in multiplayer tend to be a step up in flexibility from modding a game.
It's an immensely complex situation and I can't explain it all in a HN comment, but the importance of the Catholic Church in contemporary Polish culture goes back to at least 1772, when the Partitions began. Czechs didn't have this same experience and were more "integrated" into Germanic and Habsburg Europe, Czechia wasn't completely razed during WW2, and the Soviets were, shall we say, less harsh on them than on the Poles.

In short, communism simultaneously increased Czech tradition religious apatheticism and Polish Catholicism.
Hey HN!

I am super excited to share our early product with everyone working remote.

Why did we build Remoteworkly?

We became remote 1.5 years ago (before it was cool) and saw ourselves in 3-4 hours of zoom calls a day. This was exhausting, demotivating and non-productive. Meetings stretched forever, and tbh most of them weren't needed.

70% of communication is body language, that we miss over a zoom call, so we're constantly "over-delivering" behind the camera. (not like that, you dirty mind ) and 4 hours of video calls can drain you out.

As of now, HBR states 71% managers find meetings unproductive, CNBC told us 67% of team members spend way too much time in meetings.

With tools like Slack, Teams and "always-on" culture, staff are constantly bombarded with pings and FOMO prevents us from stepping away from our computer, leading to really long and stretched out work hours.

This lead to zoom fatigue, team disconnects, and people generally just wanting to get back into the office.

Lastly, with hybrid models, you end up having half the team in the office doing standups, and everyone else is left out. This leads to disconnection and makes you feel like its highschool all over again

With all this happening, we wanted to productise our process that cut down 4 hours of daily meetings to 10 mins max of calls. We've adopted a pure async approach and we've never been happier

With RemoteWorkly Send a video message instead of holding an unwanted meeting

- Async video meetings with transcriptions for teams to communicate across timezones and offices. Aka video walkie talkie

- Use video threads for meetings, onboarding staff, client feedback for agencies, building internal wikis.

- Share your stand up. Stay connected. Discuss work and see who's working on what...all without another "catch up meeting"

- Work with all your tools in one place. No need to switch between apps with our 2-way integrations

- Hold better meetings with meeting agendas, talking points, and actionable outcomes as a result of meetings.

- Auto-share meeting summaries to slack in one click, no more switching context

- Create tasks in your fav work tool straight from your meeting notes, you can close all your tabs

- Set and manage your short term and long term OKRs to hit you and your teams goals

If we're missing a feature, upgrade or integration, please let me know - we'd love to fix that

We'd love for you to try us out and help us improve the future of work

Feel free to check us out : https://remoteworkly.co/?ref=hn ! We'd love to hear your feedback
for those who are ready for a deep dive - https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Protein-Structure-Functi...
You might appreciate the seminal amateur work on that subject, 1983: Doomsday

https://althistory.fandom.com/wiki/1983:_Doomsday

It's one of the most massive collaborative world-building projects of its kind.
I'm a little surprised that there's so little mention here regarding this being a possible precursor to the end of the hackintosh.

One comment mentions the possibility of using old ARM tablets in a hackintosh build, but this seems to run against one of the two reasons for using hackintosh over Mac directly - performance. Cost would definitely be a benefit, but I'm less convinced of the value here.

I imagine though that this is literally the end of the hackintosh entirely. With control over basically all the hardware, there are no more workarounds or backward compatibility aspects. Hell, even external GPU aren't supported as-yet.
This one http://tubetime.us/index.php/2019/01/19/sound-blaster-1-0-pr...
> I always found it strange that an app aimed for gaming really has better performance than slack/teams

Makes sense to me, its users would be running games alongside the software, and would be quite cross with the software shitting itself in the middle of a co-op game. Somewhat good performance and behaviour is (or at least was originally) absolutely necessary to getting traction, a bunch of checkboxes would not suffice.
Ah, that's confusing. IMO the original tweet thread was more interesting, I like the foone threads.
Does anyone have adequate resources to share on learning Math "from scratch"? I must shamefully admit that anything beyond the basic symbols is entirely foreign to me.
Maybe GDM shouldn't even have the privilege to create a new account in the first place. Couldn't every privileged operation be requested through accounts-daemon?
I totally agree. It took me a while to wrap my head around it, but my code has improved so much once I did. Very small classes that each do one easy to understand thing. All the structure stuff is in one part of the code, ready to be understood and modified, instead of scattered across tens of modules. Most of the time all I need for a new feature is a class that implements a specific interface, announces to the world what it needs to do its job by declaring its dependencies in the constructor (as intended by the language and OOP in general) and then only implements its core logic instead of meddling with creation and disposal that has nothing to do with its actual job.
I am not sure which countries you relate to, but requiring pepole in France to use their private phone for work is simply impossible.
More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_League_of_Cambrai
So "fake news" is what we say for "wrong" nowadays? I am getting old as it seems.

Pfizer expects the vaccine to be good for up to one week at -8°C to +2°C, so the difference in stability or storage life at -70°C or -80°C might be a small issue compared to what difference it makes on the requirements on the continuous cold chain. It sounds like using dry ice might be a 90/10 solution, as Michael Seibel would call it: get 90% of the result with 10% of the effort.
Huh? The saying "Microsoft is evil" is as valid today as it was 20 years ago.
Sounds analogous to youtube-dl...

<runs from room protecting head from shrapnel>
It might help to clarify what type of Math you want to learn. E.g., right now I'm learning discrete math to improve my understanding of algorithms.
Introduction to Barrier Execution Mode in Spark 3.0
If you like alternate maps, perhaps you will enjoy alternate weather reports:

https://hypotheticalhurricanes.fandom.com/wiki/Typhoon_Hagup...
> I doubt this mode of usage will ever get enough attention to be even moderately secure.

Don't shared web hosts count?
If they're releasing a fingerprint-scanning version, I'd be surprised if it wasn't available with all the capabilities of the YubiKey 5 (which has OpenPGP support) for people willing to pay.
It's highly unusual to announce such early results of a trial. I don't know if it's illegal, but it sure smells funny.
Wow. That sounds very similar to an event that really wrecked my life for a while. Some say that the 2007-09 crisis never really ended.
I’m imagining now a Senate hearing where republican members admonish Pfizer for not announcing this information before the election to help their candidates, only for the CEO to drop the ultimate defense of “I timed it to make more money”
Most of the professional photographers that I work with have PC workstations with 64gb to 256gb of RAM. Retouching a 48MP HDR file in Photoshop needs roughly 800MB of RAM per layer and per undo step.
On the other hand, has Wayland figured out how to allow screen shots, screen sharing in video meetings, live streaming your screen and such things yet?
The podcast "The Tides of History" had a bunch of episodes on early modern Italy in general and Venice in particular, which were really eye-opening.

The other interesting fact about the Italian mercantile city-states is that many of them lasted an amazingly long time. The republics in Venice and Genoa, for example, were only extinguished in 1797 by Napoleon!
For others wondering what this was referring to: http://taint.org/2008/05/13/153959a.html

TL;DR: To silence a valgrind warning, Debian maintainers added a local patch to OpenSSL that commented out the entropy pool, making all SSL keys predictable.
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