skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccine development has progressed far faster than I would have ever guessed. This might be a dumb question but what has enabled a COVID-19 vaccine to be developed in such short time? I was under the impression that developing a vaccine took on the order of 10s of years while this has been put together in 10s of months. I was also under the impression that this was because making vaccines for viruses was much harder than other treatments because interrupting the viruses reproduction chain is essentially requiring you to interrupt your cell's reproduction chain.

Is there some tool that has been used here that hasn't been available in the past? I know the FDA said they would allow skipping some preliminary testing to fast track a drug. Was that a huge help?
In my naive opinion it would have been much easier to integrate the python debugger into FreeCAD proper. No need for mocking everything, you get the real values not fake ones. And this also does not scale. FreeCAD is constantly expanded.
That's correct. But we do see some mix of the two occasionally.

Also Kunreishiki looks really weird until you look at a hiragana table. The Hepburn is closer how the word would be pronunced if it was a European language (English/Spanish/French/etc) but Kunrei is more "logical" when coming from hiragana.
Facebook is actively ignoring EU privacy laws by shipping private data out of the EU. You can not reflect this on the whole internet, but on facebook only. As many have said already
When people talk about ideas it’s not that great ideas win, it’s bad ideas lose. Starting by selling books online like Amazon is better than selling pet food online like Pets.com from both a shipping cost per lb and the value of having a usefully huge selection vs basically selling commodities.

Pet owners often care about buying the same food every time, but few people are buying hundreds of copies of the same book.
Remember that the threshold shouldn't be "fully safe", the threshold should be "better than the alternatives". If the alternative is COVID, that's a pretty low bar to clear. Given that we may have several vaccines to choose from it's worth a bit of effort to weed out any unsafe ones, but remember that every day of delay may cost thousands of lives.
> So there are no true VPN apps in Big Sur at all?

VPN work just fine for me. Some Apple apps mat bypass the VPN, but I don’t see a reason those apps would need to connect to the company intranet in the first place.
Gout cannot be caused by your diet.

You can temporarily increase your uric acid levels by eating purine rich food/drink beer etc. But if your body is excreting it, as it should be - the levels won't remain high enough to build up crystals.

It takes years of persistent high levels, it's always caused by your body. But you can reduce attacks by changing diet, loosing weight or taking medication.

If your body was functioning properly it wouldn't matter how terrible your diet was.
I was always fixated with URL shorteners and always wanted to write one myself. While it would be easy to write one that works with a server, I loved the idea of hosting and running one for free.

Thus, I wrote this URL shortener which does not need a backend to work at all. It uses GitHub issues as a "database", and unlike most other URL shorteners that do not need backends, this one doesn't need a # prefixed to the alias. (i.e. short URLs look clean like this: nlsn.cf/1 instead of looking like this: nlsn.cf/#1)

I haven't had the time to work on it more but do let me know what you guys think! Thank you and hope yall enjoy it!
Big companies become big because they find a loophole and way to exploit it. Normal businesses don't get big. This is an anomaly, an edge case. We need regulation that will be dividing companies when they become too big. Just like cells divide in nature. We also need to review offshore ownership and make sure they pay the same tax as smaller businesses. You cannot have a small struggling shop paying 40% and big guy only 1% if anything.
What evidence is there pre-treasure that he is a crank?
Finding Startup Ideas and Building in Heavily-Regulated Spaces
For anyone (like me) wondering what is a cylindrical slide rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule#Cylindrical_slide_r...
And a vaccine doesn't immediately solve the problem; distribution is a thing, plenty of people who will refuse to take the vaccine (especially early adopters). Basically, even if there was a vaccine released TODAY, it would still take at least six months before we can start going back to normal, and (I believe I read about) three years before we can consider the disease to have ran its course.
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Inlets as an IPv6 Proxy
T90official is also suuuuupercool!

He also started as a pretty mediocre player and now deserves his rank among the best players! He shares a lot of his secrets and is also #1 commentator now for AoE II:DE related games: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZUT79WUUpZlZ-XMF7l4CFg

Also watch his Twitch account.

Spirit of the Law is also a great resource: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChzLZJo-SxuPHz-oYKAIC_g
That is exactly why I would consider 2 hours daily to spend on mastering a game a luxury.

Before kids? Sure. After the kids are old enough to basically be on cruise control? Likely. But now? Not even close.
If he's actually researching he will probably learn a lot. I can wait.
When I read postings like yours, I sometimes really wonder who pays people like you to spread FUD like this.

"kill your elderly". Dont you feel bad for doing what you do? Seriously, please, reconsider the way you connect with fellow humans.
People are taking more risks because it's been 9 months of restrictions.

The first month or so in the Bay Area people were super diligent. There was nobody on the streets, hardly anybody shopping. Within a month you noticed more people on the streets, by 6 months, traffic was 75% of what it was before Covid.

You can't expect people to put their lives on hold indefinitely, especially people at low risk. I know that in Canada 20-30 year olds accounted for the vast majority of new cases. They were just willing to take a chance.

And even though these two vaccines look promising, you won't get a significant number of people vaccinated until the second half of 2021. That's another 7-8 months away.

Reminds me of that movie scene in Apocalypse Now when they are getting mortared on the beach while trying to surf - "The tide doesn't come in for six hours, do you want to wait here for six hours?" - Lt. Col. Kilgore
> What, are they working with someone? Five eyes? China? Spain? The Soviet Block?

Yes:

Apple canceled their plans to fully encrypt iCloud data after the FBI complained:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

In the Vault 7 leaks, Little Snitch was something specifically mentioned as being difficult to circumvent. Now, the ability to bypass it is baked into the OS:

https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-on-vault-7/

They moved iCloud keys to Chinese servers so the CCP could continue their surveillance:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-apple-icloud-insigh...

During the protests in Hong Kong, Apple took down apps that let people crowdsource tracking of police:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/technology/apple-hong-kon...
First of all, I'm not calling Bulgarians and Romanians racists. I'm calling _you_ racist.

Secondly, I've tried my best not to bash you nor your countrymen. And I do not even disagree with many things you have said: indeed, some gypsies consider it fair game to steal from tourists, some have no respect for property, etc. Sure. The same could be said of many other discriminated minorities, and I'm pretty sure we've all heard and read the exact same complains that $Xs are just thieves, cannot be educated, will never give away their long heritage of misbehaviour, etc, etc, where $X is the minority of the day and place.

The discriminated minority varies, but what does not vary is the false generalisation ("all $X are thieves"), the scapegoating ("$Xs are why the economy is bad"), and the reassuring feeling of superiority ("we have been nice to $Xs to no avail yet they were never nice to us"). This is exactly what racism is all about in my views.

Listen, I'm not calling you a bad person for that. I totally understand that when pockets of poverty and antisocial behaviour do exist in one's country then one is upset about it. Just be aware that no minority is inherently bad; minorities have their own dynamic that depends upon many things (on top of which: having to live in a ghetto), but not upon the inner biology/heritage/wtv of any individuals. Do not delude yourself into thinking you would behave any different were you born in the same circumstances, into the same ghetto, etc.

I do not know what have the previous regimes tried to end the discrimination and integrate gypsies, and I'm sad if that has failed. I'm certain though that ghettos are not improving anyone's situation, be it in Bulgaria or in France.

Let's always try to think about the problem practically, to look for solutions/improvements not to look for revenge.
On mobile so I won’t be looking up a source. Was listening to a pod cast from a a cardiac specialist whose position was that higher salt intake is not as important for heart and artery health as long as you have balanced exercise and hydration. His point was that excessive carbohydrates lead to inflammation which leads to plaque build up which leads to heart disease. But salt can be ok.
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This is really sad:

"It’s safe, it’s effective – it even works for aquagenic urticaria. This should be a happy ending. But there’s a catch. The asthma drug is currently being used “off-label”; that is, the effectiveness of the drug against urticaria hasn’t yet been demonstrated in a large-scale clinical trial. And most healthcare providers, from insurance companies to the UK’s NHS, simply won’t pay for drugs without one.

This is the problem Rachel encountered back in 2014, when the specialist in Berlin recommended omalizumab. At the moment, the drug would set her back around a thousand euros per month.

But finding enough patients for a trial could be problematic. Aquagenic urticaria affects around one in every 230 million people. By that estimate, there are only 32 people with the condition on the entire planet. “We are a big team here, we see more than 2,000 new urticaria patients every year. And we have three with aquagenic urticaria,” says Maurer.

To complicate matters further, the drug is coming to the end of its patent. With so little time left to make any money out of it – and a handful of potential customers – convincing the company to invest in a trial would be extremely difficult. “I’m not sure that we will see such a trial,” he says. Novartis, who market the drug as Xolair for asthma and other conditions, confirm they have no plans to develop the treatment for aquagenic urticaria. "We believe that the unlicensed use of drugs should be limited to cases where there is an unmet medical need that cannot be fulfilled by licensed medications or as permitted by the regulatory framework designed to protect patient safety," their spokesperson adds. After decades of research to solve the mystery disease, the final hurdle isn’t science, but economics."
Covid has killed more people in total than Ebola. Maybe that was what the headline was implying?
There is no guarantee that your vpn is doing what it claims it is doing... Because the kernel is not doing what you are telling it to do.
I hired three of them to build me a fence last year - following an online ad that they had, we talked on the phone and settled for the next day. Good for me that I have cameras in my yard because they jumped me to pay double at the end of the job quoting some bs numbers that we didn't discuss. 4 of them getting in my face at night. I already knew how it is going to go down from the moment I saw that the car of workers is made entirely of gypsies so I had someone recording and ready to call the cops. Nice tango there. I hope you don't get to dance it. As I said, it's easy to speak from the side when you don't know the situation - everyone seems to have an opinion but completely disregards what an entire nation thinks.
This is brilliant! Especially to distribute branded shortened URLs of the kind {mydomain}/{id} without having to maintain pretty much anything and giving the end user a chance to verify what the URL actually leads to. Thank you!
Yeah. Just trust apple. You don't want those things to go through your VPN.

Nevermind that your VPN might have the purpose of bypassing shitty, insecure public wifi.

Nevermind you may not be trusting your local/national internet infrastructure.

Apple knows best. Trust them.

/s
Not to disagree but can you define nebulous terms like excess and put those in context for us who may not be professionals with underlying knowledge of quantity of what acceptable levels and excess are.

Anecdotally, I drink a lot of beer but only twice a week. The rest of the week I may very well be a monk. Not a drop. Does the quantity I consume on weekends count as excess? On what scale or timeline?
"Books are a classic thing that should just be digitized and the originals sold off. The value is in the content, not the paper and ink."

Physical books do actually matter to a lot of people, especially if these books have a history.

In fact, books are really no different than any other physical item in this respect, and their ability to be digitized does not decrease their value as physical objects in the slightest.

There was an interesting Radiolab episode called "Things"[1] about exactly this. I'd recommend listening to if if you're interested in what makes things with a history valuable.

[1] - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/episodes/thing...
Linksys LRT224 has been great for me, I run a permanent VPN to my aws resources.
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For many of us beeing not allowed to blame people with specific (usually way to generalized) slurs does not exactly lessen our ability for free speech. Imo this perception is only drawn on us by americans.
> The value is in the content, not the paper and ink.

That's not entirely true. While it might be considered a bit of am extreme example, think about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy

The paper and ink can tell/show us things about the technical environment in which these books were created. If you sell them off to a collector, scientists lose access to them.
Glad you enjoy the articles. I recognize your handle from other posts here, have we met somewhere else?

I've had clients mention seeing my website or seeing my name in articles elsewhere, but I don't remember any mentioning HN. I've also gotten no reaction the few times I've posted on the hirings posts, even with an excellent endorsement one time. On the other hand people do find my site through search engines and I assume HN links help boost rankings there.
Apple should be divided into separate independent companies. One for silicon, one for computers, one for phones and gadgets, one for screens, one for OS, one for app store and so on.
I've not been deeply involved in either so take my hunch for what it is:

OCaml is an academic language like Haskell. Academics tend to neglect documentation in general, be it because what they're working on is mostly self-serving, lack of time/enthusiasm or a tinge of elitism on that "this should be obvious and if not just read the code".

Rust adherents seem to really want to take over the world and they realize that great documentation is an enabler for that.

Also the standard libraries and compiler set a pretty strong precedent.
I have long argued that what we really need to fix this kind of problem is a very clear separation between essential updates for things like security fixes, where something in the original software was not working as intended, and any other updates that might change behaviour or look and feel in arbitrary (and possibly unwanted by the user) ways.

IMHO, it would then be very beneficial from the user's perspective to have a system-wide default policy for updates along the lines of "install nothing without asking", "install essential updates automatically, ask about others" and "install all updates automatically".

Of course, this would require software developers to actually fix older versions of the software they sold when it was broken, as they used to, instead of trying to make it the user's problem as the developers move on to whatever they want to do next, which has become a popular business model as we've moved to online updates being widely accessible and to web and mobile apps where "latest" is often the only version available to users. So it's obvious why developers aren't so keen. What's less obvious to me is why, given the damage caused by the more recent model, the rest of society tolerates that behaviour instead of holding developers accountable for their earlier mistakes like anyone else who sells us a defective product.
Looks nice and simple! Bit strange to claim "there is no database" and then add "GitHub issues is the database", maybe add "there is no traditional RDMS/document database needed" or something similar.

You might want to detect infinite loops as well :) https://nlsn.cf/6

Last note, the status code seems to be incorrectly set to 404 instead of any of the redirection status code. If you're hosting it on GitHub pages, I'm not sure you can actually control it. If the status code was correctly set + the Location header, I think all browsers would be able to detect the infinite loop automatically and prevent it.
It's great to live in interesting times (Apple Silicon Macs support CrossOver)
If you sign up for google voice while in US, you can keep on using it while not inside the US. (As far as I know you can only get a US phone number)
No: you can trust a kernel or you cannot. “all this traffic must go this way”... Kernel: I don’t care.

There is no meaningful tor under those conditions.
It’s ridiculous that both password and email can be changed at once on any service
I do remember.

The anti-vax nuts make discussion vaccination risks difficult because everyone pushes back to different direction just to be on the safe side.

Existing vaccine testing and approval process have more or less the the right balance. Sometimes vaccines are withdrawn, in general they are safe.
That’s clever! I once did the same, except I used a static site generator that I would push to Github and deploy on Netlify.
The DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision, and similar laws on other jurisdictions.
So what does it really mean for work from home stocks? Will valuations finally come down?
It’s better not to think about that.
Singapore Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines to Combat Covid-19 Threats
No the headline was a very misleading statement based on the fact that people showing up in ICUs with severe forms of covid had about the same death rates than Ebola.
There's a very easy way to prevent it: stop using Apple products.
Besides the general hand waving that doesn't mean much ("make them more iDevice like", "you don't own your computer, they do") which doesn't say anything, the parent is talking about this particular decision.

As for "you don't own your computer, they do", what it translates to is: "The OS places certain restrictions that work and make it safer for the large majority of users, but might not give full tinkering abilities to everybody". Which you never have (full tinkering ability) in a closed source OS, anyway.

While "we bypass firewalls for our domains" can be thought of in the same vein ("we think it's better and safer for most users to work this way, and leads to less head-scratching why X Apple service doesn't work etc"), it's not exactly the same.

Apple can go towards the "no tinkering direction, it's a device that just works", without disallowing preventing user firewalls from blocking Apple domains (provided of course the user understands that by blocking them they get no iCloud and other services).

>Apple has been moving away form the professional / hacker market for a long time, they want to sell to normal consumers and could give a shit less about the pro or hacker market.

On the other hand, the pro market (video, music, graphics, office, programming, writing, data analysis, etc) shouldn't have workflow issues with what Apple did, and the hacker market is small (and has never been a target market).
Ebola has a fatality rate of >80%. That's what the headline was implying.
> Most countries have flu surveillance networks, where they sample from general practitioners swabs and look for new strains. In most cases this works reasonably well.

Yes, I've read about the flu surveillance networks as well. However, these work well in theory, but not always in practice right? The past few years where I've seen the doctor in the UK, they've mostly dismissed anything wrong with me by just giving me some minor medication (this is probably in accordance to meet the waiting target), so things can always be missed out. I mean, there were reports that says the UK and US are best equipped to handle a pandemic, but in reality, we are seeing otherwise.

> Because the first large scale outbreak occurred in Wuhan in December 2019

I would personally say that the outbreak in Wuhan is not really that large scale when you compare it to what's been happening to the rest of the world. The largest scale of it is the media coverage of it since China did a full lockdown of the city. What's even more is that COVID did not seem spread to much of other parts of the country.

> Look - I guess the European origin is possible. But it's a pretty out-there theory and it needs some pretty extraordinary evidence

I had been sceptical about the origin being anywhere outside of China as well initially. But given that more and more news of the possible early detection in COVID in much of Europe before December 2019 (France, UK, Italy and Spain), it does seem to me like there is a greater possibility that COVID could have originated from outside of China. Again, outside of Wuhan COVID was pretty much non-existant in other Chinese cities, even though Wuhan was only locked down late January 2020.

Basically, I'm not saying COVID-19 definitely came from Europe or didn't originate from China, all I've been saying is to have an open mind instead of immediate finger pointing, which as my original comment alluded to, was what the Australian government did.
It's so cool. I am using https://git.io as url shortener, and now this project makes me reconsider.

What if some of shortener domain so popular that Github takes some action? Like block or ban?
Apple could detect the VPN and brick the laptop.
There's been a ton of research on mRNA techniques. This crisis just meant that they got an open cheque book to complete the job.

If these things work as they appear to do, it'll be even more impressive than putting a man on the moon.
I think people living in hard situations develop all kinds of biases and tribalism out of necessity. Cosmopolitanism is a luxury good.

If you can’t admit that you, with your own mind and morals, would act the same way in the same circumstances, that doesn’t seem any different than the bigotry you accuse ‘them’ of.
Take it with grain of salt, since I have no knowledge about this, but I found this [0] channel on youtube very helpful on covid related info.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg
The correct way to write Tokyo in Hepburn romaji is actually Tōkyō (to indicate the longer "o"). However it's rarely romanized this way.

At some point we have to admit that especially for names (of places, people) we don't need to have a "1 to 1" conversion between hiragana and romaji. People pick the name that work well in English or other alphabet-based languages rather than a direct conversion.

People who can't speak Japanese are not going to pronounce names correctly anyway.