skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The study enrolled more, but slowly increased the number of vaccinated since the start (which was initially, I'd expect, 0) -- the second dose was still not received by all enrolled as of November 13:

"The Phase 3 clinical trial of BNT162b2 began on July 27 and has enrolled 43,661 participants to date, 41,135 of whom have received a second dose of the vaccine candidate as of November 13, 2020."

So there is no single date one can reasonably use 41,135 or ~20,567 for the efficacy calculations. As the observations continue (expected up to 2 years) there could be much more useful data there.

I also guess the people who haven't received both doses but got sick before are separately counted.

The only useful numbers at the moment we have are 8 and 162 (and 1 and 9 for the severe cases). And that we can assume that from all thousands vaccinated these 170 in total got sick by chance, and that the thousands were carefully enough selected to represent bigger population, and using that we can expect that the efficacy won't too dramatically change as more data come in, the same way as the polls can use smaller samples to conclude something about bigger population, if the sampling is careful enough. But some changes are expected.

It appears it's still too early to know if those who are vaccinated could protect those who aren't, or if the vaccine protects only those who received it (1) -- but anyway we know that still not all of those who will be vaccinated will be protected from having a severe case: there was up to now one severe case in the vaccinated group, versus 9 severe cases in the placebo group, 11%.

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1) https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/941030

"In an ideal world, a vaccine would prevent infection entirely and, it follows, also prevent disease and severe disease. But this may be hard to achieve for a respiratory virus vaccine. Animal challenge data suggest that vaccinated animals may still be infected even if they don't experience symptoms. A vaccine that is able to reduce the severity of disease, even if it cannot prevent infection entirely, would obviously still have enormous public health value. Therefore, this is what trials target as their primary aim."
I'm publishing the same (paid) app on Google Play and on Amazon's store, which is AFAICT the most widely used alternative (outside of markets where Google is not active).

My Amazon income is less than 2% of the Google income.
DRM is the gaping hole.
> registration fees one time

Yes please! This stops me buying(?) more apps than anything else.
for me it was linux academy (paid by my employer of the time) and getting red hat certified (rhcsa).

in order to get rhcsa certified i had to study and learn all of those little details about linux that i had only skimmed previously, and learn some things that i didn't even knew existed (ex: filesystems acl).

Getting Red Hat certified definitely made me a better sysadmin and a devops engineer with a stronger linux background.

edit: since moving on from that employer i'm paying for linuxacademy myself, although nowadays it's not clear what's going to happen when ther merger with acloudguru will be fully done.
In some places where spacious apartments that were the norm 10 years have now new trend where the same bed room size apartment has gotten about 1.5 times smaller. Just the cost of the square meter is so high that even fairly high earning people could not comfortably afford them anymore.
Swiss Cheese Model (about infection safeguards)
Sometimes I wonder why I read HN.

There's some good stuff, but there's also a lot of fluff and bad political takes.

It doesn't seem clearly better than Reddit's /r/programming board, just different and a little more eager to bury un-interesting posts. (but not controversial ones)

That said, I'm not aware of anyone at my company who reads Reddit other than me, either.
> come up with a theory based on nothing

Not a crime, but strictly speaking, thats how theories are formed. You test them or otherwise find evidence that contradicts them.
and they only way a multi billion dollar revenue earning department finds no other way to solving this is by making the experience on the website miserable for everyone. Only "luck" can help you get a ticket. bravo. hats off to the ingenuity of these people
It already does since public benchmarks released yesterday. Not only Intel laptops, but M1 with 7-8W power drain in single-threaded performance beats or just trails in some benchmarks against a desktop class $799 Ryzen 9 5950x at +49W power drain.

Can they make an Air competitor? As far as I understand, not today.
I used to play games on a PC but I switched over to PS4 (and will probably pick up a PS5 when available). Sony makes a ton of blockbuster single-player games like Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, and The Last of Us that I can't get anywhere else.

The display is fine (I have a 4K HDR TV, which are now commonplace) and I can relax on my couch without messing around with a computer.
At least 40 years ago - Mailboxes, etc. first opened in 1980, and that was typically how I saw people get a street address in their choice of city.
All the responses are about legality or process.

I mean, if we're going to defund the police, you can't pick a better target than the DEA. Just get rid of them. They represent everything that's wrong with moral policing.

In an ideal world, they would be defunded, the department's charter revoked by congress, and every employee investigated for criminal activity. See if they like a taste of the same bullshit they dish out to the rest of the country.
"It's about being able to take complete stock of your life on a regular basis."

Yes! Merlin is very entertaining but for someone who spends so much time talking about his life, it's amazing how little of it he seems to grok.

One of the best things that has really kicked into gear my utilization of GTD and also helping with my ADHD is learning about and incorporating the Pomodoro technique with my use of Omni Focus. I found a great little play/work timer on Amazon for under $20 - 30 minutes on the right side, 5 minute on the left side and a big toggle button on top that reminds me of a chess timer. It's very satisfying to whack the physical button (no stupid touch controls here - tactile feedback baby!) at the end of a session to start the other. Once you get into a rhythm it's amazing what you can accomplish.

I also block time on my calendar with meetings to give me chunks of time when I need to get stuff done. Meeting creep is real, especially now that the former hallway wanderers can only do virtual drive by's :p
> I find that you're the kind of person that only find what they're looking for.

I expressed an opinion on a belief you seem to hold, not a value judgement on yourself. I don’t presume to know which “kind of person” you are from a short text-based interaction pertaining to single subject matter. I’ll ask you extend me the same courtesy.
You are proving my point
Is NNT a good number to use when evaluating effectiveness of vaccines during a pandemic? It'll change substantially over time as the virus waxes and wanes and from location to location. So it won't be comparable across different vaccines. Moreover, the fact that cases create more cases means that preventing 1 case could prevent other future ones.
As others noted, it is de-identified in name only. There is clearly sufficient information to make this something like a ROT13 analogue.

> If de-identification is done right

There is the rub, indeed. As a general rule, I don't trust de-identification. People mostly seem to reason poorly about how datasets can be merged and this has repeatedly failed.

Worse, I have seen it proposed to shut people up about privacy in situations where the proposer knew full well it would fail. De-identification was merely a prop in a con.

I would suggest that, if sensitive de-identified data is to be used by government, it go through a public trial challenge round. Let's let the public give a shot at it, it would build confidence and help suppress a little conspiratorial nonsense too, something we could use right now.
That's not correct!

Apple have ARM IP for instructions. So Apple Silicon is 100% ARM compatible.
The Universal Ecosystem
How AI may knock down garden walls by making file formats, protocols, and even standards less relevant.
Just to be clear: No, it is not cleared to resume flights yet, airlines still have to approve their supplementary 737MAX training with the FAA, and they have to take the planes out of storage, which requires some maintenance work.

So no MAX planes flying immediately. But soon.
I've been taking notes during meetings just for my own benefit, and often refer to them later in that same meeting to bring a topic up that I missed. Also helpful to review at the end to see if there are unclear action items, etc.
And I think the take would be different for a regular flyer than occasional flyer.

Even before the fix, the probability of an occasional flyer getting in a crash was already negligible. For someone taking the same flight twice a week, or worse for the cabin crew spending half of the year in this plane, the risk was unacceptable.

So unless you fly very often, it is rational to not worry which model you board. One dodges small risks all day long, crossing the street, eating food, being exposed to animals or germs, etc. It’s just one more.
Skin in the Game: Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis
If you're at the point of mounting a weapon on a ship and testing it the majority of the resources were spent a long time ago.
> The reason consoles are safer is that you can't do any dodgy downloads on them beyond the manufacturer's walled garden, similar to how mobile devices work, not because they have magic security pixie dust making them invulnerable to malware, especially since they share the same X86 hardware as PCs.

That's not the whole story. The Xbox takes sandboxing very seriously, and provides isolation way beyond a typical PC. See for instance [0]. Recent generations of Xbox and PlayStation have been based on AMD64, but I don't see that this is a major factor.

edit It's a pity they don't offer decent keyboard+mouse support. Being able to use a console as a serious desktop web browser would be a very useful feature.

[0] https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo?t=1180
the real question is why can't it work without the permission?
Spend $9,000 US dollars to get a MS in CS, Data Science or Cyber Security from Georgia Tech. It's a solid top 10 CS program. It will take a few years, but it is definitely a great investment.

If you don't already have an undergrad degree and/or want a quicker program, look at some of the reputable code/security academies that partner with major state universities. They cost a bit more 15K to 20K but are shorter (typically a year or less).

Finally, there are certificate programs (offered by professional training companies) in security, coding, project management, etc. that cost 5K to 10K and last from a week to a month.
> You got your calculator and SMS app but that's about it.

Well, thankfully it's not the case. The heart is a ARM processor with plenty of code already ported to run on it, and the surrounding hardware isn't that different from many single board computers that already run complete Linux distributions. As an example, Firefox, GIMP and Libreoffice -the real ones, not dumbed down versions- already do run on the Pinephone.

https://liliputing.com/2019/11/pinephone-smartphone-can-run-...

Keep in mind that the video is one year old, meaning old phone model with less RAM, very young OS and likely no code optimization for apps to run on a phone rather on a desktop PC.

Actually I wouldn't be surprised at all if one year from now we would have more software available for the Pinephone compared to Android. Sometimes it's just a matter of recompiling (huge argument in favor of Open Source).
As another example, if Lazarus (lazarus-ide.org) would run on it (it already does on the Raspberry PI and many other ARM boards), one could develop native GUI apps directly on the phone. Probably not comfortable, still possible.

The only problem in my opinion would arise from the unavailability of phone specific apps, particularly closed ones or those depending on proprietary servers whose owners wouldn't give a damn about recompiling their client and are particularly anal retentive wrt allowing 3rd party apps accessing the services, for example Whatsapp. In that case one would have to attempt to emulate a different platform in which run the original proprietary app, which very likely would make things too slow to be useable.
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT review: AMD is back in the game
New courses on distributed systems and elliptic curve cryptography
I’m not the parent poster, but one reason I can suggest is:

When you know about the security properties of using the HTTP protocol over internet, and proceed to visit a read-only plain-HTTP website, your attention and time are used up unnecessary on thoughts like “did the author really include this bit of content, or is it being MITM’ed?” with no inexpensive way to find out.
It's in the base OS actually.
The way the rules are now seems like there's a very big incentive to avoid earning a little bit more than $1m. This could have … unintended consequences.

(e.g. if it looks like you're going to earn a little bit over $1m, increase prices by a lot (to discourage purchases), but tell people the app will be "cheap" again in January. Or even make the app free for a while.)
I think cost-of-living adjustments are mostly a bluff. If you demand more and you're better than someone in an expensive area, they're not going to hire the shittier candidate. They'll see what they can get away with given your apparent leverage, and offer that. If you have multiple offers, they'll bid you up to the budget for your skill level. Where you are is irrelevant (except for legal issues). At least, that's how it seems to me.

Can anyone on the other side of things chime in? Is this how it works, or is there more going on? Is it a "we-don't-negotiate-with-terrorists" policy to stop negotiation from propagating?
Starlink in the snow? Speed test and connection quality
Really, it just means a) it works, b) the study should go on longer to get more significant results.
"It's a human superpower, forgetting. If you remembered how things felt, you'd have stopped having wars. And stopped having babies."
That is only working if you are the only one doing this. If everybody in the team starts repeating everything very detailed, this soon becomes completely unproductive and ignored. Think one information mail from one system might be a good idea, but when you start getting 1000 automated mails every day like I get right now you are actually not informed at all.

The key to success is focusing on a small number of messages that you really want to get to people and then overcommunicating them.
100% agree here. This is also how I ran things at my previous company; we would allocate a budget and hire the best person we could with this budget. If they happened to live in a lower COL location, good for them!
My main business started as a side-project. Not as tiny as the ones in the article, but it wasn't meant to be my main source of income. And yes, it took years of marketing to reach a mature state, but the essence is that experimenting is what usually brings the real money.
> I recently came across Beekeeper Studio in a comment here on hn

me too :) I installed it but didn't connect to any DB yet. Startup time is certainly no better than DBeaver though.
Right, but in that case I would not expect them to upgrade Python to 3.8.
This seems like an excellent gofundme cause, I'll chip in for him and his family to go cross-continental while happily smiling for the cameras.
Ok so who's going to build the travel site that helps you avoid riding a 737 Max?

I know the airlines can switch planes without notice, but it seems possible to improve your odds at least.
As many others have said, books are the best things I've spent money on, but let me say more:

Do books sometimes say things that are obvious? Yes. For example, when I first read Martin Fowler's book Refactoring, I had been renaming variables and moving methods from one class to another for years. But he gave a new framework for thinking about something that obvious. I've found the idea of separating out my coding flow between adding functionality and improving code really helpful.

Can you get the material for free? Almost always, yes. But it takes time to find the right material, and our time is valuable. A typical industry book is $40-$50, and a typical text book is $100-$150. The authors of these books have spent time organizing the material in a helpful way that you would otherwise need to spend.

For some topics though, it's not just a matter of time savings. I'm working on a topic now that doesn't really have many useful books, so I'm having to read technical specifications produced by industry groups, which lack context and are pretty opaque. I'm missing having a book that explains these ideas in a coherent fashion.

I have tried a few MOOCs for professional development. I've found they can be helpful for a superficial understanding, but they don't encourage the deep understanding I get from reading through a book.
We need to explicitly communicate Requirements + Expectations
Well, there is Amazon Appstore for Android, where you can buy digital goods (apps and games as well) on an Android device.
Idk if the Amazon Appstore is available for IOS with the same terms. Can you buy IOS apps via Amazon Appstore on an IOS device?
$99/year via an ACM subscription [1]. And you get the printed copies of ACM magazines shipped to you every month.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22799753
Plus I think air traffic was picking up in the US, but in Europe, with all the new lockdowns, there cannot be a huge appetite to get those planes out of storage.
I would agree, it probably not a good metric. Just providing some standard numbers for treatments.

Keep in mind the definition of a case here is having symptoms, so we don’t know if the vaccine prevents lightly symptomatic or asymptomatic cases, which may or may not result in transmission.
This reads like a harsh criticism; arguments would be welcome as to why you feel this way
Ask HN: Is model-driven development the future of web services?
The advent of JSON Schema [1] and related technologies such as Hyper Schema [2], OpenAPI [3], RAML [4], and many more are powering tools to automate documentation generation, automated testing, SDK generation, UI generation, etc.

- Do you expect to see these patterns come to backend development?
- Do you see the future of backend development as writing schemas, resources, relationships between resources, etc in a model-driven fashion rather than writing code?
- How far away from auto-generating backend services from model definitions are we?

[1]: https://json-schema.org
[2]: https://json-schema.org/draft/2019-09/json-schema-hypermedia.html
[3]: https://www.openapis.org
[4]: https://raml.org
Actually, Trump just tweeted that they refused to sign the certification. This being Trump I don't know if it's true or not, but it is possible that they did not formally certify after all. In which case, kudos to them. Audit that thing first, then certify.
That's a fine starting point to set the initial conditions. Now, if a company can find a way to harness developers to create $100K of enterprise value per year, they will be happy to bid $50K for qualified developers. Another company that can create $150K/dev/yr will be willing to bid $60K, etc.

I doubt you'll see qualified developers seeing a salary cut anywhere near as deep as you project, because the process I describe will play out faster than needed to inject the needed stability.
How good are US anti-missile capabilities on ships more generally? How likely is it that the US could defend carriers from missile attacks?
pre-covid almost all of the flights I took where on bombardier CRJ regional Jets

Uncomfortable as hell.... I hate them
great to see the progress there
Fortnite was banned from the Play store, not Android.
... but realistically, the risk of that is extremely low in this specific case.
I think it's worth considering that, just because you didn't do it, does not mean it can't be done. Perhaps your personal growth was as big of a difference as the format of your labor relationship.
Not as feature rich, but I did make a React library for tech trees[0].

You should go and check it out!

[0]: https://ldd.github.io/react-tech-tree/

source (MIT): https://github.com/ldd/react-tech-tree
... but you're not living with parents.
Are you and GP talking about "take" as in "take the prescription, and fill it if you need to", or "fill the prescription", or "swallow the pills"?
I learned a quick tip recently to easily implement a nice-looking dark mode without picking a whole new color palette. You can just take your regular colors and desaturate them and they will instantly look better in dark mode. If you don't understand saturation, think of it like using the "pastel" version of each color.
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/verifying...
I honestly wouldn't put too much stock in that wikipedia article. Military training exercises are more like sparring matches, not a free-for-all with no rules. The constraints section also says that the ships were closer to shore than they would normally have been in order to not interfere with civilian ships that weren't part of the exercise.
Which is a pain for most non-C languages. And it still doesn't work with templates.
What Does a Guilty Brain Look Like?
It shows that in order to keep overview abstracting things away is necessary. Otherwise you get overloaded with too many concrete things at once.
They don’t need to be boycotted, they simply have a bad design addressed with a software workaround. The bad early track record is enough to keep a large chunk of people terrified of flying on them that airlines would probablty invest into different planes. Not sure what would happen to the current fleet, they would probably continue to fly successfully having that pilots are now aware of the shortcomings but I don’t see this plane making any further success in sales
I have sympathy for people who are gradually priced out of basic necessities in life, but living in a center of one of the world's busiest and most expensive cities isn't a necessity. If a person is insisting on making that choice instead of moving out, especially in a world that is moving more and more into remote work, well, it's their responsibility.

Comparing this situation with a system without private property or even ability to rent, where apartments are leased by the state through your employer and you have no choice in the matter and have to wait years in order to move is a really, really long stretch.
I agree, this seems trivial to solve: get a UPS PMB in a high cost of living area and set up mail forwarding.
AMD Radeon RX 6800 Series Linux Performance
Show HN: Website change tracking with built-in scraper and indexer
Yes, but Apple has added additional instructions to it. Any app that relies on those Apple-specific additional instructions would crash running on different chips.
64 bit support should be coming soon [1]: With 64-bit emulation coming soon in Preview via the Windows Insider program, you'll be able to run 64-bit (x64) apps on Surface Pro X.

> Where's the ARM native version of Visual Studio?

Well, there is VSCode... [2]

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/surface-pro-arm-app...

[2] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-new-vs-code-update-i...
Iranian assassination, and he's backing a huge proxy war in Yemen that has been devastating. I'm sure the "Made in the USA" bomb fragments on the ground that blew up Yemeni children will be attributed only to the Saudis and not the US.
AMD Radeon RX 6800, 6800XT review: A safer GPU bet on red
That's depends on the negotiation you have with your employer.
Because those APIs can be used for extremely sketchy activity.