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Not sure what you are being downvoted for. Your tone may seem pretty alarmist (but that has been the norm for anything cornoa related). Otherwise it's true.
I'd happily trade wealth for being able to meet friends and family freely again.
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The experiments were setup to pass, so we are seeing record high numbers of successes.

A lot of companies are specialized in hacking the standards for testing.
Depending on the company they use some of these tricks: These are all small sample sizes (around 100) picked from huge numbers of tested people (10s of thousands).
They look at short term results, long term effects failed dramatically in animal testing.
They use tests that can give false positives (PCR>26 cycles), and/or false negatives. Or just look at symptoms that are similar to flu.
They do not have a proper (long term) placebo group (why not also use untreated patients as well).
Other factors with huge impact as health, habits, food, Vitamin-D.

Big pharma wants to collect "their" billions for their medicine. Which is why we cant have nice things. (Or cheap medicine that do work well).
> Logically, it would be 190% of the speed of light.

The important point here is that this is is not "logically" but "intuitively", and it turns out our intuition is simply wrong. Historically, this was in fact the motivation for special relativity: we noticed that the speed of light does not obey Newton's relativity principle: if you fire two beams of light, one from the ground and one from a moving train, they will both arrive at a detector at the exact same time.

Having observed this concerning fact about the world, we now had to come up with a theory that explained it. The one we landed on was that speed is a number that goes not from 0 to infinity, but from 0 to c. This then must mean that accelerating an object from 0 to 1/3c is easier (requires less force) than accelerating that same object from 1/3c to 2/3*c, and that this difficulty increases the closer you get to c. The final theory in fact predicts that an object with mass can't even reach c, it's speed can only grow infinitely close to c. However, massless particles (such as the photon) do move with speed exactly c.

Note that we have since repeated this experiment with other particles of non-0 mass and confirmed that photons themselves are not special, c is indeed a limit. For example, electrons have some mass and don't move with speed c, and an electron fired from a moving train will arrive faster than an electron fired from the platform, but the speed of the speedier electron will NOT be V_e + V_train as Newton would predict, it will be (V_e + V_train)/sqrt(1-(V_e+V_train)^2/c^2) if I remember the Lorrentz transform correctly.
You don't know how on Earth evidence of a massive increase in social welfare spending, as a percentage of GDP, substantiates the claim that the US has massively shifted to social democracy?

Why are we even having a discussion right now, if you're going to engage in such bad faith?

>>What typical social democratic welfare state benefits have been introduced during that time?

How about you do your own homework. Start with the Medicare Act of 1965, and then continue down the laundry list of social assistance programs provided by local, state and federal government, that have been instituted and expanded since 1960.
The article is too pedantic to the point of impracticality. Objective reason to live 200m underwater: there is no polluted air there.
There's no need to keep that code in the main yt-dl codebase if it is for special cases.

You could imagine a siloed yt-dl plugin called crack-riaa with separate tests, hosting, etc.

If yt-dl detects the obfuscation, it could fail with an error message point to the plugin's documentation.
Ask HN: Is the pro-Apple/hate-Apple divide as deep as the U.S. political divide?
on top of that, Microsoft has thousands of different domains they use for telemetry, good luck trying to stay up to date with that...
That doesn't seem quite right. If your diet consists only of things that do not metabolize into uric acid, how can you experience gout? It might require a very strict diet, but surely this is possible?
The protection figure is the based on the comparison between the people who received the placebo and people who received the vaccine. The group who received the vaccine had 95% fewer cases.

Also while improving the immune response of at-risk groups is of course important, the main goal is to reach herd immunity. Eg, if all the people _under_ 70 got the vaccine then the virus would never reach the aged care home in the first place.
I don't follow, a few days ago I downloaded the tarball of the code and 'binary' (it's a Python script) from their website. Both seemed to be hosted there.

https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl-2020.11.1...
This path is faster and cheaper.
I guess this is as good a place as any to ask: Do we have any other mRNA vaccines in circulation? If so, which ones? If not, how do we know that they're generally safe after only a few months of testing?
I don't just mean in terms of external funding, but also internal approval for funding.

It's obviously much, much easier to justify a generous budget (and rapid timeline) to higher-ups for a vaccine when there's a pandemic caused by said virus going on.
Hold up...

Copyright lawyers are idiots, next question.
That's not how ohms law works.

The current is determined by the voltage divided the resistance.

The current that flows during a shock would not be limited by breaker size in any country -- you'll be long dead by the time 1 amp flows.
That's ... unfortunate.

I was going by first-posted story, which is how priority frequently (though by no means always) goes.

This story is getting frequently submitted.

Feel free to downnvote my GP top-leveel comment as I cannot edit or delete it.
Yep. Classic catastrophe. A lot of people died, and then life eventually went on for most people.

A tragedy that was remembered for generations, but not the end of the world.
Verifying the expected immune response (antibodies) is (part of) phases 1 and 2, if I've understood things correctly.
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No; I'm implying you have made an unverifiable statement that attempts to counter scientific evidence. It adds nothing to the conversation.
They see themselves as the last bastion of decency in a world full of violation.
> or more specifically, not so much inexplicable (as actually I think it is quite predictable), but rather it is just exhausting

Weird how I feel the same about all the pro-Apple comments in every Linux thread, specifically to the effect of:

'Unlike Linux, macOS just works. When I was younger I used to play with Linux too, but now I do actually work I just need shit to work and macOS does that', followed by a bunch of outdated, showing knows nothing about what they're talking about shit about PulseAudio.

But when Apple completely and utterly screws up, to the point when you can't even launch non-Apple apps on a machine you paid thousands of dollars for, then people are all too sudden overreacting?

Funny how that works.

> I'm never going to buy a Windows computer. Period. I'm probably never going to switch to Linux either.

Good. And most FLOSS people don't want you to either. What is my problem is when people have crazy high expectations of FLOSS maintainers, but a trillion dollar company screwing up is filled under the category of 'shit happens' so to speak.

Especially considering Apple's a commercial entity that DOES NOT and WILL NOT care about you or what you think and does not need anyone's advocacy as they have a massive marketing budget of their own. Aside from that, there is a feeling in the FLOSS community that Apple's conducting a war on general purpose computing as we know it, which is not an unreasonable thing to be fearful of considering their influence.

> I don't go around shouting my reasons why I won't,

I am glad to hear that, but there's an awful number of your fellow Applers who are doing exactly the opposite.

> But for a certain segment of the non-Apple crowd, yelling consistently about their opinions is an odd recurrence.

Right, which is totally not a thing for the Apple crowd, is that it?
Shouldn't it be the opposite: have a Linux hypervisor that controls the network and a MacOS VM (or Windows for that matter)?

A bit like what QubeOS does.
I don't see the difference. Negative sentiment, once broadcast publicly and when diseminated widely enough or by the right people, becomes negative publicity, and that's what they acted on as you say.

Anyway I would hope that 'incessant drone' is often about more than customisation, it is because people are concerned about the impacts on general purpose computing a la Cory Doctorow [1]. Moaning about that being annoying is like moaning about the 'incessant drone' of climate change commentary.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
And if those people under 70 were exposed gradually to the virus, they'd survive in higher rates than the vaccine? So would it be more effective to expose them to the virus instead?
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Because nobody actually needs to use this format if it doesn't benefit them. If the headline was "Google developing new proprietary image format to reduce web traffic to Google services by by 2% in Chrome" it would be a non-issue.

It seems odd that Google is being punished for releasing their work to anyone who wants it.
An opaque EULA that can bring down the hammer on you for disproportionately insignificant infractions shouldn't be the price of entry into PC gaming. Not all games are available on a DRM-free basis (see The Outer Worlds that only got released on GOG recently), and some will never be.
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Yeah, sorry for that. I am just a little bit confused. Because to speed the things up, phase I and II were combined here. That's why we are actually at phase 2.5, so to say, sold as phase III.
Being somewhat aware of current affairs in Spain and having dealt with Spanish administrations' digital services and platforms in multiple different contexts, I would be honestly very surprised if they were able to unilaterally agree any kind of deep backdoor conspiracy with a large tech company–let alone effectively implement it.
It's not a conspiracy.

Apple is responding to what the vast majority of the market wants. Most customers want a computer that "just works" and is secure, and they want Apple to do security for them. Having the OS/machine vendor do security for you is a gigantic value-add for most users. Most people either don't know enough to handle it themselves or don't have time.

There is a minority base of users who explicitly don't want this, and that includes many of the users on HN. Product development tends to be a quasi-democracy in that what most of the market wants, most of the market gets.

That being said the implementation here is badly designed. What Apple should do is have an advanced dialog in the security/privacy preference panel that allows these things to be configured, but with a warning that doing so will disable certain Apple-provided security features. Also: Macs have plenty of space. Why not download the entire f'ing CRL list? It's just a bunch of hashes and timestamps. Download the whole thing and then update it with patches at a configurable rate: every 15 minutes, every hour, every day, or "on request." That would fix many problems.
Please report this bug.
> Seems like the copyright holders making a big fuss over nothing really.

This should be the conclusion. Since they have won nothing with such whole noise. Only increase more the OSS wave.
95% protection means you get 95% less infections in a test group that got the vaccine compared to a placebo test group. It doesn't have much to do with the mortality rate.

But if you use that number on the whole population: Instead of a 5.4% mortality in 100.000 infected people of 70+, you end up with 5.4% mortality in 5.000 infected people of 70+, or basically having 270 death instead of 5400.

For the other age groups the mortality rate looks good, but "not dying" doesn't mean you're having a great time. A sizable amount of people end up in the hospital (in some places more than there are beds available), that costs huge amounts of money. So if we could reduce that by 95% there is going to be way less pressure on the hospitals and less costs.
It means the population as a whole would have herd immunity (on average, every infected person would infect significantly less than 1 new person).

Result=> epidemic dies out.
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Everyone thinks they're saving the world. I'm sure the RIAA sleeps soundly knowing they're defending the rights of creative individuals to make a living and holding the line against the scourge of amoral nihilistic pirates.
But now I guess Github should be used as a read-only redundancy rather than for development.
I hope rich countries don't make it difficult for poor countries to get the vaccine, whether it is this one or Pfizer's.
Tell that to people who wanted to play The Outer Worlds on GOG until a short time ago.
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So, you know the long term risks? Interesting! Please tell us.
Did any team get bitten by security and performance issues of client-designed queries and cause the backend guys to whitelist specific graphql queries?
Thank you for the kind comments! That's was the aim of the project, to make it fun and easy to create new short links!
This touches on a question I had. Out of the tens of thousands of people vaccinated in countries where COVID runs rampant, how were there only 90ish people in the control group? I would have expected thousands.
You seem to have engaged with this content and followed networks of people who also engage. My twitter is a very engineering-forward happy place. Sorry you got the you know what end of the algorithm stick. I feel in some way this was self-fulfilling?
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> genes do matter at a certain level.

And the only example that has been given is that someone who is legally considered disabled cannot compete in the top 0.01% of professional sports. I had a bit of a search, and Jahmani Swanson [0] is 4'5, and would absolutely wreck pretty much every single non-NBA basketball player you would ever meet in your life (I am aware that the team are an exhibitionist team, and not an NBA team). I'm sure there are hundreds of other examples of people who won't be able to compete at the top 0.01% of the activity in question, but are unquestionably "great".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARERrH52BGo
This is just a mirror suit of Schrems Google ID tracking suit: https://noyb.eu/en/complaint-filed-against-google-tracking-i...

That's already in progress and in this case it's pretty much about the exact same practice on Apple platforms.

(Also please note how iOS 14 has a separate switch for Apple Ads tracking identifier which is ON by default.)
Agreed, this isn’t twitter
> So I suppose the hope is that some political will to change the laws around this arises from it.

We had mass demonstrations across Europe with the Article 13 fiasco and nothing happened.

Revolutions aside, copyright will never be reformed anywhere in a consumer friendly manner - politicians are way too deep in the pockets of the industry.
Yes. It's about two feet wide.

Coincidentally, there's one for sale on eBay right now.
Sweet way to deal with the pesky debt the Eurozone countries are carrying.
Pretty much everything regarding Covid could be classed as FUD, the media certainly highlights the doomer narrative and downplays the fact that we may be past the worst by now (China is having pool parties already). Not sure why everything vaccine is classified as "safe, nothing to worry about" as it appears to be a pretty new type of vaccine. People should be skeptical, it's healthy.
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Simply wearing a mask has been a messy public fight. It would seem likely that fighting over vaccine requirements will be at least as messy.
Russia's Vaccine is 99.9% effective. I trust it more.
There are already states at 100% hospital capacity. How do you propose dealing with that with your method?
Isn't that what happens now with normal exposure to the virus?
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I never give advice due to what i call the advice paradox. allow me to explain

1. You can give 'good' advice or 'bad' advice
2. Your advice can be followed, or ignored

There are thus four outcomes:

i. You give good advice and they follow it. They will most likely internalise the merit of the advice and not really give you any credit, but no praise is the best possible outcome.

ii. You give good advice and they ignore it. They resent you for giving them good advice that they ignored.

iii. You give bad advice and they follow it. They resent you (and blame you) for the outcome.

iv. You give bad advice and they ignore it. They dismiss you as an idiot.
But these formats are basically for browsers. I don't think Google cares one iota if they gain traction anywhere else because having them used on Google Services and Chrome is enough to reap the benefits of x% less traffic.
The worst offender is fruit juice. It is practically soda with some vitamin C.

Suppose I'm from a country that does not have fruits. How do you convince me to start eating them from a health perspective? Fibre is in vegetables and I'm not too keen on increasing sugar intake for no reason.
PNG was never intended to be a replacement for JPEG. JPEG is for continuous tone images. PNG (and GIF) are optimized for line art.

PNG replaced GIF because the latter was patent-encumbered at the time, only supported 8-bit color, and in later revisions only support 1-bit alpha transparency. PNG supports 24-bit color plus an 8-bit alpha transparency channel.

WebP, first released in 2010, allows for the replacement of GIF/PNG with lossless encodings and lossy encodings for replacement of JPEG. And unlike JPEG, WebP supports alpha transparency as well.

10 years sounds like more than enough time to optimize previous work and publish it. It's not like existing WebP or even new WebP images will suddenly stop working.
monkey != human

i want to return to monke as much as the next guy but i dont really see it happening in the near future
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It's NOT the development that is fast ... it's the green lighting for proceeding through the phases. The FDA accelerating these trials very much "happen to be in sync with the pandemic"
No, I am sharing my personal experience to allow people lacking empathy like you to understand why sceptics might not be as happy with the current outlook as you are.

I dont give a fuck about scientific evidence, personal experience is all that counts, for me, PERSONALLY!
>> Sugar is sugar.

>> That’s a very simplistic way of looking at things which isn’t supported by medical science.

I agree with you on this one but from what I've heard, it is likely that fruit juices and smoothies are not fruits either. If that is correct, the message can get very muddied.

>> Specifically glucose, fructose, sucrose, are worth treating differently for the purposes of diet management.

Now we need to not only treat different sugars differently, we also need to treat the delivery methods differently as well. At some point, the message just becomes too complicated.
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GitHub is still hosting the full youtube-dl version history, including versions which include those supposedly infringing tests. Does copyright law end with HEAD on master? Those tests are still there.

This makes it especially obvious that the RIAA's problem with youtube-dl was never really the tests.
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Please don't try to give Google any ideas.
From the welfare perspective, if the cows are just out in a large pasture, they will likely have net-positive experiences across their lives. But there are animals that have overwhelmingly negative experience throughout their lives (pigs confined to a cage where they can't turn around). As for chickens, >99% of which grow up in cramped conditions, with no access to the outside, with selective breeding causing them to grow so fast they often can't move, it is better to never have been (their lives are a net negative experience).

It's unfortunate, with respect to emissions, cows are worse than chickens, but with respect to suffering on sentient creatures, chickens are worse than cows.

Great news! There's a solution: eating fewer of both.
Thanks for clarifying instead of downvoting. There's a lot of confusion about these numbers and it seems asking a question about them here is being taken as inherent criticism.

For HN that usually gets you upvotes. But apparently the virus is heavily politicised, particularly in America from what I can tell. So the result now is a thread full of dead/buried comments.

Thanks again.
Let’s say we’re in the middle of a black hole. Some supernova event sends us toward the horizon with a bunch of mass, but it’s also getting sucked back in. Space-time starts out looking like a dish and then begins to form a vortex as mass gets sucked back in. It looks like we are accelerating away from other masses. The red shift keeps increasing. Then at some point we are back at the singularity orbiting at the speed of light and now the Schwarzchild metric gives a negative dt^2 due to the combined effects of gravity and velocity, so we can get rid of the negative sign in Minkowski space if we accept the singularity as the normal state of things.
The point was that Kavanaugh's opinion was that networks must call the election night-of or immediately thereafter, which is not an originalist interpretation.
What, specifically, are those mechanisms that you think prevent symptoms but allow for infection and spreading?

Additionally, even if this mechanism exists, why would we care? The goal is not eradication of the virus at a molecular level, it is stopping the disease at a societal level. Stopping the disease is accomplished when symptoms are prevented. Because symptoms kill people, not the virus.

There is an incredible misunderstanding about the difference between a disease (i.e., symptoms caused by a virus) and the virus that causes it. Viruses, bacteria, spores, and other toxic material is everywhere constantly. COVID is the only virus I can think of where we have been actively scared of the mere existence of the virus.
> Although mRNA vaccines have entered clinical studies, there are currently no RNA vaccines approved for human use. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine
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I'm much more cynical. They know they're bastards but they make far far too much money to care.
Same, but interestingly enough today when I click the link my browser Palemoon’s popup dialog (asking whether to open in an extractor app or just download) says the file is from https://gitlab.com.
This is completely false, Jeffrey Paul was extremely dishonest about the location data which is not sent at all, and he misunderstood how OSCP works. It doesn’t send the hash of the binary. Others have cleared this up and Apple released a statement.
I used both. Visual Paradigm is not even close
This is a great write up covering a lot of things that the community has long been too quiet about.

Thank you for your bravery.