skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the first two vaccines above 90% efficacy, this does look very promising in general. If the other vaccines also turn out this well, this makes it look like a more optimistic timeline for vaccinating enough people to stop the pandemic is possible. Moderna is planning for 500-1000 million doses in 2021, BioNTech/Pfizer for up to 1.3 billion doses. Not sure how many more promising candidates there are that can be ready early in 2021, but I think there were a few more.
How do you deliver a truckload of ammo to a shady buyer? Simple. Take the money. Setup an ammo transfer from warehouse A to warehouse B. Tip they buyer where the driver would be making a stop.
> That's not a jab at the Right, that's a jab at Congress. When "our" asshole does something within their rights but ethically sketchy as hell, it's okay because we Had to Do It. When the other side copies us, well that is an affront to the Constitution and we must stop it.

But wasn't it Trump that talked of an "Obama judge" to much criticism? It's hard to combat court packing if it's not fully acknowledged (or it's only something the "other" side do).
I see you never went 200+ km/h at night. The reality: It becomes impossible to recognize whether it's a car or a truck or a bike or nothing above 200. I regularly drive 260 on the autobahn like many people do, but evening is the slow-down moment for most of us. The risk of wildlife is extreme at these speeds, too, fencing does not exist and/or has holes. Trucks drive at night a lot, and you can't see the properly at night; at these speeds, trucks that are side by side can appear like one being behind the another - very scary experience when you realize the reality (usually only ~30 meters behind).
> I have a feeling you know this.

they call that feeling "paranoia"
I did this with a ~2011 MacBook Air that came with a 60G hard drive. A couple of years ago I went to upgrade OSX and it turned out I didn't have enough disk space, even with minimal apps installed, so I wiped it, installed Ubuntu and ended up having 45G left over. It was a great way to extend the life of that hardware and I haven't had many issues. The only apps I'm using are terminal and a browser, though.
I'm concerned about the safety of mRNA vaccines, but I'm not at all knowledgeable on the topic.

What are the assessments of the HN crowd?
I'd love a website that curates how all the different materials and various effects look like.

The other example that comes to mind is sound and wave formations it causes.

https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1327511170190864384
I don't disagree with what you've written, but a chunk of it is exactly what people are getting criticised for elsewhere in this thread - giving a technical reason that I as a user probably don't care about for bad UX.

> it has critical mass and is the de facto standard.

Yeah, it's the critical mass thing that is the most significant reason here, although it originally caught on back when simple onboarding was very unusual and that was its killer feature.
Why Is Apple M1 Processor Passing on the Chiplets?
I'm comparing the case fatality rate for COVID and flu, since that is a like-for-like comparison and is about as far from misinformation as you can get!

I don't think you can get infection fatality rates for flu, since it is so low (and so many infected people are never tested) but feel free to provide them
Interest rates are b/c a bank can invest your money. They differ from, say, a gold storage company that keeps your gold secure but has no right to invest or otherwise trade it.
Is Mercator projection really that popular? I think I've mostly seen the Equirectangular projection and the Robinson projection (or a similar one).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_projection
If you're serious about using a VPN, I strongly recommend getting an OpenWRT capable router and setting up your VPN there. Some benefits:

- It's physically impossible for your devices to bypass the VPN.

- It also works with devices that have poor or non existent VPN support (e.g. Roku, smart TV, etc.).

- You only have to configure it once vs having to configure it on all your devices.

- You can easily and quickly toggle the VPN by switching to a Wifi that doesn't have VPN setup.

I've been using GL.iNet's travel routers for many years and can't recommend enough (no affiliation other than being a customer). Just ordered their new Beryl router[0].

[0] https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt1300/
Lockdown has affected your memory
Yes! Part of President Trump's operation warp speed
Dutch armed forces collected info about domestic dissidents: NRC
"please check yourself with that racial hate on gypsy culture"

Point out one single thing. One thing I said that in any way, even the slightest, showed any kind of hate, racial or otherwise towards gypsy culture.

You can't. Because there isn't anything.

And if what I said in the post you replied to isn't enough, have a look at the rest of my comments in this thread. I'm against racism, not for it.

"Lynchings, pogroms, and gas chambers" - are you serious?! What world do you live in?"

Yes, I'm serious. Wake up to the 20th fucking century. That is the real world, and we're not so very far away from it. Might be going back to it some time soon, given the way right wing nationalism, xenophobia, and racism has been gaining ground all over the world.

Gypsies, by the way, were themselves victims in the Holocaust. If you are as much a fan of gypsies and gypsy culture as you appear to be, that should be of concern to you, as they, like every other minority and persecuted group are under threat from racism and xenophobia.
For me (1700) the problem is that they often aren't real tactics. One can get a puzzle where there's really no obvious tactical move, only strategic ones. It's mostly okay, but there's a big difference between puzzles extracted by an algorithm from games, and from hand-picket/crafted tactic puzzles.
Fair enough, apologies if the Internet has painted the wrong picture of the term for me.
Spot on. This is the point most people seem to overlook/ignore/dismiss when they advocate taxing billionaires' capital to fund state programs.
I hope your last points are correct as the EV experience has been overall good.

I fear that we might instead have a time period where fundamental battery technology (or our ability to harness it) will not permit a retention of 75% of range over a 20-year period. It might be like the cars of the 50s though 80s which rarely made 250K miles without major engine service.

Cars used to have 5 digit odometers in miles and it was a noteworthy event to “roll one over”. Now, the worst crapbox you can buy will do 100K easily and many of the Japanese imports will do 300K miles with a few external accessories being changed along the way.
Oh you want to argue science with creationists? We could just point them to oncogenes then - genes that are a bit "broken" normally, so they don't get expressed or don't make a viable protein but a mutation can "fix" them so that they can perform their "normal" function. Unfortunately, that normal function causes cancer.
You are giving them too much credit. Humans only observe really local information and are, in most cases, unable to grasp the actual dynamics of the society, let alone 'what is beneficial' for it.

Chess can be used as a means of showing that any skill can be learned [1].

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200507/the-grand...
It is already safety tested. 15k vaccinated with no side effects is more than enough.
I mean steam is pretty clear about the fact in their terms. If you are not happy with their terms you should probably look for alternative ways. Ex. Buying only drm free games.
?? This was always possible and has nothing to do with Apple exempting their apps from the firewall and VPNs.
I don't get why this is downvoted, it's a funny coincidence :-)
I haven't figured out how to use Lutris with Steam nor have I discovered what the advantage would be. Or do you mean installing Lutris regardles of steam?
Maybe in tournaments, and in lower rated categories someone will use an engine once in a while to eek out a win. But it's not a rampant problem at all when it comes to casual online chess.
Besides the privacy/security implications, this seems like it would also break these apps for all network topologies that only grant internet access through a VPN.

Some universities used to (and probably still do) provide internet access over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, with the VPN gateway as the only reachable host.
They are right though.

Those Vacuum and First Aid ads are probably 10x more effective than random ads.

Randomly showing ads for people is actually not economical in most ways.

Showing ads for stuff that people have randomly bought, probably is.

It 'feels' annoying because totally random ads don't jump out at you, while the targeted ads do - you notice them.

Ironically, it's the very fact that you notice them gives hints as to why they are powerful.
I choose the example because I assumed that there would be more people here who would be "coastal elites" than farm boys.

In addition I think that if you are destined for the elites then it is more important that you understand (really understand) the life of the others, than if are apprenticing to be an electrician.
Does Promise get to know which sites you sign in to?
Check out SolidRun's Honeycomb LX2K. All very normal: Mini ITX, PCIe x8, DDR4 SODIMMs, USB 3.0, M.2 for NVMe. Bonus: 4 10GbE SFP+ ports.

Mine is a delight.

https://www.solid-run.com/nxp-lx2160a-family/honeycomb-works...
Apple disables most of Intel's ME [0].

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/uefi-firmware-overv...
The important part is that 15000 apparently did not get serious side effects, so clearly much less people experience problems from the vaccine than they would from the disease.

So now it’s time to stop delaying and start distributing these vaccines.
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Emacs clone “AMIS” for TOPS-10 (swedish):

https://hack.org/mc/texts/amis.txt
The first "1900" was meant to be "1000" as well. Cannot longer edit.
That is what patents attempt to be. There are many reasons that make them less effective at this than their ideal.

In particular, costs are high, litigation to protect is expensive, and so your average student wouldn't be able to afford this. The fact that software is typically shipped virtually means that borders are practically non-existent, and wide patents are often needed, or a company needs to give up on defending their patent outside their primary market.

To patent an idea will probably be around $10-100k per market. To cover US, EU, and large Asian markets, you're looking at $500k-1m, and thats just to get the patent. Then you'll need to defend it, which can be hard to do against entities based in non-compliant countries such as China.

This all means that unless you're defending the very core of your entire business proposition, you probably need to be a >$100m before it's worth pursuing patents, and even for the core of your business you probably need to have several million in funding.
Moderna Covid-19 vaccine found 94.5% effective at preventing coronavirus
>> Such controversies have been replicated even in the lower-stakes world of junior play. Sarah Longson, a former British ladies’ champion who runs the Delancey UK Schools’ Chess Challenge, said at least 100 of 2,000 online participants cheated.

I would say 5% is pretty bad. Assuming there is an advantage to cheating, the higher up the ranks you get the greater the likelihood that you will face an undetected cheat.
"you will never see the claimed benefit to you"

Targetted ads are considerably more effective, even if they are annoying.

When you 'buy' something, generally you get the 'benefit' of the surplus.

The ads very effectiveness is a rough measure of their economic benefit, even to you.

How we 'emotional feel' about ads that seem to track is is not really a measure of that. It's just annoying.
Ha, ya, my work recently mandated moving everything to graphql. My team started a greenfield project so there was no need to convert anything, though the learning curve was high with apollo. Graphql is nice, but as the only consumers of our API, I don't see it as a win over REST. At this point, though, we're proficient enough that it doesn't get in our way.
Use of AI-based applications to boost agriculture economies
Yeah I think that if they still want to present the same movie, they could use the movie trailer instead.
Not only that ...

UK Health Study Found 26,000 "Extra" Non-COVID Deaths At Home Amid Lockdowns:
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/new-uk-health-figures-find...
Solar system formed in less than 200k years
That list is unfortunately no longer maintained and quite outdated. https://publiclist.anchel.nl/ might be better.
Whenever the transition to ARM came up here before, there were always a lot of people who seemed to think that x86 compatibility would be a huge issue. And if they did emulation, the x86 the performance would certainly be awful! When I claimed that they could probably reach performance parity, or maybe even beat the x86 performance of the Intel chips they were replacing, they didn't believe me.

I was thinking that they'd probably add custom instructions for x86 emulation, I haven't heard if that's the case or not. Would be interesting to find out. Given the complexity of a modern x86-64 frontend, it was never that far-fetched to think that a combination of world-class JIT and a bit of custom silicon could have a negligible overhead compared to a pure silicon solution. After that it was mostly a question of how good the CPU core and technology node was. And Anandtech, among others, had already shown they were well on track to beating Intel there.
Windows on non-x86 would need to have emulation similar to Rosetta 2 to be viable, IMO. Over the past couple decades, we've had both Windows on IA64 and Windows on ARM releases, but they've never had much compatibility with existing software.
From the Mayo Clinic:

>Purines are also found in certain foods, such as steak, organ meats and seafood. Other foods also promote higher levels of uric acid, such as alcoholic beverages, especially beer, and drinks sweetened with fruit sugar (fructose).
it's odd to me that larry flynt is perceived to be such a problem when his businesses are so economically productive.
I'm fairly certain that projecting your own insecurities onto weaker victims is the main reason why bullies bully.
This is a big differentiator...

"Moderna had previously said their vaccines could ship at -20 degrees, refrigerated for up to 7 days, and kept at room temperature for up to 12 hours. Now, the company says they’ve devised a formulation that can stay refrigerated for up to 30 days and kept at room temperature for up to 24 hours."

https://endpts.com/moderna-says-its-vaccine-is-94-5-effectiv...
Not at all. Just foreseeing the future.
You should be able to disble those apps for your user with adb without root:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.[miui,android,xiaomi].<appname>

Have you investigated if xiaomi.eu firmwares successfully curtail those connections?
You seem to have good insights. Are you involved with VLC and/or Naver in Paris or do you have any idea how this decision came to be?

(My OC was really meant as just a question and not an implication)
2nd coronavirus vaccine shows early success in U.S. tests
emacs in termux on any android device
Will these chips - or similar ones - be available to buy for others than apple, too?
This is a very odd comment to me.

What would make you think a general operating system wouldn't work well on it?
Checks on executable code in Catalina and Big Sur: a first draft
This article has more detail, because Apple spoke with iPhone in Canada: "Apple also gave some further technical information on the situation to iPhone in Canada."
Love it! I had an idea floating in my head to do a similar thing for quite some time but never got around to.

A nice thing to add is a waveform generator: give it an audio asset, and it would create a waveform effect for the length of the audio. This can be a good alternative to commercial services such as Headliner.
The thing is, in this case, the actual cause of time dilation is reasonably understandable. There's no need to go off and invent some wild analogy. But apparently the average HN reader prefers a wildly inappropriate and ungrounded analogy to putting in a little time to understand the commonly accepted reasoning behind time dilation.
Yes according to this [1] there is a way to remove the whitelist entries. It doesn‘t seem practical and it‘s a big turn off for me. I was thinking about switching to an ARM Mac when the second or third generation comes out, depending on how they perform. But now I‘m thinking I probably won‘t switch. Especially with things like this and how stuff like this is enforced on other platforms.

How can I know that the option to edit the whitelist won‘t be removed as fast as the default entries were added to the whitelist?

1: https://tinyapps.org/blog/202010210700_whose_computer_is_it....
Yes, that's true. I also think this is due the history of linguistics itself as a field. Until the 19th century, I think scholars focused on european languages. Nearly all of them of indoeuropean origin: Maltese probably just ignored, Finnish and Hungarian found to be distantly related (I never saw Estonian mentioned in older texts), and Basque was "the mysterious isolate".

Please share with me some links to those sites where I could make some side money just by speaking some Basque, sounds like a good mental break from programming :)
This could be true for the M1, but is unlikely to be true for the M2/M1X/M1Pro or whatever they call it.

There are some limitations: lack of PCI-E lanes, lack of off-package RAM support, lack of user-replaceable RAM support, lack of discrete graphics support, lack of Thunderbolt 4 support. These are all essentially non-performance features of the chips that need to be developed to bring them up to feature parity with the Intel chips.

This generation happens to have carefully bypassed the need for those features, a smart move by Apple for the first release, but later releases for the higher end MacBook Pros, the iMac/iMac Pro, and the Mac Pro, will need most/all of these features, and those will likely take significant time to work into their architecture.
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The other difference is that while chocolate bar makes you more active if you was low on sugar, you are still quite empty, hungry and looking for more to eat shortly after you ate that.

If you eat apples, you hit limit soon. Apples also do not work all that much if you actually need quick energy when doing something straining. It does not have that "immediately feel better" effect (which motivates you eat more and more).
We could also entertain the idea that if they would find some instruction particularly hard to emulate - they could have added new instructions on their own chip to cover it.
It's crazy that there was no official opt-out for this.

It does create this risk of people opting out and spreading malware to others, but after last week's debacle Apple probably thought they should come clean here.
This is a big differentiator versus the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine....

"Moderna had previously said their vaccines could ship at -20 degrees, refrigerated for up to 7 days, and kept at room temperature for up to 12 hours. Now, the company says they’ve devised a formulation that can stay refrigerated for up to 30 days and kept at room temperature for up to 24 hours."

https://endpts.com/moderna-says-its-vaccine-is-94-5-effectiv...
"Apple explained to iPhone in Canada it has already fixed this performance issue through a server-side update, that will now allow macOS to cache Developer ID OCSP checks for a longer period."

I discovered this and blogged about it on Friday:
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/ocsp.html
Similarly, I've upgraded an Ubuntu install every 6 months for the last 8 years, and it never gave an issue.
Breaking Down Tokamak Network, an Ethereum-Based On-Demand Layer 2 Platform
Fruit is pretty much sugary water in fruit form these days.
If you're a soda drinker and ever in Germany, try a Club Mate. :-)
Just quite long ones. Nobody got disconcerted so far, afaik :)
Interesting... though they don't give a date. Was it 2006, 2017... a gradual process since 2006 ?
Perhaps the entire event is a ruse. Perhaps the "arrests" and "recovery" are all part of a strategy to have such profitable works go to such a seemingly bizarre/unfitting outcome: an auction. Maybe the thieves will get off on some technicality.
In this software context, front-end is the collection of templates and static files, including but not limited to css, js, html. The front-end is detached from the back-end. So how visible the catalog icon/link is is entirely up to the front-end being used.

And how it loads is up to the server and client. It's just a basic html with <img> tags. Starting from a more recent version lazy loading is used on those. So if either the server or client is under performing, you will scroll and the lazy loading won't be able to load faster than you scroll.
I was doing this with Go and I kept stalling at around 5k. I don’t know about chess but Go servers can be pretty intense and competitive (especially Asian servers). Unless I devote a lot of my time into the game I doubt I will ever reach the dan level.
> This is great, now get some safety testing done or else it can't really be responsibly deployed.

Safety testing is done in preclinical and phase 1 testing. They wouldn't be injecting something unsafe into 30,000 people. Phase 3 is mostly about efficacy.
> Surely it's my American perspective speaking, but accented letters are, to me, devoid of information and I can't help but interpret them as noise rather than signal.

As a francophone the difference between "e" and "é" _cannot_ be ignored - and their pronunciation is also different. Likewise, accents are signal in Spanish.

However, when reading romanized Japanese I also dislike the use of accents, mostly from a lack of norm indicating which accent corresponds to which pronunciation.
It's a trap. Dark pattern. It's waiting to use that moment when you switch on the JavaScript for some other tab forgetting about this one, to do some nasty stuff probably. Cloudflare is doing it same way (waits for your mistake, refreshing in the background till JS will be on), but more stealthy - with longer time of refresh. They steal the bandwidth too - and Google was sued recently for eating mobile data.

(JavaScript in my browser is not granted for whatever purpose I didn't needed, it's a privilege which only few sites deserve. And I have hundreds of tabs open, because.)
I'm happy about the sample size, but are long term longitudinal studies typically required?
Yes, the Viper is truly the Hamilton amongst his fellow peers. Impressive! And he is now showing his tricks to his already AoE II infected girl friend Debbie! This is so cool! Way too few women play this game.

1750: This is also a great ranking. Competition there is pretty tough. Congrats! I remember playing lots of 1700er dudes whenever I started out with my smurf accounts, and I had plenty off em.
Yes, it's based on the last release of Gnome 2.
It works for me, with block connections without VPN on android 10 (android one). Do you have a source for that?
Drinking warm water is very popular in India and considered to be more healthy than imbibing liquid at temperatures below body temperature.
No. Timetables can be compressed for everything else but not for safety evaluation.

The number of people vaccinated is increased gradually. Even after phase III and approval, the monitoring for side effects continues and the vaccine can be withdrawn if necessary.

Vaccines can cause autoimmune responses detected months later. These two vaccines are RNA vaccines never used n this scale Residual DNA risk is probably not significant, but there is small potential blowback.

On positive side, RNA vaccines can open new era of programmable vaccines for viral infections and cancer treatments.