skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big difference is that RNA is more generic. Within certain parameters it doesn't matter which specific RNA sequence you produce, it always works the same way and you can use the same facilities for this. There are potential cost advantages there, if you can use a generic, validated process to produce different types of vaccines or drugs without having to develop, tune and certify the core production from scratch every time.

I don't know the economics here, but I would assume that cost advantages are much more likely to appear for small-scale products here than what we have now, producing a billion doses in large factories.
The court has now barred him from speaking. And WhiteHat has sued another guy. Found this publication is covering the cases -- INC42

Second lawsuit against another critic: https://inc42.com/buzz/after-poonia-whitehat-jr-files-1-9-mn...

Court bars critic from talking about WhiteHat in first lawsuit: https://inc42.com/buzz/breaking-whitehat-jr-vs-poonia-hc-res...

This is just ridiculous.
I agree wholeheartedly. I may be called a hater and I may be raining on everyone's parade, but I opened this thread expecting to find horrors and I did (plenty of metaprogramming).

The very notion of there being tricks and that knowing them makes you better is something I hate about C and C++. Most tricks I read here are bandaids over usability issues the languages have. Yes, they alleviate an issue but may introduce unexpected consequences and distance your dialect from the rest of the community.

I am so very thankful that C and C++ are no longer the only options for low level, non garbage collected programming.
Platforms: Guardians of the Digital Economy (2017)
Reply to self, with some googling I found the Casio MQ-24. $15, clean design. Not available where I live but maybe next time I'm in Europe or the US I'll pick one up.
Some web designers like to do gray background with just a bit darker text. Little contrast, hard to read. Even code editors often have "dark theme" with gray background an not-light-enough text color. Sometimes I am able to override CSS rules, sometimes I have to modify theme to create "black theme". But reducing contrast seems to be a bad modern habit, unfortunatelly.
WhiteHat Jr gets court to gag its critic in first hearing
Another remarkable building that is not quite so old (a mere ~1500 years) is the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia
You should try Youtube on Android some day. You'll agree after a few videos.
When things go the other way, society doesn't let them make a fair loss.
Unless they quarantine preemptively from the time they're tested.
If it works, why change it? It is old is not a reason to change a technology, it does not look good in my curriculum should not be a reason to change a technology.

COBOL is better designed and less error prone to work with money that many newer languages. I would not code device drivers in COBOL, why should I code financial applications in Rust/Kotlin...?

> Being “stable” and old, though, can create a paradox — a curse of success. Because when code runs nicely without anyone needing to check up on it, eventually people drift away. They stop looking at it, stop inspecting it. And that means they stop understanding how, precisely, it works.

Maybe the problem is not the language but the engineering processes, or lack of, that plague our industry.
That you bring up a robbery example highlights that you don't understand what political is. Facilitating a robbery is illegal. Facilitating actions of a political group, as long as it is within the framework of a law, is called "living in a society." Your second example reduces to the following: "is it legal to sell materials to facilitate lethal injections?" If no, then it is a matter of criminal justice, not politics. If yes, the political actor is the group committing the lethal injections, not the group selling materials.

The kind of extreme "guilt by association" you derive cannot be considered a part of the political in terms of conscious action precisely because "the political" encompasses normal function of the society. Criminal activity, on the other hand, is not considered a part of normal function of a society, hence one can assume that everyone who "knows" a criminal but doesn't turn him in is also a criminal. In other words what you're doing is you are criminalizing normal para-political association---a characteristic of individuals with a totalitarian mindset. As a non-American, I have to say I am stunned to observe this attitude in the US.
I was just thinking the same thing!
May also build something like this. This from cloudflare seems quite close to what i had in mind
https://cloudflare.design/color/
> or at least on the same version as your team mates. I remember at least few situations, when patch update of a terraform binary was crucial to make some issues disappear.

I find it a little evil that Terraform is used so widely in production yet still hangs on to the "0.x.y" semantic version meaning: we break API when ever we want. It should be more stable for a tool so widely used. C'mon Hashicorp, be fair to us and release a 1.0!
Moderna vaccine also seems to have similar storage requirements with a high price tag. BioNTech otoh has impractical storage requirements for the third world. AstraZenca's price and storage combiation may open possibilities for distributing this globally.
They couldn't leave early ?
I don’t see why it’s any different to war profiteering. Legal, yes - moral, debatable.
That’s not really true about smallpox - it’s R is somewhere between 5-8, SARS-CoV-2 is about 2.5.

Higher R0 means you need a greater percentage vaccinated population to achieve herd immunity
It’s scary how few people know and understand all this, and, proportional to the amount of tech we use in our daily lives, how little we learn to use and program our own technology.

I think we’ve got nothing to blame but the digital enclosure of knowledge through patents and copyrights. People aren’t ‘stupid’ at all, they’re disinherited and disempowered, starting at ‘school‘.
This might sound strange to today's UI design crowd, by why is there so much emphasis on applications picking their own color palette when this should be the job of the operating system?

As a user I want a "coherent experience" when using my computing device, also when several apps are on screen at the same time. Your fancy app is not the center of the universe and doesn't "deserve" its own color palette. If I'm in a "green mood" today, I want to pick a green color palette for all apps, the same way I can switch to a different background image.
Seconded your experience.

Death by a thousand paper drew a visceral response from me, it describes my experience perfectly.

I'm a developer and power user that wants to do various things beyond just browsing.

Things regularly required troubleshooting and fiddling, and for one thing that is fine, but after the 5th serious time consuming issue I get cross and around the 10th I can the migration attempt and go back to windows. Done this every three or four years for the last couple of decades.

I'm due to have another go around 2022 and fingers crossed it will work then, but I doubt it!

Linux application servers tend to be worth it though, and part of that is the use cases are usually much more limited, and on the well worn path.
> If you're creating SVGs for laser cutting then the inability to nicely use mm as a unit of measure is infuriating.

I do this all the time (for my mechanical plotter).

InkScape is an incredibly useful tool that can do some things that Illustrator chokes on (doesn't always load standards compliant SVG correctly and/or does weird proprietary shit) -- and vice versa, but I think there could actually be reason to install and use both.
I've shared this because I absolutely love Home Assistant. It's one of the rare open source projects that I cannot imagine being replaced by a proprietary solution. I'm definitely not using it in its full capacity, just for a fairly limited amount of integrations (Philips Hue, some smart plugs, various stuff I've installed alongside Home Assistant on my Intel NUC).

I really like its scripting feature. It allows me to, for example, dim the lights between 11 and midnight if tomorrow's a weekday, giving me a visual cue that it's time to go to bed. There's also some smart plug that automatically boils me some water when I wake up in the morning, providing me with coffee about 2 min earlier in the morning. I also have an NFC tag next to my door. If I hover my phone over it when I leave the house, it shuts off my TV and any lights that are turned on.

That being said, it's definitely still raw. I use a fairly basic amount of integrations, but I still have to fix something every few versions, and if I don't touch the configuration for a couple of months, a fair amount of things will either break or look out-of-order in my interface.

Overall, I consider "smart home" to be a fairly expensive and time-consuming hobby that saves me maybe 10 min per day. There's also a fairly limited amount of stuff you can do without making modifications to your home, making its use limited if you're renting a home.
Most of the time, it is not plastics themselves, but the hundreds of chemical additives that each plastic has, like plastifiers, ph and surface tension modifiers.

The most important is hormone-like compounds like Bisphenol A (BPA) because hormones are chemical compounds that are used as signals and its effect cascade multiplied by billions in the body, so super small amounts can affect you enormously.

They are being replaced, but new compounds also have hormone like response.

Because biology works by "shape is function" lots of chemical compounds can affect your body because they resemble the one we need for our body's normal function, and the body receptors are confused.

This has extensively been proven that happens, what we don't know is what dose could be ok. For example, you can use(without problems) fleece outside clothing if there is not a big part of your skin in contact with the fleece, like what happened with kid's pajamas, that was very problematic.

Probing that on humans is something similar to covid vaccine testing. It is extremely expensive and bureaucratic process and only gives us statistical results. Knowing exactly what happened is extremely difficult or impossible in practice because there are hundreds of chemical compounds, and they interfere with each other creating factorial combinations. But we know it breaks havoc in your body for sure.

You also should avoid heat because it makes chemical diffusion exponentially higher. When you eat your soda can, the PET layer,is at ambient temperature. When you eat coffee or tea, it is hot.
There are a few things wrong with the git data model, one is lack of chunking, which makes versioning large files space inefficient. Some backup systems like borg and restic have fixed that issue in the git data model, but suffer from lack of chunking in directory listings, I assume git would have that issue too.
You're braver than I -- whenever a shell/terminal indicates to me it expects multiline now, I press, in that order, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+Z, and Ctrl+Alt+Del.
> If the USA wants to support local racist terrorist groups, that is your problem.

I don't think the USA supports that at all. They don't prosecute speech which was specifically what I was responding to.
Not prosecuting speech is not the same as supporting said speech.

Also I am not from the US. I am from the UK.

> But exporting that terrorist thread to the European Union should ban Facebook in Europe.

You premise is faulty. The purpose of facebook is not to spread any sort of terrorism. It is a social network and communication tool. This would be like blaming the phone company for mafia organising a hit over a phone call.

In this specific example it does seem they were calling to violence which is not legal speech even in the US (IANAL though). So they should be removed.

> USA here, USA there. There are more countries in the world, Facebook should take that into account or be banned.

I agree I am in the UK and I don't like silicon valley trying to impose their set of values on the rest of the world either.

As for banning whole sites who purpose is not anything nefarious because some people do illegal acts on said platform is ridiculous.
Because even with all 3 vaccines we still don't have the supply needed to vaccinate everyone immediately.
> you are being complacent in the policy that ICE enforces, and therefor just did some (highly questionable) politics.

Disagree. Family separation for illegal border crossings was an Obama-era policy that only became considered an important issue by the left when when the government changed. This is a matter of optics, not ethics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge#After_the_monument_..., emphasis added:

“The Y and Z Holes are the last known construction at Stonehenge, built about 1600 BC, and the last usage of it was probably during the Iron Age. Roman coins and medieval artefacts have all been found in or around the monument but it is unknown if the monument was in continuous use throughout British prehistory and beyond, or exactly how it would have been used. Notable is the massive Iron Age hillfort known as Vespasian's Camp (despite its name, not a Roman site) built alongside the Avenue near the Avon. A decapitated seventh-century Saxon man was excavated from Stonehenge in 1923. The site was known to scholars during the Middle Ages and since then it has been studied and adopted by numerous groups”

So, it seems there may have been a thousand or so years it wasn’t in use. I think that puts the “still” part into doubt.
> Also, a tip from a person, who works in team using terraform - use brew/apt repositories to keep the binaries up-to-date or at least on the same version as your team mates.

Use tfenv instead. That way you can have a .terraform_version file in your repo and tfenv will refuse to run without having the right version.
> Three years later and you're soldering ESP8266s

I've just shut down my environmental monitoring solution. I had 7 of those things reporting temperature and humidity (along with various other readings if needed) over Mosquitto MQTT.

I put my initial solution together in 2013, and i shut everything down this year. Turns out i rarely looked at the data i collected, and never used historical data, so a regular digital thermometer with a LCD display is more than enough for me :)

By the time of shutting down, the thing had grown to include push notifications of temperature extremes for select sensors, as well as presence detection along with humidity alerts for getting people to open windows every now and then, and another notification if the temperature dropped fast (2-3C or more over 20 mins)(so they close the windows again)

These days i just open windows every day, and as for the temperature, if it's too hot/cold i adjust the thermostat. The one remaining issue is the temperature in my dog kennel, which was the original reason for implementing it, but as it has never been a problem in the 7 years it was running, i figure i won't be a problem ever.
I implemented this on top of bitbucket pipelines with a 'manual' pipeline step. The pipeline runs the plan step automatically and outputs it on the console. Then pipelines shows a button next to it called 'deploy' which is only clicked after manually verifying the plan results.
I think it's likely that they'll need to be distributed frozen, but there's a lot that can be done researching preservatives. The the moderna vaccine is higher temperature than the pfveizer one for this reason.
D: The Functional Programming Language Nobody is Talking About [video]
In general or specific to Covid-19 vaccines, does anyone knows what happens if you get vaccinated after you got the virus?
Thank you for that answer. Much appreciated.
It's worth noting that Toyota ended up paying $1.2 billion for concealing details and making deceptive statements about the 2009-2011 'unintended acceleration' issue that killed 5 people.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-...
Just to nit-pick and split semantic hairs, but it was certainly the vaccine (and ease of disease identification) that lead to smallpoxes eradication. In that sense the vaccine was 100% effective.
The experience is absolutely overwhelming. Same here, I read about it, heard about it, also thought: "Damn it, looks like it could need a paint".

This is so stunning. Moving from the outside to the middle was only a couple of meters but really an adventure. Something like the Grand Canyon in reverse, really hard to describe.
They slowly tighten the screws with each release; by now it should be noticeable for most people.
A close family member had parkinson's. A total of 5 coworkers developed parkinson's disease. There was speculation that some sort of common environmental factor was involved, but there was no medical (or legal) way of determining if or what it was.

None of these people had grueling schedules, drug or alcohol problems or outlier lifestyles and all had office jobs. There was some speculation about an office for two of them that had once been a chem lab.
> The reason for much increased competition is the slow population growth rate.

Please explain why, because it's generally considered that overpopulation leads to competition.
This is super interesting. I never realised gitlab has builtin terraform support. Is there a demo or screenshot of what it all looks like?
I use a TI CC2531 with the zigbee2mqtt firmware and HA add-on: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io
This gives you "direct access" to a long list of Zigbee hardware (eg. IKEA Tradfri, Xioami Aquara) without a separate hub.
Also so far the mRNA vaccines look to have less side effects. AstraZeneca is not doing charity, it's cheaper because they have the inferior vaccine.
> we don't have to go very far back in our history until we find that all the information that reached us was relevant to us and therefore anything that happened, any news, whether it was about something that's actually happened to us, in the next house, or in the next village, within the boundary or within our horizon, it happened in our world and if we reacted to it the world reacted back

Well Douglas Adams is a great writer and all that but this is a massive simplification, at least in the UK [0]. There is an extensive history of public opinion being swayed by highly politicised media, also a lot of state control on what could be said. E.g. salacious gossip about the royals. There was also a lot of graphic media - essentially political cartoons - that were very highly political and intended to inflame opinion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_journalism_in_the_U...
Apparently some enterprising people will lookup that store’s number in an map app and use that. It’s common enough habit that many stores already have an account. ;)
Love HA, my Sonoff basic (Tasmote reflashed) controls the fan on the toilet, based on a Philips Hue motion sensor. I have bought Sonoff ZigBee temp/hum sensors to automate fan switching in the bathroom based on humidity. The fan will be controlled using a TP link smart wifi plug, which I have lying around. It's all no problem and I see everything nicely grouped per space, completely unaware of underlying manufacturer, because of HA.

Also, HA presents the status of my Samsung/HP crappy printer Toner, without any configuration! Try finding that value in any of the 3 or 4 Samsung/HP applications I now run to interact with the printer.

Moreover, HA on my Pi4 makes installing and using stuff like AdGuard a breeze. It's my fav project (together with NextCloud).
This one looks good too https://material.io/resources/color/#!/?view.left=0&view.rig...
Duplicacy would have been a better comparison since it and blobbackup are backup tools, whilst Rclone is built for sync and has supporting tech like mounting for that usecase.
Frequently turn down ~30% of canary instances
For the HS100 issue he was having at the end of the blog post, TP-Link decided to push out a firmware upgrade that broke existing integrations (https://github.com/home-assistant/core/issues/43088).
Did it at https://www.yourlabs.nl/, current price is 189. But you are right, hormones is a seperate test
How on earth is distributing common Unix tools for MacOS that aren't included in the base OS not "using the underlying UNIX". This is exactly what Unix was designed to enable. Apple understand and values this, which is why they have submitted patches for these projects.
Have these companies provide a detailed list of expenses for researching and developing this vaccine, review that, pay it as a one time cost and THEN vacate the patent.

They then get to recover their R&D expenses and make a smaller but probably decent profit from its production.
For a 2020 piece, two things seem outdated:

> And you can’t even use the for_each trick with module imports. It just isn’t supported.

Works since Terraform 0.13 (released in August 2020).

> data "provider_thingy" "my_name_for_this_data"
> Though, like, why the quotes around the provider thingy?

Since 0.12 you can just write

data provider_thingy my_data {}

resource provider_thingy my_resource {}

They seem to keep the quotes for compatibility with v0.11. Yes, they should have updated the intro/examples to the simpler format.

> Required vs optional parameters are not very clearly called out and are not at all segregated.

Yes, in AWS provider. Other providers format the docs better and clearly segregate the required from the optional.
How to solve Machine Learning problems for production? (Part 2)
Why do they bother? Whatsapp can do all of that right now. Has done successfully for a few years. And the article sounds like it would need support by the mobile carriers: being deeply in the pocket of governments, they won't switch on E2E, just like all the intentionally vulnerable crappy mobile encryption. Also, being mobile carriers, they will bill huge amounts per message, making it unacceptable to consumers used to "its hidden in the cost of the data plan".

Oh, and being a Google project: when do we expect RCS to be abandoned?
The notion of distributing a billion copies of a vaccine at -80°C to every corner of the planet seems rather resource intensive.
Git is at a vastly different level of abstraction than most of the population are used to (or capable of). When Linus made git, concepts like references, pointers, indirection, graphs, hashing, indexing etc. were already as obvious to him as the sky being above the ground. Even some programmers struggle to operate at this level. It does hurt to see non-technical people inventing their own terrible VCSs, though ("Copy of Important Document 2020-11-21 (2) (Updated PB).docx")
I believe they were actually prohibited from entering the computer market.
Actually if you want to give credits were it is due, you should mention bup (https://github.com/bup/bup) that arguably came up with the idea of content-defined-chunking for backups, and even stores it in git.
What about agile did that?

Probably the bit where you need to justify your existence every morning in front of your peers and management. “I spent the day learning” doesn’t go down well, there is pressure to be seen to be busy all the time.

Programmers think Agile is for them, but it’s for the benefit of management, always was.
Yappi: Python profiler with thread, coroutine, and greenlet aware
Thank you, this looks super useful!

In case you're considering taking this further: a Figma plugin for this would make it 10x better. Changing the seed color could automatically update the color styles in the file, and would so propagate to every component and element. That would make an incredibly useful tool for experimenting with color schemes.
iFixit teardown of M1 MacBooks gives us our first glimpse at the M1 up close
Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person?
How about "bombarding someone with articles about how voting doesn't matter if their spending pattern matches that of a particular demographic"?