skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're supposed to see the world through the memories of a 9th century Viking (who also happens to be a great figure of the Nordic mythology), of course the invasion of England will be portrayed in a positive light and Anglo-Saxons would be seen as inferior people. It's a Triple-A game featuring gods, diverse Vikings, and a dude with an axe in his head; if one takes it as a reputable historical source, I say the problem is them, not the game (although IMHO there's many things wrong with the game in general).

Anyway, perhaps it's a fair point to make if your blog is called "A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry"...
The ligaturized -> is two characters wide and is pretty easy to tell apart.
This seems to be the conventional wisdom but I can't say I've experienced it in practice. They have less cache than Reds and the firmware may be tuned for writes but I think it's mostly down to different market positioning/branding & price. You can compare the two: https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library... and https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...
What a remarkable walkthrough.

I think many people can related to:

"But the interesting part is that it looks like in 2017 I’ve done very little work that actually shipped to production in a meaningful way. This is because of a few things coinciding. One, I’ve started doing way more technical direction. Helping teams with the roadmaps, helping design solutions to some hard problems, doing code reviews, etc. etc."

It is always the pull away that is tough. It is needed, but when you look back and wonder.
Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines?
Recently a bookstore near me that used to carry lots of interesting periodicals (including my favorite 2600) stopped all of them. So I have decided to subscribe directly. What are some of your favorite magazines/journals (tech and non-tech) that you love and wish would last for a long time to come.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Those are legitimate concerns. This vaccine has only been tested for a small number of months. We simply don't know whether it is safe long-term and what exact statistical level of safety it has. This is not some quasi-scientific bullshit about energies, these are simple medical facts. We have not been testing them. Testing is the only scientific method that matters.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should never sell any vaccine before it has been tested for 100+ years, that's obviously impossible. But to ignore obvious concerns is just religious scientifism in the worst possible sense.

These are good concerns for any medication.
It depends. In case of Artificial leather it refers clearly not to lab grown animal skin but to a completely different product that just tries to emulate leather.

So the word is used in different contexts. And De Beers is more than willing to use the term artificial diamond. They can claim that they're not lying, but they're also very happy that it's also easy for customers to think its artificial in the fake sense, not in the man-made sense.
This was exactly my experience of "consulting". I too was between jobs, and it seemed like an idea worth trying. At the very least, something interesting to keep me occupied while unemployed. And it was an interesting experience to set up and run a company, which I don't begrudge. But when I looked at my effective hourly rate, it was below minimum wage.

It did give me some perspective on running companies, negotiating contracts and billing with an hourly/daily rate vs fixed price per contract. I would certainly increase what I was billing by several times were I to repeat it, but having a sustainable source of business before starting would also be something I would factor in.
Oh yes, it can bring the cost of design and development down, agreed.
I don't believe that's an accurate statement. Problems have been rare, but not unheard of.

A list here for the US (most of the listed vaccines on the page were later found not concerning):

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/concerns-history....

-The results of the investigations showed that RotaShield vaccine caused intussusception in some healthy infants younger than 12 months of age who normally would be at low risk for this condition... the manufacturer voluntarily withdrew RotaShield from the market in October 1999.

-...that people who received the 1976 swine influenza vaccine had an increased risk for developing GBS .

-And the very recent Dengue vaccine made by Sanofi, which was given to 700k people. "Sanofi had found evidence that the vaccine increases the risk of hospitalization and cytoplasmic leakage syndrome in children who had no prior exposure to dengue, regardless of age."[1][2]

[1]https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/7190377...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia_controversy
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How much of every corporate job is communicating / consensus vs doing?

From experience as the corporation gets larger communicating and communicating-adjacent activities approach 90-95% of the time. The remainder is doing.
Well a one second google search says chickenpox is 98% effective, so already that's not unheard of.

I would think extremely low p values are not just normative, but required for a vaccine to reach public acceptance. This vaccine is noteworthy for the speed at which it was developed, but its not the first really good vaccine.

edit: and because I'm getting a lot of downvotes for some reason, Anthrax, Measles, Rubella, and Polio also seem to have 90%+ effectiveness ratings.

edit edit: and as a corollary, with equivalent n sizes for the trials and higher effect sizes, the p value is by necessity smaller, not that it matters below very small thresholds

edit^3: high 80s to 95 isn't that noteworthy, and is likely within the margin of error of the clinical trials.
This is dangerous stuff. What if there was an Assassin's Creed that showed slavery in a positive light? Or the glory of killing Rightists in China in the 50s? Or Turks killing Armenians in 1918? People might look into it, but a lot of people are going to take it at face value and even if they do look it up, there initial exposure is going to color their expectations.
Ask HN: What is your top cloud/software/infrastructure expense or than staff?
> So... it's both NTFS and the Windows "subsystems."

Ok, probably both on default windows installation due legacy and backward compatibility with dos names [1].

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrati...

I remember this issue when creating few million of files inside one folder and it was extremelly slow because of 8dot3 name creation. It has to go through each filename to generate short name O(n) when this legacy feature is enabled.

After disabling 8dot3 there were no performance issues anymore.

> I have no experience with BTRFS, but that doesn't prove anything without knowing more details (the overhead introduced to make it work)

I tried to point out following:
Ext4, Btrfs, Zfs, any other UNIX filesystem will be slow under Windows. NTFS or any Windows first filesystem will be slow on Linux. There is just too much of the differences in OS architecture between the NT and Linux.
Pointing out the obvious by being snarky is not trolling. Imagine the outrage from people like you if there was a site to hire men only from certain countries or Asian men only from South East. You would lose your minds and tweet endlessly.
Lucky Peach and McSweeney.
I hope so. I would be upset if I got the vaccine and people who didn't have it were allowed to work near me, but I would just keep WFH. I would be outraged if I were forced to work with them
Religion and science are not, and have never been, antagonists in any real sense.
For me the testing process feels painful and slow. I believe the best way to know the illness is through controlled infection of volunteers. I would have volunteered myself.

I have been around people risking their lives in B.A.S.E jumps, scuba diving or aircraft acrobatics.

If people can risk their own lives for the adrenaline rush, I don't know why they can't risk their lives for the improvement of all humanity.
Nadia's book, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, which is mentioned in the article, inspired me to become a GitHub sponsor. Nothing big, just $10 per month to one of my favorite open source developers. If you can afford it, I recommend others' do the same.
No, not at all, IMHO it's purely about empathizing with the character, feeling more immersed and consequently improving your overall experience of the game. For some people, it's about how well the character is written, for some it's about being able to affect moral decisions, for some it's about deciding how they look and sound.

I think playing the historical accuracy card here is pointless as games (and popculture in general) always sacrifice accurracy to increase fun - no point in getting upset over this one specific thing.
You would be foolish not to get vaccinated given what we know about COVID.

The idea that this vaccine is a "beta" version is absolute nonsensical propaganda.
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I know it has its flaws, but I still love this game
I wonder how long it'll be before third world countries get the vaccine
I agree somewhat, the errors it misses are precisely the ones which are confusing.
You can load your long running emacs session in a separate session within EXWM. For some reason the thought never occurs to a lot of EXWM users.

https://tech.toryanderson.com/2020/10/19/emacs-in-emacs-a-tr...
Well, I wouldn't be so happy.

Think about it. Out of million people only small percentage would become infected with covid and of that, only small percentage would die.

On the other hand, vaccine must be distributed to everybody. Alternatively to people who, by occupation, have to contact many other people, daily.

We don't know yet if there are complications from the vaccine. It is not possible to judge long term effects of anything based on very short exposure.

The value of vaccine is in preventing future infections, but for a given person now it is not yet know if the vaccine is actually a good deal or not. Only time will tell.

Looking at this selfishly and from PoV of game theory, the best decision is to let vaccinate everybody else but don't take vaccine yourself. Obviously, not everybody can make same decision.
This article is a year old and a lot has happened in the past year in the Haskell community https://haskell.foundation/
>If your samurai game includes werewolves and machine guns you don't get to turn around say you didn't add something because it wouldn't be historically accurate. You have to use a better excuse, like you felt it would be dumb or that you didn't feel like it.

So a werewolf invasion of the Tokugawa shogunate would need to include Latinx genderfuild bipocs or be racist?

I guess I'm racist then.

Puts on Nazi hat and reads historically accurate accounts of Stalingrad
Are the elephants bulls, cows, or a mixture? African elephants exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism. Female Loxodonta africana mass between 1 and 1.5 tonnes and males between 2 and 3 tonnes. 640 "African elephants" is somewhere between 2.6x10^6 kg and 3.8x10^6 kg depending on the sex mixture of the herd, a range of 6000 tonnes. That's the equivalent mass of over 30 American football fields filled with pickup trucks. Hardly negligible.
I was excited for this article and then I read your comment and it... just makes sense what you wrote and now I'm not that excited. I'm thankful but at the same time I'm not
Then don’t take your ethical values from video games?

This Puritanization of all art and entertainment is disturbing.
Yes. You just are building a community for now. I get it. Once you get some traction you will be tweeting at companies cos they are not PrOvIdIng OppOrTuNiTy To WaaaaaaaaaMen
Not sure about the book as I haven’t read it, but in the movie they modify the measles virus to fight cancer.
>Because games are supposed to be fun and it’s more fun if the player feels included.

Yes, playing CKIII I feel the need to be included when I setup an African cannibal tribe that invades Europe and commits genocide.
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter align to fight Covid vaccine conspiracies
No, what I mean is not about this. I just mean it's so hard to find totally non-existent, let alone real unused words that even seemingly-random letter combinations turn out to be known words in some languages.

For example I've used UntidyWelloffBellfrog just as a "seed" to remove random parts and get Udyber and Tyllog look more concise to me and which I would expect to be non-existent words. Yet it turns out these words exist and can be found all over the Internet.
Basically because the mechanisms this generation of vaccine consist of are much less complex than any before.

Historically, vaccines were huge biological black boxes with all kinds of biomachinery inside that weren't understood at all, that weren't even known. Vaccines were routinely developed, purely by clever trial and error search strategies long before any of their actual mechanisms were understood. In particular this meant that most of the molecular machinery included weren't even needed for the effect. You want a lipstick so you steal cars until you find one that contains a lipstick. Who knows what else you acquired.

This generation of vaccines is the opposite, they know exactly what molecules they want, where, for what reason. And it's basically one molecule. One molecule you'd be exposed to, in much larger dosage, anyways one day if the vaccines are unsuccessful (the virus is well past flash-in-the-pan now, it will become endemic unless perhaps vaccination also prevents spread and not only illness, which isn't clear at all). The only uncertainty was the question of whether the immune system will react to the sound protein if it comes without a virus attached and wether an immune system that was already acquainted with that molecule will actually work better against the actual virus, not worse (some viruses are even worse if the immune system thinks it already has a defense and focuses on that but the defense is only partial). Both are easily checked in trials if you don't skip them (we didn't). The black box full of surprises of historic vaccines, the trunk of the car that you stole to find lipstick, it's just not there.
While it is true that vikings traded and travelled down there - the famous Varangian Guard of Byzantium is a notable example. It does make Asian representation less likely.

Trade with North and West Africa was purely maritime whereas to travel and trade across what is now Russia land travel was required, even if rivers made up most of the distance. This drastically slowed down travel time making it much more likely those Asian merchants would sell their goods on to an intermediary rather than travel all the way to Scandinavia and then on to Britain.

On another tack I suppose it also doesn't really make sense for an Asian merchant like that to go on to Britain if they were in Scandinavia - I doubt they'd get better deals on goods or more demand for their goods. And they wouldn't return that way. Whereas African merchants would happen upon Britain first and would stop on their way back if they actually did travel all the way to Scandinavia.
"It is unclear how the initiative will improve the fight against fake news." - It probably won't change a thing.
So a werewolf invasion of the Tokugawa shogunate would need to include Latinx genderfuild bipocs or be racist?

Literally no one is saying that.

I guess I'm racist then.

If that makes you happy.
WHO has a fund specifically for vaccines for developing countries, I can't find the latest total, but it's in the hundreds of millions.
I find it very unfortunate that file metadata is not encrypted : if you need this to be encrypted, you need to stack LUKS on top of ZFS, and you lose many of the benefits of ZFS (per-dataset encryption, healing ability, RAIDz, etc) while doing so. Running ZFS->LUKS->ZFS to recover some of these benefits is also not feasible at all (ZFS doesn't like to self-host, even through a virtual machine).
Is there an example of a vaccine in history that produced no initial side effects but only very long term side effects (ie. several years later)?
I am in the process of learning Vapor. You need to be comfortable with Swift closures as Vapor uses them everywhere. The SwiftNIO EventLoopFuture is prevalent too and there's a rich API over that which I'm still getting to grips with.

To my mind, the best learning resource is Tim Condon et. al.'s Server-Side Swift with Vapor (Ray Wenderlich publishing) but this book needs to be updated. Vapor 4 was released in April but the ORM (Fluent) and template engine (Leaf) weren't upgraded at the same time (June and November, respectively). The first half of the book was updated in September but everything else has been on hold waiting for the Leaf release. My progress through latter part of the book has been slow whilst I translate the examples and wrestle with the compiler errors brought on by my unamiliarity with the above concepts.

Tim C. is on the case and is very active and helpful on the forums so I expect the new version of his book will be finished quickly.

Anyway, to answer the question: Vapor should be nearly as productive as Rails once you become familiar with it. There's an offically supported MySQL driver for Fluent but no admin screen builder like you might find on Django, for example, so you'd have to put those together yourself.
Another great aggregator that has been around for a long time and has 100+ programming fonts: https://www.programmingfonts.org/
As someone who works on open source, sure, you can totally do that–but for me, personally, those aren't really things I would want to do. The first locks out people who want to contribute, which kind of removes half the reason you'd open source something in the first place, the second feels like you could leave in bugs and ransom them for support money, and in the third you are introducing your own subjectivity in ways which frequently do not go as planned. I totally understand why people would do all three, but for me personally they just aren't for me, and I hope you can understand why some people would be turned off by such projects.
> "Use CMR with ZFS, not SMR"...

Well, yeah, good point to make but it is becoming harder and harder to find CMR drives, especially in 2.5".

ZFS should really adapt to this. Perhaps using bigger block sizes or something. Because SMR is not going away.
>Literally no one is saying that.

You literally were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
Zeitgeist?
> You don't need 350 miles of range

I drive south-coast to Northumberland, weekly. I don't want to spend 30 minutes plus waiting for the car to charge 2 or 3 times on during the journey, assuming there's even a free charger. Using an electric vehicle, with the current range, would make my 365(!) mile journey about 2 hours longer than it already is.

I'm not an outlier either. We have friends and family that do London to Edinburgh weekly, or fortnightly, and often further.

As for " bogus "massive investment" argument" that's a bogus-bogus statement. Sorry.

We need to double the energy generation in this country to go fully EV and replace all new, and old registered vehicles (there's 25 million registered with the DVLA). We need to additionally add charging points to homes, and on-street. On-street is the worst - can you imagine digging up every street in inner London that has residents with cars to satisfy 'all EV in new cars by 2030'?
Norwegian Air files for bankruptcy protection
Which VM software did you use under windows?
"yes you can sell here, we only need to know the ingredients and know-how of this vaccine to approve its safety"
Can the link be switched to https://twitter.com/_L1ngL1ng_/status/1329552467240116236, the actual source of the news?
It should be noted that they just filed for an S-1 and the numbers they reported there show that the platform is far more alive than in was in 2012.
My theory is that anti vaxxers have poisoned the public conversation (if you say anything questioning a vaccine you shall be shunned). I plan to get this vaccine and generally trust our scientific institutions.

But of course there are legitimate safety concerns with injecting stuff into people - which is why they ran a huge study to show that there are no short term safety concerns.

I'm just asking (not implying anything) a real medical question I don't know the answer to - how do we know this vaccine doesn't increase the chances of some condition 20 years later when the median time people have been vaccinated is two months? And with a brand new vaccine platform that has never been used before...
As someone who has some experience with clinical trials and drug approvals, I'd be quite comfortable taking the vaccine. A clinical trial size of 40,000 (20,000 receiving the vaccine) is way larger than a lot of other drugs that people are comfortable taking.

Is there zero risk of serious side effects? Of course not, there never is. But the trial gives enough data to say the risk is worth the benefit.

Edit: The FDA has already hinted that their initial approval (EUA) may be restricted to certain populations where the risk-benefit is justified. In other words, they may not approve it for healthy, young adults where the risk of serious Covid complications is low. That "full" approval could come later after additional clinical experience is gained.
programmingfonts.org has this, as a one-click function.
> Essentially, ZFS manages my files for me.

Yes! Managing our files is the whole point of file systems! It's amazing how bad at it most of them are. Linux is still catching up with btrfs...

It's extremely aggravating how most file systems can't create a pool of storage out of many drives. We end up having to manually keep track of which drives have which sets of files, something that the file system itself should be doing. Expanding storage capacity quickly results in a mess of many drives with many file systems...

Unlike traditional RAID and ZFS, btrfs allows adding arbitrary drives of any make, model and capacity to the pool and it's awesome... But there's still no proper RAID 5/6 style parity support.
As expected, the threat of reputational damage from counterfeit goods features pretty heavily in the IPO. Unfortunately, that damage has already been done. At the moment, 8 of the top 10 results for "wish.com" on YouTube are people exposing scams. Not really a good look for the company.
Dane here, so I've read the study.
One of the important aspects here is of course the sample size, the timing of the study (during a downward trend in Denmark) and more importantly, it doesn't tell us if it protects others (which other research points to).
Isn’t it like that in the rest of the world?
> But I think "don't use version 1.0" advice applies here just like it does for software.

No it doesn’t, because vaccine development is more like bridge building than software development.
It's worth thinking about how many more people will die without the vaccine as well. The RotaSheild vaccine had major side effects 1 or 2 out of 10000 people, that's better than the current estimate death rate of COVID-19.
Does anyone know why it's not available yet? I'm in Denmark, and while Siri on Watch and iPhone speak Danish, apparently if I buy a HomePod, it'll only work in English.
I like them too. Seeing commit messages like this makes me feel a bit better about publishing my own repositories (which are invariably full of cursing and commit messages which are not descriptive) without doing significant history edits and rewriting most of it. Having to sanitise everything to conform to the meme of perfect descriptiveness is about 40% of what stops me from doing so in most cases, with another 40% being the name.