skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pandemic is a good time to do vaccine trials. They signed up 44,000 volunteers and got 170 cases unbelievably quickly. People were highly motivated to volunteer, making the enrollment faster, and the very high case rates in the US meant there for to their target very quickly.

Also, 170 cases is a _lot_ in terms of phase III studies.

Other than that, the vaccine is following basically the normal course. It won't get final approval until there is more time to monitor, but the EUA will be based upon saving lives now.

For more, see: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4944327/
"The findings are consistent with previous research. Health experts have long said a mask provides only limited protection for the person wearing it, but can dramatically reduce the risk to others if the wearer is infected, even when showing no symptoms. Preventing the spread to others is known as source control."
Just came here to say that Matthias Wandel's Router Lift/Table at woodgears.ca is nearly the GOAT just to see that he's already found this thread...

Router tables and a decent assortment of tooling is unfathomably helpful for things like custom car audio fabrication/custom fab in general. I always want to cry when I see people taking hours fabbing with lesser tools for what a router table could do in minutes.
>In the study, which was carried out in April and May when Danish authorities did not recommend wearing face masks, 6,024 adults were divided into two groups, one wearing face masks and one control group.

>After one month, 1.8% of the people wearing masks had been infected, while 2.1% of the people in the control group had tested positive, Copenhagen University Hospital said in a press release.

>The study does not confirm the expected halving of the risk of infection for people wearing face masks

>Participants reported their own test results; mask use was not independently verified, and users may not have worn them correctly.

So the control group had no masks, and the mask group were only told to wear a mask, and we have no data for how often they wore it. If their behavior is anything like what I'm seeing in the U.S., they're wearing it into the grocery store and going and seeing friends normally without a mask. The fact the study still produced a (likely statistically insignificant) 15% reduction in risk (1.8/2.1) is surprising under these circumstances.
You could easily see this with release of movie Dunkirk - it pretty much completely erased the French defense line from mention (there's a short scene showing them basically sitting around) which caused a huge amount of english speaking internet to insult and disparage the French.

Reality? The French fought tooth and nail to defend the British retreat from the beaches. The movie however deleted this from public conciousness by a simple omission, changing how people understand history.

And this happens with Hollywood and blockbuster games all the time.
Interesting board. Hadn't heard of Elbrus VLIW ISA.

>Elbrus is a mini-ITX security-oriented motherboard... MCST’s proprietary C/C++ compiler and bootloader will be provided only as binary, because we do not have access to the source code of this part.
The blobs look a lot like gliders in smoothlife:

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/Msy3RD

Or the haploscutinae in Lenia:

https://chakazul.github.io/Lenia/JavaScript/Lenia.html

Or real keratocyte fragments, but i can't find a video of those.
As the blog post points out within a decade of the 'great heathen army' and just four years after this game is supposedly set a majority of these vikings had converted to Christianity including prominent leaders among them. That's a very different picture than what the game portrays.

There is also a difference between what the characters say and believe and what the environment depicts - e.g. there's not a problem with the norse thinking that they're doing good but rather with how the game constructs places which reinforce that narrative. e.g. the uninhabited river valley, the lack of slave trading
https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/research/staying-on-top-of-t...
The Unicode arrow looks smaller and is positioned lower, while the ligature has the same size as -> with the dash extended into the 'arrow'. Not that I use this frequently.
People too lazy learn coding still running rampant in big tech. I thought the creation of jobs like 'agile manager' would've kept these people occupied.
I don't remember exactly, there were tons of games like that and a lot of them blended together in my mind. The most similar game I can specifically remember is the Human Body Obstacle Course:

https://www.roblox.com/games/334009/Human-Body-Obstacle-Cour...
I decided to try out ligatures a couple days ago. After about 5 minutes of getting oriented, I liked it better. The whole = == === thing ended up working out as a short = a long = and a three bar (giant hamburger?) were a lot easier to spot than the individual characters side-by-side. != turned into a double-width not equals symbol. So, 50% fun and 50% practical.
New Classical – A Draft Critique of the Meritocritique
But it's okay for 10 year olds to kill combatants?

Edit: That statement alone is underdeveloped but I wanted to provoke a reaction. Given that the above comment says that killing civilians is what would make this game inappropriate for a ten year old it implies that the rest of the game is appropriate.
TypeScript has dynamic types. It's a superset of JavaScript, not a separate language.
(Paraphrasing) "Therefore, we find ourselves looking to other open-source friendly solutions, the greatest of which currently seems to be the one by Microsoft."

Honestly, we live in weird times.
They would need a time machine too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HomePod

I wonder if jailbroken homepod would still do the audio enhancements on the fly with, let's say, spotify. Or the detection of commands in google assistant even while playing music very loud.
All religion has two aspects; outer ritual and inner philosophy.

It’s quite sad to me to see a
community of freethinkers here so summarily dismiss ideas which do not line up with their world view. It’s like Dawkins who only attacks fundamentalists and never looks at more philosophical interpretations, never mind approaching non-Abrahamic traditions.

So yes, rituals differ, maybe outdated and allegory is difficult to relate to. But people throw around this word “God” without even bothering to define it. It’s like saying the answer to an equation is X. No, the answer is not X, X is a postulation which you are required to solve for.

Similarly merely accepting the existence or non existence of God has no meaning. God is unknown. For anyone interested in further reading, please see “The Monk and the Philosopher” (Rivel & Ricard) which served to properly call into question my materialist, “scientific” view of the world and its nature. If you’re looking to challenge your beliefs in this regard and are similarly persuaded as parent or GP, it’s worth a read.
It's comments like this one that cause these feelings :
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857#issuecomment-65...
HomePod Jailbreak Stokes Speculation About Smart Speaker's Hacking Potential
I'm curious if anyone knows why Pfizer's mRNA vaccine still needs this while Moderna's mRNA vaccine does not?

Has Pfizer just not gone through the proper temperature testing or did they go through that testing and it showed that their vaccine needs to be stored so cold?
Great write-up. I'm sure this will be a good game, but the issue with romanticizing of the Vikings was evident in the trailer[1]. The eye-rolling moment for me was at 0:35 which contrasted how the Vikings were described by the Saxon King versus how peaceful and chivalrous they "really" were! It was total cringe because you don't need advanced History degrees to know that Viking raids, which spanned hundreds of years, were devesting to the local populations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssrNcwxALS4
TypeScript also has a Turing-complete type system, if I remember correctly.
Wrong vaccine.

This one was developed in Germany with no money from "Warp Speed". There was a Warp Speed commitment to by 100m doses after it is approved which you might argue is some encouragement, but Japan did the same thing with 120m doses, and the EU did it for 300m and provided upfront money for R&D.

The US did also do the upfront money + commitment to purchase after approval for some vaccines, such as the Moderna one, so if you want to thank the US that is the one to do it for.
China has its' own regulatory requirements which typically (I don't know in this case if China is asking for it) requires a specific trial in an Asian population in order to get approval.

I'm assuming that China is probably not waiving that requirement since they have their own vaccines.
I have the same issue as you, not in open source but in freelancing. Occasionally I'm approached by someone in my network who needs a few hours of software development. In the past I tried this, figuring that I may as well earn a few bucks on the side during my free time.

But then I realized the enormous overhead that comes with taking payments in Israel. I'd need to open an account with the tax authorities and deal with a bunch of paperwork I don't understand. So now I'm busy learning the tax system or hiring an accountant... it's just not worth it unless they're going to commit to a large amount of hours, but I do value my free time as well. So either you pay me enough to quit my full-time job at a big company or forget about it. It's hard to do small amounts of freelance work because of the onerous regulatory environment.

All this is different for USians, who have to file tax returns every year anyway and simply need to add another source of income on their 1040.
The Caribbean islands poisoned by a carcinogenic pesticide
We're American, but living in Ireland, and when my wife announced she was engaged her colleagues demanded to see her ring, oddly. Cultural imperialism I suppose.
I'm guessing you weren't invested in tech index funds in the late 90s.
Yes, I edited that when I reread the article.

The conclusion drawn from the article is that the 70+W is vibration of the bike that is damped (lost) in the rider's body. Adding suspension by running supple tires at lower pressure reduces the energy required to go over the rumble strips (https://www.renehersecycles.com/myth-16-higher-tire-pressure...). That one compares 26mm tires at 75 vs 95 psi, but there's a page somewhere that I think shows wider (think 42mm+ tires) at more like 25psi.
My kids almost never do what I tell them unless they can see the point in it themselves.

To me, it sounds like the school is either bad or the match with where your son is right now is wrong.

I've always been curious, also as a kid, but I do remember most of the class mates spending most of their time staring blankly out in the void. The only reasonable conclusion is that those lessons were wrong.

Just like if you design a UI and 70% of your users can't use it. Then we blame the designer, not the laziness of the users.

As an adult, I've since learned that large parts of the establishment doesn't regard people as humans. They don't care.
Human Ageing Reversed in ‘Holy Grail’ Study, Scientists Say
I went (iirc): BBEdit -> Netscape -> Claris Home Page -> PageMill -> NetObjects Fusion -> HomeSite -> ColdFusion Studio -> Coda -> Sublime Text.

I'm thinking of trying Panic's Nova next, but I'm really invested in ST.
The second option. Stability testing is done quite early with any drug candidate and is a requirement for FDA approval. There is zero chance that Pfizer didn't test their vaccine at higher temperatures.

Although Moderna's and Pfzier's vaccines are both mRNA technologies, they aren't identical in either the mRNA itself or the lipid nanoparticle used to deliver the mRNA. That's why they have different stability profiles.
Did they publish the mRNA code?
Yes, but without blatant copyright and patent infringement
What file metadata is unencrypted?
I just downloaded the app again to refresh my memory on what it looked like since I had never actually bought anything off it.

Used an anonymous email to register eg clean profile and the front page was filled with scammy hair loss products, male enhancement pills, and foot stickers that claimed it could help you grow 1-6 inches (!), among other cheap suspect goods that looked straight out of some tourist market in Asia.

Honestly a little depressing selling Chinese counterfeit crap at scale is a good business. Not exactly something I find particularly exciting or noble.
Some FAANG Technologists Hope Their Companies Don't Go All-Remote
It doesn't. That's what I said.
I switched to coding in a proportional font, Verdana, a couple of years ago and never looked back.

That's the font you are reading this comment in, in fact.

Code is mostly words and words are much easier to read in a proportional font. Symbols are plenty clear enough in Verdana, all letters are distinguishable, and I don't use mid-line alignment so I don't see the point in a monospace font outside of the terminal.
I haven't seen that, but I'd be careful to draw the meaningfulness of that metric, as there has also never been an mRNA vaccine deployed until this year.

That said, the large size of these studies should be extremely comforting to people.
A good test strategy would fix the problem. "Your PR fails all these tests, so can you make them all work before submitting the request?"
YouTube adds ads but won't pay all content-makers
merit is not a scalar quantity, rather it has quite a few dimensions.
> required for a vaccine to reach public acceptance.

This leads to frightening considerations. The reason FDA testing is so stringent is that trying to explain statistics along with a myriad of other fields, that are at this point likely too complex and exhaustive for any one human to fully comprehend even if they spent their entire lifetime learning, to the "public" for them to truly make an informed decision is a futile effort.

A vaccine is no doubt a great thing and much needed. Two things bother me very greatly about it:

1) A lot of testing was skipped. This will be injected into tens, possibly hundreds, of millions of people long before we even know the long term side effects. If by some very low chance this introduces an inheritable change, and if by an even lower chance that inheritable change leads to genetic collapse in 10-20 generations - just to be very clear, this is extremely unlikely - we have opened the window to humanity's end.

2) A far more realistic ethical concern is what happens to states (god forbid if the fed does it) who legally require this (unconstitutionally, of course, since most modern laws already are and nobody seems to have an issue with this) like New York who've already had a number of terrifying assembly bills for something similar, if this backfires and causes permanent harm to people?

The human body is incredibly complex. A doctor's oath includes "above all, do no harm", and most of the people that will be vaccinated have a 90%+ survival chance. Granted, the above is a very myopic view that completely ignores large scale economics - so please bare with me and use your medicine/ethics hat for it. Is this the right thing to do in the long run?

As a country, the US has proven track record of making stupid decisions in tough times (911 -> PATRIOT, etc).
It really is incredible. ZFS datasets are essentially data collections, and I can categorize my files according to how I want them managed. It's essentially what iOS dreams of but in a much more manageable, configurable, and open way.
I do! Was my favourite editor in the early 2000s.
Maybe because they don't really know which cult the temple belonged to. There were many smaller cults in those days like Mithraists for example. Could even have been a Christian cult centered around some martyr or saint.
Molecular scale lava lamps?
The only reason you need your IDE to write classes for you in C# is because C# has nominal typing and tons of boilerplate (ex: getHashCode()).

I've written millions of lines of C# and hundreds of thousands of TypeScript, and I use JetBrains JDEs for both these days. Class generation is absolutely not something I need or miss in TypeScript.
No, but it's still better than not having such a person around at all.
Reminds me of a lot of custom Team Fortress 2 maps you can run into. I remember the pure craziness that was the Party Van server in the early 2010's.
I mean, it's no NetObjects Fusion, but FP was all right :)
BioNTech: We are submitting our first request for an Emergency Use Authorization
YouTube Right to Monetize
Heck, Microsoft themselves didn't release a native VSCode for those machines until May... 2020. https://twitter.com/joaomoreno/status/1266005299661545474
It looks like it's available in countries that have support for apple's speech to text:
https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#siri-neural-...

Kinda sucks. Here in Poland there's no siri in polish. I'd wish apple would give users an option to mark "yeah, I can handle english, sell me the damn device". Same with upcoming fitness service.
There is a big difference between dumping a dataset in the latest hot ML model and building something that offer some actual explainability, deal with intrinsic biases, have some stability over time and recalibration and that will go trough an unprecedented crisis for which you don't have any data to learn from. That mean the model usually has to go trough a lot of internal commities and different external agencies. I highly suspect that an external proprietary solution won't go very far in the credit rating field.
Do they have a reputation for quality to uphold? I expect them to be cheap and innovative, but not high quality. I'd expect the genuine Wish product to be just as flimsy as whatever knockoff.
agree, the authors mention of hacking around activation servers on legacy products is as much the problem as anything. it’s an odd sort of expectation that we’d have to be able to emulate 3+ generations of hardware on top of one another just to access an old file. Should we expect to be able to do this as hardware gets more sophisticated? I’m not convinced we should.
This is the feature of TypeScript that I'm most looking forward to. Default all variable and constant declarations to type 'any' so that TypeScript can look identical to JavaScript. Then we can remove the transpile step from our projects.
Especially since the source sucks, with “gems” like

> Every Apple device, including the T2 security chip, has been jailbroken with checkra1n so far.

and “jailbreaking makes your device insecure”.
> I think we probably overestimate how important code is.

Or maybe the cost of swamp code is distributed over many people and non-programmers have difficulty understanding how much it slows down programmers. Programming is hard enough as it is because we need to translate human to very abstract, and work with very abstract on a daily basis. I think it's borderline genius to be able to do the translation both ways. That is, to make non-techies really understand the cost of messy code.
If the enemy is charging my base and someone offers me armor I'm not going to wait for all my fellow soldiers to try it out and see what happens.
Invention that makes renewable energy from rotting veg wins James Dyson prize
Here you go: https://adamaltmejd.se/covid/
You can always choose to just say those things, but if it's worth doing, the language and approach should make it more likely that the general community response will be better for you than saying nothing at all. To me that means being gentle and professional about wording and boundaries, (which is easier provided one is not absolutely shattered by their work experience). Examples:

- We are currently backlogged and may be unable to accept contributions or support requests.

- Need support? We may be able to help. Contact us for bespoke personal or commercial support and development rates. (Packages start at...)

- We are evaluating license revocations for those who violate our clearly-written and frequently reviewed community standards, which you can review at this link.

Support abuse situations are often best dealt with situation-by-situation, though, and unfortunately I didn't see a specific, real-world example in the article. Sometimes just the possibility of someone taking advantage is a turn-off for a good project owner, so I would add that at the very least it's a good idea to have a general communication plan & principles in place before that happens.
Back in the Windows NT/2000 days, IIS executed as part of the kernel, debugging ISAPI extensions was an exercise in patience every time a programming error crashed the kernel and a reboot was in order.
What use cases do you see this having? Just curious
"Our growth has been highly capital efficient. We have been able to achieve this massive growth and scale by having net cumulative cash flow from operations of $16 million from January 1, 2017 to September 30, 2020, aided by our positive cash float, where we receive an upfront payment from a user, and remit payment to a merchant a number of weeks later. In 2019, we generated a net loss of $129 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(127) million, compared to a net loss of $208 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(211) million in 2018, and a net loss of $207 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(135) million in 2017. For the nine months ended September 30, 2020, we generated a net loss of $176 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(99) million, compared to a net loss of $5 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $(11) million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019."
What is open-source penetration testing?
It's because it only counts as woke if US lefties can identify with it. I challenge anyone who thinks medieval Europe games lack diversity to walk around some cities in Poland or Ukraine and then bitch about how the cast of their games is not representative of the population :-)

But you can't win an argument with stupid. We wuz kings and all that.
Are you sure? There are always a few ultra-nationalists in every country.
So the data should be public (as it always has been), but it should not be easily accessible?
Do you not think that using spreadsheets for ML experiment tracking is a symptom of broken tooling? I'm asking because one of the reasons we're building our platform[0] with automatic experiment tracking, collaborative notebooks, and a bunch of things, is because experiment tracking was inconsistent between team members.

Differences in tools used: (spreadsheets, flat files, logs, pen and paper, human memory). Forgetting to do it. Snippets to do it flying around. Different locations (laptop, group workstation, git repository, cloud sheet). Dissociated from the notebook that produced the model.

Tighter tracking should answer questions like: what notebook ran on which data and produced which model with which parameters and which scores? Then questions like: give me all notebooks that ran on this dataset which produced a model with scores that are [condition].

Once you do that, the "spreadsheet" can just be a "view" of the underlying data. Something you can export as, but not the thing itself.

I think it's good there are tools with this granularity that can be composed.

- [0]: https://iko.ai
It's been used quite a lot, especially when dealing with legacy databases or having to support multiple databases with a single codebase.

There is one concern though. Both Google Cloud SQL and AWS RDS support only postgres_fdw, so one should manage their own storage, cluster and backups.
Half a year ago, I configured my IDE to use a _duospaced_ font:

https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font

It mostly retains the advantages of a monospaced font while being a bit easier to read and fitting more characters on screen.

I'd love to see more font-designers exploring this idea.
> African elephants exhibit extreme sexual dimorphism.

For a mammal, maybe. For the rest of Animalia that’s not extreme at all.