skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both dosings use two shots, and the "90%" number from the smaller dosing is from an unreliably small sample set of 33 infections."

Can you count infections as a metric of efficacy for a vaccine that's designed to stop infection?

Consider [1]:

"However, protection was 90% in an analysis of around 3,000 people on the trial who were given a half-sized first dose and a full-sized second dose."

AFAIK it's not known how many of those 3,000 in that trial were exposed to potential infection.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55040635
I don't know what happened to Intel. Whatever it was, it will be studied for years in Harvard Business School and the likes. They've been consistently a few nodes ahead of the entire industry for decades.

But, whatever it was, it was bad. They've been stuck basically at the same node for 5 years or more.

And, according to the article, their next CPU will still be at 14nm, which is completely nuts. There's no way you can compete with such brute force disadvantage.

It's remarkable to watch, but I wouldn't count on Intel getting their act together anytime soon.
Curious to see if law enforcement agencies will complain about this specifically over the next 2-3 years as it rolls out to a billion users.

If we don't hear a single peep about it, I'd just assume Google gave them a way to spy on whatever conversion they want, at will.

Come to think about it, we haven't heard manycomplaints about WhatsApp's encryption from governments lately either, have we?
Sure, this will be great. Please do not assume that NCERT textbook writers are careless tyros - they include some of the best educators in India who have spent time in improving presentation of material - of course, there may be errors and gaps, and there is always scope for improvement. (For example, Fields Medallists like Manjul Bharghava are at least peripherally interested (1))

If you are earnest, you can contact people in the math and science community in India. This will mean substantially thorough vetting, because the corrections will themselves have to be checked across multiple sources for consistency. (The worst examples are in Chemistry. As you keep digging, you will start finding that B.Sc. material contradicts High School material, and M.Sc. material confirms the High School material. None of these are "incorrect", it is a matter of how deep one wants to go.)

A good place to start will be to look at the list of editors listed inside the textbook, look up their webpages and try them one after the other.

(1) https://ncert.nic.in/pdf/shikshak-parv/TwoDaysConclaveDetail...
It's probably the rules everywhere, but I imagine that compliance is a lot lower for people waiting for a test result than it is for people that received a positive test (especially those with mild symptoms)
Whatsapp is the biggest example, but the same goes for Signal, Threema, partially Matrix, XMPP and Telegram.

Where is the advantage over those? Why should Joe Average use it?

After all, even if RCS will have E2EE, I still need to trust Google to do it right, not helpfully backup plaintext, etc. And all the carriers seem to need to be on board. Let's see how that goes...
I am familiar with the saying, however, in this case, voting for government officials and creating a "demand" datapoint in markets by completing a purchase are not synonymous.

When we go to the polls, we are literally making decisions about what you call "paternalism". Who should write our laws? Who should manage our criminal justice system? Who should regulate our industries? These are pretty direct decisions to make.

But when we go to Best Buy or Apple Store to buy an iDevice, almost all consumer are not making a decision about the "paternalistic" decisions of Apple, who they employ, etc. They are buying a shiny object that makes their brain give them the happy juice.

I fear for our society if these two actions become one and the same.
right. they dont know for sure.

but statistics give a reasonable good picture given the fact that the input/output points of the banking system are known.
Sandy Lake is an old architecture and with a lot of tweaks intel on single core it is still competitive. If they could fix their process or maybe just go with TSMC they should be able to become competitive. Its not like Intel hasn't been in this position before with Athlon 64. The one think they used to have was fab advantage.
Transition of their hardware, so in two years all their devices will be Mac silicon. Probably. I think the Mac Pro may not migrate, given that it uses server grade hardware and Mac's silicon is not there yet (I think / assume / I'm probably wrong)
>So Jupystar is pronounced like Jupistar.

That's what I said. But differs to what you said before. /Jupi/ has only one stress; your previously mentioned pronunciation requires two, also two s rather one that exists in the word.
TSMC is shipping 7nm from mid 2018. When Intel ships 5nm, Apple/ARM is not going to stop development. M1 is their first laptop grade chip. Even if they get 10% IPC gain annually thats gonna make differece to big to catch up.
Yes it’s mentioned in the article that it was published at some point.
You may define or argue that it is, but it's not a common sense for anyone.
I have hard time explaining exactly how our async way of communicating makes the whole wfh situation so much more pleasant (we work via GitHub) to my non-developer colleagues. I feel they could benefit a lot and their constant complaining about telco filled days could be much reduced. But how could they do this when they email office docs around (i.e. for grant applications or IP) and fill out bespoke systems for their project management steps...?
UX can be paternalistic as well

It can also be very bad or the very opposite of what Apple does and also be the best around and still let people free to explore all the options available.

There is nothing specific in what Apple does that can be reduced to simply UX.

Maybe ergonomics is more correct to define what Apple tries to do with their human interfaces, but the Apple store or the locked down platform have nothing to do with either UX or ergonomics.

What Apple does is to remove electric plugs from the walls because someone could put a fork inside them and experience an electric shock.

And I am not the one saying it, I was answering to "Apple removed trojan and viruses to help people who don't know better".

That's paternalism.
>Alternatively the hacker could've written a browser extension, I doubt those have adequate protection...

I'd bet a lot fewer people install browser extensions than install Zoom. Security isn't about absolute protection but about making things ever more difficult to exploit.
1000-1300 sounds like a lot of money.
It depends what's more effective: These groups are different: do you jab first those who can most easily spread it, those who would most easily get it or those who would most severely be impacted if they got it.

I think whilst we all want to be safe, ultimately in a year or so, most of the population won't be getting this shot on a regular basis.
That issue is actually quite interesting.

It's because if the GPU is reverse engineered enough, you can simulate an Apple GPU on another machine _and_ run other OSes with a proper GPU stack on those macs.
I've been there as a mosque and it was fine, I am agnostic but from a super Catholic family, didn't bother me or the rest of the group at all, it was quite cool.

The smell thought, was super funky, I guess that is what carpets and 1000's of feets do :)

You will be missing out, Turkey is a super cool country, awesome food, super very proud people.

Haia Sofia is not even in the TOP 10 of my list of cool stuff to do in Istambul. I really hope to go back some day and spend a at least 2 weeks in the region next time.
That would also stream when the police show up to a domestic disturbance? Or a traffic stop?

Please no :(
I'd like to know that as well. Probably: disagree == flag for some people
If anyone is burnt out by the constant breaking of HA with updates, I recently switched to Hubitat and it's pretty stable. Sure it doesn't have as many features as HA, but it works fine for my Z-Wave setup.
It was a fake zoom link. Zoom wasn't involved in any stage of this hack.
> should be aiming to centre around objective truth

What is objective truth in politics ? It's the most non-objective aspect of society there is, arguably even more non-objective than art.
> That's complete and utter conspiracy nonsense because control implicates intentions, but the media - and especially social media - are not directed by a uniform actor with intentions.

Another poster has already brought media conglomerates like Murdoch, Sinclair or Axel Springer (Germany) so I won't deal with that.

Social media is also heavily directed by the platform operators, their "moderation" policies - Facebook/Instagram are on a massive crusade against nudity, for example - and especially their "algorithmic feed" selection. FB got under fire for throttling traffic to "left wing" sites (https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/17/21520634/facebook-report...), YouTube under multiple fires for stuff like Peppa Pig scare videos or for actively feeding users conspiracy propaganda, Reddit has many, many accusations of censorship regarding Uyghurs (since the Tencent ownership stake)...

tl;dr: social media platforms have intentions on their own and are not shy of using them.
Weird comparison, SpaceX is not consumer hardware and few people make their living off of their services.
Isn't the first pass through the body of the loop also often colloquially called "the first iteration"?
It sounds like you're looking for Stripe Checkout (https://stripe.com/en-de/payments/checkout). They handle all the billing portal pages, invoicing, subscription changes and cancellation, etc...

I am not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy customer. I'm actually using it for my side-business SaaS http://panelbear.com/ and saved me days (weeks?) of development work. Happy to help out if you need it.

However, there's a few edge cases that they don't support yet, such as setting the billing cycle anchor to the beginning of the month, and keeping it even if the customer changes the subscription. But I guess it's not a showstopper for a lot of use cases.
I have noticed the use of faggot all but disappear, it used to be quite mainstream.

Fag is still used for cigarettes.
borg has been around for a while and I hear it's stable. They also have change logs that mention any corrupting bugs, which is getting quite rare for only on few occasions. I'm migrating from restic to borg.

https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changes.html

The downside of borg is that the target is only sftp and not directly to any of S3 and some other targets but there are online services that accept sftp.

On the other hand, restic is new and while this can sync towards many targets, the use of memory gets crazy after a while that my machine choked out of memory and these kind of stability problem is something not mentioned in the docs until you use it.

I've tried several others like duplicacy but this also has a memory problem and both restic and duplicacy seem to have trouble fixing it quickly.

When it comes to backup, I'd like to use more than 1 implementation toward different remote locations in case 1 of the implementation has corruption bugs to render the backup useless.

Trying out kopia to see if it does any better.

https://kopia.io

Also asuran seems promising but so far too early to test it out.

https://asuran.rs/
Not being backwards compatible is a huge pain, but Apple can (somehow) afford to put that burden on developers.
> "Iterating on a architecture is harder than starting one from scratch."

Any reason to believe this is generally true? This seems like the same fallacy that leads to people believing that scrapping all the code and starting from scratch will make a project better, and typically seems to end in more-bugs and fewer-features with delays in release.

It can be true when the old code/design is just incredibly bad and needs to be tossed, but I don't think it's true in general.
I would use it with the adhesive thermal paper for labelling up infrastructure, it sounds like it could make a decent administration machine. An Ethernet jack might be needed though.
I’ve been wondering if it is because of Americans’ phobia of socialism? Democrats don’t (generally) want to be seen as socialists, so they can’t embrace the red of the American flag more than the blue.
> I've mused in the past that it's kind of a shame - you can imagine a world where people ignored their thumbs when finger counting and just lucked into a base-8 system thousands of years ago.

What a fascinating hypothetical!

But to the main topic - sorry to be dense about it, but I'm actually just not used to the imperial system. Which parts of it are easy to manipulate in this way? I know there are 12 inches in a foot but that's the only "easy" conversion I remember off the top of my head.
If you've been using TF for any amount of time though, 0.13 is a breaking change (because semver... oh wait...). The migration from 0.11 to 0.12 was a PITA and if you're using any third party modules or resources, they still don't have consistent support for 0.13. Usung 0.12 currently gives you the most consistent experience.

This is not bashing TF, it's just reality. I wish I had time to update everything to 0.13. The third party provider support alone makes it valuable.
I've intentionally reprogrammed myself (at least) two times. Three takeaways:

#1

How we talk changes how we think.

This is how propaganda works. We're somehow hard wired for sociability, cooperation. Something about our mirror neurons, theory of mind, and empathy.

#2

Our minds strive to maintain equilibrium.

There's an immune system like resistance to change, of any kind. The backfire effect of persuasion must be somehow related to this.

And yet, successful propaganda, persuasion somehow bypasses our defenses. Maybe we have an evolutionary glitch, where fearful stressed out people are more malleable.

#3

We don't remember changing our minds.

This is terrifies me.

Swarm Intelligence [2001] explanation of social cognition cites the research about our amnesia. My guess is that forgetting is somehow necessary for learning.

https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Morgan-Kaufmann-Evolutio...

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Please (!) share more recent explanations for the neuroscience of propaganda, cults, persuasion, and so forth.

The only hopeful, optimistic stuff I've read recently is about de-radicalization and successful cult deprogramming. TLDR: Empathy, tenacity, and patience.
It's likely that the majority of people on HN are not going to be early adopters, and that other groups will get the jab first.

It depends what's more effective, as these groups are all different: do you jab first those who can most easily spread it, those who would most easily get it, those who would most severely be impacted if they got it, or do you jab those who are most diligent, enthusiastic and first in the queue?

I'd even wager that most healthy adults around the world will not be getting the vaccine (but that might be a negative story to run with) but that's at less odds than just healthy, enthusiastic, low risk people getting the jab first.
“Binary translation” to be pedantic, but, I agree.

I was an Adobe user through the PPC->Intel transition, and that worked OK, though my subjective remembered experience says non-x86 apps felt a bit pokey. (This was a while ago, and I could very well be wrong, but we had PPC and Intel iMacs at my college newspaper, and the G5 felt faster in my memory.) But that was also a transition to a dual-core Core 2 Duo machine, which was obviously unambiguously faster than a single-core G5, so there was computational room to spare to deal with the translation.

It was not a done deal that x86->ARM would as smooth of a transition, as we figured ARM would be a bit faster, but not a generational leap. But here we are, Apple really managed to make binary translation work well this time, and Intel applications are plenty snappy. Which is impressive. (I also wonder how much of that is having a really fast SSD so the translation of the app is not as I/O bound.)

And I don’t think legacy x86 apps will be as much of a thing this time around. Back in the PPC days, lots of applications were built using Metrowerks CodeWarrior toolchain, which didn’t come across the divide, so big applications had to scramble to get everything into Xcode. This time, if an application made it past the evolutionary bottleneck of needing to be 64-bit only for Catalina, it’s probably close to ready to go for ARM.
Not the parent, but if you're ever looking for features to implement:

I've been thinking about this for quite a while, and one reason I've been unhappy with any sort of cloud backup solution is that they're usually too slow for laptops, unless I leave them awake while I'm sleeping.

An ideal backup solution for me would be laptop > NAS (or desktop) > cloud. A backup over the local network should be magnitudes faster, and the always-on NAS can handle a slower, versioned backup to cloud storage.
Initiatives, Epics, Issues, Tasks and Subtasks.
And Zen3 doesn't even use TSMC's 5nm node whereas M1 does. Apple has payed a ridiculous amount of money to get all of the 5nm capacity for 2020, but it has definitely payed off when you look at all the hype.
In my opinion, DW is the best news source out there. Even on TV, the DW channel is such a pleasure to watch. Their news seem to be way more wholesome, and, instead of just providing same 'breaking news' ad nauseam, does so much more. I invariably feel more enriched after watching it.

BBC and PBS are the only others which I watch besides DW.

https://www.dw.com/en

Edit: I just downloaded their app and I noticed it has a 'text only' and an 'offline' mode! Truly wonderful!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idmedia.an...
I'm also in that 30 year camp. Will say that I value things that understand my time has value. I can say that I've gone from having the stereo with 7.1 channels and balancing a room to just give me a Sonos.
To be fair though to Apple, at least it is standardized. Have you tried to turn off Secure Boot?

Note: depending on the specific motherboard it could be:

- Windows Command-line (some Surfaces)

- a simple switch on the BIOS configuration (usually on desktop motherboards which are sold as a part)

- set first a password to the setup and then switching it off (notably some Acer laptops)

- removing a screw physically, setting a setup password and switching it off (some Acer laptops probably copied from ChromeOS SKUs)

- Setting secure boot to custom and then clearing the key database (usually business computers)

- (Technically incorrect) setting it to BIOS/CSM mode

- Shout to heavens because that OEM has somehow hard-baked secure boot on the system and does not have CSM options (company shall remain unnamed but the name ends in L)
So end-of-life releases that have been replaced with newer builds? Any application that doesn't survive the progression of technology doesn't deserve to-- software requires maintenance. We expect hardware to get bigger/faster/stronger but are unwilling to hold software to the same standard?

I am wracking my brain but cannot think of a single application that I ran on previous epochs of hardware (whether it be 32bit, PowerPC, Itanium, or anything else) that I am now missing out on.FOSS has really mitigated this a ton too because if there was a good idea from a defunct codebase, inevitably a project would spring up to fill that void.

Professionally, legacy software is the bane of my existence because I am expected to move heaven and earth to make crappy, long outdated and inherently insecure proprietary enterprise apps work on modern networks with modern operating systems and modern security requirements. Let it all burn.
To be honest, do most people even know or care what CPU Apple is using for their Macs?

I’m assuming that people buy Macs for the software platform from Apple.

I have a few Macs, and I never had any intention to install Linux on it.

But admittedly I only used my Macs as a toy. I eventually gave up on it, since it didn’t do what I needed it to do.
> Overall, I consider "smart home" to be a fairly expensive and time-consuming hobby that saves me maybe 10 min per day

Fair point, but does it really need to save time for you? For me it's more of a convenience thing. I recently bought a new house, and I didn't immediately have the time to install my smart devices (Nest, Hue lights, motion sensors etc). After just a couple of days I was already getting fed up with having to get up to "manually" flip switches, change the temprature, rolling down the blinds etc.
Elections != democracy. Or even representation.

Apple has a certain awareness of public opinion and user mood. It isn't obliged to pay attention to either, and of course it also tries to control both through PR efforts.

But if it ignores or irritates its users too much there are financial consequences.

Meanwhile you can be sure forums like HN are monitored for sentiment.
A new jailbreak for a new era
Because the GPU there is okay-ish, but not amazing - not really suitable for gaming.
> but I can run all old versions of Android apps on an Android 11 phone

Mostly. They've done a pretty good job of maintaining backwards compatibility but it isn't perfect. E.g. there's no way to access the old hardware options button anymore. You also get a warning popup if you try to run old apps.

I just tried running an old app I wrote and it freaked out a bit with the layout, jittering all over the place initially. But other than that it mostly worked.
>any other president before trump would have resigned in disgrace about 100 times

Reagan supported death squads in Latin America and didn't resign. G.W. Bush started a war based on bullshit and had people tortured and didn't resign. Every president going back years now has overseen the NSA surveillance system.
From this we can safely assume their privacy approach was "lets pray no one will find our S3 buckets"
It's incredibly hard to figure out all the new nonstick coatings.

Companies don't want to list negative stuff on the label because people look, then don't buy.

I found out the I had a lot of trouble with Sodium Lauryl Sulfate - my sheets would irritate me after I washed them, and it was a relief to find a detergent without it. (also goes for shampoo, toothpaste and lots more)

But the lengths companies go to when hiding it on the ingredients list. They name it something else.

See "other names" on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_dodecyl_sulfate

I think hiding the type of non-stick coating on a frying pan or a toaster has a lot in common with obscuring SLS.
The key word there is "business" - most laptops geared for corporate (in PC world at least) are the thin and light metal chassis ones. They are easily $1200 for "pretty good" hardware but a sleek look and feel. But the same (core component) hardware in a budget laptop might be $500-800. Business laptops with best in class hardware are often over $2000.
It is literally the title of the linked article which is supposed to be copied.

For some reason it is now removed and is "The Distinguished Medieval Investigators" which removes all the context of the article.

All because of the word "penis"? oy vey.
One way in which I've often thought about it is that whenever you build something on a foundation over which you have no (or little) say or control, then at least work to make it possible to be able to substitute that foundation for an alternative in the future. Or at the very least, be aware of the risks that come with such an arrangement and mitigate them appropriately.

Even beyond software or cloud-based tech, this can be useful to think about and apply even more broadly in life, for example when consideing any variety of real or virtual tools, platforms or services that you may depend on.