skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git is a funny one. I do believe the data model at the heart of git has a good change at being the last VCS data model. Apart from little details like the choice of hash function, there is little wrong with it. Git's success despite its perception of being difficult to learn and use is a testament to that.

But we are long overdue a better porcelain for git. The standard CLI it comes with is just not good. Its level of abstraction is too high in a few places where it tries to make things seem not-too-dissimilar to "old world" VCS systems. And its too low in other places, for example tags are a great, flexible tool but the vast majority of users don't use them or need them, they just need to mark releases. The fact I need to write something like "git tag --annotate --sign" instead of just "git release" is a silly.

I think a concerted effort to take what git is and what we do with (and forget old VCS systems) and reinvent the interface will create the closest to a successor to git. The only porcelain that is vaguely on the right track here is magit.
The base of our demand generation activities
I once read a book about beliefs of North American indians. It said Cheyennes divide birds into three groups: common, great and sacred. They count magpies into the sacred group! They like magpies because they're sociable, live close to humans, announce guests...
re the privacy/money break even, i think archival data which does not uniquely identify you should form the bulk of any transaction, which would tend to bring your expectations down by quite a notch.
I'm not sure it counts as a 'building', but Stone Henge in the UK has been in use for more than 4000 years. It's also well worth a visit if you're at all interested in weird ancient stuff.
Is there somewhere any numbers on how much exactly does it cost? What portion is really "research" and what portion is marketing budget? How much trial phase 1/2/3 cost etc?
I agree but the key is to get test results quickly. A five day delay in getting test results (which is common) seems to imply that an infectious patient may have already done their worst spreading by the time they start quarantining.
Sure. If we compare individual hospitals' ability to treat one hypothetical person with the highest quality of service and outcome, you probably are correct.

But my impression is that is like saying that you are a better dad if you spend all your money on one of your kids' Harvard education and let the other one fend for himself or go into debt, when you could've given them both adequate education at a less expensive college?

My position is simply that a health ecosystem where everyone gets adequate care for free or at least without going into crippling debt is preferred over a system where some get lavish care and others none. It's not like there's a thousand people dying of perfectly treatable diseases due to queuing in the Canadian health care system - but there are indeed people dying because they can't access basic care in the American system.

By the way: When is transportation not a key to efficient manufacturing? Do you think that the efficient solution is for factories to make every single part of their product on site? Does it not matter whether spare parts for machinery can be ordered and delivered within 24 hours instead of 24 days? Or did you mean that what I said was obvious, i.e. the American health care system is clearly less efficient for providing solutions to the population than the Canadian, but you want to stress the point that it is possible, in some cases, to get better individual care in an American hospital?
This and "layered defense" are good search terms for this topic in general (not limited to the pandemic).
The candidate should look into their contract if they have a non-compete clause in it. If I was you I would ask them about this, it may reduce time wasted (if the candidate have non-compete then she/he won't be able to start in next X months).

Do I read you correctly that you are afraid of candidate learning something from you and instead of joining bringing this back to their company? You normally assume good will.. What would stop this candidate from joining you, staying with you for a few months and then joining their company back?
If it would be possible, pandemic would be over months ago and there would be no need to develop any vaccine.
I only programmed QBasic way back when, but most of them had built-in IDE's and graphics support out of the box, didn't they?

Imagine dumping webpack, DOM and CSS on an unsuspecting kid today. Or even virtualenv and pip.

I know I'd "nope" out of there as fast as I could if that was me in 2020.
In a polyglot shop, it can actually be quite handy that HCL is it's own relatively simple language.
I've owned several Lexuses (Lexi?), and the one thing that struck me was the recalls, and how long they keep doing that.

I got my first experience when I bought an 2006 IS250. In 2014 (the car was now 8 years old) I got a recall letter that one of the windshield wiper bolts may not have been torqued to spec at the factory. Not kidding. I ignored this letter, as I was sure this was just some trick to get me to visit the dealership. After 2 months I got another letter telling me that this issue was not yet resolved, urging me to go get the free repair. I did.

In 2015 I had a complaint that the parcel shelf would make a creaking noise if the car was parked in the sun for a while. They replaced the parcel shelf under warranty (this was a 9 year old car at the time!).

In 2016 I got a recall that the fuel filter may not have been properly installed 10 years prior at the factory, so I got a free repair again.

Finally in 2018 (12 year old car), they replaced the passenger airbags free of charge, as there may be something wrong with those.

Their attention to quality is insane. In the 10+ years that I have owned Lexus cars (first an IS250, now an IS-F), I've had zero defects (that I had to pay for). That said, I do always bring in the car for service at dealership at the recommended intervals. Proper maintenance gets you a long way.
Isn't price discrimination like this illegal in the US? I know it's illegal in the EU for sure.
Honestly, I wish dang just immediately force-collapsed these upvote/downvote speculation threads.
Not sure what you mean.

As if some self-imposed UNIX/POSIX austerity, making do with the basic (and old) UNIX userland that comes with macOS (or other platforms), is something to be lauded?

(As opposed to just an example of someone making do with the little they need, where others' mileage may vary?)

Or is needing some of the tons of programs that don't come with "Apple platforms and their UNIX" (e.g. some random stuff I use: gnuplot, ripgrep, redis, postgres, jq, graphviz, and tons of different things others might want) somehow problematic?

Not even sure where Apple platforms and UNIX come into play as something to be contrasted to "replacements for GNU/Linux".

One of the benefits of macOS is precisely that as a UNIX it can run all kinds of UNIX tools, not just the basic POSIX utils, but close to everything available in a Linux/FreeBSD/etc package manager...
Because 95% efficacy is twice as good as 90%. And some people are willing to pay the $30 it costs to be 5% likelihood to have a non-functioning vaccine vs. a 10% likelihood the vaccine you just got won't work on you.
Google whitepaper is here: https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
Are there any maintained whitelists of "direct access" HA IoT hardware? I.e. hardware I can either directly access from HA, or firmware flash and do so?

This feels like linux compatibility back in the 90s. Hypothetically, you could make many things work. Practically and sanely, you (as an end user interested in getting work done) should stick to paved roads that permit shorter stacks.
Right? Birds are like my dogs, basically food black holes.

Besides, the amount of bottle caps the magpies in the experiment would be able to find in the wild would be a limiting factor keeping them on their toes.
On a related note: one of the funniest things as a non-westerner to me is that a majority of westerners are convinced that when they vote, if they vote for policies that favor their own country, their own well-being, it is wrong.

Here's a hint for those who are struggling: if you're convinced that you should vote against yourself, you've been brainwashed by your enemies.

To those who are feeling anger after reading my comment: that's the trauma trapped in your body being triggered. That's what consumes your intellectual abilities and that is exactly what keeps the brainwashing in.

It helps to be centered (i.e. find your safe place, find peace in your relationships, family or whatever personal/emotional issues you're struggling with, because it is negative feelings that you hold in your body, which is used to brainwash you)... and then when you're relaxed, the reality becomes more clear.
> The Russian vaccine avoids it by using two different strains of adenovirus for the two jabs

That would complicate manufacturing, logistics and distribution somewhat right?
Then don’t buy one. Not sure why anyone would be tired of a product they could ignore. Unless Apple and Microsoft are oppressive because they won’t collapse and build Linux laptops. It makes no sense. Just go run Linux on some ancient Thinkpad.
I had reached out to white hat junior as a volunteer to teach kids and share the knowledge I acquired through my education and work experience. I explicitly mentioned to them that I'm not looking for a salary. I have a stable job and free time to help upskill children who cannot afford a fee. A little background : I used to teach in India (for about 8 years along with my core job) but having moved to a new country, commuting became a little difficult and I gave it up. With an online platform such as white hat jr., I thought this would be really convenient for me and helpful for children.

And here is how they responded : only if you commit to 30 hours a week, can we onboard you because other teachers are competing.. This was obviously not possible for me, as I already have a job. My argument was - I am an experienced teacher, with 9+ years in the IT industry. And I don't even want money for my services, just be flexible to maybe 15-20 hours a week. This kept going on for a while, and then I realized that their cause is not to educate but make money. So I gave up.
Shouldn't it warrant a research if even smaller dose has even higher efficiency?
Well prusa did with their printers
>I suspect YouTube would predict the popularity of videos and only cache where it matters (low anticipated popularity videos would be pushed to CDN if they performed better than expected).

That's actually a really interesting point, because YouTube can (partly) decide which video will become popular. They control what shows up as a suggested video, what appears at the top of search, what shows up in the subscription feed (unless the subscriber has clicked the bell icon).
I agree that in cases of overwhelming national interests patents and licensing should be ignored if they stand in the way.

But: this is not a medicine made of a molecule that can be synthesised by the chemical industry.
Such a vaccine requires input from the creator and then specialist equipment to manufacture. Poor countries don't have the infrastructure to manufacture and the creator labs are not going to tell you how to produce the vaccine just because you ask them.

In any case, governments should pressure labs to enforce an low prove.
So... when does this become an anti-patriotic thing to have?

You know, when a country's police can't unlock the phone then convince everyone that a "little bit of a backdoor" is a good thing?

/s
Appreciate the effort and a very interesting write-up, but this is one of those pieces not well suited to a 280 character limit.
They also tried 2 different dose regimens, one of which had 90% efficacy. The 70% figure is the weighted mean of the two I think.
How long will it take to see the results?
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> will definitely be

Sure, eventually, that will be the case.

But right now, most GTK apps are not Wayland native and look bad on Wayland. Those that are Wayland native have so many bugs on Wayland that they are still objectively significantly worse than their Xorg alternatives.
100% Agree. The research is there but the engineering to make it easy to use is lagging.

I look forward to the day it's easy to create visualizations like so: https://exbert.net/
> The majority of the down votes I have seen are for disagreement, and not for the quality of the post.

It often looks like there is no other explanation than mere dislike or disagreement, which is unfair and calls for improvement. My policy: never downvote any post, and on the contrary, upvote posts that are contrary to my views but have merit and thus are worthy of consideration.

I wish there were better ways to highlight thought-provoking posts, yet moderation is essential. A popular voting system is better than nothing.

Let's compare this with the ability to block people on Twitter just because they disagree with you. That's stupid and not conducive to having a discussion—but then again, this wasn't the point of Twitter in the first place. At the same time, this is also a blessing for people who want to avoid negativity.

In the long run, ignoring problems doesn't make them disappear. Suppressing exposure to bad ideas also comes at the cost of blocking the unpopular good ones.
Sure, the bills and the mortgage will miraculously pay themselves if we set our minds to it.
Joking aside, those quotes resonate with most people I suppose, but the cold hard reality is that wageslavery is a very apt term to describe the current state of things.
So, according to 'adwn, it's "not okay" to ask rhetorical questions to make a point in a conversation, because 'adwn feels like he can read the intentions in my mind, and they're ignoble.

Pretty sure that reading my mind and accusing me of bad faith is a violation of The Guidelines. Maybe you should take a leave of absence from the HN Volunteer Police Department.
I've experienced enough neighborhood crime and unreported incidents that I can see great value in a neighborhood surveillance network. However, I don't know whether this surveillance network is worth the costs that are to be associated with it. The cure costs more than the problem.

Ring is an Amazon product. Ring videos stream to AWS s3 servers. Video is processed through AI and used in an unlimited number of ways for Amazon's purposes and not just policing. We're going to wind up paying Amazon through taxes for an unnecessary neighborhood surveillance platform that it gets to monetize in countless ways. Politicians, whose greatest contributor to re-election campaigns will be an anonymous source affiliated with a lobbying outfit contracted by Amazon, will insist that the program is valuable but never substantiate the claims with much else than anecdotal evidence. Society functions well enough today without these services and it costs us far less than it will tomorrow. Don't forget that.

Mozilla Foundation is ringing the alarm bells about public surveillance when it should be alarming us about paying more taxes. We'll be paying taxes for unnecessary technology services. The programs will involve long-term contracts, too, so forget about voting in a new mayor to change things.
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Are you now teaching in any form online?Would like to know .
It is? I haven't tipped in years, whereas I did in the 1990s. Maybe because I never pay with cash anymore. Then it was common to round up to the next multiple of 5. Even so, I never have had wait staff asking for a tip.
Terraform has released something very similar, but not stable yet: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/cdk-for-terraform-enabling-py...
1. The site is too big for him to immediately see everything.

2. Sometimes he has reasons for not doing x along the lines of "When we a/b tested it, doing x made the problem worse."

I try to not spend a whole lot of time talking about these kind of things, but I'm personally okay with there being some discussion so new people can learn more about how the site really works.
I'm also in the UK (Edinburgh - it's not quite SE prices but not far off it), and buying solo would be difficult, but buying with two incomes made things much much simpler. Its likely that sole income buyers are going to be priced out by couples, particular in the "nice" houses where the demand is. From a lenders perspective, a couple on 25k each vs a single earner on 60k, the couple is much less risky, their post-tax income is higher, less of a chance of a full default, living costs are split. They can be slightly more "generous" lending to couples, so it's likely that most of the nice properties fall just above the 2x 25k earner threshold (adjusted for whatever that is locally)
Not to my knowledge, but they do at least list[0] what kind of access method they use for the different integrations.

I would too very much like to see a filter on local only access. At least it's doable to check before buying something.

[0]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/12/classifying-th...
Yes, the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is much cheaper: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/astra-oxf...
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These end to end encrypted systems are subverted through backups that devices put into the cloud in the clear. Officially they are "encrypted" in Android [0], but typically the key is extremely weak so it's easy to brute force. iCloud is officially "encrypted" as well but Apple holds the keys.

[0]: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-and-android-h...
Not GP but focusing heavily on things that request your immediate attention but are not necessarily what you want for your life can be a huge physical time sink, I really like that essay on 'life is short' from Paul Graham:

"You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old. If Christmas-as-magic lasts from say ages 3 to 10, you only get to watch your child experience it 8 times."
There should be regulation that forces all vendors to use a public standars, instead of letting them develop their own. Home automation would clearly benefit from a single specification and multiple implementations, instead of current multiple implementation scenario. Web has grown thanks to html being a common ground. HA is wonderful considering how many walled gardens there are .

Imagine buying a house and having to rip out the automation because it's implementation does not work with whatever you have to use.

Home automation should be seen as utility, just like electricity. I really don't care if apple or google doesn't see it that way. Electricity has standardized on something , so home automation can too.
Why is FB threatening everyone with a good time?

What's next? Threatening us that they will stop tracking and serving us "relevant ads"? Oh, no. We wouldn't want that.
As a European, I can only comment: Amen!
If "support free speech" means "support Nazis" (as it does here), it's not a virtue.
Taking a pointer-to-pointer is intentional to make it clear that the pointer will be modified. That's actually the most important difference from nn3's version IMHO.
Is there an equivalent analogue model? Cheap, reliable, reasonably water proof? I prefer analogue watch faces but everything I see is either garbage, terribly expensive, or cluttered and greebled.
Absence of evidence does not imply evidence of absence.

Anything that reduces the R rate sufficiently will mean fewer outbreaks and reduce the strain on the hospital system.
If even one gets sick after taking vaccine the media will jump on it and focus on nothing else for days / weeks.

I think getting people vaccinated is going to be a huge challenge.
Putting scientific data and research process behind paywalls and proprietary programs is in my opinion the opposite of what science needs. There are enough barriers in science as it is, no need to create more.

Even to download Functionalities Overview I need to leave my email address, name and my institution. That's a big NO-NO.

The product may be a great fit for industry, but not academia that's funded from public sources and should be as open as possible.
Funny today was the day my simple setup (IKEA bridge + HomeKit) did not run. IKEA bridge restart fixed it.

I myself went from smart home back to just motion sensor + light. And I mostly buy HomeKit devices because the certification means they work, and they speak HTTP/JSON (thanks apple).
Upgrade Raspberry Pi 4 with a NVMe boot drive
PCR tests detect fragments of a virus, not necessarily an active/viable virus.
I went for both because my existing 2017 MBP only has 8GB/512GB and I bump into them fairly regularly. But if it's one or the other, I'd go for memory - you can offload your disk space to a NAS/Cloud/whatever much more easily.
You should focus less on whether you can identify each individual widget and more on what they mean.

Lets look at Word 95: https://live.staticflickr.com/5161/5199339764_7a2b6036eb_b.j...

Ah, yes... many buttons. I can see that there are buttons. What do they mean? Dunno. But, yep - they're definitely buttons.

Now let's look at Pages. (Admittedly, I myself am still not 100% happy with Big Sur's look)
https://ibb.co/0MKRcPd

No! How am I supposed to know what I can click on? Never mind the fact that everything is much better labeled and structured. How will I ever remember that the row of icons at the top are actually a toolbar.

I could go on about other aspects in which Win95 falls short, but this sums it up quite nicely.

No, standardized widgets are not the most important aspect of an interface and no, Win95 was not the peak of design.
https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimc.html#cross-compilation

Nim doesn't seem to have excellent cross compiling support out of the box. It simply relies on cross platform toolchains that you have to set up.

Good luck setting up cross platform GCC.

Zig uses musl AFAIK? That can often be problematic.
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Yes. But clinical trials are expensive ($100m plus) and time consuming.
Thanks! That was a copy-paste error. Fixed it now.
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I've owned both Toyota and Audi and wouldn't touch another Audi for its finicky engine and suspension.

That being said the Audi drove a hell of lot more smoothly and beautifully but just stuff needed to be tweaked and fixed all the time.

Toyota (and Lexus) just know how to make vehicles that run super well for long periods of time.
I agree it's useful for historians but current historians should be responsible for cataloguing the data rather than the company in my opinion. That way when the company goes out of business that data isn't lost.
I agree accessibility and speed of testing is critical.