skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably, but why bother. If you have the ability to do that, you also have the Covid DNA sequence, and probably the ability to make your own mRNA vaccine. The only thing your vaccine would be lacking is the safety trials which you probably also have the ability to run, and you have already started them (if you haven't why not, and why would you care to start now).

There is the possibility that you have the ability to manufacture mRNA in your factory but didn't have the idea to start making your own vaccine until late enough that it wasn't worth trying to make your own. In this case you may want to talk to Pfizer about licensing their (but you have probably been in those talks for months and are just waiting for the right time to publicly announce the deal with production already started)
> Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence

Can we claim that we have some evidence based on a sample of 6 people?
Of course but there are always people who will be desperate to get ahead of the curve before the science fully comes out (including nation states) and were willing to take risks.

It’s almost like everyone didn’t expect a basic human reality among a subset of the population to be a reality.

Fear has always been one of our strongest base motivations.

I’m generally cynical about all politicians and the lowest common denominator which is a hell of a lot of people. But I also don’t think the support for it during the early days was limited to just mom and pops boomers or whatever.

There’s plenty of blame to go around but I also think there was plenty of signals early on where the seriousness of the guilt is less than a lot of smug Twitter idealists are willing to admit.

My only question was why this one guy to target among a sea of other signals. But I also think from a purely skeptics (publication) perspective it’s fair they target the ones who aren’t ‘supposed’ to be among the stupid group and should know better (which would then exclude random family doctors, early recommendations for exploration, and the perpetually dumb politicians) and this guy was super influential as a microbiologist. So it might make more sense in that context.
> Linux is still catching up with btrfs...

ZFS is available on Linux if you want it, in fact FreeBSD is basing its support for ZFS on it.

For a mainline option, am personally holding out hope for bcachefs, rather than btrfs.
That’s not really the ethos of this community. If you make a claim, you should provide context to back it up. Asking someone else to do your research and closing with “I’m not going to spoon feed you” isn’t how HN works.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is already rated PEGI 18.

The ESRB rating is "Mature". There are hardly any games
besides pornographic games that get "Adults Only". Even the Witcher 3 is only "Mature".
How would one explain to a Facebook addict why they should get the vaccine and that it's not a Bill Gates/NWO conspiracy to sterilise them?
I recently learned that a microfiber cloth (resealed in a ziploc bag between applications) helps a lot with the fogging.
Implying people are children for holding different views than you is way less persuasive than you seem to think it is.
Sure, but in a monospaced font both of those arrows would have to fit into the same small box, so 27F6 might be the full width while 2192 would be some partial width, while a -> ligature would be two widths.
Well this is it, isn’t it. Because really, what the hell is its USP†? The world already has a perfectly cromulent Rust language. Adding a second, less popular one merely dilutes both efforts; and to what purpose? Ego? Control? Simple unwillingness to accept a direct competitor has already beaten their ass to market and mindshare?

Everyone knows the name Charles Darwin. Now ask them who Alf Wallace is, and why they should they should care. Or Yohan Blake. Or Atty Osborne… and so on.

Where’s the advantage in being an also-ran? It’s a tough but necessary lesson to swallow: accept your lovely technology is just too late to be the successful product you hoped for. Treat the whole exercise as a valuable learning experience, and move on to your next Big Idea as quickly as you can, this time, of course, making sure to get to market before your direct competitors can, so as to leave them in the dust instead of you.

--

† Their website doesn’t say. Just a technical features list, and yep, one look: Rust, but a lot less mature with waaay less ecosystem and support. That’s not a winning proposition; that’s a sucker’s deal. Damn but every computer geek needs to do a marketing course.
Show HN: Procedural-gl – open-source 3D mapping library built with Three.js
These are simply a Wow!! Mind blowing, as you said.
I found an old backup of videos shot on my jailbroken 3G iPhone. She passed away a fews year after I recorded a day in the park showing here what my phone could do. And I'll watch the shit out of those slightly grainy 30 second clips until the day I die. That camera wasn't great and would be considered barely passable but it was in hand and it could do the job, in 2007.
Thanks for doing that. I'll follow right after you (and a bunch of others).
That part does not mean what you think it means. Cash flow, negative working capital and profitability are separate things. In the end, they are generating loss.
Being available in three European countries (out of 50) is not really "available in Europe".
Maybe it's worthwhile linking to your assessment of John Heisz' router table here: https://woodgears.ca/reader/router_table.html
> "use of beasts of burden ... to wind up large springs and power other machinery"

Needn't be just beasts of burden. People used dogs to turn roasting spits - https://gizmodo.com/medieval-kitchens-used-a-specially-bred-... .

IANA genetic engineer, but plants -> alcohol/biodiesel -> power seems likely more efficient than plants/feed -> animals -> mechanical energy storage -> power.
Why would Russia go to war with Denmark, which controls access to the Baltic Sea, control of which has been a major priority for Russian foreign policy for the past 300 years?
Russell's Principia Mathematica (PM) is indeed better

engineered than its predecessor by Frege because it has orders

on propositions. Because of orders on proportions, PM does

not allow the [Gödel 1931] proposition I'mUnprovable.

Furthermore, adding the proposition I'mUnprovable would

make PM inconsistent.

The Gödel number of a proposition in PM is itself
"incomplete" because it *doesn't* include the order of the
proposition. Allowing its Gödel number to represent a
proposition is indeed a kind of "code injection" attack,
which if allowed would make PM inconsistent.
Didn't notice that. Thanks for the correction.
Again, that doesn't justify it, in fact, if your interpretation is correct, it no longer even explains it. The implication still remains that "hey, we're insulting your religion, but there are people of multiple backgrounds here so it should be okay"... which really doesn't follow at all.

And I didn't say that the decision was expressly made by non-christians.
Only 6% of the subjects in that study were asymptomatic by their definition. I think this is a confusion of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic: most cases will have a few days of pre-symptomatic infection regardless of the symptoms they have later.
ZFS encrypts most metadata.

Metadata not encrypted: Dataset / snapshot names, Dataset properties, Pool layout, ZFS Structure, Dedup tables

ZFS encrypts: File data and metadata ,ACLs, names, permissions, attrs
Directory listings,, All Zvol data,FUID Mappings
,Master encryption keys
,All of the above in the L2ARC
,All of the above in the ZIL

For most uses and use cases this is net increase in security. You can do some operations on data without needing the keys.
Profitability Projections for a “Minimum Viable Bakery”
> It just happened.

Because it was free to us and video files are large... and if you're making a lot of them then "storing" them on YouTube is easier than on your computer/backup drive/NAS.

I saw in a CNBC video (on YouTube, of course) that YouTube's revenue is almost TWICE of Google Cloud Platform. I imagine the info they can glean about us (the videos for which we search, the recommendations on which we click) are nearly as valuable as the ads since it allows YouTube to be able to target ads to a per-user interest level, which can be used everywhere Google sells ads and not just on YouTube.
There are other much more interesting futurist-type movements, like:

Russian Cosmism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism

The Bauhaus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus (not sure if the Bauhaus is "futurism" but I sort of feel like it fits under that umbrella)

Timothy Leary's Futurism: https://www.futureconscience.com/smi2le-the-futurism-of-timo...

The Whole Earth Catalog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

There was a whole lot of futurism in the 1960s psychedelic-era counterculture. It was not all "back to the land" luddite stuff. In fact I associate that stuff more with the 1970s and the New Age movement that came later. Of course then there's eco-futurism that actually blends back to the land tropes with high-tech futurist tropes, which can get really interesting too.

I don't like Italian futurism at all, though it did create a bit of interesting aesthetic work. It's a very nihilistic fascist sort of futurism. I've seen an echo of it in the nihilistic accelerationist fascism that's adjacent to the "alt-right" (or whatever it's called this week) movements of the past decade. I get the sense that some of these people advocate fascism because it is awful, because they're angry nihilists who want to burn the world down.
Why are you a dickhead?
I appreciate the intention, but this is the sort of approach that leads to a long-term distrust of what 'the scientists' say - if we let politicians dictate the scientific message and consensus, then there's no room to criticize when the scientific message gets politicized and ignored.
What Is the Length of a Pitch Deck?
Lol Apple still released a video app afterwards for it so not so useless that Apple didn’t utilize it and some of my greatest memories which I still watch were captured with said camera. It worked just fine I can assure you. I captured many of my kids first moments on it. For it’s time, I was very happy with the camera. Sure compared to today it is a joke but so are many computing devices from that era. Also the point for me was I was a little upset I was sold video messaging and my phone couldn’t even do that. Not Apples fault the guy sold me something the phone was not capable of but it was the catalyst that showed me breaking the walled garden does have its appeal and uses.
XML or death
Tangent: 4?! My son is 2 and a half and we have just gotten to the point where he will even pay attention to a tv for more than 10 minutes (and only for peppa pig of all things).

I'm really thought it was further away than that for any sort of gaming or real computer use, but I have no gauge from growing up in a house without anything but a tv till I was almost in middle school.
What ZFS does here is not enough for me. I need to be alerted to changes done also above the file system layer, like by malware or accidental deletion etc. Only way I have found to solve that is to have checksum tool above the file system. If something is wrong, I restore from backup, so zfs does not give me anything...
It's to be avoided because it doesn't seem to help, but it hasn't been shown to be harmful. Important distinction.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/who-recommends-aga...

But of course, FDA has been pressured by Trump so perhaps you can look at what other health agencies that don't have a despot screaming at them do with the vaccine.
I'd guess the 'realistic' scenario helped. I know a lot of folks who wouldn't touch a game with a fantasy setting ("it's for children"), but are ok with a game with a setting based in reality.
Also, simplification works - maybe the varied enemies make the game too difficult for some players.
I’ll do it this weekend and build my own vaccine
The problem is if your TRR can be associated with you, then outgoing queries to authoritative servers can be tracked.
> I don't care about one persons experiences.

You're not wrong about anecdata. But there's a less callous way to respond to someone who just explained that two of their relatives are dead or seriously ill...
Yeah, this is one of those places where Congress (providing funding) and the administration (providing leadership) and the private sector (doing the actual work) were able to work together.

I wish there were more examples of this type of thing. One area an effort like this is badly needed is for at-home rapid testing.
I wonder how this relates to the general spread of the disease in a region. Denmark has a much lower rate of spread than many places in the US.

The article doesn't say when this was carried out. Was it when there were few active cases[1]. If this was carried out during the time with few active cases it would be like testing an umbrella by walking around with it open on a day with a low chance of rain. Doesn't do a good job of testing the umbrella.

There is other research showing better protection like that at Beaumont health system[2]. This was in environments with varying levels of exposures (including nurses treating COVID patients).

I wish there were more details.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/denmark/

[2] https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/11/16/beaumont-...
How can we trust the uncertainty metric? Additionally humans are prone to intutively misjudging probabilities...
> The point is that even though it was not great quality you could do it by using a jailbreak.

A point I did not dispute. Hence why I quoted the part I was referencing, rather than his entire post.
That's the easy thing with ZFS, just add the disks as new VDEVs.

So just to clarify. A ZFS pool stores data in VDEVs. A single VDEV can be:

- a single disk (no redundancy, but same error checking)

- N disks in a N-way mirror

- N disks in a RAID-Z (single for disk parity, min 3 disks)

- RAID-Z2 with 2 disk parity

- RAID-Z3 with 3 disk parity (much slower than other two RAID-Z's due to complex math)

You can always _add_ VDEVs to a pool, and ZFS will start using it. It will try to be clever about it, so for example if existing VDEVs are quite full, it will redirect most of the writes to the new VDEV.

What you cannot do (yet) is _remove_ a VDEV.

It's also possible to replace _all_ the disks in a single VDEV to larger disks in turn (important!), and once the final disk is replaced the VDEV will suddenly appear to have the added capacity.
It's quite readable if you make your window size super short and wide, but it's weird that this is even necessary.
It is not explicit: historically, videos were unmonetized by default
A lot less stupid than continuing with "distance learning".
Then ban me. I don't care
From the link you posted:

In 2018, a study team including CDC scientists analyzed and published vaccine safety data on adjuvanted pH1N1 vaccines (arenaprix-AS03, Focetria-MF59, and Pandemrix-AS03) from 10 global study sites. Researchers did not detect any associations between the vaccines and narcolepsy.

Incidence rate study data did not show a rise in the rate of narcolepsy following vaccination except in the one signaling country included (Sweden, which used Pandemrix).
Case-control analyses for Arepanrix-AS03 did not show evidence of an increased risk of narcolepsy.
Case-coverage analysis for Pandemrix-ASO3 in children in the Netherlands did not show evidence of an increased risk of narcolepsy, but the number of exposed cases was small (N=7).
Cases-control analysis for Focetria-MF59 did not show evidence of an increased risk of narcolepsy.
It is not "all or nothing".

it's defense in depth, and if masks, which are literally dirt cheap and only a minor inconvenience are even somewhat effective, that adds to the overall mitigation efforts and should be mandated.

It's not hard folks.

"Turning off SMTP relay only prevents other people from getting spam. I'm not going to do that, even though it's a one line configuration change and doesn't really impact my use case. Moreover, the default should be open SMTP relay"
>There have been about 30,000 deaths from air crashes globally ever.

Wow, while this is obviously a very low number in relative terms, I'm still surprised how big it is intuitively. I would have guessed an order of magnitude less based on the few times I've perused Wikipedia lists of aircraft fatalities. Where did you find this? Sorry to be off topic.
That would be awesome! Thanks for the heads up. My username at gmail if you get a chance to send it. Thanks again!
I had this same thought experiment, let’s assume this vaccine were 95% effective and the government sent a tablet to everyone in the mail.

What would the outcome be?

I posed this question to Soccer Dads and immediately was told they wouldn’t risk the long term effects of a vaccine.

Same dads that wouldn’t wear a mask and don’t fear the unknown long term effects of COVID
> I don't care about one persons experiences

While your math is sound, your empathy is horrendous.

How about, "I'm so sorry about your loss. But it doesn't change the fact that..."
If people with no current symptoms couldn't spread COVID-19, that would be an extremely convenient fact for controlling spread! But it doesn't look like we're that lucky.
There are studies that show a mask is effective in protecting the wearer. The one I can immediately remember is https://www.freep.com/story/news/health/2020/11/16/beaumont-...
Would like to see some effect on biomarkers such as blood pressure, blood sugar, etc.
what about Zig? why so many new languages suddenly appear?

Vale looks ok and readable(unlike butt ugly rust) but it just tries to be really smart and I don't like it. way too much syntactic sugar for shorter code in exchange for readability and clarity. too many implied things...that's why Go rulez. simple, clean, readable.
This, there's been so much lying and distrust lately I think this is why vaccine news is treated with some skepticism and not with joy.
Are they likely to whitelist Electron (and React Native and other major webapp-as-native-app frameworks)? Or will those apps be forced to boot you out to the browser, and then back to the app?

I think I've already seen one app that did that to me. It was clunky and broke the illusion that the app was native -- though I guess that's a pretty thin illusion anyway.
Define a "tech IPO" for me. I'll wait.
Turning Human Corpses to Soil
I assume you write fairly "static" software that knows its job pretty well in advance. Ada programs tend to use a similar allocation strategy.

A lot of programs written in C and C++ are very dynamic, and may need to massively increase or decrease the number of objects they use while running. For example, consider an audio workstation: when you first start it, it has very little to do, but the user can add literally hundreds or thousands of tracks, each with dozens of effects and modifications.

Each of these features is composed of many objects. Ownership comes in when these objects have complex relationships, where one object may need to be referenced by many others. When it is time to clean up some of these objects — for example, when a user deletes a track in the audio workstation — you have to know which of these shared objects to delete. Ownership is one way of modelling that problem.

Languages that talk about ownership try to optimize the "best case" where an object has exactly one owner, because then it's very simple for the compiler to free that object. The trick is that you have to prove that no one else is using it, or else you have memory errors.
I’m on mobile but can’t wait to try it. Very impressed not with your product but with the research you’ve done. That GoogleSheet is extensive as hell.
You may be underestimating its value. By the sounds of it, it seems like it would combine the best of both the chat worlds (Discord, Slack, etc) as well as a forum.

You get the friction-free experience of a chat when it comes to UX, but with the advantages of a forum such as threads, searchability (being indexed by search engines), etc.

This would be a really nice alternative to the current status quo where it's either Discourse (nice as a forum, but not ideal as a real-time chat) or Discord/Slack/IRC (nice as a chat, but siloed and not searchable).
Don't try to convince them forcefully, or else you will strengthen their belief in brainwashing. Explain rationally why YOU believe the vaccine works, and the evidence as to why you are convinced, and accept if they don't change their beliefs.

From experience, sometimes people are very refusing when arguing in person, but over time they think it over and might change their mind.
Software companies that claim they "Work to make a Difference" strike me as cultish and are an immediate turn off.

I work for a living, I volunteer and work in my community to make a difference.
So....don't take the Russian vaccine?

Maybe take notice the of 20k in each trial who have received the vaccine?

Or maybe just go get Covid and trust those results?
Housewife characters are uncommon, and they tend to be portrayed as vapid, boring, incompetent or else otherwise their occupation is the butt of the joke (e.g., “Claire” in Modern Family who is as intelligent as any of the characters but is a low key alcoholic and eventually breaks free of her housewife occupation to become an executive at her father’s company).
tbh I had the vaccine back then and am still fine(or I'm dreaming right now). That doesn't mean I'm for or against this new vaccine. I'll draw my conclusion when I see enough data. At the end of the day it's my choice if I do it or not since if you take the jab you should be safe either way.

That being said: shutting down discourse I'm always against. Dumb or not everyone should be able to have their say as long as they don't preach violence in any way.
Hello HN!

For the last 7 years I've been working on a WebGL powered mapping library, that I've been providing on a commercial basis via www.procedural.eu. It's been used by millions of users across different products

I recently decided to change the approach and instead provide a new library on an open-source basis, along with an supporting elevation API (www.nasadem.xyz).

Procedural GL JS is a complete reworking of the original library, with the following features:

* Stream in standard raster imagery tiles. Supports map tiles from a variety of providers
* Batteries included elevation data. Global 3D data coverage courtesy of nasadem.XYZ
* Powerful overlay capabilities. Draw crisp markers and lines
* Well-thought-out API, complex applications can be built without needing to deal with 3D concepts
* Great UX and intuitive controls, mouse-based on desktop & touch-based on mobile
* Tiny filesize means library is parsed fast. Package size is less than THREE.js thanks to code stripping
* Novel GPU powered level-of-detail system. Off-loading to the GPU frees up the main JavaScript UI thread

I'm planning a series of blog posts about how it works in the future, but for today it's just the launch. Happy to answer any questions!
Just in case anybody does need a router table, you can buy a Lumberjack RT1500 router table for £200 in the UK. Lumberjack is just a rebadger so I'd expect it to be available elsewhere at similar prices.

It has 1/2" and 1/4" collets. It's steel topped. Really prominent height, power and speed control on the front. Good Enough™ fence and extraction.

It's one of those rare tools that is both cheap for what it is, and way better than expected. By no means perfect, but it's knocking on the door of a £1k DIY system.
You seriously can't do that on a vanilla homepod? Seems like the most basic feature every bluetooth speaker has.

Re: the delay, usually for videos the computer will compensate by delaying the video playback to match the speakers.
Looking at the language ref, you can specify the return types if you want to.