skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that clear cut though, because as rents rise up, people are incentivized to build new, smaller homes. (Until we ran out of space, but we're very far from this happening.)
Build.dev is a super-premium domain of the .dev TLD, by Google
I was wondering with these RISC-V processors is a minimum set of features required for Go code to work with them? Is there an easy way to determine if a RISC-V processor will run Go code?
On the face of it, it seems like a market ripe for disruption. Is it that hard to make a decent guitar, or is branding so import to customers that a new brand with a decent product at a cheaper price has basically no chance?
> The last bit is culture. Color in each culture is widely different.

One thing that confused me a great deal when I was younger: In the political system that I was familiar with, a "red" party is left-leaning. But in the United States, "red" is right-leaning.

Apparently, this convention is also extremely recent; only since the 2000 elections has red-is-Republican and blue-is-Democrat been agreed upon.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states#Con...
There are currently 54 vaccines being tested on humans. Getting the necessary data to obtain approval for human testing requires a lot of funding. Testing on humans requires a lot of funding. In the end, maybe 4 vaccines will be used. Do you think the companies that produced and tested the ~50 vaccines that will not be used will get their investment back?
I haven't seen this mentioned in the article, but the BASICODE project (Netherlands, UK, West- and East-Germany) was a "real world example" where program code was distributed on vinyl records (and via radio stations):

German Wikipedia entry: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE

English Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASICODE
I don't get this - if you're symptomatic beyond day 9, how can you not be contagious? A dry cough, for example, should be caused by the virus still being alive in the upper respiratory tract, i.e. you still should be able to infect others. Did they test aerosols, too?
the expenses paid by governments you mean?
The idea of "false balance" cannot be so quickly wiped away with a one liner.

Imagine the current media shit storm was being given credibility by the media by devoting half of their reporting to ways maybe Trump is right, maybe Trump did win. They would be enabling authoritarian behaviour.

Balance in reporting should be aiming to centre around objective truth. Not trying to find the mid point between one side or another's narrative.
Pharmaceutical corporations are not exactly well known to seek "fair" profits.

Practically speaking, I suppose a hypothetical scenario could be that the:

- the companies are granted patents

- the vaccine lasts for a limited amount of time

- before each patent expiry they companies make minor modifications (say, storage temperature requirement decreased by half a degree)

- the company make "unfair" profits by extending the oligopoly for a very long amount of time

I'm not stating that this will happen, but on the other hand, I find this plausible.
I would far rather we report 70% and find its more effective than we report is up to 90% effective but in field deployment find its less. A 70% vaccine at wide scale release can keep R under 1.0

1/5th the price, and no need for freezers. This vaccine is huge. I pray for more like this.
When I studied pharmaceutical sciences ten years ago, the rule-of-thumb was that it cost around 1 billion dollars from idea to the product being launched. That's only r&d costs and regulations have become stricter over the years, so I imagine the cost has risen since then
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I only started toying with HA a few weeks ago and am currently writing my own platform.

I've bought lights, switches and sensors and so far only the zigbee stuff “just worked“ everything else gets me down a debugging rabbit hole. But zigbee is the easy part anyway because it all lives within deconz.

I guess would i have bought only official supported products my experience would be different.

But this way i really dont get the hype.

Edit:// also the docs are super confusing. Seems most things are now gui based, but most docs talk about config files that dont exist anymore. It also runs like shit on the raspberry pi 4 i only bought because it said its a recommended device. Wifi setup isnt working at all too.
what's you definition of fair? What the market would bear?
I concur, Affinity Photo is an excellent tool. I forgot about Photoshop a long time ago.

I'm still waiting for their Lightroom replacement though. For some reason I just couldn't adapt to Darkroom.
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> controls the fan on the toilet

Huh... what?
If I remember correctly, the Ebola vaccine is the first approved vaccine to use another virus as a vector. The first one to be approved (by Merck) does not use an adenovirus, but the second approved one (by J&J) does.

Note that approvals of these were late 2019 and the summer of this year. So still very new from an "approved on humans" point of view (although not _as_ new as mRNA-based vaccines). The techniques have both been in development for years and years of course, including determining their safety profiles.
Does that go to qualitative differences from a quantitative variance of half (or double, depending on what you focus on) sample size?
Especially in the next few months, supply of all of these will be limited by production capacity and supply chains. Having multiple available means more doses can be delivered sooner.
Zig supports musl, glibc, macOS libc, and mingw I think:

https://ziglang.org/download/0.7.0/release-notes.html

But yeah, I think musl is the main target, and it ships with the source for it
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I appreciate your point. It is always good to be aware of possible sources of bias.
I think steps are being made to open up the architecture.

Documentation of a lot of it has been published, but only a partial drivers have been developed by the community.

for example, I think mesa has some opengl hardware acceleration and I know kodi does hardware video decoding. I also believe there's some work on u-boot.
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> The strangely ubiquitous watch

It is cheap, reliable, robust, and does the job.

That it is ubiquitous is not strange at all. Make something good and cheap and it will become ubiquitous. Bic pens come to mind.
now this is a quality post
> A dry cough, for example, should be caused by the virus still being alive in the upper respiratory tract

Why? I thought the body’s (potentially delayed) reaction caused the cough, not the virus
I’m sure you’d be willing to play that game? Let’s say your job becomes “essential”. The company pays your costs (rent, food) and nothing more. I mean, to “profit” is unacceptable.
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That would be a great way to disincentivize vaccine research for the next major pandemic.
It is surprisingly hard to come up with a simple and concise UI even if it may seem all too trivial in retrospect.

Given that this one uses secondary control labels that are verbatim of Bvckup's, has the same layout and opening screen, and nearly identical look and feel, this is certainly not an independent effort.
Naive guess: the damage was already done. Cough is a response to the damage caused by the virus, not to the virus itself.

If you get shot, you still have a bullet wound when the bullet comes out.
The ad tech industry is basically this idea taken to its conclusion and it totally sucks.
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If I understand this correctly, the question is not Facebook's advertising, targeting and so on, but rather the ownership and location of the servers where all that is executed.

The EU insists that such servers have to be located in Europe and owned by a Facebook subsidiary that's covered by European law, Facebook insists on transmitting the data to the US and executing the targeting on servers owned by a Facebook subsidiary covered by American law.

This seems implausible.
It is, especially for far flung places. This stable vaccine will be very useful in places like the pacific islands, where air transport isn’t always an option.
Third grade textbooks in late 90s in Kochi, India teach us that a CPU has an Arithemetic Logic Unit and a Control Unit. A light pen is an input device that can be held againt a Video Display Unit. They repeat this for a few years.
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I talked to a bunch of CROs about the cost of Phase 3 trials. It varies, but is roughly $10,000 to $15,000 per patient year.

Pfizer’s trial will run for 2 years, so ~$900M for the trial alone. That’s excluding all the work to scale up the production, regulatory filing, distribution, etc.

Edit: my math sucks. $900M, not $90M
I like stories like that (experienced this myself). Building complex system, because it scratches an itch, and not using it after completion. So what happened witch the itch, where is it. What was it all about? Why did it happen? Why this kind of system and not the other, etc. This kind if questioning. Was that because the dog was the only part of the environment, that was alive / uncontrollable?
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>> estimate long term effects also with children comparable to young adults

So, like nil then? I still can’t find anything beyond dramatized anecdotes to suggest any special danger beyond what is commensurate with the symptoms.
Indeed. AFAIK the psychological definition of burnout is something that you never bounce back from (to the same level).

Something that you bounce back from is 'just' exhaustion – and burnout is something that happens when you're exhausted but still keep pushing.

It's interesting how the author first uses sleep as an example of leisure, then something as akin to 'work' (before play), because undersleeping is pretty much the typical example of the kind of short-time 'benefit' thing that leads to very high long-term costs. But I guess that the first mention of 'sleep' might have meant "staying lazily in bed when you have already woken up" ?
For starters, the fact that nobody can agree on what a “fascist” even is these days. And when you have a generic term like that which essentially boils down to “people whose opinions I dislike”, then you’re advocating for the blacklisting of arbitrary groups of people. Not going to turn out well, especially when you yourself get included in one of those groups.
It looks like a huge opportunity! Start your own pharmaceutical company and disrupt these bastards! You found the problem, now bring the solution.
Maybe in English I should say toilet space? What the word for the small room?
Of course. And if they spent $100M on R&D and it failed? What then? Would the gov’t pay those costs? And maybe a small profit?

It’s easy to complain about Pharma profits when you ignore all the money spent that goes “poof”.
What you feel as symptoms are your immune responses, you can not "feel" the actual virus. The immune reponse should go on for longer than the virus is functional.

Also, there has to be above a certain viral load to be contagious. I am however far from qualified to even guess what the thresholds are and I would think that it is mostly a matter of definition.
Fidel Castro also famously wore a Rolex, a GMT Master
That seems fair.

Still won't be a fraction of the profit that stands to be made from these vaccines.
Someone would likely have to port this: https://tinygo.org/

Seems to work on Silicon Hi-Five.
2020's Microsoft: became 2005's Google

2020's Google: became 2005's Microsoft
MAP = Minimum Advertised Price

Luxury manufacturers often demand that retailers sell at or above the MAP so that retailers don't undercut each other, and that the pricing reflect a marketing segmentation based on a pricing tier.
This is a common sentiment but I think it glosses over the upside of cloud computing. Yes, the managed services generally lock you in, but cloud computing has given us cheap and robust VMs in world-class infrastructure. If you want to keep your project portable, you only need to avoid the vendor-specific managed services.

As the FSF put it, there is no cloud, just other people's computers. Using someone else's computers doesn't have to mean lock-in.
Wouldn't there also be a gruelling wait for the moment your sister found out what you did to her ghetto blaster? :-)
Damaged cells are cleaned up pretty fast. Of course, it's the virus causing damage, but we cough for the purpose to clear up the passages. In addition, the respiratory viruses probably trigger the cough as a vehicle to spread to other people.
>> Running from 0 to -6 is 7 iterations.

> I view an iteration as including the iteration expression (i-- in this case) at the end.

Then you should agree that running from 0 to -6 (inclusive) is 7 iterations.

Example:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int i;
for (i = 0; i >= -6; i--, printf("iterated\n")) {
printf("i = %d\n", i);
}
return 0;
}

Output:

i = 0
iterated
i = -1
iterated
i = -2
iterated
i = -3
iterated
i = -4
iterated
i = -5
iterated
i = -6
iterated
Because their banks keep shutting down their accounts. They've been playing whack-a-mole with regulators for a long time, and they probably view the NYAG's request as a backdoor way to find out where and how they're banking in order to shut them down.
>Will they fight each other, or work together

I'm not a microbiologist, but this is not how vaccines work. The vaccines are going to put "something strange" in your body that "resembles" the virus, but it's not the virus (it's either a deactivated version of it, or some proteins which identify it...) and then is YOUR immune system the one which "attacks" this pseudo-virus. In this way, your immune system is learning how to defend to "this kind" of strange agents.

In a future if your immune system sees the virus, will defend you.

If you get the two kinds at the same time, maybe the two doses are too much for your immune system to handle it properly and the side effects may affect you (e.g. you can get fever because your immune system is under too heavy load).
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A lot of this is due to newness and perhaps bad IP reputation. You can fix the reputation by requesting your removal from blocklists. The newness should be fixed after a few years - have you run it on the same IPs for those 15 years? In my experience after a year or so the problems go away (admittedly this is on a much larger scale than personal email).
Nope, unless you are calling GW-BASIC, or the 8 bit line numbered BASICs an IDE.
pretty much all brands had the airbag exploding in your face issue and were replaced for free... but either way isn't Lexus the same as Toyota?
>the implications of redistributing that cost are not particularly palatable either

Perhaps not to you, but socialized healthcare is being advocated for by several elected officials, so it's not completely off-the-table.
I think a large number of refugees from places like Syria and Afghanistan would disagree there.
Can Google change direction and improve like Microsoft did? Or are they on the path of becoming a 2020 IBM in a few years?
Most of the stuff happen to be GNU/Linux replacements for what macOS already provides.
Not directly Home Assistant but tangentially related is ESPHome[0] which is all about making those custom chips with custom hardware and sensors and integrating them into HA later. They also have guides on flashing firmware of some brand-devices (since those devices are also running these same open-source dev boards).

[0]: https://esphome.io
On one hand, all of these vaccine trials excluded people who already had COVID, so we don't fully know what the effect would be in large numbers. However at least one person with COVID immunity accidentally got into the Oxford Phase 1/2 trial (according to earlier published results), so we at least know it didn't hurt them.

On the other hand, it is generally thought that vaccines can trigger immune reactions that are often much stronger and longer lasting than just being infected, so you would expect there to be a benefit to getting vaccinated even if you already had it. But only time will tell for sure. No one really knows how long immunity of either type will last - we just have to wait and find out!
Just to be clear, you have no solid evidence on the long term negative impact on children for either the virus or the vaccine. We have no long term data on anything related to this disease.

But for the deadly virus you interpret the lack sufficient evidence on children as no risk, for the vaccine as as a sign of risk. How do you justify that inconsistency?
> our eyes are able to easily register extreme levels of contrast
>Computer screens (and film and camera sensors) don't achieve anything close to the level of contrast our eyes can take in

And I didn't say anything to the contrary. It's about what people are used to, not to what is physically possible. Again, digital neon colors are definitely not even close to the most extreme you can get - that doesn't mean they're not garish and ugly.

> clearly taking in a bright sunlit day through the window next to a dark but still clearly visible interior

Do you think most people would call that 'natural' and pleasant lighting conditions?

>If you stand in an office and look around, it's not like computer screens stand out as blazing white with inky black figures on them

If you look at them from their intended viewing angle, they're absolutely going to stand out (unless your display is just really dumpy).

>The idea that computer screens have extreme levels of contrast in comparison with the surroundings is simply not true

Feel free to name all the items in your (normally lit) office that have a higher or even just comparable contrast to your screen.
We have the instinct to cough to clear our air passages even without pathogens in certain cases. The virus is triggering these thru some irritation in order to spread to other people.
Hey hacker news,

I've built my career and 10s of software products based on a simple idea: collecting third-party data for profit.

I'm now teaching others the few things I know about it.
LMK if you'd like early access.

Thanks,
Mike
On the contrary, I use macOS for what it is and the value of its development stack, not as a pretty replacement for GNU/Linux, for that I already have my Asus netbook.
This is never an argument for unsolicited advertising and user tracking, though.

I.e. you could have achieved the same by explaining your needs to some shop or service. Just tell them that you are a runner and want relevant ads in your mailbox. No need to tell them about the rest of your life.
Except the 2005's Microsoft would still support all their current and legacy products and services as they still do today(heck, I can run the binaries I built back in school in 2001 on my current Windows 10 setup) while Google abandons them in their bottomless graveyard as soon as the paint dries and moves on to the next shiny thing.

Google is not becoming the new Microsoft but the new Intel/Boeing; no need to rectify anything as long as that sweet ad money keeps coming in.

Google is like politicians and infrastructure: they love cutting ribbons and announcing new things but nobody likes maintaining existing stuff as it gets you no fame.
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>> Zooming in on infrequent episodes of sex, what do you imagine goes on in their minds during those occurrences?

"Does he think I'm fat?"

"Oh yeah baby, I'm doing it!"

:trumpets trunk:

Sorry for joking on HN folks. To contribute more seriously to the conversation, watching other animals having sex is one of the most fascinating and most hilarious activities I can imagine. No wonder the relevant filmography is so popular.
Got to be honest. After using them all, Microsoft's cloud office solution is the least crap. It's the one thing I miss moving to Linux.
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Niggardly is another such word. It has no relation to the racial slur, originating in the Old Norse "nigla", but it would be unwise to use it today.
Nim always relies on an underlying platform compiler.

Getting an .o out from a cross compiler is easy, in my experience - the big problem is getting libraries, includes and linkage right. And in my (admittedly small) experience, Nim makes that part much simpler as soon as you have a compiler set up (which in my case was an apt-get away)
This kind of month-to-month comparison is misleading because flu waves (which is what COVID is comparable to) are usually happening a bit earlier than April. So just comparing April-to-April, and then putting it in percentage terms, and then not comparing to other waves of excess mortality that are normal, obscures what's really going on. Your image seems to show that, prior peaks are of course clustered around January.

But look at total mortality so far in Sweden for 2020. Nothing special, on track to be a normal year. They had a very mild 2019 so it'll probably be higher than that, but nothing special in context. Same for Switzerland.

It's definitely not comparable to any flu year

I suspect you're using the word "comparable" differently to me. Biologically, sure it is. It hits the older a bit harder and the young not at all, so in some ways it's actually better than flu. However with flu since ~2000 there have been vaccines, and for COVID there isn't, so that makes it a bit worse. But if you widen your historical context and look at years before the flu vaccines arrived, then it's entirely comparable to flu years in the sense that mortality numbers are ending up very similar or even the same.

Look at the long term data for Sweden to put things in perspective:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

Or for the UK

http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/

The world has seen far worse within living memory.

W.R.T. Poland, you didn't have a COVID first wave at all, and your second is correlated with the rest of Europe so you're going to be "doubling up" compared to some other places. But your epidemic peaked on November 11th, which means death will also soon peak, and therefore your results will look hardly different to other countries, none of which have experienced the huge waves of death that were supposedly going to engulf any country that didn't lock down. That's what matters: not whether COVID is 10% or 30% worse than a typical post-vaccine flu wave, or whether it's the same as a pre-vaccine flu wave. Those are all minor details. What matters is that the world is being put through crazy totalitarian restrictions and evil based on predictions that it'd be 10,000x worse than flu. And those predictions are all totally, completely, unambiguously wrong.
Aren't people worried about the fact that mRNA vaccines haven't been deployed before? I don't see much apprehension about that generally, but a few months of testing of a brand new delivery technique don't sound that extensive to me.
Keeping a software in "0.x" land while being used in production so much is a bit disingenuous, dont you think?

I mean: it's up to Hashicorp how to version their software, but this is simply messing with expectations in my book.
An important fact that I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is that 3m doses have been manufactured already and are available in the UK supply chain today. "All" that's required is the approval from the regulator - but I guess that is still a little way off. 3m would do a lot of good though - frontline staff, the most vulnerable, hotspots....
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Perhaps the question is loaded with assumption. Though it seems to me that many industries have benefitted from innovation both technological and ideological. Why has politics been spared?

In a time of unprecedented technological capability and political disillusionment, why haven’t new systems come to fruition?