skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can plastic be used for reinforcement of the concrete in any way?
Can you explain the last paragraph a bit?
When did the update happen? If this is what I think it is (the recent Linux bluetooth CVE) both my desktop and phone where patched against it over a month ago I think.
UK had great laws geared towards mobile workforce and specialist contractors could claim business costs against their tax - this combined with little bureaucracy and use of de facto lingua franca was a recipe for success. From April next year this will end as government was looking for extra money and decided to adjust IR35 (a law that essentially says if you work as an employee you should be taxed as employee, but without having any employment rights), so that now the client has to determine whether contractor is a deemed employee or not. The problem is that the penalty for doing wrong determination only exist if you declare that someone is not a deemed employee, but investigating civil servant finds the opposite. That means risk averse companies change their contracts so that the contractor will always be deemed an employee to avoid getting fined (the fine plus all taxes that would have to be paid even if contractor already paid all the taxes). This still wouldn't be a problem if the rules about deemed employment were clear - but after so many years HMRC still keep losing cases where they get the determination wrong themselves. What this means for contractors? They essentially become employees without rights and the effective tax rate they will pay may be even around 54% plus they won't be able to deduct any business expenses (except what employee could have deducted - but that is essentially dead). Suddenly the market for IT specialists in the UK became unattractive and companies who are struggling to find people working for severe pay cut start to look overseas.

edit: if you want more spice to this, then imagine that our Chancellor is married to woman that her and her father have substantial stake in Infosys.
Interesting but I really don't envy working for a unicorn. Usually in such fast paced fast growing companies the most toxic environments tend to come up.
It probably spread at a similar rate relative to how fast truth spread at the time.

Lots of old quotes about falsehood spreading faster than truth:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
> Is that also true of the Pfizer and Moderna trials? Are the various trials measuring 'effectiveness' in the same way? Is there a standard for 'effectiveness' in these Covid-19 trials?

Yes, its true that there were no "severe" cases in the other vaccine trials as well.

> This statement seems a big deal: "There were no hospitalised or severe cases in anyone who received the vaccine"

It may be. When considering disease severity, we are no longer looking at a pool of people who have been given the vaccine (which is in the tens of thousands for all of these), we are looking at a pool of people who got sick. That means the sample size is reduced to approximately 90-100 for placebo wing of each vaccine, and 30 for ChadOx vaccine arm, and about 5 for Moderna/Pfizer vaccine arms each. That's fairly small.

Seems like the estimated rate of severe cases is around 10-20%. Assuming its 10% (which would mean its harder to identify an actual reduction in disease severity rate from the placebo group), then in the case of Pfizer/Moderna, there would be a greater than 50% chance of seeing no severe cases in a group of 5 infected, vaccinated patients, even if there was no effect on the severity of the disease. The greatest benefit to the vaccine is that they seem to prevent infections substantially, but that also means it will take months before enough infections occur to get some kind of statistical significance on if severity is also affected.

But with this vaccine, 30 cases with no infections is definitely in the realm of statistical significance. I don't have the exact numbers from the trial, but if it indeed is 0/30 vs around 10/100 between the vaccine/placebo wings, it definitely meets the typical thresholds of statistical significance.

It's important to note that, at least according to my understanding, the Pfizer/Moderna trials are measuring symptomatic cases, not doing actual tests on their trial participants. This means that it could well mean that the reason the vaccines appear to be so effective is because they truly are reducing the severity of the disease to the point of being asymptomatic. We just aren't able to see it yet due to the way the data is being collected.
I'll be hanging around the comments for a while. Please feel free to check out https://familio.life/ and let me know your feedback.
probably not. users can flag anything they want for any reason.
I do think that git's UI is a good case study on how not to design a command line interface. It's improved over the years but I remember that a decade ago the contrast was stark if you compared, say, mercurial to git.

Git always felt more like you were exposed a raw low level API on the command line with a few shell macros on top to make it a bit more palatable which is effectively what it was for a long time. I suppose it fits well within the unix philosophy of clunky but very flexible and not very opinionated tools.
Vaccines are not a great business in general. (Which is not the same as saying they're unprofitable.) But one reason vaccine makers are generally indemnified against lawsuits in the US, it that at least some companies would probably pull out of making vaccines if they weren't.
A regular expression to match a regular expression
Holy smokes.
Hello! I fear you submitted the wrong link. When I follow it, I get to a sign in page for Wordpress rather than the article you intended, which was presumably this one: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2020/11/22/williams-math-p...

Maybe resubmit?
"Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for a "global mechanism" that would use QR codes to open up international travel.

"We need to further harmonise policies and standards and establish 'fast tracks' to facilitate the orderly flow of people," he said.

"The codes will be used to help establish a traveller's health status."

Yikes, what could possibly go wrong here?

That's a resounding no from me.
But do note the apt-get doesn’t get you far. You now have a compiler that can produce .o, but headers, libraries, borked make files that are unaware of cross compiles etc are still a problem.

Not so with Nim.
I'm in two minds about that, at first I thought exactly the same.

But then you might think, for some things anyway, Wait a minute, you're recognising the value you get out of it... and you're valuing it at only ~£300 (or whatever).

I think 'just trying to be nice' could back-fire.
Unfortunately, I've realized there are two types of vegans. Vegans, who know this and stick to well-rounded nutritional diets. And then "vegans", who I would grossly summarize as "obtains 1/3 of every day's calories from potato chips". The former group have figured it out, but I worry for the latter group.
The whole concept of 'asymptomatic cases' is dubious to begin with, most likely promoted to increase belief in PCR tests and the whole "new normal" environment.
Can't tell if you're trolling/deliberately obtuse or what

Here's what I meant: Your wrong conception of how a protection racket works undermines your argument that the person who said "That's like supporting a protection racket" is wrong.

No idea what you're talking about with "implies that the protector has the absolute ability to control if an attack occurs or not." Have you ever seen a gangster film? Anyways every time you invoke a new concept you're getting it wrong so maybe take a step back and think about what people are talking about instead of just randomly generating provocative hypos because you disagree with someone
I came across these after watching a Linus Tech Tips video on a Panasonic Toughbook. It had a Fischer connector to accept the linked flash drives.

I thought it was interesting to see a circular USB connector that had become standard enough to be included on a professional/semi-consumer grade laptop.

I'm not in any way affiliated with Fischer — just thought it was cool tech.
> First, the Model X key fobs lack what's known as "code signing" for their firmware updates.

And the lack of a cert sent to the fob verifying the key is from Tesla.... this is all so inexcusable.
As a one-man team operating a 10+ year old SaaS product, I’ve done two things that have helped keep things sustainable. The frontend continues to be server generated. PJAX style partial page updates is (mostly) dynamic enough. The maintenance burden of operating a JavaScript frontend is too high to justify for a 1-2 person team.

The second thing I’ve done is avoid containers. VMs work fine for many types of applications. That’s especially true if provisioning and configuration is mostly automated. A product like Google Cloud Run looks interesting for a few low-volume backend services that I operate. Containers are a good fit there because it simplifies operations rather than increases complexity. The core infrastructure will remain VMs for the foreseeable future.

I began doing Ruby and Ruby on Rails (RoR) development in 2006. Ruby had been around for awhile but the growing popularity of RoR was driving a lot of changes in the ecosystem in those years. It was a fun time but I was working for a large company that allowed me the time to keep up with everything. I see today’s frontend and container ecosystems in the light of that experience. I’m now more content to wait it out and let the dust settle as much as I enjoy learning new technology.
Previous discussion of their blog post https://blog.acolyer.org/2020/11/16/pigasus/ at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25108392
This is a really binary view of politics and to me represents why we shouldn’t talk politics at work. People’s views on issues aren’t binary and people on the same side of the left right political divide can disagree on issues. How many leftists disagrees with Expensify’s promotion of Joe Biden? How many black people may not want to get into the nuances of Joe Biden’s support of the 1994 crime bill, even if they end up supporting him? Does a woman who just went through a difficult abortion want to be around people passionately supporting abortion rights?

The problem with discussing politics at work is that we are not all 100% free to be there. We depend on being at work and potentially being offended by people who we have to continue to work with for our livelihoods.

That being said it’s incredibly nuanced. People should be able to be unabashedly out at work. People should be able to talk about why they support having birth control as part of their health plan. Vulnerable and targeted populations should be able to talk about the struggle and discrimination they experience.
> Imagining yourself in the shoes of an evil person is a fundamental part of fiction.

However, as mentioned, Panzer General takes pains to completely ignore the evil present in the actual history. You're not asked to engage with the darker parts of your psyche at all, it has been cleaned away from the final product.
Google Play Services is all about platform control.
> BioNTech an epitope vaccine

I think BioNTech's vaccine is also an mRNA vaccine.

https://biontech.de/covid-19

> Our vaccine consists of a short segment of genetic material, called messenger RNA, that provides instructions for a human cell to make a harmless version of a target protein, or immunogen, which activates the body’s immune response against the SARS-CoV-2 virus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNT162b2
In the US we don't really have "rules" so much as "suggestions"
> so our lifestyle would be very different, much "slower" so to speak

This is not just about lifestyle. When you're spending all your time hunting animals to eat or digging up hard-to-reach coal/low-energy peat so you don't freeze to death in Winter, you can't do other work like research, and you can't support a population growth that enabled our advances.
You're right. We wouldn't want to lower the bar to programming too much. Just imagine if the wrong sorts of people took advantage of the advancing technology and lower barrier of entry to substantially improve their lives! We really should be using assembly for web development so we know that only the truly dedicated and those committed to the craft can participate in this career.
The key is that it increases the size of the performance and energy budget. When you have a large budget, you can start doing interesting things.

A friend of mine got some Samsung flagship(don't remember which one but something new and expensive) from this year, she's into Instagram filters whan she showed me some fun ones she likes I noticed that these filters have significantly slow FPS on live preview - something I am not used to see on an iPhone. I tried the same filters on the lowest end iPhone I have access to, which is iPhone 6s, and that device gave much much better FPS on the live filters of Instagram.

This got me thinking, maybe the Andoid ecosystem is degrading the iPhone experience too? Probably Facebook is holding back on filter capabilities in the name of having the same features on all the platforms? If this Samsung flagship is not better than iPhone 6 in Instagramming, god knows what's the experience on lower end devices.

BTW, TikTok filters have superior face tracking in my experience with excellent iPhone 6s performance. I don't know what's the Andorid situation on TikTok.
Seriously - this article is clickbaity. Security flaw + Tesla -> generate ad dollars and make people more skeptical of technology in the process. Not saying it isn't relevant but the likelihood of this happening in the wild?
I was thinking the worst case would be something like Google Cloud Datastore, a proprietary 'managed-only' database that isn't compatible with any existing product. I think there was an attempt to make a Free and Open Source drop-in replacement, but I don't think it got far.
How did game programmers back in the 80s learn coding and tricks?
Well, they may have saved significantly more than $100 (or whatever a Switch costs) by having this software available. There certainly is precedent for compensating your open source contributors. When VA Linux had their IPO they granted options to buy 100 shares to their software contributors, which turned out to be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Red Hat had a similar program.
>Meanwhile getting to say your code is used by Nintendo Switch on your resume, or bragging rights to your nephew or whomever, seems more than enough to me. Part of the hacker ethos.

When I worked with some security folks and they'd get vulnerabilities and etc recognition was a big deal. The security researches (or hackers, whatever you wanted to call them) who reached out to us loved getting their name in release notes or wherever they could point to.

It made sense as it was legitimate recognition of some seriously helpful work. Cost the company nothing to put it in there and made some folks super happy.
Indeed, I also have had some problems in the past with 'hackathons' I attended which were heavily organized around competition prizes. There were obviously teams simply goal chasing for prizes. Which I felt the organizers pushed so hard for that it went against the 'spirit' of hackathons.

There's plenty of personal gain to be found being an OSS developer (especially in a group setting just outletting creatively with other talented people) without directly making the motivation prizes/money the end goal.

No one is against rewarding OSS developers as much as possible. I'm certainly not and think every successful company using OSS software, aka all of them, should have a wing donating to projects. But I am against watering it all down to some narrative of OSS developers somehow being exploited by commercial companies.
I personally like the gameshell kit but this is fun too. I wonder what the build quality is but the fact that the screen doesn't tilt is a turn off for me personally (neck issues) and don't see myself typing on that keyboard while holding it in my hands. I got a pocketchip which is has been discontinued and that had a much worse keyboard but the form factor was a bit better suited for handheld computing. At this point I wish the pocketchip had the performance of this device or this device had that form factor or had a tiltable screen.
I wanted to downvote you for disparaging a massive sector of the population, although it is true that superstition is inevitably easier to peddle to people inclined to some form of mysticism. This said, there are plenty of equally "gullible" non-religious segments though ("bio/organic", homeopathy, fitness, diets, "goop", etc etc...).
People can just install Linux here, via self-signed kernel, it appears.

Apple could, obviously, prevent people from installing Windows on Intel Macs if it wanted to.
Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I understand I'm entering a crowded market, but Panelbear is still in the early stages, and I'm trying to understand what problems my customers have that I could solve / how much value can I bring to them.

A crowded market also means more options for you as a customer. Specially when it comes to privacy-friendly tools, not only analytics, I'd argue that there's not enough options yet.

I initially built it for myself, as I was not fully satisfied with the existing solutions. And I do intend to offer more features than what you currently see, but unfortunately my time is limited and it's going to take a while to bring Panelbear to the feature-level I'd like it to be :)
> you should stop thinking about it like it's a secret language meant to keep you pesky programmers out of it.

I find it's rarely a constructive thing when someone tells others how they "should" think. You're not really offering any evidence to counter the other user, you're essentially just saying "you're wrong, just stop questioning things and get in line."

Your argument is like saying Mandarin must always be written in traditional characters because it's just complex, it's as efficient as it can be. Yet China went from traditional to simplified characters, and Vietnam abandoned characters altogether and uses an alphabet, despite having one more tone than Mandarin.

You're allowed to say you just personally aren't interested in new notation or theory verbiage. But you need some pretty strong evidence if you want to claim that the current methods are as efficient as they can be when human history shows that most times, lack of innovation is due to cultural and political factors rather than lack of opportunity for improvement.
Ask HN: How does your company do research?
At my company (~500 people), we are exploring ways to enable research as we grow, especially as we start to build new types of products and services and work to significantly improve existing ones.

The biggest debate is whether to have a more decentralized model, with teams self-assembling throughout the company, or a centralized model, tasked with driving these initiatives.

Google shared their Hybrid Approach to Research (https://research.google/pubs/pub38149/). I'm curious what other approaches are out there, and the related pros/cons.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
I'm an Android user but also have an iPhone for work purposes. There's nothing I find particularly delightful about either platform and I can't fathom what would motivate someone to be an Android or Apple fanboy.

The reason I've stuck with Android has got very little to do with the software.
> I also imagine that these kinds of discussions are infuriating to the people who were already remote pre-COVID and were working the hours they are supposed to. They had a great thing going on but if suddenly everyone else moves to remote and a bunch of people are slacking off, remote work suddenly look less viable from an employer's point of view, not more.

It's interesting, i've been WFH for ~8 years now under two companies. I've thought COVID would improve my job pool (and also competition), but you raise an interesting point where it might solidify negative WFH views in a lot of cases.

It's a shame, because if i could rely more on WFH i'd probably move further out. I like where i live (PNW) but it's expensive. While WFH is not for everyone, i wish more people would give it a chance because of the (potential) huge cost benefits of being able to live where you want.
Inertia vs. Interrupts: A different way to think about technical debt
Complete with his email address. Would be fun to do a GDPR removal request on that piece of personal info.
>"It's unbelievable that anyone can hate Facebook so much that they side with authoritarian regimes."

Who exactly is siding with an authoritarian regime here? The article indicates it was a unilateral decision on the part of the government. The article also states:

>I't has drawn a heated response from the Government's opponents, with Opposition leader Matthew Wale labelling the ban "pathetic" and unjust."
If you incite violence against a specific group using a specific platform then yes, the publisher has some degree of responsibility for that. What's wrong about that observation?
Don't force a dichotomy where there isn't one. You can hate both and it's perfectly okay. There are no solutions, only trade-offs (Thomas Sowell).
Also worth noting that we did this by having a board research base that was not tied to immediate returns. A year ago Sarah Gilbert was struggling to get funding for work on the MERS vaccine, which was seen as largely irrelevant.
Not to say, even some Greek ones are (which are often confused with Roman ones)
The main issue is identifying what anti-social behavior is. It's easy to say "coal is anti-social! don't you care about the environment!", but it's just as anti-social to just shut down an industry and say "best of luck, I heard you can move to California and build websites in JavaScript". Often times there just aren't easy answers.

I also want to push back on "everything commercially successful is run by tyrants" kind of narrative. I get the frustration, but these blanket, ideological statements do not help anyone, anywhere. Do you make money? I guess you're a tyrant!

Let's not forget, the countries that we put up on a pedestal as the shining examples of how a country should be run (Norway or whatever) are very much capitalistic countries with free markets, IPOs, and commercial companies. I hardly see businesses there characterized as tyrannical.

I do really get the frustration, but it needs to be directed at the failures of our elected representatives. Not, commercial entities.
It likely is being used server side. I seriously doubt Node is being used on device
The first example I could think of actually counters the OP: when the iPhone launched and developers were told their only option on the platform would be via Web-apps.

Of course Apple did a 180 soon after and introduced the iOS SDK.

Not so sure if that was flipping the script when they were ready or that Apple had hoped to not have to open the OS but bent to the developer outcry (or saw that there might be some merit for growing the platform in opening it up).
I didn't know I needed this in my life. Thanks.
Glad to see that stack works for author, but honestly one man show's shouldn't be multi lingual stacks at all IMO.
for me php (laravel for back and front with blade templates) or js (express and vuejs for frontend) and docker-compose for deploying and developing stuff is fast and enough stack.
Our civilization is built on cards. One of the damndest things is too much interconnectedness, which does make those beautiful numbers on graphs go up, but isn't the best outcome for a robust society. Just look at the initial shock that coronavirus-19 did to shipping. We live in a just-in-time logistical framework.