skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So important:
"A key element of Oxford’s partnership with AstraZeneca is the joint commitment to provide the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis for the duration of the pandemic across the world, and in perpetuity to low- and middle-income countries."
I find it hard to buy into this popular notion that the head isn't designed to look downwards: People have been reading books like this for thousands of years.

This version of ergonomics that implies "your neck is going to snap off if you look down" is suspect to me.
You’re right, we are net positive if they don’t help anyone at all.

(Also, they are neither homophobic nor anti-homeless)
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I support this sentiment so much. I've been building something in my spare time. You are one person, the value provided with Heroku and the time saved is worth the cost versus AWS, at least for a project of this size and scope. It would take a lot more customers and capacity on the server to justify the ROI.
Tracking yes, prosecuting... not so much. Pakistan does not have an active direct extradition treaty with Australia (per http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/notinforce/...).
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I use this all the time, but it seems to suffer memory leaks if you do a lot of folder analysis and leave it running while you work. I've had it hang on multiple occasions to the point I've had to kill the process and restart it.
From SQLite's unix.c:

/*
** We do not trust systems to provide a working fdatasync(). Some do.
** Others do no. To be safe, we will stick with the (slightly slower)
** fsync(). If you know that your system does support fdatasync() correctly,
** then simply compile with -Dfdatasync=fdatasync or -DHAVE_FDATASYNC
*/
#if !defined(fdatasync) && !HAVE_FDATASYNC
# define fdatasync fsync
#endif
What? There is technically more than enough to go around. Why does someone always have to be in poverty in your world view?
causation does not equal correlation, there are various things the study does not cover, for example the people most likely to become vegan are those with health issues so they become vegan to get around digestion issues, inflamation, weight gain etc.. they already have a body that is not in the best condition. then there are the opposite who are super fit and going to be doing athletics and putting themselves more at risk
Thanks! and blimey well done that's better than I did first go around
Given how common unsecured buckets and similar scenarios are and how widespread this architecture is, was there a time where less separation of cloudy concerns meant fewer opportunities to make mistakes and therefore fewer mistakes? Or is the rate the similar, but we just have many more companies creating this type of products these days?
While it may or may not justify feeling bad, there are major moral theories (in particular virtue ethics and deontology, as well as metaethical-agnostic views) which easily accommodate discussion of virtual actions from moral points of view, and explain why they matter (in contrast to "it's just a game"). Fun alone (or the good feelings of playing such games with friends) does not excuse wrongful behaviour, in the same sense that ganging up with friends and bullying someone for fun does not excuse the moral weight of the action.

There is also the need to explain why many people do feel moral sentiment or even guilt after playing some games, and the moral intuition that some virtual actions are widely regarded as morally wrongful, such as virtual child abuse (and in contrast, why virtual murder would be okay, or at least better). Gary Young in particular investigates an empirically-minded approach to the problem.

It's often inconvenient for people who spend a lot of time playing games to even begin to question their actions in game, and unfortunately a lot of such thought is dismissed as moral pearl-clutching, but from what I can tell of the philosophical literature, there are good arguments from many points of view. It's very similar to the way in which even the discussion of the morality of killing animals was (and often still is) dismissed by people ignorant of the philosophical research because meat is just so tasty.

Here are some starters in the growing literature on the significance of actions in video games and virtual worlds generally:

Moral License in Video Games: When Being Right Can Mean Doing Wrong https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cyber.2014.0599

Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy: Killing Time by Christopher Bartel (2020)

Defending the morality of violent video games by Marcus Schulzke (2010)

Violent video games and morality: A meta-ethical approach by Gary Young (2015)

The amoralist challenge to gaming and the gamer’s moral obligation by Sebastian Ostritsch (2017)

Getting away with murder: why virtual murder in MMORPGs can be wrong on Kantian grounds by Helen Ryland (2019)
My dad mentioned that he did his graduate work from home in the early 1980s (maybe late 70s?) using a 32-column terminal that he made from an Intel 8008 and a TV. He apparently bypassed the color demodulator in the TV to get a crisper B&W image. He dialed in to the University computer with a 300 baud modem.
It’s fascist, for one.
Absolutely giddy that a multi billion dollar company is profiting massively off of the generosity of an individual without contributing anything back!

Edit: And this is somehow controversial! Do tell me more!

GPL your shit people.
Maybe you don't care if you're a larger company but the pricing is insanely higher than competitors.

Just to turn SFTP on at AWS, you need to pay $0.3/h ($216/mo) and it even costs to upload not just for download at $0.04/GB. If you upload 100GB/day, that's also about $120/mo and if you're storing about 1TB you're paying like $350/mo for such little storage you get.

Who wants to pay for upload?
At this point, why don't you just run EBS backed EC2 yourself?

With that kind of pricing, you'd get like 15TB of space at rsync.net and it doesn't leech users for bandwidth and on every parameters as AWS does. (If you use the borg discount, you get 40TB+ at $0.008/GB!)

And at what benefit does it bring for the price difference? I see no point in using it. Maybe people don't care to mention than not knowing it.

https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/pricing/

https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html
No, it's not. Private R&D spending is at least doouble that of the gov't. Look up the budget of the NIH and compare it with the R&D budget of big pharma.
Where did Pfizer's capital come from? I don't know, maybe just that they're one of the bigger and more successful companies in human history?
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No it isn't a quaint idea. I am aware of the existence of shadow profiles and it doesn't invalidate the general point. Them having a shadow profile of me is an annoyance and is rather minor one at that.

However I have no such choice when it comes to Government. Whatever they choose to decide I have to abide by or face fines, jail and other reprocussions. Some of those decisions maybe just which aren't a problem. However some of them maybe unjust. If those decisions are unjust I have almost no direct way to address it especially if I am in the minority.
CUDA yes. I'm using an AMD Ryzen for data pre-processing and then an NVIDIA GPU for the actual AI training. The TensorFlow pre-processing pipeline is heavily optimized for parallelism, so it works perfectly on AMD CPUs with lots of cores.

As for MKL, yes it is impressive for some applications like real-time audio processing, but AFAIK with TensorFlow MKL is only used if you don't use a GPU, so pretty much never.
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They absolutely detract from that achievement.

Imagine making an account just to defend concentration camps.
It's worth mention that there is also a tremendous amount of effort being made by Facebook to prevent such scrutiny. See:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-is-going-after-its-crit...
in israel this whole 2 meters apart thing doesnt work because people see it as an invitation to barge in in front of you
None. Longitudinal trails are required to assess safety - literally waiting and seeing what happens. There's no other way to assess long term effects on the human system. For the avoidance of any doubt none of the new vaccines have had anything like the proper amount of time for a bare minimum longitudinal trial. Whether you decide to take a vaccine nobody in the world is more than 6 months out on will hopefully be left to personal choice.
could be keyboard with a GIANT touch bar
How do you "deal" with a corporation who controls a significant percentage of the news and information your fellow citizens consume?

I don't use Facebook, but it still has a huge impact on my life.
Looks like many of these occupy less saleable space than business-class seats would. If the plane has space in the roof/cellar, you get 6 beds for the space of a ladder.
> It's unbelievable that anyone can hate Facebook so much that they side with authoritarian regimes.

Who is doing that here? 2 Things can be bad at the same time. Just because people are critical of FB in the west it doesn't mean they support authoritarian regimes.
It very much looks like a cool toy and I am tempted to get one, but that's exactly what would happen to mine. And I expect that a significant portion of people who purchase it will also play with it for a couple hours and then never touch it again. Which makes me kind of upset that it's being manufactured. Feels like it's just encouraging creating more plastic/electronics waste.
I've thought about growing citrus in PA using the old Soviet method of digging a trench to plant it in and covering it in winter.
Ok, but why?
Is it about the "no custom clients allowed" part of ToS?
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Intel Macs have never had typical BIOSes or standards compliant UEFI, to say nothing of their device drivers.

Without Apple providing a HAL FLL for the windows executive and device drivers along with a special bootloader shim (the marketing guys call this package "Bootcamp"), Windows would not work on Intel Macs. Microsoft or some third party would have to reverse engineer the device drivers, and they're definitely not making that investment.

Not to mention more basically that Apple has to sign the NT kernel for it to load on Macs without disabling the equivalent of SecureBoot.
Computers benefit from different kinds of tricks.

The key difference is that computers don't have any trouble adding/subtracting arbitrary 8/16/32/64 numbers, but human performance gets much worse when there's more than 1 or 2 non-zero or carrying. So while humans like to find ways to round things off, computers care more about minimizing the number of additions and multiplications, but don't have much preference for the (small, constant) complexity of each operation. (Except multiplying/dividing by powers of 10 -- both humans and computers prefer that)
So, if everyone gets vaccinated, do we still need masks and health lockdowns?
Hmm I kind of have to agree with that. Apple is pushing into the market, AMD will stand their ground, so it's Intel that will lose the most.
I did this years ago and it has made my life better and stopped me stressing about many things over which I have zero control

I used to listen to a news radio show called Morning Ireland while eating breakfast. That was the first thing to go. A few years later I tuned into it one morning, and they were pretty much saying the exact same stuff as they had been 3 years previously. This encouraged me to continue ignoring it

Shortly afterwards I was having dinner in a friend's house, and related the above, and it turned out one of the other dinner guests was (and still is) one of the presenters on Morning Ireland :/

(he was good-humoured about it, in fairness)
Not to take anything away from his contribution, but it's a bit more complicated with Salk.

The organizations who funded the research looked into the viability of a patent and concluded it wouldn't have succeeded.

"the idea of patenting the vaccine had been directly analyzed and the decision was made not to apply for a patent mainly because it would not result in one."[1]

The distinction should also be made that a patent doesn't necessarily affect global distribution. It just gives the rights to license the technology. They could have patented it and then licensed it for free.

[1]https://www.bio.org/blogs/real-reason-why-salk-refused-paten...
The risk of death in kids without underlying diseases is is approximately 0. It is not clear that giving (e.g. in the US) 30,000 of these kids narcolepsy is reasonable.

It might be, but it’s not open and shut.
It would not have cost Nintendo much money to ship a free Switch to each developer / organization - but you can guess that every single one would have tweeted about it.
I wonder what this means for Ripcord, https://cancel.fm/ripcord/
IMO the most important thing is to separate your email templates from your code base from the very beginning. Use a templating system from one of the external providers or something like SendWithUs.

Email is an afterthought that grows as your product grows. Untangling later becomes a big time sink.
I ordered a MacBook Pro. I haven’t bought a Mac computer since 2012. This computer has the same feeling of the original core duo MacBook I got. Right during a transition and that thing was a work horse. I plan to use this machine just as much and I’m just as excited as I was getting that MacBook as my first Mac.
> One American party denies climate change, downplays COVID19, tries to take healthcare from millions, tries to disenfranchise anyone not voting for them, limits legal immigration and asylum seekers, and refuses to admit there is a problem with systemic racism.

This doesn’t describe either party. Also, there isn’t a problem with systemic racism. And no, I don’t support the party that you think.
One theory is that it's due to the vector. This utilizes an adenovirus (which has been used more commonly in vaccines previously, and is different from the novel mRNA viruses developed by Biontech/Pfizer/Moderna). The thought process is that with a larger initial dose of the vaccine, more immune resistance is built up by the body initially, which then neutralizes some of the booster when its given later.
I'm from the same time myself.

Although the mini/micro nomenclature implies otherwise, "microcomputers" were so named because they used microprocessors, rather than their physical size.

When microprocessor-based systems moved upscale, the larger systems were called "servers", and the "minicomputer" term bit the dust. The "microcomputer" form factor then became the "personal computer".

All of which just underscores the senselessness of calling something the size of a small refrigerator "pint-sized".
My baby boy is crying at the moment...
Whichever are willing to pay the most.
If you enable Node-RED "Projects" [0], you not only get git-friendly flow configs, but can have them automatically push to remote repos.

[0]: https://nodered.org/docs/user-guide/projects/
Really neat demo. I've not used Django all that much; do you think the necessity of this tool reflects badly on its interface?
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We (Britain) may have totally screwed up our general response to COVID. But at least we’re still pretty good at science. Thanks Oxford for saving the day.
I think there's lots of creative use cases for it, I could imagine printing out chunks of my source code as I'm programming, to reference as I work on other parts.
If I don't want to use an Apple or Android phone I can buy something else. I have a choice.

If I don't want to use Windows or MacOS, I can use an alternative operating system. If I don't want to use Google's search engine there are many other alternatives. If I don't want to use a companies webmail solution I can setup my own.

It is very simple to not deal with these tech companies.
That statement is somewhat ambiguous, because there have been vaccines against adenovirus infection available since the 70s, but the use of adenovirus as a vaccine vector (which us different) is fairly new. The latter has not been the case for "decades".
Why do you graciously accept the numbers from the CCP while ignoring any evidence towards a cover-up? Do you actually believe the CCP has the pandemic under control? The amount of propaganda spread by the CCP trough their state controlled media is insane and wholly inaccurate. The CCP also conveniently put the blame squarely at foreign nationals bringing the virus over every single time. as if there are no cases of citizens transmissions at all. Transparency is expected in democratic countries. No such force exists in China.

https://www.ntd.com/ccp-covers-up-virus-surge-in-shanghai_52...
https://www.ntd.com/chinese-city-goes-on-full-lockdown-after...
Hey Rob, we (www.courier.com) sit on top of your existing email provider(s) – Mailgun in your case – and help make common email and notification tasks easy:

- visual template builder

- automatic retries

- switching between service providers (permanently or for failover)

If you implemented Mixpanel via Segment, we can also ingest those events directly from Segment into Courier (or you can call our API directly).

We'll be releasing automations early next year to help make the advanced drip stuff easy – but we aren't there quite yet.
These nickle and dime arguments are for "old normal".

The society at large is making huge sacrifices and making painful changes to address this collective problem. Are these companies part of "Human society" or not? If they are party of Humanity, then they can make 'adjustments' as much as we are asked to make adjustments.
> I think we have to ultimately put our faith into the fact that other people do not want to get us killed.

That’s how the roads operate in general. Someone could easily swerve into your lane and cause a head on collision at any time. Or in the case that they only have a desire to harm others there are nearly limitless possibilities to what someone could do to the shared roads. Most of the time I’m shocked that driving is as safe as it is really.
What would you use for DNS?

edit: Also they're third party. 1st is you 2nd party is the customer (The blog audience).
https://templates.blakadder.com/ lists things that can be flashed with Tasmota. So it's not a full list of everything with a direct API, but it's a list that is already contains basically every type of device. And once you re-flash the thing it's fully yours, no need to worry about who your device data is getting shared with, no apps that vacuum up your contacts, and no risk of the mfg pushing an update that breaks your setup.
Hah, you're absolutely right. I've had Apple support suggest buying new devices to me, including buying and returning after a short period where they're unable to do an advance RMA (what I like to informally call AppleCare++)
On the one hand, I think that would be cool if Nintendo did that. On the other hand, that would (or, so I imagine, maybe people are better and I’m just a cynic) produce a giant outrage how Nintendo thinks that’s all their work is worth, so I don’t expect them to ever do that.
I don't use it anymore, but I remember using Meld about fifteen years ago. This project has been running for a long time.
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I remember $6K for dev laptops in the mid 90s.
All other great points in these comments aside, empathy (not simpathy!) with the enemy is a great tool to defeat him.
That is true. I also do the same with my screens. (though as I'm not a designer by trade I couldn't justify to myself buying a pro-grade screen)
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"more than 1million" just means "1-10million" or whatever the bucket boundary is in the Play UI. Don't try to read too much specifics into these broad estimates.
Lufthansa A340s have the downstairs toilets as well.
One would hope that brakes, driving system, and other critical functions are firewalled off from the keyless entry system. Perhaps you were speaking about a more general, purely hypothetical attack vector?
facebook isn't really a book
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Maybe the thief can just tear out Tesla's backdoor cellular modem out of the car?

Or do we already live in a world where cars don't work without internet access?
afaik the "knobs" are decorative fasteners that snap together the front and back plates of the device. They have no active function.
"The 2080 Max-Q in my laptop is fairly underpowered"

The 2080 Max-Q only exists in ~$3000 gaming laptops. Poor battery life, 4lb+ laptops. There is no universe where that is "fairly underpowered" unless we've moved the goal posts to pretend that everyone is rolling with a GTX 3080 and anything less is unbearable. In the real world you have to go to the seriously compromised "gaming" tier to get better graphics performance.

"but in terms of raw power it's just not there"

That depends upon what we define as the destination. It in no way competes with dedicated gaming rigs, as I made clear. Not by a huge margin. It isn't going to be something a guy reviewing 300W, $1000 GPUs will care about. That isn't the target market.

But the vast majority of people don't having those gaming rigs. Laptops that have better GPUs are a _tiny_, minuscule component of the market. And if you actually use those dedicated GPUs, you'd better be plugged in.

So when we talk about "gaming" we get into a No True Scotsman thing (to repeat myself) where it isn't gaming unless it's someone playing Warzone at 120Hz at 4K. But a pretty heady number of users are doing things like Civilization, The Sims, Roblox, Minecraft, and similar gaming. The M1 can host that style of gaming with ease.

"thanks mostly to TSMC's 5nm process"

It's kind of interesting that we're at this point. Apple has made a pretty capable GPU, stellar CPU cores, stellar inference cores, among other remarkable hardware. It was pretty stellar at 7nm too. It's all being dismissed as the 5nm advantage. I don't think it's remotely so simple.
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Heroku is a great product if you want development speed right from the start. I have used them in the past, and it was a very nice experience overall.

For many projects this is more than enough. However, in my case I would be paying 2-3x more if I was using Heroku.

With Kubernetes, in case I wanted to deploy new projects or even spin up a "testing" env, I can use the same stack/cluster, and not have my costs increase.

I do realize that this is not for everyone. But for me it just made sense, and enabled me to work on new features faster than before.
If you like SendWithUs (which the company has pivoted away from in favor of their new product, Dyspatch), I think you'd love the templating system we've built:

https://www.courier.com
afaik the "knobs" are decorative fasteners that snap together the front and back plates of the device. They are not functional knobs.
My fellow citizens can do as they like. The problem is when they require me to consume the same news and information when I have no wish to.
SDR is cheap too, less so for transmission, but still not expensive compared to the cars themselves.
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We’ve been looking straight ahead and hunting things for much longer than we’ve been reading books. Looking straight down is definitely poor ergonomics.
Ever heard of nerd neck?
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The real lock-in is the IAM on Cloud. Aurora to anything else is fine since you can take a snapshot and move it to another engine easily.
Did you experience the downtime issues with DigitalOcean managed Kubernetes that the author also experienced? I'm also considering DOKS so would be great to know!