skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitfinex benefits from the increased business from retail investors that are lured by the bubble mania, that is one solid source of profit from running this scheme. While Tether, the company, makes a killing by buying btc low and selling high, they now have cash to back sufficient tether to cover whomever wants to convert their tether back to usd, such as say, their co-conspirators bitfinex.

Tether is pretend-dollars that allows them (bitfinex and Tether the company) to fraudulently pump btc. As long as enough people believe 1 tether = 1 dollar, the show will go on. Tether has yet to be audited to prove their reserves, and the crypto community believes them even though they talk about trustless systems all the time.

So this is a two party scam, one is Tether, the company, printing money out of thin air, who then the exchange, the second party, accepts and gives btc in return as if tether was backed 1:1 by USD. This transaction is what kicks off the chain reaction that pumps btc's value. Tether, the company, now sells btc for USD at a profit, and can use that money to convert tether back to USD if say, the exchange comes to them looking to trade tether for btc. So both parties win, and tether is just weird monopoly money that they know is useless but they have to continue pretending it's worth 1 USD or else they can't keep rinsing and repeating this cycle.
In theory mRNA will be, but it’s a new technology so still going to be more expensive to start with.

The other major benefit is that these vaccines can be developed more quickly, which is worthwhile in its own right.
They’re not pure black or pure white, kind of the point.
This is why 4chan is great: no accounts, no up or downvotes.

You will find all kind of people there, each topic will be explored from 300 different perspectives.
Because there is only so much to go around in the initial stages, so they will buy whichever one is available to them. The 10x increase in price is peanuts compared to the ecconomic benefits of getting more people vaccinated sooner.

Additionally, lots of countries have already preordered all the major candidates, so in those cases its already spent money.
Note there is some confusion in the efficacy rates reported by the media.

https://twitter.com/covidvaxnews/status/1330783886830256128?...
I would love to hear more. I badly want the same thing. I take on average ~10,000 pictures a year.

I do the poor mans version of this:

- Look at all my pictures in chronological order on apple photos.

- Open: http://maps.google.com/locationhistory

- Look at my journal for that day

From all that, I can kind of piece together where I was and what I was doing. I would love one app that does all of this seamlessly.
Well a fucking math problem sounds like orgy logistics, and a fracking math problem a barrier to natural gas extraction so.. Seems like a good word choice to me.
Oh man, check out How to with John Wilson on HBO. I love the show but he’s recording people on the streets of NYC and must be relying on the fact that he’s in public to be able to record them without impunity and it bothers me. The story telling he can do with it though is both deep and hilarious though.
One of the problems is that color perception is linear across RGB, so it's only a rough approximation of biology.
What's "doubtful"? Apple has done similar things in the past...
If the topic is that someone has died, this is impossible to criticize, and therefore does not belong here. If the topic is the article itself, it should be open to criticism. Which is it?
Such a great point and one I had when I started seriously meditating a couple of years ago. It's only now really that I'm starting to be able to just sit, without a goal, without some sense of "am I enlightened yet" as a thought somewhere at the end of the tunnel. Of course, in sitting I am (as per above) optimising - optimising stillness and inaction but yes, optimising.

But then as per reply below, the piece was specifically about wealth and working time which is a different beast.

Man, interesting stuff :-)
That whole "one side is evil and don't bother responding if you disagree" tone is part of the problem.
It isn't. It is comparable to the measles vaccine. Smallpox has a lot lower R-value which means the vaccine is very good at preventing outbreaks.

A vaccinated individual will also have milder symptoms.

Together with how rare adverse reactions are to the vaccination, the smallpox vaccine is really a wonder.
I think you might of gotten that impression after years of being raped by TI/STM levels of margin. TI even tried to sell their microcontroller with wifi at ~$20-30 price point.
I love this approach. Have you considered the longevity aspect of it? Do you think you will have a device that can play the video formats of today 10–20 years from now? Is that even something that you care about?

I've been thinking of a similar approach but recording audio of important events in my life instead, with the thought that audio formats might be slightly more stable than video formats. But I'm not sure.
I don't think JavascriptCore is anybody's idea of the "Javascript stack". Parent means Node/NPM/Electron.

Though, I'm pretty sure he's mistaken on its status.
> The non-college educated majority...

Ironicaly the college educated way overrate themself on how objectively they see the world and think they know better than the rest, but they fail to see the forest for the tree just as often as non-college educated.

College does not give you the ability to see objectivity, it just increases knowledge across a specific field.

See: reproductability crisis.
mRNA is a term from molecular biology [0]. "MRNA" is the stock symbol of Moderna [1]. Both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna use a mRNA based method for their vaccine.

You might want to update the comment to avoid confusion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moderna
I once watched a group of three ravens work together to raid a McDonald's trash bin. Two would push in the (admittedly very weak-sprinted) door, while the third would hop in and out, dropping fries on the ground, they all took turns at each role and had a veritable feast.
Cordless Project Closes Down
It is all a matter of which BASIC we are talking about.
yep, that's a corner case...
Nope, I just use the UNIX provided in the macOS box.
hitler doodle
Buy milspec chips.
I'm assuming that you also don't share company secrets with regular candidates? I wouldn't be too afraid if your competitor learns a bit about team structure, culture, way of working. It's probably wise to share with the candidate that you won't cover too specific cases, and don't expect him/her to share that kind of information from their side.
That only works for pure Go code (no use of cgo) and for Go libraries that don't call into OS APIs.
Hard disagree. “Free speech” does not include hate speech.
Lexus is not a Japanese word.
I think so.

It changes the meaning from: i have to do acual math to complete this activity.

To: its frustrating and complicated to make basic moves that require planning and preperation that dont always go to plan and are hard to even visualise.

You dont think he should be emotional about this?
There is very likely small print in the contract stating subject to cell coverage availability.

Also beyond warranty period IMO it's reasonable expectation the owner pays for any upgrades.
IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant
Did you have to do something special which requires Google's permission, to do it?
Agreed that the purpose of the services is to replicate the ritual, with higher speed and lower cost. That’s separate from the specific aspect of what a signature is to convey.

That all parties have a common version is exactly the point of the signature aspect. The idea of signing with ink is to have a personalized mark. Of course, with these services, the generic “signature” lacks the personalization.

The fact that many an agreement is pushed on the signer to be signed without reading it indicates that the mark is the important thing.

If pen-like inputs were more common, it would be easier to use one’s own mark. Of course, signatures are easier to fake in the all-digital realm too if you have a specimen you can copy-paste from.

Always keep a paper copy in case of disputes.
It doesnt require a warrant if you willingly give it to them....
Books don't emit light.
I feel like a lot of this is attributable to the push towards devops.

In my junior role I did the development and the ops guys did the deployments and we both knew at least some of what the other person did. It helped knowledge transfer of hot new framework from me to the elder ops people and sage unix wisdom from them down to me.
We had a "read-only" Friday where deployments were forbidden to help prevent outages over the weekend.
The software changed slowly and employee churn was minimal.

Now (much later) I'm elsewhere, expected to do the dev, the ops, the deployment itself, the documentation, training a junior all the while; there are effectively half as many people keeping the ship afloat.

The most bizarre part of all is my daily rate is almost 3x what it was then, as the market dictates for such drudgery.
Relevant to the article it's obviously strategic for me to accept that, but if the rates weren't so absurd and you could get a dev and an ops for 0.5x the devops rate each the company would get twice as many man-hours, not to mention the added safety of doubling the system's bus factor, cutting workloads in half and vastly improving employee quality of life.
Companies offering a devops role for 1.5x a single developer's rate 10 years ago to ostensibly save themselves 0.5 of a salary, are now collectively getting 0.333x as much value out of their hires (and then losing them completely when they burn out and being thrust into chaos).
It would be a pretty lousy vaccine if the side-effects of the vaccine were as bad and as common as getting the actual disease.

Why the downvotes? I'm answering the question that is being asked. The study is talking about the side-effects of receiving the vaccine.

> "Also, "There were no hospitalised or severe cases in anyone who received the vaccine".

Can we infer anything from that statement? They seem to be suggesting that the infection might be less serious in the vaccinated population... "
The Economist comes up often as a shining beacon in these discussions but everytime I read it I'm hit by a wall of aggressive neoliberalism. It may mesh better with your personal world view but it's also a propaganda over facts publication. By that I don't mean they aren't factual but rather that they are very selective in which facts to surface in order to craft a narrative that will hopefully sway the reader into thinking a certain way.
I think this is a good take, most news doesn't directly affect you but is necessary context to make sense of the news that is relevant to your life
Is the idea is to avoid using local resources to back up to two places, but only once to send to cloud and then handle cloud->NAS elsewhere?
You mean like Office dragging on a 486 because one just had 8 MB?
Sure, but there are plenty that apply. Driving sensibly, not littering and behaving properly in a queue are such basic examples that going as far as "everyone becoming a software engineer" seems a little disingenuous.
Probably that they're both really low?
Just from a software perspective: never install the big version upgrade. Usually the X.0 versions still has bugs that only come out at huge roll outs. I am inclined to wait a few months to let early adaptors test the vaccine.

Medicine is a bit different though and every country probably has institutes checking the vaccines independently. A lot of eyes are on this probably. No company wants to be the company that botched the corona vaccine.
Real chrome has telltale signs when selenium is connected. For example, garbage collections happen more frequently when requestAninationFrame is called. There is also an extra startup delay for service processes while selenium is given an opportunity to connect (service workers). Built in extensions (like Google Cast) also behave differently.
The criticism is that they shouldn't use a palette as an example that everybody already uses. Instead they should show how their rules can help us arrive at something interesting and new.
Hard to guess. Likely worth investigating, but as secondary priority:

1. You may end up just getting very short and weak immunity, making this approach ineffective.

2. You may get a combination of immunity which can have different efficiency.

3. For some vaccines of same type this works, but is rarely recommended.

4. Mixing partly mRNA and Adenovirus vaccines doesn't to be winning strategy. It is rather more likely to give another vaccine if after two doses you didn't get immunity.
> There are steel mills down the road from my manufacturing business that were shuttered for decades and reopened when the tariffs came into effect.

This is a beautiful, heart-warming story that is not really supported by the data.

Actually, steel employment in the US declined after the tarrifs were introduced [1].

Net steel production in the US went sideways over the past decade. It rose around the time of the tariffs, but it also fell and rose at other times [2].

The tariffs did, however, cause the cost of US steel to skyrocket [3]. Which is not fantastic for the ~330,910,000 Americans who aren't steel workers (who didn't actually win anything, since employment declined), or owners of steel plants (who I assume did win something, since they reaped the lion's share of the benefit of higher margins).

[1] https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/employment/iro...

[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/steel-production

[3] https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/steel
Disagree here. Lots of news can have profound impact on your life, if missed on time.

For instance, I never heard of the temporary +0.5% to mortgage refinancing, that lenders will have to pay to federal banks starting Dec 1st, until an article few weeks ago here. This was planned back in June, but now it is too late to act on.
> It adds absolutely nothing

It adds tone of voice. It sounds like him when you read it. Sure, he might be able to communicate the level of frustration he feels with “double-plus-ungood” or similar, but it would have a different quality to it.

There are benefits to swearing, this is an interesting article on the subject:

https://unbabel.com/blog/swearing-language/
I learned programming using python. And I agree completely.
The types of things that _Static_assert takes is substantially more limited than this construct, as it can only take an "integral constant expression" which is in practice basic integer arithmetic and nothing else. This construct works with more complicated things that are nonetheless known at compile time, such as "asdf"[4] (should be 0).
Being forced to take a position by circumstances beyond one's control is an unfortunate situation to be in. Worse still is being judged for it -- especially in a discussion without nuance. Moving past these events (and more) takes a fair bit of effort.
only thing I don't understand in krita is the stamp/clone tool so I open glimpse (gimp) if I need to do anything that involves that. otherwise I do everything in krita these days. the interface is nicer, the hotkeys make more sense and I find it easier to work with layers
Yes, but considering a recaptcha only takes ~1 second of computation time, I wouldn't think it's cost prohibitive... Botters could just spin up more workers.
Running from 0 to -6 is 7 iterations. Running from 0 to INT_MIN is |INT_MIN| + 1 iterations.
Retail people seeking to get into bitcoin in the middle of this bubble are getting scammed because tether is being used to artificially inflate its value. If tether goes away that would hurt whomever believes it's worth a dollar. The exchanges who are in on the scam can trade tether back to USD if they need to when the tether company sells their bitcoin for a profit. But the exchanges also make a killing from increased business during this mania, so they may choose not to sell their useless tether since they are collecting real money from retail traders and might help with plausible deniability.
If anything the M1 Mac reduces the case for cross-compilation since they're actually fast enough to build code on. Compare that to e.g. compiling hefty C++ projects on the Raspberry Pi where cross compilation on a fast x86 box is ideal (but still far from trivial).

For non-trivial projects you want CI anyway so it's a better ROI of your time to just to add an additional VM, Docker or native runner.

And let's not forget you'll also want to run your automated tests in the native environment.
Well, no. I am not looking for them. I still find them. Like I said, I do gaming sometimes. On most servers racial insults get you kicked - and for a reason, this is highlighted. On servers without a admin online ... you see it.

But if you want numbers, here, one of the first results with a quick google search:

pewsocialtrends.org/2019/04/09/race-in-america-2019/
Is there any research or early guestimates about risks (or benefits) of getting multiple different vaccines for Covid? E.g. What if one gets this, and then later moderna vaccine? Will they fight each other, or work together or is it unknown whats going to happen?
The one good use of VLAs I know of is casting a buffer into a multidimensional (variable-length) array to allow for subscripting to work.
Due to the low sample size, it's unclear whether there were no severe cases due to the vaccine -- it's likely that there would have been no severe cases in a given group of 39 COVID-positive individuals even with no intervention.
I'm not from the US. But in Europe nothing of this must be expensive. I'm almost 40 and lived almost always in shared flats (ca. 2500€ year). Often we got a very old cheap farmhouse half an hour away from a bigger town, which is still accessible by public transportation. Food I sometimes buy and sometimes we get it from places where they would throw it away. Also planting our own stuff. Sure you have to sometimes eat zucchini for a week, or now pumpkin for several weeks :D but you get creative. While travelling I used internet pages like Couchsurfing & HelpX and many others. Some months I spent less than 50€. I met a lot of amazing people on the way which lead to a lot of very nice opportunities. What I learned this way that it is trivial for me to find a place to sleep everywhere on the world. People are helpful and when you help them, they often give you new opportunities, at least that was almost always the case for me. Overall the most expensive things for me is the yearly health care (ca. 3500€). When I work, normally, for one year, this allows me quite easily live for 3-4 years. Knowing this gives me also quite some peace. The good thing is I met people abroad, which also realized that travelling in a more simple fashion could really be very cheap and gave up their job, started to travel around. So far several Couchsurfing couples visited me back from countries which are not really known to make the average person rich (an the couples I met, by no means were). I don't claim I figured out live, but it is definitely possible to life differently.
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/r/politics is basically the liberal version of /r/conservative. I go to /r/conservative to laugh at how bat shit insane they are. Then I go to /r/politics and I see the same gaslighting tactics deployed. It's really unnecessary and depressing tbh. So tribal. My personal persuasion is much closer to liberal than conservative fwiw.
Fedora 34 Might Try to Use PipeWire by Default to Replace PulseAudio/Jack
Effective communicating is surely important to power plays. But you can communicate all you want, if your opponent has the guns and firepower and you don't.
I often do assert(condition && "String explanation") myself.
How does it scale to larger datasets (TBs of data)? For example, Duplicati is much slower with large datasets compared to small/medium datasets, because of it's database. Once, the database grows too large (eg. multiple GBs), it becomes too slow to be usable.

Which version of Duplicati was used in this benchmark?
If you use the search function at the bottom of the page and look for "dang shadow ban" you can come up with multiple comments by the moderator talking about HN policies, such as this one that I have quoted in part:

We do tell people that we're banning them, and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - but only once the account has an established history. We treat new accounts differently, for reasons I've explained before. I'll try to dig that up... Edit: here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21288858

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20666742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20289994

It's a bimodal distribution in that we treat these disjoint groups very differently. With established accounts, we warn them before banning, usually several times, and then tell them we're banning them and why. With new accounts, we don't say we're banning because the population of banned-new-accounts is overwhelmingly spammers and trolls, often serial trolls who have been banned many times and know perfectly well what they're doing.

Link to the entire comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23686672
If I'm reading this right, the RNA of SARS-CoV-2 can be found in the upper respiratory tract for a very long time (even 83 days in the extreme case), but the live virus (capable of infecting others) was not discovered by any study beyond day 9.

Self-isolating/quarantining for 10 days after a positive test result, which many regions enforce, seems consistent with these findings (again, if I'm interpreting the results correctly).
For me it's a simple risk proposition, how much at risk do I feel my children or I are from covid. For my children it's a slam dunk; their risk from covid is statistical non existent and weigh that against vaccines that may or may not have long term negative impact on them.
For Windows, there's also the lovely Papercut: https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP

The relay mode for Maildev looks interesting though, but also vaguely terrifying as an accidental way to send test emails out to people!
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Facebook is a private company, and the privilege of having gratis access to someone else's broadcasting platform is not a tenet of free speech.
I can’t recall any restaurant I’ve ever eaten at in the world were a tip was mandatory. If you eat with a large party of several people, usually at least six or eight people, then they will often add a service charge to the bill, that’s the only thing I’ve seen that comes close to what you’re suggesting.
I think there's two reasons we hear more about the English settlements. First is the media we have access to being restricted by language. Second is U.S media being in such a dominant position. I think we know more about the American Revolution and Civil War than our own countries major events.
I don’t know why mRNA would be cheaper to manufacture. It is far less stable and therefore harder to work with.
The 70% is the combined data, so probably the most reliable estimate. For two high doses, they got 62% effectiveness and for one low and one high dose they got 90%. They don't know why the latter was more effective.

70% is still a great effectiveness rate, specially for a cheaper and easier to distribute vaccine.
The arguments for closing the CIA that I am familiar with all revolve around a narrative that it is a non-democratic organization, and that from its predecessors the OSS to the modern day it has been structured so as to help fascistic, autocratic governments gain and hold power.

I've never encountered an argument that it should be closed because spying isn't nice.