skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s worth highlighting that a ton of basic science work went into mRNA vaccine development, starting in the early 1990s:

- developing the lipid nanoparticles that the mRNA is delivered in, so your cells could actually take it up intact
- figuring out how to get the mRNA to evade the immune system

https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-...
Reading the last paragraph, I did not come away with the same impression you did: "Regina is now a photography technician at Barnet and Southgate College."
Sorry, you are in fact arguing for that.

But that won't work. It's well-known that misinformation propaganda works even if people know it's propaganda. People won't magically build up some kind of immunity and suddenly trust the scientific method - they will simply grow sceptical of all kinds of news sources and retreat further into their own bubble. If employed by a state, this is often the goal of that propaganda.
Elinks contains a SpiderMonkey fork which is unpatched and contains known vulnerabilities.

Quite interesting to read Assange wrote Surfraw in 2000.
There is talk of something similar in EA's Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes gacha game, but in this case it pertains specifically to the drop rates for things (shards or gear fragments) that players are farming.

Specifically, the drop rates for stuff decreases the closer the player is to important goals/thresholds. The intent is to force the player is to burn through available energy and, being so close to finishing something, that they spend premium currency to buy energy to get more chances for the shard/fragment to drop to complete the thing faster.

There was even talk of a software patent that EA might hold governing this very behavior.

I would be very interested in reading a statistical analysis of droprates in gacha games, as I feel like I've noticed this stuff in my own play. But short of hard evidence (plus the ease of explaining away this stuff to the nature of randomness) it's difficult for anyone to make accusations that aren't baseless.
Much like Andrew Jackson after the election of 1824. After losing, campaigned as a populist candidate accusing Jon Quincey Adams of stealing the election and won in landslides in the next two elections.
As cool as it would be, there is a lot of information lost and some overwritten.

Think of it as a one way hash...
Where do you find the pricing? I'm on mobile and can't see it anywhere.
In America it's relatively easy to move out so if you can't meet that bar it's seen as weird. In other countries it can be more difficult to so there's less pressure.

There's so much credit available for developers to build housing that it's widely available and affordable. Many countries do not have that kind of financial market.
I know someone who used that technique at one of the worlds largest banks, back in the 1990s.
The main problem is that debunking conspiracy theories takes far more effort than spreading them. Not sure if YT has the right balance of rejecting things outright, but I do think there is a line. For example, most people wouldn't criticize YT for taking down holocaust denial theories so they should at least do that much.

However, they should probably avoid being the arbiter of truth except where truly necessary. I voted for Biden, but I'm not sure if we have hit the threshold quite yet where you should stop discourse on fraud. This should be done after the EC votes, but right now feels a little early.
They renamed it very recently. Not a bad home for the project.
I hear what your saying but it’s at best a matter of scale.

Slaughtering the cows would be like... selling her car so her mom can’t use it. Her mom can’t hurt the cow anymore, sure, but there’s still no fence there.

In contrast, telling her mom “No, you can’t use my car” would be setting a boundary. But telling her mom “I don’t want you in my life” would also be setting a boundary. These are just two different fences. In both cases, the cow/car are just fine.
What I find interesting about this whole pornhub discussion is that nobody is at all mentioning the vast amounts of videos with unwilling participants in them that are across sites like pornhub. Do you remember when the whole internet was outraged over reddit's creepshots subreddit? the amount of urinal spy, locker room spy and nudist beach spy videos on these sites is huge! Why does nobody care?
The responsiveness is clunky though. Horizontal scrolling appears on my mobile device
In for example Fifa, at the start of a new release you start with a random squad of average players and usually 1 decent 83 odd rated player.

Now it could be that you know all the moves, tricks and are really good overall, but in general most people are only average players. So then they adjust the odds that you are constantly faced with better players, or they adjust the odds so that when you're 70 rated striker takes a shot from x, he's going to miss. If your opponent's 70 rated striker takes a shot from the opposite x side of the pitch he's going to score, and so on.

Doing this they can influence the losing player to feel as if they need to spend money buying card/player packs, so they can "increase in skill".
They'll either use cryptocurrencies now, or move to competing websites like OnlyFans.
Can someone comment on the COBOL conformance of this 3.1 release? How many tests left to pass?
Not everybody is privileged with a functional family.

Or one that is safe.

Or sane.

Or will accept them for who they are.

Etc etc etc.

The idea that "family is who you got and you stick with them" is very nice if you have a great family, but please don't force this on everybody.

It's very similar to the antiquated idea that you should be sad for a woman because she doesn't have a man.

The problem is loneliness. By treating it as a "family" problem, any solutions will exclude people who still can't fall back on a functional/safe/sane/accepting family.

I can understand it makes you sad if you have a happy family and wish this for others. But in some situations it'd be equivalent to wishing someone would stay with their abusive partner.

Also, what's this about only grandparents getting to enjoy company in their old age? What about the people without children+grandchildren?? That singular fact makes their lives carbon neutral several times over, which deserves quite an amount of respect, unlike people who did it because say, they feared being alone in their old age. Which you should not underestimate as an actual reason people use. And it also does not create happy families.
Yes, its about keeping people playing and not rage quitting. I love halo, but after a few months of playing, I start matching against semi-pros (or koreans at night =P) that are far too good and even though I've been getting better, it reaches a point where it's more stressful than fun.
This mirrors my experience perfectly. Conduct on HN is uncommonly civil (for the internet) across the board - props to Dang and whoever else moderates things. Insightful discussion, however, is almost entirely limited to the extremely technical submissions. From biochemistry to compilers to machine learning, they consistently attract participation at a truly impressive caliber.

Sometimes I wonder what HN would be like if it were somehow possible to preemptively block the majority of the "fluff" articles that make it to the front page. I guess there's no way to automate such a determination though, and even if there were any such action would probably anger the majority of the user base.
As alternatives to Optifine (which doesn't have many actual optimisations now, as most of the original improvements were implemented in the vanilla game https://gist.github.com/jellysquid3/e46882e37907dfbb3d03d26f...) the Sodium, Lithium and Phosphor optimisation mods are much faster and are fully open source.

Sodium in particular has some detailed javadocs for the primary optimisations, if you want to see how it works: https://github.com/jellysquid3/sodium-fabric/blob/1.16.x/dev...
That's good to know, as server performance has been miserable since 1.13.

Also good to hear that Java edition won't be slowly faded out :)
seems youtube is blocked in china and iran

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_YouTube
Thank you. Let me know if you run into any problems or have any question.

Agree on the SEO point and generally results from Google. It has happened to me many times that I wasn't able to find the link I needed just because Google decided I don't needed based on my previous behavior + other variables.
What are they so afraid of?
farmers are doing this right now all over india
That's pretty useful tip, I had no idea either! I'll try it out next time when searching in VSCode.
The trouble with vaccinating people most likely to spread it, at least as I've seen it explained, is that you have to vaccinate a lot of people in order to have an impact compared to vaccinating the most at risk groups and there's only a limited supply of vaccine and limited capacity to administer it right now. (Also, technically there's probably more evidence of it working to protect at-risk people from severe disease and death than for it stopping anyone spreading it, but that's mostly just an artifact of what's been tested so far.)
As a shameless plug, here's a proposal on how to optimize some things in Python object system: https://github.com/pycopy/PycoEPs/blob/master/StrictMode.md . Implemented in my lightweight Python dialect, https://github.com/pfalcon/pycopy
Yes, this is accurate. We purchased the 500 MHz at launch and then it got delayed for several months. I believe we were offered to downgrade to a 450 or wait it out, and we waited it out.
That's a weirdly specific headline.
you sound like you'd rather defend the situation where everybody loses than admit women have been getting the short end of the stick for millennia.
> "FDA" and "the FDA" are apparently used interchangeably no matter the sentence

“Taxol gains quick FDA approval”

“Taxol gains quick the FDA approval”

“Three FDA officials say the drug's approval was warranted”

“Three the FDA officials say the drug's approval was warranted”
I agree. Python's descriptor pattern was an endless source of confusion for me. But, it's much easier to do mixins in Python than in JS, even if the mro algorithm is a bit complicated...
Any gotchas? When I read about Snowpack, I always get a too-good-to-be-true feeling. Maybe I'm just jaded by years of grunt, webpack, parcel, etc.
That’s what’s happening here in Spain. The biggest ISPs are doing nothing to migrate to IPv6 because they are sitting on a shitload of IPv4 addresses and that makes it very hard for new ISPs to compete.
Webpack has some serious positive side effects:

1-2 times a year when I go to update our app's Webpack, in a matter of 3-4 days I:

1. Get up to date on all recent developments in the world of javascript, babel, esbuild, typescript, eslint, webpack, jest and all their plugins

2. Get the chance to browse through hundreds of fresh github issues while they are still open!

3. Open a few new pull requests

4. Find out about tens of of plugins that are not being developed anymore and their new replacements which are almost the same only with a new name and slightly different API!

5. Give my laptop and build server's CPU's a good go

6. Call my therapist

It's a wonderful opportunity to keep life on edge.
The lesson to take away from this is to make sure your sons and daughters never play games designed specifically to addict (like this one).

Bejeweled is addictive but when you shut it down, you don’t think about it. Games like these, it’s easy to spend time formulating in your mind how to best spend your next time playing the game. It’s unhealthy.
You can buy solarcans that will produce a similar capture

https://solarcan.co.uk/
Start your own open-source project, and make process of contributing to it not "intimidating".
That’s a huge nitpick, given that RIRs generally don’t give a shit even if you don’t use the addresses at all. Also I can imagine Amazon would rightly sue if a RIR tried to take addresses from them.
I think OP meant the past tense they used when talking about Regina. The last paragraph did clear the confusion.
Maybe you can do a dual-use project, where, if the ML part turns out to be not that useful, at least the data you collected or the baseline model you developed have a positive impact as well.
Most farmers depend on their tractors for their livelihood. I reckon it'll be difficult to convince them to shift to electric ones that costs more and haven't got any long term reliability or efficiency reports. If anything, battery powered cars lose a lot of value as their battery capacities tend to decline over time. Also, unless their farm has heavily invested in solar power, they'd still have to use electricity from the grid. In a country like Australia most electricity is generated from coal. So that's not really helping the environment. The EV industry will only last as long as we don't figure out efficient production and transportation of Hydrogen. This is impressive use of ML though.
My buddy living in the country side here in Norway switched ISP and ended up behind carrier-grade NAT.

Speed is so much better with new ISP though so he just set up Wireguard to the VPS server he rents to get "his own" IP.
The Internet detects geoblocking as damage and routes around it?
> I own 2048 IPv4’s myself and their value is ever increasing.

I own several /22's, and are renting them out through a broker. So far, 1 months rent (easily) covers the yearly RIR costs, so quite a good margin, and I still own them.

So when time comes, I can sell them, but before that, rent keeps coming in. Just need to make sure they are sold before the market value of an IPv4 crashes to zero.
What an incredible ending. Glad it worked out for you in the end.
You have an incredibly well put message here, but then you went and tacked on those last two paragraphs that border on uncivil, are polarizing, and (IMO) fail to add anything meaningful.
Hands-On with Windows 10 on ARM x64 Emulation
Germany's State Distance-Learning University
I wonder how many worms are still looking around for System 7/8 machines to infect. One? Ten? It would be neat to get a virus on one of these in 2020.
Fauci still recommends getting the vaccinated. It would lengthen your immunity.
I’d download a pie.
How is this not the largest security hole in the world?

> Cognifirm integrates with all the online systems that your employees work with, including 3rd party systems that are made available to you by the government and your business partners.

No emphasis needed.

Where's the details on this AI? You know what acts a lot like ultra high quality AI? Actual humans.
http://www.builtrobotics.com
VSinder: Dating App for VSCode where you swipe on Code
In contrast to your reading of this piece, I found it not only touching but it awakened my interest in her work. I don't share your assessment that she was a "character who, in all reality, is probably not as interesting as the post seems to suggest". But then again, I'm not even sure what you mean by that.
Links also has a graphical interface, that displays images. It's still plenty fast. I love how instant web feels through links. It's like 1G fiber connection, 24GB RAM and 8 cores add up to something, but it's just as fast as it was almost 20 years ago, when I used it first time.

One of the projects I intent to one day do is a modern HTML-only browser with tabs, video support and other useful amenities.
Icons like these could also be used in a website builder to drag n drop custom elements or for example Gutenberg blocks.
I think writing in lisp is a sort of an acquired taste.

Its sort of like learning to drink coffee black.

Sorry if this is a heretical thing to say, but I think if there was a python-based emacs that people might be adding more extensive capabilities. I know I would.

Instead I seem to fumble my way through elisp.
Random fluctuations and butterfly effects aside, couldn’t you actually predict the lava lamp flows from fluid dynamics? Or does it just so happen that the math here is actually harder than breaking the encryption?
Maybe my wording is not accurate, imagine the following (not necessarily idiomatic) C code:

int main() {
int x;
{
int x[];
// <-- caret here
x += 42;
}

This code doesn't compile, so the IDE tries to produce a partial AST. A naive approach will result in the first } matching with the second {, so `x += 42;` will cause a type error. But as noticable from the indentation, it is more believable that there was or will be } matching with the second { at the caret position and `x += 42;` refers to the outer scope.

Yes, of course parsers can account for the indentation in this case. But more generally this kind of parsing is sensitive to a series of edit sequences, not just the current code. This makes incremental parsing a much different problem from ordinary parsing, and also is likely why ibains and folks use packrat parsing (which can be easily made incremental).
The UK was unusually aggressive in getting everything in place to roll out this vaccine early - not just the approval process, but other logistics as well. The FDA, on the other hand, was under pressure to delay approval for partisan election-related reasons; the press created the perception that approving the vaccine early would be an evil plot by Trump to win the election. If the trials had reached enough cases to return results earlier, the difference could've been really dramatic because those delaying tactics essentially imposed a minimum length of time the trial had to run for in a slightly stupid way.
Pretty much. You can keep doing everything you're doing, from flying every month to eating meat everyday! Just pay a convenient tree-planting/green-washing fee of 29.99 per month and you're set!
Special-casing (only) ints and floats in VM is too trivial and a bloat for quite minor benefit. To start with, faster VMs are not VMs, but JITs. And they are able to specialize for arbitrary types, not just 2 random ones. I thought there were some "lessons learned" from ParrotVM... ;-).
It is ambiguous. Add a ’was’ after ’ever’.
Towards the end of the article is a particularly good nugget of information.

> Since then, there have been documented reports of individuals being reinfected with different versions of the virus.

Yes, reinfections have been extremely rare so far. But if the immunity really is strain-specific, the warnings about Covid becoming endemic in the global population should now carry a lot more weight. The virus will mutate. In a likely scenario, previous immunisations are likely to be less useful, and we all need annual shots against the newly emerging strains.

On the upside, if Covid strains become just another aspect of the flu jab, then we at least already have an existing infrastructure to manage it in the future. Production capacity of vaccines will take some time to ramp up, though. Maybe now would be a good time to invest in drug manufacturing and logistics?

Planet Money did an episode on Covid vaccine logistics and one data point stuck with me. The global production of vaccines is between 3.5B and 5B doses a year. That's for ALL vaccines, across the entire spectrum of diseases and treatments. Adding another 12B to 16B doses on top of that is going to require a lot of new infrastructure, from production facilities to all the materials needed in the logistics chain.
yeah but i wonder... the main argument here is that youtube is private and it can do whatever it wants.

but if it's true for youtube, why it cannot be true for an hosting company or a service provider? can't they just shut down my server or my ip? they are private after all...

is there a legally safe to speak freely on the internet? or our freedom of speech is limited only to photocopies?
as far as i can tell, true randomness doesn't work except from in the quantum world. Everything else is random insofar as "we don't know it and it's unpractical to predict". Coin tosses are also not random: they all depends on the system initial conditions.
Exactly. This is the way business is done on account of investor demands
Google analytics allows Google to collect more data, of course. I don't know if there is a "payback" on SEO rankings in that case but there should not be.

Interesting point about universal lists. Yes, there are a lot of dead sites out there but there are also a lot of good sites that buried way down in many search engines, by big brands and SEO.
For starting from scratch it mist likely does wonders.

Don't try converting a large legacy-ish codebase :)
> unfairly increase the difficulty of multiplayer mode online matches in order to encourage players to spend real-world money to boost their chances of winning

I admit it's a big leap and this technology seems like a good idea to an extend but it doesn't reward getting good at the game as much. As mentioned elsewhere, Elo-type matching is an alternative but does have the disadvantage you never get to beat down on noobs.

Some gamers indeed hypothesize that the earning of more money is indeed through better engagement based on artificially balancing games:

> "EA Wants to Get Rid of Fair Matchmaking to Focus on Player Spending & Engagement"
A lot of current ML/AI algorithms come from the computer science departments in universities. They use different words for the same ideas that exist in the statistics community. There is more of a focus on prediction versus inference. The interpretability of these algorithms come second. Here’s a little translation mapping: https://3qeqpr26caki16dnhd19sv6by6v-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/...

Nothing really to get one’s panties in a knot about though.
I want them to, of their own volition, uphold the principles that a liberal democracy is meant to hold dear.

No one has a monopoly on the truth.

Things like this have really happened:
https://twitter.com/JeremyVineOn5/status/1239512626134224896

And you've all just memory-holed it.
These are all desktop designs whereas in consumer facing sites the majority of visitors are on mobile (at least 60% for most of my clients)

So afraid they're not much use to me
It's worth bearing in mind that the graphs in the article are quite distorted. Testing was not widely available until months into the pandemic, making the early spikes look much smaller than they were.

Later strains may indeed turn out to be more infectious, but I don't think we have the evidence for that yet.
> the spatial nature of the thinking that you are doing when you are constructing redstone circuits works really well for my brain

have you seen Befunge [0] and/or Orca [1]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befunge
[1] https://github.com/hundredrabbits/Orca
A salute to Lynx, I rely on it every day to cope with `text/html` e-mail in Mutt by virtue of the following line in my `mailcap` that has worked for anything hitting my inbox for about five years now:

text/html; lynx -width 72 -assume_charset=%{charset} -display_charset=utf-8 -dump %s | sed 's|^ ||'; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput

Trying out the alternatives after reading the other comments here, perhaps I should give `w3m` a shot some day as it renders white space rather pleasantly?
Emacs is a very, very deep rabbit-hole. I'm not sure that it would make sense to not find and get together with other Emacs users to compare notes, exchange tips, and swap stories with.

When you stop to consider that back in the 80s and 90s, many pieces of software -- frickin' WordStar -- had their own user groups, even without benefit of the internet to connect them all, what else would you expect?
Is that a roundabout way to say they won't?