skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In clinical trials companies only get access to patients' medical history by looking at it wherever it's stored (hospital, doctor's office). It can not be "taken home" or downloaded or whatever, for confidentially reasons. Similarly, if you work in a trial you can not have any direct contact with patients.

A trial involves administering a substance and then recording its efficacy by examining certain parameters (lab results, images, a questionnaire etc). Someone from the pharma company has to look at these results and then check the patient medical data to make sure there's no unrelated conditions that could have influenced that data (this was my job for a few years).

The company will have lab results with numbers instead of names and in a blind study, the treatment they received will be unknown to the company until it's "unblinded" at the end of the trial, which is usually done by an external company.
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It really depends how specific whatever software/application is to the unique layout and structure of centos vs debian.

If it's some common LAMP stack thing duplicating exactly the same thing on debian+nginx(or apache2)+php7.3+mariadb could be trivially easy.

For organizations that have things like ansible set up to auto provision things where the configuration files live on a centos system, obviously locations and naming will need to be changed.

there are also certain weird (usually closed source binary) applications shipped by software vendors for specific vertical industries, which ONLY exist in a form for RHEL or CentOS. It'll be interesting to see how that works out. The vendor won't support running it on debian or ubuntu server or anything else.

I would say that out of all the possible distros of Linux, RHEL is by far the one that I see with the most rare, weird, expensive paid software that gets developed for it, due to its extensive use in government and fortune 100 type environments. In which case I don't think much will really change since the same customers will go right on buying RHEL paid yearly licenses.
OVH Also having a lot of trouble today .. http://weathermap.ovh.net/
Its a large hosting provider in EU at least.. Not sure the knock on effect.
Amazing, I will probably use it soon, thanks
I can’t set a limit like that on my CC, so the first charge for $5k would have cleared meaning it would have run way longer and racked up way more usage. I’d bet you my computer I would have been out at least the $5k that cleared.
"But senators, we can't break up these three unrelated services because they all use the same messaging infrastructure!"
States Try to Rescue Small Businesses as U.S. Aid Is Snarled
There is an incentive to not abuse their own server time serving robots, essentially creating the status quo.

Meanwhile, advertisers value users' data like gold. Unlike server time, most advertisers are okay to collect their own data for advertising purposes, and this causes them to have an unwritten agreement to collect data. Unless there is a stronger stick to force them otherwise, it is in their best interests to collect data and you need to have active intervention to prevent it.
That's really good answer! Thanks for it!
I guess I will need to get better into identifying my needs
Asp.net Core and React
Really like GFN, unfortunately the developer backlash renders it pretty useless since I can't play most of the games I want to on it - pretty much only Ubisoft games in my Steam library show up these days. Wanted to play Borderlands 3 - nope, not on GFN. Conveniently on Stadia, though......

I have a new (2020 model) Philips Android TV, and unfortunately GFN has an experience-breaking audio bug on it, and I hazard that it probably won't be fixed anytime soon, if ever, because "it's not supported hardware" despite them developing the Android TV app and it having a really common MediaTek chipset. Don't really want to fork out more money for a Shield after buying a brand new TV!

I tried Shadow last year and I really liked that, despite it being a little pricier. Regretfully cancelled my subscription, so I can't get it back until NEXT JULY according to the preorder page!

What I've tried so far:

- Moonlight (so, local streaming): Best experience, hands down... For local network, and assuming you have a decent computer anyway. So, great if you want to stream from a PC in your office to your living room. If you're lucky enough to get fiber to the home in your city, latency might be low enough and upload speed high enough that you can stream games outside your home. My cable ISP tops out at 10mbps though, so not for me. I use it as proof that there's nothing wrong with my Android TV's hardware though, since it's happy to stream at 4K HDR 60fps H265 from my PC with only ~30ms latency.

- Shadow: Good quality, good virtual PC specs (GTX 1080 baseline), surprisingly little latency, lets you play any game that runs on PC. My friend even managed to play through all of Half-Life Alyx on his Quest using Virtual Desktop streamer on my Shadow instance. Unfortunately your subscription can take _months_ to become active -- might improve in future if the company scales up?

- Stadia (sideloaded to Android TV): Playable. Played a bit of Destiny 2 and Borderlands 3. Both in 4K and HDR. Picture quality a little muddy at times. Latency a bit too high to comfortably play first person shooters, but probably okay in other games.

- GeForce NOW: Playable, but the picture quality was also a bit muddy and the latency was higher than Stadia, and on my TV it suffered from the audio glitch (distorted audio, like the buffer chunk's being played back at 44100 when it should be 48000, or the bit depth is wrong, or something). What really stops me from using it though - disappointing absence of most of my games from its library.

- Parsec, Blacknut: OK, have a bunch of free to play games in their respective libraries. The streams are only like 720p though.
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We know. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
The bet is specifically on the date of the attack/bioerror. I don't think the LNF has procedures in place for a reversed decision.
It makes me sad those aren't new Signal users :(
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> Why should we faithfully assume that people will produce that material if given the chance?

Mostly the "someone is wrong on the internet" phenomena. There are a large number of people who like arguing things and debunking. They just need exposure.

> Is it possible you're not equipped to make that decision for yourself?

Well, yes.

It's also possible, qnd indeed just as likely, that we should not have allowed the common pleb to vote on the grounds that they don't have the free time or the long-term planning to make good decisions on how the country should be run.

I'd consider both hypotheses equally likely.
I do it when writing online because the average online audience's reading habits are to skim content, not fully read a paragraph. A collection of short paragraphs can get the message across better than longer explanations of the same points.
Yup - that's how most ePubs do it now. Currently, eReaders handle that inconsistently. Some jump you down to the footnote and others display it on the same page.
How much is $120B relative to the total assets held in the UK by Morgan Stanley? The number of jobs which have been moved out of London seems relatively small (7500 across the entire financial sector, single companies in London employee more than that).
Yesterday I was asked for my email for a fresh install of Windows 10.

This immediately enraged me and I considered Linux.

I couldn't help but to consider Apple. But Apple is worse, they started the trend of collecting your information just to use their product. Apple is the reason Microsoft can ask for an email. Apple is the reason for the death of Flash. Apple bent at the knee to china. Apple uses pricing as a marketing tactic.

Any support of that company is bad capitalism.
I would splice the argument in half:

A. Creative people creating games and other fun stuff with Flash in similar vein than HyperCard and Visual Basic allowed decades earlier

B. Bloody stupid web page enchancements and whole sites made in Flash for the effects and they were PITA to use and find. Ie. you cannot use the website without flash because the button animations have been done with Flash so the whole navigation doesn't work because Flash broken or disabled on purpose.

Most of the time I just ended up hating Flash-content because its randomness to work with Linux even on Mac and Windows was really, really annoying. Having fancy effects on a web page without any real added value didn't help.
Those are never, ever stored with the pharma companies. If FDA finds out they are you can close shop.
From this point of view, it should be good for France and bad for Germany. When the UK was in the EU it had a much more pro-market, pro-EU expansion agenda. France was at the other extreme and Germany was in the middle. This afforded Germany some flexibility as it could "choose" between these different axes as needed.

With the UK gone that means that voice is much weakened and to some extent countries like Germany will have to make more concessions to France as there's less of a counterweight in the other direction.

Whether this is "beneficial for the EU" depends on if you think increased integration is a good thing or not. If you are fully signed up lover of the European project then it is probably good, but if you're leery of further integration then it is probably bad.
I am far from being an expert, but on the other side now it might be easier for Britain to set up more favourable conditions for startups and tech companies since now they don't have to comply with EU laws.
People used to laugh that "reboot your phone/car" was humorous, now "reboot your lightbulb" is a real action that has to be taken at times.
I know it's unrealistic because it probably adds a lot to development time, but I really wish more games would allow both 1st and 3rd person perspectives (i.e. Skyrim).

There are two highly acclaimed AAA titles in my library not being played (fortunately bought on sale) that I just can't get into because I have the opposite problem-- they are only in 3rd person, and it totally kills immersion for me.
I’ve noticed that excessive use of <details> can cause a pretty big hit to page performance
I wonder what a full time cloud engineer costs. IMO it’s trading a simple system for a complex system, so now the maintainers cost even more than sysadmins used to.
Kubernetic v3.1.0 Released – Dark Mode is here
Facial Recognition for Pigs
Who uses Instagram DMing btw?
This seems like a comment by someone who lacks a basic knowledge of Indian/Chinese relations but has an axe to grind against America. India and China are constantly saber rattling over turf wars and other geopolitical issues, and India withdrew from the recent Chinese-led RCEP free trade agreement over concerns that China would compromise their economic sovereignty.

India could undergo governmental reform and hire, say, German experts (or Indian experts!) to help revitalize their water infrastructure. Just illustrating a scenario where things change for the better and neither China nor America is involved whatsoever.
Yes, Jobs and Apple are kind of sharks but on the other hand did you witness Flash running on Android phones? They were so slow that you didn't want to enable it even if you could :D
This is wrong. Many contracts use cash settlement as an effective way to hedge against an increase in the cost of something. This product provides a hedge for water producers and consumers. To the extent water is a volatile-cost input into agriculture (perhaps an open question), this is likely to see significant usage.
I didn't suggest genocide, not at all.

"Family planning" suggests agency. Humans have agency. The comment I'm responding to explicitly recommends forced reduction in fertility rates, removing agency, something you don't do to human beings unless you think of them like sheep or cattle. Equating a one or no child policy with "family planning" is extremely disingenuous.

Any law that tells human beings how many children they are allowed to have is fascism, yes. Any directive telling human beings how they have to reproduce is eugenics by definition.
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IIRC, mail in voting increases fraudulent voting at a rate of about 1 vote per 100,000 vote increase in the participation rate.

Restrictions on mail in voting are only a good thing if you want to restrict the participation rate.
Thanks for the considered response.

How does public ownership differentiate between needs and wants?

As far as I can tell, there's something that poor people have even less than money: influence and connections.

> The fire service is a fairly universal example of a service that should not be driven by profit motive and we have good records of the damage that occurs when they are.

Could you point me to those records?

As far as I can tell, Denmark does fairly well with privatized fire fighters. (And if memory serves right, the US, for mysterious reasons, has about twice as many firefighter per capita as other developed countries.)

From a more theoretical perspective, would you think that a mandate for people to buy insurance against fires (and especially against liability for spreading fires) or alternatively posting a big bond to self-insure, and leaving the rest of the workings to the market should work as well? What do you think?
I think you might be thinking of the plot of the movie 'Milk' while not realizing it took place over two decades before the time being talked about here.
I'm unable to do this apparently. Or not in a strict sense at least.

Last year I had a bit of a crisis. I believed that I needed to become more focused on one particular area to facilitate long term professional success. I think I got this advice directly or indirectly from different people at different times.

But I couldn't. I looked at specific areas to specialize in isolation. All of them are interesting, but I could feel almost physical pain from just thinking to narrow down my focus on any of those.

Then I gave up, and what a relief that was. I realized that I'm not wired this way. I see the connections between the things. That's what draws my attention and endlessly motivates me. Tackle a new problem, refine my skill a bit here, bolster my knowledge a bit over there.

Quoting Heinlein: Specialization is for insects.

This resonates with me.

Now I'm a programmer (full-stack web), teacher, consultant. Recently also started learning technical writing and working towards building an animal sanctuary.

I see more and more connections between those things, which is satisfying and rewarding, often in unpredictable ways.
> 350 to ask the previous user what God is he talking about, and that if he has scientific proofs of His existence.

Oh, this is where HN gets on the topic.
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Your detailed analysis is interesting. Not because of what it says, but because of what it doesn’t say. It completely ignored the fact (explicitly mentioned in my comment) that in this case - the case this entire thread is talking about - government officials pressured the company into suppressing free speech. That is not the situation in the AOL case you mentioned, and makes your entire analysis irrelevant to this case.

We aren’t talking about AOL. We are talking about a group of partisan senators pressuring a company that has a de facto monopoly in online video distribution into suppressing free speech for no reason other than “we don’t like it”.

Your analysis, even ignoring the fact that it has nothing to do with the present case, is also entirely incorrect as it relates to my comment. The CDA requires that the removal be “in good faith”. Removals that aren’t in line with “clear, previously set guidelines” can be ruled to not be in good faith. We essentially said the same thing, but you managed to hurl insults at me - saying that my “sources must be garbage” - while you said your version of it. Well done.
In the past 40-ish years, yes; in the previous 40 years, they inflicted a lot of suffering on the country.
I sincerely hope that AS3356 hasn't broken a big chunk of the Internet again.

https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/CenturyLink+Outage+Causing...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/centurylink-outage-led-to-a-3-...
absolutely huge pain in the ass. The issue isn't typically around installing a new linux distro; that works fine, these days. it's usually getting all your in-house code and processes to work properly with the new environment that's the nightmare. you'll be handling weird bug reports related to the migration for months.

which is in no way redhat's, or centos's fault.
Good summary. I actually did not know about CR's grey-market roots.

That kicked off real users who competed on getting the
highest quality subtitle jobs uploaded quickest after the first
broadcast of a given show in Japan.

This has definitely been a thing since before CR!

Before CR "went legit" the non-Japan market for anime was severely underserved. You could download illegal fansubs for free, often within 24 hours of its broadcast in Japan. Or... you could pay major $$$ for official US releases years later. And a lot of series were never released here at all.

* VHS/DVD/BluRay sales clearly indicated that plenty of folks wanted to pay for this stuff.

* Fansub torrent stats clearly indicated that plenty of folks wanted this stuff sooner than the industry was giving it to them.

And yet, somehow, it took about 15 years for the industry to bridge this gap. As somebody on the fringes of the industry, it made me want to scream. It didn't exactly take a major leap of cosmic brainpower to realize that while not all fansub-downloaders would pay for this stuff, this was the hardcore segment of the fanbase and certainly some of them would.
The ECMAScript frontend for Guile is not fully complete, but it is possible to do some rudimentary work with it.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-04/msg000...

(note the date; don't read too much into the roadmap...)

Package definitions can be written in JSON however:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#index-JSON_002c-imp...

It's also funny to consider that JavaScript came to be because Netscape failed to implement Scheme in the browser. Imagine what the world would look like had they succeeded with that... :-)
Shush you will trigger the apple fans :-)
You’re a farmer. You sell 3 crops. You can lock in futures to reduce your outcome variability. There are multiple benefits.
What's scary is Hue bulbs are some of the MORE performant of the IoT stuff I have - and work when offline.

That second part is the key - so much stuff is designed "cloud first" and that introduces lots of delays and errors when the Internet isn't working perfectly.
because you would need multiple runtime versions and games would need to target a specific runtime version.

because if you don't keep your game up to date, it would not run. in windows you basically can run games for way longer because libraries are way more binary compatible. for running webservers/cloud whatever a breakage doesn't hurt and removes old crud, but sometimes the old crud is used in xyz in a way that nobody tought and without it the game would crash, that's why you would need to target a specific runtime.

the same thing more or less did windows up to 7 relativ well, via the version selection. unfortunatly windows 10 broke some games even with the version selection.
Just wanted to say thanks for all your work on this project. I used PiMusicBox a few years ago and found it to be a very usable. If I remember correctly, the only reason I switched to volumio was because of the snapcast plugin, but I could have easily just not understood a similar option in PiMusicBox.

> I also like that they've refrained from using the word "audiophile".

YES! That word seems to be thrown around a lot as a justification for upcharge and I'm sure you're right about the support issues.
> "Population management" is a road leading

You can say that about anything: socialist policies, "no-tolerance" policies, anything that looks like censorship.

You say there have been many such example, then trot out Nazi Germany; The fact the Nazis purposefully initiated a genocide (the holocaust) out of hatred out the Jews undermines the suggestion that there was a genuine attempt at population management.

Chinas also has a pretty poor human rights example, aside from it's 1-child policy.

Do you have any example of a modern (first-world, developed) country with a good human-rights record, and QOL index pursuing population management?
In IoT only one person is needed to change a light bulb. But it will take 7 days of soldering, debuging and reverse engineering :)
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Re-read what I wrote, where did I say anything about deplatforming? Yes, I understand TFA was about YouTube deplatforming people, but the comment I was replying to was about people's need to learn basic media criticism/critical thought.

Frankly, it's about holding other human beings to basic standards when they make pronouncements in public. Entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts, etc.
This is called cultural fit. Predicting idiosyncratic hatred is not enough, one must also share it.
Security is the major reason.

I can imagine spinning up a virtual machine to use legacy flash content.
>The worst consequence of COVID will be thousands of people dying from other disease, because healthcare system focused on COVID neglected them, and the economic depression caused by lockdowns.

The reason we went into lockdown and went under all these draconian restriction measures wasn't because the virus was considered deadly. It's not that deadly for the majority of the population actually, especially for younger people.
No, the reason we went into lockdown was to avoid the hospitals overflowing with patients. If you let the virus spread around like wildfire through the population with its spread rate of 2 to 3, then you would very quickly make a lot of people very sick and need hospitalisation. This isn't to say that the majority of people would get very sick. You only need a small minority of the vulnerable population to get very sick suddenly all at once in order to shock the hospital system.

So, if indeed we care about treating people with other diseases as you say, our priority should be on making sure we have as many beds and doctors available in hospitals. And the only way to achieve that is with coronavirus restrictive measures. It's much easier to get doctors and hospitals to treat other. "doing nothing" as you suggest would be counter-productive to what you are trying to achieve.
patients if they don't have to constantly worry about their COVID-19 patients.
If the hospitals were full and you e.g. broke your leg while on your motorbike, would you like to be told at A&E that "sorry we're full, we have all these COVID-19 patients that are dying"? I wouldn't.

>The worst consequence of global warming will be economic depression caused by pushing expensive and ineffective, but low-carbon technologies on us.

You only need to take a simple cursory glance that the IPCC report to realise that it's not that simple.
Hell, ask the CIA! They consider global warming a serious threat to national security. If the CIA considers it a threat, shouldn't we worry?

Relevant videos that show how climate change is already having detrimental effects on our daily lives:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0x46-enxsA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo61TiAGwhk
PUBG - a game where you need at least 50 players for a match - would be quiet empty when you're only playing with Linux players.