skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is Amazon's interest in this ?

I hope this is good news for the Blender Development Fund, but I'm scared of the possible consequences. I suppose we may end up seeing Blender Cloud offering remote renders using AWS's infrastructure, which is good news unless it means tying the rendering engines to Amazon tech.

For context, here is a brief overview of the 2019 financial report of the Blender foundation :

- 33% of income (316 k€) from individual sponsors

- 28% of income (267 k€) from EPIC Games

- 27% of income (257 k€) from other corporate sponsors

- highest salary: 58.4 k€

- lowest salary: 32.5 k€ (55% of highest)

- 43% of expenses (416 k€) were salaries

I really like Blender, and seeing it thrive in the last years has brought me immense pleasure. I hope that I have the chance to work with Blender again, and benefit from the recent improvements.

Congratulations to the Blender Development Fund for this new sponsor, which I hope will bring value to the project.
Horrible how we can place success above morals: regard for safety is not as properly promoted as competition.
You may not know that Java has a JIT and a AOT if you want even a bit more perf for cold start. And they are really good.
it's most definitely not. The application and collection points aren't even the same because there's a time delay in antibody testing.
No one has a problem with it save maybe 1-5% who want a communist type economic system. At least in the USA. Someone is going to pay for it.
I think most importantly of all it seems that this wasn’t a very hard problem to solve, relatively speaking. Like we could throw all the scientists all over the world who worked on this at cancer and there won’t be a cure for cancer a year from now. At least I don’t think. Nonetheless I remain impressed and salute any and all scientists who either did the work or paved the way.
For what it's worth both Trump and Biden stated as much regardless of who won the election.
Absolutely and if there was no warning and only through the crashes was it discovered what the malfunction is that would be appropriate.

But if engineers are saying that something is wrong before the first customer deliveries, and if the company is choosing to take this route purely out of financial benefit to themselves, its criminal.
Because it works really well (at least from my experience and others I've heard). It has a solid (and really useful) feature set, and I generally have lower latency and less CPU usage than any other video conferencing system I've tried.
According to NPR [1]

> Moderna spokesperson Colleen Hussey explained to NPR in an email that its vaccine doesn't need to be kept so cold because of its particular "lipid nanoparticle properties and structure," and because the company has learned from experience — it's developed ten mRNA vaccine candidates already. "Now we don't need [ultra-cold conditions] as the quality of product has improved and [it] doesn't need to be highly frozen to avoid mRNA degradation," Hussey explained.

and

> It's possible that Pfizer's vaccine could eventually be shown to be stable in somewhat warmer conditions — or for longer times out of the freezer.

1: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/9355633...
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We have a slightly different but just as effective system in place here that surprisingly is heading in more censorious direction.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/instagram-is-using-false-fa...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/after-the-deep-state-sabota...

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-b...
Unclear how Zoom evades the public eye while other companies like Huawei get so much flack for efforts that are in favor of/support the CCP.
He's talking about https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/governance/policy...
The general rule is increasing temperature by 10C roughly doubles the rate of chemical reactions. https://www.ddltesting.com/package-testing/shelf-life-testin...

Though in practice it’s more complicated. Basically, make predictions based on accelerated testing and then validate them in real time tests. So, if things hold up at 3 and 6 months real time you can probably trust them over longer timeframes.
You just need the word "Bot" in your user agent. Requires for fetching Twittercards for link previews too. Changed earlier this year.
I wouldn't say far faster. Russia and China have both come up with vaccines in a similar amount of time. We haven't seen any details on how effective they are compared. J&J is making a more traditional vaccine and it should be finishing up the Stage 3 study in a month or two and be ready for approval. They're hoping it will be a single dose vaccine
It's not really that many decades of research. This tech is from the 90s. This is the very first mRNA vaccine to be deployed on a mass scale. Does it cause cancer 10, 20 years from now? Does anyone know that for sure? It's not like we have a perfect scientific statistical sampling of people who received mRNA vaccines 30 years ago and we can evaluate those long term effects.
FAANG tales: From a failed startup guy
My startup failed in 2019 and I found myself in the job market. I failed an Airbnb interview in Nov 2019 & I realized I wasn't thorough enough with Leetcode. Crammed the damn thing and got a dev job at FAANG.

Here are some of my observations:
1. Once your startup fails, for any recruiter at FAANG (and hyper growth YC companies), you are basically an unemployed engineer.

2. All the "skills" you acquired at your startup 1)Trying to "make something that people want" 2) Haggling with that procurement dude @ Fortune 500 (for that $10K MRR contract) 3)Redlining contracts....don't matter. The only thing that matters is: How much of Leetcode do you know?
3. Most successful (FAANG + hyper growth YC) companies have "referral networks". Hard to get in without those.
4. 1 year at FAANG now and I realize that the money is very good, BUT one has to keep their head down, forget about your exciting startup life (dont bring it up with your co-workers either...cos you will not fit in)
5. I can now understand the plight of Marines who return from war and try to enter civilian life (to be sure, not trying to compare my situation with them).
6. Life at FAANG is easy. Just need punt that damn Sev2 to another team (so you can enjoy the weekend). May be the sales skills acquired at my startup are being used here after all.
7. Sometimes, my problem solving itch will kick in and I will go above and beyond to solve that Sev2 and co-workers get surprised when I submit a PR in another team's code. Startups are essentially problem solving exercises and its hard to simply pretend to not have that desire.
8. It is ironic that these companies are so successful with so much busy work going on, but as a startup founder one has to jump through hoops to close a $1K deal. Doesn't seem fair, but I guess that's life.
9. As a recovering startup guy, I spend my weekends re-reading PG essays and watching YC videos (& thinking about the mistakes that led to my startup's demise).

Cheers!
There is an art to this...

it mostly comes down to recommendations though. you shouldn’t expect to find good help immediately. the gig economy platforms make it seem like it, but its not the case.
You're right, Slack isn't really that popular and totally doesn't use magic tokens /s
(I'm a Google SWE, though in firmware) I've had good experiences with Meet, both internally and externally. At least internally/gsuite, the background blur is really quite good. The public/free version doesn't itself have either background replacements, though.
National security cannot be delegated to individual action. It's basically the first and foremost purpose of government.
I am concerned that the Pfizer vaccine was put on hold [1].
I am also concerned that Moderna has never produced ANY drug beyond the third stage before. [2]

How could we research if the approval was politically motivated? How can I know if this is actually safe?

(1) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/white-house-delays-p...

(2) https://www.wsj.com/articles/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-is-cl...
> You might as well also have described the Catholic Church in your post, but the Vatican is still kicking.

The church used to play a vastly more important role in society than it does today… something for universities to ponder now that repositories of knowledge and communities that formed around such are no longer bound behind their walls and the churches walls before that…
I find it easier if I consider momentum from photons bouncing.

You measure the colour of an object by bouncing light off it and seeing what comes back. The objects state is modified when the light hits it, since it imparts momentum.
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> In general, AWS more often shifts the harder parts of global distributed systems onto their customers, rather than solving them for their customers, like GCP does.

Choice of language in representing this is rather telling, because AWS can (and does) pitch this as a strength, viz. that regionalisation helps customers (especially, significantly, bigco enterprise customers) reason about the possible failure modes, and thereby contain the blast radius of component failure.

They'd never comment on competitors in public, but the clear implication is that apparently global services merely gloss over the risks, they don't resolve them, and eventually it'll blow up in your face, or someone's face at least.

> there is no way around global dependencies

This sounds more like a challenge than an assertion. In my very long experience of tech, anyone who ever said, "you can't do that", eventually ate their hat.
Not OP, but this is the same way lightbulb or hard drive manufacturers can claim "greater than 50,000 hours of operation". Instead of testing for over a decade, they test many samples over a shorter time duration, and then they extrapolate. Like any other extrapolation, these estimates have their caveats. But for biological reagents, something like an exponential decay is often considered reasonable.
People answering the phone in call centers often have the official job title "Customer Service Executive" in companies (just search google for jobs). Just saying.
Then do go to those websites. It's not a right that you have access to a website.

Seek out only sites that don't block adblock, or has no ads. This might include a paid option (for example, youtube premium, or twitch subscription for ad-free viewing).
I was working on a financial trading program at one point, specifically a function to filter orders into bids and asks. They named the order value "total" and the order size "sum".

It made a really simple function incredibly difficult to read.
Impossible I think. I'm sure all those edge cases are dealt with.
So they'd have to be socketed? That means no HBM, which seems unfortunate. (If you mean just replacing the entire card... why not replace the entire console? All you'd be getting from the host system would be power (probably as 12V, so you need several DC/DC converters on the card), storage, and networking - besides storage, all of these are commodities; and for storage, existing consoles already support swapping drives out just fine.)
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Star Trek doesn't really show a post-scarcity society. See Kirk's apartment in SF. He's clearly got an apartment with a view of the bay around the 30th floor of some building. Others don't get the view or the 30th floor since the both are scarce.

So are positions like "being the captain".

Replicators might lift everyone out of poverty but the won't change how people feel about others using their creative works.
> A continuation after the initial error is hard to explain other than by deliberate personal moral failure.

No, just denial: Look, it's a safe plane. We know it's a safe plane. Sure, it's not exactly like the earlier model, but those rules are needlessly strict. This plane is better, we know it's better. And pilots aren't idiots. They'll figure it out.

As we all learned, there's no single feature you can point to in the MAX that was a bad engineering decision in isolation. So if you don't want to see bad engineering, you don't have to.
I moved away early this year due to its poor track record on security:
2019 - Report of the Zoom app's malware like behaviour-using a hidden web server to enable Zoom much more capabilities than simply launching a zoom call like re-installing the Zoom software[1]

2020-Tricking its users during installation pretending the OS is requiring password[2]

In general, playing fast and loose with its users' data-sending a conference en(de)cryption key between two users in Canada/US to an ip address in Beijing.[3]

[1]https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/zoom-zero-day-4-million-...
[2]https://twitter.com/c1truz_/status/1244737672930824193
[3]https://citizenlab.ca/2020/04/move-fast-roll-your-own-crypto...
I try to suggest this exact strategy, but it's hard to find acceptance in my current job. I call this "letting the code tell me what to do." I find that religious adherence to DRY and all kinds of other rules ends up in just...shitty, shitty code.
I feel like for this kind of product, it's all about the design, and not so much the tech. The design should be given first class priority, in my opinion.
It was not "put on hold", rather as many experts expected, especially with the state of the current administration, mass distribution and coordination is a clusterfuck. Which, to be fair, is a very challenging problem with a lot of minutia and moving parts. But "your amazon product will take another day to ship" is very different from "your amazon product is broken".

If you're worried that it was rushed by US politics: the "Pfizer" vaccine was made by Biontech, a German company, and has also been accepted (earlier, even) by regulators in Canada and the UK.
Have any Boeing engineers publicly left due to this? I remember tons of people leaving well known tech firms just for having Homeland Security / ICE as customers. I couldn't continue to work for a company that exhibited such deprave indifference to human safety.
Start with a description of what you want to build.
Humans are quite dimwitted unfortunately.
Many people get placebo effects
I know. I’ve been ordering my own since May. This was at the start of the pandemic when there was a run on masks.
> Right, and so browsers need to fix this!

Makes sense to me. There are a lot of legitimate reasons software on your computer might need to know it's in a VM or what the limits of your VR engine are.
The CCP knows who is in the party and they can easily see who is employed within China. They do publish who is and who isn’t within violation.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills because you describe exactly what I have to deal with on a daily basis, but I'm the only on my team that feels this way.
How does the PowerPC’s reverse bit numbering impact power consumption?
> The more pain we suffer now, the longer the lesson will last.

More evidence of the pervasive political attitude that’s “science-based” but more like modern day fundamentalist fire-and-brimstone “anyone smiling wrought all the suffering in the world” Christianity.
To prevent an immune response and degradation, the mRNA vaccine nucleosides are modified from normal human mRNA. It's possible that RNA virus reverse transcriptase may not be able to work on these modified nucleosides.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243
yeah that's not the lesson from this
Charges are based on evidence shown to a grand jury. The law presumes people are innocent until proven guilty, and we should give people the benefit of the doubt, but it’s totally reasonable to talk about the charges in a news context. Charges being filed means some meaningful threshold has been passed.
>RAM compression implemented in hardware

That's what I'm thinking.
It is probably as simple as talent development, it’s a drop in the bucket for an enthusiastic creator for Amazon Prime or to recruit a tech artist. People already use AWS for rendering.
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Moderna’s one other trial in the last 10 years failed due to toxicity. Their filing cabinet is full of deadly mRNA therapies.
Kodak was a chemical company, not a camera company, and the problem was not so much that it would compete with their film business as it was that semiconductors and electronics are a very different business. It's one thing to pivot a startup, and another to pivot a beheamoth like the company that Kodak was. And transitioning from one industry to another is a much bigger deal than transitioning from designing x86 CPUs to ARM CPUs.

In hindsight, yes, it was a mistake. But it's a very understandable one.
More disgrace:
"The FAA is also accused of retaliating against whistleblowers, possibly obstructing the Office of the Inspector General’s investigation into the crashes"
I may not have the right to have access to most of these websites but I do have the right to complain about how unethical I find it.

And of course this situation has different implications if the website offers some sort of an essential service, but that's an entirely different discussion.
Well, presumably there may be valid use cases for WebGL applications or games behaving differently according to specific vendors/drivers.

It feels like something that needs to be asked permission for, however, so it can’t be used for nefarious purposes.
The US has 100 million doses of Pfizer and 50 million of Moderna, enough to cover a bit under half the country. Then, it has 500 million of the Oxford vaccine. Altogether, this is more than enough to cover the country. And then it has the option to purchase more..
MCAS do not engage while on autopilot so...
Their purchase targets across all the vaccine candidates should have been in the billions, with the idea of distributing any excess (FDA approved) vaccines around the world.
Thanks for the additional links. I guess you would need temperature stable viral RNApol to do direct 'RNA' amplification. Not sure if that exists or if it's even possible due to RNA instability. As you say not so worthwhile due to high errors.

Producing RNA from DNA amplicons (PCR products) makes sense, I'm curious if that is the source of material from in the vaccines, or if it's artificially synthesized?

Would that be a trade secret?
Primary liaison with police and the CCP does not sound like a low wage job especially for a Chinese firm.
The actual study results show the vaccine is highly effective within 10 days of the first dose.

Honestly a bit shocked based on the results and the number of lives that could be saved by effectively doubling the number of available doses that they didn’t try to get it modified to a single dose regimen.

Seems to me like just another way the FDA has screwed up this whole rollout.
Assume that the reaction rate (shelf life) versus temperature relationship is described by the Arrhenius equation or some other model; perform experiments at elevated temperatures, and extrapolate to lower temperatures.
> If people refuse to fly the 737 MAX, hopefully they go bankrupt and the existing management can be replaced.

Lol.

As if Boeing would ever be allowed to go out of business.
> Defense of the Ancients is up 38%.

interesting error calling Dota 2 "Defense of the Ancients"
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...nor hurt.
The degree to which charges predict things is the degree to which they serve as "evidence" for the purposes of prediction.
We changed the URL from https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-d..., which is a corporate press release [1], to the most substantive non-paywalled article I could easily google.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Boeing has been run by accountants from McDonald Douglas for the last 15 years, not engineers like it used to be.

Perhaps that has some bearing on the problem?
But, as the author of this article noted before, we don't live in a world shaped by ancient star battling empires. We currently live in a world shaped by our history, and continue to shape our world based on how we understand ourselves and our past. If we distill our past into stereotypes we will forget where we come from and make decisions based off of inaccurate assumptions.

If we see the Native Americans as murdering rapists, how likely are we to give them restitution for the massacres we've inflicted upon them, or begin to provide them social support? And if you don't currently see them as such, how will fiction that impresses on the greater public of its veracity that it isn't so, and that the general impression of their culture is completely fabricated?

Fiction definitely shapes our society and our understanding, and if fiction as popular as this one claims to be realistic there is a responsibility to either confirm or counter it. Yes, storytelling is more important than accuracy, but when you claim the latter you had better prove it.
Charges filed means they've pissed off someone powerful, no more no less. It's up to you to evaluate the evidence based on what's publicly known. Generally when the government doesn't show its evidence, it should be treated with extreme skepticism.
Simple answer might just be that there's only so much that can differentiate one streaming service from another.

If we're making comparisons to the traditional music industry, the streaming services might not be the labels -- they could be the recording formats. Just as with buying a CD player vs buying a Minidisc player, very few people with go through the cost or effort to use many different forms of media.
"‘violent, sexual, sophisticated adult entertainment’ of Star Trek"

Wait, what though? Sophisticated debataly, but Star Trek is not particular violent or sexual, is it?
Yeah getting my wisdom teeth removed in my 40s seemed like 20 years later than optimal. They always seemed to take up too much space in my mouth, were hard to brush (which led to them eventually needing removal), and contributed to canker sores and other routine pain and irritation. After they were removed, my mouth felt so much healthier, easier to keep clean, and free of miscellaneous pain.
In practice it seems the expiration dates on even boring drugs aren't real far into the future.
Gut feel tells me that's not true. Surely something should be regarded as dangerous only if it does typically incur a high probability of death? Not just if it seems as if it aught to do so somehow (because it would have been very dangerous in 1918?). Crab fishing is dangerous because fisherpeople are often swept overboard not because the big waves look scary.
I found the “wedge game” completely inscrutable. Read it closely a few times and was completely unable to figure out what I was supposed to do or how to do it.
Anyone knows why they insist on both doses given the limited supply of the vaccine and the marginal increase in effectiveness with the second dose? I would imagine every single day counts.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Rvzdi8RS9Bda5aLt2/covid-12-1...
If Trump had stockpiled even more doses he would just be called a mass murderer for hoarding the initial supply. America has enough of the first round of production locked up.
> For some reason, this turned out to work better than the intended regimen (90 % vs 60 % in the other trial).

The difference isn't actually statistically significant. It's probably 60-70% effective overall.