skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget the data cleaning, gathering and preparation too. That's pretty insanely expensive at that scale.
It's two doses per person, so the first 150M only cover 75M people, not half of the country.
Peak german humor right there. Very efficient, I'm impressed. Thank you
I think the tone is exactly like what I hear from forensic anthropologists when talking about CSI because they hear so many people talking about how realistic it is...
Again - lockdown is a policy advocated by the rich. It is a policy only wealthy nations can afford - and even then it’s massively disruptive. On the individual level, not everyone can Zoom to work.

It is seriously tone deaf and divorced from normal, working class reality to just say “why can’t everyone stay home?”

And then suggesting people are evil if they don’t want to.
If I understand correctly, you are saying that with the reversed bit numbering, bit 31 (in a 32-bit address bus) changes most frequently with sequential accesses because it is the LSB but when wired to the MSB of SRAM, it causes switching in the column decoder for every single access.

That makes sense but I didn’t realize that it was difficult to simple swap the wiring. Are the physical pins ordered backwards as well (that is, do PowerPC’s A31 and A30 appear where A0 and A1, respectively, would be on a “normal” system)?
Does anybody think our grand kid's kids will get vaccinated with hundreds of vaccines when they're born?

The industry will make a lot of money out of that sure, but I have my doubts where this is going.
What is the moral basis for any process of means testing to include one’s blood relatives? There surely cannot be one.

Like so many policy decisions, it is simply another way for those in power to shirk the responsibility of actually collecting enough taxes to pay for the things we need. To do so would mean increasing income tax, a concept completely anathema to electioneering.

For University in particular — a part of one’s life that should involve physical and emotional separation from the nest — it is infantilizing and disingenuous to treat undergraduates as legal adults on the one hand, and daddy’s-girls (with access to daddy’s wallet) on the other.

This is how it felt, for me.
You could, but why would you? All those programs do is create economic distortions and inefficiency. If you give people housing vouchers, it inflates housing costs and prevents people who need things other than housing more than they need housing from getting what they need. If you give people money and they need housing, they buy housing; if they need something else, they buy something else.
Unlike Facebook, which just claims it is the best, Brave provided stats and conducted first runs for all browsers. It was the least noisy browser.

You can run the first run test yourself and get the same results.
China's Chang'e 4 lander is known to use ATMEL AT697F. It is SPARC-compatible.

Source: The scientific objectives and payloads of Chang'e 4 mission. DOI 10.1016/j.pss.2018.02.011. No free source, use Sci-Hub.
I don't see how the asymptomatic fraction makes a normal trial superior to a challenge trial.

As for the hospitalization and ICU, those numbers are inflated, but regardless, in order to pass the trial, the same number of people need to be infected in the trial. The only difference is that while you're waiting for a few dozen people to be infected naturally because you gave them a placebo, millions are being infected and thousands are dying daily.
Reminds me of the time I wrote 100 similiar sites separately with slight changes. A quick global search/replace will introduce so many unnecessary replaces unless you are careful and miss so many unless you take linebreaks into account.

A global search/replace is a hotfix hammer that should only get pulled out rarely and carefully by manually reviewing all changes.
Why don't these tech support the oldest trick every financial companies have been doing?

They send a cent and see if the recipient received it or not. If the money went through and is secured, then send the rest. Simply by doing this, you could avoid almost all incidents like these.
The litmus test, IMHO, should be if any other American competitors of Zoom - viz. Google Meet, FaceTime, Teams, fb Messenger rooms etc. - are getting charged for similar activities? If not, then it may be worth questioning if Zoom is really as “American” or “non-Chinese” as it claims to be!
Hundreds of vaccinations in infancy and then they never get sick for the rest of their lives? Hell yeah, that's the ultimate dream right there.
No, they are Russians.
If you'd like them to be paid more, contribute. ;-)
This entirely ignores the implications of a society that heads down that path.

There are questions substantially more interesting than a reductionist "do I have an innate right to access private websites?"
Unfortunately there isn't really any practical way to have a radiation hardened shell that is sufficiently effective. Eg. 5cm of aluminium stops only 30% of the galactic radiation. (Heavier elements (e.g. gold) are scattered by incoming particles causing incoming heavy ions which cause even more damage.)

So practically it would still experience significant radiation.

But having the main compute for Mars remain in orbit with the relay isn't a bad idea.
I wonder if there is a link between DCMA crackdowns and the decline of the music industry. Posit: with consumers watching more community produced content and that content prohibited from including traditionsl music sources that consumers may then seek out, then a result might be a decline in the traditional music sources. This might also apply to commercially produced content that doesn’t include music for fear of false flagging.
US government adds DJI to Commerce blacklist over ties to Chinese government
They should have old computers as their manual testing machines forever, not any finite period.
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Where did they get these pictures? They look like mugshots but he's not in custody.
Not what I wrote.
Outside of SV and investment bubbles software just doesn't pay much over your average white collar job.

I actually don't mind. I want an economy with a fat middle class for blue and white collar workers, part of that is accepting fewer sky high salaries. Devs in VC bubbles must realise they are an anomoly and there are perverse incentives driving salaries up. Everyone else has to fit into a more grounded economic model.
The shortage is actually a direct outcome of Intel's problems. Historically Intel had by far the highest capacity for leading edge fabrication processes - just for their own CPU production. It didn't make sense for companies like TSMC to invest in additional fabs as long as Intel had the lead. AMD taking the lead and moving ~25% of x86 CPU production to TSMC is a huge shift.
Someone did a great short story of a society where everyone got their fingernails removed for this reason (as an analogy to circumcision).
And when confronted with "Faster CPUs will cause slower software!" the only actionable is what? Purposely build slower CPUs? That consumers won't want to buy?

If I ever meet the king of software I could ask him to make faster software, but I haven't found him in the phonebook yet.
You're right, I guess it's the cargo cult interpretation of "premature optimization is the root of all evil" that's the issue.
You're literally commenting on an article that is asserting that Boeing cheated to get their plane re-certified. That does not imply that it was actually fixed correctly.

If you want to fly alone on a 737 Max, fine. Don't do it above my house. But allowing members of the general public do it is another matter. It's the FAA's job to ensure that the plane is safe, and it sure looks like they're valuing Boeing's profits above that.
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Flat taxes are incredibly regressive.
Can I use it from any modern Pascal environments? This brings back fond memories of turbo Pascal
developing economies certainily do
Android Studio (which I understand is a Jetbrains IDE) has always been laggy to be too. I suspect it's because I'm only using it for personal projects on older consumer machines (one Linux, one Windows) with ~16 gigs of RAM (which also has to fit an Android VM); the people who are having no issues are probably running on newer machines with a lot more resources.
Seriously? Just google the payload size and divide... Also... Do you have a point?
This indictment shows that was a pack of lies. This wasn't corporate policy working through regular channels.
People do do that. There's millions of transactions that go through for every one disaster like this.
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One year ago I did a back of the enveloppe calculation and found that the Boeing 737 Max was two orders of magnitude less safe than other modern airliners. A320 and 737NG have fatal crashes to the tune of one per 10 million flights, while the 737 Max was crashing at about one per hundred thousand flights.

Flying nowadays is indeed amazingly safe. Boeing really dropped the ball on that one.
Well that sounds terrifying. Got any sources?
> This is an allegation

I feel dismissing a case that the DOJ is briefing for and that the FBI has added the perpetrator to Most Wanted for as “an allegation” is true in a strict legal sense, but the burden of proof for a commercial decision has been unequivocally reached here
It might be easier just to destructively scan and reconstruct you classically and ignore the quantum stuff. If the person who steps out of the booth still thinks they're "you", problem solved, and without dealing with quantum states. How much do you care that your cells are all quantum-mechanically identical post-teleport? Not much!
For anyone looking to take bookbinding to an art-form level, I'd suggest looking at Keith Smith's books, Non-Adhesive Bindings Vol I-III. Especially Vol III, which goes into exposed spine sewing.
Safeway and others have already been getting ready to administer the vaccine at no-cost to the patient. This isn't really an issue
OP is just suggesting you vote with your 'wallet' by not using those sites - they're not saying you should stop complaining.
I was very taken with this work when I saw it at the Met. It’s now the screen background on my Linux VM.
I'd be a bit careful in ascribing too much meaning to the differences in music over the years. Remember that your parents probably said the same thing about your music, and their parents before them. We tend to lock in our favorite music in our late teens and early 20s, and while it's okay to have a preference it's kind of silly to ascribe immutable qualities of the music when it's probably just what you like.

Or, to paraphrase something pithy a former boss of mine said: they made the best music back when I was most emotionally vulnerable, and now it seems to have gone downhill since then.
> They are not clearly a party organ. Ask a random person on the street if Zoom is a party organ of the CCP. They will tell you, "no, I'm pretty sure it's an American company, right?

Is your point is that something can't be clear if ignorant people are ignorant of it? That's inane. 'Clear' does not mean 'common knowledge.'
Opinions don't require citations.
> What is Amazon's interest in this?

Look up AWS Thinkbox.

Creatives have been rendering on AWS GPUs for a while now with automation tools like Brenda (in case of Blender), and Amazon is clearly looking to capture that market with a more comprehensive and user-friendly solution locked into their infrastructure. Would help sell more computing resources and all that.

They have folks like SideFX and Autodesk on board, and a year ago I thought I’d seen Adobe but it’s not listed—either my memory is playing tricks on me, or Adobe left to compete with a platform of their own.
There is a dangerous consequence from charging lower marginal rates to people with less money -- it creates a perverse incentive for Congress. Because it means that if they cause a rich person (paying 30%) to make a dollar, Congress gets $.30. But if they cause a poor person (paying 10%) to make a dollar, Congress gets $.10. Worse, if they adopt any policy that would transfer a dollar from a rich person to a poor person (e.g. promoting small businesses that would compete with larger ones), they would lose $.20. And Congress wants to have more money to spend, so this perversely impacts their policies.

What you want is for lower income people to be paying lower effective rates but not lower marginal rates. Which you can achieve by giving everyone a large fixed credit to start with and then using a uniform marginal rate for everyone.
> Boeing officials encouraged test pilots to “remember, get right on that pickle switch”

What does the switch do? I have scanned a few articles about this by now, and none of them describe it's purpose or function. Does it turn off MCAS?
It also depends on how one defines danger. Would you rather die a few years earlier in your old age? Or live with reduced lung capacity for many years? And how common is that with COVID19?

We're still waiting to see the fall-out of long COVID.
It sounds like you need a vacation out in the woods, and technology-sabbath for a few days or weeks
One straightforward way is you perform the same experiment over and over, the quantum weirdness will show up in the statistics. Eg you might test if two measurements are the same more often than they should be by the laws of classical probability.
Yes. I did the WGU BSCS purely to get into GaTech OMSCS, and I got in with no problem.
Bullshit. China bashing is a bipartisan vote winner. Two weeks ago a law that brought Chinese firms that want to be listed in the US under US accounting jurisdiction passed the senate 100-0

https://www.economist.com/business/2020/12/03/congress-wants...
Yes, except some pages are designed to be embedded (like the Google login widget in the linked article), and those may still be vulnerable to clickjacking. If your page isn’t explicitly designed to be embedded then at least SAMEORIGIN is basically a must. In fact most run of the mill security checkers would warn you if you don’t prevent cross origin iframe embedding.
Flat taxes are regressive on their own. Combine them with a large fixed credit (i.e. UBI) and you can make them as progressive as you want, by increasing the size of the credit, despite having a uniform marginal rate.

Also realize that the status quo, counting benefits phase outs as marginal taxes (which they are), is more regressive than a flat tax, because lower income people pay higher marginal rates.
You've got to compare salaries against COL in the region; a salary amount alone is meaningless. The second question is "where do these devs live"?
From the linked article[0]:

“Yes, Moderna’s vaccine prevents transmission. One dose is good for reducing infection by 63%, two by over 90%.”

The number of people you need to vaccinate with a 63% effective vaccine versus a 90% effective vaccine is a huge gap.

There are two issues with vaccines that staring at these numbers won’t tell you:

1. Not everyone is going to get vaccinated.

2. The number of people who will get vaccinated is directly correlated with public trust.

If you release a vaccine that is 63% effective, the “this vaccine doesn’t work crowd” and their hugely amplified voices on YouTube and social media will be exponentially worse.

That snowballs into fewer people being vaccinated. Unlikely for us, with a less effective vaccine we need far more people being vaccinated.

So you want a more effective vaccine because fewer people need to get vaccinated, more people will trust the vaccine, and more people will get vaccinated.

(To pre-empt the bad-faith replies, this does _not_ mean we would sacrifice another six months to get a 98% effective vaccine (if it were possible) versus starting now. It’s a balance, of course.)

Also very important is that a second dose isn’t just for effectiveness, it’s to boost the immune system’s response so that the conferred immunity lasts significantly longer.

[0]: I struggled through this article. I find this self-congratulating “I’m smarter than everyone and I told you so in this other blog post” writing insufferable.
And if the wealthy have a benefit they don't need, we take it back with taxes. Maybe it really is that simple.

For me, cheaper premiums are not even the selling points of universal healthcare. It's selfish hedonism:

It's emergencies - No tax will exceed 100% of my annual salary, so why should a surprise medical bill I couldn't possibly avoid (T-boned when I had the right-of-way and thought I looked for cross traffic?) bankrupt me?

It's uncertainty - Sure I'm middle-class now, but what if software really is in a bubble, and I'm broke in 15 years? Voting for my own interests has to include voting for things that _could_ plausibly happen in my future, not just what's happening to me this week.

And it's the social graph of private charity. If my friend is a little worse-off than me, should I be guilted into donating money to their medical costs? I'm nowhere near the philanthropist class. Why should it fall on me? Not having a safety net punishes middle-class people who care about their not-middle-class friends and family.

Paying with taxes is much fairer - No surprises, no desperate clinging to my job, and no guilt.
Potentially passport photos? He was in the US after all.
Web pages are enormous in size. People are grabbing software functions off the shelves like a grocery store. Who knows where padleft comes from, who cares?

In the late 1990s I was a cdrom developer and at the time I really couldn't see far ahead at all to the day that the web would get so fast that a cdrom is a useless artifact. At the present time most of the entire web is as fast as a fast DVD drive for me. By 2003 interest in cdrom media was dying and I couldn't even bother to notice it happening. Then by 2005 it couldn't be more clear.

It takes a lot of adaption to move along and do anything with computers as a career. Things change and might change in directions we can't predict.

I agree that something could come along to replace the web as we know it. It just has to have the right combination of easier, faster, and cheaper. Security would be good to have too. It's getting nasty out here.
It seems to be at least a few percent of all cases. A majority of cases which are hospitalized have long-term effects too. It's also common enough that anecdotally -- I'm in a city hit hard and early by COVID. I can't tell you if it's 30% or 2%, but it's definitely not 1:10,000.
This is what democracy is all about: elected representatives acting in the interests of the people and pushing back against the institutional interests in the state that benefit from growing state power.
Right. Money is political power, and it's as fungible as power can be. UBI / NIT is saying, "Let's give power directly to poor people."
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IIRC, the only reason it's not called that is some inane IP bullshit. "Dota 2" officially but Defense of the Ancients 7.25 in the hearts and minds of anyone who's been around for the past decade and a half.
Are you suggesting one should pay more because his living expense is higher than the other?

You should pay for how much is being contributed.

The only thing that should lower the pay is developer's own satisfaction. In other words, one would pay more for stuff others don't want to do or incapable of doing.
This seems to be the pattern. Obviously, when managing a country of 1.4 billion people, it is a major challenge to get every single directive in a precise and timely manner. Many of these directives need to be carried out by regular citizens and professionals so a lot of interpretation is left to the lower level leaders.

By only giving a high level ideology/direction, the top leaders give themselves room to manuver when things go sideways and can shift blame onto the lower level leaders' execution.

The system also seem to over penalize under-execution rather than over-execution.

Many examples can be found clearly demonstrated in Hong Kong as the integration with mainland China get sped up by the National Security Law. The recent freezing of exiled HK lawmaker Ted Hui's bank accounts along with his parents and family members accounts which was making global headlines and causing attention.[1]

It seems like the move was part of the high level "exterminate HK pro-democracy figures" but after the headlines, Ted Hui's bank accounts were unfrozen for a while which subsequently allowed him to move some of his funds. Shortly afterwards they were re-frozen [2]. Some believed that the execution went too far as to undermine the global trust in HK which would cost more to the regime so it had to retract to mitigate the damage.

This type of farce seems to happen more often as HK transition into a police state masquerading as a rule of law society.

[1]https://www.reuters.com/article/hongkong-security/former-hon...

[2]https://hongkongfp.com/2020/12/07/hsbc-re-freezes-accounts-b...
> Ganja is a Hindi name for hemp, derived from the word ganjha, from the Sanskrit gañjā, referring to a "powerful preparation from cannabis sativa". The term ganja, one of the oldest and most commonly used synonyms for marijuana in the English language, dates to before 1689.

I had hoped there would be a more direct association between the Hindi name and the underlying mathematics given Indian mathematics emerged as early as 1200 BC. Would make for a perfect reverse-psychology alibi.
Grove, my bad.
It is as much a choice as installing an .exe. Treat the web browser like the OS of old, because that's exactly what browser makers think of it.
> The underlying technology may have taken years, but it can be applied to new viruses as soon as the virus is sequenced.

My understanding is that a big part of why this one was so fast was that Moderna had experience digging into SARS previously, and that led them to immediately focus on the spike protein this time around. Without that prior experience I expect it would have taken longer? (But likely still pretty fast.)
It's called "pseudo-telepathy." The wikipedia page has an example of a game:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_pseudo-telepathy
> Giving everyone $X is simply going to increase demand for rent and consumables until we're back where we started. It will be wealth transfer to landlords and retailers via the poor.

So if tomorrow a miracle occurred and all the poor people got better jobs that paid $X, that would also be a wealth transfer?

Why is it better to create $X of jobs than to give $X of cash welfare? Or $X of non-cash welfare?
It’s fun to shit on Big Pharma but this isn’t true.

Pfizer specifically rejected government funding. It did so because it didn’t want to be dragged into bureaucracy.
I thought it was a Dali at first.
Right, at some point "being able to rip off the people who came before you and still be interesting" is what it means to be a great artist. Steal, steal, steal -- but don't copy.