skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't actually that crazy, if it is done by states rather than hospitals.

If state governments set aside some amount of vaccines and auctioned them off to the highest bidders, it might help cover the budget shortfalls and cuts to social services that are going to come in the next few years as a result of states draining their budgets to pay unemployment benefits during the pandemic.

Those cuts would disproportionately affect the poor, and the rich wouldn't care -- but we can get the rich to help us avoid making the cuts.

Given that many of the rich donors would be old, and therefore members of the high risk group eligible for early vaccination, such auctions might not actually make a big difference in who gets the vaccines first.
> A king who wanted to relinquish responsibility while holding on to the benefits of his position. Blinded to the duplicity of his two opportunistic daughters who tell him what he wants to hear, persecuting the daughter who truly loves him and tells him the truth.

...written during a plague. How prescient.
Especially interesting because RoK had been hailed as a success story in Covid containment.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/whats-sout...

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...

>Whilst early adoption of testing and contact tracing is likely to be important for South Korea’s successful outbreak control, other factors including regional implementation of strong social distancing measures likely also contributed. The high volume of testing and the low number of deaths suggest that South Korea experienced a small epidemic relative to other countries. Caution is needed in attempting to replicate the South Korean response in populations with larger more geographically widespread epidemics where finding, testing, and isolating cases that are linked to clusters may be more difficult.
Why do you need machine learning to "deal with the knockback of shooting a gun from a drone"?
Since we all know that the wealthy will figure out how to cut the line, I wish we would just own up to it and auction off a certain number of doses and give the money to those affected by the pandemic.
Governments (aka taxpayers - present and future), NGOs, and a myriad private philanthropy endeavors donated Billions of dollars to create the vaccines, jump start production, and secure volume for the entire population.

Turning to market distribution after taking on free public money to make a vaccine available to everyone sounds like pure corruption.
Like Boghost said, people review games like toasters. They expect feature lists and expect it to work.

Others engage with them as media. Both ends are valid, but often in conflict. A game like this brings that into contrast hard. Even the games developers wanted more time in the oven.

It’s a fascinating problem.
Interesting! I thought the opposite; could do with less whitespace and smaller fonts.
Well maybe stop making them obsolete? Just make software that can either last longer, or can run on slower hardware.

I have been complaining about wirth s law for years now, and the environment requires the industry to adapt.

You cannot add features and features and get each user a new chip every 2 year.
> In GTA and Red Dead Redemption 2 it is far more fun to create havoc than to play any of the missions

While non-storyline gameplay is definitely more fun in Rockstar games, I think the mission and sidequest gameplay is way more fun than CP2077's as well.

Consider this earlier mission in GTAV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikop7td88ks

It involves a car chase, NPCs jumping in and out of moving vehicles, a boat mast swinging into traffic, shooting while driving, etc. This is all done smoothly, with no animation glitches or jankiness.

A mission after that involves a bicycle race, swimming and boarding a boat, followed by an intense jet ski race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcqvAgzr3To

So far in my admittedly short ~12h playtime of CP2077 on PC I haven't seen anything equally as engaging, well designed or just plain fun. Most of the missions involve shooting galleries interspersed by cutscenes to showcase action set pieces, and there's a lot of on-rails shooting from the passenger seat, which feels like gameplay from several generations ago, not from a next-gen title.

I don't understand complaints that it shouldn't be compared to GTA given that CDPR themselves describe it as an "open-world action-adventure story", so comparing it to games that set the bar for open-world gameplay is only fair, and in my opinion it falls very, very short on those terms.

Just like it does on its RPG elements. Like others mentioned, it falls short when compared to even the original Deus Ex, let alone the more recent installments. This is probably why CDPR decided to avoid marketing it primarily as an RPG in 2019: https://i.imgur.com/oDldUQQ.png

All in all this was a massive disappointment for me, and I actively avoided trailers and marketing to avoid the hype. Even if all the bugs and performance issues are fixed hopefully a few months from now, the gameplay will still be mediocre at best. The only thing I'm partially still interested in is the story, though from what I've read that seems to be underwhelming as well.

This was the cherry on top of 2020. What a year.
"A lot" really is relative. Relative to health care, office space, etc. etc. this is not that big a deal, and you put most of this onto your law firm, which has done it 100 times. There's some cost, but not that bad.

The reality is companies don't do this because they don't want to. It's not actually that different from setting up a (decent provider, with or without match) 401k plan. Companies that don't do it are like that because they didn't care.
I think there are a few reactions that are reading differently to different people.

1) This game is not up to par. It's not as advertised, and for some of the most standardized systems (consoles), it doesn't even work. That's really bad on CDPR. False advertising is unacceptable to some.

2) This surprised nobody. Acting surprised is like being surprised you big mac doesn't look like the marketing materials. That's on the people pre-ordering and buying day of. If I bought it today, having seen all the reception, that's on me. Some people are extending "that's on you" that to pre-orderers.

3) It seems to work as well as any other AAA launch day game for players with certain setups. Some people see their footage or have that experience and think others are just being unrealistic expecting the big mac from the ad.

Personally, I feel like it's a friend complaining about getting scammed on craigslist after ignoring everyone telling them to do due diligence to make sure it's what you expect. Like, that really sucks and fuck scammers, but this was easily preventable, so I'm going to roll my eyes a little.
Cyberpunk 2077: how 2020's biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
Of course. And once the basics are in place (again, they're getting there but not yet), why wouldn't that ecosystem develop of it?
Don't use 'it is worse over there' as a counterargument against someone who fights (rightfully or not) for things to be better 'here'.
Thanks for the reminder. I remember those days!

All the kerfuffle just made me move to macos. Now I'm looking to move back...
> going to work at a certified quality level.

Is there an objective certificate authority that get give a game such "quality level"?

There are gamers that play on xbox/ps and are happy with it (they are even in this thread, look it up).

So some expect miracles from a dated hardware (with HDD, which is unbelievable on a PC since almost a decade) - one can work magic with it (I mean Carmack-magician), but you need more time (like years) - is there a point in doing that if just around a corner is nextgen and a PC version works fine?

There are people that are happy with such version if you are not don't buy it but don't take the fun away from others that have lower expectations.
Java is fast enough for most things, but try working with an array of a million objects in C++ vs Java and you will see the difference.

In Java you will have to deal with an array with a million pointers to a million objects and in C++ you will deal with a sequential segment of memory that is a million times the size of your object - and mostly in your CPUs cache. That alone will be much, much faster.

But you can't do that in Java at all.
Some types of trees can actually get sunburned.[0] White paint acts as a sunscreen.

[0]https://www.gardenzeus.com/protecting-your-lemon-trees-sunbu...
>There are tons of game stores, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM provide a refund policy. Why would you whine about your game ? Just. Get. A. Refund.

If you start the game, even for a second, Sony will refuse a refund on a digital download. CPDR would not allow footage of the game on PS4 to be shared, and called rumours of poor performance "fake rumours". If you boot the game up and within minutes find it an unplayable mess, there was no remediation. (Of course, now Sony has offered blanket refunds for the game; I'm just providing context for the outrage over the anti-consumer behaviour.)
I used that a couple of weeks ago responding to a bland email from my state’s DOT completely ignoring the concerns I raised.
Hey thank you for the feedback and for checking it out!

May I ask if you were on desktop or mobile? Definitely could adjust the font sizes and since I've been working mostly on my laptop, I realize I might not be optimizing for other screen sizes.

> I feel like a little more vertical space between posts and maybe making the URL smaller or moving it below the post title (or both) could really make the homepage a little less overwhelming with only a few minor changes.

I will experiment with this further. The vertical space should be easy, the urls are part of the text of the title, so maybe either shrink them slightly or a more muted blue?

Thanks for the feedback!
It's talked about a little, but there's two classes of shares (common and preferred). Usually startups will value your options in an offer using preferred, so they might say you have 100k options at a $1 value each, with a 5 cent strike. But the reality is even if you manage to get liquidity, perhaps through a secondary, you probably won't be able to sell at the preferred price! If you wait until IPO then common equals preferred and it doesn't matter, but it always felt wrong that the value of your options was only true if the company IPOs, versus taking in to account an appropriate discount.
The reason why the M1 performs so well, next to its insanely wide out of order capabilities, is that Apple placed Specialized processors really close and gave everything a fast connection. Then because they control a large part of The OS and applications they rewrote the underlying macOS libraries and the applications to make use of these specific co processors. They were able to achieve this because they are vertically integrated.

When AMD would switch to RISC they could also create a huge out of order capable cpu but would be lacking the co processors plus the tight integration and if they could add them they would lack the capability to drive and dictate that the cpu would be used in the most performant way.

So it seems to me that Apple is perfectly aligned to take a large part of the market and AMD as a general purpose cpu designer will need to come with a very competitive cpu either on x86 (ZenX) or on RISC to stay competitive. They can outsource the fabrication the chips. Intel meanwhile with its owned fabs has a lot more inertia and ego to turn around.

On the other hand, maybe AMD or Intel will find a way to increase the re-order buffer and the amount of “splicer” (I forgot the official name for the unit that takes the instruction code and translates it into chunks of microcode).
To add to the Tolstoy connections being accounted here: in Knut Hamsun’s novel Mysteries there’s a page long diatribe by the protagonist ripping Tolstoy a new one for his incessant moralizing. It’s quite fun.
Added to the post, thanks for the comment.
Assuming all choices are between two options, you could make this claim about any game with (five endings and...) more than three choices for the player to make. if one of the choices has three options, two choices will do the job of selecting between 5 endings.

What's the point of the map, if all you're concerned about is which ending you get? If there are 40 choices with an average of 3 options each, it's still obvious before you buy or even hear anything about the game that it won't have 12,157,665,459,056,928,801 endings.
I humbly suggest not expecting and tolerating corruption.
lol yeah the amounts the hospitals charge is ridiculous.

But even beside that, just intuitively, $25k seems low for a life-saving queue-jump during a crisis.
You can't always just throw money at a problem to make it go away. The resources to make these vaccines are limited.
If 10 wealthy people cover the costs to administer the vaccine to 10,000 poor people, is anybody losing?
Me three.

Ages ago, I implemented an Illustrator style direct manipulation user interface. We had spent so much time analyzing, documenting, specifying in prep.

My initial implementation, per our "perfect" spec, really sucked.

Turns out there's a significant amount of fit and finish to a direct manipulation interface that I wasn't able to handle formally with charts and machines. Ended up with a bunch of special cases. Unanticipated knock on effects were unsatisfying negotiations with QA/Test (how to test) and tech writers (how to describe) our product.

I've always wondered about that gap. Was I doing it wrong? Are there better formalisms? How'd Illustrator (and others) do their direct manipulations?

With the rise of touch UI, I anticipate the problem space (complexity of the states) has gotten smaller. For instance, no modifier keys. But that's just a guess.
How much does it cost to send 1kg to lower earth orbit?
Yeah, I'm now happy to have switched my decade-old 400W Corsair to a (perhaps oversized) 750W one just before Covid hit. It didn't solve my RAM issues (memtest just hangs with 2×8 Go, and the PC randomly reboots with 4x8 Go), and so overclocking is still out, but at least I don't have to worry about my PSU anymore...
It is a challenge to get something optimal for _most_ people! But I'd like to hear feedback and adjust if necessary. Thank you!
Earlier this year ThunderX 3 was pitched as a server processor, then it was hyperscale-only, then it was canceled.
I'm not an economist but wouldn't that basically make it impossible for people in the middle class to get it? if the doses are sold to the wealthy at the top end, and that money goes to buy doses for those at the bottom end, how do people in the middle get access?
It's not about post-processing, it's that most lights do not cast shadows. So yes, there can be a bit of "floating" in certain scenes.
We have crap software because the (perceived) consequences of crap software are generally low: wasted time, rework, correctable errors. As the consequences of crap software become more serious, the tolerance for it goes down.

The reason there are so many terrible software developers is simple: the world tolerates the software they write.

This feature isn't limited to software. As Theodore Sturgeon put it, "90 percent of everything is crap".
Good point. Existing institutions which are starting online programs have a huge advantage here.
> Toll tells his patients that those designated as most at-risk by public health officials should get it first.

Let us hope this is true. Because it appears that public policy experts are racializing the question of who is an "essential worker" and who should be getting the vaccine first: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/health/covid-vaccine-firs...

> One occupation whose priority is being hotly debated is teaching. The C.D.C. includes educators as essential workers. But not everyone agrees with that designation.

> Marc Lipsitch, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, argued that teachers should not be included as essential workers, if a central goal of the committee is to reduce health inequities.

> “Teachers have middle-class salaries, are very often white, and they have college degrees,” he said. “Of course they should be treated better, but they are not among the most mistreated of workers.”

> Harald Schmidt, an expert in ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said that it is reasonable to put essential workers ahead of older adults, given their risks, and that they are disproportionately minorities. “Older populations are whiter, ” Dr. Schmidt said. “Society is structured in a way that enables them to live longer. Instead of giving additional health benefits to those who already had more of them, we can start to level the playing field a bit.”
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That’s what taxes are for; we shouldn’t be fine with people skipping the line.
SSAO doesn't help much in this case, I've added an image of the final frame at the beginning of the post.
Isn't that the same problem with zip files? So if we're assuming that the compressed SQLite format will take up the same or less space as the zip file, wouldn't that mean that exactly the same mitigations work?
Spin’s e-scooters are getting sidewalk riding detection
If you exit under the money taken, exit under the money taken plus any preference multipliers, have founders that foolishly agreed to double-dipping schemes like participating preferences, and so on. There are myriad ways your common shares can go to zero even with an acquisition, even with an acquisition to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The board can, basically, do whatever it wants, and you have no protection at all, unless you managed to get some kind of agreement into your equity agreement (e.g., Larry Ellison's anti-dilution clause).
Hopefully they learn from the reddit mod experience, and don't let anyone moderate anything.
https://archive.vn/hGTJP
Of course. The parent argument was that the time spent differently would have the same effect. Many years of crappy slow mobile pages show differently.
No, the trial procedure is publicly available. They used a saline solution as the placebo.
I find the strong backlash weird considering how customer-friendly CDP generally is and how well regarded Sky rim, a vastly buggier game from a predatory company, is.
An auction would be quite a clever way to mitigate this issue while raising funds. I wonder if there’s a way to quickly spool up a secure auction system. I’d be curious to know how much could be raised if 1% of the supply was reserved for that.

Still distributing the proceeds of the auction would have the same problem.

GPS trackers on tamper proof containers with computerized scales? With some sort of self destruct system? Perhaps 24/7 monitoring from a command centre? Or just post armed guards 24/7 at each distribution point. Sky’s the limit it seems if cost is no object.
Do you work in academia now? If so, yes, the story is wildly different for your case.

> I've never needed the credential for anything but passing the checklist of requirements for my first job

That's a pretty crucial piece of value! For people who don't come from wealthy families, that entry into the college-educated workforce is often the difference between poverty and not-poverty.

The networking angle is an interesting one I hadn't considered, though personally, while I made several great friends in college, they and the other people I met there have had little to no effect on my job prospects. The closest thing would be that I went to a job fair while in school which eventually led to my first job, though there are plenty of job fairs that are open to the public (potentially even the one I went to; I can't remember). Of course it's possible I'm not the average case myself and that many people get networking benefits from their college experience; I can't say for sure.

> how do you measure value?

I do want to clarify that I'm focusing on financial prospects because in today's America, those are quite dark for many (most?) people. I'm not someone who dismisses the value of a real education, or the value of those relationships and experiences and memories. But I've seen several friends who put themselves in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for those things, and will probably be paying the interest for the rest of their lives, and I just don't think that tradeoff is worth it.
It's not about ending, but the branching story isn't actually branching at all. You make a decision and, regardless of what you chose, end up in the same place. The amount of decisions that actually stick, or actually change your progression through the game, are very low. "Do x or y" where both X and Y cannot be undone and seem like heavy decisions, ultimately do not change the outcome of any future story items. Side with Ben or side with Jill, doesn't matter, they both treat you the same afterwards and it never mattered at all which you picked.
I chose historic examples specifically because they are now universally recognized as biased, and to show that problems of sensationalism and bias in journalism are not new.

More recent examples of bias tend to be still politically controversial, like the years of coverage of Trump-Russian collusion in the 2016 election, which resulted in 2 Pulitzers:

For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that dramatically furthered the nation’s understanding of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and its connections to the Trump campaign, the President-elect’s transition team and his eventual administration.

But the Mueller investigation, which had to stick to what could be proven, in spite of any personal agenda, concluded:

Ultimately, the investigation did not establish that the Campaign coordinated or conspired with the Russian government in its election-interference activities.

You could also look at 2020 Pulitzers for Nikole Hannah-Jones' "factually challenged" but agenda-compliant 1619 project (https://reason.com/2020/09/21/1619-project-author-nikole-han...) or Greg Grandin's prize (https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/spirit_of_walte...), to an author whose praise of Hugo Chavez echoes Duranty nicely.

Bias is basically universal, but claiming neutrality while exercising obvious bias destroys credibility.
You know, I'm kind of okay with those who move around the globe and party more than everyone else getting the vaccine first.
the vaccine doesnt contain fetal cells, in the case you are providing the vaccine is an attenuated virus approach.

the cells are used to manufacture quantities of the virus in an extremely weakened form. This gives a chance for the immune systemto mount a response before the pathogen initiates systemic disease response.

the cells in question are not freshly harvested from a foetus, the progenitor cells are harvested and kept in continual culture for use. the reason immortalized cells are used is to escape the "expiry date" of a normal cell.

>>Some vaccines currently available were developed using cell strains cultured from two fetuses aborted for other purposes in the 1960s.[6]<<

i lifted this link from the wiki page provided:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised_cell_line
For some reason I am reminded of THX 1138