skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contract tracing wasn't very effective. What worked in Melbourne was that 8 months of house arrest for everyone living in the city...

I'm all for managing the virus spread but if the policies are a piece of meat, in the UK the policies are uncooked in Melbourne they were burnt.
I like your list. I really hope to see a program where 'front-line workers' (i.e. grocery store workers/etc as opposed to 'first responders') are given priority -and- financial assistance to receive the vaccine if they so choose to.
It doesn't matter the changing makeup of the state when the republicans have gerrymandered it to be unwinnable. Sure, it might go blue a few presidential elections, but for policies that actually come from the statehouse it will be blood red for the foreseeable future.
VMware Falls on Report Its Software Led to SolarWinds Breach
I would guess that spying is illegal in every country on the planet...

And the sentences are usually very harsh...
That is not nitpicking at all. Definitely not in-process. Thanks for pointing that out.
I don't think that the math works like that.

While it might take some time for an infected person in close proximity to push a specific second person across some risk threshold in a 1-on-1 interaction, that's not the scenario we're worried about.

We're worried about how many people an infected person might infect during many, many interactions.

Even if the probability of infection is low in a single 2 minute interaction, some people in service jobs have thousands of interactions a day. (not all one-on-one).
That quote comes from Boris, everything he says is nonsense so just ignore it.
My guess it was some simple rules like older doctors go first

No need to guess.

"It used an algorithm that assigned each person a crude risk score, taking into account factors such as age, job description and the number of coronavirus cases that had been detected in their hospital department. That resulted in personnel like environmental services workers, food service workers and older employees being shuttled to the front of the line.

Residents, who are early in their careers and tend to be young, rotate throughout the hospital to train with various teams of physicians, making them difficult to place in a designated unit."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/world/covid-stanford-heal...
Thanks!

The official Bevy Rapier plugin (built by the Rapier team) is definitely your best bet right now. People have been using it with success: https://twitter.com/swainrob/status/1317573306271305733, https://github.com/indiv0/colonize/

The PhysX rust crate also works with Bevy if you want a more "time tested" physics implementation: https://twitter.com/swainrob/status/1317574431666032646. But it doesn't have direct integration like the bevy_rapier plugin.

Eventually we might implement a built in "high level" physics api, but I'd rather let the 3rd party Bevy physics ecosystem develop for a bit so we know what works and what doesn't. Theres so many other things to do right now that I don't feel much pressure to build the perfect official physics api when other people are already working on great 3rd party solutions for us :)
This looks like it's just copied from https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09674.
For persons unfamiliar with 3D-printing advances of the last years, it would be nice to prominently state the used materials. At least for stuff like heatsinks.

I found nothing on the cnx-software website.

The INUX3D website just provides a generic statement about "special cases and materials".

edit: found "We use top quality PLA and PETG filaments for our products." on the INUX3D website
Planning to keep the reproduction rate as close to 1 as possible is the most efficient way to generate new strains, so they have the same root cause anyway.
China is a sensible, mature, selfless society? I’m sure the Uighurs would have opinions that differ. Also let’s not forget Tiananmen Square and what those students would say.
"Authoritative collectivist monocultures are doing great with this pandemic"

They are great at controlling the flow of information.
Could it simply be that people who are kind to others are happier in their lives, and being happy and satisfied is correlated to being healthy?
Sure, and you are given the amount you negotiate with your employer, less any taxes. Which is the amount you are compensated for the value of your labor. The amount your government retains is not a total loss for you either.

> Given this, I do 100% believe I am entitled to 100% of my Labor, time and knowledge.

If you produce a profit for your employer, you are not earning 100% of your labor, time, and knowledge.

Realistically, your labor produces some value X. The government AND your employer expect a certain percentage of X.

We both want the same ideal -- maximize worker wealth -- it's just that I see us getting there by decreasing employer percentages and accepting some taxes. You want to get there by decreasing taxes and accepting some loss of value to your employer.
I'm not sure that's completely fair. Countries vary so much that putting it down to "the government" ignores all the other factors. You're examples are all on the southern hemisphere, with mostly nice weather where people spend more time outside. General population health also has a massive effect. Here in the UK we are a nation of overweight old people, but fat-shaming is a thing so that's only going to get worse.
https://community.amethyst.rs/t/bevy-engine-addressing-the-e...
Hardware is cheap. People are expensive. Besides that, procuring resources with your cloud provider is simply a matter of writing a yaml file. Not to mention the lack of an upfront investments and only paying for your resources you need instead of having hardware that you are spending money on because you have to have enough hardware to handle peak load. You would be amazed at the amount of resources you can buy at the cost of the fully allocated salary of one engineer.

And yes you can buy hardware. But can you run a data center in multiple regions? Besides that any cloud provider offers more than just a bunch of VMs. AWS alone has 260 services with an entire team of people keeping them patched and optimized. I don’t keep up with Azure as carefully. But this isn’t meant to be an Azure vs AWS comment. I just don’t know Azure.
It is being used as an excuse. But I wouldn't go as far as to think that means it isn't real. It's difficult to explain the numbers in Kent going up through lockdown and Tier 3 restrictions otherwise.
My guess is the group of people they have designing missions and scenarios are manhandling the game world for their use-case without any care for the overall consistency. Just think about how many developers "fix" bugs by addressing the symptoms instead of the foundational issues in the code.

Probably goes something like this: we can make these easy-to-use mission designer tools and hire a bunch of interns to crank out content.

Then such a huge mess gets created it takes over a year for the more senior developers and designers to untangle it. Your VIP mission absurdness is buried under a list of 10k other issues.

Hitman level design is probably at the other end of this spectrum.
Ahh, that day when I was introduced with the search engine & internet, they took us some kids to library PCs. The librarian instructed us to open altavista and said:

If you want to find Mr. Bean and will search for "Bean", you will find... beans. Type "Mr. Bean".

Only years later someone told me about google.
Make a blog post. Social media is for cats and shallow memes.

I too prefer to subjectively dictate based upon prior experience.

How someone organizes a project is up to them, and the folks interested in it?
I was on a flight from Abu Dhabi to Frankfurt last month. The moron in the next counter traveling to Paris literally told the check-in counter employees that he had Covid and asked whether he could travel.

I don't know, I'd like to call this Angevin idiocy or something. But yeah, Europe does have its fair share of covidiots too.
>> denigration of GRRM

> This literally isn't happening.

I disagree with rendall's general opinion regarding this series... But there's pretty much no other way to read the last few paragraphs in this particular essay. The author came within a hair's breadth of calling Martin an "ignorant racist", and he probably didn't say so deliberately.

In general, this article is by far the preachiest in the series, and is thus the least enjoyable. "Barbarian couture" is great, though.
I can name 3 other local hospital systems in my city that have vaccinated administrative & C-suite/VP level staff before doctors, nurses, and other frontline employees.

What's stopping you?
I remember paying for a membership for their "Premium Security Portal" back in 1999/2000. Got in a lot of trouble at school because of the things I learnt on that site. Good times :)
OAuth 2.0 Authentication Vulnerabilities
> Compliance with mask wearing on TFL is less than 50%. "Covid enforcement" officers walk around about one train in 50, and despite it being 8 months since this started, "I don't have one" is an acceptable answer to why you're not wearing a mask.

Is it policy for the officers to pull one out and say 'you do now'?
They found the root cause within 20 minutes. I doubt one of the original developers could have been involved that quickly.
Exactly. Residents in the United States are deeply in debt and can't quit, and the resulting quality of working conditions is sadly predictable: https://jakeseliger.com/2012/10/20/why-you-should-become-a-n...
I think we actually agree. I'm not saying that you should expect something in return when being kind to people. That's not real altruism.

I'm more talking about when someone goes in the other direction and is notably unkind, inconsiderate, cold, exploitative, or otherwise disrespectful to you. That's when it's time to switch to a new strategy.

To me, ignoring a neighbor who greets you is pretty cold and disrespectful, but yeah, everyone has a different line when it comes to these things, and it depends a lot on context.
> "I don't have one" is an acceptable answer to why you're not wearing a mask.

I haven't worn a mask twice. Once because I forgot it and once because I just forgot to put it on.

If "I don't have one" isn't an acceptable excuse what am I supposed to do: produce one out of thin air? It's not like they give out free ones if you forget. There are so many signs now that they're basically invisible. If I'm fined for not wearing it I'll stop wearing it entirely.
"nose slingers"
When the iPad launched all of Apples own unbundled productivity apps were listed at $10 each so we know for a fact that this is not true. They tried very hard to establish a market with sustainable prices for premium apps.

I think it’s just unreasonable to try to do that with the phones back in 2008 though, with the small screen size and relatively low resources of the very early devices high prices for phone apps just wasn’t going to fly.
The claim that got them the most in trouble with historians was this:

> one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery

Gordon Wood responded,

> "I don't know of any colonist who said that they wanted independence in order to preserve their slaves."

Gordon Wood is known as the expert on colonial pamphlets and ideology more generally during the Revolutionary era, so him saying this carries a lot of weight. Gordon Wood and a bunch of other very well known historians wrote to the NY Times to ask for corrections. The editor of the magazine, Jake Silverstein, published their letter next to his rebuttal, in which he argued that defending slavery was indeed a cause of the revolution.[1] What he didn't say was that the NY Time's own fact checker had objected to the claim. That only came out later.[2] The embarrassment of that revelation finally caused the NY Times to slightly weaken - but not entirely drop - its claim about the revolution.

The claim about the revolution caused the most controversy, because it has huge consequences for how one interprets American history, but it was hardly the only false or highly questionable claim. A few others:

* The US has worse labor protections than Brazil because of the US' history of slavery (Brazil was the largest slave nation in modern history, and abolished slavery well after the US did).

* Presenting New Orleans as the financial capital of the antebellum US (NY city alone had nearly as much banking capital as the entire South, and far more than New Orleans).

* Claiming that double-entry bookkeeping was invented on Southern plantations (that would be a surprise to Luca Pacioli, the 15th-Century Florentine mathematician who wrote a treatise on double-entry bookkeeping).

Just fundamentally, I would tell anyone who doesn't already know the history well not to try to learn it from the 1619 Project, because you really can't trust any of the factual claims in the project. People would be much better served by reading more standard historical works (including some of the very accessible works written by critics of the 1619 Project that deal with slavery - James Oakes and James McPherson come to mind).

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-th...

2. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje...
>I was once a subscriber to the NYT and am within their ideological range to enjoy most of their reporting. I feel as if since 2016 they've lost a lot of credibility. Their reporting feels like editorials, and their internal issues often become public. It seems like a highly political newsroom (i.e., "what facts ought we to report" instead of "what are the facts to report"). I subscribe to a more local newspaper now instead.

The Times pointed out the day after Trump's election stunned the press (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/media/media-trump...) that

>Whatever the election result, you’re going to hear a lot from news executives about how they need to send their reporters out into the heart of the country, to better understand its citizenry.

>But that will miss something fundamental. Flyover country isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind — it’s in parts of Long Island and Queens, much of Staten Island, certain neighborhoods of Miami or even Chicago. And, yes, it largely — but hardly exclusively — pertains to working-class white people.

In other words, it isn't just a question of The New York Times (and the TV networks, and pretty much all of the rest of mass media) completely ignoring the rubes out in rural Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (which all, strangely enough, unexpectedly voted for Trump in 2016), but their ignoring the residents of their own city, just across one bridge.

(This obviously didn't last.)
I'm a devop for a company that makes visual location services specifically for AR.
CA needs income tax because the property tax situation has hobbled the government for the past five decades. AS mismanaged it may be, Newsom did inherit a budget surplus and if it weren't for the pandemic things would be relatively stable.
Cyberpunk 2077 saves will become corrupted if they reach 8mb in size
We've banned the GP account, but comments like yours here and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25462166 are not acceptable on HN. If you keep doing that we will ban your account as well, so please don't, and please stop posting unsubstantive comments in general.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting to HN, we'd be grateful.
As you know if you’re Swedish, Expressen (a major newspaper here in Sweden) exploded these myths about the supposed demographic differences between Sweden and Norway by comparing the sparsely populated northern region of Sweden with its Nordic neighbors and it still had more than FIVE times the death rate.
Yeah, if you had a crazy new electronic warfare technique you'd probably spread as much FUD as you could. You'd also spread FUD if you had nothing, Star Wars style. It's definitely one of those two things.
Simple defense mechanism. They were raised in educated households where its reporting was considered on practically its own epistemological plane of journalism, its writing standards a model around which to improve their own, and it's just really hard to face the fact that an institution you idolized has flaws, because it means you have to admit you were fooled.
IIRC, the draw was "you don't have to use plus signs" and the other options, and you didn't...until Google started trying to read between the lines of our searches and we started wishing Google had plus signs.

Google's aversion to zero-result queries is a problem, and possibly the problem, with their "accuracy," so to speak.
Yeah, they said the same thing about No Man's Sky, too. I guess I'll just wait for this one to ripen a bit, and not play it on eighth-gen. Cyberpunk, No Man's Sky, Windows XP, Big Sur... some software is still green when it goes to market.
I think the argument is that other nations have economies that depend much more heavily on interaction with their neighbours. Which is probably true to an extent. But I mostly agree with you that this option was open to other countries.
> ...you won't know that you don't know them.

But this is true of many (all?) fields, not just quantitative. For example, recently I've been learning ancient Hebrew and one of the things I learned early on was that it (like Arabic) has a "dual number" which is in a similar grammatical category to English singular and plural, but implies the things usually come in pairs, like hands and eyes. It uses this construct to refer to "the heavens" in Genesis, which immediately raises the question of why ancient Hebrew cosmology identified "the heavens" as dual in number.

There's something I didn't even know I didn't know until I started into the field.
Thanks! I love NPR but always had trouble with the unbreakable cookie barrier.
Fake delivery notices imitating Amazon, UPS, FedEx surge during shopping season
Cyberpunk without cyberspace is not cyberpunk. It's just punk.
I'm paraphrasing the average user - not my statement.
What makes you think Black rock and hedgies are involved?
I would contend that there aren't really any at the moment. There's an opening for comprehensive fact-based reporting with a reputation for not taking a side.
Can’t you just run a git rebase to disguise it?
I don't think anything much has changed wrt a strategy. The main pointer here is the allowance in the strictest tier for group worship, and allowing Christmas grottos to stay open- not exactly science led.
Flicker – A Spherical Volumetric Display
I remember trying to play DA:I on 360 and how much better it was on PS4. As soon as I heard the Cyberpunk PS4 reviews I took the money I had aside for Cyberpunk and got Miles Morales instead. I'll be playing Cyberpunk in new years/spring when there's more PS5 stock, an official version and a few patches.
And the thing here is, vaccine distribution in a single institution clearly wouldn't need an elaborate algorithm. But yeah, creating an algorithm and then throwing up your hands to say "who knew!" is very convenient.
I think we are saying the same thing, but would like to understand if you see it the same way I do. I see this pair of sentences:

Custom hardware makes no sense if you can just wait 18 months and the performance of a generic chip will double.
Once you can't just "wait for performance increases" then building your own silicon starts to make sense.

As a restatement of the economics of building competitive systems.

My comment was that the economic forces that allowed IBM, HP, and DEC to build custom hardware and recover those costs through sales have returned. The mechanism of that return is that Apple has shown that product differentiation through custom silicon is sufficient to add margin to a product above and beyond the cost of developing that custom silicon.

Your comment appears to say the same thing; which is that the previous strategy of maximizing margins of letting a semiconductor company produce a better chip and then use it, is no longer more effective than you telling a semiconductor fab to make the chip you want to use and then using that.

That is what you are saying isn't it?
The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1
Hackboard 2 Is a $140 Windows 10 Pro Single-Board Computer
It is not normal for a US company to share data with a foreign government and hide that from the public.
"It's not like they give out free ones if you forget."

Why the hell not? Seems like the very first thing they should be doing.
Does anyone have insight on how much / specific changes in the spike protein would be needed to render the mRNA vaccines - which to my understanding create only those spikes - would be render less effective or not effective?

Is that a concern here?
They are trying.

For what its worth, faculty across multiple departments (including those radiologists) stepped up and declined their scheduled vaccine appointments until residents get vaccinated first.

It's a big place made up of mostly smart (and good) people. A lot of outrage is at the administration's poor planning, failure to respond quickly the problem, and subsequent excuse-making.
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Does anyone have any links to full-resoluton examples from Capella?

All of the ones I have seen so far appear to be resized for use in their blog/press releases ... or are those images as high-res and as sharp as they get?
Is this a thing that is discussed in philosophy, except that Christopher Hitchens recently claimed it to be?

A burden of proof applies to law, by convention, but not to the truth of a situation.

If I say "513x217=111321", it's true whether I prove it to you or not. My statement of it does not obligate me to prove it.
The train i catch in SE London is travelling from tier 3 (Kent) to tier 2 (tiers as of the last few weeks). Despite travel out of a tier 3 are being 'advised against', the train is busy, 1/3 of people not wearing a mask, 1/3 not wearing it correctly, all the windows closed because it's 'cold'.
I know damn well what it means. It is inconceivable that we are visits by intelligent alien beings that Hoover up rednecks to do some anal probes without leaving any kind of evidence of their presence or method of transport into the system.
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This one seems unusually incompetent.
The chance of any of what you're saying happening... is infinitesimally small.

I'm sorry that it makes you scared and fearful.

It upsets me that the media takes advantage of people's poor understanding of biology and statistics.
I love rail trails and trails in general, but it’s a huge disappointment to me when they are paved. Besides the fact that asphalt is unnecessary and decidedly not beautiful, paved trails encourage cyclists to treat them like racetracks - a problem that ebikes will only make worse.

When the whole point of a mixed use trail is to serve as an alternative to roadways, paving them really gets my goat.
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Trump said it was China