skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccine matters, as they have different storage requirements and dosing requirements. One of the vaccines requires that it be kept in a deep freeze, thawed before use, and everyone needs two doses. This is a logistically complicated process that takes much more time to deliver, and will therefore be slower.

The Oxford vaccine can be stored in a regular refrigerator, which drastically reduces infrastructure cost and makes it speedier to administer, since it doesn’t need to be carefully warmed to room temperature from subzero.

Oh, and it’s cheaper. That matters.
>the UK may approve it as early as tomorrow.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25549454
Fair enough.

The suggestion was more for the HTTPS part and not the performance part of your complaint. It's simple enough to set up, pay-as-you-go, only requires one vendor, and should be very scalable.

I'd just as soon throw up nginx on a Linode, myself.
Living in SF and interacting with my coworkers and neighbors on a regular basis, I had no idea until just now that using the okay hand gesture is now offensive. How does everyone else stay informed of these societal changes? I don't really browse 4chan and twitter, but I do keenly follow wsj, hn, tc, etc.

EDIT: I'm only commenting on how everyone stays up to date on these shifts in language, so that they can use the right language when communicating.
The context of the thread is perfectly clear.

Some people believe as long as the US underpays prisoners convicted of crimes, the CCP gets carte blanche to imprison a million people because of their religion, and force them into labor camps.

Or did I misread this entire thread?

And making companies like Apple legally responsible for their supply chain labor will do nothing to stem the flurry of actual slave labor camps seemingly sprouting up all over China.

Chinese companies will continue to use the free labor and compete on an uneven global playing field, so long as the CCP sees a benefit.
Same thing happened in 2018 with the flu

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...

And here is some excellent analysis of the current situation. See the sticked mod comment for a level headed summary:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/klftkv/...

EDIT: Thanks for the shadowban https://i.imgur.com/dumPvHa.png
>The US doesn't need to be perfect before US citizens can decry Religious Slave Labor Camps in China

Oh, yes, it does. Surely not perfect, but much better, or at least not as bad.

Especially since unlike China thus far, the US tends to drop bombs and invade places they "decry".
Simple resolutions you can make to improve your city (2019)
Google's 'Cloud Print' service is shutting down soon
I take it public shaming/harassment/brigading is regarded as an extension to cancel culture?
This needs to end. Surveillance capitalism should be opt in (or just plain illegal).
It sounds like it could be an attention issue. Have you been evaluated for ADHD?
Yes.

Source: That is what everyone did when microsoft turned Do Not Track on by default on IE. That's what you get with "self regulation".

Visa will just say, on their news page: "we updated our terms and condition, if you opted out in the past you must opt out again"

The only winning move against corporation involves NOT giving them your money. Anything else is futile in the current US legal landscape.

Oh, and they will probably work with the FBI to get whoever did that behind bars pretty quick.
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Depressingly avoidable, but too many people are too self interested to do what they should have been doing ten months ago.

Now we’ve got to where actual epidemiologists were warning: the overflow of COVID patients will start killing non-COVID patients through lack of care and ED resources.
From what I could see in the table of contents, this is at a different level. Basically, this teaches you the concepts used to implement something like Vulkan. They probably implement a software Z-buffer, while a graphics card will do much of it in hardware.

To be honest, it's fairly specialized knowledge, though fundamental.
> Sooner or later we'll want to do CPU intensive work in fibers as well, which in the current implementation will block all other fibers on the same thread.

This limitation is present in every modern asynchronous programming system I've ever seen. They simply can't deal with long function calls. There's a loop under the hood which constantly executes queued functions. Any long-running function will stall the execution pipeline and increase latency. It's just like cooperative multitasking...
100ms is /massive/ for a timing delta but you really need a lot of samples. I have exploited timing deltas that were not much more than a handful of machine code instructions in terms of execution time. But you really do need a lot of samples to confirm small deltas. It starts getting impractical for many APIs (someone will notice, hopefully).
This looks amazing. Do you know if there's anything similar to this that would work on Mac/linux?
Do you think single-party rule shares any of the responsibility?
One thing I like about JS is that you can monkeypatch anything. And if you want all objects of any type to have the property/method you just add it to the prototype.
That's a really known issue with Canada's nationalized healthcare in general.
A similar thing happened to my brother and I back in 2006, when we were doing the Cascade Loop in WA. After leaving Winthrop, Microsoft's Streets & Trips GPS software on my laptop put us on a road that was gradually ridden with trees. We finally decided to turn back after a full tree trunk was cutting off the road and the asphalt almost disappeared. I checked the map later. If we had pushed forward, we would have crossed the border to Canada in two hours max.
Yes, poor choice of words on my part. The IO calls themselves still block but each is in its own OS thread and GVL releases when the thread blocks.

If you can only do parallel IO in a thread why not use a light weight fibre (green thread) instead of an OS thread? Hence this new scheduler and fibres.
The issue is arising from China potentially forcing Uighur people to find jobs 'on their own' lest they be held indefinitely in concentration camps. You can't audit that. You ask every worker and see if they say 'yes' or 'no' to the question "are you working here of your own free will" and see which ones say no with this threat looming over them.
Concent – State management tailored for React
If the money is exceptional, the longer you stick it out, the more freedom you have to leave at a time of your choosing to pursue your next adventure.
If the strictest lockdown orders can't stop it from spreading then there is nothing that could in the first place.
hyundai (Korea) bought the controlling stake for $1b+ a week or so ago. How long until this is incorporated into a kpop performance? What year in the '20s will see a popular group made up in part/whole of dancing robots?
I get what you mean, but halting problem is the wrong analogy. The halting problem is proven to be unsolvable, nobody’s looking for “solutions”.
How much has anti-mask protesters contributed to the surge? They got a lot of coverage in [social] media, but what's the marginal impact they have, given their frequency?

It's important to establish the actual significant causes of issues, so we now how to improve in future. Actions of those on opposing political sides would be a convenient and perhaps comforting significant cause, so we should be careful in prematurely concluding that.
We see this fairly often with our Search and Rescue "subjects". It's a combination of target fixation and that hope that this is just a rough patch and the trail will open up again "just around the corner".

Just a couple weeks ago, we located and brought back a middle-aged couple who went out on an afternoon e-bike ride in the backcountry. They found a nice 20 mile loop of singletrack and forest service road on the AllTrails app and headed out with minimal clothing or supplies. The trail was beautifully maintained, taking switchbacks down from the ridge into the valley and to a campsite, but beyond there, it was in disrepair, overgrown, washouts, treefall, etc. But they kept pushing on - the loop they had planned was on the map after all. But no, the second half probably hadn't been maintained much less traveled on in 5+10 years and soon it completely petered out for them and they were left, deep in a valley, at night, with the temperature dropping, in shorts, with no water or food (he was a diabetic and they both had heart conditions).

My team dropped in from the far side which was closer to their location but even with multiple maps and satellite imagery could not locate the trail for any significant stretch which led to several miles of late-night bushwhacking down steep hillsides to reach them. Once checked out, provided with warm clothing, food, and water we all hiked out the way they came in which took the rest of the night and we reemerged at the trailhead at dawn. They were very lucky that due to the orientation of the canyon, they had cellphone coverage.

Happens fairly often.

Another one, last summer, was a guy who set out on a 3 day, 40 mile loop, got sick the very first day and instead of turning back, kept pushing on and was found severely dehydrated and still ill 36 hours after he was supposed to have completed his hike. He spent several days in the hospital...
Yeah, I’m actually very hopeful that mRNA medicine will be able to overcome issues like these in ways traditional vaccines couldn’t. For example, variations could be developed that are more effective for each racial group, rather than a one-size-fits all approach that may be biased. From there, perhaps even individuals who have autoimmune disease markers could have variants developed for them as well.
> * These are inmates, serving a sentence as punishment for a crime they were convicted of.

If the gaol sentence is their punishment, why are they being penalised further by reduced wages?

> * If inmate labor cost what non-inmate labor costs, why would anyone hire inmates?

Government-backed incentives. It's in everyone's best interests for people convicted of crimes to have a path back on to the straight-and-narrow. Investing in reducing recidivism is far better value for money than almost any other anti-crime measures.

> * The labor programs are largely voluntary. [...] Alternatives include doing nothing all day instead of a job.

These statements are contradictory.
For Amex, I found this: https://global.americanexpress.com/account-management/privac... (Maybe the checkbox at the bottom does a similar thing)
Anecdotally, I noticed that private indoor parties started back up in ~August back when I lived in Santa Monica, and that mask compliance was pretty poor in the touristy areas. This was preventable, but I’m far from surprised sadly.
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> aggressively smoothing the motion since mechanical systems don't have the ability to accelerate & jerk as fast as biological systems

I wondered if they covered the bots in a flowing dress if it would sell the illusion even more.
Link is broken.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/thousands-colorado-residents-heat-...
Generally speaking this where the PC culture folks step in to write degrading and dehumanizing messages about the quality of an apology.

Honestly, I would like to hope this example gets elevated and shown to everyone, especially in tech, as to why this behavior and everything that surrounds it is abysmal. Then everyone who has participated in this behavior can write out their own full throated apologies, we accept them, drop the issue, and move on.

I doubt that will happen though.
>Each one of those people is as important as you or me.

Yeah they are.

The reality is also that frontier territories have been historically spared the harsh repressions rest of country / populus went through postwar like cultural revolution, great leap forward, strict family planning etc, simply by virtue of being too far. Enter infrastructure and billions in spent on connectivity. Secessionism had to be reign in eventually, and current systems has as much carrots as sticks. Also carrots that was not available to a much poorer China. There's a reason why disproportionate resources are diverted to Tibet and XJ for development. Carrots that freedom + human rights countries typically do not extend to their own repressed minorities. Indigenous camps in Canada still don't have clean water, because voters in democracies do not want to give carrots when virtue signalling is sufficient. CCP doesn't have to listen to majority Han reee about spending money on minorities. Last time I calculated enough money poured into XJ to cut every Uygure a 200K RMB / 30K USD check.

The fundamental issue is carrots are not enough, you cannot pay people to secularize/sinicize/integrate. You have to indoctrinate, not just future generations, but also current. This is not endorsement of the policies. Merely it is predictable next step with new Chinese capabilities, further made inevitable by salafist terrorism fermented by blowback of foreign policy decisions of USSR/West/ME and other geopolitical factors. Things would be very different in a world without mujahideens inspiring drama in XJ or CIA fucking around with Tibet or general US pivot to Asia or current great powers competition. This is why CCP is obsessed with with foreign meddling. Nevermind that Tibet/XJ is 2/3 of Chinese land and contain vast security benefits. More relevant to "as important as you or me", these minorities are _more_ important than the average Han. Security is paramount state responsibility, more so in an authoritarian one because there is no one else to shift blame. And even then blame is no replacement for overwhelmingly excessive counter-terrorism response where possible. Incidentally why XJ is getting the full measure while Tibet gets half. That's baseline populist expectation, CCP is adding the carrots when the people scream for sticks. A democratic China would just lockup the Uyghurs and Tibetans in perennial prison industrial complexes like US or sequester them away in generation ghettos like France. An imperial China would actually genocide them. Trivially. That's the dynamic of in a capitalist ethnostate with "problematic" minorities. What currently exists is not the best timeline, but it's also not remotely the worst for security logic, which again, trumps all other considerations. Incidentally, this applied to HK, and will apply to Taiwan.
The "vaccine was rushed" thing is really all too common, and not at all a fair assessment of what happened. We got here a lot faster in many different ways.

1. Moderna only took 2 days to develop this COVID vaccine. [1] That was thanks to major advancements in vaccine development over many, many years. It wasn't just Moderna, other vaccine candidates were developed extra quick too thanks to advancements in science.

2. This vaccine was developed taking advantage of research done on very similar human coronaviruses over decades, starting from SARS in 2002.

3. Most diseases just aren't very prevalent in the population. For instance, if you created an ebola vaccine, there were a total of 14,000 cases globally between 2014 and 2016. Determining the efficacy would take years. On the other hand there have been 82 million cases of COVID since March. 19.2M in the US alone -- that's a prevalence of 5% (!!). It doesn't take long to prove the vaccine works when 1 in 20 people in the US have or have had COVID.

4. Most of the time human and animal trials are done back-to-back to reduce risk. With the government footing the bill and high confidence you can do them both at the same time.

All in all the result is a vaccine much faster but with all the usual rigor.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-designed-coronavirus...
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> You as a voter do not have time to learn everything necessary to understand what you are voting for. It's a full time job and then some

Then I can outsource that learning to a political party, the same as if I didn't have an option to vote on a direct proposition. I can trust the political party, and let them tell me how to vote on the proposition.

I have more choices with the direct proposition. Outsource it to a political party, or decide myself. Without the direct proposition, I can only outsource it to a political party.

I would rather have the choice. You would rather me not have that choice.
If you can install tailscale on it you can join your private tailscale mesh network from it.
I don't believe coivid-19 it's real. I think that some unknown people have made it up to have people from the fake vaccine
I would love to see a Boston dynamics robot doing yoga. Exciting stuff :)
> I saw once that the likelihood of a crime is s function of likelihood of getting caught and the severity of the punishment

Citation?
The Far East of Russia has always fascinated me, probably the only region of the globe I know very little about and can’t even imagine what must be like. Going to Russia would give me pause, let alone the Far East. It seems so sparse and empty, who are the people that live there and what must there Russian lives be like? Feels like technology doesn’t even exist there. Too cold, too isolated.
people have made up covid-19
> That's not what accidental/essential complexity mean in Computer Science.

Of course. I was responding to the OP. This thread began with:

> I have different idea about essential complexity and accidental complexity. I think examples in the article are all just accidental complexity.

I was elaborating on that different idea. Everyone seems to be just reverting back to the text book and rejecting the difference not on merits, but for simply not matching.

But complexity is complexity. If we really want to talk about complexity and where the unavoidable part is coming from, then it's from the layer underneath also. When speaking of complexity reduction, you cannot ignore the complexity imposed.
How close is this to being able to compile something like Redis or SQLite?
> The new nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccines are chemicals that have been almost fully disclosed. They incorporate a trinucleotide cap 1 analog ((m27,3′-O)Gppp(m2′-O)ApG), contain N1-methylpseudouridine instead of uridine, and encode an optimized (P2-mutated) full-length S glycoprotein encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) containing polyethylene glycol and cholesterol. The BNT162b2 LNP also contains (4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis(hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate) and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, whereas Moderna’s LNP contains SM-102 (most likely heptadecan-9-yl 8-((2-hydroxyethyl)(6-oxo-6-(undecyloxy)hexyl)amino)octanoate) and 1,2-dimyristoyl-rac-glycero-3-methoxypolyethylene glycol-2000 (PEG). ...

I'll disagree here. Imagine I tell you a white powder of pure molecular composition is made up of just four elements: carbon; hydrogen; nitrogen; and oxygen. Would you ingest it?

It could be strychnine (poison) or glycine (an amino acid). You have no way of knowing.

Likewise, the physiological effects lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are still mysterious. First, the exact composition isn't known or even revealed in the FDA filing (thus the "most likely" above). Second, even given known composition, there's no way to know how large, how stable, or how aggregated these particles are or what any of that means.

The model for LNPs that gets most widely discussed is an artificial cell membrane. There's a water-filled center surrounded by a bilayer of lipid (grease). These particles may show variable sensitivity to degradation depending on how administered, composition, size, shape, trace impurities, and so on. For example, Moderna's vaccine contains cholesterol, presumably for the same reason our cells do - to modulate membrane fluidity. It's not clear just yet how persistent LNPs might be and what effects they might show, separate from the RNA payload.
I’m inclined to not believe your story, sorry, hospitals generally have a policy of someone bleeding from the head, or extensively, or serious injury, are bumped to the front of the queue over someone who is queuing for a sore stomach or checkup etc. So while you might have to wait, it shouldn’t be 3-4 hours, unless something like massive pile up happened and 25 people were rushed in, in critical condition.
First time I've heard of lbry.tv - just curious, what's the main attraction for you?
Yeah, or in the 99% of people who recover either. A vaccine is obviously preferable though.
I kinda like this take because it at least acknowledges the social aspect of knowledge, I still dislike to what degree knowledge has become instrumentalised. "we use knowledge to live our own comfortable lives", "knowledge is zero sum", "blob of knowledge" all from the article...

Can't we just study because we enjoy studying? It's good to acknowledge that learning with others is often more rewarding then learning on your own, but even more important it so recognize that learning is not a means to an end but an end in itself. And as such, speaking of "specialised" or "foundational" knowledge, or putting quantities on knowledge really doesn't do it justice.
I'll be very happy if the vaccination decrease number
I loved cloud print. Sad it or something similar didn't take off.
I'm quite aware, which I why I wanted someone to try and bring up the particular transgressions. From context, it's clear that "cancelling" in is being used as personal thing. That is, a list of people someone can choose not to interact with. Bad phrasing, yes, nothing more.

And yes, I think this is pretty clear since in other contexts Anima notes that she's trying to use this as a list of people to engage with and educate, and someone asks well what if I don't want to spend effort educating people, and this is her response. The idea that she should spend time trying to educate and engage with these people, but if you don't want to do that, you should try and get them fired doesn't really make much sense.

> In any case, Domingos wasn't wrong

I certainly think he was, and unlike Anandkumar, he's made no attempt to apologize and continues to grandstand.
No idea. That’s why I’m suggesting someone offer a service with lawyers to answer these questions. :-)
A few things I've been considering for the last few years. These are just brainstorming thoughts, so I definitely haven't thought these ideas through.
* Why do editors allow us to write invalid code? Most editors know the syntax of the language, many embed (or connect to) the language runtime. If the editor knows a file is going to be invalid, why allow it to be saved (allow the user to force the save, of course).
* Why are editors still showing us entire files instead of functions? I usually edit code by looking at functions and how they relate to other functions. Why not show a function at a time and allow you to bring up multiple functions at a time to edit, regardless of which file it's in?

Light Table (http://lighttable.com/) started down the path of what I was thinking, especially with the continual/inline code evaluation.

Once again, these are primarily just thoughts I've been considering. I haven't found a good outlet for discussing my ideas, everyone I discuss them with seems to respond that "that's the way things are" or "that sounds complicated". I've been considering writing a little editor proof of concept to explore some of these thoughts.