skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the incredibly historic accomplishments of these vaccines are unfortunately dulled quite a bit in this moment by the practical issues of how badly the US government and states are still bumbling the distribution of the vaccines.

I'm not talking the mundane details of the logistics of shipping, etc. getting those boxes out. That's well understood. I'm talking strategy of who gets vaccinated, how they find out, how they get in line to receive the vaccine. How government tracks and ensures that the population is getting to an effective level of immunity.

I have not seen a whiff of that information and management system being put in place. We're still random walking our way through this crisis. CVS has more information on the vaccination status of people in the country than the government does, for fuck's sake.

It's almost as if we're leaving it to everyone to figure it out themselves, or on a voluntary basis.

Do you know how you're supposed to get the vaccine? Has anyone contacted you or given you information? Have you seen any information on when you specifically are to sign up to receive the vaccine?

A more contagious/virulent variant of the virus was just detected in Colorado, today. And we're still letting a patchwork of counties figure it out as it comes.
Whoever did the choreography for this deserves a lot of credit!
Great site! One (small) complaint: the site scrolls back up every time you close a popup.
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A system that requires outside manipulation to keep it functioning is not a good system.

The fact that capitalism inevitably converges towards monopoly (and therefor the concentration of wealth and power) with out the intervention of the government (which is often very vulnerable to corruption at the hands of concentrated power and wealth) is effectively a fatal flaw.

This is why I am an advocate of free market socialism - a market system where companies are democratically run by their workers and the financiers are limited to a regulated return on the form of interest on their loans.

Democratic ownership can counter act the tendency to grow and absorb competitors, because each new worker who gets a vote waters down the votes and control of their fellows. Plus the bigger the organization gets, the slower and less responsive it will get. And a democratic organization run by its workers will have a myriad of motivating factors to balance, other than chasing infinite profit or return for the investors.

All of these factors will act to keep companies from growing to big and help keep the market in balance. Which benefits the consumers.

And in the meantime the fact that the workers call the shots will prevent the kinds of labor abuses that have plagued the capitalist system since its inception.
> Tissue cross-reactivity assay is a standard method based on immunohistochemistry, required prior to phase I human studies for therapeutic antibodies.

―https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-reactivity#Applications_...

EDIT: The mRNA vaccines are obviously not therapeutic antibodies, but they probably checked for cross-reactivity of the engineered spike protein as well as the generated antibodies using similar methods. I’m not 100% sure, though.
if you had to recommend one book, which would it be for someone starting off with graphics for the first time.
We the People. Though I think US law/courts also regards corporations as people.
> Amazon is becoming a giant private government with the power to direct the economy.

Nope. This is nonsense. Doesn't really even deserve a response.

> Amazon Destroys the Intellectual Justifications for Capitalism

Uh no.

"Current Affairs Magazine Operates Prison's Run By Slave Labor in Third World Countries and has Destroyed Democracy"

See how that works. You can just string words together that aren't true with no consequences. The fact that someone has strung those words together doesn't make it true.

This is garbage journalism.
Personally I don't mind if games want to include humiliation as a mechanic. My larger point is that people will be jerks no matter the arena.

Still, it is possible that games with such mechanics--or graphic violence generally--may amplify bad behavior elsewhere. My guess though is this can never be conclusively proven true or false as there are just so many confounding factors.
It's common after convictions that judges can seal or expunge charges. It's with the permission of the convicted. The point of a public trial is to protect the defendant, not just so the public is aware generally.
As I understand it, the idea was that neurips said "hey lets try adding them to everything, and see what happens".

And a lot of people gave a huge amount of backlash to this experiment for, as far as I can tell, reasons that amount to this being a form of liberal/leftist censorship.

We're talking about, in this case, at least one person who is so scared of "wokism" that after Neurips changed its name from Nips to Neurips, he advocated for them to change it back, to, uhh, stick it to woke people I think?
Capitalism has had many justifications over its two to four centuries of existence. The justifications you refer to held currency starting around the time of the trust busters, but that was a new idea then (and apparently not universally held since Reganomics came into fashion when the focus of anti-trust became consumer cost rather than market concentration).
Sometimes I wonder how certain deals show up as website advertisements and recommendations. Certain blog posts or forum posts appear magically in my search result knowing what I was planning for. Deals and YouTube recommendations also seemed coincidental. Now I know that my debit card has been also leaking my purchase patterns and location. I better add more hosts to my Raspberry Pi-Hole.
To be fair the Norfair library is presented as a 'bonus' item and not part of the top 10 list. Even as self-promotion it seems relevant and fair.
> Imagine if software developers were held to this standard. Time to find another team of developers.

> Imagine if consumers held the billion/trillion dollar companies to this standard. Time to find another OS.

What is there to imagine? If you are not satisfied with the relationship, you quit. Why would you torture yourself and not do that?
Here's an example from El Malpais in NM:

Streambed: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.991622,-108.0730561,94m/data...

Lightly used dirt roads: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9927729,-108.076162,158m/dat...

As for the data issue, Google maps (by default?) caches the turn-by-turn directions when you start navigation. Spotty cell service isn't really a problem until you make a wrong turn.
I think the parent meant "card number that actually is in use and works" when saying "valid", not "follows the rules of card numbers".
That is not correct (I think that number comes from the Oxford/AZ vaccine?).

If you look at the cumulative incidence curves (for Moderna see [1] page 28), you can see that COVID-19 occurences drop approx. 14 days after the first dose with no measurable effect of the second dose after 28 days. This pattern is exactly the same for both vaccines.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/144434/download

PS: My parent comment was downvoted more often than any other HN comment I ever made, but nobody cared to elaborate why my line of thinking is unethical or why i am reading the data wrong. That's slightly disappointing.
> This was only done when the word carried special meaning that couldn't be accurately translated using english words.

Or when the translators or fans were weebs. E.g. many Death Note translators didn't translate "Shinigami", even though not only is "Death God" a perfectly valid western cultural concept, the Japanese cultural concept is actually directly derived from the western one.
All section 230 does is to protect companies from being sued for what their users posted on their service, with a couple of exceptions, ie copyright materials and Sex trafficking.

That’s essentially it.

It does not “give” companies the ability to not publish something, ie censor what someone posts. That right is inherent in the company being a private entity.

The Republicans, who are furious because Twitter blocked stories about the Hunter Biden laptop, like to claim that their freedom of speech was impeded, as if the first amendment applies to private individuals or companies. It does not, it only applies to the government limiting a persons right to free speech.

The vitriol against Section 230 is really designed to punish companies for not allowing proven false materials by the far-right. The Republicans want to open up the floodgates of lawsuits against these companies for this reason.

Repealing it will not made free speech more open, more likely it’ll construct it greatly as companies heavily restrict what can be published.

Per a question as to how this could hurt small business/startups, FB and Twitter have the resources to fight the lawsuits, startups don’t.
I posted this (related) on July 11th 2019:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415371
Do we really know this? Obviously the spike proteins are using an existing mechanism (ACE2) in our bodies to bind to cells. Of primary importance to both viruses and our reproductive system is the membrane fusion function for instance. We must also consider how our bodies developed in the first place; “RNA world” and “virus world” theories predict our genetics evolved from RNA-based processes or even a primordial graveyard of viral RNA.

We also don’t fully understand what causes autoimmune disease, but various environmental causes have been explored including bacterial and viral infections. Presumably if a viral infection could trigger an autoimmune response in certain genetically predisposed groups, then so could a vaccine designed to mimic a virus.

Unfortunately the incentives in our medical system are not designed to find cures for autoimmune diseases, although they are very much incentivized for palliative care, so progress has been painfully slow in understanding the deeper complexities of the immune system.
What is the purpose of a document like this one?

Seems to me that nothing constructive can be accomplished without giving much more context and specific examples to discuss, while this open letter contains nothing substantial like that.
Some might suggest those speculations might have been worthwhile for, say, nuclear weapons research. Personally, I don't; I've acclimated myself to the idea that anything that can be done, will be done. But it is something to consider when your favorite dystopia appears immanent.
Each state is handling the logistics themselves, but overall it seems that healthcare and state/government employees will have appointments set up through their employers. For the next several months, it's going to be elderly and then those whose jobs are deemed 'more important', which means communication will likely come from employers first for most people until general availability.
I live in a brick terraced house in a country where brick houses are the norm. Most of the internal walls, and even the dividing wall with my neighbours are drywall. The only brick walls are the front, back, divider with one neighbour and a wall that was formerly an exterior wall prior to an extension 50 years or so ago. The doors themselves are pretty solid but the doorframes and hinges would give way long before that mattered
I feel like this article is capitalizing (lol) on a trendy hatred of capitalism, rather than a serious takedown of "the intellectual justifications for capitalism." Capitalism isn't anti-government libertarianism! Capitalism's whole ethos is based on rule of law — especially property law — and competition; anti-competitive monopolies with near-infinite money that can commit intellectual property theft without meaningful penalty aren't capitalist. I don't know what they are. Broken, certainly.
Give me one single solitary shred of evidence that $20B of tether in existence has any correlation with Bitcoin's $512B marketcap.
It's probably a service mandated by regulation, not out of the goodness of VISA.
> In translation communities the idea of using automated translation even in part in the process of translating manga is frowned upon (good luck if you try to get away with doing this on a paid gig)

Plenty of paid translation jobs nowadays explicitly hire people to clean up machine translation rather than translate from scratch.
You've repeated fundamental as if that makes it any more correct. There are also other, much cheaper and potentially more rewarding things such as reading, drawing, cooking (which helps save money too) that can take up your time and save your wallet.

I'm merely responding to the idea that somehow we have gotten it in our heads that we "need" to have some level of comfort which for most of human existence would be considered insane luxury. (I'm aware you called out people pointing out fridges are a luxury but it is indeed true and it's great that technology has made them so ubiquitous that our lives are that much better)

What I'm getting at is, having grown up very poor, put myself through college, coming out with no debt and creating an extremely sizeable nest egg for myself, all while forgoing basic "creature comforts" such as a TV, smart phone, even a nice bed (I found free mattresses on craigslist, which I still sleep on to this day), living in co-ops and other alternative forms of housing, I can't shake the feeling that we are in a sense enabling poor choices.

This is not to say my experience proves my point, but that I'm less sympathetic to claims of inequality when they are also followed up with notions that we should redistribute wealth in some way. The problems that exist are systemic in the legal-systems, tax-systems, and educations systems of the US, redistributing wealth seems like making some people bleed because others are also bleeding.
What would illegal lobbying look like in the US?
Let's see. Modified version of BSD OS runs on iOS devices, Macbooks, PS4s.

Chromium uses BSD license and browsers based on Chromium, including Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera run everywhere.

BSD is much more prevalent than GPL and software written in BSD-style licenses will carry on into the future as even fewer people will be willing to touch anything GPL.
> After learning of the abuse report, Wasabi suspended the client hosting the malicious content

They promise gazillion 9's but can delete your data or take down your account.

I know it's because of malware, but what if a government complained, or if a business had one user or customer upload malware to their public bucket? Would they take the entire account down?
Has any _one_ of those things been proven to be dangerous? Not really.

Has the collective impact of multiple violences been studied?

Put another way: Will a mouthful of soda do you in? Not really. But multiply that exposure to sugar across different drinks and processed foods multiple times per day and before you know there's an obesity crisis. But the mouthful of soda is proven to be safe.

We are what we consume - physically, emotionally, intellectually, and so on. That's been confirmed time and again as well.
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I think when GP said "full actor system" they meant distributed actors. Of course this will mean the actors have state and message passing is nondeterministic. It's a network, afterall.

I think there is still some confusion since you suggest fork/join but that's only for threads and won't work over a network.
The former because of the later.
It would be much higher than 25 fps for sure. I would say it could stand a fair chance for some starter level 2d games to hit 60fps or higher easily. However that is not the intended use case the library at the moment, it currently aims at giving a face to scripts and med-large applications. But it wouldn't be bad introduction to the idea of having to deal with frames and a render loop and logic loop ect for a beginner!
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Are you suggesting to just block the ads? What I find more annoying is the fact that the data is collected in the first place, as well as the opt-out vs opt-in by default. Your pi-hole won't protect you from that, since the moment you swipe that baby, Visa knows.
One possible hitch: if you lose ALL your coolant, you might have a hard time monitoring your engine temperature, as the usual temp gauge monitors coolant temp.

Might still be fine, but... By the time you know it ain't, could easily be too late.
We can still quantify how much freedom of debate they allow and rank them. Would you still rate them the same?
This is a good outcome. Apple was the bad guy here.
This is the exact problem I have with survelliance capitalism. What stops Microsoft, Google, ect from cornering every market? The last time I posted the question I was told those companies are looking for billion dollar investment opportunities and anything less isn't worth their time... and here we have Amazon cutting the nerdy kid's lunch money like a high school bully.
Allow for private property and profit from trade and you have Capitalism. What this is about is the need for eternal vigilance.
I’ve been meaning to procure a drone to scout best trails before hiking them, and DJI mini 2 seem ideal for the purpose.

All I need now is a phone app that would make it easy to browse the tiles shot by the drone (rather than rewind video back and forth).

Any suggestions?
The problem Google maps has is it has no real concept of route quality, only route distance. It will happily trade a few minutes for a lot of work trying to identify turns and slow narrow roads with various obstacles.

I always review any route Google gives me and 95% of the time I make some sensible adjustments that get me there quicker and easier.
In my view the biggest issue with the whole "robots unite to violently overthrow humanity" trope isn't its technological infeasibility (though it _is_ technologically infeasible for the forseeable future), but rather the fact that it presupposes an AI that is essentially human; with all the same emotions, goals, and vices that a human would have.

There's no reason to think a hypothetical future AGI would care in the slightest about its own survival, let alone be both egotistical and spiteful enough to hunt people down based on idle comments they made on YouTube decades ago. There are so many unfounded assumptions about the way AGI would work inherent in such a hypothetical scenario that it's hard to take seriously as anything other than a sci-fi plot device.
I think you would be hard-pressed to find any justification for capitalism that doesn't include:

1. Competition, and

2. Property rights.

This article does effectively slam Amazon for violating both of those capitalist tenets. But it doesn't effectively say anything about capitalism; the whole problem with Amazon is that it's violating capitalist tenets by being an anti-competitive monopoly, with enough power that it can steal intellectual property with impunity. If there was meaningful competition, and Amazon was forced to respect intellectual property rights... At least as presented by this article, there wouldn't seem to be a problem.

Capitalism isn't anti-government — it relies on governments so that businesses don't have their property stolen.

Amazon's business practices do indeed suck though, and seem (to me) to be illegal. The US government should step in forcefully.
IMHO, such a question is a bit meaningless for the Pi's. The main purpose of a SBC market is to get a general purpose computer for a low price. The compute, IO, etc. performance is limited only by what you're willing to pay.

E.g. the 4Gb Jeston Nano has a lot of compute power compared to a 1Gb RPi, but the price of $99 vs ~$30 means it's not really an "alternative" as much as it's a product intended for a different purpose.

You can even get full blown x64 PCs in roughly the same size. They'll blow away any of the RPi line, but at a price.
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You are right that fiat currency and bitcoins are alike in that they both have no intrinsic value. I don't think any "bitcoin evangelist" would say otherwise.
The ends justified the means.
Right, like imagine a majority of all American pensions busting out at once because they all roughly bought SPY and QQQ and then we have some major bubble burst that takes more than a few years to resolve itself and those indices are down 40% for 5 years. If 3% returns is not fully covered, -30% returns would have to be an existential crisis.

I would imagine many retired government workers would end out on the streets or instead they will print an ungodly amount of money to paper over and shift it into a different problem.
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Modern slavery in the US often works by bringing people in from another country, requiring them to pay for lodging and food at a "company store," and paying low enough wages that their debt steadily increases. Then you hold their passports and tell them they can't leave until they're paid up.

It's illegal, of course, because it's literally slavery despite the window-dressing of money changing hands. But the slaves are vulnerable and don't necessarily know it's illegal, or they're threatened.
Curious what bugs you have come across with poetry?
For example, useful debate around hydroxychloroquine. The studies continue proving that it is an effective treatment https://c19rmd.com/ and even the American Medical Association is considering changing their posture around it.

Sadly, the drug has been highly politicized and all positive discussion around it was banned from YouTube. The OAN channel in YT was banned for talking about it:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-youtube/yo...

There are many other instances of YouTube censoring discussion that results in a harmful effect to society. For example, most popular channels posting riot videos were demonetized.
Most dramatic changes in economic systems have resulted in disaster. Yes there are competing ideas and some have merit but it's important to realise that most of the systems we've had have not work as well as capitalism has. That is not to say we have the perfect system but it is not the disaster most of its opponents claim it is. As such we should be very careful to make sudden changes in the hope of a utopia, because getting it wrong has a very high price. A price that will cost lives.
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Except for videos, that doesn't take up a lot of space. The oppressive part is tracking everywhere you go and everything you say, which fits easily into warm storage.

For example, storing your position every 20 seconds might take 10KB a day. You'll collect 15 million data points in a decade, but each one is only a few bytes.
Perhaps the funniest dude ever to ruin a tech company.
Right, meaning isn’t the generated spike protein supposed to bind to ACE2 receptors? If it binds, wouldn’t that disrupt some thing?