skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m honestly confused! Can you point me to your source for the excerpts in your sibling comments?

Edit: reading your lancet link now (sorry about that).

My understanding from reading the description of the Moderna results was “XX / YYY people developed covid; but we didn’t test everyone in the YYY set” (so people who definitely got it / went to a hospital / whatever are in XX, but asymptomatic cases may not be). Agreed?

My understanding of the AZ studies (despite all their other mistakes) is that participants were being tested weekly, regardless of symptoms. Is that incorrect, or are you suggesting something else?

I definitely don’t want to repeating misinformation.

Second Edit: after looking at table 2 in [1] and comparing the results to the common headline “about 60% effective” [2], it seems like media are reporting the “two standard doses” results. That might be what some folks end up doing, and it’s regretful that the study design went all over the place.

Either way, thanks for the nuance! I will update my future comments to note that the confidence intervals including the asymptomatic results are wildly large, such that they need serious discounting.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55862233
Not fascist. So far they're not targeting a specific race, nor are they killing people by this decision.

Monopolistic, capitalistic, cronyism -- yeah lots of that.
I liked the old home page better.
So how can there be claims like ‘there are more side effects’ without any data?

You don’t get to make claims and then require someone else to provide data to disprove them. If you make the claim you have to provide the data yourself.
'Private company, they do what they want'

That's correct, but we can still boycott companies that do this.
A friend group and I all jumped ship to Matrix and Element literally like two weeks ago because Discord randomly banned the server admin for "spam and abuse", which is shorthand for "triggered an opaque heuristic, probably from using Ripcord".

So yeah, it's kinda a big deal to me that Google is saying that if Discord stops letting you play with their ball, you're not allowed to play with your own ball either.
Unless I'm missing something (dithering?), 24bit color is 16.7M. 8 bit color is 256 colors, 7 is 128 colors.
Which ones? I thought being able to buy securities immediately after initiating a transfer before that transfer settles was industry standard? I know (at least) Fidelity and Vanguard let you do so with just a normal run-of-the-mill brokerage account.

My husband once accidentally messed up his transfer to Vanguard and it didn't go thru and he already purchased mutual funds with that money he meant to transfer. It told him he had a trading violation and the lady on the phone said having just a single trading violation didn't matter.
How the Wisdom of Crowds Became the Anarchy of the Mob
Another example regarding Google and more precisely Youtube. When my daughter was younger we created an account on a smart TV and watched a few videos for kids on a newly created Youtube account... Over time I realised that they tweak recommendations in such a way that kids are presented with highly addictive (and sometimes borderline disturbing) content. With kids content it is more obvious, but the same is true for adult users, even though the "addictiveness" aspect tends to be more nuanced. A couple of years ago there was a TechCrunch article that talked about this topic: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/12/i-watched-1000-hours-of-yo...
By providing value, therefore driving up the market price of the integral reward. Currently at $22, not bad for a random coin.

I.e, the value of the coin is driven by the interest in the tech it provides.
Just a tip, I find the cloudflare ipfs gateway to be a lot quicker. Only need to change the domain name of the link. eg.

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmTW7sdBbZ1BXau8Cmrpv5srf38...
I would be very surprised if any reputable media was telling anyone a vaccine that wasn't certified.
It's very possible I AM different. I have an insanely high tolerance for alcohol and most drugs (legal and otherwise). I've had situations where I was prescribed vicodin for months at a stretch, and when the pain was gone, half a bottle sat in the drawer until I threw it out (TMJ neuralgia and gallstones leading to gallbladder removal). If I don't look at FB for a day or two, I feel no compulsion to look at it. Sometimes I don't open twitter for weeks. I use them to fill time in the bathroom or waiting on the wife. Maybe I'm just disproportionately well-balanced. I've had incredible hard times throughout my life, so maybe I just understand what's actually important better than the average bear.

I completely agree with the echo-chamber effect, but I also don't feel Facebook or Twitter are actually good sources for political discourse or information so I'm not exactly trusting anything I see there. I think cable news is far more "addictive" and mood-warping than Facebook, though. It's totally passive, you just sit there and absorb the anxiety-laden "coming up in just minutes, how some politician is literally trying to kill you and your family with new regulations on ocean cargo ships! After these ads."

Yes, they absolutely want to boost engagement and use. Yes, they use tested algorithms to select content appealing to you. Yes, some of them even have sleazy policies on content and ads. Some types of content and some types of personalities lend themselves well to that type of information dissemination, especially right-wing content due to the more conformist/authority-pleasing nature of those mentalities. Do I think Facebook and Twitter actually want to make me angry at people? No. People that use FB and Twitter for propaganda reasons do, but that's what propaganda from any source is meant to do, highlight differences between groups and increase inter-group tension to reinforce tribal identity.

But, you didn't actually answer my question. I asked how they affected YOU, not what the goals of these platforms are. I want to hear how they actually affected a person, not how they might affect groups. I'd really like to know how Google and Amazon fit in there too. Again, feel like it boils down to "maybe you shouldn't be so affected by people you don't know and ideas you haven't checked" but also again I don't want to victim blame. I also don't generally like blaming tools for problems, so I'm trying to get more data.
We live in an era of unprecedented communication. You can instant spread a message to millions of people at little or no cost. Compared to history (even relatively recent history) we are in no way in a “Censorship Era”, that’s utter hyperbole.
It's both, though yes, far more the latter: make any evidence or testimony derived from lying inadmissible.

Taking away the value of a tactic should be more effective than creating a punishment based on it.
The alternatives do not have better quality. I periodically go with DDG and realize I'm !g'ing everything.
If you measure this in a rigorous, scientific way, you will be forced to conclude that 8-bit RGB is enough.

The reasons why are interesting, but it has to do with how the eye processes images and color.

Remember, you can turn your screen as bright as you want. But it doesn't help the content appear more "real" or "better" or "HDR-like". Therefore, HDR is simply "the ability to discern between different levels of color." And if you try to measure exactly how many levels of color a human can discern, the answer is no more than the 256^3 available via 8-bit RGB.

The precise claim: if you have two screens next to each other, one 8-bit RGB and one 10-bit RGB, and both screens are color calibrated / brightness calibrated identically, and the viewing conditions are identical for both screens, then if you blindfold someone and put them in front of a random screen, they will be unable to say "Ah, this is the 10-bit RGB screen!" more than random chance.
It has for me. Most of my searches are pretty generic and DDG does well enough. It has a nice dark theme and is fast and clean. And the !bangs are extremely useful. Saving a couple of seconds and a couple of clicks every search when I want to land up on the arch wiki or wikipedia adds up over time and I find it hard to go back to google now.
What would be funny is if every developer who has an app in android, were to in a single day submit their own "branded" version of matrix/element.

Basically as a protest. This can have far reaching effects for anyone worried about privacy, walled gardens, competing with social networks, etc...
The biggest issue is just infrastructure and security. We're still building up our system. Everything gets so much more complicated when your team is no longer all in the same building. We built up a really nice intranet with file servers, gigabit ethernet to all of our computers, encrypted backups. But now most of that stuff is useless because most of our team are not on the network! So now I have to write up a budget proposal to get offshore VPS service, gigabit fiber to the building, a software stack for secure encrypted messaging and file sharing over HTTP, trustworthy backup services. It's very time consuming research! And we haven't even deployed anything yet! And It's even worse when part of the team is in a completely different country, because then we can't reliably send data through the mail; we have to mule it.

If our threat model was milder we could just use centralized 3rd party web services for our encrypted file sharing and messaging. It's very difficult to secure an international remote team. I think it might actually be impossible to have full security. Especially when the remote teams have no system admin or security skills to help share the administrative workload.

People bringing their own computers also creates a huge security hole, so we're also planning to start loaning out laptops to people so we control all the software and policies on the machine.

IT support for a remote team is very time consuming. Very expensive. That's what I think.
Get the active infections down and roll out a (well targeted) vaccine quickly and you end a pandemic.

I'm saying there's reason to be optimistic that we will be able to respond successfully even if the current vaccines don't end the pandemic (and it likely would be reasonably quick too, our tools are much better now than 12 months ago).

At some level of production capacity, convincing people in high risk areas to social distance and convincing people to get another vaccination are the hard parts.
A political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

This is Google just being enormous assholes. Nothing to do with fascism.
That's a great point and although all of it components have been repeated a million times, I'm not sure I've ever heard them put together that way before.
I read the title and thought CNN stood for convnet, and thought - didn't we see these in 2014?
s/he probably isn't bedridden, just needs that position in order to be in front of a screen 8+ hours per day.

I've got neck problems and a similar situation. I can sit at a normal desk bolt-upright for a few hours, but not a whole day. For long coding stretches I don't lie down but rather use a weird custom chair I built myself that has my back at about a 45-degree angle to the ground. My leg-torso angle is still 90 degrees, but (important part) the angle between my torso and jaw is much much less than 90 degrees. It requires a somewhat elaborate monitor arrangement (I like huge 4k screens) based on a repurposed adjustable-height standing desk.

I can't imagine this setup working in one of those now-ubiquitous "open office plan" places.
This is funny and deserves more upvotes. :D

Regrettably, this unfortunate usage of "performant" is common in our field (and on HN) and is already infecting dictionaries.

In this example it seems to be used as computing jargon for "good according to some (unspecified) performance criteria."

Google's (Oxford Languages) dictionary gives a similar definition:

(COMPUTING)
adjective: performant:
functioning well or as expected.
"a highly performant database which is easy to use"

This would seem to be a very poor and unclear substitute for words like "fast" or "efficient" or "reliable" or even "effective."
Pretty much all cinematic media is already produced in HDR and is ideally viewed that way. It’s only compressed to broadcast color at the very end. The experience of HDR is awesome. As soon as the price of the hardware comes down, it will be very popular.
To be honest, advertising DOES work on me, but only insomuch as it alerts me to potential things. I presume all ads are lies, and research the thing before I by. I have a strong anti-authority reflex and trust VERY little (if anything) on face value. I don't even trust myself. "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.”
You do know that the error bars on 91% and 94% could make the inverse outcome or equality as likely as your belief in the 94%-is-better..
Some companies have released salary percentiles (relative to HQ) for the adjustment to remote. For example, a company in the Bay Area published this for total comp. Most companies seem to be following similarly:

Bay Area: 93%

NY: 93%

Seattle: 92%

Los Angeles: 91%

Boston: 91%

San Diego: 88%

Denver: 86%

Chicago: 85%

Portland: 83%

Philadelphia: 83%

Atlanta: 83%

Minneapolis: 83%

Austin: 82%

Florida: 81%

Salt Lake City: 81%

Phoenix: 81%

Washington: 80%

Detroit: 80%

Houston: 80%

RTP: 80%

Ohio: 80%

Vancouver: 73%

No matter where you are, it won't go below 70%
GameStop Shares: 5-Count Felon JPMorgan Could Have Made Upwards of $174M
Sorry, don't know if I replied to the wrong thread maybe, or maybe something got edited? I swear there was something there that had me thinking 80 column editing was the driver...matching the Mac's resolution. The Kaypro and the Mac used roughly the same monochrome CRT, in the same size. You can even swap them if you make the right cross connects.

Ahh, yes, the parent of your post..."The memory resources must have been tight, because the original Mac had like a 512x342 pixel display, not even enough to display a full page width of text."
That is often what riots aim to do, yes.
What other company did they do this to?
Sweet. Was not aware. Thanks!
How can I install Matrix on an android phone without using the Google Play store?
mount your browser tabs as a filesystem
In India IMPS or UPI tranfer is less than a second.NEFT is weekends every one hour. RTGS is more or less real time

I routinely pay street vendors directly from my bank account to theirs for 10¢ transactions .
My last interview: the interviewers said I was the only candidate who didn't Google any syntax or articles after being given a small 60 min development task from scratch. I was applying for a senior dev role and if I couldn't deliver a tiny web app, I wouldn't hire me either. I could have just solved the task procedurally but I asked if they wanted to see a more OO solution to demo a bit more knowledge. I think back to that time and think how poor my env/tooling was back 5 years ago compared to today. I'm way more powerful now. Version control. Docker up an entire server architecture now with separated proxy, web, db server, env configs, & more. I routinely challenge myself to starting scratch projects to test myself because I rarely work on greenfield projects these days. When I encounter resistance in the workflow, I work to solve the roadblocks. I think this is an important dev exercise that brings alot of satisfaction. Constantly improve your tooling!
Pfizer has been pretty explicit with their comments that the deliveries will still meet the amount required by the end of quarter. Perhaps the EU has end-of-month targets instead.

I'm just not that concerned about it personally. There'll be a political price to pay if it doesn't work out, as well as a contract violation price for the manufacturers. I don't expect I'll be able to get a vaccine until August at the earliest anyway.

I wish addressing climate change was covered with the same urgency by media (mainstream, niche, social, all of the above)
G.M. Announcement Shakes Up U.S. Automakers’ Transition to Electric Cars
So choice is a bad thing then?
Is there a guide to doing this safely? As in, protected from malware.
I don't use any google services other than youtube at all, but this is hard to justify, even for google.
Different people fall into different lives for all sorts of reasons, not all intentional. Consider having a bit more compassion for others.

--

"'It ate his head. Another loser.'

She said to the two of them, 'It's easy to win. Anybody can win.'"

-- A Scanner Darkly
If I buy a stock of a company, how is that funding the company? Only the previous holder of the stock gets the money.
Don’t worry about it, everyone’s following a different part of these threads.

My thought was, “Why didn’t the Mac have color?” and I was comparing it to color systems that had similar or better resolution than the Mac… and I think that’s only EGA, and maybe some workstations I don’t know about.
Matrix is like a free, open source self hosted version of discord.

You can use a popular homeserver, do it it yourself and host it at home.

The element app is a client, just like chromium is a web browser.
What `array_is_list()` changes is that it makes this check fast. Previously, the fastest method of checking for a list-like array was `$arr == array_values($arr)`, which was slow on large lists and could fail entirely on some unusual structures containing circular references.

(I was involved in the development of this function: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/4886)
Again the giants overplay. But when does the hammer come down upon them that they like to so wield?
The untold story of ‘circle of trust’ behind world’s first gene-edited babies
Don't pretend like you're patronizing them. You're using a free browser. There's nothing they've done or can do to affect your experience within the browser, and it still remains an open browser. There's no moral hangups here beyond the ones you imagine for yourself.
The moderators do a great job but the users do not. If you post something that disagrees with the hive mind you’ll find it hidden at -4 and flagged really quickly.
Anyone who commands any appreciable number of eyeballs can parlay this into money and/or power. This has been true basically forever.
It seems to me like the regulatory framework around brokerages like Robinhood that gamify trading need to be fixed, but it smells like something that’ll take an act of congress.
True, great point. Reddit is not part of the “real world”. Got it!

But in this case, it’s a perfect analogue, that illustrates why decrying censorship here is odd.

Reddit can kick people out if they don’t like the behaviour. This happens every day in businesses all over the world (virtual and non virtual) and it is not decried and for the most part is approved of.
The Poles beat the Soviets between the wars :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War

The Germans rolled the Poles in weeks at the start of WWII.

It's far from clear that without US help the Soviets could have defeated the Germans.
In a lot of countries bank transfer is near real time. Chip and pin is the standard for more than a decade. Checks are no longer al primary way to pay anymore.

U.S. banks are very much lagging in technology
So, uh, is there an M1 build available now? It’s not clear to me from this blog post or scanning the release notes for the past few releases. Last time I tried PyCharm, in November I believe, it wasn’t really useable through Rosetta so was waiting for the native JRE.
That's just one vaccine, there are half a dozen that have resulted in usable products, and many, many more that didn't pan out.
Shareholders and investors aren’t the only means of collecting revenue for a business. Alternatives include:

* Setting aside parts of the profit for future investment

* Getting a loan from a bank or your local credit union

* Community or owner funding

Do you honestly think that if it wasn’t for investors businesses would just stop existing? In a world without venture capitalists businesses would need to stand on their own merits, if it is not profitable it will go bankrupt. If it is a popular idea though, a competitor will find a better way of making it profitable, and share that profits with the owners and the workers (and not a shareholder because we don’t need them).

Arguably the existence of venture capitalist markets makes stupid unprofitable businesses out-compete better run businesses, simply by merit of being able to persuade investors.
Pros of remote..

generally less bench warming, you do a good job, make people happy, no one is going to miss you if you take a two hour walk in the middle of the day to enjoy the world around you. Or any number of other activities you may choose to do.

Depending on your meetings you could pretty much work from anywhere. Generally though it can be frustrating to work without a place set aside to do so after awhile.

In your shoes, post covid, I might stay in fun places for a month at a time and come back to the kids or take them with if you can.

Cons... It's easy to get stuck in what feels like the twilight zone. More so than the office. It's really important, especially if you are alone, to make time for social activities and exercise. Laughs and strength help avoid what could feel like a very isolated life otherwise.
+1. Software development is as much a social activity as it is an individual pursuit. A big part of social activity is in person interaction some deliberate and some incidental like just watching someone explain a tricky design problem during lunch in a casual conversation.

I learnt so much during first three years of my career just by being around some of the most brilliant engineers. As an added bonus some of those became my life long friends or go-to mentors even though our careers have long since diverged.

I guess the true consequences (both good and bad) of full remote will begin to emerge in about 5 years from now.
I hope more apps start allowing to directly download an .apk file from their website.

I don't have Google Play Services or the Play store installed on my phone nor do I want to install them. Yes, it's my responsibility to update the app, whatever, just give me the file.
One Robinhood user committed suicide because of a UX design and called it out in their suicide note.

UX in financial application is tough , I wouldn't want ever to be handling ux for such applications
I don't think this is the case. But in my opinion, the fact that we have no way of knowing and have to rely on Google not to do that is the real issue.