skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 501.V2 variant is widespread in South Africa and is troubling due to its potential for vaccine evasion [1]:

> On 6 February 2021, The Financial Times reported that provisional trial data from a study undertaken by South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand in conjunction with Oxford University demonstrated reduced efficacy of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine against the 501.V2 variant. [68] The study found that in a sample size of 2,000 the AZD1222 vaccine afforded only "minimal protection" in all but the most severe cases of COVID-19. [69] On 7 February 2021, the Minister for Health for South Africa suspended the planned deployment of around 1 million doses of the vaccine whilst they examine the data and await advice on how to proceed. [70]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501.V2_variant#Vaccine_evasion

[68] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astraz...

[69] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55975052

[70] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/astrazeneca-oxfo...
How to Bypass Government Bitcoin Ban
How did they prove the voice was an AI and not a human impersonator ?
Banning your account is one thing and understandable that they want some kind of protection from bad actors. But on the other hand locking your data is simply theft and digital havoc. Just consider the amount of work that can get vaporised.

Imagine if your landlord would kick you out and burn your assets. At the very least they should provide access to the export tool.
Indeed there it is, I hadn't noticed. Thanks!
vs. "[the proposed tests are] fundamentally incompatible with the precautionary principle, in breach of international norms, and inconsistent with Sweden’s own climate policy framework as well as its reputation as an international climate leader.”

“There is no justification for testing and experimenting with technology that seems to be too dangerous to ever be used.”
I'm the opposite: I find FTL, warp drives, and wormholes a bit tedious in SF. They've been done to death, and all they do is make exploring boring by reducing the immensity of the universe to nothing. Time travel is fun, but only for the jokes and paradoxes.

Realistic SF is more entertaining IMO. e.g. I much prefer The Expanse or The Martian to Star Trek or Star Wars.
> extensions come with extra complexity

Aaand that's where I (figuratively) stopped reading. If I can do something with a user script, I have no incentive for doing it with a full blown extension.

I'd even say that the fact extensions are so much harder to write than user scripts is a complete failure from browser vendors. I get that extensions CAN be complex, but they shouldn't HAVE TO be for simple use cases. User scripts are a proof of that.
I've self-hosted with a hand-rolled postfix+dovecot, and later with Mailcow's dockerised mailserver (FOSS, good management and webmail UI, strongly recommend).

More recently though I moved my personal domain to Microsoft Exchange Online - it's a lot less flexible than Mailcow (per-head licensing, but there's + addressing and catch-alls now) but I don't have any of the deliverability/gmail-spam-folder issues I used to have.

Exchange P1 Online [2] is roughly the same for my single-user as my old DO droplet cost per month

(edit: side-bonus you get an Azure AD tenant for your domain which is handy for SSO/IdP things)

[1]: https://mailcow.email/

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/microsoft-365/exchange/compa...
FreeBSD had "containers" - jails - a decade before linux: https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/

I still don't understand why Docker was not made to run on jails as well.
I use DietPi on my Raspberry Pi (other small boards are supported too). It's easy to install, and provides a simple TUI installer for all the common services, from Git and Syncthing to various game emulators.

https://dietpi.com/dietpi-software.html
Explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
> Why should we take it as our goal to build something which is just like us? A dog would never win any imitation game; but there seems to be no doubt that dogs exhibit cognition, and a machine with the cognitive and communicative abilities of a dog would be an interesting challenge for AI (and might usefully be incorporated, for example, into automobiles.)

This is such a good point.

After all it's called the "imitation game" -- is it really about AI?
It seems like this is the kind of grand theory which harms actual research and development: instead of gaining theory from experience, we get our experience to conform to a pre-set theory -- this is a top-down approach when, in fields of science and engineering, we rather might agree to a bottom-up design (to some degree, obviously).
I dunno, if he wasn't such a prick I'm sure he'd be considered attractive enough. Not everyone's cup of tea, but then, who is?
Because it's built by the same people that built systmed and uses some of the low-level internal libraries from systemd (input parsing, configuration, etc) ? This is not that difficult of a conclusion to get to honestly.
Oxford Covid vaccine 10% effective against South African variant, study suggests
Here's an example of 18 such apps from 2019: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-app-store-malware-click-fr...

Another from 2018: https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-mac-anti-adware-software-i...
Bond Graph
Sounds like I'll have to check out Fastmail :-) However, please bear in mind that if you've got to switch over a whole organisation, you'll have to keep UI friction to a minimum. Users who have used Gmail for almost a decade (our Outlook, for that matter) will be extremely hesitant to be dragged over on to a new service. I guess, a fully featured mail server doing all the work in the background while offering you a front and that looks like OWA, Gmail or $UI would be ideal (pipe-dream, I know, but wouldn't it be great?).
Still, I get what you're saying and I'll look into it.
Do you have any experience with Fastmail for business? Can it be branded and used with different domains and aliases without paying through the nose?
The “Why” of Technology
In that case, throw the game, and let the sap win. Problem solved.
The m in the title doesn't stand for mega, it stands for million, and lower-case m is a proper abbreviation:

https://www.lexico.com/definition/m
Yeah, I know but most don't bother to check including myself, and that's the trouble. I'm reasonably careful but I've only just gone through the process with this app since this alert.

You're right, displaying the fact would solve most things. The question is why such an obvious matter—which also would have been even more obvious to Google—wasn't enacted as such.
This reminds me: I was kind of late in reading Lean Startup only two years ago, and I was surprised to see Intuit to be described there as length and in positives, pretty much a role model for innovation.

I guess the book needs an update to this example, a chapter on what it means to take innovation too far.
A few months ago I've seen a Googler pissed on Twitter about how their spouses GMail account got suspended and he got completely stonewalled internally as well.

It seems that even Googlers themselves cannot get any human contact for account support.

(Sadly I can't find that Twitter thread anymore.)

EDIT: Found it - https://twitter.com/miguelytob/status/1315749803041619981
How do you get to focus in the afternoon?
I can focus in the morning until maybe 3, then there's no juice left.

So I do the opposite and block until then. It often has the benefit of clearing up whatever the people who were swiss cheesing my calendar "urgently"/"executively" needed to talk about.
I think it really depends. I mean the extremes of bodybuilding also involve rigid diets (maximizing calories for maintenance and bulking out, minimizing them + dehydration around competition, down to dangerous levels of fat (people have fainted at competitions), or lifting to the point of tearing muscles, prolapsing, etc. A competition weightlifter can only go for a record attempt once, maybe twice a year - their nerves are fried after that.

And there's enough dumb people around that try and lift too much without being spotted.
It has pretty good support _today_. Who knows what will change with Google tomorrow given its track record? Amazon otoh has been exactly consistent in its customer support starting from amazon.com till AWS.
The pricing is affordable and follows a pay what you will model from 4 dollars for a yearly license. Thanks for that.
please consider indieweb.org/POSSE to not loose your digital home, when huge organisations cancel tiny ones.

The big ones just cannot care about all, even if they really wanted. They had to be both onmiscient and omnipotent.
Count me in. I love 15" Thinkpads. The keyboard with numpad pushes the main letter pad offside. Also the demarcation of the main keyboard and the numpad is non existent making typing a terrible experience.
That was a deal breaker for me and now I have to use only 14" laptops.

Otoh, my sis who does subtitling finds the numpad essential to use the laptop. So different strokes for different folks.
A key aspect of free is the A-Ha moment your users have while using the product. With simple products this moment can be achieved quickly (like watching Netflix for a couple of days, you see the value really fast), with complex products this moment can take quite a while. In our work management SaaS [1] it takes quite some time to see the actual value of the product, we constantly see people converting from free after a year of use :)

What I'm trying to say it, there's no magic formula - you need to understand as well as you can your user base, see how long it usually takes them to understand that you do provide value with the product and importantly check out what your competitors are offering in terms of free plans.

[1] https://www.paymoapp.com
Another way of putting it: if a 3rd party published a Mario game on Playstation, do you think Nintendo would hold back just because they are not also there?
What you are saying might turn out to be true. There was a report on how Chinese vaccine was good in some countries but not doing well in Brazil, it may be related to mutation as well. If the virus mutates fast because countries are not controlling the spread well enough, current vaccine may be less and less effective in time. I am sure the producers are updating their vaccines in meantime. It will take time and the production will take time as well.

Unfortunately mRNA vaccines will not be a universal solution for all countries, it will only be applicable for a few rich countries.
Great points, thanks for the insights.
The Nature paper presents several new conjectures related to the Catalan constant, pi^2, and zeta(3) (Apéry's constant):

http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/c...
http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/p...
http://www.ramanujanmachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/z...

The main criticism of the blog is "that the program has not yet generated anything new", but the post does not refer to these results.
So it seems that this blog post is currently irrelevant and out-dated compared to the Nature publication.
Seems a bit unnecessary to wait for the US data when they could use the same data the UK used, plus we've now given the vaccine to several million.
I use Zoho with my own domains. Haven't had any issues so far.
At least the Parler incident seems foreseeable, if you are hosting content that could bring down the hammer onto the giant corporations that you use to host the content, these corporations will cut you loose to protect themselves. Parler leadership must have know they were in hot water as soon as the amateur coup happened.

The Google thing is such an unforced error because despite this same story happening time and time again, google still doesn't have any ways for (important) customers/partners to reach them if things go wrong. In this case it's especially funny because Google Stadia needs Terraria way more than the other way around. (Terraria sold 30 million copies and is available basically every platform except Stadia, Google Stadia is a struggling new platform that keeps failing to incentivize developers to develop for the platform)
Why is a barcode scanner app able to open a web browser and navigate to a page without user interaction (just by being installed)? That's the real question here.
I’d love my inexplicably banned ebay account back, or at least have an explanation rather than “there is no appealing this ban”.
I also read it as them feeling maybe a need to make up for lost time... If you're a salaried employee, you won't get paid by the hour, but you may still feel a responsibility that exceeds the base hours (whether that's a good thing is obviously a different discussion). When I lived in the Netherlands, for the team I was on, such was a rare exception, but here in the USA I see a lot more of it. If you do it pseudo-voluntarily, it'd be hard to enforce rules on it, you may even do it against your company's formal rules. But I've never heard of a company actually locking you out of your work laptop at off hours. So then there you go...
I have been curious about the Genie alternative syntax but it is hard to find doc about it.
This is a problem caused by people using things they don't understand. If you don't understand servers you should pay someone who does. If you know enough to debug using a log you know the log is there. But I feel this is a bit disingenuous. As far as I know no webserver logs personal information that isn't legitimate interest. Again, if you don't ask for people's information things in logs won't be a problem. It only becomes a problem when you both want to collect data and not do the work GDPR says you should. If you decide to collect personal identifiable information and refuse to secure where it ends up, you are the problem not GDPR.
Really compelling story. As someone that grew up as stupid and bored as the people in the article but not at all with such easy supply from such a young age I'm very thankful for that now.
> How does that square with AZ charging SA "nearly 2.5 times higher than most European countries"?[0][1]

At least you are getting it. We Europeans seem to have pre-funded production and now it turns out much of it is shipped to higher-paying customers first, and we must wait until "production issues" are solved.
Man, some of those replies on Twitter are unreasonably harsh to this guy. Being a game developer seems like a really thankless task. Why are so many game players so entitled and unfriendly?
Three is really no reason to have any time "between loading levels" these days, especially in an open world game.
Is homograph a synonym of homophone or homonym?
What is this meme about Sundar being bad? Any details on this .... I keep seeing this on HN.

"Google Support" was already a joke way back.
Your experience, described this way, makes me wonder: to what extent are fashion and notions of sex appeal mostly unrealistic competitions, trapped in their own inertia, unhinged from actual human desire, just like those in the article.
Both are outrageously good ideas and I sincerely hope not too many people read your comment so it doesn't become blocked!
I've always thought of it as 'live' as in 'life', but I learned about TTL first in the context of IP packets where the meaning is probably less ambiguous.
> No professional (in any field) should base a decision solely on something written in any secondary source. Even if it was a specialist publication, a competent professional should do their own research, and look at the primary sources.

> Imagine if a doctor or civil engineer based professional decisions on what they read in magazines and newspapers. The thought is horrifying.

No, I really really don't want doctors looking at primary sources. They don't have time to find and read all the sources, and they tend not to have expertise to understand specialist papers.

I would much rather we have organisations like NICE or Cochrane who employ experts in evidence based medicine to gather and précis the science and come up with recommendations for assessment and treatment.
Maybe voice would be better suited to trademark protection? After all, it isn't really about accent/pitch/tone, but about being sure that if something sounds like it's voiced by $VoiceActor, it's actually voiced by $VoiceActor (and $VoiceActor gets their cut of royalties/recognition).
Good sed alternative for any generation
They said they'd have a new one by Autumn...
I'm not sure how you can put "software freedom" and "never about choice" in the same sentence to be honest. Software freedom implies without a doubt the freedom of not using software, or that of using "different" software.
Noting the reputation of your clients is powerful and ethical - the Chinese government is a monopolistic violent organisation, which makes its power evil
> What you're looking at though in lisp is an unambiguous syntax tree.

...

> That can include doing things like re-defining a function or value on the fly, which is one of the lovely things you can do in many lisps.

Sure, but like I said to lispm, I know enough Lisp to understand both of these points. Respectfully, neither addresses my point about syntax.
1. The way you counter such a request matters much more than the actual thing. Here, if you mention "swiss cheese", it's clear you'll get laughed at. However if you answer "I am currently bringing all meetings into clusters so I can fully focus on delivering urgent project X for the business outcome Y or client Z", you might get a different answer.

2. You have to actually try it to really know if that works or not

3. It might not stick the first time but if you do it a bit more often without being forceful (just asking "is there a time that would work in the afternoon too?"), then it might lead to a better outcome.

Overall, frame it as a gain for the company, not for yourself.
the camera app scans qr codes on my pixels.
I can't seem to find many of your examples in the community guidelines
Open source apps can absolutely have trackers in them. F-Droid isn't a security solution by any measure. I have inspected code of at least one popular "privacy" app that absolutely tracks its users out in the open (I mean, the code is right there on GitHub), yet I see repeatedly that app (and F-Droid) being touted as some elixir that fixes security and privacy for one and all. It doesn't. Don't place your trust on F-Droid apps blindly, and more importantly, refrain from blanket advocating F-Droid apps as a security / privacy panacea.

What I do instead is monitor Android's traffic with a LittleSnitch-esque firewall and block all apps I don't use. Also, I've disabled auto-updates on non-essential apps. Only Photos, Maps, Chrome, and Firefox are allowed to auto update on my Android.
I still don't get it. What makes this company particularly funny?
Maybe someone can create technology that explains why some people's tweets, along with essays like this, are tone-deaf -- like Explain-Why-This-is-Tone-Deaf-as-a-Service. The work can initially be done by a combination of software and human operators, which would eventually be replaced with AI based on the likes of GTP-3.

Contrary to the article, there is far too little emphasis on morality and good character when it comes to "public figures," especially in politics and business. What's new is there is some accountability in this respect, sometimes, in some domains. Actions have consequences, and no one is entitled to positive public opinion, let alone a position of power and influence, regardless of how bigoted, abusive, or otherwise uncouth they are by 2020 standards. There are some rare sincere apologies, and careers that continue after apologies, and careers that continue despite no responsibility taken and no remorse expressed.

This is a time when we have the likes of Trump and Kavanaugh as public figures. No apologies. No consequences. Anyone who is talking about "virtue" and quoting the Bible who would defend these men has surely lost their way. If we're talking about the cases where there are sincere apologies, I think those apologies are definitely taken into account.

I doubt people are more anxious about saying the wrong thing than they should rightly be, especially considering the anxiety they probably cause on a daily basis if they are so immature and uneducated about how their words and actions affect those around them.
This argument that patent protections should be suspended has been made quite seriously in several newspapers here in Finland. I don't think these people are trolling.

I do share the reservations about retroactively revoking protections, although I'm not convinced governments could not co-operate on vaccine development.
Until they turn on ADB, then it's a free for all.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tens-of-thous...
i suspect that google's cloud infrastructure's first customer is google themselves, and they don't care that nobody else is buying it.
>Your experience is not shared by small businesses

As I own a small businesses I know for a fact that is not so, as I just stated. Maybe some do and some don't but you cannot claim it as universally so. Which small businesses are you talking about? Your own or something you read online?
Integrating Navigation Application Using Huawei Direction API
I'm curious to know what this "HD Fluid R-19 ™, which has 2.5x the density of water" is composed of. My guess: nothing good
Well, the Mafia code isn't in the community guidelines yet.

The rest is literally copy-pasted, Ctrl+F is your friend.
A free plan is OK as long as you understand that it's just a way of doing marketing. As with any marketing effort, you should keep the costs under control.

As with any marketing, it's easy to get it wrong. "Don't offer a free plan" is a good advice if there is a problem understanding the balance between revenue generation and expenses or there is a better way of doing marketing, but it's hardly a universal recommendation.

Free plans usually a good idea for a starting business when you look for approval from your target audience and stabilize the product. As companies grow, confirm product/market fit, polish the product, and discover more efficient ways of doing marketing, it's perfectly OK to discontinue the free plan.
Most apps never need to be updated, problem solved. Especially stuff like barcode scanners, authenticator apps and other apps that I'd call phone infrastructure can just be static from the time of install.
In the past I had written about my experiences with crawling[1], from accidentally getting banned by Slashdot as a teenager doing linguistic analysis to accidentally DoS'ing a major website to being threatened with lawsuits.

The latter parts of the story were when I was part of Common Crawl, a public good dataset that has seen a great deal of use. During my tenure there I crawled over 2.5 petabytes and 35 billion webpages mostly by myself.

I'd always felt guilty of a specific case as our crawler hit a big name web company (top N web company) with up to 3000 requests per second* and they sent a lovely note that began with how much they loved the dataset but ended with "please stop thrashing our cache or we'll need to ban your crawler". It was difficult to properly fix due to limited engineering resources and as they represented many tens / hundreds of thousands of domains, with some of the domains essentially proxying requests back to them.

Knowing Google hammered you at 120k requests per second down to _only_ 20k per second has assuaged some portion of that guilt.

[1]: https://state.smerity.com/smerity/state/01EAN3YGGXN93GFRM8XW...

* Up to 3000 requests per second as it'd spike once every half hour or hour when parallelizing across a new set of URL seeds but would then decrease, with the crawl not active for all the month
Well I'm guessing the constant focus on inserting backdoors into everything and giving the NSA/FBI easy access to as many systems as possible "for security" must not have helped, either.