skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccinate as many people as possible.

There's a lot between "herd immunity via vaccination" (very good) and "uncontrolled spread" (very bad). Protecting a lot of people is not as good as protecting everyone. But it's better than protecting nooone.
I disagree with this. I think think there's a significant difference between:

"This event is certainly possible, but only has a 10% chance of occurring" and "This event may or may not be possible we don't yet know, but our best guess is that it is not possible, and we are 90% confident in that prediction"
this is false. First year associate all in is slightly sub 300, but compare to similarly type A hoop jumping prestige chasing programmers in NYC(or SF) it's a bad deal - plus taxes, CoL, etc. Analyst is low 100 as someone said below.

At least analysts can bail to the buy side and have a +EV path out.

London folks have it way worse too, I hear. Same jobs, 60% of comp, London isn't cheaper than NY.
I think the biggest win will be disinfecting shopping cart handles. A few years before, I even have posts about it, how it didn't make sense that these where not disinfected during Flu season. I thought it was disgusting actually since people are handling food, between touching these handles.

We will probably get some innovation in face masks too.
For anyone in the construction/renovation industry having access to better working face masks will help prevent all kinds of lung damaging diseases.

There's probably other benefits, like more people working from home.
But overall, its been terrible. I see homeless people in my city like never before. Huge surge in mental health issues too.And nursing homes with their current configurations are old people slaughter houses.
Long-term, antibiotic resistance scares me more than covid.
Not sure about Gitlab discussions, but you can upvote answers on GitHub discussions. I'm sure GitHub discussions going free for private repos was a big driver for this move by StackOverflow - for us though, the fact that GitHub discussions can sit alongside the repo they're actually about, with automatic linking to commits and tickets makes them infinitely more useful than SO for Teams.
A 4k 60hz 30bpc display requires 14Gbps to feed. The thin client thing is such a meme, all the computing requirements continuously scale - there is nothing "seamless" about them.
Which song is `she`?
For those that want a bit of evidence and scientific background on this, Derek Lowe's writings are, as usual, an excellent source. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/03/16/wh...

It is a scientifically and statistically rigorous look at the available data that takes into account how people probably feel about the whole issue.
One involves geometric meaning (e.g. edges, Bayer artifacts, clipped highlights), and the other involves semantic meaning (e.g. sky, faces, eyes). Dodging and burning is in the latter category and is equally deceptive.
It is. You can buy Rustica in bulk. I smoke pipes as well as cigars and Rustica is starting to become more popular in the pipe world - Mac Baren just released an HH Rustica series.

The whole falling over unconscious thing seems to be more from people taking a massive bong hit of it and holding it in forever, near as I can tell from Youtube. Not how I enjoy my tobacco.
Yes, I'm disappointed by the name collision. Is there a tool that makes "real" superresolution photos easy? Is that built into photoshop as well under a different name?
US deaths in 2020 jumped about 15% from 2019. Even if you think the pandemic response was a failure that somehow made it worse, you can’t also think that the crisis didn’t justify a strong reaction. That’s an enormous increase in mortality for a single year.
There isn't any gain for home networking. The gain is for enterprise applications that can now migrate a software-defined network to a completely different infrastructure provider without having to change the way they do monitoring, log collection, storage provisioning, DNS migrates with it for free, etc.

Maybe, if you're lucky, you had some set of really good and reliable Sys Admins that figured out a robust way to script and configure the setup process of your original on-premise data center and they captured that in very good, well-maintained documentation. If you're even luckier, maybe those same guys still work for you.

If not, well, Kubernetes provides an open standard that a lot of different people know how to use and the documentation for how everything is setup is directly in your source control. There's nothing exactly unique about this, but it is an actual open standard. It hasn't been owned by Google for years. It's owned by a non-profit. It's open source. If your deployments work on a cluster provided by one Kubernetes engine implementation, it'll work on any of them. You can roll your own, use GKE, EKS, whatever Microsoft offers, and it'll work in exactly the same way wherever you go.

For one person, this means nothing. This guy is just doing it for fun. But for organizations that used to lose millions of dollars a year and sometimes their entire market position thanks to vendor lock in or had to experience months of downtime for a data center migration, they may find something like this useful. Or maybe you just don't want to rely too heavily on Dennis Nedry and want to be able to bring in anyone with a couple years of experience using an open source, open standard toolset who can come in and be reasonably expected to understand how your system works pretty quickly without needing ten years of tribal knowledge.
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In that case, eventually ... it's only aliens.
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What is your argument here? The US has a poorly designed system for herd immunity? Free shots, huge supply, most shots given in the world, one of the highest vaccination rates in the world?
Of note is the claim that Apple deliberately sabotaged his app as a negotiation tactic for the purposes of acquisition.

IANAL, but this seems bad. Even if it’s legally permissible, it’s the sort of outrage that’s both easily understood by non-technical people and hits a kind primal reflexive outrage against unfairness.

In addition, I’ve heard of this with other FAANG companies (notably Amazon). They’d likely all be vulnerable to these arguments. Proving such abuses of power might prove more difficult, though.
Not just human colonialism but also the colonialism that ants, rabbits, and kudzu exhibit.
"Vaccine hesitancy" is the term for antivaxxers plus people who would not refuse in principle, but prefer to wait for more results, are too lazy or something like that.

The high death rate of pandemics of yore is also due to the healthcare system of yore being shit. You just couldn't properly ventilate people during the spanish flu, not to speak of ECMO or useful drugs like cortical steroids. I would guess that of those people hospitalized for COVID-19, at least half would have died back then. Of those put on a ventilator nowadays, all would have died back then. And hospitalization rates would maybe also have been higher, because where nowadays the doc sends you back to home quarantine with an asthma inhaler, back then they could just watch you suffocate...
virus spread is O(n^2)

vaccination is O(n)

if you want to beat the virus, seems the answer is to genetically engineer a weak variant with a bigger reproduction and let it rip?

common cold with the covid-19 spike protein?
See also: plan9's `cpu` and `exportfs`
Oh, it’s not that uncommon. You can buy Nitinol wire pretty cheaply, although not the medical-approved stuff.
> If you meant just update in general, that's a pretty silly question.

I disagree. How do you update manually? If your answer is ssh in and manually update, that's how you end up with a pile of different versions, and no reference what they are? You've now got random packages at random versions. If you automatically update, they're not infalliable, e.g. here's [0] a post from 12 months ago about someone having an issue with nginx not restarting.

> You misunderstand. You can use the automatic install script to create the .deb
So now you have a deb package, and an install script; that's more complex and more work than a dockerfile (which is standard at this point. How do you update your deb package? With docker, you use the same commands above.

> You have the added benefit that afterwards you can install the .deb in a debian-based docker container, but you don't have to. You're not reliant on docker

You're reliant on debian, and the configuration of the OS underneath it, including the version of nginx, python, ruby, etc. With a docker image, that stuff is all pinned unless you engage with updating it.

> Yeah that's not gonna happen to a static blog behind CF. Also at least that way you're always only paying $5, regardless of what happens.
> The sort of traffic that kills a $5 VPS serving only a basic static blog can bankrupt you on an automatically scaling infra.

Nobody is talking about auto scaling infra here, except you. You can run docker on a $5 VPS, or on a $5 DO app platform. If your blog dies, e.g. due to aws performing maintenance[1], you need to bring it back online. If you migrate to a smaller host or larger host, you need to rebuild it.

[0] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/problems-in...
[1] https://www.quora.com/How-often-do-EC2-instances-fail-Why
But 'chucknorris'[0] is still my favorite red.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
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about 3/4 of theway thru the text i finally find some numbers

>>What has AstraZeneca said?

The company says there is no evidence of an increased risk of clotting due to the vaccine.

It said it had received 37 reports of blood clots out of more than 17 million people vaccinated in the EU and UK as of 8 March.<<

37 reports out of 17 million vaccinations.

this is aprox. 1 report out of 510 000 vaccinations.

what is not shown is spatial distribution over population.
this would provide insight regarding statistical groups such as those who recieved a bad batch [if extant] or those with existing cerebovascular pathology concurrent with vaccination.

i cant say im a fan of the adenovirus vector approach, for technical reasons, however it does appear to be a vaccine for those not immune to adenovirus.
>> What's the current recommendations around raid capacity before you have to seriously start worrying about drive failure before it can be rebuilt?

That depends on the size of your drives and the number in the array. If you are running a small NAS with only one parity drive, you don't want drives that take more than a day to onboard. That limits you to 4/6TB per drive. If you have two parity drives in the array you can probably risk the 8/10/12 TB size. If you are running commercial-scale arrays of dozen of drives, arrays that can handle multiple failures at once, then the sky is probably the limit.

But the story gets more complicated. Are all of your drives the same age? Are all the drives of the same model/manufacturer? Such things increase the risk ofone failure evolving into a multi-drive failure during rebuild. If/when I build a new array I want drives of different ages. So If I had 10 drives, I would start the array on five or six, holding some for later so that the entire array isn't the same age.
Were you informed on how to report your side effects to the CDC's official database VAERS?
I don't think you really need to compare / remember that... we're talking history here, not some sort of building scorecard.
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I support this. Hopefully the result will be that Apple changes the way that it curates apps in its store and improves the way it communicates with developers.
They once sold a green tea flavor KitKat in my local store. I enjoyed them, and they quickly vanished, much to my dismay. I suppose I could always ask the store manager to keep ordering them, but it's extra effort. When novel things start selling well, don't discontinue them!
I'm in the US so as as others pointed out it might be more of an issue here (due to higher vehicles - SUVs/trucks - taking over).

As a side note, the crazy lights are bad for pedestrians as well: they're so bright you sometimes have to look away from incoming traffic (esp. if there's a hill involved, tilting the vehicles) and they make it harder to estimate distances (all you see are the lights, which you can't look at, and not the vehicle they're attached to).
I certainly expect to use HaaS if such a service became available and affordable. One thing I’ve fantasised about for 15 years is a wall-scale full colour hologram of some environments — forests, lunar surface, a city skyline, or perhaps a different one for each wall.

Of course, I’ll have to play with the small ones first, to get a feel for what the tech can and cannot do…
Things have been changing. Hollywood makes fewer movies than ever before and most of the work has moved elsewhere. Tv shows for networks are still made there but with so many additional channels more shows are being made elsewhere.

Pittsburgh,Detriot were never in a position to overtake the valley. California offers too much and the valley is not moving to another citt. But less companies feel the need to be in the valley because the internet provides a virtual space.

Oil is being replaced with renewable power so that shift won't affect who the oil capital is but it will reduce it's imporance.

Finance and New York fit culturally well together like California dreams and high tech startups.
So, the holograms are made of "pixels" that look different from different angles? If so, how much crosstalk is it, and how many discrete angles are we talking? Very cool!
Expansion is only selected for in the evolutionary environment.

In layman's anthropomorphic terms, your genes can want to expand on your home planet and say "hell no" when you find yourself in orbit.

Your genes can want you to expand and express this as playing Star Trek explorer video games all day.

In short, it's complicated.
> Nations that are overcautious may lose far, far, far, far more lives thanks to covid infections than an extremely rare handful of blood clots which haven't even been tied concretely to the vaccine yet. The risk reward analysis on this topic has been really bizarre so far.

You seem to suggest risk-reward analysis be viewed at by the number of deaths.

Germany had to suspend vaccination (temporarily) due to legal reasons and risk of a lawsuit to the state.
Right. The WHO listed 'vaccine hesitancy' as one of the top global health threats, and that was in mid 2019, before the pandemic. [0] On the other hand, vaccine side-effects have never been a major health threat.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_hesitancy
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Certain Hasselblad cameras have had this for a long time, and Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic, and Sony have it on various models, using the sensor shift image stabilization to implement it.
I don't know anything about chess, but I think this rule basically applies to any game played at a high level.

I used to be a top 10 player in a 90's online game and I often used anonymous accounts (smurf accounts) for fun. One day as a joke I attempted a playing style that mimicked a complete novice (just moving the mouse with no keyboard input) and it was so effective it became a normal part of my repertoire. Eventually others took notice and it just became part of the game.
Sorry for the late reply. Was swamped.

Happy to hear that Welder seems meaningful for you. You should definitely give it a try.

Btw thanks for letting me know what convinced you, we are actually in the process of updating the LP and this is valuable feedback.

So when covid thing happened we started on a few side projects as we though it's a great opportunity to build something that will help people in current situation.

We created MVP of app for therapists to do remote sessions, system for creative people to share their thoughts, Slack bot for devs to streamline their workflow and Welder.

Welder took of the most in our validation phase.

We decide to jump full time into it straight away as the demand was big. Few months in we already had paying customers, but the growth was not as fast as we needed.

We started thinking about VC funding, but finally it didn't feel right, we loved the product, but not as much. We didn't feel like it's the next unicorn. We would be lying to the VCs and we didn't want to.

So after 8 months we decided to put it back on side track as we had two options

1) VC capital and boost the generalistic tool as hell > Nope
2) Finding a niche, stick with it, understand it and deliver solution that is different enough from other generalistic competitors who raised (we didn't love it enough and we didn't feel big enough differentiator is there).

We actualy share a lot of this on our YT channel if you are interested https://www.youtube.com/c/CrazyMonkeys/

Hope this is helpful for you!
One of those happy moments where science fiction becomes real: https://blog.adobe.com/hlx_ea7b90bf2b9492a9fdfdcbe74b3197ca1...
Yes, I actually love that awakening story. It’s been done in fiction before (e.g., “Cybernetic Samurai,” by Victor Milan) but Stephenson rendered it vividly.

Even if we accept this on its face as possible, we still have no reason to believe that the digital Dodge will act the same way as the formerly-meat Dodge. Developmental trauma is a real thing. How did that experience of awakening change Dodge? If it changed him at all he’s no longer the same Dodge; if it didn’t change him, then he’s just an immutable copy.

And then if we figure out some convoluted way to claim that Didi-Dodge will act/present the same as formerly-meat-Dodge, they’re not in any way the same person. Meat-Dodge is still dead, he just has a very lifelike digital replica.
And there's a huge difference between finite improbability and infinite improbability.
I love that people think money & politics might be in play in the suspension of vaccines, without considering what that might mean about the same decision makers' approvals of the vaccines.
For context the whole thing came about because Sabine has coached Jeremy Clarkson to get a Jaguar Diesel around the track in under 10 min. He made it just and some comments from Sabine lead to the second challenge to do it in a van.

So she was 8 seconds slower than a Jaguar driven by Jeremy, who drives for a living :-)

Definitely try to find some snippets of those episodes, very entertaining
Sure. But do you constantly verify backups, check hard drive health and file corruptions, practice disaster recovery?

And these are just for the integrity of your _encrypted_ data. There are a lot more to do to fully secure your home infra in general. How do you secure your wireguard client key on the go? Do you monitor access logs? What about Guest Wi-Fi access, vlan separation...

I don't know if worrying about all these considered being paranoid. End of day it's about risk management, and personally, the benefits of selfhosting does not justify the effort I will need to put into maintaining it.
Hmm interesting idea. I was working on something a couple weeks ago after all the "αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε" stuff. My idea was to be able to run local programs like your favorite fancy shell, but on a remote machine or container that does not have it installed (think lightweight containers you need to work in). The idea was to have a parent program that runs your shell or other client program using ptrace to intercept and proxy all syscalls to a small client on the remote machine/container. So the code would be running locally, but all of the syscalls would be running remotely. I actually got it somewhat working but gave up when I realized that the difficulty in memory and file access. Files in particular were hard since I couldn't disambiguate if a file access was for a "local" or "remote" file. Also in the past I did something silmilar for python programs https://github.com/seiferteric/telepythy
I think what he's talking about is what Sony calls Pixel Shift Multi Shooting. Other camera manufacturers do it too.
https://support.d-imaging.sony.co.jp/support/ilc/psms/ilce7r...
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I would prefer not to consent to a possibly dangerous 'weaker' version of COVID. This idea would completely take choice away and experiment on the human populace.
Fair enough, but the 'brown' issue is similarly confusing to the lightness reversal between 'gray' and 'darkgray'.
Ugh, those prods reek of Western superiority. If a dollar goes further in an impoverished place I don't see what's wrong with directing it accordingly. Moreover, taxes (in theory) should already be directed to help those locally.

I haven't done too much research and I direct my donations both domestically and abroad.
Agree on the brown front, it's a very odd color choice.
This process is what I think the article describes and what I’m curious if can be automated by magit itself.
> Hopefully the result will be that Apple gets broken up into smaller companies

Unlikely to happen. Even Microsoft wasn't broken up in the 90's and they were even more obnoxious in their anti-competitive practices. It's also going to be really hard to go with the monopoly argument seeing as how Apple doesn't have majority market share (not even close) in most market segments - smart watches might be the sole exception.
I think facemasks are going to be the biggest change to daily life that I don't see going away.

2020 had a nearly non-existent flu season and that is likely related to all the COVID restrictions (I think facemasks being a key).

If I were to guess, I think people wearing facemasks when they are sick (or even just through flu season) is going to be a lot more common and socially acceptable from now on. Hopefully that will translate into less severe flu seasons from here on out.
If it keeps going up why does decentralization matter? Poor people are decentralized, I don't know any rich people who are decentralized
This is pretty cultural and contextual -- in many social groups, at least on the west coast, holding hands and cuddling between friends is common. In some Asian countries you often see two boys walking down the street holding hands. I don't really agree that there's wisdom in teaching people jealousy over perfectly innocent behavior.
Gosling will probably go to jail for a lot of crimes...
GIMP allows plugins for features that don't belong in the main application. I've found a lot of researchers had written GIMP plugins for their work, I am under the impression that that's how many of them are testing.
As far as Covid is concerned, surface transmission is not considered and has not been considered a major transmission pathway since May.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0522-cdc-updates-co...
Docker was an apt install, it wasn't exactly what I would call difficult.
Focalboard team here, please see: https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/issues/96
Surely it's inevitable that during a worldwide rollout of a new vaccine a few 'pauses' happen -- even if people find them deeply distressing. Lots of people were claiming this was politically motiviated reather than scientificially motivated.

Does this confirm the motivations were scientific?