skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would rather hollywood invested in "random" fantasy/sci-fi books. Probably each one of those books is a unique universe on its own that can be used as a setting for literally any kind of story.

Yet here we are, still stuck with orcs, vampires, zombies and wizards (don't mean to demean it, I love all of it). Just wish they would use some new kind of universe with its own unique mechanics. They do drip out once in a while, but they're mostly rare.
It is, in fact, clear cut. Virulence refers only to the degree of damage done. [0]

There are several interrelated terms, which you conflated in your previous comment. It's important for all of us to have the right mental model about how these fit together, so I'm going to press on this point.

- Transmissibility: how easily a pathogen travels from one organism (vector or host) to another
- Infectivity: how easily a pathogen can establish infection in a host
- Pathogenicity: degree of ability to cause disease in host
- Virulence: degree of damage done to host
- Virulence factors: factors that, in aggregate, can affect virulence

Virulence is affected by virulence factors, but these are not equivalent to virulence, and increasing a virulence factor does not necessarily mean that virulence will go up. (Another way of saying this: Taken individually, virulence factors are necessary but not sufficient for the definition or measurement of virulence.)

So of course, if a pathogen has higher transmissibility or infectivity, it has a greater potential for virulence. At the same time, that does not mean it is actually more virulent.

So taken in the context of your comment, the clearest word to use is almost certainly transmissibility or infectivity, depending on the data you're referring to.

[0]: https://www.biologyonline.com/dictionary/virulence
Solving the issues of decentralization by adding in centralization with off-chain transactions. Love to see it
Architects can design buildings that solve social problems. But they can't use Le Corbusier's authoritarian methods - or any derivative of that mindset - to do it.

This was a typical early 20th century worker housing project. It was pretty successful for the time - so much so it's now expensive and gentrified.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5114036,-0.2416956,3a,75y,...

Most people want to live in low-density human-scale housing with plenty of greenery. There's nothing complicated or difficult about this. The problem is that architects want to Make A Statement, and you don't do that by giving ordinary people what they want.
> ”Huawei employees have not had unauthorized access to KPN's network and data, nor have they extracted data from that network. Huawei has at all times worked under the explicit authorization of KPN,”

But doesn't the article also imply (who knows if it's true) that such access would not have been logged, in which case how can Huawei be sure there was no access by an employee which did abuse it (and was neither asked by Huawei to do so nor did Huawei know about it).

Much of the "spying" attributed to companies like Cisco or Huawei are generally not done by the company but by people working for it which act outside of the companies directions (but likely where directed by external powers like the Us or China).

Similar in both countries there are non-public court decisions under which we can't guarantee that the Company wasn't forced to do so and forced to tell everyone they didn't do anything like this. (can't guarantee doesn't mean it happened, just that there is no guarantee).

Which is in the end the whole problem with Huawei (or Cisco) even if the companies clearly have no intention to do such thinks, it's very likely that employees from them or even they themself are forced to do such things in some cases, especially if trade and/or political relationships degrade.
It's not (famously) as on the nose as C. S. Lewis was about this, but it's pretty much there, at times rather explicitly (see Gandalf on judging others).
How does this explain why new reactors in the US are incredibly expensive while they have not experienced such massive inflation in South Korea? Are you supposing that South Korea is dumping nuclear waste into the ocean or building unsafe reactors or not pricing in some massive externality (into the planning and construction costs) or something else?
Apollo program cost $200 billion. Still few orders of magnitdude to go. Manhattan $23 billion so closer.
$2 billion is not that much in corporate world (sure, for me as an individual it is) - given a mediums sized mobile game studio can generate that amount of revenue in a year.
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It's the scorpion's nature to sting, it cannot help it, but human beings can change their patterns
I hope they finally reintroduce Tom Bombadil, one of the most interesting and powerful characters in the trilogy, unfortunately completely removed from the movies.
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I thought the Hobbit films sucked horribly but I'm still glad we have more LotR. It's funny how the biggest "fans" seem to strongly shun having more material.
The interesting thing about this dynamic is that you'll often have people who can formulate cutting arguments on the spot, used against someone who is slower but who tends to think more deeply, given enough time. So, with some thought, those arguments are easy for the second person to eventually break down, and while the first can usually rebut quickly (often with more high-sounding nonsense), they're (if they have any self awareness at all) left with the nagging truth of the first conflict's takedown.

And now no one is happy.

Generally it's better to just be smart than to try to prove or weaponize it.
Yes, we definitely want similar things. Maybe it was not clear from my original reply but I’m not saying the document paradigm is bad and we should move away from it.

The document paradigm has evolved for 25 years and it is the right fit for most “websites”.

The problem is that we’re trying to build apps on the same base as well and that is where the mismatch is.

If you look at cross platform GUI toolkits like Gtk, Qt, Flutter and Druid, what most of them have in common is that they are typically abstractions on top of a graphics rendering library (cairo, skia, canvas) with integration into platform accessibility and window APIs.

That makes them easily portable to Linux, Windows, Android, iOS etc.

The problem with the web browser as a target platform for these toolkits is that the accessibility support is currently coupled too tightly with dom/html/css.

The graphics drawing toolkit is there (canvas) and most of the above toolkits have abstracted over it already. The missing link is standardised accessibility APIs in browsers that can be used with canvas instead of dom.
Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)
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> It's not like they don't have myriad other creatures to outsmart in their daily lives.

Intelligence of competing species doesn't seem to evolve together very often. Various strategies are developed but they are pretty much hardcored in instincts and bodies. Intelligence is rarely that useful in interspecies competition.

It seems that all highly intelligent species got their intelligence to compete with individuals of the same species because intelligence is way more useful in social context than in others.
> sunlight (maybe)

Sunlight Neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 8x Faster Than Initially Assumed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26698047 .

Other things to consider - for example lower cholesterol, omega ratios, beetroots? ;) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26843768 - "The metabolic fingerprint of Covid-19 severity" (it's a gem).

edit: this research is more about inactivating by inhibiting the virus, before it enters the cell, using something that doesn't kill (virus is not alive anyway), another example is hrsACE2 which as well inhibits binding, discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25008048 .
Nothing stops Wal-Mart from putting Sam's Choice product on the endcap to the soft drink asile. Amazon has scale problem, and the question shouldn't be about product x or product y, but why aren't there more Amazons and more Googles competing with each other.
> I feel that Apple was a little too silent regarding that limitation.

That's the whole point. It's about what Apple doesn't tell you that matters, which I have said before [0]. Especially for a new product announcement and release, which is why I don't immediately buy their products because everyone else is hyping it everywhere.

Now they are discovering the pitfalls and foot-guns later on after purchasing it, whilst I enjoy my trusty old Intel Macbook that can connect to more than one monitor.

I guess when Apple announces a M1X / M2 Macbook, the reviewers will be telling you that 'It's not worth buying if you already bought into M1'. If that's the case, they are right, since you're now at a sunk cost IF you wanted multi-monitors on your M1 Macbook Air.

What's better is that you wait for the next generation so that you don't fall for buying into Apple's limitations in their new products.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327064
Ok, so with that amount of money it isn't going to be the Soviet Lord of the Rings. The question still remains as to whether it's going to be over-exploited garbage like the Hobbit trilogy.
Lord of the Rings is great for many reasons, but when it comes to story His Dark Materials is better. It's a real shame they messed up the movie for that one.
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> Some folks (like me) write poorly but I find writing tests what I know (and shows me what I don’t)

That's fine, just don't have such a big ego you need to share your crap with the world unless you have something important to say. That's why when you try to google something to learn, you have to wade through pages and pages of half-baked crap: all the good stuff has been drowned out.
I think that's an interesting point, that a book can both be a religious work but at the same time not contain anything overtly religious.

As a non-believer, I quite enjoy the lack of anything overtly religious in his works.
I'm eager but can't find an outdoor site. You couldn't pay me to go indoors with a bunch of other unvaccinated people right now.

Early in the vaccination effort (when the weather was a lot nastier!), there was a lot of press around these giant parking-lot sites with tents and you'd just roll down your window and get the shot. I wasn't eligible then. Now that I'm eligible, they seem to be gone?

Time to make another round of calls, I guess.
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Apple definitely has a say in how its software is run. IOS is licensed for use on Apple-branded devices, with further stipulations requiring, amongst other things, that it remain unmodified (it's right there in the EULA).

I'll be the last one to prevent you from running your own software on the hardware you bought. So, knock yourself out: Wipe all the nasty, evil Apple software off of that device and have your way with it. I would not expect any help from Apple about how to do this.
The Amazon series is about Numenor
edit: The topic level link in the youtube description sends you straight to the list of documentation...

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech

2. https://archive.org/details/GunsNButterIndiraSinghPtechAndTh...

3. http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/200...

4. http://archive.is/RuleH

5. http://web.archive.org/web/20080905224929/http://www.theamer...

6. http://web.archive.org/web/20080820045652/http://www.total91...

7. http://web.archive.org/web/20080515202659/http://www.judicia...

8. http://web.archive.org/web/20081015113454/http://911citizens...

9. http://web.archive.org/web/20080915185702/http://counterterr...

10. http://rememberingmichael.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/in-memory...

11. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread183761/pg1
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I like this because it does a good job of summing up why I think the "TE gear is overpriced" debate is nonese. In said debate, there is so much apples to oranges comparisons it drives me nuts. TE tools are not just instruments, they're FUN, they're toys, and that's ok! There are no good comparisons, they've charted their own path on everything; from thinking about the modularity (OP-Z with OP-Lab Connected to POs... ENDLESS FUN!). Everything is just so thoughtful and works really well together. Think about the OB-4 and the high quality FM across the ecosystem... you can go OP-Z radio broadcast to OP-1 to OB-4...insane. Last I checked, TE was about 60 people, churning out really innovative stuff, building their own supply chains, designing their own custom HW, and mixing that with thoughtful, unique, complex control that makes for an infinite journey with the device. Sorry for the (fanboy)rant but the TE is overpriced side of the TE community really grind my gears. :)
Architects can design buildings that meet people’s needs, but that doesn’t necessarily solve social problems. That’s why it seems simple when in fact building someone a house is not the same as making them self sufficient or giving them the knowledge, skills, and habits to be successful, especially in wider social contexts where social problems live.

The problems that architects solve are much simpler.

Disclaimer - I studied architecture in university and then engineering, and I have a fine appreciation of art and good design but a poor opinion of most architectural theories, including the ones where they give themselves super powers while designing balconies or laying out kitchens.
“It’s just a tiny inconvenience, don’t be selfish!”
Apollo project was 20-something billion in 60s/70s dollars, equivalent to 150-200 billion now.
Does it run on the altair sim? any, the one from Simh, altairz80, or anything else.
I agree. I wish school would have merged things like space and programming. I would have been really into it.
Perfect then :)
Claiming "fast" implies that performance is a project goal, possibly even tracked over time as a metric, and that there's probably a comparison deeper in the README or elsewhere. It probably also means that when it comes to tradeoffs (compile time, code size, binary size, ergonomics, maybe even strictness/correctness), runtime speed is the preferred option.
Could you please elaborate on how "American fascists" are playing a role here? Sounds far fetched.
You should still be able to connect to them by clicking the button and pair like any other bluetooth headset. You may lose some features but that is expected for a non updated software and OS.
Maybe because stamp collecting was the first shopclerks "business" he did not really see the joy in it any longer? Logical arrangements are nice but aesthetic arrangements are also nice!
Love this! Always been a fan of kata-type websites like [0], but they all become uninteresting after a while (new katas get bland). This submission has good fresh energy!

[0] - codewars.com
Ah, thanks for that. So it was just my ADHD kicking in I guess.
>Certainly no less expressive than, say, Python or JavaScript.

Java can't even have a free standing function without 6 lines of boilerplate minimum and 2 levels of indentation to start.

Nominal static typing with weak generics and no almost no compile time programming support - you end up mucking with reflection or code generation if you want to do anything metaprogramming related or non trivial higher order functions - JavaScript and Python just deal with it at runtime, and if you need to type it out - you can still generate types that convey to the user what the result will be (the underlying code doesn't have to be typed)
Well, yes... that is the 21st century way so far. Spider-man has been done 3 times already in 20 years. You can bet they're already planning the reboot of the entire series of Marvel films. You have to look hard to find anything original these days. But there are some if you'd like some recommendations?
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Do they have friends? Do those friends have smartphones?
I have the XPS 13 2-in-1 and the thermals under Windows leave a lot to be desired. It's possible to apply a small undervolt and increase the Intel turbo limits which significantly improves performance while being able to run with the balanced fan profile. If anyone wants my ThrottleStop config I can upload it to pastebin.

I run Ubuntu day to day and it has much better performance and less fan noise (presumed better thermals) than Windows.
I got vaccinated (well, I'm between shots, but whatever) as a reasonably healthy person in their 40s for 2 reasons: It makes me less likely to transmit the virus to other people, and because even though my risk of severe illness is low, the vaccines still reduce it.

I certainly expect restrictions to continue to relax. It is unfortunate that people didn't have a few more weeks patience, that along with higher vaccine uptake would have ended things sooner.
I’m surprised Monero is not more popular.

It’s got the positives of Bitcoin, plus it’s as anonymous as cash: simply buying a used book on the street doesn’t welcome the seller to scrutinize your bank account.
Would it be specifically for unmanned missions?
Welcome to U8 Schoenleinstr! Believe or not it was used to be okay for me just 4~5 years ago.. now it's almost same as cesspit.
I've unfortunately experienced that smoker's anxiety of watching the clock and counting backwards, which takes the fun out of it. After probably thousands of cooks, I've learned to give myself way more time than I need mainly to account for fussy pieces of meat, trimming taking longer than expected, etc. I also tend to cook more forgiving pieces of meat like pork butt. Pork butt is remarkable because you can spend as little or much time prepping it as you want, letting it rest as long as you want, and it still comes out great.
What if they used this money to make something new. Can we all start consuming content that isn’t LoTR/GoT/MCU? What a travesty of a spend.
> Done right there is no torment. My 1/2 dozen cows are grass fed and have a life of blissful grazing and laying under the shade trees chewing their cud.

What age are they killed compared to their natural lifespan? How do you kill them without causing any fear or pain? Do you dehorn, castrate or brand them? With anaesthesia? Do you keep mothers with their children?

I'm sure their situation is better than industrial farms but this shouldn't be the baseline to compete with.

> Second, the natural (and normal) world is full of predators that eat meat. Consuming other animals is one of the more normal things we do. Certainly a lot more normal than standing around typing into this phone.

You could justify murder and robbery with this so this isn't a good yardstick of how humans should act.
> there are risks associated with tapping in to these systems

Which is why the intelligence services never do the hacking themselves. Instead, they buy the data off the "dark web", from the hackers whole stole and the information brokers who trade in it. If they have to do that, that is. In the US at least, agencies can just buy data on the open market. Supposedly "anonymized", but I'm pretty sure everyone reading this knows that protection is flimsy.
Son of a gun, this is why I love HN. Thank you! And it turns out the results are shockingly good, far better than I expected. They have demo videos at:

https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/video_re...

My favorite is:

Original: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/videos/w...

Narrowed: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/videos/w...

Widened: https://faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/vidret/results/videos/w...

Just wow.
No one picked up the blood clot issue in the trials. What other long term issues could come up? Being skeptical is rational.

I have a close friend who runs clinical trials for a biotech company. This is her area of expertise. She has had entire trials cancelled when 1 person has died from the drug. So the tact they are taking with AZ and J&J is a lot more lenient than normal. Not that I disagree with it, but understand that there are drugs that have been cancelled for less than what these drugs are exhibiting.
Reid Hoffman has talked about this quite a bit. So if this is a 13 hour season, at $500m, that is about $40M per hour. Big budget movies can be easily over $100M per hour.
I am looking forward to the hopefully near term arrival of an “M2” based iMac. I use an M1 Air and it has been a dream to use, but fundamentally I prefer the power that you can tap from a properly ventilated desktop.
“Active Directory Auth” is a native part of macOS, though there are third party directory services auth mechanisms like Nomad.
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Hola UPC
If the companies involved and US government were confident that speeding development of the vaccines presented no additional risk, they would not have requested and been granted immunity from legal action due to potential issues.
There’s a clear bias in your thinking against the US and for Sweden. Any of the points you bring up could equally apply to both places, but you come out bring the negative against one and the positive against the other.
There's a long way to go and it's not very clear who will prevail. In general in US jurisprudence, "consumer welfare" is the key consideration in antitrust over the last few decades and monopolization and vertical integration are not considered problems unless there is consumer harm due to it. This is different from how antitrust is looked at pretty much anywhere else in the world ( and i personally think its preferable).

This book [1] has been very influential in influencing the approach.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Antitrust_Paradox
For extra fun are novels written in the present tense, and second person. It feels jarring at first, but then I get lost in the flow of the story just as much as I would past tense and third person.
Hola mi gente de la UPC
There are tons of job boards out there. Every flavor imaginable. The main problem is not finding the job listing, it's:

1) the signal to noise ratio both for the employer and for the job seeker

2) the broken and high-cost interview process

3) the uncertainty of how the employee will turn out even if they pass the interview and the uncertainty of how the job will turn out for the employee
Only issue I have is that dotnet does not support m1. The beta of version 6 does but I had several issues with it and dotnet 5 runs slow as hell on rosetta.

Otherwise everything works just fine.
Those look not unlike American social housing on the East Coast (not NYC). I suspect structural concerns outside the building's design (primarily support for the people living in and maintaining them) are an important input.

Edit: Here's an example, Highland Dwellings in DC.

https://images1.apartments.com/i2/ydNxyNvVCntpdglekPc48HV9vv...

https://livingnewdeal.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Highlan...
I had such trouble getting Ubuntu to run in 1920x1080 in my VM, which I found absolutely puzzling, but maybe this is because linux people find 16:9 passé.
Thank you so much for taking a look and letting us know!

Definitely not surprised that there are many security vulnerabilities...

I'm a grad student in computational science working on this as a hobby so building and securing websites is not something I know much about.

But now that someone is actually using it, I will take security more seriously.

Once I have some time I'll open a GitHub issue and compile a list of the security vulnerabilities you listed and will learn how to fix them.

This should be a good learning opportunity!
From what I understand they store it unencrypted on the web, but in the device's keychain when using the Desktop application.
The former, at the time the gitlab repos for the mobile clients were published they contained code newer than what was available in the app stores.