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>During the pandemic we kept hearing that collectivist cultures and socialized medicine would have the upper-hand.

You would think that the contrary would be true. If your health system is overloaded, it being socialized cannot make it better at first glance. Access isn't the issue, availability is (and this is what is seen in Canada right now).

Although I agree collectivist cultures probably have the upper-hand (e.g. China was able to enforce pretty stringent measures and pool resources to build hospitals).
With America pumping out 4 million doses a day... Canada can be inoculated in a single week. Expect to see that gap crumble over the next two months and with lower vaccine hesitancy... Canada will likely cross the finish line before America.
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> it is already in a columnar like format and highly optimized for the use case

I mean it has more complex data structures (FST) than just columnar, but yeah for doc values and such I agree, that is exactly why I'm curious if Arrow is targeting that usecase, and will be competitively "highly optimized".

> and won't see any benefit from changing on disk formats.

I'm less interested in Lucene actually migrating to Arrow (although if it reduces tech-debt they should look into it), I'm most interested in if Arrow will help future Lucene-like libraries get implemented with competitive performance.

Also since Arrow version=X is cross-language compatible, it would be amazing to be able to create "Lucene" indexes (or segments) in Java (perhaps for legacy reasons), then use Rust or Go to query the data.
Its not that high, because its designed from the beginning to be produced in the 100s per year. Its probably being produced faster almost every other rocket engine (outside of SpaceX own) and maybe some much simpler engines from Russia or China.

They are producing SN100ish by now. A while ago they said 2 million $, already cheap for such an engine. Target is more like 200k$.

So likely its between 1-2M. That would make it only about 6M per flight based on the engine.
it's not like there is one manufacturer. the vaccine manufacturers contract out to a bunch of small contract chemists to get it done. Surprising that there aren't any at all in canada.
Short answer: import constraints.

Canada, like many countries, does not have the capacity to manufacture vaccines at scale. Our vaccine supply comes from over seas. Up to now the United States has not allowed vaccines to be exported to other countries so most of them come from Europe.
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Sounds like that's a nice route to forcibly obsolete this well before the end of its usable life by turning off the API servers and saying "it's for your own safety... We have a better newer device now available for only $800 (plus subscription)".

Also a nice single point of failure if you can hijack their DNS and deny every activation request (!)
Its design was specifically intended to avoid the extra code involved in dispatching.

There are also some other goodies in there like aliasing that I enjoy.
Fire and a few pops/pings/small explosions in the engine area, but didn't appear to destabilize the rocket, which is a good sign.
A few months ago, the Canadian government chose to prioritize first doses first. I know the BC government changed their vaccination schedule after this announcement such that everyone should be able to get their first dose by June or July. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360556
> The removal was a huge API breakage and even broke security sensitive software, like Tor, for countless deployed systems.

Honestly, I'd say that is on them. It has been discouraged to use it since basically forever (it has been noted in all-caps in the manpage since at least 2001), the kernel started complaining about its usage since Linux 2.6.24 which was released in January 2008, and it finally disappeared in Linux 5.5, released in January 2020. That's a two-decade deprecation period.
Exactly, but I'm referring to a specific phenomenon I've seen, where people have this (to me) flawed idea that if we reduce societal influence, we will end up with industries that are naturally 50/50 men to women. e.g. if you stop telling men to be engineers and women to be teachers, you'll end up with 50/50 engineering and teaching.

I'm suggesting that the opposite is true, because when you remove societal influence you end up lending more and more weight to the intrinsic characteristics, of which I would argue sex/gender is the strongest.
At least everyone is equally unvaccinated.
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Golden Eye was the basis of FPS on the console, after which Perfect Dark and Time Splitters followed.

What came later was Halo and its 2-concurrent-weapon + auto-healing formula that was more forgiving and modern-arcadey that redefined (but did not invent) console FPSes. It may have also introduced the dual-analog control style for FPSes on consoles that have since taken over.
They’re not trying to go fast. They’re trying to get to the target altitude to test the flip. No need to rush or overshoot.

In “production” it will be atop the booster, so taking off like this from sea level isn’t part of the plan.
You've missed the point of a shotgun - DPS is irrelevant, it's how fast I can get you to 0 before you can get me to 0. And shotgun wins there, at least up close.
> another point got an empty laptop box with an empty airpods box sent to me.

maybe this is some kind of keep alive. we don't have any parts for you yet, just checking in with you at the shipping-empty-boxes layer
Paywalled, though a 13m fine for leaking over seven years on the world's most expensive secret program seems... light.
Well, one of the aims of the Raptor project is good/cheap manufacturability of engines. They do plan to produce them in massive series.

The really costly phase is probably already done - the design work and early experiments.
and the :invalid css option (I like to just make the bottom border red, dashed)
SN10 blew up from the post-landing fire, because it landed hard, collapsing the landing legs, skirt and damaging/destroying the engine bells and more stuff around them - possibly the thrust bulkhead and bottom of methane tank, leading to significant leaks and eventual explosion. SN15 seems to have landed intact on fully extended landing legs, so the hardware inside the skirt likely survived, and whatever caused the fire was a (relatively) minor leak and not catastrophic.
That is true, in regards to assertions versus axioms, most people here are familiar with axioms, but in metaphysics everything is an assertion since not everyone agrees (or you have to define subsets of individuals who agree on a set of assertions which become axioms for those groups).

E.g.

Some assert there is free will (by definition, can’t be proven).

Some assert there is no free will (by definition, can’t be proven).
If this was as easy as you say Disney and other major media companies wouldn't have failed miserably at entering the gaming space.

It's like thinking if you have $100 Million and the right production schedule, crew, actors, and producers in place and they work really hard you'll have a major hollywood blockbuster!

Creative arts don't work like that.
The previous government scrapped and shutdown all domestic vaccine manufacturing. Hard to get it all up and running again on short notice.

Also, we stopped giving out second doses to prioritize first doses. So that stat will definitely look horrible. But... we're still very low on first doses, only about 33%. :(
The 3% statistic is fairly misleading. Canada has adopted the one-dose first regiment just like the UK. Which means that there is a 4 month difference between 1st and 2nd shot. The rationale was that it would overall save more lives as 1 dose is ~80% effective at preventing hospitalizations/deaths compared to ~95% for two doses. So you vaccinate double the number of people with one dose rather than half the amount with both doses and you save more lives. This was a strategic decision as Canada does not have the vaccination production, unlike the US which has prevented exporting of vaccines.

In Ontario we have 42.5% of all adults with 1 dose. In Ontario we expect ~80% of the population to have 1 dose by June 20th[1]. Which I believe is a really promising statistic, and based on current vaccination trajectory we will meet that date. The 4 month dose stretch is expected to be shrunk to a lot lower once supply has increased sufficiently and most people have 1 dose.

The increasing restrictions was unfortunate but very necessary. In Ontario at least hospitalizations and ICU capacity was getting out of hand at a faster pace than Ontario has seen throughout the pandemic. These numbers spiked in part because the lack of vaccine supply in the early days of vaccinations. Our importing of vaccines was incredibly slow at the beginning of the pandemic, mostly because we had to import from other nations which are already scrounging for vaccines. Now the pace has stepped up dramatically, based on our current jabs in arms per capita we are ~42 days behind USA[2]. Which is not that bad considering Canada has no vaccine production capacity. Excluding micronations we are ranked ~16th in the world.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/7679338/ontario-coronavirus-phase...
[2] https://www.howfarbehindiscanada.com/
Canada's bureaucrats & credentialled-positions are too far removed from competition / market pressure.

The decisions & results reflect this.
One does not need 2-3x average power production over average demand. With some combination of transmission, batteries, and (importantly) hydrogen storage, the overcapacity and curtailment needed can be quite modest.
The organization may not care, but for them it is free.
Australia has 9 doses per 100 compared to Canada's ~30. Based on your metric, Australia would be a failure.

Australia was a clear success case.

Number of deaths per capita should absolutely be the primary metric we are using to judge pandemic success.
That is a good point at-least for western powers the more socialist the country the less "weight" it possesses.
Semi-related, but is GitHub's search by programming language feature broken on this repo?

I'm curious about "FreeMarker" being the top language so I clicked on it, surprisingly it returns zero code: https://github.com/timvisee/send/search?l=freemarker

So does "javascript": https://github.com/timvisee/send/search?l=javascript
I'd understand your point IF you were renting the vest for a limited time. But you are actually buying a product for which if you don't pay the subscription won't work. So if they want to keep this line of business the vests should be rented, not sold.
>national health agency failure in planning?

>supply chain constraints?

Those two mainly. We don't have the supply to vaccinate efficiently and the health agency has had poor reaction to the virus and poor planning in the past for these kinds of events.
I scaled it back for less pathos, but tell me this: if there weren't vaccines we would not be completely screwed?

We absolutely had no effective backup plan, but also weren't completely honest about relying so heavily on vaccines.

(Now again vaccines are great, so that's not the worst plan, but what I'm getting it was it wasn't really the plan at all. We were screwing up by the measure of our own goals rather than intentionally waiting for the big bailout.)

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Also East Asia is mopping the floor. There's truly very little good to say about EU let alone US in comparison.
It depends on whether you only get your info from MSM or get info from new media. From the latter I've seen a lot of stories about the police acting gestapo like with arrests for non-masking, gatherings etc. So, my view is certainly not positive when it comes to Canada but I'm sure you're correct when it comes to the average citizen.
For reference: https://howfarbehindiscanada.com/

Canada was hovering around 35-40th in the world for doses administered per capita until the USA "loaned" us 1.5M doses of AZ; now we're steady around 15th place, but well behind countries like the USA and UK.
Another Canadian here, planning on moving to Florida or Texas in the future. Severely disappointed and the "police can stop and question at random" by Doug Ford along with the curfew in Quebec is what's breaking the camel's back for me.

Main problem here is that instead of building temporary hospitals to boost the hospital capacity like US did last year, we have simply kept locking down which is equivalent to throwing the problem under a rug. It's been a year and even though they were talking about it last year, only as of couple weeks ago, they are planning on using temporary field hospital in the coming weeks. Why wasn't it used for a year to boost the capacity? Also the 2 temporary hospitals in Ontario have only 73 and 84 beds. That's tiny.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-says-a-covid-19-field-hos...

Then the whole nursing home debacle where the military audit showed reprehensible conditions and caused vast majority of the nursing home deaths:

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/gut-wrenching-military-report-she...
I must be getting old. I don't get why everyone's so obsessed with new content or the lack thereof. Overwatch is already huge compared to older FPSes, adding more characters actively makes the game even harder to balance. New maps are incredibly hard to get right (Paris, HLC, Havana...).
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What makes you think all that data is going to be relevant? One of the points of fragility of deep learning systems is that the data they're trained on only represents the past and the conditions of the present can change.

I mean, there are a few situations that can stay pretty constant but just think when a bunch of AI system are established, all thinking the world won't change, then a cascade of causes changes and the systems no longer working becomes part of that. Of course, we already saw fragility of modern systems with Covid, so let's add even more!
> Protective devices need 100% uptime.

The manual for the same companies skiing airbag points out that if the GPS drops out, the airbag is disabled. [0] That should pretty clearly indicate how well they take safety.

[0] https://www.inemotion.com/myinemotion/documents/ski/2017.use... (Page 16)
I don’t think it’s the tool itself, rather the technique. I used SRS to learn kanji and it was nothing short of miraculous. I also used it to study extremely efficiently for well-defined examinations (e.g. proficiency exams for some basic college courses).

However, I’ve also tried SRS on other subjects with less success. One challenge is that in many knowledge domains, it’s not entirely clear what is worth remembering. Sure, you can purge cards that turn out to be unimportant, but the process of creating the cards in the first place can be awfully time-consuming so it starts to feel less efficient.
There are plenty of adults in the room willing to discuss tradeoffs. But you need numbers, and many of the people who don't like lockdowns prefer to make nebulous references to tradeoffs rather than discussing direct harm.

There's extensive evidence suggesting that many of the economic effects of the early pandemic were entirely independent of whether a choice was made to lockdown. Individual people aren't stupid and they're not going to keep going out and consuming while a deadly pandemic is raging.
They don't want to go to high or to fast. So they start out pretty heavy and as the fuel is consumed they turn of engines in order keep the TWR the same.

They don't want to test supersonic flight profiles with this vehicle.

This flight profile is not at all optimized for fuel use.
Your strong language and hyperbole isn't convincing me there's something wrong. What is the safety risk, exactly? Can you elaborate on specifically what is unreliable or why this is awful? The vest will clearly indicate the lack of protection before a ride, just like a car or computer or any reliable safety system. What is the alternative that this product should be doing that would make it safer?

Isn't there a much higher safety risk of using safety products as a user, and not reading or trusting the documentation?
Looking at Reddit, more people had the same issue. I would guess the true culprit is caching.
Lusophone diplomats in bid to popularise Portuguese language in Africa
Yes, but 100km isn't very valuable as compared to 10km. Pressure is already low at 10km.
Hey Marko, thank you for this resource! As somebody who is teaching themselves full-stack development, it's easy to miss out on learning tips and tricks like these. This is very useful. I'm going to link to your webpage in the first ever item on my new TIL page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27017604).
I don't feel like these envoys are coming out clearly on exactly what they think they will achieve by growing the number of Portuguese speakers, may be more influence in Africa and the world?
Isn't canada third per capita of G8 countries in terms of vaccine?

Canada is roughly in the same situation as every wealthy country that isn't usa, uk or israel (excluding tiny countries).
There's two objections that remain: It's impossible to rotate the key without recompiling the binary (and every recompile is an opportunity to add bugs, though a good compile environment minimizes it), and that it's easy to mess up the encryption - Are you using a PKCS12 file format with DES? That's trivially crackable (to the point that most modern libraries recommend using a builtin password). And even if you've got the encryption part right, you're left with the password distribution problem, which is exactly the same problem; You've got a small (12 characters or 4k, not a lot by modern standards) bit of sensitive data that needs to be distributed to the app at startup.
Agreed, but it would be kind of cool to have an Apollo-style program for real AGI. I would feel pretty comfortable placing a bet that with (essentially) unlimited funding and the resources of the US govt, a 2030 goal for real deal AGI is possible. Like, if it’s possible at all with anything remotely within our current technology set, we’ll know by 2030.

Too bad we (as a country and somewhat as a species) don’t really do ‘big’ things anymore.
I guess they might be downvoted because of “lame” which is now considered ableist.
Each Raptor engine cannot throttle down below about 40% of its maximum thrust [0], so they must completely shut down some of the engines in order to achieve the lower required thrust for hovering or landing.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1295553672454311941
This is true, but the right to inspect software has meaning even if it isn't used. It can be used by other people besides the proverbial "average Joe", and non-techs can ask tech friends about software. Every technical person also started out as a non-technical child.

This is also a baseline, not the endgame. Software freedom is a necessary but insufficient condition for user freedom. I wrote about other conditions as well. HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25982860
It's certainly not the only measure. But I'd argue it's one of the best I have available. (Wishing we had metrics or data which we don't actually have doesn't count for much)
They need to paint Bezos' face on the side of it and launch it again!
> WC3 remastered flopped

Was really looking forward to playing Helm's Deep on Bnet like good ol times but alas
The landing was really smooth this time. Very graceful. It seems some progress is being done.
Don't forget their secure boot measures on the onboard microcontroller, to stop malware or a rogue Bluetooth device doing an OTA DFU update to swap around the GPIO pins to indicate "activated" and not actually arm the system...

Some kinds of devices just shouldn't be connected - they should be sold and bought as-is, and function independently of outside factors, as they are safety devices.
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My partner had a subscription I do not remember her having any issues cancelling it.

We are in Australia.
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Wow! That's what I was looking for. Thanks!
As an American, here are my thoughts.

From as early as February or March 2020, I had always felt they told us what we needed to know - about 600k people would die of covid-19 in the US. I thought maybe if we did some things we could get that number down, but we failed in that respect. We pretty much had as many deaths as we would have doing nothing.

on a per capita basis, canada did a lot better (600 deaths / mil vs 1800, 32k cases / mil pop vs 94k). +2 Canada, although there are some circumstances that I will get to later.

our deaths per case is about the same, although NYC and NJ skews our numbers. call it a tie.

vaccines, US is a clear winner. +1 US

Freedom wise, its a mixed bag. States like NYC and California did all sorts of lockdown shenanigan's that all failed, where as states like Florida stayed mostly open and did better than the national average case/death wise. I can't really speak to what Canada has done, I'll let you fill this one in.

So in the end, Canda 2: US: 1 + 1 ? going to who wins on freedom. However, the US did have some circumstances that canada did not have.

Latin and South America have been ravaged by cv19, and approximately 1-2 million walk across the border / year illegally. I really don't care if that is 'wrong vs right'. Its important to consider when thinking how the virus is going to play out, and its no surprise that areas with high immigration from those areas did the worst.

Its also why relying on herd immunity here will also never work. Unless we vaccinate Latin and South America (I'm in favor of that), we are going to have plenty of exposure to the virus.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Already shipping to Mexico, about to start shipping to Canada.
"At the extreme, enforcing a stay-at-home order would make this number 0" I don't think this is true.
Man I'm going of this planet :)
> 3. We did not pay producers through the nose like UK or Israel did which affected our place in the queue.

This is obviously a huge mistake when the vaccines basically pay for themselves.
I think that article is best paired with this followup: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-s...

in particular this hedge:

> Perhaps no line in the entire six-thousand-word piece attracted as much attention as this declaration by Kenneth Murphy, head of the fema division responsible for Cascadia: “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.” The first important thing to note about that remark is that, needless to say, Murphy really said it, and stood by it in the fact-checking process—so, clearly, fema is anticipating that the region will be in very grave shape.

> That said, “toast” is not what you would call a precise description, so let me be more specific. What Murphy did not mean is that everyone west of I-5 will be injured or killed; fema’s casualty figures, while horrifying, amount to under one-half of one per cent of the population of the region. Nor did he mean that every structure west of the interstate will fail