skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, having a phisical version is worth it. Reading your writings in a nicely bound Lulu book should elate you, you might even get a new perspective on your ideas. I am a painter and have lots of little format paintings but never had a show nor seen them on a wall and am not intending anytime soon, Id rather spend that time and energy on actual painting. However, I really want to print my works in Lulu books, on volumes by year or some thematic thing. Choosing and picking is keeping me from actually doing it so am looking to pay someone to do it for me.
The USA is never crossing the finish line. Americans have a huge "denier politics" problem that other Western nations just don't have.
Biden administration commits to waiving vaccine patent protections
Do you understand how irresponsible it is? It might be but it's obvious. How common are prions? How many prions get into the water cycle already? Prions probably don't go through the water cycle's gas phase. Are we worried about seafood? Surely lots of prions end up in oceans and lakes already.

It sounds a bit scary but it's not clear that it would change the risk profile.
>Australia has 9 doses per 100 compared to Canada's ~30.

I'm not sure what you are saying, doses of vaccines?

Number of deaths per capita don't take QoL into account over the period you analyze and the response's effect in the future.
As a Canadian, I always liked our socialist heath-care system but after living through COVID my opinion has completely changed. I live in Toronto and we've been under a lockdown since March 2020! The lockdown was only slightly relaxed in the summer of 2020 for a couple months. Other than that, it's been a continuous lockdown. The health-care system has been lagging way behind the US and it's not close. I personally know people from Toronto who are in Florida right now waiting out the 3 weeks between their 1st and 2nd vaccine dose. Here only people 40+ are eligible for their 1st dose now and can't get their 2nd until August!
Funny how people don't like your comment. It terrifies me too. I assumed I was in a free country, and it had all gone so bad so quickly. Thus wanting to get into a different country that hopefully has stronger notions of personal freedom..
The font used in the IP address almost looks like something generated as an overlay by VLC or ffmpeg.
I think they were supposed to fire all three engines and turn one (or two?) off if they all start fine, but in the video it looks like only two engines started. Not sure if that was intended, or if one of the engines failed to light.
What you're bringing up now is a general engineering safety concern that applies to any product at all. You should be equally scared of your car's airbag and other safety systems. This is a straw man in this context, and has nothing to do with the payment plan. Because the designers are making a safety product, unless there is evidence otherwise, I would speculate/assume that they have thought about whether it's possible to indicate protection and then not provide it. But, no engineered product is 100% safe, I'm not under any misconceptions about that.
A question for those in the know: since the landing payload is much lighter, wouldn’t it be possible to use SuperDraco engines (the ones used for emergency escape in the Dragon) attached to the outside to prevent RUD in case the main engines don’t light up?
> Surprising that there aren't any at all in canada.

Countries like the US and UK have banned export of the vaccine, but also of the needed materials.
It's a weird statement to make, because the route of I5 is fairly arbitrary, geologically speaking. Lower parts of downtown Seattle may be at risk, but is upper Queen Anne hill? Ballard may be partially screwed, but Crown Hill is hundreds of feet higher in elevation. That assumes that Puget Sound even generates a large Tsunami based on an offshore quake.

If we're talking about Oregon it gets even weirder since the population centers have a coastal range in between them and seawater. I don't know enough about the various fields involved to know if the Columbia river's level would raise catastrophically in such a scenario.
That impression is incorrect. SpaceX raised ~$2B in August and ~$1B in February [1]. The company is very cashflow negative (operationally), as growing companies typically are.

[1] https://spacenews.com/spacex-adds-to-latest-funding-round/
Chunked-transfer decoding from stdin yy045
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.6.1

flex -8iCrfa <<eof
xa \15|\12
xb \15\12
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^[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xa}
{xa}+[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xa}
{xb}[A-Fa-f0-9]+{xb}
%%
int main(){ yylex();}
int yywrap(){}
eof
exec cc -pipe -static lex.yy.c -o ctd
As a former hiring manager, I would always look for some prior project experience: problem, design, standards, build, test, demonstrate. Kids coming out of school have project experience. Pick a problem to solve, then work it to completion. You will have plenty to talk about after that.
Open Source AI/ML Data Annotation
The author hedged pretty strongly on that statement here: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-to-s...

> 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
For myself, because I have raised children of my own. I have 5 kids, 2 boys and 3 girls. At 2 years old, kids do not give a flying fuck about social norms. They just want to play. And from the earliest ages you see children playing differently based on gender. You give a small child the choice between a doll and a stick, you can guess which will be picked by gender and be right most of the time. Give your daughter a dump truck and she will turn it into a stroller. Give your son a doll and he will be wrestling with it.
The range was from 500k to 1.2 million if elimination failed, at least in the early estimates I saw. Early in the pandemic, we were woefully underprepared with care - you can see how the death proportion has changed with time.

If we had let the pandemic spread in normal course early on, I suspect we would have seen many more deaths.

I think it is way too easy to look back and say that we had as many deaths as we would have had doing nothing.
What does the socialist healthcare system have to do with government-planned vaccine rollout? If you had a capitalist healthcare system like the US, that would not give you a better vaccine rollout.
sigh another thread I show up to next day and I got downvoted through the floor for a simple straightforward polite though. As someone using Flutter to great effect daily, without much chance to discuss it with other engineers, I'm really interested in this discussion, but I'm also really worried I can't have it here, I'm guessing it leaves people feeling like I'm attacking the open web or something

That's going to apply _again_ here: I really cannot visualize what you mean, beyond the comparison to Electron, which you nail. Flutter is "electron done right" for people like me building cross platform apps, it's a cross platform rendering engine, not a browser engine.

Presumably, this is immensely frustrating in your experience, but I really can't name a web app that uses Flutter - Flutter Web apps are/should be distributed like Electron apps. What's the Flutter Web app that frustrated you, I'm intensely curious, I didn't know people were trying to attempt that..
With the vast majority of people who died in first world counties already being close to deaths door I don't think that's a good stat maybe something more like total estimated years of life lost.
Forget foldable iPhones. I want a 3-D holographic phone that doesn’t even really exist physically.
more $ for spammers and scammers impersonating elon musk or spacex. Scammers have made tens of millions of dollars from elon musk and crpyto scams since 2018..$30k a day easily per scammer. He is the greatest gift to scammers ever. Selling phony pills or casinos is a bigger industry but margins much thinner and more overhead.
Diablo 2 is as good as I remember it when I was younger.
As for D4 I have no idea but they seem to flail around and rely on community feedback too much which is a worrying sign for me.
The FFXIV global cooldown is a bit weird in that it feels super slow until about lv50, where suddenly it doesn't feel slow enough. It's not the same for every class but using non-GCD abilities in between the cooldown becomes the primary rotation and it's _super_ challenging. I've been playing a lot of the Samurai class lately and the rotation is way more fun than I originally expected.
Russia's exporting theirs: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1123927/sputnik-v-export...

China's also exporting their sinovac vaccine
I am no expert on these things but I think the starship has no tanks or system for the different, hypergolic fuels used for the superdraco and similar type of thrusters.

"SuperDraco engines use a storable propellant mixture of monomethylhydrazine fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide oxidizer"
> The other canonical example of OO - "Shapes" - doesn't actually work well at all; It doesn't work better with "plain data", but it exposes the fallacies of trying to use OO inheritance to model the real world.

Shapes work well, but people do the wrong things with them, as you state...

> Every square is a rectangle, so square should inherit from rectangle ... but, you can't stretch width and height independently in a square, so it's not really a rectangle, etc. etc.

A square is a just a rectangle where the length and width happen to be the same size and shouldn't be its own class. Books and websites teaching inheritance should stop trying to use it as an example.
That's smart. Pharma production is a strategic asset. Would be unthinkable to have the US aerospace industry outsourced to foreign countries for instance. Is there a different perception in Canada?
Which is where the whole politicizing the pandemic comes into place. Canada's vaccine roll out has been complete garbage. Which is mostly because we didn't make our own vaccine (didn't have facilities) and are relying on other countries to give it to us.

India was able to make their own vaccine and so far vaccinated 158M single and 29.1M fully. US 248M and 106M fully. Yet Canada wasn't able to make their own and so far only 14M single and 1M fully.
Smart contract network with transaction finalization in under 1 second
How does clothing harm a child? What fear response is produced from putting clothes on a child? I mentioned unnatural in the sense that restricting your breathing creates an appropriate innate fear response because it indicates death might imminent just like pain. Now, explain to me how you make a 2 year old understand why you're partially smothering them for a virus that has extremely low chances of doing ANY damage to them. That IS psychological abuse imo.
Not just Canadians, I know several Mexicans who have gone to the US to be vaccinated too. Obviously the trip is prohibitively expensive for most Mexicans, but middle class Mexicans can probably afford it. (I'm patiently waiting my turn here in Mexico City, though.)
Same mistake the EU made. Very little understanding of what they're actually getting.
Not only are you 100% correct, but anyone thinking otherwise has the luxury of not being born poor or a minority based on how deaths are working out in first world countries.
I'm pretty sure these intersections are often coincidence. There are enough myths across enough cultures that you're bound to find some with similarities to real events. For example: if the story of Sodom and Gomorrah had been a Klamath myth instead of a Hebrew myth, people would claim that it was from the eruption of Crater Lake. The same goes for pretty much any prehistoric flood.[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_myth
Interestingly, the video feed gets corrupted around 11th minute, and neither YouTube under Linux/Firefox, nor VLC, nor mpv can play it: the picture freezes, and error diagnostics are printed.

Youtube player under Windows / Firefox does play it through, forcing its way past some garbage frames with noise and rainbow artifacts.
I recently learnt about `samp`, which turned out to be ancient: https://html.com/tags/samp/
Based on hesitancy data [1], you’re right, but the damage is going to be constrained to those who won’t get the vaccine and a smaller group of those who would’ve avoided harm from herd immunity. The problem is the finish line (here immunity to protect the vulnerable and to act as a firebreak) doesn’t matter to those who have a lower risk and opt to not get the vaccine.

At least our extra doses will go to those who want it in countries we export to. Make the best of goodwill and soft power I suppose.

[1] https://data.cdc.gov/stories/s/Vaccine-Hesitancy-for-COVID-1...
Fifth out of 37 OECD member countries in terms of the percentage of the population vaccinated to date. [1, 2] I don't think either of these metrics is perfect, the ideal metric is what percentage of the old, sick, etc - the vulnerable folks - have been vaccinated.

Point of interest, one thing 4 of the 5 OECD member states above Canada have in common is that they manufacture the vaccine at home.

Considering Canada does not manufacture ([edit] COVID) vaccines, I'd say that Canada is doing very well - top quintile of the OECD pack. Could be better, could be worse.

[edit] I'm actually surprised how close Canada's vaccination rate is to the US - 35% vs 45%. Given all the critical press, I'd assume the discrepancy was much larger.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations

[2] https://imgur.com/a/XlL2J12
> is being used as an extra excuse for putting restrictions on what we can do

How's the population dealing with these random arbitrary checkpoints and curfews? Are those popular measures?
These people never run into a real world scenario. I did and putting the pieces together is a frustrating experience which you never know if you will ever succeed. Eventually more generations will run into this and find a common path for these scenarios
>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.

Remove choice from business owners & watch effected industries move elsewhere (texas, flordia).

>"Individual people aren't stupid and they're not going to keep going out and consuming while a deadly pandemic is raging."

Covid is 'deadly' to the overweight & immunocompromised.
Afaik, the UK does not have an export ban [0] I would be interested for a source if that has changed.

[0] https://www.politico.eu/article/why-the-uk-doesnt-need-a-cor...
Note that Washington deployed the ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system just yesterday--here's how to enable it on your phone: https://mil.wa.gov/alerts
That's correct, but Russia's vaccine isn't approved in most countries as every batch so far has had very unreliable QC with significantly different results.

As I said, those are exceptions, the vast majority has no option other than to wait for the US to slowly start exporting, or use the european sources.
oh it's fair, but extremely frustrating to lose after 60 seconds of overtime
Pretty sure we would even be willing to come down to pick them up ourselves for transport!
Estimates for average life lost per covid death is around ~15 years. Sure, it killed plenty of old people, but it also killed plenty of middle aged/older middle aged people that had plenty of time left.

But I'll cede to you that YLL is also a good metric. When comparing two developed nations like Canada and US, most of the difference there will probably be explained by per capita deaths though.
They are also funding StarLink + the moon landing program. Better to pile cheap money up while investors are knocking at their doors.
I thought you were talking about the US in the first paragraph. In truth, there haven't been strong enough enforcement measures in Canada, that's why we're having such a bad third wave right now.

In Alberta, which has the highest case rates in Canada, there have been less than 2 tickets issued per day for violating the restrictions. Until yesterday at least, if you went out you would see people all over the place without masks, hanging out with their friends on patios, having parties, etc.

You say you've been vaccinated for over a month, but we haven't had that privilege. So instead, we have to rely on safety measures like avoiding big gatherings and unsafe behaviour.
Modern machine-learning/deep-learning takes a bunch of data and uses high-dimension, more-or-less brute-force methods to approximate that data with a curve. It works good often (seldom works "great" 'cause the data can't fully capture the situation).

The appealing thing about this is the programmer doesn't have to understand anything. If you have little data, approximation just isn't going to capture the situation. Either the programmer gets an understanding of the system (extremely costs and time-consuming) or we create systems that are themselves capable of this understanding. But no one knows how to do this, all the "artificial intelligence" victories anyone has observed have come from throwing computing power at a problem. Maybe someone will figure out how to throw computing power at the general problem of understanding but I'm doubtful.
Reportedly they turned down many more investors than they accepted in the recent funding round, because they wanted a great proportion of the shares available vs. the funds that were offered. They could have raised way more than $2B + $1B if they'd been willing to go for further dilution.

Musk has been quite open about how starlink will need to go through a deep trough of low revenues and high expenses, before it can become self sustaining from the monthly subscription revenue of millions of customers.
If a tornado comes through town and hits my house and doesn't hit yours, it doesn't mean your preparation is what saved you. Canada did nothing exceptional or faster in the 1st quarter of 2020 that would merit such a pat on the back.
Yep, it looks like VLC.
employees work from offices about three days a week, and two days “wherever they work best,"
I really like this idea. It give you the benefits of working from home some times while still having in-office meetings and opportunities to work closely with other employees in person when necessary which I think is important
If you don't have a good metric to measure something with, relying on a bad one is arguably harmful as it gives a false sense of authority/trust.

The metric can still be used in extensive studies (that take nuance into account), but using it as a metric on its own is fallacious imo.
what exactly is his part in Twitter scams other than promoting crypto itself?
Better objective is just to keep testing and tweaking until the main engines do reliably light up

Also, for landing the engines need to be steerable which I think the emergency Superdraco ones aren't.
Pretty much half a year later than originally agreed. Considering this 6 month delay in vaccine availability, it's incredible how well most countries held up.
> Point of interest, one thing 4 of the 5 OECD member states above Canada have in common is that they manufacture the vaccine at home.

That's smart. Why did the current administration decide not to do it in Canada?
This describes me. I was playing WoW Classic with a close friend and regular WoW with a guild doing scheduled raids. Basically the day it all went down I disabled my account and uninstalled the bliz client. It was so weirdly easy to let go of it for some reason.
Trees may work together to form resource-sharing networks with root grafts
They're taking over what belgium was shipping us, but not increasing the amount. So its not exactly team usa here to save the day.
> - MOBA (HotS has been discontinued)

Development has certainly slowed down but it's still alive with new content, Hero reworks and balance patches.

https://heroespatchnotes.com/patch/summary.html
No. A judge and the police sent a man to jail. The match software is a tool and the process needs humans to be more careful about trusting it with grainy photos.
Fried Chicken craze is causing US to run low on poultry
The quality of the response has greatly varied state by state. Each has/had their own set of restrictions and reopening phase timelines.

California based their lockdown level on ICU capacity per region of the state dictating which businesses could remain open. There was a lot of (warranted) criticism on the specifics because officials seemed to based the list off of necessity rather than potential for harm, which potentially led to the unnecessary killing of many small, locally owned businesses. It didn’t help that we had a few elected officials skirting lockdown regulations by dining out with a large group and going to a high end salon when these things were not allowed at the time.

The first half of the vaccine rollout was rocky. When the first group (medical professionals and 75+ only) had their turn, There were clinics with vaccine that needed to be used because appointments slowed down quickly. It took them weeks to move onto the next group which included people with high risk medical conditions, front line workers, and 65+. The list of qualifying medical conditions was laughably incomplete, e.g. you didn't technically qualify if you just had severe asthma in many counties. Many clinics stopped asking for proof of a qualifying medical condition and let people “self certify.”

I probably only see the bad having to live with consequences of others’ hasty decisions in California but we may have redeemed ourselves, in a small way, in the second half of this vaccine rollout by being able to provide vaccines to anyone over 16 earlier than the goal set by the Biden administration.

From the onset of the pandemic, I don’t think it was massively unreasonable to let states make their own rules but the federal government utterly failed to adequately support people and small businesses. To qualify for the stimulus check, you had to made under the limit according to your 2019 (or 2018 if you did not file yet) tax return. Last time I checked, the pandemic hit us in March of 2020 - so why was this determined by earnings a year earlier? There is a certain set of people in power that will fight to the nail to make sure that nobody receives a benefit if there is even the smallest sliver of a chance that they may not be deserve it, which is an absurdly nonsensical and short-sighted approach to take in the wake of a global pandemic.
They actually did it. Lot of work left, but this is the big fence to jump over. The bellyflop and landing is no longer a theory or a hope, it works, with real hardware, in the real world. Rocket go up, rocket come down, rocket still standing. What a thing to see.
I wrote down "Survey of tiered compilation in JIT implementations" when I researched this: https://github.com/sanxiyn/blog/blob/master/posts/2020-01-03...
They won't say it publicly but I'm guessing the real strategy at this point is keep restriction going through the summer and they have worked out a deals with the US where they (and Mexico probably) will get first dibs on all the US's extra stockpile.
This article indicates the US is exporting vaccines: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Doses of vaccine, yes.

I'm curious, what QoL increase makes up for 400k additional deaths over Canada's number?