skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only citation you ever provided was to a Russia study, paid for by the Russia government.

I also linked to phase-III studies carried out for Sinovac and Sinopharm (both conducted by institutions outside China), as well as a real-world study on the effectiveness of the Sinovac vaccine carried out by the Chilean Health Ministry.

> What it isn't meant to do is stand by itself, and in the case of Russian and Chinese vaccines third parties are left to scramble to determine efficacy because, again, raw patient data isn't released and gov-run studies are not to be trusted, ever.

I'm really puzzled. I've pointed out over and over again that the phase-III trials of the various Chinese vaccines were carried out outside of China, by institutions that have nothing to do with the Chinese government. Yet you keep saying that the Chinese government ran these studies and refuses to release the data. Am I not writing English?

> I'm not going to spend any more time trying to figure out why you are arguing against open and transparent vaccine development and in favor of dictatorships hiding/obscuring and lying about their products.

I'm pointing out that you don't understand how the trials were conducted. I haven't argued against transparent vaccine development. I've tried to explain to you that your belief that the vaccines we're discussing were not transparently developed is provably wrong. Just open up the papers I've linked and take note of which institutes carried out the Sinovac and Sinopharm studies, and where those institutes are located. That's already enough to show that your claims that the Chinese government won't release trial data make no sense.
The author says she had a similar experience as a student—it was when shopping for her son more recently that she encountered all this!

> A $150 bar cart that can be a “side table or a study area.” (The top of my ugly rental fridge was my bar cart.)
> How long will that situation last though

Probably until at least 2022 because the shortage of GPUs isn't solely because of crypto. Until we generally get back on track tricking sand to think we're not going to be able to saturate demand.

> Will Intel have a CPU+GPU combo product for laptops?

What? Obviously the answer is yes, how could it possibly be no? CPU+GPU combo is the only GPU related segment where Intel currently has a product.
You might be giving too much credit to your ability to pay attention to your surroundings. It is possible that looking around as a passenger might actually increases risk. There's no way to tell other than looking at the data.

Personally, I tend to turn off things like lane keeping because I end up having to babysit them more than I would like. It doesn't always read the lanes correctly, though I have not tried Tesla's technology yet.
If you have access to an extended leave program try and take advantage. FMLA in the USA allows for 90 days of leave, my last employers disability insurance paid 80% of salary during leave. I expect there is something similar in the UK. All it took was a letter from a doctor, most of the people taking leave had stress related issues. The letters were primarily from psychologists. Several people submitted their notice in the last few weeks of leave.
Watching the video in the article is better than the article! ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fnfeuoh4s8
dude.. me too.. imaging the rainbow boot disk. Or was it color? now I have to check :P
2 years ago I would agree with you 100%. Lately though conspiracy theories become conspiracy facts with alarming frequency. And the speed with which media reaches "We've always been at war with Eastasia" zeitgeist on each shift does not inspire confidence.
No it shouldn't.
> The negativity in this thread is extremely distasteful. :/

Is it? Product launch threads on HN tend to be rife with questions along the lines of "how is this better than existing products?" or "how do you justify the cost over other alternatives?" In some threads those questions are stated a little more… plainly than in other threads, yes, but when someone starts a thread about a product with a subscription model (already not a popular prospect on HN) in a space where there are already a dozen decent alternatives for free, of course there's going to be some balking and questioning along those lines.

At any rate, people post product threads on HN because they think HN's technical audience in particular will be interested in their product - and ultimately in paying for it in one way or another. In that sense we're kind of doing them a disservice if we just blindly cheerlead their product and don't provide any feedback as to why it actually might not be hitting the mark with this audience.
The old overly specific denial. Never did sell the data, but collected and stored it just in case you ever changed your mind about that.
Okay, I'll bite. What didn't you like about i3 and/or what does Sway do better?
i don't know about "all software" but definitely the majority of stuff people use these days. definitely anything capable of communicating via internet should be viewed as critical.
There is only one thing you have a limited amount of: time.

Money is time, converted at some rate.

This is true whether you're poor or rich.
You are able to play with multiple players controlling one team (Archon mode in SC2 I think). I've used it once or twice for coaching and it works pretty well.

In a team game you can gift units to allies so if one ally gets knocked out but the game isn't over then you'll often find them being given units to rebuild with.
The Afghanistan occupation and the Japan occupation
how would she know if she got caught?
You can have other goals apart from increasing the balance of your investment portfolio or retiring early. It's not all about optimising this one aspect of your life.
I don't think this is false sharing since the issue can occur without any writes.
I'll believe it when I see it. I heard signatures were going away years ago and yet I keep getting asked for signatures.
Also Slackware 3.0 here. It was on a CD on my first Linux book. 95 or 96 i also would guess.
OK people. There have been a grand total of 11 cases in 2.5 years. NHTSA investigates a lots of things. How many regular drivers collided with emergency vehicles in the same time frame?
maybe blue origin was a side hustle to F.I.R.E. on? And now he can give full focus
We do understand...

But if you want the money and want to retire early...that's the price you pay unless you're very lucky. Given the salaries O.P. and partner seem to be making, they could prolly power thru and retire in 5 years? 10 years tops ?

Also, if retiring at 45 or 50 leaves you 'sad', I'd question your assumptions about retirement? Working for 25 years, and having another 50+ years of retirement ahead of you makes you sad?

P.S. I don't do the "perpetual interest" thing..Even if you're very optimistic, 110 years should be plenty. I have mine based around 75-80. You'd be surprised how much that lowers what you 'need' to retire..
> The reality is Teslas are no safer than any other vehicles in its class ($40k+).

Would another way of saying this be that they are as safe as other vehicles in that class? And that therefore Autopilot is not more unsafe than driving those other cars?
A similar library I wrote:
https://github.com/dheera/python-termgraphics

I use it in:
https://github.com/dheera/rossshow
> Risk compensation is fascinating; driving with a bike helmet causes the biker and drivers around the biker to behave more dangerously.

Source please
Young folks aren't in a position to do much about it. They're deeply indebted and need the job.
Many old folks can't do much about it either. They're also deeply indebted and need the job.
Hahah, I see, thank you for the correction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Macro_Language#Modern_MM...
Even then, there's selection: people who do a lot of highway driving are more likely to opt for Autopilot than those who mostly drive in the city.
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I am not sure under which circumstances it flags. If you write your own DNS client for sure it will happen, but there seem to be more things that cause this to trigger.

After that dialog was introduced I saw it pop up on stack overflow for some relatively common libraries (for instance with unity) even if they did not attempt to access the local network.
Somehow you took their response to mean "the rational thing to do is avoid all bushes, forever, no matter the consequences".

The OP merely stated you should adjust your behavior to the 1% chance. That would include weighing it against the risk of dying from dehydration, in your example.
That's definitely a problem, but it's not the only problem. Medications often have side effects, and sometimes for some people they are worse than the symptoms they are supposed to manage.
Determining "fair use" could be the challenging bit. Sounds like the potential clients who see a flat monthly fee as the attraction are the ones who could really benefit from having a designer on payroll but don't have the funds
Optimizing away user consent for collection and storage of highly sensitive banking transaction data certainly meets my bar for "shady".
Yeah, once upon a time I had an idea of having a drop-down menu which would have four or five sample images you could select from to instantly load them into place. I can't remember why I didn't end up implementing that. But unless a new client drops out of the sky in the next few days, I'm going to have some spare time later this month, so perhaps I'll take your comment as motivation to hack that into place. :)
1960's Kabul Was Different Before the Taliban.

Like a lot of places, the conflict has a urban vs rural aspect.
You don't mine bitcoin with a GPU, those days are long gone.
That's the brilliant thing about it. It is critical of the industry, while profiting off the industry, and advertising for the industry.
Any US withdrawal was going to end with the Taliban taking over, regardless of method. All of the costs were always going to be in vain as there was no way to actually win.
> 1) You never save money building it yourself

Yes and no.

The deciding factor besides fixed cost of tools is your time. Consider kitchen cabinets. Sure you can build them yourselves, but it'll take weeks, maybe a month of your time which when compared to ikea/box store cabinets you could spend more to save time. If you want to spend even more you can get some custom work done at the cost of having little to no effort needed.
I definitely remember that era, I just don't remember that having anything other than an entry-level label. It's possible that this could have been due to the lackluster results — Wikipedia definitely supports the interpretation that the image changed in the months before it launched:

> In the lead-up to the i740's introduction, the press widely commented that it would drive all of the smaller vendors from the market. As the introduction approached, rumors of poor performance started circulating. … The i740 was released in February 1998, at $34.50 in large quantities.

However, this suggests that it was never going to be a top-end contender since it was engineered to hit a lower price point and was significantly under-specced compared to the competitors which were already on the market:

> The i740 was clocked at 66Mhz and had 2-8MB of VRAM; significantly less than its competitors which had 8-32MB of VRAM, allowing the card to be sold at a low price. The small amount of VRAM meant that it was only used as a frame buffer, hence it used the AGP interface to access the system's main memory to store textures; this was a fatal flaw that took away memory bandwidth and capacity from the CPU, reducing its performance, while also making the card slower since it had to go through the AGP interface to access the main memory which was slower than its VRAM.
I graduated less than half a decade ago, and I find this difficult to square with my experience: I think I spent a sum total of $500 on furniture over 4 years of undergraduate, including a bedframe and mattress when I moved into non-dorm housing. Most of my/our furniture came from the steady stream of other students moving out nearby and not wanting to haul a couch/table/other item down the stairs. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the furniture we used is still in the same building, maybe a few units down the hall.
> For large PHP setups it is usually the number of database connections that is the limiting factor,

For pretty much every modern programming language, IO is the bottleneck over everything else.

To save you some time, there are practically no metrics in which I think PHP beats another programming language other than maturity, and even then, not really.
Reverse psychology. No single strategy is enough for every target audience
Since the app is launching on Apple's ecosystem, it also makes sense to compare to Safari where we're already getting tab groups and syncing.

Plus, there's the usual stuff of password management, email aliases (nice for not giving out your email), and private relay, which is basically TOR lite for grandma. And what about ad blocking?
Doesn't the data show that cars with assistive technologies are in fewer non-fatal and fatal accidents?
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In case it wasn't evident enough from this and my historical comments, I obviously whole heartedly agree.

But that doesn't change the fact, this is who he and his regime was marketed as to Americans in the 2.5 years post 9/11 as the basis for war.

For Americans, and especially the military, this guy helped cause 9/11, therefore he should be hunted and die. All the others... collateral damage.
Blue Origin competed for a Human Landing System ("HLS") [0] contract. SpaceX won a contract and Blue Origin did not. Then Blue Origin complained at the GAO and the complaint was rejected. Management is acting like sore losers ever since. They have released graphics badmouthing SpaceX' Starship [1] and are suing NASA now [2]. The prevailing view is that this behaviour is not just sanctioned by CEO Bob Smith but by Jeff Bezos himself.

Search for Blue Origin, HLS and/or GAO for the rest of the story. The coverage by Ars Technica's Eric Berger is usually a good source, you might want to skim the list of his articles [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_program#Human_Landing_...

[1] https://www.blueorigin.com/assets/blue-origin-hls-national-t...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/16/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-takes...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/

Edit: thanks verdverm, I added some links and restructured the post
Unlike 1.1.1.1, 10.20.30.40 is reserved in RFC1918, you mustn't use it on the Network. So I don't have to care

(No I don't use RFC1918 addressing at home; Yes, every machine in my home has public IPv4 and/or IPv6 addresses; No that doesn't make it "really easy to break in" because having an address is not the same thing as being accessible)
It took 20 years to reach 1%, so...

I believed in it back in the Loki golden days, nowadays I rather bet on macOS, Windows, mobile OSes and game consoles.

It remains to be seen how the Steam fairs versus the Steam Machines of yore.
I dunno... what about csound?

https://csound.com/
The page loads in 10 seconds on an i7-10850H, and it's not due to downloading the html. Chrome just freezes while parsing the DOM or something.
Yeah, I get it - I made a point of building this with no jQuery or other JS dependencies just for more experience in writing "pure" vanilla JS. But of course one of the ways I can get away with that is that the browser already gives me a huge "standard library" of sorts for doing hard things like reading compressed image formats…
It's irrational to pretend as if we are rational.
I took a similar journey. I remember getting slackware on 16 3.5inch floppy disks and being super excited on being able to run an OS that took less memory and being able to build and run polyray faster.
Then I moved onto slack from walnut creek.
Then mandrake
Then redhat
Then Ubuntu when I got to uni.
Similar characters actually exist in unicode as well irrc.

...On a side note, I think you kickstarted me down the path of abstracting the drawing algorithms and implicit matrix protocol out, just to make it easier to implement this with different character sets. One set for example could be [U+2596 .. U+259F, U+2589], so basically just a 2x2 grid per character.
Right. As I've pointed out previously, Tesla seems to be unable to detect sizable stationary obstacles that are partly blocking a lane, especially if they don't look like the rear end of a car. In addition to emergency vehicles, Teslas on autopilot have plowed into freeway barriers and a street sweeper. That's the usual situation for first responders, who usually try to block as little of the road as possible but often don't have enough shoulder space.

It's clear what Tesla really has - a good lane follower and cruise control that slows down for cars ahead. That's a level 2 system. That's useful, but, despite all the hype about "full self driving", it seems that's all they've got.

"Full self driving" just adds some lane-changing assistance and hints from the nav system.
Once the ETH 2.0 cutover for staking is completed mining will be no longer a thing sadly. Pulled back on starting but maybe there is still time.
Spring is a free RTS game engine
They weren't "treating you like criminals" they were just bored!
"The magnetic stripe will start to disappear in 2024 from Mastercard payment cards in regions, such as Europe, where chip cards are already widely used. Banks in the U.S. will no longer be required to issue chip cards with a magnetic stripe, starting in 2027.

By 2029, no new Mastercard credit or debit cards will be issued with a magnetic stripe. Prepaid cards in the U.S. and Canada are currently exempt from this change."
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
Two key characteristics of TA/SupCom that set it apart were economic.

First, map resources (metal patches) were not depletable. So, the game would see massive economic growth as every metal patch would give resource indefinitely. Big econ ramp up, and a marked ability to come back due to non-exhausting resource patches.

The second characteristic is the flow-based economy that worked with build queuing. A player could queue up as many units or structures to be built as desired, as opposed to "buy and build" where you must currently have the resources necessary to build something.

"Queue" may be an imprecise word here, as the player could, for example, have ten factories all attempting to produce a series of units simultaneously (and similarly, have a swam of engineer units all attempting to build a number of structures simultaneously). That is, it was simultaneous building that would consume resources on the fly as they came in that was the core of this model.

The flow economy model meant that a player tracked resource income and resource usage: kept positive, all the queued up units or structures could be built. Go into the negative, however, and the resource buffer would be eaten into and the player would see all currently-building units/structures slow down in their rate of build progress, awaiting resources to come in.

The last bit was disabled in SupCom 2, out of concern that newer players often bottomed out their economy and had a bad time. However, after fan outcry, the flow-model and infinite queuing was re-enabled as an option.
Haven't had to sign anything for 15+ years, newer cards don't even have the space for signatures (Europe/MasterCard).

I do have to do the mag-swipe maybe once a year, if the chip reader is acting up (still no signature, it asks for the PIN).
A Religious Pursuit of the Number
I like the fact that Taliban did not socially distance, wear a mask, or need a vaccine "freedom" passport to take over the country. Strange that ....
Intel enters the PC gaming GPU battle with Arc
It's to capture the self-loathing etail-therapy market. Folks who will be depressed enough by the article, that they convince themselves that 'just this one' will fill some void in their life. It's one thing to criticize capitalism, but leaving money on the table is plain foolish
It was never aimed at top-end, but that doesn't mean it wasn't serious about being viable as a gaming device.

And it was, I used it for years.
In some cases today that hostname is being resolved via mDNS, which is a good reason to get into the habit of using .local for mDNS addresses. Using somehostname.local on many OSes today forces DNS lookups to always and only use mDNS and avoids accidentally calling DNS. (So long as you don't break mDNS support on your local network by doing something like trying to use .local for traditional DNS.)

mDNS is probably sufficient for most people and you don't need to setup old school DNS on a local network. (But if you do, a purpose-built TLD like home.arpa is a good choice.)
>The majority of consumer products are priced according to what people will pay

That'd depend entirely on your purchasing habits. "what people will pay" is an upper bound on the price, and "what they cost" is an lower bound. For high end/luxury products (eg. iPhone 12 pro max 256GB), prices are indeed dictated by "what people will pay", but for low end/commodity products (eg. low to mid range android phone, or everyday staples like food) it's dictated by "what they cost" due to competition.
that's weird... you can do some stuff here over the phone, but it's a videocall, and you have to record your documents from all angles, but that's for existing customers with a registered phonenumber and banking app.

new account is in person only
To make the confusion complete: Seeing as the authors are German speakers, they might refer to beer mats as "Bierdeckel", which literally means "beer lid".

Yes, that doesn't make a lot of sense since they go under the steins. But back in the day, you would drink outside and would primarily want to keep dirt and flies out of your stein, rather than the table clean.

So to this day, they're called lids, even though they're coasters (regional variations apply).
The company making mouse meat cat treats without harming animals
This is just more evidence of the confusion that Tesla marketing has created. "Full Self-Driving Capability" is the literally quoted option they've been selling for years now.
yeah I'm kinda confused also, and I only graduated a few years ago. other than the (very important) minifridge, I doubt I spent more than $50 on "dorm outfitting".

nor did I see "dorm outfitting" as some conspicuous class signal. the rich kids had nicer clothes and maybe newer laptops, but otherwise their dorms looked just as shitty as the rest. the "cool" dorms were decorated imaginatively, not expensively.
I was disappointed that this article didn't include "cargo cult," which is my personal favorite tech industry idiom.
They have, since the GAO decision, released two jerky info graphics and have most recently sued NASA.

Guess they haven't thought about the phrase "don't bite the hand that feeds you" recently
So most of my current cards (in Europe) have 3 interaction methods:

In order of decreasing readability/communication reliability:

1. Magnetic stripe

2. NFC

3. EMV

The EMV ("chip") method is the least insecure, but lately all of my cards have been started oxidating. And it seems like the pogo pins in almost all readers also started wearing out too. Chip reader failures have become very common lately.

It's very common that I have to both clean the card before using it and also bend it while pushing it into the reader to counteract the worn out pogo pins in the in-store reader. Super annoying.

NFC has been a saver, but because of the banks security risk (it's cleartext, after all) you can't really use it all of the time.

The magnetic stripe seems like it never seems to stop working. I've assumed I can't use it outside of my native country, though, perhaps incorrectly.
Though python has a massive set of "included batteries", simple images aren't included in those. This makes me very sad sometimes and I usually just fall back to simple BMP files... :/