skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying they're the same. Wouldn't you think the reviews reflect anything of the quality? If I look at other products else where, a 4.6 rating would tell me a lot about the quality of the product.

I think maybe there's a conflation of ratings and usability of some people.
Several inactivated virus vaccines exist for COVID-19. SinoVac/CoronaVac.[1] Sputnik-V.[2] Janssen.[3] (The Johnson and Johnson vaccine.) None are as effective as the messenger RNA vaccines at preventing symptomatic illness, although they're pretty good at preventing death.

All three are easier to store and transport than the mRNA vaccines, as well as being one-shot vaccines. There's a political problem - they're seen as inferior vaccines for poor people, at least in the US.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoronaVac

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_V_COVID-19_vaccine

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssen_COVID-19_vaccine
Yeah, the iPhone calculator app has precision to something like 30 decimal places. I think it is probably using 128-bit floating points?
> Very concerned about the recent microtik CVE, as that is going to make for some very large botnets.

To be pedantic there is technically no recent Mikrotik CVE WRT Meris. It was patched in 2018(?) shortly after discovery.

From their response to the Meris botnet[1]:

> As far as we have seen, these attacks use the same routers that were compromised in 2018, when MikroTik RouterOS had a vulnerability, that was quickly patched.

> Unfortunately, closing the vulnerability does not immediately protect these routers. If somebody got your password in 2018, just an upgrade will not help. You must also change password, re-check your firewall if it does not allow remote access to unknown parties, and look for scripts that you did not create.

It goes into more detail to further check/harden the device in the blog post. A lot of issues stem from having Winbox or other admin access not properly firewalled off and open to the world. Blessing and a curse of the power you have with these devices I guess.

[1] https://blog.mikrotik.com/security/meris-botnet.html
Sometimes you can even see Milwaukee standing flat at the shores of Muskegon, an ~80 mile distance much like seeing the Isle of Man in the article but without using the height advantages at each side. https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2012/05/the_lights_of_mi...
And that Pfizer was supposedly given to older people (weaker immune system) versus the others.

Would be good to have adjusted studies.
The Hobbit?
> European neutrality is all that China could hope for and it is good enough for strategic detente.

Right which is why the US is moving forces out of the EU. But the problem is in the event of an actual war the EU will either be neutral (unlikely) or pro-US. It also doesn’t matter because the EU was never going to Asia anyway. So nothing of importance listed

> If it is about moving US troops and assets out of harm's way by stationing them down under, it will be a strategic retreat dressed up as pivot. It is good for peace but it also gets US out of the play. US will be like Aaron Burr: out of the room where the play is made.

No the US and the Anglosphere is just arming Australia. The US hasn’t withdrawn any troops.

> Because some peripheral European countries are desperate to keep US engaged. As much as they don't like the Russians, they won't necessarily welcome German overlords either.

Sure. That just means a thorn in the side of the Russians and Chinese.
Free42*, no calc.

Also heads up: the automod seems to have banned you. I had to vouch this comment. You might be commenting too fast for a new user or be commenting from an IP it doesn't like.
Plenty of landlords subcontract maintenance, actually. There is landlording, and there is maintenance, some landlords do both, many do no maintenance themselves.

So through market calculation we can deduce that maintenance is only a small part of rent, the majority of rent is derived from being a middleman with the bank.

This is not the case for a restaurant, you'll find that all of the value in takeout comes from the labour and the capital necessary to make that labour efficient.

Would any landlord sign an agreement stating that you would do all the maintenance and then allow you to live there for free? Of course not.
CEO’s care about their yearly bonus, making the majority share holders happy, and the next job opportunity. Everything else is secondary.
> And like any serialized TV series, you can't really skip episodes without missing key parts of the story, so once you commit to the show you're on the bandwagon.

There’s a flip side to that, though: once someone is off it’s a lot less likely they’ll jump back on (or even jump on in the first place)

I count myself in that group. I’ve watched Marvel movies here and there (either Thor Ragnarok or Doctor Strange was the most recent) but at this point I’m turned off from watching more because I know there are numerous plot points I won’t get. And I don’t want to commit a week of my life to catching up.

Now don’t get me wrong, clearly Marvel doesn’t need people like me to be an enormous success. But I think it’s a bit of a high wire act that other pretenders to the throne (DC etc) run the risk of failing at.
The real point is that there is no choice at all. Free will is an illusion.

The first sentence is fine - it's how we all speak - as long as you understand the conventions you are using - what the words "I", "chose" and "wanted" really mean.

The second sentence seems intended to be the more technically accurate one, but IMO it's really worse since it's a mish-mash of levels of abstraction. It would be better expressed as "I did that because my brain was wired to do that" (or better yet "because my brain was wired to predict that", but that's a whole other story). Your brain doesn't have "wants" (that's a pyschological concept), and it seems odd to characterize your actions as a "choice" while in the same sentence(!) accepting that your actions are controlled by your brains wiring, and therefore there was no choice!
Probably built-in crypto keys signed by Intel/AMD keys.
Software solutions at the receiving end are meaningless for stateless DDoS. It doesn't matter how quickly you drop/filter packets if your physical connection cannot receive any more of them. You need to ensure the traffic never saturates your connection in the first place to avoid issues - this can only be done on the sending end or somewhere on the path to you.
There's plenty, Sinovac and Sinopharm to name a few. They aren't as effective because a dead virus doesn't trigger the same immune response as the live version. The western vaccines replicate an important piece of the live virus which produces a better immune response.
I believe the Mac and iOS calculator implementations are different.
It looks like there have been a few studies with inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. It looks like they are effective but I’m not sure if they are expected to be more effective than the current mRNA vaccines:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107715

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2780562
I already have 2 doses of Pfizer, can I get Moderna on top of that?
Or worlds order is stupid and outdated. Remove drug restrictions and you'll remove 80% of criminal
Being old-enough to remember the live-action SpiderMan, and The Hulk TV shows; I was happy to see SUPERheros in multiple forms and mediums. One could argue that CGI is finally good enough to match with the imagination of the directors. And that's a very good thing.

I do however wish that other things were being produced. Heavy Sequel'ization of movies just leaves me bored.

The same can be said of the Star Trek franchises, and quite frankly anything more then "2" has grown tiring.

Game of Thrones* has shown hollywood that there is an appetite for epic storytelling, and that people are willing to sit through 7 season of shows to be entertained by an engaging story. (In my heart Babylon5 pioneered grand-story telling.)

There are thousands of great books that would do well adapted to TV/Movies, I'd like to see some of these instead of another superhero flick.
I think Sinovac is this. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinovac_Biotech)

I think in testing in the west it was less effective at the time than others.
In general a whole cell vaccine is better as the entire virus gets targeted. I believe the mRNA was done the way it was for calendar speed. Hopefully whole cell vaccines will be approved in the near future as odds are they'll be much better at handling variants.
The zoning laws aren't a product of government-en-vacuuo, however.

They're the result of moneied interests, most especially real estate and banking interests, constraining supply.

Government is the mechanism through which they act, not the source of the problem itself.
Tesla and Spacex are not perfect corollaries but they have shown that it is possible to produce things in the US at a lower cost so long as some level of quality is an important aspect of the product. It requires a level of competence that these thin marketing shells of companies like Nike etc cannot achieve though. The underlying problem is that they have lost any know how about how shoes are made, their only remaining competency is how to push slop down the marketing chute.
That's literally just saying that, if you log in to Fakespot, they'll record some basic information about the user you're logged in as. None of this is unusual or noteworthy.
What is the motivation?

Extortion?
Retribution?
Censorship?
Marketing?
QA?

Are they asking for money stop?

Are they being paid by some actor to do this because they wishes to protest / punish the company?

Are they demonstrating what they can do, in order to
drum up business?

Are they testing what their system can accomplish?
and iron out any bugs and learn how to best utilize it?
So what mitigations they face and how to overcome them?
I'm just not a huge fan of the subscription model. The last time I had a subscription I only ended up making a single purchase during my entire year.
Among other differences, Moderna dosages had ~3x more mRNA compared to Pfizer (100 v 30 micrograms), and their regime had longer periods between dosages. Apparently rationale for Pfizer doses was to minimize side effects because from their initial testing they did not find a significant increase in antibodies with a higher dosage [1].

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027906
I don't really use cryptocurrency, but since you mentioned "push" donations -- do you perhaps mean something like Ko-fi? If yes, I've set one up at https://ko-fi.com/icyphox.
> Because it can be enforced without being tied to a specific jurisdiction, expensive lawyers and army of accountants.

How exactly can it be enforced without using the law?
Structural Project Using: AutoCAD, Etabs, Safe, S-Concrete and Excel Softwares
I had a funny one - I was returning a bunch of unopened wine and I told the guy, there is one that was opened, indicating that when you see the open one please give it back to me.

He was kinda rude and I was like wtf. And then he proceeds to return all of the wine, I asked him "dude wheres the open bottle?" And he said "I thought you were returning that one too?"

Turns out in some states - they allow you to return opened bottle of wine. We laughed it off
There are a few PDF Python libraries and open source programs out there, but as far as I can tell all lack one feature: signing. If anyone knows of a open source tool kit or library that can sign, I'd be most appreciative.
"A statistician is someone who drowns while crossing a river that is three feet deep, on average"

If you understand that joke, you understand the objection.
You're not wrong. I'm gonna add AI to our pitch deck for our A probably will be able to raise an additional 40%.
And they called the pouches "not reaching pouches". I wonder if they get the irony of "not reaching".
Sputnik V and Johnson and Johnson are not live or attenuated virus but adenovirus vaccines. They infect the host with a harmless virus that make your cell produce spike protein. They are a fairly new tech.

Also Sputnik V is a two dose vaccine, like Astra Zeneca’s
> which is a commercial issue and relatively easy to fix: just force streamers to pay more, or invest in a dedicated "alt-films" service

I’d counter and say that neither of those things are particularly easy to achieve.
Loading and parsing all those KB of JS for a mobile website is almost a non-starter for publishers, who are now under the gun to shed as much page weight as possible to have a hope at SEO traffic going forward. Also, for people using outer reaches of the mobile web, it can cost up to $50 / GB USD - it seems cruel to cost them $0.05 to use a convenience function. For me, I was working on a serverless node.js function that needed to be able to minimize startup and execution time to control costs. It took a bit of extra work to use js Date, but using Moment literally doubled my cost to run the function.
One interesting thing about air filters is that many of the ones on Amazon can't be shipped to California. CA has strict standards for air filters apparently, so I always viewed this as a red flag. But it turns out those certification standards don't actually include filter effectiveness:

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/list-carb-certified-air-cleaning-devi...
What a waste of money. They are only now thinking about the business case after getting the grant. That is the cart pulling the horse.
In "Blockchains Are a Bad Idea", James Mickens gives several arguments against blockchain-based systems like Bitcoin:

See his presentation here: https://youtu.be/15RTC22Z2xI

1. People have out-of-band trust relationships in real life which reduce the likelihood of malice. Bitcoin-style anonymous identities undermine trust relationships and are not needed for legitimate (not illegal) transactions.

2. Real life legal systems encourage good behaviors. If you have a dispute with someone, you can sue them. Bitcoin and related systems lack these protections.

3. Existing tools such as public-key cryptography and digital signatures can provide most of the functionality that applications need without the problems that blockchain-based systems have.
Rose-tinted nostalgia surely?

OS map styling is beautiful, but folding maps is the work of devils. You must remember trying to pin sections down so you could see across the paper splits caused by the pure evilness that is folding. It is possible my rage might also be caused by growing up on the point of a four-way boundary in Explorer and Landranger format.

More seriously though, do they no longer teach at least basic navigation skills in school? It still feels, to me, like it is an essential life skill. If only for being able to assess the validity of your phone's answers in the most general case.
TL;DR: I am from Eastern Europe, moved from shopping from Amazon USA to AliExpress and I saved a ton of money. The waiting times are significantly longer but Amazon's were far from good anyway.

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Long version:

I am in Eastern Europe and the markup we pay here for shopping from Amazon USA is crazy. Still, I needed some of the items because I couldn't find them anywhere else: high-quality iPad Pro cases, books at their 6th edition, USB flash sticks with physical protection switches etc. I always end up paying something between 40% to 55% above the combined price of all items in the cart.

It's like I get it, delivery fees, EU VAT%, customs et. al. but I eventually got sick of it. I also made the mistake of paying for express shipping several times. It made but a small difference. The "express" time was 12-13 days and the normal one was 18-20. I easily pay $50 to $150 for the privilege to wait 2 weeks and not 3. Meh.

Moved to AliExpress a year or so ago. You get the occasional hiccup where a middle party unexpectedly cancels shipping for reasons unknown but AliExpress has so far proved very capable and fair when addressing such problems. Recently passed the 100 orders mark and so far I've lost... $8 or so due to AliExpress not siding with me during 2 disputes. That's less than 1% of what I paid in total. It's a very acceptable risk margin.

Do I wait a lot for my stuff? Sadly yes. Stuff travels to Netherlands and then makes a U-turn back to Eastern Europe and I rarely get something before the 4th week mark. And some of the cheaper things where free shipping is the default you might easily wait 6-10 weeks for... but I don't care. I get things that are both cheap and with very good quality. Nothing of what I ordered is life-saving so I am OK with the waiting.

The amount and diversity of all sorts of stuff in AliExpress is crazy. I love it.
False.

Real estate (land) has an inelastic supply. It's not possible to bring more to the market. It is possible to utilise existing real estate more intensively, by building more densely, most often by building up. Each storey added to a building multiplies the available land intensity accordingly. (Modulo a small exception for staircases, elevators, and some building utilities.)

If you tax the unimproved value of land, you make lower levels of utilisation comparatively more expensive. Rents cannot increase, as people effectively pay the value gained by holding the property --- in the simple case, earning potential.

So higher land value tax -> same rents -> less profit to landlords.

Landlords and property holders can increase their returns by adding more units (intensifying land use). Which then increases the housing supply.

The counterintuitive result is that housing is something you get more of with higher taxation rates, so long as those apply to the value of the land itself, and not improvements to the property.
This is a good question. Are you in the US? I think they are only approving the pfizer boosters right now for those 65+. However people are definitely going into CVS or whatever and say they need to get their first moderna shot…
The Mandalorian is a bit more than "acceptable Star Wars" - they experimented with production techniques that are one step beyond anything attempted before, while resurrecting a side of SW (the 'western' one) that had been effectively lost since the end of the original trilogy.

And the main guy behind it? Jon Favreau, the man who effectively invented the MCU formula (fights and laughs) with the first Iron Man.

Feige is good, but I'd bet more on Favreau to deliver than on any producer.

(also, Thor a "C-level" character? He's had a dedicated monthly comic-book basically uninterrupted for more than 50 years, and features an entire cast of dedicated supporting characters and locations in Asgard... He's definitely an A-lister. IronMan, on the other hand, could absolutely be called a B-lister, since he spent large parts of his publication history effectively as little more than support for the Captain America / Avengers ecosystem, with very bad stories and artists. I would absolutely call "C-listers" Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, or the Guardians of the Galaxy - definitely not Thor.)
Although I agree with your logic, I suspect that consumers are extremely price sensitive so shoes in the same category are roughly the same price & it makes sense to talk about %.

Shoemakers are already charging what they believe to be the highest price they can regardless of costs. They don't believe they can raise the price, or they already would have.
Ghost Peppers have a calming effect on the Nerves (2015)
FoxyProxy guarantees BBC iplayer access and gives you other servers when it stops working.
SquareTrade is a third party company so I suspect they cut corners. It's arguably worth buying a manufacturer warranty for certain devices, particularly business class laptops.
I do love the idea of microcontrollers for doing random stuff around the house, but one thing I've never figured out is how do you reliably power them in a small footprint, having a switching power supply seems incredibly wasteful for a single ATtiny, and I don't know how long batteries can last.
Something I’ve wondered for a while: is there a good modern alternative to zip?
FoxyProxy also testified under oath to the US Secret Service that they have no logs:

https://blog.getfoxyproxy.org/2017/11/04/secret-service-subp...

The company has been owned by the same individuals since 2006.
The Hobbit was roughly contemporaneous to MCU Phase 2. (Its hard to view the LotR and Hobbit trilogies as single ongoing “thing” that the MCU came in at the end of when most of the time between the first LotR release and the last Hobbit release, including the time the MCU rose to prominence, is the time between the last LotR release and the first Hobbit release.)
Yeah, true the mRNA SARS-COV vaccines aren't all that effective after many months however, it could work better for things that don't mutate as much as Coronaviruses. It could still be magic. We just don't know yet it's all relatively new tech medically speaking and this is the current vaccines using the tech are the first ever widespread usage of the tech. We'll see how it goes long-term No one really knows how well or not it's going to go.
> But parasitic margins seem just as bad now as ever.

What parasitic margins? Retail operations have 2% to 4% profit margins, and even Nike has around 10%, maybe 12% some years.
Windows 10 allows users to have much more control over their hardware--to the point of even letting users choose which hardware and architecture they prefer.
I reread and I think you're right about most of it. But the scare quotes in Gaining Momentum really frame this as a battle between good guys and bad guys, which isn't a productive framework to think about politics. (Not productive, but can be effective depending on your goals, unfortunately).
I mean, it's a "people problem" - given the right incentive and alignment of social planets, it can definitely be done. Whereas the other side of the problem may not be solvable at all. Hence "relatively".
I am convinced relying on "seller is Amazon" thing is useless. Even if the product you buy is genuine, it seems manufacturers aren't sending their best to Amazon. This really becomes apparent for things like shaving razors.
And this is why house prices are high in every urban centre. We see this same unexpected alliance everywhere between the environmental left that wants to preserve as much greenery as possibly via zoning rules, and the crony right who just wants to cynically increase property prices. The end result is a lot of human suffering and nothing to show for it.

Property investors really aren't the root problem because they lease the property back onto the market and that supply doesn't vanish.

This is not dogma. Quite the opposite. The impact of supply caps due to zoning has been studied to death by economists.

The "preserve greenery" perspective is just a highly privileged one and a false choice/false dilemma to boot. You can build vertically without sacrificing greenery or destroying your parks and bushland. Why not just do that and solve the entire problem? Oh wait that is illegal...
And their employee actually gets treated pretty well - when I go to Sam's club, I always feel bad; maybe I'm projecting.
> basically this is what happens each night when we sleep. every morning a new you wakes up.

Nonsense.
New iPhone 13 Will Require Vaccination to Unlock Screen
I remember the advice I gave to someone connecting the cables in his first computer: "Don't worry, all the connectors are different, they will only connect correctly. The ones which can be connected in more than one way will have no problem being connected in any possible way".

Aircraft cables should be made like different computer connectors that only allows them to be connected correctly.