skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Atmospheric refraction is accounted for with the Gaussian refraction coefficient or 0.13 [0]

It appears so.

[0] https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/help_01_en.htm
Manufacturing costs can multiply through a supply chain because many retail costs are defined in percentage terms.

For example, in some European countries where VAT + transaction fees get close to 25% a $10 decrease in manufacturing costs would allow a product to suffer a nearly $12.50 reduction in price whilst keeping the company’s absolute margin constant.

Naturally this channel doesn’t apply to most transport and logistics costs though.
> The Mandalorian ... using almost no CGI

Um....

Edit: Just to elaborate, I'll note that when the first JJ film came out a lot of people's take was "thank God it's not an awful VFX fest like the prequels", despite it actually being vastly more VFX heavy. It's funny seeing this repeated.
I can't think about the Marvel franchise without thinking of the "worldwide audiovisual entertainment [industry]" meme:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-m...
(You should edit to correct that, Animats)

Infographics are available at the British Society for Immunology website, Types of vaccines for COVID-19 page (April 2021):

https://www.immunology.org/coronavirus/connect-coronavirus-p...

Which lists:

-- Viral vector vaccines (OAZ; Jannsen; CanSino; Gamaleya)

-- Genetic vaccines (Pfizer; Moderna; CureVac; Inovio)

-- Inactivated vaccines (Sinovac; Sinopharm; Bharat; Shifa; CAMS)

-- Attenuated vaccines (Codagenix)

-- Protein vaccines (Novavax; Sanofi)
I've just used shellac to make homemade "dykem blue":

- 22g of shellac

- 4g of gentian violet dye

- 500ml of 99% rubbing (isopropyl) alcohol or 95% ethyl alcohol

give it a couple of days to dissolve shellac shaking the container once or twice a day.

Works like a charm.
I get fairly decent results, but something extra… literally.

There's some old account I used, with a slight variation on my name. Must've been years ago. Any credit card associated with it is long dead. I don't get billed for this account… but I get STUFF from this account. Not as much as some folks: I've heard stories of people really getting buried.

Just the occasional weird garbage. Crappy things of various sorts. 'Free' in the mail. Because if the address has had a real thing sent to it, it can be used for a verified review. Someone's got control of that account and is spending their own money to send me things like an LED seasonal affective disorder light, sent in its own clearly recognizable box so I could see what it was. I knew I hadn't bought one of those, but there it was.

Why?

When I went to look the product up on Amazon, it was #1 in its category. That's why.

There are plenty of things that I'll get through Amazon, including 'off-brand' stuff like color-changing LED light bulbs from severely off brands where I know it might be sketchy but it's priced accordingly, or guitar strings, or funny little adapters and HDMI cables.

I just know not to trust them. That's the Amazon I came to know.
I'm not sure I agree. The pillar of the Humbold University system is holistic learning and research with freedom from "practical" constrains and political interference. In particular it is a model of general education beyond just vocational training.

I also note that in addition to the Fraunhofer institutes which as you rightly say have a applied f9cus there are also the Max Planck Institutes with a much more fundamental focus. In fact I would argue that research in Germany is much more fundamentals focused than in many other countries.
> I can't see the option to add a country

> You may not see this option if:
You've changed your country within the last year.

> You aren’t currently in a new country.

> How does Google know my location?

> Depending on the products that you’re using and the settings that you choose, you may provide Google with different types of location information that are critical to making some services work and making others more useful for you. Location can come from real-time signals, like your IP address or device location, and also your past activity on Google sites and services, to tailor experiences for your context. Below are the primary ways we may get information about your location.

Never, never, never ever enable the GLS, and emergency location service (read the disclaimer, it's the same GLS)

If you never had GLS enabled, the only way Google can guess your location is your IP.

There is no opt out later in account setting to remove GLS info forever.

This is how they detect proxy users for Geoblocks
Are your comments actually informed or are they just synthesis (guessing)?

> “We had to have some very, very smart people at Pixar go back in and write some software and figure out a way to make it so that those files would render on our current computers,” he said.

>It took four months to resurrect the old data and get it in working order. Then, adding 3-D to each of the films took six months per film.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/movies/04murp.html

Sounds like getting the render to work was about as much effort as converting to 3D.
The lab leak hypothesis has backing from credible scientists. Conspiracy nuts had nothing to do with it's rise to prominence. They just related it to their existing batch of paranoid delusions.
A Courageous Child Stood Up for Girls' Education Malala Yousafzai's Heroic Story
I haven't found switching to Kotlin to be worthwhile enough to justify moving away from Java, but YMMV.

If we're considering other JVM languages, Scala and Clojure are also on the table.
Sometimes I have the impression to be alone in viewing Endgame as one of the worst Marvel films. The end fight is just boring (two groups charging each other...). Even worse is the whole writing, if Time Travel isn't the story it is just lazy. Endgame could have been such a dark film, after all half of all living things in the universe just deintegrated. Instead of exploring that beyond Thor, they resorted to a time travel hack that revisited half of the older films. And should have negated all films after Guardians 1, with Thanks being gone and dead.
I miss the “surprise” when the answer to the question, “What’s No.1 at the theatres?” wasn’t “<insert comic book>“.

It also really doesn’t help that the subject matter of American comics is so narrow - at the end of the day it’s superhero vs supervillain.
Yeah, I don't think cracking down on the most prominent brands is going to fix the Amazon fake reviews problem. It means that companies can't build an actual reputation based on the quality of their products, so buyers are more reliant on the easily-faked Amazon reviews and ranking of listings.
The last bit (about people listening to hip hop because they "respond to the beat" vs the talent & popularity of 50 Cent) is intriguing and I wish they'd explored more.
An objective, open, transparent debate seems to be no longer possible these days. Maybe it never has been.
Greece or Ελλάδα;
In late 1700 and early 1800 Europe being a heavy drinker, having some kind of health issue and/or being penniless were the norm for most of the population. If performing a task because of those issues means being exploited then we must assume that almost everyone in Europe at those times were exploited in one way or another.

I understand what you mean if we judge it from modern western standards, but I don’t agree if we judge it by the standards of that era.

It’s all a matter of context IMHO.
“Silent days” are still a thing. The new bit is that the day before the election is not included, only the election days themselves. This prohibition makes sense to me.

My personal opinion is that telegram’s actions are reasonable in this context.

Navalny’s team fucked up by publishing their recommendations only on the 15th, two days before voting. I don’t understand that decision at all.
Prime membership has no bearing of whether I buy at Amazon or not. I buy expensive electronics on Amazon because they'll refund broken/repacked pre-used/counterfeit stuff without question. I seriously do not get the point of prime unless you're ordering a $5 item every day for no reason as to not qualify for free shipping, or like the associated services like video (matter of taste, I guess).

FTR I only buy sold and fulfilled by Amazon products, I don't use the marketplace, and the seller "Amazon" always obliged to my demands.
There is a theory that Telegram is a Russian op, given that they still having office in Russia, which they are very secretive about, despite the claims of Durov being nearly chased by KGB on every corner.
I hate to break this to you but Walmart and Target are now doing co-mingling as well now, though Target is on a much more limited scale. I wouldn’t trust Walmart either now.
LeetCode – Swap Nodes in Pairs
Scientists Claim That Overeating Is Not the Primary Cause of Obesity
Doesn’t Walmart do co-mingling just like Amazon now?
Mapy.cz has a lot of other layers, try them out. Including historical and photo maps. This is the full list of holders of copyrights:

Základní, Turistická, Zimní a další níže neuvedené mapy:

„© Seznam.cz, a.s.”

„© AOPK ČR – ochrana přírody a krajiny”

„© Slovenská agentúra živ. prostredia” – digitální model terénu SR

„© Národné lesnické centrum SR” – lesní a polní cesty SR

„© Přispěvatelé OpenStreetMap”

Letecká mapa (ortofotomapa):

„© Seznam.cz, a.s.” (zoom 9-20 jen v ČR)

„© TopGis, s.r.o.” (zoom 9-20 jen v ČR)

„© EUROSENSE s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)

„© GEODIS Slovakia s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)

„© www.basemap.at” (zoom 9-19 jen Rakousko)

„© NASA Earth Observatory” (zoom 2-8)

„© Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017” (zoom 8-13 jen Evropa mimo ČR, SR)

„© Microsoft Corporation” (zoom 14-19 jen mimo ČR a SR)

Archivní Letecká mapa '15, '12, '06 a '03:

„© GEODIS BRNO, s.r.o.” (zoom 9-20 jen v ČR)

„© EUROSENSE s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)

„© GEODIS Slovakia s.r.o.” (zoom 9-19 jen SR)

„© NASA Earth Observatory” (zoom 2-7)

„© Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017” (zoom 8-13 jen mimo ČR a SR)

Historická mapa (z 19. století):

„© 2nd Military Survey, Austrian State Archive”

„© Datový podklad MŽP ČR”

„© Laboratoř geoinformatiky UJEP”

Panorama:

„© Seznam.cz, a.s.”

„© GIS - Stavinvex, a.s.”

„© TopGis, s.r.o.”

„© GEODIS BRNO, s.r.o.”

3D mapa:

„© Seznam.cz, a.s.”

„© Melown Maps™”

„© TopGis, s.r.o.“

„© GEODIS BRNO, s.r.o.”

„© www.basemap.at” (zoom 9-19 jen Rakousko)

„© NASA Earth Observatory” (zoom 2-8)

„© Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017” (zoom 8-13 jen Evropa mimo ČR, SR)

„© Microsoft Corporation“ (zoom 14-19 jen mimo ČR a SR)”

“©2005-16 Jonathan de Ferranti”

“© Přispěvatelé OpenStreetMap”
FreeBSD 11.4 End-of-Life
> If it were an accidental lab leak: so what?

> pursuit of justice

It has nothing to do with a pursuit of justice, at least not for me. It's about understanding where the disease came from and how it jumped to humans, so that we have a better shot at stopping something like this happening again.
Illusion like that I am not.

USA: If you’re rich and not particularly interested in the topics, you to to college to meet people.

Some Euro: I’ve met many a person who continues to “study” to keep the numerous benefits.

Many people just don’t care. That dosen’t stop me from saying my idealistic, and unlikely idea after a word like “should”.
https://gitlab.com/crev-dev/auto-crev-proofs is an identity that automatically trusts every known reviewer (at level "none"), which is useful for finding reviewers. You can also browse all known reviews online at https://web.crev.dev/rust-reviews/.
Btrimgr – a Web-based minimal Imgur viewer
Existential Comfort Without God
Markson is also the reason that SkyNews was temporarily banned on YouTube [0], for repeatedly delivering information that was more grounded in the imagination, than in anything with actual evidence backing it.

She helped promote and mislead around claims to do with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, mis-identifying chemical differences between human formulations and animal formulations, leading to hospital admissions. [1]

There's no conspiracy here - she's actively dangerous to people's health. More interested in promoting an alternative viewpoint than whether that viewpoint actually has merit.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/04/sharri-markson...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/02/sydne...
There's also a Julia implementation of this called ApproxFun: https://github.com/JuliaApproximation/ApproxFun.jl

It's a bit more expressive than the Matlab version
Best case scenario for what? Survival? In the long run we will die out. If we manage to get into space sustainably (a very big if), we may last longer, but will eventually die out as well (space colonies, due to the vast scales of distance, will probably diverge from current humanity as well if they last any appreciable length of time, which is unlikely).

The universe has a time limit, and our expiration date will precede that by a very large margin.
I think the Dev Tools in Chrome might have changed since (I don't use Chrome anymore), but we had issues maybe 5 years ago when hovering over momentjs watch statements in the debugger kept on mutating the underlying data. That was fun.
Yeah the comments are all political and some are less than friendly in their tone.

I've found that going too partisan on HN ends in down votes.

I'd probably agree with some of the politics they're pushing but I'd avoid bringing that discussion here. It doesn't fit with the rules here and I think the rules here are responsible for one of the friendliest environments online.
- Google removes Navalny's team google document with "Smart Vote" instructions.

- YouTube blocks videos with Smart Vote instructions.

- Telegram blocks a bot with Smart Vote the instructions
Iceland's volcanic eruption the longest in half a century
Surely there's nothing wrong with using OSM as one of your primary map data sources? As far as I know, Mapy.cz uses several sources in the Czechoslovak territory, although abroad, perhaps quite a bit fewer of them are being used.
While true, they (and other companies) do market themself heavy as liberal&young™ with all of theirs twitter logos (such as in pride month).

Given that, one would assume they are willing to take a hit in profit (by not selling & not cooperating) in places like Russia and China.

And as it seems, they prefer profit. Which kinda make all their marketing talk as purely virtue signaling.
Next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means (2016)
"Shield local employees from this" is the main hard part of this proposal. The Russian government does not especially care which part of the company Google claims is responsible for app review, and they will happily arrest/prosecute/murder any staff they can get their hands on if there's a chance it'll get then what they want.
The lab did do that (...or just claimed they did, if you're inclined to believe there's been a cover-up):

>Shi instructed her group to repeat the tests and, at the same time, sent the samples to another facility to sequence the full viral genomes. Meanwhile she frantically went through her own lab’s records from the past few years to check for any mishandling of experimental materials, especially during disposal. Shi breathed a sigh of relief when the results came back: none of the sequences matched those of the viruses her team had sampled from bat caves. “That really took a load off my mind,” she says. “I had not slept a wink for days.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
Yeah I always check whether Amazon is the seller and whether or not there are other 3rd parties selling the same product on the same page. If yes, I will go to another store instead.

I definitely no longer mindlessly shop on Amazon anymore.
The author seems to have gotten the name of the architect wrong, it is 'Dries Kreijkamp' [1].

This video tour [2] makes the buildings look a bit roomier than the pictures, in my opinion. Although the interior is not as modern as the pictures in the article.

[1] From Dutch wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dries_Kreijkamp

[2] From the late architect's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/tnlSNAl2l2w
The point I was making was in response to the claim that the EU have been responsible for helping keeping the peace in Europe, which is clearly an incorrect claim.

In fact technically speaking neither NATO nor the EU have prevented wars happening in /Europe/ over the last 60-odd years. And I mean Europe. The EU is not Europe.

You only have to search on wars in Europe in the last 60 years, the list is long.
This isn't really relevant in this day and age, but I once read about someone plugging a floppy power connector into a CD audio header after being told that nothing could be plugged into the wrong place while building a PC.
Agreed. Remember the "good old days" where corporation would fight governments tooth and nail for their interests?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Fruit_Company
That is probably an allusion to the ancient cult of Moloch, but that, AFAIK, has died out a long time ago. Romans stamped out human sacrifice really hard. (They themselves used to practice it, but after approx. 100 BCE, they not only stopped, but turned against it and stopped tolerating it among subjugated nations.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch

The closest phenomena we have in modern world is suicidal jihadism, but its practicioners generally cannot be described as extremely powerful, even if they managed to tire out Western powers in Afghanistan.
You cannot just copy and paste things from a public domain data source without first checking the copyright terms and making sure that they're compatible with the OSM license (if they are, you can comment on the revert changeset saying so):

- https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

- https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources

In my experience, the satellite imagery available in the OSM editor to trace buildings and paths (which the other commenter was talking about) - and when I want to add shops and other things; a quick survey with some photos - are both more than enough for most things.
I'm with you that admissions should be merit based. But I suspect it's already difficult to go through the immigration system. The legal system isn't a firehose.

That said, thinking the immigrants are responsible for an uptick in Covid infection rates is ridiculous.

Also you're linking to Hannity and Ted Cruz. It's hard to take those seriously
The Lancet's reputation is in a downturn since the Wakefield case
In a perfect world, we should be able to use a customized version of HN in which posts emerge according to our own algorithm.

I would pay to see what happens if the rating system used dynamic weighs favouring reputation.
Nothing compared to censorship about race and intelligence for example.
What would prevent Russian authorities from taking action against local employees anyway? The buck stops at the government. The only options for private companies in these type of situations are: comply or exit.
However unfortunate the outcome, I think the companies have to comply. These companies are not above the law in their respective operating countries.
I was thinking about this the other day. Suppose it is true and there was a leak, given the current balance of the world it would probably lead to WW3.

I am happy not knowing the truth if my hunch proves right.
I don't understand this mechanism. Can you elaborate? How does the unvaccinated population influence measured vaccine effectiveness?
I suppose a better question in that case would be: is it possible to engineer something like SARS-CoV-2 in a lab (perhaps via existing GOF techniques) if it were one's explicit intent to cause a damaging pandemic?

That's a more important question about whether or not this particular virus came out of a lab or not, because, if the answer to the above is "yes", then we need to take whatever your/whoever's proposed mitigation/prevention steps even if this thing came about via natural pathways. Even banning GOF research in labs might not be sufficient, if malicious people (wooo "bioterrorism") could go about doing this outside of labs.

Also, we need to plan and prepare for the next global respiratory pandemic in any event, as we know they happen periodically regardless of origin. That's true even if we never authoritatively understand the origin of this one.
The Mandalorian used CGI for sure. Background and a lot of other stuff was screens, as opposed to green screen, so. and it showed, the set was way more realistic than a pure CGI one. also, it had much less boom and bang for the effects only in it.
Thank you for the detailed writeup. This is a topic which I think is not discussed much.

> We will split public-facing CI from release infrastructure and internal CI infrastructure. (teleport#8268)

Did you also consider some form of out-of-band approval mechanism for production environment access? (via a chatbot / push notification etc). I think something like that might work technically, but scalability might be a challenge. It might be easier to manage in comparison to a self-managed complete second CI system though. I have been pondering over it for some time to be able to utilize Gitlab CD without providing Gitlab all keys to the kingdom.
It has certainly taken the attention off the Wests' incredibly heinous war crimes and crimes against humanity.

See for example, the genocide of Yemen.
Yup, there are managers so good, I'd go to war with them if asked at 3AM. Others I wouldn't trust with getting groceries.
You didn't like The Martian and Blade Runner 2049? Not exactly mid-budget movies but one is a well-made popcorn-flick while the other is the highly improbably well-made sequel to a 40 year old cult classic. The amount of non-superhero Sci-Fi in the theaters at the moment is a bit of the low side for me but there has been significant, good movies since 2014 and Interstellar.
It's created by Lastpas...?
They could, which mitigates the attack without locating the actual source (that is, your app) and leaves you free to use the same app again for another attack next week. Maybe even taking care to use a different subset of the devices where your app is installed.
I can’t recall the article I read about it - sorry. It probably didn’t cite thorough studies though. It took into account the fact that higher population increases wages (opportunity), which would rise rents. Similar to amenity effect, but iirc it applies to the city as a whole, not just the neighbourhood.
> Provided their clients don't figure out what's going on

I'm always pleasantly surprised when I see power management correctly configured at a client precisely because it is so rarely done correctly.

Even if cloud vendors do fix this one thing, there's about a dozen more such issues where the suppliers' interests don't line up with the downstream consumers' interests.

> Azure really don't offer any never-throttled instances? What about their dedicated hosts?

I don't believe so. For example, their highest performing single node is the HBv3, with 2x AMD EPYC 7V13 processors for a total of 120 cores / 240 threads.

On this page: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/work...

There is a box that says:

Nodes per Socket (NPS) = 2
L3 as NUMA = Disabled
NUMA domains within VM OS = 4
C-states = Enabled

The technical name for CPU power management is called "C-states". In other words, they've left it on the default (enabled) on a machine that they charge $40K/year for!
You have to check whether the item is being sold by multiple sellers and whether or not they are using Amazon for fulfillment. I never buy anything if it’s not sold by Amazon AND if there are multiple 3rd party sellers who store their inventory at Amazon.
Actually, I don't know if Kirkland actually produces anything. It's a relabel of other brands. https://moneywise.com/life/lifestyle/the-big-brands-behind-c...