skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun fact: the trial you referenced failed to show any benefit of COVID vaccination in reducing all-cause mortality in the population they studied:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261159v...

> During the blinded, controlled period, 15 BNT162b2 and 14 placebo recipients died; during the
open-label period, 3 BNT162b2 and 2 original placebo recipients who received BNT162b2 after
unblinding died. None of these deaths were considered related to BNT162b2 by investigators.

There was actually one more death in the experimental group, albeit that's not significantly significant.

So some combination of the following must be true:

(1) The vaccination is effective at reducing COVID mortality, but COVID mortality for people in the trial was such a joke that eliminating 95% of COVID mortality doesn't actually change one's risk of dying in a non-negligible manner

(2) The vaccination is effective at reducing COVID mortality, which does spare lives, but it ends up killing just as many from adverse events / side effects

(3) The vaccine isn't effective and they doctored the numbers.

My money is mostly on (1) with a sprinkling of (2), personally.

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And since people like to be binary thinkers, this is where I mention that I'm not an Ivermectin shill and as a medical nihilist I'm strongly skeptical of treatments in general. And while I haven't looked at the IVM data very much at all, what I have seen is incredibly weak evidence at best, as well as a bunch of really crappy associative arguments from the IVM crowd ("Africa uses IVM and Africa has less COVID mortality than the US!" as if that proves anything)

To quote (slightly paraphrased) the great Jacob Stegenga:

> If we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, then our confidence in medical interventions ought to be low.
That's not a problem with camera drivers but with firefox and cheese using old APIs. Cameras are v4l2 subdevices, cheese ignores all that. Firefox is the same I guess.

It will improve once these big apps switch to libcamera, like Chrome is doing.
decentralization is at best nothing more than a polite name for the transition period from one centralized regime to another.

like all mirages, it dissolves when you get too close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
Just pick something that bothers you or you think is missing and start working on it. I'd recommend something application, as opposed to system, level to get started. That way you can develop using something like Python and not worry about lots of other dependencies on whatever you're working on.

There generally isn't much in the way of formal organization in the open source world... just scratch an itch that you have. There are relatively few people working on things specific to Linux on mobile so even a modest contribution can have a big impact. For example, the developer of the Megapixels camera app, which is a vast improvement over what existed previously but still needs much work, just wanted a better camera app.
I read it as being the upper bound and not the target of optimization.
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Most objects are never shared so there would be a performance impact from incrementing (and decrementing) an atomic counter even just once.
> getting more men involved with elementary school teaching

Only complete fools take that job as a man these days. I wonder what is the average period of time before a false accusation of molestation occurs? Two months? Two weeks?
I would prefer if most (if not all) of those things were part of the normal work schedule.
>NFTs on blockchains solve the problem of provenance and permanence.

Except that nothing about the asset is actually stored on a blockchain.
There's nothing new here. I remember having those features in the Nokia N900 in 09. I think this product is grossly overpriced for a cheap generic Android phone loaded with a beta Linux distro. In Shenzhen they'll sell you a case of 50 for $400. Save your money or buy a Quest 2.
> there is no built-in way to trivially install a .desktop file for a given AppImage I've downloaded

Here it is.[0,1]

[0] https://github.com/TheAssassin/AppImageLauncher

[1] https://docs.appimage.org/reference/desktop-integration.html
The thing is, when a skin's ownership exists in a developer's database, that means the only way to get a skin is to buy it directly from the developer. EA doesn't want you to buy a rare FIFA Ultimate Team player from another FIFA player, they want you to buy a bunch of Ultimate Team packs from them directly. Only Valve really enables any reselling, and that's only on their closed platform, where all the money ends up back in Valve's pockets.

In addition, a lot of game developers are already under scrutiny about gambling-like mechanics in their games (e.g. loot boxes). Turning this stuff into NFTs just makes it easier to cash out, which only makes the comparisons easier.

The only people actually making NFT-based games are small developers using it as a marketing tool, or people using these games as a means to promote their NFT project. No large developer is making any major investments in this space, because it isn't a path to making more money then they're already making.
Doubling down. I like it.
MTGOX was essentially one large bug bounty for any hacker that had the means and ways of collecting the jackpot. Once the bug bounty was several million dollars…
I own a bunch of crypto and often people ask me questions.

I endlessly have to warn then to never hold tether. The problem is people don't understand what tether is, they assume it is just USD and use it because it is the most popular in many platforms or the outright default settings.

Tether crash will be very, very ugly when a lot of people leaving money on their "default" account realise the money all went poof.
Well, the U.S. Government isn’t likely to steal IP from American companies. For things like customer data or encryption secrets, it’s also perfectly reasonable to avoid hiring former spooks.
Have you conducted a clinical trial demonstrating the app's efficacy?

Preemptive follow-up question: why not?
Or you could just use GraalVM python https://github.com/oracle/graalpython
There's an added benefit in that sociopaths get to hurt people in scams.
Multiple threads with one asyncio loop per thread would be absolutely pointless in Python, because of the GIL.

With that said, sure, threads and asyncio are complimentary in the sense that you can run tasks on threadpool executors and treat them as if they were coroutines on an event loop. But that serves no purpose unless you're trying to do blocking IO without blocking your whole process.
The electric trim switches override MCAS. The LA crew overrode MCAS to restore normal trim 25 times. The EA crew did it twice.
Any resources on using WebGL with WASM? Most stuff I find seems pretty mediocre projects. I feel like we'll have to wait for WebGPU.
There's no point to doing any of this when the game could just keep track of this in a traditional database.

The only benefit is having a 'public' API for ownership of an item that other, third-party games could use, but why, as a game developer, would you possibly give any rando third-party competitor full access to this information? It makes sense if you are curating a community of fan-made tooling that ends up promoting your game, but it makes zero sense to give competitors access to it.

Imagine a Hearthstone-clone that pitches it as: "Join our game! You have every card that you own in Hearthstone! And a <gimmick>."

Do you think it would be in Blizzard's interest for that clone to exist? Do you think it would be in Blizzard's interest to go out of its way to turn its player's cards into NFTs, so that some unlicensed Martian knock-off goes ahead and makes that pitch?

It is in Blizzard's interest to share this information with someone that they have a partnership with (or with another game that they've developed), but that problem can be solved by... An API. With revocable keys.
It's hard to claim someone's specifically malicious / incompetent when the entire "market" is.
Good for you, and, I quit too. But the reason I joined is that I miss out on a lot of in-person interactions, because friends of mine use fb to invite folks to events. What you're describing as a "superficial relationship" was actually "membership of a few small groups." Interacting with those people was a positive in my life, and I miss them. It's not just okay, but actually healthy, to have relationships that aren't lifelong and deep.

I bemoan the loss of "church community" despite never having been a churchgoer. It's nice to show up, blend in, make time with a few familiar faces, and leave. Non-intense social interactions are good. People who only have intense social interactions tend to have bad social anxiety, because their brain isn't accustomed to anything between zero and 100. The good part about fb is that it can be used to facilitate that. I'd happily have a profile on the Facebook Events platform, if it existed as a separate product. But since it necessarily comes with all the other baggage, it's healthier for me to miss out.
Sure, maybe. Note that we're talking about STEM fields here, though. Gender studies isn't a STEM field.
Seems like a good plan. :)
An advertising company has a root-level backdoor to the device?
Doesn't it seem odd to you that a company with the resources of Facebook are quicker to pull down a post by a practicing medical doctor stating masks aren't 100% effective than they are to pull down a post inciting violence in a country that has been in the middle of such violence for the last 3 years?

The problem with opinions like yours isn't that they're wrong, it's that you've lost all perspective.
Is it so that the fragmentation (the long list of distributions), or variety of configuration options, is a bad quality? This seems to be used as a counter argument to Kubernetes.

Probably, it could be end result of unconsistent design or bad technical choises. However, most likely it just means that there are multiple organizations and interest groups pushing changes and ideas to the project. This should be seen as a good thing. The downside is that there is no single source of best practices and this is confusing to newcomers. You just need to pick one distribution and trust the choises, or develop the competence and understanding.

And we could imagine that the userbase or the number of developers in single distribution (take OpenShift or Rancher) could be bigger that in Nomad itself.

Having said that, I still would like to see more stable Kubernetes landscape, and that has to happen eventually. The light distributions k3s and k0s are pushing things to nice direction.

OpenStack had similar, or maybe even worse, fragmentation and complexity issue when the hype was high. There were probably technically better alternatives (Eucalyptus?), but people (and companies) gathered around OpenStack and it won the round. However, comparing OpenStack to Kubernetes feels bad, as Kubernetes is technically far superior.
That is a very helpful summary. I generally favor declarative configuration (like CloudFormation) and I think it's mostly due to my work being infrastructure focused: "I need VPC, LB's, ASG with those immutable Images, a queue, buckets etc". But in my recent work with a customer where the infrastructure is "EKS with datastores, and Gitlab CI" .. most of the complexity is people creating abstractions on top of abstractions of stuff in helm (and also .gitlab-ci.yaml with tons of severy nested includes). And in this case the text templated yaml is really painful. Something that would be like CDK for k8s could actually be amazingly useful. Lots to ponder, thank you.
I'm really talking about earlier. I didn't have a calculator until I started college :-) The first dip in bachelor's degrees in CS for women started in about 1985. [1] It dipped again beginning in about 2000.

[1]https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...
This seems like it would be less efficient if most objects don't escape their owning thread (you would need one atomic inc/dec versus zero), which is probably true of most objects.
Rapid antigen tests take take about 20 minutes.
Those harder classes used to be referred to as weed out courses. Incoming class of 100+ students to Assembler. After 2 weeks, 60%+ drop the class.
Depends what that means. Dollar reserve could be low because investment reserve is high. Would need to see the numbers.
Yes, I have a big sense of tragedy about Python 3. Python should run on something like (or maybe the actual) Erlang BEAM with lightweight isolated processes. All my threaded Python code is written using that style anyway (threads communicating through synchronized queues) and I've almost never needed traditional shared mutable objects. Maybe completely never, but I'm not sure about a certain program any more.

Added: I don't understand the downvotes. If Python 3 was going to make an incompatible departure from Python 2, they might as well have done stuff like the above, that brought real benefits. Instead they had 10+ years of pain over relatively minor changes that arguably weren't all improvements.
I've got a girl in public school right now. I've seen the outreach programs and they're pathetic. To start with, they start with the belief that they need to reach out only to girls. Guess what - if the boys don't think the girls can do science and math than there are still a lot of problems to overcome.

Easy example - any girl who started reading the HN message boards at a young age would probably give up on a future career in engineering. Why try when a bunch of educated men don't think you can succeed?

The article is interesting but not definitive. Even granting ( which I wouldn't ) that girls have a greater aptitude for reading instead of science and math, being a good _engineer_ is also about being a good reader. If boys are naturally better at math, that doesn't at all mean they are better professionals. If they can't read the instructions for using Vivado to design firmware, than they are in the wrong profession.
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All of the HMD/Nokia feature phones can play mp3 files.
To claim big companies == oligopoly == monopoly is objectively wrong, and the opposite of useful terminology.
Now I know why they "retired" our recent game in progress that had two QR codes in it that linked to an NFT for the game. Steam was TERRIFIED of our little erc721 token haha.
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The only axe I have in this story is people who downplay the costs of solutions as part of a discussion of pros and cons.

We regularly call out pharmaceutical and petrochemical companies here for doing that. I don’t know why you would expect tech to get a free pass.

The most important thing is that you don’t fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
This will never happen, ever.

What are the incentives a publisher/developer has for putting anything on a blockchain?

Company B wants nothing to do with Company A's digital assets, and Company A does not want to make transitioning away from their own game easy.

NFTs will never be used in gaming, outside of gimmicks (and all the current attempts talk more about the NFTs instead of any form of actual gameplay.)
"Most critics focused on the absence of forensic evidence, charging that Petersson's case was made up of speculation and circumstantial evidence."

But if the case is officially resolved, well that's all good then. Nobody followed the Prime Minister to the theater and waited for him to leave in the dark of night. No stalking to see here, because Sweden. Move along.
Opposition is not a target audience of FacePay.
If the Louvre decided to sell an NFT of the Mona Lisa, nothing prevents them from generating another NFT (or a few thousand) of it as well. Same thing for an NFT pointing to an image at some URL and containing a hash of that image, it doesn't actually generate ownership of that art in any legally meaningful (or enforceable) way.

Digital ownership only works for things that 100% stay in the digital realm, and even then it's not a guarantee.
I'd be very surprised if well written Julia was in the middle speed pack here. I suspect there. are some known performance anti-patterns used if it's slower than Luajit.
That chime sound at https://youtu.be/mEzEbS4uvuo?t=207 - it seems very familiar in auto contexts. Is this where it originated?
Create apps! This is the most needed. We created a tutorial for Kirigami here: https://develop.kde.org/docs/kirigami/. There are also a few tutorials for GTK/libhandy with e.g. https://tuxphones.com/tutorial-developing-responsive-linux-s...

Also join the developer channels on matrix: #plasmamobile:kde.org (not sure that the address for the GNOME one)
Isn't "x is evil/bad/harmful. Government needs to regulate x." basically the entire purpose of society?

I enjoy living in a society, and not having to worry about if every food I eat might poison me, or every bridge I walk over might fall down. If we decide, as a society, it would be better to ban Facebook, why shouldn't we?
That seems like a horrible sideeffect of that system.
Aren't the on market listings limited to something like 1700€... Real pain I noticed when trying to realise the gains. Ofc, you could run multiple accounts, but still...
Norwegian signals end of face mask requirement on Scandinavian flights
That's the point of the article though. SPA is /hard/. Using a normal many-page app, you get scrolling that works across all browser - even mobile - for free, without having to do anything. I'm not saying I necessarily agree, but that's what this article is about.
I was reading that the flue shot also works against covid according to a study. The world will learn to live with covid. I'm more worried about the authoritarians taking advantage of the current crisis.
Everyone mentions the scammy nature of NFTs and cryptocurrencies, but I think the bigger reason might be that Steam doesn't want to be subject to financial reporting requirements when people buy and sell crypto equities on their platform. KYC applied to Steam would be a nightmare.
CME futures are all USD cash settled.

Or are you referring to unregulated futures on some crypto exchanges?
I have no idea where you got your 2-3% fatality rate for COVID from but it's way off the mark. That is the CFR in certain high risk circumstances but the known IFR of the virus after nearly 2 years of study and data collation has been fairly reasonably established by multiple health agencies. Not surprised by the numbers you use though... CDC Best estimates as of March 2021, For all but the very oldest population segments it's well below 1% across all age groups that are not very elderly. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

Or if you prefer Germany, where the most recently estimated fatality rate even for those 50 - 79 doesn't exceed 1%. It's much lower for those below this age range. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...

Many other sources back up these findings across multiple countries.
What about OpenStack Trove DBaaS? OpenStack Trove is like an open source self-hosted Amazon RDS or Google CloudSQL.
https://docs.openstack.org/trove/latest/

FWIU, Trove supports 10+ databases including MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Astronauts surviving a failure is a once in a generation event that gets memorialized forever in movies and literature. Soldiers' equipment failing is a Tuesday.

Increased situational awareness has value, but it is a clear case of diminishing returns. Exactly what the cutoff ought to be is debatable, but that the cutoff exists is certain.
Lol or Steam bans an open source standard for exchanging game content that threatens their business model.
Further on that point, perhaps men don't require as much higher education to make a decent living, at least to start. As a woman, I got a degree because it was the only path I saw to be able to earn close to what my brothers were earning without one in blue collar jobs. As time has progressed however they have become less employable as the job market shifted around but my career has advanced. There was also motivators for me that my brothers didn't have; financial independence. A woman without an education was a lot more limited than a man. For you a PHD wasn't necessary but for a woman it might what is needed to work against gender bias.
CoD items in Minecraft make no sense but imagine two new games adhering to the same metadata in the NFT. Or a new game explicitly made to be compatible with NFT items of another game.
What about NFTs make a compelling argument that they are "the next platform evolution"? Why should I want NFTs in a game?
You can answer this question yourself by comparing the borrowing rates of USDC, DAI, USDT, BUSD, and GUSD. You can learn more by plotting the interest rate basis point spread on a time-series line chart. If the borrow rate for USDT was 18%, the borrow rate for USDC was 6%, and the borrow rate for DAI was 4%, what would that tell you?
Why join when you can run your own market and own most of non-crypto market. And get the nice 5% cut on each transaction.
I do this a lot as well. A useful side-tip to go with that: set your bash history size to be unlimited (or at least really big) to avoid losing less frequently used commands.
Even C# isn't completely immune to trendchasing, although you're right that it's less. Maybe it could also be due to how much effort and money is spent promoting novelty --- and certainly for companies like Google, change is their weapon for fighting competition.
Just gonna jump on the bandwagon here and say that, as somebody who suffers from ADHD, with all due respect, that is 100% USDA certified horseshit.

At the very least, bill monthly and make the trial not auto-renew at full price. And, since the target market is people with executive dysfunction, I'd love to see your team go the extra mile and default to pushing notifications the week before and day before a user's subscription renews, giving them ample time to cancel if it doesn't fit their budget this month.
This doesn't at all make it invalid as a point to consider.
> How many hundreds or thousands of enthusiasts are needed before it's suitable to be a daily driver?

I know your question was rhetorical, but when I think about this, it took close to 20 years of Linux maturing on the desktop before I felt comfortable handing a family member a laptop running Linux. As an enthusiast, I started running it much earlier, but everyday tasks like "printing" or "using Wi-Fi" prevented it from being a daily driver.

Personal computing, though, had a much deeper hacker culture, that encouraged pushing the hardware to its limits, and doing new and novel things with it. Progress stemmed from that (Windows including BSD sockets, for instance). I've never seen anything similar in the phone ecosystem - as soon as you play outside of the walled garden, you drop off into fringe territory. And the PinePhone, as much as I love it, is by definition outside of the walled garden.

I'm not sure, given the culture around phones, we might ever get to the point of it being viable.