skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, Putin just renamed what we usually consider to be a Phase 3 trial to "general availability", while knowing that availability will most likely be seriously constrained anyway in the next months, effectively limiting the deployment of this vaccine to some tens of thousands of hand-selected people, which - there's the catch - is very much in the ballpark of how many participants proper Phase 3 studies also have.

This gives him a quick propaganda win, because it looks like Russia was somehow further along in the race for getting a vaccine broadly available, while they actually aren't - they're just jeopardizing their citizens' health for that quick win, because I bet the early adopters of this "approved vaccine" will not be monitored as well as participants in a proper Phase 3 study commonly are. Also, with no control group inoculated with a placebo, the results are not going to be as conclusive as those of a real study.

This is all based on my assumption that Russia will be unable to snap their fingers and have millions of doses of this vaccine ready within weeks. Unfortunately I haven't seen any reliable information regarding the production constraints and timetable of this particular vaccine. Does anyone know more about that?
Tom Cruise's jacket says a lot about Hollywood's craven attitude to China
Fraction of an percentage is all that is needed much of the time.

A few hindered ballots from a [left/right] leaning district going missing can be enough.

Don’t even need to have individual fraud, just some stats on how likely one area is to vote then “wrong” way.

Hell nursing homes or others could easily swing lots of votes by a single staff.

I’ve dealt with plenty of high officials that have negative documents go missing. It’s just routine for many.
Exactly, I'd be much more concerned about my personal data going to a government that has agency over me than the one that doesn't. The only time I'd have to worry about Chinese government having my data would be if I went to China. On the other hand, as a US citizen I could be dragged into an unmarked van by DHS goons any time based on the data US government collects on me.
From a scientific point of view it was unfortunate that no Rapatronic camera was installed in Beirut:

https://interestingengineering.com/filming-the-first-millise...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapatronic_camera
No company or plan has ever gone back on unlimited promises.

No company has ever defined unlimited to be, "really fast for a little bit, then really slow."
When I did that it was before Typescript existed. If anyone has tried currying with Typescript I'd love to hear how it went.
Agreed. Kuching makes a fantastic base, and it's remarkably easy to visit the incredible, diverse places across the state. My partner and I visited in Autumn 2019 and had an amazing time. Highly recommend Bako national park in particular!
Really cool product! stevoski, if you see this and don't mind me asking, how do you position/sell a product that does less (but is more streamlined) than your competitors?

When I've tried to cold-sell customers in the past, they often want that one feature (a random integration, feature matching from the service I'm replacing, etc.) and aren't willing to make the switch until I add it.

Maybe this wouldn't be a problem if I was marketing instead of selling?
>The object.method(args) "won" because it is a low barrier to entry from English to Programming indeed

BASIC and C didn't have a concept of objects* , which didn't seem to hinder adoption at all.
object.method() became popular when OOP languages became popular, and that was because IDEs offered better autocompletion with that syntax.

* We could emulate objects with C in some gnarly ways. Almost no one did at the time, excluding C-with-classes/C++.
I would assume that nearly every country has a GNP per capita higher than the netherlands did 800 years ago, and modern construction equipment and techniques would make the cost substantially lower.
It was very very clear intent to defraud and it took place before the festival was a failure.

He falsified bank and brokerage statements to make it look like he had millions of dollars in the bank, and falsified transaction data, in order to defraud investors.

Go read the Federal indictment. This was intentional fraud all the way through.
It's less efficient than regular money and government would never allow it to grow to rival.
Why is this not money?

Surely if people can trade these “tokens” for goods or other services, then they’re money?
Here's a quick overview, without getting too much into the minutia or Uber specific differences: https://employment.findlaw.com/employment-discrimination/emp...

tl;dr - "employees" enjoy a lot of benefits & protections, both legally required and provided by their employer, that non-employees (like contractors) simply don't have.
Maalik Network Pivoting and Post Exploitation Framework
But it's also a store value when you can spend those credits a local businesses. If your kid could turn in his stickers for toys or pizza then it would be an apt comparison.

I really like this idea of businesses accepting different types of currencies to encourage specific types of work like charity, volunteering, good grades for kids.
Man, I'm so happy that DB hype is over and I can work with Postgres (which is ~35 years old) without anyone thinking it's the wrong choice.
Luckily we don't need a 100% compliance rate to have vaccination be effective. As long as vaccination pushes the reproduction number below 1 the virus should more or less peter out.

How many people need vaccinating depends on many factors. It'll be dependent on how effective the vaccine is, how many people can't get vaccinated due to nonfunctional immune systems or allergies etc, how many people will keep washing their hands diligently after the worst has passed, and many many other factors.

So with any luck mandatory vaccinations won't be necessary to beat corona virus allowing everyone to keep their bodily autonomy intact as far as vaccinations go.
No.

Having worked with MongoDB for 5+ years now back to PostgreSQL, I do like SQL so much more than a custom query language. I would wish JSON would be better integrated in SQL, it kind of feels like an addon not the core. Otherwise SQL is a fine language.

Also I can leverage 20y of SQL.
Google is matching donations as usual, but they sent an extra email out specifically to ask for donations for helping Beirut.
It's €25 here for unlimited. So only slightly more expensive after conversion.

I really hope they'll drop the daily "limit". They can't legally complain about tethering here. But the daily abuse limit is just an annoying thing.
WITH (CTEs) make queries so much more readable and digestible. As a programmer who now does data and SQL, I latched on to these as soon as I found I could reduce repetition in a query with them.
The New York World story even has its own Snopes page: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/world-series/
> If the USA achieved global dominance, there would be no China. There would only be the USA

That's really not what those words mean. "Dominance" is the fact or state of being dominant, not the state of being the only one in existence. So what I said is that the US dominates the world (geo-political, economic, military, etc.).

Let's put it in more simple terms. If Mike Tyson dominated a boxing match it really doesn't mean he was prancing around alone in the ring. Just that if anyone contested that dominance he'd punch them harder. And if that didn't work he'd bite of their ear. Which is a far more appropriate analogy than it would first seem.
I suspect that this is one reason you're seeing virtual conferences that are charging $50 or whatever. Yeah, it's a few dollars to offset costs. But it also keeps out the "riff-raff" so to speak.

Charging nominal fees are going to keep out the most casual users but I'm not sure it's a bad idea.
Aye, a lot of moving parts, and most of them aren't in your space. You gotta take it on faith that the SaaS provider is doing their due diligence.
Ask HN: Which jobs suit a new grad good at systems thinking and problem solving?
Give me the verdict for 2020 and ahead please. Of course, I'm asking about jobs that pay quite well. I don't want to get into very-low-level languages or work that has excessive formalizing.

I'd love to hear about non-technical or less-technical roles that demand these skills as well.

I would be very, very grateful for your inputs.
Not if the project is written well. Yes, dependency hell is a thing, but there are ways to deal with it and make good code. Autotools will straight up tell you version x.x.x of library y is required, and as long as that's available, the problem is solved. Dependency hell is a thing in other languages too -- try to compile a really old Java project sometime.

I spend most of my time working deep in the internals of some things that are 10+ years old running even older versions of some highly (and often badly) modified linux kernels. The well written C/C++ projects definitely stand out.
I'd argue that while Reed-Solomon is used in QR codes, the math behind it is not central to explaining how to create a QR code, and there are plenty of material available on Reed-Solomon.

Specific framing/padding of the data is what makes a QR code. This may be simpler than explaining how Reed-Solomon codes work but it is not obvious.

I think it is good that this article stays on point.
"This investment reflects our belief that Bitcoin, as the world’s most widely-adopted cryptocurrency, is a dependable store of value and an attractive investment asset with more long-term appreciation potential than holding cash."
- Michael J. Saylor, CEO
The CEO of Stripe, Patrick Collison, is pretty widely regarded as being a sweetheart, and at the age of 31 he’s already got almost 50% of the net worth Jobs had when he died. Arguably then, he’s far more successful for his age, and far kinder. There’s many other examples too, so this toxic “CEOs have to be assholes to succeed” trope should really die. Jobs was more likely successful in spite of his sometimes cruel idiosyncrasies, and almost certainly not because of them.
This, exactly. I think the Theranos scheme was somewhat similar, albeit not as far along the "fraud" spectrum as Fyre. I have the impression that most successful startups involve someone overstating what they've got already done, in order to rally a bunch of people around the imagined upcoming success. In some cases, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the people around McFarland had somehow pulled it off, we might be seeing his picture on business magazines.

Of course, none of this means McFarland was in any way innocent. But the difference between "scam artist" and "successful startup entrepreneur", while not at all illusionary, might be one more of degree than kind.
Is anybody distributing debian packages of builds off this branch? It's been some years since I built emacs from source...
It's exactly correct. The two points aren't in opposition.
So your argument is that since Uber was classifying them as contractors, they should always be able to?

According to a quick search, they have 900,000 drivers and 27,000 employees. At most 3-ish% of the people that they pay to work for them are tech employees (and we can probably safely assume most of those 27,000 are not tech).
Online payments group Stripe poaches GM’s finance chief
https://burstsms.com, no coding required.
Even if rush hour has 10 times more traffic than off hours, that's still only 4 requests per second. Any unoptimized Postgres on a 2/2 node should be able to handle these loads just fine.
My problem with these approaches, is what's the next step? Do you implement GUI buttons on top of canvas and push pixels in WASM? Do you try and do something like ImGui and use WebGL? None of these approaches are efficient. If you are making a native app because it would be more efficient, I'm not sure what the point of this approach is.
S4E13a Elixir Wizards Dojo: Nerves Part 1 with Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck
I think his argument is that the ABC test was crafted to ensure that Uber/Lyft failed the test, as it was only made effective January 1.
Tom Bilyeu – From the kitchen to a billion dollar food company
One thing to think of is not to be valuable to them.

So for instance, ALWAYS do HTML sanitization via whitelist; don't let anyone put any javascript or any weird CSS or HTML into your posted content that you don't allow there.

If you allow links, make sure they all have the "nofollow" tag, so that you can't be used for link farming. (Both because it helps spammers, and because if Google detects that your site is being used for link farming, your own sites bomb.)

Other tricks spammers use: Using a link for the username, since that is sometimes emailed or displayed even when moderated content is not.

The site I run is a special-purpose conference website for a relatively small community (usually 60-100 attendees), so manually moderating all content until a user is verified works pretty well. The first year we had a handful of spammers, but their content was all deleted by me before it was seen by anyone. (With the exception of the link for a username. Missed that trick.) The next year we didn't have any spam accounts at all.

No idea how well that will scale for your use case.
Experts On News: Reddit hacked and defaced with pro-Trump messages
"Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature. Cyberpunk is about how technology won't." - Stephen Lea Sheppard.

This is definitely in the "won't" category.
Covid-19 Relief SOS
Migrating Existing Ansible Content into a Dedicated Ansible Collection
Our previous president got into his first office by disqualify all his opponents over signatures.

http://ballot-access.org/2008/06/01/cnn-re-publicizes-accoun...
That's the average.

Of course, hits are not homogeneously distributed. But an average of less than one hit a second leaves more than enough leeway for any reasonable clustering you may come with. Any small computer can handle thousands of times more than that.

There is some questions about bandwidth costs, that can vary wildly.
I run a mediawiki site. I got to play the cat and mouse game as well. For a while I was getting hundreds of spam page creations per day despite implementing as many defenses as I could. I was at least once a day going through and deleting the spam posts using the Smite Spam plugin. It's finally calmed down and I get one or two posts maybe every couple of weeks. I think I may have finally been removed from the site list of whatever "packaged" software the spammers use.
That doesn't imply they are looking at the data during regular operation. That just means that the user is liable for breach of contract if they post noncompliant links. The first point in time where the admin really has to look at the data would be during the discovery phase of the corresponding lawsuit between operator and customer.
> This has pretty much completely stopped the visible abuse.

This process works well but it can also turn away a ton of people from ever joining.

I know there's this one product that only offers support through public forums and new accounts need to be reviewed by a moderator and then you're not allowed to post any threads until you've made a few replies to other threads and it's been white listed by a moderator, and then on top of that and you also can't use links until you've met some other criteria.

But in order to get proper support it requires linking to large files (videos) that aren't able to be uploaded directly through the forums.

It becomes such a pain in the ass to open a support request. It could easily take over a week just to post your question and the worst part about it is the forum software orders posts by date, and your post will be buried on the 8th page before it's visible because it takes your original pre-moderated post date as when it was created.
I can’t get over the Amazon non-disparagement requirement for all podcasts hosted on the platform.
Ch. 16

> "Technically, it would be perfectly simple to reduce all lower-caste working hours to three or four a day. But would they be any the happier for that? No, they wouldn't. The experiment was tried, more than a century and a half ago. The whole of Ireland was put on to the four-hour day. What was the result? Unrest and a large increase in the consumption of soma; that was all. Those three and a half hours of extra leisure were so far from being a source of happiness, that people felt constrained to take a holiday from them."

(Note the implicit english attitude to ireland, or compare some of our current deltas' attitudes to quarantine.)
Keep in mind if you are writing software to read text files, that last newline may not be there.
It depends a bit on the jurisdiction (I'm not really sure if laws or local culture came first, but they tend to go hand-in-hand for this issue).

E.g., in CA there are only a few whitelisted situations where your employer could own your side project, and in all other cases it belongs to you. As a matter of practice, most companies in the area allow side projects, and many "require" that you ask permission -- since they'll just rubber stamp approval onto whatever you're doing anyway, that typically works out in your favor; now you have written proof that your employer doesn't want to exercise any potential claims to your project even if it nominally seems to infringe on their business.
Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Before Completing Tests
At least PDF books and papers are mostly self-contained and easily accessible in their pristine condition. This piece looks very inflammatory and appears to say "PDF is bad because PDF is not web" in too many words.
OpenFaaS with TLS via Faasd and Terraform on Openstack
In the early 2010s I participated in a time bank, run along similar lines: http://timetradecircle.org/ (Cambridge MA)

It didn't work very well. People with valuable skills were generally not willing to offer them, and instead people would offer to do only fun things. So you would see lots of unmatched requests for things that required specific skills (legal, taxes, plumbing, computers) or difficult work (carrying heavy things, babysitting), and lots of offers for amateur interior decorating advice etc.

Additionally, everyone who signed up started with 10 hours in the bank, effectively printing money, which made it even more unbalanced.
As long as it's not very successful and not taking your time it's not an issue.
Would charging for signup, even $1.00, eliminate essentially all of the abuse?
> the president's order appeared rushed and did not include carveouts or exceptions for TikTok to maintain any legal representation, which the company plans to argue is a violation of due process rights. [...] Typically, if the federal government launches an investigation, it will inform the company with a subpoena or some other kind of notice [...] no such outreach from the White House requesting evidence took place before Thursday's executive order. TikTok lawyers view that as shortcutting standard procedure.

These are pretty ironic allegations considering It's all because they are Chinese owned.
Here is a list of 20 companies buying Bitcoin recently:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/08/06/v...

Keep in mind that 250 mil, and 250 mil times 20 is a drop in the $214.4 billion bitcoin market cap and doesn't move anything. Just a sign of mild interest.

Furthermore, Grayscale just ran a crypto ad campaign on large TV networks such as Fox.
And I guess the corollary would be that if you believe society to be sick, then the way to fix it is not to proclaim oneself to be a rebel and separate or look down on the “normal” people around you, that will not change anything and just makes you look like a jerk. Instead you should first understand why society is sick, figure out who is benefiting from it, and organize in opposition to those forces. That takes a lot more work and maturity, of course and is much less fun, but real change has always been the result of a lot of dangerous, thankless work with no guarantee of success. Acting like a rebel without a cause is lots of fun but is useless and immature.
Which is what the US seems to be attempting to do. The president does, under the law, have fairly broad powers when it comes to foreign nations.
>"With manufacturing solved, they just had to figure out how to sell the bars (minor detail).

Tom sent a thousand hand-written letters (including Quest bars) to fitness influencers. And, as these workout warriors started flexin’ their social muscles, the sales started rollin’ in. Tom estimates they did close to $10 million in e-commerce revenue by year two, before ever moving into retail.

Quest grew a loyal following by giving out thousands of free protein bars.

GNC and Vitamin Shop were the first retailers to sell Quest. To gain more exposure, Quest used thousands of brand ambassadors to push the product. From Crossfit events to local health fairs, Quest tried to get in front of as many community-minded people as possible.

What makes Quest so much different than their competitors?

From day one, Tom and his team were 100% keyed in on the “why,” which, in their case, was to end metabolic disease. That means when it comes to new product launches, the team sacrifices product margin to provide as much value as possible to the customer.

They’re also leading the pack in customer service. No joke, Tom once received a complaint that a customer chipped a tooth on a Quest bar… so he covered their dental bill (PSA: Don’t try this at home).

And what have they gotten for going the extra mile? Oh, just insane growth numbers — by year 4, they hit $105 million in sales, all without any outside funding."
SQL is messy because describing the underlying data relationships are messy.

The article presents several examples where SQL's messiness cannot be plausibly attributed to underlying data relationship messiness.
In California employers are absolutely not allowed to prevent workers from working for competitors outside of their working hours.

You are correct that they can limit vacation time, but Uber could also limit vacation time for contractors. There is nothing specific in California employment law that does not allow employers and employees to mutually agree to open vacation time.
wasn't quanatative easing done for like a decade after tbe recession with no inflation? why is there any reason to think this time around will be different? scale?
Startup idea: a messenger that allows small communities to create their own currencies and provides a way to convert between them. Basically Internet, but for money.

...It'll turn into an even bigger scam than cryptocurrencies, but the idea seems interesting...
"Arcadia and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" is quite a Stoppardesque grammatical construction.
"it starts decaying into normal matter"

Thanks - I had managed to miss the fact that being made in a neutron star collision implies that things like gold were once part of neutron stars.

I think this exceeds the coolness of having been in a supernova.
The key here is manual moderation. At NodeBB we also have had our fair share of spam companies trying to build scripts to post things, and the only foolproof solution is manual moderation via a post queue for new users.

The downside, of course, is that they takes effort to maintain, and is a barrier to entry for new accounts.
And it was a very important feature too, back when internet was slow.
The Advantages of a Community Currency (2014)
I also think that most of these “lots” are just for one item.

However, I think that the bids are probably mostly earnest.

As streetware a lot of this could probably be considered collector’s items among the hype beast crowd. The prices seem to be in a range similar to supreme and similar.
The finance industry loves it. Their bureaucracy ran on documents, and it still does, but now those documents can run code.
Well yeah, that's HP for ya, lol

The Dell ones are a bit better, but still nowhere near the same quality as a proper TrackPoint.