skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because they aim at normies, not boardgamers (normies are the risk/monopoly crowd). Also they were on the market 'first' with a mass appeal. They are, however, not good games.

A million flies eating shit doesn't make shit good.
I am surprised why anyone is discussing who signed first, given that in the contract AstraZeneca warrants that:

"it is not under any obligation, contractual or otherwise, to any Person or third
party in respect of the Initial Europe Doses or that conflicts with or is inconsistent
in any material respect with the terms of this Agreement or that would impede the
complete fulfillment of its obligations under this Agreement;"

This ended up not being true, which was not totally unexpected.

AstraZeneca ends up in the bad position of choosing on which of their contracts their will fail, and they evidently chose to fail the EU's in its near totality for the next few months.

It pains me to see the cynicism in shielding behind "best effort" clauses (standard in any procurement under R&D) or in "who came first". It's a serious matter that warrants a cooler and more balanced solution that this.
If this tweet is correct [1] then the EU hasn't even paid the down payments yet so the contract isn't even enforceable.

[1] https://twitter.com/BarristersHorse/status/13551877383042539...
> All you have to do is simply buy at current price and hold. The item you're buying may be GME stock, but now it also has an attached buyer that is contractually obligated to buy at ANY price. That is the premium people are paying for GME stock.

If you buy high and hold, they can't buy from you.

So even if they buy at a high price from someone else... which is great for that someone else, sure... what are you getting out of it?

If you bought earlier and are trying to sell now, the answer is obvious, but then... that's a VERY different game than the one people claim to be playing.
100,000 reviews is 33% of all the reviews RH has ever gotten. In a single day. Coincidentally, the same day that the sub-reddit decided to make a false accusation that RH was preventing the trading of GME as a favour to Citadel.
State of Web Monetization Ecosystem in 2020
> All people have to do is HODL the stock

Fixed that for you. The underlying problem with that plan is that "all people" will never manage to HODL a stock that keeps rising. Sooner or later a few lucky HODLers will take their gains, and then the whole scheme will end. It's a bubble, no different than the previous bear raid was. The truth is most likely in the middle.
A little feedback: blog posts about how to use small interesting features can help prospective users form a simple mental model of how Hirundin works. That can help the big concepts presented in the site to stick to something the user already sees some practical value in.

Or: maybe work with a persona for a drive-by visitor who could really use Hirundin but doesn't have a lot of time to read about it or try the demo. Maybe do A/B tests of showing a simple task how to ("how to setup an A/B test and goals with Hirudin"?) and see if it improves the time users spend on the site/demo.

Edited to add: looks really interesting and likely to have big positive impacts for many teams.
The author is a 68 year old political scientist. The article is more like a political statement than a consumer advocacy piece.
Remembering The Sims, getting nostalgic about PC games
> Perhaps you can point to what in particular the UK has done wrong on this vaccine issue.

This is the thing. The EU is complaining about AstraZeneca and not the UK itself. AstraZeneca is being accused of transferring supplies from EU factories to UK ones and only providing those to the UK.

> now threatening war time-esque controls over production and intellectual property rights of private pharma companies, it is not AstraZeneca that this will cost big,

I think we think differently on this matter. You think Pharma won't want to deal with the EU if their IP isn't protected. It doesn't matter, another company will enter using their IP and make that money anyways. Their IP being protected is only in the interested of the company, if their IP is not protected they will lose out to generic companies. Doesn't matter where it's developed, someone get it and figure it out and produce it where the IPs are not protected. Drug companies have lots to lose.
Author here. I'm a professor that teaches software engineering and occasionally web development, sooo I think your comparison is inapt...
Which is exactly why AZ split the UK/EU supply chain to try avoid such issues entirely (CEOs words.) The contract is vague and nonspecific about commiting UK factories to supply the EU.

The whole thing is a parody of Brussels bureaucratism.
I recently read that a development branch of Java had Joule-based Capabilities, but that the SecurityManager model was ultimately preferred for simplicity. What a loss.
In Java, the “each public class is in its own file named after the class” rule is enforced by the compiler and there’s no switch to disable this behavior.
Russia and China may quite possibly have copies of some of NASA's export-controlled software anyway - through computer intrusion, or through old-fashioned means of espionage (threaten/induce someone with access to a copy to give it to them.) If there was some particular item they wanted, they probably could come up with it through those methods, given enough time and effort.
Note: this article is currently getting dunked on social media for blatant historical factual errors, particularly "examples of socialist countries include Nazi Germany".

EDIT: Article was just deleted.
PC games nostalgia – remembering Grim Fandango
Stripe is the example I always use at work of a top shelf home page.
I don't understand why there's a comparison with the UK vaccination program at play here. Your comment is precisely the type of incendiary fallacy that OP is accusing the BBC if.

EU is claiming that AZ is breaching the contract it had with them. Whether they are in the right or not, what does the UK's relationship with AZ have to do with it?
The internet mob does not wait for pesky delays of "evidence"!
It looks like the prevailing explanation is that DTCC increased collateral requirements and some brokers couldn't handle that.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-29/reddit...
Have you written any collision deta code? The difference between collision detection between two boxes in 2d , and two convex hulls in 3d is many orders of magnitude.

Compare [0] to [1]. Being 2D makes factorio many many times simpler than an equivalent 3d game.

None of that has any bearing on the quality of the game,it's an excellent game, and a great technical product to boot.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Techniques/2D...

[1] https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0003
Aquinas's Natural Law Isn't Only About Human Beings
Nice follow up @ttanelpoder to "RAM is the new disk" (2015)[1] which we talked about not even two weeks ago!

I was quite surprised to hear in that thread that AMD's infiniband was so oversubscribed. There's 256GBps of pcie on a 1P butit seems like this 66GBps is all the fabric can do. A little under a 4:1 oversubscription!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25863093
Why let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

> Legal sanction against law enforcement officer misrepresentation is a more attainable control point than 100% awareness and compliance with "don't talk to police".

The latter advice is valid, and I agree with it. The change in law, with both sanctions (against officers and departments transacting such conduct) and exclusions on all evidence and testimony resulting, would be vastly more effective.

I don't think the legal sanctions would actually _do_ anything, because legal sanctions _never_ do anything. Cops still commit crimes, however you define "commit crimes", _every day_ with zero penalty.

So, any argument that says "we should ask police to stop lying, and if they lie, we'll write them up!" sounds like a non-starter.

On the flip side, we don't need 100% awareness of "don't talk to police", we just need awareness to trickle into the percentage of society that has encounters with police every year.

Supposedly, there's 700k police officers in the USA right now.[0]

Each of those probably interacts with at least 5 people a day, but there's very much a 80:20 principle in _multiple_ contacts with police in a year.

So, I'd settle with 200mm people in the USA knowing this principle. That's a measly 2/3rds of the US population. A good and entertaining music video that highlighted this fact would get us half-way there in one fell swoop.

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/191694/number-of-law-enf...
So we should discount the evidence given by many independent actors that the issue behind Thursday's restriction of trades (that occurred on several independent retail platforms!) was a mundane issue regarding risk in clearance in favor of the hypothesis that RH was colluding^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H taking the sword for other financial institutions, because... some financial people lied a decade ago?

There's a perfectly rational explanation for what happened yesterday that is backed up with an understanding of how the financial system actually not works, not the pretense that is usually pretended by the public, and that doesn't involve a nefarious scheme to manipulate the market. Don't let your desire to vilify Robinhood and the financial system in general blind yourself from evidence to the contrary.
We think we can be most helpful for life science companies, but if you think we could be really helpful still please feel free to apply.

No need for a PhD.
> how much of the older/larger capacity can be reused?

Not only reused, but expanded, and improved over the years.

So more than 100% of the original.

The biggest surprise of the last few years was the growth in really, really old 200mm fab capacity (late eighties, early nineties tech.)
I should state that I had in mind police interactions similar to traffic stops. Boldly proclaiming you don't consent to a search or you refuse to answer questions can lead to a tough time for you. I think in general one should strive for de-escalation, and being overly compliant in the above type interaction. Once you are arrested then definitely assert your rights. It's unfortunate that police powers are such that we can't assert out rights without fear of retribution.

I strongly disagree with your last sentence. I believe cops will take advantage of those who can't afford lawyers as long as there are no real consequences to them.
> in respect of the Initial Europe Doses

There is text blacked out in the definition of Initial Europe Doses after "within the EU" that I'm curious about.

Also, the clause reads "AstraZeneca has committed to use Best Reasonable Efforts...to build capacity to manufacture 300 million Doses of the Vaccine...for distribution within the EU..." That's ambiguous with respect to distribution.

AstraZeneca are using Best Reasonable Efforts to build this manufacturing capacity. But they aren't under Best Reasonable Efforts obligations to use this capacity for the EU. (The definition of Best Reasonable Efforts overlooks distribution entirely.)

It's a shitty situation. Pain has to be allocated. But based on contract, versus loose notions of fairness, AstraZeneca is under no obligation to export British-made doses to the EU.
Interesting to me because I have experimented with various medication to find something that would work for my mental and physical problems. I think I've tried over 20 different drugs and combinations of them.

Unlike Gwern, I still haven't shared any of it because I couldn't get my grabby hands on any of the actually effective ones, not even some more effective reuptake inhibitors (like, come on, I'm not asking for much, shitty healthcare systems!).

Plus, I don't think anyone cares... but apparently some people do huh.
Yes, before hardware inline kTLS offload, we were limited to 200Gb/s or so with Naples. With Rome, its a bit higher. But hardware inline kTLS with the Mellanox CX6-DX eliminates memory bandwidth as a bottleneck.

The current bottleneck is IO related, and its unclear what the issue is. We're working with the hardware vendors to try to figure it out. We should be getting about 390Gb/s
Joern – Open-Source Code Querying Engine for C/C++
Most people seem to have been led to understand that the short leverage of 140% meant that when the short call happens, the hedge fund will "have to buy more stock than exists" to settle, and thus that something like an infinite price spike will happen. The same people tend to refer to this as a "naked short", which it is not[1]. Most of these people seem to have latched onto a theory that the short calls are all coming due today and that they NEED to buy as much GME as possible ahead of the metaphorical rapture.

But the hedge funds in question closed out their short positions days ago. The stock right now is being propped up by simple (and misinformed) speculation. And effectively all of the purchase price that people are paying right now is going to end up being transferred to the people with earlier positions who are getting out at the peak of the bubble.

[1] A naked short is a short sale where no underlying stock was borrowed first. This is a crime, but only possible for certain very privileged traders with control over the various tracking records. Leverage over 100% just means (for example) that you borrowed a share, sold it, then later went to the same buyer and borrowed it again. You end up owing them "two shares", but not necessarily the same share twice. In practice what happened is that as the stock started rising, Melvin closed its position buy repeatedly buying and returning shares to the tune of 140% of the capitalization. (Edit to add: it seems likely that it did so in combination with a bunch of loans and favors from other hedge funds with the ability to buy and hold GME across the inevitable collapse. The WSB folks complaining about hedge fund corruption and insider dealing aren't wrong.)
cheap microcontrollers:

ESP32: WiFI, no USB

RP2040: USB, no WiFi

:(
There are a few lossy transformations you can make to an image before saving it as a PNG that result in a lossy compressed PNG that's smaller than the image otherwise would be. This idea was used a ton with GIFs, it's less popular with PNGs, though. pngquant is one tool I know of that does this.

That said, I have no clue if such techniques would result in a smaller image than this approach.
I really really don't think so. In my experience, 3d games are orders of magnitude more complicated than 2d games.
Look at the math, the stock is shorted over 100%. Around 120% last time I checked.

Who has 120% of stocks to sell back to billionaire short sellers?

The billionaire vulture short sellers created this mess. Now, they are the one's that have to pay the price.
In the long run, for sure -- but often a lot more than people think can be done to start building momentum with a small amount of money for these types of companies. For example, the company I'm currently CEO of started with $250,000 initially, and that allowed us to figure things out to make a lot more progress and raise a lot more funding.

That said if you need more money than what we are offering at the start, our first thing to do will be to help you figure out a greater fundraising process.
Second on Optane.
The fab will eventually be upgraded. I design semiconductors and I have worked at two companies that had their own fabs (I didn't work in the fab)

Back in 1997 the new technology was 0.25 micron (250nm) but we still operated fabs at 0.35, 0.6, 0.8, and 1 micron. I believe these 4 lines operated at 6 different factories.

The next year we shut down the 1 micron fab. The building itself still had all the air filtering and cleanroom facilities. The old equipment (steppers, testers) was removed and new equipment for 0.18 micron was installed. I think this took about a year. At the end we still had 6 factories but the building that used to have all the old stuff was now the cutting edge fab.
if they want it to be fast and performant they should check out source hut for inspiration. I find all the animation and interactions jarring persoally. Maybe they should just ditch it all - that should speed things up!
Not having progress bars on PRs and issues could maybe be something they look at next.
I think the emphasis on small businesses is a distraction from the main point. (See it's working!)

Fundamentally, whether this is going to favor the mega-corps or not, I don't want people tracking me. I don't want companies having the sort of information Facebook and Google have, they've demonstrated they are poor stewards of our data. At the same time, I don't want additional companies to gain access to a stream of information about me, regardless of whether that helps FB and GOOG or not.

If helping FB and GOOG is the cost of keeping more information about myself (My family, etc) private, then I guess I'm Ok with that. It's the lesser of 2 evils.
Has there been any update on an arrangement with the employee that was wrongfully fired for expressing that his coworkers remain safe from Nazi demonstrators?[1]

1. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55704932
I thought about this long ago.

The answer is that the casino-like activity of the secondary market provides a great incentive to companies to primary-list. This engine drives business formation through the valuations it can provide to companies. And companies can issue more shares to raise more capital from the very liquid casino. So it's helpful in that way.
QI is horrifically racist. A group of black community members and pastors, I believe, were getting some coffee before boarding a Greyhound, and an officer "moved them on", so as to prevent (in his perception or claim) a dangerous situation from a group of people who were "upset" by this.

They refused, and despite no crime being committed (as was later shown in court, with a directed verdict of no violation), all fifteen of them were arrested.

They sued, claiming civil rights violations. Courts found 1) that there was indeed a lack of constitutionality in what happened, and 2) police were not required to "predict"(?) what laws were constitutional or not.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierson_v._Ray

This rubs me the wrong way in a much less egregious way. I'm an avid photographer, and while my area isn't really focused in a problematic way, I've read many a story of photographers being prevented from photographing police, or in public, or similar.

We are expected to know what our constitutional rights are - remember, "ignorance is no excuse" when it comes to the law for us.

But, as above, multiple police chiefs have said, when addressing issues of such photographers being later released without charge, "We cannot expect our police to be constitutional lawyers".

This is an issue to the extent that things like this are created: http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
> [1] Specifically, they're required by the DTCC to put up a deposit on every trade their users make. During periods of low volatility this is fine because they can come up with the money, but when volatility goes up so do the deposit requirements, which can cause them to become insolvent. This is further compounded by the fact that their product invisibly hands out margin, eg. "instant" deposits of $1000, or giving you the money before it settles (2 days later).

Assuming they aren't allowing any margin to be used on GME (including instant deposits) how could they possibly not come up with the money? Does that mean they are doing other stuff with users money and only fractionally paying for shares? The clearinghouse (normally) just assumes they are good for it if they ever need to come get it?

EDIT: Apparently it is a fractional deposit that the clearing house requires. Apparently though, it can't be client money. So my next question is, why is that?
> me.variable sounds Irish to me

Only if you're used to the derogatory, clichéd "American TV" version of Irish.
My experience has been that no one can give you as much grief and hostility as a free user. Even charging a buck a month leads to an enormous step up in customer courtesy in my world—I don't know if it applies equally to yours.
In many places it's not legal to lie to the police or any government official, in the US other otherwise.
The rest of the quote is quite relevant.

> To be fair, I'm not a web developer so I'm not entirely shocked by this. I only have the itch (and time) to throw together a small web app about once every 6 months.

A better rebuttal is, do you make a [small] outdoor irrigation system or fix a [simple] head gasket "once every 6 months"? I added the adjectives to better compare to his stated "small web app".

I think it's reasonable to expect someone who "throw[s] together a small web app about once every 6 months" to be able to do it without googling, but it isn't how software development is taught. When studying something to master it you start with the basics and do them over and over until you understand them. We don't (tend to) do that in software development, I think for two primary reasons: 1) there's more "important, urgent" things to do and 2) things change so quickly that probably half of what you learn today will be unused in a year (of course if you learn the very basics those rarely change, but I'm talking about the things we all know change so frequently, but were good decisions at the time)
> they lose face if they lose

Well, they gain face if they win, and the only way to get ahead in a bureaucracy like the FBIs is to pump up the numbers. As I recall, the agent who was in charge of the Martha Stewart case in particular rose to a significant level of prominence, despite the fact that they never managed to convict her of anything securities-related.
We have a google form you can fill out here if you are looking for a co-founder: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeHVqqOMBoWa_O3RyuI...
I guess ideally AZ wouldn't enter multiple contracts that conflict with each other...
Youtube does this to downvotes on any youtube video of Biden.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/justthenews.com/politics-policy...
Their "What Is Communism?" is pretty funny too: https://learn.robinhood.com/articles/2VvHAZzhmlzTgx2KYKMZcI/...
Secondary markets provide liquidity for primary investors which makes making primary investments much more attractive. A stock market is just a highly organized kind of secondary market. How many VC investors there would be if they could never sell, or if they could only sell at prices which were random? Without a secondary market all investments would be permanent and that would make investing much less attractive.

Secondary markets also provide important capital allocation benefits. They make it easier for good companies to raise additional capital (e.g. via a rights issue) or buy other businesses (using their shares). They also provide an important benchmarking role allowing non-listed companies to price transactions on the basis of listed company valuations.
I don't think the initial surge of enthusiasm has run its course. Most are stuck trying to find another place to buy in due to RobinHood closing off purchases.
>> I remember WhatsApp used to operate its 500M user with only a dozen of large FreeBSD boxes.

With 1TB of RAM you can have 256 bytes for every person on earth live in memory. With SSD either as virtual memory or keeping an index in RAM, you can do meaningful work in real time, probably as fast as the network will allow.
We'll likely have events in the future for people that are thinking about this but aren't ready yet to get started -- the main thing we care about is creating a community of scientist founders to help one another.
The plan was for the next month to be building out a library of how-to feature/benefit pieces, and all the documentation, so that fits with our roadmap nicely. Nice to hear we're probably on the right track there!
Brilliant, our end goal is an artificial brain. Simulate disease / Alzheimer's / Epilepsy . One of the experiments we would like to run involves mini brains. Filling out the submission form now.