skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timing matters because that's when AZ could start ramping up production. It's incredibly expensive to build new plants, and they're already doing this with no margin for profit, so they can't just do that in the hope that the EU eventually gets off its arse and decides to buy the vaccine. I mean: the EU still hasn't decided whether to even give the AZ vaccine to the most at risk people.

The timeline:

- The UK paid for research and development of a new vaccine.

- The UK pre-ordered X amount of vaccine.

- AZ began setting up facilities in the UK to manufacture X amount of vaccine

- Three months later, the EU pre-orders Y amount of vaccine.

- AZ begins setting up EU plants to produce Y amount of vaccine. If you check the contract, the EU specifically says that the plants must be built in the EU, and that AZ would need special permission to use UK plants, so of course AZ are not going to reserve extra capacity in the UK for this contract.

- The EU plants suffered problems ramping up production, in large part because the shorter schedule set by the EU.

The provisioning for the EU contract has nothing to do with the prior UK contract.
There's nothing that "stinks" here, only poor planning on behalf of the EU bureaucracy and a sprinkle of bad luck. Had the EU not stipulated that the plants be built in the EU, AZ would have likely been able to provision more capacity more quickly. Had the EU placed their order earlier, there would have been more time for AZ to resolve the issues in the EU plants. Had the EU responded to the drop in production by asking for assistance from the UK, or by attempting to assist AZ, instead of throwing its weight around, I would have a lot more sympathy.

The EU, in its slowness to react, has actively harmed its member nations, and is now looking for a scapegoat (AZ) to blame to avoid the repurcussions.
This is as I understood it. There is a lot of misinformation from folks who believe to understand the entire situation from all players' perspective. I am not able to comprehend the situation well enough. If anyone has seen a good non-biased write up on what has happened so far and what may happen, I would love to see it.
Are they separate layers? Could I use IPFS in my own project, or is it intrinsically tied to Filecoin?
...yes, of course I'm familiar with Filecoin. If that is the explanation for how speculation prompts use of IPFS over Freenet (both of which I adore), then there is no explanation.
dang simply remembers all the item?id=N. Which is easy because they're sequential. To make the list, mentally go through the numbers and paste in the urls that are relevant.
At least the original occupy was neutral when it comes to wealth inequality. This will likely enrich the few who got in early, at the expense of everyone else who got in late.
The original behavior of disorderfs was to randomly shuffle directory entries, but we quickly realized that this meant that sometimes the shuffle wouldn't do anything, so I changed the default behavior to simply reverse the directory entries instead. Therefore, you only have to build twice. (Ironically, disorderfs' "non-determinism" is actually deterministic.)

As to your original question, there are so many sources of nondeterminism that trying to emulate them all away would make builds more complicated, less performant (FUSE adds overhead), and less safe (since there would be more components that could potentially be backdoored).
I keep seeing “DD” and I’m finally going to ask: what does this stand for.
Please be patient, I seem to be experiencing some genuine cognitive dissonance. Rare to catch oneself at it so I hope you'll help.

In your example, if I understand it, I go to Alice, take her share and give her an IOU. I give the share to Bob, and take his money. Then I go to bob, take his share and give him an IOU. I give the share to Christy, and take her money.

I have two people's money, and two people have my IOU's. If ten shares exist and these are the only shares that changed hands, it would be 20% shorted - or am I misunderstanding already?

Assuming I'm not, I would think I need to buy any two of these ten shares to give one each to Alice and Bob, and it could be the same one if Bob or Alice sell it back to me after I return it for my IOU. Okay, so far so good for a 20% short position.

If the shares were 140% shorted, that would imply that I've sold each of the ten shares once, and four of them twice. This sounds like the same situation in theory except that now rather than having the option of buying a share from someone whom I've just returned it to for an IOU I now have to do that - four times at least in total. The difference practically though seems to be that people know I don't have much bargaining power. If ten of the twenty-four people who own either a share or one of my IOU's conspire to not sell me a share back at any price, I'm in a world of hurt - and the more shares I've sold, the higher the odds that enough of the people owning these shares would want to do exactly that.

Am I misunderstanding something?
Difference is that flu vaccines are mass-produced in advance of flu season based on a prediction of what the flu season will be.

Here, we're targeting the actively-circulating virus. The match should be better, but getting enough into arms is the obvious problem.
> Could be? It's an open, publicly-documented market manipulation event.

And required the coordination of a 18th century war to pull off. It's one thing if this was "led" by an individual, organization, etc. but it wasn't. It was the wisdom of the crowds who played by the very same rules that the hedge funds play.

> You might decide that this kind of manipulation is OK due to it's stated goals

Where did every stock holder publicly state their case? If Jim Cramer says "i think you should buy AAPL" and everyone does it, is that manipulation?

> How can there be any question about it?

Easy. If it were illegal, who would prosecute?
There are also Metric Cups, Imperial Cups, American Cups and Japanese Cups. Good luck following a recipe now.
Actually RH already won: they just got $1B extra from the investors. Also I’m sure what retail investors experience now (dealing with lower lever details of the abstraction they were used to) was known by more experienced traders, but I still think that it’s better to lose money this way than trusting in a pension fund for 50 years that hides everything.
GME is worth what a few dozen billion at its current valuation? How would that impact SPX, DJIA, etc.
Twitter simply becoming a large ActivityPub server sounds nice in theory. But in practice it would be no different than it is today, because they would just blacklist servers and make everyone submit, right?

A more attractive approach would probably be something more p2p like SSB or the Iris project. But at that point, Twitter can’t really do much to “brand” that as Twitter.
I think it depends on how it's linked/embedded. The street names showed up fine for me on the main site just now, but embedded versions on company websites etc. often only show 1-2 street names and leave the rest blank. Same with the mobile version iirc.
> I know, I’m using cups and teaspoons and not something more universal like grams. If my little model becomes a smash hit, I will try to add metric system support.

It's not that cups/teaspoons aren't universal that makes them noteworthy, it's that they're volumetric. You should be measuring your dry ingredients by weight. The unit isn't that important, we can convert once you start measuring properly.
Coding. Not being smarmy.
Do they have any competition worth mentioning? If not, then I think you are right.

I don't live in the US, but my countries Robinhood like trading app shot up to #1 in our app store.
In the case of shorting a stock, the broker is owed shares of the stock by the firm who shorted it. The broker is absolutely still "on the line for it". Its a red line in their books. But in this situation, there's no one going out into the markets to buy a share to repay the broker.

The remaining assets the firm has would be liquidated, those would be used to pay off debts, including those owed to the brokerage. I'm not 100% sure how this works, like, if the estate would purchase as many shares owed as possible, or if they would settle in cash with the brokerage, or what. But, regardless, that wouldn't happen until long after the epicenter of this black swan event.
I think I could do it if the front-end is all custom HTML/JS/CSS and the back-end is just Express. Might have to cheat and use a local file instead of a database. Could be an interesting exercise.

Of course deployment will have to just be:

git pull origin master
npm start
I don't think the claim is that it's wrong, I think it's just trying to answer "Why do people constantly have to re-invent the wheel? :(".

"X but we monetized it" (which includes "X but we got VCs to pay us") is an extremely common reason to reinvent X.
The same applies to Freenet:

- Anyone can use the "KeepAlive" [0] plugin to pin content.

- Nobody can take down any content, not even the original author [1].

Censorship-resistance is a central design goal of Freenet.

[0] https://github.com/freenet/plugin-KeepAlive
[1] https://freenetproject.org/pages/help.html
"Excel is now Turing-complete"... (not using VBA of course)

Shouldn't it already be since

1. Excel can implement cellular automata

2. Rule 110 is Turing-complete

...?
Seems to me the term, restriction of speech or moderation work quite fine for what you're describing. Censorship should be restricted to the use of those situations where the speakers have no recourse, such in the case of government Censorship.
> Apple, which, in the pursuit of privacy, is systematically destroying the ability of platform-driven small businesses to compete with the Internet giants

Awesome, that's really good news. Now we need to figure out how to destroy the business models of these giants as well so that competing with corrupt global surveillance corporations is no longer necessary.
The desktop used in TFA supports 1 TB of RAM.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thinkstation-p620
I don't argue with that. It's called growth opportunities. But don't you think that a business losing customers quarter after quarter is a bad sign? Or that having a debt bigger than it can afford? etc. Let me say this, you cannot ignore the fundamentals until you can... (e.g., GME)
This reminds me. At my college, it was required in our first semester that we make a windows command prompt based game.

Not having much love for text adventures, some of us got clever and figured out how to take over the buffer and draw characters. So, we made games with ascii heros, traps and enemies etc.

But one group took this to another level. They found the function to reduce the font size. They decreased it down to where it was about the size of a pixel or near enough. Then implemented a full CPU based renderer with perspective correct texture mapping and shaders.
Indeed. She should use mcwt (thousands of a hundredweight). That will be much improved :)
What is the optimal vaccination strategy? So far, it just seems like we're following "vaccinate healthcare workers and the most vulnerable" and that, on the surface, seems intuitive. But is there some other sort of algorithm that can determine the best way to reduce overall transmission the fastest? Random vaccinations? Targeted groups in different regions? Double shots for vulnerable before single shots for others? Mobile vaccination services?
I know quite a few people who still think there's money to be made by getting in at $300+

I don't know if they're right or wrong, but the fact remains there are people who are getting in to both make money as well as stick it to the man.
With all due respect, savings accounts can barely keep up with inflation, if at all. The last couple of years it was not uncommon to have 15%+ gains with a diversified portfolio.
While the narrative has made him the poster boy, you can look at the past discussions regarding GME. His initial posts around a value play were widely ridiculed.

The short squeeze thesis(s) were made by other reddit users. Even those weren't particularly popular until around 1/13-1/15 when GME saw an unexpected pop. It was around then people were like "oh this squeeze thing might happen. we could test it"
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idk. sometimes the skeptics are right. An easy grab is lobotomy. The studies showed that lobotomy is a good way to tread psychological issues, and doctors mostly agreed. However the premise of “treatment” was flawed. Turns out that the skeptics that pointed to the cases where lobotomy didn’t actually treat the patient were right.

Perhaps economists are basing these so called fundamentals on a false premise.
That only captured the first 4 paragraphs.
I was a professional poker player for ~5 years, and my wife—who has a much lower risk tolerance—asked that I never share variance with her since it causes quite a bit of anxiety.

My daily numbers were in tens of thousands range rather than $11M, but the effect was the same.
That adage was from a time before a single company's "living room" could swallow the town square and part of the postal service in nearly every town across dozens of countries.
Clinical pharmacists at every hospital have been key. Many docs prefer to still rely on their clinical pharmacist, which is fine because they (the clinical pharmacists) end up relying on us. Over time, it’s become simpler for many docs to just ask us themselves.

Also, a newsfeed with common/ interesting questions has really helped since the experience gets better with more users.
As long as they are suing eachother, there’s a balance kept. The problem is that we already see content moderation oligopolies forming between Facebook, Google and Twitter.
except more people will wind up writing "new" PHP, and the original ecosystem in which it grew will mostly be gone.
Atmospheric methane on a terrestrial planet would be a biomarker. Bio-suggestion maybe. Free methane in the atmosphere of a planet anywhere near the habitable zone of a star would be readily broken down. If there's a good amount detected it suggests replenishment by biological processes. Biological processes are definitely not the only source of methane. It's enough to warrant more observations or even new instruments.
> Countries (notably the US) didn't work through the past year to build out socialized manufacturing capacity for additional dose production

I was under the assumption that Project Warp Speed explicitly directed funding from the US government to help ramp up production while vaccines were still being tested. Did that not happen?
Completely different. Tesla soared on its positive outlook. They have strong sales and have managed to maintain an insurmountable lead in the EV market. Their surge is due to enthusiasm for their business. Gamestop was clinging to life a few months. The rally from $4 to $15 was optimism about their leadership. The rally from $15 to $350 was 100% due to the short squeeze. And the squeeze will most definitely play out and be over pretty soon.
How'd you get into pro poker? I'm good at statistics and would be interested in learning how to play really well.
The story and the individual are far more interesting
After the sell-off, there’s a lot of cash (yes even more) washing around right? It has to go somewhere, and so it will come back into securities in probably a few weeks or max, months. The value represented isn’t exactly disappearing it’s still in the ‘system’. So why is a crash in equities prices such a big deal?
You might be missing the issue here. A savings account will cost you money in the long term - ie. your purchase power will decrease every year because the interest paid on savings accounts does not even keep up with inflation.

The longer and more money you have in a savings account, the less purchase power you actually have. Think of this like putting $100 into the account but only being able to spend $90 of it. Multiply that by your life's savings... and this becomes a horrible way to save for retirement.

A Money Market account would be better, and nearly as safe as a savings account.

IRA's and 401(k) where you control you money is ideal. If you don't want to be bothered to pay attention to the markets... get yourself a managed IRA (yes, a fund would then be in control of your future). With a managed portfolio, you generally get some say over how your money is invested - so you could direct them to invest in industrializing economies (which would help lift people out of poverty over time). Just because you make money on the stock market doesn't mean someone is getting screwed over...

Bottom line is, a savings account will lose you money over time (and that doesn't even touch on the maximum amount you can have per account to be insured, which is far less than you'll need for retirement).
Cups also differ regionally; ‘half a liquid pint’ in ‘US customary units’, and varies between 200ml and 250ml elsewhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
Typically I used to see tech and business related posts from reputable sources and constructive comments from people with deep insights.

More recently the content is much broader, more frequently asked by a laymen and/or with a poor quality source.

I have no data to back it up but I sense the site is victim to overspill from places like Reddit and the whole site seems more “casual”.

The signal-noise ratio feels much worse.

I look for thought provoking questions to see good answers in the comments by mainly browsing “ask”. Go and look at “ask” now, it’s mostly people discussing the recent stock market activity in a superficial way driven by scepticism or FOMO.
Some time ago I made a script manager(https://github.com/fxnoob/Hand-in-the-air) inspired by Alexa skills system. Where you invoke scripts with hand gestures or with your voice.
There's a general moral of the story here that isn't specific to Wall Street. If you think you've got a magic hack for some system, don't forget that the system might not be immutable, and that many people will consider the spirit of the rules not just the letter of them (even if this means changing the letter of them).

It's fairly similar to the risk of building a business by adding one feature to someone else's platform.
>> That leaves us with 6M shares, and with a short interest of 71M held short and ETFs like XRT buying them, it is likely there aren't enough shares

50M shares traded today. Monday and Tuesday it was 180M.
When I saw this thread "Business Adventures" was the first thing I thought of. I bought a copy when it appeared on one of Bill Gate's summer reading lists. It's a great book. The story of the Piggly Wiggly stock corner is great, as is the story of the creation of the Xerox machine. I think I lent my copy to a co-worker who I'm fairly certain never read it. They also never gave it back. Oh well.

For anyone looking for a book in a similar vein I recommend "The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed" by John McPhee.
True but that's also public knowledge for my degree
Awesome perspective!

Must say the gator situation was hilarious when we first visited a customer in Tampa - half-way through discussions one surfaced in the water right outside the conference room window. Everyone not from FL immediately reacted, but the local team didn’t even flinch and continued on. Made for some great beer talk afterwards!
I don't understand this fascination with RP2040.

You want Rust to work on ARM? There is a huge selection of easy microcontrollers and boards.

Large boards, small boards, wifi, ethernet, usb, arduino compatible, anything you want.

https://www.st.com/en/ecosystems/stm32-nucleo.html

I have a bunch of these. I use them for prototyping before I put together a PCB design but they are fully functional if you want to build a product on them.
You do understand where the "interest" comes from on your savings account right? The bank doesn't just invent it...

And largely speaking, when you make money on the stock market it comes from a multitude of sources, including the hedge funds you seem to despise.

Not to mention, just because you made a profit on the market doesn't mean someone was screwed over. The stock is worth whatever it's worth when you sold it. It's an open market...

You do seem to have some fundamentals about the stock market, savings account, and finance a little mixed up.
Robinhood Is the Facebook of Investing. You're the Data, Not the Customer
>Long term side effects like after the polio vaccine in the 70s always occur IMMEDIATELY after vaccination.

Have there been any long term double blind studies (e.g. 20+ years) to actually verify that this is the case? Or is this all based on the current models of how vaccines and their components behave in the body and what effects they have?
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GME issuing shares would be the smart thing to do.

The primary goal of a stock market is really to allow exactly that. The market determines the cost of capital for each company, thereby influencing the allocation of capital in society. The question then becomes how efficiently the company can put that capital to use.
And a lot of documentation simply doesn't exist either.
Bullshit. When you setup a new iPhone there’s a step where you’re asked whether you want to share data with Apple.
Relevant username.

Also, that guy who survived in a pocket of air in a capsized boat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oqnpEozQYo
It's a cool idea. But if you're just using # comments, then isn't it vulnerable to pump n' dump bot activity that doesn't represent a real movement of people to a stock?

In other words, if someone uses a botnet to post a ton about a stock, that will inflate the # comments but it won't be a good signal for something actually likely to rise.
Downvotes without replies again. It is definitely worth debate. What if J&J's second shot gets it up to the same 95%? (even if they are not advocating a second shot at this time)

After all, these vaccines do not prevent the virus directly, they're just there to coax the body to produce new things. Both teach the body about the spike protein. It does seem like the mRNA vaccines are given a not-yet-due congratulations on every medium I see yet mRNA vaccines have absolutely zero history of pandemic ending at this time. Yes that may change, but to call them a gold standard now that's just not accurate.
I doubt there are many people on RH that wouldn't get covered fully by SIPC even in the worst case.

The idea that a broker going under wipes out all its members assets is just not true. MAYBE some stuff in flight would have issues. All the capital requirements and regulations are designed specifically so the brokerage fails first before customer assets are at risk. And again, still SIPC insured.
Would be great if a security-head would write up a deep dive on Gnunet's codebase.

I think the long-standing assumption is that it could do what it advertises if the users were there. But it'd be nice to know what the actual state of the implementation really is.
Sorry. Can you expand on this argument? In it's current form it makes almost no sense.
We had a similar project, except the professor supplied a cpp file for drawing characters to X,Y coordinates. The refresh rate was atrocious, which forced us to get creative. It was odd but fun.
It's not just a vaccine disaster, it is a COVID disaster. The response to COVID in most of the developed world was a completely fuck up. We are still learning lessons that should have been learned a year ago, and there are still people everywhere - here too - that believe the best way to tackle a crisis of this magnitude is to stick your head in the sand and to pretend it isn't happening.

I've definitely lost the illusion that mankind is able to rise to the challenge as a whole species, in spite of our smarts and our ability to communicate. Some of us will, and some of us won't, the winners will be the ones that adapt rapidly.