skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some resource that compares all the vaccines, an article or a blog post? I would guess that a vast majority of people don't have time/knowledge to look into official reports. One big table with different companies, number of people in trials, results etc. would be nice. For example, what I just found out is that Moderna is actually not 95% effective on all age groups but on 18-65 [1].

Back to J&J. How old were the 15% that did develop the most serious symptoms? The article says that "more than 40 per cent had other illnesses [...] including obesity, diabetes and HIV." Isn't the base rate for obesity in a population something like that or higher? Finally, if we just look at the numbers (if they are even comparable), can we objectively rank these vaccines by how good they are? No ones feelings should be hurt if we can conclude that their vaccine is close to useless (think of how vaccinated population will demand loose measures although 40% of them are still at risk).

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-eff...
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I seem to remember reading about paper thin Ambisonic speakers since I was a kid in the 80s reading Stereo Review. It looks like this sort of thing is finally coming to fruition. I am assuming that you would need to augment these with a traditional subwoofer since you cant move much air with paper thin diaphragms.
Right, it's pretty easy to make the case that a lot of the winners are already big players on Wall Street. The biggest example seems to be Citadel, which got to play both sides by trading on Robinhood's order flow and also investing in Melvin at a steep discount.

My point remains, though: where was the concern before the r/wallstreetbets saga? GME was at ~$4 last summer and made it up to ~$20 by the end of last year. If the hedge funds were right and it was massively overvalued, where was the concern for retail investors taking out long positions back then? And conversely, if the hedge funds were wrong, where was the concern for the GameStop workers?

We can go back and forth about the winners and losers, but it's pretty clear that no one really cared about the "ordinary people" before some hedge funds got caught with their pants down.
Not at all; my "theory" is that a lot of large institutions in our society that people put trust in to make decisions based upon are really way more arbitrary and less fair than is generally assumed.

Most people don't think about it because they never bump up against the invisible walls in normal use. Suddenly, they are on display for millions.

No grand conspiracy, just a widespread culture of "don't worry about how it works, we'll tell you if you win."
From the twitter thread, someone said it was fabbed by TSMC at 40nm.

I wonder, with the cutting edge moving to smaller and smaller processes (5nm, etc)... how much of the older/larger capacity can be reused? Meaning, are we about to see a ton of cheaper chips like this RP2040 that are using older/slower/obsolete fab capacity? Or is the same equipment able to be used across a family of process sizes?

In other words, once TSMC has X amount of capacity on 40nm, is that capacity always around and fixed to 40nm? If so, I imagine that creating new chips that don't need to be super fast will just become super cheap.
Did they block people from buying or did they block people from opening new positions?
> I'm not sure that the way you worded it is really any different. Stating that there were good, well-meaning people in a crowd of hateful rascists after a woman was killed by a radical maniac is not a helpful statement, and it provides cover for what was, by most decent people's assessment, a despicable display of bigotry and hatred.

Do you know what I find most frustrating about the abortion arguments between the left and the right?

If you truly truly believe life begins at conception, of course you believe it's immoral to murder the baby.

if you truly truly believe life does NOT begin at conception, of course you believe it's immoral to force a woman to deal with an unwanted pregnancy.

IOW, there are well-intentioned people on both sides. Does this make it ok for someone to bomb an abortion clinic? No, absolutely not, and the vast majority of pro-life people don't agree with that action, and should not be universally condemned for the actions of a few.

But lets look closer at what you said.

> Stating that there were good, well-meaning people in a group of __assholes who think they should be able to tell women what to do with their body__.

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It is absolutely __FRUSTRATING__ watching people like you dive headfirst into contributing to the problems this country currently has.

It feels as if I have a super power for being able to converse with people from the left and the right equally. The opinions I see from the left about what the right is thinking, as if they would know when they can't even bring themselves to _SPEAK_ to the right.

What I'm saying here is that YOU are a part of the problem.
When someone tells you not to believe what you read on the internet, on the internet.
Typical dose of dexamethasone is 6 mg not 4 mg. And only in severe cases needing oxygen, not early.
Even if what linkdd say on face value, every single piece of software is "emergent" from programming and from his logic is very simple. Clearly this is not true.

Simple building blocks don't mean simple programs. Heavily interacting components leads to complexity and significant bugs. That's just software engineering 101.
Yes, Dominion Voting Systems got hit by this as well.
The key to managing this FOMO for me is really committing emotionally to the concept of hindsight bias.

We remember the winners we missed way more than the losers, because the winners are still present in our lives today, whereas the losers never became noteworthy (because they lost).

But it’s extremely difficult to tell them apart ahead of time. So current me needs to give past me a pass... past me failed at something that is very difficult; no shame in that. Wistful regret, maybe, in a “what if...” kind of way, but I think everyone has those in their life, and not just about money.
Do you realize the irony in providing a list of FDA recalls while bemoaning their lack of rigor? Lots of these "drugs" were unapproved dietary supplements that the FDA found to actually contain drugs, or drugs that failed QC while on the market, not the pristine batches and data that would have gotten the drug approved in the first place.

To me, it's similar to having more trust for media outlets that post corrections rather than pretending that nothing ever goes wrong. It's a point in their favor that a stamp of approval can be rescinded.

You might have an argument that the companies need to be taken out of the drug approval process entirely, due to issues of hiding data to avoid giving the FDA a hint of anything wrong (or making them "confused" as you say), or maybe we need much stricter rules on data withholding. I'm with you there.
Would Pony be a good choice for writing a backend for a web app? What's it like talking to a DB?
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Don't tell him that. He's willing to get any vaccine at all and the world desperately needs to be vaxxed. If people want to take adenovirus vaxs because they feel its safer I say just let them.
Who do you think is selling GME shares to retail investors for dollars on the penny?

This whole thing is disgusting. Once the euphoria had subsided, people will realize that the hedge funds have come out as bandits, having traded nickles for dollar bills.
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Of course mid-sprint reporting is all over the place. That said, so has the financial press and insiders. In fact, during an interview of NASDAQ's CEO, the suggestion was floated that this is the Russians or something. That rumour was dropped by professional journalists and insiders. In fact, the regular, non financial press had a far more curious response than the financial press... they even read reddit.

Going back to "Citadel rumour.." It certainly was off the cuff and certainly doesn't encompasse everything. That said, RH is financially dependant on Citadel and Citadel is in a position to benefit from RH's decision.

Whatever you think of Cuban, these people are being drawn in for the same reason you and I are talking about it. It's saucy.

I think your "vilification of naysayers" point is off-mark. This is not about whether or not GME bets make money. The whole saga is a naysaying of sorts. Naysaying to the rigging.

I suspect I'm probably on the same side as you regarding the larger point. Speculation, HFT, etc are negatives to be curtailed not expanded. But, the "me but not thee" way that financial markets have been structured is an outrage.

The "revenge for 08'" stuff is symbolic. But, the symbolism is fairly subtle. The firms being protected from long tail risk (right, wrongly or even essentially are, again, being shielded from long term risk on bets only they have access to. This includes clearing houses and market makers. The "systemic risk" is the risk that these guys lose money. Stability is premised on them not losing money.
We have so many sources, from multiple brokerages, about increased capital requirements to clear GME and AMC trades that it has revived discussions about whether there are bad unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank regulations that centralized clearing, which have the impact of transmuting private company risk management policies (that protect systemically important firms like DTCC) into global financial policy. But you've managed to dismiss all this as "hot air", thus, I would suggest, confirming my suggestion that Very Online People simply don't accept the fairly clear explanation of what happened.

It seems reasonable to fault Robinhood for shitty comms (though, as 'JumpCrisscross pointed out yesterday, the general rule is "aviate, navigate, then communicate"), but the endemic message board pathology is to use shitty comms to justify conspiracy theories, which are more fun to talk about than reality and take over these threads like algae.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25954606

One really good example in that link is a user trying to claim that race & iq is the determining factor in economic outcome while dropping racial slurs as examples to justify racism against Asians and other groups that he thinks are ALL "wealthy" and "smart".

It's a great illustration of parent's comment. Taking an outdated model and then using it to justify his/her own skewed views. Sort of like how we use colour labels created by a Swedish pseudoscientist to reduce ethnicities to is being heralded as a great achievement.
... not to mention the few smarter hedge funds and mutual funds that quickly jumped in an out of this and made substantial gains, leaving everyone who thinks they are "holding the line" even more "on the line".
do you know if they will update the list this year to include a facemask? it gained huge popularity last year.
There is a thundering herd of people with no experience buying a stock at 100x what it was a few months ago and vowing to lose their savings by never selling. It shouldn't be a surprise when they ultimately get outraged at the biggest target.
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On the other hand, manufacturers only provide support if you buy / replace parts through them. If you buy from elsewhere, they often refuse to even troubleshoot your device. So that argument doesn't really hold much weight.

And just because you have replaceable parts, and the option to buy from elsewhere, doesn't mean the principle of caveat emptor ("let the buyer beware") goes away.

Ultimately it's all about balancing the profits of the company vs the rights of the consumers. While both will have to compromise, removing options from the consumer and allowing the company to dictate terms outright really harms our consumer rights.
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"Neutral analysts on CNBC providing commentary"

lol. okay.
yeah i'm not saying robinhood is in the right here, i personally. i just think that this may not be an example of apple/google conspiring to take action because of any triggers from the past two weeks' events.
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>> It's a private company. They can do that if they want.

> What I find more interesting is that when that same argument is used in other situations, such a small businesses deciding to open during the lockdown, it is routinely down voted and shouted down.

The key concept is that it would be a violation of Facebook's First Amendment rights to forbid them from banning their users (i.e. force them to carry their messages). It would be compelled speech/compelled association.

Your example about businesses defying covid lockdowns is a completely different thing. Being a private company is not a license to do whatever you want: Facebook still has to comply with the law, as do those businesses.

If you're looking for something that looks like a contradiction, the one you're looking for is antidescrimination law: why can Facebook ban users of type X because it's a private company, but it's illegal for a wedding cake maker to refuse customers of type Y? If you're looking at it simply as a legalistic First Amendment thing, the situations look they should be the same. If they're not, it's because it's not a simple First Amendment thing, and other principles and context have to be balanced with First Amendment principles.
Its not standard in that you can choose not to lend out the shares, and for the GME situation, you expressly DON'T want the shares to be lent out to the shorters.
Worked fine for me on Firefox for Android. To be clear you should do wsj.com./
I do have an axe to grind considering many of these people had the opposite reaction when it favored their leftist politics.
What issues did you run into on the JVM with Java/Scala? I spent 5 years working up and down the entire akka stack so I'm curious to learn from your point of view. Also did you try akka typed or classic?
One leg up hobbyists can have on professionals is hyper-local audience targetting.

At my alma mater there is a tradition of putting on shows. They are a mixture of situational comedy, singing, and basically anything entertaining you can do on a scene. Crucially, they are by the university, for the university, and about the university. They are some of the funniest things I've ever seen. And they achieve this by having an incredible amount of injokes and references, that just wouldn't work for a general audience.

So this would be my message to hobbyist board game makers: Make one aboout your university, company, town, or maybe about your other hobby. Tell your own story. Reference people and events that will be familiar.
Financial markets and derivatives are just complicated.

There seem to be a lot of moving parts, and a lot of possible outcomes.
I think they are saying none of the hospitalized cases occurred after twenty-eight days, but statistically they can't really say it provides 100% hospitalization prevention at that point even if that is accurate. At lease one expert on CNN indicated protection was continuing to increase throughout the study which is promising. I'd like to see a follow-up.
What's small for the whole market isn't necessarily small for Robin Hood.

It's not out of the question that Robin Hood could go under as a result of these shenanigans. Just very unlikely that would trigger any serious fallout downwind.
There have been rumors of robinhood simply being buggy for some time before this. Things like orders being processed after being cancelled, orders being processed out of order causing conflicts, orders being executed massively delayed after the client threw an error message. Basically, if their database infrastructure is buggy and unstable, then combined with heavy load, something like this could happen. And notably robinhood does not provide use client side action logs, only server side actions logs on demand.

I think it could have happened, but I very much doubt they ever did it intentionally, and it is practically guaranteed people would claim this happened to them, regardless of if it did actually happen to them.
Let's talk about Exxon for a second.

The estimate from https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/ratio/XOM--Probability-Of-B.... is that it has a 36% probability of bankruptcy in the next 2 years.

In a longer time horizon, Exxon's finances are strongly dependent on petroleum revenue, but petroleum demand could easily fall.

The petroleum industry is projecting that when COVID ends, demand will come back. And they are projecting that as far out as 2050, gas will remain the dominant source of energy for transportation.

However neither seems likely to me. I believe that we will see a permanent shift towards more remote work. That cuts out both a lot of commuting. It also cuts out a lot of motivation for business travel. (Bill Gates estimates a 50% drop in business travel.) Both suggest a permanent drop in demand in the short-term. And in the long-term, the transition to electric vehicles seems likely to go much faster than the gas industry wants to believe. We are already seeing places like Washington State pass laws that all new cars must be electric by 2030. This suggests that the transition to electric will be eating into gas revenues fairly quickly. This is not a small issue - use of oil for personal transportation is somewhere near half of all oil usage in the world.

So you say that "nobody thinks that Exxon is about to go under". But I'm looking at it and I think that they are a company that structurally has financial trouble, in an industry that has market trends against it. No matter how big a household name they are, I would be very happy to take a bet that they go bankrupt in my lifetime.
It is not my claim that any online store does an effective job of policing canvassing, only that they all attempt to do so. No crowdsourced online review source is trustworthy. But they're untrustworthy because of canvassing.

I'll not also that soliciting a review of an app is not quite the same thing as organizing an effort to get a huge directional shift in reviews.
Thanks for the reality check, that's a good point about project vs production level coding... I will focus my attention more on startups :)
There's a weird aspect of meme-as-protection. It's hard for a regulating entity to cite memes and seemingly offensive speech.
That doesn't really follow.

For something to evolve like that you need to re-introduce the mutated strains back to the source.

If there is no re-introduction (which there wouldn't be, because the worms would be bred in an isolated environment and not the sewer system), then there isn't really anything to worry about. There is no selection pressure at the point where breeding and distribution occurs.
There are some escape hatches to get shared mutable reference. But in general those are impossible in rust.
I thought a large part of Robinhood’s appeal was that it made trading more accessible to retail investors. I think the risk here is more running a business where the rules force you to screw the very audience you’re trying to target.
GPS is problematic in a contested environment due to low signal strength. Even with GPSIII satellites being deployed, it's susceptible to both jamming and spoofing, at a trivial cost. Normally when an opponent starts emitting (say with a search radar), you can target it with HARM etc. But the GPS jammers are pretty cheap, and don't require much power to cause issues.

This has led to dual/tri mode seekers on missiles. They use GPS until they reach an area where the mission planners feel GPS would be unreliable, then they fail over to IR, radar, or EO sensors for the final segment of the mission. If weather permits (and the threat is manageable), you can lase the target. Potential workarounds in the future are vision matching systems (kind of like the ALCMs tercom) that appear promising.

Against a peer opponent, jamming will be pervasive across all frequencies. Your comms might be secure in terms of compromise, but the sheer amount of multi-band noise will be something that (at least the US) many militaries will be unprepared for.
So, no logical checkpoints, logical logging would have to be a separate process.

The main reason I would want both is to be certain that I was restoring the DB to a consistent state, even if the application is doing things stupidly (eg. not using transactions correctly. Or at all).

I suppose timestamps would be enough to view the logs interleaved or side-by-side in some fashion.
I'm lost. Explain to me why it is you think Apple and Google are removing these reviews.
This sounds like an excuse in the line of “there were several different cases where what we did would have been legal, for instance if regulations forced it.... anyway, no market makers forced us”

It begs the question, are they not stating the specific reason because there isn’t one and they would get caught in a lie? And are they not claiming to not have been influenced at all only because technically a direct personal call from someone who’s a ceo of a market maker isn’t the same as the company themselves applying pressure?

I have to think that the reason they can’t issue a simple three line explanation is because there is none they could truthfully tell. So instead you get a page full of misdirection and carefully crafted “technically not lies”.
I'm not buying it. Lots of other brokers also did the same. I think RH were the first. I find it hard to believe this move wasn't coordinated in some fashion.
My grandma got severe covid and was sent home with oxygen tanks and other stuff. She's made it through thankfully.

Rural USA area hit hard.
One big consequence of having so few children in the city of SF, is that the school boards are voted in by people with no direct interest in making sure that children actually get educated. So the board is simply used as a proxy for other political agendas.

Should only people with school-age children be allowed to vote on school board members? This inclines me towards yes, although I understand the arguments against.
Thanks for sharing this article - I found it very insightful. I've seen similar ideas being floated around before, and they often seem to focus on what software can be added on top of an already fairly complex solution (while LSM can appear to be conceptually simple, its implementations are anything but).

To me, what the original article shows is an opportunity to remove - not add.
...what should I do?

I remember pooping a really long worm some years ago, and taking a anti-worm medicine...
LiFePO4 chemistry is at about 3.2VDC so a blank/filler will make it a drop-in for 2X alkaline which is what I see a lot of devices use. You can get "AA" size ones in the garden light section of home centers as they're used for solar path lights.

Lithium primary batteries are available in 1.5V nominal — not sure if they have any circuitry.
I don’t see why I buy this complex explanation anymore than any other. A lot of this story was explained best IMO by the katabatic wind theory proposed by a Swedish expedition in 2019. For an entertaining telling of this see this video [1] (you may want to start with parts 1 and 2 which cover prior theories).

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3NsAVMd8Hek
Be sure to use auto configuration to get it to go even faster, depending on your use case: https://docs.rs/aho-corasick/0.7.15/aho_corasick/struct.AhoC...

Or just be sure to enable the DFA option if you can afford it. It looks like the Python library is just the standard NFA algorithm.
My problem with all these "personal data tracking" systems is: if I have to enter the data manually, then I'm not going to do it.

It's 2021 and we still need to enter manually "ate 200gr of chicken for dinner". People, the problem is not how to store data, the problem is the input mechanism.
Was thinking 11 with Schmidhuber's student.