skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're suggesting AZ should never have agreed to supply the EU at all?

The contract clearly says they're to make their "best reasonable effort" to satisfy this contract. Breaking previous contracts would be unreasonable.

There are so many things the EU could do here that could help:
- Provide more resource to AZ to get more facilities up and running.
- Offer to sell some of that future ramped up production back to countries like the UK in exchange for getting some vaccines now.
- Expedite the approval process of other vaccines.
- Allow member states to negotiate indepently.

What did they choose to do? Raid the EU vaccine production facilties, and threaten legal action against the very company trying to supply them the vaccine. Like yeah, that's really going to help people.

The UK government directly paid for the research and development of the AZ vaccine, and paid for the manufacturing facilities in the UK to be built, when there was a lot of pressure to simply partner with US firms. Where was the EU when this was happening? Why didn't the EU take it upon themselves to do the same thing?

The presumptiveness of the EU to dictate that AZ should redirect UK vaccines to the EU is astounding.
The people who really control things in the US aren't politicians. That is way beneath the scions of multi-generational wealth. Even T* isn't in their club.
What an odd piece. Who would expect a non-web-dev to develop a webapp without using google?

I do a lot of webdevelopment and have zero issues.
Sigh. The garbage statements as in your link is a major reason why people think SARS-CoV-2 doesn't exist, as boiling water is commonly known to sterilize fabrics by killing bacteria and viruses. Why we can't speak with more precision, I don't know.

The least concentration, I don't know, but here's information on a variety of disinfectants: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7190516/table/t...

I'm surprised they didn't include OTS isopropyl alcohol of soap in this analysis.

Here's a good one: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002203452092058...

"All surfaces that may be touched by the patients should be disinfected with sodium hypochlorite 0.1% or 70% isopropyl alcohol."

Hope this helps somewhat.

Interesting link between hand eczema and overzealous hand hygiene: https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(20)30660-5/pdf
https://pandera.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ <- Pandera is a fantastic module for applying schemas and validating Pandas dataframes.
I don't know if it's a good idea in general, but I've gotten good results from even more flowery language -- "I'm sure we'd be great friends in other circumstances, but while you're on duty I need a lawyer present for any further discussions." Anecdotally, not taking the effort to reaffirm that it's nothing against them personally tends to lead to a lot of pushback.
Huh. This is something I don't think I agree with: "Incorrectness is simply not allowed. It’s pointless to try to get stuff done if you can’t guarantee the result is correct."

I'm sure that's true in some domains, but I think they're pretty narrow. E.g., if I were building an internal API that managed money, I might buy that. But I think the vast bulk of software is essentially exploratory. We ship something minimal and see what we next need. In that context, learning what we really need to do is far more valuable than doing the not-quite-right thing with provable correctness.
> What's funny is how the HN community tries to defend the firms they've whined about for years.

Aren't you over-generalizing just slightly? Even in a post with many comments, only a small number of community members (if this is a community at all) post anything. And not a huge number vote, either.
Without short sales, could Put options even exist?
Rust is essentially C++ with restrictions that make threads safer.

Pony is a completely new language based on the actor model where "threading" is a first-class operation and the type system is formally designed to make guarantees that make threads safer.

Pony really wants you to think differently about your problem and solution.
I have assembled several pieces. From my limited experience, there always seemed one step that was a little hard to get right, whether because of angles, or tight space, or having to hold something else in place while screwing. Other than the one tricky step, everything else was pretty easy.

Free tip: Get a powered screwdriver before you start. It will definitely be worth the investment.
And has AstraZeneca claimed that this would cause them to fail on their commitments to the UK? Or are we presuming that because it benefits some other agenda?
Yes a number of articles about these newer TLC drives talk about it. The end result is that an empty drive is going to benchmark considerably different from one 99% full of uncompressable files.

for example:

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/intel-ssd-660p-qlc-n...
What is to stop the inevitable roll up from a protocol into a platform?

The protocol is presumably quite open, searchable and crawlable. Any platform would simply start with a client, then improve upon it and eventually users would orbit the platform rather than the protocol.
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Erlang, Haskell and OCaml are excelent languages. But good luck assembling a team that can use those languages. e.g.: 30 developers in 1 year.

And those languages are pretty popular compared to others.

The programming language you use is a important factor when it comes to scaling your team (and your product, and your business).

I do not want to start a bikeshedding holy war. The reference implementation of PHP is pretty inferior to that of other scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, Julia and Node. There are other implementations that are better but come at a compatibility cost.
$ ed ~/public_html/cgi-bin/basic-web-app.cgi
#! /usr/bin/env perl
...
Would be cool to see pgbench score for this setup
Was it slow to begin with?
Why does the media even remotely consider repeating the companies 'marketing mission' BS when reporting on them?

CNN spent years with these fluffy articles basically promoting Robin Hood and their 'Occupy Wall St.' rubbish.

"Democratize Finance" is PR, not reality, it shouldn't be contemplated as part of the story.
> In order to fulfil the provisions of the contract the company willingly signed, and not out of spite for Britain

Correct. Just pointing out why Britain is relevant.
Dynamic Authorization with GraphQL and Rules
Build a Flask and GraphQL quidditch management system that uses Auth0 rules to implement ABAC and GBAC.
Yeah if that other team doesn't get their fucking shit together we're blocked. We're fucking blocked! And we'll die alone.
AG Cites Coordination Hedge Funds to Shut Down Threats to Market Dominance
What we're not really seeing here is who is holding and selling their shares, and to who. Assuredly once the shorters get a hold of a share of stock, they're not gonna let it go because they need it to cover their position.

So what they do instead is to sell the stock to each other at super-low volumes in order to try to drive the price down, using their brokerage advantages to make it so the shares don't reach the open market. This is a ladder attack and it's responsible for every last one of the dips on the market. They wait until late in the day when people aren't really paying attention. They can sell to each other but that doesn't mean there's a lot of float. Don't let that fool you, there isn't.

It's not in the interest of the shorters to buy up all the shares that come on the market. That's effectively covering their position. It'll drive up the price massively. They want to get lots of people scared into selling so there's lots of float. Then they can manipulate the price down using media shills or whatever and then snap them all up at a bargain rate and use them to cover their positions. If it's not cheap then any collective buying will drive the price up tremendously, what's called the infinity squeeze.

You need a DISTINCT share in order to cover your position. One you own. That's the contract. They have to deliver it to the market maker which they took up the short position with. The market maker will then put that share back on the open market. If you want to deliver another stock, you need to buy it back from the market maker, at full market value, and deliver it back to the market maker. You can't just conjure up a share in order to cover with. High trade volume !== high float. It has to be an actual, honest-to-God share. If not you just defaulted to someone with way bigger pockets than you have.

There just aren't a lot of shares available. Volume can be incredibly high, as it was over the last few days, but that doesn't mean there's a lot of float. The vast majority of shares are in the hands of people with no interest in floating them. The trade volume that's happening right now is the same shares changing hands with people who are just now discovering the action. The shorters will do anything to liquidate the massive amount of shares being held by the degenerates, but they took their stock certificates and buried them in the desert.
Don't get me wrong I would still take if I got the chance (and I will according to the plan as I work in a hospital) but it was a sloppily done trial.

> This is simply untrue, the mixed-dose regimen was limited to those under 55, but 4% of the study population were over 70.

It was given only to 18-55 in the UK. 4% doesn't compare well to 20+% for all the other trials. Brilliant for a disease which kills people with median age of 82 years (in the UK). Why would you even design a protocol that looks only at young people?!

They used a different protocol in Brazil and South Africa. Why did they use a different protocol in different places? Pfizer and other companies managed with one. Having different protocol is treated as different trials - so the trial in South Africa didn't have enough cases and wasn't even considered in the EMA authorization. EMA estimates 60% efficacy.

https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-recommends-covid-19-va...

> methodology

Ok so the efficacy looks worse but is not directly comparable. That doesn't really detract from my point that the trial(s) was not well designed, no? It just wasn't given to enough old people.

EDIT: Also, the efficacy in preventing asymptomatic infection was only 27% (again with insanely wide confidence interval). So, they designed the trial to measure it, but it doesn't do really well at that.

> I believe this claim is totally untrue, also.

It could be true, could be untrue but it's not falsifiable from the data. The confidence interval for efficacy in 65+ is -140.5% (yes there is a minus) - 94.2%. We just don't know.

https://twitter.com/olivernmoody/status/1354781400071860230
The 1:1 guide that definitely couldn't have been an email
I think a lot of the confusion is around the difference between the party rhetoric, and the party actions.

Rhetorically, the Nazis in large part did rise to power on the basis of socialist rhetoric. They did claim to be socialists, supporting socialist policies. This is how they obtained votes.

In practice, not so much - and of course it turned into fascism.

For many, the salient point regarding the Nazi party is that people believed they were voting socialist, even if this was not the system implemented in practice.
> has AstraZeneca claimed that this would cause them to fail on their commitments to the UK?

I believe the UK has made the claim that they have exclusive contractual right to domestically-made vaccines until a certain point. Not sure if AstraZeneca corroborated.
I was fine with Mapquest before Maps and mostly a Wikipedia fan. Lately during lockdown though, I do find myself looking for things on YouTube. If it didn't exist I wouldn't know what I was missing and be doing something else.

It's probably different if you don't already have many sources of educational information readily available: +1 YT.
Yeah it is essentially just a boilerplate post that just says "We heard and are looking into it" essentially. It will probably be months to years after the event for them to conclude who if anyone rose to the level of illicit market manipulation or other offenses and who would be responsible. Robinhood was at risk of being fined by the SEC for their infamous infamous leverage glitch as opposed to the users. (Not sure if it ended in a real fine as the media lost interest post patch.)
Sure, but on the DK 1&2 I made my own lens corrections in the cups, much cheaper and future proof (what I thought, since I can move the lenses to newer headsets) and then Valve and everyone else listened to the wrong lens guy and now everyone has to buy single serving solutions for the rest of existence + get aweful god rays!?
RH also raised a billion https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/technology/robinhood-fund...

I highly doubt either of those transactions happened at the press of a button, though. We just didn't see whatever behind the scenes drama occurred at Melvin.
>> Always talk to the police -- AFTER GETTING IMMUNITY.

No no no, a thousand times no. Immunity is a very nuanced thing that, in the US especially, is beyond the understanding of laypersons. Talk only to and through YOUR lawyer. Don't go anywhere near any talk of "immunity" without several days to discuss the matter with paid legal counsel.
That is a weird assumption to make about wsb types, who have a sizable overlap with the crypto-currency folks - who are keenly aware of counterparty risk and the function of clearinghouses.
The current homicide clearance rate is 61.4% (That’s only arrest, not a conviction).

If resolving the adversarial relationship between citizens and police would improve that then it’s something we should explore. Right now I’m not sure how that could happen, given the deep problems with American Law Enforcement, Correctional, and Justice systems.
> But now it is people who saw the story on Good Morning America

Most of those people don't own stock and don't know how to buy stock.

And I would guess most of them tune out stories about stocks going up or down like they tune out commercial breaks or the business segment of news shows.
Unless you're an expert in contract law then your interpretation of "Best Reasonable Efforts" for a pharma company during a global pandemic is less than worthless. As is my own.
The Gamestop incident is a very counter to the Robinhood brand so very damaging to the company.. Communication was not handled well. A good lesson for everyone.

People shouldn't be trying to figure out what's going on by digging deep in forums and social media. CEO should have been front and centre the day it happened. Hindsight is 20/20. A lesson for all.

Doesn't help that opportunistic politicians jump on it to raise their profile.
Wall Street 2 effectively has an enactment of the scene where they all throw the one firm under the bus.
Solar Glass, to Turn Any Window into Power Generating Panel
> Not sure why this is news? The AR "IKEA Place" app [1] has existed since September 2017.

Usual product positioning in HN, meanwhile actual discussion is flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25591552
status.cloud.google.com now shows an actual incident thread (not just a note). The only new info is that it affects the us-central1 region, but it says we can expect an update by 21:00 UTC.
Hookworms are a serious health problem in many parts of the developing world. If they manage to create a working vaccine it might be a game changer!
> Actually the fact that they were letting people exit trades was a big clue to me that this was risk mitigation while this collusion with citadel narrative was making the rounds.

Ok let's say I'm a retail investor using RH. Why should I need to divine what my brokerage is doing from Twitter posts and Reddit? My should I need to wait hours for their explanation that comes in the form of a handwavey blog post?
I've never tried going that far, but once a cop looked offended when I said he couldn't search my car, like I had impugned his honor, so I volunteered the explaination 'It's nothing personal, just a matter of principle." That seemed to satisfy him.
An Auto-Increment Crate for Rust
An analysis of the $62M RTX 30 Series Scalping Market
Agree. I don't pretend to know everything that's going on within a business. However, long term strategy/direction of a company is fairly easily observable.
We'll see won't we?
I am not a developer, but I use PHP a lot for scripting and personal automation including small web apps with SQL backend. I found PHP 7 to be a great improvement over 5.x, but with 8 I skipped every single new thing they brought. I can use PHP 8.1 in PHP 7.4 compatibility mode, but I find the features in 8.1 making the language less readable and less logic; for example, 3 dots become part of the language syntax? What is next, emojis as operators? Secret gang hand shakes as functions?
That’s overstating things. Most murder cases in the US are solved. 40% aren’t, though.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-r...
> crypto-currency folks - who are keenly aware of counterparty risk and the function of clearinghouses

There are zero (EDIT: very few) clearinghouses in the cryptocurrency world. That's...almost the point.
There's nothing horrible at all about shorting, it's just about investing in the other direction.

It's horrible if funds try to push a company down on that basis, but otherwise it's normal.

It's 'good' because you want people betting on the other side of irrational hubris - if the market is way-overvaluing a stock, you want them to 'lose' and for the stock to come to something within reasons.

Shorting helps prick mini bubbles, or stabilize them, before they start to get way out of hand.
> No idea why you're mentioning Catholics in the UK Parliament.

Look up Robert Peel
Antarctic: Scientist ‘recruits’ albatrosses to find illegal fishing boats
Most of the "felony a day" things are really critiques of overbroad laws, especially at the federal level. "Honest Services" laws were a big part of that narrative when federal prosecutors were using it in public integrity cases. It's mostly myth.

The issue with unnecessarily interacting with police is that you never know what is actually happening. It's like dealing with a salesmen, they are trained do control situations and question people every day.

In many circumstances you have nothing to add, nothing to gain, and you incur risk that something you say or do makes an unfortunate connection. Nobody is going to beat or arrest you for saying "no thanks".
I was initially confused if this was just WSL as "WSL and Linux" could be interpreted that way.

It's not just WSL. It would appear to be sudo, wherever it runs. I didn't see anything Linux specific about the CVE, other than maybe there are platforms that are better about heap-based buffer overflows.
At the time I looked at this, #7 had negative earnings, normally one has to travel up to get to the moon. But I suppose one could tunnel through the Earth first.
If it was a research oriented idea, maybe, though really we think we can be most helpful to people starting life science companies. If it's more software product oriented, I would encourage you to apply to Y Combinator -- it's a great program.

No hard degree requirements.
This makes total sense and it's frustrating that many police want to have it both ways. They want good faith cooperation from potential witnesses, while also being free to lie to and manipulate potential suspects. If they want better cooperation from the public then they need to act in better faith themselves.
Oh uh hi James of Molasses here! I hadn't submitted this to HN but happy to answer any questions?
This was my main thought. Maybe all that effort expended on managing the runtime could be aggregated into a unified effort in a more cohesive (to your goals) language.
There is some irony in using centralization to break up centralization.

Consider the benefits that the governments have in only dealing with a few platforms rather than the headache of a protocol. I don't disagree the anti-trust sentiment, simply that the motivation won't be there at the end of the day.
Thank you for sharing your experience in such a thorough manner. Makes sense to me, and I agree.

I was definitely assigning him some kind of value that he may or may not have based on his success. Thanks for pointing out this flaw in my train of thought.

Have a wonderful day!
Just because someone did something stupid, doesn't mean the previous actions of their opponent were clever...
If its free, you're not a customer. You're the product.
*Alphabet
No, please still feel free to apply, we're still happy to consider and see if we can be helpful.

Solo founders are fine with us.
A less charitable scenario here is that there's a couple cohorts of WSB folks: a somewhat sophisticated set who got in on the Gamestop frenzy earlier (even last week!), and a less sophisticated set who are buying now. The former make $$$$ off of the latter, and when things go sideways, just have plausible-enough sounding stories to point that second set of angry people at the hedge fund baddies instead of themselves...

If we're speculating about people's motives, let's look at everyone ;)
Here's a direct link to the incident page:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-sql/21001

Thanks everyone for providing real-time information. It's unnerving when an entire SQL server disappears from your control panel:-). I'd rather not have to restore everything from backups, if it's all the same!
Lawsuits from LPs and criminal prosecution in this case. Sometimes it's more likely hedge funds take their punishment than try the Worst Cover Up Ever, still lose money and face much worse consequences, especially since most of the money they've lost is other people's.
This doesn't seem to be saying anything about those companies though. It's just that you will do better financially if you invest money instead of spending it.

Well...yeah.
This harkens back to the extremely worn threadbare quote "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
From my reading, GP comment was not critiquing capitalism, but the statement about where wealth resulting from the labour ends up.

And you start off with agreeing to it, so it's even more perplexing why do you see it as a critique?
Entirely anecdotal, I believe the immune system is already working at high capacity to stop you from becoming sick from the dozens of fungi, bacteria and viruses you come across on a daily basis.

The biggest metric I have for this is that when I am genuinely sick - with a cold or fever - it seems my body stops keeping things like HPV at bay and I start to see remnants of things like warts I haven’t seen for years start to pop up again - and of course disappear again along with the fever.