skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I didn't foresee a desparate EU attacking a UK just going about it's own business.

That's imo a narrative from AZ pitting EU against UK, fueled by a susceptible UK media. US articles on this appear a little more measured. Is the EU attacking the UK? I think they are attacking AZ. It is an utter shame how this is turning political, and there are no excuses for the debacle wrt N. Ireland.

Having said this, as I wrote in a different comment, the way I currently understand the situation is that EU demands AZ proportionally reduce fulfillment of orders given their production problems. AZ would thus have to also breach their contract with UK on top of the breach of contract with the EU. AZ pushes the "first come first serve" logic of UK having ordered 3 months sooner, and the UK media, also the left leaning outlets, know that their readers are starved for some news that at least SOMETHING worked in the UK after the recent mess and gobble this narrative up. I don't know if the logic of who orders first gets deliveries first applies in these kind of contracts (IANAL), but I suspect it does not. If it does not, the EU seems to demand something from AZ that they want to avoid, but not attack the UK.

I find it extremely hard to navigate the media on this as it is a disgraceful, loaded, dishonest, political shouting match. Instead it should all be about how to best combat the pandemic of course.
The teams in the UK and EU were led by two seasoned professionals, an EU trade negotiator, & in the UK a VC (as controversial as that is). The outcomes summarise the personalities of the two involved.

Success for a negotiator is the cheapest cost. Success for a VC is return on investment. Both won spectacularly on their own fronts.
He didn't say that.

He has made comments that we can likely get there sometime this year if we have widespread administration of vaccines.

Which widespread vaccination is a lot cheaper than other measures, but it's not doing nothing either.
We need a very big expansion of php usage
I think that's the purpose of the button just to the left of the Alt key.
There might also be verbiage in the US contract to this effect. Also, Pfizer is an American company.

But also a multinational, manufacturing their vaccine in the US and Belgium. Initially without any help from Operation Warp Speed, which appears to be a mistake if their December claims about supply chain problems was true, along with eventually signing up to the program and moving up their promise for our second 100 million doses from the 3rd to 2nd quarter.

But that Belgium plant? Something is so wrong with it they're shutting it down for a while to improve capacity ir so they claim. My only good guess is that they have a sterility problem and are finding they have to dump way too many lots they produce after testing for that.
> it's margin with 100% collateral

Except the collateral hasn't settled yet, so you can't guarantee what could happen.

> It's like if you handed your broker a check and said you wanted to make buy a stock for the value of the check.

There are tons of things that could happen here. The check could bounce. Your bank could go under. The check could be fake. You could have stolen the check from someone else, and when they see it clear, they'll call their bank and the funds will be withdrawn.

> Would the trade clear before the check? Sure. Is that margin?

Yes, it is. The broker may choose to loan you the money short term with the assumption that the check will clear, but they don't have to. They could just refuse to make the trade until the funds clear.

If they did choose to buy the stock for you, they would be accepting that risk. If your money doesn't clear, they will be stuck with the stock.

If this was a share of VTI, with low volatility, they'd likely be fine with it. Even if the check didn't clear, they could just re-sell the stock. It's super unlikely to drastically check in value in the 2 days before the check clears.

If this was a share of GME today, they are buying it for you for $350. There is a change that your check doesn't clear. There is a chance that tomorrow GME is worth $50. If both of those things happen, your broker would have paid $350 for a stock that they didn't want, and can only sell for $50, and be stuck holding a $300 loss.

Ie, they have loaned you money (even if it's short term and with no interest), but if the account doesn't actually get funded, or a previous trade doesn't actually settle[0], they are left holding the bag, the same as if it was "traditional" margin.

[0] This is unlikely, but it could happen for a variety of reasons. I believe this would correlate with much larger issues with the state of the financial system, and in that case would just start compounding issues (because if your trade doesn't settle, then chances are a whole bunch of trades don't settle, and your broker will be left holding the bag for all of them)
Looking for a reason?

From https://element.io/

"Keeps conversations in your control, safe from data-mining and ads"
I got banned here for saying this but I'll continue to say it nevertheless. We are already in the Censorship Era. This is an Orwellian Nightmare. The quicker this is brought under control the better. The last thing we need is Corporate Overlords controlling what we say or do online. This includes Hacker News as well.
Multiple brokerages have similar restrictions.

And the discussion is about Robinhood. Any reasonable person reading your comment would rightfully assume you're talking about Robinhood.
From my observation (as a curious non-user), all safe languages seem to include certain escape hatches. They guarantee safety, but if you know what you’re doing there’s always a %FEATURE% that opts you out and allows anything, including shooting yourself in the foot (getting a panic at runtime, etc.).

From your experience with Pony, which escape hatches did you notice? How would a Pony programmer shoot themselves in the foot?
Wow. People in glass houses...
If the vaccines were developed publicly there might not be any vaccines. This is not your ordinary flu shot.
Windows defender makes Windows 10 absolutely impossible to use on slow (non-SSD) drives. That would be fine if there was an easy way to disable it, but it's literally impossible without digging through guides online. It's insanity that this is allowed.
Bull Sheep: Casual 8 Bit Game Using Fantasy Console Pico-8
> In the Muslim Model, the institutions BUY the property and you pay money. The money you pay goes partly towards buying the property and the partly towards paying "fees" to use the property that you don't completely own.

Check out what the Companions Ibn Abbas and Ibn Mas'oud said about such a transaction. It's still Riba (usurious) because the price of the house or asset is raised in exchange for postponing payment. It's only relatively recently with the heavy influence of Western banks that this "model" has gained some traction, but it remains a usurious transaction and many scholars have spoken against it.
Yeah, Rust is about the simplest language that guarantees both memory safety + low-level control. Almost all of its complexity comes from having to satisfy both.
> Non-EU countries in Europe are getting them.

At least one EU country will soon be getting them. Hungary has approved [1] and also ordered [2] the Russian vaccine. Hungary has also approved [3] but not yet ordered the Chinese vaccine.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/covid-hungary-fast-tracks-russian-vacc...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/22/hungary-buys-russia...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin...
Calling it a “bailout” is mischaracterising it. The solvency of Robinhood wasn’t in question.

The funds they put up at the clearinghouse are to manage settlement of customer trades. They had to stop allowing customers to open new positions because they needed to deposit more settlement margin at the clearinghouse. The margin required depends on the volatility of the stock symbol, and in this case clearinghouse increased the margin requirement for GME to 100%, on top of the higher demand for shares by customers.

As for paying the price, I’m pretty sure no broker is ever liable for theoretical profits missed out on.
In this case the retail brokerages have suspended or greatly curtailed opening new positions on GME, which has a similar result: stabilizing prices.

Just as the buying might be coordinated effort by readers of reddit, the suspension of buying new positions in GME is the coordinated effort by multiple large retail brokerages.
I don't think the author was trying to make a big deal out of it. They were just confirming something which wasn't clear from the product specs. Even though Apple doesn't list it, it has 10 bit color.
the next exercise might be to rank the wants from most to least important, & consider if some of those wants are things you are willing to defer if they're not immediately available now, and what your longer-term paths to attaining them could be.

e.g. for myself, i want autonomy, and my strategy for getting that autonomy (perhaps sub optimal) is building wealth. the wealth in itself isn't really an end in itself, just fuel. but the path to build the wealth is grinding away at a high-paying job that happens to have relatively low autonomy and status -- so my path to achieve my longer-term goal is to roughly do the opposite of what i want in the short run.
RH had a major outage last year probably due to a leap year bug. The founders are your typical SV "move fast, break things, write bad software" types. There hasn't been a good reason to use them since 2019, when the competition eliminated commissions.
I would not be so sure on performance vs Python: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

I haven't run the tests myself in 2021, but I used to do PHP for many years, and there were significant performance improvements done in PHP which I remember took it way ahead of Python at the time.
They're implemented using metaclasses. Metaprogramming is a part of the language.
FBI: Pipe bombs at RNC, DNC were planted night before capital riot
Because Windows 10 is the best Operating System in the universe? It seems like HN is full of folks who last used Windows back in 2005 or something and are painfully out of touch with modern Windows.
That is normal. Algos, HFTs and trading desks are trading the same shares over and over again.
Can you be more specific? I'm happy to drill down to the individual Phase III trial protocols, but want to know which ones you're referring to. Plus I'm pretty sure I left myself a lot of wiggle room with efficacy claims like "very good" and "OK."
AZ set up a separate supply chain in each major jurisdiction. As I understand it, the EU interfered in its member countries' contracts, delayed them 3 months, delaying the EU supply chain from starting.

Ridiculously, from what I can see, in the contract the EU specifically stated they could only supply a few early doses from the UK in 2020 (because after Jan 1 the UK is outside the EU and they are not permitted to use non-EU production) and have then been trying to make spurious claims they're supposed to divert UK doses nearly a month afterwards.

Sorry to say it looks like EU Commission incompetence layered on some more EU Commission incompetence.
There was an old HN post about the NYT recipe tagger. This seems to be the most up-to-date repo: https://github.com/mtlynch/ingredient-phrase-tagger
As a practical matter, though, only a very small number of people will ever do that. Being kicked out of the play store is almost always going to be a death sentence for the app.

Apple has earned plenty of criticism themselves, but I do appreciate that they curate the app store with humans.
What’s more dehumanizing than reducing a person to an inanimate nuisance that should be swept aside?

A caring human tries to change other people’s minds, instead of signaling that someone else should just go away.

Heathy disagreements and downvotes are hardly equivalent.
If they issue a few million shares at the current price, shorts still have to cover at an absurdly high price compared to their entry which will cost them in the single to low double digit billions. It may screw over retail investors but bankruptcy is inevitable.
Some of the efficacy methods involved you saying you're sick and then getting tested (Pf/Mod). Others were you were swabbed weekly (thereby catching asymptomatic infections (AZ)). So the efficacy rates between the bunch aren't apples to apples comparisons. AZ has an understated efficacy rate, so it's better than 'OK'.

It explains Jansens efficacy being broken down up to the number of hospitalisations (where it reduces nearly all of them)
Fauci said we were getting close to herd immunity.

He didn't say that.

Not sure it matters when he recently admitted he was lying in stages about the percentages to encourage people to get vaccinated.

After that and his self-admitted lying in the masking debacle, I'm not sure why anyone still listens to him. Credibility is one of the most precious resources in public health, and our public health authorities including him have burned through a great deal of it.
The combination of unique trading features offered as part of Robinhood's business model combined with the social media and relatively inexperienced investors acting in concert is prone to unintended consequences for both the business as well as the investor. That was my main point.
Here's a more comprehensive article on the subject.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/28/gamestop-now-called-a-pump-a....
Between MacOS and Windows in recent years, I vastly prefer Windows. WSL2 alone beats the pants off anything in MacOS - and MacOS had become a much more frustrating experience over the past few years.

Windows is still, to some extent, full of magic and dragons underneath... and while they're doing an increasingly good job at hiding it, it does occasionally bite you in the arse. But Windows has on the whole become a competent development environment that works very well with almost any kind of development workload - with the exception of native iOS and MacOS. Also GPU accelerated ML on Windows is still kind of sketchy.

For a dedicated backend application development desktop, I still prefer Linux. But hardware support is generally better on Windows, plus you have access to Adobe Creative Suite, better colour management, better graphics drivers, etc. and there are types of development that just aren't practical on Linux, such as 3D games, Excel add-ons, VSTs and lots of proprietary embedded development platforms don't support anything other than Windows.

On the other hand, .NET development nowadays is just as easy on MacOS, Windows and Linux.
>I'd gotten the impression that Loeb isn't trying to convince the public and scientific community that it was an alien probe so much as is he trying to show it could have been.

Same, he even went on Planetary Radio on January 27th and said something to the effect of "show me a plausible model that shows this wasn't some sort of craft using a solar sail to accelerate out of the system, I'm happy to be proven wrong".

https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0127-2021-avi-loeb...
It's super easy to disable if you have group policy
> The biggest issue for is that WSL2 is painfully slow accessing the local Windows file system.

This killed me after switching from WSL1 to WSL2. I missed the part in the notes where it said you should no longer store your files outside WSL. Finally figured it out eventually and the speed improvement was huge.
And the original MacPaint also had two full off-screen buffers, for things like undo/redo! That left 64kb for the application and the system.
If there's a backlash, it will just be explained as an "oops," like when Firefox devs catch them doing stuff like this:

>https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-executive-claims-that-go...

>In a thread on Twitter, Mozilla's Technical Program Manager has stated that YouTube's Polymer redesign relies heavily on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API, which is only available in Chrome. This in turn makes the site around five times slower on competing browsers such as Microsoft Edge and Mozila Firefox. He went on to say that:

>>YouTube serves a Shadow DOM polyfill to Firefox and Edge that is, unsurprisingly, slower than Chrome's native implementation. On my laptop, initial page load takes 5 seconds with the polyfill vs 1 without. Subsequent page navigation perf is comparable.
At least secure a VP position so you can leverage your leadership title when you hit the market again.
Linux is bad for laptop batteries, 4K screens, other hardware, and most office programs. If you only use vim, stay plugged into an outlet all day, and don't need great video conferencing, then Linux is fine. But that's not most people.

OTOH windows is slower than Linux, but it's a price worth paying for some.
Ask HN: How do I stop a DDoS attack?
A site I made/more or less passively admin (https://secrethitler.io) has been under a DDoS attack from some guy from eastern europe for about a week.

Because he's an idiot we have his real life name, university he goes to in Serbia, and of course his ISP ips and VPN ips, but nothing my moderators have tried seems to get this to end like emailing various people and then not getting responses.

Its pretty surprising that in 2021 some dude can somehow set up something equivalent to ping -f x100 or whatever and can take down a normal boring web app for a week+. A mod set up the usual "we are checking this browser" Cloudflare mitigation, along with manual nginx rules, etc, but none of that seemed to work.

Any suggestions would be great. Thanks!
HN likes voting machine companies now?
Controversial, but what if we instead gave them to those that wanted it the most? In other words, let the 20–30 yr olds that are itching to socialize & travel get it; it may not seem fair, but as a "harm reduction" strategy could still make sense. If they're going to be going out to dinner, meeting friends, and traveling anyway, might as well inoculate them…
Every other social media company not backed by a block chain decentralized technology should be considered dark web heresy. You cant verify your data integrity. You cant verify the identity of anyone. Entirely a scam.
As long as you have an existing developer certificate or jailbreak the phone you can. You could use something like isign. https://github.com/sauce-archives/isign

Or altstore https://altstore.io/ which is literally a locally run alternative App Store.
I don't understand what harm you think Wall Street is doing to you. In fact if you have a pension plan, you're profiting off the system too. As is your employer if you work for a listed company. Oh well, I suppose it takes all sorts.
You think eTrade, owned by Morgan Stanley, had liquidity problems?? That's so outrageous it beggars belief.

There was absolutely some kind of coordinated manipulation happening. It is telling that the SEC's statement seems to have scared at least some of the brokers away from trying to prohibit buying (but allowing selling).

The market has circuit breakers for a reason and brokers can and do stop all trades on a symbol in certain extraordinary circumstances. But only allowing selling is basically forcing the price down and obvious manipulation.
You might be interested in OOSU10 (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) which has options to disable just about everything you can think of, including Defender.
Ask HN: Help, the Internet is covered in snot and earwax ads
After turning off Google personalised advertising, the Internet is now littered with snot and earwax ads for me. These ads are everywhere.

I click on the top-right corner and report each ad as offensive. I have tried contacting Google directly.

I am hesitant to install an ad blocker, since I cannot afford to violate google TOS and lose access to my Gmail account etc.

I don't know what to do next. Help?
See also his appearance on Planetary Radio by the he Planetary Society this week https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0127-2021-avi-loeb...
> And as with every other OS, reliability has gone down over the years.

I can run Debian or Ubuntu for weeks, even months, without rebooting. I can barely run Windows for a day or two without rebooting.

Others have mentioned the maddening and massive updates that happen frequently, and the weird application crashes and poor performance.

Windows has some cool stuff, like Powershell and .Net, but it’s otherwise too painful to use unless I absolutely must (which happens more often than I’d like these days, despite going 5 years without using windows at one point). Plus, Powershell and .Net are more readily available on Linux.
I am in the same boat except that I am forced to use windows 10 for 8 hours a day. I try to not pay too much attention but it is irking me a little every single day.
Visual Studio used to be a great product but ever since I started using VS 19 I started having ugly issues every single day. During a day it hits weird bugs such as it simply won’t build, search functionality ocasionally is broken and I get crashes and auto restarts. Looked around for help and others are having the same issues but no solutions. Ms folks close the issues as ‘unable to replicate’. I replaced the machine and did a fresh install but no resolve so I have to live with it unfortunately.
Opt out. No Google. No Facebook. No Twitter. No Amazon. You don't need them, you might even enjoy life more without them.

You can't change how they operate. But you can change how you operate.
Has this been observed before on any other videos?
Before we even get to talking about CLion's features/usability vs. Visual Studio, you have to get over the fact that it's like $90/year...
> cornflour (ground corn, water)
A lot of people here are focused on the finance, but I had no idea that Piggly Wiggly was the first self-service grocery store. Its also interesting that it had a single maze-like path through the store.
The difference is, good luck getting Element installed on iOS if Apple removes it from the app store.

On Android you just grab an APK or use F-Droid and it's a couple taps.
Yes a million times this. This becomes a even bigger problem with json_encode when PHP can't tell the difference between an object and array sometimes and outputs the wrong type. Yes you can use stdClass but that feels like such a hack. It would have been amazing if they were different types all along.
> An honest question from someone who hasn't used Windows since the early 2010s: as developers, what's the draw?

Corporate standards? Also, if you're in enterprise land, there could be some weird tool you need to use (or is superior to whatever you can get on Linux) that forces/encourages you to use Windows.

Also, there may be some weird little ergonomics thing: I recently switched from Windows to a Mac at work. We use Outlook, and IMHO Mac Outlook sucks compared to the Windows version. It's just missing a bunch of useful little features that I got used to. I was originally planning on using Windows Outlook in a VM, but got thwarted by new policies set by our new desktop support vendor.
If you think about it, a lot of Google and Apple's power comes from their dominance of the smartphone market.

I hope that mobile computing follows the path of desktop computing, and we end up with more viable small-device OS options.
What is Element?
Ah yeah I saw this initially but haven't given CRFs a try yet. I was hoping ml had advanced enough that I could throw newer solutions at the problem. Thanks for linking this though, I just realized there's a lot of labelled training data the NYT provided which I will definitely use.
Not for small volume though, Li-ion is still $400-600/kWh unless you're Tesla or another huge company buying millions of them.