skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most direct reason for the delay in approving the AZ vaccine in the US is that as of early this month they had not submitted for approval.

They are waiting for the results from a larger US-based trial.

I'm not sure why they aren't going with the same trial data they used to submit requests elsewhere, but it could have something to do with the FDA approval process. The FDA evaluates drug approval requests the way a lot of people were saying the FAA should have evaluated Boeing's 737 Max certification application.

The FDA takes your trial data and then does their own analysis of safety and efficacy. They also have an independent advisory committee that looks over both the company's work and the FDA's work. Many other places, such as the UK, rely more on trusting the company's analysis.

The AZ vaccine was the one that had the error in running the trial that gave some people half of the dose they were suppose to get, and the results suggested that results were better for them than for those who got the full dose. The trial wasn't designed to test half dose vs full dose, and so the set of people who ended up getting half vs full are not really a good set to draw conclusions from.

Perhaps AZ thinks that submitting based on a later trial without that error will overall lead to faster approval than submitting an earlier trial that would probably take longer for the FDA and the independent advisory committee to analyze?
What about my comment seems to say that it is WSB's fault? I didn't comment on whose fault it is and I don't care, I just think pretty much everyone is acting like the only two parties involved are WSB memers and hedge funds. And maybe that was true for awhile. But it isn't now, there are lots of unsophisticated people who have bought into the frenzy and in a few months all the stories will be about how those people got screwed. Meanwhile, both the WSB folks and the hedge funds will be doing just fine.
Thanks for the background info. Why can't the database be updated ~instantly though? Is it just because of legacy systems that handle settlement in periodic (daily?) batches?

Also, couldn't a broker eliminate this risk by just making assets "unavailable to trade" until they've been settled? Granted, I understand why brokers wouldn't want to do that under normal circumstances, but it seems like something they should be able to enable when liquidity becomes a problem.

To me, "Your cash can't be spent yet because the TSLA sale you just made hasn't settled" would seem a lot more understandable than "We're halting GME purchases".
As a (Swiss) American, I can't see the flaw in that logic. The UK signed first, is paying more and included a provision preventing the export of British-manufactured doses. The EU didn't. The EU also added a provision mandating AstraZeneca make no profit prior to 1 July 2021 (the end of the Pandemic Period), a counter-incentive to ramping up production.

It's not fair. But neither is the UK and EU getting wildly more doses per capita than Africa, South America or Oceania.
Well, it doesnt help that astrazeneca joined the pro brexiters..
It is obvious that waste of public resources is not an effective deterrent of police lawlessness.

Police leaders should go to prison if they willfully violate the law.
In addition to be in quiet explicit breach of contract and extremely unethical, attitude given the world situation, you still do realise that if EU had done the same and restricted exports of the BioNTech vaccine GB had been even more in the shitter.

GB is by far one of the worst performers in the region in handling covid: https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/l7meq9/covid_deaths...

Now try to imagine a world where the development of the Oxford vaccine had failed. And EU based companies had had the success in their place, would you still be having a laugh, given that GB would be on the end of the unfulfilled contract?
Stupid FUD, Coinbase had announced their technical issues prior to this tweet https://twitter.com/CoinbaseSupport/status/13551806713926041...

Service has been restored since then https://twitter.com/CoinbaseSupport/status/13552133597176422...
Are you confusing it with the word "citizen"?
I think, on the whole, widely available books is better for society than publisher's and even author's profits. Of course I believe an author should receive compensation, but laws designed to get them that compensation shouldn't get in the way of public knowledge.
I've tried it for celiac, but it didn't work for me. There's a whole underground economy of shipping people hookworms. They claim that about 80% of people with some form of auto-immune disease get benefit. I'm glad to see that there's more research being done in this area.
> the first game to incorporate a mechanic rarely ends up also being one of the ones that put it to the best use

This definitely applies to board games. Dominion was the first deck-builder board game and is still fairly popular, but it has been superseded by many other superior deck builders that came out afterwards.
C#/Winforms for sure. Use the Visual Studio template and go from there. When I first tried it it took like 10 minutes to figure out how to add some button, attach event to that click, display text etc. Just go from there.
Maybe, but I was talking about ppl on HN
I find it very hard to believe that either idiots or dolts are somehow limited in number, especially to the number 1. This seems an entirely unfeasible basis for a cryptocurrency to me.
Right, AZ is doing all of this at cost for everyone, not just the EU (until the end of the Pandemic); I feel sorry for AZ having to take this hastle when they're not making anything out of it.
It also doesn't animate text though. The content is all in place, with pretty animations and such in the background.

Not my preferred look, which is admittedly pretty spartan, but it works.

Edit: It does animate the code being typed. But that seems less critical to me then the main body. I would still prefer it to be static personally, but it works.
Revolution happened before Slavyansk. It had achieved its goals: now Ukraine is the poorest state in Europe, on par with African countries. Biden's son company Burisma had stolen trillions from Ukraine. All the industry is destroyed. Only Motor Sich still barely survives, but obviously not for long. Besides it was already sold to China, but now there's some dirty scandal about it.

Also, my initial point wasn't about Ukraine which served it part already - there's almost nothing left to plunder.

I wanted to leave a prediction that in 2021-2022 there will be a new war because USA desperately needs it. For many reasons, mostly economical. I've also named next most probable targets.

Just to say "I said so" when it'll happen and point to the original comment.
Nothing new from Johnsosn and Johnsons.
Johnsons and Johnsosn shampoo wash hair 66% too.
Ohh, We haven't tried WebSQL yet with our builder, but from a quick Google search it seems possible!

Another route is to use something like http://alasql.org/ to cache data in localstorage so you can query it instantly. Would a search UX be better, or a text box to directly write SQL over your data?
Yeah I subscribe to that. Anger is a good sign, let it out slightly to get the message across, don't let it boil in, don't let it rot but don't ignore it.
Is Google not following the news and sees what's going on? These seem legit reviews of upset customers, not some random prank.
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It could be that the government knows ETs exist, so it is pretty much of a moot point to spend money on searching for them.
Isn't this what Safari Technology Preview is supposed to be? Although even that release cadence is sluggish compared to Chromium/Firefox...

https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/
I have my agenda
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25961188
The volume in the stock since this became the big news on Wednesday, and the performance of the Robinhood app in app stores.
They did it because they can't meet their collateral requirements. The fact that they're in bed with Citadel, which owns Melvin Cap., just makes it that much worse.
Taibbi is awesome at his job and an exceptional journalist.

The intentional misreading of the latest piece (vis-a-vis Airline comments) seems very odd.

You should create some competition for him with your own writings to demonstrate how mistaken my opinion is on this matter.
We can agree that indeed this should be demanded.

However, I ask again, why is no media outlet questioning our representatives about why they burned 3 months of people dying, to then come up with essentially the same terms as the unilateral contracts that the Dutch and the French were initially drafting?

This isn't a contract to squeeze the best deal out of AZN, it is an emergency purchase, what was there to negotiate?
It isn’t possible to protect the vulnerable while having rampant covid in the young and healthy, society doesn’t work like that.

Here in New Zealand we isolate new arrivals in hotels and they are strictly monitored. There are only a few thousand people there at any given time, and despite the huge effort, covid still escapes into the community every so often.
Obviously the situation needs to be investigated. But I think there is a real possibility they did nothing wrong here.

Despite this, the main problem I see with Robinhood is that with it's gamified UI, ease of access, etc... these 99.9 percentile events are mainly what it is designed for. It's encouraging people to pick up the "hot stock" on social media on a whim.

While there may not be legal repercussions for this, it's fundamentally incapable of it's core purpose. If you are new to RH you might not realize that the platform has outages all the time and it costs its users a lot of money. It is straight up dangerous to trade on this platform for the purpose which the UI glorifies.

Index funds have done a lot more to democratize finance than RH in my personal view. While commission free sounds fantastic, it comes with some very large hidden costs.
Yes exactly, but many people who discover things like this in mainstream media don't know that.
And they'll inevitably blame "Wall Street" for their loss.

I really do feel bad for them. A bunch of people are about to lose a bunch of money. For most, hopefully, it will only be a few hundred dollars of money, treating Robinhood as a kind of online casino for playing around.

But I have a feeling that the ones saying "THIS IS FOR ALL THE FAMILIES THAT LOST THEIR HOMES..." are the ones most likely to go all in and lose their own homes. (Or their retirements, but worse if they're trying to do it on margin.) And that really sucks.
I wonder if the Facial Recognition software or the police humans have a higher racial bias?
> the people around them, had no idea what made the first one good

That's easy - Johnny Depp in black eyeliner.
It might, just like the microcode, firmware and hardware design can have such bugs.

Safe languages don't magically make all code impossible to exploit, they just reduce the attack surface to logical errors, instead of having to deal with UB and memory corruption as well.

The same way that helmets and belts don't save people from dying all in all kinds of accidents, yet they surely help reducing the mortality numbers.

I enjoy languages with helmets and belts.
> > Ideas are cheap, execution is everything

> Good ideas are rare, and nobody knows how to come up with them reliably.

The operative word there is "good ideas are rare". The claim is that you don't know whether a idea is good until it's been executed on (which seems plausible, and at any rate you haven't contradicted that), and that good ideas are rare, so most ideas are crap (which you yourself just asserted). Thus, the expected value of a given idea (absent execution) is very low, aka cheap.
Great info, and a shame there’s not better real world evidence for cases like this. And I hear you, just making the point that most shouldn't be considered “typical”; we should question everything.
Wow this was an utterly useless article? What is the point of the article excluding a historical anecdote? Even more why was it shared on HN? I was hoping for an article with the title to tackle the issue of pirating today, not 19th century France and some insignificant novel.
The layout jumps
‘The perfect target’: Russia cultivated Trump as asset for 40 years – ex-KGB spy
They spend half their time talking to their government, who say that.

The BBC can't win. When they editorialise to try to dig into a subject, it's left wing pandering, and when they just listen to official sources, they're right wing mouthpieces.
Yeah, well, there are more competent players in the space. We owe them nothing.
Really?

Can you define "crank" in the verb form you seem to be using it in here?
Is there anything novel here? GitHub is nowhere close to a delight as people make it out to be. Settling for GitHub creates as many problems as it solves. This is not a recent development, and there's nothing surprising about any of this (at least it shouldn't be considered surprising at this point).

What's interesting that if you ask people why they love GitHub, they'll probably say, "because of its community and its UI — they're great!" and if you ask people who hate GitHub why they hate it, they'll agree that it's about the community and the UI — except, from their perspective?: "They're terrible." It's not hard to figure out what's up with the disparity.

GitHub is a two-dollar bill: better than a one-dollar bill, and worse than a five.
Is it just me, or does it seem like an odd assumption that this hard-codes the value of the company to $2.5M-$2.7M? I would think they would have a percentage cut they target or a dollar amount they target, and the other variable is filled in based on their assessment of the startup's value at the time?
Yeah! RPA is a really really powerful tool. We've seen companies hack RPA to add UI to existing tools as well.

Selenium is a bit tough because you end up with scripts that are hard for business users to execute. AutoIt and iMacros are solid web automation tools, but they lack the extensibility of a custom solution (to do things like add UI) and are also hard to share with non-technical users across a company.
Missouri Bill Allows Residents to Use Deadly Force Against Rioters
Asking police to stop lying to suspects belies an expectation for police to act contrary to human nature for _many well known reasons_.

It's less of a problem that police lie if everyone adopts the very clear advice given by every legal professional:

> Never, ever, talk to police.*

* You can give them your name, and if they ask "what are you doing", a tolerable answer, but any further questions are to be met with "I have been advised to never speak with police, and I can answer no further questions."

Here's an entertaining lecture on the topic, for anyone not convinced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE&t=11s

And he wrote a very short (single-sitting) book titled: "You Have The Right To Remain Innocent": https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Innocent-ebook/...

Do. Not. Talk. To. Police. They are not your friend.

If you're reading this and about to hit the "reply" button explaining why I am wrong, will you please, please say in that comment if you watched _any_ of the lecture by Regent Law Professor James Duane?
I'm for the EU and of course hope the vaccine problems are solved ASAP, but i'm troubled by the way this has become a political, lawyeristic issue. On the one hand UK media is deseperate to somehow prove brexit worked, on the other hand EU is , once again, trying to solve problems magically by legal means. Are we forgetting we are in an urgent pandemic that threatens the world economy with collapse? This requires a warlike level of mobilization of engineers, not lawyers.
The last two paragraphs are so incredibly lame. The goal of a scientist's life isn't to be "respected by the community." Science and reality don't care what the community thinks and never have.

I have no idea if Loeb is right or not. I think for Bayesian reasons (prior is Borisov) he is probably wrong, but there is so little data and Oumuamua is certainly super weird. But this author is a total hack, making arguments from authority and mainstream-ness. If a scientist stops making relevant arguments and instead starts talking about the "consensus" of the "scientific community", run the opposite direction
People giving negative rating to the wrong Clubhouse app on Playstore
Perhaps you can point to what in particular the UK has done wrong on this vaccine issue.

With the EU introducing export controls against existing (and actually binding) vaccine contracts and now threatening war time-esque controls over production and intellectual property rights of private pharma companies, it is not AstraZeneca that this will cost big, actions like these are much much bigger than uk vs EU
Truly a motto to live by.
I’ve been looking for writing on grumpiness, which is slightly different than anger. There’s very little out there specifically on grumpiness, though much writing on mood, mindfulness and awareness can be applied.
I don't understand, where is BBC incorrect here? How would you like them to report on this?

EU was months late and they move much slower than other parties in the whole process and on top of that they signed agreements with "best effort" clauses instead of hard obligation of vaccine delivery. How is this UK's fault?
So, for some in-depth thoughts on how social media, etc. impact protest movements, I suggest the book "Twitter and Teargas" (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2061997366). I won't try to summarize in a sentence; it's a complicated topic and she covers it well.

For a detailed analysis of the current troubles, I suggest the book "Ages of Discord" (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1796955228). Again, I won't try to summarize. But the author predicted big political discord and upheaval in the U.S. starting in around the year 2020. Note that none of his theories require flash mobs to happen. If it weren't flash mobs, it would still be mobs. But the first book does discuss how internet communications change the dynamics (and effectiveness) of protests.
"This post is the third installment of our five-part series on building GitHub’s new homepage"

Imagine the ridiculous amount of money that has to have been spent on the spinning globe thing. Enough not to have a random blog post talking about, it but a five-part SERIES!!!

The frontpage eats up almost 90% CPU on firefox on my computer[0] and not as much, but still high in chrome. Maybe that has something to do with graphics acceleration, or my computer isn't good enough, or some other thing where it's my fault.. But it's ironic the situation exists for a site with a five-part series describing how "performant" it is.

Scrolling down the site loads up 4.5 MB of bandwidth transferred, 6.5 MB resources loaded, and 110 requests. Could be worse, but the fact this almost seems 'normal' now is a sad state of affairs.

As an aside, I understand this is GitHub's primary marketing vehicle to really Impress and Wow newcomers to the site -- hoping to blow them away with neon graphics and slick animation. But honestly, is this kind of dribbble.com-esque readymade really impressing anyone these days?! Have years of A/B testing determined that a neon space adventure yields the highest level of new user signups??[1]

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/vSFxUO9.gif

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/5IWdM3e.png
Thanks for the feedback. I am using charjs. Not sure how to make it responsive and mobile ready.

Interesting idea about other subreddit. I might try and do that and see what type of data I get back.
Use the smallest word that does the job
True that - which is why it's so important to obtain news from multiple sources and then attempt to form your own view.
I would say that the mechanics tags are more of a weak negative signal for me. There are lots of games that I don't enjoy despite them featuring mechanics that I like; for example, I should like Scythe based on what it is, but across about two dozen playthroughs I just don't— the pacing is wrong for me and I'm never satisfied with where I end up.

On the other hand, there are certain mechanics that I either don't enjoy (dice battles) or am sick of (deck building) which if present makes it much less likely that I will enjoy the game as a whole.
So is this feasible to create as a hobbyist?
Yeah! We drew a lot of inspiration from TamperMonkey. We think of what we are building almost as an "enterprise user script." We have a "shell" extension that hosts all the UI, automations, and JS that you write. And, when you are ready to share with your team, you can just install our shell extension, login, and everything you built is instantly available to those with access!
Why are headers limited to four levels?
Do they have to be always padded with spaces?

Why are references limited to one symbol?
It can just be more mnemonic to have `java_doc` than `j

Why only full reference links are allowed?
It would be handy to have a shortcut for links without reference, and it's not like we're running out of symbols: `?[]` could be used for links without reference while being consistent with `![]`, which is used for transclusion

Why is it impossible to put backticks inside a code span?

What is there a `<!-- -->` in an example in the Lists section?

I really like the spirit of this markdown alternative
U.S. Authorities Disrupt NetWalker Ransomware
A friend of mine who used to own a small Inn learned within a year to turn away customers who either asked too many questions before booking a room or that showed up complaining.
I don't agree. I think they provide a valuable service they should stay whole IF they can fix their capital issue and make their customers whole. You didn't forsee what was happening and neither did I because it was unprecedented. If not let them sink, someone will provide a similar service and learn from it. The SEC shouldn't be in the market of shutting down companies because a new phenomenon happened, let the market do that, unless something illegal has occurred.
Plug for a post I wrote a few years ago demonstrating nearly the same result but using only a single CPU core: https://spdk.io/news/2019/05/06/nvme/

This is using SPDK to eliminate all of the overhead the author identified. The hardware is far more capable than most people expect, if the software would just get out of the way.
Blindly donating to charity is the worst thing you can do. There is literally a war going inside every charity on how to best steal the $.

My first job, was at an agency, that was created because a charity was stealing so much and doing so little, so they created their own agency cause most of the money was going advertising/stealing instead of doing actual work.
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track
Right, I should have said "race conditions"; it hadn't occurred to me that the two weren't synonymous. My point wasn't that Pony does prevent race conditions, but rather that non-data-race race conditions are much more common in my domain (distributed computing) or really any domain where multiprocess architectures are common so I don't benefit much from the static guarantees that Rust affords.
Early stage startup valuations are more or less worth the paper that they're printed on. Probably more cost effective to hard-code the valuation to the same number than to try and determine the value for each startup applying.
I agree a source controlled package-lock file for reproducibility would be an improvement. As you alluded to, Open MCT in its current form would likely not be considered or used for mission critical purposes [1] but instead for planning, analysis, and general data visualization, as opposed to something like the AMPCS (AMMOS Mission Data Processing and Control System), which involves command/control and direct communication with a spacecraft.

[1] Mission critical, meaning its operation is required to prevent any possible mission failure. https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR...