skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure what this has to do with Brexit.

The exact same arrangement would have been possible and likely before Brexit as well.
There is a definition in the document:

1.9. “Best Reasonable Efforts” means

(a) in the case of AstraZeneca, the activities and degree of effort that a company of similar size with a similarly-sized infrastructure and similar resources as AstraZeneca would undertake or use in the development and manufacture of a Vaccine at the relevant stage of development or commercialization having regard to the urgent need for a Vaccine to end a global pandemic which is resulting in serious public health issues, restrictions on personal freedoms and economic impact, across the world but taking into account efficacy and safety; and

(b) in the case of the Commission and the Participating Member States, the activities and degree of effort that governments would undertake or use in supporting their contractor in the development of the Vaccine having regard to the urgent need for a Vaccine to end a global pandemic which is resulting in serious public health issues, restrictions on personal freedoms and economic impact, across the world.
It’s time for police to stop lying to suspects
Just a guess: maybe it means fast-despite-fancy-junk. So, it contrasts with just fast achieved by keeping the content simpler and less fancy?
See https://twitter.com/VrlPlt/status/1355219237745405954
The other part is the definition of Best Reasonable Effort . I wonder if the behaviour of Pfizer has an impact here.
As far as I can tell there’s no great consensus, but the 3 popular theories seem to be 1) more time indoors, 2) less sunlight thus less vitamin D, and 3) the virus itself transmits better in cold air.
Would have been very cool when I was starting out, hope to see this concept grow.
Is "fair value" an objective metric in this context?
The one thing I really miss about Windows is the Visual Studio debugger -- it was frickin' awesome even back w/VS 2005 and I have to believe it's gotten better.

On Linux I use ddd, and while it's definitely quirky (in that weird X way), it works just fine. I would guess that many of the poster's problems have to do with Linux's mediocre GUI support in general. I've recently switched to doing development on Ubuntu (vs. RH/CentOS) and all the GUI stuff works much better in that environment, incl. ddd.

I haven't tried Eclipse's C/C++ debugger, but its Perl debugger (part of EPIC) is quite nice and works well on both Mac and Linux.
Ah, that's an interesting aspect I didn't know about.

But if that's true it seems very hypocritical of the UK to complain so much about the EU's plan to introduce vaccine export controls, since they are doing the exact same thing already...
The Taxman Cometh for ID Theft Victims
Number Parsing at a Gigabyte per Second
NumPy also support conversions without copying. One thing I haven't found good way to bridge between Python is the pandas.DataFrame, it seems to be quite Python focused object and iterating through DataFrame is particularly slow.
>Also, where are the people who laughed about Brexit now?

Please don't throw grenades.

https://www.flamewarriorsguide.com/warriorshtm/grenade.htm
it is definitely affected in another way - temperature and humidity do affect the droplets which carry the virus. If i remember correctly the longest droplets lifetime is around the flu seasons.

>though protein denaturing occurred at 51 °C

no need for masks in sauna :)
“I’m as pissed as anyone that they shut off trading,”

Robinhood did not halt trading or shut off trading.

Robinhood prevented _buying_ Gamestop and only allowed selling.

That’s entirely different. It can only do one thing - drive the price down which is market manipulation. It’s supposed to be illegal.
Wow! This is exactly the type of service that academic institutions could benefit from.

When I was a medical student and resident on rounds, it was really stressful trying to do literature searches on pubmed and up-to-date (esp while taking care of active patient problems!) I often didn't have the time or bandwidth to comb through the papers/lists of care guidelines, and the abstracts often didn't give the clear story (or the relevant numbers!)

If I had had access to InpharmD, I could've 1) looked like a rockstar to my team, and 2) actually learned and understood the info I needed. :)
Yes, I agree. They are naturally bimodally distributed, but I'd expect Google is arrogant enough to think that they can tell the difference between an honest and manipulative review using such statistics anyway.

They obviously can't, and that's why people are outraged.
> 3. Some people are so used to not having a debugger that they don’t know what they’re missing. Debuggers work well for what, windows and websites? I guess Java too? Lots of people end up debugging with prints and that just isn’t so effective. I think I’ve barely used a debugger for more than trivial websites in the last 10 years.

They're extremely useful for dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, etc) since you can step through call chains and see the full objects being passed around. Wonderful way to learn a new codebase where you have a bunch of functions passing stuff around with no type information in the code.

The debugger is the main reason you're not gonna pull me away from IntelliJ for JVM or dynamic language stuff... it could be even better - like how CLion is discussed - but I'm not seeing a better debugger-less alternative.

Hooking into async callback stuff and losing useful stacktraces isn't great, but it's not like print statements are gonna do any better there either...
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Asking for more was not a wise move by the attackers. By failing to uphold their end of the ransom, and that story getting out, future victims are now much less likely to pay them.
I was under the impression that the mechanism for climate affecting transmission was that virus particles stay alive and aloft longer in colder, drier weather, and not related to receptor binding dynamics. It's obviously nice to know that binding dynamics don't seem to change with temperature, but the way the headline is presented seems to make a very different claim than the far more specific, and imo, less practically relevant claim that it actually makes.
At least with Rust, very few domains involve so much parallelism that one benefits from the overhead that the borrow checker adds to the development process. And many times the borrow checker is completely inadequate at preventing race conditions (frequently the case with distributed computing). Of course, Rust can recoup those losses elsewhere, by having better tooling or competing in domains where performance matters a lot, but I’ve not found the safety to be worthwhile in my domain.

EDIT: s/data races/race conditions
My immediate response too. Even more ridiculous than "prevent the manipulation of a stock", you know the entire point of economics and markets...
Balance, that's what I'm pushing for.

Assess your actual chances of catching and suffering from covid. Then balance it against the risk of a rushed experimental gene therapy still in initial trials.

Edit: Remember that none of the media and government published figures show recovery rates - this is hugely important.
> Also, where are the people who laughed about Brexit now?

The idea that this one event makes up for the colossal mess of Brexit is... interesting.
The fundamental problem is that AstraZeneca has conflicting contracts with the UK and the EU.

AstraZeneca, which apparently has no experience with maki vaccines, has messed up every part of their job. Starting with the trials (which is why the EU delayed the emergency authorization and the US hasn’t given it yet) continuing with manufacturing, and apparently now it’s becoming evident their legal department has screwed up as well.
How many degrees is the killer temperature for covid?

I have read that hot water does not kill it, but have not found what is upper temperature of breaking protein bonds.

Although, it has temperature resistivity - it is not resistant to alcohol and detergents ...
I'm an admin and unfortunately I have to ban people who contribute to destroying this place. You did a lot of that in the last 24 hours. I don't think that's hard to see. I don't want to ban you, so please go back to using HN as intended so I don't have to.

> The important thing is they now realize

If you want people to realize something, you need to explain it to them patiently and respectfully, and include a certain amount of overlap with what they already know and feel. That's a totally different mode of communication than flaming rhetoric. People don't learn when beaten with flaming sticks (verbally any more than physically). They just go rigid, double down, and lash back. If you actually want them to learn, that is the worst way to make it happen.

Flaming is something we do to other people, not for them. We do it for ourselves, to vent our anger and frustration (not that it really helps us either, but it at least provides a little temporary relief). That's partly why it contributes to destroying communication and community. We want communication and community here, so please do the opposite from now on.
Matt you were incredibly helpful back when we went through the YC Fellowship — excited to see you starting this fellowship for Scientists, I'm sure it'll be a great program!
Markdown was engineered to be flexible _on purpose_ because it was designed for writers and readers, not programmers.

Writers are less likely to care about what symbol means "bulleted list item", as long as anything that makes sense for it, just works.

It's a mistake to think of Markdown as a programming language, or a "formal grammar".

That being said, if it works for you go for it...
Billionaires will make the world a better place by investing in fellowships like this than donating money to charities.
To be fair, I go look at Stripe's homepage every couple months just because it's pretty.
What absolutely guarantees transmission of covid19 is contact between people, interaction in the same spaces.

Should probably have minimized that, like a year ago.

But I guess they are going to try to find every other loophole until they come back around to "hey if people don't interact, they can't transmit the virus".
Tesla actually made an official statement on their website about going private within 24 hours of the tweet. That's what reduced it to a slap on the wrist.
Just because someone won't say the reason doesn't mean there is no reason.
We're all in the Cuckoo's Nest. If those reviews weren't legitimate (i.e bots) then fine. But if legitimate users want to express their reviews they should - even when they are misinformed. Google should at most put an asterisk letting people know of possible misinformation before submitting their review.
Once you are in violation, you have two ways to fix it: stop publishing the software with the violation (and, optionally, publish a version without the violation instead) or give access to the source code. The main problem with accidental violation is that, with GPLv2, you need to have an agreement with the copyright holder to unterminate your license. With GPLv3, you have a grace period and major copyright holders (like Redhat) told they would also use a grace period for GPLv2.
This just isn't the case. And it dramatically isn't the case.

This is a side effect of using the same category terms, but not talking about the underlying distributions.

Eg., in the UK, 80% of the country were industrial working class or poorer until 1980s; and middle class only started at top 5%.

Today, the "industrial working class" level of wealth, is the bottom 20% at the very most.

So if you hold the class terms fixed, "middle class" it seems the 80s top 5% has "stagnated", only to fail to mention, it now 60% of the country.

If you hold the distributions constant, the wealth level acheived in the top 5% in 1980s is now a majority of the population.
I have personally found that making even the most primitive efforts at single-writer principle and batching IO in your software can make many orders of magnitude difference.

Saturating an NVMe drive with a single x86 thread is trivial if you change how you play the game. Using async/await and yielding to the OS is not going to cut it anymore. Latency with these drives is measured in microseconds. You are better off doing microbatches of writes (10-1000 uS wide) and pushing these to disk with a single thread that monitors a queue in a busy wait loop (sort of like LMAX Disruptor but even more aggressive).

Thinking about high core count parts, sacrificing an entire thread to busy waiting so you can write your transactions to disk very quickly is not a terrible prospect anymore. This same ideology is also really useful for ultra-precise execution of future timed actions. Approaches in managed lanaguages like Task.Delay or even Thread.Sleep are insanely inaccurate by comparison. The humble while(true) loop is certainly not energy efficient, but it is very responsive and predictable as long as you dont ever yield. What's one core when you have 63 more to go around?
I was not entirely fair to you when trying to make my point. In fact I could see this exact argument of yours coming up and ignored it completely.

What I want to say is that there are entire domains of competence that are irrelevant to a large degree to doing the day's job. Knowing history of computing will not necessary help in making a better program in a way that can be noticed.
But history of computing is closely related to computing. Unlike for example history of knitting. Although neither will make you a better programmer now, the first has much better chance at that than the second (although we don't exactly know that).
Thus, when someone downplays the importance of history of programming to improving a programmer's mastery, I see it as touting ignorance at not seeing the connections between the two: self sufficiency, arrogance of ego being trapped by the light of today's fads, pop culture that doesn't care about the past or the future.

Or maybe I'm projecting...
No, there are just different definitions for a word and context, everyone know exactly what is meant in this case.
It doesn't matter if it is limited to a specific platform or consensual. China also censors what people can read only on their internet. But its still "actual censorship" even if you can just go to another place.

This is exactly the kind of useless arguing about definition. It doesn't matter if the word is used wrong, if it is used for a lack of a better one. You can disagree with that but unless you come up with a better one you aint contributing anything. You just deflect the discussion away form the actual topic/problem. Its about the (negative) effect the [insert "your better word for consensual censorship form a private company that has no obligation to reason their action" here] has on the people of this planet. It looks to me like you dont see a problem so you question the word used to express it instead.
Thanks for this, makes it much clearer.
I do wonder though if there will be any Hollywood creative accounting there with the "no profit margin".
Formatting is a bit off on mobile, but I'm sure you're aware and working on it.

If you haven't thought of it already, you could turn this into a somewhat modular tool. Someone can go to a page, enter the subreddit of their choice, the keywords they want (or just let your software parse the most popular words that aren't common language), and have a nice chart like this quickly.
And then you get the ones like Dogecoin that were supposed to be a dud, and it's still around more than 5 years later and just had a massive spike today until RH decided to restrict the use of instant deposits to buy it.

Can't have the poors making money!
> Imagine all the criminals who, when Snowden dropped his bombshell, only just then realized that the NSA already had all their dirty laundry.

As a country, the United States has decided that the Bill of Rights was important enough to write down, even if some bad people get to go free.

As a country, the United States also decided that wiretapping is illegal except when permitted in a specific instance, with approval from a judge.

You may think it's okay, but our Founding Fathers and our predecessors decided that these things weren't okay, likely do to immediate dangers they had just been experiencing.

Arguably, the software and practices that Snowden exposedallow after-the-fact wiretapping, where everything was recorded, but not looked at prior to the fact. I argue that is against the spirit of the wiretapping laws, myself.
Of course. As I said in my other comment, there is a lot of politics involved, not least because of Brexit and, frankly because the EU did not do very well (they may be looking for a diversion...) here while the UK did.
I don't understand the current lessons being drawn by the public from this situation.

I don't think shorting stocks (even to 140% of its float) is a bad thing. And, the hedge fund managers that shorted GME don't deserve to be bankrupt.

Shorting stocks, in general, is a beneficial action for the market because it helps prevent shares from becoming overvalued.

The problem that GME highlighted is that it's too easy to purposefully trigger a short squeeze.

One possible solution seems to be that the SEC should make it easier to borrow shares to short a stock. And, in so doing, they should make it harder to purposefully trigger a short squeeze.

There's nothing wrong with greed if it doesn't hurt others...The SEC's ultimate goal should be to have a fair and efficiently priced market at all times. In this case, it seems like the party that needs to be protected is the hedge funds....What am I missing?
Note that if you start being able to use those funds before several weeks have passed, you're almost certainly going to be trading on margin even though you made a "cash deposit", because ACH funds will not settle for up to a month.
Your position is extremely reasonable and realistic. I commend you for stating it openly.
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Unrelated to the article, but I found clicking the rocket at the bottom of the webpage an amusing (and fitting) way to handle the typical "scroll to top" feature. Kudos!

Also - Awesome game!
There's a pretty notorious takedown of Taibbi's Rolling Stone cover story on Bain Capital and the LBO business. I'm having a hard time finding it, but the gist from my notes:

* Taibbi story claimed that PE firms were behind the 2008 crisis (obviously not)

* Taibbi claimed that Blackstone Group was "Democrat-leaning" (quite the opposite)

* Taibbi claimed that the major returns from PE LBOs came regardless of whether companies succeeded (which is false, and confuses downside protection in some deals with an actual portfolio strategy that can raise a fund)

* Taibbi claimed that after running with Milkin in the 80s, Bain Capital moved on to do LBOs in the tech sector during the first tech bubble

There were a bunch of other things, like refutable empirical claims (for instance, at the time, the numbers showed that PE deals didn't materially impact payroll, despite Taibbi's claims) but that stuff is boring, the more interesting things to me are the places where he's saying stuff that can't be true, like that PE firms were doing LBOs of unprofitable 2-year-old tech companies.

My take on Taibbi is that he has a gift for saying things that feel true, but a poor track record of reliably saying things that are true. That doesn't mean the opposite of whatever Taibbi is on about is false; it means that you can't tell from his writing whether it is, any more than you could by flipping a coin.
This is why NetFlix switched to thumbs up/down, and the reviews are just as useless as before but more explicit in their useless-ness.

Funny that Steam does this too, but I find their reviews quite useful and accurate. Maybe because you rationalize your review and then give it an overall UP/DOWN, vs all these other approaches that ONLY give you the GO/NO-GO signaling...
"AstraZeneca has committed to use its Best Reasonable Efforts (as defined below) to build capacity to manufacture 300 million Doses of the Vaccine, at no profit and no loss to AstraZeneca, at the total cost currently estimated to be ** Euros for distribution within the EU"
he literally sold 300 of his options the other day...
what kinds of optimizations are you thinking of? I don't think the engine can do stuff like defer simulating offscreen events to process them in a batch several ticks later. anything happening anywhere on the explored map could potentially affect things in the player's view. several systems (eg, trains, electricity) need to respond immediately to changes in the global state.
Seems much more convoluted than the pzifer contract with Israel.
We walked away from a $1.5m seed round and shut down our company
Gavin Newsom needs to be Recalled
Gavin Newsom is a hypocrite who supports sanctuary cities and illegal immigrants. He wants illegal immigrants to swarm and ruin Caifornia and cost millions to lose their jobs. Gavin Newsom needs to be recalled.
Too be fair it looks like those pages are slightly above the average (mean and median) of the six sites on https://forgeperf.org/. Speaking of which it would be nice if ddevault would add each sites homepage there, just as bonus data (obviously not as useful as the stuff already there).
IKEA should solve their delivery issue and stock sync in their website first.
Heck even on Amazon it is kind of a gamble whether you get a pirated book or not when ordering one.
I'd forgotten about negative heights! Unexpectedly negative values in BMP files were another surprise that required extra code.
Posted as a note to self. Nice explanation skills, rich content.
The Kelly criterion tells you how big your bet should be.
There's a short squeeze; people will have to buy. Most of the shorters would probably love to just clear their short if they could buy at a semi-reasonable price. GME has to know their stock is inflated. They could sell stock for 75% of the current market value and still be making money hand over fist.

That would, however, crash the price.
Soon I'll be able to have high quality sound embedded in my business card. And when I open a magazine while killing time in the line at my favorite box grocery store, I'll get musical ads. And maybe my driver's license can talk to the cop and tell him I'm a good guy. And maybe I could make some paper dolls and integrate them with Alexa and have conversations with them.
People who were pro-Brexit seem to think this one thing proves they were right. They seem to think other EU members will be angry with how the EU are treating the UK in this matter and will also want to leave. This point seems nuts since the EU is basically fighting for it's members vs a non-member, kind of shows why it's better to be with them than againist them. Considering this hasn't fully played out, their constant bragging on the matter seems foolish. Especially considering the EU clearly has more power. The UK is in an extremely vulnerable position overall and seem to be making their position unsafer by the day. The damage the UK goverment is doing to the EU relations will, I suspect, haunt the UK for decades. I suspect if this carries on for a year or so, the UK will end up in a trade war with their closet and largest trading partner during one of the largest recessions ever.

I highly suspect this is going to cost AstraZeneca big.
After reading this I went out and searched amongst the "river rocks" used for landscaping and drainage around our apartments. After a few minutes I discover a small piece of eroded limestone (6cm x 4cm x 2cm) with an almost circular 5mm hole straight through the middle. So now I have my own "hag stone" and can sleep peacefully...