skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be noted that this is likely nit worse than Pfizer, despite marketing. The 50% for Sinovac is real world data; the 95% for Pfizer comes from company phase 3 data.

Well, last night a reputable Israeli HMO posted it’s real world data for Pfizer, and it’s 50% after 18 days and doesnt seem to get much better (but they don’t have enough data yet to know for sure).

And now, although everyone claims Pfizer says you get 50% after 1st dose and 95# after second, if you read the actual filing, that’s not what it says; efficiency is achieved at day 13 by Pfizer data almost fully; and the reduction in severe disease (the only interesting endpoint) is 75% with confidence interval 0-100%
Noise isn't the only downside - the power they consume can cost $$$. These things aren't typically the most energy efficient machines.
Using documentation is fine. You aren't going to solder stuff only by eyeballing the component packaging either.

On-line information? That's another question entirely. This would be a more interesting test: can you make a basic webapp (or other type of app representative of your experience) without Internet access?

If you're dealing with an older stack and toolkit, you probably have many books' worth of manuals already installed. Unless you're unlucky and didn't notice the documentation isn't installing along with your tools. Or you're on Windows[0]. You can use them to work out most of the problems you're facing.

Newer tools though? There's this annoying trend of under-documenting things, and relying on people on StackOverflow to fill in the gaps. Or even worse, setting up a Slack/Discord for the project, and getting people to help each other there.

Maybe I'm just old, but when I'm working with computer tools, I prefer to solve the issues myself, instead of chasing around the Internet and talking to people. I also like to be able to continue to work when my Internet dies, or I'm out of range, or the site hosting the docs dies (happens more often than one would expect).

And to answer my own question: yes, I can write basic apps of the type I work on (and bunch of others, including games) without Internet access, as long as you let me use my computer - where I have access to heaps of off-line documentation and lots of prior source code to supplement it.

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[0] - Someone at MS had the bright idea to ship PowerShell without help for its commands by default, so that the first thing Get-Help tells you is to download the man pages...
Thank you - I appreciate a correction with sources. I had based my understanding on a report by the Swedish government central statistics bureau, that stated no excess deaths in 2020 on average, but an increase in Q1-Q2 and decrease in Q3-Q4. (Can dig up a link if anyone is interested).

It is also clear from your link that deaths was unaffected by government forcing lockdowns. Lockdowns certainly do have an effect on freedom and economics though - creating a huge dependence on hand outs for millions, and a lost year of youth for a generation.

In your link it’s clear there was two minor bumps - “Low excess”.

Still, it was good to retain relative freedom throughout the year. My friends in DK and NO live in fear - a friends mother doesn’t leave the apartment for a year, friends lost each other, thousands of lovers never met, weddings not happening, and massive unemployment (doesn’t affect HN tech workers who can humblebrag about getting take out food).
https://blog.anicode.in/easiest-python-beginner-video-tutori...
I once tried to explain to an American friend what “middle class” meant in the UK vs USA.

Long story short; it’s complicated.

It’s not entirely related wealth or education but they are big factors.

You can’t join the aristocracy via wealth alone.

At best you’d probably end up upper middle class if you were educated i.e. Public School followed by Oxford or Cambridge. Maybe your children or grandchildren could if you really have enough money. Becoming an MP would probably help you turn money into a title.

“Public” schools, like Eton, are the fee paying alternative to a “private” tutor. They’re not be confused with schools “for the plebs”.

You’ll certainly need land if want to join the Gentry.

Traditionally, the difference between a Forest and a Wood is that the Forest was once land populated by Commoners (that’s the middle and working class) that someone in the Aristocracy put a fence around and claimed exclusive right to hunt deer on.

To this day councils have to pay people to walk the ancient Footpaths and Bridleways every year to stop would be aristocrats claiming the as part of their land.

And if you wear brown shoes and a white shirt to the wrong interview in the City you’re not getting the job.

As I said, it’s complicated. Complicated and silly.
I am not a fan of those trendy payment models. I do not want to
worry about how much I regularly pay where and constantly
receive payment confirmations in my inbox. I already have enough
stuff floating in my head.

I use a really nice graphics application that's missing out on
my money because it expects me to pay $50 a year for the
unrestricted Pro version. But I'm not a professional, I'm an
occasional user who just likes the intuitive interface. I would
gladly pay that amount once to get the non-pro version forever
but without the constant nagging or the requirement to login to
use it. This "you're either a professional who pays the bills
with this software or you deserve to get spammed with popups and
other annoyances" stance is a pain.
I don't get the negativity of the other comments. Seems like a cool project.
Does this also affect existing installs, or only (attempted) new ones?
Reminds me of the Canon Cat and its dedicated Leap keys.
There was no quantification in the signal chain, so no.
I agree that at some point you need to be able to say: "We just don't want person X to ever return in our society.".

The big question is how do you implement such a thing? I think the English had the right idea by expelling them though I don't know if such a thing would still work in 2021...
About googling, I meant to be master of the subject; as when you want to write a for loop and you do not google for that.

So not googling is a time saver here.
It’s not that iOS is safe from this, it’s that in all practicality, Google is not really that different as what my friends popularly suggest. Android is not a free, open OS. Well, it is to a point, but realistically that point is not much further than ios for most users.

As for an alternative mobile OS, I would love to get my hands on Sailfish, but it’s not available for the US.
> Geopolitically Germany had the the advantage of singular national focus, it had no allies to coordinate with either strategically or tactically (at this stage).

I’d argue this was an advantage to Britain, not a disadvantage. Many of Britain’s ‘allies’ did as they were told and while theoretically had control of their troops destiny, actually did not.

Having supplies and manpower that could be built up and trained with little or zero threat of attack was very helpful.
> The borrow checker (in safe rust) always[0] prevents data races.

As long as those data races originate from threads, it cannot prevent data races across processes, for example:

- Modifying the same file location

- Modifying the same table cell without transactions

- Talking to the same IO port

- Data sharing between CPU and GPU
You are right. The main difference I see, so, is that in the case of the retailer delivery windows are defined by the retailer. In the case of vaccines, I have the impression, that AZ informs customers when a batch is ready. And then the customers have to accept delivery within 5 days. That means AZ is driving the whole supply chain to certain extent, and not the states being responsible for the vaccinations.

A single DC is sensible, Germany has a total of 16 for the Pfizer vaccine. As states have a lot of independence in Germany, I fear that every state has its own DC for AZ as well. How that middle mile will be organised, I have no idea.
Turn on "caret browsing" in Firefox if this type of text selection and copying is your thing. Been around forever. I think you just hit F7 to activate

I prefer to set Firefox to start searching when I type, and to restrict searching in that way to links only. This means that I can just start typing some text from a link and hit enter to navigate there. No weird letter combos like vimium or vimperator, so easier in that regard, but also does not work for every click target, so crappier in that regard.

I do a heck of a lot more navigating than text selection, though.
so, Subway doesn't contribute to depletion of tuna? But somehow they are not being applauded in this article.
In the next section, 'James J. Hill's philosophy of "community of interest," a loose affiliation or collusion among roads' reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Commission_of_Texas .
Then burn it down and do it from scratch as a parallel system. Or buy a system from Europe, we have plenty of different ones to choose from.
Not to mention, the 95% is on the relatively uninteresting “mild disease” endpoint. Israeli data came out in the last 24h on severe disease - and it’s only 50% RRR
Dunno, it's still listed as an official app and links to the play store.
I'm optimistic that PinePhone may finally be the one to do it, at least to an extent that it's usable if you're willing to hack on it.
CC is geared more toward content/documents. People can and do use it for hardware, but it's not a great fit. In the article they talk about some of the challenges like the building blocks of most electronic designs (i.e. chips, passives and other components) not being things that can realistically be covered in the license. And the fact that a lot of the more interesting 'hardware' actually needs to include both hardware and software (i.e. firmware). I'm sure patents are another area that are at least a bit different with open hardware since it's almost impossible to source a microprocessor, for example, that isn't covered by numerous patents.
Reach out how? You have no public contact information in your HN profile.
Another downside is powerconsumption at rest. Supermicro board with 2x Xeon use 80watt at minimum. Add a 10Gbit switch and a few more peripherals and you’re looking at an additional $€80/month electricity bill. Year after year, that is $€10.000 in 10years.

Of course that is nothing compared to what you’d pay at Google/Azure/AWS for the AMD machine of this news item :-)

12V only PSUs like OEMs use or ATX12VO in combination with a motherboard without IPMI, similar to the German Fujitsu motherboards, have significant lower power consumption at rest. Somewhere around 8-10Watt without HDD. Much better for home use IHMO.
SpaceX violated its launch license in Starship test, triggering FAA probe
Wait until CBDCs roll out. Right now, it is your speech and communication. Tomorrow, it will be accessing your money. Then they will have their desired perfectly obedient population.
Never ceases to amaze me how one can be 'into' a subject and miss huge 'in plain sight' news.

When I lived in London I stopped buying TimeOut to find out whatson, and instead simply paid closer attention to Tube posters.
Something is being missed in these "Element isn't Parler because..." comments. Distinctions about client vs platform do not matter _at all_ to someone at Google headquarters. Content they find unacceptable is accessible, or it's not. Full stop.

The FAANGs now have a strong incentive to boot anything and anyone making objectionable content available in any way because that's the way public sentiment has shifted. It's really incredible to see how quickly the deplatforming chickens came home to roost. We're now shooting ourselves in the feet at Internet speed.
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That is not a public class.

If you don't specify any access modifier, it is the same as internal in .NET.
Technical distinctions are irrelevant to someone at headquarters worried about having a regulatory probe inserted in their backside.
Helpful page, with much useful information.
> Element is a Matrix client just as Chrome is a Web browser, and just as it’s possible to view abusive material via Chrome, the same is true of Element.

> However, we abhor abuse, and on the default matrix.org server (...) we have a fairly strict terms of use (...) which we proactively enforce.

These two sentences are contradictory. Either you are a road or a road restaurant. You can't have it both ways.
Why, when an app is "suspended", Play Store shows 404 as if it never existed?

Can't Google display the app page with some status banner and a reason for suspension while disabling install button, or allow installing last known "approved" version?
For me it's simply a matter of convenience of searching; even pages with great and comprehensive docs can be hard to search. And the average is so poor that I often don't even bother to check if a particular project actually has a good search feature. If my search takes me to the actual doc page, (and it's good) then all the better!
Just FYI, you can set those notifications to be ‘silent’ (not displayed on the top) and to collapse into a thin line each—in the system's notification settings. The apps still keep running, however I haven't figured out whether this change affects the frequency with which the background service is called by the system, and thus synchronization delays.
It's amazing that bureaucrats fined Microsoft for putting IE as default and keep allowing apple to do what they want.
Europe should force these companies to allow users to install any software they want in their devices as long as it is legal...
Side loading is clunky.

If Android were really as free and open as everyone says it is, then there would be a method built into the os to download and install apps directly through the web browser, without hunting through settings and enabling it.

As it is, this is barely better than iOS, and I’m kind of disgusted that everyone thinks it’s fine and normal as a solution.
His other books are also great - though not particularly relevant to the subject at hand. ‘Down and out in Paris and London’ is painful but eye opening. ‘Homage to Catalonia’ is good. In it, Orwell’s description of trench warfare is completely horrifying, it made my heart race reading it.
Reads like a disaster in a loop.

> Doroshin told NBC's "Today" show that his company didn't think like a traditional medical institution. "We're engineers, we're scientists, computer scientists, we're cybersecurity nerds. We think a little differently than people in health care do."

> "We took the entire model and just threw it out the window," Doroshin added. "We said to hell with all of that. We're going to completely build on a new model that is based on a factory."

It’s mind boggling how many times we see this belief that some groups (among many) who are thought to be prone to analytical thinking can solve problems and “throw out” knowledge, learnings, experience and wisdom from core groups who have been in the space for longer. There is a space for disruption, thinking outside the box, etc., in every field, but many a times this seems to be based solely on hubris.
The first sentence is about Element.

The second sentence is about matrix.org
I've thought CBDCs ensure the opposite? Currently if you have an uninsured account at a bank, and the bank goes bankrupt, your money is gone. With CBDCs it seems to me that the money is truly yours instead of in a currency pegged to the fiat but that can always break.
It's surprising to me you'd switch to a new platform because of this when it still works on the desktop. You could install it via F-droid or an APK, use alternative frontend app or you could even just use the web interface.
We've already had conversations and I reached out personally.
What about all those single page apps websites working more with JavaScript than with html ? Does it work well ?
There was a story; when Google+ was released, Zuckerberg started saying “Carthage must fall”, seeing it as an existential threat to Facebook in the same way as Cato saw Carthage as an existential threat to the Roman Republic.

If that story was true about Google+, he’s probably saying something similar about Apple today.

Given what happened in DC a few weeks ago, given what happened in Myanmar since late 2016, given that what FB is suing to prevent is a thing which I read as legally required for operation in the EU (GDPR requires genuine opt-in IIUC), given the monopolistic behaviour FB is demonstrating with Oculus and other purchases?

Facebook delenda est.
When you look at how mind-bendingly precise surrogate NNs can be, sometimes you build your pipeline with 'slow' FP16 NNs and it's still faster than the 'direct' operation.

I also like how using tensor cores at the same time as cuda cores is how you get 'more' performance. It's a bit like CPU execution ports, if you /don't/ use them you're leaving performance on the floor. Only here nvidia (cuda, tensor, rt) 'cores' are a bit higher level than exec ports. Also it's kind of hard (i.e. fun) to find a use for rt cores. Digging up all those 90's papers about exotic applications of Raytracing (I mean weed must have been great then :-)

Interesting times.
Or from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.app/
Lots of google fans on this website.

Like legit it’s like the inverse of wading through the comments section on macrumors.
Except von der Leyen was sent in as head of the Comission, a position which is essentially the Prime Minister of the EU. The PM's or the head of the Comission's job is to get sh*t done, as opposed to bragging about it and passing the responsability and the blame onto others.

Sorry to say but BJ is way better in this regard. He has delivered Brexit and the UK is in a much better position regarding vaccinations.
I don't see how being consensual or not has any bearing on its efficacy. Not to mention that any model I have of russian military (or any military) tells me that finding volunteers for a pandemic-ending vaccine would be a very easy task.
https://github.com/mikewarot/Advent_of_Code_in_Pascal

In case others would like to skip the trip through mike's blog ;)

I'm surprised at how modern a lot of the code feels.
> I had a lot of faith in.

I wouldn't give up faith in Matrix yet. Remember, there are other clients, and there is always the Element web client.
Dynamic Static Typing in TypeScript
Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?
Maybe we should be jailbreaking again
I just want a solid terminal like iterm2, terminal.app or gnome terminal for Windows. I never saw a Windows terminal that renders fonts nicely
In reality, every trade on every broker is settled 2 days later because that's how this archaic netting system works.

People need to see instant updates so that's what every app shows them
You should read the notes, they help answer your questions.

Anyway, 2 points:

1. This is not about margin accounts. When trading on margin, it's RH that's financing you and taking on the risk. That's separate from what the clearing house does. Incidentally, RH did increase margin requirements due to the higher volatility.

2. The problem is RH offers instant settlement. That is, you can use your proceeds from a trade immediately in the apo, before even the trade is settled. That exposes RH, and the clearing house to settlement failures, and that's true regardless if the trade was done on a margin account or not. And that's the risk that clearing houses try to mitigate via asking for collateral.
"ERROR: could not open temporary file" after upgrade to Mac OS Big Sur
Italy as well. When they want to get rid of somebody at national level and save everybody's face, they promote to some role in the EU. Somebody come back, others stay there for years or forever.

It's Romans' "promoveatur ut amoveatur", promove to remove.
True, but do note Israel’s population is 1/50 of Europe, so the logistics of accommodating it (on the producer side) are relatively easy.
> Germany before this and somehow keeps managing to fail upwards. Is that accurate?

Yes, I'm strongly irritated that she still has *any* job in politics after the failures she caused and the fact that a lot of it smelled quite a bit of a dangerous mix of incompetence and corruption....

But then I also have not looked too much into here (or politics in general) so I might be wrong.
Slow is precise and precise is fast.
I am guessing you're not a native English speaker.

This comment is only precipitated by your use of (sic).

If you are going to point out others' mistakes like that, it would be better not to make any yourself.

There are many ways to rewrite your grammatically incorrect sentence. Here's one:

That's literally what I have been hearing since 30 years ago lol

Or another:
That's literally what I kept hearing for 30 years lol

For clarity, I have no problem with these grammatical errors and beg understanding for my own.

Please lay off pointing out others' mistakes unless they impede understanding.
The author expanded upon it in his book, Business Adventures.

Apparently, the only alternative was for short sellers’ to sell very large amounts of many other stocks, and the Exchange was afraid it would crash most of the other companies’ stocks.

The sentiment, from the book, appears to be that Saunders nearly caused a stock market crash all by himself, with his corner
You could write some pages on your website, about how you want the culture to be, what's important to you and what cultural things will make the company great. Then try to live all those things
My program has no issues running with asan / ubsan so I don't think it would be a vtable / memory overwrite issue as those are pretty much 100% detected. Also I build my whole stack (except glibc and libx11 basically) statically with the same flags so I doubt there could be an abi problem (and LTO builds would complain).
Running your own DNS service? There may be changes ahead
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the CEO sounds like a fraudster and has bungled appointments, leaving people disappointed. On the other hand, he did get a decent amount (the website claims 6,000 people over 5 days) of people vaccinated, and has real medical staff on hand: http://web.archive.org/web/20210115174959/https://phillyfigh... (the page has been pulled down), so its not completely fradulent. Additionally, charging insurance companies for the shot isn't bad, if the staff / space rentals need to get paid.

I'm not confident hospitals are doing much better in getting people vaccinated.
I on the other hand hope that they won't just say "oops, our bad!", reinstate it and sweep the entire thing under the rug like nothing happened, without explaining anything.

There are people here who work on mobile applications. If they depend on Google and Apple delivering their app to their clients, it's still unacceptable that they can potentially put you out of business, just like that. I already saw a couple of people here that claimed it happened to them too. Without any reason, without the ability to appeal, nothing.
Perhaps, but El Alamein was what Churchill was discussing in his speech from which that quote comes.

“ On 10 November, knowing that El Alamein was a victory, he delivered one of his most memorable war speeches to the Lord Mayor's Luncheon at the Mansion House in London, in response to the Allied victory at El Alamein: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
From: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#%22We_shal...

Speech here:

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html
I wonder if OpenPOWER will adopt one of these license.
How is F-Droid conceptually different from PlayStore? They can ban anything just as well.
Imagine how people in other countries feel.