skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not correct for the AZ vaccine, the longer interval is supported by the trial data, and we simply lack that data for other vaccines, though for most other vaccines historically a longer interval than 3 weeks is better for a second dose.

Exploratory analyses showed that increased immunogenicity was associated with a longer dose interval (see Immunogenicity Table 3). Efficacy is currently demonstrated with more certainty for dose intervals from 8 to 12 weeks. Data for intervals longer than 12 weeks are limited.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approv...
> call for and planned violence

And yet, accounts that did the same for AntiFA fascists and BLM "peaceful protests" for 4 years still stand. As do the platforms (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

Banning platforms while letting those who encouraged much worse for longer isn't a way to instill confidence in unbiased decisions.
I'm thinking for a while already to make an art collection using chip designs as source material.

Does somebody know of a place to get open source publicly available design data files for chips?
I would counter with the fact that humans ignore - either by their own accord, or through the unjustified belief that things will continue to be the way they were - the views that do not support the narrative they decided is true or they deem unlikely.

Case in point, who in their right mind thought a bunch of self proclaimed smooth brains would hold and not panic against ladder attacks and FUDs? The smooth brains have been in the game as much, they have seen their capital dropping to 0 more than the HedgeFunds are accustomed to losing at their own game.

A hedge fund with capital and influence, capable of controlling the narrative, could and tried to decide the outcome of their bet based on their bet, we saw this with TSLA as well. They believed, like most people, that GME would go bankrupt, they didn't consider the bull case [1] because things had been going down for so long, but GME's revenue is periodic, bringing us back to the fallacy. Things are how they are until they are not, and the inability to adapt due to logical fallacies becomes evident. There's a reason why reasonable people in WSB suggest an investor should know both cases by heart, if you can not afford to control the narrative, you can not direct the behavior of the market.

[1] www.gmedd.com
Then they ran the test wrong. It's easy to construct 10 bit color images which are clearly discernable from 8 bit.
I think one of the key points is that you can’t tell if a system needs evolutionary (incremental) or revolutionary change unless you analyze it in depth. “It’s not working” as a superficial observation of effect is not good enough - it may be on the cusp of working with a few tweaks, which would be much more efficient than starting over. As with any idea, throwing things out of the window can be good if it’s complemented with a set of clauses (“we’re starting over because of a, b and c”). The concept on its own is likely hubris or misguided based on the false pretense that revolution for the sake of revolution is good.
Can you explain the username comment - I am assuming there is some kind of "dog whistle" involved but for the life of me I cannot get it?
Show HN: Numbr – An Elegant Calculator for the Web
Hey everyone!

I'm working on a calculator/notepad (https://numbr.dev). Yes, it is yet another Soulver/Numi/etc clone. What is the difference? It's designed to work on the Web and mobile phones. This allows you to easily share your calculations with anybody just by sending them a link!

Stuff already implemented: Currencies, Crypto, Percentage, Sum/total, Inline JS

TODO: Variables, Unit conversions, Date/time calculations, Checkbox lists, Dark theme. Any suggestions?

I also contacted the original Soulver author to show my work. He was so nice that added Numbr to the list of alternatives: https://documentation.soulver.app/faq#is-soulver-available-f...

Also, I have a plan to open source Numbr later on after all TODO stuff is ready. (BTW I have a bunch of other open-source projects, https://medv.io)

I would love to hear feedback from the community. Thanks for reading!
Sardines, herring and mackerel are better for you anyways. It'll be hundreds of years before Subway sells a sardine sandwich.
Hey this is great! I was going to use CC0 for some hardware but maybe I will use this instead.
Germany got extraordinarily lucky at many points between 1938 and 1941 (just prior to Barbarossa), but two of its most decisive lucky breaks happened in 1939 and 1938.

First break: in 1938 when Hitler was essentially gifted the Sudetenland by the Munich accords and by the inaction in an absurdly limp response from the Czech government. This particular region of Czechoslovakia was deeply protected by heavy military defenses and these in turn were backed up by a strong army run by a country that was (though it may seem a bit strange today) at the time one of the more robust and sophisticated industrial powers in Europe. Had the Czechoslovak government simply said "No, if you want it, you'll have to fight for it", Hitler's army would have likely suffered catastrophic losses invading the Sudeten region in 1938 and its entire later drive to conquest would have been ruined before it even really began. Instead, Beneš and Prime Minister Milan Hodža caved to pressure from Chamberlin and from Hitler as well, and lost their single best chunk of protective territory (not to mention the sheer morale loss that this entailed. From then, it was a simple thing to swallow the rest of Czechoslovakia in early 1939, further reinforcing the German war drive and industrial power. Had Hitler attempted to actually fight for the Sudetenland in 1938, his own generals knew that the Wehrmacht was still completely unfit for such an undertaking and they believed this to the point of being on the verge of a military coup attempt had it come to war. This was all (for Hitler) very luckily nullified by the completely counterproductive Munich agreement. Hitler came out of that looking like a political genius when in reality he was a frustrated fool who had desperately wanted war over the Sudeten region instead of diplomatic victory, despite it being a terribly bad idea.

Next, the lucky break of 1939: Yes, the German army was superbly equipped and armed by September of that year, but it was materially and numerically inferior to that of the French forces. Thus, when Hitler sent the vast majority of his forces into Poland in September, the only thing protecting Germany in the west was a thin screen of scant divisions along the border with France. Had France actually had the drive and political will to take its declaration of war in defense of Poland seriously and energetically, it could have mobilized fully and sent the full force of 40 divisions that the country's already prepared, ready, fully deployable "Saar Offensive" plan called for into the heart of western Germany. Doing this while Hitler was busy with Poland, in mid September would have been a catastrophe for the Germans, and would have completely ruined later plans to invade France. Instead, the French only advanced 30 divisions TO the Saar border, did essentially nothing more, and shortly afterwards, once the Polish campaign was over, Germany quickly reinforced this region with its own offensive action in October, 1939, causing the French to pull back completely. What an enormously wasted opportunity for boosting morale and war footing ahead of the game and crushing obvious future German aggression.
A smart contract or wallet on the blockchain would hold a tokenized version of the security. In this way, folks could leave their tokens on a centralized brokerage if they chose to, or take custody of their shares by transferring the shares to a crypto wallet that they own the keys to.
I live in US and we have had FDIC as long as I remember. I'm not even sure there is such a thing as "uninsured account" in US, or if there are, why would anyone use such a bank.

https://www.fdic.gov/

It's a simple equation to grok: if utility X is only available in a digitized form on a controlled and centralized platform, then that utility is subject to central controls. And as we see, these control mechanisms will inevitably require AI moderation to scale.

You think things are bad when Google arbitrarily kicks you off gmail? Wait until it happens to your bank account. Who are you gonna call? Where are you going to go and speak out about it?
Sorry I don't know this Uni in particular, and I agree with your comment. But why is this such a big issue? I mean, a lot of universities do not have a pure-math faculty because they are dedicated to other faculties. I guess it depends on what the Uni wants to be. My Uni didn't have a physics department, or a medical one, or arts, or music... All of these faculties were however available in other Unis.
Hmmm... my Vanguard account doesn't work that way. If I initiate a buy using external funds (from my bank), the actual purchase doesn't happen until the funds clear in ~2 days. It will just show "pending".
C++ class scopes have the with problem.

class foo {
// int x;
int y;
int bar();
};

// in another file

int x;

foo::bar() // "with whole friggin class scope ..."
{
return x + y; // global ::x plus class member y
}

Now uncomment the x in the class declaration, and the x + y now adds two class members.
BioNTech's vaccine, not pfizer. Pfizer is just the distributer.
"The data, which looked at more than 700,000 fully vaccinated people in Israel, found that only .04 percent of people contracted Covid-19, according to the head of Israel’s Ministry of Health, Dr. Sharon Alroy Preis at a press conference on Thursday.

The type of vaccine Israel has mostly used is the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine with a small number of doses from Moderna. The two vaccines use the same technology, and in clinical trials were found to be about 95% effective.
"
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic...
Can you share your datasource claiming that efficacy is only 50%?
Please let me reassure you that I was not upset by your statement - merely providing feedback for how to strengthen your point and avoid a distracting and loaded sidebar.

I'm still not clear what the broader point is. That sometimes norms change, and have non-linear impact?

Most of the time, a crank is just a crank. That's why we know about the outliers.
Computers aren't getting faster.

In fact, they're getting slower in real practice. (We've been trading off speed for safety and power consumption for years now.)
Oh I don’t buy the “Bumbling Boris” act at all.

You only have to look at the way he tried to manipulate the search results on the whole bus thing by later claiming he liked to paint buses on broken packing crates.

Or the speeches he made in favour of the EU but later reversed when he saw he could turn Brexit to his favour.

I think he’s a very calculating and manipulative man, and not to be trusted or underestimated.
So is Signal good or bad?
> Accounts on Parler called for and planned violence against elected officials for months

When Trump was elected there were riots for weeks under banners like "not my president" and "never trump".

No one wrote anything about the capitol being under attack or people storming the capitol etc. Instead they were "activists" and "protesters" and to the extent anyone did anything really bad, they were "incited by Trump" so it was really his fault anyway.

Then for the following years, organizations like antifa and blm and countless individuals have been inciting violence on a daily basis on platforms like twitter, reddit and facebook.

These platforms are still up. More than just up, they enjoy the support of the same organizations that banned parler.

The conclusion? These people are apparently fine with inciting violence. They don't want to discuss things. They just want to make sure the people who get attacked are people they don't like.
Permissive MIT, Apache open-source licenses on the up as developers snub GPL
> Coming to enjoy remote over pandemic

I enjoy remote but I miss the office. I think I'm part of the majority that would love 2 days in, 3 days out of the office (or some mix close to that).

I can definitely see a single remote worker of a bunch is a recipe for a bad experience as you are just out of the loop and in a company that probably hasn't or won't adopt the things needed for it to be successful.
Yeah, Apple documentation isn't always so great. A month ago HT210980 still claimed that MacBook Air M1 can't play HDR on external displays [1]. It nice that they have now updated that document.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201218041928/https://support.a...
Delete everything to make your phone less distracting
These shorts aren’t options. They are real (borrowed) shares - which is what makes it much harder for the short sellers to wiggle out, and every price increase makes them lose more money. (If it were puts, they’d lose the premium paid but wouldn’t care about price going up further)
> usable if you're willing to hack on it

Most people need things just work.
>> Where if you wanted information you had to work for it, and if you wanted a good discussion you had to find it.

This is an important statement. One argument can be that most of the population do not have any interest in finding the truth. It is same in the age of social media, and was the same before. Social media just exacerbated the problem.

Facebook is a company. It has a community security/trust team. That team drives the community direction by some rules (manual or learned and automated through data). Banning the leftwing thinkers is wrong, unless they violate the guidelines.
> we are in no way in a “Censorship Era”, that’s utter hyperbole

The irony is that you are literally replying to my account that got banned for having a contrary opinion. It isn't hyperbole. It just so happens that you are living in your own bubble where you coincidentally are in agreement with powers that be. Or you aren't vocal about your opposition to things online. Both of which don't test the limits of free speech. People feel Censorship is real when they test the limits. And those are in plenty. Maybe when you test those limits you'll understand what Censorship is all about.
I'm confused by this question. What is the most charitable[1] answer that you can think of that fits the statement? What are plausible alternatives to Homo sapiens? Could homo sapiens be a reasonable answer to your question, evolutionary history notwithstanding?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Look, you obviously haven't sat down and actually read about this as you are clearly not aware that yes, every single election the combined 'left' vote, Labour, SNP, Green, Plaid Cymru, etc. is over 50%.

The left would clearly win the last election, but because of FPP and gerrymandering in the UK, that's been going on for decades, they don't.

It's one of the reasons they don't sort the house of lords, as the likely solution would be representative which would basically permanently end the Conservatives being elected for anything.

I've voted Red, Blue and Yellow over the years, so this isn't bias, I'm just tired of the latest batch of blue as they are utterly incompetent and part of the reason is the present, completely stacked, British electoral system.
Wrote this before even reading the article linked (bad habit) and it nicely backs up some of the above, especially about Czechoslovakia. The article's points about the superior strength of the German army in 1939 are good but again, with the German forces occupied in Poland, a French offensive in that same year during the Polish campaign would have been a catastrophe for the Germans even if the French were inferior on some military specs.
Any reason why the F-Droid version is behind the official one?

I mean, you should now have learned that you can't rely on one single distribution channel.
You need to mirror some of these left-right before attempting to read them. Da Vinci famously wrote in mirror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing#Notable_example...
Gives you the impression you can chat with someone, but LOL it just asks you for your email like a goddamn contact form.
Maybe this is cultural difference between the UK and the US but who the hell thinks it's ok to be blatantly profiting from a vaccine rollout? Particularly when the vaccine is being provided for free by government. Covering costs is over thing, blatant profiteering is disgusting.
Installing software outside of play store is technically possible, but if something contains enough hurdles, most people won't do it, which results in no users and a meaningless platform.
I thought this was a joke until I realized you were serious; I was expecting that as I read further into the list it would get to "-develop without using my hands" and "-develop with my eyes closed" (which are legitimate situations for disabled developers, btw) but which would be absurd for anyone to practice under conventional conditions.
I developed most of my iOS game without internet access (I did it mostly on a train).

I actually did this twice - once using a Mac, xCode, swift, and spritekit. Then the exact same app again using a Linux machine, text editor, C, and SDL2.

Doing things in C was far better - I just opened up the relevant SDL header files when I needed information, and was able to get basically everything non-iOS specific up and running without any internet.

I definitely drew on a fair bit of experience and hunches (e.g. writing audio synthesizers from scratch often involves picking a bunch of magic numbers, and if you pick them wrong it can sound completely awful).

Now I have a mac laptop again, I still would lean towards C+SDL2 over swift+SpriteKit (though I do continue to experiment).
Getting rid of something you already have is more newsworthy than never having it, which is mundane as you say.

Consider if Marks & Spencer announced it would no longer sell clothes, to focus instead on food, for example.
What other point did you have? I don't seem to get it from your parent comment... unless you posted somewhere else or have two accounts?

How can this be considered whataboutism when it's the exact same thing in different clothing?
I think I know the application and feel the same way. I wish I could easily pay / donate when I'm actually producing paid work with it (I'm freelance, so pattern is irregular). I donate to Blender when I'm using it for work, again, just wish I could from within application. QLab [1] a Mac show control app for theatre, has a really nice rental model. You can use it - fully-featured - for free, but need to rent licences to send video and audio signals to physical outs. But, you can rent by the day for ~$5, and each rental goes towards purchasing a full license some day. I wish all paid creative software offered this model.

[1] https://qlab.app/
Off topic, but since you brought it up: what is annoying about f-droid?
Yep. I did it yesterday, so can't help replying.

Using Google and GitHub I found RMUIF, which, like many available templates, is based on React's standard create-react-app
A lot of newer MacBooks display HDR via macOS's EDR. This doesn't suddenly increase the bit depth of the display, but does allow the video to increase its peak brightness values beyond that which the user has set.

This is done by physically increasing the backlight brightness and dimming the LCD around the video content to keep UI brightness levels consistent. The UI bit depth actually decreases once EDR kicks in.
They have to be happy on average. It's like being in a race where all the competitors started running in different directions, but eventually finding that the others have turned around to follow your target, effectively giving you a head start.

To spell it out more clearly, here is a great place for one's opponents/competitors to be stuck in - authoritarian enough to eliminate any advantages of liberty, but not authoritarian enough to be efficiently coordinated.
Add to this a lack of remaining frontiers - Used to be those were somewhere for people to strike out and make a truly new start. Perhaps if/when space becomes a true new frontier that dynamic will return.
It's not that simple. Let's say that Google sell a tv half or even a quarter the price of normal tv, but it can only access channels authorized by google, and the authorized channels can change anytime. Furthermore it can only access consoles and devices only authorized by google.

At first, the authorization is very permissive and the unauthorized channels or devices are very rare. People begin to buy the tv, and channels begin to optimize their content around it. Other tv lose their market share, and begin to adapt "google tv" architecture to sell their own to survive.

After 10 years google begin to unauthorize some channels, in prefer to their own which launched 3 years before, as well as consoles in preference to stadia. The ban is same with these similar cases, where it's framed as illegal content, or error. But it's happening often.

Is google in the wrong here? IMO it's debatable.
They are not magicians. They are on the losing side of what turned out to be a few billions dollar bet (real money. Not notional).

They usually profit from switching side quickly or making informed bets you can’t easily make - like shorting stocks.

Except, they dug too deep this time. We’re seeing another LTCM meltdown in process, albeit smaller and so far more contained.
I’ve been using a “First Principles (tm)” branded keyboard for years. It has 3 USB plugs to satisfy its power req’s and delivers shocks when found out visiting Stackoverflow.
Yes, I can. But I need to use the stuff I wrote with googling in the past ~20 years.
Your understanding is a bit oversimplified. What the members of WSB are trying to execute is a forced short squeeze to take advantage of naked short positions, which are themselves of questionable morality. However, this is not market manipulation, nor is it a pump and dump. If you read the rhetoric carefully, they are "holding because they like the stock." If this qualifies as market manipulation, the argument is that virtually any strategy employed by any hedge fund or investment firm anywhere would classify as "market manipulation," probably to an even greater degree.
I also love the Canterbury Tales and still have the intro memorized thanks to a professor I had in college. That said, if students aren't taking the classes I can't see how the school is going to be hurt by losing the faculty. All kinds of things tie into math, not so much into medieval literature.

(That said, I absolutely agree that administrators should be disposed of first and even if there weren't budget problems.)
Yeah this could have been written by a journalist given the lack of technical details, the presence of which is what the title suggests.
> No one wrote anything about the capitol being under attack or people storming the capitol[.]

Because no one attacked or stormed the capitol during those protests.
I don't have 100% accuracy with the symbols in the numbers (except the parentheses), but am pretty good with them. Nowadays I've remapped the parentheses to left/right shift and the brackets to Tab+hjkl, so it's much easier.
Since the news article (both from Reuters and Verge) doesn't explain what the FAA was concerned about, how do you know if the FAA's objection is appropriate or not?

I mean, for all you know it's because they launched when there wasn't clear airspace, right?
It's all good imo, I assume that removes some load on your work without reducing your salary.

If you're still not getting the hint, it's an opportunity for you to build some side-business, an additional stream of cash-flow.

Cash-flow is king, not corporate positions.
So what if vaccine makers and distributors make a few billion in profits in return for saving the world from economic ruin and millions of deaths (and I'm not talking about the specific company in the OP). Let's pick a more deserving target for outrage.