skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>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

Their initial results are actually very encouraging[0] in this regard.

[0] https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/Hk2URcnku
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Science is hacking .
4. Domain knowledge

Though I would have it as #1 in any job. Having some idea of what the business using the software is trying to achieve (at both the macro and micro levels) is far more valuable.

Basically knowing the why, you can use as the frame for the what and how. Some of those quirky pieces of software could be misguided, unnecessary or counter-productive - and this is where you become a value-add to the organisation.
I know, for me it's just an interesting case where there are no clear / definitive answer. Both sides have good arguments and it's hard to determinate who is wrong.
I came here to say the same thing. Yet somehow people don't seem to question it. I think everything governments do should be public by default, unless there's strong justification why to keep something secret. Then that justification has to be public and periodically reviewed if it still applies, otherwise it goes public automatically.
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> From what I've gathered (unfortunately mostly on Reddit, before this article), Ursula von der Leyen wasn't exactly fondly thought of in Germany before this and somehow keeps managing to fail upwards. Is that accurate?

From what my German friends told me, that was exactly the case. And her transition to Brussels was a move to save her and CDU's face.
The kinda people that make it to the top in politics, are the hustlers.
It's not much different in neighbouring countries. Don't know about Slovenia or Croatia but the same issues plague Romania and Bulgaria. Just Thursday night there was yet another fire at a hospital in Bucharest and another four victims.
LOL, yes. Probably, if the chatbox actually first answers the query of the customer and then takes the email, it might be more helpful.
What are your thoughts?
Being platform languages doesn't mean they lack multiple implementations, platform-independent specs.

All the ones I currently use in some form, Java, .NET languages, C++, JS, SQL, fulfill the above via ISO, ECMA, or official reference docs managed by multiple vendors.

And to be honest, even those that don't I really don't care any longer, because most of the code I write isn't mine to own rather the employer, so as long as it fulfil what the customer is after, I am good, when the project is done I move to the next challenge.

If project requires cross platform capabilities, then usually something along the lines of what is available across all platform SDKs gets chosen.
Smells like Theranos 2.0 to me.

The issue with tech people is that they are so far outside of the real-world thought process and feelings. Full of grandiose ideas that fall short of delivering on the expectation and PR hype.
Let me give you an example: I often search the internet for the ASCII table. I don't think it's a fault, that I do not remember it. Even if I had it stored in my computer, opening it from a computer would not be as fast as looking it up online.

Another example: the setTimeout(a,b) in Javascript has two parameters: the time delay and the function to call. I never remember which one is the first, so I look it up every time.

I can type without looking at the keyboard. But I believe there can be great programmers, who need to look at the keyboard when they type.
> I have a tendency to feel these tools only negatively impact people who use them in stress-creating ways

I came to the same conclusion. It is much easier to blame some internet website (which is basically just some pixels on a screen) instead of figuring out internal psychological reasons for being addicted. If a person is looking for addictions, they will find them. If it won't be facebook, it will be porn, binge-watching, sugar, compulsive excercise, compulsive talking, etc. etc. The list is endless.

I just don't buy an idea that some pixels have more responsibility for their choices than the person itself does.

Also when they start mentioning "dopamine" it makes me laugh. Brain just doesn't work that way. Dopamine doesn't make you do things, you make you do things. Dopamine is just a way for the brain to encode whatever you like. If you want to be addicted to facebook - it will encode facebook. If you want to have a healthy life - you'll get your dopamine exactly the same way when you get up in the morning, look outside and just think for yourself "this is a beautiful day", or when you solve a particular puzzle in your work, or when you say hi to a stranger. Brain has no shortage of dopamine and it is you who decide when it is released. Unless you are addicted of course. But don't blame the thing, work with the addiction instead, it's the only truthful way to stop being addicted.

Now, for some people who are highly addicted, quitting facebook completely - might be a good thing. Like for an alcoholic, it might be good to quite 100% of alcohol for a while. But it doesn't mean that a healthy person can easily enjoy a glass of wine every now and then and don't have any problems with it.
I agree. I deploy my apps mostly just by copy pasting the code
I believe that removal of Element from Google Play Store is a violation of EU regulation 2019/1150. Element has legal entities in Britain (which is affected by Brexit but has similar law) and France. Google is LEGALLY required to provide a justification for removal 30 days before application removal.

Anyway, you may try contacting Google using EU regulation 2019/1150 violation procedure, see https://support.google.com/merchants/answer/9969397 for more information. This may be more effective than using a regular contact procedure, as it would show Google that you are aware of this regulation and they are unlikely to win.

Note that I'm not a lawyer.
It's not a hatchet job. The EU's handling of the vaccine has turned into an incredible disaster. Given the stakes, and the magnitude of the disaster, it's only natural the architect of that disaster get evaluated critically.
> regular events on the currently hot social justice topics.

This is a cheap shot and totally inaccurate. Do you really think UK universities are closing their maths departments so that they can spend more on the humanities?
Do you really think Pfizer is rolling out their vaccine for free?
Even easier, the website used by the PWA can end up on the blacklist of Google Safe Browsing [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366
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Awesome. Something about this post really hits home about the amazing people working quietly behind the scenes chipping away to keep everything running.

And then Tom Lane is the first person to weigh in to give thanks?! How do these people manage the breadth of contribution that they do?
Then, knowing EU, we would be rolling out the first vaccines in 2022 or later.
No, but this is the kind of stuff that can keep students busy and not asking whether they get their money's worth. A very efficient distraction.
"Europe is facing a vaccine disaster. Whereas countries like Israel, Britain and the United States. are quickly moving ahead with vaccinations, the EU is reeling from a string of setbacks. "

this is a lie, per capita EU is not that bad considering that it is a coordinated effort (as opposed to a singular effort by a singular country).

Overall this is Der Spiegel making an opinion article disguised as a news article. Shame on them.
This sounds like those things you do at work when you're bored.
Yes. Original plan was to extend Finland to Urals as this happy song so vividly describes: https://youtu.be/n9I88CXlmh4
with macros in Lisp tend to be sanely designed: they explicitly list the symbols that are to be introduced into the scope. I don't think I've never seen a "bring the whole set of the currently defined slots of this class/struct into this scope as locals".

Oh, you can do it.

his is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 249.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
Use full-strength TXR for tough tasks, or dilute with shell scripts.
1> (defmacro with (struct obj . body)
(with-gensyms (obj-sym)
^(let ((,obj-sym ,obj))
(symacrolet ,(mapcar (op list @1 ^(qref ,obj-sym ,@1)) (slots struct))
,*body))))
with
2> (with time (time-struct-utc (time))
(list year month day))
(2021 1 30)

Expansion:

3> (macroexpand '(with time (time-struct-utc (time))
(list year month day)))
(let ((#:g0016 (time-struct-utc (time))))
(symacrolet ((time-local
#:g0016.time-local)
(time-utc #:g0016.time-utc)
(time-string
#:g0016.time-string)
(time-parse #:g0016.time-parse)
(year #:g0016.year)
(month #:g0016.month)
(day #:g0016.day)
(hour #:g0016.hour)
(min #:g0016.min)
(sec #:g0016.sec)
(dst #:g0016.dst)
(gmtoff #:g0016.gmtoff)
(zone #:g0016.zone))
(list year month
day)))

Total expansion; symacrolet gone, a.b desugared into (slot a 'b):

4> (expand '(with time (time-struct-utc (time))
(list year month day)))
(let ((#:g0017 (time-struct-utc (time))))
(list (slot #:g0017 'year)
(slot #:g0017 'month)
(slot #:g0017 'day)))
Ha, sometimes I forget the for loop syntax, luckily my IDE knows it.
The news seems to be saying that Robinhood, a popular app, is able and willing to sell users' shares without their permission. This is a surprising and unpleasant quality of Robinhood, an app. Sounds like tech to me?
With his arrogant “we’re engineers let’s disrupt everything we don’t understand” attitude, he should really apply to Ycombinator. If not, I’m sure mrs bannister or peter thiel would fund him.
My keyboard has no markings, except for the name of the manufacturer.

I have no trouble hitting any key on the keyboard without looking at it. I can lock eyes with you while you dictate and type the email you would dictate, perfectly (albeit not at the a normal dictation speed, I only type about 100WPM at most). I can fix errors as I type using backspace because I always know where I am and where I made a mistake.

The important part is learning this correctly.

I had fortune of going to school where for a single semester I had a course in typing documents on an electric typewriter, with a professional typewriting teacher.

Because it was so long ago I have trouble understanding not being able to type. I lay my hands on the keyboard and they just do it without me even thinking about it. I don't even know where keys are. If you ask me where a particular key is I can only point to handful of them. Otherwise I need to put my all fingers on the keyboard and think the key and then observe which finger goes where, and only then I know where the key is.
There are a number of different clients to choose from, including web-based, electron-based, native, terminal: https://matrix.org/clients/
Needless to say,yes artists are indeed bothered about the properties of their paint.
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/88
I guess it all depends on how it's implemented and what the censorship policy is. If it's implemented with a "everyone, including the homeless, felons and racists gets access" mindset then there isn't much concern. If it's implemented with a "having access is a privilege not a right" mindset, it's different.

USPS has to service everyone, even those where they don't make any money with. If this FDIC thing is more like the USPS, your concerns would be unfounded.
Awesome tooling, great to see some open source work in this space.

How do you handle Testing/Data Reconciliation with Airbyte?

How do I know if I have successfully transferred 100/100 records for the day? Is there a pattern that you can recommend here or a batch row count id that is recorded that can be queried against the source for confirmation that the correct amount of rows were added for x batch?
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I agree with your sentiment for the most part (although I haven't run native windows outlook in 15 years)... however, for what it's worth, you can apply client side mail rules to existing emails on MacOS. I've used this to classify automated notifications into at least a dozen folders at work.
At home I use Thunderbird ;-)
Actually Ubuntu is not less usable than Windows 10. Ex on intel NUC - wifi on Ubuntu : out of box - wifi on windows : plug ethernet, install driver manually. Old printers works better on Linux, eg when driver do not work on windows 10. Libre Office outof box, Office : where is my key ? ...
Scanning if you have smart home devices and what the types they are. The Google Home mini does the same and even try to connect to the smart switches.
Google ensures you cannot connect Google Home to a Guest Wi-Fi (where it cannot see other devices on the home network), the app won’t even allow you to finish setup.
Ask HN: Y ALU as floating point method of handling the decimal point not devised
Why is CPU/ALU with a floating point method of handling the decimal point position not devised/implemented ?

all simply just treated as integer with a byte or few bits is required to manage or keep tracking the decimal point position, let it be B
e.g.
0.2 x 0.7 = 0.14
it’s simply 2 x 7 = 14 . B = 0
987 x 0.07 =69.09
it’s simply 987 x 7 =6909 . B =2

IMHO this CPU/ALU method of microprogramming just far simpler
Oxford A/Z vaccine was developed at Oxford university and AZ joined later to manufacture it (after UK gov intervened, Oxford team was originally in talks with US Merck). This article [1] has back story.

EU paid millions to pharma companies (€1.78bn), that's true. However UK paid more than that(€1.9bn) and US invested even more €9bn.[1] I personally do not understand why EU bargained to start with and why it did not invest more, when damages are much bigger.

I do not think EU can break any patent, they do not own it.
"Vaccitech owns intellectual property used in the Oxford vaccine's development" [2]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/29/we-had-to-go...

[2] https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-professor-oxford-vac...
People should note that:

* this is a UK university, tuition is limited to about 30k GBP for a (UK standard) 3 year degree. That's 30k total, not per year. Accommodation is extra.

* Leicester isn't a particularly good university. It's ranked 77th out of 121. 50th out of 68 for maths [0].

* The department has been put on notice a few times that it needs more to up its income (get more students, get more research grants, get more other funding) or cut it's expenses. It hasn't done so.

* There are a whole bunch of wider issues for university funding at the moment. A rent strike is costing them money. Inability to take on foreign students (who they can charge more) is costing them money. A drop in overall intake as more students realise it likely isn't worth the money to get a degree etc. Fewer students on campus means less sales from university bars, restaurants etc. Mix that with high fixed costs and someone has to be let go.

* They're closing the pure maths departments but seem to be keeping the others (Including actuarial science) which is likely what students actually want. Ultimately UK degrees are mostly about getting a job these days, not the beauty of numbers. That's sad but that's the predictable consequence of 20 years of government policy in the area.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2020/se...
Why a pity? Seems to have been the start of a good run for Intel.
> you had one of the longest lockdowns in the world (110 days)

If you want to be precise, there was one lockdown in April->May, and then the major one in July->November that we’ve been talking about. It was 112 days for that second lockdown, the severe one. (note that the exact restrictions changed over that period, but 112 days was the period for which there were any restrictions around when you were allowed to leave your home)

> spanning the fall, winter and spring

No, that would require around 270 days. The 112-day lockdown included the second half of winter and most of spring, but didn’t include any of Fall (which is March->May here in Australia, and also we call it Autumn).

The first (much less severe) lockdown did take place in part of Fall, though. But that wasn’t part of the 112 day period that you were talking about.

> and then it came back in the summer, and you had to do it again

It was a small handful of cases in a corner of the state and we just backed up one step in the scheduled reduction of restrictions to make sure things didn’t get out of control; it lasted about three weeks before the government was satisfied that it was contained and restrictions resumed easing.

It absolutely wasn’t a case of “do it all again”.

> And you're in an isolated island nation with almost no international travel.

Note that “almost no international travel” is because it was shut down by the government, to protect against the spread of Covid. That’s another option that’s available to other countries.

It might also interest you to know that we’re holding the Australian Open here in about a week, with folks arriving from all over the world. They’re apparently expecting to have 30,000 spectators attending per day, in person.

> Your story does not encourage me about the feasibility of the strategy you advocate -- it underscores how tenuous the situation actually is.

Oh, it’s absolutely tenuous. Absolutely. Everyone has to be working together for it to effectively bring cases down to zero, as has happened here in Australia and in New Zealand. One bad apple or one selfish person in the wrong place can undo the sacrifices of thousands of people who are doing the right thing.

But what’s the alternative? Just stand around and watch the corpses pile up? (3500 covid deaths yesterday in the USA, for example)

I would take the lockdown over that, personally. In fact, I did. And today, after the lockdown has ended, I went to work in an office. And I took public transport to get there.

0 locally acquired cases, for the 24th day in a row.
If a for profit organization is able to deliver vaccines in a more efficient manner why shouldn't they be able to make a reasonable profit? Surely that's of significant value to society?
As far as logistics go, I'd easily believe military planners in the early 1930s were not accounting for a Blitz into france, because they probably had been planning on the last-war assumption that germany would field a coal-powered, not a synfuel-powered army.

An emphasis on energy sources also puts the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad as the crux of WW2, because the mechanisation of warfare in the 20th century meant that failure to get to caucasian (let alone middle-eastern?) oil foretold failure of the Nazi project.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612474

Similarly, I believe the current US position is that it globally controls the waves, but the navy with which it does so is still largely oil-fueled. Does shale change that catch-22?
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It looks like our civilization has passed its peak and now bouncing back to medieval ages.
In my country, a police officer knocking on your door is going to be one assigned to your neighborhood. You can ask them for ID before you let them in. If you're on the good side of the law, there is no reason for fear.
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Matrix.org is just one server deployment that implements the matrix protocol. You can deploy your own server or even your own implementation, and moderate it how you want. It has nothing to do with element. The apology is apt, as just like a browser speaks http, element speaks matrix.
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Just take a look at Reuters' stats page. It's easy now as we have just passed 100m infections with 2m deaths. That amounts to 2
dead out of every 100, globally.

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

Death rate is 0.16% in the US though.
Students wanting to get their money’s worth is exactly the root cause of this. Trust me, British Universities are bending over backwards to give students what they want. If you’ve been anywhere near a British University you’d know how ridiculous it is to suggest that the staff are somehow secretly organizing BLM protests (??) as part of a plan to stop students noticing how much money they’re spending (??)
Sure, Moscow. My relatives in Vladivostok report a total collapse of the (local) health system.
Signal is open source you can run your own non-federated signal server. You can use a custom signal client against the federated network too.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vq4k/thousands-of-users-un...
Cool, let's just have an international auction for the vaccines, then the rich countries will have ten times the doses they need to vaccinate their entire population (because you never know how the clinical trials will turn out). What about the poorer countries, you ask? Well, tough luck...

Plus, in Israel it's just half of the Israeli population, strange nobody is talking about the Palestinians.
> A lot of universities do not have a pure math faculty.

If true this shocks me. Pure math makes up two of the seven liberal arts. The pure math department at my (US state) university had significantly higher status than the applied one, and this seemed to hold true for the other (also mostly state) universities my friends went to as well.

Community colleges and technical schools? Sure. Colleges? OK I guess, if they have a notable e.g. physics or engineering program and keep the pure math courses there for administrative reasons. A university without any pure math faculty? Then you're not a university anymore...
I thought this was going to be more interesting. There's an important distinction between consulting online documentation and googling for "how do I do this very specific thing?"

Of course you can't build an app without consulting documentation. Why do you think references even exist? Nobody can store all the knowledge in their head.

But doing it without the very specific questions (ie. Stackoverflow), that's a different question. This should be possible imo. But in my experience it is increasingly not possible. Many, many so-called engineers reach for this as their primary source of information these days.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, administrate.
"Limited"? UK tuition used to be much, much cheaper:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuition_fees_in_the_United_Kin...
The title of the article is bad, but the actual suggestions for action against extremism are quite good.

We do need research to fix social media, and we do need transparency.

Firefox is generally good; they have some identity politics, but it hasn't taken over their ethos.
Pfizer is making a profit.

AstraZeneca is not as their deal with Oxford University is to produce and distribute the vaccine at cost.

Two different approaches.
Of course they can. They don't want to.
Your response is consistent with the claim you called a lie. Adding "considering that ..." allows you to hold the EU to an arbitrarily lower standard than the other countries.
It should be noted that von der Leyen got this job not because she was recommend by anyone in Germany. The actuall suggestion supposedly came from Macron. In the vote for her among governments. Germany was the only one to not vote for her, due to an intervention by the social democratic party that is a member of the current german government.
You are right of course but I object to a 22 year old psychology student being characterized as a tech person. At best he's a Musk imitator.

The problem isn't with tech people, it's with the sleazeballs using us for cover.
Yeah, I'm aware of that. ACAB in my country is forbidden, because its insulting a civil servant in office.

If police are not allowed to lie while civilians can lie, the police are in a severe disadvantage. Perhaps the balance is tipped the wrong way, but the mere notion that police are allowed to lie isn't wrong in itself.