skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, this isn't some settled math like basic algebra or science like Newtonian physics - this is cutting edge stuff at the intersection of medicine, public health, and biotechnology. Experts disagree about the nuances of measuring the efficacy of drugs, vaccines, and therapeutics so throw in the glaring ethical concerns into the mix and you have a recipe for a complex field. It's rare (unheard of?) to find a clinical trial where the company (or their CRO) scientists didn't sit down with FDA regulators and negotiate over key features & risk indicators, benchmarking, patient selection, and so on because they bring expertise the FDA is unlikely to have.

It's very difficult to get even a basic grasp of the details because you need to grok some complex statistics, biology, and public health to really dig in. Journalists sure aren't going to get the nuances so of course you have to read the academic literature.
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I will gladly pay for this as a hosted service. This is amazing!
Certainly, writing that is simpler than writing out the reasons behind 3 separate events. But I think Occam’s razor is more about actual simplicity, and would cut against arguing that there was an elaborate conspiracy that involves multiple large companies acting against their own interests.
As long as it's unconditional investing…
I'm guessing we haven't talked to Microsoft at all yet, and that they will pull out of Australia as well.
Are you still providing $10K grants to the most promising companies at the end of the sprint, as you did during the last sprint?
What would they replace it with?
Batteries are pretty simple, you can still get replacements for old iPods.
What's the point in pardoning dead people?
I think people are upset about social issues (wealth inequality, changing social structures etc).

I think that becomes anger at big institutions, from government to banks to "big tech".

I think people see Anti Trust as a way to bash big tech.

And no one stops to think "what are we actually trying to achieve here?". They just think something has to be done and this is something...
It's about power not money.
This is Lulzsec 2021, I'm all for it!
Well, let's see… say you had 2000 participants in the trial, 1000 with a junk vaccine, and 1000 with placebos.

Furthermore, let's say you had 200 infections, split equally between the junk and the placebo.

So yeah, 100 / 200 = 50% effective. A coin toss, which is to say, no better or worse than not getting the vaccine.

Again, this isn't measuring "what one would expect" (how many vaccinated people, exposed to the virus, get the disease), it's "what proportion of vaccinated people get sick relative to unvaccinated people." (again IANAD)
Could be a 1980s style rap battle, which is the most modern equivalent.
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When you're getting your face rearranged in one corner of the boxing ring, very often the body tries to naturally move to another corner.

Settlement cycles and market censorship are two separate things. It's on robinhood to make sure they can meet the same liquidity standards that banks have been "stress tested" for ever since 2008. Keep in mind that it wasn't 3 years ago where T+2 was just a dream.

Real time settlement is going to be driven by centrally governed organizations and their market counterparts (DTCC / SWIFT).
That of course assumes that the post-install scripts don't move files around. Mac OS has a similar utility called "pkgutil" which supposedly tracks all files belong to programs that come as "pkg" files -- typically system utilities that don't make sense to ship as clickable bundles. But the pkgutil database is often useless. For example, the MacGPG installer used to "install" its files under "/tmp/private", but that was simply a temporary install directory which was immediately moved by a postinstall script to an untracked location.
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They appear to have more clever solutions to make a wired device (such as a headphone or TV) wireless (with a myriad of codecs and Bluetooth 5.x).
It sounds like a brilliant idea. I remember learning my way around vim and emacs from interactive tutorials that were basically just text files. I had no idea what I was doing, but it was fun to experiment.

If you implemented your game, I would definitely give it a try. More for fun than for the learning experience, but if I happen to learn something new along the way, I certainly would not complain. ;-)
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Is that all? Not sure what else I can add to this comment, but that's comically low, and a slap in the face to our new underclass.
Question for others on HN: What if you used many cameras in a row, each separated from its neighbour by a single stiff anchor like a chain of Mobileyes? Then perform calculations between each neighbouring camera and gradually build up the necessary correction between the two cameras at the outermost points.
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For cash, pretty much every country has a functioning real time gross settlement system that manages to do essentially instantaneous non-reversible commits by default and carries all the large payments and the netting settlements for all kinds of smaller bundled payments. Yes, there are risks, errors and fraud - but if that's manageable for very, very large amounts of cash, why wouldn't it be for stock?
To correct the record, and to serve the general idea that justice can get it right, eventually. Impact wise, it probably makes the family feel better.
The article mentions Galileo:

> “They were political trials and the penalties of exile and death inflicted on Dante, my dear ancestor, are unjust and have never been cancelled as happened with Galileo Galilei,”

But his heresy 'case' wasn't ever officially overturned by the Catholic Church. Various modern Pope's just said some nice things about him, but didn't go as far as over ruling the heresey charge. Assuming that was possible.

The pope had his talks canceled at La Sapienza University over this as recently as January 2008 .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Modern_Catholic...
I think it was the opposite; they rotated past vertical. I'd guess they were probably counting on the vectored thrust of a second engine to halt the angular momentum.
They could do one better and cheaper - start their own coin, make Amazon accept that (and no other coins) and it'd probable dwarf bitcoin in market cap.
It was public knowledge that Bezos stopped running Amazon day-to-day a while ago. It was headed by the two execs under him (Andy Jassy for AWS and Jeff Wilke for retail). Jassy even had the CEO (of AWS) title. With Wilke announcing his retirement a few months ago, Jassy was the clear frontrunner to take over from Bezos. In hindsight I guess Wilke retired because Jassy was picked over him. The timing of the announcement is unexpected, but nothing else.
If the sample consists of volunteers, it's hardly random.
In particular, given that these volunteers are "low-risk people", it means that the results of this experiment will yield virtually no useful conclusions for the higher-risk groups
That isn't completely true. Titles sometimes have legal implications. If a company is sued the testimony of "just and employee" has a different value from the Chief Diversity Officer. Even a low level HR employee (is someone who should have done something about the situation that brought this to court) might be able to sneak by on company policy not allowing the right action. However the Chief Diversity officer will take the fall. This taking the fall might or might not be enough to protect the CEO (who also should have done something)
Somebody on /WSB called it a "RAGE HOLD".
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Seriously, why bother?

There are historical wrongs that continue to affect people today, but in this case that's been damped out by time.
Nor does an OS...let alone an Airplane.
Can you point out the specific bottlenecks that hampered Itanium and Cell?
This isn't a software check. When the memory reaches its "lifetime number of write cycles," that means it's dead.
Robinhoof at least seem to agree lol: https://blog.robinhood.com/news/2021/2/2/its-time-for-real-t...
> This is not an option most software users have

Yes, but the good thing is that more and more people are learning how to program so I am hopeful that things will get better :)
For what it's worth, the wireless headphones mentioned by the review as the best previous set (the Bang & Olufsen / Beoplay H9i) do come with a user-removable battery and do allow listening via USB-C as well. Somehow these never get mentioned in mainstream reviews, only Bose and Sony, even though they have superior fit & finish and, according to this review, sound as well.
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I'm immensely interested in the history of computing and computers. If it was ever the case you'd consider being interviewed about your experience (either on this topic, or others-- your HN comment history makes me think you've got a lot of interesting experience) please reach out. I don't know that I'd necessarily want to do the interviewing (it's nothing I've practiced), but I'd definitely try to help facilitate it. These stories are too valuable and interesting not to be told.
He's one of the richest men in the world... and single.

We're about to witness one of the most glorious midlife crises in history.
That runs counter to one of the goals of TypeScript, which is to make no runtime changes.

It’s easy enough to do this in userland. I wrote a tiny library called narrows which has worked great for me: https://www.npmjs.com/package/narrows
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Perhaps following Larry and Sergey's Alphabet playbook - gracefully fade into the background so your legacy can be untarnished!
> Why do you think the stock was “over shorted” apart from the fact that short interest is generally not that high?

It was the highest shorted stock on the market. That is "generally not that high"?

I think the fact that retail investors were able to cause a short squeeze on it, that cost shorts many billions of dollars, is an indication that it was over shorted.

> Or — what do you think are the bad consequences of “over shorting?”

There needs to be balance to everything; one of the naturally occurring risks of shorting is a short squeeze. Messing with that would ruin the risk/reward balance of shorting. Shorting creates more longs, and therefore drives the share price down. The risk of a short squeeze is a good way to prevent people from opening an extremely high number of shorts, and artificially driving the price down this way.
I think if you ask, most anecdotal evidence from people who have worked with architects shows that companies with "software architects" don't necessarily have less "technical debt" then companies without.

Theoretically, those "software architects" would put a stop to "over-engineered" solutions, but why do these companies still have technical debt?

Most likely because technical debt is not solely just "over engineered" solutions.
Yes and no, by banning WSB social media created negative press too. There's an implication: "if they got banned then there must be something wrong with them; probably racist or nazis".
My understanding is that the typical way to do parallel decode of a variable length ISA is to speculatively decode from every valid offset, then throw away those which turned out to be wrong.

So x86 implementations start to decode at [n, n+1, n+2, n+3, etc.] bytes. Then if turns out that, say, the instruction at offset n was 2 bytes, throw away whatever work was done for decoding at n+1 and continue decoding the n+2 etc.

For RISC-V with the C (compressed) extensions, instruction boundaries are 16-bit aligned, so you can do a similar strategy like above for x86 except you speculatively decode at offsets [n, n+2, n+4, etc.]. See e.g. the SonicBOOM paper.

Of course, speculatively decoding instructions only to throw them away costs power. I have no hard numbers, but I do wonder why RVC didn't specify that an "instruction bundle" is 32-bit aligned and consists of either a 32-bit instruction or a pair of 16-bit instructions? That would have made decoding simpler, though at a cost of worse density.

The problem with this approach is that you get more and more such wasted decoding effort when you try to make a wider decoder. Then again, uop caches exist for a reason and generally work well, they are an excellent choice if you have a hard to decode ISA.
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Don't know why you're being downvoted, those interviews were vile. They were just probing for self-incriminating answers and when they didn't moved on.
Would be interesting to know how they are split by geography and function
They didn't do anything wrong, they are not allowed to restrict sales, and they were forced to restrict buys because you can't get $3 billion collateral overnight.
I'm not exactly a bootlicker, and I'm not informed on the situation, but do we have any proof this isn't the same kind of peaceful protests we had in the USA?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cnn-ridiculed-for-fi...

Any sane government would be arresting people involved with torching police buildings. If these people are innocent, I pray for their release.
Countries that have a supply of Pfizer/Moderna as well as AZ can understandably be more cautious with AZ to over-65 at least early on. It’s just a matter of assigning the right vaccine to the respective groups, e.g Pfizer to the elderly and AZ to healthcare workers.

In a month or two there will be more data, but in Q2 there will also be more supply of Pfizer and Moderna in the EU.

The EU can be cautious with AZ to elderly now because it can afford to due to large quantities of rna vaccine.

A few thousand elderly will die waiting for the slow buildup of rna delivieries while AZ could be made available. That’s the obvious drawback of this caution.
Either doesn't want to or recognizes that anyone not him, i.e. not as polarizing, would be more effective.
Woww, this is great, thanks for sharing
I use DDG as my default search engine, and find that the results are usually pretty decent. But there's no question that Google has a larger and more comprehensive index, especially for more obscure "long tail" queries. So I still fall back to a Google search (it's easy -- just add '!g' to your DDG query and resubmit) about 10% of the time.

It wouldn't be the end of the world if I wasn't able (or willing) to use Google.
I think there's multiple angles for this. When Haachama does her cooking videos, she's careful to not even show her hands, because even doing that could break the immersion for some people. Which I agree, is very unsettling to me.

However I think the reason that most people don't like seeing other projects from the same vtuber is not because they don't want to see them as a person, but because the Japanese take internet anonymity really seriously. Harassment online in Japan, especially of idols, gets extreme to the point of being dangerous. It's very, very easy to find the faces of some Hololive members on old Niconico Channels, however current fans lose their shit when you mention this because they see it as an attempt at doxxing. It's from a place of love, I don't think it is an attempt to dehumanize.
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Yep, this, I also got these. They're terrific. The WH-1000XM3 is almost as good, and on sale quite a lot because of the newer XM4.
I've had a second portrait monitor for about 15 years now, and highly recommend it. I don't have many issues possibly due to my screens being 4k.

However, the responsive decision point is regarding the width of the viewport or window. To my knowledge sites don't care about the height at all. So the fact it is in portrait orientation (vertical) is not pertinent.

Once in a while I do have to zoom or resize the window if its size is not large, but it is not a burden that I really notice.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

Most people have no idea what AWS is, but know what Amazon the consumer business is.

AWS is only well known among tech circles.
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I was a (young) kid when I overheard a news report making fun of an internet bookstore calling itself Amazon.

It's amazing what he's been able to do. Good for him.
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I think the problematic scenario is when the customer wants to buy a security using the proceeds of a recent sale, which hasn't settled yet. Since the proceeds haven't made it to the broker's bank account yet, the broker would use their own capital in the interim.
Common Lisp is a multi-paradigm language, in which a wider range of your existing skills will find applicability (often, an idealized version of their applicability: doing the same things as before, with less friction).

Common Lisp is also better choice if you want to know about Lisp in the larger sense, because it is stepped in the Lisp history. Historic books and papers are much more relevant in a CL context than Clojure.
I see the future of Amazon as ~ 100% AWS. Do you think this will change that outcome?
Bill Gates was a ruthless business man, but through the influence of his wife/father/Warren Buffet or some combination,
he's soften a bit and seems to have decided to give a lot away and convince others to do so as well.

https://givingpledge.org/About.aspx

There's lots of weirdness in society about having the wealthiest having influence starting to approach government program status, but here we are. (perhaps they're trying to blunt the income inequality complaints, but maybe they really have come around to caring...)
Organizations that don't care will hire a CDO and put him (sexism intentional, though it could be her and still fit) off to the side to be a figure head for the non-existent efforts. If it gets the activists off their back it might be seen as worth a high salary.
Who cares about Fauci or anyone else. Go straight to the science.

More transmissible strains means higher threshold for herd immunity, so yeah Fauci is right in this case to increase it given the spread of the UK, SA and Brazil strains.

> but even if I'm wrong, it means he was lying before and has confessed now.

Terrible logic.
While the US had better tech and improved design they all tested the shit out of things before going live and then ran live tests on unmanned rockets, many of which exploded quick spectacularly. Soyuz might be safe now, but that safety was paid for by many near-misses and in several cases in cosmonaut blood. Your statement regarding US vs Soviet approach to the space race is simply wrong.
What does Bill Gates care about optimizing tax? He is old, isn't planning on giving his money to his children and he has so much money he wouldn't even be able to spend it if he wanted to. It makes no sense. Im pretty sure he does care about his legacy on the other hand.
The article doesn’t explain why you can’t throw a lot of money at licensing out and expanding the production of lipid nanoparticle machines that it identifies as a bottleneck.
This is like cleaning up the git history of a project
If you have a central HVAC and valuable things that are sensitive to humidity you really need a whole-house humidifier. A bunch of manufacturers make them, I have the Aprilaire 400 ($741 professionally installed in 2016), you can see all their products here: https://www.aprilaire.com/whole-house-products/humidifier
I spotted a pair of these 40 years ago at a yard sale for $2. The owner said they didn't work, but after a few minutes with a soldering iron, they were good as new. They were my headphones until recently, when I gave them to my son. I suppose some of the materials in the drivers have a finite lifespan, but I hope he enjoys them for a few decades.
> SN10 is standing by. Somewhat uncomfortably close by

That was my immediate comment at the end. Pretty confident they are.
Crazy, he's one of those guys that you think will just be at the top forever. Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple.
The relevant “ends” in end-to-end encryption are usually clients, and that’s the case here.
He’d be better at it than the last guy, a low bar though.
No flipping on the Moon since it provides no advantage there (No aerobraking)
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I love my Grado SR60s which are just about 20 years old now. The left post that the headphone is connected to needs replacement (I'm using tape for now), and I sent them to Grado to replace the cable ~10 years ago. Otherwise they are well worn but working perfectly. They are the longest running piece of my daily driving kit. The silver embossing on the letters is almost completely worn off in places just due to use. I love them so much.

It warms my heart to see youtube reviewers who encounter them and are shocked at how good they sound for the price.
This is really cool - I understand how the reinforcement loop works for improving performance, but how does it verify that the optimizations applied don't change the semantics/correctness of the code?
Yeah, you can open a Fidelity account with no minimum and get commission free trades and their app is great.

What advantage does Robinhood have in comparison? Outages and low liquidity?
Will he stop immiserating the warehouse workers that work for them?
I agree that this is robinhoods fault, and that they have been deceptive in their PR about this, and that their UX workflows are misleading about what’s actually happening...

But, plenty of other brokers had the same issue. Including Merrill for instance. I would say that the more concerning issue that this has highlighted is how this part of the system gives large institutions greater access to markets than retail investors get. Addressing a systemic flaw like this seems like the best possible thing that could come out of this controversy.
Well, they popped a bunch of Falcon 9s until they got those right.
They're forced to include newspaper links and to disclose their algorithm.

The whole thing is a boondoggle for Rupert Murdoch, even our government funded media is excluded.
From https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/email-from-jef...

>Fellow Amazonians:

>I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence.

This reads to me as Jeff Bezos doesn't want the boring job of running AWS and Amazon anymore. He want something new,

>As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions.

There are plenty of Growth left in Amazon and AWS. But that is not as exiting as Blue Origin or Funding other initiative via Day 1 Fund.

I still remember when Amazon was only selling Books. People laughed, Media Laughed, and I guess most of us laughed.

Amazon is now a ~$1.6 Trillion Dollar Company.

What an era.