skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the proximate issue appears to be lack of government approval for a new factory in the Netherlands. The contract issue has been done to death: the contracts the EU signed talk about best efforts. They don't actually seem to contain any penalties for "late" delivery.

AZ must surely see the EU as a colossal pain in the rear by now. If EU want to be treated as higher priority they're doing it all wrong because repeatedly abusing and pissing off the people who can make your vaccine is not a smart move. So far we have seen:

• EU leaders haggled for months over cost and didn't sign early contracts, despite AZ producing it not-for-profit.

• EU publicly claimed AZ were in violation of contract. AZ denied it. Then the Commission released the contract redacted, but they redacted it incorrectly which let people see the EU was lying and AZ was telling the truth.

• EU regulators reached same decision as UK regulators but much slower. At one point when asked why they still hadn't approved it, their answer was something like "AZ didn't contact us yet". Apparently proactively reaching out was not imaginable.

• Multiple EU leaders then claimed the vaccine didn't work, which turned out to be another lie.

• Then they briefly attempted to violate the supposedly sacrosanct and inviolable Northern Ireland protocol to stop AZ vaccine being exported from the EU (which didn't have any) to the UK (which had lots). Beyond making no sense at all this also showed the EU had been lying again for years during the Brexit negotiations, as they repeatedly claimed to be totally committed to NI peace process and would never accept anything that could lead to a border. All tossed out the window just weeks after the UK/EU transition period ended.

• EU repeatedly claimed to hate vaccine nationalism and find it totally unacceptable. Then they blocked export of AZ vaccine meant for Australia from Italy. Then they lied again and claimed the UK had blocked exports of vaccine materials to the EU, which had never happened.

• Now they started claiming the vaccine is dangerous, although according to AZ this is once again not supported by the data (similar to the claim it doesn't work). [1]

• And today they are again claiming AZ is not honouring the contracts, despite having totally failed to produce evidence this is true or even, as far as I know, start a court case related to this supposed violation.

By now the EU/AZ/UK relationship is a disaster zone. EU leaderships just continually obfuscate and make outright false statements about the vaccine and the people who make it. They're lucky AZ is still willing to work with them at all.

[1] https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...
Hadn’t heard of it. Will check it out thanks.
Not guilty. I pay attention to work only on projects and in companies which will be discontinued or non-existent within 3-5 years.
Should social media companies censor information on their apps?
The EU has paid AstraZeneca to build manufacturing capacity within EU borders, but a big part of that capacity is used to supply the UK. AstraZeneca has also quite smartly been extremely slow to file the necessary paperwork to make those plants EU compliant so that even with export controls, the capacity of those plants cannot be used by Europe.

Edit: The comment originally claimed that EU made vaccines were exported to the USA, this is actually not the case
Time API
I started using this API (http://worldtimeapi.org/) yesterday and find it really useful. It seems they are underfunded as the site experiences high load making the API endpoint unavailable. This is a pity. If you use timezone data with up-to-date day-light savings times, maybe check it out and help with donations to make it more reliable if you also find it useful. I'm not associated with the site or dev team - just an end-user.
Is Racism Improving or Getting Worse?
Russia plans Twitter block in one month if it fails to delete banned content
And if a company decides to adorn their brand with that art?
They did still pay 370M eur to them upfront + 660M eur in grants for R&D through Horizon 2020. 1B eur client can afford to be a bit noisy.

All in all AZ vaccine is not that significant for the EU anyway - so far the administered doses were about 80% Pfizer. And if you look at the at-risk population (65+) it's probably even higher
>Well, I use it, so your doubt is obviously disproven.

Do you really? And if so, who cares? (I mean "who as in which webmaster would even care?" not as in, "are there any niche enthusiasts that do?").

When the parent says "is anybody", they mean "are any significant numbers". So, yeah, maybe there is 1. Or 10. Or 100 if we're generous. I doubt there are 1000 (and the website stats can easily verify it), and they surely aren't any number big enough to care about.

But even more importantly, there's no technical, ethical or other rule to say "you need to cater to the person using Netscape 2 in 2021" anymore than there's one saying "You need to sell music in wax cylinders, lest someone who still uses such a player comes to your shop".

If it was an accessibility or poverty argument sure. But it's surely not poverty the reason why someone keeps using Netscape 2.0 in 2021.
You'd think they would make it more clear ("verify your 2fa number"). Maybe they want to bait criminals into entering their own or something.
God I hate road salt. My poor poor Jeeps! Perhaps this will spur a shift towards alternatives? I've heard beet juice of all things is effective but I have no clue if its economical.
We planned on building a pure API product. So subscription metering would be required for us. I’ll check your product out though. Sounds interesting.
It might be best innovative idea I have ever seen.
I think in a world without copyright, the ways that creative people earn a living would certainly change, but I'm not sure it would mean it would be impossible to be successful doing those things.

Musicians already earn a large portion of their income from things other than sales of their albums - whether it's touring / merch / advertising deals. All of that could exist in a world without copyright. The equivalent might not exist yet for movies, but in a world where movies were freely distributable, someone would find a way to still make it a business. Maybe the giant blockbusters would go away, but maybe that's an acceptable price to pay.
TOTP is definitely an open standard. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238
Dinosaurs are so easily hoaxed.
> Final classes by default with an open keyword

...is exactly the wrong way around. Inheritance is very much about unplanned reuse and programming by difference. That is: there is something that almost works the way you want, but not quite.

If you are actually planning this ahead, then typically inheritance is the wrong approach and you're better off using composition.
It is easy to use, really useful!
I remember having acrobat on my palm pilot. Man was that awful.
Not really correct for JavaScript (among others). All modern implementations optimize repeated appends in cases like this. They all have ropes, too.
I think that's more or less happening with or without copyright. I don't have a single piece of standalone paid software installed on my computer (either it's open source and free, or it's something that connects to a service that I do pay for)
such an innovative idea !
I guess it shows that I only buy used crap phones.
I suspect you still haven't clicked on the link?
I was able to find this. Haven't attempted it yet but it appears that it is in fact standard TOTP, only the VIP app generates the seed and you have to provide the seed to (in this case) Fidelity. https://gist.github.com/jarbro/ca7c9d3eebba1396d53b4a7228575...

And yeah, my biggest problem with it is that I already have a solution for TOTP; I don't really want to also figure out some solution for their proprietary garbage.
Yes, exactly this, and then one can extrapolate that it’s management should be focused public health and not law enforcement.
I recently did some data processing on a single (albeit beefy node) someone had been using a cluster for. I composed and ran ETL in a day what took them weeks in their infrastructure (they were actually still in the process of fixing it).
I love the concept of the Postnick
All true, maybe except for the approval and "late" ordering. Everything after that, so, was total clusterfuck. Especially with AZ, and still is.
Of course, but large files don't work well in Git without using an external plugin you mentioned. And external plugins have other problems, e.g. I can't use them without setting up another server (can't use them in git-shell).

Right now I just use "--depth 1" often to prevent the download of the entire history. But it is not ideal.
Yeah, there isn't really anything that you just can't do at all without Docker. The question is whether it's a net positive or negative on your architecture as a whole. Eg, I deploy some Go apps using docker (basically build the executable and then build a docker image that just contains that executable). Looking at just the single application, it's pure overhead to add Docker vs just deploying the binary executable somewhere and running it. But in the overall context of my setup, since I'm running other apps as well that are written in other languages/frameworks and have different characteristics, it's a huge net positive for me to have a single uniform interface for deploying and running them. Everything gets pushed to the same container registry the same way, is versioned the same way, can handle service discovery the same way (by listening on the docker port), can do canary deploys the same way, etc. I can use docker-compose to bring up a dev environment with multiple services with a single command. I can deploy the container to Cloud Run or ECS or an equivalent if that makes more sense than running servers.
This site is blocked due to a security threat that was discovered by the Cisco Umbrella security researchers.
You say only farmers and home builders create value.

But the farmers and home builders who work at scale require tools and resources created by industry, which in turn require raw materials, an ability to process these materials, and an ability to transport them.

So are people working in those industries any less important than the farmers and home builders themselves?

Further, those industries are capitally intensive and require a financial network to raise and allocate the capital required so these industries can function.

In a nutshell - everything is connected. How do you simply decide where to draw the line of who is contributing an essential service and who isn’t?
The LLV's are not merely old, they're ancient. The EV marketplace still isn't particularly mature: there are competing charging networks, the charging standards are still evolving, and in the US, there are perhaps two mainstream manufacturers of pure BEVs (Tesla and Nissan).

If you're the sort of customer who keeps a vehicle 3 years and then upgrades, none of this is likely a worry for you. Any shakeup in the charging networks or incompatible changes to the standards will probably happen long after you sell the car.

The USPS, on the other hand is in this for the long haul. It seems reasonable to suppose that they'll have their own charging network, so problem solved, right? Wrong. They'll still need parts support every part of this operation for at least 35 years if they keep them as long as the LLVs.

Remember the lengths one dedicated person had to go to to resurrect the DE-19 connector[0]. You're looking at that problem multiplied by thousands of parts.

I've always coveted the original Honda Insight (the two seater), and one popped up for sale near me last year so I did some research. First party support is pretty well done. Third party support exists, but it's not a volume business, and it's priced accordingly. And that's a car that's only 15 years old.

The mail truck fleet will be bigger, but the price of parts will still be high if there are big shifts in the market and nobody's making anything similar. The market has matured and stabilized since Honda quit making the original Insight, but probably not enough to inexpensively support a vehicle for 3 decades.

[0] https://www.bigmessowires.com/2016/06/04/db-19-resurrecting-...
This is so good. I like it.
Honestly, literally millions of people do this every year, and for most of them, it's like 10 minutes, plus the time waiting for the iCloud restore. Even my dad was able to set up his new iPad, and he's as techophobic as it gets.
Except goods exports are down 40%, large chunks of finance and services are being moved to Amsterdam and other EU capitals, and Northern Ireland is having trouble stocking its supermarket shelves while unionist paramilitary groups are renouncing the Good Friday Agreement.

The developing story is that Brexit is a slow moving disaster for trade, services, and the stability in Northern Ireland. All of this was predicted.
Back in the day I was using Intel Celeron 333 MHz and then AMD Duron 800 MHz.

I did not know how to use Winamp playlists because Winamp has been "an instant" app for me, I just clicked on a song and it played within miliseconds. That was my flow of using Winamp for years. This did not change between the Celeron and Duron, the thing was instant on both Celeron and Duron.

Then Winamp 3 came out and I had to use playlists because a song once clicked took good second or two to start playing. Winamp 5 from 2018 still starts slower than my beloved 2.73* did 20 years ago. On Celeron 333 and 5400 RPM HDD with 256 MB of RAM. I think even the good old Winamp 2.x is not as fast as it was on Windows 98/XP.

Something went wrong.

* not sure if it was 2.73, but I think so

Note: I realise Winamp 3 was crappy as hell, but still...
Oh I concur... I'm in the 'if I didnt build it I dont understand it' and have all kinds of anxieties about that.
And a mildly technical angry ex is a lot less likely than phishing. These are valuable topics but people go way way way too far and say that SMS is horrible and should be basically banned while TOTP is fabulous and a completely viable alternative, which is just fantasy.
great idea and user friendly..
What do investors get? First time I hear about this site Republic.
Although EU/France keeps claiming AZ are breaking the rules, they have produced no evidence this is true. Last time they tried to claim this they released a heavily redacted PDF of the contract signed with AZ but the redacting was botched, so people could see the hidden text. It showed AZ were correct about the contract (what a surprise) and the EU were lying about it. Since then they keep claiming there is some sort of contract violation but details of this violation are never elaborated on, nor is there any court case about it.
Python Graph Visualization with Pyvis
SO is a bit more complicated than returning a single character in a response. You can achieve high throughput with just about anything these days if you aren't doing any "work" on the server. 300-500 reqs/second is impressive for a web site/application with real-world traffic.
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> What of it? ... Celebrity culture is generally toxic, news at 11.

Well, let's hang on a second, and think about that a little more because I think you've touched on an interesting wrinkle. I don't think that celebrities (by virtue of functioning in the original "thought leadership" role) must necessarily have this relationship with their followers. I am reminded of the critical tension in the dharmic religions between Buddhism and the hierarchical Vedism which came before it; Buddhism gained a significant amount of power as a referendum on Vedism.

We can of course talk about what that means from an abstract sense versus concretely, and it's obviously not always so black and white. But celebrities as cultural leaders have agency. Can't they choose whether they are using their power to reinforce an egalitarian adept/novice apprenticeship structure rather than some sort of perpetually hierarchical one of divine providence? The latter is of course more common over the course of history but it is certainly not the only option.

I suppose (to circle back to my original point) that the challenge here is that the cultural leaders do not exist in a vacuum; it is not just up to them but the society they exist within to determine their popular conception, which may not even be one to which they ascribe -- the tabloid example is evergreen. But is it then the vocation of celebrities to engage with these kinds of entities, and eventually emerge victorious -- being able to present their own views to society on their on frame, without being cowed or twisted or distorted by the rest of society at large, including its entrenched interests?

I don't know. I'm still inclined to say yes, historically speaking.
Engineers don't get to work on whatever they want (usually). The described problem doesn't stop people buying shark cards, the fix is not new content and players leaving the game because of it don't affect the bottom line significantly. This could be why the priority was low and why you should prioritise tech debt
Malta, and iirc a couple other island colonies were kicked out of the british empire back in the day. Malta's especially came right after a referendum which voted to remain as part of the UK and actually to integrate closer, but it wasn't popular in the UK as the island was costly to keep and no longer relevant as a naval base due to changing strategic concerns.
Psychiatry is extremely committed to other forms of medication, which are in general not particularly effective, and also extremely dangerous in various ways.

Of course there are some exaggerated claims by proponents of psychedelics. But if you look at the history of psychiatric medicine over the last 70 years or so, it is basically disastrous.

Another difference is that whereas practitioners of both psychedelic drug therapy and talking therapies such as psychoanalysis have always also been patients of their own disciplines, there is no requirement for psychiatrists to have any experience of taking psychiatric medication. In fact it would generally be frowned upon.
Its cautious - each engineer that edits that file is changing the minimum necessary. You can bet a bunch of them looked at some of those functions and saw how they could be made more consise or less repetitive - but if its all working why take the risk? Its just creating more work for the people downstream who have to test and sign off every change.

There's a lot to be said for boring, easy to understand code.
No, we haven't screwed it up. What specifically do you think we could have done better?

It's just a problem of managing expectations. The language we use doesn't help either - the term artifical intelligence somehow implies a system that resembles the way humans think. We don't have anything remotely like this. We don't have a faint idea of how to get started on it either.

The machine learning and reinforcement learning techniques that we have are useful in many applications. You shouldn't expect general AI / singularity out of them any time soon and that's fine.
> (1) The business’s process for submitting a request to opt-out shall not require more steps than that business’s process for a consumer to opt-in to the sale of personal information after having previously opted out.

This seems really oddly worded, like wanting to preserve a loophole. This sounds like it would be perfectly compliant to e.g. make you click through half a dozen "show advanced settings" links to opt-out - as long as you put the "re-opt-in" button (that no one outside a marketeer's fantasy would ever want to use) in the same place.

A site could still make opt-out unnecessarily difficult compared to the path they want their users to take: Just dismiss the popup and never opt-out at all.

edit: Then again, the parent paragraph (h) seems stricter. Is (h)(1) then just an "illustrative example" and not legally binding?
Incidentally, I think this happens somewhat automatically; as in, humans naturally mirror the accents around them, or at least subconsciously change their dialect to be understood better. I think it works the other way around too - people might subconsciously mumble things they'd rather not say.

You can pick up accents, both pronunciation, phrasing and vocabulary this way. Incidentally, this is why I dislike (find divisive) the fact the Afro-Americans use the N-word liberally - I don't think it would be hard for an non-PoC to accidentally pick up the word if they often communicated with people who used it.

As an aside: I don't have a strong accent from my place of origin, although I notice it is stronger on certain terms. One type of term is, obviously, those words that have features that are most pronounced differently (e.g. the "Aboot" as in the article). But I also notice it happens with place names in my place of origin - maybe because I rarely say them outside that area?
idk it's pretty easy to patch buildroot to customize the packages.

At this point my go to for image creation is guix though.
> most companies/organisations that use Free software don't contribute to its development

That is a big problem. But the underlying issue is competition (a pillar of the capitalist system) and we should address that instead of trying to fix surface symptoms. If there were incentives to cooperate for the interest of humanity instead of competing for private profit, there would not be a problem.
If a programmer is not able to write efficient code, they may not even know that their code is inefficient.

I regularly see programmers that come from a front end or "full stack" background try to solve data engineering problems, and end up with solutions that are 10x, 100x or sometimes 1000x slower than what they could be expected to.
I don't know who tells you things, but the consensus by economists was:

1) Leaving on WTO rules would crash the British economy

2) Leaving with a deal would be better than 1), but still bad

The UK is on 2) at the moment.
We lost Flash because Steve Jobs didn't want another platform ruining his vice grip over iPhone. The battery life "issue" could have been fixed in short order.

Flash was light years better than the HTML + JS platypus we have today.
How do you define "no longer supported"? Easiest answer is to restore copyright length to a sane amount of time. Prior to 1978, it was 28 years, optionally extendable to another 28 years. Our current conception of effectively-infinite copyright is very new, and I think has had incredibly harmful effects. https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2020/shrinking...
Vilicus – A overseer for security scanning of container images
Vilicus is an open-source tool that orchestrates security scans of container images(Docker/OCI) and centralizes all results into a database for further analysis and metrics.
Only instantaneously. In the long term supply decreases to meet decreased (now niche) demand which decreases duty cycle on operations, hence increasing per unit cost.
Using Zig to Cross-Compile Redis from Linux to macOS M1.
Maybe, just maybe, more people could start buying winter tires. I wish our local governments would require them during the winter.