skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is awful first order thinking. If public authorities are perceived as untrustworthy on the safety of vaccines, there's a very high chance there will be widespread rejection of vaccination altogether in the population.

People aren't utilitarian machines, trust in drugs is very easily broken, vaccines in particular. Showing neglect and lack of precaution may harm vaccination efforts for decades.
I wrote a bit about this yesterday[0] and here[1]. The (enterprise) clients we had all valued our work, nobody haggled that much, but we went above and beyond. We did dive into their domain and worked on problems in the banking, energy, transportation, telecom sectors, etc.

What we did was to refine the process of consulting: validate the client, walk them through a blueprint for success and be explicit about the requirements and the people who need to be on board before we could start.

Then we worked on our platform (https://iko.ai) to remove as many tasks off our plate as possible.

We also had to think about verticals and we'll get there with a package for each vertical if we're thinking in terms of sectors, or in terms of functionality when it's something common. That's why we built our platform with a plugin architecture. It has the time series forecast plugin, the sentiment analysis plugin, etc. And that's also why we made sure they had APIs, so we could compose and do interesting stuff instead of re-deploying everything.

I'd say refine your processes and extract common tasks into your own tooling so that you ship faster. You'll be in a better position to think, and you may have a product for teams similar to yours.

For example, we do ML projects and built our platform to help our own team. There are many teams like us out there. Similarly, there may be many teams like yours out there.

- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26455105

- [1]: https://iko.ai/docs/story/
You can also just expose yourself to the virus and build immunity that way. Up to you.
Romania did not stop the vaccination. It is ongoing. Only the faulty ones (as believed from the intel/reports we got from Italy and Netherlands) were eliminated from the pool.
> even they prefer to say they dont.

What? No we don't. Our official languages are English and Irish. Only something like 100k people speak Irish as a truly first language (as in, they use it more than English in their daily lives). It would take an extreme level of denial for someone to claim that Irish people don't natively speak English and I've never heard anyone say that.
Thanks, I'll check it out. For what it's worth I agree that cybernetics alone isn't as useful for describing complex systems as it is for designing adaptive processes like OODA. That's more the realm of systems dynamics and causal analysis.
The original commentor has 5 karma on a 6 month old account. It isn't trying to start a conversation.
KYC is expected of banks or exchanges, centralized places with lots of transactions. And a person can punished just for running a bank without registering their identity (along with a bunch of other paperwork) beforehand. It makes no sense for the Treasury to spend time hunting down thousands of individuals for transactions that are mostly in the tens of dollars.
I do something similar for our internall Technical Talks. The idea is to make them a smaller, live-coding discussions vs. a presentation, and if you make each commit a logical segment of your talk you provide both integrated instructions for your audience and a safety net to get your live coding back on track when it inevitably goes awry. It's like protection when lead rock climbing; you only fall back to beneath your last checkout.
Healthcare in Germany
This is a personal attack which is against the rules here.

I think you took my words as an attack because you’ve been personally invested in philosophy for so long defending it like a cultist who refuses to take reality at face value. Greek mythology and Chinese mythology and most mythology were invented in the past as literal explanations of reality.

The penchant today to not take things literally is an excuse. Our understanding of reality has changed and the archaic explanations of of the past no longer work yet blind loyalty still binds you to religious explanations. This is why people twist the explanations and say to not take them literally. Were people in the past so stupid that they had to wrap every explanation in the symbolism of a fantastical myth? Doubtful. This is more likely the excuse made by someone who cannot reconcile rationality with there loyalty to a religion.

I don’t think you actually lost interest. I think you just know you lost.
> In terms of quality, there are also no confirmed issues related to any batch of our vaccine used across Europe, or the rest of the world.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2021...
The sun doesn’t rise until almost 8:30 near the end of the year so there’s no natural light to interrupt my sleep.
No, it's not like saying that
I would pay. I like Telegram too, for some reason I find myself liking it much more than WhatsApp, it feels snappier, web and desktop Telegram fells nice, and I don't need having my SmartPhone connected. Some time ago it was unthinkable due to network effects, but now many of my peers have Telegram too, even non-tech people.
> it is easier to accommodate to if everyone is affected

This is theoretically true about a lot of things, but we don’t try to actually do it for almost any other case. For example, it would be easier to accommodate wheelchairs if we just outlawed stairs and made it so every grade-separation must only be bridged by a incline. But we don’t do that. We build the incline, but we also continue to build stairs.
The EU commission has framed AZ as not trustworthy from the moment the first delivery targets could not be met.

This has influenced public opinion in NL quite a bit ( in DE too I suspect ). I can read in the local comment sections that people want to decline the AZ vaccine as they don't trust it, and it is only 60% effective. They would rather have Pfizer, even Sputnik or rather no vacination at all than AZ. These commenters seem quite hostile to AZ and the UK for that matter.

And these comments are from before the clotting allegations.

This is and has been quite a contra-productive negotiation strategy from the EU commission, directly endangering public health in my humbe opinion.
Its unfortunate they felt the need to stop the administration of this vaccine, as this will only further slow down vaccine distribution in Germany/Europe. I think you've got it spot on there - it stinks of politically motivated attack, but I'm not clear how this could benefit Germany's politicians slowing down the administration of the vaccine? Maybe they can use this as an excuse for the poor administration rates???

BTW I literally just had the Astra Zenica vaccine here in UK - I have a sore arm, lets hope I don't get any of the reported side effects!
Now France and Italy Join Germany in Suspending AstraZeneca
> Why bother using FF at this point?

Because the alternative is that Blink becomes the new IE6.
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With the CurlyTP protocol, any server can be uploaded to using curl or wget. Access might be a problem though.

https://miscdotgeek.com/curlytp-every-web-server-is-a-dead-d...
The browser supports built in caching without requiring a specific library; additionally the infrastructure of the web provides this as well.
Because you can very easily destroy public trust medicines if you approve something unsafe, even if in grand scheme of things, it was better for humans. Just look at antivaccination movement, and imagine how many more people would be there if their claims were actually supported by data.

Humans aren’t rational.
It is weird and a little funny to think about, and it's kind of true that many people are powerless in a way because of their job. But I'm not sure it's fair to paint this as people being completely powerless nor as some kind of issue where people believe in legislation over personal freedoms. I choose to keep my job, and I want my job to be happening at the same time that other people are working.

Our industrialized economies live on schedules. Business and work and school and even just social gatherings of any kind all need to agree on what time things will start and stop. Communication and transportation all depend on wide agreement about when people expect to be working.

There's legislation because society and the economy depends on when the workday happens, and because it's important that many businesses are on the same schedule, not because legislators care what you do with your evenings.
I have never used FF mobile, but so far no one has gone into detail about what changed about FF mobile that made it so much worse. Can you elaborate a little?
So we've been in a 5 month lockdown already in Germany, all of it to stop the spread of the virus with huge costs to the country, and now the comment that I replied to is saying that "I think this is part of political cover for the failing". Meaning that Germany and the EU, which have been doing everything that they can to stop this, are now somehow involved in a political cover to get some sort of revenge on the UK/AstraZeneca at the cost of the people that would be affected by COVID?
Nu-Bullying: “Accountability” Is Code for “Vengeance”
As long as it keeps rising, it is good for Tesla's stock price.
That number seems wildly off. Facebook's annual revenue for 2020 was $85.97 Billion[1]. With 2.8 Billion monthly active users, they'd need to charge $3 a month to exceed that number.

[1]: https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Just bike shedding. I don't understand it.
Not that unfairly. They keep reducing vaccine deliveries on short notice in the EU and have been opaque in general. I think they have delivered about 10% of what they agreed to for Q1.
I feel like it would be even worse on a smaller display where screen real-estate is at a premium. I am fortunate to be able to afford (relatively, compared to most of the world) high end computer equipment where wasting pixels is not as problematic as it might be for someone with less resources.
Maybe just accept USD, EUR, and GBP instead.
In term's of Humanity's technological achievement, Elon Musk is the best person alive right now. I think its fine for him to blow off a little steam with stuff like this.
Last week, Lothar Wieler, head of Germany’s Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, said there was no evidence that patients who received the vaccine were more likely than patients of a similar age group to suffer blood conditions.

Is that guy wrong or basing the statement on outdated information?
I don't believe that this domain was ever seized by the FBI.

It never displayed a seizure page, and the actual weleakinfo domain has the "serverDeleteProhibited" flag set.
It's interesting because I feel the opposite as an acute care doctor in the US. If I give a medication, or get a scan, or whatever, and the patient has an adverse reaction, it's the medication/scan's fault. If I don't give the medication, don't get the scan, and something bad happens, it's my fault. At least that's how people see it for now. Leads to a lot of over-treatment and extra unnecessary testing in my opinion, especially around COVID (for example, I frequently see high-dose dexamethasone given for longer than 10 days or given to normoxic patients, despite the recommendation being for 6 mg daily for 10 days, and only for patients requiring oxygen).
What must it be like to lark about like so without fear of repercussion or judgment.
> People should not have to sit in a cage and then be "judged"

Reads like the words of someone who has never experienced life in a high-crime area. Likely, your sentiment about this is entirely created by false premises, an illusion from Hollywood about the nobility of gangsters. Life is not like that. Scary, sociopathic or even psychopathic people abound; violence is a daily fact of life; everyone has a mugging story.

The vast majority of these people sitting in cages have broken the law. Do you remember the law? The list of things you may not do, the list of things you will be punished for doing. A 2-year-old can understand this: do bad thing, sit in the corner as punishment. I'm not sure what happens in the brain of a mature adult to make them forget these basic mechanics; it really feels like you must have been sold sob stories that make your mushy heart over-empathize with a media construct. In reality, there are people out there who will stab you for $20.

> Many people sitting in jail right now should not be in jail because their "crimes" never affected anyone else or society at large.

There are certainly some such people, but have you looked at the 'revolving door' phenomenon where police arrest people who are punted back out onto the street hours or days later? They learn that there is no real lasting consequence for their actions besides an uncomfortable few nights (albeit, out of the rain and cold, and with free food). There are not that many people who end up in prison for crimes that don't affect others - and when they are in jail for a minimal offense, oftentimes that's the only thing that police and prosecutors could concretely nail them on, despite knowing or believing that they're involved in far worse actions that they haven't been caught for.

The other thing is, many actions do affect society at large. Drug use does; advocates for Legalizing Everything pretend otherwise, but opiates have a massive effect that cannot be mitigated just by making them legal. The addiction doesn't go away; the cost of the drugs doesn't disappear; and the actual impact of being a junkie doesn't stop. You don't end up all-of-a-sudden being able to hold down a job reliably just because your risk of arrest goes away. You don't remove chances for fentanyl to kill people by turning a blind eye to the problem.

> it has become a weapon for use against anyone the two parties did not like.

Guess what, Yank; these problems exist outside of your country and your two-party bubble bullshit too. Every major city in the world faces these problems, in predictably direct proportions to demographic factors that may not be politely discussed. The problem is endemic, it's not a function of the system except to the extent that the system finds ways to profit off of corruption and drug money.
The author of the parent comment specifically mentioned "change in privacy update" as the reason to switch. Until WhatsApp drops end-to-end encryption, there's not that much evil they can do. They can't read your messages. You don't need to trust WhatsApp (so far).

Telegram can have the best privacy policy, but they can always read your messages. You have to trust Telegram to do the right thing. (Except those few who opt in to use encrypted chats.)
Almost as if people are doing their jobs then?

I don’t think that beurocrats are supposed to be leaders. The elected officials should be pushing for the change, not the people who run the operations.
Also durability. I just end-of-life'd my car at over 300,000 miles. It was a 2007 Honda Fit that cost around $15,000. My previous car was a 1992 Honda Civic that cost around $12,000 and got 250,000 miles. Before that was a 1984 Civic that got 150,000 miles. (No idea what the original price was; I got it used.)

I hope my new car will reach 500,000 miles. Maybe not. It's my first non-Honda, who appears to have passed its quality crown to Subuaru. Regardless, anecdotally, price-per-mile seems to be going down.

(I will note, though, that gas mileage doesn't appear to be improving. I should perhaps have gotten a hybrid, but I really want an electric.)
Musk Is Technoking of Tesla
This is #1 reason to use FF for me..
Not a silver bullet unless you never let your phone talk to a cell tower - in which case it stops being a phone and starts being a miniature tablet.
> I would challenge the term "caution", as it implies giving the vaccine is more risky than not.

I suppose it depends on the alternative - if it's "not having the vaccine" clearly that's worse. If it's "controlling the death rate by prolonging lockdowns" then that's clearly not desirable either, but not quite as bad.

If it's just "give a different vaccine", then that would be no problem. Of course then there are the supply issues it's unlikely that simple.
"Gödel’s theorems, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics"

Bah. It drives me crazy when people use scientific or mathematical principles as psychological metaphors, without understanding what the principles actually mean. They usually get it wrong.

When you apply the Uncertainty Principle to a flying airplane, it implies the exact opposite of what the author thinks it does. A fighter jet is a macroscopic object. Assuming I recall my college physics correctly, if the velocity of the plane is "only" known to within a quintillionth of a m/s, then the position is "only" knowable within a few hundredths of a quintillionth of a meter.
1 fatal case of Immune thrombocytopenia for AstraZeneca
1 of Thrombocytopenia for Pfizer

Slightly different reporting periods but I'm pretty happy with the odds and I'd take either if offered.
When people talk about avoiding vendor lock in with AWS, they tend to talk in terms of using k8s or another compute abstraction layer.

But I think the real lock-in lies in services like S3, making so many workflows simple and intuitive (while controlling your data, which is where the real lock-in lies)
Indian bill proposes cryptocurrency ban, penalizing miners and traders
My main complaint about Firefox mobile is the menu locations - three dots on the upper right, hamburger on lower right, page select on bottom. With the issue being that there's nothing intuitive around what lands in the dots or the burger, so I not-so-rarely find myself randomly clicking on one or the other looking for e.g., the share menu.

It doesn't stop me from using it, but it's annoying.
Germany has a "homemade" vaccine (BioNTech), in fact it was the first reliable vaccine on the market, and pioneering an entirely new medical paradigm at it, but the EC botched the process of acquiring it.
That misses the point - jets are one mechanism whereby the matter can lose some energy and fall in, but they occur due to the high energy of accreting matter, and their existance does not solve the problem of the growth rate of these things. We are able to detect and characterize this object in part thanks to the jets, but the problem of mass remains.
Ask HN: How often do you do usability testing for your product?
After talking to several product owners and asking this question I was shocked with the answers. Some of them performed usability tests a few times per year, some relied on Google Analytics data which is absurd to me. Curious to find out more answers. How often do you do usability testing and what is your process?
Musk is just trolling the regular business culture and etiquette and gaining free PR. He knows how to control the news cycle.

Master of Coin is pretty smart and memeable. GoT throwback.

Why not? The guy's an internet sensation and everything he does is meme oriented. It's free PR for Tesla and his personal brand.
> Noon is the only easily measurable time point in the day that is always (approximately) 24 hours apart.

DST resets the time to move noon closer to sunrise, not closer to midday. There are currently 4h30m before noon and 7h30m between noon and sunset. In the middle of summer, it's 6h30m before and 9h30m after. Noon isn't well indexed at all.
Why would you think someone who actively pays to not be served ads would be a good fit to be advertised to?

Eg. My personal experience with buying products (food, software, SaaS, etc) based on ads conditioned me to actively distrust products that are heavily advertised compared to stuff that's just mentioned in reddit threads or used by friends. Would I be a good fit for ads?
From that bugzilla thread:

(tl;dr they're asking to stop spamming the bug thread with support for the feature)

Marco Bonardo [:mak]

Comment 67 • 2 days ago

Hello everyone.

Even if you care a lot of about his feature, please don't post me-too comments or opinions in this engineering bug tracker.
Technical insight, like comment 53 or comment 58, is always welcome.

Otherwise, we may have to limit commenting in the bug, and we don't like to do that.

The Engineering team is well aware of the community feedback.

How can you express your opinion then?

You can continue commenting in the Reddit/HN threads that made this bug viral, both are frequented by Mozilla employees. Or you can chat in real time with us, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix, and join https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fx-desktop-community:mozill....
There is a question on Stack Exchange about exactly this: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/188133/bentleys...

I haven't looked into it yet (whether the benchmarks are comparable) but it would be interesting to check the programs there against the ones in this post, and either update the benchmarks here or add new submissions to that question.

For a while the fastest program there was one in Rust, then out of curiosity I translated Knuth's program from 1986 into C++ and a simplified version based on it was even faster; currently a Rust translation of the idea (a custom trie using not too much memory) is the fastest one there. (In fact, the current fastest two Rust submissions there came after I linked to the question from HN in Feb 2020, in a couple of comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22221592 and in the discussion on a "Donald Knuth was framed" article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22406070.)

Edit: I tried to do the comparison myself but one issue I ran into (apart from minor things like taking input from filename vs stdin, and printing top N words versus all, which are easily handled) is that the benchmark on the StackExchange question considers "words" to be made of alphabetic characters (a–z), and the trie solutions make use of that fact (a trie node has 26 children etc), while the benchmark from this post includes punctuation (e.g. it has "words" like "him," and "him." i.e. "him" followed by a comma or period are counted as separate words). I gave up at this point, but maybe someone with more energy could modify the benchmark here and try comparing them.
Found the IPFS user.
I think I'll give that award to Tom Mueller who actually builds the SpaceX engines rather than the celebrity CEO who exists to rile up the reddit fanbase and the dogecoin price
I'm assuming telecom had very different volume-power requirements. Where I grew up there were many mid-city phone switches that were large, concrete exterior, almost windowless, buildings.
These two lines show how this is a dynamic interactive activity--like there are tight and loose loops continuously updating the decision making processes. Sort of like agile vs waterfall.

> “Orientation isn’t just a state you’re in; it’s a process. You’re always orienting.” —John Boyd

> The second stage of the OODA Loop, orient, is less intuitive than the other steps. [...]
This is my take on it reading between the lines:

That former high-level distributor was selling boatloads of these things into the criminal underworld, and the DoJ is alleging that the CEO knew about it and didn't stop it.
I used Termly and Iubenda for my SaaS. Great resources.
You could find it in themes in about:addons, and that's where I expected to find option like density too.
https://hnnotify.xyz/
You mean enjoying life with a few laughs here and there?

What a shame it would be to take life so seriously it's not OK to have fun titles and enjoy yourself.
There's absolutely no evidence to support this guys claim that the FBI was ever in possession of this domain.
It’s back! I thought it stopped nov 30, 2018? +1
Or maybe they just have a sensor of humor?