skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UK government provided a lot of the money to AZ to build out the local vaccine supply chain and factories. Those factories most likely wouldn't exist unless the UK government had paid that money. So, as part of paying for all that, they asked for timed exclusively.

Also remember the vaccine was developed by Oxford using a significant amount of UK government funding, and was licensed to other countries, such as India, for low cost manufacturing.

We did also buy a lot of vaccine from other places (e.g. Pfizer which is also being widely deployed). But with AZ in particular (and to some extent Novavax) there was a focus on building a local supply chain so that countries can't play games with our vaccine supply. Supposedly Pfizer turned down the offer to build UK based factories.
The whole thing seemed weirdly condescending towards people with normal working and spending habits, especially because it's not obvious to me what was so great about what the author was doing. The dude hung out for a few years, failed to become a writer, and did some travel, bored his partner to tears, and ... "sucked down an awful lot of media — movies, video games, books", then learned the shit that normal people already know (that unexpected expensive things happens in life).

"To me, these people on their exercise machines were standing still — nothing was happening in their lives". Um, ok.

One of the richest and busiest people I have ever met - like serious 0.1%-percenter rich - is always off hiking in Papua New Guinea and spending shit-tons of money getting wells dug in crappy areas and fighting dysentery and improving the lot of young girls by funding schools and so on. If that person gave me shit for my materialistic lifestyle it'd be one thing. I also know plenty of broke people who do incredibly righteous and interesting stuff, and I'd happily cop the same line from them.

This bozo? Not so much. It's like Holden Caulfield, but middle aged. He barely mentions anything outside himself aside from his partners, old and new (aside from the vague genuflection to CO2 as a justification for his lifestyle, which sits rather poorly with "A trip to Hawaii. Another to Portugal and France" if he's aiming for secular sainthood over an allegedly low-emission lifestyle).

In a shocking development, life spent as a bizarrely young version of one of those old retired people who doesn't do anything beyond travel and putter around isn't that great.
What sea level rise would be significant to you?

Its happening and accelerating: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/sea-level/

If you need something visual look at the Miami type floods.

Also consider this is an issue that needs to be planned across hundreds of years. It might be slow but we dont move a city like NY in a decade.

Look at this: https://sealevelrise.org/states/new-york/#:~:text=The%20sea%....

Genuinely, do you feel these links are alarmism and propaganda?
My bad, I didn't realise the EU was already a socialist dystopia which owned what is produced by their private citizens.

The EU bureaucrats were simply worse at negotiating contracts and doing their job.
Or TypeScript, for a more well-known example
This article's webpage displayed a few rug ads. I was shopping for rugs a month ago. The rug ads haven't stopped since. I don't care though tbh.
> even distros that Mimic the look of OSX, and remap the keys to your hearts content

Sadly, they mimic the macOS UI very poorly, and it remains not-possible in Linux to universally remap keyboard shortcuts to match macOS built-in sanity.
With reviews being useless lately, many people have gone back to trusting brand names. Though the only reason I brought them up was to point out availability.

One other really cool thing is they have a wireless switch that is powered by the act of pushing the button.
Researchers develop rapid, low cost method to measure Covid-19 immunity
Afaik, Chrome does not the tracking. Or do you have some source?

In the event that such behavior would occur, it can be detected by sniffing your packets, and people would very soon speak about it.
How is that a dark pattern? Are you going to say that Chrome and Firefox auto-updates are a dark pattern too?

Keeping people on the latest version of your software has very clear benefits to both you and your users. Unfortunately, as we see here, it can also have downsides. Ultimately it's up to the developer to decide what trade off works best for them. Input from users is important, but it's not the users' decision.
The worst is that Google doesnt care, since they dont fix old bugs, they only ship new products that fail.
> and hope they kept a copy of the source code

Which from a legal perspective might be fraught with peril, at least in theory. In practice, if the company folded then it'd depend entirely on the litigiousness of the current owner of the copyright, which could range from "nobody" to "some holding company consisting almost entirely of lawyers chomping at the bit to eat you for dinner".
So, do you think it's fine that DDG is doing it? Is the act itself bad, or only the outcome it has due to Google's marketshare?
What about a 3rd party? You give consent to the homeowner, but do you also give consent to Amazon?
Core infrastructure (domain registration, SSL certs, IP addresses, peering exchanges) mostly need administration and maintenance. But NGOs in this space seem haunted by a compulsion to do more. It's interesting - and possibly correct - that the leadership projected their own feelings onto the staff here. They're basically throwing their hands up and saying "but that's boring!"

Handing humans a revenue stream and a dictate to "keep a steady hand on the tiller" seems prone to the same failure mode as asking a proverbial AI to "just make us some paperclips".
Basically, kind of like commenting on HN or answering questions on stack overflow
I don't think much would be left of a person, but in central Oregon near Bend there's a park called the Lava Cast Forest, which is what it sounds like. About seven thousand years ago or so, there were some lava flows that engulfed live trees. The lava solidified, and what was left of the trees decomposed.

Now, what's left is a bunch of hollow tubes that are castings of the trees. You can still see the texture of the bark.

I assume this sort of thing exists in other lava flows around the world.
I'd say the Substack UI is messed up if (a) there's a hidden input box that automatically changes the selection, even though the user cannot manually enter information there, and (b) there's no confirmation screen to confirm everything is correct. It shouldn't matter that a password manager exposed the problem.
If you are interested, check out "Death Wears Bunny Slippers" on YT -- they bought a "decommissioned" Titan II missile site and opened it up. It's actually pretty interesting as the facility had been filled in and flooded, there's a lot of work they had to do just to even get into it.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd50A5qLv8FemVufSvDgkCQ
I'd not bet anything on the FSF being capable or even just willing to commit to anything like that and seeing it through without sabotaging it or cancelling it because it stepped on someones toes internally. They do not appear to have a culture that would permit doing so, but rather one of focusing to much on backing RMS and driving people who might succeed at new ways of doing outreach away. Even if they didn't have RMS around anymore for whatever reason, it'd be far from given they'd migrate away from that culture successfully, there's more to this than him.

> Leader does not have to mean public figure.

> Someone has to really mean it. RMS has no peers in this regard.

This IMHO conflicts, you can't have a leader that you view as "has no peers in this regard" but has no public presence. Having the "weird extremists" (=really mean it) in some corner has some value, but negative perception of other traits hurts their usefulness in that role too.

Which is overall why I think supporting the ideas behind Free Software is best done outside that. Times have changed. If I'm wrong, I'll be positively surprised.
Interesting bug. Appreciate the post and the disclaimer at the top but IMO the headline should be updated too. Right now it’s a bit clickbaity and also inaccurate.
> While the proportion of [dangerous fauna] increases from the early (0.03%) to late Middle Pleistocene (4%), they never predominate.

A 133 fold increase hardly seems trivial. It sounds more like putting a handle on the axe was a key technology that put humans close to the apex of the food chain. Even if our prey animals didn't much change, it was a major change to our own status as prey.
Also in Iceland with fire hoses (against a considerably larger amount of lava):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature

(This book is amazing -- highly recommended!)
Then Caramel just might end your search!

https://caramel.run/
Maybe they should have to pay, especially when doing things like extrapolating content for knowledge panels, but the Australia law has a lot of problems due to the extra provisions (plus that it's applied arbitrarily and not based on criteria)[0].

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26450165
WSL 2 is an emulator (Hyper-V).
Who downvoted my comment? The guy who didn't get the joke?
https://archive.is/GrJPP
Trump is seemingly incapable of being clear, as your own quotes of him being incoherent establish:

- “When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised.” - “whatever you can do, Frances, it would be — it’s a great thing. It’s an important thing for the country. So important. You’ve no idea. So important. And I very much appreciate it.”
Private Truths, Public Lies – Progress Studies Book Club This Feb
A four-week book club on Timur Kuran's Private Tuths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification.

Ever wondered why revolutions come out of nowhere? Why arguments over subtleties of agreement or minor nitpicks can generate such anger? Why you feel obligated to say you like your friend's baby photos?

If so, you should hop on the Progress Studies Book Club's reading for April, where we'll do our best to express our private truths on Kuran's groundbreaking discussion of preference falsification.

Club Info:

https://www.notion.so/Private-Truths-Public-Lies-Progress-Studies-Book-Club-d3978762e9034a2a8f745c7e04a9a48a

Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1016932.Private_Truths_Public_Lies

Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Private-Truths-Public-Lies-Falsification/dp/0674707583
Just in time for the next covid wave brewing with new variants. I've seen system dynamics and epidemiologists refer to western gov't pandemic strategies as yoyo policy. I feel like it's a 50/50 race of vaccines vs variants. And part of it is an irrational level of resistance to change.
I think the end of the article clearly admits that it's a little bit of both and actually gives really good advice to keep in mind while designing checkout flows.
I'd guess in a very different way to circuit racing's requirements for zero turbo lag though? They'd be "I need enough boost while staged on the line that I've always got traction-breaking torque available when and for as long after I launch as possible", rather than "I need to be able to smoothly get from off throttle to 30% throttle as I pass the apex, then from 30 up to 100% as I exit turn 4"...

Back in the 90s (and maybe still, I've lost touch) rally cars used to do off throttle "anti-lag" by using the direct fuel injection to pump fuel into the cylinders during the exhaust stroke, so it'd burn in the exhaust manifold and keep the turbine spinning to make boost without needing the engine to be creating torque by burning the fuel in the ignition strokes... They had less hard requirements for gradual application of torque than circuit race cars though, they mostly wanted to be able to get back on the throttle exiting a corner and immediately start spinning all 4 wheels again.
Definitely a case of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." The pin works well for motherboard headers in several ways. It's compact, robust and straightforward. Even if someone doesn't get the orientation right of, say, a 2x5 USB Header Block, they still understand that like size means like size and you push the black part down on the shiny golden pins.
The simple answer is that typically the software that keeps one tied to Windows is the type that wants/needs to be on metal.

Hardware passthrough does exist and I only expect it to improve, but we're still a ways from reaching "just works" level.
The XPS line in particular has had Developer Editions with pre-installed Ubuntu, and IIUC significant effort by Dell to provide good Linux drivers, for years.
It’s not 1Password fault, but poor design and implementation. :-)
> Arch Linux used to be an official app on the Windows Store some time ago, but the Arch community isn't onboard with the concept of WSL, or they aren't exactly comfortable with how easy WSL makes Linux installations for Windows users.

Is Microsoft comfortable with Wine, Proton, VKD3D, DXVK? Do they support or contribute to those projects?

Or even a better example, ReactOS. Should Microsoft support ReactOS?
> This requirement for discoverability, marketability and virality also changes the media significantly. YouTube is rife with ten minute videos, clickbait titles and overenthusiastic yelling. This is entirely on the platforms, their bid for retention to keep people watching one more video and how discovery and recommendations work.

Isn't that a sad loss ? so many people trying to get a hold of a vapor cake to grab attention.

Makes working at a plant like a step up ..
Similar situation here. I use 1Password every day, but I only trust it to autofill simple login forms. Where something more complex is happening, I tend to copy information over field by field.

This was trained into me over the years as I saw 1Password do too many things that were wrong or even sometimes scary. The nominal benefit you get sometimes when it works properly isn't worth it.

And yes, web providers should give their web forms better names and better semantic information (e.g. `<input type="email">`), but even in 2021 it's just not always the case.
This reads more like consultants writing their FUD into a press release than actual news. I know that people and companies invested heavily in real estate are disappointed by this, but no amount of astroturfing is going to re-create the world of 2019.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm business labor productivity rose by over 10% over the course of 2020, despite the fact that most of us are working from home. (Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/prod2.pdf)

Companies that want to waste huge sums of money on offices are going to have to compete with companies that don't abuse their employees, doing the same thing for less. We're obviously not going back to how things were before.
They were charged, but were able to get a refund from the publisher they subscribed to.
Why would they necessarily be dead? Wouldn't it depend on how many neutrons were emitted?
yes, finally! Andrea Rossi is right and he is winning against the snakes.
The above is an extension function(which is basically a member function of class not written in that class), which has an implicit `this` parameter. In other words `length` is actually `this.length`, just as it would be in a regular method.
It's slippery race-baiting to sell views with manufactured outrage. Existential threats don't care about race, skin color, eye color, height, or anything else by definition.
Discord explores sale at over $10 bln
> Thats a serious misrepresentation of his words

No it isn't, and a bunch of people have now given you evidence.

You're really going to be an apologist for this ?
If all the password managers in the world fail at this site, it's still a problem with the password managers. The fact that the field was looking as non-editable from the start has nothing to do with the fact that it filled the wrong field.

The user also had a chance to see how it filled the form and didn't bother checking.
You changed the subject from the original topic to the status of comments on HN. That's meta, because it's an HN comment about HN comments; it's a tangent, because it's a change of subject; it's lame, because meta threads (while superficially exciting to insiders) are highly repetitive and self-referential, and also are nearly always full of inaccurate information as people invent explanations for what they think they're seeing.

Does that make sense?
The business world is rife with these kind of situations. When you hire new leadership, how do you signal that you’ve hired top talent? By paying them above median wages. What happens to median wages when every company turns over their leadership every 18 months and pays replacement execs “above median”?
If your software ships viruses, malware, and ransomware to a customer as part of an update / install then it most certainly a bug that needs to be fixed now.
I think you underestimate a populations capacity for compassion. This is why (some) European countries took on millions of refugees in the last ten years. It‘s also why Romania donated some of their vaccines to Moldova - donated mind you, not loaned.

There‘s also the aspect of soft power. China and Russia are playing this particularly well right now, supplying other nations faster than their own population. This will buy them influence for decades to come.
This is a seductive argument, but unless you're making everything from scratch and working purely on greenfield projects, there is so much more complexity involved in learning the specifics of the local system and code you're working on than there is in learning the language(s) it's written in.

Heck, even if you're greenfield 100% of the time, the way the OS, the networking stack, the browser, any runtime support libraries you depend on, all work plus just figuring out how to model the problem you're trying to solve is still more complicated than the actual programming language.
As someone who maintains an open source development tool that I work on in my spare time and don't get paid for, reducing my support workload is absolutely more important to me. You'd be surprised at the amount of time I waste asking people to try to reproduce an issue on the latest version, and when they do, their issue goes away. Unfortunately an auto-update feature for my tool isn't feasible, but if it were, I'd add it in a heartbeat. If that would turn some people off on it, I'm fine with that.

On a side note, I see plenty of developers click the "Remind Me Later" button over and over and over on the update dialog for their dev tools (and even OS). As a pathological example, I noticed one of my coworkers running a 3-year-old version of IntelliJ IDEA recently when he shared his screen on a Zoom call. But people who don't even install patch updates for months is common as well.
It is important to be able to call it the 'China virus' for all the reasons China doesn't want it to be called that - names have power and squelching one to avoid offending a country is at best a slippery slope.
What do you substitute this? What do you spend your saved money on?

There was a study (Swedish researches I think) that looked at what purchasing effect have form vegetarians as they typically spend less on food than meat eaters. It found while they do have lower green house gas footprint from food, the additional purchasing power brought this back around 2% overall.

So if you look at this holistically, stopping one thing doesn't end its effect unless there is zero flow on from other behaviours as a result.
I found the notion of pushing my retirement needle up at at all, to be a really good revelation that got out of reading about FIRE strategies.

Even if only age 55 rather than 65, realizing I was not tied to one number, pre-specified by society, has been immensely valuable.
If your UI can charge me $2023 instead of $250 without so much of a confirmation, your UI is just a minefield. Forget about auto fill, humans make typos in a free entry text box.
> instead of the highest quality content

That's a tall order - Google doesn't know the quality of the content, only how popular it is. Right now it's based on data science pooled from existing search result clicks, but originally it was based on the amount of backlinks each site had - so instead of user viewership and satisfaction, it was dependant on the amount of nerds at the time who had already found the site/article useful. The internet has grown enough to mean that everyone else vastly outweighs nerds in terms of backlinks and clicks for any particular topic.
I don't really understand what's going on with the Halix plant, but surely there must be more to it than that. There's presumably no way the EMA are just sitting there going "well we can't do anything until they mail us over the papers".

Certainly the UK MHRA have been working closely with the companies to move the process along very quickly, as has been confirmed by both the government and the companies themselves.

I'm curious to know what's really going on at the Halix plant.
If it's not 1Password's fault, who's is it? Obviously this story had a happy ending, so it's not a terribly big issue, but 1Password's client ultimately passed along the unwanted data.
this is natural ego talking people want to keep their share; it's a bit sad that his reaction is not 'holy.. reusable vertical landing rockets are mindblowing.. why aren't we beating them ?'
When I read that statistic, the article immediately lost credibility to me. I think journalists are just lazy, and would rather write something that confirms their own worldview, rather than fact-check a ridiculous statement like that one with someone who is actually in the industry.
I’ve begun thinking of plastic landfill crap as carbon capture. We don’t call electric cars coal cars, do we now?

Helps me sleep (not really. I can’t sleep. Help.)
> IoT is connected to the internet by definition.

Those who are old enough remember that the Internet is just one example of an internet. Quoting Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet#The...): "The Internet standards community historically differentiated between an internet, as a short-form of an internetwork, and the Internet: treating the latter as a proper noun with a capital letter, and the former as a common noun with lower-case first letter. An internet is any set of interconnected Internet Protocol (IP) networks. The distinction is evident in Request for Comments documents from the early 1980s, when the transition from the ARPANET, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, to the Internet, with broad commercial support, was in progress, although it was not applied with complete uniformity."

So an IoT is an internet of things, not necessarily the Internet of all Things.
Pledge to share your intellectual property in the fight against Covid-19
Also it's perfectly possible to say "we'll only support latest + latest LTS" without forcing auto updates.
Later in the article they divorce - I think the less-than-nuanced description of those beliefs is him looking down his nose at his ex-wife.
As someone who writes both C++ and C# I disagree around writing C/C++ in this way. (I am talking specifically about the side effect to 'index', not the use of a tertiary operator which is fine here)

I have seen far too many bugs creep in this way. I feel like C/C++ induce a desire to keep the code as short as possible and being 'clever'; even I often feel the need to do that in C++ when I am happy to write a more readable version in other programming languages.

The bugs are also hard to spot when skimming through the code: When there's a lot of code you will often miss the ++ on the 'index' as it's a long line compared to having '++index' on its own line.

Another good 'pet peeve' of mine is the following construct:

for(int i = 10; i--;)
// Do something until 'i' reaches 0

So many off-by-one errors...