skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Cybercriminals in Russia are going to extreme lengths to untraceably cash out cryptocurrency: The word used in online ads is 'клад,' literally 'buried treasure.'

Cashing out crypto on Hydra, the sprawling Russian darknet marketplace, has evolved to include services that offer to hide large volumes of physical cash at a specified location, where the cash can be retrieved by the customer."
OK, show me a press release mentioning orders, contracts.

"The EU reached a deal with Pfizer in November for 300 million doses and in January negotiated a preliminary deal for another 300 million." https://www.dw.com/en/eu-orders-300-million-more-biontech-pf...

USA agreed to buy 100-500 Million in JULY 2020 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/health/pfizer-covid-19-va...

The fact is that EU is too slow, too risk adverse and 28 countries must agree. In USA the President winks, and it's done. (In this case it was beneficial.)
Did you even read the article ?
The last example is not literally 'no' .. it is a demonstration of how that bullet point 'no' is turned into an email using the app they are advertising. Nothing wrong with that.
No they don't, they usually just use common encryption library and encrypt files directly.
There is a certain subculture where "a molex connector" is the pre-SATA computer disk power connector, but Molex makes a million connectors and the Molex catalog is an inch thick so it never made much sense to me. Another reason it doesn't make sense is that Amphenol and others make compatible 2-piece connectors.

If you want to sound like an informed person, don't use "molex connector" that way.
> However, you can also see it as the EU has no real power at all and is just an easy target to get fooled over by other countries..

the position it finds itself in is entirely a result of its inability to competently and promptly negotiate contracts with its suppliers

it was entirely focused on price instead of delivery, and it took months more than the suppliers other customers (e.g. the UK) to agree anything

none of this is surprising behavior for an organisation that is primarily a producer's cartel

the mistake was putting such an organisation in charge of the procurement in the first place

the other outrageous fact is that France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands (the "Inclusive Vaccine Alliance") had all but signed a deal back in June, then the EU commission forced itself into the process, spent three months trying to re-negotiate (for a product being produced at cost), then signed the original deal regardless
Perhaps that is a sign you should be looking into methodology and be enlightened?
I'm new to Crystal - have been using it the past three months on a new web API. (I'm using the Lucky framework - https://luckyframework.org/)

It's fantastic. I can think in it. Thank you to all the devs behind this wonderful language!
See, when you add "performance" to those properties it piques my interest. I'd love me a high performance language that is sanely typed, allows for metaprogramming, feels like an interpreted language while doing so etc. However the main page says absolutely nothing about performance. I even don't care about compile times.

So what is the performance like?
Without any verifiable evident, it just doesn't make sense. There is a continual exchange of information between Wuhan and other centers of disease control. So it would be very difficult to keep such a secret. Besides, if it was a virus that escaped, then the Chinese would already have the means to create a vaccine and so save the planet. Instead they did nothing and sat on it.
Is there a downside to this? Or is it just a plain better algorithm? If so, why has it not been implemented in the Java standard libs?
UK is also one of the producers for the lipids that are needed to make the pfizer vaccine and that's still being exported
You find ridiculus believes for allmost anything. Like flat earthers.

But they usually don't have much power or influence.

Implying that he was targeted because he was white and male, implies that those crazy people have a lot of power and influence - which means conspiracy. Now sure, conspiracies can be true, but you maybe know how they say, extra ordinary claims, require extra ordinary evidence.
Technically, trivially simple: detect and penalize ads. You can even reuse an ad.blocker's database for the detection.
Just don't ASK the person, "Is that OK?" They gave terrible advice with that formula.
This is exceptionally sad due to the country being 1) rich 2) with small population (comparable to Israel) 3) big in pharma industry

Yet from what i see the public discourse is most concerned about opening up restaurant terraces, etc. and not the immense economical damage that having late vaccination campaign will inflict.
The question is if it's a social network for people or for him. I could definitely see someone conning him into making a fake static HTML site with "Tweets" From his phone that make it look like he tweeted.
I agree that the leak was likely accidental. That said, I think you gloss over the fact that Gain of Function Research (artificial selection) was certainly taking place inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and that US intelligence has concluded that the WIV was engaging in classified research for the Chinese military, unbeknownst to the rest of the world.

So, its not quite as simple as a collection mistake.
> So discussing possibility of a lab leak is not a problem, it's the deliberate bioweapon aspect that they're banning.

And the virus being man-made is not a possibility?

https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...
Lab outbreaks with numerous civilian fatalities are not unprecedented:

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

The official cover-up initially was blaming the outbreak on contaminated meat from a wet market.
Why wouldn't a diverse society that allows people to freely join and leave communes, and those communes are not successful, say a lot about human nature?
On the other hand "who discovered running?" quotes a tweet telling a variant of the same joke.

I wonder if GPT-3 has learned about Mr Running yet?
Social engineering scams manage to get millions wired (https://variety.com/2018/film/news/pathe-loses-more-than-21-...). Crypto may be more convenient and less risky, but I don't see a crypto ban stopping ransomware completely. Plus there will always be someone wanting to do it for laughs or infamy.
Why not? Next time someone comes with the idea of tracking non-users, there will be a clear legal test to prove this is illegal.

Also, pursuing a start-up after 10 years sends a clear message to VCs too: Don't invest in startup that grow via wiretapping.
The order was far from firm, Pfizer would have gotten $0 from the order if the vaccine didn't pass trials.
multithreading is working with the -Dpreview_mt option, it's decent if the units of work are large enough at least 0,01ms, otherwise the channel overhead will dominate.

I find the API nice and easy specially for those familiar with CSP or go.
Performance should improve once it gets the necessary love for it to be released to be on by default.

Windows requires a lot of boring work, especially considering most of the core devs use Linux / MacOS.
Once they make it as priority it should be doable within a few months of work.
I never thought I was bad at my job and I have equal/higher acceptance rates than my friends, but thanks for the vote of confidence! Rejection is very common in academia and I wish people talked about it more.
The EU didn’t make them, companies with facilities in the EU did. They were exported because the EU managed to delay its procurement process and other countries made their orders earlier.
Wow, you almost make it seem like Israel has done something wrong.

Nope, it was EU. the EU wanted to wait for final, concrete results before mass adoption.

The EU was very skeptical regarding the vaccines. the EU wanted to perform bulk orders as a union which complicated the ordering process.

The issue is not necessary the number of vaccines but the entire infrastructure to ship, cool and vaccinate people.

Israel had good existing infrastructure, willingness to pay up-front and high demand for the vaccine.

* will note that Israel also agreed to share vaccination data with Pfizer to locate any anomalies\problems
“Fair” isn’t well defined at the best of times.

I certainly want this all over ASAP, the vaccination isn’t as fast as I want; my biggest concern right now is the overlap between anti-mask-and-and-lockdown protestors and anti-vaccination protestors.
I've used both for medium sized projects.

Nim was a better fit for me because:

- More mature tools and 'beaten paths'.
- much faster compilation times
- much better cross platform support
- more people I can reach out to for help, amazing Discord server
- simple concurrency for my needs
- tiny binaries
- low memory usage
- simple to understand import system. (i hated ruby's import system)
I'm inspired by products like Zoom, Chrome, VScode, and Slack that are both user friendly and full featured.

Any examples of features that we probably shouldn't have added and should consider removing?

We intent to replace the DIY DevOps toolchain with GitLab. Something that consists of many applications and interfaces. Just having it in a single application would already be a big quality of life improvement for the users. And so far the most common hurdle is being able to match the functionality of the point solutions.
Thank god people are finally waking up that placating the malcontents doesn't make them go away - indeed, all it does is embold them to destroy more stuff.
Well, at first I thought the same. But honestly I don't really care if features are being added as long as they don't break too much. A few years, ago I switched to Thunderbird from Kmail because the KDE people constantly managed to break Kmail.

I still use KDE as a desktop environment and while I think Kmail looks better, Thunderbird just works so much better (e.g. faster, better RSS integration, better search results) that I am quite happy that I switched.
I have a few friends running Shelly devices locally with HomeAssistant and other agents. They can also do the cloud thing (and are unfortunately named that), but the local-first functions work. I don't know more, but the hass forums are a good start.
Normally you'd wait until the volatility is a bit higher, sell a few covered calls against 5-10% of your shares. If the market jumps up, roll the calls out and sell more.

If you get assigned, that's great, immediately sell a put. I've been able to do this against SPY/QQQ, rolling and never getting assigned. So it's all gravy on top of the existing market returns.

You can eke out a few pct a year this way, but from a SWR perspective it's like doubling your hoard.
I wish this website would allow having a link to an individual country, every time you refresh you have to deselect all default countries again and add the country you're interested in again
century ago**
This is the wrong thing to complain about. At this point vaccine distribution is a zero-sum game. You might just as well frame it as "EU refrains from pushing itself to the front of the line".

This thing isn't over before vaccine availability isn't production-limited anymore.

The real mistake that the EU made was to not realize early on that vaccine production was going to be a huge issue in 2021, and make fixing that a priority.
It's not "rents for the rich" it's "rents for higher priced apartments" and it's basic supply & demand. This headline stokes unnecessary class conflict. WaPo should be ashamed.
true := false is valid golang code
You are right that I painted an extreme view here, and reality is definitely more nuanced.

But I hope I made my point that women are attracted to successful men. And if you don't belong in that group (anymore), they will quickly lose interest.
Yeah, the parent and most its children are focusing on something not even related to the article — this is about providing what the user is looking for without the need for more clicks.

While it’s an unpopular opinion on HN, there’s no denying that from a user perspective, that’s only a good thing.
It looks like it's pretty common to go interview just to "keep the skills sharp." What do folks think of this practice? I feel like I would have a hard time doing it while hiding my true motives. And what if they make an offer?
I recently read a very good book that was not so much a broad overview, but rather a closer look at the American ambassador and his family in Germany in the 1930s. I can wholeheartedly strongly recommend it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Garden_of_Beasts
How relevant is deforestation to our shared atmosphere though?

Forests are largely steady state. They're carbon sinks when you go from no forest to forest, but not just keeping the forest around
> "To assault" means "to make a physical attack on". You can rape someone without assaulting them.

That’s not how sexual assault is defined though. Quoting Wikipedia: “Sexual assault is an act in which a person intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.” Avoiding this, like Stallman did, is a way of playing with semantics to reduce the seriousness of an accusation. He may be doing this because he’s autistic and rigid. I’ve done similar in the past because I’m similarly rigid, but it absolutely comes from a place of defensiveness too.

>This is a pretty standard way of thinking for many neurodivergents. You're just saying "people of your kind cannot be public figures, and if they are they have to be taken down".

I’m autistic, dude. This shit makes no sense to me. Saying it’s a “standard way of thinking” is doing us a disservice. Public figures cannot express opinions like this about rape! Autistic men who don’t seem to understand consent like this, or think they have figured out an inconsistency in society’s rules around sex, freak me the hell out. I expect other autistic people to have a hard time complying with social rules, but the fact that the rules are difficult for us is not an excuse for not following them, particularly if you want to lead a diverse group of people.

Stallman is certainly not the best the autistic community has to offer, and I really wish you would stop implying he is.
You can become an expert in the time it takes to research and plan a vacation.
I just see the post embedded in the page.

Maybe you have an ad blocker or something that messes with the embedding?
Thanks! Really appreciate it
Just in case it needs to be said, I use Nest, and do not recommend.
>because with the high turnover they are sure to get a new tenant pretty soon at the higher price anyway

Only if coupled with insufficient construction of new housing.
The problem with that definition is that it’s subjective. You can only know for yourself, but not for anyone else. That makes it completely useless.
1. I think this perspective is basically "Whataboutism the US house...", Whataboutism aside, the US does examine and iteratively improve standards...but either way, we aren't talking about that house.

2. I only think a thorough investigation is not possible because the Chinese government is not going to allow that such a honest investigation to occur.

3. If a flowerpot fell from a balcony and killed your loved one, you wouldn't care if it was intentionally thrown, negligently left there, or simply a freak act of god? I think almost everyone cares about the cause of this event. If not for reasons of closure and blame, for reasons of understanding and improving out future actions.
The claim I've read is that the bats live thousands of miles away. We shouldn't need to speculate.
Most of Europe was much slower to approve vaccines than the US and UK. Because of that, I've assumed since the first approvals in December that Europe would lag. Once the US, UK and others said "hey, we're ready to buy all the vaccines, send us what you'e got", what did we expect would happen? I don't know why Europe lagged on the approvals, but it seems obvious that would also lead to a lag in rollout.
Since both approval processes reached the same conclusion it clearly wasn't premature.
The link between the Wuhan lab and the virus is circumstantial, sure it's strange the virus shows up in a city with the only level 4 biolab in China where they research corona viruses, but only if the virus did originate from Wuhan. I don't think we know all the corona viruses in the wild and who was patient zero was.
Nobody is saying "you can't do it." But "averages" is 100% a valid reason to consider why you shouldn't do something, particularly something unknown to most humans.
Amazon Echo Gets Open Source Brain Transplant
Poland has this:

https://www.gov.pl/web/szczepimysie/raport-szczepien-przeciw...

Liczba szczepień 1 dawką = first doses administered

Liczba szczepień 2 dawką = second doses administered

Liczba dawek dostarczonych do Polski = doses delivered from suppliers

Liczba dawek dostarczonych do punktów = doses delivered to vaccination points

Zamówienia w trakcie realizacji = doses assigned to a vaccination point, but not yet administered

Stan magazynu = warehouse stock, unclear if this is for second doses (methodology changed last week)

Keep in mind that we typically get vaccines on Monday and vaccinate throughout the week - yesterday there were ~5k available doses in the whole of Poland
A Rolex is an actual thing with a function and an intrinsic value. It can be copied, but only at a significant cost.
I am not on a slow connection, but the popup showed up for a fraction of a second for me as well.
The official line from these companies always seems to be that they were able to ramp up production to make the vaccines for the UK because the UK committed to its order signficantly earlier than the EU. (I've never seen this next bit said explicitly, but the subtext, as I read it, is that the EU was holding out for a better price.)

Of course I don't know the accuracy of such statements. But if that is true, you could certainly argue it would unfair that the EU should benefit from production capacity that only exists because of commitments made by the UK, and the location of the factories is fairly irrelevant to that.

You could counter argue that I am mistakenly treating the "EU" and "UK" as a single individual person each who deserves to suffer the consequences of their actions, when in fact the people suffering are individual citizens who had almost no control over the negotiation process. But, on the flip side, if companies cannot rely on agreements made during difficult negotiations to be honoured then it will be harder to secure such agreements in future.
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Hi. There are LOTS of much more popular libs you can choose from. My library does not intend to compete as the "best" library, but it has a very specific set of goals, the topmost of which is simplicity through a minimalist API.

Don't get me wrong. SimpleR State is a "complete" library despite the simple API. It supports things like selectors, async actions, and plug-ins. And soon, it will come with built-in plug-ins like persistence, Dev Tools, validation, etc.

Everyone has different priorities when choosing a library, so I suggest going through the design goals that I highlighted in the README file, or complete documentation here:

https://simpler-state.js.org

and see if it fits what you're specifically looking for in a library.

At the end of the day, all these libraries are just React code. In that sense they differ in terms of patterns/principles behind their implementation, but maybe more importantly, in the API/syntax (which is what immediately matters to the developer using it). This is what I can confidently say that SimpleR State delivers... one of the simplest APIs you can find.
I believe grand-parent was talking about a lab leak, not necessarily with gain of function research being involved, and scientists dismissal.

Which is not a dismissal at all. What scientists are saying is that both zoonotic transfer and lab leak are plausible, but that we don't have evidence for the latter (yet!) and the former is more likely.

In many media articles this simplifies to 'scientists say virus origins are zoonotic'.
Regardless of its origin, what I cannot possibly figure out is why China didn't close its own borders while they were putting travel restrictions within.
It's obviously super hazy, but it's worth clarifying that being developed in the lab != originating from the lab.

From what I've heard on Chinese social media, there are a bunch of plausible sounding theories.

For a lot of jobs in China, it's expected that there's moderate incompetence or grift.

For example, say the lab has a bunch of extra animal samples (mice, bats, w/e). Someone in the cleaning staff could make a few extra $ by selling those samples to a wholesaler at the local wetmarket (to be turned into dogfood, etc.); maybe they only meant to sell the clean samples, but got things mixed up.
Thanks for linking to this thread, it was insightful.
Maybe yes, but generally if the company has been informed about the issue for a reasonable amount of time and refused to fix it, we blame the company
And reading the article, I was wondering about desired (yet possibly undeserved) weight loss or gain.

A lot of people prepared 100% of their own food for the first time, which could (theoretically) lead to healthier diets, or appropriate portions, or just premeditated shopping.

I remember in college, there was an idea of "the freshmen 10" or "the sophomore 20" with respect to weight gain when away from home.
What tar are you running? I'm running `tar (GNU tar) 1.34` and get a `This does not look like a tar archive` error when trying to extract a zip file.
But since they were so late in getting that contract signed AZ were only able to promise a best effort at delivery.
Hmmm, my computer hasn't blown up and burned my house down nor my bank accounts drained yet...
The difference in benefit between one and two doses is pretty small in absolute terms. Props to the UK for prioritizing that first dose to maximize public health (almost makes up for bumbling earlier parts of the COVID-19 response). Second, many of the people vaccinated in the UK are getting single-dose vaccines, not Moderna or Pfizer/Bio.
There is all kinds of bullying and strong arming and threatening going on. I have gotten it from many different realtors. They are worse than dentists and lawyers.
Both in China no less.
> TLDR; The likelihood of it being lab related is high. The likelihood of it being directly malicious low.

And this sounds like a reasonable possibility to be explored. Accidents happen. Lapses in procedures happen.

The problem is that early on, and still in some circles, lab related equates to malicious bio-weapon and/or China purposely attempting to destroy the world. It's important to separate the two, and hopefully this is a cautionary tale for all labs to review their policies and procedures.
That's precisely the problem - we can't yet formalize the concept we understand as "consciousness", and so any attempts to find a physical/mathematical definition are almost doomed to fail, as they can't really guarantee they are defining the actual concept we have in our minds when we say "consciousness".
I'm happy to see that the Mork file format is finally on its way out ("Kill Mork" [TB78-TB91-TB2022]).

17 years ago, a Mozilla engineer called it "the single most braindamaged file format that I have ever seen in my nineteen year career".

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241438
COVID-19 is one of the few serious diseases that can transmit when the carrier is asymptomatic. That could be a credible reason why a potential lab leak went unnoticed for long enough to begin uncontrolled community spread.
I started to write up a whole thing, but your hn history and linked twitter shows you're very openly rabidly anti-google. That's fine, and in general I'd even mostly agree with you. I draw the line at suggesting government raids of private companies, though. That won't ever be a good idea.