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Part of the issue, and this is something that both AZ and the EC fucked up in their contract negotiations is not thinking about this contingency. "Best reasonable efforts" is pretty clear... if you only have one customer.

If you have multiple customers, who signed slightly different contracts at different times, and who also have different side agreements regarding specific facilities they may have paid for in part or in whole, you really need to define how you make allocation decisions in case of shortfall so that everyone understands their risk exposure.

I will personally hold the EC responsible because although AZ has also messed up by not negotiating a clearer contract, it is the EC that indirectly works for me and it is their job to think about this on my and my family's behalf. Had they understood the consequences of being so far back in the production queue much earlier they could have spent more on upgrading production but it is not clear to me that they even understood this until January. While I'm sure that they are trying their best, and bad luck with Sanofi plays a part here as well (as does the incompetence of e.g. the Dutch government in managing distribution), I am pretty unimpressed with how they have dropped the ball here.

It's not good them saying, "oh AZ isn't producing as much as they thought they would". Ok, cool story bro but they're making a novel biological, so you should have anticipated this and done more to prepare plans B, C, all the way through F. Not just placed a few commercial orders and then hope it all works out.
Is GameStop cool? I though the point was that it is not and investing is just an ironic pose...
While this is a true statement, it doesn't feel accurate. Rust's type system offers a significant number of features over that of C beyond just memory safety. These come in the form of safe unions (with Rust enums), Generics with ZeroSizedTypes for ensuring states of computation happen in the proper order, safe destructuring of values such that the wrong field isn't referenced.

Point being, a Rust library that incorporates these type of safety measures can help significantly reduce programming errors beyond just memory safety issues.
Absolutely. Knew of some who didn't get in and their self-esteem was pretty shot for some years.
You don't think Croda are important then?

Or that this deal doesn't exist?
https://www.business-live.co.uk/manufacturing/croda-covid-va...
The error usually arises from Google misinterpreting and decontextualizing the page’s content, for example reading a table incorrectly then giving one stat as another stat. The page is correct, it’s Google that’s wrong.
> Dotting I's and crossing T's is exactly the kind of behavior one would expect from a person who is smart enough to recognize something is a stupid idea

Maybe? But it makes them useless for my purposes. Which requires them to think for themselves.
I retract my simple rule. It's bad. Sorry.
> Just like in the UK where the PM is elected by each democratically elected MP

That's not the case. The PM is appointed by the Monarch, who will almost always choose the leader of the party able to command a majority in the House of Commons. That leader will be chosen according to the rules of their party. Boris Johnson won an election where all eligible members of the Conservative Party had a vote; it is the case that the shortlist of two was decided by MPs.

The PM is also a regular MP and has to be elected by their local constituency voters.
For the elite, never. If nothing else, there is always a family safety net, and some starting capital.
The point is to eat those Mother Earth treasures: soft-persimmons, figs, clementines-mandarines, peaches, medlars, all those things are just so delicious and nutritive

What you said is exactly what some people around say when they cut those trees, makes me extremely sad
Human urine would be a sufficient source of nitrogen but it ends up in sewage nitrification-denitrification reactors that eventually turn most of the urea back into nitrogen gas so that the effluent can be safely discharged into water bodies.
Polycloud is the S3-api compatible pay-as-you go, at $0.004/GB.

The unlimited storage is a separate backup product which right now is only only specific devices that have an upper limit on their size.

(Disclaimer/Source: Co-founder of CrowdStorage)
In roughest form, Andersen is saying "SARS-CoV-2 doesn't closely resemble any existing known virus, so it wasn't produced by genetic manipulation of existing known viruses".

I think that's true, but it ignores the possibility that the WIV was working with new viruses with unpublished genomes. The WIV routinely organized expeditions to remote bat caves to collect samples. There's naturally some delay between sampling, sequencing, and publishing, no conspiracy required. For example, RaTG13, the closest known animal virus to SARS-CoV-2, was collected by the WIV in 2013 but published only after the start of the pandemic.

The WIV had a private database of viral genomes; but they took it offline in September 2019, they say due to hacking attempts. They haven't brought it back up, and the WHO has declined to ask for a copy.

SARS-CoV-2 certainly could be a naturally-evolved virus first transmitted from an animal to a non-scientist human. It could also be a naturally-evolved virus collected and accidentally released by the WIV, or a recombinant of multiple such viruses, or the descendant of such a virus after serial passaging. Nothing in Andersen's argument distinguishes any of these possibilities.

But don't trust me; check out Marc Lipsitch's Twitter feed today, or David Relman's article:

> Some have argued that a deliberate engineering scenario is unlikely because one would not have had the insight a priori to design the current pandemic virus (3). This argument fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e., more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in a laboratory—for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site. It would have been a logical next step to wonder about the properties of a recombinant virus and then create it in the laboratory.

https://www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246

This isn't a conspiracy theory, and it's not even a fringe viewpoint anymore. It's just a reasonable step in investigating the yet-unknown origin of what could be the worst industrial accident in human history.
At the point at which we can determine with certainty something else shares a phenomenological experience of consciousness, I think we're obligated to grant it personhood.
Well it’s all just hindsight - depending on which vaccines are approved first different countries would have one this race. The EU is a bit of a nicer player internationally in general because the only thing holding it together are the common market rules so it is very rules focused.

I think talking about winning or failed vaccination campaigns might be a bit early.
This is why the Carbon and other externalities taxes always have to come as soon as possible. They are not just good ideas in themselves, but the resulting price corrections will make further investigation and planning easier.

No only is trying to do all subsidy non tax embarrassingly weak politics, it's a stupid game of whac-a-mole a market can just route around.
Not OP, but personally, the way I see it is the easiest way to break into “interesting” work (obviously that’s subjective as hell) because the sheer amount of work available and the biggest hurdle being leetcode, whereas at equivalent positions at non-faangs for certain type of roles the hurdle seems to be having multi decade experience in some domain / education/ etc.
your point is still invalid because it's pointless to attempt what you're suggesting. and that's not how unit tests work.

unit testing doesn't mean that all possible values have to be tested. usually it's about code paths, i.e. standard, error and edge cases.
How is prepaying rent different from a larger security deposit?
It's quite common for teenagers on TikTok to use a screenshot of the often-wrong snippet at the top of the Google results page as evidence in whatever crusade they're currently on.
Accuracy and a balanced nuanced view does not create click-bait articles. I did not go to an IIT but know plenty who did and while some are uber-nerds others are on the opposite end of the spectrum. Mixed-bag. Nothing different than what you would find at an elite US institution.
California siblings plead guilty to stealing 800 MacBooks worth $2.3M
It might be worthless to you. Depends on what you can take out of it, or do with it.

Well formed opinions, ideas, curation, and coverage, and priceless to others. To some because they operate in fields where they can put to use such information, to others because they want to understand the world they live in better (even if they don't get something out of it).

Even more so "in a world where information is virtually worthless", in other words, in a world where good stuff is lost in the noise / signal ratio.

In any case, I'd rather pay for a few great newsletters than for wasting my time with the nth BS Netflix show.

(I pay for a couple of Substack subscriptions)
REBASE IS HORRIBLE! That's a good first step to fix.

(And yes I filled out the survey).
> BSL-4 level lab put into operation in January 2018

And only 2 years later we have an outbreak
> We need to avoid demonizing China over this

Not a productive message and this sentiment just distracts from the discussion, which is playing into China's narrative.

> if we want to ever find out the truth and learn how to prevent another pandemic outbreak.

It's a bit late isn't it? China witheld early information about the virus and prevented WHO scientists from visiting ground zero. Silencing journalists and censoring information from coming out all the while pushing propaganda...what do you think we're going to learn from them that hasn't already been swept under the rug?

I find it absolutely flabbergasting the amount of trust people in the US and other countries place on the Chinese government.
Dang it, I didn't realize it was specific to HTTP. Thank you for pointing it out, all I see referrers (I somehow blank on HTTP) and I thought it was about the referrer tags.
Yeah, HN at it's finest I suppose. He's like you, he says what you want to hear, therefore you believe him. No need to consider the possibility that maybe there might actually be another point-of-view.
That argument would make sense if Walmart served the grocery needs of 90% of the people AND they blatantly ripped off and copied branded goods’ products. In that case, yes, it would be a problem also.
I was one of those 'not so smart' kids that got in. I know this because I struggled mightily once I did get i to maintain a respectable GPA.
I think the system is most brutal on middle of the road students like me. If you know you aren't good enough, you get an out. Or if you are really smart you can coast in.
The average folks get hosed :)
Brand recognition created from saturation of bloggers writing how-to guides about it.
I personally know people who went to a party and got sick from an asymptomatic person.
> In most cases there is a large margin of error built into the 4% "safe withdrawal rate"

I don't think that's the case if you're retiring early. The 4% withdrawal rate was based on a 30 year retirement. You need to go a bit lower if you want to have minimal risk of running out of money for a much longer horizon.
They are https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/17/politics/us-astrazeneca-mexic...
There are other results, too. For instance ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.26478 "However, the SARS‐CoV‐2 host tropism/adaptation pattern has significant discrepancies compared with other CoVs, raising questions concerning the proximal origin of SARS‐CoV‐2. The flat and nonsunken surface of the sialic acid‐binding domain of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein (S protein) conflicts with the general adaptation and survival pattern observed for all other CoV" . https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca... : “There are indeed many unexplained features of this virus that are hard if not impossible to explain based on a completely natural origin.” Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, wrote that he’d been concerned for some years about the Wuhan laboratory and about the work being done there to create “chimeric” (i.e., hybrid) SARS-related bat coronaviruses “with enhanced human infectivity.” Ebright said, “In this context, the news of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan *screamed* lab release.”

I couldn't find anything on Fox News.
That engineer was Jamie Zawinski, by the way.
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I've always heard them called DuPont connectors. Might be a hobbyist vs. professional thing; I use them in hobby projects, so am probably exposed to the questionable vendors more than a professional would be. I was looking for crimping tools relatively recently and was surprised to find that reputable vendors don't call them DuPont connectors, even in passing. As far as I can tell, they have no name that everyone would recognize and that lets manufacturers steer clear of naming other companies, despite being so ubiquitous.

(I suppose this is a common problem with connectors. Someone could tell me "it's a Molex connector", and I'd know what they mean -- the one that supplies power to pre-SATA hard drives -- but of course Molex makes thousands of different connectors, so it's really a terrible name for that one specifically.)
Where was Pfizer-Biontec developed?
A lot of smart people in this forum.

Someone please explain to me how the Chinese were able to identify that that had a new virus.

I’ve done pandemic drills with homeland security. They said they way you know you’ve got a new virus floating around is either new symptoms; significantly more “flu like” cases; significantly more cases escalating to pneumonia; increased deaths.

Covid presents like the flu, so much so you need a test, but early on a test was not available. So the symptoms are not unique.

Early on there was not a spike in cases, so that would not have sparked an interest.

Early on there was not a significant uptick in flu cases turning to to pneumonia, so that would not have sparked interest.

Early on there was not a spike in deaths, so that would not have e sparked an interest.

In fact when the Chinese discovered covid, there was absolutely no evidence that anything out of the ordinary was taking place.

But somehow the Chinese knew that they had a very contagious, bat based virus circulating, based on no information.

Everyone is focused on the wrong thing, I want to know how they discovered it with no information?

I’ve always believed this was an lab accident by a technician that needed their job so they covered it up until they and too many family members got sick and it was obvious something was wrong.

They knew about the virus because it was being studied, and that’s the only answer that makes any sense.
This comment is a noticeable step into nationalistic flamewar. Please don't do that in HN comments. That way lies hell, and we're trying for a different sort of discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Its been years like that. They aren't going to change.
Memory errors and the sort of logic errors you described are one source of program errors, but I think the more devious ones are much higher level. There's a general taboo surrounding rolling your own crypto for a reason -- there are too many high level footguns that have nothing to do with raw program logic that can make a crypto system insecure or vulnerable to some kind of exploit, not necessarily relating to the code at all! Problems in randomness, distribution, other things beyond my pay grade.

Rust being higher level will prevent errors, yes, but crypto is hard on a whole other level. It's worth "waiting and seeing" what sort of vuln this is before jumping all in on the rust train this time ;-)
I guess it's location based too (like Google is). Searching for "ECC DIMM" returned a bunch of actual ECC memory chips available to ship overseas on the first page of results on Amazon.com, though I'd still suggest being more specific when searching for ECC RAM myself (eg. RDIMM or UDIMM or...).
>why does anyone have to justify their lives by doing something to improve the world?

There have been a few replies in this vein, and I see where you're coming from based on the way I phrased what I was saying.

I'm not arguing that anybody should be forced by some external entity to do anything. I am advocating for a person in this situation to attempt to cultivate a passion/greater purpose because I believe it's something we need to be fulfilled. The man in this article designed a life for himself that was free from labor, but ultimately unfulfilling in many ways.

And if you need to find that passion, looking to improve society in some way is a great place to start. I can think of a few things in that vein that I would consider focusing on if I was in such a situation, and none of them are as far reaching as "make humanity multi-planetary."
Disagree - thousands of hits can provide huge amounts of insightful data to make A/B testing valuable and productive when its captured and analyse effectively as part of a broader UX and Design System strategy. If you don’t have those it doesn’t matter what volume of data you have.

Using data to test product iteractions, interface changes and catch low hanging fruit is totally standard and widely practiced. Companies not willing to use data driven measurement are lagging behind by at least 5 years.
This is why we need simple systems above all. That also means having protocols and in general technologies that are as simple as possible while of course being useful. Especially in basic infrastructure, the cost of every new feature should be evaluated as a priority. The cost of bugs also should be considered. Libraries the world basically depends on should be an example how to do these things right.

The reality is, we see constant stream of patches to bugs we know for certain are security related to basically any software we use all the time. Am I the only one to think every such patch should be delivered with sweat running down our backs asking ourself how this could have happened at all in such critical software? Instead we introduce regular patch days, responsible disclosure and other protocols that don't solve the issue itself, that basically our software stacks are not maintainable at all if we are being frank.

In my opinion, we will have no dependable security until a handful of skilled engineers are together able to understand the systems we use fully. One can understand the more low level stuff, the other maybe the middle etc. with some reasonable overlaps so the security of the stack as a whole can be reasonable evaluated and maintained. This is currently just not realistic with any team size, when even the firmware of our CPUs has to be patched constantly. I mean, when you launch e.g. Gmail, who really understands everything from the JavaScript until basically the lowest level firmware in a clients computer? I guess, nobody and not even any team on the planet comes even close to grasping the full depth and breadth of the stack. Therefore the security and other quality related aspects cannot be evaluated without broad oversimplification that really doesn't add anything to the discussion.

If we don't wont to really change our ways, we should at least be frank and say that the software we actually use will never be fully secure, correct or dependable. Just as much as bridges fall, dams break and fallen power-lines create widespread fires we are just not able to handle this stuff reliably. If that is not scary enough, just imagine the software and other infrastructure handling security at nuclear power plants, processing centres and weapons. (And no, engineers are not the only ones having no clue. Doctors, medics etc. don't have a clue either as we see with the pandemic, still unsolved diseases everywhere, even stuff like hearing loss from stress is not understood well.)
> null pointer dereference: relies on hardware protection

> integer overflow: wrap-around semantics

Interesting choice of words to not say "none".
> Both points on the campaign website link to articles published by The Register in which we outlined how Haworth had theatrically shutdown the only means of independent communication between members – an online forum – while he was giving a speech at its annual general meeting, and how Haworth had accused us of peddling “fake news” when we reported on a flawed proposition to make millions of valuable .uk domains available to Nominet members instead of the general public (our article was entirely correct.)

Oh, they mad.
Have you looked into the subset of D called "Better C"? I recently stumbled upon it and have been wanting to try it out. It seems to solve the exact same problem you're describing, though I don't know how good of a job it does at that.

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
If it's just about money then you should diversify - but owning your own home is a self-securing investment, it means you can't go broke no matter how bad fate treats you - with the exception of going underwater on your property value which is only ever actually a problem since banks can effectively margin-call their mortgaged properties.
The bottleneck is usually I/O, or parsing into large object structures, not double parsing.
>I've yet to read what I would consider high quality journalism on Substack. It's a lot of quick take opinion pieces.

Most of what passes for "high quality journalism" in "high quality outlets" are fluff pieces and government/corporate PR masquerading as facts.

And as Alan Kay said: "a point of view is worth 80 IQ points". I'd rather read the opinion of people with well honed points of view than what passes as news in mainstream media.
I agree with that, but the UK was one of the first countries to stump up cash and start developing a vaccine before it'd even got bad in the UK.

That's basically the reason, it was part of the contract that we get first dibs if fund it.

I don't think EU countries putting out bad press about the AstraZenica vaccine is doing them any favors either - it's the company they're in negotiations with!

Not saying what's fair or isn't here but that's the reality.
This has been debunked, it's just rumors with no support, both Pfizer and BioNTech secured critical supplies in the beginning of the year for EU production - internally in Europe (2 German companies if I recall correctly), from Canada, and from the UK.

At best banning those exports would just harm the production of surplus vaccines/exports. It would be the UK crippling their own supply of vaccines - which they have received 10 million so far from Pfizer made in Belgium.
Bing had a problem with images of child sexual abuse, and with bestiality images. I don't know if they've fixed that.