skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A government and its people are not equivalent. The people should not be shamed in the same manner that you would shame a government.

More importantly, with your last sentence you’re implying that China and the entire eastern world is not civilized. Shame on you.
The market answer to that is, the seller underpriced their services to begin with, regardless of the personal motivation for increasing the price.

To clarify, the market would likely not allow this specific work to be sold at this price normally. But the buyer wasn't just buying specific work they were buying specific work to be completed by a specific date. The work in isolation does not have this value but the work completed by a certain day does. Companies use this rationale all the time charging more for expedited services.

It's especially common in construction and manufacturing where costs double or even triple when expedited delivery is required.
Prices are negotiated. Two parties must agree on the price. If there is a "greedy" landlord overcharging people there must also be a person "willing" to pay the overpriced rent. Of course there are cases of vacant properties but I don't think this is a problem for most rental markets.
> Does anyone argue that a grocery store is using, much less abusing, its monopolistic power by doing that? No.

I do. Especially with how common it is for a single chain to have over 30% market share in some area. Often the chain's only contribution is packaging someone else's product in their own branding, so independent brands can't build consumer trust. And in my experience, they make sure the store-brand product is always well stocked, while others are allowed to frequently run out. Even when, if you look at the fine print, the manufacturer is the same.
It is well known that AZ sells the vaccine at cost. E.g. "... is being offered by the drugmaker at cost during the pandemic and at no profit in perpetuity for low-income countries." [1] That's because the vaccine was developed by the Oxford university and Oxford made this a condition. If AZ makes a profit from the vaccine during the pandemic they would break the contract with Oxford.

It seems the cost price differs from country to country because of different production costs and other factors (maybe shipping).

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/astrazeneca-vaccine-cost-hig...
I've taken a few different "retirement" periods in my life, each lasting about 1-2 years.

The first one, I intended to write, but ended up playing World of Warcraft. The second one, I significantly improved my coding skills (I was primarily doing finance immediately before this, and as a result of this period, my career became concentrated in product management + data + BI). The the third one I spent learning to trade. I even flirted with starting a hedge fund for a bit, but have since backed off those ambitions. I'm currently back at a full time job doing data + BI + finance + product for a small startup.

My biggest takeaways from all these experiences:

1. That kind of freedom is challenge in and of itself. It's amazing to have 12-18 months to dig in deep into a new area (I call these my self-directed masters programs). The feeling of freedom and mastery can't be beat--but most people can't sit in a room by themselves 8-10 hours a day and not go crazy or just waste it on distractions. That in itself is a skill. My first attempt ended up in gaming instead of writing, which turned out okay--but I still wonder where I could have ended up if I had my current level of ability to stay on course.

2. No matter what you do, if you go deep into an area, it seems to add to your overall career progression (for example, I got into video-game product management largely because of my year playing WoW). I doubt you can do nothing--or anything--but at least for me, my desire to want to learn something seemed to be guiding light enough.

3. It's really lonely. Like in undergrad or my MBA, I was learning a ton of new stuff--but unlike those times, there were few people in my life to share the journey with. People were either busy/disinterested or much further along. I really wish I had understood the value of being part of a cohort when I had the chance.

4. I should have spent more time working out. At my age now, I can't believe I found it so hard to dedicated 5-10 hours a week for exercise, especially when my body responded so readily to it (compared to now--I guess youth is wasted on the young once again).

5. Going back and forth between these times and full-time jobs is a great way to level-up and then lock in a new backstop for your next career move. Adding in a little consulting also makes the interviewing story better and gives you some real-world problems to tackle with the new skills you're developing.
Glenn Greenwald has written a number of very good pieces on his Substack that I would in no way describe as quick take opinion pieces and Matt Taibbi has the best reporting on the journalism industry itself going around. These guys are "well honed" because they're well read on the activities of the media and they think and communicate clearly

Maybe you're not reading the right posts or you just agree with the prevailing narrative in the traditional outlets?

Usually I find the people who don't see value in Substack also want the news to be reported with "moral clarity" and to eschew objectivity as a valuable aim entirely.

And besides, the mainstream outlets are barely reporting on anything anyway (where's the national news coverage of the George Floyd Autonomous Zone in Minneapolis? For the second time an American city has lost sovereignty over several blocks and the mainstream media is ignoring it) and if you do real investigative journalism into the wrong group, like Andy Ngo has (thank God for Quillette) you are branded a fascist
In this already murdered analogy, they aren't even paying all of the rent. There is a rumour they paid a server once but nobody has ever seen them. You have to bring your own food and wine and cook it, but you're encouraged to share with other tables. Some of those tables were paid to be there. There is also a stream of bored looking people wandering round, occasionally one of them will drop a snack on your table.

The only people you can see that your friend hired are interacting with these snack droppers, telling them which tables to go to. It's unclear if this is very effective.
The EU has been beyond useless during the whole covid-19 pandemic. I find it pretty disappointing since with quicker action and common rules we could be in a much better place right now.

I think it is silly that EU citizens are dying and/or locked down because of money and/or contracts.
I'm curious, as I tend to trust many of the large media outlets, especially the NYT and WaPo.

1) Which outlets do you consider to be the "mainstream media" or "traditional media"?

And 2) why don't you trust them?
Is it really speculation if the government turns tenants into net negative customers?
Interesting! I didn't know that!

I found an article confirming this. Though it also says

> "Israel paid about $30 per dose, almost double what other nations did"

I'm always shocked by how little money that is. $3000 per dose would be cheap!!!

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/01/05/the-secre...
Herrenknecht, Liebherr, BioNTech.

Google for "Hidden Champion".
Timeline of a Micro-PE Deal
I don't get this argument.

There are countries all over the globe exporting components for vaccines. Canada, all over Europe, it's a global chain.
DuPont is a chemical company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont
Booting to a Live USB/DVD/CD and then doing the backup while in the booted Live OS would minimize the chances of corruption of the backup, either reading from it or writing to it.

Not ironclad but pretty good. Issues with it that first come to mind are the live operating system image was already compromised when it was written to say the USB disk, or compromised firmware, and of course user error (nothing to do with ransomware in this case). I am not familiar with this stuff so I may be missing something very important, if so tell me about it.
H3X says its electric motor performs at around 300% of the competition’s output
Does the metal can packaging make the chip less vulnerable to static or fields? I mean, does it work somewhat like a Faraday cage?
> When that sector experienced near-total brain drain after WW2 that intellectual diaspora launched the space programs in the United States, Russia, France (and possibly Israel and Japan though the history there isn't as clear).

Don't forget UK. Peroxide technology of Black Arrow descends nicely from Peenemunde's works.
I did, and that helped a little, but it's just sad that what should be a solved problem by now isn't. Nearest neighbour search is so not helpful to me in many cases.
Vagrant could have easily won by supporting Linux containers, and improving the developer experience.
To me, compared to other languages, I find Go easier for expressing my ideas in code. People seem to argue as if there was an objective truth. Different people may have different learning styles and working requirements. I'm not programming full-time so I prefer a simpler language so I don't forget. A full-time programmer may want to invest in a more "complex" language. See, you are all right.
Indeed, in fact, Swift often feels like Rust with automatic Rc<> for classes and Cow<> everywhere else.
San Francisco also has 26 skyscrapers to Chicago's 130. 80% of the Bay Area is zoned exclusive for single family, to Chicago's 41.1%.

It's not landscape and it's not rocket science: it's zoning. San Francisco could build up, letting people live closer to their work & be much better for the environment than encouraging sprawl, but chooses not to. Y'all decided to make housing expensive, so it is.
Thank you for this thoughtful post! I learned something and would like to revise my opinion. Also came across this excellent article that covers some of the scientific discussion: https://undark.org/2021/03/17/lab-leak-science-lost-in-polit....

I now think the lab leak hypothesis is worth considering, and regret labeling as a conspiracy theory, although I maintain the characterization that the lab leak hypothesis is frequently found alongside other conspiracy theories.

I also would maintain that the current consensus is that SARS-COV-2 came from natural spillover, and the leak hypothesis is a minority opinion, but one held by credible scientists with well-thought arguments and therefore worth considering. I wish the original article would cite this work.
I think the underlying problem is that there is just not any real cooperation on global vaccine distribution. Certainly the details about the enforceability of the various contracts wouldn't matter if the customers all talk between themselves and agree on what would be acceptable modifications of the delivery schedule.

In the event, it seems neither Boris nor Biden seem very interested in considering anyone else before they've scored enough points at home, and meanwhile real international cooperation on vaccine deliveries is dead. Oh well, hope not all trade follows that pattern shrug.
The truth hurts. China released a deadly virus into the world. It tried to cover it up. It tried to blackmail Australia. It is extorting Africa.

China and the Chinese people must accept their responsibility for this catastrophe. They must let the rest of the world, in the guise of the UN, come in and sort out how much of this crime was intentional and how much incompetence.

China must be held accountable. It should pay reparations. It should be forced to suspend any and all biomedical research until it can provably meet western safety standards.
It's crazy that we live in an economy where all you have to do to live until 80 years is pay to live somewhere. We don't even have to hunt our own food.
> Those EU facilities are in turn dependent on vaccine inputs — such as the lipid nanoparticles needed in mRNA vaccines and the plastic bags used in bioreactors — some of which are imported from the UK and the US. [0]

(I believe that some UK companies supply the lipids)

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/773245da-900a-468e-aaf3-96ec8c433...
Spin up a FreeBSD box, enable ZFS snapshots and disable SSH? You’d only be able to destroy the snapshots from a monitor and keyboard under normal circumstances.
>What I'm saying is that we don't have strong (any?) evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is the result of gain of function research

There is analysis that suggests that SARS-CoV-2 wasn't engineered. However, if you were intentionally giving it to a bunch of animals in batches with some interspecies mixing, you wouldn't really expect it to look any different than a natural jump.
I am not sure the lead-acid battery is a good analog. Lead acid batteries are very simple constructions and therefore easy to recycle. There is also economic incentive to recycle an old battery core as you get a lower price on a new battery when you turn in a battery for recycling.

I’m no expert but seems like the process of recycling lithium cells is relatively complex.

Seems also that electric motors are more difficult to recycle as well and the market for recycling them is also much less mature.
You should look up some of the leaked videos on the Internet. There was in fact a huge spike in cases early on and people were dropping dead in the street. That was the freak out that led to the Communist Party not being able to keep a lid on the whole mess. It wasn't just sick people showing up in hospitals in huge numbers, it was dead bodies lying in the streets.

The thing is that whether this came from a lab or not is of limited relevance. Viruses have been hopping from animal hosts from humans for a while and if anything this one was late and long expected. Either way the kind of preparations we need to make for future events are the same.
Yes. I remember discussions in the 90's and 00's

And here we are. I find myself thinking about hardware I want to keep longer term.
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/02/12/podman-for-mac...
Probably the same reason why the manufacturer hasn't requested EU approval of the Dutch plant where they manufacture vaccines exported to the UK. That is, to make more money.
You can buy cheap crimping pliers on banggood, but check the reviews first (e.g. youtube).
I agree. Personally I’ve not dismissed this possibility at all. But as it stands, it’s just a hypothesis with suggestive information, but nothing concrete. There are verified wrongs to criticize them for right now, and can be a starting point for remediation, rather than drum up hate and criticism of mere hypothetical wrongs. (And of course, one such example of a verifiable wrong could be proof of Chinese institutions destroying evidence of the disease’s origin...)
A simplification, but returns in an efficient market are synthetic: i.e you can target what kind of returns you want wrt volatility.

But speaking a little more concretely, markets have been on a tear: stocks, crypto, bonds, whatever.
alias docker=podman
What's surprising me most is how much the devs/IT guys are considering that the computer of their users belong to them and that they can choose to do whatever they want because they write the software !!!!

How is the "auto-updater" different from any malware calling remote website or mining bitcoins???? In both cases, the dev decided what must happen with the users computer without its consent !

Even Windows allow to disable updates...
Taking a step back, does he not at least bring up some valid points?

The CCP did bar scientists from early investigation and has gone to considerable lengths to suppress national news outlets from properly reporting on the issue at hand.

This does at least deserve some criticism.
The EU “time-wasting meme” comes from a direct quote from the AZ CEO.

According to Dominic Cummings recent select committee hearing, the vaccine programme was largely built outside/adjacent to any existing NHS processes. It was given NHS branding for public trust reasons (just like the new-from-the-ground-up Track and Trace endeavour).
The virus was ripping roughshod through Northern Italy and New York City in January. It's nothing but an anecdotal data point but my friend had a suspicious cough in the middle of February and I tested positive for antibodies in May.
> Why not just outright reject issues on outdated version of the software? Decide that you won't support versions older than x and roll with that. This way the users can consider that when they weigh the risks of updating.

i don' t understand why this is not something more companies do.

Most operational systems (networking equipment, server equipment etc) have release cycles, in which current version -2 is the usual schedule in regards to support.

Or just do it the way openBSD does it, and only support the last two releases of the software.
There are plenty of articles from May 2020 that all discuss in various words that a deal was struck. If you believe that AZ didn't sign a contract with the UK before Aug 28 then the burden is on you to prove that.
There's a multitude of indexed connectors on the market. Repurposing DDR memory connectors is rather popular.
The original comment, and this retort, sums up the argument in a nutshell. I see both sides of this one, offered both of these arguments to a friend last night. It's complicated, like most of these things.
Am I the only one who is wondering why the sample size was so small? It looks like only 21 cows were used and 7 of them were used as controls.
You cannot immigrate to Canada if you have a medical condition that is deemed expensive. Also, even without health issues, immigrating to Canada is far from trivial and not something many can do.
Ditto. They're Berg connectors or, just as often, we're using the latched Molex SL, which is compatible most ways.

"Dupont" is exclusively a Chinese-ism in my experience, along with saying "buckled" instead of "latched" and "welded" instead of "soldered".
> Are there launchers that don't??

Naturally, everyone has delays. But a company that purpose-builds the rocket for you does not, for instance, have to deal with a RUD of the booster it wants to use for you.

Selecting launch providers is not just about the sticker price of the rocket. But with more and more launches it obviously becomes ever more important.
I guess that makes sense, the nitrogen has to go somewhere.
Can you explain the significance of this correlation?
I think these kinds of data lawsuits are going to be the new tobacco/opioids lawsuits. People seem to be figuring out how to quantify harm and damages and remediations. Once a few of these start paying out, I can see some really massive class action lawsuits and then state lawsuits.

I think it will be bigger than tobacco and opioid because of the ability for key insiders to be able to target lawsuits and highlight things that were illegal or caused some sort of harm.
I understand where the docker devs are coming from.

Is it possible to download docker source from github.com, git checkout some version tag, build, and viola?
Gestating in your head is fitting - based on the flatulent ideas coming out of it.

Please kindly fuck off back to Reddit with this nonsense.
You picked a great spot!
The top parent suggested

> sell OTM options against his stocks

I don't see where you get the impression they were ever talking about selling uncovered calls. Selling out of the money calls has nothing to do with selling puts. As yes selling cash secured puts even with some leverage is considered very safe. Here is a fund that does just that.

https://www.nb.com/en/us/products/mutual-funds/us-equity-ind...
Does it really show that doing a bit better at the very top of the distribution is useful for something? I'd imagine it's a satisfaction type dynamic, where the benefits taper off.
Their idea probably was that if the company wasn’t going to grow, why would it need an expensive board member such as themselves?
Well yea - that's a poor market for ownership and Seattle has one due to the recent (in terms of housing price response) appearance of two insanely large tech giants in the area - that causes a lot of market distortion that you're sadly on the receiving end of today.

It is financially advantageous to own a property, it is usually financially advantageous to own a property if you purely want to rent it out - renting is a profitable business that's why there are a lot of really large companies holding insane amounts of property in the US. If the city/region has some guaranteed demand for rental numbers (like uni stundents and young people working their first job) then the math changes to make it even more advantageous to rent - what you're essentially seeing is that owning property is the correct decision, it's so correct that the market for property is being soaked up by landlords that can make a tidy profit on the margin and are more reliable load recipients than individuals.

I'm sorry you're in the housing situation you're in because it sucks but, if you did see two identical places you liked and one was available for sale and the other for rent then it'd be the correct financial decision (really correct in fact) to buy the property.

Various regions within the US have toyed with ideas around taxing property ownership for investment more heavily but there is a lot of lobbying money pushing back on that. A lot of places (including BC where I'm at) actually have a primary residence tax credit for owners - if you own your property and use it as your primary residence you get a bit off your taxes to help swing the balance back toward individual owners.
> There was in fact a huge spike in cases early on and people were dropping dead in the street

Wasn't this happening well after they knew the virus existed? From my understanding, they knew the virus existed very early on. Much early than when people were dropping dead in the streets or getting dragged out of their apartments.
there is a reason many ops teams prefer to not run the latest and greatests bleeding edge, no matter what features they bring.

Breaking changes in some cases can be a real problem.
Best Practices for Form Design (2008) [pdf]
> I think this is what happens when you get politicians trying to beat capitalism at its own game.

I'm rolling on the floor laughing right now.

In the past five years, there is a country which erected multiple new trade barriers, put in place tariffs, enacted protectionist policies, publicly declared it was going to reassess its transaction with the world to put itself first and threatened repeatedly to leave the WTO. This country is the USA. A country notorious for using extraterritorial sanction to advantage its companies, a country abusing public subsidies to distort markets, a country refusing standards to protect its interest.

Let this be my last post on HN. Everytime I think this site has reached rock bottom it succeed in hitting a new low.

Edit: Anyway, let me try to add something of value to the discussion and add some perspective to the extremely poor article from ArsTechnica. The European space program is a direct descendant of the French space program which was first and foremost a military program. It was developed to put in orbit information satellite and break France depandency on US unreliable US information. This capability remains relevant now more than ever. The civil program is mostly a cost offset. If the EU has no share of the civil markets, it makes the military program more expansive. From this point of view, it makes sense to invest both as a way to develop know how and because it might not cost more than maintaining the existing knowledge anyway.
So you’re saying if we want reduced methane in the atmosphere to help alleviate the climate situation, we need to reduce herd size.

Isn’t that what reducing beef consumption does?
Understood, thanks for taking the time to explain.
Are we? I must be doing cycling wrong.
This episode of Frontline does a really good job of walking through the timeline of what was discovered and when, and how long they sat on that information before taking action.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chinas-covid-secrets...