skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Whichever country is contractually at the front of the line will have their order fulfilled first/according to the terms of the contracts.

Tell that to Canada. They were securing doses from day one and still suffered from delayed shipments and now have to contend with countries of manufacture forbidding export. What really pisses me off is that the US Gov had 30 million doses of Astra for several months and it it isn't even approved for use. Why hoard it when you can save lives in other countries while you have no intention of using it soon if ever? Sure they might get their approval in May or June but by then I expect the other manufacturers to have ramped up to cover everyone everywhere.
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Are you hosting this in 2 places? One for the backend/one for the frontend? Or are you running the apps on top of WordPress? via enqueue script or something? Custom plugin?
Thanks!
It's absolutely built into the business model unfortunately -- a done deal is worth 1-3% of the current deal price.

But getting 1-3% of the delta on a higher offer that doesn't exist yet is not only a meaningless money difference, if it slows the deal down it costs them money.
MIT Technology Review: Did the coronavirus leak from a lab?
I can't speak to the others on the list but it seems odd to say Clojure isn't being used widely in production. Clojure's been powering big businesses for years now and Nubank, which primarily uses Clojure, is valued at $24bn: https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2021/brazilia....
France has no problem vaccinating people, they just adjust their strategy based on deliveries.

If you look here https://covidtracker.fr/vaccintracker/ you'll see that on the second graph, the blue curves (vaccination) closely follow the gray curve (deliveries).

And while France is one of the most anti-vaccine countries in the world, there is still no shortage of people wanting to be vaccinated.

In the end, I just think it is just the result of negotiations. Now, it is essentially a zero-sum game, the only way to get more doses is to take it from others, and the EU wasn't as aggressive. We will all get vaccines in the end, it is just about how much you value your head start.
It feels like an habit of the Docker team, they always try to defend their anti-user decisions with vague and uninspired corporate bs. They're barely trying.
Another classic: https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io/issues/6910
That's how it is successful. HN said my post was too long, but here's my rebuttal to the op and it pretty much goes along with what you said: https://gist.github.com/jackcviers/a7e74a3ad0a57f6ab97afd25c...

If you are in the databricks Spark ecosystem -- stick to using the Databricks style and Spark libraries. Don't bring in anything that isn't in that ecosystem, because it runs way behind standard scala -- it's on a 6 year old version at this point.

If you don't want java to eat the features you use, use either the typelevel ecosystem or the ZIO scala ecosystem of libraries, use their respective preferred built-in DI methods (tagless final and ZIO environments, respectively).

If you don't mind eventually having java eat your features, go ahead and use the Lightbend ecosystem and buy the support license. If you don't want to buy support, the twitter/finagle ecosystem is basically the same without a support possibility. But within those there's definitely room for creative license.

All in all, the functional and typelevel subset works best as it's a tiny footprint of features and libraries, it doesn't leave any gray area for personal expression, and treats the language as its own language rather than clone - you - a - c++ - java - javascript - ruby.

Would I rather everything move to Mill? Yes. Is that ever going to happen, nope.
This is a chance for Europe. It should be something like the US in the 60's. The USSR launches sputnik - what do you do?

I'm not saying it's a government program. Maybe it's some genus idea that encourages the private sector. Maybe it is a government program. Honestly, who cares.

What it shouldn't be and probably can't be is trundle along the status quo. Doing that is worse for everyone. Even deciding that space flight isn't worth the effort; that's there's no future in it and Europe would be better off doing something else - even that would be better for everyone then what they're doing now.

What they're doing now is more and more just a political program that makes people happy as main goal, sends a few rockets into space as a secondary goal and sets fire to a large number of Euros as a consequence.
Conspiracy theories aren't helpful.
Success may only come once out of every 100 times you try. So you better get over failing and iterate quickly if you want to make it. Fail fast so you can move on.

Interviewing is a skill just like talking to women. you need practice before you will succeed. And practice necessarily means rejection.

People who are afraid to fail will never succeed. They put too much weight on a particular thing and then are crushed when it doesn't pan out. You have to get to the point where rejection and failure don't hurt. Just add another data point to your corpus of life experience. Then magically you start to succeed and your success will snowball.
>a lab outbreak could have happened in the United States and many places in the world.

not that outbreak. US stopped doing that GoF research and funded it in those Wuhan labs instead - basically like any other outsourcing of environmentally dangerous manufacturing/etc. to China. My pet conspiracy theory is that as part of that GoF the virus was tested on humans there - say some prisoners happily volunteering for a couple weeks break from hard labor to spend it in a nice hospital with a "flu".

And if the virus had totally natural - accidental freak of Nature - origin, why would you give 4 year prison to a journalist who was covering the beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2021/12/28/china-h...

The suppression of any information is totally in-line with some deep f&ck-up and/or government potentially looking very bad if real picture sees the light of day. Even Chernobyl wasn't suppressed to that degree.
Also Peter Watts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
> Where they ever responsible for .io too?

Apparently not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
This was one of the few UI changes that I never got accustomed to over time. It's still just as bad, irritating and ugly as the first day I used it.
All these companies, and more, are using Clojure in production: https://clojure.org/community/companies.
huge, huge congrats Sahil!

i have a meta question if you care to entertain it: you seem to have improved your strategic timing from "do X too early" to "do X exactly at peak relevance" over the past decade. as the saying goes, in startups most failed ventures are too early rather than wrong.

Are there any lessons or principles that have helped you to master timing? or is it just a function of having a better network over time telling you things?
But Biden did, right?
flash glucose monitor...
I didn't say don't use it. I was just saying it was a pain to use.
yes, the problem is not the language. The problem is that OpenSSL has just became so important that It shouldn't not rely on C language any more. We have so much better tools now.
I actually agree with both of you, if that's possible.
Israel paid a LOT more for the vaccine to ensure early supply.

They are also tiny - a lot smaller than you might think, they are not really hogging all that much supply in terms of absolute numbers.

And finally they agreed to be the research study for the world, so what they are doing does have value, even for your parents in the EU. In particular they will answer the question: If you immunize everyone does COVID stop?
Do we know how many writers on Substack/Medium/independent blogs employ an editor or researcher in some capacity? I've only seen occasional mention, e.g., Kevin Kelly has said that he employs a librarian as a full time researcher. But the absence of mention isn't necessarily a strong indicator to the negative.
You seem to be well versed in both EU and USA issues. What's your background?
> In my experience there's definitely a point in which better scores on things such as the JEE stop being correlated with both college performance, life satisfaction or even career earnings.

Bring the citations because the research shows that doing better on highly g loaded tests is basically an unalloyed good.
you're right, it's a work-in-progress. It was introduced in v60 in 2018 as experimental feature and enabling it in v78 still holds a warning to it.
Just a binary variable 'A more likely than B' or vice versa formed from prior zoonotic transfers and lab escapes.

I don't think at this point it is credible to assign probabilities to either hypothesis (which are assumed to be exclusive here).
The EU hasn't approved AZ Halix because AZ hasn't applied yet: https://www.ft.com/content/8e2e994e-9750-4de1-9cbc-31becd2ae... (apologies for the paywall).

Relevant quote:

Asked about the Halix situation, the commission said on Friday that the EMA was ready to fast-track authorisation of new production facilities once it received an application and the necessary information from AstraZeneca.
How would that help?

Rewarding people for simply being born with high IQ is the opposite of meritocratic.
Pfizer has big factories in the US for making vaccines. How many does BioNTech have in Germany?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14400027/pfizer-warns-eu-threa...

Block AZ in the EU, you'll force the populist Johnson into tit-for-tat retaliation - and we'll all go to hell in a hand-cart.
“The Everything Store”, Customer Review by MacKenzie Bezos
Ummm, I have some bad news for you...

(See also “other duties as required” in your job description...)
I still think the "holistic" approach is flawed. The "holistic" criteria benefits upper-class students because lower and middle class kids are rarely trained from a young age to be involved in extra-curricular activities the way upper-class kids are. I experienced this first hand growing up, many future Ivy league students almost seemed to have been trained for it from the moment they were born. The parents had connections all over the place and their kids could study/work on all sorts of interesting hobbies. On the other hand the lower class people had no idea that this world existed and at best spent some time studying for the standardized exams if their parents were really invested in their future.

Basically, whatever thing you choose as the metric, people with more resources and information will be able to optimize for it better. However, the more difficult the metric becomes to achieve, the more it benefits those who already benefit from the resource and information asymmetry.
Yep, got to bring your own checklist for the inspector.
I think ring does support WebAssembly. Yeah, the ASM in ring is not great, but unfortunately Rust does not currently provide us with all the guarantees we need to write safe crypto code (for example, timing guarantees). We hope this will change fairly soon, though, so we can port all the underlying crypto to Rust.
I suspect that methane emission levels from energy industry are likely downplaying and underestimating total methane emissions from fracking and similar activities because they have a strong financial/political interest in doing so.
90% of my Google queries is "Search terms + Reddit".Usually I end up with better quality info. Reddit is missing a great opportunity there, especially because its search engine sucks (They should use algolia or something). If they were more visionary they could use their internal search as a starting point for a generic web searcher.
The Cadencex Is the Bicycle Dynamo to Beat
It wouldn’t matter if Germany asked for vaccine priority for providing $440M, just like what US and UK did. EU is extremely inefficient compared to how much money it’s spending for the pandemic.
Why is Malaria in the list?
That's astonishing, the amount of compensation the board thought they could pay themselves. The technical and regulatory complexity of running a domain registrar do not warrant compensation of such absurd figures.

People who have 20 years of experience running core routers and backbone operations at globe-spanning international transit and transport ISPs that have thousands of POPs don't get paid anywhere near that figure. The complexity of an ISP on the scale of Telia, Level3 or NTT is far beyond a top level domain operator.

"Those supporting the vote are also unhappy at compensation paid to senior management. The website points to a 38 per cent drop in operating profit between 2016 and 2020, while at the same time the pay of the top three directors, who also sit on Nominet’s board, jumped 70 per cent, from £1m to £1.7m total. Last year, Haworth received a 30 per cent pay rise, bringing his annual compensation to £593,000."

https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/31/nominet_board_vote/
How about reasonable health insurance without employment requirement?

The defense is NOT to stop the virus (unrealistic defense solution) - it's to make sure we can withstand/resist it so things like vaccines can be put into place so we can go back to some sort of normal (e.g. New Zealand)

The USA (only major western country without healthcare) was unique in how many deaths we had. 90% of those were unnecessary.
Do you have a reference for your final example?
Can someone create a countdown timer for Ghangouts/Zoom? I find that in most calls time is wasted and people don't usually get to the meat of things until way into the call. A timer for scarcity would make video calls/meetings way more effective
> if you study engine internals, especially MergeJoin, HashJoin, NestedLoopJoin

it's called merge join because it employs the merge algorithm (linear time constant space)[1] - this can only be used when the inputs are sorted. likewise the hash join entails building a hash table and using it (linear time linear space)[2] but the inputs don't have to be sorted. the point of these is to avoid the O(N*M) nested loop

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge_algorithm

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_join
>I'm not a virologist but every TWiV episode I listened to, there was convincing talk about natural reservoirs being the most likely source of the virus.

In no way whatsoever does that detract from a potential lab leak. The vast majority of viruses used in gain of function research are taken from natural reservoirs.
So, you're saying I should just believe it escaped from a lab because reasons? And you're asking me to believe the administration of a president who lied publicly 30,000 times over 4 years and who may soon be facing criminal charges? Sorry, but that's just not good enough. Actual evidence in the zoonotic origin column greatly surpasses that in the lab leak column. I'll go with what I can see, thanks.

Example: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-55998157
Exports of vaccines so far:

UK: 0

EU: 0

Neither the UK nor the EU make vaccines.

Why can't people grasp this?

Each political entity has a contract with private companies. Neither political entity has any obligation to each other when it comes to providing doses as neither makes vaccines and so neither is in a position to export them.

If the EU bans vaccine exports they are restraining private trade between AZ and the UK. If they don't block exports, well that's just normal business and imposes no obligations whatsoever on a third party such as the UK.
Indeed. If not sending referer was the only reason, gmail would never have needed to rewrite the link since it could've just used `rel=noreferrer` on the original anchor tags instead.
Hope this helps: https://archive.is/hRLwS
There is pretty good evidence for that as well. I think section 9 is most relevant.
>The problem I have is that China isn't interested in investigating the start of the pandemic.

Why should they be interested? We know how SARS type viruses can spread to humans, we know what other species are vulnerable, and we know what things make it more or less likely. A new outbreak was not a surprising result. What benefit is there to aggressively investigating the exact transmission method?

If your mink idea was found to be accurate, would you advocate closing mink farms? It being the source this time doesn't make it likely to cause the next transferrable virus.
Apart from the fact that average IW has been rising dramatically, I guess your not a Forest Gump fan.

I think 100 IQ people are more capable than you realize - but it comes down to their attitude.
Interesting write up, thanks for sharing it.
But I think he did say that such restrictions are bad and people should remove it
The UAE is also up to 80%.

Having a population of 8M helps a lot.

If Israel (or the UAE) had a population of 350M - they would not be even close to 100% vaccinated.
What's wrong with students doing everything they can to get into IIT? How is it different from the US? A student aspiring to get into HYPM in the bay area often needs to get full GPA, complete more than 10 AP courses, be the leader in multiple voluntary groups, be a captain in a sports team, sleep 5 hours a day, and take illicit smart drugs. Do such students have a childhood? Do they have life? Do they have true hobby? So it's okay to toil for so-called "holistic admission", but it's not okay to play the game in India? What kind of twisted moral superiority is this?

And how is different from a Korean students doing everything they can so they can get into the top medical school?

And how is it different from a Japanese kid fighting to get into Tokyo University?

And how is it different from a Chinese student who walks 10 miles every day to attend high school so she can get into a top-tier university?

Do Americans even know that some countries do not have as many universities as the US? Do they know that national entrance exams can be the most fair system a country could afford? Do they even know that building leadership in high school can be a luxury that millions of family wouldn't even dream to have, yet the families can still produce brilliant students?

Holistic my ass.
"mythical" ordinary user? Have you been living in the world recently?
Your article from may doesn't say anything about signing contracts, only that they are ready to go.

I've seen the articles mention may, june and august as signing dates of the contract, so clearly there is some 'miscommunication'. And both the may and june date originates from AZ, while the actual date turns out to be august.
An overwhelming majority of freedom loss topics RMS has warned about have gone from sounding silly to being true.
If you're updating them then they're not 3rd party scripts.
Other interesting open-source calculus texts:

(1) Corral, M. (super-readable!)

http://www.mecmath.net/calculus/index.html
http://www.mecmath.net/index.html

(2) Feldman et al.

http://www.math.ubc.ca/~CLP/
There were 49 incidents of anti-Asian hate crime in 2019 and 122 in 2020. I get that those numbers should be zero. But am I way out of line in saying that something that affects ~.00006% of Asian-Americans, and makes up ~1.6% of total hate crimes, should have no bearing on how we approach this subject?

My genuine apologies if I am crossing a line. I know this is a potentially touchy subject. Hate crime is serious and has many negative externalities that other crimes and accidents don't carry. They have also been on the rise, and could continue to grow more significant. It just feels very strange to me that 70 additional crimes in a year that saw thousands of additional murders has been such a common talking point for months now.
Agreed. For example iOS and stock Android, terrible designs.
The API has generally been pretty stable, so I don't think you should be too worried about that. I haven't talked to other stakeholders about a version 1.0, and we actually have some larger API changes cooking right now. For now we probably value the ability to change the API more, especially because there are likely still ways we can make it more robust/secure.
70% of the doses the EU bought were instead delivered to the UK to fulfill AZ's obligation to the UK.

After that initial batch, a further 8 million EU doses were exported to the UK, and a further 46 million EU doses were exported to other countries, including the US.

Just this second batch would have tripled the EU's vaccination rate so far.
Hearing stuff like this gives me hope, but still the experience is frustrating.
I suppose for argument's sake, you can theoretically interview at each of the letters in FAANG every year. Just blew my attempt at the F for 2021, so trying to reach out to the rest of the letters (and some other companies).
Consider that "working" and "having a job" aren't necessarily the same thing. You can absolutely retire early, not have a job, but continue working. Many people would not only find that fulfilling, but very freeing, as their livelihood is no longer tied to their ability to hold a job, or the ability of their company to stay solvent.

Also consider that many people do not, like you, love to work.

Money doesn't buy happiness, but not having enough of it is a great recipe for being unhappy. I think there are coarsely three levels of personal finance:

1) You live paycheck to paycheck (or worse) and are constantly anxious about your finances.

2) You have some savings and live comfortably enough. You might want more, but not having more doesn't outright kill your happiness.

3) You have enough money that you can live comfortably, even if you decide to stop working, without much (or anything) in the way of unmet wants.

The vast majority of people are in one of the first two buckets. Getting to the third one isn't possible for most people, unfortunately, and trying to get there could actively make some people's lives worse. But all other things being equal (which is admittedly rare), the third bucket is objectively better than the second.
MIT Technology Review, last week:

"Did the coronavirus leak from a lab? These scientists say we shouldn’t rule it out."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/18/1021030/coronavi...
If they are actually selling at cost [citation needed], why would they ship to Australia with undoubtedly higher transport costs?
I didn't exhaustively scanned each entry, but sampled many (> 15) and one thing that I found to be odd was that all of them were male. I'm not sure if it's cultural but it's quite interesting.
I think the theory should be dismissed because it's not falseable.

Right now, there is no question that say, the US military has samples of Coronavirus. Not for nefarious reasons mind you, but of course it's of military importance to study a global virus if only to work on vaccines and such.

Even if Coronavirus originated in nature, going forward if there is ever a new outbreak, you technically can't prove it wasn't the US military accidentally messing up can you?

You don't know the characteristics of the strain they're holding, and if it originated in nature then any study of it will show it came from nature.

Likewise you can't prove it wasn't the lab. They could have had samples of it from before, how can you prove the negative of that? It's hard to prove you didn't have access to a given thing.
The blacken anything it touches wasn’t my argument. Investigate everything it touches, yes, but if it turns out to be no connection you just confiscate the proceeds of a crime and move on.
And indeed the XOR method is also how it's implemented in Rust.

https://docs.rs/subtle/2.4.0/src/subtle/lib.rs.html#226-244 - the impl for [u8], where the per-element ct_eq is

https://docs.rs/subtle/2.4.0/src/subtle/lib.rs.html#259-272 - the impl for u8
Kotlin mostly requires JVM, Crystal does not. Kotlin is heavily oriented towards Java familiarity and interoperability, Crystal is heavily oriented towards Ruby familiarity, and C interoperability.

Also, Crystal was first released in 2014, when Kotlin was like 3 years old, and 100% JVM-bound.
Do you feel this is appropiate? I am not getting this.