skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Meanwhile, the UK and US do not export any vaccines at all."

This is untrue. The US in the process of exporting 4 million doses of vaccine between Mexico and Canada[1].

The US has also said that once they have ensured that there is enough vaccine supply for all Americans(likely around May 1st)it will begin exporting any surplus in the summer.[2] The US has not met that target of enough vaccines for its population.

The reality is that US and EU took very different approaches towards vaccine procurement. The US government acted more like an investor and threw insane sums of cash at the drugmakers with very few strings attached and the EU sought lower prices and higher accountability for drug makers. There were very different risk profiles between the two. In the end the EU placed their orders months after the US, the UK and Israel. Ursula von der Leyen seems quite content to shift the blame everywhere else and propagate the view that the EU is being taken advantage of.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-digest-us-to-send-first-va...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/biden-moves-up-vaccine-tim...
Yeah, but they're surveying CEO's.

CEO's want all the little people back in the office so they can have their minions back.
When you account for all the other fixed and variables costs of the US Army, including weapon tests, I wonder what is the total cost of actually destroying a real world target. Must be easily above 50 M$.
what steps did your company take to mitigate this issue?
C# ? Not complicated at all. In fact it's currently one of the most cross platform language/runtime in existence after .NET Core appeared, and now more than ever with .NET 5.0. I even managed to AOT compile code and run it without a trace of .NET. Just amazing.
That's actually a good habit to build.

Here's a windows utility you might find useful: https://github.com/susam/uncap

And here's an editor that's accommodating to your newly trained typing skills ;) https://www.vim.org/
complain as much as you like, and you may be mostly correct. But you overlooked one absolutely brilliant piece of Apple technology: the ipod nano 7. (insert hysterical laughter). Make fun if you want, it's obsolete, only 16gb, poor battery, old bluetooth etc. You are right, but i challenge anyone to show me anything comparable, with such a good touchscreen, that is slim enough that you don't feel it in your pocket. Every mm matters, and the nano 7 has no parallel afaik. We will look back in 20 and speak with hushed awe about how well packaged the nano 7. You rail against ive's crusade, but it isn't all bad news.

Rip iPod
Child migrants: First photos emerge of Biden-era detention centres
> the EU is trying to be good and is sharing its vaccinations more or less fairly with other countries (for now)

What's fair about it? The number of exported vaccines would account for only 10% of EU population, by your own admission. Since the poor countries in need of vaccine are from Africa and Asia (mostly), they most definitely have much greater populations. What's fair about exporting just 10% of vaccines?
Somewhat related headline:

“Man who donated his mother's body to an Arizona center for Alzheimer's research discovers it was sold on to the US Military for $6,000, strapped to a chair and blown up in 'blast test'”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7303455/Man-donated...
Half of all devs work on Windows platforms, so IMHO, if the team wants the kind of traction needed to reach for Crystal to reach a self-sustaining level, this should be a high-priority task.

Note that all of Crystal's competitors give first-class support to Windows: go, zig, nim, ruby, etc.

I say this as a suggestion, rather than a critique. Actually, as a hopeful suggestion. :-)
I hope they offer aarch64 version in tier 1. Otherwise, it is not easy to cross compile for Raspberry Pi.
It's hard to micromanage if you're working from home.
Swift is not any more tied to macOS than C# is tied to Windows. Compiler LLVM and everything is open source and cross platform. Not all the libraries but that holds true for C# as well, last time I checked.
I don't understand. We are talking about Docker Desktop for Mac, right? The piece of free-of-charge software that makes it a bit more convenient to use docker (which let's be clear is a Linux tool) from a Mac?

If you don't like the way that convenience is provided to you, then yes, you don't need to use it, and that is not tantamount to telling you to give up and go move to Canada.

The developers have chosen to implement autoupdating.

That meant that in December they pushed a version which had a bug in it, and users received the bugged version. Then they pushed a version with a fix, and users received the version with the fix.

That doesn't seem worth throwing a tantrum over.
Yeah I got excited to see a thread about z3 then I realized.
When the newspaper prints what time is sunrise, I don't write it to protest that the sun doesn't go anywhere; it's the Earth that is spinning on its axis. Sunrise is just the way we refer to that phenomenon because it looks like the sun is rising.

I think it's perfectly fine to say that your body was designed to do this or that. It may have been the result of random mutations, but evolution has done such a good job it damn well looks like it was designed.
both

bsdtar 3.4.3 - libarchive 3.4.3 zlib/1.2.11 liblzma/5.2.5 bz2lib/1.0.8 libzstd/1.4.5

and

bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3

seem to do the job.

I don't use GNU based tools much so I'm unsure if you need special flags for them.
This may go against the spirit of hn but I gotta say I find these photos offensive.
I have noticed a huge surge in ads compared to last year. Every video has 2 ads, sometimes the first is unskippable. Its just crazy. Unfortunately there is no competition so what are you going to do?

JS based ad blocking isn't really an option on mobile and DNS based filtering doesnt work
If I ate a Krispy Kreme donut every day for the rest of the year I'm pretty sure it'd have a larger net effect on my health than my chances with COVID without a vaccine.
I'll take the opportunity to plug Dennis Yurichev's Z3 book ;)

https://sat-smt.codes/main.html
I can understand the comparison with lawyers but why dentists?
Am I the only one who thinks that no travel + tactile feedback actually sound like two highly desirable properties for a keyboard? Whenever I use someone else's butterfly keyboard I'm impressed and a bit jealous, but as I've never used one for long, I can't say whether it's really an improvement.
I think what 99% of people need is a 1 year break from their jobs. If you can't find something meaningful in that 1 year, you'll never find happiness in FIRE. You need to find something that you'd be very happy doing, which also incidentally brings you enough money to supplement your FIRE.
Flash had the same habit of sending the player's IP address back to the server. A few crims got caught by that.

Certain nation states have a catalog of 0-days, but they don't want to burn one up for an ordinary crim.
Yes but when when people consistently bring up the mostly unfalsifiable theory that is most associated with conspiracy theories it's basically impossible to separate the conspiracy theorists from everyone else, and sadly much more productive to just not engage.
However, the US government was able to block export of AstraZeneca, apparently due to having purchased the vaccine:

The U.S. Is Sitting on Tens of Millions of Vaccine Doses the World Needs
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/us/politics/coronavirus-a...

US agrees to share AstraZeneca vaccines with Mexico, Canada
https://amp.france24.com/en/americas/20210319-closing-in-on-...
Boost.STLInterfaces provides a more modern alternative to iterator_facade.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/doc/html/stl_interface...
How AI applications can benefit from microservices?
> You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos

That's considering:

- Transcoding for all types of devices

- Having apps that work on all those devices

- Being one app that people already use/already have an account to it to reduce friction

- Being in an environment where people already are, and where they can discover your content without you telling them about it

Sounds kind of ok-ish to me. But for MANY people (most, I would say), $20 bucks is multiple meals, and is a significant spending considering for quite a while, nobody is going to see the content.

If I pay $0 to upload and nobody sees it, I don't lose much.
That is thinking for oneself. That's seeing a problem, attempting to address the problem, and when that fails, taking copious notes for CYA purposes. It's the enterprise version of I Told You So.

What I think you mean to is you want a person who will take action. And that's down to company culture. If you want employees who act empowered, you have to give them power.
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Also, a lot of those famously corrupt big bodies like the IOC and FIFA are international organsations. It's not easy to get a majority of the national member organisations, or their governments, to support strong action against corruption.
As an old Ruby fan, you should seriously check out Julia. It had a lot of the same meta programming goodies as Ruby but with performance that often rivals C/C++. Actually I think Julia will frequently pull off being faster. It is crazy how good JIT compilation works today with a language specifically designed designed for it.
The real tell tale is when the effect starts diminishing as SNR improves.

The giveaway that the EM drive is junk is that the effect has gotten smaller everytime the apparatus has removed a source of error.

Nothing is ever conclusive, but it points to something which should violate the known laws of physics really just being a pile of systematic error.
This guy looking old.
I've put "temporarily" in the title because the post now says the money has been refunded. The article is worth leaving up because, unlike the typical riler-upper, it touches on a phenomenon which is interesting in its own right. But I don't think it's fair to leave up a title that implies that there's an uncorrected injustice to get angry about. If anyone has a better solution, we can do that instead.
> The exception is that discrimination is still totally legal if the person just can't afford the home.

It's also important to remember how this applies to school districts. If you exclude the poor from your neighborhood, you also exclude them from your school district. (This explains part of the otherwise unexpected opposition to school vouchers by college-educated affluent Democrats and the support for them by rural Republicans in bad school districts, when the vouchers would allow students to escape bad school districts.)

> As Atari once told me, Do The Math: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OEHRENWBSHNO

Interestingly the steep curve on the graph is caused in large part by misguided policies claimed to increase home ownership (which is not really possible without increasing the housing supply). You can clearly see the "give mortgages to everybody regardless of whether they can afford it" policies leading up to the housing crisis, followed by the housing crisis, followed by more than a decade of near-zero interest rates inflating housing costs.

It looks like we had completely reinflated the housing bubble by 2016 and have only gone up from there, so that's... not ideal.

Though artificial housing scarcity is still a separate and real problem that compounds with this.
/ irony

I guess it took to the middle of the thread.
Companies can't sell user data if it's all public, right?
I haven't seen any videos, but you wouldn't necessarily have to have people "walking" in the streets to have people dying in the streets. Major cities often have plenty of people who are sitting or standing in the street all day long.
It seems they're planning for multi (OS) threads soon, but it wasn't able to make it into 1.0
To be fair, that's one of the most expensive weapons shown here. Griffin, the JDAMs and GBUs, Hellfire, and APKWS are all much cheaper than that. (Source: worked for 10 years in acquisition for many of these weapons)
Where are these various autocompletes detailed?
P&F were not replicated, so we can safely say they were entirely wrong.

For some reason, their negative result makes some people believe other different kinds of "cold fusion" are more likely. This is not how conditional probability works.
No, Julia is not statically typed and will outperform pretty much anything, at least when dealing with numerical code.

Next generation climate models are built with Julia. You would not pick a slow language for such a high performance dependent task.
I wish DuckDuckGo actually found the stuff I'm looking for. I've given it a solid try a few times and it's just not as good, and I can't justify spending twice as long as I need to on a search.
The variety of what is "supported" is also why it's taken years for USB-C to see any modicum of use outside mobile phone chargers that required the higher power and data rates. It's still not commonplace.

And it's still only useful for low power devices.
Well, we do have statements from the WIV that none of their samples closely match the earliest SARS-CoV-2, but we can just assume they are just outright lying, right?

So, except for the fact that you must believe WIV did all these experiments in total secrecy (so that nobody outside heard of it while visiting, etc) and now won't admit to having done them, it's not a conspiracy theory.
It's really ludicrous that anyone gets conspiratorial about the CCP spreading a bioweapon that originates in their own country. They snuck military scientists into the US to tap into coronavirus research. The most simple litmus test I can think of is if China led the race for a vaccine, but they didn't.

People really need to stop and think, because next time that lab could be in your country. With icebergs and permafrost melting, you can bet there's going to be more pandemics in the pipeline. This really isn't a time for people's crass and nihilistic takes on foreign governments, science, or even your own government. When you leave room for people and systems to screw up, then things get better; if you're hypercritical then all you incentivise is the burying of evidence and lies.
We've added "temporarily" to the title to make it true again, or at least as close to true as it started out.
Seriously wtf. We're trying to combat disinformation and distrust in info from authorities on the subjects, and the CDC and Fauci comes out with that blatant "noble lie." I can't take these institutions seriously the same way again.
> Physicists then said "It can't be nuclear, it must be chemical" - forgetting who was doing the experiment.

No, what lots of people (many of them far more prominent chemists than P&F said, not just physicists) is that, if honest, it had to be measurement error, not only based on abstract analysis of the described setup and results, but also based on robust attempts to replicate the claimed results.
> Yeah it seems pretty clear that this was a 1Password flaw and didn't really have anything to do with Substack's UI

The UI is styled to make it so that a form input is completely indistinguishable from surrounding text, to such an extent that even people who know it's a form input in this thread have incorrectly assumed that it's not manually editable.

I can't comprehend how anyone could defend deliberately misleading UI design in a form that is asking for your credit card information. This is a problem with Substack. 1Password can definitely do better to guard against it happening, but the only reason it did happen is because Substack actively tried to hide important information from users in a payment screen.
Neat in many ways, sadly nowadays slowly being driven into the ground.
> No one is advocating intentionally sticking electrical probes into your body. So, again, it doesn't show that a 9 volt battery used in the way described by the article is dangerous.

You're asking the wrong question. If you don't want to be a dumbass, the question that should be asked isn't "has this been shown (to me) to be dangerous?" Answering no then proceeding is a good way to harm yourself out of ignorance.

The right questions are along the lines of "has this been shown to be safe?", "if not, do I have actually have a full enough understanding to find out?", and "if I die doing this, am I in the running for a Darwin award?"
Definitely networking is the most important. In my example, I got referred to my first enterprise client from an old boss of mine who appreciated my work. I literally woke up to an email one day that, within a week or so, led to a contract worth about 500k over the following 6 months, and a few more clients from there. I did nothing but follow up to their intro and answer questions I was asked. I have yet to have the same experience again, because my network is not large. It was mostly right place right time. Eventually it fizzled out because I was not very into doing consulting work and preferred to focus on product-based businesses instead, spending a lot of time building new things instead of growing or improving our DX, client relationships, and lead funnels. I let things slip, managed poorly, and as a result we lost our clients.

It also comes to good sales as well. Again in my example, I was originally approached for a single contributor personal contract. It was just me at the time. Within a couple weeks of working together, I quickly realized they were bringing on these individual devs left and right. I simultaneously pitched the client on expanding our contract to multiple contributors, AKA becoming a true vendor, while also recruiting and hiring a team behind the scenes (again, networking - I pulled from past coworkers and friends who could get the job done, so the hiring process was far from exhaustive, but saved critical time). It was a risk, but it worked out and I was able to stitch together the team and win the contract. We became their de-facto “engineering team” of about 5 devs, and I set up a corp entity and began processing invoices and running payroll for my new employees.

Use accounting software from day one. Hire a corporate attorney. Worth every penny. Spend as little as you can to make your employees as happy as possible. Do not run payroll in multiple states unless you absolutely have to, or be prepared to deal with L&I and revenue departments for every state you have employees in (see: accounting software, corp attorney). Just a few of the lessons I learned along the way.
Chrome does several things right. (Disclaimer: I used to work on ChromeOS/Chrome, but this is just my opinion (but you can have it if you want).)

- A beta stream that's one release ahead, which tends to be selected by web developers and other whiny^H^H^H^H^H demanding users.

- Gradual release of new versions, starting with something like 1% of users, then 10%, then 100%.

- Significant changes are behind run-time flags (chrome://flags), and ship disabled by default. After one or often several releases, where it can be optionally enabled, it becomes enabled by default, with the ability to back out if something goes wrong. Finally, only once it's been successfully enabled for several releases, the flag and the old code can be removed.

- Nobody minds if a feature doesn't make it in to a release; there'll be another one in month or two. There's no pressure to cram in something half-baked to meet a deadline.
I suggest applying again. Approvals are happening at a faster rate.
I recently had the choice between a macbook pro and a dell xps. Saw the dell xps had HDMI, USB-C _and_ USB-A and was sold.

Enjoy it while it lasts, the current XPS generation is USB-C only.
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That is because JS was not built for JIT compilation. With a dynamic language like Julia built for JIT compilation from the very start you get both much simpler and cleaner design and higher performance.

It uses a method JIT so it is deterministic and easy to analyze unlike JavaScript.

You can lookup ahead of time how each function will get compiled with given input types.
To add, i'm not so confident in future usability given it's python 2[0].

0: https://github.com/presslabs/z3/issues/38
Every BSL-certified lab should be doing gain of function research.

If leaks are a problem, then certifications should be better enforced.

Burying our head in the sand and waiting for nature to kill us is a losing move.
kotlin/native doesnt require jvm

swift support for windows is non-existent
Well, being redirected to the Code of Conduct when you search for WSL seems enough of a citation to me. Kind of surprised of such a behaviour of arch community, to be honest. Usually, it's one of the user-friendliest knowledge-bases on the Internet.
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The rationale makes no sense. You plug the numbers into the equation for the expected fusion rate and you get something indistinguishable from zero.
I don't know if declaring all the types would speed up compilation, but what I do know is that they matter to the code itself. For instance, you can use them to overload methods:

# version 1:
def add(x : Int, y : Int)
x + y
end

# version 2:
def add(x : Number, y : Number)
x + y
end

# version 3:
def add(x : Number, y : String)
x.to_s + y # convert a number to a string with to_s method
end

# version 4:
def add(x, y)
x + y
end

# new methods:
# version 5:
def add(x : Number, y : Bool)
y ? x : 0
end

# version 6:
def add(x : String, y : String)
if x.to_i? && y.to_i?
add x.to_i, y.to_i # calls version 1
else
x + y
end
end

add(2, 3) # => 5
add(1.0, 3.14) # => 4.14
add("Hello ", "Crystal") # => "Hello Crystal"
add(42, " times") # => "42 times"
add 5, true # => 5
add 13, false # => 0
add("12", "13") # => 25

(also from the book)

> I just feel that coming from Ruby to Rust, declaring types on function definitions is not that much of a hassle.

I'm another one who doesn't understand why declaring types is seen as a hassle, but then I went from C# to Ruby so perhaps I was already used to it. Happy to bring a little back!
Assuming it was leaked and China didn’t disclose it - so what? Is the idea to blame China for everything? What’s the play?

I honestly don’t see what difference it makes from it coming from a lab in China vs someone eating something they weren’t supposed to be vs a bat, etc.

I’m honestly curious to why it matters - not to say that we shouldn’t pursue the truth but it seems like it doesn’t matter.

These theories without conclusive evidence seems to just blame China - which unfortunately drive anti Sino sentiment.
It doesn’t, but if you ban export, the value to export goes down to zero and the value in selling it domestically stays almost the same so companies will sell it there instead. Banning export is “soft” stealing.

US did ban export.

I’m all for the free market, but if export bans are ok for US it’s ok for EU, if it’s not ok for EU then it’s not ok for US.

What people will remember is the winner, and we will have increased brain drain because of it.
Well also if the US ends up in a scuffle with a super power, air superiority will more or less decide which conventional force achieves its objectives.
Amazing perspectives to consider. I will keep them in mind
Some roles are less about technical brilliance and more about solving business problems and effective communication. Take a step back and ask why vs what.
Apple wins in the hardware department by far. Even before M1. If this targets anyone it targets developers who play video games.
It seems that the common trend of explaining why China covered up the information and didn't let external third parties investigate is due to possible backlash.
My simple question is, why fear backlash if it wasn't a leak either due to incompetence and malice? If bats from outside the lab truly started it, why not let observers see this? Why hide it?
Which can be defined after print by ANYONE