skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't leave out the part where Mahaffey first confirmed the P&F results before having to retract that due to improper equipment usage. That likely was a big contributing factor to the many conspiracy theories that P&F had in-fact cracked cold fusion and The Government/Big Old/The Illuminati were trying to keep it a secret.

(I love Mahaffey's books so much.)
That's ridiculous.

No vaccination for ages over 65 while there is insufficient data on efficacy in those groups, briefly suspend vaccination with new drug while evaluating reports of unexpected side effects, release of the vaccine to age groups that are least effected by those side effects.

I agree that all three decisions are wrong, but I don't think they're ridiculous. Just overly cautious.
Relevant with the Crystal 1.0 post earlier today / yesterday. Kemal is a great framework in the spirit of Sinatra, if you don't need all the fancy features of the big frameworks like Amber and Lucky.

I've used it and it's super easy to use, congrats on the 1.0! Oh, and happy birthday!
Feature Toggling with Java and Spring Boot
you should come up with fictional childhood stories, or movie scenes without giving too much detail on characters or environment.
As a materials physicist, I have no idea what you mean by this:

> As an example, calculating the exact screening effect of a metal lattice from theory has not been performed to anyones satisfaction, particularly if you account for hydrogen moving within the lattice, or the lattice undergoing some deformation.

Screening effect from what? There is nothing surprising in the way hydrogen behaves in a metal. We can simulate that with great accuracy, in fact we do it all the time as hydrogen embrittlement is an important issue in metallurgy.

This type of cold fusion would require two nuclei overcoming humongous energy barriers to get close enough to each other. No form of motion within a crystal lattice or no amount of deformation is going to provide that. The energies involved are about 6 orders of magnitude short.

Heat is trivial to measure, we’ve been doing that since the 19th century. Neutrons are not particularly difficult either, we’ve been doing that since the 1940s.
It looks like it has become fashionable to write Go related posts as they sure get the attention on HN :-). I don't use Go, but all these posts remind me of what Bjarne Stroustroup said [1] about C++: “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”
[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/226225-there-are-only-two-k...
It doesn't seem a very serious comment. I think it's just the obvious reaction to starting a website at your university where, mysteriously, you end up with thousands of your peer's details.
Also not everyone has a living setup that works for WFH.

WFH is great for someone with a big house where they can convert some part of a room into a study. It’s less great for someone living in a studio or apartment with limited space.
> We take the privacy of our customers’ data and personal information very seriously

I wish companies would actually mean this and apply it proactively instead of just copy and pasting this in their apology after something like this happens.
I suspect you've been poking solid core wire into these, damaging them. Then they become unreliable...
I suggest you yourself do a google search to uncover the truth.

Canada only bought doses from other companies after CanSino fell through in summer 2020 putting them at the back of the line.

https://nationalpost.com/news/moderna-chairman-says-canada-n...

“ Early last year, Canada also signed an agreement with Chinese vaccine-maker CanSino for a vaccine trial, but that deal fell apart. CanSino had initially agreed to bring its vaccine candidate to Canada for testing.Critics have accused the federal government of failing to move swiftly to secure agreements with the likes of Pfizer and Moderna because it was focused on that failed deal.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56035306

My sister is a pharmacist in Toronto. She is personally vaccinating people right now as we speak. She said as of last week Ontario only had 200,000 Astra Zeneca vaccine doses allocated to it until April. 200,000 for 15 million people. She says that maybe Ontario may get more on Friday via the US sending more AZ but there’s no information about anything else. Until a few days ago, AZ could not be given to anyone over 64 which caused a lot of confusion and anger. And then Ford said in a conference that they were letting people get the AZ vaccine but they didn’t let the pharmacies know ahead of time, causing even more confusion.

My mom who is in her 80s, her second dose of Pfizer was just recently pushed out by 4 months because they don’t have enough supply. My aunt who is in her 70s couldn’t register (until recently as I mentioned) for a shot because they didn’t have any supply for her age range.

So no, Canada doesn’t have the doses it needs. It’s last in line because they started negotiating months after every other country and only after CanSino deal crumbled.
I'd like to shill on Matrix, (https://matrix.org) which is essentially a federated and open source Discord like app.

Also, kind of modern IRC.
> The Bayesian probability suggests the odds that it would evolve by chance

lol care to share those numbers
Gatekeeping internet account lifetimes.
Flagged for being so shite that you can’t even handle a few dozen clicks per second. What a pathetic website.
Only after the deal with CanSino fell through. That’s why Canada doesn’t have enough vaccine right now. And won’t have enough for months and months.
This is the truth. We don't have evidence that the virus came from a lab (how could we when China refused investigation?), but we have evidence that the whistleblowers were arrested. Some are dead and some aren't seen again. Are we not supposed to blame this regime?
Good question. Based on my experience in SCM I would say a combination of circumstances, luck and better management.

The UK had a head start (due to earlier approval of the AZ vaccine, they were the second ones after the Russins and before the US), of one and a half months or so. The UK gotlucky that AZs prodution in the UK went smoother than the one in Belgium. And cirumstances are in favour of the UK, initial deliviery volumes are low accross the board, regardless of supplier, and a smaller population allows higher per capita numbers in these cases.

The main reason so, IMHO, is the UKs approach and management of the campaign. With NHS, theUK coud build upon one entitiy to run things, the UK streched the second shot and didn't hold inventory back for it. And the UK seems to have proper operational supply chain management in place.

The EU (meaning individual member states) on the other hand has a larger population, at least 27 individual entities (Germany adds 16 individual states to that), o central planning (Germany has none on the federal level and I haven't seen any on state level so far neither), no coherent strategy. Appointment managment doesn't work. The EU also screwed up supply by ordering more in january (volumes that weren't needed) which resulted in further delays. And the list goes on.

In a nut shell, the UK didnt screw with the suppliers supply chains up to end f production and has a grip on the down stream supply chain up to peoples arms. The EU screwed with suppliers and has zero plan about everything after doses are delivered to a national distribution hub.

EDIT: The EU has to coordinate 27 nations and has to avoid an EU-internal bidding war. The UK doesn't.
This is too broad of a stroke to be brushing with.

Personally, my mental health has gone worse for non-COVID reasons. I live in an apartment and the limited real estate means that it’s hard to dissociate work space from living space. I’m not the only person who lives in an apartment.
> email has become the newsletter and password reset center because it doesn't work well enough

Have you considered that it’s the password reset center because it’s the only thing that works well enough?

Anything completely proprietary is a joke for security from a business continuity perspective. It’s the same reason serious companies don’t depend on “sign in with Facebook” as their only login method.
Are there really a lot of unused vaccines in Europe though? What are the equivalent numbers for other countries? I submit it's a supply chain thing, there's a week's worth of vaccines moving from the factory to the humans
Erm, the characteristic stone in the Peak District is sandstone, but yes. My last house was built in the 1760s and I describe it as the heaviest object I have ever owned.
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it :)
The users without the software have no value though. If you could theoretically sell just the user base would it be worth as much?

It’s more like the user base and network effects are a multiplier of the software value.
I am aware of it, hence my remark.

It was a bad idea versus what other compiler vendors had in their toolbox.

MFC only won because Microsoft is the OS vendor, and Borland lost it trying to fly too high.

Back in the MS-DOS and Windows 3.x very few would use Microsoft compilers, Borland and Watcom were the favourite.
It’s really a never-ending shit show with this company.

Somehow, I’d still take the vaccine. I remain convinced that none of this is done with malicious intend.

But that confidence is based mostly on a general trust of institutions and procedures in healthcare. It’s a deep reservoir of trust, built up over time. AZ is certainly taking from it more than it is contributing.
Use a browser extension. For example, the 1Password extension uses (authenticated) IPC to talk to the app and then injects the password into the DOM directly.
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>"Lentz proposes that conventional energy sources could be capable of arranging the structure of spacetime in the form of a

soliton

– a robust singular wave. This soliton would act like a

“warp bubble’”

, contracting space in front of it and expanding space behind. Unlike objects within spacetime, spacetime itself can bend, expand or warp at any speed. Therefore, a spacecraft contained in a hyper-fast bubble could arrive at its destination faster than light would in normal space without breaking any physical laws, even Einstein’s cosmic speed limit."
If you see the screenshot on the landing page you'll notice the layout. It's laid out like slack but includes audio/video bubbles in the room. The idea is that we don't really want to spend a lot of time staring at each other, it's not natural. Going fully remote during Covid we found slack on its own wasn't enough for us and zoom or Google meet just forced us into this staring contest that felt unnatural. With distributed small bubbles provide "presence" for the person without necessarily focusing on them.
Thanks Joseph!
But unless you end up lower cost than SpaceX, you probably won't get a single extra launch. So far, they basically only get EU political projects, and those tend to not care about price.
There's also a TON of people who can customize a template or write you a dedicated plugin for next to nothing. I'm talking about a 16-year-old dude from Romania or Algeria who can do this just fine for a couple of bucks, instead of hiring a SF-based ninja rockstar evangelist who can get you hooked up with JAMstack and a headless CMS for only 10K...
It's free. We charge for GIFs (no joke)
The Spanish flu didn't originate in Spain.
This is scary and what I feared would eventually happen. How long before AI is better than every music producer, trained on all of music how likeable something is? How long before fake influencers on IG and TikTok completely dominate by having more addictive personalities and videos to follow than real people?
Theyve already solved the engineering part with Microsoft Teams. Even the UX is similar.
If they wanted to make a discord alternative, they'd just repaint MS Teams to have a more gamer-like UI.

These 10 billion are for the userbase alone.
The best answer is that NFTs are worth as much as stupid rich people with too much money value them. The same is true of all art.

I’ve thought about this a lot, both about NFTs and the modern art market, and that is the best explanation. It’s just stupid rich people and their stupid status signaling games.

Wise rich people don’t really do the worthless art thing, except maybe as an investment to diversify with.
It works both ways. I've had jobs at FAANG and rejected an offer from a FAANG as well. I'm not that impressed with FAANGs anymore. I think one grows out of the need for validation after while. It's just business. I see interviewing largely as a sales function. Winning a sale with a prospect is a game of numbers. Of course your product (i.e. your skill set and track record) matters but there are many other confounding variables you have no control over. So stressing about any one job rejection is a bad idea. particularly when conversion rates are very low.
That's one of the reasons I don't want to use 1Password and instead I'm just using old KeePass. KeePass fills what field I've selected. 1Password does its own magic and I don't like magic. KeePass might be slower, but I'm not filling those forms every day, so I can live with it. Basically KeePass does simple thing and does it well. 1Password might be good at doing complex things, but it does not have AI.
Some comparisons full of personal opinions:

GitHub 7.5B. This one has terrible UI is 100x easier than Discord from UI and engineering point of view and will open for disruption from Discord like team in the future. It's very easy to imagine much better GitHub. With Discord you can think of many cool features to add but that's about it. It is a pleasure to use and has fantastic UI.

Skype - 8.5B 10 years ago for a steaming pile of shit software.

LinkedIn - 26b for trivial (in comparison to Discord) software full of dark patterns people don't really like to use.

It might just be Microsoft best acquisition. Let's hope they leave the original team in charge and let them continue to work on it. Discord is exceptional but there are still many cool things that can be added to it.
And the EU contract with AZ includes the UK as, technically, an EU member state. SO that isn't as straight forward as it seems.
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My immediate answer would be it is because it eliminates a constraint. Thus placement is easier if alignment is not a constraint.
Do not see much of a value in this kind of question except for amusement of the interviewer and check if the person is wired differently.
I'll be honest, I'm a bit annoyed you think I care less about software freedom, because I don't like Stallman.

I'd like to separate two things out. I believe it severely hurts the cause of software freedom to have Stallman at the helm. I think software freedom is bigger than any one person, and Stallman has been, for many years, damaging to the cause.

Do you think "the ideas or Stallman" are more important?
The videos created are more like visualisers. Not a bad thing, but I was expecting dancers, singers. Still, very impressive technology.
Ask HN: For M1 users, when is the last time you opened Activity Monitor?
So?

That's a commercial clause, AZ took funding for vaccine development with that clause in it.

That's not an export ban, that was paid for.
Can Software Do Real Legal Work?
I first thought this was happening:

https://ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol
> How comes and they don't allow you to optionally provide types in your function/class signatures so you can help the compiler and speed up the whole process ?

How would providing types speed up anything? As far as I can see, the compiler still has to infer types in order to know whether the type you provided is correct.
AZ is bound by its IP agreement with Oxford University to sell at cost for the time being. By now, I thought people would know that.
Neither F-22 not F-35 is designed to win via close quarters dogfights, but at medium to long range engagements, where the opponent can't even isolate what direction you're coming from, let alone achieve missile lock.

Having said that, the F-22 has M1.8 supercruise, and F-35 can boost to M1.3 and then cruise, so they have a considerable combat speed advantage over the F-16.
Tools to work fully remote have been around for at least 20 years now. Want to work from Montana in 2001?

Longer. Guy I know was perfectly happily WFH running X11 over dual-bonded ISDN a decade before that!
It is completely true, unfortunately.
4 years is not very much when you consider the laptop a total loss, if the keyboard fails after that time. And we don't know how many laptops already have been trashed when their keyboard failed before this extended repair program was started. This is the problem with any device which cannot be repaired for a reasonable sum in the case of a defect.
How is that a messy version of time zones? If anything it is a clean version of time zones. All you need to know is someone's offset. There's also the added benefit of people that don't follow the same schedule being covered too just by having a different offset
The syncing of the visuals to the music brings to mind
the video for The Chemical Brothers’ Star Guitar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM
no good docker support. i tried running it but had so many errors.
The most plausible theory for why they stuck with the butterfly board that long, is that Jony Ive didn't leave the company until 2019.

Word is, it was his baby, and he was convinced that if they just kept tweaking it, they would get it right eventually.

The keyboard I'm typing on feels identical to every other MacBook keyboard I've owned, going back to the titanium PowerBook G4. I expect it will prove comparably durable: never had a key skip or double-press on any of them, and I go hard on my equipment.

I actually liked the crispness of the butterfly keys, but absolute reliability is a hard requirement and they just weren't.
Well, the motivation and effect is exactly the same which is what most people care about in the end. It's a nationalistic move which is what makes your day if you're a nationalist.
And it isn't ironic that devs will be forced to use KMM between JVM and ART, despite Kotlin's selling point of Java compatibility?

Faking JVM features on other platforms means that the performance is not the expected one when moving across them, and some surprises might happen when linking to libraries that use modern features.
While the study showed the use of Microsoft’s Teams chat and teleconference product is going up, it also flagged that this unstinting growth is draining for workers. Time spent in Teams meetings has more than doubled and keeps rising, meetings are 10 minutes longer on average

Teams is so awful that using it all day every day is exhausting. Zoom is noticeably less fatiguing, but none of them are great.
> Why not do it both on the client and server...

Because the network itself is also listening and never forgets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
All the good examples have already been listen in this thread.
What is QA?
Flood prone areas flood. Who knew?
I could totally believe walking into a bar playing this. Who would get the performing rights?
Well, Microsoft has more engineers, money and can hire top talent. They also had a huge headstart in user base and adoption. What did they manage to come up with in a chat/collaboration space? Right - a total mess.

Discord didn't "happen to get users". It made a platform people started using despite huge network/entrenchment effect of other players because it's so much better than everything else. I've learnt about Discord following open source projects and moved mine to it as well. It's fantastic, much much better than anything else on the market.
Zoom is valued at 100b. Discord for 10 is just a steal.

Coming back to your question: even if you multiply it by 10 and add infinite acquisition resources the team would most likely never be able to recreate Discord.
Ask HN: Books You Read in 2021?
I'd like to know which books HN read this year 2021. Which book would you recommend? Book that are worth reading and very interesting.
If the AWS IAM rules have no overwrite and delete permissions then both admin and ransomware aren't really an issue are they?

Obviously putting all your buckets on AWS performing correctly is a potential risk by itself, but it's a different kind of risk.
The point is that they / we don't want to write c.
Looks pretty useless to anyone who did the Go tour and read Effective Go at least. These are just language design choices, not dark corners. It's not shooting yourself in the foot it's just doing things the Go way and there's often no other way if you want to use the language.
> France and Germany have used only about half of the AstraZeneca jabs they have received

Now why might they have only used half so far, of a vaccine requiring two jabs?

They are keeping the other half for the required 2nd jab.

For some bizarre reason, they are not confident about timely delivery of future supplies.
I wish, but unfortunately I don't see it happen, it has become too relevant.
Distributed combines text, audio and video in one place. Text plays a central role just as it does in slack. It's how we share links or interesting content. In things like zoom it's an after thought. The difference with our audio/video focus is that a person isn't a huge square, they're a small bubble. We really had zoom fatigue during Covid but found we were missing an office atmosphere. What we wanted was to feel the "presence" of someone without staring at them. Turns out deemphasizing the size of the video helps tremendously. We find it's a killer feature and keeps us on distributed for longer.
So is photography or digital art not real art?

Here is an NFT with 128 pieces, no two of which are the same: https://www.deafbeef.com/

Or see: https://artblocks.io/

Is this not art? Or is your point simply that you can download it, so why pay for it?

If a piece of digital art ends up being valued as art, and it was created originally as an NFT, do you not think that there are collectors that would value owning the "original" (even if you do not)?

NFTs are in a bubble phase, and many of the works currently have unsustainable ridiculous valuations, but I think it's overall a good thing that digital artists can now sell collections with proven scarcity, and thus make money from it.
That order form has poor usability.

1. It uses placeholder text instead of a label. See "Placeholders in Form Fields Are Harmful" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/form-design-placeholders/

2. It hides the fact that the "$250/year" is actually a text box. See "Long-Term Exposure to Flat Design: How the Trend Slowly Decreases User Efficiency" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design-long-exposure/

3. The app makes the text box into a button plus text box. As a button, it modifies its parent widget, the radio button. This is unexpected behavior. The app would be better to show the text box after the user selects the "Founding Member" radio button. That would make the text box subordinate to the radio button and reduce user errors. See
"8 Design Guidelines for Complex Applications - 6. Reduce Clutter Without Reducing Capability" https://www.nngroup.com/articles/complex-application-design/
Buffett is fairly quantitative but on measures of fundamentals rather than technicals.
Doubling your vaccination rate is nowhere close to enough to avoid a lockdown. Germany has vaccinated 9% (half dose or better) of the population and we're going back into lockdown.

At 10%, there's still an endless number of old people left unvaccinated, and if you infect a large percentage of mid aged people, that alone is easily enough to wreck your health system.