skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just like the UK is doing what it needs to do to have his contract fulfilled

the UK isn't doing anything special. they just signed a better contract than the other guys.

what the EU should have done is recognised their mistake and fix it via a massive injection of funds. instead they decided to fund the recovery and penny-pinch on the vaccines.

in any case, this whole non-issue is politicising of the lowest degree. the EU will get more vaccines than Africa or Asia as a whole in a few weeks, making this whole discussion moot.
AZ just released a statement that indeed, the data submitted was not the final analysis (interim data from Feb) and they promise to submit final data within 48 hrs. And the full data looks similar to the interim.

What’s going on over at AZ? I’m not claiming conspiracy, but clearly there was a miscommunication somewhere.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/astraz/media-centre/pres...

“We will immediately engage with the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) to share our primary analysis with the most up to date efficacy data. We intend to issue results of the primary analysis within 48 hours.”
Wrong, according to Fauci when pressed by Dr Rand Paul MD on this, Fauci said it's because we don't know how well the vaccine works against variants

So no that's not why he's wearing two masks, he obviously doesn't trust the vaccine to protect him, said it himself.

It was a rhetorical question that I posed. Get informed about what your insane leaders are telling you to do and why. You want to lecture me about CDC guidance or being uninformed and you don't even know the incident I was referencing in my original post.

Fauci will probably never stop wearing the masks because there will always be something he could catch. There will always be more variants.
My company put out a survey. (not a software company, but leans toward engineering staff) 5% wanted to return to 5 days, 5% never wanted to come to the office again, most wanted to come in as needed, or 2-3 days a week.
Ask HN: Login Name as Alternative to Username
Noticed MSN account was getting multiple sign in attempts a day from IP addresses in Russia or Africa. Realizing it had become a target, I could assign phone number as primary login. And remove login via email address.

Thinking about making this a generic security practice. For all accounts with public facing usernames.

Is this something talked about in security circles? I have to go through workarounds to make this possible for certain accounts. So this is not easy.
Arguably social media, etc. could be home appliances much like anything else.

Some people might not actually need high speed internet - but this doesn't change the possibility (I would say fact) that the market of available goods and services, and in turn, the entire 'culture' around internet usage, has been distorted by industry interests.
Couple of clarifications. (The fact that the term 'Mojiang' does not show up in the comments yet is telling about where awareness currently is on the topic).

1. RaTG13 came from the copper mine in Mojiang in 2013. (The TG in RaTG13 refers to TongGuan, a township in Mojiang, all per Shi Zhengli's accounting of the sequence's provenance).

2. Prior to which and also in 2013, six miners in this same Mojiang mine came down deftly ill with a respiratory illness. Three of them died from their illness.

3. One report on their cases says they had IgM antibodies to SARS. Another report says they had IgG.

4. There's been no data to support Shi Zhengli's assertion that they died of a fungal infection. (That said, independent of her account, there is a background precedent that there have been examples of people who have had strong fungal infections from exposure to bat guano in certain caves).

5. Shi Zhengli's team returned to the same Mojiang cave again and again to sample for viruses from the mine's bats and rodents. (Goal for this and the broad purpose of her teams' research is to demonstrate for pandemic prevention purposes which viruses are evolutionarily close enough to be able to hop to humans).

https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1279755695382986757?s=20
(Starting-point source for the above: Broad Institute genomics postdoc Alina Chan)

Multiple coronaviruses gathered from this mine remain unpublished, despite a year into the pandemic and an entire WHO-convened study group to Wuhan.
https://twitter.com/jbloom_lab/status/1372383456081027076?s=...
(source: Bloom Lab of Fred Hutch Institute)

If you're interested in learning more, I would highly recommend following members of the Washington Post-cited DRASTIC team.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/coronavir...

The DRASTIC folks, some of them postdocs themselves, have been at this for a year, gathering & archiving evidence like the case reports described above (that unsurprisingly typically become scrubbed from the source after getting brought to light).

The twitter hashtag #DRASTIC is a reasonable place to start.
You sure use 'I' a lot for someone who believes in neither free will nor awareness.
Thats not what they mean. Title should read '2048 bit'
<Insert J. Jonah Jameson laugh>

https://media.tenor.com/images/43009a72264654dcca101de9bc5cb...

I guess clueless company is clueless.
Speculating the Entire x86-64 Instruction Set in Seconds
I know, me too. The closest in Mac is TextEdit but then you have to do "Format -> Make Plain Text" when you open a new one.
How Many Blog Posts Should You Publish Every Month?
They would have a 50% chance of cracking it within 90 days, I would have thought.
Which is a better investment: Sandbox Sand or Decentraland MANA crypto?
> you should not be using RSA today

Also, always remember that ECC is believed to be just as weak against quantum computers as RCA. So you'll probably want some fusion of pre and post-quantum algorithms.

Or, anyway, get your perfect forward secrecy working and don't rely on asymmetric crypto for confidentiality. Yeah, PFS is very hard to get on some use cases, but it's really the best way to solve this problem.
Jennifer and Peter Shor wrote a limerick that seems relevant:

If computers that you build are quantum,
Then spies of all factions will want 'em.
Our codes will all fail,
And they'll read our email,
Till we've crypto that's quantum, and daunt 'em.

And Volker Strassen responded at a conference:

To read our E-mail, how mean
of the spies and their quantum machine;
Be comforted though,
they do not yet know
how to factorize twelve or fifteen.

Source: http://www-math.mit.edu/~shor/notapoet.html
I would do a bit extra. What that is depends on what your task is and team culture is, and I wouldn't go overboard, but I think that doing 10% more will make you stand out. Try to ascertain the team culture and work with it, not against it. If the team is all about shipping, think of ways to ship quicker. If the team is in a bit of an operational mess, think about documenting processes or writing scripts.

What are examples of this?

* if you are given an operational task that isn't well documented, document it.
* if you are given a task that isn't documented at all, document it some
* add a few more tests than you might normally. Or, if there is no testing framework, discuss why not and see if you can add one.
* read code and create draft design docs

A big one that would be helpful to every team I've ever joined is to take notes about onboarding and either create a doc/scripts to help folks get up to speed or improve existing doc/scripts.

Of course, notice what the team's feedback is and adjust your actions if it is negative. You want to come across as helpful, not as a 'know it all'. I've definitely been too eager sometimes and come across the wrong way.

Also, you could ask your manager or other team members what they wish the team was doing and see if it is something you could help with.
Yes, and I referred to that hypothetical AI as "far more sophisticated".
Will this data be used to validate the data on their broadband availability site [1]? Asking because I am using that site to figure out where to buy a home in a rural area and I am hearing that the data is misleading.

[1] - https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/ [Use the pulldown menu to enter an address]
Mediapart is not Le Canard enchaîné.[1] Though Le Canard enchaîné is not available for free online. Their reporting also tanked Fillon's chances during the last French presidential election.

One can think of Le Canard enchaîné as the French version of Private Eye.

The original Mediapart story also references Le Canard enchaîné.[2]

[1] https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/
[2] https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/290212/des-salaries-...
AstraZeneca did respond a few hours ago saying that they included data only up to the interim analysis cutoff point. I don't think this makes any sense; the point of the cutoff is to prevent too many analyses of the same data, not to limit the amount of data.

https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/astraz/media-centre/pres...
It requires a war effort like mobilisation. I never said it was easy but not even trying is inexcusable.
I really want daylight savings to die, and time zones, yea why not.. it'd take a bit of adjustment, but when you know that CountryX is N units ahead of, or behind your own, you will know what time of day it is there simply by subtracting or adding the difference and compare with your local brightness which you know well, assuming you're on somewhat similar lattitudes.

Let's also do decimal time while we're at it, because nobody cares for base60 anyway.

My argument for NOT changing anything is the amount of assumptions that have been built into all sorts of critical and non-critical software, it'll simply be too expensive at this point, not to say dangerous.
Most of it is here [0].

I update whenever I remember, which is sometimes.

It is currently up to date, except for the above linked engine. It doesn't have as many special purpose engines as I'd like though.

[0] http://a-shared-404.com/other-stuff/
It's called library music. It's much used in ads, trailers, and corporate productions. Ad agencies sometimes also commission music.

Ad use pays incredibly well, because unlike streaming you get a non-trivial fee every time it airs on TV/radio/cinema.

Some musicians make very successful careers doing this.
Major SARS-CoV-2 variant found in pets for first time
Also, after I finished entering it, I hit Ctrl-F and manually enter it again in the search popup to see if it matches what I typed into the field.
The Older v2 Tor Onion Domain Name Format Is Axed in the Latest Tor Alpha
It's like this:
The chance to get 10 heads with a fair coin is <1/1000. I.e., if you use the same coin many-many times, <1/1000 of these 10-throw runs will have all heads, on average.

This does not mean that, if you get 10 heads, it's a fair coin with 1/1000 probability. In the strongest sense, without further information, one can not make any statement about that probability.
No Clockwork Universe
That's probably, because the regexes you linked to are Perl-flavoured regexes, whereas this website seems to use the "Unix Extended" variant of regex.
Well that's exactly how you do it. By definition.

Asking for consent means that you don't violate their privacy since they agreed to the data being collected and shared.

Using dark patterns is of course not Ok but also a different topic.
I think it's good to take notes on how you could improve things based on past experience for the first 30-60 days. Keep the notes to yourself. Review after you have more experience in the team.

You'll either find that the suggestions have some merit, in which case you'll have more credibility to make them, or that you learned enough about the new environment to know they weren't useful.
Mayor Ends Remote Work for 80k in Signal to Rest of New York City
What is intuitive about the up quark and down quark charges?

The fact that "up" is associated with positivity is totally arbitrary, and even the fact that positive charges are called positive is totally arbitrary.
R/Ukpolitics: Welcome Back, Subreddit Statement
An example of how the educators drive the narrative for the future.
Another good one: An Agnostic Physicist Muses on the Dawn

[http://www-math.mit.edu/~shor/Dawn]
A cylinder can have any cross section.
Nice to see the LHC can still be useful to make discoveries.
More information here for anyone curious:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/g2728/best...
I invoked Occam's Razor when I wondered what was more likely: that it was spread via a wet market or escaped from a lab with biosecurity protocols staffed by professionals?

Of course I still don't know and my ideas regarding the latter have changed because of this article but I'm now pretty sure that I don't have enough information to invoke Occam's Razor in any kind of insightful or effective way.
I'm definitely getting the Vaccine, just saying, it's not easy to just blindly trust anyone.
Approved in India, UK, EU and a lot of countries yet Fauci goes public with some missing data. He could have asked them instead but no.

More than 100m have already taken it across the globe but that is not good enough for some elite countries.
I feel like Gitlab is going in a direction of AWS, except that instead of having separate products it just bundles everything in one. One massive bloatware that's scary to touch, no idea where features begin or end, or what is it even for in the end. Everything? I thought it was supposed to be Git hosting, but I'm not even sure anymore.
Support, Lead, and Engage: How to Make a Chatbot for a Website
From the abstract: We suggest realizing such an architecture using a microwave interface between a processor made with superconducting qubits and a multiplexed memory using the principle of photon echo in solids doped with rare-earth ions.

I would guess hypothetical
In theory that might be true, and it's the way they teach it in American civics class.

In practice, Xi went on an 'anti-corruption campaign' that purged all his political enemies from power as his first initiative. The exact opposite of what your theory predicts, and actually a stronger cyclical purge than our typical repubs->dems->repubs one.
In addition (for me at least), working from home means that I can open the window and get some fresh air. I've never worked in professional offices with windows that open and there was never enough ventilation. My nightmare is a long meeting in a cramped conference room - hours of breathing in a mix of carbon dioxide, sweaty feet odors and respiratory droplets.
Came to say the same thing.

That’s extremely annoying and I wonder how you can break that unless you purposefully try to capture the event for going back which is a big No-No IMHO.
Consider the possibility that your brain is a liar.

Maybe our brains, as an evolutionary strategy, have tricked us into believing that the universe is fundamentally knowable and that the brain is the only reliable knowledge machine.

How would you know it's not true?
Is there any evidence of skullduggery?
I did not know about that! Thanks @tjalfi, I will definitely e-mail them!!
Someone far above posted an archive.org link from, was it 2006?, that allegedly showed him already having changed his mind on something by then. AFAICR from the discussion it was either exactly what you're talking about or something very similar.

(Sorry, you're on your own looking for it -- it was on the first page at the time I saw it.)
Maybe they’ll establish a body to define what those offsets are and assign them to regions so everyone knows what offset each other is in. They can call them offset zones... maybe there’s something catchier...
The conflict between mental expectations / wishful thinking of people reading me and the sounds, grounded in truth arguments that I provide likely hurt some feelings and thus is downvoted. Platforms like HN definitely lack truth seekers like me that make online conversations more epistemologically valid, especially in this post truth era.

Do you realize the human resources cost that a new language imply? A new programming language (which is not polyglot aka based on graalvm) imply an almost complete duplication of work for creating their library ecosystem instead of reusing the existings. We talk about so many human hours wasted that could have instead be used for making the world a better place. Justifying such a cost is already almost impossible with a language that has a clear value proposition but to not realize the absurdness of this cost for a language that has no clear value proposition really is something intellectually...
"From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain."
I am moving to the mountains.
After china finally admitted it and spoke out warnings, america did not admit its dangerious for months to come, some european countries basically run the same shit campaign. Splitting society more than anything else in recent history
Rotating keys works for authentication, but not for confidentiality, since nothing stops an attacker from recording the ciphertext and decrypting past messages.
Depends on opportunity cost. You might consider reaching out to trusted family for short-term financial assistance (loan interest is the problem, not the loan itself). You may be able to get a bank loan to cover the down payment, but is that worth it?

Depending on the real estate market and your specific property, a monthly mortgage payment has a good chance at being lower than comparable monthly rental payments. Bear in mind: every dollar paid for rental is burned, whereas every dollar paid to a mortgage has at least some potential to be recovered in the future. And think a few years out: say you pay $800/month for rent. Over three years, that adds up to $28,800. If you live in a hot area, your rent will likely increase, so you'll pay more in the long run. A mortgage payment, however, will not, and you might get that $28,800 back through renting it and/or selling.

I see renting vs ownership as "XaaS" vs in-house. Renting is essentially Housing as a Service. There's a use case for XaaS, but at a certain point, owning critical infrastructure just makes sense.
How, exactly, are you proposing we get the data on "real-world settings" without trying out the approach that's been lab-validated? Barring evidence in the "this might be dangerous" direction, those lab results certainly appear to support recommending people adopt the practice.

Turning this sort of CYA language that's standard in medical research into a scary gotcha is exactly the sort of propaganda the anti-vax folks engage in all the time.
This is not surprising for a ex-government agency that is still substantially government owned. Somewhat anti-competitive, expensive, and they clearly have no sense of urgency with regard to fibre.

But more than half their revenue is now from the US Market, which they didn't enter in such a privileged position.

Anyway, 100% of Germany to be covered with FTTH by 2030 :)

https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/619512/394bebe64a0f87d...
If you need that you can send a drone though.
Krispy Kreme gives away a doughnut per day to vaccinated people, until 2022
drone (noun) - One who performs menial or tedious work.

I don't know what point you are trying to make, but drone is not the word you are looking for.
The point is that, from the measurement alone, you cannot make a statement of whether the null hypothesis is true. You can only make a statement how likely the observed outcome was /if/ the null hypothesis is true.

(edit: I realize that you mean this. I just wanted to make it clearer. The article should have said:
It's a 1/1000 chance that a measured difference of this or larger magnitude occurs as a statistical fluctuation assuming the SM)
Perseverance rover records sounds of a drive
Well, the last time I tried, Discord was the worst. It requires to install stupid software which is essentially embedded web browser to fully working.

Competitors are plentiful. Remember Digg had the largest user base among news aggregators? People moves when there is a better service available... or more like existing service is getting worse.
>Wow, I’d never heard of the Pfizer case.

From the Wiki article

>Pfizer subsequently settled the case out of court with a $75 million settlement that was subject to a confidentiality clause.

Does the confidentiality clause also suppress media or is that a separate payment to whoever is putting their nose into it? I'm curious how these stories get out, and are there others that don't ever reach Wiki articles?
If it's anything like TeamCity, their CI solution, then it has extremely confusing UI with thousands of options everywhere, and little possibility of controlling all that complexity outside of it's GUI.
I don't know the source, but it made me think of Gattaca. I should probably re-watch it.
Good points all. Removing the human does make the plan far simpler.
Whenever someone pegs an arbitrary number to the amount of time you have to be in office it reminds me of the government trying to plan the economy.
I assume that this is uninstalling updates, which means that you are back to the WebView that came with your phone. This obviously opens a whole new can of worms as now you may be years of security updates behind.

I really wish that popular stores had an option to roll back one version until the next update came out.
I think they did a good job choosing a scene that is somewhat easier for CGI: artists have struggled for a long time to make acceleration and general changes of momentum line up with the way that objects do so in real life. It also makes the motion blur shader more or less a constant which is easy to simulate, and our brain fills in the rest :)
UFOs fascinate me. Originally I thought they were pure crack pottery but a friend got me interested with the following argument:

Whatever is responsible for these government videos has to be interesting:

* Unknown natural phenomenon

* Conspiracy with real tech from a government and a coverup

* Conspiracy with fabricated videos from the US government, press releases, and a coverup

* Aliens
Might be a react based issue. Can't say we're actively trying to break it. Doesn't appear to be an issue in chrome.
A contrarian view on crafting super effective presentations
Well, I'm glad to see this posted here... I was concerned that somehow my phone got infected with some kind of malware after a reboot didn't fix it. It's concerning to me that an update was pushed out that apparently wasn't tested very well.
I don't think either of us disagrees with this. We're not debating what is mathematically true. We're debating what the BBC wrote.
The gong cha menu with calories for reference https://gongchatea.com.au/menu/ seems similar to this one.
Government has a critical role in being compassionate to citizens, even those who vote against their own interests.

We don't run roads to only those who support the present dominate political party, nor should we do the same for internet connectivity.
And sinking the reputation of a national company.
Yes, a lot of people don't get this. Pop is as much about fashion and branding as sound, and an AI would need a virtual personality to get anywhere with that.

Which will likely happen within 10 years or so. Hatsune Miku is already a thing, and a few upgrades from now she'll probably appear to be running her own post-TikTok account.

J- and K-pop boy/girl bands are already run like this. The individual artists are more or less interchangeable and can be dropped at any time if they lose their looks or appeal. They don't get much/any creative freedom, and the performances are all externally choreographed.

It wouldn't take much to create a virtual version. Give it some virtual sass and you have a tame monster.