skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pfizer's vaccine was developed by BioNtech in Germany. J&J's is from the Netherlands. AstraZeneca is UK/Swedish.

Plenty of development going on in the EU. They just weren't very smart with their delivery contracts (like the 'best effort' clause with AstraZeneca).
With Turkish lira in a deep fall it will not help.
And what do we do if someone has a large stake? Ignore their arguments? Should we do the same if they have no stake and are criticizing it? How much stake is enough, given a particular argument, to consider it on its own merits and not reject it based on cui bono? If someone doesn't disclose their stake, should we assume the worst, the best, the average? What if they're lying?

(I have no stake in anything crypto related, so hopefully my argument won't be dismissed. But maybe I'm lying.)
> There is a substantial faction that believes in the dream of replacing traditional trust based society with trustless executable contracts.

>Those people discount just how much underlying social stability matters, and how meaningless an executable contract would be in a violent environment.

How did we go from "let's use smart contracts to enforce business contracts, rather than the courts", to "abolish the entire justice system"?
No argument here: in the second decade, the only cash-positive usage is convincing other people to buy them. That’s a long time to have nothing to show despite such massive cash flow into the system.

TBL transformed the world in a few years for a tiny fraction of the cost despite much higher barriers to adoption.
I sold at the peak of a bubble, so I can be happy about that. Sure, it's higher now, but I also don't invest in payday loan companies for the same reason. I hear it's very profitable too, but it's just too evil.
Looked around at other articles on the site....

No thanks.
FinTech companies are overvalued. They're evidence of a bubble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfM3IKaZgw
As xkcd explains, you are one of the 10000: https://xkcd.com/1053/ so you shouldn't feel bad about it.
> You act as if an order issued by some bureaucrat was itself the law and the will of the poeple.

I mean, we kind of do act that way. If a given thing has regulations then there almost certainly exists a small office whose sole purpose is to be the button pushers for those regulations, and their word is effectively law unless you're wealthy enough to fight it.

As a comparatively minor example, there's just some guy behind a desk in the MN department of public safety who can unilaterally revoke drivers' licenses without any court's approval or any available appeal's process. The police and the rest of the system are more than happy to enforce that guy's decisions.

*In case there's any ambiguity, the "wealth" mentioned above doesn't just refer to your legal fees, but also to things like being able to afford to repeatedly take a day off work to wait on hold or in a line for yet another round of red tape. It adds up, especially with more than half of people living paycheck to paycheck.
Most people are technologically lazy (use the same password for everything etc) and the work that has to go into managing and securing your own wallets is not worth the effort.

Not the mention the fees are prohibitive for moving small to medium amounts.
Most of the rest of the world doesn't have the capabilities to come up with a vaccine by themselves.
I use MediaWiki, but any wiki engine would work. The important thing here is the "graph" you can easily implement with links between articles.
https://archive.md/sT77U
The Geometry Center Presents: Outside In
The original website has more info, including code:

http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/video/
Not OP but the easiest one: De-Fi
> I'm curious how one could say "Hey, I like this language it does a lot of things well and fixes problems I see in other languages" without sounding like a snob.

Just not writing “Feel free to create and use languages with invisible program effects or asynchrony, and I'll feel free to not pay any attention when you do.” would do the trick in this case.

Or, generally, show your reasoning, show your arguments, acknowledge any tradeoffs, contextualize against other languages as needed. And perhaps do not jump into every programming language discussion with “this wouldn't be an issue with Rust” unprompted, as that's generally not constructive, and does not acknowledge that there is more to software engineering than just what programming language you pick.
Have you been to the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City? Its name made me wary of how it would present native cultures, but they actually are a comprehensive (and massive) museum with large permanent and traveling exhibits on native cultures. I saw their exhibit on Spiro and the mound builder cultures, and they did not pull punches regarding treatment of historical tribal structures and artifacts. https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/
The most alarming thing to me is how effective cryptocurrencies are in drawing out the inner greed of most people. It's created an obsession of quick wealth among a lot of otherwise normal people, hijacking their rationality and further propagating the viral nature of it. If you take a look at many of the online communities for cryptocurrencies online you'll notice a lot of disturbing behavior that's very cult-like.

I'm not even sure why there's still a pretense of innovation behind most coins these days - every time I hear or see any new fad of cryptocurrency I can already smell the greed from miles away, and the smell is unbearably intense. More recently there's been lots of obvious scams going around social media where bad actors are hacking accounts and replacing them with content shilling their coins and scamming people into sending them coins. When this shit starts invading your personal feeds you know things have started to get really bad.
Yep. So far crypto has been the killer use case for the problem of excess electricity. 100% no BS its true.
> What Remains of Edith Finch

The cannery scene was done so very well.
I think because it's a bit off-topic, though you're almost certainly right about their business strategy. If that's not what they're up to, then they're sure doing a great job of making it look exactly like it is. If there's not a whiteboard in their offices with "outmaneuver AWS" written at the top and a diagram of their global data-centers and obligatory reverse-proxy use pattern strangling AWS, then there must surely be a similar diagram living in their decision-makers' heads, at least.

... but I'm still giving them more and more business, because they're undercutting other options on price to a comical degree.
All of your points really arguments that support social media as publications. Or more to the point: they are a means to publish. Or, even more to the point: they could be seen as private publishers hosting the opinions of others in their own online publications. The affordances provided by social media to billions of people as to how they can publish and what they get to see are... really just editorial choices.

Why is that contentious? Because that's exactly the one thing social media try to avoid: being seen as mere publishers. That would have massive implications:

https://socialmediahq.com/if-social-media-companies-are-publ...

It's another argument why treating them as "public spaces" isn't much sensible.
The only company operating at cost to provide vaccines ends up being the whipping boy, no charitable deed goes unpunished eh.
Any kind of wired setup would interfere with other tractors they use in the field. Fertilization, and eventually harvesting.

I’m not sure why people are inventing more complicated solutions when this robot seems to handle the job quite well without them. It covers 20 acres in a day, you can likely keep 100+ acres weed free continuously without any other special gimmicks.
I run https://4dayweek.io (Software jobs with a better work / life balance) so I am obviously going to be bias but I think there are are significant benefits in adopting a 4 day week (although admit its not a 1 size fits all solution).

In the future I think all software jobs should also be (at least) offered as 4 days @ 80% salary. From an employees perspective the advantages are obvious, but there are also many advantages from an employers perspective:

https://4dayweek.io/hire-engineers
> why it should come back to the US

They are a US company, reaping the tax benefits of that nexus. If they'd been an EU company, they would have paid a lot more in various taxes (including higher wage taxes) over the last 40 years. IOW, they would not be as wealthy a company today.
The easiest exercise in the moral philosophy book
In the context of astronomy generally then ;)
I misread the title as "meta-analysis".
Now that would be an article I want to read.
Zope was always a decade ahead of its time in the Python space and at least two in the general web framework space.

When I had to explain it to clients I joked it suffered from “Martian Technology Syndrome”.
I’ve never clicked on any ad on Google in maybe 20 years of using it. How do the results help me?
2008 and 2020: The Combination That Changed Capitalism Forever
For starters, they use the word "contribution" several times, which is a pretty weasely way of describing spending money on yourself.
I respect his opinion (especially if his biggest exposure to it was through CI abuse to mine Monero and other CPU-based PoW crypto, I won't even deny that's an extremely shitty situation many service providers have had to deal with these past months more than ever), even if I disagree with it.

It's not difficult to be negative on crypto when it personally brings you nothing but grief. Our point of views are unequivocally tainted by our personal experiences; I'm sure had I been born in a reasonably free country, with competent social structures and the means to actually own the fruits of my labor, I'd probably hold a different view on the entire ecosystem: I'd see nothing but grifters and scammers polluting the planet while taking advantage of gullible fools.

And as the article says, I'll disclose my stake (Even if I see it as pretty spiteful): I sold off the majority of BTC I had when it touched $60k but most of it is in stablecoins, so I'm still part of the ecosystem. A considerable part of my net worth is in cryptocurrency I've been slowly accruing over the years, converting however much I could save up in local currency to a minority in cold hard cash and the rest in crypto, and it wouldn't have been possible for me to save up otherwise. Yes, I am in one of those so-called "isolated examples of failed national economies" that maybe aren't nearly as isolated nor as uncommon as he seems to allude to.
It's driving on asphalt in a parking lot. Do they have a video of the device following the grooves over mud? (It would be not surprising, because other automated tractors can do that.)

It would be more interesting to see a video where they fire the lasers. Can it aim while moving? Can it aim while the engine is on and everything is vibrating?
Never. Friendship comes from spending regular unstructured time with other people. It’s very hard to make real friends on purpose.
Of course, but if everyone pays $1 more then the wages can increase by $10 assuming 10% of the population works in agriculture which still leaves them $9 better off. My point was just that a wage increase is not nullified by the price increase as long as not everyone is working in the fields.
Why Kotlin: A Note from a Java Developer
Benign app: MANDATORY UPDATE!!! YOU MUST UPDATE YOUR APP NOW! THERE’S NO CANCEL BUTTON BECAUSE BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON’T IMMEDIATELY UPDATE.

Release notes: Bug fixes and performance improvements. Teehee.
Windows 10 floating Taskbar menu design spotted in preview builds
Every organisation has 3 major stages: newborn, mature, and old. When competition is present, old organizations are eaten by newborn organizations. Government is monopoly, so no competition, thus old organization must die first.
Telegram has some nice features from a user's perspective (arbitrary filetype file attachment, animated voice records so I can skip quiet portions, good chat search, private chat support, and video-/picture-/file-/message -specific search). But, one of the main utilities on Telegram is its bot platform. And, as a developer: Building bots with Telegram is difficult. This is mostly a documentation issue.

AFAIK this is the main documentation page: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api which, subjectively speaking is really hard to read, and, objectively speaking, offers no sample responses/interactivity.

This page tries to fill the gap on tutorials/how-to: https://core.telegram.org/bots but without sample code.

There are a few bots you can find on GitHub, but nothing official that I could find.

Documentation on bot limitations in channels vs. groups is also really spotty.

Trying to detect who joined a group/channel and greet them, for example, or trying to send a message on departure, is non-trivial.
Long before Colin Kaepernick, this Black woman defied her country
Seems completely on the mark to me. Your dismissals don't seem appropriate to HN.

Please name one good thing crypto helps people accomplish that doesn't involve breaking the law (or speculation.)
Fuzz week shows how to make make a snapshot / resettable jitting hypervisor.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkhUfcCXvqHsOy2VUxuoAf...
You’d have 587 million dogecoin, which is totally useful currency and not a speculative joke named after a meme.
Technically, doesn't this study only demonstrate that a distracted CEO is a risk to firm performance? Sounds like all the more reason to replace them with robots that don't have families.
The issue with CEO pay, as well as pay for fund managers, is basically the same. It's clearly understood as a principal/agent problem, to use economics jargon.[0]

Here's how it works:

1) Money is invested in companies by a diffuse set of investors. That diffuse group is unified and the decisions are made by people responsible for managing money.

2) They invest it with the intention of having it go into the productive activities of a business, such as staff and plant and equipment or technology or software or marketing. That money when received by the business is managed by the company management led by the CEO.

3) What actually happens is that each of these gatekeepers is taking as much as they can get away with. It really isn't all that much more complicated than that.

Everyone involved will concoct increasingly complex rationalizations and call it "performance" and launch decades of public relations campaigns and fund business schools and business publications to rationalize and create a sheen of reasonableness about why this is all the natural order of things.

But, at the end of the day what is happening is that the people who are responsible for distributing resources to a common enterprise are taking more and more of it and keeping it.

Because they want to, and because the system lets them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal–agent_problem
It does seem to be accurate:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/23/virginia-de...
If you’re passing or returning values of the wrong type, it’s going to blow up one of your tests. Asserting on a value implicitly asserts its type. Passing a value and not getting a runtime error for your trouble, pretty strongly indicates that it’s the right type.
I would be more concerned with whether it is legal than whether it is ethical. I agree that being ethical is important, but as ethical issues go, this is pretty minor. Making the choice to never divorce your wife would be a much more important ethical decision.
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Connecting the Dots: From Technical Design to Documentation
Exchanges are the low-hanging fruit for attempts to "ban" cryptocurrencies. This well-known pressure point has been used for years now. There's nothing new in that sense.

What isn't well appreciated is just how difficult it will be to ban the transaction of cryptocurrencies outside of a government monetary system. Remove the exchanges and there goes the leverage.

What also isn't well appreciated is that clamping down on exchanges is by far the best way to ensure a transition to a self-contained cryptocurrency economy that requires no on- or off-ramps.

The more governments try to exploit their leverage with exchanges, the more they drive use patterns that will ultimately render that advantage useless.
The mRNA vaccines are much more expensive both in procurement and in handling, requiring more stringent refrigeration. AZ was supposed to be the "long tail" vaccine that could be produced for $2-$5 a dose and stored in regular refrigeration. It has great promise, hopefully the supply issues can be worked out.
The closest analogy I can think of right now is panhandling.

It isn't a solution to the problem, at best, it is a bandaid. I don't like it, but I don't want it banned. I wish I could think of something realistic and better, but can't.

At least panhandlers don't have a platform eating some large percentage of the take.
> I really wonder if I'll be able to get my second dose of it (scheduled for August at this point)

That's a long time to get the second dose. What explains such a long delay? The CDC recommends 4 weeks between doses [0].

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/second-sh...
Narratives can be informed more by the time from which they arise and not by the time to which they want to describe. The authors provide the context here:

Environmental explanations for the collapse of complex societies have been popular topics since William Thomas' 1956 volume on “Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth” (Thomas, 1956). This seminal work established the philosophical argument that humans are inherently destructive to the environment (Middleton, 2017; Ponting, 1991; Thomas, 1956), a philosophy that is widely applied in anthropology (Oliver‐Smith & Hoffman, 1999), geology (Nianfeng et al., 1999; Wilkinson, 2005), biology (Ceballos et al., 2015; Meyer & Turner, 1992; Vitousek et al., 1997), environmental ethics (Attfield, 2008), and general public discourse today (Diamond, 2005; Goudie, 2019; Montine et al., 1990; Ponting, 1991; Ward, 2009).
presumably you're flying out of the country to somewhere more secure. It's not some sort of nuclear apocalypse scenario.
yeah, So I don't think there is a crackdown on cryptocurrencies. But there will be a regulation for centralised exchanges to have a certain amount of full paid capital.
It sort of sucks how opaque awards/speaker nominations/prize selection can be at times. It does create an environment where things can not be 100% "fair" and there's no way of knowing. It would be interesting to see what a truly fair process would look like!

I think with something like The Oscars, the fact that the film/TV industry take it seriously is merit enough to pay attention to who wins awards.
This seems to be a proposal in the early stages of winding through the bureaucracy, and hasn’t been approved by any real policymakers yet. I wouldn’t put too much stock in it at this point.
Whether it's open source or scalable is irrelevant if the technology actually works as advertised, and can be applied to pest control in addition to weeds.

The incentive is just too great for Bayer, Syngenta, Monsanto, BASF and Corteva (Dow / DuPont) to lobby this technology to oblivion.
Zoom launches Immersive View to unify participants in the same virtual room
Here is one benefit I imagine to naming the functions according to colors: expanding the Working Memory you have available to reason about code.

The brain’s working memory hardware has a few pieces and among them are the visuospatial sketchpad and phonological loop [1]. Code is language and when you hold parts of a codebase in your head, it occupies space in the phonological loop. By making some data about code chromatic/visual, we can hold that in our heads more easily.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory
I frequently communicate architecture with diagram that simply contains following three things:
- boxes (rectangles with text in them)
- arrows connecting these boxes
- and some brief text
to convey any architecture/ideas

Apart from this, sometime I also use "sequence diagrams" - vertical lines representing systems/modules to illustrate the sequence of flow of any system/user action.
Less biased source:
https://wtop.com/virginia/2021/04/virginia-plans-to-improve-...

Looking around, this is just a proposal, in the feedback gathering stage. Conservative media is treating it as a done deal.
To be honest, this shows that a dysfunctional CEO (for completely understandable reasons) leads to a nonprofitable firm, not that value is added. You could say that people with no or defective keyboard have a hard time programming, but the best keyboard does not add significant value to a developer.
> And it's an inoperative concept for most kernel/embedded work

I recently integrated mini_httpd (a small forking server) into an embedded system as part of a solution for distributing updates across a cluster of these systems.

You must be talking about 15 cent microcontrollers (that still have a TCP/IP stack with SSL) or something, not ARM cores with MMU's running Linux.
> I think with all the concerns surrounding it it's better to just agree to cancel the contracts and move to better vaccines.

That's exactly what EU is doing.

> Former German defense minister von der Leyen said the EU would only buy vaccines using mRNA technology — such as Pfizer and Moderna — for the next round of jabbing drives.

...

> Recently, the bloc decided not to exercise its options for another 300 million doses from AstraZeneca

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-sues-astrazeneca-over-delayed-deliv...

The reason for the lawsuit is to hold up a contract.

> When signing the contract with the EU, AstraZeneca committed to make its "best reasonable efforts" to deliver 180 million vaccine doses to the bloc in the second quarter of this year, making up a total of 300 million in the period from December to June. Last month, however, AstraZeneca said it would aim to deliver only one-third of that.

You don't sign up for a contract with the world's largest trading bloc and simply neg them. There are consequences and EU wants to ensure there will be some.
I have no problem dismissing information from a source called "libertyunyielding" out of pocket
Telegram team has a long history of using vanilla javascript as optimal as possible. It all started at VK.
There's a lot in here. I was going to make some quotes and comment about some of this, but it's a pretty diverse set of topics.

The main thing is that I didn't see a solid definition on how a failing government is defined or a concrete connection between that and the topics covered. It seems to be Q&A about a bunch of loosely affiliated topics.
That shouldn't really be a surprise, or even criticism-worthy. "HN" isn't a single mind, it's a website where $BIGNUM people with myriad different opinions and takes on things all run their mouths, usually pseudonymously.
The extreme refrigeration requirement for Pfizer was dropped: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/02/pfizer-vaccine-rollo...

But yes they are more expensive. Still, I'd gladly pay that for a better vaccine even if I had to pay it myself.
There are CEOs that are truly world class and transform companies and provide tons of value and are worth many more times what their comp is. They are the exception not the rule though.

It's almost impossible to know if you've found the next Bob Iger, Nadella or a John Sculley when you hire them. Of course with hindsight you can point to certain things but it's hard in the moment.

And for the most part boards pay people based on their belief that they've found the next Iger, not pay them like s/he could nearly destroy the company like Sculley almost did with Apple.
If you like GraphQL and don't mind managed services:

- Fauna (http://fauna.com) or Hasura (https://hasura.io) for the backend

- Vercel (http://vercel.com) or Netlify (https://www.netlify.com) for the frontend and functions