skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are murky waters - I don't believe anyone involved.

To correct what you wrote, they were found in a warehouse at a bottling plant, not a harbor, and half of them were COVAX shots that had been produced by the South American supply chain and had just come through Europe for bottling and QC.

The other half were EU shots - held back because the EU had not yet given regulatory approval to the bottling plant.

The allegation, made by un-named sources, is that AZ were deliberately delayed this regulatory approval, presumably by being slow to file paperwork. As there is obvious hostility towards AZ, it is also possible factors on the EU side were causing a delay.

I would say that, having raided a factory with great fanfair looking undeclared stockpiles, saying you found one, and then discovering it was declared and all above board, one way out of the PR problem would be to anonymously make an allegation like that. On the other hand, maybe it's true. Who knows.

With that said... once you start thinking AZ are secretly holding vaccines back to smuggle out of Europe like some Columbian cartel, you are well into QAnon teritory. They would be risking a lot to do that - they are already facing so much for failing to meet a contract, actually smuggling drugs would destory the company. Why would they do it?
rational me thinks NFTs are just an expensive fad - something that is arbitrarily "non fungible" really isn't non-fungible. You're not even getting the copyright IP.

But maybe there's something to this? Is this real or is it a big scam?
Do you have a problem with the name "peanut butter"? It isn't butter with peanuts in it. Or mincemeat pie, which isn't made out of minced meat?
There are thousands of examples on twitter.
I think the point is that there is no refund button.
Indeed, it does, when done via something like go fmt. But in the case of YAML, a pedantic level of "proper spacing" is used for logic. 2 or 3 spaces shouldn't change the meaning and order of things
discriminating by age is ok in the workplace. only 40+ is a protected class in the US.
Am I reading this correctly, you have to upload a JSON file to an S3 bucket to send an email? That’s not really email then, is it?
This seems like a load of crap. More specifically it seems like a pre-scientific mindset. You use analogy and metaphor to describe phenomena and structures that are only half-understood to try to rationalize them and fit them into some sort of consistent narrative.

Wisdom is knowledge you can't describe. This seems like wisdom but just as it's really hard for a professional tennis player to describe exactly how they know where an opponent is going to hit a ball this guy seems to be grasping at straws to describe something he can't quite see and so can't quite describe to the rest of us.

If you think personality assessments have significant predictive power, or that using more than one of them increases predictive power, you don't know how they were made, how they are commonly applied, or the realities of psychometric assessment. It's exactly the kind of straw people grasp for when they want to, but do not understand a phenomenon of behavior.

If you follow this advice you will be participating in a cargo cult.
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The author makes clear that the next 30 years may very well not follow this trend, given the entire dataset contains only 95 data points.
They wanted to write a paper. APTs have been trying to put holes in the kernel for 20 years now… this is not news.
IBM owns Red Hat, you ever heard of those guys?

IBM largely makes their money supporting legacy software, doing services and consulting work, and through Red Hat's software offerings
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Note that AWS has around 25k employees while IBM is close to 350k.
Why should a percentage of businesses be relevant?

If I want to deliver food can I ask my customers to use a Linux PC because I only have a Linux app? Can you tell your customers that your website only works on Safari?

As a company you have to implement what the customers want, not what you want. Apple controlling the market means you have to (even if you are not forced by a law of nature) make sure your webiste works on Apple devices and if customers want/need mobile apps (maybe because it needs access to native APIs or other shit that you can't do from a web page) you need to have an iOS and an Android app.

Apple is not forced to sell in EU either, they will fight this but they are doomed to fail and I think the US is also locking into this, and you also have the right to repair movement that would hopefully also force Apple to do the right thing,
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It's been a long, long run. If you ignore the drop from last March that was recouped within months, it's been a strong ramp ever since the second half of the Obama presidency. Vanguard tells me I've done better than 16% over that period, just invested in the boring VTSAX index fund.
> Just look at what a mess this is on the PC where there are a million launchers

Which has resulted in some much needed competition for Steam, particularly around dev cuts.

Also just look at macOS, would anyone really prefer to only be able to install mac apps from the Mac App Store?

Would the benefits of forcing users and devs through the Mac App Store outweigh the benefits of users being able to install whichever software they wished?
What infrastructure would you host?
Well, they made sells.
I see a lot of all-or-nothing type comments here. Remember folks, there is a middle ground between a $300+ Ergodox and the $15 Amazon basics special. I use a Pok3r I got on eBay used for $80, they run about $120 new. It's certainly worth the $65-$105 over the cheapie given I use it during working hours every day.
The ultimate point of these discussions is coming to a conclusion about "what should we do?". I can give you quite a few reasons why dumping all your money in market index funds could end in disaster. I'm not under the illusion these gains are guaranteed. But what the hell else am I going to do?
Source: https://queersamus.tumblr.com/post/649552477605249025
It's far from the first time Apple tries to weasel it's way out of EU legislation. I remember it was this way with AppleCare years ago as well. One had to really fight them to uphold the minimum warranty guaranteed by national legislation.
Yes it is, thanks for the link.
You have to be 18 to get a credit card though. Are they supposed to start marketing them to children now?
Is Apple charging 30% on all Spotify transactions through their phone/tablet App Store giving them an economic advantage for their own Music store?

It’s irrelevant for the example whether Apple was already in that space.
They wouldn't be able to without breaking the DRM used on Youtube TV. Or in cases where DRM isn't involved, their client would constantly break until they release a patch every time Youtube changes something.
Sorry, my title may not have been clear (length constraints!).

I meant I'm very familiar with PHP and JavaScript, and I'm wondering what the best/quickest way to get up to speed with Python is, given that context.
As a fellow Roku user.. I never figured out what the situation was on the HBO MAX thing.. I was an HBO Now subscriber.. HBO never quit working for me .. I'm guessing they migrated me to Max or something.. but I'd like to hear from you how it affected you in case I missed something.
The weird part to me is the issue of ownership.

Why would she own the photo or the meme just because she appears in it? Usually the photographer owns photos they take, unless they give it away or are paid for the rights to it?

And once something is uploaded online, it becomes more murky. Don't a lot of services will claim ownership of any photo uploaded to them, in their TOS?

Like others in this discussion I think NFTs are just a scam
Amazon is spending big to take on UPS and FedEx
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it wouldn't be hard to have a JS ui that presents an email form, but converts that to JSON and posts it to S3.
Why aren't they weighed at ports? Too expensive I'm guessing?
> YouTube doesn't want inexpensive hardware to negatively affect the experience of consuming higher (video) quality YouTube content.

Someone should inform their apps team then, as that recent "quality menu" change has all my devices bumping down to 240/480... On a network and devices that up until that point had flawlessly delivered 720/1080 without a hitch.
Amazon has added casting support to the prime video app.

Why did they withhold support in the first place? I had assumed it was because they wanted to sell fire sticks. It's not in Google's interest to make Chromecast less capable.
You spotted the issue: maintaining a mailer requires constant monitoring of blocklists and contacting the list owners to be unblocked.

It required a fixed ipaddr and takes months to gain trust.

Using random AWS IP addresses is a lost cause.
If Apple users were harmed by this they would change platforms, no? Apple didn't always have phones, nor were they always a big presence in computing. Presumably they're doing something right, which is why people are buying their stuff.
Same here. With those HOWTOs I was able to learn networking from scratch in home without actually having internet connection. Good times :)

> Would anybody else write new HOWTOs?

I always wanted to, but because I'm not native English speaker I was always afraid to publish anything.

Still i think it could be very beneficial - especially that we all observed dozen of forums and websites just vanished over the last decade or two, but those documents are available to all as simple Linux package.
This is hand-wavy feel-good stuff, and it isn't terribly wrong but saying true things about long term returns is very difficult. Adjustments for inflation, interest rates, dividends, corporate tax rates, individual tax rates, index/portfolio construction, selection bias, etc. all need to be considered if you want to try to draw serious economic conclusions.
Thank you! I'd forgotten about this site; I'll give it a go.
> Is it going to suddenly pop? Unlikely..

This is not financial advise, but an investor myself, I'm on the other end of the spectrum. "Is it going to suddenly pop? Certainly! We just don't know when, how much and for how long. It could be june 2021, it could be 10 years after the Great Sino-Russian war of 2038".
That's my nightmare scenario. I fear it'll be the end of the mac as we know it. What upside do you see?
I also don't get it. An NFT is basically a small piece of text on the blockchain saying that you own the thing at a given URL. It doesn't mean you have copyright over the relevant intelectual property. There's nothing stopping the URL from returning a 404 at some point. And anyone can create an nft of anything, even if they don't actually own the intelectual property.

It really is as crazy as it sounds. The closest real world analogy I've seen is that it's like the people who sell deeds for plots of land on the Moon.
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We get articles on HN about once a week arguing that massive inflation is coming soon. I think all of these articles are misguided. With such low interest rates, the Fed can and will raise those rates to prevent inflation.

That interest rate rise will likely pop the bubble.
The value of the dollar has not halved....

Against a basket of currencies, the US dollar index is approximately 10% lower than it was from the start of the pandemic. Pointing to the fed money supply chart as evidence is woefully misleading.

Dollar index historical: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/currency
I don't think anyone says we should have the coordinates -- there are many other systems which are open and not patent encumbered.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/What3words lists all the problems with the system as well as provides some alternatives.

I personally like "plus codes": for your location it would be X4M7+M9 . Over a noisy channel, "xray four mike seven" is much easier to recognize correctly than difference between "steak" and "stake", especially if the person is not a native english speaker.
My washer and dryer are as advanced as I want laundry equipment to be. Physical dials to choose settings and my phone dings when a cycle finishes. The next time I buy a washer (hopefully many years from now) I think it's going to have a complex touchscreen with all sorts of features that get in the way of the "Spin dial to x setting and press Go" UX that's insanely easy to use.
Case in point is Apple using Samsung components in their phones.
There is an art market, people (dont ask me why) pay a lot of money for art and 'invest' in it, hoping things will go up. Originals have value - e.g. the original Mona Lisa will always be worth more than any copy, even if that copy was accurate down to the atomic level. Or an original banksy spray painted on a wall is worth lots of money ... if you took the exact same stencil he used, and sprayed your own version, it would be worth much less.

NFTs are an attempt to translate that into digital form. An artist will 'mint' an NFT (I think its based on a hash of the actual digital image/video whatever?) and then that 'minted' NFT is embedded in a blockchain and can be bought and sold. It is perceived to have value because its endorsed by the original artist.

Yes NFTs are weird but so is a lot of the real world art market, decades ago Yves Klein could paint a canvas pure uniform blue and people paid crazy money for that stuff.
Sounds like it would have a application in wilderness survival kits if they can find a way to do without the quartz top of the box.
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I have tried all Cherry's and I think brown or clear was the most similar to topre but I keep going back to topre. Not sure if there's something wrong with me or why Cherry's are so popular. Perhaps it's because they're modular whereas topre's aren't?
That seems like a significant improvement over no Youtube at all.
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I've been listening to the HTTP 203 podcast, which is presented by two people who worked on this project. The most recent episode has some great discussions about some of the newer image formats. Well worth a listen! https://http203.libsyn.com/
Okay, let's phrase this another way.

If your ability to consume food, water, shelter, and entertainment has not been impaired but you are complaining about "asset inflation" because you learned economics from message boards perhaps you are being haunted by nonexistent boogeymen and need to chill out?
Don't build one, build good products that users want and not forced to use. But this is from the users point of view. From a capitalistic point of view I agree you need to screw the users and environment as much as legally possible.
This is going to be a silly response, but how silly is it really? You asked what you would do with your money, to grow it...

This is related to the Keynsian Beauty Contest for following fads actively instead of passively taking long positions for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest

How about hiring a person to research and buy the latest shitcoins on Uniswap and Pancakeswap? I can name several in the last month that have each been up 500% in 24 hours. For example, see these:

SAFEMOON (weeks ago)

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/safemoon/

SPORE finance

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/spore-finance/

PROMETEUS token

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/prometeus/

By the time you hit these links, you may be astonished to see that the assets have risen in one day nearly half of the 900% the guy says the stock market would do in 30 years.

I mean, isn’t the goal of growth investing to get the biggest returns? This seems to be that, massively accelerated.

Then retire LOL.

But seriously... the smallest cap projects in the newest industries — especially now that trading is available to anyone with no intemediaries — presents massive opportunities for huge crowds to descend on one thing or another, and if you are early to the party you make a lot. I find it a very strange aspect of capitalism, that seems to reward meme marketing and attracting crowds to fads, rather than actual value for society.
IBM has grown to do a lot more than just computing services. Which is part of the reason why IBM has been struggling to find its way. In this article they’re talking about all IBM revenue, not just computing.
That was my favorite keyboard until cloud nine: split ergo that nearly mirrors the Microsoft Ergo 4000 but I prefer it now by a wide margin.
And if you avoided the worst 10 days, your earnings double. If you avoided 20 worst days, your earning doubled again.

What is the point of such trivia? That most of the profit or loss happens during the days of high volatility?
Can we just have a sticky on every foone post on HN to tell people to stop complaining about it being a Twitter thread? Maybe then Foone himself [wouldn't hate being featured on Hacker News so much][0]. Not to mention he has a perfectly good reason to use Twitter threads (which he explains over and over): he has ADHD and it's a way to cope with it.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1372945388664066061?s=20
I wonder how this compares to "limited edition" prints of classic artworks, which are also far more expensive than a "normal" print in exchange for being uniquely identifiable.
Reading it I get that AWS now by default restricts email by

- 200 mails per day max. 1 per second.
- Can only send mail to verified addresses. Not sure how they verify though.
- Can only send mail from the domain you own and verified.

All these are good steps. Guess that will gradually take AWS IPs out of all those mail blacklists.

And while we are on the topic, I find IP based mail blacklist services such as BRBL obsolete and possibly harmful. Now that we have domain verification services like DKIM SPF etc. Blacklist the domain. Not ip addresses as most institutions don't own their IPs like in the past. Most of all are hosted, and that IP might get assigned to someone else a few days later.
Check out https://optidash.ai if you need an API for this.
All these laws are not about "monopolies", that is just the wording people commenting use. So, yes the "concept of monopoly" is wrong here, which is why nobody is actually doing that and you are attacking a strawman.
So, the EU will make a big fuss, lump Apple with a huge fine, which in the grand scheme of things amounts to a slap on the wrist, and then what? Apple will be forced to lower their fees, but i'm sure they'll come up with another creative way to fleece off app store vendors.

Sigh. I wonder if they're not already selling information to Facebook after releasing ios 14.5...
The best way I’ve seen it described as it is in a way a digital “baseball card”. Baseball cards in and of themselves have no value, just text on a piece of cardboard, and if it is of the same player, they are mostly fungible. But, if the baseball card is of Babe Ruth, and you bought the card before he got famous, and you took good care of the card, now it is a valuable antique worth money. NFTs seem to be a digital form of that, complete with a JSON of its “stats”, with the added benefit that each one is completely unique.

As generous of a description as that is, I think your assessment of their current form is correct, as it really does feel like a scam. NFTs can’t be really “appreciated” the way that a collectible card can be appreciated, and heck I don’t think they have an actual viewer yet. I know that this criticism is a subjective thing, but I think it is significant.

Then again, rich people buy valuable artworks that they don’t appreciate either, except for the price that the artwork is worth. It could be digital wealth signaling.
It's a url of an image written on an array inside a smart contract. Something like

nft_owner["http://cloud.com/meme.jpg"] = address

The owner of that address has the permission to interact with that smart contract, only he can transfer it. Basically a type of ownership written on the blockchain that is all.
The thing with the streaming TV services generally is that they're not that much cheaper than cable for the same level of service. So if you really want the cable bundle, for many people it makes more sense just to keep their cable TV especially if that's already how they get their broadband.
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> I admit it is kind of underwhelming to read his answers. I am always hoping for some tidbits where he can state that he has seen the way. But for the most part it just pure hard work and true expertise of the systems programming domain. I guess the thing is evidence that true innovation often is rigorous and dry engineering.

Maybe it's because my day job is web development working with overly hyped up hipster front end developers (I'm a backend dev myself) - but I found his rather plain answers with no "eureka" in it to be quit refreshing. Linus is one of my heroes specifically because the primary focus in kernel development must be intense focus on fundamentals. I got into programming because of people like Linus so it's refreshing (to me) to here that being "boring" is just fine and even if you are boring you can still be a titan of industry by just being _that damn good_.
Stock market returns make sense only when you realize the currency is actually just losing value. All currency is being devalued so you don't see it in currency pairs but scarce assets go up quickly.
Slackware, HOWTOs and Usenet was how to learn this shit back in the day. And damn if it didn't make a bunch of fine admins, 'cause you basically had to fuck up a whole lot and that's good for learnin'
SES supports using SMTP to send emails - so I don't know why this particular setup would prohibit that.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/send-e...
More gaslighting where you mischaracterize someone calling you out for your ad hominem attacks as "tone policing". I've already refuted all of your points, and you've simply evaded my points and regurgitated yours.
I might agree that general stock market prices are quite high, but arguing that "they went up 15% in 6 months" doesn't seem particularly strong. That has occurred historically, and doesn't automatically mean it's overpriced.
The buyer likely has lots of the cryptocurrency used in the purchase and is likely either trying to promote use of it or launder money.
I feel the same way. I love its simplicity. Especially now that I found the setting to make my library the default view instead of the library/store combo screen. I have a baby, and the one-simplicity of my Kindle means I can read a book while rocking her to sleep and rubbing her back.