skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pfizer, a company that has contributed probably trillions of dollars to global GDP over the past 6 months, is massively underperforming the stock market when you compare pre-pandemic to now [1]. The stock price in theory should price in all the future cash flows from the vaccine. What is your basis that the pharma companies are making tons of money on these vaccines?

It isn't like the vaccines are pure profit. The pharma companies have to develop them, they have to produce them, they have to distribute them, and if they charge too much they get into massive political trouble. It seems like it is basically a giant marketing effort for pharma companies where everybody in the world is benefiting.

1: For example, from Feb 1st, 20 to today, Pfizer is up 10% and the Vanguard total stock index VTI is up 35%
Anything that was growing, or dying, or depositing, 1200 years ago was pretty familiar with the temperature. Direct observation is not the only form of measurement.
Omg are you serious?! I have forever wondered how the heck I somehow managed to get the U2 album on my phone. I used to put a lot of music on my phone and assumed I did it by accident some how even though I didn’t own the U2 album (I used to download a lot of music back then so assumed did by accident). That solves a crazy long lived mystery on my end thank you. I don’t even know how I feel about that now. I don’t like that they can push things to my device. What is next photos? If someone can just insert data into a phone how can we in a court of law accept that it wasn’t false? I really hope some follow up on how this happened comes out.
I mean......I find that you can have both power and practicality, but you don't get there by buying a massive V8 SUV.

I got a Volvo XC60 T8 last year, a plug in hybrid. Rated at 400bhp total. Silly amount of power, way more than anyone needs. But.....I very rarely use it. The electric range of about 25 miles means I complete 95% of my daily journeys on electric power alone. My long term efficiency is about 120mpg(imperial). But that power is still there if I need it - it had absolutely no problems accelerating to and going 140mph on the autobahn, it was great for a 800 mile drive across Europe. It's spacious, comfortable......and the fuel economy is great in daily use.

But I feel like I grew out of a stage where a supercharged Range Rover V8 or a GLE63 AMG would have been the dream - my next car will be full EV if anything.
Of course. That's fine.
I typically have 5-10 browser windows open with 4-10 tabs per window across 5+ spaces.

I’m terrified of the next redesign of spaces.
The SmartScreen stuff is a plague that applies to all software developers in varying degrees. Chrome does this with their safe browsing stuff too, I hate it - essentially everyone gets told your exe is "malicious" until enough people have downloaded it without it being flagged as malware.

The idea that it applies to trusted vendors like Mozilla shipping code-signed executables is bonkers to me.

Nice way to promote further centralization into services like app stores that don't suffer from this!
Happy teams vs. not-so-happy teams
I think the GP might have been responding to the GGP, not to your statement in the article.
Facebook to Begin Testing Oculus Ads in VR Headsets
I think it's possible to complain without stressing out too much, but perhaps that says something about how much time I've spent complaining on the Internet =)
Not natively, but ntvdmx64[0][1] and otvdm[2]/winevdm[3] work fine, albeit a bit slowly.

[0]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html

[1]: https://github.com/leecher1337/ntvdmx64

[2]: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/otvdm.html

[3]: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm

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For those interested, Wikipedia says there's no native/builtin 64bit NTVDM due to

> In an x86-64 CPU, virtual 8086 mode is available as a sub-mode only in its legacy mode (for running 16- and 32-bit operating systems), not in the native 64-bit long mode.

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> The NTVDM is not supported on x86-64 editions of Windows,[31] including DOS programs,[32] because NTVDM uses VM86 CPU mode instead of the Local Descriptor Table in order to enable 16‑bits segment required for addressing[33] and AArch64 because Microsoft did not release a full emulator for this incompatible instruction set like it did on previous incompatible architecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine#Windows_NT...

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Personally, since Microsoft still releases 32bit builds of Windows 10, I just dual boot 32bit (~48GB)/64bit (~900GB) partitions and run the 16bit programs natively on an old Thinkpad.
Downvoters: You know [0] is absolutely true no matter how much you hate it or won't admit it [1]. This is with concrete HARD evidence from even a pro Apple website:

'At this point there’s no known workaround for side loading iOS apps on M1 Macs, so we’ll have to wait and see if Apple will once again reverse its decision or if someone else will be able to modify the operating system to install any iOS apps on compatible Macs.'

It is indeed fast but if it can't run the iOS software you want then what is the point?

[1] https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/09/apple-once-again-starts-block...
Which 2 "it"s are being referred to in "It's the same thing"?
You have to give credit where it's due. People were suspicious of big pharma cos prior to the miracle vaccine, but today they line up to defend them.
1. I'm happy to see that EventBus has made this change. Let's hope the long overdue AndroidX migration (we're three years into AndroidX, folks) follows close on its heels.

2. Event buses are really, really bad. (At least, this kind of event bus is) The Android community has some battle scars on this, so I'll drop a little history for the broader audience here.

Event buses were an architectural fad that were briefly explored to address the challenges of communicating in the immature application architectures of the era. The maintenance lifetime of Otto, a competing event bus, is a good reference point for when they might have been considered reasonable practice: 2012 through 2015: https://github.com/square/otto/tags

This tool was abandoned by leading edge shops when they saw how rapidly it could make a complete hash of any thoughtfully laid out architecture. Connections made in an EventBus based application tend to be many-to-many, without the sender of an event having a direct reference to its recipient or vice versa. This is incredibly irritating to debug, and breeds communication patterns that are challenging even in a disciplined codebase. In an _undisciplined_ codebase they can be breathtakingly byzantine, even in small scale development.

Instead of using this, many leading edge shops started switching to RxJava at around 2016. RxJava is a powerful tool with sharp edges and a steep learning curve, but the need was so imminent and the failings of the existing EventBus-style tools so clear that it caught on. Indeed, while Google understandably felt that RxJava was too complex to recommend as an introductory tool, their first party LiveData tool released a few years later was essentially RxJava with the edges sanded off.

Of course, we're now even further down the road than that. Kotlin coroutines+Flow presents its own paradigm shift to contend with, but it's a clear step up from all the other solutions, and has Google's blessing as well. There's not much reason to start new development on top of anything except coroutines.

So where does that leave EventBus?

EventBus is at this point about as legacy as you can get without going all the way back to AsyncTask. Anytime I'm doing a code audit and see this dependency, red flags immediately go up: not only is it a sign that this code is far behind the times, but it's also a flag that I'm going to find some truly unfortunate and problematic design decisions.

People need what they need, and it's of course good to see critical dependencies for legacy applications get upgrades. But I can't recommend strongly enough to avoid this tool.
Ask HN: Can you do a Launch HN without being a YC startup?
Does one need to be accepted into YC to be allowed to create a "Launch HN" post on here?

Browsed "launches" tab several months back, and haven't seen one without (YC XXX) in the title.
> So I need to read all ~30,000 pages of Zizek before forming an opinion. Or at least a negative opinion. Wonderful system you've developed.

You can do whatever you want. But commenting on the entire bibliography when you have read less than 2.5% of it seems premature. Just say that everything you've read of him lacks substance rather than everything he wrote?
My personal counter arguments:

"People complain about range, but the issue is really availability of fast charging points, which will change" - so .. you're admitting it's not in the state it needs to be, and you're hoping that changes in the future? I'm moments away from heading out on a backcountry trip in the desert east of the cascades - how long would you estimate it would take for fast charging points to exist even within even a hundred miles of where I'm about to go? I'm also able to just strap on extra gallons of fuel if I want to extend my range even further.

"The smooth constant acceleration" - Not really sure how this is a benefit at all, unless you're comparing sports cars.

"quiet ride" - I've never once in my life wished that the interior of my vehicle was quieter, this is such a superficial benefit to consider.

"not needing to visit petrol stations" - I guess this is a benefit, of course it's offset by needing charging infrastructure both in your house and wherever you go, neither of which exist for me, but what does exist are millions of gas stations which are incredibly convenient to get to and spend 5 minutes at in order to be able to drive hundreds of more miles. There will be a gas station in the tiny towns on my route today, there won't be charging stations, let alone fast charging stations.

"long service intervals" - There's some benefit here, although you still have regular maintenance that still has to be done, it doesn't eliminate it. Even still, it's a trivial amount of time to do basic maintenance on my vehicle.

"lack of particles coming out the back" - As long as the electricity you power it with didn't come from a dirty source, like most are, sure.

In general, if all you use your vehicle for are little trips around the area of a major city, then yeah you can make it work. If you actually use your vehicle as a vehicle, it still doesn't remotely make sense.
Control is the driving force behind evolution. The total control of thought is inevitable. With that we will enter into a new metasystem where we will be the second most intelligent lifeform.

http://metamn.io/gust
Can you point to anything that says the FDA would consider HCQ or any of these other drugs as alternatives to vaccines? They are not the same, and though they could both treat COVID, my reading is not that this would limit vaccine emergency authorization if there was a non vaccine treatment. This is especially true considering there are multiple vaccines approved under emergency use which would be direct competitors. So, nope, I don't buy it from just this wording. I need something saying specifically that alternative treatments would stop a vaccine being approved.
Isn't methane much more of an offender than CO2?
> More heat should result in more water vapor, which should result in more rain.

I think the reason you're being downvoted is that this is very "first-order" thinking that fails to consider changes to pressure systems, wind patterns, etc that might affect where rain falls not just how much. Even assuming you're right about rainfall increasing with warming, rain falling in the ocean does not stop a drought on land.

Meanwhile, most people who have dedicated their careers to studying second and third order effects of increased temperature on the weather seem to think these things are connected. I'm more inclined to agree with them than with you.
If Ivermectin worked on COVID-19, the manufacturer of Ivermectin that has made no money on vaccines for COVID-19 would probably be pushing it wouldn't they?

Surprise, Merck is now working on anti-viral drug whose profits would be eaten into by an off-patent drug (ivermectin)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-03-25/merck-mrk...
Yes exactly, it's an org that attempts to creates trojan horse implants into popular projects for gradual takeover and control of projects in the long term by the virtue of the amount of people working on it.

They should be more open about it, and stop using generic words like security and memory safety for the actual corruption of those values in the form of rewriting popular stuff in Rust (apparently Apple is making followers using the safe word 'security' like politicians use 'terror' to manipulate public opinion).

If it was really about security and memory safety, other memory safe languages would be among the projects and also attempts to fix memory safety issues in C and C++ would also receive grants.
It's doable but complicated because of course you can't work for another company unless you are work authorized to do so. This a very fact-specific analysis so you will need to speak with someone but a significant part of the analysis is where the company is in its evolution, just an idea, incorporated, funded, clients, product, etc.?
no, it's the Sardinian dialect for the Italian word caglio (rennet)
That implies that we currently need QA organizations who rate government licensure schemes on their accuracy and informativeness. How often have you checked for those?

You've completely failed to distinguish a legal licensure scheme from an independent endorsement scheme.
Why aren't there any more medical schools then? I believe professional schools (law, MBA etc) are historically very profitable for universities so they are (or were) incentivized to open even mediocre ones.
The commission requires the legislature to act. It doesn't prevent the legislature from acting irresponsibly. But at least that irresponsible act will have some names on it that voters might recognize.
>The "extreme left" is not even a fraction as represented

A good democratic country will swing between extreme polls but if you look around you'll see many strongly leftist ideas (extreme gun control, censorship, minors consenting to sex reassignment surgery etc.) getting quite a lot of support and becoming laws in many countries. I certainly wouldn't argue that they're being ignored.
> So I need to read all ~30,000 pages of Zizek before forming an opinion.

By all means, form an opinion that the man and his book and a half that you went through aren't for you, but I just think it's deeply anti-intellectual to discredit the entire collection of work he's put out. You're discrediting books that you likely don't have the requisite knowledge to review which is the problem that I take with it.

> The fact that you (and he) would agree with that judgement doesn't make it any less damning.

What's damning about it? I really don't get this part.
I'm not affected by this, but that's an interesting idea. I wonder what'll happen if I report this (assuming Google has a place to report vulnerabilities in its products). They'd probably dismiss it as "invalid" because, see, it's not an RCE if it's only exploited by a "trusted party" like Google themselves.
The site says that "Radar is entirely free for open-source maintainers.".
Can you please elaborate on this? I understand it as if you're contributing to any open-source software, and can prove it, you will get won't be asked to pay?
It looks like the article has been updated.

"Editor‘s note: A previous version of this article stated Audi would stop making gas cars by 2026. Instead, Audi will no longer bring new gas cars to market by 2026. This has been corrected."
>It is very difficult to explain to people that are not curious about the technology and all they hear is 'tracing = tracking = no privacy'.

But this is literally true. This is an app pushed to people remotely without their consent or even knowledge. People cannot trust the claim that there is no privacy gotcha involved in this, especially when previous attempts seem to have opened the log of this information to all installed apps:

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/04/27/google-promised-its...

You cannot trust them when they say that the app respects your privacy.
In related news - if you ever wanted the S series, now is the time to pick one up. I went it to look at their e-trons and tfsi-e (hybrids), because that’s what responsible adults do nowadays, and ended up leaving with an S6, because it was just a complete no-brainer of a choice.

Hybrids are basically a joke, something just to make you feel good about yourself. Slow, boring behemoths.

Audi’s electrics are lagging behind Tesla by several years. In the absence of Tesla it could’ve been an option if you were after an e-car, but as it stands now it’s like buying an upscale SVGA card instead of a GPU.

And then you look at what Audi does the best and realize that a fully loaded S6 is cheaper than Tesla AND it comes with a round steering wheel! Bah, I’ll take two.
Why do you think that Bret Weinstein is alt-right?

This is contradictory to what I've seen on his Wikipedia page.
Oh yeah: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-apples-free-u2-gift-a-sign-o...

If was very creepy to have an album injected in my library. A socially inept blunder that I bet Steve Jobs would have never done.

By the way, I can't believe he has died 10 years ago. It feels so recent.
And it's certainly not right wing politicians' and talking heads' role to promote unproven medical treatments and be anti-vaxx to their huge audience, but here we are.
You are the exception. A ton of these cars are hybrids for nothing more than tax reasons and returned to the dealership after a 3y lease with the charging cable still wrapped in the back.
Speaking of cult like, what is this thing with calling people who are on firmly on the left, like Bret Weinstein and Joe Rogan, alt-right?
Why makes you think Bret Weinstein is alt right?
that is why pathlib.Path.exists should be used instead. https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html#pathlib.Path....
It's the best visa out there, it really is, particularly since the application can be made directly with a Consulate.
Drought-stricken communities push back against data centers
> The only thing that will make them do it is if the US and EU are in a weak state and can't be bothered with policing that.

If that were the case then neither would they be reigning in Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, and India. All Chinese strategic adversaries right on their doorstep. India alone could shut down oil shipments to China that all have to sail close by. Japan’s navy is stronger than China’s and they have formidable air defenses. China might just spark a regional war which they probably wouldn’t win. I hope they’re not suicidal enough to test this though.
Just a curious question. Cycling lights are indeed the law in most parts of Europe[0]. Are there no laws in the US about cycling laws or are they not enforced?

[0] In my country cycling lights are traditionally used are traditionally used as a training ground for new police officers. These officers have to explain why you are actually breaking the law and also have to deal in a correct manner in the abuse from the perpetrators.
You really shouldn't use Paypal. I have used a lot of payment systems etc. and none comes close to the awfulness that is Paypal.
Bret Weinstein is a lefty. Calling him alt-right is a slanderous talking point.
(disclaimer: I work in a climate&energy group)

I personally wish they would just continue selling gas cars, but with a lifetime fuel emissions offset built into the price. That would rapidly improve the maturity of carbon offset markets, which is needed for decarbonization across many industries (not just automotive) and has been slow going.

Random math:
200e3miles/(30miles/gallon)*8.89kg/gallon*$100/(1000kg) ~= $6000
> Personally, I like hairy men and women. It's a clear sign that I won't have to deal with some priggish prude who is more concerned with looks than personality.

Ok, but don't be shocked if some of those priggish people avoid you and unfortunately for you, they may be the ones deciding to give you a loan, to go on a date with you, to offer you a job, whatever.

Everything in life comes with trade offs.

And sometimes it's not worth winning the battle to lose the war.
Because a private individual or organization has no incentive to create a certification that ensures my safety. Their incentive is profit. The whole point of a government is to have a group unmotivated by profit, whose interests are its citizens.

You cannot hold someone accountable without a government, because otherwise there's no way to create consequences. Having a private certification authority only adds a layer of indirection.
> Just like JavaScript is frequently everyone's top choice for the browser

No, not really, and frankly this feels like a disingenuous comparison done in bad faith. I'm sure you know that, unlike C, javascript is pretty much the only option on the table if your goal is to produce anything remotely resembling production code. Also, as you certainly are aware, that's far from the case with C. In fact, you should certainly be aware that one of the most popular compiler toolkits there is, and one which has been the de facto standard for a few decades now, offers C only as a front-end, on par with languages such as Ada, which already was around for close to a decade before C's first international standard was published.

Thus, you'll need to come up with an explanation of why people repeatedly pick C over well established languages explicitly designed to meet he requirements you favour, and one which is already around for four decades, and is already standard and widely available and enjoys some adoption in some fields. But in spite of it everyone still picks C over it.
Doesn't Weinstein have PhD in biology? Surely that gives him some credibility.
Agreed! And I think the IEPP will make a huge difference.
I've seen it in Sweden in Malmö at the Disgusting Food Museum(really worth vising btw!) - it had live maggots in and everything. Apparently it's not allowed to be sold there at all though. They also had other food items which they got for the museum but which aren't allowed for sale in the EU - like the Brazilian fried guinea pigs.
Hydroperoxyl (the common name for hydrogen dioxide) should just break down into water and oxygen gas as soon as it encounters H+ ions (e.g. when it touches liquid water), no? Is there some particular reason you think the dangers are being repressed? If your answer is something to do with "free radicals" my understanding is that most of those come from metabolic processes rather than things you eat.
Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan are mostly around the Hsinchu area. They paid a premium to truck water from other areas and the government limited agricultural activities in Hsinchu as well. They almost got affected, but then there was a heavy rain in late May and the water rationing was lifted for Hsinchu.

Currently COVID poses a larger threat to semiconductor production as multiple COVID clusters are detected in packaging/testing plants.
Probably because people change over time. Change is inevitable, love can be conditional.
Can you explain to a non-mathematician how you can prove anything without refl (which I assume is the statement “x=x is true”) ?
Plenty of SUVs tick the 500hp checkbox such as BMW X6, Land Rover Sport, Mercedes GL63 etc.

Where I live they're almost exclusively leased for a period of 12 months or less and are used mostly in large cities.

I can only speculate that it's a status symbol, which for some is more important than small details such as miles per gallon.
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Sorry, that clip doesn't talk about what I thought it did. I watched the whole 2.5 video before it was censored/taken down from YouTube and somewhere in there they talk about why they think Ivermectin is effective (assuming it is).

The full video can be watched here: https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/COVID-Ivermectin-and-the...