skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The bottleneck in Covid vaccine production has never really been a lack of money. No matter how much money you throw at the problem, it would still take years to build up the necessary supply chains and get the raw materials you need. This is especially true for mRNA vaccines, which are a new technology that require different ingredients and manufacturing processes.
For such things, you can have a dedicated device that runs the locked down proprietary stuff. Motorola sells some very cheap Android devices that would work for this purpose.

The situation really is unfortunate, though.
When people ask for the difference between US and EU business thinking I'll send them that comment.

This shit simply doesn't fly in Germany, it's so insane that no one would ever think about pricing life saving drugs that high
Great.

Get it into mainline firefox and please take our money (see above).
> In many other places, you have to store for much longer term.

Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Overbuild and interconnect rather.

You can't do things like store summer solar energy for the winter. But there are plenty of places in the US where the sun is nearly always shining. If you can share that energy across the county you're in good shape. Likewise with the wind.

Again it helps you have solid baseload power. It's just nuclear is so expensive and takes so long to build that you can build twice the capacity in solar and wind plus a battery, plus a gas plant for a backup in less time and for a similar price.
What if the proprietor has a really bad allergy to animal dander?
A visitor bringing a pet onto the porch, and not into the residence, hardly seems like a violation of the no pet policy.
I am not worried only about better healthcare. Population growth, climate change, waste, .. so many more thing to worry.

For me humanity is up for a massive shrinking. Either because we do it or (some decades later) mother earth does it.
Salesforce Enters the Streaming Wars
Just don't use those websites. There are so many things you won't be able to do before you die. Pick one of those instead.
SEC wants ‘terabytes’ of Slack communications from Ripple
I built one, way back (I'm not an Android dev, kind of hacked it together but on the positive side it's extremely simple: https://github.com/niryariv/KalSMS )

At the time there were a lot of developing countries projects using SMS as their main interface (a lot of work with community health workers etc). Orgs like the UN would set up an SMS gateway by hooking a desktop with some hardware, and of course it would be very vulnerable to stuff like power outages, someone tripping over the wires etc and you had to get the technician to set it up again. With smartphones you had the all the required setup in one cheap, small and very durable package, no training required to operate.
Love Firefox. Just wish they would cut Pocket out.
That's what I was thinking. I don't do a lot of work in that space, but I know for a fact that "fixed width SIMD buses" are no more of a fundamental flaw than our CPUs having a limited amount of cores.
If I say no pets on my property what suddenly allows a small violation to be acceptable? Go find another place.
there's a trick to find hidden cameras in airbnbs: join their wifi network and use nmap to scan for all network devices in your subnet. then cross reference the mac addresses/try to reach the webinterface of the devices. this should catch most webcams.
> well, maybe, I must admit I didn't know of a canonical written form of modern Scots.

Modren Scots, unfortunately, disna hae ae orthography, altho it haes a wheen o credible an similar yins. We'd probably hae a mair official orthography gin Scots hidna been surpressed for hunners o year, an insteid we lairnt it proper in the scuil.

> It still looks an awful lot like sco.wikipedia.org, which is a grotesque parody written from the US. You'll forgive some suspicion.

This is a pish opinion. Firefox wis owerset intil Scots by twa talentit fowk.

Unfortunately, the Scots tongue haes ower monie gowks that leuk doun upo it. Either they cry that Scots is ‘no a real language’ or somehou that Scots spikkars are no spikkin ‘real’ Scots.
I propose everyone has a regular wank in every room. That'll scar the peepers more than the renters.

Was it worth installing the CCTV?
AZ had to offer the vaccine at cost because they didn't develop it themselves. It was a condition of the license from Oxford University.
Maybe he has no choice. Maybe the government has threatened Apple? We don't see anything behind the curtain. One thing is certain. I've lost trust that the iphone is my device.
It is possible that some countries paid more: EU negociated hard, but maybe Dubai or Israel who go them first paid more, we'll probably never know.
> Where is the dictatorship, precisely?

In Social Choice Theory, "dictatorship" is defined by the "social" choice always matching the most preferred alternative of an individual (or, sometimes, as "social preferences" always matching the preferences of an individual.
What I don't like about Firefox is the fact that it will load all the tabs and windows you had opened before shuting down the computer and there is not a clean way to make it stop. When I finish my day, I like to shutdown the computer and go to sleep or whatever and every day when I open Firefox, all the windows will reopen and I need to close it and re-start... I just want to be able to disable this behaviour from the settings, but it looks Firefox just don't want to address this
Funny you mention that, this was submitted earlier today: Oregon students shouldn’t have to prove they can write or do math to get diploma

https://www.salemreporter.com/posts/4419/oregon-students-sho...
I agree, the justifications in this thread rely a lot on inherent trust of the facilities provided. I get that your example is somewhat a bad-case-scenario, but today nothing is a surprise, and it's entirely possible as unfortunate as that is.
How much training does a React developer need to become productive with Vue? Same language. Same domain.
You and sunshineforever didn't understand how one can plagiarize a definition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28111656 .

That's a universal statement.

I've been trying to argue that definitions can be plagiarized, with examples which are not "tenuous" but ones which are drawn directly from publications.
> plenty of countries would have paid $1000/dose

Really? Could you name a few?
There’s a short story in the Expanse Universe where Solomon Epstein is killed by his experimental propulsion system when it accelerates so fast that he can’t reach the controls to turn it off and then blacks out.

The drive is named posthumously after him based on the design notes found on his computer by his widow.
Wonder how these would do as companion plants in vegetable gardens
Nothing better than waking up and reading wishes for a mass extinction event on hackernews.
? What's wrong with XHTML? <img /> is clearer than <img> for anyone familiar with XML, and XHTML documents are easier to parse (e.g. can be processed with XSLT stylesheets).
Ford has a large number of cars out there
- Drunk driving is a rare problem but with a large number of cars there will be enough cases for there to be newsworthy stories.
-Drunk driving just takes one driver to create an arbitrary number of deaths.

We would not accept having breathalyzers in every car.

Or to bring it closer to the child abuse problem: Would we accept cameras that take pictures of the occupants of the car to make sure that the minors in the care are not being trafficked?
Do laws prevent 'regular' hotels from doing this?
Wages are sticky and employers have gotten used to paying a certain rate for employees and employees have gotten used to be paid that rate.

If Google wants to try to cut that rate, its likely that someone else who is hungry for Google engineers (like Facebook which is going full-time WFH) will be willing to pay that rate (also understanding that they have some terrible PR issues and will need to pay a bit higher due to that).

That is likely to cap how much Google is actually able to do this if someone can phone up Facebook and get an immediate >20% raise over what Google will "calculate" their pay should be.
>What definitely exists in Russia (or at least some big cities) is a system of free after-school classes, where you can go and learn how to solve olympiad-type math problems and become more interested in maths

And for people outside of big cities there were schools-by-correspondence famously running by Moscow State University for math and MIPT for math/physics. The setup was you were mailed a small booklet every month. You had to study the material, solve problems and sent solutions back. The solutions were graded and sent back to you.
It was great on so many levels. First and the most important aspect it taught discipline and time management. The material was amazing when you were given gradual increase in complexity instead of sheer volume of simple problems or a few olympiad-level problems which can't be solved if you are not there yet.
The cost of the A/C and janitorial staff is peanuts compared to the money they spent on commercial real estate. If they don’t get ROI, someone is going to be held accountable. If the offices close and the value of commercial real estate plummets there are huge players that are going to be wiped out, with macro-economic ramifications. It’s a perfect example of sunk cost fallacy, but on the scale of billions of dollars.
Can GPT-3 figure out that a common word is being used outside its usual context, so its usual meanings don't apply? Let's say my example was instead

"I got a cat. That little orc sleeps on my bed."

I wonder how GPT-3 would deal with it. Maybe it would think "cat" and "orc" refer to different objects/beings? Or associate "cat" with features that clearly wouldn't fit a cat like "green", "humanoid", or "fantasy monster"?
> If anything, they should argue for a pay increase to offset the costs Google is externalizing in utilities, on-site benefits, need for security, food, space, etc.

This is absolutely correct.

If Google would tell me that I'll see my pay cut by about 10% for working remotely, I'd put in 25% less effort – 15% for space, power, etc., and 10% to make up for the cut.
You might be able to hide root using magisk(?). Did at least work the last time I tried, and the safety net checks passed without issues on lineage os.
It depends where in life you gain those two years. Two extra years of being 20 is a lot nicer than two extra years of being 99.
For me the one-tab extension solved my tab addiction (I accumulated >7k over several years). It saves the tabs, so my fear of losing that data doesn't kick in. But I don't actually have to look at the closed ones and they don't consume resources.
They could state as much if it is a genuine safety concern. Or not risk renting their home to complete strangers.
What characterizes the French?
And if you're running the spycams, this is why you get a good wifi system with VLANS to separate your traffic.

Not saying you should run spycams, but always practice good network security.
Those are some cheap bikes in today's market! Even my 1998 Giant Cypress is worth over $100.
Hey Danny, correct — we do not currently expose attestations to consumers. Over time, this is something we absolutely plan on doing.

One thing worth focusing on is that Evervault is built for developers. Developers do not have to build using Evervault, so a developer using Evervault to mislead their customers about their security isn't something we focus heavily on. There are much easier ways for developers to mislead customers about their security, but that's a conversation for another time :)

I completely agree re: the onus being on us to prove it. It's something we're actively trying to improve, and sharing how we built E3 is just the beginning of us sharing more about how we design & build. Transparency is an existential requirement for us to become a standard part of the developer toolkit. Watch this space!
>Except you do. It's harder to understand and less readable; and in a real life rather than made up example, addTwo is in some other module entirely and has side effects that are completely invisible (in most languages) when just looking at addThree, making debugging and understanding WTF is going on far harder.

You don't lose anything from a hard structural standpoint. Readability and being harder to understand is an opinionated based metric. It can be influenced by how you even name a function. It is a soft metric therefore weaker than the hard one. Additionally I DO mention the qualitative opinionated cost of modularity several times in this thread. So I address it but it is definitively weaker because anyone can have an opposite opinion and say that "in my opinion modular code is more readable"

>You mention "pure functional context", and yet this whole thread exists under a post about OOP,

Did you read the article? The author of the article was not convinced by OOP, he never supported OOP and generally the entire article is critical of OOP. I would say my reply is highly relevant and that you didn't read the article.

>it's no good trying to create toy examples that are side effect free to try and dismiss the points being made.

The examples serve a purpose to illustrate my point not to illustrate a real world example. If you want a real world example look at the react + redux architecture. The gold standard model for all web UIs exactly do what I mention with state management. They completely separate State away from pure functions. The entire web generally follows this model abstracting state management away from even code. Web apps are stateless with the database handling the entire job of state management. Examples of this pattern are EVERYWHERE, the example I gave is a toy example to help you understand not to say "hey this is a real world application." I thought that was obvious, my fault for not being clear on that.

>yeah, that's the point. Splitting code doesn't by definition make it more modular.

Completely and utterly wrong. Splitting code by definition makes it more modular. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity

The definition from above says: "Broadly speaking, modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use"

If you are "splitting" code then by definition you are separating code which was previously combined. By Definition it is more modular. You really can't argue this point. More likely what's going on here is you have your own personal fuzzy definition of modularity which you are unconciously combining with your opinionated view on what constitutes good code. I am using the english definition not some fuzzy notion of good code so I am definitively right.

Be more exact and formal with your terminology it will lead to much less misunderstandings.
Or Rab C. Nesbitt.
That's not science being influenced.

That's our legal and court systems being influenced by junk science funded by shitty corporate actors.

Actual science is what they're trying to drown-out. And yes, big-money can influence academic review and publishing, and it's a real problem. (actually a HUGE problem). But that's not what you're describing. There are good scientists doing real and valid work in both establishing the cancer-tobacco link, and climate research with regard to carbon from fossil/petroleum fuel burning. That's not being drowned out in academia. It's being drowned out in the profit-driven political and newsmedia spheres.
Climate change ‘double whammy’ could kill off fish species
HN is getting to the point where you can't discuss ideas unless you comply with a particular orthodoxy.
If you can't handle small violations, do not rent your home to a series of random strangers on the internet.
Computing UIs initially changed for two reasons.

The first? Newer display technology and processing power, allowed for more complex menus, decision trees, and visual effects/feedback.

The second? Computing was new, and we were still learning how to build basic, usable UIs.

Yet ever UI change distracts, causes lag for users, and the above two points are long factored in.

No one needs a fork to change. No one needs their remote control's volume button to change.

Worse, no one need it to change from one day to the next, on a weekly or even yearly basis.

Many users would be beyond overjoyed, if their browser UI didn't change for the rest of their life.

The back button doesn't need to move, become something else, leap from the top to bottom of the window, look wildly different as a default, behave differently.

Worse, almost every UI change I've seen in Firefox in the last decade, has been tiny little tweaks without any real value for the end user, yet alienated people.

And worse, forced on people. Way to keep market share.

Firefox could be #1 again, simply by firing every UI person, hiring developers with that cash, and just optimise, merge in new web standards (without creating or taking part in them), and fix bugs.
Tell me your nationality without telling me your nationality. :)
The Bottomless Pit of Disappointment: A Chrome Extension Tale
Cardano’s Alonzo Purple upgrade imminent
If you train a transformer (ala GPT3) on narrative content specific to a niche community, I suspect you could generate manifesto-like narrative canons that strongly resonate with members of the community. A kind of “flag generator”.
Israel reportedly paid $35 per shot.
What do you make about Elon Musk's prediction that the biggest threat in the future may actually be population collapse [1], rather than overpopulation?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Klhl81K7g
> Practical problems with it don't really matter

Oh, but they do because people's half-baked understanding of the philosophy get warmed up and served in all sorts of ways that affect our quality of life.
I don't understand why you can't quickly set this up?

To independently clear on a container-basis, why not just delete the container? Stop treating your containers like pets and start treating them like livestock.
Pandemic exposes supply-chain flaws
So you don't know
Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero
I did the same to pick up DS lite in 2016 but not like you that I didn't want projects, just some fun. I never played them when they were released when I was at Univ nor the other consoles. I'm a big Castlevania fan but only played torrented copies on emulators.

The feel of Lite and the optimised gameplay experience stunned me. It reminds me of the old Gameboy feeling. So much fun than any games on PC (control-wise). I quite like the fact that it is compatible with GBA games. And the experience is consistent with native DS games. Best 50 pounds spent on second hand devices.
If Starlink ever adjusts prices downward to benefit people who otherwise can't afford it I'll eat my hat.
Now imagine it's not a rental but a house you bought and the builder installed the surveillance and you have no ability to remove them.
I've worked with some top level executives of major pharma companies. This may come as a surprise, but they are, in fact, not monsters, and are concerned with the availability of their products to normal people.

$19 is about $18 gross margin on each vaccine dose based on a quick google, which is still an exceptionally lucrative opportunity for something that is desired by several billion people.
Israel has paid only a bit more than that.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-be-paying-avera...
Leave your phone at home, plug an Arduino into the phone's OTG USB that behaves like a mouse and keyboard, and use that to send the necessary swipes.

We really should ban SMS-based 2FA.
I take your point, but that’s not really the authors prerogative to decide what does/does not comply.
If cell phone signal is good enough for decent internet coverage at your rental, just unplug the router so you don't have to worry about being watched all the time. One of the benefits of everything going cloud-based is that most of these stupid devices don't work without wifi/internet.
The Body as a Formed Stream
> The requirement[0] from the post is for a non-empty list of file paths

I'm sure you could imagine my example record containing more keys no?

The requirements from the post are arbitrary and could (should) be anything that best-illustrates the thesis of the post. For example by choosing a representation of their "configuration" that suffers from this silly problem of containing unknown content after parsing, the author introduces the whole `NonEmpty` gymnastics. It's totally avoidable. The irony is that the author was so close to getting it right!

> You check the list is non-empty but this information is not available anywhere else in the program

The function in my example does statically define that the returned list is non-empty. A "parser" would maybe return the non-empty list if parsing was successful. That's how parsers work.

[0] The requirement from the post is, in fact, to only have a single file path. That is the only data actually being used (i.e. required). The other intermediate data structures are a choice of the author.
Firefox doesn't have enough market share/power to dictate terms to website owners; if they just disabled third-party cookies, websites that broke would just tell users to switch to Chrome.

Chrome isn't going to tackle tracking/fingerprinting for obvious reasons.
Interview: Apple’s Head of Privacy details child abuse detection
Completely :)

I was just trying to point out that just the fact of stopping people commuting doesn't really mean a lot, there are a lot more things in play.

I'm in the UK, and our houses are not really built for extreme temperature fluctuations, so in the summer I run the portable AC - which is terrible but otherwise
we can't sleep. In the winter, it's crazy cold - but at least now we have the log burner in so not as bad.

I think it does depend on where you are in the world, I can't walk to a pub, or a shop where I live. I have to drive further than my office to get to a supermarket or town.

But yes, I may have not made great points in that post!
And then imagine that the landlord checks for other vague “things” in order to “keep you and the neighborhood safe”.

“Sorry, I have no control over it” he says, “it’s required by law”
Oh really? The first million dollar drug came out of Europe.

https://bioengineeringcommunity.nature.com/posts/45406-1-mil...

“The first gene therapy approved in the Western world is set to go on sale in Germany at a cost close to $1 million per treatment. The record-breaking price tag came to light in November 2014, when Amsterdam-based Uniqure and its marketing partner Chiesi, of Parma, Italy, filed a pricing dossier with German authorities to launch Glybera.”
> That'll scar the peepers

Or entertain them.
Worth checking out the book The Great Demographic Reversal
Derive and Implement a Neural Network from Scratch in Python (Full Course)
> Are they really selling vaccines for $19/dose?

Where did you get that number?

> Seems like bad business when plenty of countries would have paid $1000/dose if they could get the first deliveries...

This is probably why all EU countries bought vaccine collectively.

(A) To avoid member states pushing up prices competing against each other.

(B) To ensure they could demand some of the first doses, due to increased bargaining power given the sheet size of their order.

Finally, keep in mind that with the US blocking exports of vaccines, the only free capitalist market for vaccines was the EU. Lol, one could even say the US went borderline communist :)

Overall, it all worked out pretty reasonable. And I seriously doubt lack of capital have kept vaccine manufacturers from increasing production :)