skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "how did the vaccines get approved so quickly" thing has to be one of the most asked- and- answered questions of the entire pandemic. The basic delivery platform for the vaccines had already been in human trials before the pandemic. We've also been doing rapid development of vaccines for many, many years to combat things like influenza. Coronaviruses had already been well studied, and we had dry-runs for vaccine design with SARS and MERS.

You can just do a Google search to read about 1,000 articles about how the vaccines got approved as quickly as they did. You don't need to ask your friend who works at Gilead. Not for nothing: their clinical trials would probably go a lot faster with a global pandemic lighting a fire under them.

We've administered these vaccines to almost four billion people. "COVID vaccines are dangerous" has become an extraordinary claim, demanding extraordinary evidence. There are people who sincerely believe that aspirin is dangerous, and yeast, and "mycotoxins" on coffee beans, and on and on. We're not required to take these arguments seriously on faith.
I'm pretty sure antivaxxers are saying the same about educated folks.
Read again.

> In this case the alternative to the trial would be the […] option of no treatment

So the alternative is what we do now, which indeed is the ‘dangerous’ option.
I found some info:
The Silmet rare metals processing plant in Estonia is more than 5,000 miles from San Juan County, but the White Mesa Mill south of Blanding could soon be receiving radioactive waste from the eastern European facility.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sltrib.com/news/202...

Changed hands several times, was US owned recently but now is Canadian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silmet
Thanks for mentioning that—that's helpful to know
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
Because the statistics ("HIV took 40 years to get to 37 million people confirmed dead") come from the West.
It's okay if you don't know and it's definitely okay to ask!

They do tell you what it means in the second paragraph, though.
I scolded the other commenter as well, but you (i.e. each of us) need to follow the rules regardless of what other users do. "But they started it" is a recipe for a downward spiral—it always feels like the other person started it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da...
There are, of course, various export limitations on that technology.
I strongly agree with their conclusion about Apple keyboards: "Apple inflicted the butterfly keyboard on millions of customers for years, giving it the dubious distinction of causing the most tangible badness of anything we’ve ever reviewed." I had to quit using Apple laptops for years due to how physically painful that keyboard was for me...
We've had laws governing public spaces and common rights of way for millennia. Governing what and to whom people can communicate, and what they are allowed to remember or record, that's the new thing I'm objecting to.
Privacy.com - I use it for any recurring payment or overseas purchase
I suppose vfork might help with that (though I don't understand why they don't directly add fork_and_execve, it would seem much easier).

Also, the problem with Linux is not having overcommit, but notv being able to choose when to overcommit and when not. Windows makes that easier, AFAIU.
Even ignoring the fact that US doesn't need to hack hospitals, they just declare sanctions to prevent given country from receiving medical supplies...

How do we know various attacks come from Russia, and not from US? Mostly because the US says so.
>The end product has less functionality, but at least you didn't have to do something actually hard like learn Haskell and work with Someone Else's Code.

But did the business need all of that functionality? Rewriting a subset of an application that is far more maintainable and cost effective in the long run can be a huge win. I am currently rebuilding an application full of intractable bugs and proprietary DSLs that was implemented in Salesforce with lots of bells and whistles that nobody wants or needs to be a simple Golang/Mysql app hosted on AWS. Yes, it is a tiny subset of the current functionality. But it solves the business case and will save millions of dollars per year in Salesforce fees while simultaneously making the user experience an order of magnitude simpler and allowing faster onboarding.

Engineers allowed to run free can often times spend an inordinate amount of time building things out that no one really asked for. Your Haskell backend was probably a thing of pure beauty from a programmers point of view. But an expensive liability to the business.
How to get SaaS financial model in 5 minutes
Whatever the GDPR was supposed to accomplish, wouldn’t it have been better to simply criminalize whatever the law imagines people should have to give “consent” to?
That won't scale.
The tutorial, source, and tests can be found in the GitHub repo below as well:

https://github.com/namin/inc

(Not the author’s repo, just consolidates some of the material)
Generally good article, but this part bothers me:

> For another, this ended up being an almost peculiarly American experience. In Europe, regulators were worried about the cost of interchange to businesses (rather than consumers) and capped it. Since issuers didn’t have the margin to compete on rewards paid for by interchange, they instead leaned into branding and convenience, and credit cards became a smaller portion of the payment mix (about 47% of electronic payments, compared to almost 70% in the U.S.).

First, the 47% is for all types of cards, debit and credit. Second in the SEPA space (at least the eurozone), wire transfers are free of charge, and are frequently used(for rent, salary, buying a kitchen, even between friends, at least in France), which removes some of the uses for bank cards. Furthermore, bank cards usually have limits, so buying expensive things (like a car or kitchen) isn't necessarily straightforward, unlike a wire transfer. IMHO shit prices and delays are the reason peope in the US often use cheques where in the EU we'd use a wire transfer, and it isn't really true that cards are less used here.
Great read until they started suggesting that violent video games were leading to school shootings, which the science totally disagrees with.
Teaful: Tiny, easy and powerful React state management
I like it. It sounds very silly, very IoT-all-the-things, but I've without question seen situations where they'd be worth the investment and then some.

Could pose some organisations an interesting dilemma, where to draw the line for the extra expense.
You're right—I should have mentioned that for live music, I'm mostly into indie rock and indie pop. I do like some vocal-driven electronic music (like Sylvan Esso), but when I checked Songkick for concerts in Miami, I mostly saw shows for pure EDM and DJs, which aren't my cup of tea for live music.
I don't think the Lumia 950 deserves to be on the same list as the BB Playbook.

By the time the Lumia was released, Windows Phone was actually quite useable and snappy. It's the completely empty app ecosystem and the years of head start iOS and Android had that killed it (apps were not portable from the earlier incarnations of WinPhone).

The playbook was just a joke. No emails, no calendar, no apps. Software was incredibly buggy and it felt years behind the iPad. Actually, no, to get the calendar you had to pair it with a blackberry phone if I recall.
> Who is the market for this?

Wealthy people.
Just want to congratulate the author of this post. I learned a lot - great exposition, especially for someone still in college!
> It’s similar to the antivirals for flu where you need to take it early on so it becomes habit to test early and start early.

Are you actually able to get tests? I've brought my kid into urgent care and they won't test for flu, so it doesn't matter that there's a drug available, because they won't test.
Thinking outloud here a bit and being a bit handwavy but I feel like there's a need for a decentralized 'moderation' to some of these systems. Where if enough actors think something should be moderated, it will. I'm not sure what that would look like in practice. Something like if a 'large enough' (whatever that means) % of the system that thinks something should be removed, it will be. In real world systems we do have these procedures in place, I think pretty much everyone can agree that violent criminals should be removed from society, what constitutes 'violent' has been established by hundreds of years of 'justice' where 'justice' is mostly centralized with some indirect decentralization from democratic processes. Things like peertube, IPFS and any type of decentralized content should have this IMO.

[EDIT] Seems like these type of systems exist in some projects reading from futher comments.
> Operation Warp Speed is, to me, an indication of the power of government "intertia".

We call this the Deep State
Drizzly November in My Soul
only use Homebrew for ‘Casks’ (GUI .apps)— `brew cask` subcommand

Nix or pkgsrc for reliable management of CLI tools (both, if you want to try Nix but want an escape hatch)

don't forget to install GNU coreutils, grep, find, and bash. (BSD coreutils are weird and anemic if you're used to GNU. macOS bash is ancient, etc.)

disable cursor acceleration (barely works, but it's the only thing that works): https://plentycom.jp/en/cursorsense/index.html

the only mature terminal emulator on the platform that performs okay (provided you enable GPU acceleration): https://iterm2.com/

recover basic key remapping functionality: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

recover basic audio controls like per-app volume mixing: https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

recover FUSE support: https://osxfuse.github.io/

recover configurability for a whole host of missing functionality, like global keyboard shortcuts, through automation (Lua scripting): https://www.hammerspoon.org/

recover clipboard management: https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

if you don't use some hack to get window tiling, you might also want to...

recover basic window management functionality: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

recover modifier key window drag: https://github.com/dmarcotte/easy-move-resize

good luck.
This is excellent news. Vaccines and an easy to get prescription treatment like tamiflu are how this stops being a pandemic.
I am my own customer. I don't even etsy my work, though I could.
If you make this change, I will fork the code.
Exactly what I was thinking, especially for an entirely novel molecule. I wonder how novel the scaffold is. Whichever med chemist led this initiative is an artist -- amazing job.
You can run this

npm config set ignore-scripts true

which will update ~/.npmrc (you can also create project-specific .npmrc files if you prefer)

You can see how NPM has been configured by running

npm config list
Recent and related:

Why Robert Burton’s masterpiece speaks to our pandemic age - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28230168 - Aug 2021 (8 comments)
You are right: PII. Sorry.
So PII are Informationen that enable someone to identify a person as a unique person. On the homepage is stated: "This generates a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitor numbers for the day."

Where the definition of personal data is:

"(1) 'personal data' means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;"

So if the listed information isn't PII (an IP address however is PII) then it would become PII if you can identify a unique visitor with it.

Am I wrong here? It sounds to me that this hash fits the definition of Art. 4
> Because they had tracking information, my bank (HSBC) said their hands were tied...

But a lawsuit might untie them. That said fraud can sometimes be too hard to prove.
I’m surprised there’s no binding arbitration clause in here
From: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/k0s8qw/vs_code_devel...

“Microsoft doing shitty/shady things is nothing new, especially here, but seeing as they've recently started advocating for open-source, this seems like quite a step backwards. Some background first. Microsoft has been working on an open-source Python type checker called pyright for some time now. The first public commit dates back to 2019-03-11. It seems quite promising, though I haven't tried it myself yet, with them advertising "speed" as its main characteristic. All fine and good so far. Then, in October of this year, they released PyLance, a VS code extension that serves as a language server for Python and uses pyright for type checking. PyLance is not open-source”
No, some laws and some rights merely provide a framework for peaceful coexistence. See negative vs positive rights.

...your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins. -John B. Finch
They're not exactly looking for investment, are they? With close connections to investors with deep pockets, in a race to commercialize fusion, it's not exactly surprising that they would keep their cards close to their chest.
Out of curiosity what are your thoughts on Santa Fe?
The History of Microbiology – A Personal Interpretation
Add numerology analysis as a premium feature.

A number can be assigned to every specific letter. You add them up, then again until it's just 1 digit. The digit has a meaning supposedly influencing the person destiny and personal traits a specific way.

I don't mean this is true, but I know many people believe it is (or may be so why not) - I personally met many such people. This way you can attract some extra audience.
The definition of ARR is MRR * 12.
New setback for Dubai fraudster David Haigh in $5.4m legal battle
Might be nice to deploy the Flutter app on the web too. Flutter web support is pretty decent now. SQLite on the web is probably going to be tricky though (sqflite doesn't support it).
kudos to them using actual audio instead of wub-wub-drum-n-bass-mix to drown out the whine of the engines
> Apple is not designing OS for devs their vast majority of users are not devs or even professionals these days

yeah. So why are so many devs more or less forced to use MacBooks? someone tell their CTOs
https://www.apple.com/shop/trade-in

https://www.apple.com/recycling/nationalservices/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065
Pdfsandwich
> Maybe they just don't want to hire overtly racist or sexist people who might threaten their diversity?

No. And even if this were true, having some kind of diversity specialist quiz people to see if they are racist (for what definition?) would still be ridiculous.

Companies have policies for employees about workplace behavior like racism, harassment, safety, whatever. If they are concerned about workplace discrimination, there are normal corporate ways of dealing with this. Having a diversity interview is something entirely different, and seems much closer to being asked if you're a communist or a christian. It's patently absurd, and a sign of a company that has lost all focus on actually building something.
edit2: actually, I see the denominator there is total population not cases but I still don't follow.

There have been 19,850,744 cases in 18-49 year olds [0] and 63,207 hospitalizations [1] which suggests at 0.3% infection hospitalization rate..

[0] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics

[1] https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html#virusTypeD...
The physical card even has "Goldman Sachs" laser etched on the back.
This contract is most applicable to the entire country of Mexico - - where judges, police officers, most everyone is sold out to the drug cartels . . .
Most likely they are just always connected while doing their work and so don’t bother to disconnect when slacking off either.
> If I wanted to create an API to interact with a bank for my local city here in the U.S., do I call up a bank teller and ask me to connect me to someone who is interested in integrating their bank with the world?

I always wondered this, but when some minor crime seems to get heavily investigated by police. Seems like there are avenues to report something and have it taken seriously that just doesn’t exist for the general public calling the general number.
Trends in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Not from Python to Haskell but Thomas Leonard[1] has a very nice series of blog posts about migrating 0install away from Python to OCaml, of which many points also apply to Haskell which he evaluated as a choice as well.

[1]: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2013/06/09/choosing-a-python-...
> CDC, Nature, New Scientist, the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet

None of these sources are trusted by the people who don't want the vaccine.
You can save your debit/credit card, just don't save the CVV (if it is static). My debit card provider also has a feature to randomizes CVV every 5 minutes ie. for every purchase (I can enable or disable the feature). CVV is mandatory for online usage of debit/credit card.

The same provider also give 25 IBANs per account. I could, for free, put 25 virtual debit cards on them, and have the IBANs empty unless I put money on it. Good luck scamming me this way. After all, the accounts are empty except for a few min when I put money on them to spend it.
A type of shared killfile might work, kind of like how some people or groups of people curate the lists of ad domains in ad blockers.
IIUC it's their own custom implementation of something a lot like Haskell, with the compiler implemented in Haskell.
Yep - multiple representations, and interactivity, for the win. It is incumbent on the instructional designers and teachers to construct a process where the learner actually learns the concepts rather than learning processes and using computational resources to cover a lack of understanding.
> However, it is indeed historically and factually a province of China.

It was a part of China.

But things change. The CCP took over the mainland but not Formosa, the rump state moved to Formosa, and these became two separate countries moving along different paths. Every year they grow farther and farther apart.

Now it's an independent country with its own government, population, currency, military, flag, land, economy, institutions, foreign policy, citizenship, and culture. They have their own academic system, their own universities, their own borders, legal system, constitution, etc.

However this country can't "declare" its own independence because of the threats of Chinese violence.

Well, that doesn't change the fact that it's a separate country. I may not "declare" that I am not a part of Roy Orbison's family, but that doesn't mean I'm part of that family.

You don't need to make a declaration of what is an obvious fact. You just go about your life with your own country and enjoy your freedom and prosperity. This will continue until China's government collapses and the threat of violence against Taiwan is gone, or until no one cares whether a declaration is made or not because the holdouts that still think that China and Taiwan can possibly be the same country will be so laughed at that no one will take them seriously.
The fact that they end up in ED is actually proof that girls act on their suicidal thoughts in non-effective ways. Boys who shoot themselves in the head, or jump from the window, or in front of the train, they don't end up in ED, they go straight to the morque.

A girl would typically swallow some pills, and then call their best friend to say godbye, giving time and opportunity to help them.
TIL the devil prefers PayPal.
>an ISO C++ compliant implementation can run bare metal, there isn't any requirement that an OS must exist

Ok? so This point contradicts you, the language defines no runtime support, so it's very difficult to do the things that a language with a runtime in its specification considers for-granted.

>a C++ runtime is responsible for running all global variable contructors and destructors, handling exceptions, soft floating operations, loading shared libraries on demand for dynamic linking (depending on OS capabilities or bare metal), how new/delete translation into the underlying OS/MMU.

This is a misuse of the term as used in our context, almost all of the above can be considered as simply linked/injected code. The global variable initialization is done by startup code injected by the linker, the construction and destruction code is routine boilerplate inserted by the compiler at specific fixed locations, the new/delete operators simply wrap calls to the underlying memory allocators to call constructors and destructors properly, etc... Nothing of these features knows anything of value about the source code it's injected into, they are just boilerplate function calls inserted for housekeeping. Only loading dynamic libraries can be considered as remotely "runtimey", and I have never heard of them done on anything without an OS.

>so when I use static reflection in C++, either via template metaprogramming,

This is compile-time reflection, it's neat but has nothing to do with dynamacity or runtime support. The original point was 'C++ is drastically less dynamic than Java because it's binaries are very thin and it's philosophy is that the compiler shaves as much of the high-level semantics as it can and leaves nothing but raw, dumb, optimized bits'. I don't see how compile-time metaprogramming contradicts this.

>or with the features that sadly will only come in C++26,

What are those features exactly? do they include, for example, that the compiler injects the name, fields and method signatures of every class into an inspectable object? If yes, then those features, when they come, _will_ make C++ significantly more dynamic. (and its binaries significantly fatter)

>really I just picked C++ as first example that came into my mind

A very bad example to say the least.

>We can also start discussing Eiffel, Delphi, Swift or Go

Let's do it indeed, I love discussing programming languages! What exact features or abstractions of each of those language that you think will classify it as dynamic? If they are similar in quantity or quality to what the JVM does it should indeed qualify as more dynamic than C/C++ (almost everything is). Dynamic-Static is a spectrum, not a binary category.
For homebrewers, that can be anywhere.
Those objects must exist with and without overcommit, I don’t understand why they must make one less efficient than the other.

(I’m talking in general here - not Linux specifically)
Apple Hires Tesla Autopilot Software Director for Car Effort
This was a phase 2/3 trial. So there was some side effect data collected, but enough people went through the trial to see any large/common side effects.

I generally think of the phases like this (this is just how I think of it):

Phase 1 - is it safe? If you don’t see severe toxicity then you can go to phase 2.

Phase 2 - does it work? You look for good outcomes (cures, better survival, etc). If there is significantly better outcomes relative to placebo, then go to phase 3.

Phase 3 - does it work for a large population? What is the appropriate dose? Dialing in the numbers before public release.

Phase 4 - after you’ve made the drug public, monitor the larger population for side effects or adverse events. You can’t hope to cover all patients in a phase 2/3 trial, so you keep monitoring the first waves of patients that get the drug.
C-F bonds are very stable, not like O-F bonds. They're found in common drugs like Prozac, and common materials like Teflon.
Unless you're dropping the account completely, it's not super effective, because card issuers participate in services to update your subscriptions to newly issued numbers.
Dude, the notch on the phone on your website looks 20% larger, not smaller! /joke