jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As the article states the factory is run by Emergent Biosciences and they were producing both J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines and somehow cross contaminated the vaccines. No vaccines from that factory had been approved for distribution yet. So maybe there is an issue of confidence regarding Emergent, but not on the two vaccines themselves.

Also we've already heard since then that the US has put J&J in charge of the factory to only produce their vaccine.
That was my hope as well, I still dream of Xilinx or Intel deciding to 'LLVM' their toolchain down to bitstream, I keep looking with a lot of interest at Lattice and the Yosys project as it is maturing.

These companies make money selling hardware, just open the tools and let people use what they want instead of forcing this 'visual programming' paradigm with half-baked IDEs on everyone.

My worry with AMD is what will happen to the SoC chips that have actual ARM cores in the fabric (like the Zynq family)?
there are no clear ethical boundaries here; morality is hardly universal.

I'd like to stay focused here on the so-called immorality. kgermino's choice of words to "steal the stores time" implies theft. I'm not sure if I see eye to eye with this description.

[edit: I'm curious to know why i'm being downvoted here without any followup reply. nothing that I've stated is factually inaccurate - morality refers to personal values, which vary between person to person.]
> It is not an actual reflection of their current level.

I know. I meant to say "have a higher seniority in the graph." I assume the sample size was big enough to handle shy Pythonistas and/or overly-confident Ruby devs. :P

> Your definition of C/C++/Linux people being more senior [...]

I said "I would have expected [...]".

> [...] other people's views may be different.

Clearly: http://uk.businessinsider.com/best-tech-skills-resume-ranked...

My personal experience is that somebody who doesn't know C/C++ and some UNIX basics is going to write worse code on average. (Settle down.) My personal experience probably isn't representative of anything (I'm a graphics programmer), but I think it shows in the web dev world as well. Puma for example (a Ruby web server I know virtually nothing about) is crazy fast because the guy who wrote it knows about fork and signals. Another example is Bluebird (JS promises lib), which only became popular because the guy who wrote it knows how compilers work.
The problem, then, isn't that we shouldn't use complex frameworks like Rails, but rather we shouldn't teach with frameworks like Rails. In order to teach Ruby-based web development to the n00bs, use Sinatra. This forces them to address the Ruby language right away, learn http verbs, learn unit testing (well, if I'm teaching them anyway), learn templates, and learn to organize code from a single file up to a simple structure like a gem.

Once they grok a simple Sinatra app, they can move on to Rails, understanding that it's doing a lot of magic, but at least having a grasp of how the magic works.
You are talking about immersion lithography. It replaces the air gap from the final lens of the lithography system with water which has greater IOR. AMD has been using it for a while, probably before the 45 nm node. Strangely enough Intel was not using it until the 32 nm node. It's the same hack with oil immersion lenses, basically, for the optical microscopes.
Part of the vaunt of Genera and other high level language hardware/software systems is the degree to which the runtime is inspectable; language-as-system design, however, tends to be explicitly monoglottal. Given that the author's research focus appears to be language agnostic systems programming tools (optimizing linkers, language independent interoperability, see [0]), I am curious as to how he might (assuming the final paragraph [1] entails his intention) solve the transparency problem at the scale of the meta-runtime environment, without the multiplication of C vs. gdb level effort for each language supported. The naive approaches of either 1) a powerful host runtime, to which other languages are ported or 2) an generic representation of runtimes more amenable to inspection seem both similar in spirit and akin to the language-as-system approach.

[0] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/blog/2014/12/16/#for-and-agai...

[1] "This co-evolution is interesting too. The mechanisms for achieving observability in C code lie outside the language. Coredumps and symbol tables are system mechanisms, not language mechanisms. Observability in Unix has been part of the design, down in the fabric of the system; it is not an afterthought. An opinionated system designer (okay, I'll step forward) might claim that observability is too important to leave to language designers. There are, however, some gaps to plug and some mindsets to bridge in order to apply Unix-style debugging infrastructure to ML-like languages. In another post in the near future, I'll dig a bit deeper into OCaml, by considering polymorphism (and why it's not quite the problem it seems to be)."
Small reliable car about the size of that fiat: Toyota Aygo, Citroen C1 or Peugeot 107. All the same care under different hood. Fiat: looks nice, unreliable, resale value terrible.
Hopefully they're documenting their results with chloroquine to help have a better understanding.
No you have still missed the point.

The counter-battery fire uses radar to calculate where incoming shells are fired from and shoots at that point.

But now the original artillery tries to move away from that point before the counter fire hits it.

That counter fire isn't laser guided.
any scientific reference for that ? We might have a consistent hashing algorithm for scientific research load.
I came back here to mention exactly the same quote. The title is really misleading. The whole idea is to show AirBnb will cut jobs, the question is how many (the article mention it could be as high as 2/3).
I work in Canary Wharf, the financial district. All the major companies with a skyscraper have their employees working from home now. Quite a few have been doing it for weeks not waiting for the official lockdown. It is a ghost town now.
Pruning in general is about trimming larger structures down. This is nice for using a network, but indeed doesn’t help with training it.

Lottery tickets on the other hand are configurations of weights that rival the full network in performance when both are trained from scratch, with the ticket having far fewer parameters to optimize. Pruning is only the method to find the tickets for now, but the ideal would be to have a weight init strategy that can create winning tickets in one-shot. There is work being done on this front, and also to see if winning tickets for one image classification task generalize to image classification as a whole. This would do a lot to reduce the size of networks from the start, and so far results are promising.

But yes, this is all very specific to neural networks. Do you have a blog or other place where you post about some of the things you’re working on? It would be nice to read about.
Stick with your full-time gig until the project gets off the ground and you have some cashflow or are able to seek funding.
I do hope so. But I've read that US patent law favours 'first inventor to patent' rather than 'first inventor'... will soon find out.
There's a lot of potholes that need filling due to all that delicious government attention to such matters.
> If apple didn't restrict the OS so much, you'd have people making their own Facebook clients, wouldn't have mattered if Facebook liked it or not.

You're totally wrong on this. In fact, the first alternative FB clients I remember using sprang up on the iPad, before FB bothered to put a native app out for it.

What killed alternative FB clients was FB itself -- they've slowly closed off the APIs you'd need to access to make an alternative client optional. FB has also closed off their own alternative clients as well (FB Paper), and have been forcing users into their official web or native clients for a while.
Literally nobody needs to remove signal/slots. They just need to replace them with Q_SIGNAL/Q_SLOTS.

No framework merits new core language keywords.
There is a very nice ongoing effort at the University of Tennessee Knoxville to monitor the US power grid. http://fnetpublic.utk.edu/

The video is 10 years old, but depicts a box with GPS timekeeping, and sampling the normal outlet, with Ethernet to report to the server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vt2OlVoBJc

One of the best real time views, is this view of the phase across the US. http://fnetpublic.utk.edu/anglecontour.html
I built a standing desk and a sitting desk at the same time when I moved into "downtown" office from my home office. For a year I had them in an "L" and didn't really use the standing desk as much as I thought because like the author I would get sore/tired very quickly and the nice chair was always a couple of feet away.

About 2 months ago I decided to reorganize my office and I put the sitting desk across the office looking at a wall and the standing desk by a nice window view. With that little bit of change I started using the standing desk more and more and now I use it all day.

One important note: I've also been taking a break every 1.5 hours (I have several alarms set on my phone) to do some hamstring stretches on the floor. I bought some cheap interlocking foam flooring that I sit on for stretching. On the days I ignore the reminders to stretch I do start getting a tense back by the mid/end of the day. Maybe I should add some squats...
That just sounds like so much fun. You make me want to get a pilot's license.
You don't have distinction between runtime and development time. Which means you can debug live. It's a bit like being logged in an IRB session on your rails application. Except that you have better tools than a plain command line.

Ruby feels closer to Smalltalk than Obj-C to me.

If you're familiar with Cocoa/Obj-C, you can have a look at http://www.fscript.org/
The TSA is to brown men as what cops are to black men.
I believe the standard approach is to hash the password in the browser and submit the hash for comparison - then if somebody observes the transaction they will only have gained access to the blog, and not everything with which it shares a password.

On the other side, it is typically better not to store the password on the server either. You could accomplish that by giving a utility to store a hash in a file, but that's a bit heavy I guess.

I meant for a nonprofessional /blogger/, incidentally, not a nonprofessional coder :-)
Ok, Google.
> But why does emacs have that functionality?

GNU Emacs is a 36 year old tool that's been targeted at programmers its entire life, is built on an interactive Lisp environment, and actively encourages external improvements and contributions. The more interesting question is why _wouldn't_ it have that functionality.
What tipped you off to this? The fact that he specifically said he was introducing a "loaded word" to "demonstrate the power of language"?
Greenwald doesn't seem to think that Lamos is a credible witness because statements he has made in the press aren't corroborated in the released sections of the chat log. But, (1) isn't it likely that the chat logs aren't the full extent of the communication between Manning and Lamos during this period, and (2) if Lamos is suspect, the chat logs are meaningless anyways, as they can easily be doctored.

How does the release of the full transcript solve either of these problems?
Most of the poor in this country are working poor.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/14/national/main45225...

> The number of jobs with pay below the poverty threshold increased to 29.4 million, or 22 percent of all jobs, in 2006 from 24.7 million, or 19 percent of all jobs, in 2002.
What robfitz said...

But I will see robfitz's "humbly" and raise it "greatly"
Hmm. We don't have any mice that I've seen here.

We did have skunks in the backyard. The pup spent quite a bit of time huffing and puffing at the back door ("I'll take care of this!") but we never let her out.

Obligatory puppy picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshu/5128408411/
Speaking for myself, I'm happy to volunteer for small non-profits, because they really need it, and ten minutes of my time can really make a difference (I just translated a 100-word paragraph about an award from German to English, for example).

But Sparked themselves are a for-profit venture. I'm not 100% sure that's going to be viable, but I'm not willing to give them my time for free if they're going to turn around and make money off it.
Shouldn't it be the weak who are more often silent out of fear? I deliberately avoid using my True Name here so that controversial positions won't affect my employability, and I wouldn't do that if I had fuck-you money and a permanent home (economic strength).
Suppose the tenth man controlled 99% of the wealth. Would his/her reaction be justified in going to another bar? Would the reaction be justified if at least part of the wealth of the tenth person came from the work of the other nine? If it came from being in a country with roads, education, national defense, and smart worker then is it proper for the tenth person to view all of their wealth as theirs alone with no obligation to other?
Survival of the fittest != survival of the friendliest.

If it takes a lack of empathy to get ahead, those without empathy will be ahead where possible. Won't win you many friends, but why fraternize when you can delegate and enjoy the credit?
There is a pretty clear line between using an API and using the code behind it.

The line between an API and code describing and documenting that API is quite fine. See Google vs Oracle.
I write fiction and make experimental music. (This bleeds into programming time, because I also make generative fiction and generative music).
IANAL, but the argument seems to be that there is an implicit patent grant in the MIT license. MIT gives you a license to use the software, and you can't use the software without a patent grant, therefore you have an implicit patent grant. The existence of an explicit patent grant means that you can use React without an implicit patent grant, so you don't just automatically get one if you lose the explicit patent grant.
I don't use any messenger apps, but I work in AdTech. Just curious, what exactly are you trying to hide? What kind of information is being shared by WhatsApp?
This is a straight-up lie. The accusations were never retracted. The women have maintained their allegations ever since.

and Not even going to respond to your whataboutism here, just lazy argumentation.
Author of the article here. I see why you drew that conclusion, but in this case, I was not aware of the similarly titled sketch until now. If I had been aware of it, I would have selected a different title for mine, to avoid the appearance of title pilferage. Mine was just a play on the game show title, essentially the same joke independently conceived.
I don't like the machines either. But you can't go from "could have" to "did" without evidence. Luckily where I live I get to vote on paper. It prevents such debates.
That is only with the shooty prongs. Get right in there and a taser works 100% of the time. Hit 'em in the spine and the legs drop out. The problem is cops are too concerned about their own safety. They are cowards, and when they get scared they shoot.
My impression is that aside from some crazies who generally get downvoted unilaterally, you rarely see antagonistic opposition to saying Tesla is overvalued. This doesn't hold if you instead make a meta observation that claiming it's overvalued would earn antagonism.

It's not that surprising. The former is voicing an opinion. The latter is effectively just a pre-emptive insult to everyone who disagrees with you.

Similar arguments hold for any popular unpopular opinion.
For a blog page, especially something as simple as what's linked to, coding html and css by hand is very simple.

It's a blog, not a full blown app.
In my country (Mexico) it'll be pretty much impossible, everyone uses WA/Messenger (both FB owned) many businesses/stores have support via those channels (and that support is almost always faster than calling them)
Also my appartament building has a WA group where people notifies important stuff.
And to add insult to perjury most data plans include WA/Messenger/FB free.
I tried years ago (2014-15) to stay telegram only and eventually I had to give up.

edit: typo
>Also, the problem with ignoring people who set out to murder you is that it shows an unwillingness to do so.

Terrorism is not about murdering people. It's about pushing people like yourself to overreact.
No response to my email yet :\ Perhaps they weren't ready for the pg media blitz?! ;)
Most likely it would be an 80x25 text console, no framebuffer in sight. Maybe even a serial console.
There's a whole lot of truth in her novels: she was born in 1905 and grew up and was educated in Russia/the Soviet Union, she saw this all first hand. E.g. the confiscation of her father's pharmacy, her being purged from her university just before graduation since she wasn't a Communist (in a Communist country being a party member is a privilege and they certainly wouldn't have accepted a class enemy like her, had she been so inclined to try), etc.

(Complaints from visiting foreign scientists allowed a few, including her, to eventually graduate.)
Sweet. I love Elo points a lot (so much so that they are how my startup ranks U.S. colleges: http://college.mychances.net/college-rankings.php ).

The author poses the following question: "[...] like the economy, are Elo ratings subject to bouts of inflation?" Since the amount of points available depends on the number of individuals participating, Elo points should indeed be subject to inflation.
Go Israel!
Good observation, but not quite accurate. To-do list titles are links, but tapping them once shows the edit and delete controls. Tap again to follow the link. Same goes for any link inside a touch-selectable element.
Wow, just read that comment, and suddenly it's a completely different story. Maybe they should have kept it more anonymous and left in important details like that. I left the story thinking the same as the poster you replied to, "wow, those were some serious push-over parents." Kind of explains Alex's violent reactions too, if the parents really were attempting more serious interventions than the original story lets on.

A story like this goes to show that mercy, and never giving up on your child does pay off in the long run.
There's an article over at TheRegister related to the FootFallCam saga:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/footfallcam_twitter_k...
Linux distros still ship JRE and JDK separately (CentOS & Ubuntu, to name a few). There are a few reasons for this: the first one is that libraries will get shared [1] between multiple java processes. The second one, probably the most important, is that distro will keep JRE/JDK with security patches up to date. It will usually take a single package to be updated instead of (manually) updating every java app JVM out there.

If you run multiple java apps on a single server, per-app JVM can be a problem.

[1] Here I'm talking about core JVM libraries sharing (e.g., libjvm.so), done by Linux kernel.
> What ever happened to scandium bike frames?

Ex-Union countries ran out of jet fighters to smelt for bicycle frames?

As I understand, there nowhere is in the world where Scandium is mined commercially now, and the world is still living off scandium oxide stashed by somebody very lucky right around USSR collapse?
I think titanium does the job well enough?

Can't beat it's quality to price ratio with super exotic scandium.
> The real problem is that the demand for good teachers far exceeds the supply.

The current teaching model simply doesn't scale. It worked well in the past, when most people got like 4 years of elementary school, and a few selected ones studied longer. Now we want everyone to sit at the school desk as long as possible, and preferably in small classes. (Yes, I understand why small classes are better. I am just saying we can't afford them for everyone without compromising on teachers' quality.)

Just guessing the numbers: if people live 80 years on average, and spend maybe 15 years on average at school, that is like 20% of population being students. If you want 1 teacher per 20 students, that is 1% of population being teachers.

We all have an idea of what an "ideal teacher" should look like. And some of us actually met someone like that in real life.

But 1% of population having the required skills? Also, there are other professions competing for talent. If you make all good programmers teach computer science, who is going to write code? Similarly, who will do surgery, etc.

What currently happens is that rich people (plus a few lucky non-rich people) succeed to get the best teachers for their kids... and the rest have to deal with what is left for them.

With sources like Khan Academy, everyone on this planet could have a top-quality education. You only need to make the great video lecture once. It can even be translated to other languages by other people, who don't need to be good scientists or educators themselves, just good translators. Education could be free like, dunno, Linux or something.

And yes, having a good human teacher is better than watching video. I am just saying it is a luxury that most students don't get. But everyone could watch the great video. So maybe we could change the school to be more like... uhm, maybe watching the videos together at school, and then having a debate about them? Then doing the related online tests, and again having a debate about what went wrong?

We already accept written textbooks. We should do the same with videos.
No, unfortunately, it is past the point where I can edit it. Feel free to flag it - I’m not sure how else to moderate the comment at this point.
Loved the interview and love Brave. Keep up the good work!
Bob Pease used to make some pretty convincing arguments for driving his old beetle (vs buying a newer car). Actually, the more I think about it, Bob Pease might still make those arguments if he were alive today, despite the fact that he died in a crash in a 1969 Beetle, that might[1] have been survivable in a newer car.

http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/readerschoice/4368147/A...

[1] Past personal experience: Many of the elderly people I have seen go through car crashes in which the airbag deploys experience injuries from the airbag that often lead to their death or convalescence. Of course, they would have fared no better without the airbag.
So, I'm a bit confused about how these watches work. I expected them to give me a live view of how a variable changes (like data-binding), but that doesn't seem to be the case. It seems that it puts a hook into whenever the page evaluates that code, it updates the watch.

For instance, I put a watch on this javascript:

window.scrollY;

I expected it to update every time I scrolled. In reality, I had to put an event hook onto the window's scroll event with window.scrollY inside of it. This is a bit confusing.

Also, Chris, anyone you can put an update somewhere when you get the docs finished? This is the first release that is stable enough for me to actually use, so I don't really know how to do anything. Seems like the docs are way out of date (ie: How the heck do I search for files in my workspace?).

Great release though! I'm pumped that LightTable is finally stable enough for me to attempt to replace sublime!
Duplicated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263380
I agree that he will probably not be remembered for having more than doubled revenue and almost tripled profits. He will not be remembered for transforming Microsoft into one of the most important enterprise software companies. Not for introducing .NET, C# or Kinect either. All of that will be forgotten.

He will be remembered for missing mobile. He will also be remembered for caring a lot about developers and about developers and about developers as well. The VB6 folks will still hate him ;-)