skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you get in return is somebody (the government) took the risk of a blind faith payment to have a university develop a vaccine.

That's what you paid for, not for production, not for distribution, not for anything else.

You didn't pay taxes for a free vaccine, because you don't pay remotely enough taxes for that to be viable at all. Unless every country on earth takes their fair share of blind-faith financing a single company.
>Is there any real proof that these diversity sessions actually help people work in diverse environments?

I'd say no for the most part.

It's mostly hypocrisy and everyone knows is theater, which creates boredom at best, and bad blood at worst.

Diversity is built organically, not through sessions.

It's like those bogus "we're a big family" pep sessions -- and then the company screws you over.
If you think the other end is going to blame you for the data leak.. yeah? What other options are there?

You could report it anonymously but I'd have thought a HN user would come up with that option by themselves. Just in case though, you could report it anonymously.
>Even with a cursory reading I stopped at 5 blatant lies

elaborate?
> ad scripts

Should not exists IMHO ;=)

But yes, SRI is just for the case the CDN gets compromised.
In the coming years, we may see the rise of separate economies based on political divide. I think this is where we are heading, and this will counterpart the world splitting the internet into nationally divided fragments.
The key is to get a minimum viable product done... something that is barely good enough to show someone else, so they can give you feedback, and some encouragement.

Use whatever language you want, break it down into small parts, and stub out whatever you can't do immediately.

The main thing is to just start coding, once you do, spend at least 10 minutes a day on it. Enough to do a git commit.

Good luck!
I didn’t want to offend anyone in any particular ecosystem, but when I talked about bloat in codebases, that is definitively one of several I had in mind.
Misleading title. They reduced git clone time 99%, not build times.
> The diversity training definition of racism doesn't simply mean prejudiced, it means a part of a system of power that benefits people considered "white" at the expense of others

But then everyone is racist. Including black people. Everyone is part of this society that has systemic features tht benefit whites.

So if everyone is racist, what’s the point of labeling?
It should be noted that while several central banks are collaborating on digital currencies [1], all signs point to implementations not using distributed finance/ledger technologies or crypto/tokens/stablecoins. The ECB has specifically stated they will not tokenize or issue a stablecoin for a digital Euro [2] [3], and I would expect other central banks to follow their lead.

[1] https://www.bis.org/publ/othp33.pdf (Central bank digital currencies:
foundational principles and core features)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24686582

[3] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/html/digitaleuro.en.html
All of that is valid, and I don't disagree on most points.
However, we have a stupidly polarized political climate right now. It makes "agree to disagree" pretty tough since the press and social media tend to stir people up.

I think it's better to rise above the noise and focus on building things. I know people on both sides of the political spectrum that are good people and good engineers. I'd rather focus on common ground.
>A disease isn’t something you can solve by pretending really hard that it doesn’t exist.

This is demonstrably false. Some places are already back to life as normal, like Florida and Sweden, with no business closures. And in spite of this they still have lower deaths per capita than some places with heavy lockdowns like New York, Peru, Belgium and Spain.
Well, I mean, when they were banned from twitter, people said "build your own twitter", when they built gab and got banned from credit cards processors they said "build your own financial system", when they got banned from cloudflare they were told "build your own internet backbone" etc... At which point this is not censorship when companies equivalent to public infra with big public contracts and ties to the government using public infrastructure paid by the people ban you from their services? I mean, imagine if this was happening to some people in China, people would immediately call it censorship, and rightfully so.
Merck's stock is down while Astrazenca's is up, thats enough indication that merck doesnt hold anything.
Isn't there also observational data that disfavors MOND?

I remember it had something to do with galaxies colliding and the dark matter staying behind or something along those lines.
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> saving billions and billions of dollars for everyday Americans without costing taxpayers a dime

I have a feeling that these savings mostly benefit middle-class Americans.
Neil Postman wrote in 1985:

“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism."

"Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with [indulgences]."

"As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists, who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny, “failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”

"In 1984, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we fear will ruin us. Huxley feared that our desire will ruin us.”

-- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Apart from the awfulness of it all, anyone else get EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus vibes from the photos?
> not some non-profit startup.

There's no(t necessarily a) question of any non-profit startup there. The problem is that the people who paid for the development of the product should also hold rights over the product. If the vaccine was developed with public money, it should be publicly available -- not necessarily (but yes, also to) non-profit startups, but also to any other manufacturer in the pharmaceutical industry, since they (allegedly, in any case...) pay taxes, too, and have therefore invested in this product.

If Merck wants to use their proven manufacturing base with an excellent delivery track record (which nobody is denying, after all), that's great. They can:

1. Put their money into the development of said vaccine, or

2. Acquire the license to manufacture it, at a reasonable price, like they do with any technology that wasn't developed using public money, or

3. If we don't want stuff that's already been paid for with public money to be sold to manufacturers, which I don't disagree with at all, then, sure, they should get it for free -- but in that case they shouldn't be the sole owner of the rights towards that product, either.

(Edit: FWIW, I'm all for 3. I've worked in the medical industry and I know full well that there's a great deal of work that goes between first-stage research and final production, and that it's incredibly hard and expensive to take the result of a publicly-funded research program and turn it into a product. That doesn't change the fact that said research programs are publicly-funded -- their results should be available to anyone who paid for them. If someone wants exclusive rights to the result of some research program, then they're welcome to pay for it themselves.)

As it stands now, they own the rights (including licensing rights!) to a bunch of products that they haven't paid for at all.

All the suits blabber on and on and on about how the government should keep its nose out of their business. How about they tell the government where to stick it when it's about paying for their research, too?
The question is not if it’s valuable, the question is if it’s subsided. Farmers producing corn add some value to the process, but in western countries ~100% of their profits are from government subsidies. This does incentivize them to be more efficient, but it also means their constantly looking for a larger handout.

In the case of farm subsidies it’s grown to the point of being actively unhealthy both in economic terms and the actual root cause of the obesity epidemic. Without sufficient calories you can’t have an obese population due to physics. Medical subsidies have resulted in a host of related problems not just in economic costs, but also in what research gets done and how efficient that is.

The cost of Medical studies in the US has grown wildly out of proportion because their a profit center. This perversely slows down the rate of medical research, even in the case of emergencies like covid 19.
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I was under the impression there was an exclusive agreement in place with AstraZeneca but the general terms for access to Oxford's IP was:

https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/technologies-available/technolog...
I'd be curious about knowing the technical details, as the article is pretty much an advertisement. Example: the vast majority of the GC section is about GC in general; only a small part is specific about C4, and with little details.

Specifically, the C4 looks very interesting, although I'm a bit perplexed because, if it was universally good as it's written, they would have essentially solved one of the major problems not just for Java, but for a large amount of languages.
Any reason you used an obfuscated, redirected affiliate link "tag=indiadefence-20"?

Kinda diminishes the recommendation.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B083F8KG7N bring you to the same product. I'm sure HN can afford the storage and bandwidth for the extra 21 chars. Ironically, i'm now costing them more with my reply to your comment than if you'd just linked Amazon directly without the ref.
One of the absolute laziest ways to write a "news" article is the "here are a list of things people tweeted about this topic" compilation.
>without enough customers to be profitable

I encourage you to visit one of the no-lockdown states like Florida or South Dakota sometime and see how much of a complete falsehood this is.
So git doesn't scale well with wide, deep source histories? That's a failing of git I think, not the Engineers who may even have written that line when the source base was far less gnarly.
I can't. Argumenting for that side makes the mods come out punishing, saying it's flame baiting, not what this site es for etc.
Tech companies are clamoring to give you credit cards
If you're relying on browser updates, then why not just work on getting whatever JS improvements you want into browsers directly?
>The article focuses quite heavily on Zing vs Hotspot but it'd be interesting to see an analysis of a variety of the standard JVMs GC methods (namely Shenandoah).

Also, ZGC, which is considered production-ready in JDK 15.
I feel like there's a pretty big change in scale that happens over the course of the article. It starts off talking about a field that needs to "gain those few crucial microseconds" and then talks about a GC with an average and max pause rate of hundreds of microseconds.

I mean yeah those GC pause times are extremely impressive, but you're clearly operating against a different set of performance requirements than those teams that care about several microseconds of difference and it's a bit disingenuous to compare your own tech stack to them.

That being said I do appreciate articles like this that show just how far Java performance has come over the last few decades.
There's never been any belief among the scientific community that any of the vaccine candidates would provide sterilizing immunity. That was just a pipe dream.
Yup, with one addition

>> It'll still be running some code...

until the system is degraded to the point where it crashes into either only the smallest fragments (which take tens or hundreds of millions of years to rebuild), or complete extinction
This is why the media establishment (Google, Facebook) hated Bitcoin so much. Because it gives financial viability to independent thought.
I think the official term was "Maoist struggle session."
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I enjoy lisp/scheme syntax, but I'm especially impressed by lua's simple, readable, flexible, whitespace-insensitive-but-whitespace-friendly syntax. It is a bit more complicated than scheme's, but more intuitive because you don't need to explain quasi-quoting and other lisp-specific stuff.
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#9
I've recently joined an existing fully remote team. Once or twice a week someone will start an Among Us session, with a parallel Google Meet video call. People will play Among Us, and then discuss who the Imposter is in the video call. Once the game resumes, people mute their mics and disable video.

It's been a neat way to spend some social time with my new colleagues. Being on non-work calls has helped me get a sense of who my new colleagues are and I feel it's helped me integrate in to the team.
These sites aren’t being banned for their views but their blatant disregard for the terms of services for providers.
This is "centrist" propaganda. I'm also absolutely sure you'll find that 99% cross-stitch and scrapbooking content online is posted by a tiny percentage of cross-stitchers and scrapbookers.

You'll also find that radical centrists (as defined by actual political positions) are an infinitesimal group, and that the vast majority of people will report their beliefs as middle of the road no matter what the actual content. They will also report that they are middle-class, no matter what their income.

And what content-free questions:

> It concludes that unlike in the US, climate change is not a culture-war issue in the UK. In Britain, it found that 85% of voters believe climate change concerns us all. The most sceptical group were voters described as “disengaged traditionalists”, where the figure was still 76%. Meanwhile, 79% of all voters say gender equality is a sign of progress.

Does climate change "concern us all"? Yes, climate change is being used as a weapon to destroy progress and people's livelihoods.

Is gender equality a sign of progress? Yes, when the courts stop favoring women, and give me the right to choose who I want to hire regardless of whether they're a man or woman, society will have progressed.

> The research also suggested that the Covid-19 crisis had prompted an outburst of social solidarity. In February, 70% of voters agreed that “it’s everyone for themselves”, with 30% agreeing that “we look after each other”. By September, the proportion who opted for “we look after each other” had increased to 54%.

I don't even know what this question means, or how it's relevant to the thesis. I think they were searching for people who both had no loved ones, and are not just covid denialists, but not even aware that anything is even going on. Covid denialists have support networks, that's how they keep their businesses open and schedule protests. It's very difficult to phrase a question when the position that you think is the most reasonable is also a very extreme one (that covid is very dangerous and justifies extreme measures.)

> More than half (57%) reported an increased awareness of the living conditions of others, 77% feel that the pandemic has reminded us of our common humanity, and 62% feel they have the ability to change things around them – an increase of 15 points since February.

Unintelligible. And these are the entirety of the examples cited in the article.

edit: also Jo Cox supported BDS, so I guess she was an extremist, too.

edit2: missed this

> Its polling found that 73% believe hate speech is a problem, while 72% believe political correctness is an issue. Some 60% believe many are too sensitive about race, but 60% also recognise issues around “white privilege”.

- looks pretty extreme to me.
Whereas the MacBook Air is still amazing. Has a good processor now, good sized hd, no Touch Bar, Touch ID, light, great battery. Lack of ports is a thing but good thunderbolt 3 docks are about. Still the best laptop for me I’ve ever used.
There are still a number of players in the HFT space that use JVM languages.

I think as with any space, if you really zoom into the details, you see a lot of diversity. You're obviously right in that people who are still hitting the CPU can't compete with people that do everything on FPGA, but it seems like there's still plenty of money to be made by people who are just a bit less fast than that.

I've heard people argue that they prefer being in that sort of space, too, as it gives them a bit more room to compete on their own alphas, and tends to be a bit less winner-take-all.
Which countries have eliminated the latter 4? I would consider an illness "eradicated" if the vaccine is no longer regularly given. At least 10 years ago (when I was in the field), MMR and Chickenpox vaccines were still regularly administered in the US.
You still can de-duplicate storage in the cache, just not the download.
> Anything in its own compilation unit would be isolated

In isolation yes. But if it interacts you get events like the fact that gcc changed std::string between versions (from refcounted to one with small buffer optimisation for C++11 compliance) also introduction of move semantics and rvalue references can change interpretation of the same class declaration between compilers in different modes.
I think that book is better once you're already fairly comfortable with proofs. I tried to read it early on in my mathematics studies and couldn't understand it. Until you've done a number of proofs and start to see commonalities between them (e.g. proof by contradiction, induction, etc.) you don't have the mental scaffolding to learn more systematic approaches to proofs. I realize the book attempts to teach these techniques, but in my opinion it is hard to motivate these until someone has actually needed to use them to solve problems they're interested in.
The limitation on sequence length in these architectures is important. For example if you ask someone about a book they just read they can probably give you a summary fairly easily. This is beyond Xformer models today. Note this is distinct from training on a book or series of books which networks handle fairly well.

More practically lets say I want to do an English language -> SQL translation task. If I feed a schema to GPT-3 along with the English language this actually works amazingly well. Unfortunately with only a couple thousand tokens to work with as input budget my schemas have to be short. I can't feed in a ton of schemas and meta data and have it work out complicated joins.
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software
Patents are one tool to promote the progress of science and useful arts. Publicly funded research is a different tool. Usually, patents are based on privately funded research.
citation? That seems very unlikely. US farmers constantly look for greater efficiencies. They are also among the most conservative about land policy i.e. erosion, chemical application etc because it costs them money.
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Read a Paper: The Paradox of the Assisted User
I wouldn't say everyone is racist, by that definition. If you want to and are working to change or get rid of these systems, then you are not racist.
Seems like PayPal had already cut off funding for Proud Boys over a year ago? The did the same for Antifa though, so at least they are somewhat consistent.

This particular article seems less about Proud Boys and more about Epik using an "alternative currency" called "Masterbucks"...

> The right wing has long accused tech companies of anti-conservative bias. Experts say the claims are unfounded.

It's an interesting situation. Facebook particularly I would say has an overwhelming conservative bias. At least, I saw an article the other day on how the top X trending posts on Facebook are always dominated by pro-conservative pieces. However, I've also seen a ton of anti-conservative partisan fact-checking on Facebook (i.e. it's obvious the factchecker was doing everything possible to label an unfavorable article as "false" or "partly false" on a small technicality). So in my opinion, the situation is that (in the case of Facebook), the userbase and content is right-leaning, while the fact-checkers/employees are left leaning and are trying to combat their own userbase.
If you want something that's as fast as C++, but safer to work with, then there's this new language, has been on HN frontpage once or twice.. I can't remember the name, but I think it had something to do with oxidation of metals.. Something about shellfish as well..
of course as the middle-class is vanishing the correspondence is perhaps not as valid as before, but everyday Americans would once have been understood as a reference to middle-class Americans.
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I do, I start. I start many things. I'm even able to stay consistent for some time. But then I realize that its either too big for one man, not needed any more, I lack knowledge in other areas to finish it, its just becomes boring or any other reason side projects die.
I got a "free" inkjet printer that was "free" as in puppy.

I learned that if you don't print anything for six months you will need to spend $50 on ink to get your next print. If you fall out of the habit, prints get very expensive.

So I challenged myself to print something every day and that expanded in scope to mean "print" in the widest possible sense. I learned pretty fast that the Ansel Adams "Zone System" helps you print anime characters on a receipt printer. I've cleared out my backlog of photos and mailed them to my family, trying many different service bureaus to see which ones tell you it is matte when it is a semi-gloss print. I even print my CSS grid information graphics on 4x6 cards, etc. Now, I break printers like Jimmy Page broke guitars. I just got an industrial printer from a drop shipper in Flushing, NY that came with a drivers-and-docs disk that didn't have working software but seems to have good enough documentation to get started.

It is good for my mental health because it grounds the world of digital images that I work and play in with the world of physical objects.
>We have to live with the reality that people are not going to have low-latency setups, and design with that in mind.

Or we can live with the reality that some people will shell out for low-latency setups. There is room for both.
There's no "culture war". People who oppose science, human rights, etc. are irrational and violent terrorists. Humanity should defend itself both on the internet and IRL.
From the article:

> According to one letter, penned by Epik’s SVP of strategy and communications, Robert Davis, PayPal inquired about offshore accounts, money transmission licenses, and "other queries related to cross‐border activities and law enforcement."

> “[The questions] were absolutely absurd, and well outside of any knowledge or experience we have as a domain registrar,” said Davis.

These sound to me like things PayPal very obviously should be asking of anyone using them to run a cryptocurrency.

Interesting that they've taken down the masterbucks page now linked in the article and with the archived note about tax advantages, and moved it to masterbucks.com which their FAQ claims they control: https://www.epik.com/support/knowledgebase/using-masterbucks...
The bad news is that we can't really have one vaccine candidate released to the general public much before the others, as that will impact the results of other vaccines that are still in Phase 1/2/3.