skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how that in any way justifies the decision. Seems like the implication is that christians (specifically catholics) should just be okay with having their religion insulted if the decision was made by someone of a different cultural background.

If anything, that just makes it more offensive instead of less, IMO.
My understanding of at least the Pfizer vaccine was that it primarily lowered the risk of developing COVID from a
COV-19 infection. Also if I read it properly that means you could/would wond up in the asymptomatic spreader category.

IF all of that is true (and if i misunderstood, please correct me!) It would make the most sense to give it to higher risk individuals first.
Add Tdap to the list. It is 95% effective against diphtheria and nearly 100% against tetanus.

The IPV polio vaccine is actually over 99% effective after three doses (the standard schedule in the US is four doses).
There's certainly many factors involved (age is a huge one), and it's important to remember that you cannot control or change other people. You can only influence them to change. I believe that is just as true of children as any other human.

By doing the activity yourself, you expose the child to it, and they may decide to take part. Over time, they will almost certainly take interest. That doesn't mean you read a book one day and get frustrated because they are playing video games. You read a book every weekend because you want to, and over time, it influences how your child perceives best use of free time, demonstrates discipline, and showcases a non video game activity.
The threat of leaked secrets in Git repos
> it's no different from buying a house on a mortgage

If you find a bank that lets me pay myself a "tenant fee" for living in a house I bought on a mortgage, please let me know, I'm all ears...
3. It does something that is not immediately apparent but develops into a terrible illness/problem year/s later.

If it caused cancer, or auto an autoimmune disease, its likely these wouldn't be apparent for months or years. This is unlikely, but possible, and we could not test for this thoroughly as we didn't have the time.

I also remind you that these companies are immune from lawsuits due to the indemnity clause in their contracts.
Now imagine you live in a country without sane (or sanely enforced) protective laws _OR_ universal healthcare!
Why would a programmer ever worry about "ownership"? I've never had to do that.
I don’t see why they wouldn’t pivot to another illegal market.
Anything can be picked up and weaponised by the culture war process. At this point it's almost automatic. The clickbait machinery doesn't help either: the selling point of HCQ was its unapproved status, it was the "one weird trick doctors don't want you to know".
> Historically, our merchants in China have benefitted from lower shipping costs due to the Universal Postal Union Treaty (“UPU”). Certain expected changes to UPU postal rates that went into effect in July 2020 are likely to increase the shipping rates our merchants incur to ship products from China. The actions we have taken in our logistics program to mitigate these increased costs may not be successful over the long term. If there are increases in shipping costs, the sales price of products on our platform could increase, which could reduce the volume of transaction activity on our platform to decrease and may consequently have a negative impact on our results of operations.

The S1 talks a lot about their logistics platform and diversifying their merchant base to come from different countries, instead of just China - and rightfully so, since until July Wish’s business was subsidized by the Universal Postal Union treaty. Thanks to the UPU, Before July it was cheaper to mail a package to Chicago from Shanghai than to shop to Chicago from Dallas.

This has now changed and so the era of cheap shipping from China is over. It’s unclear how much their logistics platform mitigates the new costs, but interesting that they had to go out and build their own fulfillment and cross border carrier services to mitigate.
Ha, interesting. I wonder if someone's done a site where one can easily scroll back and forth in time, watching WP articles change.

Hmm, one might make a simple MVP radial gradient from a slice of that Sun_white[1] image.

> constant war

Well, there's varied esthetics. And misconception avoidance awareness (spotty) and prioritization (varied - some astronomy outreach knowingly does aphysical art thinking it more engaging). Wikipedia has Talk for memory - no permalinks, no "writers notebook". So content crafted with care and carelessness has similar editability. There's no "if you're going to change the Sun image, of course read the extensive easily-found backstory discussion of that" (maybe - I didn't check). When a misconception is widespread in books, editors come with book in hand. When misconceptions create confusion, errors are overlooked, and yet more misconceptions are created as people try to fill gaps, to reconcile incompatible conceptions. The Sun article's current "(its light is closer to white than yellow)" for example. So things roil. Misleadingly colored H-R diagrams providing cover for a simply broken Stellar_classification table. Errors engendering confusion, providing niches for more error. A Darwinian ecology of misconceptions, creating endless forms most wonderful. Or... well, a toxic sludge, and a tragedy of crippled human lives and potential... but that perspective can be demotivating. Science education content is really quite awesomely bad.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Sun_whit...
Remember playing this as a kid on my 256 PC. Good memories and I appreciate seeing this open sourced
very scientific
I don't think anybody can give you a really concrete answer. Some people are already treating it as if it were February. Others are going to be extremely careful, and may literally never return to February.

I myself may be closer to the latter: I have close friends with health conditions for whom COVID could be incredibly dangerous. I may literally wear a mask for the rest of my life, though I'll probably be willing to at least go out in groups once I'm vaccinated.

I can't tell you exactly what I'll do because I don't know what the vaccine is really going to be like: how well it will be distributed, how quickly herd immunity will take effect, what side effects are observed, etc. I'm hopeful that we'll start seeing case numbers fall in couple of months, and I'll start being able to make decisions then, but right now I don't even know what it is I don't know.
uBlock's zapper is just for deleting elements once. If you want to remove something permanently, use the picker.
When cops and America’s cherished gun rights clash, cops win
Those "Dev Fonts" suck because they are monospace, but English letter is proportional. The inconsistent letter-space of monospace fonts really drive me mad. Now I use Input Serif, it's not a perfect programming font, but it makes my code more readable than any monospace "Dev Font".
It's an online dollar store, meant to give the experience of consumerism to poor people, who otherwise wouldn't have enough money to participate.
Telegram Data Clustering Competition: The Solution That Won 2nd Place
There's a good portion of people with long-term effects that weren't "vulnerable" but end up with chronic fatigue, lung damage, or mental health problems.

If you compare the frequency of those side effects alone vs. the rarity of side effects we've seen in historical "bad" vaccines, you still end up with a pretty obvious cost-benefit in favor of taking it. From that point of view, "even smaller chance of dying" becomes just a perk.
Defiantly talk to a qualified HR attorney before using this in an American company - at first blush it would run afoul of my own states anti-discrimination laws.
Frontier and El Capitan will be the first Exascale processors on the planet (now that Project Aurora has slipped schedule).

Both with AMD MI100 providing the bulk of their compute. Frontier seems like it was given development boards of MI100, because AMD is talking about how they already ported some code over to the MI100 and tested it.
Because it is only 95% effective. If everyone around me is also vaccinated it is likely that even if my vaccine doesn't work I'm still protected. This is what herd immunity is about.

Note that we don't know if vaccinated people can spread covid or not. It seems unlikely, but if it turns out being vaccinated means you become a non-symptomatic super spreader I reserve the right to change my stance based on that information.
Dude, read my point again. I was asking why would he get upset if is his colleagues decide not to vaccinate. Not anything else.
Its 126 Million (minecraft) vs 150 Million (roblox) users at the moment. Though it seems roblox outgrew minecraft just this year, for obvious reasons. They were competing for a longer time now, but so far minecraft had the upper hand.

I guess minecraft is more popular with older people who grew up with it and there is some limit reached which slows down minecrafts success at the moment. It seems minecraft was also rather silent in the last year. Animal Crossing and now Among Us are the hottest games everywhere, but aroung minecraft it was rather silent, even though it should have been more succesful with people staying at home the whole time, giving people more reason to do stuff in Minecraft.
Fine, if you can't pick a number out of your ass and say "sites must load in less than 1.5 seconds from <simulated average connection> to appear in our special box" just use it as a ranking value.

Fill the special box with relevant results to the search, and use load time for the result as a weighting. So if your content is ridiculously on-topic but a little slower to load, you'll still probably be in the special little box, but a slightly less specific site thats super fast to load might be before your site.

As has been mentioned: google has used page load times as a metric for a long time. The difference is they didn't add a "special little box" to incentivise sites with otherwise shit decision making skills to do the right thing.

But sure. Tell me how forcing clients to download a bunch of javascript, and introducing forced 8 second blank pages for anyone who dares to not load said javascript is all about making pages faster.

Give me a fucking break. If you want to live in the fucking google sphere, that's your choice, but don't pretend that their motives are anything but hostile to the very concept of the open web.
Yeah, it has both left and right wing neurosis represented. Probably because rather than generate something coherent and new, it mashed together whatever trended highest on the big data culture combiner thing AAA game houses use to theme their re releases of the same game over and over. The games are garbage but maybe the meme concentrator engine used to create them could be useful as a warning for us to stop being nazi sympathizing social justice warrior misogynists.
I've been thinking: every one of us who's been on a plane is told how to wear an oxygen mask, every single time. I've never needed to do this, and in situations where its necessary then survival is already looking a bit dicey. There have been about 30,000 deaths from air crashes globally ever.

I wear a mask every time I go to the shops. I've never been given an official briefing on how to do it. There have been about 1,300,000 coronavirus deaths worldwide.
I'm allergic to signing into any Google property in a web browser. The only thing I use my Google accounts for is email and I don't want everything I do to be associated with one of my Google accounts because then they shove other annoyances in my face.

Even non-Google websites like Medium.com annoy me with pressure to sign in to their site if I'm signed into a Google account. [0]

[0] https://imgur.com/a/06M9riv
You really missed my point. Read again my above comment.
I completely agree with everything you say here. Well put.
> Unreal engine is already almost there, gamify the UI, invest a few millions in creating good quality assets and you have it.

Far from it. Roblox solves the multiplayer part of the equation very well. Authentication, social graph, transactions for players; game server hosting and API for creators. It took me 5 minutes from starting up Roblox Studio to having my own game live and discoverable by all other players - this is huge.
Docker can't be hosted on WSL1. You can use the Docker client on WSL1 to communicate with a Docker host running on WSL2 or Hyper-V, though (which is how Docker Desktop works)
Belatedly...

Someone needs to update Herman's propaganda model to include how social media works.

The filters are the same, of course.

But the balance of power has shifted. eg Aggregators are now much more powerful than Advertisers.

The update should also reflect how Twitter (for example) is now exploited to shape narratives. There's always been astroturf, but now it's much more effective. What Phillip Howard (Lie Machines) calls "computational propaganda".
Too late for that - the beta testers have already found it good. A phase 3 trial is beta test.
For me the discomfort is really about my glasses that get fogged.

It is much better with the FFP-3 masks than with the typical surgical ones.
Build a keyword spotting model with your own voice in 30K RAM
Sounds good, but the name may confuses it with Vala https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala
It is a worthy effort but I really need to be able to plug in my own auth options, as per stuff like Dovecot.
It's not about what their agenda was, it's about what the perceived message is. The article clarifies it in great detail.

Let's compare this to the recent PC brigade efforts of banning "master/slave", or "blacklist/whitelist" terms in software. Whoever introduced "master/slave" terms into e.g. database software certainly did not have an agenda to defend slavery, yet people still got mad.

And if something as minuscule as a simple word can spark so much outrage, then a mainstream, ridiculously popular game doing such blatant and heavy-handed history whitewashing of an entire culture is a veritable powder keg waiting to explode.

("Whitewashing" is also a potentially dangerous word, I hope I did not trigger someone here.)

But you are correct in one thing - Ubisoft, being a greedy corporation, optimized for getting the most money, even at the expense of making the game's "made by diverse team" disclaimer a sad, tone-deaf joke.
As a toy project, I'm actually experimenting with this, but instead with Lua.

https://github.com/capsadmin/nattlua

You can see some examples in the readme.

To me it makes sense that the typesystem is basically lua rather than a mathematical ish looking language.

It could prove to be more difficult to work with but I guess I'll find out.
Yes, it's not clear to me that we have a moral obligation to be "best" or do the best we can, even if there was no mental/physical price associated with it.

(Let alone "best" is not clearly defined but I take it as quality/performance/output - frequently materialized in money or professional advancement).
Flash Animation was made possible by technical limitations as much as by technical possibilities. 480p Flash clocking in at less than 100kB vs RealPlayer needing several MB for the same amount of content in 240p is a huge difference on a slow connection.

1080p streaming in real-time is "good enough" and YouTube will not only host it for free, but even share ad revenue. You could deliver vector animation in HTML5, but a pure animation platform will have a hard time against something that can do both animation and camera recordings.
Is there any change in the number of tech IPOs specifically?
https://xkcd.com/371/
I admit that I also automatically lose a bit of interest if I see "familiar C-like (algol-like) syntax" as a supposed feature in a new programming language, there is also no point in being original just for originality's sake, and the space of possible syntaxes for programming languages has been pretty well explored. But in terms of semantics this really doesn't look much like an "Algol clone" at all, rather it seems to want to explore the conceptual space between imperative and functional languages where Rust has been breaking genuine new ground, and which clearly has more room for experimentation.
So someone black is just different enough to admitted to these spaces, but someone poor isn't?

Economic apartheid isn't just endemic in the US, it's a core value and seen as a positive thing.

And gender/race identity politics are not a serious threat to it.

Because it means corporations can carry on being corporations as long as they have a couple of privileged middle class women in the boardroom.

It's an improvement of sorts, but only in a very limited way. Time and time again in the US we've seen this does nothing to alter the predatory values that make corporations so toxic.

Ultimately it's not about tribal identity at all. It isn't even about class.

It's about values. Is your culture driven by generosity, maturity, open-mindedness, and curiosity, or is it motivated by greed, narcissism, selfishness, competitive snobbery, and naive tribal identification which is relentlessly hostile to out groups?

Identity politics without value politics is a superficial band-aid which can't fix the political and economic hemorrhaging caused by the unaddressed underlying condition.
The places where people want Apple broken up are generally places where we all know it will make the result "worse" but will enable interoperability and competition and break down lock-in and empower users and lead to more repairable and less wasteful devices and (and and)... the idea is that what is best for an entire market isn't merely "the fastest thinnest devices with the longest battery life and the most integrated stacks" if that implies buying into one of a handful of locked down systems, but instead that we should actively enforce an optimization that is harmful for all of those companies and potentially their products but which causes an ecosystem of interoperable components where users have commensurate power to make demands back on platforms. It is the very true fact that economies of scale and efficiencies of vertical integration exist that make regulation and anti-trust law so critically important to prevent the world from being made up of an oligopoly of maybe three giant companies that each make one of everything you might ever own, all beautifully integrated with their own products while being almost entirely incompatible with the products made by the other two, with cross promotions from tying and forced purchases from bundling all making it difficult-to-impossible for a new company to independently introduce anything new without replicating the entire vertical stack of an incumbent.
Yeah don't remind me. People pulling numbers out of thin air to feed fuel to the fire (and apparently no reviewer with TL suspected that "AI driven data collection").
The author posted this on reddit [0] a few months ago:

Vale's main goal is to be as fast as C++, but much easier and safer, without sacrificing aliasing freedom. It does this by using "constraint references", which behave differently depending on the compilation mode:

Normal Mode, for development and testing, will halt the program when we try to free an object that any constraint ref is pointing at.

Fast Mode compiles constraint refs to raw pointers for performance on par with C++. This will be very useful for games (where performance is top priority) or sandboxed targets such as WASM.

Resilient Mode (in v0.2) will compile constraint refs to weak refs, and only halt when we dereference a dangling pointer (like a faster ASan). This will be useful for programs that want zero unsafety.

Vale v0.2 will almost completely eliminate Normal Mode and Resilient Mode's overhead with:

Compile-time "region" borrow checking, where one place can borrow a region as mutable, or multiple places can borrow it as immutable for zero-cost safe references. It's like Rust but region-based, or Verona but with immutable borrowing.

Pure functions, where a function opens a new region for itself and immutably borrows the region outside, making all references into outside memory zero-cost.

"Bump calling", where a pure function's region uses a bump allocator instead of malloc/free.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/hplj2...
It's a memory safety concept.

In languages like C you allocate memory yourself, and then you have to make sure to free it up too. This is error prone.

In garbage collected languages like Java there is a garbage collector who figures out when is a piece of memory no longer in use. This has run-time cost.

The third possible way is to make the ownership of that part of the memory explicit. This way the compiler can check memory safety at compile time.

There is a much better description of this in the Rust book: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch04-01-what-is-ownership.htm...
Erlang/OTP inspired actor systems that run Webassembly code are a brilliant (and potentially way superior) alternative to microservice madness.

Until now adopting Erlang or Akka meant restricting yourself to a single language ecosystem, but Webassembly maturing and more and more languages gaining support means that you can still use a heterogeneous ecosystem while benefiting from easy sandboxing and isolation, almost instant startup, actor snapshotting/migrations, a unified way of inter-service communication ...

All while avoiding the complexities of grpc, building Docker images, Kubernetes, service meshes, "serverless" frameworks, ...

WASM running in the browser pushes languages to adopt it. Even Microsoft is really investing into dotnet support via Blazor [5].

Also check out wascc [1] [2], which is similar, also written in Rust, quite a bit further along , has some very cool concepts around security and code signing, and supports multi-node systems. (not affiliated)

There is also a spec for distributing WASM via OCI (aka Docker) images, which is useful here. [3]

Some Webassembly proposals like interface types [4] will really help out in this context as well. Sadly wasm has not quite been evolving at the pace I would have hoped for since 1.0. Progress is there, but from the perspective of an enthusiastic early adopter it can seem glacially slow.

[1] https://wascc.dev/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBtoPJoQOE

[3] https://github.com/solo-io/wasm-image-spec

[4] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/webassembly-interface-type...

[5] https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor
See also, Bastion: Highly-available distributed fault-tolerant runtime in Rust https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22403713
Same here... I tried to zoom out to to make the font size smaller, but it just shrank the column width while leaving the font size the same :(

Shame as I'm interested in the topic, been trying Pulumi at the moment
> innovative
What? How?
Show HN: DIY Django and React Boilerplate
Great point! Fact is the tooling is great in VMware and it's hard to get an old dog to learn new tricks. Getting the image to boot properly will be a win. We will see about moving it to open source afterwards..
Garbage collected languages (Java, JS) have significant overhead, and unpredictable latency spikes.

Scope-based memory management (C++) has copying overhead and destruction overhead, and a whole lot of complexity to avoid those.

Ownership-based memory management removes most of the overhead associated with copying and destruction in a less-complex fashion.
If we don’t even know a basic facts about the vaccine (whether people vaccinated can still transmit, how long it lasts), isn’t it natural for people too feel concerned about what else we don’t know ?

Seems to be a few unknowns still ?