skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't have to jump around, because the function names tells you exactly what it does according to reasonable expectations. You can just skip over it, if your not interested in its work.

If your function does an unexpected side effect, thats a problem with the code. Not with the idea of writing functions that do a specific thing.

I can't help but think people who complain about this, are just bad at creating functions at the correct level of abstraction.

It's also why i'm a functional fan, because it makes it more difficult for functions to do unexpected things.
Yet people here are all blinded by hate on Google but somehow trust on Apple.
You can easily crash Stockfish from the xboard GUI by editing the position and playing with two kings on each side.

Illegal position, sure, but validating it first would not affect the fast core logic.

The lack of validation is surprising because the code looks extremely clean and well structured otherwise.
Because you're missing the other half of the exploit market: Selling vulnerabilities for big cheques.

https://zerodium.com/program.html
It's for ahead-of-time compilation only, right? I gather it always outputs assembly files.
Definitely much more of user data storage. More about that https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/inside-the-magic-pocket.

Happy to take other questions.
> It's a fairly stereotypical British trait to be self deprecating. If we were singlehandedly saving the world from a rogue asteroid the general sentiment would probably be "let's hope we don't mess this up".

was this always so? i've noticed this while living in London and, coming from a literal 3rd world country, I do not understand it. i'm trying to find when this started... i don't it started anytime in the recent past. seems to have been going on for a while.
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For some odd reason, Go still doesn't have parametric types (they call it generics), yet it seems to have remained surprisingly sane despite supporting generic interfaces.

https://golangnews.org/2020/11/experimenting-with-go-type-pa...

Do you have any idea what they did right that Java lacked?
A another C advocate talking about the mythical safe C code that no one has managed to do in 50 years of CVE database entries.

The whole point of safe systems language is not to write 100% code free of exploits, rather to minimize it as much as possible.

Naturally there are still possible exploits, however the attack surface is much smaller when memory corruption, UB (> 200 documented use cases), implicit conversions and unchecked overflows aren't part of every translation unit.
>These guys walk off with a huge bag of cash, a bunch of investors that were trying to invest positively get screwed, the mall dies, and all that money and economic opportunity vanishes. The economy objectively gets poorer in that area, and the ramifications are widespread as areas start to become 'food deserts' and so forth.

The investors didn't get screwed; they made a bad investment, and the short sellers didn't have anything to do with the malls failing. It boggles my mind that people look at speculators helping make markets in risk hedging as the vultures. The vultures are swine like Bain who levered up viable companies on debt to "increase shareholder value," looted pensions on bankruptcy and moved manufacturing abroad. Meanwhile McKinsey advising giving pharmacies "rebates" every time someone ODs.... but it's the guys shorting dying shopping malls who are the problem....
One explanation I once read was imagining a toy figure head mounted on top of the joystick - if you tilt back, it looks up
At the high end what you even mean with temperature gets a bit weird, everything is mostly a very rarefied gas.
> this construct completely undermines the whole purpose of it

Absolutely, a bad design that says more about the designer of that piece of code, than the language (Java). Error handling can and should be discussed, but I hope people don't use this as an example to illustrate how bad Java checked exceptions are. This is just some nonsense that can be constructed when you misunderstand underlying concepts, which is possible in any language.
Conversely, I am finding the reaction to anti-vaccine sentiment from some politicians to be pretty creepy. Already there is talk of compulsory vaccination or "vaccine passports". Labour (the UK opposition party) were even calling for spreading "misinformation" online to be illegal.

I find this ridiculous considering the massive challenge we have ahead of us just to get the vaccine to the millions of people who desperately want it.

Sure, if we get to the point where everyone who wants the vaccine has had it, and there are still people dying from COVID, then we can discuss illiberal measures to increase vaccine take-up. (I'd still be opposed to them).

Getting worked up about this stuff when not a single person (outside of the trial groups) has been vaccinated yet just demonstrates our politicians' (on all sides) tendency towards authoritarianism.
Please be aware that not everyone has the same capacity for memory about personal details as you. Not everyone using this tool is necessarily recording 1000 different details. Maybe they are just writing information about the 10 people they care about?
Anyone know when they are allowed to start trying this in primates?
Ask HN: Have you been part of any of the Covid Vaccine trials?
Hi,
Did you volunteer for any of the many Covid Vaccine trials that have taken place in the last 8-9 months?

What was the process like?

What was your motivation?

You may use a throw away account for answering. Also no need to name the vaccine candidate if you aren't comfortable.

Thanks.
Sorry, do you think the UK regulator approved Pfizer based on... a press release?
In Germany it is mostly referred to as the BioNTech vaccine. I think it's more about international publications being more likely to use the name they recognize or think their audience will recognize.

Most everyone is going to know Pfizer and Oxford respectively. Internationally Mainz isn't exactly a famous city, nor is AstraZeneca a well-known pharmaceutical company.
Perhaps true for a standalone app, but very different for a social one like Slack.

You have to use what others are using.
The MBS system would collapse regardless of whether the cast decide to bet against it or not. Retirement savings and livelihoods would be wiped out regardless of their involvement, so no Ben Rickert is not a "killer" in any sense. The MBS products were already dead, he was just one of the few who had bothered to check their pulse.

All he's pointing out in the scene from the movie is that just because you've called it right (and you'll become wealthy yourself as a result) doesn't mean that it's necessarily a good thing for society as a whole, especially in this case where they did not know there would be bailouts and fully believed they would be entering complete economic apocalypse.
Are you sure about that? With a global audience?
That's a good discusssion of the technical objections to fusion.

There is also this paper[1] from 2018 which shows that fusion will have higher capital cost than anything else.

(The abstract reads like it was produced by fusion enthusiasts. They were using historical figures for PV and for on-shore and off-shore wind, and using the LCOE method which IIRC uses "overnight construction" assumptions.)

There is also the point that a higher investment hurdle rate is appropriate for fusion as it's an untried risky technology.

Another paper points out that fusion economics are particularly sensitive to unplanned outages. (More modular and dispersed generation methods are of course less sensitive than gas or coal to outages, e.g. plane crash.)

So, fusion had its chance. Now we have cheaper alternatives, which are getting cheaper still.

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036054421... Approximation of the economy of fusion energy
> “Just use UTC” is a good half assed approach

I think the correct approach is that "always store times in UTC". Then you adjust for wall-clock time on the client.
Look that's the title of this site:

>Get a Windows 10 development environment

>Start building Windows applications quickly by using a virtual machine >with the latest versions of Windows, the developer tools, SDKs, and >samples ready to go

So i say thank you very much Microsoft.
Lol, I guess the amount of zeros you add depends on your background and what you would lose sleep over.
Coding interviews: great tools and useful tips to make smarter choices
And what I try to explain is that one way to define what it means to be X% sure about A is to say that

- you put a number on it p(A)

- which is between 0 and 1

- and allows you to compare how sure you are about different things p(A) and p(B)

This number can be used to compute how sure you are about composite things:

p(A or B) = p(A) + p(B) - p(A and B)

p(A and B) = p(A given B) p(B) = p(B given A) p(A)

That number p happens to correspond to the notion of probability, but it has not been defined using a pre-existing notion of probability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%27s_theorem
What you're missing is that amongst a certain class of Brit, and across much of the West, relentless and savage cultural self-criticism has become the norm, and a currency used for in-group signalling. Even when people in the UK should be celebrating, as literally the first country in the world to develop an approved C19 vaccine in record breaking time, and enjoy the privilege of a free health system that can roll it out within _weeks_ they still find a way to twist it. Asking them to truly recognise the fact that there indeed exists big differences between the UK and much of the world in this respect will fall on deaf ears - it doesn't serve their purpose - which to be clear, isn't truth-telling or (heaven forbid expressing pride in their national achievements) it's a habit of personal advancement at the expense of others and dissolving their own culture in an acid bath of manifold criticism. It's only where this sort of criticism is expressed in forums with international readers, many in far less fortunate positions, does it begin to reveal itself for the pathology that it is.
From what I understand, people unlucky enough to have certain conditions haven't been included in the studies, and therefore won't be taking the vaccine. That includes pregnant women, and (I think?) people with autoimmune disorders.
This is the device I've been dreaming of building for forever.

I'm so in love.
Build Voice User Interfaces on iOS
I am sorry but the concept of "Beta release level" is a complete misfire/mismatch for what an enterprise needs.

Anyone who uses GCP knows you type “gcloud beta ...” an awful lot. But enterprise sales are made on the golf course between people who have never and will never use the product themselves.
It doesnt actually explain wether or not its truly an achievement. any tiny single core can reach 5 ghz at low power because you have to worry less about signal propogation problems. the 26000 score of the xeon is also a single core but it comes with the obvious caveat that a xeon does slightly more. I'm sure Coremark is a decent benchmark but it is unfair towards the xeon usecase.

"EEMBC’s CoreMark® is a benchmark that measures the performance of microcontrollers (MCUs) and central processing units (CPUs) used in embedded systems. Replacing the antiquated Dhrystone benchmark, Coremark contains implementations of the following algorithms: list processing (find and sort), matrix manipulation (common matrix operations), state machine (determine if an input stream contains valid numbers), and CRC (cyclic redundancy check). It is designed to run on devices from 8-bit microcontrollers to 64-bit microprocessors."

Maybe someone has a list of OTHER small embedded microcontrollers to compare with this processor? Still fun to see risk-v in the news again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXzxSRLJTY&lc=z12cgzmaqtizs...

In one of comments down of the video you can read.

"Stephan hawking once said that the universe was created by a mistake."

P.s. GPT-3 is form of automated plagiarism, nothing more.
They could still make use of bounds checking, like my own classes did back in the MS-DOS days, when C++ARM was pretty much the only thing available.

Naturally when one writes C in C++ it doesn't help.
What is a use case for :on-click...? I can't think of one
I only hope that by we don't get a lot of new languages, which are not only not production ready but also poorly designed. ;)
Easy. The market is frequently irrational. Unfortunately the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent so...
Directly no, but if you moved the data to a new dataset, with a command that preserves the timestamp that would work (rsync -a or zfs send/recv), which could be run from a cronjob.

Compression settings are set at a per dataset level, so applying this to only some files in a dataset isn't practical.
I don't think docker would be an appropriate security measure here.

To be fair, docker is great, but I remember a few warnings about how users could get root access to the "host" machine. It's containers, not VMs.
No win no fee...
You could transpile to C and feed that to LLVM/Clang or e.g. to TCC (https://github.com/TinyCC/tinycc).
That story can easily be told in reverse.

NHS Logistics didn't run well. As is consistently true of government run organisations it was run so badly that most of the NHS didn't even try to use its services. At the time of the privatisation the NHS sourced around half a million products but only acquired 50,000 of them via NHS Logistics. The entire purpose of privatising it was to try and make it work better and thus to encourage the NHS to buy more centrally to get bulk discounts, something that wasn't going to happen for as long as doing so required them to work with a small, sclerotic socialised bureaucracy.

Why would anyone think that an organisation which had no economies of scale, nor any demonstrated expertise in logistics in a competitive environment, be better at delivering things than DHL, a world famous delivery and logistics company that the NHS frequently chose to use anyway in preference to its own operation? That's ideology.

How much did NHS Logistics workers care about the health of the citizens who paid their salaries? Not at all: even though many of them were going to keep their jobs anyway they reacted to privatisation by going on strike and picketing trucks to stop them delivering supplies to hospitals. That's ideology. Fortunately it didn't kill anyone, but only because hospitals were already mostly bypassing the striking workers already due to aforementioned poor performance.

The NHS had its limits thrown into sharp focus this year. Mass testing is a bad idea, but putting that to one side for a moment, Germany and indeed most other places were able to ramp up test volumes far faster than the UK did, because Germany used private labs from the start when the NHS insisted on only using NHS labs, despite being given direct commands to scale up testing as fast as possible. That's ideology.

Finally, the supply chain hasn't been effectively renationalised. The contract changed from DHL to Unipart:

https://spendmatters.com/uk/dhl-challenges-loss-of-nhs-logis...

Supply Chain Coordination Ltd is what the name suggests: a relatively small coordinating body that manages contracts for various services, including contracts for logistics provisioning.

The brutal reality about the NHS is that not a single country in the world has copied this model. If it was good we'd see other countries adopt it but they don't. They don't adopt it because it's not good: this model is a relic of a time when the British public had just won a world war and as such had been exposed to years of war propaganda that made the government look artificially competent. In countries where that didn't happen the idea you'd want a single, centralised government agency to run every aspect of something as vital as healthcare was seen as insane: after all, if you go down that route why not have the government supply all food too? All entertainment? Why not run a fully USSR-style economy? Well because we know it doesn't work, that's why. There's nothing magical about the NHS that renders all those experiences irrelevant.
That table doesn't have greens for apple clang that are missing for regular clang. As far as I know they take some time integrating upstream llvm changes, so the two columns are due to that.

Historically they've been very good about upstreaming. Sometimes it takes a while, but so far everything made it to the public repo.
Well, VW is owned by Audi.
Tesla could just slurp them at ease.

What they would do with the bean counters, I can not predict. Tesla hates beancounters, but you need them. The software part of VW, which is now their most important asset, could be of some value, but I doubt that that it would be of value to Tesla. VW is now mostly a SW company, and far behind Tesla.

Audi would make technical sense, because they have the most advanced engineers and have the best assembly lines. They are also much better than Tesla in every aspect. Esp. SW, powertrain and battery tech.
Even success story South Korea has been doing a lot worse than you'd think from the BBC coverage. For example, they ran this article about Europe struggling with Covid that made it sound like South Korea's test and trace is working so well, they can even reopen pubs and nightclubs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-54482905 In reality, pub closures and social distancing measures had only been lifted the day before the article, every time they've lifted them before cases have gone up and they've had to reimpose them, and this time was no exception. You wouldn't know that from the BBC coverage, at all. If the UK was doing the same thing, there'd be endless headlines about U-turns, arbitrary and unpredictable measures that change for no reason, the cost to businesses of both the closures and the uncertainty - but because it's happening in South Korea readers are given the false impression that it isn't happening at all.

A huge part of the perception that the UK is failing at dealing with Covid-19 due to awarding contracts to cronies comes from exactly this comparison with a South Korean success story that is a complete and utter media illusion. (They're also testing at something like a twentieth the rate of the UK - not enough to offer free testing to everyone with potential symptoms like we do, let alone do regular testing of all medical staff or any of the other things our press says our government is incompetent for not achieving - but you wouldn't know that from the UK media coverage either. Judging from their media reporting on the number of people awaiting results, they're probably not even doing any better at returning the results to people fast either.)

Sometimes they even just outright lie. When the UK hit 100,000 Covid tests in a day, the BBC ran a completely false claim that Germany reached that level of testing a month before the UK when in reality they didn't until several months after us. The BBC kept that claim in an article that was prominently featured on their news front page for a month after they were aware it was false meaning a substantial proportion of the entire UK population probably saw it. I still see it popping up everywhere. (They also claimed that meeting the 100,000 a day goal was faked by counting tests when they were sent out rather than when they were completed. In reality, it was met either way, and one of the minsters involved even pointed this out in a BBC interview - but people who followed the BBC coverage wouldn't know about it.)
Do we have any more data on what the wider effectiveness of these vaccines is likely to be?

Duration of immunity? I've heard a minimum of 3-4 months reported, possibly longer, but do we know more now?

Am I right that we don't yet know if they reduce transmission or simply prevent the disease?

If the duration of immunity turns out to only be a few months, I wonder how this is going to play out. Will we periodically vaccinate 25-60% of the population, indefinitely? (I've seen varying estimates on what kind of coverage is needed to keep the pandemic in check.)

Short of eradication, if immunity is not permanent, what options do we have apart from a perpetual vaccination program or just accepting an increased rate of mortality going forward?
Here is another experiment, this one being delivered into production,

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/
The problem here is you failed to identify the regulations as the problem in the first place, especially with Taxi's and Uber

The regulations created an artificial scarcity for transportation that increased prices, and lowered quality of service to the point where people were BEGGING for a service like Uber to come along

The solution to this problem is not "make Uber follow the tax regulations" which seems to be what you are suggesting
First game you play dictates it for life.

There. I saved them years of research.
Nope, some people are actually quite serious about it.

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/
You don't deal with the kids, when you can get the big ones. The ones of value.
Allowing smaller children to go school is important improvement. Large number of children basically drop out if teaching is not physical.

The damage done will follows them trough their life. This is great natural experiment when social scientists can follow their life next 30 years and see the economic, social and health impact.
it really depends.

they're pushing for more cycling, more climate measures, more taxes on IT giants etc

and these are Conservatives, the opposite of left-leaning.

on the other hand, their Covid response was the same as Spain, Italy, France etc i.e. pretty bad. but they also approved the vaccine really quick, and we're getting that next week.

so overall, a meh, like most other countries where I lived.

as a point of reference, from the countries I lived in, I consider Singapore and Tokyo to be a notch above the rest of the world when it comes to governance.

but most government of the countries i've lived in were the same as the UKs: they only react, they're politicians, they're detached from the real world etc etc
> I'm not including the chance for severe side effects, hospitalization here (I don't know a good data source for those that is age-specific).

From the Scottish Government figures.The hospitalization to confirmed cases breaks down like this for age:

Age Cases Hospitilizations
0-4 1417 77 (5.4%)
5-14 3933 44 (1.1%)
15-19 7766 46 (0.5%)
20-24 9035 79 (0.8%)
25-44 28690 867 (3.0%)

Everyone should get the vaccine.
How are you handling latency (up to 800ms on S3) or the fact that you have to write the whole file each time?
One of the problems with exceptions is that they bubble up the call stack, and then you've got layering violations: higher level modules should never depend on lower level modules. The "checked exceptions were a failure" meme goes towards this direction, it results either in nasty boilerplate because you've got to handle and re-wrap the implementation-specific exception in something more general to avoid leaking things that should have been hidden (like Hibernate does), or unsound error handling.

Maybe the solution to that is

1. Only allow checked exceptions, and force error handling.

2. Only have 2-3 exception types, not user-extendable: Retryable, Unrecoverable, and Error (for non-user code errors like OOM). OTOH, how to distinguish between different exceptions thrown by the same method, and how to add additional error information (like status_code) would become a problem. Javascript doesn't seem to care tho?

A Result type à la Rust solves most of that: you might still have to wrap lower layers, but at least the noise & syntax is much more sane (never thought I'd say that about Rust!).
Understand computers from the ground up with

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
Sure they would, so much that there people doing it right now.

https://www.wildernesslabs.co/

https://labs.f-secure.com/blog/tamago/

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc