skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also like to provide a different perspective from another scientist at Pfizer/BioNTech.

While Mr. Bourla is a 'business executive and veterinarian', another member of the Pfizer/BioNTech team has a different perspective.

Uğur Şahin MD, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, whose main field of research is cancer research and immunology, and whose company actually developed the underlying technology of the mRNA vaccine jointly released with Pfizer had this to say:

'“I’m very confident that transmission between people will be reduced by such a highly effective vaccine — maybe not 90% but maybe 50%,” he said.'

https://apnews.com/article/europe-coronavirus-pandemic-1e199...

He is wwwaaaayyyyy more qualified to have insight into the efficacy of the vaccine than a CEO and vet who has never done research in or treated human patients in the field of immunology.
It will disrupt. Intel and AMD chips aren’t on their first initial CPU release. Apple is with the M1. The future of CPU offerings from Apple looks very bright. An exciting time for computing, I’m looking forward to it.
Money manager suggests the US government print more money for him to manage.

The US borrowed $20 trillion from its children and grandchildren, what have you done with it? How about paying that off first?
I still have one sweater that I wore in high school. That was 1964-1968 (the sweater is probably from near the end of that span).

Recently my wife complemented me on another sweater she didn't remember seeing (we've been married about seven years). I told her I bought it in 1976. It's a bit odd looking (and I think she was being polite), but warm.

Otoh, I have worn through the knee of a number of jeans, and they either get turned into shorts or donated (and probably turned into rags). Recently I was quickly wearing out the left elbow of long sleeve shirts, but this stopped with covid. Either I was wearing it out on my office desk (it's L-shaped, with the arm part of the L on my left) or on my car door (as in most of the world, the driver's side of my car is on the left).
Previously on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21905138
It's a good article but light on the technical side. I would have liked to know more about alternative networking technologies that what make the vision possible beyond 'running ethernet cables' to different neighbors houses... There is likely to be all kinds of radio tech that could make town-size and then town-to-town links possible. But that's a niche subject
I'd expect embassy in a potentially "hostile" country would have basic detectors for common suspects - ionizing radiation, ultrasound, strong EM waves, common toxins etc. Especially once the suspicion is there: detecting microwaves that are strong enough to cause biological effects isn't hard (wideband antenna, detector. The energy density must be immense), even outside of the main beam - it will scatter all around.
Ok, but not really my point. I’m voicing my surprise that a forum that is primarily members of the tech community would find it appropriate or necessary to aggressively censor comments that aren’t off topic or outright personal attacks or obvious trolling.

I don’t think comments from random individuals that aren’t publishers or people of interest, say a politician, should be censored just because others believe they are saying something that can’t be verified, in bad taste, speculative, or not backed by evidence. Take comments like that with a grain of salt. Don’t upvote it. Let people decide for themselves how much weight to put into a comment like that. To flag it so it can’t be read is to make that decision for others.
Pretty common in some areas in the US for lower income properties, especially in very rural but poor areas. I considered starting in the business until I helped do maintenance for a friend who owned in some "rough" spots.

While somewhat rare, you'd eventually end up doing silly things like having to run PEX plumbing because some tenant ripped out the copper pipes as they got evicted.

Air conditioner condenser units are also stolen quite a bit for some reason as well, so you get to box those in a locked cage.

Any large property with common areas (e.g. a large multistory apartment tower) is much worse, and has to be designed with damage resistance in mind. In fact it got so bad here we abandoned even trying to develop that sort of public housing arrangement as the living conditions became unbearable.

Just items like easy-to-paint-over materials due to graffiti matter when you are sending a crew around once a week to paint over the last round of tags.
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I've been teaching CS101 for two decades. I've never shown (nor seen another instructor show) a two pointer implementation for list traversal, except perhaps as an example of bad practice (probably by someone who doesn't understand the syntactic sugar of the -> operator). "Every pointer to node is a list, including the trivial case of a null pointer being an empty list" is the way I was taught in CS101 in the early 80s, including a one-pointer implementation of this algorithm in Pascal.

I suspect this might a case similar to that of the "Waterfall Method", where we have this unexamined belief that in olden times or academia they just weren't capable of comprehending really obvious things. CompSci instructors, and most of their students, are quite capable of recognizing that two pointers aren't needed, if only because every algorithms textbook they've ever read discusses it.

I think that this might be like Bubble Sort: it's discussed in class as a way of illustrating a point. In students' fuzzy memories of school, they remember that bubble sort and 2-pointer traversal were taught, but they forget that they were taught only to show why selection sort and single pointer ("look ahead") traversal are better algorithms.

As a side note: I don't like the "elegant" version's use of double indirection. It's not necessary if you return a pointer instead of void, which is also nice because you can treat calls to your list functions as lists themselves and chain them together. It also allows you to avoid warts like
`p = &(*p)->next;`
at the modest cost of needing `p=remove(p,t)` instead of `remove(p,t)`.

Finally, the use of two structs is unnecessary. IntList is just a wrapper around a pointer to IntListNode. Why not just use a naked pointer to IntListNode like the gods intended?
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I wonder if the authors of pieces like this truly believe what they're writing. The article is a joke. At least the title of the article is true.
Adding extra dereferences is rarely performant. The example is written this way because it's more elegant, not because it's faster.
The problem is that all that skill and know-how you have about how to program a computer is invalid on Android. Your assumptions about what you should expect to find in the android API is entirely valid. You should find Input(), Camera() or similar. But you dont. Almost everything is different, worse, more complicated and not documented.

You think you can depend on basic stuff like fopen, but it doesn't work like you expect it to. Its a minefield.

If you are trying to make some simple "hello world" application its incredibly infuriating, because what should be simple is made so hard, not least by the platform keeps insisting that "you really should learn this other language"

And for the record: You should not know who Eskil Steenberg is ahead of time, but you are welcome to get to know me now. :-)

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Yes, but an employer attempting to absolve themselves of responsibility for pressures to overwork by "it is not required" is basically the same thing as "unlimited time off".
It's rude and dishonorable to take something someone doesn't want to give you.

Even so, it's not the same category of misdeed as stealing bread. If you eat a loaf of bread, someone else cannot. But if you perform or listen to a song, it's still there for others. Sometimes, especially in the case of technically copyrighted but practically abandoned works, sharing the work is actually more likely to keep it available for others to discover or even access at all.
Wow that is cruel! Somehow I just assumed int would get promoted to long regardless of their size difference. That this isn't the case almost seems like a language defect!
Glimmer/component 2x faster than ember/component
Well, there is Fossil[0], which has an integrated bug tracker and wiki (among others), but it obviously isn’t supported by GitHub.

[0]: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
What really made monads click for me is when I read Monads for Go Programmers [0], drawing a comparison between pointers and functors:

> We can think of a functor as a container, which contains one type of item.
...
> A pointer: *T is a container that may be empty or contain one item;

Despite that comparison probably making seasoned FPers groan, that was a big clicking moment for me.

Thinking along the lines of nullary-function:pointer::return:dereference, frames Linus' abstraction in an interesting light. You're manipulating the "function which yields the struct", not the struct itself. In fact it looks much closer to a map than the cs101 blurb in that now all nodes can be treated symmetrically.

[0] - https://awalterschulze.github.io/blog/post/monads-for-goprog...
Thanks. Doesn't create account without invite code.
The beauty of starling murmurations – in pictures
Ember's Glimmer as Fast as Svelte
I fail to see how this is an ad hominem, can you please explain?
A container ship lost a record 1,800 containers
This is why my pi's case is wooden.
I think something that gets lost in the concern about COVID is how many addicts and people struggling with mental health are being killed indirectly by these quarantines. I don't have an easy answer of course, it's a serious virus, but while for a normal person these shutdowns are depressing, for addicts these shutdowns can be indirect death sentences. I really think that needs to get factored into these decisions.
> “We are upset that these young men felt the need to drive five hours to come into our community and vandalize the monolith,” the mayor of Atascadero, Heather Moreno, said in a release. “The monolith was something unique and fun in an otherwise stressful time.”

Say what they may, with anti-alien missionaries sent directly from Trump and QAnon, the story just became a whole lot more unique.
I could see someone assembling a corpus of sample text images covering commonly available fonts across major operating systems and having a version of this tool that brute forces all of them to find the best match.

It would also be interesting to see how well it worked if there were differences in font rendering or compression as you say - I wonder if you it might still be close enough to make a partial match in some cases.
[0] is from 2013. Do you know of any gameplay using the 2020 edition?
> Alternatively: Education actually has plenty of money

It doesn't--even if you get rid of the "administrative staff".

The Gates Foundation went through and analyzed this for younger students (early middle school and younger). It takes roughly $15K per student do what you need: two fully qualified adults in a classroom of 15 with sufficient resources. This allows you to bring your poor performers up to average in 3 years.

Not good--just average. Every single one of those initiatives were cancelled because of money.

People claim they want better education systems--until they have to actually pay for it.
This might be useful:
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2016/8/13/so-you-want-to-l...
tl;dr - Multi-billion-dollar ad-serving corporations aren't getting along.
This is a vapid personal attack on one person. This amounts to little more than gossip and mud-slinging and if the target were anyone but Paul Graham, it likely would have been flagged to death long ago.

The irony is that the attention it gets here may end up accounting for the lion's share of exposure it gets.

HN Guidelines say:

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I guess if you choose your target carefully, you can get around that rule by writing an entire blog post that fails to make any kind of real and substantive argument with anything in particular and merely calls him an "idiot" at length.

HN is no longer "turning into Reddit." Now it's turning into "People" magazine as long as the people you gossip about are tech people.

If you think Paul Graham is "out of touch," maybe you can work on an app that helps rich people solve the problem of finding themselves surrounded by a sea of either yes men sucking up to them or haters. I imagine that sucks the oxygen out of their intellectual life for quite a lot of successful people.
> Who is a serious intellectual? What does that even mean?

a serious intellectual is one that poses falsifiable arguments that other intellectuals attempt, and fail, to falsify. PG does no such thing.
Has anyone tried it on hentai yet? Asking for a friend.
Is this StumbleUpon rising from the dead?
my father once flew home in a plane’s cargo compartment after bribing pilots. This was in USSR in the end of 70ies
Wait, shit I have totally done this. God damn it. Fortunately nothing super sensitive but damn.
For my tastes there is way too much whitespace and I usually only use multi-line comments to describe the high level algorithm for a full function. I prefer to pepper single-line comments which describe the sequence of events in a human-readable way.

I've been C/C++ for about 25 years.
> But his plans changed when his wallet, containing all his savings, was stolen.

I realise 'internet banking' must make this significantly easier to deal with today than it was in the 60s, but... really?
They probably use temperature sensors, if for no other reason than to detect a fire risk.
I'm thinking with covid restrictions--and the probable continuation of work from home much of the time even post-covid--that there will be less reason to buy fancy new clothes, and used clothes will be just fine for those of us lucky enough not to have to go in to work all the time. Last summer, I was wearing ragged shorts in my home office much of the time, which I wouldn't dream of doing in the real office. I just have to remember to turn off video if I'm in a zoom and have to get up.

Actually, I do dream things like that sometimes...more or less: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotWearingPantsD...
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Those at least destroy any non-visible data.
Are we ready to abandon this annoying phrasing - yet?
I think it's fairly pertinent that you're getting death threats to you and your family from potential psychos. 99% are probably just peeved man-boys, but it only takes that 1% to kill you or someone you care about. I would say it especially if you get a few hundred a day and you're working 16 hours a day for months on end to push out a game.
Non-AMP link: https://9to5mac.com/2018/03/13/ios-markup-reveal-redact-sens...
You are resorting to cussing, you criticise that Trump is exercising his constitutionally granted right to sue when in his opinion he has been wronged and you openly admit ignorance and unwillingness to educate yourself about issues you pretend to be interested in.

Why do you believe your thus uttered opinions would change someone's mind (at least in the direction you would agree with), or, at least lead to an interesting discussion? Honest question.
You buy shoes through amazon.com now (with fulfillment by Zappos). That's where all the development has gone. I get the feeling zappos.com is a dead end.
From watching the Ted talk, I think that Linus was using a cs101 example to effectively communicate to a large audience of programmers about good design for system level work such as for an Operating System.

His example, I think, can be extrapolated to explain the design of Linux’s “clone” system call for threads, which creates a new process that uses the same virtual address space as the parent process, with a different stack location; but more importantly, those “threads” are scheduled by the OS’s scheduler like any other process is. I’m unaware of any other OS which implements threads this cleanly.

From his talk, “Sometimes you can see a problem in a different way and rewrite it so that a special case goes away”

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2018/launching-linux-threads-a...
I believe it’s actually more related to the economic depression/recession ~2008. Fewer buyers in 2008 meant less space to plant new trees, which means fewer trees reaching maturity for this season. Coupled with a bad few years means more farms closing, meaning fewer trees available for a larger customer base.

Though I can’t speak regarding the fires impact on farms.
"Mr. Swirl"! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Paul_Neil#Interpol...
theft
n. the generic term for all crimes in which a person intentionally and fraudulently takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker's use (including potential sale). In many states, if the value of the property taken is low (for example, less than $500) the crime is "petty theft," but it is "grand theft" for larger amounts, designated misdemeanor, or felony, respectively. Theft is synonymous with "larceny." Although robbery (taking by force), burglary (taken by entering unlawfully), and embezzlement (stealing from an employer) are all commonly thought of as theft, they are distinguished by the means and methods used, and are separately designated as those types of crimes in criminal charges and statutory punishments. (See: larceny, robbery, burglary, embezzlement)

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Like it or not, no, it is not theft. Yell at the clouds until your throat is sore and you're blue in the face, and it still won't be theft.

watching a movie you did not pay for has never been theft, and never will be. This may anger you to the point of rage, but it's still not going to be theft no matter how much you declare it so.
I'd be curious to know how tightly Mozart would have stuck to the outcomes that the dice dealt him. I could imagine him also using the dice as a jumping off point for compositional suggestion but disobeying the dice for a round if he wanted to follow an idea in a different direction. Because he could hear the composition as it was being generated, I can just as easily imagine him deviating from the dice-scheme if he saw an opportunity for something interesting. Who knows.

A similar thing happens in Schoenberg's twelve-tone system. For melodic writing, the composer is locked into using the next pitch in their tone-row, but the art of it comes in them exercising their ability to repeat that prescribed pitch or change it's register however they see fit to get the best possible musical effect.

It's quasi-algorithmic in that the pitch sequence is prescribed, but the writer is allowed to get creative with the other musical dimensions to make it as compelling as possible.

That said, it generally doesn't make for very enjoyable listening. At least, it's an acquired taste. 20th century classical music got pretty far up it's ass with the "games for games-sake".
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I was about to post a comment but then I think someone propably post this view already, and yes. When I quickly perceive visual of:

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if(prev)

It immediately tells the taste that's bad. Especially for ones who come from writing expression rather than statement
Then why ever read anything?
this is why Trump was such a welcome change despite his style. he owed no one and thus were able to remove 8 rule for every one he implemented, challenge china, challenge coventional wisdom about middle east and get results that all the “experts” claimed to be impossible, change the global supply chain into something quite different than what the economists and experts said were oossible. Live him or hate him, Trump were a proper disrupter who saw things from a radical different view and i believe he will be much better judged by our dependents than most people today aknowledge
It's very telling that pg or other admins haven't flagged or removed this submission.
Not just an instruction, but a branching instruction.

Branch predictors will probably do pretty well on this, but still.
So I agree with you about supporting good technology which you want to see survive.

I don't think the poster you're replying to was invoking a just world fallacy, however. I read it as saying that developers who build solid systems that people like tend to thrive, even if their business fails.

That appears to be true, and not because of karma, because top-tier developers are in very high demand. Demonstrating that you're one of those isn't the same thing as running a successful business.
Unclear from the article: what is IAC, and what did their extensions purport to do?
I think it does do that, actually. Definitely better in that it can be used without internet access, but I will admit that I have been guilty of thinking "if I'm going to be opening a browser anyway, might as well just google the question and get more targeted help."
here someone as done christmas tree out of wood sticks and rope... she put all sticks in parallel with the longer one starting from bottom to the short one at top all attached together... no Idea if u get the thing... anyway FUCk christmas :)
> why would I want to avoid 5G on a smartphone

https://www.globalresearch.ca/5g-danger-13-reasons-5g-wirele...
Yep, it's not like it's a covid vaccine or solution to global warming. It is guaranteed 100% survival rate for the complainers who really need to take a step back and look at what is really important in life. It's certainly not a game that you hasn't even been released.
Pretty sure it was just a general comment on the topic of art of war, and not specific to the linked paper.
This is a strange argument, because the M1 is not Apple's first release. I believe that was the A5[0]

To be sure, the chart comparing Apple CPU performance over time in comparison to Intel is damning for Intel (and a reminder that this argument makes no sense.)

That doesn't mean it won't disrupt, but for it to disrupt, any last reason someone previously would not consider an Apple computer has to be removed.

* Absolute performance for high-end multiple CPU core workstations doing massive parallel processing

* AAA demanding games being played at 4K with ray-tracing and 60+ fps

* Freedom to repair and upgrade your own computer

* Absolutely no doubt that your software of choice will work as expected without troublesome workarounds

To be sure, lots of users don't care about anything on the list above, or for their rendering, gaming and software needs, they get what they need from an Apple computer. But the M1 does not change that.

Until about 3 years ago, Intel had the fastest laptop and desktop CPUs, and they were available regardless of your preferred OS. So few were choosing Windows or Linux merely because of hardware superiority. Now AMD is a better bet than Intel for Windows, and Apple Silicon is a better bet than Intel for MacOS.

And some people may have been on the fence before but are perfectly suited to switching to MacOS, and will happily do so to take advantage of the power and battery life of the M1.

But how big is that slice of pie?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5
Boycotting the game won't do anything, that 0.1% drop in revenue won't be noticed when the game actually comes out
I fail to see how one article being posted signals the decline of this website into a gossip column
That's the beauty of a good story. Someone can share something outrageous and the audience can enjoy the tale while the reality is "protected" by that looming doubt of whether it really happened or not. :p