skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I'm actually very interested in lexing and parsing, because that's probably 99% of the stuff a layman-programmer gets to do with compiler theory in job. I mean not everyone gets chance to write the backend part, but parsing skill is almost used universally.
Too many people are claiming they are following the science but instead are playing politics.
Tesla and Oracle have no similarity in this regard.
AFAIK, WFH employees have CA tax obligations when the company HQ is in CA, even if they’re working from other states.

So all non-CA employees have less of a tax burden as a result of the HQ relocation.
In reality it's more like over 80. Yes the incidence of severe cases does go up with age, but it's the very elderly who are most at risk. I'm 54, I had it, and it was a couple of days of slight nasal congestion and a very mild sore throat. If it had been any other year I wouldn't have paid it any mind at all and would have probably attributed it to the dry winter air.
My answer is "I will wait", but most honestly it would be "No, unless the vaccination rate gets to a point that is not high enough to achieve herd immunity but is large enough to be considered safe and free from unexpected side-effects". Reasons:

- It's too new - not Lindy.

- I am reasonably convinced that I had it back in February, when people were not talking about it. It was very different from every year that I got the 'flu and I experienced anosmia, which never happened before. I still take all the precautions possible, but for all intents and purposes, I consider myself already immunized.

- I'm already working from home, my social life is the one of a parent of two small kids - i.e, almost non-existent, occasionally meeting small groups of either family or close friends. My parents are on the other side of the ocean and aside from them I haven't much interaction with people that could be at-risk.

- If herd immunity is achieved with ~60-70% vaccination, why take the risk when the social butterflies and those with key activities (health care workers, teachers, people working in retail) will likely be rushed to take it?

(Okay, I try to avoid complaining about downvotes, but downvoting a comment from someone that is just providing personal opinion? You can do better than that, HN...)
They were used and the design was modified into small portable nuclear reactor, the SVBR-100, a 100MW(e) reactor that can be sold containerised and delivered on a rail flatcar.

The problem is that a) the project owners have issues getting money to finish certification b) we don't mine enough bismuth.

The second problem is pretty major issue, because as far as I know, we don't actually mine bismuth - all the bismuth available worldwide is from processing of tailings in other mines, and isn't under any kind of high production rate.

Making just a dozen or so reactors for submarines was easy. Making mass-production line would actually mean a noticeable drain on world-wide supply of bismuth!

Then there are political problems involving buying russian tech.. :(
> I, for one, sometimes miss the knowledge that an MBA might give me. I'm a technical CTO and I have some trouble with long term planning, budget, managing people, etc.

Is it your first time? If so, you would probably have similar growing pains MBA or not. Being a business conversant technical CTO is the kind of thing you only get good at by doing it.
If most of programming is code maintenance, and you think of that as an anti-passion activity, your “passion for programming”—you didn’t state that explicitly, but let’s be real about the implicit comparison you’re drawing here—may be a mirage.
would rather have mixed zoning, resulting in more distributed "city centers". I don't like big cities, but would love a more connected small town.
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/releases

Last release in May?
> Shouldn't the republican party be worried?

There is no stopping Texas turning into a blue (Democrat) state. The demographic changes in the US guarantee that outcome under all scenarios, short of the Republican party rapidly becoming a split Hispanic party. It's the only sustainable path forward for that party, so we'll see if they adjust accordingly or increasingly weaken. The future of the US is Hispanic / Latin American, so either the Republicans will adapt or they'll lose the popular vote by ever greater margins.
The "340":

I HOPE YOU ARE HAVING LOTS OF FUN IN TRYING TO CATCH ME
THAT WASNT ME ON THE TV SHOW
WHICH BRINGS UP A POINT ABOUT ME
I AM NOT AFRAID OF THE GAS CHAMBER
BECAUSE IT WILL SEND ME TO PARADICE ALL THE SOONER
BECAUSE I NOW HAVE ENOUGH SLAVES TO WORK FOR ME
WHERE EVERYONE ELSE HAS NOTHING WHEN THEY REACH PARADICE
SO THEY ARE AFRAID OF DEATH
I AM NOT AFRAID BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MY NEW LIFE IS
LIFE WILL BE AN EASY ONE IN PARADICE DEATH

The spelling errors a bit interesting. The video is also very interesting.
The article says it recharges in four or five hours.
https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/releases

Version 0.9.2 released May 1, 2020
I will get it, but once higher risk individuals have gotten their needs. I'm healthy, not immunocompromised, and WFH by myself. There won't be enough to go around at first, and others like front-line-workers, elder, and at-risk-patients need it before I do.

I can continue to keep the travel to zero, and only leave home for the bare needs until then. I consider it my civic duty.
I think that you seriously misunderstand what _PRW method does.

Hint: to execute any code, including quoted ASL, the processors has to be woken up and running in a proper context.
This is a solved problem : don't BAN, but FLAG conspiracy theories and dangerous memes with a notice citing links to facts.

I've enjoyed the somewhat balanced weekly covid discussions of youtuber Dr Chris Martenson / PeakProsperity. He generally backs up his opinions with links to science studies and data, but has been censored by youtube for mentioning controversially that "HCQ has some efficacy as a prophylactic before exposure to Covid". ( He has also covered topics such as less severe Covid outcome for those taking Vitamin-D, for which there now seems to be a lot of evidence... yet why are we not seeing governments recommend and supply it more widely ? )

Are we still able to rationally discuss on youtube topics such as : Did SARS-CoV2/Covid originate elsewhere than at the seafood market in Wuhan [ there are a handful of data with earlier cases in distant locales ] ?

Are we allowed to make videos discussing the cause of collapse of WTC building 7 on 911 ? Engineering Professor Leroy Hulseys structural study at Fairbanks University argues that the canonical explanation of fire damage leading to failure of a weak point followed by cascading collapse is 'unlikely'.

Will we be able to share videos that say fracking for oil produces so much extra methane as to render the proponents criminally liable for the acceleration of global warming ?

Will we be able to discuss on youtube.com whether google.com should pay more tax than they currently do ? What body decides this ?
Again, this fight doesn't make any sense if that very same encryption is then used against us.
People buy the dream. They know it's overpriced or premium. They don't care about a value proposition it's an opportunity to be on the leading front of the dream. When the product dies, the loss of functionality is less important than being dropped from the dream.

Apple gives people a dreamscape where they can transform their homes and workplaces into a creative paradise and share in a world without material tech problems. 'It just works'.

Replacing the current iphone with the next one is always attractive for the customer as long as it keeps everybody dreaming.
Most developers like solving problems - this gives them high. Often, without realizing it, they create problems they are eager to solve to get their dose. Solving problems can be quantified, too. Unfortunately, it's hard to quantify the number of problems avoided by manifesting! Often this goes against the first goal I mentioned. For example, solving one problem 10 times gives you closing 10 tickets, making 10 PRs, and contributing a lot more LOCs in a short amount of time. But creating one PR and one ticket, which not only prevents those 10 but 100s and 1,000s more in the future, is quantified as "less work." I've had this at one job recently where every time I suggested fixing a repeated issue was answered with: "We have a bigger fish to fry." Yet, we kept wasting time frying tadpoles.
> This is a non sequitur. Free speech is an ideal. We would like google to preserve free speech, even though they are not legally obligated to per the Constitution. If their EULA does not uphold that ideal, then they should change it, not compromise the ideal.

I would like to uphold that ideal by putting a political bumper sticker on your car. Can you give me your address so I can send it to you?

If you don't have a car, I can send you a sign to put in your window or a t-shirt with a slogan for you to wear.

I appreciate your cooperation in upholding this important ideal.
Proxy Pattern in Go
> being snuffed out by a academic system designed to churn out

People have been making this argument since the 1800s, but it doesn't seem to have much solid evidence.
How does what you're saying make any sense to you?

Using non-lethal weapons like tear gas is not a lower standard of morality. Nor is using bullets that are less likely to pass through the intended target or the surroundings.

Military personnel are not actually held to a very low standard -- much lower than police -- when they are fighting unlawful combatants like citizens, because people who are not fighting as military personnel enjoy no or almost no protections under the laws of war.

Trying to draw a parallel here with the laws of war is silly.
Why don't you just allow customers to set a limit if they would like to?
I'll wait until I see no adverse effects in 6-12 months, and I'll be damned if I let someone inject it into me before that!!
> how do you encourage them to tackle bigger technical problems? Those that lay the foundation for the new people to do their job more easily and on-board quicker?

Isn't gitlab known for disastrously poor infrastructure with all the long outages? I.e. the exact things where people need to take their time to tackle bigger technical problems, not complete short tasks. I guess this attitude explains it, at least partially.
> Did they get the vaccine already before it was approved?

Yup. It’s sitting in warehouses ready for distribution. No idea how. And no idea how they trusted it to be legitimate.
That would speed up the test, sure. But as far as the quality of the results goes, why is that different from the existing test where a large number of vaccinated (real and placebo) subjects gets exposed/infected? It's still testing efficacy.
About 60k people moved from CA to AZ last year (latest available data), making it the #2 destination.

Of course, California is also by far the largest destination of people who move out of Arizona. They are adjacent states after all and Phoenix is, let's face it, basically in Los Angeles already.
So anyone using Ubuntu or Debian, maybe for the next major release you can try it out. I love Debian but I hate that I cant just install the latest of Python system wide without potentially breaking system level scripts.
> nobody in Germany or France has been vaccinated as there are no approved vaccines

Which creates a force field around the warehouses in which it sits? Come on.

I guess I’ll revise to I know of people with substantial resources, hundreds of millions and billions at their disposal, who have been injected with something they believe to be the Pfizer vaccine.
He is more MBA than engineer at this point. Just because he doesn't have the letters doesn't mean he isn't deploying the knowledge and approach of an MBA.

His companies have successfully deployed plenty of MBA-style strategies and their "creative" financing/PR indicates this. I'm not disagreeing with the premise of his argument (I actually agree to an extent) but using his public voice to downplay the expertise of a large group of people is... odd. Fundamentally, his businesses have plenty of weak spots and maybe criticizing the credentials of those who criticize his businesses is a valid strategy?
Regarding rice, if your serving is sufficiently rancid to make you sick, then the bag is bad.

And yet, you were able to read on Snopes why they flagged something as "partially true", and you were able to make an informed decision.

When someone says "Hillary Clinton is using private email servers and unauthorized phones," that's technically true, and it sounds really, very bad. But when you learn that previous officials, like Colin Powell, and current officials, like members of the Trump family, did the same thing, then it provides more context, and it makes you wonder just how egregious the original charge is.

The point is, "technically true" things are often intentionally misleading; the fact that something is "technically true" should arouse more suspicion than trust.

I hear you calling out fact checkers that provide insight into why something is flagged true or false, but I don't hear you calling out officials that make misleading "technically true" statements, or totally false statements. What's up with that? Are fact checkers really the root of this problem, or are they a symptom?
From what I read it seems people who are young and not otherwise at risk don't really need to take the vaccine as it doesn't inhibit transmission (results not concluded but very likely it does not).
In any case it is unlikely it will be available to you if you fall in this demographic anyway.
Molecular mechanism of adaptation in the central nervous system
SIM swapping hackers charged with stealing $2.5m worth of crypto
Thanks to your Colin for replying back, I've sent you a Feedback message with extra info hoping it helps. Keep it up! :)
> What if somebody has asymptomatic covid infection? He or she spreads it without intent, you can not blame them.

Yes, given what is widely publicly known about the disease, I can very easily blame people who are involved engaging in high-spread-risk behavior despite being a-(or, more likely if they are actually spreading it, pre-)symptomatic and who are thereby spreading the virus they don’t know they have.
There are some great videos on youtube, a little outdated but gold if you can find them. It's this guy who literally sits at his desk for an hour and a half straight and walks a class line by line through various parts of cpython2.7 - little outdated but was awesome. There are multiple parts.
If it's never been done then I don't understand how this is specifically problematic for the covid vaccine then.
The concept of bidding war includes having to pay more than someone else to obtain something. If a market is so hot that the seller has no reason to even wait for competing offers, then the initial offer has to be high enough to make it worth their while. The initial is your bid, and because you predict other buyers will be able to satisfy the seller's demands, you bid defensively by bidding extra.
I worked with folks that worked and both HP and Oracle...
As large companies, they have a large contigent of H-1Bs, some of which are very good engineers, who prefer to stay in a large company (and put up with it) until they get their green card...

after they get their green card, they fan out to smaller companies/startups....

so, yeah, it is a loss.... (albeit small) for the bay area
This could use some elaboration. Have you been in all three of those countries recently? Or "watched" meaning "saw people talking about online" or such? Or something in between?
Gerrymandering makes districts extremely sensitive to population changes. The country was heavily gerrymandered by Democrats until the 1990s, and Republicans managed to flip it around within the decade: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Po...

The chart shows the House popular vote compared to the number of House seats. When Biden entered Congress, Democrats were winning 10 percentage points more of House seats than their share of the popular vote. But those districts were extremely sensitive to fluctuations and after redistricting based on the 1990 census many flipped rapidly.
If they know it’s spreadable without symptoms, unfortunate, as is is, there’s a level of fault. Stupid is not a term I would use, though.

Mingling with other people at a similar comfort level of contract Covid - that’s just adults being adults. That’s freedom.

But if those people then go to unavoidable places like grocery stores, they’re putting people at risk who don’t have much of a choice.
I don't understand why you are being downvoted. People may not agree with the sentiment, but it seems salient and reasonably stated.
Depends on how people read the line saying that it's available to everyone and no wait lines. The way I read it was, yay!, vaccines for EVERYONE.
I found that yesterday by accident when I was looking for an online color picker.
Even during the American Civl War, or any other war, were the majority of the people in the nations involved itching to kill each other?
"I will wait" and "No" are really the same answer.
> > Right now you seem to have what you consider a benevolent dictator. What happens when the dictates are not as benevolent?

> Then I'll have to switch to a different phone maker.

That's great for you, and that you can afford that, but what of the person that's already invested a few thousand dollars into apps and accessories for the iPhone and iOS? Many, possibly every single one of those things won't work anywhere else. And that's not a coincidence, or people making informed choices, Apple in many of those cases has enforced their will on those components or how they are allowed to interact.

If I want something other than iOS can I put it on my iPhone? No. Not because nobody values that, but because Apple has arbitrarily restricted what you can do with the hardware you purchased.

If I want to run iOS on non-Apple hardware. Also a nope.

What if I want to move to Android and use my chargers or peripherals that connect to my iPhone? Not if they use Apple's proprietary lightning connector.

What about any apps you purchased through the App store? Sorry, even if they wanted to many couldn't offer you a tree version even if they wanted to, Apple has started completely anonymizing users and emails and ids for people using their apps. They say it protects users, and it does in some respects, but it also means that Apple is right there between all interactions, enforcing whatever rules they deem prudent.

It's obviously not as simple as just deciding that the next time you buy a new phone, you'll opt for the other one and spend roughly the same amount of money. You are literally at the same time likely obsoleting hundreds or thousands of dollars of investment in a platform. These are forces that work to stifle and manipulate a free market, where people choose the best choice given the attributes of what they are buying. Our current economic system is predicated on the idea that the free market works and should be unfettered unless it's to protect the system or consumers from abuse. Placing barriers to people making informed choices or acting on the choices they would like to make because or arbitrary limitations is hurting us all by extension.

> because I like what I have now

This is ultimately what it comes down to in all these comments. "You want change, but I'm happy and comfortable, so I don't care if this is problematic for others or causes harm or is setting up a problem for down the road, I'll fight you all the way". How is this different than climate change, or civil rights? The scope on those may seem larger, but what we're ultimately discussing is consumer rights, and while not as important, it's still important, and why are the incentives and behaviors any different?

That's not do equate you to specific bad historical behavior, but that mindset is specifically responsible for horrific things in the past. The "I like what I have, so leave me alone" position should always be dissected for what it might unintentionally be allowing. In this case, maybe it's not that bad. But maybe it is pretty bad. That's what we're discussing. I surely won't take that position alone as reasoning for why to relent on my side of an argument though.
Isn't that covered by the prompt?

> Assumption: it is available to everyone at the same time

This reads like "everyone who wants it will get it"
It might be a good idea to get the vaccine even if you've already had COVID. There's not been any CDC recommendations about it, but here's what they do say.

> There is not enough information currently available to say if or for how long after infection someone is protected from getting COVID-19 again; this is called natural immunity. Early evidence suggests natural immunity from COVID-19 may not last very long, but more studies are needed to better understand this. Until we have a vaccine available and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices makes recommendations to CDC on how to best use COVID-19 vaccines, CDC cannot comment on whether people who had COVID-19 should get a COVID-19 vaccine. [1]

Suffice it to say, I'll do whatever the CDC recommends. I've already had COVID, so I'm guessing I'll go last. But at the same time, I'll get the vaccine if it is recommended.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/faq.html
no idea why but that page is essentially unreadable here on both firefox 83.0 and chrome. I do use ublock origin and 68k lines in /etc/hosts to block stuff, but still ...
> "I feel like you're trying to sell the utter lack of a security model as some sort of feature."

I'm just describing the way things happened to be back in that era.

> "Windows CE just never tried to implement security. Malicious apps had unfettered access to everything, just like in most Windows based ecosystems."

Yes, and? That's just as true of early PalmOS and the other early mobile OSes. Security against malicious apps just wasn't a consideration at that time on smartphones/PDAs precisely because there was no app store and no significant quantity of malicious apps.
I doubt any one would spread with intent, which is probably criminal.
Well, it's because I was trying to implement something that leveraged them heavily, so I got pretty intimately involved with it. Obviously if I'd just been reading up I wouldn't remember any of this.
For young people, the risk of death is low, but even young people can suffer from long Covid: <https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4470>.
> "don't hire the hot girl" guy
Is that a reference? Can you point me to it?
I am fairly certain that corporate charters were originally time-limited.
did the misspellings make it harder to crack the code? or was this known from previous cracked ciphers?
I was in Germany in October and with the individual the day they took the second shot. France is a professional contact who mentioned it on the phone, as is China.

Same thing happened with tests a few months ago in Palo Alto. Billionaires with boxes of them at their homes while public stocks ran low.
It is different, because people standing in line on the sidewalk are generally maintaining an approximate 6 foot distance (unless they're from the same household). I'm talking about (some) restaurants arranging people with only 1-2 feet of separation between diners. Plus people standing in single file are going to circulate air differently to people sitting abreast of each other, as well as wearing rather than doffing masks. Also, sit down meals tend to last at least 20-30 minutes, and I have not spent that much time in line on the sidewalk for anything during COVID - perhaps once back in March when social distancing was first being figured out, but definitely not since.
Many thanks, got it.
Or (d) I will wait to see if Corona mutates so much over the next year that the vaccine is a yearly process.

Edit: I feel like some people didn’t notice the mink culling in Denmark which was caused by fears that version of the virus would make the vaccines useless.