skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it at all possible that traditionally compilation is taught back to front? I am just a hobbyist, my CS degree did not include anything about compilation other than the theory of types of Grammar. I am the first to put my hand up and say I do not really know what I am talking about.

For me, compilers are interesting because of
a. optimisations; at my level simple logic that is obviously advantageous to a CFG.
b. interaction with the dependencies and operation of low level hardware; how does it REALLY work.

In the hobbyist pursuit of an understanding I have become belligerent to parsing. Parsing is interesting. But also not really. I would have benefited substantially from an abstract introduction via graphs, analysis and lowering. Both in terms of interest and fundamental understanding.
Scientific method uses statistics and can make reasonable assumption that for large enough randomised groups the collective exposure is the same without strict lab conditions. From the group size and number of infections, you can calculate the confidence of the result you find.

Keep in mind that even under strict lab conditions your results would never be 100% certain.
I’m not seeing a parallel, here. Your example is mixing in a whole bunch of “invasion of privacy” which doesn’t exist in the real situation being discussed, and is going to vastly impact people’s emotional reaction.

Why not use the more natural example? “What if a television network decided the same thing? We will watch your publicly broadcast television show and if you say something we don’t like we will cancel your show.” It’s a lot closer to what’s actually happening in this case, right? And it doesn’t needlessly mix in the hot-button topic of privacy violations.
> I firmly believe that COVID-19 is hugely overhyped

I've read your concerns and take the gravest possible offense to this. It's not just about the new coronavirus, but what comes next. Tools like crispr are now within the means of the nuclear boyscout, who can unleash an airborne pathogen upon humanity that performs genetic engineering at scale. All that's required is the will to do so. Stuff like that frightens me far more. If the reaction to this new coronavirus is what's needed to help humanity prepare, then we're likely to be far safer and healthier down the road.
Consider the use of capability tokens instead of username/password pairs to grant access to features. This would allow someone to sponsor someone else without sharing any information.

Mojeek generates a signed token that IS authorization, you match it against a list of valid tokens, with no other information required.

This could be used to federate subscriptions, and hosting of front ends such that they could stand alone without having any knowledge of the users, while only serving valid users.

Flickr has something like this that grants access to an otherwise private portfolio, yet the user can revoke it if necessary, without ever sharing passwords, usernames, etc.
Klever Weekly Newsletter – December 11
"Go to Wyoming or Idaho and people feel the same way. California has unfortunately been exporting its ridiculous cost of living and lifestyle to the American west for decades, Austin is just the latest to feel it."

It seems like that but the actual phenomenon is simply the slow, increasing urbanization of the United States.

There are, of course, actual Californians moving into places like Austin and Bend and Colorado Springs but with or without them, the American expression of 21st century urbanism is what we're actually witnessing.

California the place just happens to be 15-20 years ahead of most of the rest of the country on that path to urbanization which is why it's so easy to mistake it for "Californication".

As evidence I would put forth Minneapolis: this is not a place that many Californians are moving to and yet they are experiencing the same kind of anti-zoning housing movement, they bemoan exploding housing prices and they aspire to the same cultural and societal progression that everyone in the Bay Area would recognize.

I maintain they are not experiencing "Californication" - they are experiencing urbanization.
This actually isn’t really true. Europe jumped the gun out of caution, but multiple later studies have found no link. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/history/narcoleps...
Create a problem -> Create a solution -> That create a problem -> Create a solution -> That creates a problem -> create a ...

The big quesation is how derived we can be of actual value creation before wheels stop spinning...
Well... they are.
You want a societal reset? WW2 was a societal reset. The Bolshevik Revolution was a societal reset. Napoleon was a societal reset. The 30 Years War was a societal reset.

I hope I never see a societal reset.
If GP is referring to what I think he is, it's not an 'unnamed' former Pfizer employee, it was Michael Yeadon.

I'm honestly unaware of where the 70% number came from (I may simply have missed it), but he, alongside former Council of Europe Parliament chair Wolfgang Wodarg jointly filed a document with the EMA urging that a large-scale roll-out of the vaccine be delayed until further trials could be ran on it which accounted for pregnancy [5].

His primary concern was that it would impact placental development.

Michael Yeadon worked with Pfizer between 1995, and 2011 where he was the Chief Science Officer, and Vice President of the company's R&D division focused on allergy and respiratory illness [0].

In 2011, Pfizer decided to narrow its focus down to five distinct areas of research, and closed down Yeadon's lab [1, 2].

Yeadon, along with two other colleagues secured venture funding from Pfizer's investment fund, and license from Pfizer to continue their research as an independent company called Ziarco, which continued to operate until it was purchased by Novartis in 2016 in 2016[3, 4]

Since cashing out, Yeadon has operated as a research consultant [0].

Yeadon is notably a lock-down skeptic, and has made claims that London has long since reached herd-immunity. He's a biochemist, not a virologist. I don't know how correct he is or isn't. But his history suggests that he's not someone who's opinion on pharmaceuticals should be taken lightly. Wodarg has similarly suggested that the COVID pandemic is overhyped. Wodarg's a politician with some medical education. I don't know that he's anywhere near authoritative.

[0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-yeadon-3818613/

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/kent/hi/people_and_places/newsid...

[2] https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Pfizer-narrows-its-f...

[3] https://drug-dev.com/ziarco-pharma-acquires-pfizer-drugs-sec...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2017/03/15/turnin...

[5] https://dryburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Wodarg_Yeado...
Phishing Works on Teslas Too
> In reality it is government actors that are twisting the arms' of tech companies to remove unapproved speech.

Uhh... what? Trump and the Republicans are twisting the arms of tech companies to remove speech favoring... themselves?
I don't see why that is a good test. Since it's one word, I would not expect facebook to show up when searching face.
I've switched newer projects from app engine flexible to cloud run. I do think the underlying infrastructure is slightly different but for the better. If I remember correctly, app engine was using VMs vs pure containers. Deploys to app engine took me 10 min start to finish, but cloud run is around 3.

I used to use a combination of app engine standard and flexible depending on requirements, but I feel like cloud run gives me the benefits of both.
The overlooked differentiator: Vaccine "bad news" is not highly contagious to your family, friends, and colleagues.
Where did you get 80% from? A nature article seemed to suggest anywhere from ~50% to 70%
The main thing that worked for me is giving away good stuff for free. I wrote a book [0] which has tons of free info about Vue testing, then I put a small advertisement in the corner. I was able to get around 1.1k emails over the period of a year, and I occasionally send them out info on my new products.

I always ensure to include free stuff in the email, so people can always have something exciting to look forward to when they see an email from me.

[0] https://lmiller1990.github.io/vue-testing-handbook/
Not that I know of. Mayhap I'm just ignorant of them?
Scientists Capture Rare Footage of Deep-Sea Fish Devouring a Shark
That is a fine argument for why the phone company should be free to disconnect anybody who speaks ill of the phone company.
Shodan is the first search engine for Internet-connected devices
There's still no support for Apple Carplay or Android Auto in any Tesla. So I very much doubt they're part of the tech ecosystem.
It's not about what happens to you or to your healthy friends. The major difference here is the long incubation period. You catch the virus, you become contagious, you pass it on, and a few days later you develop your mild cold symptoms. You go through it and you are fine. But by allowing yourself to get infected in the first place, you have spread the virus to an unknown number of people. Down the road, perhaps months later, if not enough people have vaccinated to end the pandemic, you may have indirectly caused deaths among the more vulnerable.

Information on contagion: https://medical.mit.edu/covid-19-updates/2020/10/exposed-to-...
Jeez you doubled down. This is just going to turn into a more personal pissing match because frankly I have don't have good thoughts about you after this set of interactions and we both agree this is unconstructive so going to leave it here. Good luck!
I know someone who is under 45 who got it & had to be put on a ventilator. It was close, and thankfully, she made it.

(I also know someone else under 45 who got it, and was symptomatic.)
As long as it isn't due to a protected class reason, I don't immediately see the problem. If you break your ISPs TOS, or you commit fraud, it makes sense that those private companies would not want you as a customer.
This instantly stood out to me as well. He intentionally misspelled “paradise” because he wanted to call special attention to that word. I think there is further decoding to be done here.
Are we talking about the same process which allowed companies for decades to hide trials which where not in their favor? Or until recently where not obliged to publish the trial results? Not to forget, many trials are not reproducible either.

Compared to the "hard" sciences, medicine has not very high standards. And trials are completely profit-motivated, that's a bad incentive. These trials are conducted by the same companies who had no qualms to sell highly addictive stuff to people. Why should I trust that the data they publish is the data they collected?
I think this is a push-not-pull situation. Here is a vision of the future articulated by a promising In-Q-Tel funded startup: [1,2]

"[We need] a set of guiding principles to inform the types of speech that should be permitted in digital town squares"

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/15/forget-counterterrorism...

[2] https://primer.ai/
You have to have opportunities to have opportunity cost.
Thus, loans like the US
It's the lying guy who uses multiple alts. Neat. I assume you also mod up your trollish posts with your alts, surely earning a ban.

Begone, troll.
What I wouldn't give for an updated version of Barrack that runs on modern machines. I've been tempted in the past to attempt a 1:1 clone of it, but I just don't have the time to get into gamedev.
No, it changed when capitalism got involved and realized it was more profitable to centralize, close themselves off, and gain a monopoly.
Yeah CISC vs RISC thing barely makes sens anymore. It could only matter in the context of hand-programmed and low frequency processors. What remains of "it" (at least in some people's mind) that is still relevant today on major ISA is clearly instruction encoding, but you could totally make a CISC with fixed length instruction. You could also make a RISC with (highly) variable length but... just why? And actually why make a highly variable length ISA at all regardless of if the ISA is RISC or CISC? The real reason that x86 has an highly variable length is only historical. When you only decoded one at a time it did not matter that much. So maybe you wanted some big ones for convenience but it would be a shame to make them all big. So the 8086 had instructions of 1 to 6 bytes (up to 10 with prefix?). And then you had 32-bits with 16-bits compat, it seems it went up to 15 bytes, and then stayed at 15 max for AMD64...

Today the most used x86 instructions are not that much different from ARM ones, and in a good number of cases actually even simpler. The simplest way to compare is to simply look at the assembly an optimizing native compiler emits, and lookup for what the emitted instructions are doing.

The micro-ops of processor are actually quite dependent on the ISA. You could do neutral micro-ops, but I doubt this would be very efficient. So you can't really compare the complexity of ISA by the number of micro-ops issued, because among different arch and microarch the micro-ops are themselves more complex on some point and less on others, with tons of similarities with (core instruction set of) the ISAs they implement.

Complex instruction for backward compat, special, or intrinsically difficult operations, are transformed to a potentially very high number of micro-ops, often looked-up in a ROM.
Invoking the laws of war with reference to Portland doesn't make any sense unless you really believe that Antifa and BLM fall under the category of enemy combatants, which would mean that the government funded and backed forces were authorized to shoot them on sight.

It's not because there is tear gas that police are sent to disperse crowds. Without tear gas, they'd use some other non-lethal implement authorized for that purpose. Authorizing non-lethal force to disperse crowds is not holding police to a lower moral standard than that to which the military is held.

In fact, the military has the same kind of authorizations for dealing with (a) rebellious troops in its own ranks, (b) prisoners of war and (c) civilians in occupied territory. That is why the DoD does research on these incapacitating weapons. It's military forces that are held to police standards when these weapons are used, not the other way around.
I think that using a bookcase that can be spatially ordered (in 2 dimensions) would be a really interesting concept for an operating system.

Applications and files alike, filed on the same bookshelf. A very easy metaphor that makes it easy to explain how computers work, but also locate files that you use often (perhaps by size, shape, colour and location) without using the part of your brain that processes language.

Humans are spatial creatures, so I'd like to think that perhaps everything being in lists doesn't make sense and that's why we hate using them to find something.

The traditional notion of the Desktop is a bit like this, but the presentation is messy. There's no nice way to order your desktop, and everything is the same size and shape. Despite this, many people work solely from their Desktop.

Edit: It would be very interesting to have a check in/check out system where you can drag files on the shelf to your "working box", or check them out, or whatever. Basically the equivalent of your desktop. This gives you fast easy access to files from a variety of locations for whatever job you're doing. When you're done working with them, you can check them out, and poof they go back to wherever you got them from. This is an awesome physical metaphor to a library where the clerk does all the work for you in returning the books. This box could also give you a good metaphor for moving files, and cut/copy/paste. Move to box -> put back on the shelf elsewhere. Or, move to box -> duplicate -> put copies back on the shelf and send the originals back.
This isn’t an honest reading of Clinton’s comment:

> I think that [Republicans] have a couple of scenarios that they are looking toward. One is messing up absentee balloting. They believe that helps them so that they then get maybe a narrow advantage in the Electoral College on Election Day... Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out.

She clearly meant on Election Day, not even if all the votes are counted.

Another flaw in the argument is that the 2016 election was objectively undemocratic and indisputably subject to foreign interference designed to tilt the scales towards Trump. Whether that means 2016 was “stolen” is maybe a matter of perspective (in my view it was illegitimate). But only one of the parties is actually willing to steal a presidential election they clearly lost.
Is your goal to ensure people have access to reliable information or to eliminate the opposition?
Yes, you can, if the new hire is fresh from school and is smart.

In my startup, our onboarding time is two weeks. I would say nine out of ten fresh graduates we hired picked up Clojure and were able to do something useful after two weeks. But we did have one or two persons who were not able to and they ended up in one of FAAG (yes, we did do leetcode style interviews, but only asked medium level questions).
I will wait, we don't know yet the total effects of the vaccine.
oh you guys are soooo hilarious....you all belong at Home Depot!
Survey Chicken
What happened with Dark Sky? I have used it for years and it seems just as good as ever. And it’s one of the few iPhone apps I give full location information to so I like that it’s owned by Apple since they have that info anyway.
Experts say active immunity likely lasts for years. Antibodies drop off potentially quickly but that’s not a big deal if you have active immunity.
But if you're not defining mïsn and düde info in the resource fork, does it really feel like Escape Velocity?
> This is based on averages from surveys spanning 2009 to 2019.

That's a bad source in a way: the situation of having widespread connected devices since early 2010s has definitely changed the situation for many people. A single point in time would be a lot more reliable.
No one knows the truth, and that's why everything should be available for people to make the best decisions.
Fox News has crappy advertisers. Ones that don’t give a crap what others think. Need some gold coins?

Rush used to talk all the time about the nasty calls his clients got.

It was routine for them to get flooded with hate calls.
Most of what you said is false.

1) this has now been peer-reviewed (iirc) and confirmed by multiple countries’ regulatory agencies. It does have 95% efficacy.

2) actually, it was tested on people with allergies and they were aware that some people would be allergic beforehand.

3) this is actually pretty common for people with SEVERE allergies, as it is in this case.

4) this is not true at all. It prevents 95% of symptomatic infections, i.e. getting sick.

5) we don’t know this. It’s possible, but you’re wrong to state it as a fact. For all we know, it could prevent asymptomatic transmission too.
You probably aren't wrong with respect to coordination between politicians and "news" firms. When I read "GOP with Fox" I heard "DNC with MSNBC" as an echo. (My father watches MSNBC so I see more of it than Fox, just by mistake.) Just like the latter (to be more correct, the same) machine, however, it isn't magical. There are a set of buttons and pressing them has a set of effects. Some choices make others impossible. Trump could have made mask-wearing a conservative thing in January. In December that's not an option. Everyone, even his fans, would just laugh at him. No other Republican has any power to change red-staters' minds about anything. Eventually there might be a different Republican with influence, but until then many Americans must be reached in other ways.
I dealt with them on a large project once, ended in a lawsuit. Because

1) Their sales demos (which we recorded) pitched functionality that literally did not exist or was EOL'ed from the system without a replacement before we implemented.

2) It was a fixed-price contract, and when they screwed up & couldn't deliver on their benchmarks, they refused to continue working without additional payment

3) Paid customizations were developed in bad faith & without the contracted specs. In one example, there was a simple requirement: Users could enter a long blob of text, and clerks could review it as part of the user's record in Peoplesoft. They delivered the first part, not the second. When we asked where that functionality was, they said they didn't need to build anything more because the data was available to clerks via the assistance of a DBA.

The implementation failed, we got a settlement, and chose a different vendor while out Legacy system limped along for a few more years.
The Republican party was the party of the "wealthy elite" back then. They rebranded themselves as the standard bearer of Christian values to boost their voter base. Now their base is so hooked on this tribal identity they will vote for candidates whose behavior is antithetical to the stated party platform.
see Mojeek!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372401
> "What you don't have a right to do is amplify your message using the massively powerful social-media megaphones which are created and owned by tech companies."

What makes anyone think that other groups won't be able to create their own social-media megaphones? The tech is well understood already and they're highly motivated and well funded. It's been tried a couple of times already and eventually they're going to succeed. And if the last two US presidential election results are any indication, they might grow as big (or bigger!) as any of the other social-media giants. What will we do then?
It’s only crappy work if you choose to view it that way. I am a man and I have a full time career that I enjoy a lot. But despite that I still find cooking for my family to be far more rewarding than almost any aspect of my job.
Except their attempted coup has successfully convinced a significant portion of the public that they are the appropriate winners.
It takes some serious mental acrobatics to read the Mueller report and then somehow think there was a typo in the summary that led to the wrong conclusions.

Many outside of the US political circus viewed the whole Russiagate affair as a joke, independents who don't have strong adherence to any party can see the farce.

Even some of the most ardent journalists who pushed the collusion narrative admitted that they were not practicing real journalism, they called it 'meta-journalism' I'm not joking. They actually said that they don't have time to check facts and counter narratives need to be spun quickly to combat Trump lies... regardless of facts. (Seth Abramson)

I really don't blame people for being so twisted on this. It was 3 years of nonstop misinformation blaring from every major news outlet. The CIA/FBI officials leaking to the media as anon sources should have been a clue, but not everyone is keen to this.

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read it, you're misinformed." - Twain
Open Source Contributor Report (Linux Foundation/Harvard) – Improving Security
I voted NO and here's my reasons: I believe there's enough science to support my expectation that if/when I get covid it will be mild to no symptoms case - my body can take care of it without a vaccine. And for the vaccine - so far I don't like the odds - reportedly 0.6% of population have allergic reaction to it. I'm not a big fan of auto-immune issues so I'll take my chances elsewhere.
Bolo was a staple of my 1998 middle school experience. I played the later Windows version but never much got into online play with it.

http://www.winbolo.com/
It’s the kind of freedom that existed for centuries in the US and of course we were all “free” then.

While I’m sure Textualist/Originalists on the court will find innovations to legislate FB “yelling freedom” rights it has not been a historical norm.