skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you talking about?

Most companies offer the flu jab to their employees for free, and otherwise it's like a tenner to save yourself the risk of 2/3 days of feeling horrible.
This is some real forest for the trees bullshit here.

It likely would have been good to do challenge trials with the vaccine groups (to speed up the testing). It would of course not be nice to do it with the placebo group.

But you are plucking a single evidentiary standard out of some dark place and then asserting that it is the only useful one. Of course it is not, and Phase 3 vaccine trials are well designed to provide clear evidence of effectiveness. Go look up the Pfizer result going around on the memes if you don't believe that.
I agree with you on this one. If you try and have a rational discussion about the pros and cons of this vaccine it seems like a lot of the people for say: "we believe in the science" or something along those lines but then will give zero real insight into said science
If you wish to be fed

Be bread

- Rumi (tr. Barks)
I'd wager there were bigger societal changes between now and 50 years ago then there were in the 50-100 range. Do you have a list of top 1920 companies and if so, how does it compare to the above list (presumably 1970)?
The fact that they'll be willing to lose local manufacturing, production, jobs and the linked market and economy – doesn't sound entirely meaningless.

Constructive criticism is good, but really, "meaningless"?

Comments like these make me worried about general built-up pessimism and negativity of the human race. We're not happy when anything happens, but then we're also surprised when nothing happens.

Statistics may be there, but they're just getting discussed and counter-argued infinitely until nothing happens.
Yes, as soon as possible.
There's a difference between peak horsepower output and continuous horsepower output. A normal passenger car might be able to put out 300 hp, but only for a short period of time before blowing the headgasket (or destroying the drive train). Diesel engine with gobs of torque or electric is going to produce that power at a lower speed and more efficiently, so it will be able to do it longer. Being able to put out 70hp nonstop for hours on end is nothing to be ashamed of.
This puts to rest the Ted Cruz Zodiac Killer meme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz–Zodiac_Killer_meme
> "Cool Wireless Headphones" isn't something new or novel.

That might well be, but the original AirPods were the first bluetooth headset I got that Actually Worked. BT earbuds quality was shockingly low before. It might well have been the classic Apple Timing phenomenon, when they release a product at the exact right time a technology is mature enough to work (e.g. large modern touchscreens etc), but they undeniably scored with what where, otherwise, pretty mediocre earbuds. They generally know what they are doing.

This said, $500+ for earbuds of any kind is too much, for my values, particularly this year when people and countries are literally starving. It's bad taste.
perhaps you should guest lecture at a university and have them record all the lessons? your kind of experience is rare.
> The vaccine is not field tested

what exactly would you call phase 3 trials for the various vaccines that were done on thousands/tens of thousands of people?
Only a very small fraction of the housing supply is up for sale at any given point in time. Prices are set at the margin.
I wonder if Apple got the idea from IBM's OS for the late-80s AS/400 minicomputer line (today's System i servers). The OS/400 command language shell used its own rich knowledge of each command's syntax to present a full-screen form you could fill out to interactively compose a command:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/rza...

(Also, OS/400 commands all follow a very strict naming convention, such as the example WrkActJob in the link. The consistency of the words used and the abbreviations for those words were intended to make learning easier.)

You see a bit of this today in PowerShell's command auto-completion for built-in commands, PowerShell script files, and cmdlets (user-defined commands written as PowerShell script functions or .NET CLI methods). The graphical PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE) even pops up windows that let you interactively fill out forms to enter command options, just like Commando: https://blog.netwrix.com/2018/02/21/windows-powershell-scrip...

Regrettably, PowerShell ISE is deprecated, and the recommended replacement of Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension isn't an exact one.
I haven't read the article but as I understand python will hold on to acquired memory and pre-allocates 'blocks' of memory ready for items of various sizes. When you use more memory and it's freed iirc it holds on to most of these blocks.
I think that's the extra opening square bracket.

Should be:
print(eval("foo['bar']"))
This says a lot more about the future of work than it does about an “exodus” that doesn’t quantifiably exist (only 689k people have moved from California to Texas in the last 10 years, and that doesn’t include how many moved from Texas to California).
In a theoretical world, sure. In reality it is government actors that are twisting the arms' of tech companies to remove unapproved speech. So I'm not so sure a government controlled ISP/payment processor/video platform (something like China?) would really fix the situation.
That’s very similar in size to https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind..., which has been built (possibly not in production, but the link has a time-lapse video)
How would a min amount of cloud run processes be a response to a billing issue born from a series of unfortunate events?
If you are improving it in the interest of the customer, there is nothing wrong. However, if you are using it in a way that not only does not benefit them, but harms their wellbeing, then people won't like you. Additionally, you might sell their data to third parties and breach the confidence that the customers have in your service.
Sorry, please can you explain for a dumb person?
Everything I've read has suggested that people who've had COVID should still get the vaccine anyway, as it could act as a booster. And that, whether through natural immunity or a vaccine it looks likely that we'll need to get it 'topped up' after awhile.

Has there been medical advice anywhere that people who've had COVID don't need to get vaccinated?
True. And people filing lawsuits is not the same as armed insurrection.
If you can revoke attacker access without revoking the certificate, the certificate isn't doing all the authentication stuff you say it is. If you have to inform all the services in your network that a certificate (or an identity bound exclusively to a certificate) is invalid, you've implemented revocation. You can see how this looks like jazz-hands, right?
Advent of Code: Day 10 Feedback
That sounds more like human error to me.
Young and healthy, don't really care to get covid as risk is very low. But the vaccine is new we never know what we could discover about its effect in 10 years
See: https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201906-27170
This feature doesn't cap your costs. It's to reduce/eliminate cold start times for your containers.
Cutting edge CS papers are written by Ph.D students who have not had any industrial experience yet. Of course, the code they wrote for those papers would certainly use languages that they learned in school, which would be C/C++/Java if the papers are system papers, python if the papers are ML/DL papers. That tells you nothing about the merit of functional programming language vs. other mainstream language.

If anything, as someone who has a Ph.D. and a career spanning both academia and industry, I can assure you that functional programming languages like Clojure is much more productive than the mainstream languages, even for implementing cutting edge CS research.

My experience of implementing algorithms from papers is that, in Clojure, the implementation is much more straightforward, always almost a direct translation from pseudo code in the paper to actual working code, even the pseudo code is inevitably written in an imperative style. However, the original author's code implemented in c/c++/java is always much more convoluted and bears no resemblance to their pseudo code in the paper. That should tell you one thing: that is functional languages often capture the bare essence of computer science, whereas mainstream language often have too much incidental complexity imposed by the languages themselves.
Why did you specify western?
Who the hell do you think looks after the old and vulnerable? Mostly the under 45s! Therefore the under 45s should really be making sure they don't get it.
Front Lines of Moderna’s Vaccine: 2020 has been a blur for scientist Mike Smith
Correct. I had one. It sucked. But less than my XP machine.

I have the spiritual successor, the M1 mini now.
> politics is governing. most people don't govern. We have other jobs and roles.

That depends on the definition being used [1]. IMO, using this definition of governing [2], governing is taking responsibility, we do it all the time, and it is tough at times.

An example of governing is deciding when to change your baby's diaper. You take responsibility to put in the time and effort (which boils down to money) to keep the baby healthy, proper, and happy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics#Extensive_and_limited

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/govern
Re: the "what is ROS?" question asked by many on this thread:

Like others have said, ROS includes a serialization protocol with codegen, a pub/sub and RPC messaging system with discovery, a build system, a configuration file system, logging system, and a repository of packages using them.

You might ask: why is it popular? One reason: it was started before the current ubiquitous solutions for those things were ubiquitous.

But I think the main reason is: in robotics, we use a lot of semantically complex data like high-dimensional sensor readings, probabilistic models of the world, representations of rotation and angular velocities, etc., and we need to do a lot of things with that data. For example, suppose we use a vision system to identify objects from a camera. We don't just display that information to a user -- it becomes the input to the high level planner, which is its own complex system.

If your object recognition library and your planning library are both pure C++ libraries, then they probably each define their own classes for the datatype "list of (bounding box, object name) pairs". You need to write glue code to use the libraries together.

However, if those libraries are both ROS packages, the idiomatic thing is to publish a package containing only message definitions (like vision_msgs [1]) and have both libraries produce / consume that. This makes it easier to put together complex systems that pass around highly structured data, because you don't have to constantly write glue code to get your libraries to work together.

TL;DR: ROS is popular because it's like a big collection of .proto or .thrift files for complex robotics datatypes that everyone agrees to use in their libraries.

[1] https://index.ros.org/p/vision_msgs
Sorry, you're right, I'm speaking about my country explicitly.
Could you share the link to these 3rd party earpads please? Maybe they have earpads for my K702's as well, I couldn't find anything with good reviews on Amazon.
> What I’m saying is that America is not on the cusp of a civil war and the overwhelming majority of Americans aren’t itching to kill each other, they just want things to return to normal.

The second half is probably true, the first half is less clearly so. On the actual cusp of the actual civil war, the overwhelming majority of Americans weren’t itching to kill each other and most just wanted things to return to normal. Of course, there were broad camps with radically different views as to the barriers to normalcy and considerable propaganda effort expended to nurture some of those views by people who had already come to the conclusion that a fight was, if not desirable, a necessary risk to secure their political goals.

(Also broadly true of the Revolutionary War, for that matter, and, really, most other internal and international armed conflicts in history.)
PARADICE was spelled the same across all of his previous messages, so it's a really good indication that this cipher was correct. This YouTube gets into the details of how they cracked it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1oQLPRE21o
Hi! Take a look at https://sparrowhub.io you'll find a lot automation utilities here for different cases
Its ridiculous how these companies took advantage of california, paid nearly no taxes, then left to texas leaving california in massive debt !
The high cost of living in California has almost nothing to do with liberal politics or whatever you're trying to insinuate.
> you'd be forced to buy Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all separately.

You can already do just that. What's the problem with that?
That is true, I did lose sight of that. I think the more interesting statement would be California is exporting lots of high income / net worth people, which would prompt the questions of what causes CA to have lots of high income / net worth people, and what causes them to leave?

E.g. Are CA's policies more conducive to wealth creation, and then are people taking advantage of arbitrage opportunities elsewhere to guard that wealth?
Or alternately, what the GP is really telling us is that the rich and powerful are easily duped into spending their money on placebos.
What are you talking about? I’d say the same thing if she was a Republican hacking the Democrats.
Challenge studies get performed on non-human (animal) test subjects (this was done for the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine), and there's a volunteer human challenge study planned in the UK for January. A challenge study is one where you intentionally give a live virus to your subjects.

Arguably, releasing your subjects into an environment full of live virus, such as the United States, is a kind of challenge study, which rapidly delivers efficacy data. This is why approval could happen so much faster than usual for these vaccines.
I read his article, and unfortunately his nuance essentially comes down to:

> The loss of an independent Slack is sad, because Slack’s strategy wasn’t just a standard attempt to gain market power. As a company, Slack’s team thought carefully about product design, and that care showed.

That's not an economic argument, it's an aesthetic one.

The fact is, it's natural in many industries to coalesce around 2-3 major competitors. And as we can see, that's exactly what's happening here. Slack isn't being snuffed out. It's living on as part of one of the ~3 major players in the space, which is a natural and desirable outcome for consumers who want simple bundled all-in-one solutions.

And Microsoft hasn't been "losing money" by including chat functionality in Office -- what you're describing is predatory pricing which is simply not the case here. Office is an expensive product that companies pay tons of $$$ for.
> App Engine is nothing like Cloud Functions/Run.

This isn't true. App Engine Flexible is in fact very similar to Cloud Run, and my understanding is that it runs on the same infrastructure. In fact, App Engine Flexible "Custom Runtime", which lets you load a docker container in App Engine, is very similar to Cloud Run.

FWIW, though, as a user of App Engine Flexible for Node, I'm very glad this Cloud Run option now exists.
This is a response to this AWS Lambda launch, over a year later: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-for-aws-lambda-pred...
To contain molten salt use solid salt.
+1 to this. I have literally never published a package for emacs, but my init.el could theoretically be one, if I thought anybody else would care or find it useful.
On 5.9.12 suspend/wake worked 10 times in a row. Thank you!
I’d think that demographic overlaps significantly with families that have more than one child. Significant for this questions is, when do folks have their last kid?
Fortunately the Bay Area already has a billboard for their future from which they can borrow:

https://i.imgur.com/OTFSSFF.png

https://www.historylink.org/File/1287

Tech business will be persistently pulled out of the Bay Area and into other states, Europe is about to see a large tech boom (courtesy of US venture capital) that will considerably harm the dominance that Silicon Valley has enjoyed the past several decades, combined with China continuing to make inroads in most aspects of tech. It's all pointing south for Silicon Valley, it's going to be a very ugly decade there.
> I am not sure if asymptomatic transmission has been confirmed or not.

It's been confirmed, from early experience e.g. with the Diamond Princess and USS Theodore Roosevelt. It seems to be rare.

But paucisymptomatic transmission -- transmission before symptoms have manifested in people who will eventually be symptomatic -- is much less rare. So just quarantining people with symptoms doesn't work.
I am genuinely surprised I haven't seen an authentic looking long form troll video that methodically decodes the cipher and reveals at the finale text including "I am the soon to be born Ted Cruz".
I would say MBAs are excellent at extracting value, rather than sustaining value generation. Actually producing value is clearly not a priority in MBA culture.
I thought that if you were at global scope it loaded the whole global scope dictionary as the current-scope-array? Or maybe that's something I did by accident when messing with the embedded interpreter.
> The high cost of living in California has almost nothing to do with liberal politics or whatever you’re trying to insinuate.

It has a lot to do with economic success and the wealth produced thereby. The extent that has to do with the distinctive local politics of the state is another argument.
Well, that would've been a side-effect
MATLAB Coder - Generate C and C++ code from MATLAB code https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-coder.html

Actually the whole family of embedded code generation products from MathWorks https://www.mathworks.com/solutions/embedded-code-generation...
50 years ago the two top companies in that list had just started defending expensive and long-running antitrust cases. IBM changed its behaviour to settle these cases, transforming the computer industry, and in AT&T’s case the litigation led directly to the breakup of the company. These companies didn’t lose market share “organically.”
A recommended video to watch explaining corrosion protection:

https://youtu.be/jO37sMRqv8o
In the UK I don't think anybody has a clue what anybody else is doing :')
Taibbi's partner at the time posted a response to these allegations. https://exiledonline.com/about-those-exile-smears/

A brief excerpt from Ames' piece:

"How do you respond to something so blatantly dishonest? A number of media contacts have told me that Lally shopped this hit piece around to multiple publications, but it was rejected for this very reason."

It's worth noting that the women who worked for the Exiled are still around, and when this came out they confirmed that the events depicted in the Exiled book were satirical.

This was an attempt to hijack the #metoo movement without anyone actually making an accusation.
For me a bike shop and brewery would be the 'minimum viable amenities'. Even Lakeview has a bike shop. Baker City has both - and the beer is supposed to be pretty good: http://www.barleybrownsbeer.com/ .

I think some people are more comfortable with less of that stuff. I could get by without Costco and REI.
Assuming their costs are about 50%, and that they need to make ~$8B profit / year, they'd need to collect $16B to make $8B, so that's about $100B in rentals at 15% take. Plausible, because the USA alone is ~$90B, but why does it seem stable? If AirBNB starts to charge enough to make $8B profit per year why wouldn't you rent your suite with VRBO?

The margins can get paper thin because nobody seems to want the profitable extras - just CC processing and a listings site. I know people who rent vacation property and they do not lack for potential customers. They're on all the services, but also Craigslist, etc. They value the services for easier money handling, slightly less customer service required, and a few smaller things. But certainly not enough to warrant more than a 5% cut, but ~15% seems more common. This seems to usually be obfuscated by charging the guest, not the host, but it's still money that's not on the table for them.

They often break the rules to deal with this by suggesting customers contact them directly and pay by money transfer, so the industry is already price conscious and willing to undercut partners. Not a friendly place to expand into. And customers tend to price conscious and shop around, so it seems likely to stay this way.

Uber, to contrast, benefits from their network effect because most customers are time, not price, conscious and thus only check one service. For AirBNB you have months to shop around and contact the host out of band.
Not sure why you're telling me what I mean?

At risk populations have the same choices I have. I will choose to wait because I am not at risk. The risk level is obviously a factor that should play a part in making an individual's choice.

Now, for the people that _cannot_ get the vaccine for whatever reason, ultimately my decision is definitely more selfish, in that I am taking precautions in favor of my own safety as opposed to theirs. I guess I don't think this is unreasonable though?
Everything above. Friends don't let friends use App Engine, and by extension, fringe GCloud services they could break or shitcan at literally any moment

The technology of a vendor is way less important than its culture. So far Gcloud seems to understand that. Maybe the App Engine team is outside that org
Saying Trump is more like Mussolini, this timeline is more interesting:

https://www.thoughtco.com/hitlers-rise-to-power-timeline-122...

And the more boring path:

https://www.softschools.com/viewTimeline.action?id=207
This is literally the foundation of American govt structure namely the respect for unalienable rights of individuals to express themselves.

It’s the first line in our enumerated rights.

This isn’t “oh we should rethink things” this is a matter of natural rights and precedes anything we’ve constructed.
I had Corona, it’s quite unclear what I should do.
From a community perspective, no, because AFAIK no vaccine confers sterilising immunity, so my being vaccinated isn't likely to help reduce transmission. I will be very happy to see human studies that prove otherwise. It's be shown that AZD1222-vaccinated macaques still spread virus, with upper respiratory viral loads the same as controls.

From a personal perspective, no, because my age-based health risk, and my local community transmission rates approach zero, so vaccination has negligible upside at this point in time and space for me.

I might see data that could change either perspective and my willingness to be vaccinated. Also if I need to travel internationally I may be willing or forced to do so.
Wow! A whopping 509 of you going to die or at least have some mental retardation from the side effects. The only vaccine to trust would be the one from Moderna. One group of test subjects in Australia showed false positives, where another group that took the shots in Europe developed side effects of fascial deformities. Believe that might have been the Pizfer vaccine I'm sure you could search that up. But I will choose option 2 and walk by faith. For we all have had the virus between Dec 2019 to Feb 2020. It was release in Nov in Wu Han China. But question me this, the flu has killed more than COVID but no vaccine ended the flu but this vaccine end COVID. Yeah, love the bullshit
We also don't know what the effects of covid are in 10 years.
It seems like a farm could increase their productivity by letting these run autonomously at night and continuing to use human drivers with their old equipment during the day.