skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always heard that using that kind of language is more palpable to our right leaning citizens, used as trick to get them to fall in line for the greater good.

On a related side note I think Bill is right, so long as people are anti mask and anti vax these people will place a heavy burden on our economy and the death count of our fellow Americans.

And to the downvoters. Not wearing a mask or taking the shot isnt an attempt to take away freedom, civilization has agreed that its murder, and so long as people are willing to put others at risk over a minor inconvenience the economy will stunted and some of our more fragile Americans will die. If you dont like how things are right now its on you to change, deflecting or claiming some inalienable right doesnt work, it hasnt worked. You're hurting your country.
I wish you would not feed the trolls.
We should probably also consider charging the Europeans that made vast wealth shipping slaves, and the Africans that profited from capturing and selling their countrymen.
I'll try hard to keep the discussion nuanced. Governments are basically institutions that we allow to restrict our freedoms for some benefits - safety, various common-good things, etc. We all have our preference for where we draw this line personally on the liberty/convenience <--> safety spectrum. A lot of people (including myself) feel like these lockdowns, pandemic mitigations, etc. have far crossed the acceptable line in this spectrum. In my opinion, I'm not fighting a virus any more. I'm fighting people trying to steamroll my rights and lifestyle. Others may feel differently - they may feel like for the sake of global/community safety, I should have fewer rights. I don't feel that way. This isn't binary. Nobody is right or wrong - we are all fighting for our line on the spectrum.
Ben Eater's pedagogy is top-notch for sure. But there are others out there. One worth noting is James Sharman[1] who has constructed a completely new, self-designed 8-bit CPU that features a two-stage instruction decode pipeline, and is currently adding scratch-built peripherals to it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/weirdboyjim
I like to use etymonline.com to find how a word has been used over time, for "spare" I find "sense of "lacking in substance; lean, gaunt; flimsy, thin; poor," is recorded from 1540"

etymonline.com/word/spare
Two nasal swabs taken when I had symptoms did not give a positive result (Abbott Labs IDNOW test), so after I recovered I requested an antibody panel and was tested for COV-2 IgG and IgM. Tests were done on Abbott Labs equipment (though the results sheet did not specify the particular assay - there are 2). My results were a high multiple of what would be considered 'positive' for both and were consistent with the timeframe of my illness. More info here: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019...

My insurance covered the cost of all my testing as it was done in conjunction with a televisit with my GP. I hear that it is available for approximately $60 if you just pay retail for it. If you give blood at your local blood bank, many are offering the antibody test as an incentive to donate.
Why does it matter so much what code runs at the end of a block?
I would skip:

1. introducing IaC,
2. and the OOP/functiobal bits

This stuff really just repeats itself everywhere.

I would:
directly put my method in an RFC style

1. „this is what this is (jpg here, maybe two comparison graphics. Of old arch, and yours),
2. and here how it works.

I did find the pet/catle metaphor great. im not against prose.
Oh, yep, I wasn’t being entirely serious.
It's not at all clear that better ways exist for general purpose code. A lot of time and effort has been spent by major players, with very little to success to show for it.

Intel, quite infamously, tried to make "something better" work with several generations of Itanium and failed impressively against the reality that a sufficiently smart compiler cannot be made to work. You can't blame any of the big players for holding back - Intel, MS, and HP were "all in" on Itanium as the 64-bit future - if it could have been made to work, it would have been widely adopted.

At the same time, Transmeta was building a X86-on-VLIW, which, guess what, also failed to be a competitive product. Nvidia, of course, decided to pick up from where Transmeta left off to build what ended up being an aarch64-on-VLIW design. In both cases, the hope was that the low-level translation would allow the benefits of a VLIW architecture while avoiding the "sufficiently smart compiler is impossible" problem, and in both cases performance just wasn't good enough to be competitive.
The only time I ever got pulled over in that part of the country is when I was doing about a hundred mph. I think that was a bit unfair since the road was straighter than an arrow from horizon to horizon, but breaking dumb laws is still lawbreaking I guess.
CloudLinux to invest more than a million dollar a year into CentOS clone
Have you read The Mythical Man-Month? It's a good book.
HN for as nice as it is for good content is pretentious af with this subjective “add substance” convention.
I used to have a Google Home Mini in every room. I've switched to Alexa because I trust them to keep it going a lot more. It helps that Amazon makes money off Alexa since I buy things through the device sometimes.

Outside of GSuite/Workspace I really don't trust Google products anymore and I'm tired of trying.
What happened was that folks realized that the technology isn't enough--you need to build communities around the technology.

Docker for example includes a bunch of features to help build a strong community of Docker users (image standards, tooling to make building & sharing images easy, public registries, etc.).
The defer would just run at the end of each iteration.
She's really pushing the limits of what she can get away with
Life Extension One-Pager
Your comment about char* aliasing everything is for C, not LLVM.
Vietnam got it under control quite well despite a land border with China. Key to success likely were:

- a population that had experience with prior pandemics and was thus willing to play along

- a strong centralized government (this is a guess, and I'm not just talking about the power, but specifically the centralization - other nations that have states/provinces each implementing their own policies showed the dangers of that approach, e.g. USA, Switzerland, Germany)

- extremely aggressive contact tracing and enforced quarantine (for high risk cases, they were put in hotels or barracks, not told "please stay home"). Not just contacts but also contacts-of-contacts (the latter were only ordered to home quarantine).

AFAIK they didn't even have much of a shutdown, because the quarantining was so effective.
I heard somewhere that under 40 (or was it 45?), most people die of suicide or trauma. After that, people can die of pretty much anything. Just goes to show...
Too little abstraction is rarely a problem. It's easy to change something simple and straightforward. When a bunch of stuff depends on a bad abstraction, it's both hard to change, and hard to keep.
Alternate headline: 'Mob says regular shakedowns reduces crime and increases obedience'.
Apparently it's not a trick unique to right leaning citizens. It works on all humans.
Why do you think that the vaccine will have to be taken beyond its recommended dosage?
4 of 5 countries.
It can be done indirectly. Fund infrastructure that is needed for housing starts, do other things to remove obstacles to housing starts, etc.
"Achieving reparations" is difficult language for me to accept. It is "thinking past the sale" that does not treat the subject with the necessary fair-minded big picture consideration.

It's not clear that reparations are a good idea in practice, or something to be "achieved," or even strived for (they might do more harm in practice to the group they intend to protect, as many well-intentioned and politically extremist ideologies do) not to mention any considerations involving whether it would be possible to sustain, or affordable, etc.

Be careful with your thinking if you care about being even-handed with your empathy. Being empathetic is a fantastic thing, but don't allow cynical people to hijack your empathy.
Wouldn't immune people getting exposed to the virus likely "refresh" the vaccination?
I did not know this about connection limits.

The multi-domain assets really bug me when I'm enabling domains one by one in NoScript.

Here is an example of domains used on Amazon's website:

amazon.com
www.amazon.com
amazon-adsystem.com
associates-amazon.com
media-amazon.com
ssl-images-amazon.com

On its own "associates-amazon.com" sounds sketchy, but I suppose you assume the HTTPS page that you loaded from amazon.com knows what its doing.
I’ve never played minecraft, but is it generally cpu bound? The GPU is very fast, for a laptop-y thing, so that may be carrying it.

In synthetic tests, Java under Rosetta seems to range from twice to over four times as slow as native arm Java, depending on workload.
Anyone's got an idea why the 6502 is more harder to find than the Z80 ?

Can't find them at any of my local electronics stores where i live for some reason unlike the Z80s which i find plenty of.
AWS EC2 issues in us-west-2
4:27 PM PST We are investigating increased error rates and latencies for the EC2 APIs in the US-WEST-2 Region.
To be fair, the number of times this type of error occurs due to a state-backed actor who's quietly hijacked the build system with an undetectable backdoor is low compared to the number of customers who see the error for some other reasons (bad download for example) - so it's not entirely surprising they'd give this advice.
That's why the Tylenol is in it: to deter you from getting addicted with the threat of dying.
Converting floating-point numbers to integers while preserving order
https://status.aws.amazon.com/#
> For those with open minds, it's allowed them to learn new things from people far away with very different ideas.

It can do that, but that can also backfire because the current social media platforms aren't trustworthy or transparent.

Advertising, "influencers", fake likes, bots, and all of that let small fringe groups amplify and normalize their ideas, so when open minded people come along, they see thousands of likes and hundreds of people promoting some idea, and they can get the impression it's a much more popular or common idea than it really is.

In other words, social media makes it very easy for a vocal minority to push their views on people, and it's nearly impossible for other users to discover when that's happening.
The really interesting page I think is the related page “Mozart and scatology”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology

I remember there was another post a while ago discussing Einstein’s racist (certainly so by modern standards) world outlook. The simple thing to realize is of course that all the so-called “great” people are also flesh-and-bone human beings with their flaws (at least judging by the mainstream morals of a particular era). The personalities of any one single human being are always complex and multi-faceted. The way Thatcher said “he couldn’t have been like that since he wrote great, refined music” is a perfect example of the denial and the (conservative) deification of people that the mainstream has deemed to have to be “immaculate”. I mean you can somehow create religious and literary figures to such effect, but if anybody seriously believes that an actual human being would be literally “god-like” in character, they have some serious reckoning with the reality to do. Fortunately most people in the modern era seem to get this, and modern art productions are also depicting characters in mostly realistic lights.
FTC is ordering Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc., to share how they use your data
Nah. If we ever had to pull this specific trigger we're already in "mandatory disclosure to individuals whose data was breached, the federal government, and possibly the media" territory.

It's one thing to try to duck bad publicity, it's another to not act quickly and risk the ire of the federal government.
Amazon won’t comply with California Covid-19 safety subpoenas, AG says
I only learned about it because a local soap opera[1] made it a plot point in the early/mid 90s.

[1] Shortland Street
The article is from The Sun, the video is from CNN.
I'm on maximum paranoia on this one, so I'm still looking for some more confirmation given that apparently this court does not use https for their site.

http://www.13thcircuitcourt.org/2393/Bailey-v-Antrim-County-...

Any Michiganders among us to vouch for authenticity?
Sure, there are probably multiple ways we can improve the ecosystem with the same net effect.

> But I don't believe in your original argument that we should abolish social media, because a lot of people want to use social media and it's not your right to stop them.

I'm happy to give up decentralization or abolishment if someone can find a way to ensure that social media is treated like the extension to free speech that it is, that privacy is ensured strongly, and that virality is a thing of the past.
> Or, if approved, it might be a prescription med.

That seems much more likely—but, very few drugs are approved for OTC use out of the gate! They generally want OTC drugs to have been in use for a long time.
World War 3, Cold War 2, PSYWAR 1, infowars.com, pick your preference. Nobody knows where this thing is headed.
I think my original comment was maybe misconstrued. I stated plainly that COVID could cause lasting damage just as any other virus. It just doesn't seem there is much to support that it causes damage above and beyond that of other viruses are capable of and for which long term therapies and treatments exist and are well understood. Certainly there isnt anything that I have seen which substantiates that COVID itself can persist in the body and continue to wreck havoc after the body is able to clear the infection, but no doubt it can do serious and potentially lasting damage.

I absolutely cannot agree more strongly that the long term consequences of any of the COVID vaccines will be far fewer than those of the virus itself.
Are there any advantages?
Out of what experience you came to that conclusion may I ask?

We are talking about experts here not newbies.
As best I recall, the one faithless elector in 2016 was the John Kasich, a very conservative Republican, who threw away his vote on John McCain.
Thanks! That makes a lot more sense. I was thinking “spare” as in “extra” and I thought it was odd a slave would be overweight.
Stalin shows what people will do if people exhibiting similar behaviors get absolute power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge
> Does no one remember the complete nightmare that was going to a relative's house and realizing they hadn't updating Windows in 1 year?

Yes, but at the same time I ran Windows XP and Windows 7 without any updates for about 15 years combined and I can count the number of times I had to format due to malware or a virus on less than 1 hand.

I once had 280 days of uptime on Windows 7 while constantly running VMs, an entire dev environment, games, etc.. It was a really good OS for what it was.

I guess the moral of the story here is if you want to play with sharp knives you should have the option to. Power users who have been using computers for most of their lives shouldn't be put on the same playing field as your 65 year old Aunt or Uncle who still thinks AOL is the internet.
Not what I meant, but good point. “War on Disease” perhaps.
Clang has this too. Libraries like Glib and software like Systemd use this mechanism. Standardizing it would be nice.
Google account terminations typically only affect the one service. If your YouTube account gets terminated for ToS violations, your email account will still work perfectly fine.
iPhone 6s falls out of a plane and survives, with all the action recorded
I agree with you but that's not unique to Amazon and nor is it a modern problem. More than 20 years ago, I was pissing in empty bottles next to trucks to make my quotas when throwing boxes for FedEx when I was in university. Ditto when I threw boxes at an Abercrombie & Fitch / Hollister distribution warehouse in university. Same story when I worked construction jobs. Same story when I was a teenager, picking corn and beans by hand in the fields near where I grew up. In fact, of the over a dozen manual labor jobs I've had in my life, the only one where I had convenient and frequent access to a restroom facility was a Thomson Consumer Electronics glass factory.
Is this official announcement? I don't find any link to google in your posted url.
It isn't NBD, ibuprofen will absolutely destroy your esophagus. The difference is that ibuprofen is safe once and will kill you over time, but Tylenol is safe over time and will kill you once.

There's a protocol where you switch between them which is okay, but you should get the good stuff if you need it.
Doing less than the speed limit is indeed strange, that behavior is probably exhibited by drunk/doped up drivers more often than sober drivers. The fact that you get warnings demonstrates that they pull overs are not due to ill will, if they wanted to steal from you they were half way there: too slow is probable cause for a traffic stop and they could easily plant some drugs or just lie, the statement of a police officer is evidence. Set your cruise control at the speed limit or 1 mph over and don't swerve.
IRS still requires stupid complexity and lockouts in the beloved pub 1075.
"Nature/Nurture is almost unsolvable" - I was under the impression that for most traits we have researched the evidence shows that the Nature/Nurture answer is simply "both" ? I.e. I agree that it's getting good experimental data on the exact mix of nature vs nurture is difficult or impossible with ethical methods, but for many traits we can (as far as I understand - it's not my field of research) demonstrate that it's definitely not 90/10 or 10/90 purely from observational studies.

But perhaps it's more accurate to look at this from a "four quadrant" (simplified) perspective, with nature/nurture on one axis and hereditary/nonhereditary on the other axis. So you'd have hereditary nature (biological determinism) factors in one quarter, non-hereditary nature (biological variation, mutations, things like most cases of Down syndrome) in another; hereditary nurture (socioeconomic status, which affects a lot, cultural aspects and family values), and non-hereditary nurture, where (among other things) I'd be eager to place things which are under the individual willpower control even though they're not technically "nurture".
It was indeed generous if you qualified and were able to access it (a lot of systems were down / not functioning super well early on - especially in states like Florida). That said, it ended in July and there were many people who slipped through the cracks.
Using government force to limit freedom of people for “safety” - as if government existed to be served, rather than to serve and protect the rights of free citizens.

In Sweden where we have no lockdown or similar there are no more deaths this year than other years, clearly showing that forcing people to lock down is not only immoral, but also inefficient.

Article in English but statistics from the public statistics bureau (SCB).

https://emanuelkarlsten.se/number-of-deaths-in-sweden-during...
appears to be working for me now.
Definitely baffled by this!
Another example of how Eric was not constrained by conventional thinking. While at Microsoft in the 90's, he'd occasionally interview job candidates. He'd hand them his phone, and ask them "if it was your job to make a better phone, what would you do?"

The bulk would answer "Um, better sound quality? Maybe an address book?"

Eric just couldn't believe those responses. (Remember, this was in the 90's when a phone was just a phone.) He was always boiling over with ideas.
Yes!

On November 22, the New York Times published a fascinating account of the race to produce a coronavirus vaccine. The Times report included a number of interesting facts, but one really grabbed my attention: It turns out that the Moderna vaccine, which was just shown to be 95 percent effective, was actually developed by the company in just two days in January 2020.

That’s right, they developed the vaccine in two days in January, but then needed to spend the following ten months performing tests in order to meet the FDA’s standards for vaccine safety and efficacy.

During those ten months, 1.3 million people, including a quarter million Americans, have died from the coronavirus.

From https://news.yahoo.com/release-vaccine-113037217.html
This happened to me while I was scrolling through Twitter
It depends on the root cause of the pain; for inflammation and swelling that result from soft tissue injuries, I prefer diclofenac, although you need to be careful not to take it with an empty stomach, or mix with ibuprofen.

I would say, though, that this is something to talk through with your GP or a pain relief specialist.
You can also take NAC, which is what they give you for the antidote. As a bonus it's also effective against acne, addictive behavior, and stimulant tolerance.
The problem, which I've commented on and experienced many times, is that companies don't have enough incentive to fund training of junior developers. In a culture where devs switch jobs every 2-3 years, there doesn't seem to be enough runway to train a junior to senior level before they get poached.

I wish there was a realistic solution to this problem other than bootcamps, but I don't know what it could be.
San Francisco's historic Cliff House restaurant to close permanently
> A lot of time and effort has been spent by major players

This really isn't the case IMO. Itanium is one attempt 20 years ago, it didn't try to rewrite the world (compatibility with standard C code is a huge crutch; GPUs couldn't exist in that environment for example), and the design sucked. And for 20 years since it has been sufficient to invoke the name to scare away any attempt of actually trying something new, even when they don't make the same mistakes, or even work anything like Itanium.

> Transmeta

It's in the name: the most significant part of the design was all the effort spent on compatibility with the dominant paradigm, running stock x86 code! That hugely limits what you can do.
I agree. Though much of the writing on this benchmark/ blog seems confusing to me and the charts are all over the place in terms of style as well.
I recall the line ending style was always obvious and easy to change. Something I've missed in many tools since.
I think that would be more analogous to receiving a message, parsing it, then realising the payload is another signed message, and then validating that.

Depending on the situation, signing the container might not even be necessary, much like a zip file without a password that only contains encrypted contents anyway.