skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also taking into account that often the balance between spreading the disease and letting people work to feed themselves and loved ones is a massive challenge.

In my country we have destroyed economiy due to 10 years of incompetent greedy politics which had killed it already. People are out of work because of that.

Now the pandemic has made sure no one will recover at an acceptable rate, because new politicians also struggle to find the balance.

At this side of the planet we are screwed at such a hard rate, its amazing I can still feed myself, pay utilities and internet and be medically insured
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Is this allowed?! I thought we were all on the science-cant-be-questioned train and getting in line for our latest untested experimental drugs.
The more deadly a virus is the less likely you will have super spreaders. If the virus was 5x deadly you would probably also see 5x worse symptoms in most people. So instead of taking a bunch of DayQuil and going to the business meeting that person would be home feeling and looking like shit.
What are the margins. I can almost certainly say that the margins on the games are far greater than the hardware.
These type tests are not really model tests but of the infrastructure surrounding the model. MLOps tools are tested like normal software development
> For example, getting a good job at Google is just as competitive as getting a tenure-track position.

That's far from my experience.
Funny that you say that because I have long thought Spotify kills discovery.

In the 90s, I discovered a lot of great music because it was playing at a listening station at a record store, or because I was browsing through the ska-punk section and liked the cover art, or by flipping through a friend's CD collection. A lot of my early tastes came from gems I found in my parents old records.

It was also really common to buy an album for one or two songs and then "discover" more songs you liked on the album. The scarcity required you to actually give new songs a chance. I feel like streaming caused my music taste to stagnate because there is no reason not to just skip an unfamiliar song.
Getting a job at google is nowhere near as competitive as getting tenure, you have to live in an alternate reality to believe that. I know several people that went there after their PhD one of them got the lowest possible grade on their dissertation (rete). Both published no papers as first author.
Is CureVac still in the race? What other mRNA companies are there that are doing interesting work in the space (beyond COVID)?
can u elaborate on these jvm promises?
This is not necessarily specific to the mRNA vaccines, but one potential consequence of population-wide deployment of a 90% effective vaccine might be to create selective pressure for a more virulent strain of Covid without actually eliminating it.
Great American Rail Trail
Predictable Performance of OCaml's Module System
AirPods Max teardown reveals some bad news
Discovery was a social process not an algorithmic one. The person behind the counter in the record store (and/or your friends) would get to know your taste and recommend new stuff to you. In most stores, you can listen to a CD before you buy it, maybe not the big American retail-style ones but certainly all the smaller record shops.
They do have their own indexing but I thought they were also using Bing to some extend
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Are challenge trials for dearly diseases even legal?
They definitely deserve to 'go under' because of the way they handled this. Anything less and it's going to be enabling these shannanigans
The issue with the trad philosophy is that these cute blog posts never clarify what to do when the “haha quirky” traditions passed down have real life victims. It’s one thing to stick to “let the cassava rest” or “don’t eat shellfish” but I’ll be damned before I go along with “stone the rape victims” or “enslave anyone with skin darker than a manilla folder”
Maybe they should make a law if the rich gets tax cuts they must pass it on to the ones at the bottom.
The cynic in me thinks that the abundance of old bands on festival line ups is probably more focused on targeting people with disposable income, rather than a young audience who may be very enthusiastic, but are also broke.
This will (like several other factors in society) function like a form of reverse eugenics, where people way above average in intelligence (high heritability) and conscientiousness (moderate heritability) are prevented from having children, or start having them so late that they will not have many.
“Electrified Reefs”
Assuming that Intel / ARM microarch implementations are bug free, that is correct. In the real world there are no bug free implementations.

Edit. This is the strategy Chrome sandboxing uses: a hardened runtime (JS/WASM) inside a seccomp enclosure. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/s...
> but it does very little for the actual experience of them

I _so_ disagree. For music as an example, I do believe that people that are really into music get much more out of it than people who aren't. They probably don't enjoy "easy-to-listen-to" music as much, but they enjoy some other music much more deeply. Same for food, same for all art, and _maybe why not_ same for love and friendship
Replacing the extruder hot end thermistor in the Geeetech A10M 3D printer
As far as I can tell the Cochrane meta-analyses are usually of above average quality, pretty honest, don't have particular reason or evidence for bias in any direction and are conducted fairly well. Do you have any specific examples of problems in their meta-analyses?
This was an odd page to read. On one hand, it assumes some level of sophistication (what’s a 409A?). On the other, it leaves out some really big things that you care about with early exercise (e.g., QSBS).

Regarding the thread on liquidation preference, I don’t think any amount of liquidation preference is on standard VC terms in this market.
Wikipedia makes a point that contributions do not correspond to rank. It seems the article addresses typical ways in which people come in conflict with this.

Most workplaces make the rank ladder part of the incentive structure. Usually, the organizational structure is explicitly part of the rank system. Efforts and contributions are rewarded with higher rank, which affords the right to boss others.

People who derive their ego/rank from other sources besides the org structure can be humble in the way you describe. It's not surprising if this group intersects with senior academics.
Element messaging group that does Matrix protocol

https://element.io/
Yes, and to be clear, antibodies are a subset of proteins.
And i would run wasm with a seccomp profile: You have the benefit of language designed which is hard to not do anything malicious (i guess theres still some possibility) and harden the execution environment (wasm runner) within a rootless pofman/docker container with a seccomp profile and restrictive selinux labels.

The world is not black and white, you can mix multiple solutions for more security. For what shopify is doing you need the most security you can get. Your example running a trusted application (imagemagick) with untrusted input is a lot easier to make secure than running untrusted binaries.
Markdown is still just plain text without any "crazyness".

Stuff like "## Header" isn't any more "crazy" than the ASCII art used in many Readme's of old and on top of that doesn't rely on specific monospace fonts or fixed width.
And more advanced stuff like hyperlinks or tables are hard to do "right" in text anyway, since it's basically meta data without an objective "right" or "wrong" way of representing it.

I also truly believe that it's time to finally let go of the 80-columns obsession. It's not 1975 anymore and even the ancient VT100 from 1978 had a 132-column mode. It's just an indefensible relic that held developers hostage for way too long.

Still want 80 columns on your 4k 27" 10bpp HDR monitor? Fine, but don't insist on others bending over backwards just not anger the grey beards on top of Mount Teletype... Text editors are perfectly capable of introducing proper line breaks even at word boundaries if need be.

It's really just become l'art pour l'art to force this arbitrary (by today's [and by today I mean the past 30 years!] standards) restriction on developers with no benefit to readability.
Why do you need coders knowledgeable in WASM? The majority of coders will use something else (C, C++, Rust, C#, etc.) The majority of them don't need to know the details of the processor their compiler is targeting.
Hang on: Boeing and FAA officials coached test pilots towards an outcome of a test related to a system where, if there were a problem with it (as there has been in the past), people will die in relatively large numbers (as they have in the past)?

What is wrong with these people? If the plane can't be brought up to snuff without you fudging the test results then you can the thing. There is no other way.

Because if you don't can it what's going to happen? More crashes. The subsequent investigations will reveal that there is still a problem with the plane. Investigators will follow the trail back to the certification, and then you'll find yourselves in a whole heap of trouble.

Oh, and Boeing will go under. Where's your shareholder value then?

Of all the short-sighted, obtuse, shady, unethical, blithering idiocy we have all witnessed in various quarters in 2020 this ranks amongst the worst.

I honestly no longer care what the certification status of the 737 Max is. There is such a cloud of untrustworthiness around the plane, its systems and its certifications that there is no way I will ever risk flying on one.

Boeing have done some amazing things in the past. The 747, for example, was for its time an extraordinary aircraft and is still without doubt the most iconic passenger airliner even today. The Boeing museum near Seattle is incredible, and I highly recommend it. In more recent years it's clear that they've lost their way, but I hope that they are able to get back on track, and back to building more amazing aircraft. It's time to let the 737 Max die though.
Yes, though C++ programs are faster than Scheme programs, programming in Scheme is faster than programming in C++.
Sorry, but utf-8 is necessary. The world is not USA and some of us exist outside of it, where ascii is gross disregard to conventions. I can agree on plain text readmes, but there is reason that the world moved away from english only encodings and if you want to stay thirty years in the past, this is your choice.
That's kinda the point - the healthcare bureaucracy is up to its ears in precisely this kind of bullshit. The "studies" demonstrating the beneficial properties of circumcision are often backed by groups with obvious biases (eg, Jewish or Islamic religious groups) and almost never mention the possibility (and likely correct explanation) that the causality behind the improved health correlation goes the other way: healthy people are simply more likely to be circumcised (more likely to be from or join a religion that values cleanliness, restricted sexual behavior, etc.), rather than circumcision itself causing improved health.
Youtube, Twitch, TikTok, Instagram, Hulu, Netflix, etc. appear to firmly support that content is king; at least in some small corner of the internet.
I feel that's not a good example. Parameter identification is a standard tool to try to figure out what factors might have been at play.
> find_xy_coordinate_of_dogs_cats_and_baboons_in_picture(picture: Picture) -> List[XYCoordinates]

It is redundant. It doesn't need the "xy_coordinate" because that is the return type. Furthermore it is wrong, it should be "xy_coordinates", with an "s". Or it shouldn't return a list.

The "in_picture" part is also redundant, it takes a Picture argument so why mention it?

Note: these arguments depend on whether you language supports polymorphism or not. In C for instance, you often have no choice.

The "dogs_cats_and_baboons" part is fine as long as it really is what you are looking for. If your intent is to find any animal and you implementation only finds dogs cats and baboons now, then you should call it "animals" with maybe a comment clarifying that point.

The problem with long fonction names is that they produce long lines. Long lines are terrible. Not as bad as they used to, thanks to large, wide screens but still, I hate having my editor window unnecessary large or have a horizontal scroll bar.
They are, but very very slow. Their 2b/3 trial only started this week. Almost a year into the pandemic.

https://www.curevac.com/en/2020/12/14/curevac-commences-glob...
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lol, "please let's not call them creators, they are not gods"
Curevac just very recently started with phase 3 studies.
This means it'll be months before you can expect results.

They may still play a role, as obviously the world won't be vaccinated within the next months. But they're also unlikely to play a role any time soon.
This is PR about Shopify’s use/promise of WebAssembly—cool. I get WebAssembly tech is cool.

I’m interested why Shopify is practically the only sales platform that gets ‘airtime’ at HN.

Is this because partner apps are using Ruby? Does it have something to do with the governance of Shopify? Community of Canadians on HN?

I have some experience with Square, and a few others.

I’m an interested party.
> That's why you need to add tables

I would say that that's why you need statistics. It's literally the field dedicated to reliably make sense out of data.
Simple: use mocker.patch to patch out random.randrange and have it return a fixed sequence of results that would imply a known result.

Your test should not depend on the internal workings of randrange or anything relying on unfixed random state. Your test is only checking if, given correct results from randrange (or any other external world source of random draws) that the rest of your function correctly produces the two-digit bias number.

Otherwise you are just testing randrange itself.

If you are asking how to test a pseudorandom number generator, you have a few choices. You can either fix the random seed and test the algorithm’s precise implementation on a large number of known results. Or you can define tests statistically with margins of error, for example testing the entropy in a series of uniformly generated bits or the resulting distribution in a series of random draws from a fixed list, and decide what level of precision is tolerable before considering a test failed.
Tailing Missions from the NPC's Perspective
Related question, on the demand side. I'm looking to have a pdf of a world war two unit book printed and hardcover bound, to recreate it as a gift. I'd like high quality but the online services in this space seem low-quality. Is there a web service for transforming pdfs into high quality books?
I would expect them to do so, but there is another solution: you can use a remote desktop on a beefy server and run your programs there and then use it from a nice portable machine.

I think Mac has their own, but I use NoMachine and it basically just works and can work with different client and server OSes. On the client side it is just video decoding so it is not very demanding - and it uses less bandwidth than I would think.
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The point is, even without any precaution, they might never be infected in the first place, so probably death from covid for this specific age group is : probability of getting infected * 1/200. So even less than 1/200.

If I'm in this age group, obviously I would happily take this chance, if the alternative is lockdown/restriction.
You could approach this a number of ways.

First, if you can ensure the seed of the generator, then that could be used on a case by case basis. But this tricky, since it introduces a subtle dependency on the implementation of biasedcoin.

Another option is to split the function/process into a stochastic and deterministic part. Test the deterministic part thoroughly. biasedcoin is too trivial for this, but it works nicely in more complicated setups.

For biasedcoin, I would probably go with a statistical approach. Given a certain bias, the expected value and distribution is known. I would simply test that several trials of the function lie within some bound.
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When I saw the title and the comments before reading the article, I thought to myself "what Joel wrote[1] and I read almost 20 years ago made a ton of sense"[^]. Then I looked at the article, and realize that it opens with a link to Joel's article and then lists a bunch of strained examples (editors vs IDEs).

I would recommend that everyone read Joel's article[1] first. Note that increase in demand means "the value to the consumers of each and every unit of your good increases" or "at each price more units will be sold" ... That is, demand curve shifts to the northeast. Which is different from an increase in quantity demanded in response to changes in the quantity demanded.

Note also that while we tend to think in terms of individual companies' products, the demand for the output of the entire industry tends to increase when the complements become cheaper.

A great example of this is indeed Windows. Glossing over the details (such as Epson's ESC/P etc), prior to Windows, you knew that if you wanted to produce hardcopies with bar charts etc, you knew you had to have printer that worked with Harvard Graphics[2]. Post-Windows, you could make a printer and a driver for Windows and all software could use it. Which led to increase demand for both printers and software that uses printers. Harvard Graphics' real advantage was in being able to produce output on paper or physical slides. Once again, having Windows meant projectors could be used without worry that you needed to use a special version of the software with special support for the particular projector you had. That helped grow the projector industry and cut the hassle of having to have hard copies of the presentation (which you could not correct if you noticed a problem at the last moment).

So, when I read the linked post, I thought it is best to be avoided in favor of reading Joel's post again. Joel's post is not without flaws either:

> If you can run your software anywhere, that makes hardware more of a commodity. As hardware prices go down, the market expands, driving more demand for software (and leaving customers with extra money to spend on software which can now be more expensive.)

As an economist, I would have noted that it is not just that consumers have more money and an individual firm can extract more of it ... it is that as a result of a complementary good becoming cheaper, they value the thing you are selling more and therefore they are willing and able to spend more on the thing you (or other firms in your industry are selling).

Next, we should think about monopoly power and availability of close substitutes. :-)

[1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Graphics

[^] For background, I am a Ph.D. economist, and taught micro at various levels, and I develop software for a living
This argues against only giving one dose instead of two. But no one is proposing that.

The argument is that while there is a vaccine shortage, it is better to give as many as possible one dose, instead of giving only half that many people two doses, leaving the rest unprotected.

When available, everyone gets the second shot, which should work just as well 6 months later.
Noone has tested single-dose.

In this case it may sound like too much nitpicking, but the general principle is that you don't roll out something you haven't tested in a trial. In general this is a good principle. I hope they'll do trials comparing single to double-dose soon.
You can’t express anything malicious in JavaScript either, yet vulnerabilities are constantly found in web browsers, including WebAssembly JITs.

You can express malicious things in Go, yet the number of RCEs in Go apps is pretty much zero.
Well it's not like they didn't know that people hate ad networks, hate getting tracked the shit out of them, hate downloading 5MB of mysterious JS to read a 2kB article.

The sliminess of the online advertising industry wasn't a secret 10 years ago or something.

So don't talk about it as if they ever were an ethical source of business income. (Not just talking about all the lying that is inherent in advertising, print ads suffer from that too)

They never were, they're not like inert pieces of your magazine. They're little pieces of software doing whatever the fuck it likes, control that you offer to semi-anonymous parties over your readers.

Imagine if a print newspaper didn't just sell ad space in their print, but whoever buys the ad also determines what ink it is printed with. And the ink can be any substance! Sometimes it's ink, sometimes it's poop, sometimes it's smallpox, sometimes it's radioactive.

I mean, MOST of the time it's really just ink, with only a tiny amount of aerosolized heroin, just your average respectable ads. But every once in a while, and there is really nothing to do but hope it happens to the other paper first, it'll really harm the reader.

I mean you can't really expect a news magazine to check all the ink its printed with right, just doesn't scale.
Apparently, in the UK many people used to have their teeth removed when marrying.
Using wasm in addition to seccomp-bpf (what you’re calling seccomp) strictly increases your attack surface. If you want to maximize security you would only use seccomp.

Imagemagick is not trusted to process arbitrary data, otherwise there would be no need to use seccomp. Seccomp was specifically designed for running untrusted binaries. Check references if you do not believe me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seccomp#History
Yes, less formulaic. Classical music is far more formal than any sort of pop music and can quite literally be algorithmically generated.
TIL, thank you:-)
Exactly, and there is probably a third redundancy too.
What is wrong with "content"? It's the opposite of "without content".
The Army has soldiers. The Navy has sailors–The Space Force now has 'guardians'