skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have family who work as nurses on the front lines. One of them just got back from her third shift in a week in the covid unit, and has had a grand total of one reused N95 mask to use, in flagrant violation of what is considered acceptable barrier practice. And this is at one of the biggest hospitals in California. The way the staff are being treated is despicable, and I 100% support any striking action by the Nurses' union.
This is overly simplistic.

There are tiers to everything. If you think it's MIT or Harvard, and then everyone else is a tossup, I've got some very bad news for you.
This is a bit extreme. I think short exercise windows are fair, it's the tax code that makes it suck. Multiclass stock should be illegal outright, while dilution is a known unknown you factor into your negotiation - depending on how early you join.
That is a massive hole that is often looked over by many. Oh, the market will take care of it. When? After we're all dying from pollution or missing fingers from faulty equipment? How can you in good faith believe the market will take care of everything?
That's a farce. The 4th amendment is still being violated even if we accepted that.
I think M1's gains are mainly from the specific configuration they chose to build the ARMs in (after doing the necessary quantitative analyses), not from actual development of CPU tech.
Ebola, Malaria and HPV have working vaccines already, there's no particular need for new technology there. HIV would be interesting though.

And bacteria aren't in general limited by immune response. The immune system has zero difficulty detecting a bacterial infection, but it happens at a wildly different scale and can't be fought with a fundamentally chemical means like our bodies do with virii.

And the point about prions seems to misunderstand this technique. The way an mRNA vaccine works is by transmitting blueprints for a viral protein (but not the rest of the virus) into the body's cells, where ribosomes then synthesize the disembodied proteins, which get detected as "foreign invaders" and produce a lasting immune response which would then be effective against the real virus.

Prions, remember, are just misfolded versions of your body's own proteins. They have the same sequence of amino acids as "correct" proteins and just an incorrect shape. mRNA only transmits the sequence, not the shape. And in any case your cell's DNA already has the sequence encoded, because you're not dead.
The first people to look at your CV probably don't know what Github is.

The degree is a checkbox for recruiters/HR who are looking to match a job spec before passing you onto the engineering team.
I marvel at the "mini toolbar" in Microsoft Office. It shows up when selecting text and neatly manages to get out of the way when not needed:

1) Initial toolbar placement does not obscure selected text.

2) Toolbar fades away if mouse does not move towards the toolbar.
Problems with crashing while debugging, inability to debug, etc. Do not remember details as it was more than a year ago and as I've said I was not willing to spend much time on that.
That's not a really high multiple for a software subscription business.
It was explicitly constitutional. They managed to avoid the word "slave", but Article 1, Section 2, clause 3 explicitly distinguishes "free Persons" from "all other persons" (who only count for 3/5 when it comes to computing representatives).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise

It also explicitly said that you can't escape "service or labor" just by going to a state that didn't allow it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Four_of_the_United_Sta...

They called it the Fugitive Slave Clause, even though the word doesn't appear in the Constitution. So yeah, that really wasn't just a matter of judges thinking about the "spirit" of the constitution. It was very clear that this was a slave nation.

Bonus: it still is, even with the 13th amendment. It does use the word slavery, and then provides an exception for people convicted of a crime.
To the compiler folks: Can a language with memory safety and speed of rust be made with the compilation speed of Go? I'm just curios. I have no idea about this
There was however a brief moment when there were no ads. I remember it. There were also no search engines so you only found other sites by word of mouth.
Can we please not spread the misinformation that mRNA can somehow integrate into the genome? It feeds crazy conspiracy theories around the vaccines.
Being smart doesn't make you immune to medical conditions.

But yes, there is also an issue with abusing these things. I don't know anyone who does this anymore, but I also don't work in a particularly fast-paced environment, nor do most of my friends.
The receiver does not know that a message has been sent until the first person contacts them classically. It's a common mistake to think that quantum teleportation is a new way of sending information. It's really a way to use classical communication in order to leverage entanglement to bypass various limitations of quantum mechanics.

So, the two people communicating would e.g. start out together and create a pair of entangled systems A and B. The person in possession of system B would then travel far away. The person in possession of system A then decides that they want to teleport a new system C to the person far away. They do this by placing system C next to system A and then performing a measurement on the combined system A+C causing these two states to become entangled. We now have an implicit entanglement between system C and system B that is far away. The person in possession of system A+C now picks up the phone and calls the other person to tell them what the outcome of their measurement on A+C was. The person far away then uses this information to determine a way to manipulate their state B in a certain way (the particular way in which they need to do this depends on the outcome of the measurement of A+C). Once that manipulation is complete, the system they have in their possession (B) is now in the quantum state that C was originally in. The system C, unfortunately has been destroyed in the process.
Absurd? Yes. True? Also yes. That's why Amash filed the bill.
This is assuming QSBS doesn't apply, right?
I've referred to this in the past as "semantic duplication" (code that is the same by definition/requirement) vs. "syntactic duplication" (code that just happens to do the same thing today, but there is no requirement that requires both copies to remain the same).
Nice article, but from the viewpoint of an Ancient IBM Mainframer, I wonder how ANYONE can become really expert?? The mainframe ecosystem was created to solve one major problem - stability. Up to that time, upgrading one's computer system meant rewriting the application software - simply untenable for organizations with ever-growing libraries of critical applications. It also allowed the upgrading and addition of new software (application and operating system) and hardware with minimal impact on existing software. This relative stability allowed competent (but non-genius) folks to become real experts.

When I see the current hurricane of ever-new and ever changing (evolving?!) software, the need to use an endless variety of differing products and technologies (including many libraries one has no control over), and endless discussions about the subtle differences and advantages and disadvantages of these competing / cooperating technologies....
How can anyone become really expert? How many can even become the fabled "full-stack" developer??

To me this really does not seem fair to the developer, especially those in smaller shops, where the developer almost seems to have to perform as a "full-stack" developer, whether they are or not.
Just my 2 cents - I hope my impressions are wrong, but the app dev world sure seems scary!
Correct, they couldn't keep millions of people in camps, but the leading 13th century power just went ahead and killed millions of people instead (at a time when world population was much lower).
So what is the endgame with stuff like this? Cutting edge companies with near unlimited budgets can barely manage to protect themselves from individuals, much less nation states. A completely nation state/military alliance locked federated internet? I can't really even see that working super well if any local computer is allowed access to it. Every computing device being locked down like iPhones with limited communication protocols?
These things need to be balanced. I live in an ecosystem of DRY gone amok and it's not pleasant.

There's a standard library to connect to databases. There's a huge hierarchy setup just to start an app running.

All of these super dry infrastructure changes have, unfortunately, come with a huge cost. We are still stuck on ubuntu 14.04 because our super dry puppet framework we invented can't be ported to puppet 6.

We are stuck talking to MS-SQL, because our super dry database connection management library can't handle establishing other database interactions.

We are still stuck on Tomcat 7 because our super dry Jersey libraries don't work with newer versions of Jersey (which has locked us into older versions of tomcat!).

Consolidation is a decent goal, but it really needs to be measured. For me, it is FAR more important to consolidate on the how to do things and not the what does things. In otherwords, rather than making an "elasticsearch connection library" specify "This environment variable is the elasticsearch host/credentials" and let the apps move from there.

That's because, when it comes right down to it, configuration code is super easy to write and it really doesn't matter if it's duplicated. You want your libraries consolidating knowledge to be for things that are easy to get wrong (such as checking who is currently logged in or how to authenticate).
Can you get the trade off right 100% of the time? Because I can tell you, every time I've worked on a codebase that repeated itself, it has been a freakin' -delight-, compared to the times where DRY was taken as a commandment from on high.

The former when something broke, I could just...fix it. And it would be fixed. Would other, similar situations, still be broken? Sure! And when those would be raised up we'd fix them too, and compare them with the other changes, and possible refactor. Fixing one bug = one bug less.

The latter? Oh God. Something is broken? We'd fix it. Aaaand, now there'd be two bugs. Fixing one bug = more bugs.

Perfectly balanced code, yes, fixing one bug = multiple bugs fixed. That's the goal. But you won't get it right if you do it pre-emptively. Which of those other two options would you prefer?
I think it has less to do with the quality of developers and more to do with perverse incentive structures surrounding commercial software design. A piece of software that optimally solves a problem for the user is rarely optimal for generating revenue. Hence the common practice of companies breaking and sabotaging their own products to get the upsell while slowly turning them into spyware. The fundamental problem is engineers being forced to operate in bad faith, which interferes with them actually doing their jobs.

Obviously there is also bad free software out there, but it has more benign afflictions. Free software also tends to steadily improve with time, but commercial software is a roll of the dice with every update.
Most of the major news websites still offer RSS feeds, although you do have to search quite a bit to find them. NYTimes, WSJ, Vox Media, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, etc etc all have them. Those last two are even full-text feeds, which is super lovely!

I have a suspicion that journalists rely on RSS more than the general population, which gives the technology support within news organizations themselves.
The Reddit /r/electricians recently had a post of a sign at Ace hardware showing a male-to-male adapter for Christmas lights, saying "This adapter does not exist, please don't ask us for it, it's illegal, it means you hung your lights wrong and you need to re-hang them. Sorry."

Comments included: "I worked at a store and every year we'd get someone insisting they bought such an adapter the previous year", "such an adapter would leave energized bare prongs at the other end", and (relevent to this discussion) "the fuse would be at the wrong end of the string of lights".

And, of course, all sorts of comments about homemade adapters, generators being used with such adapters to energize circuits during power outages, etc...
It's not a terrible deal, ISOs can be very advantageous from a tax perspective.
I think you mean BioNTech not Moderna.
Not a bad rule, but from what I've seen mainly in corporate Java, you can give everything and anything a name.
Pfizer worked with BioNTech, not Moderna.

Moderna's vaccine is a great deal easier to store than the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine (requires 'normal' freezers for storage, can be at refrigerator temperatures for a longer period).
I’m not sure which side of that you see me on. But to clarify, I’m definitely not a fan of mixing business logic/IO with view code, but I’m also not a fan of hooks for view modeling state either.

The problem I have with hooks is fundamentally that they perform magic side effects that change the semantics of both the call site and its return type: what would otherwise be a pure function of props returning a data structure (referential transparency) is transformed into a constructor/factory type thing that returns a stateful thing which will render differently for the same props when its internal state has changed.

I generally would prefer to avoid state, and model as many changes as possible with functional data flow, but even where I do need to reach for state I’d prefer its initialization be expressed entirely outside the render function body. It would be a very small API change to achieve the same expressiveness of hooks, with just a small bit of additional syntax.
From what I recall, the K12 core was essentially the same micro-architecture as Zen, but with ARM instruction decoders. There were some vague statements that the ISA allowed some optimizations compared to the x86 version, but we never got to see what that really means, since the K12 project was shelved to focus on x86. I wouldn't be surprised if AMD has been sitting on K12 and keeping it just updated enough so that they could revive it whenever the market becomes more interested in ARM servers.
YES! These are pretty much exactly the methods I used when I developed my project http://prosecraft.io

You can see the emotional story arc -- the shapes of the stories -- for more than 16,000 books.

I train a Word2Vec model on the vocabulary of all those books (almost 1.5 billion words) and then I use a clustering algorithm to score all those words on a sentiment scale of 1 to 10 (where 1 is the most negative and 10 is the most positive). Then I break the books into 50 equal-sized chunks and aggregate the positive and negative scores for each chunk.

You can click on any of the chart segments to see a word cloud of all the words that contributed to the positive and negative sentiment of that chunk. You can really see the ups and downs of the stories, as the protagonists struggle to overcome their obstacles, when you look at those charts!

Here are a few of my favorite example books to show people:

The Hobbit

http://prosecraft.io/library/j-r-r-tolkien/the-hobbit/

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

http://prosecraft.io/library/j-k-rowling/harry-potter-and-th...

Animal Farm

http://prosecraft.io/library/george-orwell/animal-farm/

I first encountered this method not through Vonnegut but through the "Hedonometer" project, at the University of Vermont Computational Story Lab. They use this technique on the twitter firehose, to measure the overall emotional arc of the world, as expressed in social media.

https://hedonometer.org/timeseries/en_all/

There's an excellent episode of the podcast Lexicon Valley where they discuss the hedonometer project, with the researchers at UVM who developed it...

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2015/0...
> Didn't nz had strict lockdown?

Yes, and more than one. Community transmission was eliminated several times.

The point is to compare the strategy to others.
https://pacs.oregonstate.edu/sites/fa.oregonstate.edu/files/...

It's against the law to do business with those specific companies in the performance of contracts with the federal government.
What this class of vaccine does is make a bunch of foreign proteins for your immune system to attack in your arm without actually infecting you with the disease. So you get inflammation and soreness at the injection site, and this is not from the physics of having an injection. The placebo arm injects with a saline solution, so there's no immune response, and you miss those symptoms.
If you are a CS graduate, it is up to you if you want to use what you've learned in the field. I've found that it is a useful perspective, sometimes it is overkill, but it's better than any testing sometimes.

Software engineering is all about making that domain knowledge useful. So sometimes you can just be lazy and "import" the knowledge.
I would argue that being a public company has the same pressure as being VC funded only much stronger.

Cloudflare is increasingly pushing their position as the world's biggest man-in-the-middle, and things like their new secure DNS are making the situation worse.

They've started taking opinionated stances and making deplatforming decisions instead of being neutral infrastructure and I think this is going to get a lot worse.
For me, the more amazing thing is that we are able to detect 2 neutron stars merging from 130 million light years away. Just curious how sensitive these instruments need to be and our ability pick signals from the noise.
As someone who worked IT for students and staff at a large American university (enrollment in the 25k range) I can safely say that I have never, ever seen Opera in the wild on devices, work, personal, or otherwise.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
“The Robot made me do it”: Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in humans
I am not a lawyer and merely [poorly] paraphrasing what I've heard in discussion about this legal quandary. The problem as I see it is that in order for a judge to not immediately dismiss a case the aggrieved party needs to have some evidence that these statements were made falsely. Considering the CISA opsec guidelines, there should not be a corporate paper trail detailing officials knowledge, so where and how do you get evidence that can be admitted to court? Witnesses would presumably be under similar NATSEC restrictions, have questionable custody of the evidence, or worse, they can only provide hearsay.
If by CCP you mean the Chinese Communist Party, that's bullshit propaganda. But it is true that they used to enjoy the patronage from the former USSR with whom India did have a friendly relationship.
There are no URLs in app installs. The ad links to the iOS app store, and Apple does not give you any information post install on where the source came from.
Apple also part of the joint venture that started ARM.
Roald Dahl co-designed a device to treat hydrocephalus for his son.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00701-010-0834-z
I would argue it’s not possible for Rust to have a “world-class” toolkit, because it seems implied that it’d be cross-platform. This means it’ll always lag behind UIKit, AppKit, GTK/Qt, and... whatever Windows has these days.

The Iced project used as an example has a custom renderer for example... does it support VoiceOver? Does it support every standard Cocoa keyboard shortcut?

Rust wrappers for these existing libraries (some exist) that maintain all functionality is what would allow “world-class” apps to be built in pure Rust IMO.
That would be Shasqi!

https://www.shasqi.com/
Yep.
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=4ba3e18dc64ed266b9...
Of course the US can and will pressure. But up to a point. Otherwise they might be told to f.. off and mind their own business. More likely is that they will reach some compromise.
It's actually in line with PG's writing. He had an essay where he wrote that, for smart independent people, jobs are not the answer (and startups may be). However, now he's holding stock in so many companies who need to hire those smart and independent suckers, so that his own writing may be backfiring on him.
I agree. I also think that when building a prototype, flexibility is more important than stability. I allow myself to repeat code when I think two similar things will be different by the time requirements are better known. Later I'll usually re-write in a more stable fashion.
I should have wrote a "good name".
I have yet to see an article with details about what went wrong in their fab process, but something seriously went wrong with their 10 nm fab process. Yields are low, many years in, and there were large delays.

This messed up their whole CPU development pipeline, because their designs are tightly bound to the process node, and it's a multi-year process. Because 10 nm hasn't ever worked in volume, and their new CPU designs are based around 10 nm, their latest server chips are still based on optimized Skylake microarchitecture, which was first released in 2015.

Early indications are that Intel's next process node (which they're calling 7nm) is also experiencing problems, if those problems aren't resolved, that probably means they'll have cpu designs for 7nm that they also can't ship in volume, in addition to the 10nm designs.

If they can figure out their fab issues, and they don't have a corporate implosion, I'm guessing they'll start making competitive CPUs again; they've been way behind before and come back (anti-competitive practices helped make sure they had the finances for that, of course).
> Anyone with who has taken AP Biology could conceive of and understand the idea behind making vaccines rapidly: take some mRNA, inject it, have in translated as the antigen in the body.

There was quite a lot of development on basic techniques of working with RNA necessary before that could even in isolated circumstances be easier than, or even competitive with, “isolate the antigen, inject it, done”.

> The question is, how did this start just now?

It didn't.

Getting a treatment to market isn't the start of application of a new technique in medicine; its usually something that happens many years, often decades, into work using the technique.
That's true but irrelevant.

Google cut off her access and paid her through her notice period.
>take[1] some mRNA[2], inject it [3], have in translated as the antigen in the body[4]. Poof, that's it.

1) Develop synthesis technique for large scale high purity mRNA without base errors or truncations.

2) Discover pseudouridine modification to decrease innate immune response.

3) Discover and optimize lipid nanoparticles for encapsulation of mRNA to prevent its degradation.

4) Optimize LNPs and miRNA sites in UTRs for localization to desired cell type and to prevent aggregation in undesired or dangerous cells/organs.

Poof, that's it!
Actually asking, as I've never worked on a large existing codebase:

If there is no bug, why would it continue to rot the codebase?
The perpetual license fallback saved me when my license expired. Due to the US holidays it took our purchasing department a week or two to renew my license. In the mean time I was able to fall back to an older version, and upgrade once my new license came through. It was very easy and straightforward to do in both directions.

So I agree, it's a very honest business model.
Type "The Cat In The Hat" in a search engine. Surprised to see a Mike Myers film all over the front page?

Or try "Alice in Wonderland".

Search engines are too of the moment — maybe too corporate-bent? Or do we blame the users? Do most people want a bad film when they search rather than a literary classic?
I'm sure if you think its terrible you could always say you don't want the stock?