skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I developed my own statechart lib many years ago (before React, but I used it with Angular) and used it for the high-level state that drove the application. It worked really well. Redux, etc have always seemed like a step backwards for high-level application state.
https://github.com/gregwebs/statetree
Interesting that Crypto.getRandomValues isn't enough for them and they also generate their own entropy in addition to it.
Regarding something like your rotator cup issue: it's not simply a question of doing no treatment (you just having a painful shoulder) vs. having your surgery. It is more does having your rotator cup surgery and associated post-op rehab statistically work better than having a "sham" placebo surgery and doing the associated post-op rehab. People can begin to feel better after having placebo surgeries where nothing was actually repaired.

Below is a study seeking to measure the efficacy of rotator cuff surgeries. The point is that even this surgery, which I think you had performed and were happy with, does not necessarily have clear, proven efficacy vs. a placebo surgery.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530362/
News released on a Friday, shortly after stock markets close? Not a coincidence.
I'm in the same boat! I want to swap my 8GB mini for a 16GB mini, but there's a considerable delay before receiving it.
Or 3. only recruit people who earn over X dollars.

Any of these are good solutions.
Does that mean even fictional guns have to be registered?
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> and stopped vaccinating people who already had COVID

How would you propose doing this without drawing blood from every single person getting a vaccine?
Title should be "How to replace the university". Worried that this would be a political rant about the other side killing the university, and there are already several such rants in the comments here.
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He wrote solutions for Shootout (predecessor to that Debian page) problems a few years ago; a lack of k in benchmarks is not due to a lack of k being volunteered: http://www.kparc.com/z/comp.k

k is really fast. Half of the things on the Shakti mailing list are just Arthur getting really excited about how significantly he's beating x or y or z in performance and giving numbers for it. `grep`ping it now I see 40 in half a year that explicitly contain the word "benchmark," though not all of these are comparing to other things (some are just comparing to different k releases), and there are more comparisons without that word.

Arthur doesn't work at Kx anymore, by the way. He's at Shakti now. Shakti has a different (but still draconian/non-(A)GPL) license. It probably doesn't have the benchmark clause, but I don't care enough to check (I prefer J to k and don't have a proprietary k on my system).
This is a little like asking "how to kill the school", "how to kill the hospital", "how to kill the fire brigade".

Universities are defined by national legislation and regulation and are (in most countries) largely government supported, even where there are student fees (underwritten by government-backed loans). Most of those same governments are aware that these institutions are keystone employers in their cities and have very deep links into the economy, to the point that they often co-invest in new campuses.

Articles like these tend to get written by computer scientists who think "but people can study from anywhere so surely you can set up a university from your bedroom" who haven't looked at the stats and seen that a sizeable proportion of student degrees (education, nursing, medicine, etc) are ones in which the government also regulates the jobs you get afterwards.

Private providers have a stigma of being incredibly suspect because of dodgy practices that have been engaged in in the past. Such as offering potential students gifts (e.g. free laptops) to enrol in courses they are not in a position to study so that the provider can collect the government contribution towards student fees. The upshot of which is that if you're a university, you get to be "self-accrediting" (for the sake of academic freedom and because practically the government can beat you with a stick any time you do the wrong thing because not only do they control your funding, they also directly appoint several members of your governing council) whereas if you are a private provider, you are at much greater regulatory risk because another private provider could do something dodgy causing new regulations to come in hampering your business.

There are certainly many interesting and profitable businesses to run in the higher education space, but if your goal is to "kill the university" you're almost certainly doomed before you've started, because you are not playing in a free market; you are playing in the proportion of the market the government of the day chooses to make open to private competition. Political realities are that is never going to be "all of it".

Caveat: posting from an Australian context, but though the mechanisms are different, around the world the situation appears to be similar. Higher education is not run as a free market, has tight regulations, and significant government investment.
That’s a really insightful comment, and also the reason why I think my code quality improved considerably after learning Clojure and F#.

I discovered that immutability in functional programming made it far easier to reason about state - something goes in, and you know exactly what comes out. No verbose checking logic, no bugs because something wasn’t set that should have been.

I’d personally switch coupling and complexity (though it really depends on your definition of the latter). Coupling is usually much less of a problem than you expect it to be, and is easier to identify/rectify in retrospect.
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I’m not gonna deny it’s frustrating to see quality of life stuff like “don’t refactor stuff from packages!” unaddressed year after year.

...but I think it is a tricky problem.

For example Black[1] is a very carefully crafted project that does an excellent job, but it fails at refactoring files just to apply lints with “inconsistent code generated” on some projects and files; and that’s just apply limiting rules.

...but, I for whatever reason, the JetBrains refactoring for static languages (c#, Java, kotlin) does seem significantly superior.

[1] https://github.com/psf/black
Answer: taxpayer-funded online education instead of Wall Street-issued educational debt
Interesting. To what degree did Microsoft design this chip? Did Qualcomm only provide the parts related to the radio? I was aware of SQ, but had assumed it was just a modified Qualcomm chip
The author seems frustrated by what he terms "The Fremen Mirage" and how often it appears in popular fiction.

> The Fremen Mirage is a literary trope, unconnected to historical reality, which presents societies as a contrast between unsophisticated, but morally pure, hyper-masculine and militarily effective ‘strong men’ societies honed by ‘hard times’ (that is, the Fremen of the term) and a sophisticated but effeminate and decadent ‘weak men’ societies weakened by ‘good times,’ frequently with an implicit assertion of the superior worth of the former.

More specifically, he seems wary of the impact that myth has in modern politics.

> fiction is often how the public conceptualizes the past and that concept of the past shapes the decisions we make in the present. In the case of A Song of Ice and Fire in particular, this vision of the past is particularly worth interrogating because it serves as the basis for a parable on power and violence.

I've had conversations with people who believe fiction such as George R. R. Martin's is "realistic" and worth examining as if it were a history. So, yes, apparently it would shock some people. Yet, no, you should not be shocked.
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Apple was also one of the first investors in Arm and one of the reasons the original company Acorn existed.
https://archive.vn/W2MmZ
All of their products are cloud open source tools, not SaaS type creations.
Seem like a good option. I'd imagine it's a parallel supply chain, so it would speed things up.
> You appear to be running this generator of our live website. For more security you can download the website on your computer and you can also turn off the internet to generate offline your wallet more securely.

Do they just say that to increase credibility, assuming that no one will actually do it?
> Would love to hear more experts discuss why this is considered sufficiently long-term safe to make the decision of vaccinating a billion people after nine months of testing. Am I missing something, or is it just a question of the precautionary principle in this case being considered too costly?

I think, generally, it has been discussed. There's lots of research on mRNA vaccines going back decades at this point, though they haven't made it to market until now. I see people saying "it's not being discussed" often on this site, but really, anyone saying "no, this is safe" has the implicit support of all that research behind them.
In those times, CPU compute power was the defining limitation. Nowadays, even dirt cheap chips offer enough grunt to get many things done, and the majority of the focus is on performance per watt. And this is where x86-derived designs are at a genuine disadvantage.
To be clear, P3P didn't work because Mozilla and Google and poured gasoline on it, and then Facebook lit a match. Had competing browsers not been desperate to brand it as some sort of weird proprietary Micro$oft thing, we might have a better version of it today (as happened to most features of that era).
There are questions about the efficacy of some meniscus surgeries performed for knee pain. Outcomes are rehab are often similar to outcomes after surgery + rehab.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28522452/
If you're still asking this you must have missed all the previous scandals around zoom :)

Personally I particularly hated the backdoor they installed on my Mac and only removed after significant media pressure - their initial response was "works as designed". But there were so many others.
I’m confused by the question, possibly due to misunderstanding something fundamental in the basic physics. But I’m gonna explain my confusion anyway because it might be an opportunity for me (and maybe others) to learn.

I would assume that all of the forces have to be delayed. Being a force, inherently in relation to some other thing, there’s a transfer that has to occur for the force to interact. That has to travel through space. Even in my (admittedly lay) understanding that we don’t have a full explanation of gravity, I would assume it’s subject to those same basic (spatial) principles.

Is that assumption way off base?
Some of the highest value-to-effort feedback I've both given and received in a PR is about naming. Whenever I see something where my first impulse is to react with "WTF?!?" I now try to ask myself "does something here just have a bad name?" and much of the time that's all it is.
> Though it still leaves a question mark over what happens when other countries do the same thing...

This is whataboutism.
Dock Boggs’ recording of Oh Death is the reason I took up playing banjo.
If others aren't aware, the somewhat formal sounding "Campbell v. Acuff-Rose" regards the legality of 2 Live Crew's cover of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman". The Supreme Court held that it was clearly a parody, and thus clearly fair use. Equally clearly, seeing as the Supreme Court was reversing the earlier decision of the Appeals Court, it wasn't actually that clear to some. In any case, it's also a delightful listen to a more innocent era in rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqnPVU207M.

That said, I'd also be interested in an answer to heavyset_go's question. I think the answer is "no", and that it's only a case of "parody" being a positive example of transformation rather than "satire" being a negative. The decision in this case, for example, doesn't actually even mention the term "satire", and instead relies on the (not particularly well defended) opinion that setting Star Trek in the world of Go! might be transformative for Captain Kirk, but it is "not transformative" to Go!.
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Martin says that they're based on reality, and this series shows pretty clearly that they're based on _stereotypes_ rather than reality. Which matters if people base they're understanding of real nomadic peoples based on their mostly-fictional portrayal in Martin's books and TV shows.
the viral RNA polymerase replicates the viral RNA and this can be exploited for direct RNA to RNA amplification.

to wit : https://chempedia.info/info/viral_rna_polymerase/

I was making reference to the process of cyclic amplification, in a manner palatable to non biology literate individuals

The same _basic_ principles

as can be read in the chempedia example the process of RNApol replication of RNA from RNA template is error prone, thus it is superior to create a large copy number of DNA template corresponding to the mRNA desired as DNA amplification is self correcting for the most part.

dependent upon experimental or procedural requirements it may be desirable to produce error prone replication variants of the RNA template, however it is quite possible to go from RNA template to RNA product with RNApol.

due to the fragile nature of RNA there must be some shielding or , a low cycle rate is used in conjunction with immediate harvest and stabilization of the product.

the sars-2 covid19 virus replicates by way of an RNA dependent RNApol [rdRNApol]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32277040/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7164392/
Exactly, the autocratic CCP is heavily investing in military drone capabilities, we really have no choice but to remain one step ahead. If we lived in a world without such regimes then that wouldn't be an unfortunate pragmatic necessity.
I agree it's an interesting read, but it would actually be more accessible if it wasn't confusingly dressed up with things like "Mongols never did this, ergo Martin erred seriously!"

I mean, okay, maybe real world Steppe peoples would have been subject to variations in dialect. Do I need pages of stuff telling me that the absence of a sentence like "Dany couldn't understand that one guy very well because he spoke a confusing dialect of Dothraki" is a glaring oversight? If there's one thing the series doesn't need it's a whole other novel that goes even further in detailing the misery of navigating the cultural differences on Essos. One ADWD is plenty.
Glad to hear it!

One key advantage of the Moderna one versus the similar Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is that it doesn't require deep freeze storage, only regular freezing temperatures. (-90º C for Pfizer/BioNTech vs -20º C for Moderna)
Came here to ask the same. Quick search just brought up this news.
I often hear 'aim for elimination of global dependencies', but the reality is that there is no way around global dependencies. AWS STS or IAM is just as global as google's. The difference is that google more often builds with some form of guaranteed read-after-write consistency, while AWS is more often 'fail open'. For example, if you remove a permission from a user in GCP, you are guaranteed consistency within 7 minutes [1], while with AWS IAM, your permissions may be arbitrarily stale. This means that when the GCP IAM database leader fails, all operations will globally fail after 7 minutes, while with AWS IAM, everything continues to work when the leader fails, but as an AWS customer, you can never be sure that some policy change has actually become effective.

In general, AWS more often shifts the harder parts of global distributed systems onto their customers, rather than solving them for their customers, like GCP does. For example, GCP cloud storage (s3 equivalent) and datastore (nosql database) provide strongly consistent operations in multi-region configurations, while dynamodb and s3 have only eventually consistent replication across regions; and google's VPCs, message queues, console VM listings, and loadbalancers are global, while AWS's are regional.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/faq#access_revoke
Hmm super expensive hard to transport Pfizer vaccine ... first to be approved.

Next Moderna ... also super expensive second to be approved.

After six months to a year ... and after making huge profits....

Then the AstraZeneca/Russian vaccine variants will be “found” to be also effective.

We must first wait and let Pfizer make a few billion !!!
Respectfully, I think you're basing this assessment on what it was like when you or I went to college and haven't kept up with recent trends. If you apply to most R1 faculties today, you'll be required to write what's known as a "diversity statement", a detailed explanation of what you've done for underrepresented identity groups and how you intend to help them in the future. And the UC headcount stats (https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/uc-employe...) show 11,559 tenure-track faculty vs. about 16,500 "managers and senior professionals" - I don't quite agree with the tone of the original claim, but I think it's fair to say that means there's more bureaucrats than researchers.
> It is your job to hire the best candidate, hire the most qualified, not the best at selling himself.

What’s the practical difference? There isn’t an objective measure of competence in software. An interviewer has to make a decision on potential performance from very little information. Strong communications skills are a huge benefit to a candidate, which includes selling ones self. It is up to the interviewer to direct the conversation and determine if the candidate’s commentary is bullshit.

DK isn’t confidence, but more specifically is confidence contrary to performance.
> And that would be moving at 6-7km/s relative to the ground, so you can see how expensive it would be to put any kind of useful personal constellation into orbit still

No, I can't see that... because I'm not a satellite communications expert. My training is evolutionary biology and international business.

I don't know how many satellites it would take to provide private communications across the United States, or the globe, or any section of area. It sounds like you might though.

Let's say one wanted to create their own personal satellite communications for telephone and data transmission. How many would you need?
The ability to be able to pursue a lifelong dream may become impossible and I wouldn't hold it against a person ending their life. Unbearable pain could be psychological pain from no longer being able to pursue a lifelong dream. I'm actually surprised I was downvoted for this opinion on here with only your response. Of course not everyone should end their life because there is a lot in life that one can do but I still wouldn't hold it against someone that did.
Yes. People unfamiliar with pinyin often mispronounce names, particularly those with an X or Q starting letter.

Ironically, my wife's name is easy for English speakers to pronounce, but unfortunately it is not spelled like how it's pronounced.
No, I meant if you think helpers are anti-pattern that results into a spaghetti code, then you must also think that standard libraries are an anti-pattern mess. I don't think there's a standard library that doesn't have helpers, unless we don't agree on what a helper is?
Part I of this series spends a few paragraphs on "Why is this criticism necessary". The general argument is:

1) Depictions in popular media, even if people know they are unrealistic, become anchors for how we imagine certain cultures. Knowing the depiction is unrealistic does not help against this.

2) a song of ice and fire / Game of Thrones are often praised for their realism. This makes the wholly unrealistic depictions here worse. Not only might this cause subconscious anchoring. It could also lead people to consciously conclude "this might be how it was".
If not, this presumption of realism might lead to less critical reading.
Yes. As far as we know gravitational influences are locally limited by the speed of light.
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What would be interesting, and perhaps informative, if is we could share our some of our favorite k programs and then people could try to write faster implementations in C.

I like benchmarks that I can easily run on any computer myself.

For me, a major part of k's appeal is the (original) author's appreciation for small interpeter size and language terseness. Generally, I think k will always beat C, and probably any scripting language you can think of, in that department.

The issue of verbosity is so polarising amongst the vocal programmers who comment online that even if k were faster than whatever language (and free, open source, etc.), I would bet many of them still would reject the idea of using it.
There are people I am personally acquainted with who have been PCR positive for COVID, who are now also receiving the vaccine.
Thanks for the explanation!

How can we know anything about quantum entanglement when measuring the entangled particles, or any effects they have, cause the whole thing to collapse?
Maybe you mean First Law of Robotics? (is joke, in case not obvious)
I wish I lived in a country were we could point to one clear, small gap.
This change Apple is making doesn't get in the way of online advertising. All it does is let people opt out of tracking while using apps on their phone. This change doesn't affect tracking while web surfing or web advertising in any way.

If you want Facebook knowing when you sleep, when and where you take the kids to the pool—Awesome. I don't, a lot of people don't. Having the option up front to choose if you are tracked in clear shouldn't bother anyone.

That is exactly what this does. Nothing more, nothing less.
George R.R. Martin made a historical claim about what the Dothraki supposed to be an amalgams of any nomadic societies.

You could also say it's a failure of writing.

You and I can probably do better by coming up with cliched paint by the number descriptions of human tribes and it would be more dimensional than the Dothraki as described and portrayed.
The article clearly motivates the criticism, and explains why it's valid to critique the books from a historical perspective.

* GRRM has made claims regarding the relation of the Dothraki to real-life cultures. It's in the second sentence:

> George R.R. Martin’s claim that the Dothraki are “an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures”

* In interviews and writing outside of the books GRRM has made a number of claims about the reality of life in medieval Europe. He in particular made claims about the prevalence and nature of sexual violence (as a defence for the content of his books) which were roundly rebuked by historians. In the article:

> he has stated this outright as a defense of his work that this is how it ‘really was’

* Finally Game of Thrones is probably the most important and influential piece of modern media depicting something like medieval Europe. Though it is fiction, it undeniably has a massive impact on people's perception of the time period, and for a lot of people their perception of "what the middle ages were like" will be shaped in part by Game of Thrones. So it's worth criticising for that reason.

As an aside, I find it weird when people object to the very idea of critiquing these components of a piece of media. When this blog had posts about the armour in game of thrones I found it informative and tonnes of fun: I got to learn a little about battle tactics, got to see where the show's designers took their inspiration, and got to notice funny things like how Jamie Lannister is clearly wearing a biker jacket with some paint on it for much of the 5th season. One of the best things about the show (and books) is meant to be how they're grounded and seem "real", despite the dragons and whatnot. Pointing out bits that don't make sense is good, especially when those bits can actually perpetrate harmful misconceptions more generally.