skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haskell as a language is effectively an experiment to see how much unsafe stuff can be done in a compartmentalized and "safe" manner (see SPJ's "Haskell is useless"), so Linear Types are another road to go down to achieve that goal.
More and more I've been switching my purchases back to brick and mortar. Amazon isn't cheapest, highest quality or the widest selection.

Amazon prime makes it the most convenient but if you stop for a minute and break the cycle you'll find better prices at a higher quality else where.
Add cars and motorcycles to this list.
Leaving SF? Bring the Best of SV Values with You, Not Just SV Dollars
Yeah, UK - updated my OP!

I've spent a little time in the US in the past with work, mainly in Texas, and the hours everyone worked were crazy - 60h weeks with unpaid overtime seemed to be the norm.

US is a big place though, and with my limited knowledge I'd expect places like CA to be more progressive, sensible even.
This kind of war is largely irrelevant for first world countries. Financial engineering is more relevant. If you prefer brute force, there are weapons that makes military that involves human largely obsolete. What you describe was relevant for WWII . The army and so on are only used in later phases when most of the defenses of the opponent are neutralized.
The problem I see with your recommendations are that they're highly COVID specific. In hindsight so much of this seems obvious - masks, effective targetted lockdowns, restrict travel, stockpiling medical equipment, etc. These are commonsense observations clear to observers in January 2020 - but they come with very considerable costs. The effectiveness of each of these measures is also nebulous, and how much we weigh them has also changed. How effective any of these measures will be against the next pandemic is also unclear. Next time it may not be a respiratory illness.
The sort of stuff that feels silly to delegate but 10min here, 10min there adds up fast.

Big ongoing thing is that she helps with my inbox, deals with ordering stuff online, random annoying tasks like booking travel, some customer support, stuff like that. Oh also makes calls for me when I don’t wanna deal with it like booking appointments and such.

Kinda wishing I could afford someone in the same city so they could help with physical tasks but maybe later.
I have a walk in closet I used to store work equipment in. I turned all that back in last week so it's getting turned into my flight sim room next week.
But again you can still have a 3 day weekend by simply shortening the work week. It also has the added bonus that your ratio of days off to days on is 3:4 instead of 3:5.

Meaning you get more days off by shortening the work week than you do by making all of society adapt to adding an extra day to the week.
And IMHO we are extremely close. There is lots of evidence that AI can be much _better_ than a human driver, although currently on things like well mapped highway driving with clear conditions. Whats going on now is just making that general purpose for all different types of enviornments.
For the side effects of:

* Injection site pain
* Fatigue
* Headache
* Muscle pain
* Chills
* Joint pain
* Fever

The effects are too mild and short term to pose an interesting research question, I would think.

For the more sever side effect of swollen lymph nodes, it has not been investigated, though that might provide enough immune system insight to be an interesting question to pursue.

The only other adverse event, Bell's Palsy, is currently indistinguishable from the background rate of occurrence, so I would doubt that anybody is investigating that.

There's a big methodological problem too: you can either get an extreme reaction to COVID-19, or you can have side effects from the vaccine, but a person going through one would poison the results of the other. So to come up with some sort of experiment, you'd need some sort or prognostic based on biomarkers that was strong and convincing enough to think it was related to what you're predicting, which we definitely don't have yet. Then you'd need to cross tab between effects. Potentially possible, but it relies on a pretty big discovery that would have better uses!
There's plenty of "wrong" to go around. Nick Kristoff at the NYT predicted we might have more than 1m deaths by the end of the summer. In the US. But he's not shutting up.

And gosh, Neil Ferguson, the famous epidemiologist in England keeps coming up with predictions based on the thinnest amount of data. Yet he's not shutting up.

I think everyone who is devoting any time to shutting down or shutting up someone else would be better served spending the time generating better data. Censorship is a terrible impulse.
For some reason, my mind went to the Charlie Sheen movie 'The Arrival', which as a 15 year old, I actually liked - but for 10 seconds, your comment confused me :-)
I'm much in the same boat. The fact that 32 gigs of memory isn't even an option is a non-starter.
I think people value working to the same work day schedule as everyone else so your time off is aligned. That is how Friday night drinks and Sunday brunch works with friends.
The author of this article presented documented evidence of Dr. Levitt's incorrect and speculative statements which he has not bothered to clarify. I am persuaded by the article because it presents the evidence clearly and backs it up with citations of that evidence.
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She's loose with facts, herself: consider the four links provided at the end of the sentence "I was personally distressed to watch you tell the governor of Florida, where my high-risk family members live, that COVID-19 does not present a significant threat in terms of overwhelming hospitals. This is verifiably false." That's a pretty big, specific claim. What is the evidence she is providing?

Every word in "this is verifiably false" links to a different article, only one of which provides even weak evidence that one might characterize as supporting the claim:

* Link one is to an article about San Francisco from December 10, claiming that hospitals there will run out of beds in 17 days. Florida is not mentioned (incidentally, hospital capacity in SF has increased slightly since the article was written [1]).

* Link two is to a an article about Miami-Dade from December 4, where they quote CEOs from two hospital chains, who say that they have enough beds to handle the current caseload, but "may" not have enough staff.

* Link three is about cases nationwide. It does not mention Florida.

* Link four is about a White House report from November. The article explicitly says: "The November 29 document showed a minimal change in total hospitalization from the week prior". The "evidence" here is that the document predicts a "post-Thanksgiving surge".

To my knowledge, no hospital system in Florida has been "overwhelmed" by any conventional definition of the word [2]. Florida hospitals currently appear to be well below the peak seen in July [3]. The predicted "post-thanksgiving surge" does not appear to have materialized [4].

Reasonable people can certainly disagree and debate the current level of strain on hospitals in the US, and the appropriate trade-offs in our response to these strains. However, it's not fair or intellectually honest to attack another person for weaknesses in past speculation when you are yourself engaging in speculative, possibly misleading forms of arguments.

[1] https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/Hospital-Capacity/qtdt-yqr2...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html

[3] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/coronavirus/os-ne-coronaviru...

[4] https://covid-19.direct/state/FL
I like the Circle-Ellipse Problem [0] as an example of something CLOS / multimethods are good at that C++ isn't. In general, Expression Problem-like [1, 2] problems are much much nicer to solve in CL.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle%E2%80%93ellipse_problem
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
[2]: https://wiki.c2.com/?ExpressionProblem
If you’ve been following them since the first video, now that the time horizon is long enough, you can start to appreciate the value of iterative incremental improvements compounded through time.
I was persuaded by the evidence cited by Harris in her editorial. I am categorically interested in Levitt's reasoning. Based on this article, his beliefs are miscallibrated, and that seems odd to me.

A broader question is what should happen when a scientist voices a non scientific opinion? A famous scientist is more likely to get my attention than some ordinary scientist or some pundit. Maybe I am a sophisticated consumer, or may be not. Should I believe this person just because he or she is a scientist? Should the scientist issue a disclaimer - "this is my non scientific opinion"? I think a point Harris is making is that if one is going to opine while wearing the mantle of scientific authority - Nobel, Stanford prof - your arguments should be robust. Harris met that standard for me.
This is the #1 reason I have not entertained the 4-day week idea myself. While I'm confident my productivity per day worked would be at least as good and my post-tax finances would be fine, I don't trust my colleagues or customers to respect the boundary.
I haven't looked into this yet but is the added note you are talking about like the added note of the Major bebop scale between Sol & La? Or is it the sharp Fa of the Lydian sound?
>> You're going to have more fun with $100 at 25 years old than $100 at 65 years old

You're going to have more fun spending nothing at 25 years old than spending nothing at 65 years old too.

Most people don't quit working because they have enough to retire, they quit working because they are forced to because of medical issues or because they get fired and can't find another job. The point of acquiring wealth is to retire on your own terms.

I like my job, I like to code. I'll probably go back to work on Monday. If something else comes up, I might not. If they walk me out the door, I might look for another job. I will spend the same amount of money next year either way.

>> Going out for a nice meal with friends is an experience

Could be a $5 per person meal, or a $50 per person meal, or a $500 per person meal. Unless you're a foodie it is going to be the friends that make the experience, not the food.

For most things that aren't your particular "thing", premium mediocre is plenty good enough.
In other words, it's 100% BS; in Sheldrake's case, wholly contradicted by his own examples.
I read it as "suicide-inducing isolation is not necessarily preferable to risking COVID spread".
I know nothing about the topic but is it possible these subsidies exist for national security? I've heard the argument for subsidies before being that if we outsource too much food production, we're suddenly at the mercy of foreign countries to survive. And the only way to ensure continued domestic production when it's not price competitive to foreign countries is to subsidize
> each is in its own OS thread and GVL releases when the thread blocks.

The GVL isn't automatically released when a thread blocks on IO. Each bit of native code performing IO has to explicitly release it like in the pg gem here: https://github.com/ged/ruby-pg/blob/fb465855ce1dd12cf7eb69c9...

If you don't need high concurrency then using threads is simpler.
Because it is your ethical duty to trade your privacy for puff pieces. The paper of record concurs.
If they had just given the replicants a visa and a software update there wouldn't have been any fuss. Of course, then we wouldn't have had that great final monolog. :)
It isn’t cherry-picking, it is a standard that existed long before covid. The Nordic countries have always compared themselves to each other and have been lumped into a group externally. They share many similar characteristics and few differences — the immigration straw you are grasping at is indeed weak sauce and not significant-enough to account for the scope and magnitude of Sweden’s covid failures.
I believe the cure and disease they're referring to are lockdowns and covid, respectively.
A 21st-century struggle session. “Agree with the consensus or else.”
People care about seasons and regularity a great deal. I know that it’s warm in the summer, so I’ll book a beach holiday then. Moving my vacation plans by a few weeks every few years to ensure they’re still in good weather would be a nightmare. Not least because people would probably want school holidays to match that time period.

The calendar feels very illogical and made up compared to most measurement systems but there’s a reason why they are what they are! A much more realistic proposal would be to just give people every other Friday off. Or work one Friday a month, something like that.
Really? Tell me how scientists have been held responsible for reinterpretations. It's easy to find many examples of scientists who can't be blamed for how their discoveries are used. For instance, Watson and Crick would never have reported DNA because they knew it would be used by supremicists and other racists to justify their thoughts.
This reminded me of shopping for an SSD. I found Western Digital and Sandisk versions of the same drive). All the stats were the same, and they were most likely the same hardware with a different label (WD owns Sandisk). One had a higher review. What's interesting is different people will purchase each, so you're actually getting a different set of reviewers, so the ratings could be genuinely different.
It set off the flamewar detector. That's the "software that demotes overheated discussions" mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I've turned off the penalty now. We review all the posts that get it, because sometimes legit discussions get hit—but it can take us a while.

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581828 was particularly excessive because it adds noise to the story feed—and doing this doesn't work anyhow. I only knew about your question because another user decided to help you out and emailed us.
I had to use up a bunch of PTO and I took every wednesday off for several months. It was nice because wednesday is a great day to get anything that needs business hours done. Almost everywhere is open and not too busy like fridays usually are and mondays sometimes are. And it means the workweek is only two days (but there's twice as many of them)
What will it take to get universal healthcare in America?
I grew up under what most Americans call socialized medicine. It worked. It never didn't work. Moving back to America after many years (born in US), I never knew about for-profit medicine. Fast-forward to now and I cannot believe we are the only country in the developed world without it, especially now.
What would it take, realistically, to see this happen, and is it even possible with the people in office now (including incoming POTUS)? I think that the various medical lobbies are simply too strong, which is one reason why I would dearly love to see lobbying made illegal. Term limits would be nice, too. We need fresh blood often enough. I was very much hoping to see Bernie Sanders get the nomination, and I believe he was sabotaged because he represents the working man and woman and hated the corporate elitist system (I could be wrong). Am I naive here in wishing for this? Maybe a starting point could be no-cost healthcare for all children. As a parent, I cannot tell you how expensive children are, and their healthcare, too, and my children have some issues. I dread hospital visits. The bills come for donkey's years, even after a single visit. Something has to give.

Edited for grammar.
Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Penn Station Moynihan Train Hall
I feel strongly this page: https://defold.com/showcase/

should have screenshots not artwork. All the artwork tells me is that they employ someone who can draw. I don't care about that.
Foundry Revenue Expected to Reach New High in 2021 with Close to 6% YoY Growth
You also hear the reverse, that you should enjoy life while you can, because maybe one day you won't be able to anymore (that is, getting old).

What it boils down to is: do things (work & play) while you're young. Spinning in place is the only real waste of time.
I've bought the 16GB model, mainly for getting started with Swift/SwiftUI and the Apple ecosystem.

Things I've tried besides Swift/SwiftUI:
Go beta 1.6 - supports M1, seems to work fine.

Erlang/Elixir - couldn't get Erlang to run on a first try

Node, Angular - works fine

Deno - not supported on M1 yet

.NET Core api/blazor - works fine

Godot - doesn't work

Docker Desktop (beta) - seems to work ok (tried it with dgraph and postgres)

VSCode - insider build supported on M1, runs ok

Coming from Kubuntu 2004, I feel MacOS is ok but certainly not better than Kubuntu. That said, the hardware is fantastic - the thing stays cool and is absolutely quiet. I'm also loving the fact that there is commercial software available (Sketch, Affinity Designer, etc.) and that Mac users are still willing to buy desktop software.
There are plenty of strongly typed (and often both strong and static typed) languages that compile to JS or WebAssembly for web use (or portability anywhere JS/WASM run).

If you are going to break from JS semantics by using strong typing rather than JS’s mostly-very-weak typing, I don't see what the point is of making code deceptively look like JS.
"Oh By"[1]

I built this in 2016 and, in fact, it has made some money ... a handful of people have, indeed, purchased custom Oh By Codes. But very few.

I remain convinced that there is a collection of interesting, compelling use-cases for Oh By Codes but I, and others, have not come up with them yet ...

[1] https://0x.co
The two most commonly referenced uses are safe mutation and better resource management.

Safe mutation because when I have the only reference to a thing, the rest of the system shouldn't care whether I change it in place or make a new one.

Better resource management because you can be sure opened files are closed exactly once and that nothing tries to use a file after close, even where a bracket pattern doesn't fit (or fits much more loosely).

In both cases, you're not doing anything you couldn't do before, but it lets you do it safely. People speak of performance because (especially in Haskell) mutating without being confident nothing else can see is sufficiently full of footguns that the community happily (... and rightly, IMO) pays small performance penalties for security against them. This lets us remove those performance penalties in more cases.

There's some room for the compiler to notice that something is only referenced in one place and safely convert some things to mutation; again this doesn't strictly need linear types, but linear types may let us do that reasoning locally instead of it requiring whole program analysis.
I guess it's just well known for the HN audience, and has been discussed many times already.
Would love to see your solution!

PS - How are you liking Hasura?
Wow, very interesting. Although I'm on GH every day, I seldom look at the base GH page and so I would not have noticed this for a long time. Many thanks for posting this. The article is very interesting.
The conclusion of this article is "why not offering different cards design for different groups?" I don't understand; many banks allow you to pick the picture for your credit card, so you can show off whatever you want.
I know next to nothing about microcontrollers, so this might be a dumb question, but how do they do the initial flashing is they can't run a serial port? Are they hooked up to something external before going on the final PCB? Do they not need a precise clock to read the onboard program from whatever's storing it?
About 10-15 years ago, something a bit like this was happening in the mobile phone network market. My employer did a project for a big mobile operator to build a white-labellable web platform for selling phone service. The idea was that they could launch a fully operational new phone brand with the click of a button. They could use this to target different market segments (eg a low cost no frills service, without dropping the prices for their main brand), or to form branding partnerships (eg with luxury brands, football clubs, etc).

At least one of the brands is still running, but I'm not sure the co-branding thing ever went anywhere.
There is no difference to a state-influenced company like Airbus or Boeing.
Yeah it's anyone's choice, but it shouldn't be that way. They say they get the same amount of work done in 4 days as they used to in 5. The business gets the same work out of them by paying 20% less. It's not fair on anyone. I think we need to stand our ground and demand the same compensation if our output is the same. Otherwise while you may feel satisfied with a 20% pay cut for an extra day, you'd be even more satisfied if you could just take that extra day. That's what everyone deserves, compensation for their work, not hours on the clock.
It set off the flamewar detector. That's the "software that demotes overheated discussions" mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. I've turned off the penalty now. We review all the posts that get it, because sometimes legit discussions get hit—but it can take us a while.

Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? They ask you to email hn@ycombinator.com instead of posting like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25581608.

This one was particularly excessive because it adds noise to the story feed—and doing this doesn't work anyhow. I only knew about your question because another user decided to help you out and emailed us.
I’m aware; I chose this as a deliberately extreme example of why coffee expenses aren’t worth optimising.
> EDIT: It's one of these topics where you're not allowed to express the slightest, tiniest, doubt.

It's a bit disappointing, since neither of us are particularly advocating any resistance to vaccines. HN is one of the last larger forums to properly dissect topics, ask questions (even difficult ones), and try to understand root causes & effects, second-level effects and so forth.

Unfortunately lately it seems the twitter/reddit culture has taken a bit of a foothold - cheap, popularity-seeking comments void of any substance are spammed into anything remotely relating to politics or breaking news. And questions/comments like ours are vehemently downvoted. Let's hope the trend breaks down rather than grows.
Yeah, that's a pretty common problem. I'm sure they are actively working on making sending feedback easier :). In the meantime, your technique worked! The issue is now fixed!
I find it fascinating that people always object to others' speech not because they might be misled by it, but because they are concerned that others might. It's patronizing and arrogant.
I need to try OpenBSD again, I always got an issue where the screen would hang after X amount of time and couldn't figure it out.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070629190421/http://www.billio... there was a reward