skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who controls the "central database"? What if the manager of the central database is colluding with the shipping company, or the producer?

What if the manager of the central database wants to block one of the producers to favor another one?

"What does the blockchain enable in this case?"

To get rid of the central database and all the potential sources of conflict?
If curious see also

2020 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340802

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353020

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13507367

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14347957
Estimated $27mill wow! Thx for the link.
> Have you ever considered how we could use the predicates in the filters to create Specialized generators that only generate inputs that will be accepted by the filter? You probably need some meta programming or reification of the predicates for that to work.

That's a really nice idea. It doesn't fit into the usual compositional design of the proptest libraries that I've used, but it certainly seems like it should be possible in principle.
It's all allowed because of Clinton-era bill that legalized data collection in the first place.

Can you imagine? Before that, databases of metadata couldn't be copyrighted without getting consent for the owners of said information.

Perhaps we should our digital ethics going back to basics - corporations shouldn't have a "right" to own data that doesn't belong to them.
Honestly several of these guys just want to promote 'break google up' every chance they get just because it makes them feel good - without understanding how bad the consequences would be.
RNA has a half life of 8 hours, so uh... no.

Edit: 10 hours... https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=104747
Most chatbots are useless because they can only answer so much based on an algorithm. I prefer to talk to humans BUT for my own business, I have setup a Chatbot that asks a couple of questions before redirecting to a human. I also make it clear that the chatbot is a bot but will forward to a human after asking a couple of questions.
I don't think anyone but the institutions realistically can or should be able to be charged. Fraud requires reliance on the information. No one on social media was selling a product, and there was a very clear intent amongst many that while it may have been intended to hurt hedge funds, it was all about taking the stand.

That's speech. WSB is not your or anyone's agent in the long run. Now I'd like to know who was funding the Silver thing. If that can be traced back to a hedge fund or financial institution who should all know better than to do something like that, then you may have got a case.

If it was just the media and a woeful lapse in journalistic integrity... Well... Back to speech again.
My Go is very rusty so I was spending some time refreshing my memory on the empty interface.

As I understand it, in the worst case that Go's generics are implemented with boxed types and a pretty wrapper around the empty interface, you end up with equivalent performance to today but with clearer code (within functions, function declarations becoming somewhat more complicated but not excessively so).

But in the best case, this information being given to the compiler will give you clearer code (same qualifications as previous paragraph) and better performance as run-time type verification is moved to compile-time.

I suppose if you never use the existing workaround (empty interfaces), then there's no benefit to you in having generics available. But if you do, it seems to me that you're going to get some benefit.
Perhaps mRNA are performing the synaptic weighting.

After gene expression, mRNA's are left floating as debris in the cytoplasm, until they are cleaned up and expelled. If the gene expression continues chronically, the same mRNA sequences will populate the same cells, transiently, for as long as the gene expression recurs. What if the mass of the mRNA sequences influences the electrical conductivity of the cell e.g. functions as a form of antenna. In the aggregate, cells with mRNA populations e.g. neutrons active in particular thought patterns, might have stronger antenna, or differentiated electrical characteristics, and hence influence thought more or less in the network, for the duration of the gene expression.
The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are the first mRNA vaccines to ever be mass produced, and they're needed for the biggest vaccination effort in human history.

It seems very credible to me that ramping up from (guessing) thousands of doses to billions will take a long time.

As I understand it, once the industry is set up, producing mRNA vaccines should be substantially faster than traditional techniques, since there is no biological step to wait for. They're "printed, not grown".
> Are there any parser considerations

Yes, in fact I can point to two different cases related to usage of angled brackets for generics:

1) Typescript claims to be a superset of JS, but it isn't, precisely because of this. `a<b,c>(d)` parses as a call to `a(d)` in TS, but parses to two comparisons in JS

2) D explicitly chose `!(foo)` syntax for templates over the `<foo>` syntax in order to avoid the parsing ambiguities problem
These are two entirely different concepts: `any` is a compile-time construct, `interface{}` is a run-time construct. At any specific callsite, `any` resolves into one specific type that gets passed at that specific callsite. Buy `interface{}` can hold values of different types at the same callsite.
South Korea is already manufacturing and exporting both Oxford and Sputnik V vaccines under licensing.
FWIW I don't find it snarky. Could you explain instead of just linking to the guidelines?
The FBI and Its Fictional “Black Identity Extremism” Movement
That makes sense but was not what I understood. I may have to re read the article
They also released this very important news on 28 Jan:

https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details...

I share your sentiments.
Pretty much the history of labor rights :-)

One of the interesting language aspects of this debate are the differences between people who call it the labor market and people who call it labor rights. I read a great book on the history of the labor movement in the US (sorry I've forgotten the title it was a long time ago) and there was a great discussion between the point of view that governments manage rights and companies manage markets.
The US generally uses a different system than a single registry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_(real_estate)

That doesn't necessarily mean that a blockchain would be preferable. If one thought the US system is actually better than a registry, then one might consider a blockchain is essentially a fancy central registry.
Thank you for articulating my snark, that's what I was referring to. Had it been called and treated as `any` then it would have made Go much easier and clearer to use.
Wait, what? Are you saying Melania actually wore the coat for that reason? Or are you saying the left's outrage is worse than the right?

My OP about Melania was sarcastic: she actually wore it to say she doesn't care about the bullshit articles the media runs with. I can't tell if you agree with me or not over text.
I agree. As humans, we're really good at finding the information we need, and when you have thousands of people every day searching "quit vim how" then PageRank takes care of the rest.

What's difficult sometimes is finding the right keywords for your problem. If you're really stumped, and copy/pasting the stack trace doesn't help, then figuring out what to search is a problem in itself.
Favorite Piano Player :). As a jazz aficionado I've tried to learn a lot of tricks from Bill. Genius.
> Is there anything that can be done that would satisfy all regulations?

We could go back to having advertisements be relevant to the content audience instead of the specific viewer and end stalkerware for good.

Crazy talk, I know...
SSDs never shrink the reported capacity in response to defective/worn-out blocks. Instead, they have spare area that is not accessible to the user. The SMART data reported by the drive includes an indicator of how much spare area has been used and how much remains. When the available spare area starts dropping rapidly, you're approaching the drive's end of life.
A big example would be Prop 8. After courts ruled there was a constitutional right for gay marriages, a slim majority voted to pass an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage. This was ruled unconstitutional by a federal court. It was really weird because at the time, gay marriage was not a constitutional right nationally, so the federal courts were essentially ruling "gay marriage doesn't need to be allowed in your state, but if it is, you can't take away the right".
A similar idea was discussed in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139798 "Brain Cells Share Information With Virus-Like Capsules".
It would be interesting to know how the science of that article panned out.
JavaScript Coding Style
I like Lower Decks. Yes, it's a bit stupid, but it's funny, and still has good stories and references.
> What you want is to have the CPU coordinate the SSD to copy chunks directly -and as is- to the NIC/app/etc.

Isn't that what DMA is supposed to be?

Also, there's work in getting GPUs to load data straight from NVME drives, bypassing both the CPU and system memory. So you could certainly do similar things with the PCIE bus.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/gpudirect-storage/

A big problem is that a lot of data isn't laid out in a way that's ready to be stuffed in memory. When you see a game spending a long time loading data, that's usually why. The CPU will do a bunch of processing to map on disk data structures to a more efficient memory representation.

If you can improve the on-disk representation to more closely match what's in memory, then CPUs are generally more than fast enough to copy bytes around. They are definitely faster than system RAM.
Using Newsblur on iOS and Flym on Android, a great open source and offline reader https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
I do very much hope they win, but I can't see their strategy working (by definition a constitutional change overrides legislative powers). But IANAL.

If they do win it may positively affect certain other unreasonable constraints that won referenda.
RSS: The Rise and Fall and Rise Again
>Then in the early 1990s it transpired there was a copy in Cuba, a fact confirmed by the Cinemateca de Cuba in Havana. Still, it took four meetings – the UCLA Film and Television Archive had to fly out to take part in negotiations – to arrange a temporary loan. As of 2015, the film sits in the US Library of Congress

So, they made a deal and Library of Congress broke it? Or is it still on loan or is it a copy?
> We had to hear all summer about how it was really Boogaloo Boys/White Nationalists/The CIA and not BLM rioting.

I’m sorry the reporting is so bad. Here in the US as a leftist I saw most of my friends posting “in defense of rioting”, “property isn’t people”, and quoting MLK on the lessons of riots. The right just thought they could stage a coup and also get away without any criticism for trying.
Honestly?

Close them.
You aren’t going to read them anyway.
An idea I had is to just embed a pixel into the item body. You can self host it too: just analyze the apache logs (or whatever you have) for requests to that pixel.
Are these execution engines internally using Arrow columnar format or are they just exposing Arrow as a client wire format? AFAIK Spark and Presto does not use Arrow as execution columnar format, but just data sources/sinks.
> We had to hear all summer about how it was ... not BLM rioting.

I think an important distinction here is that the riots had no political goal to them, and had almost no support from BLM figures themselves, and even less from national politicians. Indeed, if your goal is for the police to be defunded, then the last thing you would want to do is create a situation where people fear for their lives and their property and need the protection of the police.

Contrast that with the goals of the people storming the Capitol and you'll see that they had national politicians who also wanted to interrupt the joint session of Congress and prevent (some of) the electoral votes from being counted, to ultimately change the outcome of the election.
I've considered building something similar, but with more of a back and forth, so the contributors are writing a paragraph at a time - easier for them to create, and probably more engaging for readers. I always imagined it would be a private panel for 2-5 people, and then optionally comments from the masses at the bottom.

I only viewed on mobile, but it looked good. Best of luck!
A similar issue can be found in occupational licensure laws. Carve outs for everyone, and they keep coming. There is a serious effort underway to require a license for florists, interior designers, and hair braiders, and the exemptions and carve outs have gotten so bad that it’s hard to justify these licenses as beneficial to protect the public.
Can you do it on 3rd party apps or do you need raw access to the build files? I ask because we at MightySignal have an API to provide decrypted APK and IPA files that you could use to run Emerge on any app in the stores.
Why Digital Transformations Fail?
If you consider comments and posts from anyone on Twitter or Reddit who claims to support one side or the other, it would seem you have a point.

But if you look only at what the elected officials from the two sides say, it's clear that there is a world of difference. That's where the difference lies: one side doesn't tolerate anything like the level of extremism or violent rhetoric from the people they elect compared to the other.
Microsoft repository auto-installed on Raspbian / Raspberry Pi OS
Not to mention even with the original comparison, AirPods + the case are 1/5 the material of a good pair of cans. Hell, even just the thick cord of nice headphones is the same amount of material as one set of airpods. Don’t like that you toss them every other year? Abstain from a bottle or two of beer and boom you’ve come out ahead in waste generation.
Trying to assess actual policy disagreements by putting the polar extremes at 0 and 100 and having people pick a number in between for their actual policy preference without any concrete touchpoints for what those intermediary value means doesn't work. Your aren't comparing Republicans and Democrats policy positions, you are comparing Republicans and Democrats views of the relative extremism of their own policy positions and those of the other parties.

A valid summary is not that the actual differences in policy preferences are smaller than expected, but that members of each party see their own positions as less extreme and the other parties positions as more extreme than members of the other party do.

Which is very much not news, and doesn't actually indicate anyone is overestimating real policy divides as the authors claim. Their methodology could not, even remotely, support the basic claims they are making.
My Toyota hybrid has instant torque - just not a lot of it. It's only really noticeable in the "power" (I guess calling it "sport" would be too much) setting.
You're right, everything they do is illegal because it is an illegal monopoly that needs to be broken up.
You Don't Need an Alarm Clock
No. The reason Google is killing third party cookies in Chrome (I firmly believe) is because Google—and only Google—doesn't need cookies to track you. Google owns the browser.

If Google was killing third party cookies in Chrome while also removing other tracking features, regulators wouldn't have a leg to stand on. But back in the real world, they are absolutely correct to see through Google's BS.
Apache Arrow: A Cross-Language Development Platform for in Memory Data [video]
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We're trying to avoid the online callout/shaming culture here because it damages the container and destroys the sense of community. Internet forums all too easily turn into a war of all against all, or at least tribe against tribe. That's not compatible with curious conversation, which is the purpose of this site.

Fortunately you can make your substantive points without breaking the site guidelines. For example, if you had simply posted your last sentence here, that wouldn't have broken the site guidelines.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...
My experience was the same as yours, I tried every size room and location I could and they were all terrible.

The biggest sales pitch for the device is the smart eq that makes it sound good no matter where you put it. The only takeaway I have is that they delivered on this but the tuning target is insanely bass-boosted.
Usually, by the time I Google the same thing three or four times, I don't have to Google it a fifth. I use a knowledge base based on Johnny Decimal's system [0], but it's still usually faster to Google something than look it up unless I know exactly where it is.

[0](https://johnnydecimal.com/)
> never arrived. Finally, I emailed them and found out I needed to join their “community.”

> Then Alice starts asking questions. I was not prepared for questions

> Then Alice started asking questions about my research

Wow, that is kinda creepy. You're seeking to pay them money for a product they sell, and they want to ask all these intrusive questions about what you do? Is there a reason for this? I mean imagine if DigiKey did this, what a nightmare that would be for electronics design.

Are they worried about you using it as part of a lab producing bioweapons? But frankly anybody with a shot at pulling that off would already know enough to lie very convincingly. I can't imagine this interview would be a hurdle to those folks.

The only other place I've come across this behavior is when seeking to buy wafers from semiconductor foundries. In that situation the foundries see themselves not as vendors to the chip designers, but rather as investors in the chip designers -- investing not money but rather production capacity, and earning not dividends but rather wafer purchases.
The argument in the article for why the vaccine could not be produced is that there are new technical innovations that can't be done by other companies. I believe this to be a straw man argument.

Each new human innovation is based on a massive mountain of previous human innovation. Many, many companies are on the edge of this innovation and allowing them to use the innovations of other companies without fear of patents litigation would allow them to make that last step now.

Patents are one of the most insidious harms we have in our society today. Patent defenders claim that patents protect innovators. The truth is actually the exact opposite: patents are a monopoly legal tactic most often used so that the patent obtainer does not have to innovate further or execute. Patents kill all further innovation in the area they are in. A great example of this is that hundreds of companies used to manufacture aircraft. Boeing and Airbus bought up all the companies that own patents, and now it's nearly impossible to start a new aircraft manufacturing business due to Boeing's monopoly on the patents. Aircraft have changed very little ever since.

We need to eliminate the patent system and allow free trade to actually work.
>I suspect that no matter how abhorrent the view is, I can start an in-person discussion if there is scope for discussion¹. Go ahead, state them here. I will bring the arguments up in person.

I don't need to be convinced, I am sure you can come up with arguments for any topic. My point is more along the lines that what stops debates in real life isn't edginess, extreme views in and of themselves, or the lack of arguments. After all, many people enjoy the feeling of camaraderie that comes from sharing purportedly taboo topics with people they don't know all that well yet. It's just that what is actually abhorrent as measured by people's actual rejection of a discussion has more to do with calling into question the status or material wealth of their own class. For example, looking at a typical high-salary liberal in the tech sector, they generally hold a mix of standard pro-equity beliefs, some more discreet randian/ancap beliefs about separating themselves from what they see as lower classes and the meddling government, and a strong taboo surrounding an actual decrease in their social or effective capital.

Of course, this is all an intuitive reasoning based on anecdotal experience, so we might just be butting anecdotal realities at each other.
Issues start occurring when you, for example, delete dependencies because with pip freeze you cannot ensure that you have deleted their dependencies also. The most common solution to this (that poetry and pipenv use) is to provide a lockfile to track transitive dependencies and their versions, without that (except for manually curating your dependencies) you can't ensure that you get a reproducible environment.
Unfortunately there is a non-negligible percentage of those who would follow the parent comment's suggestion due to religious affiliation. Some of those would also clutch pearls when mentioning birth control, out of prolonged exposure to FUD on the topic, i.e. "think of the children!"
I just wasn't sure like how you use this, is it expected to be CLI or there will be an interface. I just skimmed the readme.
Another useless company and waste of money.
I have api key, but I obeyed the (low) limits when I used it. I heard a lot of recommendations for it, but was surprised with the free tier limit.
> Firstly, it wasn't produced in large quantities in February. They have to do trials against the mass produced article, not lab samples.

Yes, I’m not disputing this point. My claim is that even after we account for the difficulties of mass production, the FDA-controlled licensing process should have taken less time than it did.

> Efficacy trials require a much larger participant group, given the still low infection rates.

This is the major benefit of human-challenge trials [1]: if you intentionally infect healthy, well-informed, low-risk volunteers with low doses of a virus, the size of the requisite participant group falls dramatically. Note also that “Any volunteers in whom infection was confirmed would receive excellent care for COVID-19, including priority for any scarce life-saving resources, in state-of-the-art facilities.”

You can say that it’s unethical to run such trials. But it seems hard to make that argument if the volunteers are informed about the risks and if safeguards are in place (e.g., limiting the dose to which volunteers are exposed). Consider also the cost -- many thousands of lives -- of refusing to run such trials and thus delaying the licensing of a vaccine by months.

> The lessons of unethical medical science, like Tuskegee [...] must not be ignored. And yet that is precisely what your ref Eyal[1] is proposing

No, not at all. In the Tuskegee experiment, people infected with syphilis were promised medical care that they were later denied. When they were diagnosed with syphilis, they weren't even told of the diagnosis. (One of the purposes of the experiment was to study what happens when syphilis isn't treated.) These conditions are a world apart from what Eyal et al. are proposing in [1]. You don't need to take my word for it: the article is short and easy to read.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/221/11/1752/5814216
When you get to game networking Gaffer On Games is a must read. Efficient game networking layers are all about that UDP [2] and reliable UDP [3]. When web games were huge it would have been pure gold to have WebRTC with built in UDP, NAT/punchthrough etc.

[1] https://gafferongames.com/

[2] https://gafferongames.com/post/reliability_ordering_and_cong...

[3] https://gafferongames.com/post/reliable_ordered_messages/
If you document the design and process, somebody else can copy it.
Hollywood-quality videos from text in just a few clicks using AI
I guess the long-feared generational war is finally upon us.