skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggested 50% as more of an upper bound.

My current guess is I would be very surprised if these have very high efficacy, based on a number of studies on kind of similar vaccines I remember reading. I think the most likely outcome is that these have 0% efficacy, though I also wouldn't put less than 10% probability on them having between 20% and 50%.

But yeah, these are all just random guesses. Probably some biologists have better models here that could allow them to make better predictions, but there is no hard data.
Obviously these things are real, but I think you should be very careful before you decide, oh I'm being gaslighted, or so-and-so is a narcissist. It is very very easy to dismiss whatever you'd rather not deal with using this terminology. At least in my country (US), this is increasingly prevalent. (Not in work environments specifically, but that's only a matter of time.)

Again, the things they describe are real, and bad. That's why it's important to be judicious when using them. Then again, if you're just cynically using these for political purposes or otherwise to make people look bad, go nuts. That seems to work pretty well.
Better alternative: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

It's also free. Does not cover discrete math and assembly afaik.
> Julia is better imo

Can we please stop saying X language is "better" than Y? It really does not make any sense. Both languages were designed with very different goals in mind. Each of them is a good fit for their respective use cases, but saying Julia is "better" than Rust makes no sense.
Both are problematic and both are occurring right now.
> how does something like this work against DPI? i guess not great?

No, it's pretty good. Think about it: all DPIs can see is an ordinary https connection. Since the traffic itself is encrypted, to discriminate this from normal web browsing the DPI device can only depend on metadata. Classic moves are:

1. Packet length pattern for TLS-in-TLS.
2. TLS fingerprinting.

The first could be defeated by adding padding to the first few packets of each of your connections. [1]

The second.. someone built a socks5 <-> https CONNECT proxy client [2] out of Chrome's codebase, which means it shares all the fingerprint with Chrome and you really can't tell.

[1] https://github.com/klzgrad/forwardproxy/commit/2350f380f8db2...
[2] https://github.com/klzgrad/naiveproxy
> Yes it does. Why is this so hard for you to understand?

Because even though you might be able to make a case for "Asians" being fetishized (in the West), the argument of redheads being fetishized is bonkers. Unless you'd like to also make the argument for blondes[1] being fetishized, and heck, why not throw brunettes[1] in there too?

[1] https://www.bustle.com/articles/174831-why-are-people-attrac...
Hey, a PM of PyCharm here.

Justin case someone will find it useful and relevant. Our team is currently working on a brand new IDE (based on PyCharm) for data scientists.

A big part of what we're doing is convenient support for Jupyter notebooks within the IDE. This new IDE is currently under development but already provides the support for notebooks similar to how the native web Jupyter notebooks work – cells and outputs under each cell. The IDE's functionality will include SQL, Jupyter, Python, and R support.

If you'd like to try the early EAP builds of this new IDE with the new notebooks support, please fill out this short form: https://pages.jetbrains.com/pycharm-data-science-insiders

Once you’ve confirmed your participation, you’ll get a detailed email with instructions on how to download the early builds and details about how to share your feedback.

Will be also happy to answer questions if any.
I don’t see any racist replies here, I see people voicing their concern. Is questioning the usefulness or intent of something now racist?
Another non-answer that avoids the question.

> Defend it, or don't, but stop trying to pivot the conversation while pretending that changing the subject is a valid answer answer to the thing that was asked.
Nobody is addressing the elephant in the room, which is the reason why there are only two viable browsers in the first place - because the endless and ever-growing list of specifications and standards web browsers must comply with has grown to the point where it is apparently impossible to build a browser without the budget of a nation state. For example, https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.... has done some calculations, and has found that "the total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing." Good luck implementing that, if you're not Google!

A lot of things could be done to simplify the amount of labor it takes to build a web browser. If you look at the architecture of the web, there is no reason for things to be this complicated - the web doesn't need a complicated high-level language runtime when it could have bytecode a la WASM, for example. But that's exactly the problem, because the reason why things have become so complicated is not because that's just how complicated the problem space is that a web browser attempts to solve, but because the people in charge of the web actually have a vested interest in things being as complicated as possible. When you already have the budget of a nation state, there is not only no benefit to your job requiring less labor to perform, it actually harms you because now competitors need that many fewer resources to compete with you. That's the real problem - they don't want it to be simple and easy, they want it to be complicated and hard, and the present problem of lack of browser diversity is just a consequence of that.

This is the real reason why things have gotten this bad in the browser space, and it's never going to get any better without first addressing this fact and then by breaking basically the entire web by decimating the volume of standards documents web browsers have to follow. There is no other option. Nobody is going to sift through 114 million words of specification documents to build another web browser for the web that exists today.

The web can't be saved. Its replacement will have to start from scratch.
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>walling off much of the initial growth of the share price

Almost as if by design
Yup, and we are going down it right now.
Says in the writeup that the transplant is done "through colonoscopy" so it is "inserted in the other end", right?

I have heard of fecal transplants being effective administered orally via capsule. Though that might be a bitter pill to swallow, I might prefer it to the other route...
There's also a recent video game named Spyder

https://www.spyderthegame.com/
False.

(I am a Mozilla employee)

This is what I know about what happened there:

There were two enterprise IT teams with similar duties but different purviews. When management was deciding on layoffs, they decided to unify those two teams. Unfortunately that meant that there were redundancies.

My heart goes out to those who lost their jobs, and they have every right to be upset.

But the inferences being made as a result of the resulting tweets just weren't true: this notion that all security teams were wiped out is false. And there are now others assigned to threat management.

Furthermore, the security teams that work on Gecko and Firefox were left mostly if not entirely intact.

I work on security hardening for Gecko on Android, and I’m still here. So is our entire hardening/sandboxing team: https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616

TL;DR: Don’t base your understanding of an organization’s capabilities off of one tweet.
Thank you so much for your generous support and for the shout-out.
Much needed and appreciated. You rock!
No, it is the Scunthorpe problem. There's no rule the "banned" term has to be a substring, just the filter blocks it because in a different context it would violate the content policy.

>The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of websites, e-mails, forum posts or search results by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.

They go on to give examples such as a profanity filter blocking the word "bone" at a paleontology conference and a user banned for saying "great tits" when referring to the bird.
Whoever owns the adult content feature should dogfood it, as should some folks adjacent teams.
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Yeah, taxation isn't extortion and tyranny isn't representative government tho but otherwise agreed!

I would argue the conversion is the one you're utilizing, from "taxation" to "extortion."

Extortion is a specifically defined crime, and of course, it is the role of the government to define criminal behavior. In the same way that getting arrested by the police isn't kidnapping, paying taxes isn't extortion.

The consent of the governed and all that.
I'd happily buy a RISC-V laptop, but I think it's too early, mobile phones and servers will come first. Also the artist rendering is ugly, I would expect an ultra-light laptop from a low power architecture.

I want to see how it competes with Apple's M1 processor in speed (especially that the web page writes that it's a fast laptop) and power utilization.
Then it's on Apple for not validating and doing checks on the output of their ML models. Apple isn't some scrappy 5 person startup.
My bad! Quickly glanced - you are correct.
If the "machine learning feature" is acting as if it's a simple word-based filter, it's a simple word-based filter.
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You can complete Factorio without any of the bits that feel like programming, and it's not that hard.

I have 50 hours in Factorio and 12 hours in DSP, and so far, I like DSP more simply because of the multi-planet/multi-factory thing, and the fact that I can stack my belts. I also prefer the brighter, more colorful, less gritty aesthetic.
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Here's the original article, in three parts:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-01/page/n15/m...

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-02/page/n33/m...

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-03/page/n47/m...
Thanks, Stannis.
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Sorry but I don't trust this product anymore than Disqus when it comes to privacy etc unless it's open source.
I'd say the laws themselves are neutral, but situations vary. Also, 50/50 is just the default split; nothing prevents a couple from agreeing on a different split in a prenuptial agreement, which would then carry the force of law.
Yep, I once saw a souped-up Mustang trounce a Tesla at the drag strip. Granted, very little about the Mustang was stock, but it got me thinking at the time.
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Terrorism -> Antifacism
Slightly slower page loads (5% times all day remember)

Less usable ctrl+tab behaviour for managing lots of tabs

20 second pause to start if not already running on many of my locked down systems over the years, seems to have been fixed in last year or so but perennial problem that was infuriating in the same way nag-ware delays are

F** with the extensions

Ongoing 'minor' user-unfriendly decisions to the actual users of the products to the point where it seems motivated to provide a not-quite-ideal result. In basketball there's a saying, watch the waist not the ball, which translates as watch what they are doing not what they are saying, and by doing this I've begun to realise the regular nature of these snafus is probably intentional (at a high level) and I theorise it's to keep Google's money flowing in by not being a serious competitor to average users who want the best usability.

etc etc
This is what is generally called a straw man logical fallacy. The issue is that something as simple as copying and pasting code (say from one file to another, both of which the programmer has written) is made excessively complex due to whitespace being significant. Call it code smell or developer smell or keyboard smell or whatever you want but this issue simply does not exist for programming languages that do not have whitespace significance.
Being biased towards quitting your job is a great heuristic. Even if the boss is o.k., if you have any non-trivial reservations at all it's generally best to quit as quickly as possible. Probably the same for breakups. Very few people regret doing that, the most common regret is staying too long due to inertia, loyalty or whatever. I've quit 3 jobs and each time I wished that I had quit earlier, and all 3 times have been great for my career in the long-run.

If you were a good performer, you can probably just go back to same the job later if you change your mind as well, and if they don't want you back because they're being immature, then it's probably to your benefit not to return.
The issue you describe is Elite Projection. Musk has it bad. Eg. He has a problem with traffic congestion when he drives his car, and he thinks solving that problem for him will address real, broad transportation problems. It won't.

https://humantransit.org/2017/07/the-dangers-of-elite-projec...
Apple is well-known as the whitest tech company in leadership roles, it’s entirely possible they did but never noticed.
Sounds like you were escaping an abusive spouse. How about the traditional "fuck you, I quit", and not changing your sim or turning your life on its head for some jerk?
> any search tangentially related to “Asian” (i.e., Asian-American, Asian food, Southeast Asian, Asian restaurants near me, etc) will return a message reading “You cannot browse this page at ‘google.com’ because it is restricted,” or, “The URL was blocked by a content filter.”

> Other racial or ethnic search terms such as “Black,” “white,” “Korean,” “Arab” or “French” don’t seem to be impacted by the filter.

How is this not racism against Asians? It's pathetic that a trillion dollar company's racist content filter would even pass through quality checks in the first place.
I like to do a bit of a mix: write the library functions in Pycharm, then import and call them in Jupyter Lab. I used to try to do implementation too in Jupyter Lab but that got messy very quickly.
> finite resources give me anxiety tho. even wrote a mod for factorio about it.

When you start your game in DSP, there's an option to make resource nodes unlimited.
They couldn't have bought in bulk "The only unusual hiccup was an email about customs restrictions on COVID-related peptides. Apparently the company was not allowed to send us 9 mg in one vial, but could send us two vials of 4.5 mg each for each peptide."

The big problems with COVID vaccines is making sure they are safe and effective, and logistics. The author doesn't do any of these. There is a scale difference of 7 orders of magnitude compared to what we need. And he is taking risks that would be unreasonable for a commercial vaccine and efficiency is "let's see if it does something".

It is an experiment and it has scientific value, maybe some of the mainstream vaccine candidates started out like this. But it cannot be compared to current widespread vaccination efforts.

As for the money, it is a common fallacy to think that throwing money at a problem will solve it. Same as an often seen argument "it will take $X billion to end world hunger". World hunger is solved with food, not money, people don't eat money. On a small scale, you just have to go to the grocery store and spend money to feed a starving person. On a large scale there simply not enough food available unless we do some major changes regarding agriculture and distribution, throwing in money will just cause price inflation. Same thing with vaccines.
This is not a thing. There are no rigid rules for using less or fewer.
It would be a distinct advantage.

Ideally you would be able to understand the best way forward by trying out and using the framework or design system that has been mandated.

Ideally you should be able to provide solutions that do not require additional overhead for the development team implementing the UX.

If you have your own knowledge of how to construct UI from the framework or design system, you will not produce hard to implement UX.
I use the Anaconda-packaged version of Spyder on a daily basis. Great product, although I can never seem to get the IDE updates to consistently work within that environment.

Nevertheless it is my favorite IDE for Python.
I find Nix to work better on macOS than Homebrew, and it doesn't embed spyware in the package manager like Homebrew does.
Are you saying you wouldn't take the heroin version of a covid vax?
Quick question regarding frontend integration. I see that you can embed a widget that requires an API key and the currently authenticated user's email. Does this mean that if I'm a malicious user, and I edited my local Javascript to swap the email with another user's email, I could view the other user's notifications?
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Great article! Given we are all working from home now, some of the advice here is helpful even when just a regular dev, as opposed to DevRel.
> This cancel culture attitude of constantly calling out and classifying everything as some sort of infraction against a culture or a race has got to stop.

I agree. Unfortunately, sarcasm doesn't convey well in text.
You don’t think Chinese have technical forums online? Save your $500. They do. You’re right they won’t criticise government so openly, but they will criticise the US (which is what I was saying) and they do criticise their own government but it’s usually through innuendo and pun rather than direct criticism. Where do you think Winnie the Pooh memes came from?

This thread is about Huawei a Chinese company. Not the CCP... am I the one twisting words? Or does everything Chinese immediately get grouped up to CCP and hated on?

I know an informed opinion of China when I see people make a distinction between Xi, CCP, and Chinese companies... they are not the same thing at all.
Currently https://github.com/nilp0inter/experta but https://github.com/noxdafox/clipspy seems nice, I just shied away from using it due to uneasiness about FFI and debugging, even though the original CLIPS is still awesome and has a very interesting manual.

There's also https://github.com/jruizgit/rules but haven't tried it yet.
From my armchair, the microbiome aspect of this study seems like something that would vary significantly between mice and humans (when the bacterial environment over a few months in mouse-time is being extrapolated to many years in human-time).

Might be wishful thinking since I didn't eat very well as a teenager.
Even the Spartiates were essentially a citizen levy: afaik the difference vs say, the Athenians, is that the spartiates were a tiny permanent leisure class. In the Athenian phalanx you’d be in the line next to the potter, the sandal maker, the rhetor, etc., similar to the portion of the Spartan phalanx made up of the perioikoi. The Spartiates themselves though did no work at all, and despised those who did.

That doesn’t make them a standing army though, and they didn’t train or drill when they weren’t actively on campaign any more than other hoplites.
If there is no gatekeeper, there is no one for Pakistan to pressure. That is the problem with gatekeepers, it's a single point of failure.
The idea that Apple engineers, no matter how "white", never searched for Asian food in Cupertino, strains credibility to the breaking point.
It's not that interesting of an article but it reminds me that many fire maps and air quality maps also use purple now. I wonder if color as a symbol changes meaning in the same way words do over time.
I've written similar pieces about leaving jobs in the past. Since then I've stopped. For some reason publishing them was never fulfilling. I think a simple journal entry would have sufficed. I was just in need of clearing the air and forgiving people. In hindsight, a public forum wasn't the best area for doing that.
If I can add a note on why I think these are so useful and how it pertains back to the subject article: they let you figure out whether you've used the tools in your power to try and work with said manager. If you use these tools and exhaust them, it tends to make it a lot easier to figure out for those borderline cases whether poor management is situational or intrinsic to the manager.

You can work with the former. With the latter, the most ROI positive option is usually to leave (as many have been chiming in throughout the thread)
Chrome doesn’t require login except for extensions paid through their payment infrastructure. But they recently killed this infrastructure, so as of this week it isn’t an requirement for any Chrome extension.

This also shows one of the dangers of building on Chrome (my company has two extensions, one of which we had to rush off of the Google payments platform), which is that you’re subject to their whims.
Google probably has 90+% of quotes memorized.
Great article! A lot of the content and advice is relevant to even regular devs, especially anyone who wants to present or communicate their work to others. Also the AV advice is good for anyone WFH.
This is assuming the content of the papers is standard MAD. We don’t know what was in them.
There are two ways to handle that. One is to use your external ID, if they are UUID or something random. That's security by obscurity.

The other (and better way) is to initialize the embed with an HMAC generated on your backend using the API Secret. You can do this with both email and external_id - https://developer.magicbell.io/docs/turn-on-hmac-authenticat....
> At which point said phone is no longer available for purchase in Pakistan.

This isn't really supported by how other similar devices are treated.

We aren't seeing all PCs having hardware level censorship functionality inserted into it, as the behest of governments.

The idea that a country would stop all phones from being purchased, if phones simply worked similarly to PCs, sounds about as unlikely as a country blocking the purchase of "unlocked" PCs, which we see is not currently happening.
I think the jerk might get more satisfaction being able to spam the victim's phone and torture them from beyond the grave, compared to being ghosted completely (which is a tactic that should be reserved for only the truly heinous).
Like seriously what would an ssh client running on the keyboard even achieve? Maybe they’re thinking of encrypting it. But keyloggers running at the OS level don’t care. Or is this to force people to only use their keyboards? Or maybe it’ll just add a billion to their SPAC buyout.
> The Mustang is a middle-of-the-pack sports car

It's not middle of the pack for a sports car. Middle of the pack for any EV. It's competitive speed wise with only the slowest base Teslas. It's slower than the mid-range Cybertruck will be.

I guess they can brag about being faster than the Nissan Leaf!