skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminded me of an interview [1] with Matt Weiner, the creator of Mad Men:

> "A lot of the most important things in my life have happened to me over the phone," he said, remember that before texting and voicemails, "It's a dramatic situation almost every time when you answer the phone ­— if you answer the phone."

[1] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mad-men-series-finale... (spoiler alert: interview is about the series finale)
Rejecting the notion that the British were uniquely evil is not the same as supporting any particular hypothesis.
I think there's a misunderstanding? The comment 'Soviets put their dissidents into mental hospitals' was a reply to a comment by me. I provided an example (with which I, naturally enough, disagree) of a criticism of my original comment that would be, at least, somewhat fair.
No, not yet. But Servo can be used headless:

https://github.com/paulrouget/servo-embedding-example
The hardware of Samsung high-end phones are amazing and the software also, but Samsung is quite not the choice for privacy minded people.
Some do! Some don't.

There is one English psychedelic outfit I like called "Ozric Tentacles". Every album is pretty much identical. And it turns out that I really like that album, so I have bought it ten times over the years, plus a couple of live albums.

This happens in part because whenever the people behind Ozric Tentacles want to make something different from their trademark sound, they'll usually put it out under another name. If you go to their site right now the front page advertises recent albums from two different side projects with even sillier names than "Ozric Tentacles".

(The Ozrics are far from the only band to do this, they're just the first example that comes to mind.)

There are other bands I like where every album is something different. King Crimson, for instance, is a different lineup for pretty much every album. Same bandleader, some people return to perform in multiple incarnations of the band, some are only there for one album and some tour dates. I love some of their albums and some are flat for me. I'd still grab another one if I heard that Fripp had declared that the current assemblage of musicians he was working with was an incarnation of King Crimson, because the albums that work for me work really well. If it's a dud I just consider it a down payment on the next hit.
> This is the gist of it and is really hard to tell, even though some people claim it’s easy.

It seems to me that people are nearly universally assuming that this is easy, and that obviously their side is always absolutely correct, and questioning that is basically heretic. This is how we end up always blaming the evil other side, and with "you're either with us or against us".
I like seeing things that have deep criticism of crypto and not just cheerleader blog posts. There are few on HN, the only notable ones aside from this post is the Tether fiasco. Most commenters did not seem very familiar with either subject vs others on HN. Maybe it's my imagination?
Go is slower than Rust but three times as fast as you'll ever need it to be

Everything in Techempower that is in the top half of performance is likely to be fast enough that your own architectural issues will be gating your performance, not the language/framework
To me, this looks like a government sponsored trojan. It's extremely sophisticated and seems highly targeted.
Too bad we have that pesky brain in the way. Human perception isn't just a matter of signal processing theory.
It would negatively affect virtually every value system ever created. If human extinction isn't "bad", then nothing is "bad". Anyone that nihilistic clearly lacks any framework to assign value judgements to anything, and therefore has no business participating in any decision-making discussion (such as "should we travel to the stars").
This isn’t quite right. The UK has delayed second doses to 3 months after the first dose to enable more people to get their first dose quicker. The plan is all adults vaccinated by September, and they certainly aren’t delaying second doses until then.
Yes, the real irony - coal plants release more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants ever have - including Chernobyl.
> Our research shows that their main reasons for not choosing to study STEM topics include: being better or gaining better grades in humanities or other
essay based subjects; not finding STEM subjects as interesting; STEM subjects not being relevant to the career they plan to choose; teachers not making STEM subjects appealing; and the need to get the highest possible grade, as this influences both university entrance and future career options.

So even this slide deck points to a difference in interests and aptitudes as a key driving factor in women focusing less on STEM careers.
It’s time to free ourselves from ‘Big Tech’ monopoly
What if you need that set of read/write operations to happen in one database transaction?
Retirement Is Death
It’s not just retro computing, new hardware platforms bootstrap themselves by providing a c89 compiler. It’s just good form. Imo c99’s additional features are not worth losing nearly universal portability. It’s trivial to reimplement most of c99’s useful features with a small header if you must, as this library does.
I though these bits were interesting. There seems to be a paternalistic attitude among various experts, and I don't think it helps the situation.

> I have argued for months that we could save more American lives if those with prior Covid-19 infection forgo vaccines until all vulnerable seniors get their first dose. Several studies demonstrate that natural immunity should protect those who had Covid-19 until more vaccines are available. Half my friends in the medical community told me: Good idea. The other half said there isn’t enough data on natural immunity

> Some medical experts privately agreed with my prediction that there may be very little Covid-19 by April but suggested that I not to talk publicly about herd immunity because people might become complacent and fail to take precautions or might decline the vaccine.
Germans are turning down Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine
I wonder if social media would be more bearable without the invention/normalization of smartphones (iPhone style phones). Or vice-versa. It's the combination of the two I find most annoying about modern life.
New Model is severely underrated. His best, in my opinion.
Disney is putting a content warning before content they think might need a warning. There is no content in Mulan that they think needs a warning, so there is no need to put a content warning in. What you're doing is whataboutism, and imo it doesn't sound like any solution would make you happy.
What are the ethical obligations of software developers working on this project?
transparent -> opaque
Let's not forget the well documented Iraqi WMD debacle.

>it's back to the drawing board for the media firms and their owners.

Enter social media. All of your "friends" believe in precepts x, y and z. It is popular. Don't be skeptical. That's fringe. Do you need a fact check headline?

It isn't difficult to imagine how the WMD story would be sold today.
Bitrate is just samplerate * bit depth. For 44100 and 32 bit float you have 1411200 bit per second.
Hi, thanks:)

It does have the large poker games too. You can find generalized poker in the universal_poker game, which wraps the Annual Computer Poker Competition codebase:

https://github.com/deepmind/open_spiel/blob/master/open_spie...

Check out universal_poker_test.cc for example uses. It supports limit and common abstractions as well as the full game of no-limit. There is an example of FCPA which you can play at the keyboard in examples/
N. Macedonia’s Ex-Secret Police Chief vanishes before wiretapping verdict arrest
Thank you for your patience in explaining all this. Runtime tagging seems to make a lot of sense for this approach! Is this based on any previous work? It's been about ten years since I was last up to date with compile-time garbage collection techniques.

> What about compiling to low-level targets, like LLVM IR, which don't really have a 'runtime' and rather specify the manual layout of structs and references?

If you want to support dynamic memory allocation/deallocation, you will have to provide a runtime anyway. Even if it's "just" LLVM IR or C code or whatever for a simple allocator.

I think I'll have at least one more question about how the "tying of references to the stack" works, but I need to think things through a bit more.
Sure thing! Feel free to reach out (email in profile) if you get stuck or want input on something. Woodworking (and especially woodworking with tech inside) is one of my favorite hobbies and I'm glad to share what I know when I can :)
Could it be that there's a strain that results in largely asymptomatic cases and there is not enough data on those people? That could result in a decline now due to competition, or the slope of the line is historically wrong due to invisible statistics.

I know there has been some trouble identifying antibodies in people who were exposed months ago. So if you aren't really sick, you only get counted (maybe) if someone in your circle gets really sick.
depends, if all requests are parallel they should hit different instances and that would distribute load more efficiently instead of pinning to single instance. You would actually get response in 200ms not to mention that your ability to properly size each node is increased. It also enables you to have a grey area where response can be partial and not just fail/pass. As usual YMMW depending on use case.
Maybe people are tired of getting an anal probe just to open an account and move money/ complete financial transactions today?
Nobody will take that contract. Any mistake in the government specifying what they want you to build can be politically manipulated into a legal matter with some probability you'll end up in prison.
The basic HTTP methods work in the vast majority of cases. The key is to create the appropriate resources--facades that compose the data model and business logic as needed.
It's prefaced by Opinion, so I am assuming it's not really science-based :p
Or maybe they just lied about the numbers and the whole story is pure fabrication from the start.

I wouldn't believe any of those guys.
Im having fun browsing it but it is one of the slowest sites I’ve actually waited for to load.
Surprisingly enough, I found SOMA's approach is more profound than Altered Carbon's. SOMA really delves into what makes you you, and what happens when there two yous.
What Maturity Is and Does It Come with Age
Or, you know, try to create value day in and day out :)
Sure, if it were encoded at a variable rate. But then it wouldn’t be 320kbps CBR. Normally when I see people refer to 320kbps audio they literally mean constant bitrate. If it’s variable then for LAME mp3 people would specify V0 or V2. At least that’s the taxonomy that I absorbed when I was active on what.cd

Edit: you have edited your comment to remove mention of 320kbps so my comment is now moot :)
> I used to joke that in any meeting with more than 4 people, at any given time at least 1 person is day dreaming.

You don't even have to joke: you can put it in statistical context. If people day dream around 45 % of the time spent in meetings, and assuming that day dreaming time is distributed independently among meeting-goers, there's only a 0.55^5 = 5 % chance of nobody day dreaming at any given moment.

If you're willing to accept a lower p-value and go for an even money bet, people only need to day dream for 14 % of the meeting for you to win money in the long run.

Of course, in practise, day dreaming time is probably not independent: multiple people probably think of the same part of the meeting as dull.
You can quickly tell if someone is a strong cyclist by looking at how straight they go, both hands, one hand and no hands on the handlebars. All over the road? Usually weak. Can stay on a road line? Probably ok. Can stay on the inside edge of a road line? Look out.
Getting Started with DevOps
Cryptoxlib-aio – asynchronous Python client for various crypto exchanges
I agree, the last third of the book veered off into stuff I didn't find very interesting. The first two thirds or so I found immensely interesting though which is why I still recommend it to people but you aren't wrong.
That's a big "if" at the beginning of your sentence.
I don’t recall caller ID being ubiquitous in 99. Answering machines had good penetration though.
As a Linux and Windows user I feel like a slave whenever I use a Mac.

Apple just doesn't let you do what you want, the way you want to do it. Any limitations that Linux has are purely technical, while Apple clearly limits users for profit. If you happen to be able to accept the limitations, great for you - I'd still feel dirty supporting a company that's clearly working towards a future where you have to pay them to put your own programs on your own devices.

Windows I just use for entertainment now but even for that set of functionality - I couldn't stand having to deal with a finicky Mac. My Mac Pro 2012 (which I bought used) won't even work with certain mice, keyboards or displays.
That seems like a very narrow minded approach. I’d be concerned about applying to that sort of company just by hearing that they apply nonsensical filters like that. Can you give some examples, since you claim there are multiple?
Isn't there also a confounding factor that the vaccinations were largely introduced following the thanksgiving and christmas infection events. Even without a vaccine, I would have expected hospitalizations to fall approximately 1 to 1.5 months after the Christmas holiday.

Basically, we had many clusters of fresh unburnt tinder (the household covid pod) and the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday was a perfect event for many people to "just this one time" break quarantine protocol, leading to the many infections we saw. That's a 2-3 week increase in direct hospitalizations from those events, and then you have another 2-3 weeks of indirect hospitalizations impacting the remaining members of each covid pod. Anecdotally, I've personally witnessed this happen as I know fare more people that acquired immunity from becoming infected during the holidays than for most of last year.
Sure, but there's a point where the hypothesis just becomes unfalsifiable. Is there any evidence that would convince you lockdown policy isn't the primary factor here?
We may never know for sure, but I bet they avoided a whole bunch of problems by using Go instead of C. Probably wise to go lower only when needs must.
I felt this pain when looking for debt so I put together a curated list of non-dilutive capital providers [0].

Capital is abundant, but it's also pretty easy to dilute yourself into single digit ownership.

0 - https://www.trypaper.io/
Unless I missed something, it doesn’t explain how they entice people into installing the malware?
I remember that ‘Da Funk’ was played daily on MTV somewhere in 1995-1996. I was 10 years old and did not know the artist but loved the sound/beats and the strange video with the dog character walking in the city.

A few years later I (re)discovered their music and went to the Alive 2007 show in Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall.

During the show, they also played “Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You”, which was also produced by Thomas Bangalter.

The ‘Stardust mix’ has only been released on a limited edition (disc 2) of the Alive 2007 album:

https://www.discogs.com/Daft-Punk-Alive-2007/release/1141123

Edit: it seems it is on Spotify. Not so limited anymore. :-)
That's a pretty damning statement to make. Can you provide some citations to back that view up?
16 months is a long time, especially when people are in jail and they should not be there. However in my experience as software developer nothing is simple, but everything can be done.

First problem coming to my mind: do they have the budget to pay the software developers to add this new functionality to the software? Do they have to ask the money to someone else, maybe to the very politicians that changed the requirement?

Then when this is settled there are the usual problems of analysis and implementation. Probably also where to get that input that they didn't have before. It could be a large project. But 16 months, ouch.
> But that doesn’t scale beyond the first user. Every subsequent developer now needs to read implementations to understand what the code does thanks to a lack of standardization for these functions.

There is no standardization. It’s a hidden piece of logic that developers slowly and painfully understand.

If I you have to pass an equality function when removing an item from a list by value (or equivalently when creating a set or dictionary) it would always be explicit. That doesn’t mean it can’t be standardized. A framework can provide typical implementations (and often does!) such as “ReferenceEquals” or “StringComparison.Ordinal” etc.

Another unfortunate side effect of the “equality as a property of the type” is that you can only have one such equality. And if you are passed a Set of dogs you still can’t know for sure whether the equality used is actually the one declared in the Dog type of at Set creation (or possibly in the Animal base class). It’s a mess. And it’s so easy to avoid - the default virtual equality is simply not necessary.
>No, they don't. There is a lot of empty land in the world that isn't useful for people to live in or to grow crops due to lack of rainfall, which also makes those sites more valuable for solar energy.

Yes, I grew up near a lot of that land. Unfortunately that land is also far, far away from most of the population in the US and thus where energy is needed.

You do realize transmission loss is a thing, right? And then what do you do when the sun isn't shining? We still consume power at night.

If this was such a trivial problem we wouldn't still be talking about it, no?
> People are not better off without property rights.

Sure, but the problem at hand is they have more than property rights, they have rights to a neighbor's property, conversely my neighbors have rights to my property, and how's that fair under capitalism. Besides, there are other capitalist countries where zoning is not a local level affair and they don't seem to be marxist hell-holes as you imply.

> I guess you celebrate colonialism

I don't celebrate anything but people are born in increasing numbers, the whole economy and governments rely on this trend so I think it is only fair to the new generations if we at least return to the respect of the private property which is long gone.
> You do not move yourself closer to your goals when you do a puzzle with your toddler. Or when you pause to observe the beauty of a sunset. These aren’t productive activities.

I would argue that every non-targeted activity still has some end, however unconscious or hard to measure. If your goal is to be a good father, doing a puzzle with your toddler is one tiny piece of that goal, however mindless/mundane it may feel.

Sometimes I think that our brains are like rock tumblers, and that even something seemingly worthless like zoning out in front of a TV can serve a purpose to take a particular edge off one of the rocks we've got tumbling around. The trick is figuring out when we're done wearing that edge and should spur ourselves to do something else.
It's ok to take a walk with headphones.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/there-isnt-a-coronavirus-second...

ok here
Totally agree. There are two or three distinct shouts from someone in the audience at the beginning of Around the World / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger that are now part of my experience of listening to it. The audience is absolutely part of the energy of the album.
And just would pay this? You and I the taxpayers.... so no thanks to this solution.
The daily growth in Britain is -6% to -3% with current British lockdown measures which I believe are stronger than average worldwide. Certainly stronger than pre-Christmas 2020 British measures.

In England (Wales Scotland and Northern Ireland have similar but different rules because of devolution):
* All schools are closed bar vulnerable children and children of key workers.
* All non-essential retail, hospitality and leisure is closed.
* Everyone should stay at home except for allowed exceptions like work, medical appointments or local exercise.
* You can meet one person from another household for local exercise outside if you stay 2 metres apart.

Variant B1.1.7 surged in Kent (South East England) in December 2020 despite "UK Tier 4" lockdown. The transmission increasing by 70% from the initial variant overwhelmed the reduction from reduced social mingling given that rule set.
Is the scale of the engine for marine applications very different to aviation? Ferries usually have huge hulking diesels so I'm curious what the equivalent electric powertrain is like.

I'm also assuming that a scaled down version would be ideal for personal watercraft?
It's nice, but don't do it in the city or every begger, chugger, leafleter, sales person and tourist will expect a 5 minute conversation with you.
http://abx.digitalfeed.net
We all know that it takes more skill (and experience and domain knowledge), and more time up-front, to create software that is easier/cheaper to change later in response to changed requirements.

If you got the cheapest possible software up-front that (barely, technically) met the original requirements, you did it by hiring the least skilled people that could barely pull off exactly what would get the contract paid, and asking them to rush and hurry and pile up technical debt.

So.

In this case, the software perhaps shouldn't have even been considered fulfilling the contract in the first place, that's how crappy it was. The crappier the software, the more expensive changes to it are, we all know that.

> One department whistleblower said the number of problems with the ACIS system was unprecedented in their professional experience. “I have never in my life run across an application like this,” they said. “It’s just been one big cluster.”
Sounds like cherry picking to me. Doctors know if you have been vaccinated when making this decision. I.e. perhaps 90% of people with 1 dose who are admitted are serious enough to need intensive care vs a small percentage of non-vaccinated patients admitted more often as a precaution.

I guess everyone here thinks double blind trials are for fools?
Thank you for the feedback!

On total cost: We charge $99/mo. It's hard to give a total cost without knowing more about each person's specific allergy triggers and how well immunotherapy takes for them. Generally, we expect patients to be with us for up 5 years.

On how long treatment lasts: I spoke to this in the total cost section, but it's hard to make a blanket statement.

On our at-home allergy test: We use a CLIA-certified allergy test which is used by allergy doctors across the United States. Specifically, we test for allergen-specific immunoglobulin E (IgE). IgE antibodies are normally found in small amounts in the blood, but higher amounts can be a sign that the body overreacts to allergens. This can lead to an allergic reaction. We don't treat to the test, however. Every patient shares their personal allergy history with their doctor, and the doctor uses both the allergy test and reported allergy history to create the personalized allergy treatment plan.

On food allergies: Wyndly only treats environmental allergies like pollen, pet dander, and dust. We do not treat food allergies. There are a number of promising therapies currently undergoing clinical trials for food allergy oral immunotherapy, and we are optimistically awaiting the results.

UI issues: You're absolutely right, we need to establish trust, and a shoddy website does not help us. We're always trying to improve the UI and UX.

Cookie request: I'm not sure what this is. Can you share a screenshot? It is possible it is from our HIPAA-compliant scheduler which is embedded through an iframe.
Agree, stylistically it made a relatively straightforward thesis pretty chunky to digest.
Automatic dark mode for terminal applications