skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Prop 65 warnings are pretty useless though, since they have very limited information that does not allow one to evaluate the risk incurred.

Case in point, my first internship in California was in a building with a sign that said "This building contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm." What's in the building? Who knows. Could be really bad chemicals, or just someone who has a beer on their desk [0].

It would be much better to have some information about the chemicals contained, how bad are the chemicals, and what is the expected effect of the chemicals at the concentration at which they're encountered.

[0] https://oehha.ca.gov/chemicals/alcoholic-beverages-0
$999.99 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich)
If it's NFT, it MUST be true and the transaction MUST be legit!

Sigh. NTF is just more nonsense.
Hawaii, the only state that requires a COVID test within 36 hours of flying there? I mean, of course they'd have the lowest cases per capita when they're the only ones actively refusing entry to those who have it.
Mandatory lockdowns make a lot more sense when you’re an island nation that can plausibly eradicate the disease. You reasonably can expect a month of pain and then resume business as usual, but the America’s, Europe, and Asian enjoy no such hope.
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It's really baffling to see you keep posting as though you are some protector of truth and decency on the internet when you're literally running a shill campaign here, posting literally false information continually, name calling and flamespraying anyone who doesn't agree with you.

You simply don't have any moral high ground here.
A few months ago I built a E-ink picture frame, which displays an image that was taken today but x years ago. The picture frame now stands on my desk and already brought back some really nice memories.

In case anyone is interested: https://mindfulbytes.io/
Mandatory lockdowns are like cancer surgery. They can be very effective if everything is still localized, but if the cancer has already metastasized, it really doesn't solve the problem.
Unfortunately not. Flip model improves efficiency by removing one copy. However, the window contents are still composited into DWM's backbuffer just after vsync, so any rendering that happens during the frame is not displayed until the following frame.

There is a flag DXGI_SWAP_CHAIN_FLAG_ALLOW_TEARING which can completely eliminate DWM's latency even for normal composited windows, but it only functions on systems with hardware overlays, which are not supported on Nvidia or AMD.
I'm confused. Is it a risk or is it not a risk?
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I wasn't aware Wayback Machine had a comparison tool, thank you. I like how its comparison picker view indicates degrees of change relative to a selected snapshot, e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/changes/https://plato.stanford.e...

Worth mentioning: SEP hosts static quarterly snapshots at https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/ , but with no diff feature.
I know! Which is why it’s silly to use NZ as an example of anything.
Just this week I came across a set of 20+ controls in a form. Every control downloaded some version of a file from "report". Not once was there any shared code behind any of these controls. Because different people over time touched this code, not all of the functions were in the same place. And those that were each had slightly different nuances.

Without DRY, this would be a perfectly acceptable practice. DRY gives me something I have in my head when I see this and refactor into something that is manageable. DRY gives me something I can point to and say "please for the love of god don't perpetuate this folly".
Could also be: removed becaused the company is defunct.
The current HN title deviates from the original title in a way that is misleading. "Vaccines Are Effective Against Covid Variants" is a wrong affirmation. The original article only states that in vitro experiments show that some vaccines are effective against some variants. Not all vaccines, not all variants, and no test on human beings.

A counter point is that some vaccines seem to be ineffective agains some variants. For instance AstraZeneca against B.A.351 (South-Africa). From a preprint:
"Conclusions A two-dose regimen of ChAdOx1-nCoV19 did not show protection against mild-moderate Covid-19 due to B.1.351 variant, however, VE against severe Covid-19 is undetermined."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.10.21251247v...

The US CDC does state that, according to current publications, some variants present a "moderate reduction on neutralization". Their page about "Variants of Interest" and "Variants of Concern" mentions many scientific papers.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/vari...
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The buying decision originates from the content creator, who will tell you which ones are from him.

NFTs sold on other chains are akin to copies of the Mona Lisa: worthless
“Heritage Foundation President Kay C. James leads an organization whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies...”

Notably one of their main concerns is “election integrity.” Presumably they were opposed to certifying the electoral college vote on January 6, despite article(s) on their site asserting the essentiality of the electoral college.

As hominem? No: I’m
not making an assertion about this specific article. This is about knowing your news sources.

Edit: Relevant and recent -

Defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness (axios.com)

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26518548
What makes you think that Patrick is mistaken about his claim that he is a capitalist?
That is just one factor though in which COVID-19 is worse than the seasonal influenza though.

COVID-19 has a basic reproduction number of 3.3 – 5.7, while the seasonal influenza has one of 0.9 – 2.1 [1], which means that it spreads far more easily. You cannot just wait until summer for influenza season to be over.

With influenza you have a higher rate of existing immunity in the population. With COVID-19 it is basically non-existent, except maybe for a few single people that had SARS or MERS before.

Younger people are also more affected [2]

You are longer sick from COVID-19 and if you have to stay in the hospital you will stay there longer and are more likely to end up on the intensive care unit [2]

In the end you cannot compare a pandemic situation to influenza season.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_reproduction_number
[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85081-0
This sounds interesting. Can you link to any examples?
The argument against the Liskov Substitution principle was the most interesting to me. It uncovers the principle that makes the world go round: composition. While it’s easy to decompose code into components of single responsibility, I think the rules of composition are not clearly understood. Category Theory has already told us that composition depends on context (what the thing is used for). Yet some problems are intrinsically coupled, having relationships across layers of abstraction. In those cases the developer should broaden the definition of what “one thing” is. A process emerges for writing such code: gather deep understanding of the domain > develop an accurate mental model for what is to be accomplished > make wise choices on how define categories of code. Overall not wrong, just insufficient.
Love the place, à must visit, BUT, after taking my girlfriend for her birthday, beware leaving there at night. She was very uncomfortable even walking to the car. DTLA in general is quite iffy at night.
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Viewport-relative widths are a poor practice for accessibility, in general (maybe you don't care for your small personal website). The user can't set their own preferred size, font-size becomes illegible at small sizes, and way too large on large viewports (2160px is becoming more common). It breaks zoom on some browsers as well.

The clamp() examples here mitigate that somewhat, but why do we need fluid shifts in text size? Just use media queries.
And furthermore their border is still essentially closed. Their approach was almost certainly the right one for them but locking down access in that way was never practical for most countries.
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For people arguing that not being part of a risk group is a reason not to protect yourself, please take a lesson from brazil. Being part of a 'high risk group' does not saves you from infecting other people who are part of such groups.

That's basically what happened in brazil: people who were not part of risk groups crowded, encouraged by the president himself[0][1][2]. The number of infected poeple soared and variants that affect younger people appeared[3][4]. The health system has now collapsed because there is not enough ICU for such a high number of ill people[5][6].

[0] https://www.em.com.br/app/noticia/politica/2021/02/26/intern...

[1] https://noticias.uol.com.br/politica/ultimas-noticias/2021/0...

[2] https://cultura.uol.com.br/noticias/15258_bolsonaro-mergulha...

[3] https://www.cartacapital.com.br/saude/segunda-onda-de-covid-...

[4] https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2021/03/19/tres-novas-cepas-...

[5] https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/saude/2021/03/19/17-estados-e-o...

[6] https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/saude/2021/03/19/em-meio-ao-col...
nevertheless, you have to actually support that hypothesis with research. Just the fact that it's ineffective against mild to moderate doesn't mean it will be effective against more severe cases. it might also be ineffective against severe cases, making it just entirely ineffective against those strains.

a year later and people are still trying to twist studies into support of their favored medical treatments without actual supporting research...
I’m not saying it would actually solve anything in the US, only that you can’t just say “look NZ resumed business as usual — the US should too!” because the situations are not at all similar.
I’m not sure I really get this argument - you need to know something about the type you’re getting to explore it, so why does specifying that type slow things down more than any gains you would with run time errors from hacking around?
As a tab hoarder (I hit 7k at one point), I recommend using an extension like one-tab, which closes the tabs, but preserves them.
Nobody questions Baristas starting early to get the coffee shop ready for the day's workers, but you cleverly ask why have work ready for the workers at all.

Yes, actually investment banking is kinda critical because every day that paper languishes a bunch of capital is going underutilized and people are idle and unpaid. In order to not waste the life work of so many, yeah the paper pushers should get in gear.

But also, it's rude and silly to ask this. Because I could just as cleverly ask if what you enjoy is critical and we both know that it, when viewed reductively, is not.
Is it me or is there more and more resources for programmers to learn machine learning ?

I picked this as a hobby during a lockdown in my country. It is extremely fun to learn IMO.
> Keep wearing your masks and social distancing people. It’s hard, it’s a sacrifice, but together we can conquer this disease and return to life “as normal”.

This ghost is not going back into the bottle. It's way too widespread for that now. Even the WHO has determined that. Even if one country manages it, some tourist will bring it in.

The vaccines don't stop the spread enough either to kill it completely. People will still get sick and spread it, they just don't get as sick in large numbers. The simple fact that even a country that has the ability to rigidly control all outside sources like New Zealand is unable to avoid the occasional outbreak. However they do seem to reduce the risk of severe illness enough to bring it to a level comparable to other endemic diseases. PS: Don't get me wrong, I'm totally pro-vaccine and will get at as soon as I finally can.

I really hope that politics will deem the resulting levels sufficient to drop the other measures like the masks and distancing. Once the danger level is comparable to other endemic diseases I think we should.

And I really hope that SARS-CoV-2 mutates to a variant that isn't as deadly. Most diseases have, after all as evolution favours it (not as deadly means we won't fight it as hard). But I doubt we'll ever be COVID free. That point was passed once we didn't strictly quarantine China back in Feb 2020. But anyway that's water under the bridge.
Changing ints to UUIDs is a classic example of the Primitive Obsession smell, and the solution is to wrap primitives in a type representing their semantic meaning, such as “ID,” or “PrimaryKey,” not to use a factory. That way, when you need to change the underlying type from int to UUID, you only need to do it in one place.
When it comes to formal proofs of code, once you have a proof it is generally straightforward to verify (in the same way that you could for example evaluate a boolean expression). The problem is in finding the proofs - that's what requires labor and intelligence.

So the way I imagine it would work, is you tell a programming system which conditions the code it's going to generate should satisfy, and then it generates the code + proofs that it satisfies those conditions.

It might be trickier than I imagine though (e.g. for Chess/Go the reinforcement signal might be more suitable for learning than what you'd find with proofs).

If you want to know more about proofs you might be interested in the series "Software Foundations" (https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/).
He is only one of the very few people who can pull it off.
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I honestly thought that was one of the principles of DRY. Maybe I've been wrong this whole time. Will it be faster, safer, more maintainable if I just leave this code in here twice? At what point does that equation change?
There's a lot wrong with the way GDP is measured. Economist Michael Hudson writes about this.

Nevertheless the US is a very wealthy country by any measure.
How many entry points does Hawaii have compared to the average state? How do those points of entry compare in terms of staff and systems to operate those restrictions? Hawaii gets a lot more mileage out of its restrictions than Iowa is going to do. We can acknowledge these differences without conceding that restrictions aren’t worth the squeeze; it just means that New Zealand isn’t a good reference point.
Indeed, and modern dishwashers also often have a cycle which adjusts the amount of washing they do to the load (using things like sensors to see how clean the wastewater is) which can further improve this.
From what I know you'd get the equivalent of a junior software engineer and with no benefits. So like $90k-$120k/yr. More if you're Sr, but again, this is total. And let's be real, $30k is still a good bonus even at a $200k take home. That's an extra 15% (possibly not even taxable given the nature).
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searches turn into trees only if you click ads:

"Clicking on ads generates revenue for Ecosia, which is paid by the advertiser. Ecosia then uses at least 80% of its monthly profits to plant trees where they are needed most"

https://ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201657341-How-d...
It’s an industry which ha s probably generated trillions in value so it maybe a matter of perspective.
Brilliant move by John Cleese. The sale is the performance, and the performance aligns perfectly with his genre.
Almost like having strong borders is useful.

Not a very compelling argument when the same people most in favor of Covid restrictions also spent five years calling Republicans the devil for wanting to reinforce our borders.

Also the US has open borders between states on the mainland. Any individual state besides Hawaii never had even the possibility of isolating themselves.
It would help catch the fact you wrote it as both <Currency, Amount> and <Amount, Currency>
The people I know in tech in the Bay Area rent. It’s their parents, who bought their properties in the 1980s or before, who are the land-owners.

That said, I’d definitely be interested to see actual statistics about own vs. rent for people in tech in the Bay.
As you walk the streets of Helsinki the smiling faces and bon vivant atmosphere is unmistakeable.
Reminds me of one of the 48 laws of power:

Law 6. Court Attention at All Costs
Unlocking history through automated virtual unfolding of sealed documents
Thanks for the hint. I wonder where the value of 4 comes from. Is this an old value derived from a (then) fast RAID across many spinning rust disks? As you pointed out, today --- using SSDs -- the cost should be lower; I'd think in some cases (e.g. here a DB used for a catalog of a back-up system) the backing store is exactly one spinning rust drive, where I'd expect a much higher cost for random access (about 80MB/s / (100/s*8KiB)).

Ah, [1] has the answer: they acknowledge that random accesses might be much slower, but expect a good share of accesses to be satisfied by the cache (that'll be a combination of various caches).

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/runtime-config-query.html
> I have dogs

I thought you were an atheist.
Getting outside. It can be challenging with a family and young kids to get a hike, day at the beach or ski trip started, but I never regret it.
Please consider changing the OP link to Cleese's actual post on Twitter, which embeds a video of him describing this "work of art":

https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1372944852325789704

It's brilliant parody, as usual, from Cleese. Regardless of what you think of NFTs, you will get a good laugh.
My dream, a OS with a good proper well designed single capability system with reasonable defaults.

Not the mess Linux has which supports capabilities for some privileges but not so much for others, which has bad defaults and which is supper fragmented. I mean for a full cover you need to correctly combine root/sys capabilities with seccomp with bpf with cgroups with polkit with some pctrl settings with linux kernel parameters and even then you probably still need to throw in selinux and I still missed at least file permissions when writing this...

Which lets be honest is just ridiculous.
When the same thing was done in response to the BLM riots, there were howls of outrage, so I'd rethink the idea of cheering when the FBI goes after your enemies but crying "injustice" when it goes after your friends.
Accelerating inequality has led to a conundrum for the rich in addition to the obvious consequences for the poor: what do you actually do with that obscene wealth? [0] You can only consume so much luxury, and sitting on dollars results in tax liability and/or gradual depreciation. Gambling it on speculative assets and bragging-rights positional goods (whynotboth.gif) is pretty much the only game in town, especially when everyone else is doing it, and you can tell yourself a Greater Sucker story (which may or may not resemble a game of Chicken / "Push Your Luck").

NFTs and crypto are obviously realms for this to play out, but this same force is at work for speculative investing in startups as well. For every startup with a value prop, a market, and a revenue model, there are a dozen who are flush with cash solely for the purpose of attracting Greater Suckers, fueled by the same motive to park and/or gamble an asset portfolio.

[0] https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/karen-petrou-wealth-inequal...
How does it compare with a $200 phone performance wise?
This list includes no genuinely new innovations except for maybe 5G. You are listing that China is a major manufacturer, which is true. The OPs point was that China has a record of stealing IP from the US, which is also true. Listing manufacturers in China doesn't disprove this point.

So please, if you'd like, a list of genuine technologies who's origins can be traced to China... I'll be waiting.
Similarly, if the company won't validate their tech in peer reviewed journals, they are full of shit. I strongly suspected fraud years before it was acknowledged because Theranos was citing "trade secrets" for why they couldn't release any data about their tech. We don't do trade secrets in medicine or science, and this is precisely why.
I met aome of the creators back in the day. The RedHat model is working well for them: open source and sell consultancy. It doesn't scale exponentially but as long as their OSS product is good they won't have a shortage of incoming deals.
Plans for the first sustainable city on Mars unveiled
Control how? Like inducing pain remotely?
iPhone 6S. Best phone I ever owned, by far. It’s almost 6 years old and still works amazingly well, all apps are plenty fast, runs the very latest iOS and the form factor is great.
54 patients total? That's not a sample size to draw strong conclusions on :(
Then what's the point of the demo? Dragging the edge of the browser window make type scale fluidly? Typically the user is at a fixed viewport size, or they change to one or two other ones when the window is resized.
>The response says that no, not "almost all"; out of the 50 surveyed apps, 23 of them had excessive permissions. Well, ok, sure, that's definitely not "almost all", but that's still way too many.

The response article did also note that the most popular flatpak apps are often ones that really need filesystem access in order to function properly, e.g. an IDE, an image editing program, an audio editing program, etc.

It's really hard to conceive of how these programs would work without some of the requested permissions. I remember the hazards of trying to get a proper IDE on ChromeOS some years back because of Google's own sandbox restrictions on allowing extensions to access the chromebook's filesystem. IIRC there was a company that even created "cloud-IDE" environments to get around this limitation.
All members of a colonial animal are genetically identical, which I believe is why a man of war is an animal but an ant colony is a society. I don't think ants are genetically identical, although I'm not certain.

Man o Wars are also not disjoint. They have specialized cells, but I believe share nutrition among the non-feeding cells. A truly disjoint creature would need a metabolic system on both sides of the disjoint, a separate nervous system, and perhaps most difficult, a way to pass messages across the disjoint quickly enough to be useful (aka electric impulse).

At a certain point, I think it starts becoming dubious whether it's a single creature. Even if they're genetically identical, they start to look more like twins than a colonial creature.
He literally said "you'll be able to sleep in your car on FSD mode".
Ha! 3" or Microdrive? They were different things.

The ZX Microdrive was the Sinclair stringy-floppy, released 1983, giving approx. 85-95 kB per cartridge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Microdrive

But 3" was a true floppy disk, used in e.g. the Amstrad Spectrum +3, released 1987, where it gave 180 kB per side:
https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=222

I love that people are still making enhancements for these ancient machines. For example, Amstrad promised an add-on disk interface for the cassette-based Spectrum +2, but never shipped one. Now, the nonexistent hardware has been cloned and you can buy a new one!

https://www.8bits4ever.net/product-page/sdi-1

There's an SD-card based replacement mechanism for the original Microdrive:

https://vdrivezx.com/vdrivezx/
> 48 laws of power

Where are the others?
This happened to me when I left academia. No “real credentials”. Math expert with strong computer background (phd, published papers, years of experience in research/teaching) didn’t said more than “one year data science ‘masters’ abroad”. It took me quite some time to translate my expertise into marketable skills. Before that, I got passed on even for entry level positions.