skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, don't take it from me. Take it from Hopkins:

> A typical vaccine development timeline takes 5 to 10 years, and sometimes longer

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline

Or how about from New York State?

> The creation of a vaccine involves scientists and medical experts from around the world, and it usually requires 10 to 15 years of research

https://www.health.ny.gov/prevention/immunization/vaccine_sa...

Or the World Economic Forum?

> In total, a vaccine can take more than 10 years to fully develop

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/vaccine-development-b...

mRNA technology doesn't eliminate the need for lengthy safety testing. It only decreases the amount of time between initial brainstorming and sticking needles in test subjects. The need to follow those subjects for years to monitor them for negative outcomes doesn't change.
Actually Google is going to do something very bad with your credit card - link your online nym to your meatspace identity so they can better surveil you. That's much worse than having to deal with a few fraudulent charges, which at most requires mailing in an affidavit.
I think it would be illegal to participate in any way purposefully even if your nomination has a minimal chance of being selected. Enforcement is another matter
Hmm. This is the second time I've seen that "multiplying by i rotates counterclockwise 90 degrees."

I agree that this is one way to interpret the result. But is it literally equivalent to matrix multiplication by a 2D rotation matrix? Someone tried to say it was, which I felt skeptical about.

(Also, thank you.)
Also evaluating and profiling all of these things and more has become much more convenient and accessible.

Personally I tend to avoid third party frontend libraries where feasible for example, but we still need JS to give immediate feedback and to make bespoke designs work. But we found that reasonably bundled JS is almost never the problem.

It’s almost always images, especially user generated ones. JS/CSS/rendering code that is unoptimized and uses the wrong approach can hurt too (often unrelated to actual size). And of course lack of caching.

But all of those things have solid solutions that really pay off.

There’s simply websites that have a ton of content or designs that you as the dev cannot control. But during concept/feedback/consulting you have to give those things some weight and try your best when things are decided.

Edit: Myself and I bet most other devs hate bloated websites the most, even when we implement them. Because we suffer the most from performance and unnecessary complexity during development and testing. Especially when we need to turn off all of the goodies that make the website fast.

Reminds me of another thing. Compatibility through code generation (babel) is one of the biggest offenders for JS bloat, especially when you need legacy support like IE11.
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WFH is great for > 30 yo, and those with money/space and worse for people just starting out or who live in a studio.

I'm young (26), but successful by financial standards and before the pandemic my apartment was just the place I slept so I had a studio and I liked it that way.

Working, sleeping, eating and socializing from my 800 sqft studio is frankly maddening. I feel like I'm always on call and connected where before my apartment was the place I decompressed and escaped.

It's lost its sanctity and I want it back.
Iota is a prime example of how blockchain projects like to cosplay as computer science by putting together a mishmash of random concepts and pretending to be solving everything while not actually solving anything meaningful.

There was a time in 2017 when all you needed for a successful ICO was a flashy landing page with countdown timers and a 5-page "whitepaper" of gibberish set in Computer Modern. Maybe those days are back, with altcoins riding the hype wave again.
Have we finally found a way to make female sports interesting?
Do you have an example of said side effects your concerned about? As far as I'm aware most of the vaccine side effects should have popped up by now, and if you're talking long term then we can't possibly know the side effects of any medication because you can always move out the goalpost another decade.

The liberty being discussed here is to go to another country - that's never been an unrestrained freedom you had and up for that other nation to decide, so I don't know why you're concerned about a non-existent liberty.
I've been trying to find that since it disappeared! Do tell!
A Burp or a Blast? Seismic Signals Reveal the Volcanic Eruption to Come
https://www.darpa.mil/program/blackjack
The only correct answer.
What's up with the padding of the browser tab buttons? They look huge and horrendous. Too much vertical padding.
Agreed. I've said it here before but the only thing which is keeping me away from completely switching to FF for personal use is YouTube stuttering issue. I've searched everywhere, updated all drivers, also ran FF in safe mode where all extensions are disabled but nothing. After every 10-15 seconds or so (not an exact number) the video skips a couple of frames. I have no idea why it happens.
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I agree. You pretty much have to be your own doctor. With sleep apnea at least, it's pretty easy. There are tons of great resources out there. The CPAP machine captures a lot of useful data which you can use to tailor your experience (insert big fat disclaimer here).

When my allergies act up, I increase my pressure. When the air is dry, I decrease my pressure. When I've got a cold, I use a full face mask. When I'm feeling fine, I use a nasal mask. These are super simple things for me now, but these are non-obvious for someone who just got sent home with a CPAP machine -- and who is often told to never touch the pressure settings.
But this sounds like a personal boundaries matter that's helped by having a work commute, but not dependent upon it. Perhaps the commute could be replaced with a dedicated time for oneself for a walk, fitness, meditation, etc. That time shouldn't be (indirectly) provided by one's employer.
What videos are free to watch on there?
Porting the Oberon system to the RISC-V [video]
One thing I rarely see talked about is that the people doing tech interviews just plain suck at interviewing. Everyone assumes intent; that interviews go a certain way because someone has decided they should go that way. While that is quite possibly true at FANG, in my experience it's not the case elsewhere.

Interviews at most companies amount to "hey, who wants to/can interview someone next week?" Some people volunteer, and then they wing it. They might do a FANG-style interview because that's what they think they're supposed to do. They might parrot whatever the interview process was when they were hired. They usually just wing it, making up questions as they go.

It's not normally intentional or nefarious. Good engineers don't often make good interviewers. Sometimes they don't want to be doing the interview, and are simply trying to bumble through it. Usually, they have the best intentions, but they don't know what they're doing. No one's prepared them; they haven't prepared themselves (and likely don't know how to). Everyone usually has good intentions. They want to give the candidate a fair shake; they don't want to make the wrong decision; they want to find a good coworker; they want to do their employer a solid by finding the best employee.

I know I suck at interviewing, despite doing it dozens of times. I've had a few regrets about people I've hired, but not many. Whatever failures my process has, I don't think they're too egregious. I've been on my own to figure out what works and what doesn't.
They seem to, when it's a softball position.

Keeps them seeming balanced, so when, say, a BBC Jimmy story pops up, they can nerf it.
I've been making my way through RAMQ's system. I actually think its deliberate to keep people from signing up. I'm a new resident of Quebec (within the last few years) and I had to prove I moved to Quebec when I first registered with RAMQ, then prove a efw years after that I still lived in Quebec. Their bar for residency is super high too - leases, property tax and utilities do not count (although they're good enough for me to pay taxes and vote here). They asked me to send bank and credit card statements to show that I'm actually making purchases in Quebec. This is an issue for me as I work and shop in Ontario as I live on the border. Apparently it's a requirement of the Canada Health Act to only buy groceries in the province you reside in.
~280 now. That's two SMSes!
I don't know if I'd say beginner (an initio) friendly but we have some really clever people on our forums who have a lot of time for new people.

There will be a book on dlang.org soon, that's the one thing I think we're lacking at the moment.
Skyfall was great in that it grounded the relationships that Bond had with M. I believe he/she is just as interesting a character as Bond is... but never fully developed. I always thought if John Le Carré was writing Bond the focus would be on M, and might even make for a better book. Skyfall been the only recent movie that has added something meaningful to the Bond persona IMHO.
No, Apple doesn't dictate credit card verification requirements. Actually they are quite opposed.
They've provoked a reaction on me. Now I actually bother trying other browsers in search for something better.
Most people can do this in their office. Unless you’re hotswapping (uncommon in my experience) then you can just bring whatever equipment you want in. We had plenty of people do that at all the jobs I’ve worked at.
Somewhat confusingly (intentionally I’m sure) it’s not a device setting but an Account Setting in the app
In this proposal, after an EU citizen finds out the US has their information (presumably due to an extradition order based on the stolen data, or perhaps a failed extrajudicial killing), they will have the right to sue the US in US court (after flying to the US to be arrested, presumably).

This is thoroughly in the “vaguely pretend to fix it” bucket.
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Here is the white paper from Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
To take this even further, it is possible that they had this same situation before, went with the one that didn't know the stack, and regretted it terribly.

Once bitten twice shy and all that.
Fyi, the reply button will appear if you click "X minutes ago" above a comment. It will also appear normally if you wait a few minutes.

There's no depth limit, it's just a subtle cue to consider slowing down, to help prevent flame wars.
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That seems like a different problem - I'd assume you have a meeting room for each conversation. In your case we'd have headsets at desks - we do that too. The previous question was how meetings are handled (in a conf room). Regardless, chat+conf for everything even if it's in-person in the same room (audio off if local).
I suspect this is the real cause. They did it with search, makes sense they would do it with other areas as well.
It's $200+ million, where's the $5 million coming from, Elon's dreams?

Though the Falcon 9 is $55 million, now that's comparable to a modern fighter jet.
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>> For years website size was an acceptable proxy for user experience, but that's really not true today. Web browsers are much more complex about what they download, when, and how that impacts the user experience. Looking at page weight and say "that's bad" is too coarse of a perspective.

Has it really changed? Yes, browser perf was an issue then, but perhaps browsers have optimized away other issues. It is unclear to me if anything has improved over time for the large segment of users with limited or expensive bandwidth.

This was a very large segment affected by bloated sites when the problem started being highlighted in articles like this one. Have bandwidth and latency issues been resolved for many people who had significant issues in 2015? I'm guessing 4G and the like have been able to penetrate areas fairly quickly, but I've not looked at global data on this topic for a very long time.
Crypto Staking vs Crypto Stacking
Is this document incomplete? It outlines some interesting topics, but it can't be said to "explore the details of complexity in general, and complex systems, specifically, in the context of business strategy" as set out in the Purpose section.
Good for her for withdrawing. That was the right solution to her issue. It is not a sign of a societal failing. The solution was to withdraw.
Oh I'd agree there's cultural bias issues, but that is a complete straw man in this context. The article wasn't about cultural bias, nor was my reply.

Meritocracy, incidentally, is a term that was invented to demonstrate bias, not a signifier of the ideal system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy#Early_definitions

> The burden of proof is on folks that keep pushing these silly tasks

This strikes me as a somewhat bizarre and myopic way of thinking about jobs. There is no burden of proof at all, because there is no claim being made. The deal here is someone will pay you money, if you agree to do the work they ask. This opportunity is available to people who make it through the interviews in order to demonstrate they meet the qualifications for the job. Companies that are hiring are the sole decider of what these qualifications are, and can choose to have them demonstrated in any way they choose (up to what we agree are legal limits.) If you don't want money, then don't submit to "silly tasks". (I've never witnessed silly tasks in my interviewing, ever. I've had questions for which I don't have experience, and questions that are too hard, but the questions have always been pretty focused on figuring out what I know and how good of a programmer I am, and by extension how much they are going to pay me...)
I think there are just two big factors - garbage collection and tools. When it was made garbage collection seemed reasonable, but with modern C++ and rust we now know that tracking ownership through different scopes solves the same problems very well with none of the downsides of garbage collection. If you look at D, Julia, C#, Java, Ocaml, etc. etc. over and over you see people eventually fighting with the garbage collection over throughput and latency.

D to my knowledge has never fully transitioned to garbage collection being a thing of the past.

For tools I think D fell into a common trap, which is to just keep working on the language itself. Eventually the lack of debugger, real time syntax checking and auto completion take their toll and something like C++ seems better even with the rough edges of the language itself.
Mesh networks would be great. But should be opt in
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Isn’t that the blockchain that just stopped working for a few days a while back?
>If they are in international waters than nobody will care

If the USSR had put nukes everywhere around the US, even in international waters, we would not be here to discuss this today so yes people do care, a lot.

As to why they "build skyscrapers instead of warships", that's already explained in the comment you reply to. In short: because China isn't going the route of massive military to become top dog. It will become top dog without raising the part of its GDP it already spends today. Why spend a lot more on ships now when everything points to you being both richer, more technologically advanced and with better industrial capacity in 30 years than the US? Unless something significant happens China will win "the war" without firing a single shot while on the other hand the US will likely need ICBMs to "win".
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It's a company policy with vetted questions, I dislike this approach.
Does not appear to work for the video in the issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR8s72aouNE
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This is absurd, but I wound up finding some settings in about:config to compensate for it.

- browser.compactmode.show = true, which brings back compact

- layout.css.devPixelsPerPx scales the whole app. I brought it down from 2 to 1.95, which looks normal scale on a retina screen.

- But this also scales down the content of the page. To compensate for that, I want to be zoomed in slightly at all times. So I added 1.05 to toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues, and then set 1.05 as the browser default.

The tabs shrink back down to normal scale, the web stays the same, and it fits much better on my 13" display.

Having the tabs be free-floating buttons is still weird, but you can't win them all.
In many applications there is definitely no reason to worry about overflow when computing norms. That is more of an issue if you are writing library code for general use, which should be as robust as you can make it.
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> Most CEOs are effectively as easy to replace as the cleaning stuff wiping their desk is.

I feel like if this were true, boards of directors would be paying them the same as regular employees and not 320x as much, as is the current standard[1].

[1] https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-i...
I’ve to this day never seen any advertising in windows. Must be something only in America. :/

Edit: (seen the articles about it but never actually seen it in Windows)
Here it's used to implement ethernet:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/how-to-add-ethernet-to-rasp...

And DVI:

https://hackaday.com/2021/02/12/bitbanged-dvi-on-a-raspberry...
Fascinating.

A prosecutor in the region put it like this: “Anyone who thinks that the criminal organisations are the same as they were before – structured like a pyramid, managing every aspect of the business – well, they’re wrong. It’s not like that any more. It’s a lot more like in the TV series ZeroZeroZero, where everyone has to form alliances and each group takes on certain things. They’re not cartels, they’re service providers: it’s the Uberisation of organised crime.” Because of this, there’s also no division of territory. “It’s not possible to make a map, like they’ve done, for example, with Mexico,” he says. “Instead, you’d have to make a diagram that reflects the division of labour, the different roles and activities of each organisation.”
It is much easier to lose weight if you can get restful sleep. My manager lost 20 pounds after he got the CPAP machine with no other lifestyle changes. He had more energy and improved metabolism when he wasn't constantly tired and subjecting his body to low blood oxygen for 1/3 of the day.

So this isn't an either/or situation. Sleep apnea can also be a contributing factor in being overweight. So do everything: take steps to eat better, sleep better, and exercise more. Small steps in a number of areas are often better than a big step in just a single area.