skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man, I remember reading this article while I was still getting my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (a little over 10 years ago) but was tinkering with programming.

Made the switch to software and am now a senior software engineer. Didn’t know then that I would somewhat follow the trajectory outlined here.
Graphene was discovered. The transistor was invented. There was no question that it would be used to replace tubes/valves in devices such as radios. It was designed for those applications. For solving those problems.
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Chips for America Act- Funding Failures and Foreigners or Saving Semiconductors?
Not even closely up to Mercury, sorry.
My instinct has always said that transparency should prevail on this kind of issue. However, as it happens, I have previously discussed this exact subject with multiple friends who work in clinical healthcare roles, and I have to acknowledge that they have almost invariably disagreed with my instinct. Given that I'm fairly sure some of them have personally treated people with serious mental health problems, I tend to defer to their expertise on this one.

I don't know what the law actually is (and perhaps none of us do since as you say the issue doesn't seem to have been tested yet) but if the medical experts are almost universally of the same opinion then I probably know what the law should be.
My GPU uses graphene based lubricant on the fans to extend its spinning life!
If the last 5 years shows us anything, largely how much we “do” depends largely on the people in office.
At least with Bongard problems you don’t have heisenbugs.
I cannot be more clear that I am talking specifically about interviewing for roles that require frequent meetings - as many/most senior tech roles do.

My entire point is that in those roles the quality of your connection matters to your work quality and thus the onus to ensure it works.
I am biased but why do we even need cars in the city center, or at the very least why should they be convenient? Could there not be a situation where you walk to the edges of the city center to pick up your car and leave from there? There are specific accessibility concerns that certainly need to be accounted for, but the idea that the average driver loses 20 minutes on a trip that should be 5-10 minutes doesn't seem like inherently an issue in this context.

edit-add: biased in the sense that I really dislike cars and live in NYC in large part because you do not need one here
Gain of Function joint research work of US and Chinese researchers (2015)
I would use an acetone soak.
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The Moderna covid vaccine was developed in a few hours, because extensive work had already been done on the SARS virus. They could very easily tell by homology which part of the RNA sequence coded for the spike protein. I suppose theoretically, generating novel viruses could prepare us for similarly quick vaccine design in the absence of a natural predecessor, but that would be a huge stretch requiring us to invent vast numbers of novel viruses.
Not sure why people says this is awesome. This data is publicly available and requires low processing to be displayed.
Flawed analogy. If I am reliant on my car for a living (eg limo driver) then I can't let my car not work. Doesn't mean I need to fix it myself, does mean I need to find a mechanic, trade it in, whatever. Resolve the problem in some way.
The argument the post is presenting seems like it could be a straw man. Gain-of-function research would surely be useful to things other than vaccines, which might even be more important than vaccines? For example, figuring out in what conditions viruses jump hosts and therefore how to reduce the likelihood of new epidemics.
Thanks for the feedback there, and for checking it out. I’m still working on an ideal process for optimizing identification of the lines you want to use. The issue with both the count and the start is that you have to have some awareness of those indexes. I’m working on a more visual way to pick and choose commands (think git squash commit picking).

Unless you mean start as in, type a command to begin “recording” and then type an end command when you’re done? Interesting idea
> It is immensely unfortunate this issue became politicized.

This comment is over a year too late. Almost immediately after COVID became the topic du jour the technocrats and media were aggressively shutting down anyone who noticed the circumstantial evidence that the coronavirus emerged in close proximity to a lab conducting sloppy coronavirus research. That, coupled with China's refusal to allow anyone outside the CCP apparatus to investigate should have, at least, given thinking people pause. But clearly, "thinking people" doesn't characterize the media or the technocrats and their speech police.

And we shouldn't forget the astonishingly sudden about-face by the media (almost all of whom work for companies who also sell their entertainment properties in China) who routinely called COVID the "China virus" or "Wuhan virus" one day and the next day castigated anyone who dared to do so as an irredeemable racist.

It was political from the beginning.
There are also different "schools of thought" for functional programming. That in itself is not a bad thing. The thread was about formal definitions; such are therefore available for those who need them.
Yea and once I was driving a sports car at exactly the speed limit. Cop paced me, ran my tag, ultimately found nothing and didn't couldn't me. Sometimes things look odd to a cop, like a sports car not speeding or a junker in a rich neighborhood. Assuming it's race related and others don't experience the same "profiling" is wrong.
Also, the number of developers is increasing exponentially over time. There are maybe a hundred thousand people out there who have >25 years of dev experience, and millions who have <5.
E.g. see [1] - 16 times more engineers filling the SO survey with <5 years of experience compared to >25.

The job market has to roughly follow this demographic trend, otherwise companies would fall behind competitors.

[1] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#developer-pro...
How does a USB keyboard work? [video]
What if this makes America as a country less attractive to immigrant founders?
Tesla Recalls Model 3 Sedan and Model Y Crossover over Two Safety Issues
Because I think having those two videos linked without the context of opposing views will potentially mislead some people, here's some push-back on the first topic/person:

https://www.deplatformdisease.com/blog/addressing-geert-vand...

https://www.snopes.com/news/2021/03/26/geert-vanden-bossche/

And the second:

https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n747

https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2021/05/26/bmjebm-2021-111...

I've really enjoyed Bret's podcast for the most part, so I was really disappointed after looking further into these subjects and finding that he seemingly isn't approaching them in good faith.
>> If you google “tank man” and click on images in Bing and DDG

Use of the word 'google' here for searching is odd and could have been avoided.
Now the Greeks get all the stigma.
When I told my friends and colleagues in Europe I was moving to the US, most of them just were incredulous and asked why would I would want to do that.
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IMO they're better than the fake backdrops but still often distractingly fake looking. If your background is really that bad, maybe better than nothing but probably better to try to do something about it, whether a screen or something else.

To be honest, a few things like backlighting windows (and bad lighting generally) are far worse than a bit of clutter.
> I've done my best to ignore the aggressive tone and re-framing of my point, but perhaps that approach isn't a useful strategy for productive discussion, if that's what you're actually going for?

What I'm going for is a stop to the race baiting. You have no evidence, just "feels", and we're now supposed to change society as a result. Racism has started increasing because people like you are going around expressing opinions with no facts. Where's the science? Or are you not interested in actually solving problems just creating more?
You can pick up clues from router names and domains. For instance if I try traceroute riotimesonline.com I can see routers with "telehouse" in the name (telehouse being the big London interconnect), then a couple of "atlas.cogentco.com" routers, one of which ("lon13") has 10ms ping, and the next ("bos01") has 77ms ping. The next hop seems to be to Amazon Data Services in Boston, so presumably the riotimesonline.com site is being served by AWS out of there, or at least it is for people not in Rio. That tells you who is leasing the transatlantic service. Unfortunately I can't instantly find a web server in Rio to ping.
Participating institutions:

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Wuhan Institute of Virology

National Center for Toxicological Research, Food and Drug Administration

Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina

Department of Microbiology and Immunology - University of North Carolina

Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Institute for Research in Biomedicine,
Bellinzona Institute of Microbiology, Zurich
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"Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system2, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV. Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations."
Shouldn't the table also list the potential profit to be made from such an attack?
I always imagined fishing vessels doing fairly short range trips to get their catch back to shore maximally fresh. Are there really ships long-hauling round the Cape all the way from China?
There is no such thing as too much documentation. There is out of date documentation, inaccessible documentation, unindexed documentation, poor documentation, redundant documentation, etc... But what you described is amazingly valuable. Just because it's not valuable to you, right now, doesn't mean there's too much of it.
Non voting shares are a minority already. Combine that with the fact that literally trillions of dollars would be aligned against such a idea, i fear it unfortunately relegates it to a thought experiment rather than a pragmatic policy proposal.
Interesting answer and thanks for providing it. Do you think the geography of the coast changes how expensive this gets? I'd think a coast that goes deep quickly or has strong currents wouldn't need as much spread out disposal infrastructure as one in a shallow area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimplantation_genetic_diagno...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00673-1

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Raspberry Pi hardware is way, way too weak.
Nah we're good with it.
>Extra time: +5 minutes to walk

why does removing left turns make it longer to walk? Can pedestrians even make "left" turns?
And that pattern is easy to implement in C or fortran 77 without being unidiomatic. So I don't vthing you need anything special.

Edit: to clarify, a system can just be a function, an entity just an ID and a component should be plain old data anyway, so a struct is perfect.
I think this argument makes perfect sense. Personally I don't like in-line documentation. It's mostly popular among people who depend on bulky proprietary IDEs. I hate all these approaches which try to trick people into using proprietary tech.

I enjoy reading a nice documentation website maintained by the open source organization; it also gives me a touch-point with the organization which created the library. I also agree with your nuanced argument concerning incentives. Arguments related to incentives are almost always discarded by managers but they are very important.

I do think decoupling the documentation encourages people to think about documentation more carefully as a distinct and important activity. I find that in-line documentation tends to be neglected; as a developer, when you're in the middle of coding an important feature which requires your full attention, you don't want to be distracted with updating the comments all the time because it breaks your train of thought. Usually developers tell themselves that they will do it later and they often forget. Comments are often neglected in the PR review process too.

There is no way around it, you need to set aside some time to write or update the documentation as a distinct activity. There is a time for coding and there is a time for explaining.
I agree that there are serious problems with non-experts administering these systems at local levels as well. There's no good answer right now, IMHO, only less bad ones. But there is a huge difference between the two main policies here in the scale of damage that could be caused by a catastrophic failure.

For the same reason, I have limited sympathy for the idea that this is just another internal data transfer and people are getting worked up without cause. The NHS isn't really a single organisation, the people pushing for this aren't really clinical staff, and there has been a long and undignified history of screw-ups when it comes to patient confidentiality and larger data sharing schemes. Caution does seem to be in order here.
If you're encountering 1 bitflip per year per HDD, something is horrifically wrong.

I've only observed 1 incident of corruption in 5 years of 00+ drives with ZFS, and that was due to a dying HBA controller, not the HDD.
He has been pretty clear in giving a lot of credit to the inventors of Simula, but that at the same his ideas derive more from Lisp. He even has a Quora answer where he explains that Lisp is the greatest language because he views it as a big shift in thinking.

There is also a well known clear answer of his to the question of what is OOP to him. We ended up with something different in real life, but it's pretty silly to accuse somebody of stealing an idea and giving it a name, when they wanted to do something else. If anything, the name OO was "stolen" to refer to something not originally intended. But even in this case the word steal is too harsh, and your general style leaves a really bad impression.
Environmentalists are mostly political today, they focus their efforts on benign & wealthy countries instead of the most polluting. (Which are often poor or run by dictatorships)
You should look up videos of how fishing works today. The ships deep freeze the fish. Some can them. They are floating factories
>Security is synonymous with robustness.

There's certainly a large overlap. At the same time you can use insecure hashes for robustness, so the implication doesn't go both ways. That's why I would say security usually implies robustness.
What do you mean unsubstantiable?

https://theglobalamericans.org/2021/02/new-directions-in-the...
More realistically G7 will keep the taxes of the big global corps and small countries will most likely lose.
Are you sure it's graphene, not graphite? Graphite grease in fans is pretty common, been used for ages.
In this specific case, both git and a variety of bug trackers were available and very usable. Neither project answered a precise problem we encountered. Both might possibly have answered problems we might possibly have encountered when scaling up, something that never happened.
It’s a China/UK collaboration.

Andrei Seryi, director of the John Adams Institute at Oxford University, said: “It’s breathtaking to think that things we thought are not connected, can in fact be converted to each other: matter and energy, particles and light. Would we be able in the future to convert energy into time and vice versa?”

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This is a fun thought experiment. If spacetime is energy, could we create spacetime with energy, or destroy some spacetime for energy…
The chart is misleading for most cryptocurrencies.

The "1h Attack Cost" is calculated from the rentable hashrate from NiceHash, but you should pay attention to the "NiceHash-able" column that says how much hash you can actually rent.

While you'd think you could attack Ethereum for only 1.5 million dollars, you can only rent 7% of that hashrate, so you can't get the required >50% you'd need to pull of the attack.
Wait $8 for a coin worth $52 million?

Out of interest why aren’t these attacks more common? (Not even for profit, even just for bragging rights)
ah yes, of course, that was a misreading on my part, sorry. the title is somewhat misleading, but if you go have a look at the original problem you see that it provides as inputs random-access arrays, not linked lists. i only changed them to lists in the initial, naïve solution in order to keep things simple at first.
>This was thankfully a lot less strict than on iOS devices, which strictly forbid mapping memory as executable whatsoever and made iOS untenable for us to officially support. Apple even provides documentation for helping developers port JITs to macOS on ARM. Skyler used a method described in the documentation that would change the mapped memory between Writeable when emitting code to Executable when executing code. Since Dolphin wasn't designed for this, there were a few hiccups along the way, but eventually everything was massaged into working with the new restrictions.

How expensive is changing memory mapping modes? Does it involve a system call? Does it need to happen often?
The dotcom bubble created lots of useless startups with crazy valuations. Tech survived.

The crypto bubble should be expected to create some too.
There was a good backgrounder on illegal fishing and detecting vessels that have turned off their AIS a few months ago in the economist:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/03/18/...

archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20210508222031/https://www.econo...
From the article:

> Oceana documented over 800 foreign vessels logging more than 900,000 total hours of apparent fishing. The analysis also revealed that 69% of this fishing activity was conducted by more than 400 Chinese vessels.

...

> As part of this analysis, Oceana documented more than 6,000 gap events, instances where AIS transmissions are not detected for more than 24 hours, which potentially indicates vessels are disabling their public tracking devices. These vessels were invisible for more than 600,000 total hours, hiding fishing vessel locations and masking potentially illegal behavior, such as crossing into Argentina’s national waters to fish. The Chinese fleet was responsible for 66% of these incidents.

It appears that Chinese vessels are actually slightly less likely to disable AIS than others?

Edit: from the actual report at the end of the article, which I missed at first:

> While China had the highest total number of gaps, the Spanish fleet appeared to have the
worst AIS compliance on a per-vessel basis. Nine out of the 10 fishing vessels that spent
the most time with their AIS off were flagged to Spain, despite constant AIS operation
being mandatory under European Union law.

I wonder whether that means they can be sued, or whether the responsible regulatory agency would have to take the initiative.
Thanks, I started watching the first video and the claims smelled, so it's good to have the counterargument.
I used to work in one of the top fMRI labs. The comments about The Science Game are spot on. The vast majority of scientists, by the time they're midway through their postdocs, just want to do whatever research will get them a professorship and some grants. Actual knowledge generation is a distant second to keeping the ball bouncing by getting out papers and getting in grants.
A lot of this “circumstantial evidence” was and is game-of-telephone nonsense. Many mix together two completely different institutions (the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and the Wuhan Institute of Virology) which are several kilometres apart, for example.

(Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-r0capbzk is a great look at said game of telephone.)
> What do you imagine is typologically wrong with new std::string("pjmlp")?

You have to remember to `free` the string explicitely.

> Yes, new is itself too low-level, so std::make_unique("pjmlp"s) is the modern idiom

Is it? Isn't that going to create an `unique_ptr<char*>`?
There's also "I don't know how to do that, and I don't want to learn how."
There is every reason to invest in good UX and good UI. For one, FB could monetize Events in many ways. Secondly, I just don't believe that there is a good reason for bad UX.
I'm very much looking forward to WebGPU becoming mainstream, as there's definitely more performance to be had. However, the use cases for WebGL aren't quite as bad as you're making out.

I'm CTO of a business that's core offering (since 2016) is selling real-time interactive 3D real estate models. Browser support is decent, our models run in mobile browsers alright.

The models certainly run slower on mobile than they do on a gaming computer. However, on-board Intel graphics frequently found in enterprise laptops can be worse performing than a decent mobile phone. Sadly my preferred browser, Firefox, has (by quite a significant margin) the worst performance of all mainstream browsers. It's more CPU bound than GPU bound though.
Living in Ohio I was surprised to see that we are less flat than North Carolina and the tiniest bit flatter than Nebraska. Thanks for sharing!
Look for a second hand Wii U. Plays GC wii and Wii U games with hdmi!
Head start
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They/you lose me out of the gate:

> An entry-level Honda Civic, which we believe is a more appropriate comparison, would improve the ICE fuel efficiency by 20%.

Someone shopping for a Tesla model 3 isn’t also in the market for a base-model civic. The primary market they’ve been eating is bmw and Audi. And the author has to know that because it’s published monthly and he’s at least pretending to have done some research.

When you link to a blog making obvious bad-faith assumptions, the rest of the message is rather irrelevant and people are going to let you know.
The Science Game is a natural result of the marketisation of science. (It's not the only factor of course.)
They should do something like this for hurricane names as well. It seems like calling them people’s names is strange and connects random names to destruction.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-katrina-annivers...
Vancouver recording studio plagued by 6 months of unexplained radio interference