skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody is talking about hello world programs except you

Oh, they're not? When the person you replied to wrote, "It’s far easier to write a minimal program on a TI calculator", what did you understand that to mean?

Reading back the thread, it's clear that not only is hello world in scope, minimal programs are the only sort of program that anyone who isn't you even mentioned. What this is is a bizarre situation where you insisted on linking the topic of programming TI-89 calculators to general purpose computing while simultaneously trying to take up arms at the suggestion that anyone could think there could a relation between the two.

> that’s not a quote [...] just another thing you have made up just now

Oh, it's not? So the words "easier to write a minimal program" don't appear here <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906345>? And it's not true that you quote those words and then even use them yourself while engaging with the topic here <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27906820>?

> You chose to reply to a comment that wasn’t a reply to you to make a personal attack based on an inaccurate rendering of the context.

Oh, I did? So those bits you're identifying didn't occur here <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27912959>, in a reply to a comment that was a reply to me? (Or is it that they did occur there, but you're maintaining that the comment is a reply to another comment that was itself not a reply to me?)

Not only was this a stupid thing to pick a fight over, this has got to be the dumbest attempt to quarrel over the written record that I've seen since "I'm not using the word free" <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250829>

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Edit following your edit:

> ‘to write a minimal program’ was added in a later comment from the claim in response

Yeah, it's almost as if someone wrote down their thoughts to share them, and then after seeing your response they attempted for your sake to offer some clarification in a followup to eliminate the misunderstanding. And it's almost as if you can't seem to acknowledge that we're here because you misunderstood them, and you continue to insist on maintaining that the thing that came from your misreading them is the thing that they meant all along.

Here's a tip: if someone says something that sounds outrageous and your first thought is, "man, it's unbelievable that someone would say that!", then your second thought should be, "yeah, it IS unbelievable that someone would say that", and then reflect on why your first thought was to believe that that's what they were saying. Otherwise, what you end up doing instead of holding them responsible for their intent, the products of their mind, and so on, is attempting to hold them responsible for the products of your mind.
https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...

Not an implementation, but a very fun explanation, that you could definitely implement if desired.
Digital Transformation Challenges in 2021: How to Address Them?
Hi - I'm the author and saw in the traffic stats that this was posted here :)

Just to prevent misunderstandings: I am not in the faction of "reimplement everything in Rust"; I purely did this for my own enjoyment and to learn something about databases.
The $30 billion in unemployment benefits that California lost to fraud to could have completely solved this crisis…
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It was not clear which vaccine development projects would succeed and which would not. For a reasonably wealthy country, the cost of the vaccine doses is completely negligible compared to the cost of the pandemic. This is why it made sense to massively overpurchase doses.
Agreed. It’s devastating to read but also beautiful and vulnerable in a way that makes its message hard to ignore.
Personally, I think this is an extremely mild version of the dire situation that most teams working with legacy systems often find themselves in.
The alternative is to participate in the more ad-hoc yet even larger-scale clinical trial for an objectively dangerous virus of unknown (possibly artificial) origin, with its own profile of unpleasant side effects and potential long term sequelae even if you survive.

No one is saying this is an ideal situation! The vaccine is merely the best of the options, all of them bad.
The COVID vaccine is pretty specific to the infection mechanism the virus uses. Azithromycin is a general purpose antibiotic that will kill most bacteria that aren't specifically resistant to it.

Definitely more complex to develop - antibiotics can be found in the dirt, mRNA designer vaccines can not. However, the effort that went into the COVID vaccine is akin to a moonshot for the mRNA tech. Costs should come down and the number of ways it's deployed should go up, hopefully both of those will drive further innovation.

It really comes down to cost-benefit. Cancer and global pandemics, yes. Designer drugs for minor inconveniences, probably not in the near future.
And build more than 1/3 or the high speed rail!
Start punishing mistakes and you will soon have a hard time finding good people to employ. Only bad (and broke) ones will be available.
This looks like a British publication, not a world-wide fact sheet.

As another commenter as noted, J&J is the company, their vaccine is called Janssen which is covered (but maybe not administered in the UK) [0]

Oxford/AstraZeneca is licensed/sold under several other brand names [1] including Covishield and Vaxzevria but so far the brands are used interchangeably (as long as the batch wasn't bad.. this makes sense, no?) Given this is British, the other brand names aren't particularly relevant to their population (they got the original). Covax, as far as I can tell, is a programme to deliver Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines (no matter the brand).. perhaps you meant Covaxin (an India developed vaccine)?

Vaccine mixtures haven't been explored much (this would mean restarting the trails again mixing and matching, which is tricky given people are either completely against, or want the vaccines yesterday).. but the WHO has cautioned against [2]. Never the less several countries are mixing.. we'll see the results as they play out. Oxford(!) did find that mixing AstraZeneca + Pfizer was more effective than double AstraZeneca [3]

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COV...
[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/who-warns-against-m...
[3]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-shows-mixing-astrazeneca-...
If people are willing to pay, it becomes the price, and people are definitely paying. Anecdotally from my friends who host, increasing prices leads to more 5 star reviews and fewer incidents as you get more affluent guests.
Most of this stuff is completely over my head, and I'm certainly no kubernetes expert, but I'm working on a project that's deployed with kubernetes, and one of the steps in our process is running our e2e tests, also in a separate kubernetes deploy. These tests (using Cypress) have proven to be extremely flakey on the server. Locally they work fine, though. I was wondering if Cypress is simply crap, but this article makes me wonder if kubernetes might be the real culprit here.
I'm most worried about the vaccine passport. Show us your papers! Seems like it could be the start of a social credit system for the west.
It's not that simple.

Lead poisoning for example takes years to manifest itself.

So did other drugs which took years until regulators retracted them because they did more harm then good.

Specifically about mRNA vaccines, we know little about the long term effects of the lipid nano particles used in them and there are reasons to be concerned.
I read that book a very long time ago and don't remember the part you reference, but from the perspective of someone who wants to live in a house, that house should be considered a liability, not an asset/investment.

But sure, owning housing that you don't intend to live in (and intend to rent out, or renovate and sell) is an investment.

The problem (at least in the US) is that everyone (of any economic means) seems to think of their primary home as an investment, which is in part why our housing market is so distorted. Everyone believes they're entitled to sell their house for significantly more than they paid for it, which is weird: land may increase in value for a variety of reasons, but houses just get older and crappier over time, and should only drop in value (with some bumps back up for major renovations).
It is obvious that there are no such problems when ai is used for driving cars and flying drones.
/s
This is factually true.
Buttlenagged = Archibald buttle + nagging
by software
I live in the Purcell trench...where the Missoula floods passed through :)

You can clearly see in some areas where the smaller hills and mountains kinda look like "islands" and we have a very nice aquifer due to it.

And yes...supposedly the native tribes which were in the path all the way down the Columbia have stories about it.

https://www.spokaneaquifer.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Aq...
Quite a spectacularly wrong take on multiple levels.

So much great literature comes from centuries before our own. And considering that the internet is likely to be around forever or as long as humans persist, a snapshot of its initial decades will one day be one of the greatest "archaeological" treasures.

Perhaps your main point is that you do not care for their work nor for the work of literature written before your time. You need not apply your yardstick to anything else in a bid to gauge its value.
I see the same engagement issues everywhere on the internet, including this site where discussions constantly veer off into the same old fights. I realize it's tempting to focus more blame and hate on facebook (I don't like it either, and Zuckerberg especially seems like a first-rate snake). But this idea that they "infect people with mind-viruses", or whatever, is just too reductionist and misses how they actually operate, which is simply "fill a need people have so those people will use the product and you can sell ads". It just happens to be a baser need we'd rather people not go fill. I have read that in the past everyone just drank alcohol constantly to escape, so maybe it's progress.

As for this person's specific complaint of hypocrisy or whatever, I don't actually think the imposition of "silicon valley values" or whatever into their operation is at all beneficial to IT companies' finances. I'd place it under the category of hackers, who are abusing/corrupting the automated moderation systems and forcing the company to waste money trying to actually be fair and not alienate half their potential customers, not earn more money by it.
Kubernetes for sure. But it will force you to write more relisient software. Since we migrated to kubernetes, we had to implement automatic retry strategies in every network exchange, http requests, database transactions, because the managed kubernetes of a major cloud provider is a train wreck.
I think freeCAD probably is a better fit for CAD software than Blender.
These level designs for FFX are SO TRICKY. I never realized just how carefully constructed for the camera each map was.
Hotels often use a technique called triple sheeting which uses 3 flat sheets: one goes on the mattress cover to simulate a fitted sheet, one goes between the guest and duvet, and one goes on top of the duvet.

Hotels normally don’t wash the comforter between each guest (gross), and only wash the 3 sheets which are quick to strip and replace for housekeepers.

The downside is that for stays longer than a few days the two sheets covering the duvet tend to come apart. So this is better for short stays which most hotels specialize in.
When you look at their track record with buried gas lines, I’m not sure this will be the safety fix they think it will be
If anything I think it makes more sense to have higher security requirements for a computer that will be primarily used outside of a controlled corporate network.
And don't say the I word even though it pulled me out of long covid after a few hours.
Negative unintended consequences to the illegal AirBnB on my street was having my car shot up. Some of the bullets also hit the neighbors car parked in front of my bedroom window.
The truth is that there 100% isn't anything morally wrong with:

1. Building a rocket company

2. Being a billionaire

3. Going on a flight on a rocket your company built

The issue stems from how the optics of these 3 lumped together appears to the masses.

To the people who are struggling everyday to make a living, it says: "Hey look at how much of a baller I am, I just went to space and you didn't"

Obviously, investing many personnel hours, pain and billions of dollars into a venture just for a "personal vanity project" is absurd and key driver behind these ventures is probably a desire to build the future.

However, most people don't have the luxury to worry about building the future when they're living paycheck to paycheck.

It is difficult to explain how the pie grows and everyone is better off (even if the inventors are the best off) as we invest in technology. The only solution to prevent public backlash to innovation is to make everyone well off enough to want to invest in building the future (and better PR, Jeff Bezos shame on you).
I remember exactly my first time learning to code as a kid, the book I used used the "box" analogy for variables and it worked well. It was fairly uneventful experience, I just worked through the exercises at my own pace and was through the book in a couple of weeks.

The problem with learning to program in a classroom environment is that one kid may find exercise one difficult, another kid may find exercise three difficult, etc, the probability that any kid will get 'left behind' at some point is high. Classrooms are pretty bad places for learning.
While the hardware for the ILLIAC is out of my league as a collector, I’d like to figure out a way to emulate the PLATO software that would run on the amber-colored terminals. I read about it in “computer lib/dream machines” alongside lots of other early timesharing systems.

I always wanted to play with HyperCard too, shouldn’t be too tough to get an old G4 mac booted into it, right?
That's why i left CA.

Hard pressed to find more fraudulent state.
power lines don't explode like gas lines
We have an environment of fear and denial about these adverse effects. Many people like you are afraid or weary of sharing experiences because of personal attacks, gaslighting, and censorship. There isn’t adequate informed consent.

Btw you might want to look into mitochondrial supplements, N -acetylcysteine (NAC), zinc, vit D, even ivermectin, etc. Look at the literature and make your own decisions. There are lots of good supplements that could help manage symptoms with safety.
Don’t even start looking into the public sector pension fund bailouts…
I’m very familiar with skins, Winamp skins being the archetypal example for me. I meant that I don’t remember any such jokes deliberately conflating software skins and human skin tone.
This guy is a bit out of touch with reality. He apparently works on his own as digital design debugging consultant, meaning he likely hasn't worked for larger firms. If he did, he'd know that at most hardware design companies, there's a pretty clear split between design and verification, and people simply don't bother learning the skills necessary to do both. He can bluster on about how HIS consultancy has benefitted from his ability to do both, yeah we get it man, but you're a one-man shop. Specialization, have you heard of it?
Web Assembly is the secure web plugin
Is this true (the railway cost)? Which rail specifically, what destinations/points does it service -- any link/source? Not doubting you by any means, just interested in more information.

Edit: Ty -- interesting.
I upvoted you. Verification engineer and design engineer are sadly 2 different things. I could do both, but I don’t like e and specman for verification and wouldn’t take verification job. Plus this guy is ex-army, I worked with few of this kind. Their people and technology skills were rudimentary. Army is very hierarchical and nobody questions dumb tasks. Sadly engineers do and become Prima Donnas. I can’t deny, that difficult individuals exist, but that’s how real world works. There are no groups in my flour without famous jerk in it in big Corp I work for.
Thanks, I was curious to check :

Pfizer-BioNTech $19.50 per dose

Moderna $25-$37 per dose

AstraZeneca $3-4 (U.S.) in the UK and U.S

Johnson & Johnson $10 per dose

Sputnik V Vaccine $10 per dose

Sinovac Biotech $60 per dose in China ($29.75 per dose)

https://www.biospace.com/article/comparing-covid-19-vaccines...
This is so true. We are living through an era of massive, global, black-box corporations, with ability to directly feed into the brains of its users.

The kind dystopian stories talk about.

Yet, we struggle to regulate them in archaic laws pertaining to old school monopolies.

The Standard Oil of yesterday, is nothing compared to the FB of today.

There needs to be a revision of laws and regulatory compliances regarding these companies. And, I really think, they should happen at an international level.

I mean, probably a 100 engineers who work on algorithms have control over billions of views and what is shown to whom. A small change in a couple of numbers probably changes how much of "counter-point" articles I see on my feed.

That is the definition of monopoly. Not, hurr durr, everyone is free to start a social network.

And we all know how Zuck bootlicked Trump when it came to the threat of breaking up facebook.
I was under the impression that with Windows 10 we shifted to the product being the users data. The customers are now advertisers.
Obviously your comment is sarcastic, but this is worth correcting: Chess is a Eurocentric

Chess came from Persia, or maybe India, and spread both east and west along the silk road trade routes.
The advantage of kubernetes is price and being a standard making staff hiring easier.

F5, autosys, spunk, etc are all much better products to do the tasks you mentioned but cost $$$ vs kubernetes.
Forget Cold War stuff, the US broadcasts state-run propaganda directly to Cuba currently as it has for decades: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_y_Televisi%C3%B3n_Mart...
The California HSR: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
This sounds fairly doable. Rust pseudocode:

```
// Traits for the operations you want to perform...
trait Map<K,V> {
... operations ...
}
trait List<K,V> {
... operations ...
}

// Functions which dispatch for your data/operation distribution
fn gimme_map<K, V>(data: DataDistribution, op: OperationDistribution) -> impl Map<K, V> { .. }

enum DataDistribution {
...
}
enum OperationDistribution {
...
}
```
>Valid solutions to the Schrodinger equation give you the wave function amplitudes in multiple places; the particles in these places can interact with each other still, even if they are 'the same particle'.

I suppose it's destructive interference. It's qualitatively interesting, but its observation is complicated by orthogonal states: when you multiply orthogonal states you get zero. If you can thoroughly dismantle the state to observe it, you still can do it only on microscale, then you'll have a problem lifting it to macroscale evading destructive interference while orthogonal states are all over the place. Anyway, Schrodinger equation describes behavior of quantum states with mathematical precision and the math is quite conclusive that a linear equation behaves in a linear way. When you feel intuition doesn't get you much, you can resort to math, that's why math is seen as an indispensable part of science, because intuition isn't guaranteed to work, which is exactly your case.

>it does not derive from the Schrodinger equation

MWI derives it from the Schrodinger equation. Observation is experience of the observer and can be calculated. Unless you assume that the observer is supernatural and is thus unknowable.
*cloudability
Thanks for letting me know, adding freeCAD right away. :)
This is the EudraVigilance web [1]: European database of suspected adverse drug reaction reports. On this website you can view data on suspected drugs side-effects, COVID vaccines included.

This is the Med Alerts web [2]: The U.S. Government database incidents of adverse health events that follow the administration of a vaccine.

[1] https://www.adrreports.eu/en/index.html
[2] https://medalerts.org/vaersdb/findfield.php?TABLE=ON&GROUP1=...
Well that was a reference to a bygone era when I did in fact have a corner office with an amazing view and yes a door! It was my first job as an intern decades ago. What I've been crammed into since then has never come close. The company at the time wanted to show how great they were by letting the most junior have the best seats.
I'm sort of skeptical of how important EISA was from a market perspective. It seems to have been primarily a premium option-- you might see it in the super-expensive early 486DX workstations with SCSI and a fancy video card, but the commodity desktop with a 386SX, 4M RAM, and a small IDE hard drive was just using vanilla ISA.

From that perspective, all the clone makers really did was being intelligently lazy. They just built IBM 5170s with faster CPUs for years. It was probably MORE effort to develop a custom bus and break all the existing expansion options. You saw some brief experimentation with that for the early "local bus" machines before the advent of VL-Bus, but that was quite a few years after the debut of MCA and ISA had legitimately run out of gas.

EISA might have been important from the perspective of building a vendor-neutral standards process.
It was really infuriating to disable, FWIW. I spent hours fighting with it one day. The UI doesn't let you fully disable it: you have to use registry keys and the group policy editor. The end result has this hilarious property where it is flagging the fact that I disabled it as tampering that might indicate malware? I don't know if I even can disable that part... and I apparently didn't even succeed fully anyway as I now am getting occasional notifications saying Defender did a scan and I am like "as far as I can tell, Defender us fully off" :/. At least I did--as far as I have so far been able to tell--succeed in disabling the "real-time" thing that kept "quarantining" my files.
Call for online abusers to be reported to bosses
Well, given that Multics was much more secure than UNIX ever was, and written on a proper systems programming language that everyone (except UNIX folks) is trying to get back to, probably isn't that bad after all.
I wasnt talking about investing, I was refering to salaries. writing contracts and definitely auditing, which is basically cyber applied to crypto.
and then there's all layer 2 solutions and products on top/side of Blockchain.
Antivirals are a relatively new development. Historically, your only options for most viral diseases have been supportive care (keep you comfortable or at least alive while your body fights off the infection), vaccination, and of course prevention (hygiene, quarantine, and so on).
Motadata
/r/badeconomics is a shockingly sane place considering the sad state of most of Reddit (and HN for that matter). It always disappoints me to see how many people have extremely strong opinions on topics they know nothing about.
If we don't spread to the stars, our entire species will have made absolutely no impact for better or worse on the galaxy or Universe. None whatsoever, no matter how beautiful or horrific our existence on this planet. Unless some more proactive species picks up our 'I Love Lucy' episodes and decides to remember us. Some of us hope for there to be some meaning to our sentience, or at least put off the long night a few trillion years more if the Universe is going to go dark and there is no escape.