skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A starting and stopping clock is one of the things I absolutely can't stand about American football. Games last entirely too long because of it. One of the things I like most about soccer is that games start and end quickly, and I can do other things with the evening. When I was a student in Europe I could meet up with some friends at a bar after class and be home in time for dinner.
On the contrary. Static modules would mean static classes with no possibility of changing a class. That would be another pretty nice optimization you could do, making class lookups a lot faster. I am not alone in thinking this would be a good idea. The Instagram folks wrote about it, iirc.

That rationale for using an exception is only valid because CPython procedure calls are expensive. A proper optimizing compiler will have a hard time rewriting that implicit try/catch into a goto.

I think Dart nailed iterators in this regard: no special values, and a protocol that is transparent to the compiler, which has the benefit of requiring no special cases at all. In the current state of cpython, of course, that falls into the "2 expensive procedure calls that can't be inlined because everything can be mutated at any time" type of a problem.
Mildly amusing that your sole defense is the size of the economy.
There is a presumption here that "local" grocery stores are an unalloyed good. In my experience, having grown up in these kinds of places, they were often more exploitive and extractive than the national chains. When Walmart rolls into town, many times it breaks a local monopoly that used this fact to its advantage with both customers and employees.

A problem in the US is that there are many thousands of communities that are below the size/density threshold where the traditional Walmart model makes sense. Dollar General seems to be well-optimized to fill this part of the market.

Another nice thing about national chains is that they mostly stay out of community politics. Local monopoly business owners have a bad tendency to leverage that status into completely unrelated political and personal matters.
Certain viruses maintained their lethality as time went on. Smallpox was very lethal throughout time. Influenza lethality ebbs throughout history. I don't think we can or should depend on less-lethal, common-cold-like symptoms from Covid-19 at any point.
You dont have to go to prison for prison to have an effect on your mind.

Do you get the analogy?
Panasonic is the licensee of the factory while Tesla is licensing the technology for manufacture.
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> Usually viruses become more transmissible and less lethal in response to rational behavior in their hosts--but humans are proving we're not rational.

I was under the impression viruses became less lethal because if they became more, they'd kill off their hosts and be less likely to spread.

There's a chance you get some super virus that becomes both more transmissible and lethal, but that is very rare (from what I can see).
> your entire program doesn't live in `Maybe`

Well... if your entire program is dependent on some input that may or may not exist at runtime... then it kind of does live in `Maybe`.

I have no issue with unwrapping a `Maybe` to throw an exception. But I do find it a bit ironic that the post is about parsing instead of validating, that the perfect construct is right there to exemplify how it could be done, but the author then chooses to eschew it and instead show examples of how validation could look.

The body of `main`, for example, could be refactored to something like:

maybeInitialized <- (getConfigurationDirectories >>= head >> initializeCache)

Which actually shows how `Maybe` can be used to simplify the system. If you want to unwrap the maybe at this point to throw, go for it! But the above is a much cleaner representation of the program than what author is trying to do (it's crystal clear how the cache might get initialized). I would expect "Parse don't validate" to be about how useful `Maybe` is to combine parsing logic into a functional flow vs. how validation leads to an ugly procedural approach.
> All viruses get less lethal as time goes on, not stronger,

This isn't true. Given certain assumptions, it's true on average, but those assumptions don't apply in this case.
I think it's fine to lump fungi together with plants for the spirit of this discussion. The distinction between plants and fungi are made on the basis of metabolism but in this thread people are clearly talking about external behaviours observable with the naked eye.
I think it is a matter of education. Software developers learn to program in traditional languages, and Lisp is just an add on. So they really don't know how to use Lisp well. Languages like Python and Java benefit from all the formal education programmers have received in the concepts they use.
This isn't new and your example is a good one.
Craftsman tools have always been cheaply made with poor metallurgy. They got by with the lifetime warranty because they marketed themselves at consumers who don't rely on their tools and don't use them very often. At least as far back as the 1950s and 1960s, people whose job depended on their tools wouldn't touch Craftsman.
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Something like that has the value of leading everyone down an interesting path while looking up something else.

I'd probably just veer off by mentioning that Sissy Spacek is Rip Torn's cousin (wait! who is Rip Torn? who is Sissy Spacek?)
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76% with one dose,66.7% with two doses. Number of cases are going down from about 400 a day a week ago to about 200+ this week per day.
Where is that figure from? What does influence mean in this context?
Given that you could probably build a Merlin out of solid gold and it would come in cheaper than an RS-25, that's not exactly saying much...
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, during the Age of Sail fathers who worked as sailors were frequently absent for months or even years.
Yes we can do multiple things at once. In the thread you joined we are discussing the single most important thing. So what really is your point here?
Only if you measure manufacturing in dollars, which is then artificially inflated by the military sector.

If the US had to manufacture the products that are currently manufactured in China, the amount of dollars generated would be lower, or the share of people employed in manufacturing would explode. GDP would of course decrease.
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Is there a reason we shouldn't expect it to behave like most coroanviruses?
As a parent, I've been watching this play out in real time among other peoples' children.

Most parents I know are deliberate about limiting screen time and ensuring their children don't substitute screen time for other activities. It's actually not that difficult to do so as kids are really good at finding entertainment in their environment even without electronics.

However, some parents give their kids all the tablet, TV, and phone time they want. As they grow up I can see them failing to learn how to play with others their own age because they'd rather reach for a screen than make an effort to do something. They can be frighteningly grumpy when separated from their electronic devices and can even throw tantrums until their parents cave in and give them more screen time.

FWIW, I've also watched parents reverse this trend by slowing weaning their kids off of screen time and substituting other entertaining activities. It doesn't take a whole lot to nudge people in the right direction, but putting that phone down and doing literally anything other than stare at a screen can be a difficult first step to take.
My intel MacBook Pro runs AAA games just fine on it’s Windows Bootcamp partition.
Whether or not you trust these companies with your biometric information (I don't), this is a raw deal. Judging by how damaging it would be if your biometric information was stolen / weaponized against you, they'd have to offer me upwards of 6 figures for it at minimum.

Storing this in the cloud is an all-time bone head move.
yes ive done this recently with both spi and i2c. it works with modules, the hardest part for me was finding the right way to create the device tree so eg, my module got the spi bus over spidev. same with i2cdev if you are not using userspace
There's a big difference between the two in business model: Sony and MS had to care about attach rates and third party software sales, because they (at least initially) took a loss with each console sold: The only way they could make money was if people bought a bunch of software so they'd get licensing revenues.

The Wii was designed with different assumptions in mind, which led to a lean machine they could sell at a profit. Someone buying and Xbox and Gears of War was a huge problem for Microsoft, if someone bought a Wii and Mario Kart, it was just fine for Nintendo as long as the customer was happy: Every sale was profit, plain and simple.

I don't know about the Wii not being good for 3rd parties either, it's more that the Wii didn't do what the 3rd parties wanted to do (high tech edgelord games). So we got completely moronic things like a Castlevania fighting game, a Soul Calibur that wasn't a fighting game. How about Dead Space, a slow, ponderous horror title? Yeah, the devs turned it into a rail shooter, just about the most anti-horror genre choice imaginable.

In simple terms, they thought the Wii userbase were morons who would lap up anything - after all, they'd bought a motion control toaster to play technically really simplistic titles, and in the devs' world, technically simplistic = bad. So they gave people disrespectful shovelware, which, surprise surprise, bombed.

They had the opportunity to make solid titles - the Wii may have been a toaster, but it was still beefier than the PS2 or Gamecube which had a lot of really good titles and anyone who's played Metroid Prime knows those controls are crack.

I think the big miss with the Wii wasn't how good/bad it was, but communication. What was the philosophy behind the machine, Nintendo communicating that, the devs really trying to understand that.
As stated publicly by the BIS (central bank that governs all other central banks) in the top comment of the referenced thread, the difference with CBDCs would be granularity of targeting, in real-time, at the transactional level.

As to the question of "why bother", one stated reason for CBDCs is to enable nation-state competition with Facebook's Diem cryptocurrency, whose stated reason for existence is to compete with Bitcoin, whose observed reason for existence is to make a small subset of humans more wealthy.

There are also incentives for non-government entities, https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/get-ready-for-the-no-buy-li...

> First, in January, PayPal blocked a Christian crowdfunding site that raised money to bring demonstrators to Washington on January 6. Then, in February, PayPal announced that it was working with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to ban users from the platform. This week the company announced it is partnering with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to investigate and shut down accounts that the ADL considers too extreme.
The reason to not want children to get COVID is that they will spread it to their parents and grandparents, who are more vulnerable. It’s not about whether the children will die, which everyone agrees is very low probability.
Think however what happens if developers start actually targeting Proton, instead of Windows. Suddenly Microsoft isn't the one holding the reins :).
Are you arguing that this worked? Their centrally planned economy was a disaster of ineffeciency compared to western price based systems.
I'd love to answer that, but I honestly don't know.
> but I have never been this old before, so for me it's all new

How poetic
Are you implying anyone who is not woke is an asshole?
And that's even before evaluating what they consider to be hate speech, and speech that violates platform rules.
The UK has, or had a strong culture of "it's just a cold, I'm actually fine, I'm Ok to work today, really".

I am hoping that this bad habit has died unmourned during the COVID pandemic. I have no intention of of commuting to an office when I have a cold, and every intention of telling others who have one to go home already.
Yes! This is awesome, I saw this a couple weeks back. We're trying to get in touch with Cementa, but it seems Scandinavian holidays are getting in the way so far. Definitely an ideal place for us to start. That plant does 70% or so of Sweden's cement consumption
Only in America things like this can happen.

A whole industry bootstrapping itself to make semi-conductors doubling every 18 months, going from exotic, mission critical hardware to commodity; SpaceX is doing the same thing with flight hardware. Contrast that with previous generation engines (the RS-25 comes to mind) with a sticker price of 125 millions... per engine! [0]

[0] https://spacenews.com/aerojet-rocketdyne-defends-sls-engine-...
> All viruses get less lethal as time goes on

Smallpox.
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Why is intelligence seen as some inescapable playbook of evolution?

Evolution has no agenda or goals, other than to select for survival. Most species on this planet have a low intelligence yet are successful, and don't seem to evolve into the direction of intelligence.
There are a couple of points where I disagree with you, but one in particular I hear very often and should be debunked.

A colony on mars, even of significant size and population, is 100% condemned to certain death if separated from Earth. It would be, for all intents and purposes, in the same "basket".

Google "how to make a pen from scratch" for a quick primer into why, but the tl;dr version is that it takes having a huge industrial base already existing in order to keep, let alone advance, our current technological level. And Mars is not friendly enough to support us with lower tech.

Our intuitions go the way of "we can put 1000 smart people there, that's enough to survive and thrive". Well, we as a species can't move our microprocessor factories from Taiwan in less than a decade, and you expect them to be rebuilt on Mars from scratch?
Modern JVMs have a GC that has O(1) pause times, often of less than 1msec regardless of heap size. In ZGC and Shenandoah, GC is fully concurrent and pauses are basically imperceptible. Even walking the stacks to locate pointers into the heap is done whilst the application is still running.
Definitely one for us to get involved with. Unofrtunately it's a 5 year timeline, but that's still not a bad ROI
> What? Who wants to share their what now with whom? Why would they do that?

Accounting or budgeting services for example.

> What data? Aggregated? Individual banking?

TrueLayer & Plaid are gateways that translate bank's individual APIs into a single common one, and their clients pay them for the privilege (typically a monthly fee per active account connected).

> What regulated data? What regulations?

There are EU regulations that force each bank to provide an API to any AISP (account information services provider) or PISP (payment initiation service provider). The (A|P)ISP can request the end-user's consent (typically via OAuth) to access this data.

> My bank doesn't offer an API.

This is why I dislike the name Open Banking. It's not actually open. You have to either to through tons of regulatory BS to become an AISP or go through a gatekeeper like TrueLayer or their competitors (which will happily "lend" you their AISP license). Fortunately, there are modern banks such as Monzo or Starling which allow the end-user to use the API to access their own account, but technically this has nothing to do with Open Banking (even though it's often the same API).
From delta, we clearly have evidence that on a short timeframe a version with _wildly_ enhanced transmissibility has evolved. So speculating that changes will continue is reasonable. Additionally, we know that leaky vaccines and continued spread may cause greater pathogenicity.

> https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

So that's not wild speculation, it's a well-educated concern.
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This is very cool. I can get a lot of the skepticism here and almost certainly this technology can end up with unsavory results if abused.

So perhaps that's my question -- how are you thinking about anti-fraud and anti-abuse at a high level? There's no HIPAA or CCPA for deepfakes yet, but one imagines that's only a matter of time. How are you planning to address this? Do you have any interest in having a hand working with lawmakers to develop this legislation to ensure responsible usage?
It's not an assumption, it's obvious to anyone that looks at data rather than of blindly listening to sensationalized media bullshit.