skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In general all of the simple dialogs (alert(), prompt(), confirm(), and beforeunload) are deprecated and being removed slowly but surely from the web platform. They use trusted browser UI, which opens them up to abuse, and they block the event loop, which is not in keeping with the web's cooperative task model. So this is just a first step toward eventually completely removing them, which will take many years.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857...
I think that speaks to the rapid evolution of the virus, more than to the lack of a natural immunity process. It's terrifying how quickly COVID has evolved, and given more time in the human species, it will evolve further. That's why the push for vaccination is so important. There's even people pushing for prophylactic use of other medications to completely stamp out COVID for the simple reason of - you do NOT want this virus evolving any more than it has.
Sure, but I mean, I literally always thought this service was a joke. It never even occurred to me that this was a serious project, I thought it was like tacocopter for how silly it was (don't get me wrong, I love tacocopter).

If Amazon's leadership did too... limited resources and lack of support make a lot of problems impossible to solve.
Account sharing is never unethical. It's my account and I'll damn well give access to whoever I please. Services such as Netflix mitigate this by limiting the amount of concurrent use, which is fine.
I think Rust solves a real problem personally. TDD is honestly a bit too much, but testing is good. Reactive programming I don't know much about. For agile, I always thought of it as a way of putting the responsibility of projects back into the clients hands. Since you're always following what he's telling you each week/two weeks, if he's unsatisfied at the end, it's easy to gently tell him that you only did what he asked for, compared to the more "waterfall" where he could argue that you didn't meet the requirements. Code review I'm not sure, I haven't experienced it much.
I agree with your assessment, but I'm also glad that games like Kerbal Space Program exist.

There should be room for experimental, simulationist and niche games too, not just for the tried and true crowd pleasers, because how dreadfully boring would it be otherwise?
Upspeak and vocal fry are tone and frequency modulations promoted by mass media. It was not widely diffuse 20 years ago. Valley talk was one that came out early -79s I guess. But these two has begun to pervade media. Both men and women are guilty of both. It’s unnatural but it’s an affectation like others.

Indeed raising your tone as to construct a question does inject uncertainty into a declarative sentence. In talking with peers that’s fine. In front of an audience it’s as welcome as the people who spray spit while they talk.

Question. Even if there’s a company that agrees with her take (female owned or female run?) would they take her? Can you predict what her next motivation will be?

Maybe she has a book planned instead.
Does anyone know if I installed ubuntu on a m1 apple mac would I get pci passthrough to gpu. That would be no right because that isnt possible due to the hardware.
I was going to do the ubuntu conversion myself but I am running a developer beta and the commands don't work and if I wait longer it might just be in the next LTS or release of ubuntu by the time Monterey is stable.
It's a mixed bag in Aus.

Rent is listed per week prices but you'll see some landlords calculate it out by the day rate if you want to pay monthly. Others use the 52 week rate divided by 12.
Software / on screen virtual keyboards are a thing. You probably use one everyday if you have a smart phone. The same thing is available on your laptop / desktop as well, though not quite so convenient without t9 or swipe-typing.
It really is not, he was pushing disproven treatments at the time (hydroxychloroquine) which many people still think is a valid treatment today.

It is clear from the data on who is getting vaccinated that folks who voted trump tend to be less likely to be vaccinated. I doubt they're hesitant because of Vice President Kamala Harris' reasonable words.
I don't doubt that a delivery company would want to do things as cheaply as possible, but I also don't oppose regulations to prevent them from skimping on certain safety features. We do, for example, require Amazon delivery vehicles to follow all vehicle safety regulations (or, if there are cases where they're not enforced, they obviously ought to be).

It might be reasonable to worry that delivery drones will suddenly take over cities before regulations can even be put in place (although that apparently hasn't happened yet). But it's not reasonable to assume that there's something unique about drones that will make them inherently more impervious to reasonable regulations and thus inherently much more dangerous than, say, existing delivery automobiles and airplanes. In fact, I would expect any remotely competent deployment of delivery drones would be much safer than the delivery automobiles they replace, simply due to the baseline accident rate of automobiles.
Intel has a plan to go beyond 3nm chips
I thought you were going to suggest a simple drone landing pad at every location. Plus, you'll need to provide a way for the drone to connect to power for a bit of a recharge. Your Alexa will be able to share wifi with the drone so it can map out its next route while it's charging.
Hear hear. My take: web components + light tooling like Lit can do 90%+ of what React claims to do and it's way leaner and closer to the HTML/JS specs. I have to work with React sometimes because, well, a man's gotta eat…but I look forward to the day it's no longer the hotness du jour.
Eradication of Covid Is a Dangerous and Expensive Fantasy
Well 70% of people adults are already on board, so we don’t need to worry about besting that number. The question is how do reduce resistance. My totally made up theory is that some people are just generally resistant to things being “pushed” from above, and some people are more concerned about new technology than others. Both of those things will probably improve as this cools off and becomes less political. In the mean time, there are other things we could be working on.
ungated: https://archive.is/LvLRf
If you actually want that, then you need some kind of megaproject to build vaccine factories to supply the entire world and to distribute them to the whole world's population. This virus doesn't respect borders.
Hi, thank you for your podcast. I've been enjoying this episode so far, and I'm at the point where the transcript says "[inaudible 00:37:20]". I think Andrew says "Kris Tate", short for Kristopher Tate.
India is a very bad counterexample. 1) Think tank estimates of 10-fold higher mortality than official should be taken with a grain of salt. 2) It is a poor country with many problems – corruption (they failed to deliver oxygen cylinders to hospitals just because nobody cared), 3) healthcare issues (untreated TB, infectious diseases etc.), 4) social aspects (housing, slums, overcrowded places). Do you know what is the average life expectancy in Indian slums? The last time I checked it was just about 40 years. They can and will vaccinate against covid but to help slum dwellers they will need much more work and social changes.

In short, it is in no way comparable to any western country.

Brazil mortality however is only <50% higher than the US so it is not even worth to analyse it.
That's because of the licensing issues, especially H.265/HEIF. AV1 has barely any hardware support and software decoding is terrible for performance, so while many browsers can easily build in support, it's not really worth it to enable it by default.

VP9 and WebP patents are all granted freely by Google. WebP images aren't as terrible for power consumption even in software because the browser doesn't decode 60 of them every second.
Yeah, I live in a relatively rural part of the US and can drive hundreds of pounds of stuff at 60 miles an hour to almost anywhere within a few hundred miles.

That doesn't eliminate rapid delivery of small packages as a business model, but it really constrains what is worth shipping using a drone that can carry a couple of pounds.
At some point, society has to reach a decision so it can function. You can't just throw your hands up in the air waiting for some higher power with a clearer moral standing to show up and do something universally morally unambiguous.

We use the court system as a way of resolving conflicts where there are competing interests and arguments to be made. The Supreme Court had a similar situation happen 116 years ago, and they found that the public health interests outweighed the competing arguments.
Studied 3d graphics with the team at sao paulo.

The film was completed much earlier. But distribution company held it for reasons nobody know. /insert business conspiracy theory.

It was very amateur. 3ds-max-4-like program on dos, called topaz (never saw it after that). and render "farms" were just using the animators (486?) computers at night.
Your logic doesn't seem sound here.

One corp owning another isn't some arbitrary thing, they control that subcorp, are liable for its action, and so forth.

The inverse is true. They're one thing. The separation is only legal, not moral.
I'm not saying that there will not be people who do not have lingering symptoms. We already know this happens with other viruses.

I'm arguing that most of the science here is bad, and even if these things hold up, the risk of ~10% of the population having anosmia for a few months is not worth the permanent restructuring of our society to fixate on the prevention of a single illness.
Your comment as written was unclear. I was trying to provide clarity.
In honor of this movie, Kevin Costner's "Waterworld" was dubbed "Kevin's Gate" by press at the time.

In all seriousness, Cimino's magnum opus was just one of many high profile disasters that resulted from directors being given complete creative freedom throughout the 70s.

It turned out that having the suits breathing down the necks of filmmakers was, perhaps, not such a bad thing afterall.
This entire line of phones licensed the branding from Lucasfilm, and I remember this would even be marked on the Motorola ads.
In the United States we're basically not allowed to create lottos. It sounds like maybe half the dev shops in the UK are just creating online lottos? Or at least that's the impression this story is giving me.
Ooh. Glad you caught that!
The free market approach would work but the real-estate markets are not free markets: There is rent-seeking zoning density restrictions that make the land artificially scarce.

Reverse the zoning density restrictions and this will be a return to eliminating the market failure in real-estate.
Not sure if this is in opposition to your point, but if there can be businesses that cater to them by lowering their risk profile I think that's great.
What about "bestiary"?
your "poor and minority populations" argument strikes me as disingenuous bad faith; if there are poor and minority populations who dont want to be vaccinated, they will be safer by not going into crowded spaces as well.

but above all, some of us have children under 12. we'd like them to be safe. we have relatives who have weakened immune systems, who are in great danger even though they are fully vaccinated. These are the people who have literally no choice between a. hide in fear for years or b. expose themselves to great danger. vaccine mandates allow these people who otherwise have no choice to be more free in the world, by asking those people who totally have a choice to please make that choice by either not entering our public spaces, or getting vaccinated.
How is "The witness is only relevant to one of the eighteen charges against Assange, and even in that charge he was mostly used as a character witness to label Assange as a malicious hacker." logically congruent with "has nothing to do with the US appeal of the extradition ruling"?

Seems a pretty good contradiction, unless I'm missing something.
Haven’t we seen several recent papers suggesting animal reservoirs for the virus? If those papers are correct, it seems that elimination from the Earth is never going to happen (well, it’ll happen when the sun turns into a red giant).
>...or screen recording malware that can extract company data.

I have idly wondered how trivial it would be to exfiltrate data through HDMI. HDCP strippers exist and would let you record the output with perfect fidelity (1920x1080x3 is a lot of data). Simplistically, could compress data files, push through hexdump, paginate at chosen rate, and done.
The problem is not in the `plus` method, as it's working as expected when the unit is in days.

It's the `month` unit that is misleading, since `1 month` looks like a constant value but really isn't, as the behaviour depends on the other operand, breaking associativity – or any expectation on how addition between two constants work really.

It would be less confusing if the API removed `month` as a period, and as a programmer you would have to write:

periodLength = t.advanceMonths(1)
t' = t.plus(periodLength days)

This way you can only `plus` in constant units (days), and `advanceMonths` is free to follow any heuristic and return anything depending on the value of `t` without breaking the expectations of `plus`, or you can have any number of functions with different definitions for "advance N months".
Yes, travellers might bring the virus in, but the vaccination count determines whether they spred in the population.
Ken Liu has some excellent short stories. His collection The Paper Menagerie from a few years ago was particularly great. (The titular short story won a Hugo.) He also translated the first and third books in the Three-Body Problem series.

Ted Chiang is another great SF short story writer.

Definitely Maybe by the Strugatsky brother is excellent – though it was published in the 70s so maybe not "modern."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitely_Maybe_(novel)
I was thinking it would be a collection/comparison of system calls (and/or fundamental userland OS interfaces) across various operating systems.

Like what are the different types of synchronous and asynchronous IO in Linux, Windows and BSD, and how do they compare and contrast.

A pretty interesting article though, even if it was completely different from what I was expecting.
This time, we've got effective vaccines.
I think some citations and evidence are generally preferable to broad sweeping statements prefixed with "in my experience" - I'm not saying you're wrong but you've given me no reason to believe.
"Lots of Ada is embedded on small platforms where they statically allocate a fixed number of objects anyway."

Which is what a lot of c code does too. And zig might too?
Our government wasn’t any better.

January 20th, 2020: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

February 11th, 2020: “In our country, we only have, basically, 12 cases and most of those people are recovering and some cases fully recovered. So it’s actually less.”

February 26th, 2020: “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.”

March 10th, 2020: “This was unexpected. … And it hit the world. And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
Sounds very dystopian when you describe it outside the context of a life-saving measure. I don't like the idea of a "government stripping life of all its luxuries" either. ...but are you sure they don't have that authority? There have been plenty of times I've had luxuries stripped in the last two years. What about enjoyable, luxurious substances? International travel to exciting places? Driving around without a seatbelt?
This is how you lose the time war is unlike any other book I've read! I thought it was super disorienting – and I loved that.
Be very careful, though! I just saw that okamiueru pointed out that the sample code from the book is under a proprietary license that forbids commercial use: https://github.com/Apress/Ray-Tracing-Gems-II/blob/main/LICE...

So if at some point in the future you want to write code like this, reading this book might putting you, your employer, or free-software projects you contribute to at legal risk :(

The Ray Tracing Gems I book code doesn't have this problem! https://github.com/Apress/ray-tracing-gems/blob/master/LICEN...
Fusion electricity is what will provide humanity with energy for centuries to come. It'll be available very soon and until then it does not really matter whether we will use nuclear or coal. We just need a final push for 50-100 years and energy issue will be solved once and forever. All the environment issues will be dealt with, when we will have a free energy and better technologies. Spending too much effort on cleaning environment now is not wise.
yeah, the old clintonites, the sinemas, maybe you can toss mitt romney in there. they're the most powerful political bloc currently, if you're new to politics
So I use a keyboard layout (Irish) from a country where this a need some people have but not frequently. There is the compose feature, but it's located in the button underneath escape (labelled ` ¬ ¦), not overloading single quote.

The one issue with that arrangement is you run into video game server admin/modding tutorials and the like and they describe pressing "~" for the console, and it's hardcoded to the keycode and doesn't consider the keymap, so it's actually looking for that button, except getting a literal ` requires a double tap of ` rather than all the UI elements telling you it's ~.

Oh and quoting code blocks in markdown can be kind of annoying. Or inline variable names that start with a letter that supports the accent.

But I think I'd take those limitations over losing single quote.
Anti-vaxxers are not exclusive to the US. There are idiots everywhere in the world.
i think most chargers (phone etc) have a "don't leave unattended while charging" warning as well just to cover their bases.
perhaps you could have a glance at "surface" and see if it's what you want? I think the new .heex format also gives the basis to build what you want even if surface isn't the answer for you?
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Dealers of Lightning has an interesting chapter about Pixar's PARC roots in the SuperPaint group. There's also a very good article somewhere on the web (I can't find it now) about the NYIT years; the NYIT lab was a very strange arrangement. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnpqnm/the-1970s-graphics-pr... is short and OK.
Especially with spinning scythes.

It's interesting tech, but a nightmare for the liability lawyers.
> With the NHS you need to "play" the system a bit unfortunately. The key is finding a great GP and asking for him/her by name when getting an appointment. There are a lot of terrible GPs out there and if you just listen to them you may get screwed. If you have a good GP (I would recommend looking up the practice and figuring the head GP there and then asking for him/her by name) the healthcare system is pretty good. Yes specialist referrals can take a while, but again if you have a good relationship with your GP they will be able to expedite it for you.

Which means that the quality of service is worse than other countries, where you don't have to "play" the system or become friend with a GP to get referrals. Again, not my problem, I can use private healthcare, but this is not civilized.

> It's definitely not the same as the German system for example where every minor issue gets a million tests and multiple specialists, but usually that isn't needed. If you feel you need that and want to spend thousands on private appointments with specialists it is not going to be a good system for you.

As I said, it's not the same as the German or the Italian system, it is evidently inferior. I don't feel I need to spend thousands of pounds in appointments (I don't, my insurance pays), I feel I need to get a western European healthcare service (which, again, I get through my insurance), and I'm forced to go private because the NHS is not good enough. The point is that a German (or a French or an Italian) gets that for free and a Briton has to pay thousands of pounds for the same level of service.

> FWIW I've never ever heard of anyone that hasn't had loads of ultrascans in pregnancy. That is not normal at all.

I wrote "you can go through an entire pregnancy without ever seeing an NHS gynaecologist", not that you don't get scans. By the way, you do get 2 scans from the NHS, not loads. You get to see lots of midwives, which are not doctors, and lot of doulas, whatever they are, but unless somebody who is not a doctor thinks you need to see a gynaecologist, you don't get to see one, which is not civilized.
Is that literally the same character for both? On my layout `e leads to è whereas alt-gr+e = é. é != è in many languages.
Without dipping into this woman's specific situation; I wager the reason they get hostile is because it is continuously explained with studies that include quantitative analysis, qualitative, anecdotal, and longitudinal and yet somehow the question is always "well could you explain it again/differently/more thoroughly"
The article mentions other stores that have tution programs for its employees, but it left out Academy Sports + Outdoors. (Source/disclaimer: I used to to work there.)
66.3% of NYC adults are fully vaccinated as of today. And 0.2% are getting new shots every day (and have been for a while).

It's all on the same page I linked.
How common is it for men to avoid interacting with women at work? Couple of years ago there were Memes and things about men too afraid to talk to women at work for fear of miscommunication.

Has that actually come to anything? Are men reducing their interactions with women at work?
https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_using_spec_for_validation
Why aren't you using Ada then? Serious question. Those of us that have been around a while notice all this safety rhetoric around rust and immediately think of Ada.
I didn’t say I was convinced; it’s the argument they returned to, tho.
It's a fair point, but we just don't know yet, which it is important for research to continue. From an intuitive sense though, I think our economic growth and our standard of living is tied to energy costs, and being tied to a low EROEI system means to me that it will limit our potential since a larger % of the economy must be devoted to building/replacing them rather than doing other things.
And companies wonder why loyalty is hard to find...

Far easier to jump ship at opportune moments for fast tracking a career than fighting dysfunctional internal incentive structures.
> most users

As a user, I would not. I hate months. They're inconsistent. I hate them.
> It'll be available very soon

Lol
That's a fun one:

> The Court decided that Filburn's wheat-growing activities reduced the amount of wheat he would buy for animal feed on the open market, which is traded nationally, is thus interstate, and is therefore within the scope of the Commerce Clause. Although Filburn's relatively small amount of production of more wheat than he was allotted would not affect interstate commerce itself, the cumulative actions of thousands of other farmers like Filburn would become substantial. Therefore the Court decided that the federal government could regulate Filburn's production.