skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty odd article to see from fellow doctor and someone who gets angry at stuff like this probably should find another career. Is she angry at the patients who abused their bodies all their lives, resulting in their inpatient stay? All the heart failure patients who simply refuse to follow simple instructions that would keep them out of the hospital? I just looked, 42% of the patients on our inpatient floor with COVID-19 were vaccinated (this is a small hospital, so I'm not making any conclusion based on that).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.10.20210492v...

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7004e4.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7386533/
I think that you never touched Malbolge yourself.

> anything can be trivially transpiled to any turing-complete language regardless of the "difficulty" of the language once basic operators are established

Yes! It already was. There exists the Nagoya toolchain which I'm aware of, but it's generated code simply is too inefficient and unstable (from my testing) to be ran on contemporary machines.
To write efficient Malbolge programs, like I just did, you'd need to implement a good chunk of "basic" operations in Malbolge (or, for the record, low level assembly which maps really well to Malbolge itself).

> the entire sadistic point of the esoteric exercise is to dwell in the agony of unaccomplishment, not roll it up using a toolchain.

It's easy to program assembly, it's hard to write a compiler that targets good assembly. As humans we've been striving to make good compilers for ages, yet still we're not even close. So, I'd say, the fact that I made it _using_ a toolchain makes it even more impressive.

> this audience knows anything can be trivially transpiled to any turing-complete language

This is the definition of Turing-completeness and I'd be surprised if this audience didn't know it. But I wouldn't be so sure about it being trivial. Two questions:

1) How do you "obviously" target cyclic tag systems and the Rule 110 automation?

2) How do you make it efficient? If we assume the simplest way of transpiling, we'll get nowhere near _actual usability_ (to some degree) which MalbolgeLisp exhibits.
> there is a difference in approach in how this should be done correctly vs incorrectly

I imagine you're getting downvotes because you need to expand on this.

What specifically is NYU doing correctly that Cambridge Analytica was doing incorrectly?
First you should configure some kind of authentication. It is fun to remember this 3 years old Tesla example [1]: Publicly accessible Kubernetes Dashboard.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/tesla-systems-used-by-hackers-...
But a lot of them can still be positive (i think 30% with AZ vaccine), and somehow noone tests the vaccinated ones, so you'd never know, and most of them are asymptomatic, so they don't even know it.

I got my vaccine early on, and haven't been tested since.
The mortality rate for younger individuals is very low, and was low prior to a vaccine being available. We are almost 20 months into this pandemic. The virus is definitely more lethal for at risk groups but the lethality for the general population is overblown.
Statistics seem to imply children under 12 are nearly 100% safe (so far). This is a major reason the vaccine hasn't been prioritized for children.

If children were at serious risk here, a children vaccine would have been prioritized long ago - well before we prioritized getting vaccines to the 75 and older age group.

The entire duration of the pandemic has seen such a miniscule amount of infected children - and even fewer with serious symptoms or death - that it's absurd to base policy on this. It's statistically far more likely children will die on their way to school than become ill and experience serious complications.

We should stop basing policy off likelihoods which are prefixed by multiple zeros.
Now let's do obesity. From the CDC [1]:

> From 1999–2000 through 2017 –2018, US obesity prevalence increased from 30.5% to 42.4%. During the same time, the prevalence of severe obesity increased from 4.7% to 9.2%.

> Obesity-related conditions include heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. These are among the leading causes of preventable, premature death.

> The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the United States was $147 billion in 2008. Medical costs for people who had obesity was $1,429 higher than medical costs for people with healthy weight.

Also, if the government really cared about the health of the population, why aren't they mandating exercise or dietary health?

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
I did cover that:

""" None of the examples in the article use a more vague syntax, such as "0 days before the end of the month". """

As another reply points out, it's incrementing the Month set of buckets. I'll also extend with other results I expect:

2020-12-31 .plus(1 months) => 2021-01-31
2020-12-31 .plus(2 months) => 2021-02-28
2020-12-31 .plus(3 months) => 2021-03-31
2020-12-31 .plus(4 months) => 2021-04-30

A normal human has several options, and truncating to stay within the month makes the most sense to the most people most of the time. It's perfectly reasonable to take that step when resolving the indicated date to a representable value.

I'll go further: JodaTime probably isn't focused on Precision Date Calculations; it behaves very much the way I expect someone working with forms and fields, general CRUD enterprisy software stuff, would want auto-filled dates to work.
So is using spermicidal lube considered killing children?

A ball of cells and flesh that cannot survive outside of another human does not and should not have human rights. Otherwise we gotta start considering the human rights of cancerous growths.
I'm not getting it because I had covid before it was even cool(Jan 2020). I also have zero trust in the FDA(See Docu Bleeding Edge) have experienced AE and SAE personally from flu, tdap and hep vaccines and I've watched my step daughter go from speaking and developing normally to pissing herself while rocking and screaming, to be told by medical staff that "it's impossible this was caused by the vaccine, take some ibuprofen".

So yeah, multiple levels, very little trust in the "system" to take care of me and my family.
Yeah, and mutations are most likely going to continue coming from the billions outside the US that are unvaccinated. We'd be much better off spending time getting people outside the US that want to be vaccinated vaccinated then worrying about the holdouts here.
We have never required anything like this to go to a restaurant. Or the gym. Or the beach. This is a huge new step.

Pointing out that children must be vaccinated against viruses that disproportionately harm children in order to participate in public education is true, but irrelevant to the question. Pointing out that we require certain vaccinations of immigrants is true, but irrelevant to the question.

(Not for nothing: we require immigrants to pass a citizenship test and a background check, too. If the standard is "anything that is OK for US immigration is OK for going to Chick-Fil-A", then we're going to have to disagree...)
The numbers as reported by the NYT:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/florida-covid-cases.html

There is an enormous spike happening right now. I believe it is because people have stopped wearing masks and social distancing, and the vaccination rate is ... actually not as bad as I'd expect (50%), but not enough to dampen new infection diffusion, especially given other practices.

The political pushback is going to be an enormous factor. Gov. DeSantis panders to the GOP ignorant; this is, after all, Trump's home state.
I'd like to recommend Kingdom for an unusually elegant take on these game tropes https://www.kingdomthegame.com/

An apparent city builder at first glance, it lands firmly in "survival" territory. The ultra-simple control scheme belies surprising depth and brutal difficulty.
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NFSv3 and NFSv4 clients were fine when local machines over TCP and always-on like with a previous Mac Mini I had but resuming from a laptop was pulling teeth and may or may not have been the reason for some of the crashes I got. iSCSI in theory should be better but I had a lot of problems getting the iSCSI initiator I found to work for myself despite being a pretty simple use case I thought, and I gave up on the project around then as I found macOS simply required more budget for myself to buy an appropriate iSCSI initiator. This was over 5 years ago and things may have changed between then and now.
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> "zero covid spaces"

As a tangent, I wish we would get rid of this "zero covid spaces" mania, makes having a reasonable discussion between those who want to continue our lives as normal as possible given the circumstances (I am one of them) and those who want to get back to an illusory "pre-covid normal" basically impossible.

One of my grand-mothers died of tuberculosis about 10 years ago. Imo it's as nasty a death as death by covid is. A quick web search tells me 1.4 million people die of TB each year, I suppose an average of 1.4 million (give or take a few hundred-thousands) have died of TB each year for the last half-century at least. Nobody ever talked about us disrupting our daily lives in order to bring TB cases to zero.
Children exist.
>It's easy to promote the speed and size of your github alternative when it has a fraction of the features.

At leat this fraction of features works, what can't be said about gitlab and is only partially true for github. It shows repos, files, commits and what not, what features are missing?
Vaccinated people do not spread the virus nearly as effectively as unvaccinated people.

And you did not address the threat to our hospital system, which has been the number one concern for a year and a half. Surgeries are already being halted in multiple states... again. You might view it differently if it was your hospital that postponed your surgery because unvaccinated people had filled all their beds because of a preventable illness.
We’re not talking about criticizing anything; the tweet was racist.
These policies more often than not come from the state level, and are set by the governor or unelected bureaucrats in state departments of health. Washington and Oregon are threatening local school boards which try to set their own non-hysterical policies with fines, loss of teaching licenses, and loss of state & federal funding.
From event founder Jeff Moss's own keynote address:

“Is there a way to sort of confirm immunity on a network, if you take care of your own equipment?” Moss asked. “This is an analogy I like, because if you think about how doctors approach problems, nobody gets up in the morning and says, ‘I’m going to cure cancer.'”

Similarly, security researchers don’t “wake up in the morning and cure memory corruption,” he noted.

While it’s unrealistic to cure cancer, it’s more realistic to be part of a team.

“If you also think about some of the other medical analogies like ‘do no harm,’ they also work well in our world,” Moss said. He cited core principles of “don’t harm users” and “don’t give away their privacy.”

https://threatpost.com/black-hat-usa-2021-mitigating-cyber-a...
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try phoenix's liveview. Beam is built for scaling thousands to millions of stateful processes on a cluster. That at its core was the biggest bottleneck for meteor and for elixir, its more or less a solved problem unless you're talking about google or amazon levels of traffic
That is obviously true but not an argument for a limit. Availability of goods and services could grow logarithmically while prices could grow exponentially, you'd still see linear nominal economic growth.
Azure can't scale?

I can't imagine this happening with AWS, what a horrible PR
If you find this interesting, you might want to read: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/16152.html
Ok, then what about the flu vaccine? Thousands die in the US every year from it.
The garbage collection business in NY is notorious for being run by the mafia. "Cleaning" is a euphemism for the hitman business, at least in movies or pop culture.
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Why do you think 5 or 10 years are important metrics? Why not 40 or 60 years?
For instance, as in the article, provide the examples so that the users have more heads-up as in what is actually happening.

Long term, you might deprecate it and solve the problem with more intuitive abstraction.
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"Nobody" but countless doctors and scientists of the AHA.

"The AHA recommendation to reduce salt intake is based on strong science, not just extrapolations or complex math," Sacco says. "There have even been randomized trials, the strongest evidence we have that show people who follow lower-sodium diets have lower blood pressure and fewer heart attacks and strokes."

https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20110504/study-show...
It’s a bit like cars. Own whatever you want, but the state has a say in what is and is not allowed on the roads they built and maintain.
"We study the spread of COVID-19 infections and deaths by county poverty level in the US. In the beginning of the pandemic, counties with either very low poverty levels or very high poverty levels reported the highest numbers of cases. A U-shaped relationship prevails for counties with high population density while among counties with low population density, only poorer counties report high incidence rates of COVID-19. Second, we discuss the pattern of infections spreading from higher to lower income counties. Third, we show that stay-at-home mandates caused significantly higher reductions in mobility in high income counties that experienced adverse weather shocks than counties that did not. These effects are not present in counties with high poverty rates. Using weather shocks in combination with stay-at-home mandates as an instrument for social distancing, we find that measures taken to promote social distancing helped curb infections in high income counties but not in low income counties. These results have important policy implications for containing the spread of infectious diseases in the future." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7756168/)
I'm glad someone stood up to Jobs, what a complete and utter asshole. Nothing says job security like telling your boss that their demands are "bullshit"
it means the infrastructure for doing a thing is hosted on your machine as oppossed to being served by a third party vendor on their servers. Think pusher or pubnub for instance.
I'm only part way through the book, but agree with this assessment.

I know I try to create ways of automating or semi-automating things to not be in e-mail or slack. The problem I have is that people just direct their reports to e-mail me or @me in slack. I think that's likely because of the "hyperactive hivemind" where that's the quickest way for them to move a task on.

Likewise I see the problem he mentions where people half-ass an e-mail just to move it out of their inbox. I have to fight not to do that myself and it's usually when someone wants "one thing", but that one thing is actually 3+ high level things with other sub-tasks that need to be accomplished.
I don't have proof of any vaccine I have ever received. I didn't need to submit any kind of vaccination proof to go to college. Yes, I got my MMR and Tetanus shots in Kindergarten, but no one has cared since. And even then you can get exceptions. Medical fascism is not normal or acceptable in everyday life. We dealt with far worse diseases including smallpox, polio and many others without this authoritarianism.
I don't remember any WP8 phones actually being a good experience. The high end Lumias had good cameras...once the camera app eventually launched. The low end Lumias were absolutely terrible in every respect. They were dirt cheap because they were garbage. The App Store was a joke and what little software it had was awful.

The Metro/Modern/Whatever UI looked good in screen shots. In actual use the tiles just ate up a lot of screen real estate and rarely refreshed their content when expected. The UI inside apps was equally brain dead with touch elements often lacking borders. So you'd have to hope you aimed your finger perfectly on an icon. Because the UI could become unresponsive for unexpected reasons, especially on garbage phones, even if you hit an element it wasn't clear if the app was actually responding.

Windows Phone 8 and up was a dumpster fire. The highest end phones were just okay and didn't really hold a candle to the Apple and Android flagships of the time.
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So much for that popular media narrative about the Gamestop trading restrictions hurting Robinhood.
They're talking about removing alert(), but there's no mention of confirm()?
Author here: I actually used a thunderbolt nvme and adapter for a bit. Then, for kicks I got another one and combined them in a raid-0 on macos. Realizing I didn’t want to run nvme’s, in raid-0 over two cables in any sort of production (homelab - I use production loosely here), is what sent me down the Thunderbolt rabbit hole that precipitated this blog post.
You don't have to read his posts, the base URL is right next to the title. It is very easy to skip an article if it is not your cup of tea.

Personally I love the posts of Jeff as I think they are very well written and well researched.
I learned most of what I know about the Three Kingdoms era from playing hundreds (thousands?) of hours of Dynasty Warriors. I later read Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the game was pretty close!

(Holy shit I had a lot of free time before I had kids.)
The problem is not the "plus" operator but instead lies in the "month" duration.

Not all months last the same number of days, and while we are at it not all days have 24 hours!

I'd rather move the explicit (and complicated) choice of what kind of month are you talking about (and thus also the relevant discussion about naming) into the operator that constructs a time interval.
Retro telecom/network stuff: X.25, ISDN, Frame Relay, DS1’s, ATMs, early LAN technology, etc.
I respect the profession, but I cannot expect this doctor knows much or anything about the mechanisms by which these "vaccines" work. They aren't biochemists or medical researchers, they are years behind the data if not decades, often times. There are reasons to be aprehensive, especially given the nature of the adverse reactions, it is fair to speculate interactions with very important genes regulating transcription, non-canonical structures and even oncogenes.
Which college did you go to?
> You would be the first person that I've heard say hey I already got it, therefore I'm not getting vaccinated.

The first person I heard say he's not getting vaccinated is a relative who had Covid. He was convinced by an uncle who's an ambulance driver (who later got vaccinated because they forced him and couldn't afford to lose his job).

> Even if you've gotten covid, go get vaccinated

Don't give people medical advice unless you're their personal doctor.
Not all narcissists are grandiose
I was going to say that if they priced it per minute or hour, like some other IaaS offerings, this would have been competitive. I can imagine a developer or occasional user using this for 1-5 hours a day, and then putting it to sleep...

But nope, just checked, it's a flat rate per month, irrespective of use, so definitely looks cheaper to just buy a high-end machine and install Windows on it (or Mac + Parallels + Windows like others have noted.)
I upvoted this. I strongly agree that public health communication has been awful at times and has absolutely diminished trust. Especially the recent f*ck up at the CDC where they spread disinformation about vaccinated people and their ability to spread the Delta variant.
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I think you're misunderstanding the claim. It's name a healthy diet. A single one. A diet which followed to the letter for the time span its prescribed will not cause any health problems traceable back to it. Make whatever assumptions about the hypothetical person you need and assume that they follow the diet for only as long as those assumptions hold.
God, don't I know it. Between Crusader Kings and Stellaris I've burned a good-sized hole in my time budget haha. Great games, though. Stellaris' political modeling is one of my favorites in any sim game.
There was an experimental language called Cecil that had "conditional inheritance". You could say things like

class Rectangle:
var w,h

class Square(Rectangle if w == h):
...

You could then overload functions/methods on both `Square` and `Rectangle` and it would call the correct overload depending on the runtime values of `w` and `h`.
That doesn't hold up. Unless your org is completely inept at device setup they should be able to do the same with a physical PC as well. You don't gain much from provisioning a completely virtual device.
Does cautious science make the state less of a nanny? Isn't the critique of nanny state about whether the state is acting like a parent, knowing what's good for you?
This is all messier because C++ didn't have Concepts at the outset and when it got Concepts those had to have duck-typing instead of having the programmer write down which types implement a Concept.

Both existing templates and any C++ Concept can accidentally implicate something as a duck (or a container) when it actually isn't. Meanwhile for an implementer, the only way to be sure you've written a working duck (or container) is to try it and see. You can't just assert "This is a duck" and have the compiler explain why it isn't AFAICT.

Even if Abseil's SwissTables weren't containers from the point of view of STL algorithms, the only way for Abseil to stop STL algorithms assuming they are anyway would be to purposefully sabotage the API and annoy users who don't need any such guarantee. So that sucks pretty badly IMNSHO.

When this is discussed there are usually two examples in play. One is ludicrous like Stroustrup's "CowboyWindow" from the 2nd edition of "The C++ Programming Language" which needs draw() for Window and draw() for Cowboy. This will be dismissed as a corner case that isn't going to have a real impact. It's hard to imagine some class that "accidentally" offers all the method signatures from your non-trivial concept when it's actually something quite different.

The other is the "backward compatibility" example. You have a better_map your company used for decades, and now some asshole came along and said it isn't a container because you didn't write that down? Who does he think he is?

But actually the problem you run into isn't CowboyWindow or better_map it's faster_map, which has exactly the same method signatures as better_map and so can be dropped in as far as the linker and compiler are concerned, but alas, for performance faster_map behaves a little differently and it must not be used as an STL container. Oops.