skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title definitely does seem like click bait to me, as I went to the source and looked for where it said that and it does say that the Malbolge language (a Lisp dialect) is "almost impossible to use". Does that mean that Common Lisp is "impossible"? No, it doesn't, therefore that is why I think the title is click bait.

> Malbolge is a public domain esoteric programming language. It was specifically designed to be almost impossible to use, via a counter-intuitive 'crazy operation', trinary arithmetic, and self-modifying code.
Back in 2017 a "Humble Bundle" package included the Lawrence Levy book "To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History"[0]. I got the book there and really enjoyed it.

Levy was brought in, by Jobs, as CFO of Pixar prior to the IPO and the book is concerend with more of the business side of Pixar pivoting from hardware company to studio.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28114529-to-pixar-and-be...
Sure if you don't need to build an ecosystem, don't need introspection and can forgo integration, sql is indeed easy.

Also, SQLA proves that an ORM doesn't have to prevent you from getting an efficient solution, you just have to offer several layers of granularity.

Eventually, it's not an or proposition. In django you do use raw sql when you need so. but your auth system doesn't, and a plugin will solve it for you.
I don't mean to be a Tesla apologist, but what's the rate of cars with ICE engines catching on fire in garages?

I only ask because (n=1) I recall a major house fire across the street from me that started in the attached garage when the car caught fire.

The ultimate problem is the same: it takes a lot of stored energy to propel a car 300 miles, regardless of that energy source. Controlling that energy will be challenge regardless.
Yes and as many other people have said in this thread, that's why impossible is between quotes.

After all if it were truly impossible do you think someone could have written anything in it?
It's notable that Starbucks already gives you a discount if you bring your own coffee container, and that they have a propensity of giving you more if your container is bigger.
Two recent major battery fires.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-02/a-tesla-b...

https://insideevs.com/news/373722/truck-trailer-five-teslas-...

We need to start addressing the reality of gang fires from charged lithium batteries a lot more seriously.
The real issue is Facebook preventing research into vaccine disinformation:

> “By suspending our accounts, Facebook has effectively ended all this work. Facebook has also effectively cut off access to more than two dozen other researchers and journalists who get access to Facebook data through our project, including our work measuring vaccine misinformation with the Virality Project and many other partners who rely on our data. The work our team does to make data about disinformation on Facebook transparent is vital to a healthy internet and a healthy democracy.”
I thought there would be more stuff that the patients actually sad, in the end it was just

intubation kills patients

they wish for chest compressions without intubation in the event of a respiratory arrest (what?)

they refuse to wear “muzzles” when grocery shopping

they didn’t get vaccinated because they “just didn’t get around to it”
The ‘vigilance system’ has nothing to say about long term complications yet, hasn’t led to FDA approval, and is neither an accepted nor approved way to test vaccine safety.
Not exactly. Natural immunity is more durable and more complete. Vaccines are often "leaky", offering only partial protection against very specific markers. Whereas NI is more comprehensive and long-lasting.

"Leaky vaccines" result in catastrophic situations like Marek's disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek's_disease
The problem is also that there is political pressure to approve it. That sucks. Whatever time it takes to go through the process is the time it takes. Pushing it through is only going to do two things: 1) show that the process is political and that FDA approval is fungible and 2) make us wonder what the purpose of it is and why we should ever do it at all after this, if it can just be bypassed when politically convenient. Is it just fat to be trimmed?

FDA approval does not confer safety and efficacy. It it there to report empirical safety and efficacy.

FDA regularly revokes approval. That should count for something.
> I get it, you trust Apple. But are you Apple?

I’m not you either, yet you ask me to trust you.

Please, just listen, because you’re clearly not getting it. Nobody knows you or trusts you. Many people, including myself, trust Apple far more than we trust you. This is because Apple has tens of billions of dollars in revenue from hardware sales. Selling some email addresses is going to bring a relatively paltry amount. I can’t say for certain they wouldn’t do it, but it would be really dumb. You on the other hand are much more likely to violate your users privacy because you don’t have another revenue stream at risk.
You’re just wrong. It’s only approved for emergency use - by waiving the accepted standards.
> those who cannot be vaccinated

You mean the same people this mandate will prevent from participating in society?
I agree, but I still think this misses the point about the specific impact of the H1B on STEM workers - the focus of the ieee article. The H1B isn't really about generalized high skilled immigration, it's a more narrowly tailored program specially designed to increase the number of STEM workers (among a few other sectors) in the US. I think a lot of people who object to this would not object to a more general immigration system.

For an example - suppose all produce imported to the US faces 100% tarries. Then one day, congress declares a shortage of lemons and decides that there will be no import tax on lemons.

Lemon growers object, and the answer is: free trade makes everyone better off.

Well... ok. But we don't have free trade, we have a situation where almost all produce other than lemons is subject to extreme import restrictions. Under this circumstance, you'd expect overseas farmers who would like to export to the US to increase lemon production, and you'd expect US based farmers to shift production away from lemons.

I think this is very much what we created with decades of the H1B. We left most professions and trades restricted, but created special visas specifically designed to expose US citizens and permanent residents in STEM to augmented competition in the grounds that there is a "shortage". Even without the employer control over the visa, you would expect an action like this to cause more people who would like to access the US job market to study STEM, and cause people who already have that access to study something else. And I think there's strong evidence that exactly this has happened.

In the absence of these restrictions, would immigrants to the US study STEM or engineering? I'm sure many would. And while some would settle in the valley, many would work elsewhere. many would also choose to become coffee shop owners, surfboard shapers, brick layers, hod carriers, mortgage brokers, tax lawyers, itinerant musicians, nurses, dishwasher repair technicians, and so forth. In fact, the 1.2 million immigrants who enter the US legally without these restrictions every year do just that. They don't seem to think that becoming a STEM worker in a place where a small rundown ranch house by the freeway costs 1.5 million sounds any better than many people who were born with US citizenship do.

That is exactly why the tech companies don't really like freedom-based immigration. Free people can choose not to be developers in the valley. That's actually how free markets work, the whole freedom thing, and in the end, it's hard not to conclude that corporations just don't really like it very much. So the lobbied for - and got - control over who is allowed to live and work in the US and the circumstances under which they are allowed to remain.

The amazing thing is that they somehow managed to position themselves as "pro-immigrant", and label people who think that immigrants should be free to determine the circumstances of their own lives as the "anti-immigration people".
now please translate it into non-marketing words, please.

He says Rust is on the top safe (vertical), but not at the bottom, because the bottom isn't fully proven.

He also says Zig is horizontally safe -> there is unsafe code on any layer, but also safe code.
Also, it doesn't seem like there is something like "unsafe" for Zig. How can you say anything is safe then?

So Zig has one feature that makes it harder (impossible?) to write broken code than with Rust in UNSAFE code.
How does this bring anything to the table besides eloquently dismiss Rusts safety guarantees? E.g. allowing to state libraries to only have safe code in them>

Afaik Rust let's you fully use the HW as well (and as much as possible within safe code).
Nail on the head. That's the problem that the secret sauce solves. Without going too much in to it (because I don't think it's a very defensible moat at the moment), the phone sees stuff on the screen other than the QR code, which bad actors cannot present to victims.
The problem with SQL is integration with the rest of the code. I’ve already mentioned that Java not supporting multiline strings made it exceedingly hard to write SQL in-app and incentivized the use of frameworks; It is equally true that it is easier to deploy a .jar rather than a jar + stored procedures.

To update a stored procedure, you have to execute SQL (as in, load a client, deal with exceptions, then actively load an instruction and execute it), then deal with “what happens if there is already a procedure with the same name, what if it’s not ours, what if you don’t have permissions”, etc. If the upside of SQL is that is is functional, ie you declare what results you want and let the DBMS decide how to execute your query (ultimate declarative language), it is really funny that the DDL is instead an instructive language where you provide commands, and it fails miserably if you give the same instruction twice. They got it all wrong! DDL should be descriptive not prescriptive! It should not be “CREATE TABLE” but “TABLE ___ IS ___”!

It’s all about difficulty; If Postgres accepted “git push” to deploy stored procedures, we’d immediately see webservers implemented in SQL ;)
Very true. Sad that you had to open a throwaway account just to speak this truth.
Covid-19 variants: What comes after Delta?
He's punching down, and is toxic in general. I forgot about it until I clicked the link (or maybe didn't notice it the first time I read it)
Would this title be an improvement?

> Malbolge Lisp is an "almost impossible" language, ...
Vaxed and pro-vax, but I'm pretty opposed to this policy out of NYC. (And I suspect other cities soon). I'm personally a bit of a privacy nut so take that as you will, but open to changing my mind.

To have a different take than other people, I just don't know if this precedent is really one that we want to start, particularly if you are liberal/leftist.

For e.g. let's say we're at the beginning of the HIV epidemic, and the govt mandates a policy requiring you to have a negative HIV test in order to go-to any bar/restaurant etc or there are a bunch of private businesses that say they don't want to risk their patrons from getting HIV, so require a negative HIV test in order to enter, or even that their patrons are just uncomfortable being around people with HIV so they mandate it.

HIV patients aren't a protected class so it could happen and there's nothing anyone can do about it, yet I bet most of the people wanting these vaccine card mandates now would disagree with that policy.

Businesses being able to reject/accept customers can already run into some weird civil rights issues already, and it's strange that so many people who are ostensibly left wing are advocating for libertarian positions on what a business should be able to discriminate on, because it benefits their team this time.

How many people out there argued that a business should have to bake a gay wedding cake, b/c businesses shouldn't discriminate on your sexual preference, but think they should on your personal health decisions? (Which, since vaccines work means that patrons in that business who are vaccinated shouldn't be in any particular extra danger.)*

More frustrating is that if we want more people to be vaxxed there's many more things that we that aren't punitive, but probably don't feel as fair. (aka why did I get nothing for getting vaxed but XYZ got 100-1000$/lottery/free tickets whatever.) Since a large portion of the unvaxed aren't the Trumpian sterotype, but concerned with things like having to take days off of work to deal with side effects. [0]

0: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/poll-finding/kff-co...

* This discounts the generation of new variants outside the business, since this policy is ostensibly targeted at keeping patrons safe, not at being a pseudo-mandate for getting the vaccine.
If the group of people in 2) were not a petri dish for viral mutations, and if my insurance didn't have to pay tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat them when they get hospitalized, due to an unwillingness to get a free vaccination, I would have no issue with any of them.

After a year and a half of this nightmare, I'm not really interested in lifting a finger to help people who are both too stupid to help themselves, and who are putting the rest of us in danger by doing so. If you actively refuse to grab at a life preserver that we're tossing you, it's not on the rest of us to jump in the water to help you.

Full FDA approval is coming next month, but I'm sure by the time that happens, the goalposts will once again be moved, and there will be a new crop of excuses for why people aren't getting vaccinated. This has stopped being an argument about facts a very long time ago - it's now an argument about political identity.
Thank you for providing an excellent example of the fear-based reasoning surrounding "cases". I understand that you are scared, but is incorrect to imply that my opinion comes from a lack of understanding of what you're talking about.

> Why is this so hard for people to understand?

I understand your argument, but I disagree with you, based on a long education in this area, a deep understanding of the data, and personal experience.

> A virus doesn't just enter your body, and quietly go away.

Some do not. This one does.

> In MANY cases, it can have a lasting effect on your underlying health and wellness.

In some, rare cases, we see examples of post-viral syndromes. We have seen these for many different viruses.

> I am vaccinated. I have friends who are vaccinated, and have still gotten COVID. One of them still doesn't have their sense of taste and smell back, after nearly 3 weeks post symptoms.

Again, lingering symptoms following an illness are not unknown. Every time I get a head cold, I typically develop a cough that lasts > 3 weeks. By ~all current evidentiary standards for "long covid", I have had "long cold".

Similarly, my grandmother lost her sense of smell to a head cold when I was a child. She never got it back, entirely. Sad, but not something that we took extraordinary societal interventions to prevent.

> They describe being brain fog, and tiredness that they didn't have before, as well as an "itch" in their lungs when exercising that they didn't have before.

Neither of these are objectively defined. I have an "itch" in my lungs, right now (probably allergies). I have never had Covid. When I don't sleep well (which is often, thanks to the state of our society), I have trouble focusing. Is that "brain fog"?

Point being: some people are going to have after-effects from infection. That's unfortunate, but it's not unknown, and the virus isn't going away. If the choice is to completely up-end our society to prevent people from ever getting sick again, then I'm strongly opposed.
PyTorch is amazing. The article was a good read. Although I'm confused. How can a ML framework be not obsessed with speed/performance?
and since there are 4 people, it ends up being only $11.5k per minute per person.... cheaper per minute than Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic's amusement park rides
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You do realize there were articles about those as well, right? Articles specifically from WaPo.
I think some smaller-time devs don't appreciate that if they "win" against Apple and make them significantly loosen restrictions, users' wallets will tighten, especially for small developers and companies that no-one's heard of. Keeping the App Store low-friction, low-risk, and UX consistent, is a huge benefit for those kinds of devs (the ones selling software or subscriptions, anyway).
He bought a second ticket for a (former) St Jude patient who survived (to eventually become a nurse at St Jude).

She'll be the "medical officer", which I'm not sure is a civilian title or crew one.

Lots of "survivors can do anything" PR, plus there's an angle that space x is making space travel safe/common enough that you don't need to be medically perfect to qualify (she still has some sort of prosthesis from her treatment).

It's a pretty brilliant PR campaign all around.

She'll also become the youngest person ever to fly to space.

ETA: Haley Arceneaux
This is a surprisingly well put together book. I'm no expert in the field, but it covers a lot of topics well, and doesn't seem to be too nvidia-biased either.

It's a pity that the code examples are not licensed for commercial use.
Is this an argument about what an extension can do or what this extension does? It appears not to read any data on your friends at all.
That there is no ISO 8601 duration in Java has always bugged me. Duration() is just a wrapper around seconds and a millisecond part, so you can’t use it for a calendar duration. Even the concept of an “hour” or “minute” doesn’t work because of leap seconds.
Tim Dodd's website also has an article version of the video with a more detailed summary: https://everydayastronaut.com/starbase-tour-and-interview-wi...

> Musk overviewed his five step engineering process, which must be completed in order:

> 1. Make the requirements less dumb. The requirements are definitely dumb; it does not matter who gave them to you. He notes that it’s particularly dangerous if someone who is smart gives them the requirements, as one may not question the requirements enough. “Everyone’s wrong. No matter who you are, everyone is wrong some of the time.” He further notes that “all designs are wrong, it’s just a matter of how wrong.”

> 2. Try very hard to delete the part or process. If parts are not being added back into the design at least 10% of the time, not enough parts are being deleted. Musk noted that the bias tends to be very strongly toward “let’s add this part or process step in case we need it.” Additionally, each required part and process must come from a name, not a department, as a department cannot be asked why a requirement exists, but a person can.

> 3. Simplify and optimize the design. This is step three as the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize something that should not exist.

> 4. Accelerate cycle time. Musk states “you’re moving too slowly, go faster! But don’t go faster until you’ve worked on the other three things first.”

> 5. Automate. An important part of this is to remove in-process testing after the problems have been diagnosed; if a product is reaching the end of a production line with a high acceptance rate, there is no need for in-process testing.
I like this idea. Can we do something similar to how Frame.work laptops work and just provide the connection to/from the chassis as USB-C?

It'd be great if the next version of the compute module would provide thunderbolt 4 instead. I think we'd be able to provide both power + 40GB nic support over one connection.
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"The average elementary school teacher in Nassau and Suffolk counties earned $90,560, while middle school teachers earned $90,650 and high school teachers earned slightly less on average at $88,390."

Those are averages, from almost a decade ago!

https://libn.com/2012/06/13/long-island-teachers-highest-pai...

But if you think you can apply for and get one of those jobs, that's not how it works! Most openings are filled though nepotism. They'll have a few candidates come in for interviews, but they already know who is getting the job. And it's the niece of a school board member or something like that.
I wonder if this is due to the mouse requiring a sort of constant attentional feedback loop as you look at the screen and guide it where to go.

Even if it's subconscious and technically faster, or even an illusion - I feel like mouse is consuming more cognitive resources.

The feedback loop with keyboard can feel quite different, in flow it feels like you issue commands and look for immediate response.

Also, when doing a repetitive task you quickly pick up key rhythms and patterns without needing prodigous memory to recall every possible "shortcut".

What I am not sure the user interface testing covered is making users perform the same task 50 times per day.

I don't think that using keyboard to control mouse has the same advantages as a keyboard-native interface.
> their app on the FB platform ... this group is using a browser extension

and that is the gist - is your browser a part of the FB platform or not (the situation of ATT network and the telephone and even just the phone book). FB behaves like it is and like as a result they have control over it. And them getting their way means we ultimately lose very important area of general computing. That has been already happening as unapproved ways of calling web APIs have been met with responses from C&D all the way to criminal prosecution.
Not quite 700$ but I recently bought a Laptop with a Ryzen 5700u (8 cores, 16 threads) and upgraded the RAM to 40Gb. Easily under 1000$ brand new.
Universal income for open source maintainers
Only the very wealthiest of land-cultivating peasants owned large animals at the time, though (and pretty much never horses). Also, you wouldn’t feed human edible vegetables to animals, that would be very wasteful.

More importantly, these income taxes were based on rather small fraction of revenues, since they were only based on agricultural production, and not on household production. Obviously, it was extremely impractical to tax household production, and it still is. Importantly though, back then, typical household consumed much more of its own production as a fraction of all consumption than today, and as a result, less of their real income was taxed.

Here is a way to think about it: if you buy a shirt from someone, you might need to pay the sales tax. However, if you make your own shirt, you aren’t going to pay tax on it. Today, you wouldn’t actually do it, because other people can make a shirt with much less effort than you ever could, so it’s still worth it for you to buy someone else’s product and pay the tax, because the productivity gains of trade will more than pay for what government skims from the transaction. However, back before industrial revolution, the differences in productivity weren’t nearly as big, so it didn’t alway make much sense to specialize in everything and trade.