skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Git didn't need GitHub to become popular. Torvald's name being attached to it is what did that. But GitHub is what gave Git the near monopoly on open source version control that it enjoys today. Once it became more convenient to contribute to open source projects by forking projects on GitHub than to self-host, that created a barrier against using any other version control system. Other version control systems would be much more popular if it weren't for GitHub.
Then the city states go fight each other. Or somebody assembles a large enough militia to loot one city after another. Or multiple city states band together and lord it over others.
Ticks are incredibly common where I live (Austria) and so is hiking. In our local "shark tank" show someone pitched a freezing/electroporation tool (modified lighter) to remove ticks; I guess [1] is the final product, which sounds pretty interesting IMHO.

[1] https://help-pen.com
This is at least part of the reason that reasonably strong engineers can learn a new programming language in under a day. The paradigms just aren’t that different.

I realize there’s a cottage industry of folks creating new languages all the time. But when you read the docs they all bucket into a few categories, and the differences are syntax, tooling and how system services are accessed.

All that being said, these three categories do matter. Programming using tools like autocompletion, syntax highlighting and the like does speed productivity.

But, like human language, at some point the “right” set of primitives are discovered. From that point on changes become more about culture and fads than concepts.
"Joseph Bernstein is a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News", would have saved few minutes had they put that info at the top.
This seems like a fairly negative assessment of the facts. I think many people turn to online dating voluntarily, not as some sort of last ditch effort to find a partner. Au contraire, the people I found in the typical settings where you meet new people like bars, night clubs, and doing my hobbies, tended to be a very particular kind of person. I would never have found my current partner in any of those places, and I know the same to be true for many of my friends.

Online dating is just increasing your dating surface area by 10-100x fold.
Yes. And I don't think Le Corbusier ever wanted to replace the best of the old housing, he wanted to replace the mass of bad building.

And he had rather ahem ideas about how people ought to behave, once they had spacious apartments with hot and cold water. Which is the part I was reminded of when I read the article we're discussing. That view of the city as a set of streets to drive through is like his. Very simplistic, one-sided, optimisable but not humane.
if we want to nitpick I hate the fact that many dynamic languages need keywords to express very little information.

If js was made with types then the syntax `any x` (yeah lose the colon too, who gives a shit) is suficient to express that x is a variable, then `number x` could mean variable of type number, and `const number x` could mean constant of type number.
The stated reason for refusal was concerns about side effects.

As another comment already mentioned, smallpox vaccines (at least historically) tended to have undesirable side effects, like permanent scars. Smallpox vaccination is probably not a good proxy for vaccination overall. It's not worth getting vaccinated for smallpox unless you expect a decent risk of exposure.

What do they have to hide?

Privacy should be the default.
> in several countries the bulk of transmissions are from mother to infant during delivery

Is this the case in the United States, where the CDC makes recommendations?

And if so, why not administer it only to those children of mothers who test positive?

We don't put everyone on a statin simply because most (i.e. more than half of) people will eventually develop heart disease. Instead, we test and administer statins to only those people who have heart disease risk factors.

We don't give everyone bariatric surgery or weight loss drugs simply because most Americans are overweight or obese. Instead, these remedies are administered only to those who are most likely to benefit.

No drug or vaccine is without side effects. It's clear that there's no such thing as informed consent in today's world. The patient cannot be informed because the side effects are hidden from him. And he definitely hasn't consented if coercion was involved in his decision to receive the treatment.
The most irritating thing to me is the constant shuffling of the menu. I'm sure they're running some sort of A/B test, but every update seems to randomly moving the menus around for no apparent reason.
Nice read. Personally, I am not as unhappy with the state of tooling. With LSP, many programming languages are getting better VSCode, Emacs, Vi, etc. support. XCode is actually nice to use, on a fast M1 Mac. I think wide adoption of deep learning is the biggest breakthrough in recent years.

EDIT: I have used Lisp heavily for 40 years, and I have done a few Smalltalk projects.
To put some numbers on it, using N terms of the Taylor series for sin(x) [1] with |x| <= 0.1, the maximum error percentage cannot exceed [2]:

N Error Limit
1 0.167% (1/6%)
2 8.35 x 10^-5% (1/11980%)
3 1.99 x 10^-8% (1/50316042%)
4 2.76 x 10^-12% (1/362275502328%)

Even for |x| as large as 1 the sin(x) = x approximation is within 20%, which is not too bad when you are just doing a rough ballpark calculation, and a two term approximation gets you under 1%. Three terms is under 0.024% (1/43%).

For |x| up to Pi/2 (90°) the one term approximation falls apart. The guarantee from the Taylor series is within 65% (in reality it does better, but is still off by 36%). Two terms is guaranteed to be within 8%, three within 0.5%, and four within 0.02%.

Here's a quick and dirty little Python program to compute a table of error bounds for a given x [3].

[1] x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7! + ...

[2] In reality the error will usually be quite a bit below this upper limit. The Taylor series for a given x is a convergent alternating series. That is, it is of the form A0 - A1 + A2 - A3 + ... where all the A's have the same sign, |Ak| is a decreasing sequence past some particular k, and |Ak| has a limit of 0 as k goes to infinity. Such a series converges to some value, and if you approximate that by just taking the first N terms the error cannot exceed the first omitted term as long as N is large enough to take you to the point where the sequence from there on is decreasing. This is the upper bound I'm using above.

[3] https://pastebin.com/thN8B7Gf
That's absolutely true, but I wonder what it will take to take that point home for everybody.
Pompeii's public area is riddled with thermopoli ("fast food joints"), some of which are in quite good condition. The difference is that this one is in fantastic condition, which is wonderful: but it's far from unique.
"Good" like when you're eating steak in The Matrix.
I was referring in general to wearing masks, not strictly gauze ones. They probably realized afterwards that gauze ones weren't the most effective, but some of todays people jumped straight to refusing masks.
It makes you question the way we call animals / humans 'complex' life when you see how insanely intricate what happens on such a tiny scale even in something as small as a virus.
Germany and Italy did have troops in Afghanistan, but they worked to keep the peace.

And China has not only a border with Afghanistan, it also has a history of shady dealings with neighbor countries in trouble.
They are posting on HN and lambda the ultimate so they can stay relevant.
I think how we got to this position is key - people did try and explain why vaccines are safe and you should take them.

And it didn’t work.

The thing that does lover vaccine hesitancy is banning people spreading misinformation.

It’s unfortunate, but it’s the discovered strategy for saving lives.
I went thru a course on lateral thinking (and other things) at my work, years ago based on the books by de Bono. My natural mindset apriori is this kind of stuff is bunk, but i must say, i found the process to be pretty useful. The main premise is that to find breakthrough aha ideas, you associate two things that are not at all related to one another, and see what the natural questions and consequences of such a pairing produces. You get all kinds of wild ideas, most are just silly, but occasionally you get really good ideas that perhaps you would never have thought of.

An example might be, if you want to improve cars, work through what it would mean if dogs were the primary drivers of cars. What would you change about cars to make this easier? Then once found, are there any of these that would make sense for human drivers?
"This is the current crisis"

Well, I would say, it is the current crisis, the western world has its attention on.

My point was, if you are in a position to help, you should find many beneficial organisations in need of support - all the time.
> The biggest problem with tinder, at the moment, seems to be people using the "passport" system

Yeah tell me about it :p I live in Norway and about the only people I regularly match with are people from South America. And in a way that’s neat, they are nice people and I want to go there some day. But I really wish I’d be shown to more people near me so I can actually meet someone IRL and have it turn into something meaningful. I cannot afford to travel right now and even if I could, COVID-19 is still making it difficult.

All I want is to meet some women, hang out with them and find someone that we both enjoy being around each other.

I’ve had very few matches with people actually from my country in the past year and in every year prior.

I’ve been to a grand total of one date in the past year. And I’ve had proper text conversations with maybe a handful of people from my country at most.

Maybe it’s a sign that I should earn some
money that would allow me to leave this country for somewhere else, idk.

One thing is for sure, Tinder is just not my arena in this country. So I’ve uninstalled it for like the 20th time. We’ll see how long it goes before I install it again, so I can continue meaninglessly swiping on people from my country that are not going to even see my profile, just like it always is save for a few people a year.
WordPress supports RSS natively and it won't be long until it is running 50% of websites.
> "It's for yours and _everyone's_ health" is the most common premise used to reduce privacy and increase control over people.

I feel this one is rather new. People are by now trained to recognize the "we need surveillance due to kiddy porn" pattern. Many people are still unaware that the assumptions underlying most of the covid counter-measures are flawed and not supported by the data.
1. Would it be correct to describe memoized DOM approach as combination of direct manipulation (like hand-written jquery, or what svelte compiles to) + a mechanism to avoid invoking selectors by caching references to DOM elements? Or is there more to it?

2. It'd be a good experiment to separate out the memoized DOM implementation from imba codebase in a way it can be used by different frameworks, just as virtual DOM libraries got popular after react. If someone were to attempt this, where would you recommend that they start with the imba codebase?
That's what Replicache[0] solves, it provides for Causal+ Consistency across the entire system.

"This means that transactions are guaranteed to be applied atomically, in the same order, across all clients. Further, all clients will see an order of transactions that is compatible with causal history. Basically: all clients will end up seeing the same thing, and you're not going to have any weirdly reordered or dropped messages."

[0] https://doc.replicache.dev/design

Note: There's more in their links, but the linked sites are down..
What makes it so difficult?
Fixed vs. Growth Mindset: 2 Attitudes That Shape How We Live and Work
I suppose, as mentioned in the essay, it's handled by Replicache.
Figma's blog has a few valuable articles on that subject: https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figmas-multiplayer-technology...
Consumer behavior drives industry to do the things it does. People demand more meat, industry cuts down large swaths of forest to make land on which to graze cattle.

I don't get how people think this is supposed to work. It's like they just want to not take any responsibility whatsoever for how their behavior affects the world. Where do you think the change is going to come from if no one is willing to alter their lifestyle?
Right, I understand your point better now and agree. I'm not sure what medical training consists of today, but improvement on this issue should start there.
The HN crowd does get their panties in a bunch when anyone mentions vegetarianism, population control, or anything related to Socialism.

You can't have it all. Well the very wealthy can, but you can't.

Not eating meat would probally overnight stop the deforestation of the Amazon. Plus you desk jockeys might live past 60 in decent health.
Snails are common.

Almost always prepared "French style" with garlic-butter sauce which kind of masks the true flavor of the snail. By themselves the snails have a mild vegetative flavor with a bit of umami.

The only other preparation I've heard of was pickling. And also in frittata (omelet). It would be interesting to know how the Romans prepared snails.
Why hire if you're "Solo"?
Oh great; thanks. I hadn't seen those.

Unfortunately there wasn't much discussion on any of them.
According to the article, the Phase 1 clinical trail will take under 2 years.

"Moderna is seeking 56 individuals, aged 18 to 50 and who are HIV-negative, for the trial, which is estimated to begin on August 19 and conclude in spring 2023"

I would imagine that larger trials would be conducted in places with rampant HIV spread, right? Which shouldn't take an inordinate amount of time.
This really needs an “about us” page. Trust (particularly with access to something as sensitive as an AWS account) is important here.
It's been brought up before but this style this guy has of writing paragraphs of one sentence each is very distracting and doesn't add any value.
What Wetransfer learnt from merging 80M users across 3 products
Also some evidence that vaccines are helping with long covid https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/may/18/long-covid-s...

The difference with mRNA vaccines is they let your body build antibodies without it even knowing the virus itself
A lot of what is commonly called cellophane is sadly not actual cellophane (actual cellophane is kind of crinkly, like old-fashioned clear candy bags). It's been replaced by polypropylene in most use cases as far as I can tell.
thanks for that link. Thats what I expected.
How often it’s seen in training data that is, which is pulled from data in the wild.

It’s simply not possible to do depth estimation like this without priors. That’s one of the serious limitations of such systems - you have to train on every class of object you don’t want to hit.
This dilemma is addressable in a rational framework. Utilitarianism suggests you can attempt to quantify the harm done by your purchase, and decide how to discount that harm against your own self interest. You're also able to estimate whether the costs involved are probably so marginal that it's outweighed by the cost of thinking about the dilemma such that it would be best to commit to either decision rather than continue deliberating.
Indeed, any useful program must have state and therefore cannot be entirely functional.

Only components or individual functions can be functional in style, the goal being to have as many of those as practical so that you don't touch state often and hopefully, only in a few places and using methods which set the state (rather than letting individual components "reach in" and set it themselves).
It is amazing what the hunt for terrorism has done to modern countries. They only look fearful and weak, exactly what professional terrorists always wanted them to be.

Anyone who knows bureaucratic behavior knows that even in the absence of real terrorists, people will find their way onto lists like these.

I hope the lists will leak to a wide audience. Find the cases that are wrong and sue those responsible behind the desks. This is the only way this can stop.

The website is extremely horrible. Did use a dev browser without adblock. Grave mistake.
It doesn't work that way, it just makes you come up in the "target" destination's searches but it still will say "678 km away" etc. So it's explicit and obvious to all who sees your profile.

It's a good feature, you can match with people a few weeks before going to another destination or on holiday etc.
I don't think the GP comment was being that specific. An HIV vaccine would be huge, but the fundamental research that was necessary to get to the point of a viable vaccine (pending successful trials, obviously) would pay dividends far beyond just HIV.
> Losing data is common and should not be a big deal for a County sized office, muchless a Texas based one...

But it's a big deal when it prevents the state from putting a person who committed murder in jail, right?

Humans make mistakes, but it seems like law enforcement should have a big enough budget to make that /really/ unlikely.
I don't think it is as much about profitability but more like who should pay for it. In one world view, the people who use it should pay for it, whatever that costs, in the ticket price. This gives direct pressure to keep costs down.

Another view is that it mostly benefits people in London so it should come out of London's Council tax (which I think part of it does).

The other view is that it is a general benefit to society and can and should be bankrolled by government. Then the problem is that the pressure to keep costs down is perhaps political and it is hard to know how much subsidy is fair.
Data Lineage at Slack
You are right. Personally I think one of the keys is life itself. We still haven't figured it out. It seems all forms of life stem from other forms of life, we haven't observed spontaneous manifestations of life from matter - apart from a few components that might be a (dead) protein.

But even apparently very simple processes like photosynthesis are terribly complicated. (BTW I very much hope the research in this area progresses and we could have artificial photosynthesis ready for mass-scale deployment before CO2 rises to the point of no-return.)

Maybe there is something very important right in front of us that we don't see. The current approach to consider life, thoughts, consciousness and so on as purely material phenomena have its place, but they monopolized research for historical reasons. Unless your career is rock-solid like Penrose, you won't even consider getting near challenging the current status quo regarding, say, the relationship between matter and consciousness for fear of ridicule.

Another obstacle is the limitations of human brain, including short- and long-term memory, the amount of information we can process, retain, meaningfully map and so on during the period of human life. Then there are several unknowns, for example the depth of the universe(s) in macro- and micro-scale. I somehow accepted that I'll never know these things, but it's worth trying anyway, I mean what more important could there be?
> 20 years on they still don't get it

Here's a great clip (from the amazingly deep diving podcast What Had Happened Was) with El-P from Run the Jewels, et al, about why RTJ gives away their albums, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdtLTw7Xsj8.
I have an original AIBO. Left it on its charger, off, for a prolonged period after getting a real dog. Once the new puppy had acclimated to his new home after a month, I turned AIBO on.

O.

M.

G.

New puppy freaked out. So badly I never turned it on again. Imagine how you would react if your chair just started wandering around by itself.

Several dogs later, AIBO sits nearby - in want of a functioning battery. Anyone have pointers on finding original AIBO batteries?
We are then "more complex": we contain multitudes, some of which (gut bacteria, mitochondria, gametes) look like entirely separate life forms of their own.
Given the new mindset that's forming, maybe this vaccine should be required. /s

Sarcasm aside, I'd be curious to know if there's anyone who wants to require Covid vaccinations, but to let ones like this remain voluntary.
Hell, they could at least offer RSS support to twitter.
If you have thousands of examples of censorship over the past 18 months that you can share, doesn't that disapprove your accusations of censorship? If there were censorship, you wouldn't be able to share any examples because the examples would be censored.
Trigger warning: Trypophobia
does "echo" count ? I do "echo mynote123 >> notes" occasionally when working with a codebase especially a novel one.

Then emacs org-mode for more structured notes.
Clearly sarcasm if you read beyond the 5th paragraph.
> I wonder if a rational approximation might not be so bad on modern machines

Uops.info says the throughput of 32-byte FP32 vector division is 5 cycles on Intel, 3.5 cycles on AMD.

The throughput of 32-byte vector multiplication is 0.5 cycles. The same is for FMA, which is a single instruction computing a*b+c for 3 float vectors.

If the approximation formula only has 1 division where both numerator and denominator are polynomials, and the degree of both polynomials is much lower than 17, the rational version might be not too bad compared to the 17-degree polynomial version.
I've generally had better experiences with DOs than MDs when it comes to listening and working with me to understand how and what I feel. On the other hand some people may prefer the more "clinical" (not sure if that's the best word) approach of MDs. So just something to keep in mind if you're unhappy with your current doctor.

edit: For those not aware, a DO is fully licensed to practice medicine (in the US at least), no different from an MD. Don't confuse them with chiropractors (DC) or similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteopathic_medicine_in_the_Un...
Some of us don’t think it’s normal, nor do we want to put up with it. Fully 60% of the voting population is deeply invested in seeing their team win regardless of what policies they support. We have to fight both democrats and republicans to make any progress. It’s a tough row to hoe.
I think they have their own ML platform because they hired a lot of engineers, not because the business necessitated one.
Fun prank if you have some young male friends:

1. Create profile with hot babe pictures

2. Set search proximity to lowest setting

3. Swipe furiously until you find your friend

4. Wait for a match

5. Screencap the ensuing conversation

I did this to a couple guys in my platoon. The results were definitely worth the effort.
You can't. No useful program is stateless. Only examples and proofs-of-concept can be purely functional.

The lambda calculus is a way to define math in the functional style. Guess what? It needs state passed in to work. The names and orders of the integers must be passed in and held in a "state" in order to do anything useful. Since functional programming is centered around the concepts from the lambda calculus, this implies that all functional programs must have some "state" somewhere in order to start or do useful work.