skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of that is relevant here - every effect you list (well, not the first one) tends to increase the perceived variety of Chinese surnames, while the observation we're explaining is a lack of variety. That lack of observed variety is due to an actual lack of variety which your effects have failed to mask. And that actual lack of variety is due to the age of the system.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1782/
> Third party devices do need automatic driver install of some form.

I don't see why. Particularly not if the user wouldn't have permissions to do it themselves. If the user doesn't have permission to install a driver, there is probably a good reason for it and the system shouldn't be automatically installing drivers on their behalf either.
You may find these services of interest:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xpAvcGcEc0k
There is also the statement that when an old scientist tells something is possible, then it is certainly possible, but if they express it is impossible, then it is possible.
What problems does Boston Dynamics have?
I had a very similar reaction at first (the exception being first class TypeScript support). I’ve since come around to being very interested in Deno and curious to use/support it more. Here’s what’s brought me there:

- As I’ve adopted ESM, I’ve found Node’s ESM support difficult to deal with. Deno being ESM by default is a huge improvement, and makes portability to other environments much easier.

- Similarly, Deno’s default deferral to existing JS/browser standards helps portability immensely.

- TypeScript isn’t just supported, it’s very fast! Much faster than solutions like ts-node. Not limited/incomplete like current esbuild-based ESM loaders (though I’m actively working on solving that for Node).

- Async APIs are all Promise-based. No legacy sync/callback/promisify.

- Import maps allow complete flexibility with dependencies: you can use NPM or another package manager if you really want. You can customize package management however you prefer. You can completely sidestep NPM audit hell.

- The standard library is good actually! And it’s ESM so it’s immutable by default.

- Quite a lot of stuff that requires build tooling (eg isomorphic web) is not needed server-side at all. But I was curious about your questions about Babel/Flow and it looks like there are APIs that allow you to customize compilation if you need to.
>I'm suggesting that this might be true of making music also.

No, it isn't, because unlike with getting from point A to point B, the end result isn't always the same with music making.

Music, in that aspect, is more like writing code or visual arts. Printing and photography becoming widely available didn't make visual arts worse, they did the opposite, because instead of focusing on just technical proficiency, the art was forced to move in a more creative direction.

With programming, us not punching cards with code and not using assembly as the primary language didn't make things worse, it just allowed us to go on a higher level and create things that would be unthinkable without that.

Same with music making. Being able to record a virtual orchestra in your bedroom studio doesn't make music as art worse, it opens up way more room for things that weren't even possible before. Just by definition, when it becomes much easier and really accessible to record something in your bedroom, which previously only a few extremely rich people in the world with tons of experienced staff could do, it allows for art to evolve faster and move forward just by the sheer drive of all the people who now have access to contribute to it.
That doesn't make sense. Mozilla is forced to do nothing just because Chrome does it. In what way are they "forced"?
That's why I explicitly keep all by websites accessible both via HTTP and HTTPS. I don't care what Google thinks about it and how they choose to punish me. Some of my visitors value the transparency, prevalence and accessibility of HTTP, some value the privacy and integrity of HTTPS. Nobody will force me to give up on HTTP.
Question about the ascii diagrams: did you create them manually, or with a tool? I'm curious because I'm creating a tool that does this as well :)
I thought in NY the corruption was done via "donations" and association with the "Patrolmen's Benevolent Association". They give out cards specifically for this purpose.

From the wording in this article they are pretty brazen about it. Even the official comments don't deny they affect officers discretion.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42780382
Delta actually changes that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
To offer another perspective:

I feel like companies do not discriminate. People do. And thats only natural. Part of the reflex to keep away from the "diseased animal", the "weird" and the different. That same useful reflex that in hindsight manifests in things we consider heinous, like prejudice and tribal mentality.

Unfortunately, most (all?) companies are still staffed by people.

I'm barely 40 and I've been on the position of being the "token old guy" in a few places. I feel that it sometimes affords me with something akin to an interested audience, if only so that people/HR/management can tick a few boxes while entertaining their own brand of inclusiveness.

They shake their mostly empty heads, listening to terribly radical ideas like "keep external dependencies to a minimum" and "stop bleeding that much money on unproven concepts". Your experience does not matter to them, just the ammount of framework swag you wear and the stickers on your backpack. They look you up and down, and they judge you, those with nothing concrete to show but a resume full of bootcamps and hackathons. You eventually feel like you need to adjust to the status quo, if nothing else, as a means to staying competitive, of not showing the disease, the weirdness and the differences.

That's people for you.
You picked the wrong example. Helmets will do very little to reduce fatalities from air travel simply because the mechanics of how those fatalities occure.

Wearing a helmet while driving a car, however, has a pretty good chance of reduxing injuries and fatalities (probably even better than wearing a helmet when riding a bike on a seperated bike path.)

I don't think this is really a question of people analyzing the trade-offs. This how to do with how the risks and the activity are percieved, people are generally really at accurately assessing such risks.
Don't Google et al. already penalize your search ranking for not offering http/2?
I don’t see what’s shady about this because it’s so public. They could do everything that’s happening on phone on the iCloud servers without telling you. So at worst it uses extra bandwidth per upload and some processing power and thus battery life from your phone. The minor advantage is you can actually inspect their procedural hashing algorithm, though not how they compare images server side.

Sure, they could do something else in the future but that’s alway the risk with every update.
I don't think a rust version of sqlite would make sense, rewriting a very mature and well tested library rarely makes sense.

Only if either:

- there are anyway some major changes comming

- or major problems/improvements in maintainability and better external dev commitment/support

could rewriting it make sense IMHO.

Lets be honest many (most?) of the "recent" (~3years) security bugs sqlite had would most likely not have been prevented by using rust, go or similar.

EDIT:

I guess the biggest drawback of C is that it keeps contributors away, but I also might keep some of the contributors projects like sqlite might not want to have away. So depending on the maintainer it might be seen as a benefit not a drawback.
SPJ was the driving force behind the feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/advancing-e..., so I don't think that is true.
Nifty! Simple, exciting and aesthetically pleasing idea. I've known people from Alaska who have to get their supplies flown in, so it's cool you're covering that use case from the start - although apparently that whole service economy is really driven by the smuggling of alcohol, as many towns there are "dry". You may be stepping on some toes if you muscle into this territory.

How does piloting work? Is the goal to make these things completely autonomous, or will there be a remote pilot at all times?

What's the business model? Can I buy one of your blimps, or are you going to become FedEx of the low skies?
I approve of asking the customer to confirm the download.

I have a huge problem with the Chrome implementation: it fails silently. The only way to see what happened after you hammer a download link but your download does not start is to look at the dev console for logged browser errors!

That UX is terrible for customers dealing with legacy sites. It's even worse than the UX for dealing with self-signed certificates - surely an HTTPS site linking to an HTTP download deserves at least the same chance that a self-signed HTTPS site gets?
Same. Was wondering when the conversation would get around to this.

You could take advantage of being SYSTEM much earlier along this cycle and still take control of the computer. This is actually a very nasty bug in how arbitrary code can be run at SYSTEM level when inserting a usb device.
Ok, and, a good state -- I'm thinking that means when there are no syntax errors -- I suppose that generally it's not feasible to compile and run all tests.

One way to use Sturdy, that looks the most interesting to me currently, could be to onboard new team members -- maybe fixing some problem in their first contributions, while they see the fixes happen real time and can ask questions
Can't they just pile it up in a huge salt mountain?
What I really meant, without the fancy language, is that stdlib programmers are crotchety greybeards who don't like change-for-change-sake and so default-deny rather than default-accept random patches. That by itself creates a very different level of stability in these projects, where things only ever change if they really need to to fix a specific bug—and even then, the change is pared down to have as little architectural effect as possible.
I agree about the politicization. But the two are not equivalent. Reticence to take a brand new vaccine on a brand new technology that is still untested is not even close to the people that are currently decrying it for safety concerns after 150m people have taken it and clinical trials have been completed.
Instant dismissal of the most massive unnatural behavior done on earth with literally a mountain of (animal) studies backing it up.
There is nothing at [0] claiming vaccine protection is longer then natural one. It literary claims that it remains to be seen in future research.
> I'm not sure how 21% lower is considered "not statistically significant", in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING > 0% is helpful. Full stop.

Statistical significance has a specific meaning in the context of hypothesis testing. It is a measure of likelihood that the observed result occurred due to a real difference between groups (rather than random chance).
Muh freedoms is why there are still people fighting masks.
That's impressive
I'm comfortable with crypto mining.
> architectures that GCC does not support

Do those exist?

(Yeah, there are some microcontrllers that can only be programmed by the manufacturer's C compiler, that doesn't even support the entire language and is full of bugs. But I would be very surprised if SQLite run on a PIC.)
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Cool, have fun!
To slow the spread so that hospitals are not overwhelmed.
You can be up for letting it spread through everyone, but not think that letting everyone catch it at once is sensible.
"Decision fatigue" is an apt phrase. Reminds me of Joel Spolsky's old essay on classic Windows help asking what kind of help db install I wanted ("compact", etc.) -- to which no normal user ever had an answer.

Don't ask people questions that they are going to answer one way 95% or more of the time, or for which they haven't the context to answer. Just make it easy to change later if you need to.
Exponential Idle
It's not. Because then someone else has to maintain the code you written, and if he cannot see any common pattern in your code he will make 10x the effort to understand the code, that means wasting time and thus loosing money for the company.
I read a term on here the other day called, "Resume-driven development." Despite the term being said in jest, I would be willing to bet there is quite a lot of truth it.
> The new Allocator API will (maybe?) help this.

The Allocator API is about the ability to mix allocators and provide "precise" (per-object) allocation strategies. That's orthogonal to fallible allocation, which is mostly about adding fallible versions of possibly-allocating APIs, and being able to statically remove access to the non-failing one (and being able to implicitly reject any dependency relying on those APIs) (and / or providing alternate implementations which expose a fallible API which is what fallible_collections does, but the stdlib seems to have gone with adding fallible APIs and probably adding a compiler feature / flag to be able to disable the non-failig ones)
I have used TS in the past and want to use it more in the future, so I'm probably counted in that 78%... but for the vast majority of projects I'm not using it. Based on most comments, questions, examples in lib code, etc. I'd say that the number of people using TS is waaaay less than 78%.
Please list the negative effects. Should be easy since there are so many.
Vaccinations are most effective if we reach herd immunity, which requires others to get vaccinated. The safety is not “perceived”, it’s scientifically verified by tracking hospitalization and death rates as it’s been rolled out at a global scale. The reason herd immunity is so important is that those that are immunocompromised _cannot_ safely get a vaccination and thus rely on there being enough vaccinated individuals to reduce the chance of catching it. Further, by many choosing to remain unvaccinated and allowing the virus to continue evolving we greatly increase risk it mutates into something the current vaccine cannot prevent.
Just so we are clear. You're saying that if Covid didn't kill anybody, Sweden would have seen [1] 97k - 14k == 83k deaths in the year of 2020?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
With so many solutions, how could you be sure each one has an important role?
So, it's still linked against glibc and libgcc from what I can see almost all the following are from glibc):

$ ldd deno
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff3fbeb000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007efd30939000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007efd30721000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00007efd30519000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007efd302f9000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007efd2ff77000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007efd2fbb2000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007efd34593000)

But honestly, that's pretty minimal. Just over 80 MB for the base to not have much in the way of dependencies seems pretty good. And given that library extensions are supposed to mostly be done in Rust (if that hasn't changed), those are statically linked by default as well, so that will hopefully cut down on accidentally introducing dependencies from the system it's built on also.
Apparently bureaucracy is not just an office thing.
I already answered the original question. Allow an antibody test to prove immunity.

That's not an answer to the original question. That's an excuse to not take the vaccine, and I've already addressed how these two things aren't the same.
The war we ended was WWII.
sqlite is renowned as a project that tests meticulously; they claim 100% branch test coverage, to the point where a reason they reject current Rust is that they can't achieve similar coverage against the branches the compiler itself inserts as safety checks (that is: they can't use Rust because they can't test safety checks that don't even exist in the language they use today).

And the track record of that approach is, well, right there for you to see.

The idea that what's needed for sqlite's C to be safe is more of the approach sqlite already uses seems pre-falsified, doesn't it?
Exactly. Any business can choose to restrict unvaccinated. Any business can fire their employees for being unvaccinated if they want to.

The problem is New York will fine any businesses not checking vaccine passes and are forcing them to turn away unvaccinated.

Ok - so can the unvaccinated start their own restaurants of only unvaccinated? Can we open up our own hospitals with the nurses that were fired from mandates? Can we setup our own public transportation? Why not?

Is it because of the scare mongering about variants? Well people who took the vaccine are also causing variants, actually their supposedly super-high levels of vaccine antibodies are not stopping breakthroughs that much - so they are putting evolutionary pressure on the virus to mutate and evade those antibodies. It makes no sense to blame the unvaccinated for that. So why take away unvaccinated freedoms to setup their own restaurants, services etc? That's not liberty for a business or anyone really, that's fascism.
I’m not American, and I’ve never heard of one over here.
Wow you’re so tough and edgy. You must have very thick chest hair or whatever you’re trying to compensate for with this rediculous machismo.
Good lord.......I've been on Linux for years and rarely look at Windows anymore but that's dumb on so many levels. Come to Linux. It's nice over here.
How can Twitter win in the longform content? By killing its darling
"The transition to endemic COVID-19 is also a psychological one. When everyone has some immunity, a COVID-19 diagnosis becomes as routine as diagnosis of strep or flu—not good news, but not a reason for particular fear or worry or embarrassment either. That means unlearning a year of messaging that said COVID-19 was not just a flu. If the confusion around the CDC dropping mask recommendations for the vaccinated earlier this summer is any indication, this transition to endemicity might be psychologically rocky."

Diseases that are endemic today, such as chicken pox, once caused epidemics with massive body counts, notably in North America. No vaccines, no advanced medical care, and no natural immunity meant that some villages just ceased to exist.

Today, thanks to air travel, the world is a village. Wuhan is exposed one week, and the world the next. We, the natives of that village, have vaccines and advanced medical care in finite quantities, plus a better understanding of how to reduce transmission rates. That's gone a long way to soften the blow. The transition from pandemic to endemic usually kills a lot more people in a given area, and the area effected right now is everywhere.

The thing is, COVID-19 is not endemic yet and, even once it is, will likely retain the capability of mutating into a strain that causes a new deadly pandemic. Flu is endemic, but another 1918 could happen at any time. Until we've built up immunity to several different strains of COVID-19, every new strain has the potential to overwhelm our medical systems, and a unusually contagious and deadly mutant will always be a possibility.

It's not as simple as flipping a switch from "life threatening pandemic" to "quotidian endemic". There are shades of grey in between that cause varying strain on hospital ICU's, and the transition isn't one-way.

Our village will be hit far less hard if we behave intelligently about disease prevention. Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life.
This kind of position is still pretty common in the enterprise and enterprise-centric consulting shops. Sometimes those developers are also called "designers" or "web designers" (despite doing more development/image editing than design itself). Btw, often the job-title is given by the company. Makes it kinda hard for developers to progress their careers.
There’s a vaccine that has an effective rate of well over 99.9% and is free for everyone in America. The “continued spread of a deadly disease” is among those who choose not to vaccinate. The vast majority of people getting seriously ill and dying in America chose to not get vaccinated AND not changing their habits.
What if I still have documents?
> Adding Rust support would reduce (presently) the number of architectures and platforms that SQLite can target.

I mentioned that but i don't think that's the subject as it does not warrant such a drastic assertion that sqlite can not switch language.
It does sound like they are on the verge of collapse...

"Tallia says his hospital is 'managing, but just barely,' at keeping up with the increased number of sick patients in the last three weeks. The hospital’s urgent-care centers have also been inundated, and its outpatient clinics have no appointments available.”

"Dr. Bernard Camins, associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that UAB Hospital cancelled elective surgeries scheduled for Thursday and Friday of last week to make more beds available"

“We had to treat patients in places where we normally wouldn’t, like in recovery rooms,” says Camins. “The emergency room was very crowded, both with sick patients who needed to be admitted”

"In CA… several hospitals have set up large 'surge tents' outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat … patients. Even then, the LA Times reported this week, emergency departments had standing-room only, and some patients had to be treated in hallways.”

“Hospitals across the state are sending away ambulances, flying in nurses from out of state and not letting children visit their loved ones for fear they’ll spread… Others are canceling surgeries and erecting tents in their parking lots to triage the hordes of… patients.”

“We’ve never had so many patients,” said Adrian Cotton, chief of medical operations at Loma Linda University Health in San Bernardino County.”

...but then again, maybe not. These are all quotes from 2018, flu season.

https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1422243808536715265
I don't love the firebombing, but think it was stupid of the Hague to criticize actions taken after said country attacked others. Wars you start you do not get sympathy for.
Why are you people even picking these fights. Are you SERIOUSLY doubting that the past year of isolation and reduced interaction and reduced opportunities for training immune systems will have an impact on infants? Like, is this your actual position?
Ok, yes. SQLite can switch languages if the objective is to cutoff a large number of customers. Until Rust is well-supported on the variety of architectures that C is supported on, then that will be the result.
I'm pretty much convinced we all have natural antibodies by now.

What convinced you? Because the upward trend of new cases worldwide (including Sweden) doesn't convince me.