skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be unpopular in these parts, but... just don't do anything and actively choose not to care about things like telemetry which have no tangible effect on my experience.
How do you establish long term safety of the vaccine if you don't have a control group of randomly chosen, unvaccinated people? And if you don't, then how did it get approved?
It would certainly be interesting to see the data, but I’m not sure if I’d expect the results to point towards any particular monolithic user trends. I think a lot of users (perhaps the majority?) are using flagship devices released within the last year.
Thanks. Also, herein are some links to other non-gated benchmarks vs. Cassandra 4.0, DynamoDB and Google Cloud Bigtable:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28297382
Mechanisms of slab avalanche release, impact in Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959
It doesn't matter whether their clinic runs those tests or not. Any physician should be able to order tests at other labs like Labcorp or Quest Diagnostics.
Honestly, who is reading and following a recipe that is longer than a list of ingredients and a few sentences of instructions?
How are cross-distro Linux app packages looking these days? Not so much the packaging aspect but the sandbox environment they set up to run third-party apps in peace. Is this something librem is working on?
A million sounds impressive, but this is clearly not serialized throughput based on other comments here. Getting a million of anything to fast NVMe is trivial if there is no contention and you are a little clever with IO.

I have written experimental datastores that can hit in excess of 2 million writes per second on a samsung 980 pro. 1k object size, fully serialized throughput (~2 gigabytes/second, saturates the disk). I still struggle to find problem domains this kind of perf can't deal with.

If you just care about going fast, use 1 computer and batch everything before you try to put it to disk. Doesn't matter what fancy branding is on it. Just need to play by some basic rules.

Primary advantage with 1 computer is that you can much more easily enforce a total global ordering of events (serialization) without resorting to round trip or PTP error bound delays.
Yes, the most convenient way to install most proprietary apps on Android using a FOSS client is through Aurora Store, a frontend for the Google Play Store: https://auroraoss.com/download/AuroraStore/

Other sources I trust include:

- APKMirror (operated by Android Police): https://www.apkmirror.com

- Aptoide (only trust signature-verified "Trusted Apps", including all apps in the main "apps" store/repository): https://aptoide.com

- Direct downloads, when offered by the developer
Fox News realizing that the propaganda it usually puts out might be literally killing their audience, decides to pull back on the stick.
Bill and Melinda Gates Fundation Monopol Der Weltverbesserer
Alle Leben haben den gleichen Wert ...
Wir sind ungeduldige Optimisten, die daran arbeiten, Ungerechtigkeit zu verringern.
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Nicht zum ersten Mal übrigens fällt ein Schatten auf ein so edles Unternehmen. Die Nobel-Stiftung, die jedes Jahr das Preisgeld für die wichtigsten Preise der Welt gibt, soll ihr Kapital in Aktien von Unternehmen angelegt haben, die Splitterbomben und Atomwaffen produzieren.
> Destructors are avoided

RAII in general is avoided, because supporting it gives many unwanted consequences, increasing the language complexity and simplicity going against the goals.

> Unless you enable a particular flag, then you have to do all memory management manually, making code non-portable.

You can make portable code to work with or without the GC, the standard libraries do this. Of course you have more work to support both, but you usually don't need to, choose your memory model depending on your problem requirements (realtime, efficiency, etc) and stick with one.

> Why on earth wouldn't you just use reference counting with destructors?

Reference counting is not always ideal because it has its overhead, and the language is not to be slower than C, relying on referencing counting would impact a lot. The user can still do manual reference counting if he needs to, like some do in C. Also referencing counting requires some form of RAII which is out of the goals as already explained.

> Avoids LLVM because 'C code works everywhere', then doesn't support MSVC.

MSVC-Clang can be used, naive MSVC is just not really supported running directly from the Nelua compiler, but the user can grab the C file and compile himself in MSVC. Better support is not provided for MSVC just because of lack of time and interest. But Nelua supports many C compilers like GCC, TCC, Clang. Supporting more backends than just LLVM is still better than not officially supporting MSVC.

> 1-indexed in libraries copied from Lua, 0-indexed elsewhere.

1-indexing is used in just a few standard library functions for compatibility with Lua style APIs. On daily use this usually matters little, also you can either make your code 1-indexed in Lua style, or 0-indexed in systems programming style, it's up to your choice. The language is agnostic to 1/0-indexing, just some libraries providing Lua style APIs use it, you could completely ignore and not use them, you can not even use the standard libraries or bring your own (like in C).

> Preprocessor model instead of the features being a more integrated component of the language. Aforementioned preprocessor directives get seriously wedged. You need them for polymorphism, varargs, etc.

The language specification and grammar can remain more minimal, by having a capable preprocessor, instead of having many syntax, semantics and rules.
Also Nelua preprocessor is not really just a preprocessor, as it provides the context of the compiler itself while compiling, this gives the language some powerful capabilities that only meta-programming the language to understand better. Calling a preprocessor does not do it justice, but the name is used due the lack of a better name.

> No closures. This one seems the most baffling to me because Lua has the __call metamethod, which is exactly what you'd use for that, and they're 99% of the point of anonymous or inner functions.

The language is under development, not officially released yet, and this feature is not available yet but on the roadmap. Nevertheless people can code fine without closures, many code in C without closures for example.
The plural of anecdote isn't data, but about 20% of the images I post on Discord come from Discord in the first place, cross-posting among different servers.
SF is unpleasant to drive as a human, but slow, dense traffic seems like a near ideal scenario for autonomous. SF needs lots of social calculations if you don't want to get honked at, which is mentally taxing, but they're far from necessary for safety.

Even fairly simple autonomous tech will have better peripheral vision at near-to-mid range than one human can manage, so for all those bikers, crazy walkers, and chaotic 15mph cars you shouldn't hit, it stands a pretty good chance of being better. And when it's not, come to a stop and you're fine (barring some honks) - few are moving fast enough to hit you dangerously hard in those human-complex areas, and you don't need to stop instantly, just fast enough.

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Honestly, I'd put SF at dramatically easier than either residential or highway roads. Residential (and adjacent) has fast-moving cars ignoring signs with obstructed vision, and inattentive humans at relatively high speed (bikers used to low traffic and swerving, kids and animals running literally through bushes adjacent to roads, general lack of care around vision-blockers like fences due to perceived low risk, etc). Who's-at-fault doesn't matter - in car vs human, humans lose, and people rightfully get upset.

Highways also seem harder, if highly specialized: accurate decisions 100+ feet in advance are absolutely critical due to the speeds involved, computer vision at that range has fairly low detail compared to humans, and lidar is practically braille for "car". Radar has trouble distinguishing stopped cars from the road because neither are moving. Ultrasonics as an ultimate backup really only work up to around 10m (and that's about the distance to stop a car at 25MPH, which you'll regularly encounter in dense city traffic).

I'll also point out that more people have died due to Tesla's autopilot on highways than Waymo, Uber, Cruise, heck all self-driving companies I'm aware of at any size combined. They're riding all the terminology lines they can to get away with it, and they may very well have an order of magnitude or two more miles, but I believe the point still stands - highways are hard.
Covid-19 Genomic Epidemiology Toolkit
> "Why is everyone confused that smart TVs are popular?"

In his Appendix, Orwell explains the syntactical arrangement and the etymology of the Newspeak. A living language, such as English, one that has the capability of diverse expression, has the tendency to gain words and therefore broaden the awareness and knowledge of its speakers. Newspeak, on the other hand, loses words, by removing words that represent opposing concepts. Therefore, for example, because the word "good" presumes the opposite of "bad," the word "bad" is unnecessary. Similarly, all degrees of "goodness" can be expressed simply by adding standard prefixes and suffixes to this one root word: ungood (bad) and plusgood (very good) and doubleplusgood (wonderful). In so doing, Newspeak not only eliminates "unnecessary" words, but it also promotes a narrowing of thought and, therefore, awareness. The idea behind Newspeak is that, as language must become less expressive, the mind is more easily controlled. Through his creation and explanation of Newspeak, Orwell warns the reader that a government that creates the language and mandates how it is used can control the minds of its citizens.

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/n/1984/critical-essay...
Been using it since 2017 for IoT time series data. Works great, very fast.

I think the one criticism is that it seems the company has some intentional rough edges on it, in favor of their SaaS over the open source release. It used to be around backing up and managing updates long term ect. They have gotten better but their helm chart for example is very opinionated and uses custom resources in place of say a statefulset. I think their SaaS is overpriced especially compared to reserved instances but that's just me.

Also from my calls with support, they lack direction internally. One time our sales rep and customer success director argued on the phone in front of us if they could bill us for some migration work. We silently let them finish and then said we expect it to be included in our support package based on their argument.
Ah it gets rid of the non-time related bits. Below is a description of the formatting

* id is composed of:
* time - 41 bits (millisecond precision w/ a custom epoch gives us 69 years)
* configured machine id - 10 bits - gives us up to 1024 machines
* sequence number - 12 bits - rolls over every 4096 per machine (with protection to avoid rollover in the same ms)

thanks :)
I feel like the law needs to take a greater role in this stuff. If you looted a TV you have no rights at all over it but if you purchased it legally it should be your device, and it should continue working like the day you got it outside of hardware failure which can be covered by repair and warranty.

Technical solutions will never work because the exact same feature can be used for good and bad.
Analogy fail. Twice. The second failure is a result of promoting a personal hobby horse. Yes, we all know you are biased about C++. No, that doesn't make your bias relevant to all topics. Or any topic.
Author of the article here. I would love to run an unbiased analysis on that, but it would tricky to list and identify all of the companies that flopped.

I guess you could grab a list of every successful and defunct company listed on Crunchbase/AngelList/etc, but there would still be bias, as flopped companies may never have got to the point of creating a profile there, or they scrubbed the profile later.
I have a 3/8" dough joe baking steel slab and even preheating it to 550 for an hour in a "regular" oven never turns out as good as my Roccbox was capable of. I can never get my crust and cheese to match in baking times at 550 degrees. Either the crust isn't cooked enough for my liking or I end up cooking the cheese more than I'd prefer. The only times I've been able to make perfect pizza with my baking steel is when I used it in a friend's professional kitchen with an industrial convection oven that could go up to I think 700 degrees.
The biggest reason was that the Apollo program was able to return film from the surface of the Moon to Earth. Many of these photos weren't returned to Earth in film form. Instead they were developed onboard the spacecraft, scanned, transmitted via radio, and then recorded onto tape on the ground. Every step of that process incurs a decent bit of quality loss.

You can actually tell which probes had a reentry module because the photo quality is pretty stunning compared to the photos transmitted over radio, look at Zond 8 which returned film negatives to Earth.
> Which, in theory, all corporations are legally bound to do.

Which country do you live in, and are they accepting immigrants?
It’s amazing to read the comments on this story. The readers after a year of misinformation aren’t buying it.
For a non-programmer I do enjoy using Python to get my work done and automating everything boring under the sun.

However sharing the code with others always seems difficult and fraught with dependency issues. To a non-pro this next level of use feels out of reach.
Sorry if I confused you. In simpler terms imagine this scenario:

You burn $1M dollars, but beforehand you take note of the serial numbers on each note. Then you tell your bank those specific notes got burned, and ask the bank to re-issue you the notes, with the assumption you will not burn them again.

Cryptocurrency is different. If your wallet.dat's password is forgotten, or the wallet.dat gets irrecoverably deleted, then you have no recourse. Banknotes are simply that: Notes saying you own a certain store of value.

Coinbase still retains your money even though they issued you with the equivalent BTC. If you burned the BTC assets, that's on you. Coinbase gets to keep the banknotes you gave them, however, and there is no mechanism to burn those assets, in line with your crypto assets being burned.

I'm trying to say that Bitcoin transactions should be reversible like cash, since cash can be recovered if it was burned by accident due to serial numbers, and that cash is just a fancy IOU note.
You are incorrect, the FDA only approved extending the emergency use authorization yesterday, but for some reason the media suggested that it was formally approved.

Read for yourself:

https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download
https://xkcd.com/2501/
I don't think parent is saying that Jobs should be "scrubbed from the history books", quite the opposite really.

They're saying that we shouldn't just talk about all the positive things that Jobs did as if he was some kind of paragon - the history books should also talk about the bad.
> The US also didn't actually invent putting cooked beef between two slices of bread.

If you're talking about ground beef, yes, they invented. The original prussian tartare steak was uncooked, made with horse meat and not served on bread. The american "Hamburguer steak" was invented in the Port of NY inspired but radically different from the dish served to immigrants coming from the Hamburg port.

> was popularized around the globe by the US, not by Italy.

Just no. São Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina, already had pizza before Americans "popularized" it, because they have Italian immigrants since the 19th century. And to this day their pizza is closer to the original than to the NY style.

> classic, bland Italian version of 'pizza'

Go to Italy. Go to Sicily, Basilicata, Liguria, Lazio, Sardinia, ... their pizza is very far away from "bland".
Tangential to article topic:

When I first read "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" it gave me such a profound understanding of the unpredictability of not only brain injury, but mental illness and the fragility of human nature, that I thoroughly believe it should be required reading for late primary schoolers or early high-schoolers to help guide them through their life's journey of interacting with the full spectrum of humanity they may encounter.

A handbook for empathy.
Being a monopoly (or to be precise: to be in a dominant position), is not problematic in EU competition law. It is the abuse of said position that is illegal!

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/publications/factsheets/ant...
They mention TV license is needed to reactive the device if it stops working, and I remember back when I was in uni they told us we need to have a TV license to watch TV in the U.K.

So I am wondering would this mean any government that wants to collect money for people watching TV, Samsung TVs will provide these gov with the power to do TV licensing automatically?
A similar situation I heard about; a local pizza shop used to have a policy that if an order is messed up, the staff would be allowed to eat it for free. They then changed it so that all messed up orders would have to be thrown directly in to the trash.

A waste of that pizza, but they found that order messups reduced dramatically when the staff were not allowed to eat the "mistake".

It's the same situation here. You brick a few stolen items and it prevents future theft since there is no longer a reward for it.
I think if you eliminated all copyright right now, people would still mostly choose to stream rather than deal with the hassle of managing a media library. It's a huge pain in the ass.
Is remote assistance good enough though? It probably works fine when you have a fleet of 100 cars on the road, but 10,00? 1,000,000?

How many of those cars have caused a traffic jam at a given moment because they’ve encountered a traffic cone? How long does each issue take to resolve? It seems like, in addition to the technical hurdles, there are many more logistical hurdles before this can be rolled out at scale.
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> Except the dialects are often local to the places where the opportunities are being sought and can exist due to a long history of racism driven segregation...so you analogy is completely erroneous.

“Local” is totally subjective. The core point is that requiring that a job application speaks in a certain manner is not necessarily unjust and likely in the vast majority of cases is a pragmatic matter. Language / dialect is not an intrinsic property of someone’s identity. People are able to learn new accents, dialects, and languages. Accents being the easiest to learn. It’s not a protected class. The existence of a standard makes it easier for newcomers to learn the language.

> If you grant that discrimination leads to some language prescriptions, is it that hard to see how those prescriptions, when used normatively by people with no intention of racism, can end up perpetuating the exact racist attitudes that lead to the creation of those language prescriptions?

No, that’s nonsense. If someone’s feelings are unintentionally hurt because they are made aware that their English is not correct, that is not racism.
Agreed. Another option is to use a stone or steel on the grill (or put the dough straight on the grate, which I’ve heard works well but have never personally tried). The setup I’ve ended up with through lots of experimentation is to put a stone on a steel on a full blast gas grill and then set a sheet pan on the top rack to reflect some of the hear back down. This gets me really good pizza in a about 6 minutes on a shitty home depot grill.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15912929
Well, I don’t think most people who read that page are the sort willing to go to that effort. But it’s a good read for people who have cooking experience. You see the temps required and quickly realise, you can’t duplicate that style at home without a lot of effort and some risk.

This really changed my approach to making home pizza.

I have baking stone and think it’s a waste of money.

My recommendations are:

Get a perforated pizza pan instead of a stone and bake on the lowest rung at the highest heat.

Use a basic bread recipe with and add yeast AND baking powder (or baking soda and cream of tartar in a 1:2 ratio). You can ensure the big bubbles and create texture differences.
Putin is a pathological liar. He cannot imagine a life without lying.
> there's still the annoying battery situation

That was what kept me away from cordless mice for decades. Now I seem to get about a year on a set of batteries.

Do you use your mouse for gaming? Image manipulation? I don't have accuracy issues, but sometimes I notice a very slight lag if I haven't touched the mouse in a few minutes. Personally I'm willing to put up with that compared to the cord getting in the way.
Proof of purchase can usually be obtained from the store if you give them the time of the transaction which would be saved by your bank.
So CNN is fake news then? https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/23/health/fda-approval-pfize...
Burger joints compete in the "fast food" market which also includes fried chicken joints, taco joints, and the like. They also have more broad competition from the "fast casual" market, "restaurant dining" market, and the "food" market.

The question antitrust has historically asked here is the concentration, and the extent to which have they have pricing power.
I’m bummed to hear about a bad experience with the Librem phone- I was hoping that would be a better experience than I had with the PinePhone which was slow and essentially broken for calling and camera usage. It may have improved since last year but at the time calls would rarely work properly, either by not connecting, failing to interrupt the session properly, or have latent echo of one or both sides of the call. They provide several distros which is nice so your results may vary.
It’s very late to reply, but I think a bunch of these claims are not entirely true, or at least not true universally across the US.

Medicaid has legal acceptance requirements that other insurance does not. I believe large hospitals in particular have to accept Medicaid because they lose other government subsidies if they don’t. In many ways Medicaid is the “best insurance that money can’t buy”.

Also, even small business employees can pay for health insurance with pre-tax dollars, although it may need to be claimed on a tax return.

Lastly, if a medical treatment is FDA approved and medically necessary typically a plan must cover it, or propose an equivalent treatment (i.e. generics)

The plan cannot prescribe a specific treatment regimen, although they can make reimbursement of one treatment contingent on trying something else (usually much cheaper option) first, as long as there isn’t a medical reason not to do so.
FDA Reissues EUA
The reason Googlers get really ticked off about leaks is that they ruined the very candid and open internal culture we used to have. In the 10 years I've been there I've seen us go from TGIF sessions where Larry and Sergey and Eric openly discussed things that every other employer I'd had before would have kept quiet ... to the situation now which is a lot less like that. And it has a lot to do with leaks from those very TGIFs.

Now I certainly wouldn't be talking about "punching people" or "wanting them dead"... But I am not happy when my coworkers violate trust by leaking. Unless we're talking about gross ethics violations, harassment, etc. leaking internal stuff doesn't improve anything for anybody except maybe the ego of the leaker.