skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they're checked at run-time but not compile-time

Do they intend to add this? I think it would make a big difference. It would make thje language more like Haskell, where lots of bugs would be caught at compile time.

> it only checks the top-level type. E.g. `List<Number>` just checks that it's a list.

That's fair enough because otherwise it might have to go though potentially very big data structures.

Maybe there could be a command `strict_check(aDataStructure)` which would only get executed when type checking is on and would recurse into a data structure checking everything.
It's very hard for people to not take a higher paycheck. That higher paycheck may be the difference between paying off debts and not paying off debts. It may be the difference between sending your child to a good school or a bad school. It may be the difference between not being screwed over or being screwed over during your next hospital visit. It may be the difference between a family member dying or being treated.
Data wrangling is the reason why BI should be done by developers.

Alas, somehow the no-code movement sold big comapny managers tools that promised to solve it all, and when things get hard, they sell “expert consulting” time to setup the reports.
Which is interesting because the games that combined 2D and 3D (common on console) actually now can look much BETTER on the 3D side (emulators often allow upscaling etc) but the 2D painting remains the same.
There is this: https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue
The CDC reccomends that adults over 50 who might have had chicken pox get the Shingrix (Shingles) vaccine.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/shingles/public/shingrix/in...
So even if 100% vaccination does not stop surges in covid hospitalisations, vaccines won't be considered ineffective, right?

Jeez, what was these vaccines meant for originally?

Just wanted to expose a flaw in this logic that seem to be repeated Ad nauseam
Israeli startup AI21 launches the biggest NLP model so far
> https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/06/08/apple-c...

I don't think this analyst is aware that DDG already has a lot of Google influence and isn't for sale right now...
Assymetric warfare that the internet provides is extremely dangerous, as a country can never be 100% sure which country attacked it.
I built an Algol68 compiler way back when - it was a mix - used recursive descent to parse the bracketing structure and type definitions and an LALR (homegrown generator) for the second pass it fit well provided you allowed the parser generator to resolve on of the shift/reduce conflicts on the fly at runtime (to handle the language's ability to change the priority of operators)
> Googlers can't reply to posts like this, irrespective of where they stand on the issue, because this is an ongoing legal matter.

Is this true? I know this to be true for actual parties involved, and I'm sure you can't speak on behalf of Google, but I'm not aware of any law or even company policy where private citizens are barred from voicing their own opinions, without divulging non-public information, in a legal matter where they aren't a party (though their employer may be).

As for "fear of retaliation" from your employer, that applies regardless of whether this is an ongoing legal matter or not.
> Always requiring whitespace around infix operators is, in my opinion, easier to explain to people than "you can do whatever you want with the whitespace."

It might be easier to explain, but it also makes the code look ugly. Consider the expressions:

a := b + c*d
if e > f-g then ...

Here the * and - are more tighly bound than the + or >, and I'm using the whitespace to make that obvious.
This rag likes to prattle on about everything being dangerous speech or hate speech that must be ratted out. I wonder why with this story they didn't take the familiar line of "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences" for the Afghans. It must be a good time to be selective.

They never before cared who defined the controversial concepts or who performed those consequences to what extent. Seems they could only imagine themselves doing it in their morally superior fashion. Well, here is one end-game to the curtailed speech system, Taliban style. Do they not like it or not like who it is directed at?
There's a really great TED talk from Peter Gray[0] "The decline of play." It's a great talk about how play has transformed and eroded through the late 20th century.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk
Don't underestimate the scale of wealth, $10k for a few moments of joy/adrenaline is far from unheard of for those with the means. If you have others, or can reproduce that piece of equipment with mere currency and you're sitting on a mountain of it.. why not?
I felt the same way too - maybe I'm susceptible to it growing up in the 80s and 90s. This kinds of style was common even post 1-bit era (first mac I used was circa '94 vintage early PPC generation - we had a PC-XT clone before that but the style was a lot less common on early DOS).
> given the evidence that "natural" immunity has been shown to be less effective at producing neutralizing antibodies than many of the vaccines that are available

Down-voted because this is misinformation.

First of all the citation you provided does not support your claim at all.

Second, a large body of literature suggests that vaccination and natural infection induce a robust and durable immune response that is mostly similar [1][2], but slightly different. One of the primary differences is that natural infection induces an immune response that includes nucleocapsid protein antibodies, whereas vaccination with the current spike protein focused mRNA vaccines does not [3]. Another significant difference is that vaccination induces an immune response that is more highly targeted toward the spike protein RBD compared to natural infection [4].

There is absolutely no scientific consensus that vaccination offers better protection than natural infection, or vice-versa. None of the papers cited in either of our comments make that claim.

[1] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[2] Rapid induction of antigen-specific CD4+ T cells is associated with coordinated humoral and cellular immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613(21)00308-3

[3] Distinct SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Responses Elicited by Natural Infection and mRNA Vaccination
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.15.440089v4

[4] Antibodies elicited by mRNA-1273 vaccination bind more broadly to the receptor binding domain than do those from SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34103407/
Disinfopreneurs and Infodemics
I find it interesting that the dies aren’t completely identical like Zen chiplets are. If I am reading the diagram correctly, it looks like the tiles diagonal from each other are the same. Kind of neat that they’ll have left-hand and right-hand wafers.
Parametric polymorphism pretty much never adds cognitive complexity..it's the only true abstraction there is in CS.

Go could easily fuck it up tho - that's fair.
It is used to to teach children. Spoken the name sounds like pirate. No snark intended.
M1X MacBook Pro by November, iOS 15 Beta 6, Apple's Double Agent
> It seems pretty bad to have kebab-case identifiers in a language that also has an infix subtraction operator -.

Indeed. What's wrong with using _ in identifiers?
Hmmm… I had not heard off this startup but I graduated a bit before they were founded
There were cases like that in the pre-Bork era (i.e. when the courts interpreted the law as people who originally wrote it actually intended). Here's one example:

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/370/294/

"In 1955, the date of this merger, Brown was the fourth largest manufacturer in the shoe industry, with sales of approximately 26 million pairs of shoes and assets of over $72,000,000 while Kinney had sales of about 8 million pairs of shoes and assets of about $18,000,000."

And even more relevant:

"Another important factor to consider is the trend toward concentration in the industry. It is true, of course, that the statute prohibits a given merger only if the effect of that merger may be substantially to lessen competition. But the very wording of § 7 requires a prognosis of the probable future effect of the merger.

The existence of a trend toward vertical integration, which the District Court found, is well substantiated by the record. Moreover, the court found a tendency of the acquiring manufacturers to become increasingly important sources of supply for their acquired outlets. The necessary corollary of these trends is the foreclosure of independent manufacturers from markets otherwise open to them. And because these trends are not the product of accident, but are rather the result of deliberate policies of Brown and other leading shoe manufacturers, account must be taken of these facts in order to predict the probable future consequences of this merger. It is against this background of continuing concentration that the present merger must be viewed."
Have you tried the author's game Obra Dinn? It's very much not just a demo: https://obradinn.com/
Safari lags behind on many web standards. On other platforms, when that happens (e.g. IE), competitors provide alternatives that can do better.
ApplyBoard is quite big now, they raised $375 million recently and was the fastest growing tech company in Canada in 2019 as ranked by Deloitte. They have been quite successful in the specific field they are in.

I did some research, my girlfriend paid about $4k USD to a similar company in China for help with filling our her visa application and reviewing admissions essay to a university in Canada. Although now she regrets spending that much as she can do all that stuff on her own when she came here. Students can pay to that range or even more which is why Applyboard can raise $300+ million despite having only served 200k students.

International students as an "industry" really does exist.
Yes but what is the other alternative? People say legislation. But we all know we can't out compete the businessmen/businesswoman and stock holders. The only tangible alternative is to just not do the work. Unless someone has a plan to crowd source the lobbying money to make the legislation, I see no other path.
Title is clickbaity, the article is more like "peer recognition and money are better than money alone"

To that, I agree - bonuses are an abstract measure of the value you provide, coupling it with specific praise from your peers enhances your validation.
Would you want a lawnmower flying over your head?

The biggest problem is that drones are effectively flying lawnmowers.
Perhaps you'll think I'm crazy but...

I have long theorized that State Department infrastructure is intentionally insecure to allow the dissemination of information or disinformation that we want foreign interests to get.
And all it would take is a confidential change in policy before all photos are scanned, and the same "save the children" argument would be used to save face if the decision ever leaks.

"Pedophiles are taking pornographic photos of kids on their phones and then sharing them outside of iCloud. But wait, you don't want us to compare each photo you capture against ML models capable of identifying child porn? Why are you defending and siding with pedophiles?"

The only surefire way to avoid a slippery slope is to keep away from the edge.
SF is located on fault, with mega wildfires and mega drought for decades to come... At least the photo of the empty reservoir will be taken with a cheap Chinese-made smartphone, good stuff!

Some peoples value other things than money so it is a bit silly to just talk about $$$. What about housing costs, commute, healthcare, quality of life, etc of the _general_ population (and not only developers)?
I don't have a good article to link to at the ready, but if you're interested in this, you may be interested in 1-bit music synthesis. (at a normal (48k) sample rate -- I don't mean doing PDM in the Mhz range and then using a LPF) It's extraordinarily limiting, and yet, skilled hackers have been able to make music, even polyphonic music(!)
I'd be the first to use something like that. Looks like I'm not the only one - https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/837
To the first point, 100%, the section about "extra zeroes in your bank account" is super tone deaf.
Though it's not even really a first for Intel. They made the Xeon 9200 series two years ago, and while those were slapdash and hard to buy, it's hard to argue that they don't deserve this crown. Two dies in a single package, each with 28 cores and memory controllers and I/O.

Even when Intel moves to heterogeneous dies, that won't actually be a first for them, even in the modern era. Several early i3/i5/i7 models had one die with two cores and another die that handled memory and I/O.
The Next Billion (2007)
> I honestly don't see a good reason.

I presume you're one of the fortunate majority who've never had domestic abusers injure (temporarily or permanently) or kill someone loved.
List of Defunct American Periodicals
Reading out loud might also help a bit in addition to the note-taking.
The Office formats were forced open anyway. Note the dates:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_forma...
I vouched for OP - it is a factual description of a relevant current event that is pertinent to civil liberties.

IMO the presented argument is valid and well supported scientifically and legally. It will be very interesting to see if this sets any precedent for other institutions.

> GMU and other universities must stop ignoring science and cease forcing mandatory vaccines on even those with naturally acquired immunity

> Strangely, despite solid scientific evidence, GMU continues to refuse to recognize that Covid-19 vaccination is medically unnecessary for ALL students, faculty, and staff with naturally acquired immunity demonstrated with antibody testing.

> NCLA filed Professor Zywicki’s complaint in the Eastern District of Virginia on August 3, 2021, challenging GMU’s “reopening policy.”

> The policy, announced June 28, requires all faculty and staff members, including those who can demonstrate natural immunity through recovery from a prior Covid-19 infection, to disclose their vaccination status as “a prerequisite for eligibility for any merit pay increases,” unless they obtain a religious or medical exemption.

> On July 22, GMU emailed the policy to students and employees and threatened disciplinary action—including termination of employment—against any who do not comply with the vaccine mandate.

> Prof. Zywicki’s immunologist, Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, has advised him that, based on his personal health and immunity status, it is medically unnecessary to get a Covid-19 vaccine—and that it violates medical ethics to order unnecessary procedures.

> As a result of the exemption it granted, GMU is permitting Prof. Zywicki to remain unvaccinated for medical reasons.

> "Nevertheless, NCLA remains dismayed by GMU’s refusal — along with many other public and private universities and other employers — to recognize that the science establishes beyond any doubt that natural immunity is as robust or more so than vaccine immunity.”
I moved to Fedora and it's solved that problem with Ubuntu. Sometimes it goes too far with the update (ruby to 3.0 breaks a lot of things for development)
The only time an airliner intentionally went supersonic besides the Concorde and Tu-144. Cool read.
DDG is so much better than Google for me.
The CDC has been a fountain of bad science during this past year. Some of us wonder about the veracity of all their prior recommendations now.
I've tracked Google from fairly early. Even paid a visit to the garage headquarters shortly after they moved. Kevin Page grew up in East Lansing where I live though I've never met him. I have never heard of a Google third founder.

I will acknowledge that he was one of the first employees of Google and made important early contributions. Is this just a newspaper making up a headline for clickbait?
How did we get to a point where we think it’s OK to tell someone what they should do with their body? For the record: I am vaccinated and I always encourage others to do so. But what is the difference between someone choosing to not vaccinate “because of their religion” and just choosing not to vaccinate? Why is one of those OK and the other isn’t?
It's important to distinguish books you need to understand/remember versus casual reading. If you need to retain and understand then please take notes, re-read, explain the book to someone (Feynam method), etc.

If you're just reading casually, the content you retain from a book will be proportional to your interest not the speed with which you read it. Some parts of the book you will forget and others you will remember for the rest of your life even if you only read it quickly once.
'Unmute us': Marchers demand return of Dutch music festivals
"Leverage" doesn't go along with "philantropic".
I wouldn't read too much into such a simple diagram. Early on a lot of people thought Epyc had mirrored dies but they're actually all the same.
This may have been true for some time in the past, but it seems that new funding opportunities/causes have cropped up which are competitive with AMF, so that the EA funds are once again constrained by the overall amount of funding.
Ewww , my dragon got burnt
“Pro-vaxxed” aka people who believe in science and social responsibility.

Also, the effectiveness is lower against variants like delta, and does naturally decrease over time. If we had higher vaccination rates, the spread of covid would be significantly reduced, and variants wouldn’t be such a large problem.

Also also, MRNA vaccines — EVEN AT 70% — far outperform existing vaccines like the one for seasonal influenza.

Also also also, where the hell are you getting 40% for moderna’s VE? I’d love to see a citation.

Oh, regarding “old stats” like the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine: Surprise! No controlled studies on its effectiveness. Surprise! It has significantly more risk (both in terms of the danger of the adverse side effects and their incidence).

I’m guessing you’re not an epidemiologist?
> So many questions are left over still

No there aren’t. You have done exactly zero legwork. These have all been answered if you look at they FDA website instead of social media.

See Table 9 on page 45 for specificity results of 2019-nCoVRT-PCR diagnostic panel: https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, ie aesthetics are subjective. For me, using proximity instead of parentheses to signify grouping would raise an eyebrow. I'd make an exception for cases of base*exponent, i think Python has it?
my experience (sample size < 5) is that people that use Google with an adblocker have a very nice experience and don't have an adblocker have a miserable experience.
I don't know who Israel experts means. But public health experts in different countries said we wouldn't know until people got vaccinated. Some estimated it could be up to 90% of the population. Governments set lower targets like 70% of adults. But the government targets weren't herd immunity estimates.
There is not much interesting stuff on the internet these days outside closed FB etc, so search is just not as important as it used to be.
Your reaction is unfortunately playing right into the established disinformation campaign from when Putin was whispering into Trump's ear.
We aren't out warring on "no shirts, no shoes, no service" mandates in private businesses, but somehow mandating a vaccine for a pandemic disease that kills is a gross infringement on our bodily autonomy? Religious exemptions for vaccinations shouldn't be allowed either.
> I'm assuming you don't have kids and only have limited interaction with kids in other social context

That you have experience does not make your views universal amongst persons with experience.
That says more about the bullshit nature of religious exemptions
sanity prevails.
Well, I rather have my 30 day vacations, union, healthcare, when I leave the office I leave the office (will be available again on the following day), extra hours or weekends means actually being paid for them.

Money isn't everything in life, and depending on the case it doesn't even buy health.
To my memory; these things have been repeatedly popping up in the southern US; Arizona and Texas.

Maybe not for under $1k. But under any price? Is it physically possible? Yes.

We're not talking about a hobbyist guy in his garage here. We're talking about either US Military accidentally caught in a game of cat and mouse with local law enforcement, or more likely: drug cartels.

Both organizations operate heavily in the southwestern US, clandestinely without the need or desire to inform local law enforcement of their operations, and have practically unlimited budgets to accomplish their goals.

The real goal of a press release like this is to drum up a little FUD to take up to the governor and secure more funding, maybe even get your local precinct another helicopter, a cool drone, or a task force. And hell, maybe that's what they legitimately need here.
Neither is okay. Vaccination should be mandatory.
How did we get to the point where so many people would rather risk death and the death of many others than receive a free vaccine? They’re putting themself and all peoples that interact with them at serious risk.
Turns out humans are actually really great at controlling ridiculously fast aircraft, the drone races are controlled by a person looking through a camera pointed forward on the drone. You can think of it like speedrunning an N64 game, finding the timing that lets you act instead of react.

But +1 humanity’s fucked, don’t Google Slaughterbots but maybe Google how to build an EMP, it’s easier than you think.
On macos, /usr/bin/true is 118K, not counted the linked shared libSystem.dylib. I wonder what did they put in there? Doesn't seem to have --version or any GNU bells and whistles of that nature.
Something similar happened on early Bell X-1 flights before they realized they had to modify the tail.

Supersonic airflow does weird things, and tends to separate from the horizontal stabilizer well ahead of the control surfaces on the trailing edge. Early transonic aircraft would go supersonic in a dive, wouldn't have the control authority to get out of it, and would careen into the ground.

They eventually figured out that the entire tail needs to be the control surface if they wanted it to remain effective beyond mach 1.

I thought this would have been well known by the time the DC-8 flew, but perhaps not, because if it had been, nobody in their right mind would have attempted a stunt like this.
You can take your shirt and shoes back off once you leave a business. A better comparison would be businesses that banned certain hairstyles or tattoos.
What possible justification is there for other employees at a company to compensate their co-workers, rather than the company itself (and hence: its shareholders)?
Holy shit. I haven't read anything so out of touch with reality in a long while.
It pretty much blows. It'll be interesting to see how restaurants' offerings are influenced by the shitty mobile experience. Anything three or four screens down in the menu won't get ordered. Or anything with the slightest friction because of shitty site design.

If I wanted to dick around with an online menu, I'd fucking ORDER DELIVERY. When I go out to a restaurant, I want a proper menu and proper table service. Otherwise, I'll order in or cook it myself.
If you are so concerned, by all means you can get as vaccines as you want. To now, it remains unanswered why others have to be forced to receive the vaccine.