skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asserting that "mRNA technology isn't new" is a master-stroke of propaganda from Pfizer lobbyists who know damn well we have no idea what the effects of this will be, long-term, on the general population, and particularly on 12 year old children. We are implementing this at scale without a placebo group, consequences be damned. The placebo group from the trials was vaccinated long ago, in early winter 2020, well before the usual schedule that is typically deemed acceptable.

Studies looking into well-documented severe side effects, such as myocarditis and pericarditis (that we did not know about when we started vaccinating in winter 2020), as well as a litany of menstrual issues for women, have been given 5+ year runways while we all act as test subjects.

For individuals who are at-risk for COVID-19 (a small minority of the population), these vaccines make a lot of sense. For the rest of us the jury is still out and it's extremely dispiriting to see intelligent people neglect the (frankly terrifying) history of overzealous American pharmaceutical intervention and experimentation.

On the subject of boosters, it's quite disingenuous to compare the tetanus booster shot that you need once a decade, to a treatment you need 2-3 times per year, as is
currently case with the available mRNA covid vaccines.

Then again, tetanus is not a viral infection. I'm having trouble finding a single instance of viral vaccine that requires regular boosters. I certainly have never received any. And have never had any recommended by my doctor, nor was I required to have any to work, participate in public life, fly on an airplane, etc, in my adult life.

Edit: heading to bed soon and rate limited so responding to yunohn below:

1) Clearly you have not looked at the statistics for age-stratified IFR. We have had restrictions that some think have protected them from infection but that is largely irrelevant. 30% of the population was never able to lock down because they were providing medical care, keeping the electricity running, etc, and we know from these individuals that people under 65, without complications like severe obesity or diabetes, are extremely unlikely to have severe or life threatening covid cases.

2) Yes I have heard of the flu shot. Every year they come up with a new formulation that targets the viral mutation that they predict has happened over the past year. Are you under the false impression that covid boosters have been modified for the delta or mu variants? They have not. Israel is re-vaccinating its entire population with the exact same Pfizer vaccine it started with last winter. This is an apples to oranges comparison you're making. One that does not bode well for the long term effectiveness of the shots we all received in April.
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Also common in Australia, part of what we call Home contents insurance”, which covers all the items in side* your home and is seperate from the building insurance itself.

Here, too, some more expensive items and personal electronic devices (phones, laptops) are not part of the basic home contents insurance policy options but can be added for a small additional annual fee similar to what you have indicted, and they’ll usually want to know if any of those devices or items exceeds a specific value ($2000 last time I checked) and lost them on the policy.
Wondering if they gave the same due process to Acadians that were savagely deported from their homes? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Acadians
Hmmmm, maybe abortion for those people isn't about protecting babies but is really about subjugation of women?
Just like the languages that have unsafe code blocks it is relatively easy to track down unsafe modules, same thing.

And just like languages with unsafe code blocks, there are compilers that have switches to forbid the use of tainted modules unless explicitly allowed.

In any case, way better than what C, C++ and Objective-C offer, regarding security per line of code.
Sure, that's what they said back then too.

At any rate, the pathetic bootlicking and prostration to authoritarianism, and mob bullying of anybody who would dare to ask any questions of such pure and innocent institutions is pretty sickening.
Yah, because it's cool.
The company is valued at $3.3 billion, but their news article sounds like an over promising kickstarter pitch. The whole "secret ingredient" thing and the feel of the entire website makes me think they just want traction for a soon to come IPO.
Just curious. Why do you have doubts about about the package manager? There are so many languages that have a package ecosystem, so by now you'd think its easy to find out what works and what does not.
I read an article about this tonight on ScienceX.com or .org. It was quite impressive. They reached 20 teslas in their test.
From original comment:

> he had been busted for using a fake ID at a bar to buy booze when he was a minor.
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What sanity when the developer is still responsible for tracking memory manually by themselves?

> It is the Zig programmer's responsibility to ensure that a pointer is not accessed when the memory pointed to is no longer available.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.8.1/#Memory

Mocking malloc you say?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/crt-d...

It exists at very least since Visual C++ 5.0, and Borland had similar tooling since their first Win16 compilers.
> No need for Docker or Swarm or K8s.

This is exactly why I think new-cloud companies like fly.io, stackpath, deno.land, vercel.app are the future. No one wants to deal with muck if they can avoid it.

Cloud exposed data center primitives. Then, cloud-native laid bare the at-scale primitives. Imho, I think the industry is ripe for both NoCloud and NewCloud.
I haven't written up a public roadmap yet as I'm still focused on improving the MySQL and PostgreSQL support. While there is technically a SQLite parser in the main tree, it's substantially lower quality than the others. This is due to the fact that it's generated using Bison and not used by any else in production.

SQLite uses a custom parser generator called lemon[0] to parse SQL queries. Sadly that parser is deeply entwined with SQLite itself; it's not trivial to extract a full AST.

My current plan (still a work-in-progress and by no means final) is to use sqlparser-rs[1] via wasmtime. The AST produced by this crate is very high quality and it supports multiple dialects of SQL.

[0] https://www.sqlite.org/lemon.html
[1] https://github.com/sqlparser-rs/sqlparser-rs
Yeah I think that's a great analogy, we noticed the same thing when we used to work together at our last jobs which is what motivated to start this venture.

On the implementation side, yes we're using Z3, you can have a poke around at the core symbolic executor at https://github.com/SymbolicaDev/Symbolica

In terms of managing the path explosion problem, we have a few techniques that we've prototyped locally. For instance we believe we can do quite a bit by canonicalising and caching past results. We've also made our executor amenable to parallelisation from the start. We hope to start using these techniques in our hosted version soon.

With your example, maybe I'm missing something here, but they look like they are functionally equivalent to me. When I just tried running some values by hand they even appear to overflow in the same way. What was the assertion that you were making and what was the result you were expecting?
I doubt they’re in the UK…they mentioned euros and not pounds. Perhaps it is renter’s insurance? For me in the Netherlands that’s only €12 or something per month.
The question is, how cheap might this make it to build Tokomacs compared to the cost of, say, ITER?
I am not an expert in philosophy by any stretch so feel free to poke holes in what I'm about to say, but I somewhat agree with the author's points here, assuming we take nihilism to mean "to both believe and feel nothing has meaning". I think the author may have the causation in the first point backwards though. To truly feel like nothing has any meaning, I think you must first be quite miserable - I doubt anyone first chooses nihilism and then becomes miserable because of that choice. Imagine all of your relationships, your career and all of the other things people usually care about feel meaningless - you would probably be miserable and depressed. It is one thing to believe that life is objectively devoid of meaning. It is a different thing to subjectively feel that nothing in life has meaning.

If you accept that a true nihilist has to be depressed, I would agree that the third point follows. Acknowledging a depressed individual's viewpoint that it is okay to feel everything is meaningless - that this viewpoint is not indicative of a mental health issue that should be addressed - would probably erode societies ability to improve the lives of depressed individuals (assuming improvement means they suffer less).

As to whether other people's suffering matters to you or not, I suppose that depends on the individual. The author seems to think it is not ok for people to suffer, but obviously not everyone would agree with them here.
That's a strikingly simple circuit!

It gives you a continuously-varying output voltage. To get random numbers, you have to sample the output (presumably using a clock of some kind), and compare the sample with some reference (e.g. using a comparator).

How often you can sample depends on the bandwidth of the analogue noise-source. You still need to debias, and probably whiten as well. That's digital circuitry, and it's hard to make analogue and digital circuitry play nicely together on the same circuit board; the digital part tends to influence the analogue part through the power lines.
Maybe it's different in other countries but certainly in Australia, banking is a heavily regulated industry, so replacing a banking host (or even parts of a banking host) would require lots regulator approvals and sign-offs (regulator has to sign off all of the technology and the code that will be run - for existing systems, all changes still require approval, but the initial hurdle of approving something new was dealt with a long long time ago).
> But when your iDevice breaks, you don’t necessarily go to Apple to fix it.

Now you're making the case for not buying the insurance because you have a way of paying less for the repairs out of pocket which makes the insurance less valuable.

> It’s possible that AppleCare is a win for both Apple (customer retention) and the customer (lower cost to stay within favorite ecosystem) because it is NOT a zero sum game between them - there are many other players in the game.

The theory being that if you pay out of pocket to Apple they have a $100 margin, but if you pay out of pocket to an independent repair shop they have a $10 margin, and Apple would profit from selling you the insurance by transferring that $10 profit from the independent repair shop to themselves.

By this logic they should also have lowered the price of their repair service to be price competitive with the independent one because then they would get more repair business and attract customers to their ecosystem by having lower repair costs. But they evidently prefer to have higher margins.

And claiming the independent repair shop's margins, evidently only in the case of the insurance and not for actual out of pocket repairs for unknown reasons, would only be possible if the independent shop's margins are larger than the cost of the moral hazard and all other administrative overhead of offering the insurance. But their margins are very slim.
Pfizer’s own study shows no effect on death
> it would be scandalous

I can't think of a democratic, free country where the government started flipping tables because one TV station on the other end of the world showed the wrong version of a map. At worst the citizen of that country would make jokes and memes about it for a week.

The WHO didn't have to mention Taiwan...they pretended they didn't even hear a question mentioning Taiwan. That's self-censorship beyond reason.
Yeah that's a good point, we'll work on some more realistic examples.
You're trading for structured environment at the cost of complexity for sure, but I think there's something to be said about the degree of complexity. Ansible for example only requires python + some handful library + ssh connection whereas Chef/Puppet requires agent install + SSL for correct functionality.
I'm like why all this overengineering instead of deploying on a cheap EC2 like to be used _all the time_.
> but is the 5G for cellphone mini towers the same as the 5G for wifi networks

Nah. "5G" in Wi-Fi refers to transmitting around 5 GHz instead of the usual 2.4 GHz. "5G" in mobile refers to the fifth generation of cellular networks, which can run at a whole range of frequencies.
I would think that the recent computerphile video "Cracking Enigma In 2021" would be a good place to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWB5jL5RX0
You are making a lot of huge jumps there, incorrectly, (except for the sarcasm, completely on point), and you asked like 5 questions.

Everyone should get support! More support! Everyone. By focusing on men, you are stating it is MORE challenging for men. It is not. Men should get more support, so should everyone, but if we are handing out bread, men should be last to receive, as our plate is the fullest. Do you really think men have it worse? I don't, being a guy is super great, much easier, and complaining about it just makes you seem like you lack perspective. Only you can tell us.
I love backyard science like this. No offense intended at all, but it's always heartening to see the Davids fighting the Goliaths.
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Why would anyone use Hyper? It's not like there aren't better terminal emulators out there for each platform. Using Electron to emulate a terminal is plain insanity to me, you are trading off performance and system resources for the js hype.
I don't know much about this topic, but: Please do not use that guy as an example in your earlier post if he is not a good example. It made it sound to me as if your goal is to convince, not to lead others to truth. Instead, just point to your strongest point (the memorials, I believe).

Regarding the memorials, I could not find this in the link. Could you point me at it?
This subverts the message a bit, but my grandmother was sent to a hospice to die as comfortably as possible. I was out of state during her treatment up until this point, but when she was being moved to hospice care, I was told to expect her passing very soon. In this case, her doctors really seemed to have run out of good options; she just hadn't responded to treatment. But, after she was moved to hospice care, she began to improve. She actually healed and recovered enough to live a few more years at an assisted living home, well enough to walk the halls (slowly) for quite a while every day, and have her kids visiting all the time.

Why did she recover after she was switched to hospice care? The best explanation I have is that in the hospital, her access to opioids had been limited. Letting a patient have too much can be risky. But in the hospice, where death is regarded as impending, those risks don't matter and she could have as much as she needed to actually be comfortable. And not suffering, not being in pain was maybe what allowed her to begin to heal.

I don't think exactly that her doctors were wrong in believing that her death was imminent and that a hospice was the right place for her. But what if we created a healthcare system where clinging to life is so exhausting for the patient that embracing the inevitability of death is the most healing option?
People who drink 24 beers + a day need a nanny, I'd say.
Wow, the journey is inspiring. thanks for sharing.
Oddly enough for whatever reason they don't seem to use that as much anymore. The visual symbols have been replaced with english text like CAUTION, WARNING, etc. A system of pictograms exists for chemicals but manufacturers must not have to use them.
>OLED screens are still surprisingly expensive IME

OLED has actually been cheaper than LCD since 2020 for Mobile Display Panel at the same PPI. Even at it peak ( iPhone X ) including glass it wouldn't cost Apple more than $120. Right now it down close to $80. Mostly because Apple insist on using flexible display and how they blend the notch.

There are plenty more OLED cost optimisation coming in the next 10 years.
> People die of sun induced skin cancer all the time right?

It’s not the heat that causes skin cancer. UV radiation is intense enough induce chemical changes in DNA.
The boat has already sailed, but it's GCd languages and not Rust that replaced most usage of C and C++ in systems programming. Rust is nibbling at the remaining niche islands of C/C++.
This sort of rule is indicative of some problem. Is binge drinking such a big problem down under?
Without being competitive there won't be growth.
To my recollection the Australian government was formed because the colonies voted to unite in 1901. American government was formed to fight the British.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia
They also denied threatening to sue the Guardian over its coverage of Cambridge Analytica. Then admitted it was true and apologized saying it, "wasn't their wisest move."
For those for whom Twitter is also unbrowsable:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/karpathy/status/14358272402861097...
Parent was being overly pedantic in that satellites were likely to be grabbed out of space and not air.
Programming languages are products, and unless compiler vendors discover a SaaS version of them, the features will keep pilling on.

ISO C23 is around the corner and it surely isn't K&R any longer.
The difference is we actually know what is in the vaccines and how they are produced. They're also not produced by one single company, we've got pfizer, moderna and a number of others working independently over international borders.

Not only that there's not exactly much sense in having many people die of a preventable disease. That costs government both in reduced productivity and healthcare.

It also encourages harsher health regulations to prevent spreading which in turn costs more money to corps who have to implement them.
Only in selected countries though. And mostly pushed in US and not anywhere else.
It is exactly the failure of Microsoft and Apple to propose any meaningful cross-platform API. Both are fighting to increase vendor lock-in - it is in their best interests that apps written on Windows don't work on macOS/iOS and the other way round. Linux/OS folks themselves are unable to solve this problem on their own and it becomes a mouse-and-cat game.

The popularity of web apps helped to reduce the problem, but it still exists. Electron is only half a measure because the technology used is inefficient resource-wise and a platform optimized for the desktop would do the job better. If someone cared enough, they would allocate the necessary resources to minimize this problem (I don't believe solving it is effectively possible because of the complexity and bloat of current web technologies).
The parent's point still stands. Memory usage is lower without the overhead of the JVM (I think that's the point they were making).
Pumpkin OS: x64 port/re-implementation of PalmOS
The journalists are saying that because the PR people tell them that. If I were doing PR for a fusion project, I'd sell that aspect hard—it's technically true, and sounds great.
We should provide free birth control and better sex education. Morning after contraception should also be free -- a fertilized, un-implanted egg is not a human -- it's a potential human.
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Frameworks are there to make development more accessible. So I can completely understand how one might trade on a framework without understanding the fundamentals.
> They were introduced because the existing school system was in decline

Not true at all. Why are you making shit up?

They were introduced to "give choice". And marketed - by the right-wing government at that time btw - like small teacher-led "idea-based" companies or similar would be the primary result, rather than the large stock-market school corps that have been the natural result.

> Regardless, the point is that Scandinavian countries are not “socialist” in the way leftist Americans think of socialism.

Just because Scandinavia (Sweden in particular) too has suffered with a massive wave of neo-liberal privatizations the last 30 years or so doesn't mean that the former more "socialist" way was in any way shape or form worse than the corrupt mess that we have here now.
JavaScript is the lingua franca of the web. Therefore Node.js is a great platform for web-apps. There is also DENO which allows you to compile your JavaScript. For Node.js there is something similar in terms of Vercel/Pkg.

There are benefits to using the same language for both the front-end and back-end.
How can you organize a vigil for something that didn't happen
I just view AppleCare as the price of using my phone without a case, the way it was meant to be used.
When software companies switch to subscription-only models (see 1Password) you better not be invested in the software too much or you'll be at their price gouging mercy.

I'll happily pay for software but I won't support subscription-based models, ever.
Neutrons that escape the tokamak arrive in a lithium mantle around the reactor, which produces helium and some heat. The heat is extracted from the lithium mantle, and then you have a conventional gas turbine.

This is what I remember from memory, I would need to fact check that.
We do have some upcoming changes that will make the status clearer on the website and will be removing some constant time overhead that we're paying on each playground run. I agree that the playground is on the slow side at the moment whilst we're still in the early stages of developing this product.

On the Lisp point, it's not really been developed for commercial reasons, as like you say it's not got the largest market share, but we wanted to see if we could get it to work with languages other than C and Lisp seemed like a nice one to try.
That's fair. The fact that updates and fixes are shipped with OS versions makes it less useful (for us at least). People just don't upgrade their desktops like they do their phones.
Really appreciate the in-depth comment. Also, thanks for open-sourcing pggen. I love have more projects in this space. I'll have to take a look at how it works.

I did want to address the last point in your comment.

> This works great until you have a query like `SELECT * FROM foos WHERE field = $1`

When sqlc sees a query with a *, it rewrites the query in the generated code to have explicit column references. For example, if you have an authors table with three columns (id, name, bio), the following query:

SELECT * FROM authors WHERE name = $1;

will have the * replaced in the final output.

SELECT id, name, bio FROM authors WHERE name = $1;

You can see it in action here: https://play.sqlc.dev/p/2ea889b6d14ae7a91afdcdf4eebe7d100408...
The zxing C++ port worked for me recently:

https://github.com/nu-book/zxing-cpp/
This is the problem with purveyors of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. They don't need logical consistency. They don't need to explain themselves, they don't even need a central point to their arguments. They aren't trying to prove anything, only to plant the seeds of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
Which would have been the orange peel extract if they had used it.

Thank you Ed Meese for being so righteous. I didn’t notice his name in the piece.