skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Thanks for not going full-Haskell on us

It would have been so much better if they went full Haskell. Haskell is better designed as a language, it has types and could support all Nix features without modification as far as I can tell. On top of that it's a common language that most have used at least in university and has loads of friendly tutorials online.

Totally agree on the packaging of C/C++ projects is a drag of our entire industry and basically a complete embarrassment.
The Tragedy of the Common Lisp: Why Large Languages Explode (2019)
I have never felt a pressure to be more productive except from my own judgement of myself. I know when I am being lazy...
People get sick with COVID multiple times, and natural immunity is more hit-or-miss with regards to protection against variants. Reinfections are also frequently nastier than the first infection. It also costs absolutely nothing and at worst will act as an additional safety that makes you feel uncomfortable for a few days.

So why not get vaccinated?
15 years worth of postholes is 200 * 365 * 20 = 1,460,000 postholes, that would mean a profit of $0.0136 per posthole.

6 months worth of postholes is 200 * 30 * 6 = 36,000 postholes and a profit of $0.55 per posthole to pay down the capital investment.

In my original post I claim $5 per posthole profit can pay this off in 11 days.
Because its too expensive to measure it (B-cell test)
All those people who don't take their multivitamins are making my multivitamin not work. We need to force multivitamins on the unsupplemented.
Nice to see someone pursue this. I built something similar at a hackathon in NYC a few years back and won. I remember the tricky part was that in addition to uploading videos, I wanted people to just use a URL, like a YouTube video or something and process that. But the Vision API only worked with videos that were in storage on a bucket or something. Spent the whole night building a workaround.
To turn your question on its head.

It is a free vaccine that could save your life, has been safely administered to billions of people and greatly reduces the odds of you getting infected, transmitting to others or ending up in hospital.

What is the downside? or are you just apathetic to getting it.
Oh no! Why won't somebody think about the poor neo nazis and white supremacists posting violent content and murder lists?! Those poor, poor oppressed oppressors! Their right to harm others is being infringed upon!
I only found out about Bespoke a few minutes ago, but I will say using Max as a programmer can be incredibly frustrating. I've made a handful of nontrivial M4L devices and have run up into tons of weird decisions, limitations, bugs, and plenty of Ableton crashes. (Caveat: this information in this post is mostly from a couple years ago and might be out of date, I haven't gotten the latest Ableton)

The JS support is really weird. It's only JS 1.6 (from 2005), and had weird glitches (like loading two instances of the same device causing the first device to stop working), and I couldn't get the timing tighter than about 30ms. Ideally you could write code that runs at audio rate.

There's also "gen", which is a Max-specific scripting language that is presumably real-time suitable through a JIT. Unfortunately you need a separate Max license to use it, even the full Ableton Live Suite doesn't give you gen support. You can sorta hack around and use it by manually editing the .maxpat files (which are almost JSON), copying from a device that uses gen, but there are lots of weird glitches going this route.

A list of a few annoying things about M4L:

* Documentation is pretty sparse and/or low quality, and weirdly split into two (help and references).

* All variables are global across devices by default, local (device-specific) variables need the prefix "---", which is barely documented

* Tons of annoying UX issues, like entering an invalid value in the inspector just reverts to the old value. You can't enter an empty string for parameter values, that reverts too (you need to enter a literal ""). Certain functionality is only available depending on whether the device is "locked", so you have to lock/unlock the view all the time if you're working with e.g. subpatchers

* Abstraction is quite annoying to do. There's three different types of patches, and it's not really clear what the difference is between them. Creating subpatches and then duplicating them creates two different subpatches--changes in one are not shared with others.

* ...and a ton of other things. I have a big text document of these gripes I was intending to turn into a blog post, but haven't gotten around to it.

Maybe I'm wrong and there's better ways to do some of these things, but overall my experience learning M4L was pretty bad. If it wasn't the only way to do certain advanced things in Ableton, I'd never touch it again.
Urgently Update Google Chrome to Patch 2 New Zero-Day Flaws Under Attack
The ACA has absolutely nothing to do with employer based healthcare.

The cost of healthcare is the direct result of the creation of the HMO laws during Reagan's presidency, allowing hospitals and doctors to make pre-arranged profit oriented agreements that increased insurance costs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/upshot/reagan-deregulatio...
Shhhh don't let the secret out.
McDonald’s Password for the Monopoly VIP Database Leaked
>Is it Facebook / Instagram's fault or us as a culture? As a culture we adore beauty, wealth, power...Facebook seems to be just a platform where our natural desires can have a play

Yes it is Facebook's or Instagram's fault. We are endowed with our natural desires (which are even more fundamentally biological than cultural in this case), that we have no choice over, but we have the choice to remove bad technologies from our societies.

This is in fact the only choice we have. You can't cure people of their desire for power or beauty, but you can destroy the tools that amplify the worst instincts we have.
The vaccines focus on the spike protein, which is present and consistent between variants.
It's really not that simple. I'm not current, but I studied immunology as part of medical school a long time ago.

The Delta variant replicates really quickly, that is its evolutionary advantage over other strains, it's not that your immune system is weaker to it. What happens is that at first it ramps up a lot faster than your immune response, and during this period, it produce a lot more virions, and your immune system has a bigger fight on its hands.

There are many immunologists working on identifying the nature of the immune response to sars-cov-2, and so far, something on the order of 80 unique antibodies have been identified which are induced by vaccination, and about 200 unique antibodies which are induced by actual infection. The convalescent antibodies target the nucleocapsid (the ball) more than the spike protein.

It appears that the delta variant escapes approximately 1/8 of the antibodies in both cases, so you still have a very strong immune response, just one which doesn't ramp up as fast as the virus.

Now, as for the mRNA sequences, we can create them in a DNA printer (then transcribe to RNA), however, this triggers new safety and efficacy trials at the FDA.
https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1437482759241469958
Wombo – AI-powered lip sync app
Can you please compare to 11 or even 8?
That can be true of any website or service part of the haveibeenpwned.com database.
> you also need to ask how many died between March - June 2020 because of panicked doctors intubating everyone left and right with no one around to advocate for the patients.

Not sure what this is implying, or what kind of advocacy would have made a better call. Doctors intubated people (despite a shortage of ventilators and the difficulty of triage) because the patients were struggling to breathe, and given available data the medical profession though it would help those patients recover. They've since learned more about the outcomes from this particular disease and when a ventilator is appropriate. Your comment makes it sound as though any idiot off the street could tell who should be on a ventilator and who should not.
Anonymous Hacks Epik
No. In that moment your biggest problem is that all your data is inaccessible. That you don’t have backups reduces options since it precludes that solution, but another one exists: pay the ransom.
The HPV vaccine is given to boys and girls for free in Australia, and they’re on their way to eradicating cervical and other cancers associated with HPV. Vaccines are compulsory to receive child care and family tax benefits.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
It's funny you complain about the index being saved in csv files, which is the default behaviour in R.
Yeah but it's more fun to ruffle people's feathers with a soundbite, apparently.
Make more money? Yeah, I agree. That's what I always end up doing.
Pretty much every company has been offering it for free for the past six years because of the GDPR. Worth keeping in mind in the future; never use a registrar that's more sketchy than normal.
Right; not an expert in the topic, but it seems to make sense that super low interest rates + the fed actively buying morgtage-backed securities would pump up housing prices. (Indeed, I think propping up asset prices is the idea? Though I'm confused why this is considered a good thing.)

Someone who knows more about this, please weigh in...
It's not lying to them. It's saying "regardless of if it is medically effective, we as a society will not accept it."
It does, however, apparently allow for employers to charge employees more for insurance under a “wellness” scheme. This is how Delta is charging unvaccinated employees $200/month.

Edit- I am also familiar with wellness incentives/charges around smoking, obesity, and exercise.
This is out of date and incorrect. The latest data shows that the risk of myocarditis in children after two doses vastly exceeds the risk of myocarditis posed by the virus:

https://twitter.com/ID_ethics/status/1437876328640876544

Better breakdowns by age and gender show a risk of myocarditis after two doses as high as 1 in 3000:

https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1437067899089219589

This number has been steadily increasing, as time passes. Current consensus seems to be that one dose is the optimal tradeoff between risk and reward for young children.
Agree with the title, but not the contents. The study in question is actually an example of a huge effect size (10% reduction in cases just from instructing villages they should wear masks is amazing) possibly hampered by poor statistical significance (as the blog post outlines).
They usually ask for your ID to match the info on the card

I asked and they may have a city agent scanning cards — then you simply stand in line behind someone and see whether or not they are scanning it versus just visually inspecting. If the latter — you are good to go
that's not the same as having them in an open codec standard, right?
Yes I think so. I used to be moderately active there a few years ago, although not a "regular".
There's no way this works economically. You either need governments to pay for it or you spend your own money in a philanthropic way. Last I checked Woz doesn't have any money left as he gave it all away, so unless he found other people's money to bankroll it, they're going to depend exclusively on governments paying for trash removal. And despite the media's hoopla, orbital debris are an issue, but they're not a huge issue.
Stroud's judgment is interesting; is the mistake predictable?

> In 2013, her world changed. While stationed at NSA Hawaii, Stroud says, she made the fateful recommendation to bring a Dell technician already working in the building onto her team. That contractor was Edward Snowden. / “He’s former CIA, he’s local, he’s already cleared,” Stroud, 37, recalled. “He’s perfect!” Booz and the NSA would later approve Snowden’s transfer, providing him with even greater access to classified material.

Then Stroud trusted the Project Raven employers, not only to start but over and over, as they had Stroud violate human rights (spying on journalists, 16 year olds, human rights activists), after Stroud discovered evidence of spying on Americans.

And then Stroud didn't trust the FBI; note that the claimed motivation could simply fabricated - clearly Stroud wanted to do this work.

> Two agents approached Stroud in 2016 at Virginia’s Dulles airport as she was returning to the UAE after a trip home. Stroud, afraid she might be under surveillance by the UAE herself, said she brushed off the FBI investigators. “I’m not telling you guys jack,” she recounted.

And possibly this is related:

> Still, she found the work exhilarating. “It was incredible because there weren’t these limitations like there was at the NSA. There wasn’t that bullshit red tape,” she said. “I feel like we did a lot of good work on counterterrorism.”

Maybe those rules, the principles of human rights, and the FBI are there for a reason. Stroud seems to think they are unrelated to her character:

> “I don’t think Americans should be doing this to other Americans,” she told Reuters. “I’m a spy, I get that. I’m an intelligence officer, but I’m not a bad one.”

> Stroud said her background as an intelligence operative made her comfortable with human rights targets as long as they weren’t Americans. “We’re working on behalf of this country’s government, and they have specific intelligence objectives which differ from the U.S., and understandably so,” Stroud said. “You live with it.”
> I hate to sound like a nutter--I'm a STEM major, I know how to "science"--but I don't trust that they actually have considered the developmental effects on infants not being able to see faces for 8 hours a day at daycare.

It's a shame that you have to defend not being crazy to say that a child not seeing faces won't have some kind of psychological impact when for all of human history (the biological perspective) we have seen the faces of our elders, peers and parents.
Washington’s judgment on tech giants already ‘written,’ says top Lina Khan aide
Every year influenza mutates.

The flu booster shot is actually a full vaccination based on the leading 2-3 variants they predict will be dominant in the coming flu season.

Also, flu vaccines are based on weakened viral particles, not mRNA transcriptions of key viral proteins... so the two really aren't comparable.
“Post-scarcity” is a myth. There will always be some limited-supply thing humans will value.

Consider how utterly dissatisfied people are with abundant cheap food, clothing, water, fuel, housing, etc. today vs not all that long ago, having integrated new norms into mundane sustenance making abundance seem unattainable. An hour’s minimum wage today buys medieval luxury but for regulations demanding even better.
Thats the size of the actual .torrent file, all the metadata. Not the size of the data the torrent is pointing to.
Which is a move the mostly vaccinated are fine with, because we're really done with the idiocy.

Fuck off and die somewhere else, seems to be the general sentiment of people I know.
The games industry is more profitable than the movie industry. I think they can figure out how to make games that don't rot on people.
mRNA can produce basically any protein.

Not all proteins are safe to have in the body.

Most proteins are safe, of course, and the odds that any particular new mRNA target is safe is pretty good. But it's not trivial to predict with computational models, and so it requires testing.
You missed the working part. Success was a prerequisite to their after the fact feelings. At least some of the control group will be in old age but still alive when we know it woris. They might not know if it is infinite life (and side effects may turn it into die at 85, so some control may outlive the intervention group after the study ), but they will know on average they did worse
What if background processes meddle with the measurement?

Also, wasn't there some kind of WebRTC which allowed a remote website to get battery readings?
Harassment and threats of violence are illegal. You can pursue criminal charges. You can't go burn down someone's house or kick them.

> As far as I see it, Epik's hack is a consequence of the speech they allow.

That's a scary logic and it's the kind of logic that harms societies. Most violent leaders have used this style of justification for their actions.

We can not fight uncivility with uncivility. Doing so only makes the situation worse.
Someone who's serially unsuccessful is worse than someone who has no record.
> It's certainly quicker to type, but that's not a good argument enough to make such a drastic change in javascript.

I am so glad this argument has not been winning out in the JavaScript language design community. There are so many wonderful constructs that have been added in the last 20 years that are just sorter ways to write things that could mostly already be done in the language. Many of these features focused on allowing developers to write what they intended to do without having to explicitly construction the intermediate steps to express the mechanics of how that should be carried out using basic language features.

After all why do we need arrow functions when we could just sprinkle our code with `var self = this;` declarations for anonymous functions to bind to, the way it was done in the late 90's and early 00's.

I'd much rather JavaScript adopt succinct ways to write common code patterns and let the developers and the community decide if those constructs are the correct ones to use on a case by case basis.
Yes but you are less likely to do this the less severe the infection is and you may not even notice it with the vaccination.
How about start with anyone who had a positive test in the past gets a vaccinated card.
Maybe we can get the gov to use the reverse engineered alien antigrav tech we've had for decades to good use as a win for America and the world?
Great tips! I also do "3 things I've learned" that day, which could be an interesting fact, an esoteric code thing, or something random in the news.

This is a rewarding one to look back on
Serum tests are currently being used in the UK and other places. They can be taken up to 180 days after one has been infected.
I lived in Luton for a year and commuted in to London. Yes, it is certainly more affordable; but only because the NHS covers the cost of dealing with your stab wounds.

For non-UK people: yes of course I'm joking, however Luton is the home of both a large immigrant population and the "English Defence League", the closest thing we have to the KKK.
You seem to be making the classic mistake of thinking that a given RISC-V processor is open source. The standard is open, the processor's source "code" (design) doesn't have to be.

This does not mean RISC-V use wouldn't be a good thing, as it prevents a whole boatload of legal issues, but it just isn't what a lot of people seem to think it is.

ARM could end up being a better ISA in the very high-clock high-IPC domain, it remains to be seen.
> Would you listen to anything they had to say, or just want to punch them in the face?

They're not listening now. We've passed the point where persuadable people in good faith are holding out (for what? The full FDA approval was two weeks ago.) It's time to go the other way and mandate the vaccine -or- frequent testing (I think 1/week is too infrequent) -or- they can preemptively isolate themselves from society.
Cool - perhaps that opens the way for a x64+ARM big.LITTLE processor, with a few hot fast x64 AMD cores (big) and a lot of slow efficient ARM cores (little).
What is your alternative to house the population? Tent encampments? More wars/disease? Death squads?

Humans have a right to housing. Saying "no more housing" but not thinking through the rest of the consequences, because you are personally reliably housed, is not a solution that a society should consider even momentarily.

Refusing to house people today because at some unspecified point after we have many many more people, is not even remotely logical, ethical, or a solution to any problem.
There is actually a very safe and free method to prevent obesity. It's called eating a healthy diet. Count calories and watch the pounds fall off. If you really want to speed up the process you can throw in some exercise.
??? Execution on vision is the thing Elon Musk is most well known for, possibly more than anyone else in our current era.
So saying "people of color" = "non white people" has nothing to do with excluding a race or class of people?

Also, what exactly is factual about the term non-white? In what way is a person categorized as "colored" or "white"? I've never met any person with any part of their body that was entirely "white" other than the whites of their eyes, and even those are more of a very light gray. This line drawing and categorization that you're doing is anything but "factual".

I am in disbelief that someone can even say the things you've said, and not be able to see the irony and contradiction. I think you know exactly how nonsensical and racist your argument is, and it doesn't bother you one bit.
With a missile strike, who would that be?
I've never heard of the controversy behind Epik before this, and looking at their website doesn't give any indication whatsoever that they're politically aligned in any particular direction. I almost transferred some domains to this registrar a while back, but man did I dodge a bullet.

If this was leaked for political reasons, the person who did it should have known that thousands of innocent people would be affected. I wonder how many bystanders are going to lose their jobs or be cancelled because they just happened to come across epik.com when shopping around for a domain registrar?

If you're the type of person who has strong political opinions and you happen to be a recruiter at a company, wouldn't you be tempted to do a quick CTRL+F through this dump for the names on the resumes you're screening? No one will know, and even if you know not everyone on that list is a nazi, it's better to be safe than sorry right?

Branded for life and informally blacklisted just for buying a domain name. That sucks.
It stands to reason that the number of CAEs in a COVID infection would be a subset of hospitalizations. If anything, this would make the vaccines look even worse.
They are also giving boosters out. Someone please explain why Israel is struggling with COVID-19?
So many false equivalencies being made in the comments here.

Unvaccinated people are simultaneously people with a right to care despite their bad choices, and people whose bad choices are harming them and those around them. No dissonance or hypocrisy required to believe both are true.

The hard part, acknowledging that, is reducing that harm.

And yes - I believe choosing not to be vaccinated against COVID is a bad or even immoral choice, depending on the reasons. I understand why someone would, but I don't support it, and I don't have to in order to think people who make that choice are still worth something as people.
scala, with its magical underscore. Although it likely desugars to lambdas (or even anonymous classes lol, given how java works)

Actualy this whole debate should be called scala vs F# because they are more corresponding, being both functional language on a OOP runtime.
"Sick system" effect as far as I've seen is far more prevalent at low-paid, low-status workplaces.

The more you stand up for your time, both within a specific job and via choice of employer, the less stressful your life will be.

In my experience, this extends to, well, everything. Put up with bullshit relationships and they'll consume you. Entertain rogue family members' nonsense and they'll push until you can no longer.

You can respect yourself and be kind at the same time. Charity begins at home and all that.
Yep, crazy that this is the top comment when clearly we already know that none of the studies for kids are completed. Is it likely to be safe? Yes. But we still need to go through the proper process to ensure confidence in the vaccine.