skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what you mean when you say closed: the proposal is clearly open, and the latest comment asking if anybody has issues with the proposal has no downvotes. That sounds promising to me.

At the very least, it's clear that the language maintainers see an issue with the current error handling, given how much time they've spent working on proposals. The community also clearly cares: see https://twitter.com/_rsc/status/1146129898383302656

Also, I see you amended your original comment with a jab against me for the type keys post. Not sure what to tell you there, I posted something, absorbed the feedback, and incorporated that into the blog. If you have specific issues with the latest post please let me know.
Most stuff eventually turns into cost so I'll ignore "costly" effects like heat/power and performance per dollar and focus on max performance scale for workloads and other unique differences not achievable via just throwing more money at the alternative.

Per socket performance scaling is higher for equivalent tier sockets. At hyperscale that goes back into the price benefit (buy and maintain less physical data center) but for an individual server workload or individual user that also turns into a performance benefit, particularly for non NUMA aware workloads on the server side and just plain availability of such core counts for performance on the desktop or workstation side.

PCIe wise you get about twice the lanes (128 total on AMD) of even a 40 core 8380 in a the base 8 core model of Epyc or a Threadripper workstation CPU.

A place Intel still wins is total NUMA scaling. For a NUMA aware app like SAP HANA Intel can scale to 8 sockets while AMD currently tops out at 2 so you can reach about 2x as many total threads that way.
Political power grows out the barrel of a gun, all power does. If you have 2 groups of people, one group armed and one unarmed, which one is in charge?
Said gym memberships tend to be because you signed an annual contract, with specific requirements to cancel early.

Using one of these one-time-use cards won't get you out of the debt itself, and these sorts of gyms will happily wreck your credit by sending it to collections.
Common sense is what Aristotle called it.
> I haven’t used Rust. Does the ? operator add some kind of stack trace to the error?

No. `?` performs an optional conversion and an early return, that’s it (kinda).

> If not, how do you know where the error has come from?

By default you don’t. There are utility libraries you can use to attach such information to error types (and eventually the stdlib will provide one), but OOTB an error value is… quite literally anything (it should probably implement `Error` but doesn’t actually have to).

This is in keeping with the idea that hidden costs should be avoided when possible, and that reified results should be the norm so should have as little requirement as possible.
Of course, my post doesn't imply such a silly statement.
Not everything that produces mater also produces antimatter otherwise the universe would be a 50:50 mix of each. Why Baryon asymmetry exists is unknown, but as long as we’re talking magic tech we might as well make it efficient.
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This is yet more evidence that living in overly sterile environments isn't good for overall health. We have a bad tendency to focus on specific narrow health goals while missing the big picture.
Thanks for the link to the source article. That URL might work for users who have an account with the Lancet but when I followed that link, I got a PDF containing the following text:

> For full text of this paper please go to https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

This URL (also posted earlier in another comment by dfawcus) contains the journal article.
Source? Everything I’ve read talks about that decision being very real.
One thing commonly recommended is the textbook Lingua Latina per se Illustrata. It uses illustrations to help you learn only in Latin.
It's a 20 minute lunch talk at Strangeloop.

Lighten up Francis.
and sport shooting yes
There is massive overwhelming consensus among biologists that human "race" isn't a thing beyond the abstract concept itself. From what you write it sounds like you don't dispute this, but claim there's even more made-up context to it now. That may be so... it only further aids cementing an idea that was flawed from the start. Keeping racist thinking alive is the opposite of being anti-racist.
Seems more an acknowledgement that zero-Covid is never ever going to happen. At which point not sure if vaccinating outside of risk populations or to control hospitalizations if they are too high makes any sense.
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Race in the context of physical differences does not map to the social concepts of race.

For example, US documents usually include Latino as a possible race, even though Latin Americans are white, black, indigenous Americans, or a mix - and Spaniards are what usually would be classified as white. If you check older forms you'd see Italians and Irish people categorized as a different (non white) category, etc.
As someone with a scientific bent who is of the left, I always find it incredibly frustrating when people say “x is a social construct”, because it’s technically true, but also utterly elides the dual nature of the category. Race is a social construct that can be used to infer true things (probabilities) about the real world! Other social constructs that have this property: sociology, economics, physics…

This isn’t to say a lot of people who are into race science don’t wildly overstate their claims, but there isn’t literally nothing to it.
One of the authors here. You are correct, the famous SLAC result already demonstrated that light can be converted into matter, but they needed several photons >4, average of about 6 - that is the so called non-linear Breit-Wheeler (BW) process. This result is the original linear BW process where only 2 photons collide. The main difference is that for the linear BW you need much higher energy photons. Also, in this experiment we are able to measure the wavefunction of the two-photon system, which proves other aspects of the original predictions by Breit & Wheeler and others.
What scares me most is what happens when this happens to you and you can't get to the HN front-page? Will you get the same resolution from Stripe/Google/Apple/Aws if it didn't?

Making the front-page is often random luck I think, which is also why I personally always upvote such submissions when I find the person making it is a solopreneur/small company - as this may be their last and final resort to get things sorted.
The whole booster conversation seems like a political game.

If you have a vaccine, then your risk of death is far below that of the flu (statistically).

If you don't have a vaccine by now, you want covid instead and this booster conversation is irrelevant.

Kids are banned from taking anything.

So I expect booster or no booster, frankly it just won't matter much at the population scale.

I also don't understand the mask/booster thing now.

Is it to protect kids? If so, then all that effort is better directed at the FDA who has banned them from getting the vaccine. I think this is the area where people should have the most anger and Biden should frankly push legislation to replace or reform the FDA. Their behavior has been atrocious.

Is it to protect the unvaccinated? COVID is not going away, so IMO here we just want everyone in this population to get the disease as fast as possible to get it over with. Spreading is basically "good" for this group.

Is it to protect the vaccinated? This makes no sense, as the risk to the vaccinated well below the range we have accepted for decades.
No, the response in this case was entirely pertinent:

jamespwilliams: It is good for (Go's) error handling to be verbose, because it ensures that you handle every error instead of forgetting or ignoring them.

nicoburns: It is possible to ensure every error is handled instead of forgotten or ignored without the need for verbosity, as demonstrated by Rust.
I have an APU2 as the primary OPNSense router at home and picked up an HP T6xx thin client as a backup. There are a lot of small, low powered x86 boxes that will run OPNSense well but it is pretty common knowledge so prices have risen.

The current goto is commercial display PCs with multiple NICs otherwise there are some great micro PCs e.g. Qotom.
No but half of 625 is very easy math (half of 600 is 300, half of 25 is 12.5) and it makes doing everything else so much easier.
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. Facebook hasn't created this impossible beauty ideal, it was created long long ago by Hollywood and the fashion industry. Facebook just makes it super easy for people to become obsessed with something by "connecting" with it.
It used to be that 40 years ago you watched some supermodel in a commercial for 20 seconds and she was gone. The novelty with the internet is that now you can follow this supermodel and get dozens of alerts a week about her.
If it's not Facebook it's gonna be TikTok or something other platform.
Thanks for the explanation! I assume you built a visual map editor to make these levels, rather than writing that data directly?
A&W's third pounder just didnt taste that good, and the fries were mediocre things that reminded me of school cafeteria fries. When I wanted a bigger burger Wendey's had better offerings, and when i wanted a cheaper burger McDonalds had better offerings.

Also the store locations tend to be in not so great spots compared to their competitors, and their food offerings aren't good enough for me to go out of my way. I've also never seen a coupon book for A&W in my mail so that doesnt help.

Cherry to top it all off is the last time i went to one. The root beer tasted bad. (pretty sure the machine was running out of syrup)
I think the parent meant an anecdote I've heard many times, in slightly different ways. It goes like this: a major toothpaste company was having a meeting, trying to increase sales. Many solutions were tried: new flavors, advertising, none had much effect.

On a whim, a director asks the guy serving coffee:

- Jack, what would you do to increase sales?
- Have you tried increasing the hole on the toothpaste?

There might be some truth to this, toothpaste tubes used to be metal in the 60s and you were supposed to punch a hole on the front of it with the back of the cover cap. That hole got a lot smaller than the ≈1cm wide in the plastic ones of today. It was also much easier to squeeze the very last gram by folding it.
> Yeah, IF you come in contact with certain bodily fluids. We don't do that everyday

Did I not just give an example of this? Maybe not for you, but for some people it is very much possible to come into contact with these body fluids on a daily basis, if not multiple times a day.

> I've seen such occurence maybe once every several years where I live.

You can see droplets of blood? What's your vision like? Are you also aware blood can be in coughs?

> We don't shit on sidewalks, homeless here are a very rare sight, I don't remember seeing one since at least a month.

Again, just your location.

> I'm not scared

If you're not scared you wouldn't be here arguing anything about COVID atm.

> I'm 100% with you about this.

Great! Something we can agree on.
I'm fairly convinced that the pharmaceutical companies want Uncle Sam to buy and mandate 350 million shots per year and that's why the boosters are being pushed and combined with flu shots, while Dear Leader figures out the best way to dictate the health choices of his subjects without so much as first having Congress vote on it.
[I don't know how to properly title this item. The first paragraph:

I’m Maggie Dennis, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Vice President of Community Resilience & Sustainability.[1] I’m reaching out to you today to talk about a series of actions the Foundation has recently taken to protect communities across the globe.]
Racists.
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I think everyone would agree that there are some pretty obvious biological racial markers that differentiate racial groups. Skin color comes to mind :)

The social construct argument just says that the specific categories and lines we draw are fairly arbitrary. Why is an afghani middle eastern (white?) but a Pakistani south-Asian? Is a Russian from Vladivostok really more closely related to a brit than a Mongolian? Idk - but, to me, the social construct argument just says “who cares? The specific groupings are pretty arbitrary anyway”
Yup. We once analysed a particularly slow query (as in, a specific call to our server, not a path in the abstract) and saw that across the whole cluster it had resulted in eight million retries. And I think it was a 4xx in the end anyway (not that Go is designed for fancy stuff like telling the difference between two kinds of error!).
The patches are in place if you wait just a bit longer. NixOS merged patches into their main branch and the teams between Wayland and Mozilla have already resloved the issue. The only bit that rubs me is that this has been an issue since 92, has been out. I moved from beta to stable and then stable to ESR (v91 luckily) while I await the patches.
Of course I don't think your statement's motive is to understand how we replicate the exact process of what is in Star Trek in the real world. More of a functional equivalent. However, because I have the poster, if you look at plans of the Enterprise, it contains a large volume that is reserved for "bulk matter". I believe it's this, along with some transporter technology enables the replicator to create a variety of combinations of chemicals and materials.
"race" as we use it colloquially is a lot less fine grained than biological differences between humans. For instance there's not a monolithic genomic signature around "black" or "white" and yet those are categories we use for "race".
Awesome, thanks for the extra details.
This particular Gov is particularly corrupt.
It routinely takes from the people to feed its own parties coffers.

it routinely uses the courts in unethical ways.
It routinely uses the overwhelming dominance of the murdoch media to spill misinformation about any opponent.
> I don't think Microsoft is the real problem there, though.

> [...]

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So it was interesting when I heard things about "Windows on ARM" half a decade ago--and then the Surface RT. The RT was crap, but it did have real Windows NT working on non-Intel ARM, as was the OS on their Windows Series 10 phones or whatever.

In this specific case, Microsoft is the real problem: Microsoft deeply locked down the Surface RT; you needed a jailbreak to run unsigned applications on it.
>Languages do not becomes successful due to their intrinsic qualities. Languages become successful when they are coupled to a successful platform.

That's true for system and low-level application languages (Javascript is an exception, as for the web platform, there's no alternative so it's used for everything).

Perl, Python, Java didn't become succesful because of platform ties (yes, Java was made by a platform vendor, but most of its programmers used Windows and deployed on Linux or AIX, not Solaris).
Personally I think this is a massive footgun, at least somewhat affected by ordering:

https://play.golang.org/p/oHFobaOexwR

Of course, I know now that I was 'holding it wrong'.
Once there are algorithms ranking the posts, they are meddling with the culture.
Right, so defining data science as 90% sklearn+DL+numpy is just as silly as saying that it's 90% table manipulation. That's exactly my point.

Still, if anyone here has managed to find a data science job in which tabular data management is not a sizable piece of what you do, I'd like to know some details!
Yes.

Every so often I go looking for a keyboard kits -- I'd like to make a BB-style phone but with a nice OS/UI, but I don't want to do Linux or Android.
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I've also heard 'the Northern counties' or just 'up North' for what it's worth.
Yes -- install Morrowind from Steam, run it once (to make sure registry keys and the like are set up correctly), and then the OpenMW installer will copy the files it needs to run out of the existing MW installation directory.
I read it as the third in the series of "pounder" burgers, which just left me completely confused. I kept trying to recall what the first two "pounder" burgers were, which got in the way of thinking of it as a fraction.

I would have preferred "quarter and twelfth", advertised with a "I'll take an extra twelfth!" catch phrase :)
Or report by saying only half the truth, without showing the other side's story at all. It makes it so much easier to adapt the language to sound neutral and educated. I think this is a big part of why the US is so divided right now, you get mostly half truths and no coherent view from the other side that it makes you think "the others" are completely insane.
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But we all want Jurassic Park though. And we likely will get it in the next few decades, just like we will likely also get Westworld park full of virtual beings that you can seduce (and we probably have something near equivalent in VR now.)
I don't know about the US, but at least in Canada, permanent residents have the same right of entry as Canadian citizens. Revoking permanent residency is (to oversimplify things a bit) not up to discretion either; rather, it is governed by laws defining the precise conditions that must be met in order for permanent residency to be revocable.

In Australia, permanent residency is a type of visa. I imagine that's what they are talking about.
Parent's point was that Apple made the switch without having to get software vendors on the project, due to excellent emulation of x86 on their ARM.
Facebook and social platforms in general are just very efficient in amplifying all these toxic elements of our culture
Hey HN,
We opened up signups last week for BuildJet for GitHub Actions.

We started with building a full CI with speed and the YAML config as a USP. We got 4x speed and a much better YAML config structure, but despite these improvements, we noticed that it was quite a hard sell for people to migrate to a new unknown CI.

With this in mind, we decided to build BuildJet for GitHub Actions that uses the same infrastructure but plugs right into Github Action as a "self-hosted" runner, which is automatically set up for you with OAuth. This resulted on average a 2x speed improvement for half the cost(due to us being close to the metal). Easy to install and easy to revert.

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Wow, what an impressive game for the web browser, and in such a small size!

I'm particularly impressed by the variable lighting of the bullets down hallways, that's really quite masterful work.

Kudos!

Edit: I am impressed because I'm impressed. I spent a few weekends recently messing around with pygame, and I had a really hard time organizing my code and my thoughts. I do primarily numerical, technical work, and I see that there is something challenging about writing a game that I haven't come across much in 25+ years.

Feel free to shit on my comment, but I still think it's a very cool project, and seeing it run so smooth in a web browser, in a vm, on a beat up box with a Celeron was surreal to me.
> Is it to protect the unvaccinated? COVID is not going away, so IMO here we just want everyone in this population to get the disease as fast as possible to get it over with.

No we definitely do not want that. There are large deaths of the country where vaccinated people are dying of unrelated conditions simply because hospitals are too full of dying unvaccinated COVID patients. The only way this works is if hospitals deny admittance to unvaccinated patients entirely, to reserve capacity for all the normal reasons that people need hospitals. No one is seriously suggesting this level of care rationing though.
How do you figure that we disagree? Seems to me that we agree quite a bit.
How often is the train? Or is it one of these rare direct 35 minute trains?
>sounds like another policy/politicized blanket statement not based on science.

Or, it is public health advice based on science, looking at what they believe would be the most effective policy globally. They aren’t saying it does or doesn’t affect the level of antibodies. They aren’t arguing that it is effective or ineffective at boosting an individual’s immunity. You seem to be fundamentally confused about what they are talking about.

>“Even if boosting were eventually shown to decrease the medium-term risk of serious disease, current vaccine supplies could save more lives if used in previously unvaccinated populations than if used as boosters in vaccinated populations”
I believe it's already illegal ("know your customer", maybe they are terrorists). But ransom payments are tax-deductible nevertheless.
> since clearly the idea that races have anatomical differences is not contested by anybody

This is not true. I had a college professor explain the "race is a social construct" idea, and her position was staunchly that there was _no_ biological basis for race. See also this article by the scientific american[1]:

> Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

This is the idea that GP is responding to - clearly there must be some biological basis for race, if an AI can determine race from an x-ray.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/race-is-a-social-...
I have friends and family in the Mainland. I've lived there myself for years. The CCP does not want peace, not sure where you're getting this from. First they'll take Taiwan at the first sign of American weakness (which may have happened already). Then they'll go for the rest of the world. It's not even a one party state anymore, it's been transformed into an outright totalitarian dictatorship under Xi. Absolute power is the ultimate goal of such systems, they won't stop until they're defeated or control it all.
If you need a full day off work to vote you have other issues.
> A D port of a js13k competition game written by Dominic Szablewski. [0]

-- [0] - https://github.com/skoppe/spasm/tree/master/docs/examples/un...
It's their fault. An individual girl in 1995 who was concerned with her looks had at most a couple dozen people in her life to judge her. In 2021 it's hundreds of millions, and a large portion are more than happy to spout things they would NEVER say in real life.

Does society value beauty? Sure. Do models set "unrealistic expectations"? Sure. Are some high school girls assholes to other girls? Absolutely. But once upon a time kids would go home and those people would be gone. Now it's a 24/7 feedback loop and it's completely unhealthy.
how do employees of Facebook reading this justify their employment?
A&W used two 3oz patties, and when McDonald's gave the "third pounder" a try they used one 6oz patty. Both of these are 3/8lb, which is 12% more than 1/3lb!
I kinda agree maybe this can be better regulated but if someone decides to follow Beyonce or Lady Gaga (sorry I'm not really up to date with pop stars) or some supermodel, how are you gonna prevent that?
As for algorithm ranking, I suppose 40 years ago it was a "human algorithm" reaching the conclusion that you better have hot chicks drinking coke on commercials, how is that different?
There have been attempts at making a Go syntax to do that. So far, not successfully [1].

1. https://www.infoq.com/news/2019/07/go-try-proposal-rejected/