skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fortran's primary competitive advantage over C and C++ is that it's a conceptually simpler language that's easier for humans to use safely and effectively for numerical computing tasks.

It's not just being tied to BLAS and friends. Fortran lives on in academia, for example, because academics don't necessarily want to put a lot of effort into chasing wild pointers or grokking the standard template library.

For my part, I'm watching LFortran with interest because, when I run up against limitations on what I can do with numpy, I'd much rather turn to Fortran than C, C++, or Rust if at all possible, because Fortran would let me get the job done in less time, and the code would likely be quite a bit more readable.
> "How can you support free speech but prevent a company from exerting that speech?"

Corporations are not humans (regardless of the "corporate personhood" doctrine) and thus should not be entitled to the full rights of humans. Semi-monopolies like Youtube are especially not entitled to use their dominance to manipulate public opinion, given how easily it can be abused.

Ask yourself, if YouTube were pushing conspiracy content and suppressing pro-vaccination content instead would the parent poster and those like them still be saying what they are saying? Fair-weather friends indeed.

> "You want to the government to tell them they can't take a side?"

The United States government already can and has in the past; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine .
> Months ago he was insisting that the people who had contracted COVID-19 and who had antibodies in their system may not need the vaccine. Now, we have a number of studies coming out to support that. But months ago that was "anti-vax" (employing the slanderous use of the term).

If you're claiming something that hasn't been demonstrated through peer-reviewed scientific research, then you're offering your opinion. If you present that opinion as a fact, then that's misinformation. I don't know what form his "insistence" had, but I've seen plenty of similar cases so far, and all of them have been from people pushing their own narratives, instead of informing people responsibly.

If you're pushing a narrative that implies that you shouldn't get vaccinated, then yes, that's "anti-vax".

> It's the stifling of legitimate public debate, the stifling of legitimate voices who find themselves in the minority.

Being in a minority does not absolve one of responsibility. If you're publishing your opinion, or if you're discussing your research before it's been peer-reviewed, you have the responsibility to make that clear, and even to point out that it does not agree with the current scientific consensus (if any exists).
The tendency for anti-vaxxers to believe in their delusions more the more they are contradicted with facts is a thorny problem.

However the flow of new misinformation also strengthens their beliefs, and draws in new people to the delusional cause.
Overall I think deleting this misinformation channel is still a net positive.

We need some psychologists on the case. Or advertising professionals.
And optometrists are permitted to cultivate a misleading* impression that you must or should buy your eyeglasses from them, and their cheapest model is $200 and every pair in the shop is probably sold by Luxottica.

Getting a new pair of glasses was an unreasonably rare and precious thing when I was growing up, because of the cost.

*in general, optometrists must produce a copy of the prescription that was paid for when asked, and then you can take it wherever. Make sure they write down your pupillary distance on it; they often "forget" to do this.
Why James Bond Doesn’t Use an iPhone
I never once in my life considered an anti-vax position until now. I still think previous vaccines are fine as we have had decades of experience making and studying them, and only at the moment am concerned about the brand new mRNA vaccine, but the result of all of the recent events and all of the censoring really has thrown me for a loop and I actually have started reconsidering what I used to just assumed was true.

I lost all faith in mass media years ago, haven't watched CNN/etc in years, and now I've lost any faith I had in our institutions such as the CDC and FDA. Censoring any opposition and using full on physical coercion, forcing people to do what they say or else they'll take your job away from you, or else you won't be able to provide for your family, ruins any remaining trust I had in them and now I'm questioning everything that I just blindly trusted was true.

I don't know how many years it'll be before I ever trust them again. You may think I'm completely wrong and misled, and that's fine. But the actions these groups are taking are completely undermining themselves, they're completely screwing over their credibility. Not just for this issue, but for every issue into the future, and that is a serious issue. I no longer assume that what the FDA approves is good for use. I no longer assume what the CDC says we should do is what's best for me. The trust is gone. This dystopian situation of removing the voice of anyone who dares question them only further entrenches my doubt.
> The science community as a whole needs to do the work of all three.

This is exactly the source of the trouble. Hearing scientists project their value system onto everybody else destroys their credibility. If people felt that scientists were sticking to the facts and avoiding ideology and values, science would be better received all around.

Whether or not the Earth is getting warmer, and the cause of that warming, are scientific questions. Also science is a discussion of possible remediations and their costs. Which remediation to choose, if any, is a question of values and outside the scope of science.

Also important for science is being clear about levels of uncertainty and ranges of possible outcomes. Recent global temperatures have little uncertainty. Distant-past temperatures have a much higher level of uncertainty, and predictions about ranges of possible distant-future temperatures have yet more uncertainty. I never hear much about this from scientists or the media that cover them though.
You made a "statement of fact" supported by a link to a site where the headlines include:

"Antifa indoctrination in the classroom"

"Covid-19 Vaccine Exposed"

"FDA Official: ‘Blow Dart’ African Americans with COVID Vaccine is ‘Where We’re Going"

I think I can live without "engaging in discussion" with you.
fyi you can automate Takeout to a degree. You can tell it to prepare a takeout once every 2 months I think, and you’ll then get an email when it’s ready. You could probably script something to look for those emails, download the compressed tgz files, and then store or upload to some backup location.
Well good for you, but you actually do need to look on the impact on behavior of the things you advocate for. Unless your goal is purely to punish/harm those that don't share your beliefs rather than some tangible outcome in terms of vaccination or [insert primary endpoint here].

We're already seeing the impact of vaccine mandates in places like New York: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-mandate-new-york-...

> "We stopped elective inpatient surgeries. We stopped some of our outpatient patient visits. We stopped ICU medical transfers from other referral rural hospitals. ... We've asked for more time to work on strategies with the state to ensure that as many people as possible get vaccinated," said Tom Quatroche, the president and CEO of Erie County Medical Center.

I would be remiss if I didn't mention that we already know beyond a shadow of a doubt that mass COVID vaccination doesn't magically stop the virus from doing what it does. Israel has absurdly high vaccine uptake - including a sizeable proportion of triply-vaxxed people - and we're still seeing more "cases" than at the same time the previous year. So I wonder how much you've actually looked into the efficacy (in terms of chance of infection and spread) of these vaccines given the data. And I wonder how rigorously you've thought about the second and third order effects when phenomenoms like antigenic drift and immune escape and Marek's disease are very well known.

Anyway, I won't go too far down that rabbit hole since the discussion is more of "assuming vaccination is good and we don't have any ethical qualms with using violent police power to compel people to consume a pharmaceutical product where the manufacturers have literally no liability to the consumer for any adverse reactions, what is the best way to modify behavior" than about examining the premise of the utility of mass vaccination itself. It's probably already obvious that I completely reject the ethics of what you are in favor of. So setting the pesky notion of ethics aside for the time-being, I still think you're failing to see the very obvious harms that come from the brand of coercion that you're advocating for.

Like I said above, we're already seeing the effects of these mandates on healthcare capacity. Firing 5% of one's hospital staff is no small thing. And you seem to very much not see how censoring and suppressing alternate points of view only reinforces those points of view. Implicitly you seem to think that adopting a policy and actually enforcing it in the real-world are the same thing - which is a trap that many a naive intellectual has fallen into since time immemorial.
To be clear on the 'special' vdev; for future writes, it serves as the sole metadata _store_ for the pool, not a cache, correct?
So … what about the numerous indigenous people who saw the world in interconnection and lived in an ecologically balanced way?
Nutty professor/inventor is still alive and you can find them in:

Henry Deacon in Eureka

Dr. Ezra "Doc" Greene in Transformers: Rescue Bots

To a lesser extent:
Lucius Fox - Batman
I do have a memory of having to bump an old heavy drive to get it to start spinning. :-)
It needs to stay public by default because otherwise it would be a breaking change. If you're willing to break things and want to change it on your own system, it's easy: just mount /proc with the hidepid option.
> One thing that has always bugged me about the narrative of "fake news" and "disinformation" or "misinformation" online is that it always made the readers/consumers seem like helpless victims. It's always "we have to stop misinformation", "we have to stop these troll farms", never "we have to educate ourselves to be more savvy". The narrative seems to be that the readers of this crap have zero agency, and we have to go out of our way to protect them from his harmful information.

I agree with the "ought" here, but don't think it's practical.

I think it's more likely that "democratizing" misinformation/lies/propaganda, combined with online anon- or pseudo-nymity, is simply a (strong) net-negative for, especially, democratic states, as much as we really really want it to be net-beneficial, and as much as we can imagine a world in our heads where it's net-beneficial. I think it may simply not be what we hoped, and not be practically able to ever be that.
Exactly. And this has been going on for a looong time. In fact, as long as I can remember watching news. It's all a religion, be it christianity, nationalism, communism, ecology, global warming, "woke"ism, anti-racism. The tenets are always the same: YOU are guilty just for being born, or existing, or wanting to live a normal life. YOU need to do something to correct this. YOU must be with us, if you're barely neutral you're the enemy. YOU will never fully achieve full pardon for your original sin, but you have to keep trying with all your strength, otherwise you're a heretic that deserves to be cancelled.
This trend in combination with the new wave of everything being a subscription really has me worried as a recent college grad who therefore does not own a home or have much in the way of savings. If you don’t own anything and your access to essential items is decided by some megacorp like Google or FB, you bet people will fall in line with the latest recreational outrage real fast. Connected cars with subscription features that show you ads even if you do own them (see the Ford Mach-E), and financial institutions buying up single-family homes to keep as many people as possible renting forever and never gaining equity in anything. The World Economic Forum came out and said it blatantly: “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” That’s starting to read more like a command, not a prediction.
> What just amazed me is how gullible all the investors were, and how they didn't do due diligence, hire outside experts, or anything. Weird.

weird, maybe we shouldn't have our economy be decided by the whims of private investors.
Reinstated? You can still watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKbU8B-QVZk&t=11s
No, and that is the point, ESP32 is more powerfull that most MS-DOS machines, and we had plenty of high level languages to chose from.

Naturally for games and demoscene, Assembly was the name of the game, but for LOB stuff?

Clipper, FoxPro and applications built with Turbo Pascal/Turbo Vision were all over the place.
But that banned user cannot radicalize others on twitter, the larger platform with a wider reach.
Parler is a niche platform for people already down the rabbit hole.
EMT's who have to come to the scene: Not you
Doctors in the ER who have to treat you: Not you.
People injured as a result of your body flying around: Not you

Seatbelts save lives and lower the costs for everyone by not required additional resources be spent on treating people unwilling to wear a seatbelt. Just like vaccines.
The government doesn't own us. Their dictates don't apply to our personal freedom. The lockdowns were illegitimate and unlawful. The entire last 18+ months has been a propaganda campaign. The vaccines don't prevent infection or transmission, therefor, if you're not at serious risk of getting the disease, the prudent medical decision is to not take an experimental medical product.

And if we're going to be locked down until we're at 9X% of vaccinated, then we'll be locked down forever.
To be fair, JetBrains IDEs are absolute battleships in terms of features, but also of resource consumption. GFA is in its way much more elegant, especially regarding the capabilities of the systems it ran on.
We’re all on this road trip together.
> Seems like you're describing event sourcing.

Yes it looks like event sourcing. But most of the classic event sourcing implementations I've seen are mostly backend only.

The project I'm currently hacking on has an MQTT broker that is used by both clients and backend and the events can come from anywhere. For example when a client sends a `location_updated` event, the backend reverse-geocodes this into an address and possibly sends out `place_entered` events, or sends out notifications for Tasks that are now relevant on the new location, or "completes" a "go to location X" task resulting in a `task_completed` event.

Enabling all this in an offline-first paradigm is hard and requires a lot of duplication, I am very close to just saying screw this and requiring network connectivity for most of the features.
> the very choice of using Electron itself is usually an act of not caring.

Hmm, not sure I buy this, sure it's not as fast as going native on every platform. But let's be honest the alternative isn't 3-4 native applications built with care for each special little subgroup. It's a MacOS only app in the US market or a Windows only app everywhere else.

Businesses don't have an unlimited amount of money to spend addressing every tiny market so I'd say the complainer's focus should be on building a better X-plat story if they really care rather than whinging that some application isn't built to make the most of the 0.1% of the addressable market they find themselves in.
Fire Alarm Installations in North London
Fire Alarm Installations in North London are obligatory and regulatory bodies also have made it required for all kinds of buildings. It can really play a part in conserving lives since it informs the locals and people in the offices relating to the smoke and fire situations so they can leave the put on the earliest basis. This is a mandatory thing and you shouldn’t undervalue its significance in any place.
What type of power do they really have? If you don't like their policies, don't use their services, it's that simple. The only power is in their user base. YouTube is not some necessary utility, neither is Facebook, Twitter, etc. None of these services are worth anything without users.

Social networks are unprecedented in our world. Never have you been able to spread misinformation and propaganda as quickly. I don't know what the right answer is, but it certainly shouldn't be to sit back and do nothing because "censorship". This misinformation campaign is actively killing people.
If it is an established truth that these vaccines are safe, why still grant these companies immunity from liability if something goes wrong?

Before someone dismisses the question as anti-vaxxer, I have taken the vaccine.
Depends on what you call early. Nikola and WeWork come to mind, I assume Newman wasn't the only one to cash out early enough during one of the founding rounds.
>I have a much better understanding of historical moral panics and cessions of freedoms. Whereas I used to wonder how some societies ever gave into such pressures, I now realize it's not that hard to persuade the average citizen into accepting such things.

Me too. I've always wonders what drives people into the arms of fascists and other such overtly unpleasant belief systems and the simple answer is fear. Fear for yourself, your family, and your future will apparently cause people to abandon all sorts of supposedly cherished beliefs.

This is why I think here in the UK SAGE's SPI-B group using behavioural psychology to increase the perception of personal threat as part of the anti-coronavirus measures was such a dangerous and short-sighted policy. Using fear might be a convenient way to convince people into doing what you want for a while, but fear also drives people into the welcoming arms of all kinds of nasty ideologies. That cat's out of the bag now too, I suspect using fear to "nudge" the public into doing what the government of the day wants will become a much more common feature of liberal democracies in the future now. We've done a deal with the devil and he always collects in the end.
Do you have an opinion on any of these questions? Or are you just implying that the world is so complicated that no one should make any decisions about anything?
The most recent issue of Scientific American has a piece that talks about how detrimental increasingly restrictive abortion laws are. That is a great example of science being politicized. From a science standpoint they could just as easily talked about the tens of millions of babies that have been killed by means of abortion. But the bottom line is that a science magazine should not be expressing an opinion on a controversial moral issue as though it is a matter to be determined by science.
Not yet -- until the upstream network providers and DNS registrars also start dropping you for wrongthink content.
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I think he was talking about Ivermectin, which is a glutamate-gated chloride channel binder. I've never heard of people taking unprescribed protease inhibitors, although I guess there's no end to snake oil.
You are exactly correct. In fact quite a few implementations rely on IPFS.

The hilarious part is that these supposedly "decentralized" ID systems pull data from the most centralized entity: government's civil register.
> Many normal taxi drivers are now without jobs, and suddenly the risk seems bigger than just venture capital.

I've lost count of how many times I call an Uber and I end up getting a taxi. I guess IMMV but from my vantage point I'm not sure how realistic is the "taxi drivers are getting fired" take.

One aspect where Uber thankfully did disrupted the taxi industry is that now customers can flag bad taxi drivers for providing a bad customer experience, and in the process push out all the bad apples.
It's true that this potential addition to the C standard would not permit things like CPython or Chicken to depend only on the C standard, it's true, but then every C program already depends on things other than the C standard—such as the example given in TFA, that any C implementation is entitled to abort any C program because it ran out of stack.

Moreover, every nontrivial C program in practice contains UB.

Nevertheless, it does matter what is and isn't standardized; standardizing such functions would greatly improve the situation for programs like those I mention, because they would be able to rely on the C standard to find out when they're about to run out of stack, an event they already have code for handling. It's true that a pathological C library implementation could still totally break their stack-exhaustion-handling code, and in fact that's already true, but fortunately there are lots of C library implementations that behave well enough in practice.
https://archive.is/Tbks2
What if I disagree with some of the approaches of BLM activists?
'Foreign' to Christianity? Just 'by troll farms' is sufficient, surely. (Or else 'Christian page' is under-qualified.)
> These people are perpetrating evil with intent, that makes them qualitatively separate from everyone else.

Yeah, so HN rules of civility go out the window when you start talking like a tinpot little Hitler. "Qualitatively separate", indeed. To this, I say: go fuck yourself.

You're the evil one here. You guys go ahead and enact your dream of putting us on boxcars, we'll see how that works out for you. Just test us, asshole.
YouTube leaving something up shouldn't--and wouldn't--feel special if YouTube leaves everything up... but they don't, because they selectively take things down for "reasons" that are often inscrutable. Maybe it is easy to think that conspiracy theorists are stupid or something and will randomly believe anything, but that at least isn't the case for all of them, even if it is for some: they are just trying to figure out how to most easily explain inscrutable decision making processes, as YouTube does not take down the vast majority of false things said on YouTube, right? For whatever reason YouTube is only bothering to take down this false information, and do they seem to care more about the conclusions than the content... you can be very very sane and very very smart and still give weight to this being nefarious.
In general optimising Python is:
* understanding that pure Python is not a language to write CPU-heavy computational code in it and was never intended as such
* understanding that Python lets you write 3-4 solutions to a problem easy and 1 will be slow, two will be OK and one will be optimal - often that involves using generators, collections, sets and is a bit nuaced
* I'd say that optimising Python, compared to something like C or C++ is far easier - I can set up a decent testing and profiling environment for most of my problems easy with pip and ipython which is borderline simple compared to valgrind
I remember early in the pandemic YouTube was removing any video where the word “pandemic” was used. They also censored videos suggesting mask wearing might be beneficial. Similar censorship occurred regarding the now well accepted lab leak origin of the pandemic. Because lab leaks must be racist or something.
I, as an Amigan, was always envious of GFA Basic for the ST. Then GFA Basic was ported to the Amiga, and I found it amazing how easy it was to fairly neat stuff with it.