skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not as quick to dismiss the risk. A brief read of the Wikipedia article on prions has some concerning claims:

> All known prion diseases in mammals ... are progressive, have no known effective treatment, and are always fatal

> In 2015, researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that plants can be a vector for prions. When researchers fed hamsters grass that grew on ground where a deer that died with chronic wasting disease (CWD) was buried, the hamsters became ill with CWD, suggesting that prions can bind to plants, which then take them up into the leaf and stem structure, where they can be eaten by herbivores, thus completing the cycle.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion

Source 1: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC33918/

Source 2: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/06/researchers-make-surp...
Something I wonder is...

A year ago, you could get banned, without appeal, from social media, for sharing the lab leak hypothesis.

Now, a year later and suddenly the same hypothesis, laughed and mocked as a racist conspiracy, is deemed serious enough that it's worth an investigation.

Nothing, other than a certain administration, changed in the meantime.

Interesting.
The article provides no evidence the person was "posing" as a BLM supporter, and was not actually supporting BLM's anarchist riots. Boogaloos are anti-government, and horseshoe theory exists for a reason.
> The problem is that I have perfectly valid collections of data (...) and static typing systems make this very powerful and legitimate task a nightmare.

What leads you to believe that static typing turns a task that essencially boils down to input validation "a nightmare"?

From my perspective, with static typing that task is a treat and all headaches that come with dynamic typing simply vanish.

Take for example Typescript. Between type assertion functions, type guards, optional types and union types, inferring types from any object is a trivial task with clean code enforced by the compiler itself.
>>What can be done if someone steals your cryptocurrecy?

Not much, but at least you don't have to:

* ask a bank's permission, or

* divulge trade secrets, including private investment strategies, to a bank's employees, to meet the bank's AML "source of income" disclosure requirement

To gain access to banking services. Truly owning your own assets, with no dependence on others, has its benefits.
and when it comes to transmission:

No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/the-vaccin...

The impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on Alpha & Delta variant transmission

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v...
It's a bit nitpicky but one of my gripes with PWA is that no implementation I've seen thus far gets titlebars right under macOS, which is a bit distracting.

Additionally, there doesn't seem to be an API for PWAs to surface menus to the system, which means productivity stuff like Google Docs is stuck with redundant in-browser menus.
I think you have to figure out what a "good career" is before you can decide what's better for you. The answer to your question relies entirely on how you weigh financial security, career enjoyment, and work life balance against each other.
Drug companies have lots of products. Did J&J discontinue their baby powder because they secretly knew talc powder cures covid but they wanted to sell more vaccines?
Interestingly both Frama-C and SPARK use linked list as an example. But yes, not everything can be verified, though I'd rather bet on Ada than Rust in this area.
Here is why this is a conspiracy theory and likely complete bull: there are 190 somthing countries in the world. Many of them have public health systems with socialized healthcare. Many of them are completely free of influence from Merck or the FDA. Ivermectin is cheap and widely available. There is no way Merck and the FDA could suppress a global consensus if the drug was strongly effective.

Conspiracy thinking often relies on a simplified model of the world, one in which other countries, other governments, and other healthcare systems simply do not exist. One where a single centralized entity could have ironclad control over a messy, complex and heterogeneous world.

If you are engaging in these patterns of thinking, I recommend you step back, get out of your bubble and your normal context, diversify your information diet and try to ask more pointed questions of the viewpoints you are taking in. And please stop wiggling your eyebrows at us.
The eye is very calm - and freakily bright. It glows from all directions as the light is reflected down into it, causing all the windows in the house to cast shadows onto the floor, which your brain can quickly realize is wrong!
But I expect on the water it's a bit different - I experienced the eye of hurricane Charley when it made landfall in Florida in 2004. My uncle actually ran for his camera because he figured it'd be calm a while. Thankfully he was right
phased => fazed? https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/phase-vs-faze; sorry off-topic
Next up: forming an actual rugby scrum, from where the scrum methodology gets its name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_(rugby)
Yup, this gets downvoted. Hacker News is apparently going full antivax now. Utterly ridiculous.
http://textfiles.com/anarchy/
Presumably the GP's data is external and therefore not checkable or inferrable by typescript. This makes the task less ideal, but still perfectly doable via validation code or highly agnostic typing
Fidelity has the option to use OTP only (although its unfortunately a shitty Symantec app)
Is "using namespace std" still considered heresy? I rather liked it. It'd make a lot of these examples a little more readable.
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You seem like a smart guy, so you'll probably recognize a bargain when you see one. I've got a deed available for disney.com, for today only.
My side told me the other side spreads lies.
I remember hearing about it in high school (mid 00's) but there was a rumor that the government was tracking everyone who downloaded it so none of us ever dared
There seems to be a relative explosion in end-user deployable overlay networks in the last few years. I wonder how many, especially non-tech companies, have end users routing the outside world in without company permission.

I know it's not rocket science to watch for each one, or be more sophisticated with deep packet inspection. But, I've worked at some old stodgy companies, and I'm reasonably sure they aren't really watching for it in a lot of places.
Have you tried grinding and using cold water? Hot water actually mellows out the intensity.
Not a nightmare at all. For example, if you're doing JSON processing in Rust, serde_json gives you great tools for this. The serde_json::Value type can represent any JSON value. You parse JSON to specific typed structures when you want to parse-and-validate and detect errors (using #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)] to autogenerate the code), but those structures can include islands of arbitrary serde_json::Values. You can also parse JSON objects into structs that contain a set of typed fields with all other "unknown" fields collected into a dynamic structure, so those extra fields are reserialized when necessary --- see https://serde.rs/attr-flatten.html for an example.
I like the suffix in 0x80001FU
That's a great list. The only thing I found recently that is interesting is this:

https://www.cairo-lang.org/
https://github.com/martriay/nile/

Yes, learn and play with solidity.

That wasn't on the list, but if you don't know about remix, go there first.

https://remix.ethereum.org/

Hardhat is great, but you can do everything inside a browser with remix, it is amazing.

This is a good starting point video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoFT4QkoL4
The actual quote referenced is:

> Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body.

This quote comes from a statement Madison made at the Federal Convention of 1787 (https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-004...), and is basically pointing out that a Democracy is susceptible to a Tyranny of the Majority (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority), and needs a balancing force (the Senate). The comment you are replying to is from a user named "chmsky00" which gives a hint about how some, in particular Noam Chomsky, have interpreted this quote by Noam Chomsky (https://chomsky.info/commongood02/).
I don't like it, clarity is better in C++. Things are complicated enough as it is.
But you can extend things so much easier inside of a browser tab (Greasemonkey, etc) than you can with a native app.
There may be a faster or cleverer way to do it but here's a basic tail recursive fibonacci:

(defun nth-fibonacci (n &optional (a 0) (b 1))
(if (= n 0)
a
(nth-fibonacci (- n 1) b (+ a b))))
Hackernews bikesheds the browser and the display protocol. A few Mozillas come around to explain that yes, progress is being made, no, not everyone who can code was laid off from the Mozilla Foundation, and you will have a properly scaled Firefox running on your 4K display Real Soon Now.
On a surprising relationship between statistical physics and machine learning
I'd accept the definition of conspiracy requires co-ordinated intent and deception, and that divergence from dominant narratives does not require a belief in a conspiracy, but I would reassert that accusations of conspiracy theories are used exclusively to isolate and delegitimize dissent from dominant narratives.

Anyone who makes predictions based on percieved incentives and not official narratives is a conspiracy theorist. You can't just use the epithet as a synonym for inferior and outgroup and expect people to treat it as a serious argument. This qualifer that the goal of a conspiracy has to be nefarious is ridiculous, because that just means it's fine when our side does it becuase no-nefariousness means no-conspiracy.

People who think that way aren't engaged in discourse, they're at war, which is fine, but pretending you're not at war when you in fact are is called perfidy. Calling something a conspiracy theory isn't discourse.

I'm pretty sure we landed on the moon, but I'm also pretty sure that hundreds of thousands of people worked in secrecy over decades and conspired to intercept the private communications of pretty much everyone in the world, while subverting standards bodies, science, academia, and open source projects, as we found out in 2011-2013 thanks to Binney and Snowden. Conspiracies are not exceptional, they're common as muck, ask any regulated professional.

We could probably share an Ig Nobel for comparing virus cells to fecal particulates (farticles?), but even charitably, comparing any transmission reduction effect of masks to the cost of enforcement and the effects of cynical policy response still yields a co-ordinated effort to decieve the public with noble lies "for their own good." There has absolutely been a co-ordinated effort to leverage the crisis to institute radical policies, denying that is so unserious as to be gaslighting.

What we're likely haggling over is the point where facts dissolve into focus and narrative, and where shared ideology becomes conspiracy. My view is that ideology is inextricable from conspiracy, where a more materialist view would be that a conspiracy is just when you've been caught and convicted of it.
> While I agree that Qt is an excellent tool in itself, and I love using it for development, it remains a fact that people wanting to use it will need to first learn a not so excellent programming language, C++

I won't comment about C++, but anytime I had to use QT, it was with the official Python binding. The "developer experience" was rather nice I must say.
From the article:

That realization isn't entirely new. After the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., news organizations started to keep their own tallies of police-related deaths, which turned out to be higher than the government's numbers.

--

This then transpired into the events in Ferguson.

Obama on the ensuing violence in Ferguson:

President Barack Obama said he has "no sympathy at all for destroying your own communities," urging protesters in Ferguson to avoid a second night of violence and fight instead for longer-lasting political changes.

https://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/25/politics/obama-holder-fer...
Do you have links to more information?
It's not like they're saying "do this exact thing or else" to Twitter - that'd be an obvious first amendment lawsuit. They're stirring up public opinion and voicing their concerns about "disinformation", and hoping that something will be done about those meddlesome posts.
Check out IPFS, this is already happening in the NFT world. Have you noticed how all NFTs are high quality and not compressed to shit? That's because of the IPFS.
If you're referring to the "parse, don't validate" article, it's using the word in a different sense. The idea is that you make a data model that can only represent valid values, and then the code that handles foreign data transforms it into that type for downstream code to handle instead of just returning a boolean that says "yep, this data's fine"
Haha yup that’s it. Oh god I remember reading about how to get nicotine out of cigarettes and use it to poison someone, thinking why would someone ever do that.

Thank god I never boiled bleach to try to make plastic explosives.
The same place that money goes when you lose money in the market :) [0]

More seriously I think the key lots of people miss is that when you buy shares of a company, you don't have dollars anymore. You have shares. Shares are a currency controlled by the company that can issue them (just as the govt can issue dollars). Shares are assets just like a dollar. Also like a dollar, those assets can appreciate or depreciate in value over time.

As the company does well, more people will want to invest. People want to invest in a successful company since it means the company will have more profits to give out and more money to continue growing and succeeding to eventually distribute. Most of the time companies go down this second path.

As more people invest, fewer shares are available. Demand has gone up, and supply has gone down. Each share is now worth more. But you still have the same number of shares.

The reverse is equally true. If a public company does poorly, people will begin to sell. As people sell, demand goes down, supply goes up. Each share is worth less than what it was. But you still have the same number of shares. Their purchasing power has just decreased just as the dollar's purchasing power decreases with inflation.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmFo-LKHGY0 - poof its gone.
this thing was awesome in the pre smartphone days. i remember feeling pretty cool playing NES roms and browsing wikipedia during giant college lectures
Don't make K turns either.
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Yep, that's how you'd do it. So long as your CL implementation supports tail call optimization, that will be on par with the same algorithm using loop or another looping construct.
I write Clojure for food, and Common Lisp for fun. One reason for the latter is CL's speed -- awhile back I compared a bit of (non-optimized) Clojure code I wrote for a blog post with a rough equivalent in CL, and was stunned that the Common Lisp code ran about 10x faster. This made me curious as to how fast it could be made if I really tried, and was able to get nearly 30x more[1] by optimizing it.

Clojure is definitely fast enough for everything I've done professionally for six years. But Common Lisp, while having plenty of rough edges, intrigues on the basis of performance alone. (This is on SBCL -- I have yet to play with a commercial implementation.)

[1] http://johnj.com/from-elegance-to-speed.html
Right - all these people using a free and libre OS for whatever they want to do rather than what you think would be best... so sad. Like you, I will never understand why anyone would choose to exercise their free will and do things that aren't pure submission to random "internet experts". (/s)

If you actually want better support for touchscreens and onscreen keyboards, put effort or money of your own into it, and let others do what they want.
Yeah, but that doesn't say what you think it says:

> Cybersecurity writers, such as Ben Buchanan and Kevin Poulsen, were skeptical of [the false flag theories]. Poulsen wrote, "The leaked catalog isn't organized by country of origin, and the specific malware used by the Russian DNC hackers is nowhere on the list."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#False_flag_theories
I don't know the answer - This is primarily a book about generic programming using C++ templates.

I suppose you can learn about the power of generic programming and apply it to another language. There is probably some non-zero amount of things that you can pick up from this book that you can apply elsewhere. However, I don't know if that is enough to justify going through this book. Your milage might vary.
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That's terrifying. The website looks completely legit at first glance and my first clue that something was off was the Ivermectin. I had a bunch of cognitive dissonance trying to figure out why this very legit association of doctors was publishing crap. If I had less information about current standard of care they would have got me. How putrid.
"I can't be bothered to Google" and "convenient" aren't quite the same thing. The information you seek is readily available.

The two have the exact same liability setup.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/30/false-cla...

> “There are no liability or compensation differences between a countermeasure approved under an EUA or one that has received full FDA approval,” confirmed an HHS spokesperson.

Pfizer also has a more specific comment on the legal specifics in this article:

> “The statement that the products are ‘legally distinct with certain differences’ refers to the differences in manufacturing information included in the respective regulatory submissions,” said Pfizer spokesperson Sharon J. Castillo in an email. “Specifically, while the products are manufactured using the same processes, they may have been manufactured at different sites or using raw materials from different approved suppliers. FDA closely reviews all manufacturing steps, and has found explicitly that the EUA and BLA [biologics license application] products are equivalent.”
You're both right. We need to run a meta-scam where we create a visibly half-baked crypto currency in the hopes that a million investors hoping for a windfall from a software bug invest $10 each.

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A large part of the value of twitter is the userbase and reach of twitter. It's a network, and networks are natural monopolies, there's no collusion necessary to push out competition.

Now, if you were talking about something that uses the payments oligopoly (eg, Patreon clones), I'd be way more sympathetic to that. There, you can't even call it a conspiracy because they're operating in broad daylight. But for the social networks, it's all natural AFAICT.
Of course, even that is only part of the information you would need to estimate deaths. You would need to further extrapolate that anti-vaccine groups were X% more likely to harm someone, etc.
I’m not moving the goalposts. I asked for “The Clinical Trial Studies”, the link is to the “Incomplete Clinical Trial Studies”. I’m not taking issue with you about that, you did a polite thing to further a discussion.

My entire point (go up the comment tree a bit) is the studies are incomplete and therefore inconclusive at this point in time. And you haven’t displayed this attitude, but is a common attitude that they are golden at this point in time.
I have seen programmers 1) design a type hierarchy; 2) struggle getting things compiled; 3) give up.
Browsers don't have that cryptographic primitive available.

L2s can choose whatever encryption schemes they want. They could use rot13 if their customers would be willing to work on a L2 chain with that compromise. :)

A blockchain (if you already know this, sorry...) is just a ledger with transactions created using public/private keys. Ethereum (and Bitcoin) use secp256k1. But, each blockchain can choose their own and L2s have different ones for different reasons. Eventually the L2 needs to put something back on L1 and that transaction has to be using the crytpo the L1 uses. But, the L2 can store into the L1 the answer to a ZK-proof (with the answer as a link in a Merkle tree), and how you manage transactions (and that Merkle tree) inside the L2 is up to the L2 managers.
On the topic of extremist viewpoint, this one's (in my first reaction) is off the scale... I'd ask you if you got proof, but as I wrote above, I'm not sure I want to spend my evening reading conspiracy websites. But hey, maybe you can "guide me to the light"?