skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unlikely the virus would have died out in any circumstance, given how infectious it is and easy to transmit.

We're probably going to get progressively less deadly variants until the end of times.

Vaccines' downsides were definitely overplayed because they were trying to push vaccines.

Talking about the increased risk of blood clots, saying that you would still get symptoms, that you would still infect other people, that you would still have to wear a mask, that you would still have to do a test whenever you travel, that vaccines would lose efficacy and need a booster every 6 month - that's the kind of stuff that would get you branded as an no-vax and banned from youtube.
Wait until people find out all the CSAM is stored on there. They can't ban π soon enough. Its worse than bitcoin. /s
Sorry, but you're missing the forest for the trees. This is what wikipedia has to say: "Functional programming is sometimes treated as synonymous with purely functional programming, a subset of functional programming"[0]

In FP as an umbrella, purity is not a hard requirement for the entire paradigm, only a predominantly pipeline oriented style based around expressions is (in contrast to, say, C, where one generally passes a pointer to the same state around to procedures that pick and choose what to modify in that state bag, as a series of statements). Common Lisp and OCaml are often cited as examples of functional languages that don't attempt to enforce purity guarantees even in terms of idiomatic usage, let alone at a compiler-enforced level.

Using higher order functions for, say, promises (remember, they're stateful!) doesn't mean you're not using functional programming, just like using Array.prototype.map doesn't mean you're not using OOP (it implements fluent interfaces, if you haven't noticed). It's the absence of functional tools/techniques that qualifies a program as not functional.

IMHO, the unfortunate situation is that most JS people don't understand there are different degrees of functional-ness and certain guarantees only exist within specific subsets (and React doesn't conform to that subset).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming.
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and keep it wrapped till they get to their hideout which is in a faraday cage and then proceed to wipe it and bypass the activation lock.

it's another hassel for thieves which imho is a good thing. Might as well argue "why lock you door when all someone needs is a bump key!"
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Was the phone actually off or just missing a SIM card?
Thank you for the kind words! Yeah, I haven't thought about a no-sign-up version, might do something like that.
Isn't this anticompetitive? Doesn't Google have the right to poach whomever they want?
The messaging now at least here in BC is all about increasing vaccination coverage. To a degree that I'm reminded of Goodhart's law "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". Who cares how many people are vaccinated, what the goal should be is reducing hospitalizations, deaths and long-Covid for the good of people (don't die) and that of the health care system (ICUs not overrun). If there's a community who doesn't want to get vaccinated, who cares as long as the overall goal is still reached. We're focusing too much on cases and vaccinations to reduce cases at the moment in my view. We've lost touch with what's important, at least our messaging doesn't reflect that.
>the quack content should always be on page 12.

The problem is that the content is engineered to take advantage of humans and google and becomes the thing on the first page. You might be yearning for the old days of less effective SEO. It's a hard problem how to moderate away though algorithm design or manual intervention things which pull on the strings of human weaknesses.

Is an algorithm designed to de-prioritize content you don't like any better than a human selecting content for removal?
How subtle was the update message letting the users know about the new feature?
It was only because Trump worked really hard to earn that banning with his false claims about an election being stolen. It's not something Twitter wanted to have to do. But Trump was acting in a very dangerous manner concerning the democratic outcome of an election which he refused to accept.
Compute module based on NUC will be included, and is pluggable on the back of the headset.

About 2-2.5k predicted price point.

Prescription lens we'll figure something out. We're trying to keep enough eye relief to support glasses, and we'll have at least provisions for mounting prescription lenses.

If we can, we'll be able to supply prescription lenses with the headset (for a surcharge) or collaborate with an existing vendor to provide lenses.
to show it? yea you just show the QR code. then someone with the app scans it to verify it
This seems pretty huge ('19% better performance at 20% lower cost') considering many (most?) Lambda workloads will be arch-agnostic, not even needing updated scripts/installed libs etc. Then many more will only need a trivial re-compile.

I'm sure they don't need me to tell them they'll be inundated with demand...
This disturbed me as well. The nuts and neurodivergent (there's a difference!) still exist but maybe it's not a filtering phenomenon but just the author not recognizing code switching?
hey so i messaged someone on the Holo team (Paul d'Aoust @helioscomm) with your question, this was his reply:

Yes, people will want conflict-resolution for contention on scarce resources, and it'd be lovely to have that baked into the system.

Two options (and yes, both still leave conflict resolution in the app dev's hands):

- Have the zome function resolve the conflict after it retrieves conflicting metadata from the DHT

- In the future we'll bake conflict resolution right into the network layer, so DHT authorities can resolve the conflict automatically using CRDTS or manually by pinging the nodes that published conflicting information so they can resolve it themselves.

It's also worth mentioning Syn, a library which uses operational transforms (a precursor to CRDTs) for conflict-free collaborative document editing. https://github.com/holochain/syn. I'm looking forward to seeing someone produce something similar, but with CRDTs.
If you/society do not like people walking around spreading viruses that affect other’s bodies, then perhaps you and society should do something about it.

For example, when the covid virus broke out on the scene, some experts developed a vaccine that seems to be pretty darn good at rectifying the situation. Now there seems to be a related but different problem: a fair amount of people who are opposed to taking that vaccine (walking around spreading viruses that affect other’s bodies), so perhaps a similar approach should be taken: find some people with expertise in the problem, and let them do their thing (maybe throw a few ten or hundred million at them to grease the wheels). As it is, the people who have been tasked with this job seem to be not performing up to the expectations of lots of people, so it might be a good idea to start looking for some who can.
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Funny timing, btw. :)

https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1431368348886052865
The rebuttal is irrelevant/non sequitur, which is different from being false.
So you fundamentally agree that if we have social consensus, it’s totally OK to prevent the spread of ideas or messages (“speech”) as we have done with cigarettes? That was my entire question, to the folks who argue that there is never ever a reason to restrict speech.

I too think that we should address underlying issues, but if there’s a lot at stake: why not both?
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I wonder if Steve had the lawyers in mind he he wrote it.

"I would be very pleased if your recruiting department would stop doing this".

The phrase "very pleased" implies to me that there is no pressure whatsoever, but nonetheless it would be great if it happened.
Well, don't turn warnings into errors. Doubly so on your development environment. That's not a good reason for not running a linter while developing.

But, of course, if the decision was out of your hands, people that do that are usually the same that enable all linter rules. Neither decision makes for a good development practice.
MQTT is awesome. In deepstream.io we bridged the node MQTT protocol to deepstream which allows us to mix and match protocols. MQQT for IoT devices (and to be honest any device considering the large amount of libraries) and the deepstream JS client for node/browsers.

This pretty much allowed clustering out of the box + automatically saves messages with quality assurance set in an actual database. Plus a bit more authentication and permission tools.

https://deepstream.io/blog/20190909-release-deepstream-4.2/

Deepstream itself is under maintenance right now, but I find the concept of mixing protocols together (similar to what ably.io provides) to hit a sweet spot for development across multiple different environments/devices
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thanks for this great write up and I wish I could read this 10 years ago :).
Does 5 levels deep count as easy to find?
It's only supported on iPhone 11, 12, and 13 series.
No, that's not what I said. My point is explicitly that markets do exist, and that markets are the mechanism by which Uber will find itself unprofitable, because they aren't adding enough value to the equation. Having the app and the scheduling algorithm was a game changer a decade ago, but now that part of the business has been effectively commoditized.

But Uber doesn't want to be 1 of 1000 taxi players in a crowded market with no margins. They want to be taxi king of the world. How do they stay on top when every local municipality can hire some college kids to make a close facsimile to what Uber does? Sure maybe it's not as good as the Uber offering, but they don't have to support a global taxi empire, so they can offer their service for a lot less than Uber can. If that app takes hold in city X, why are people going to use Uber when they come to town 30% more expensive than your small town provider?
All this for a virus with a 99% survival rate [1]. Nevermind the fact that media and government forces completely ignore natural immunity which has been shown to provide 27x more resistance to covid infection by a recent study [2].

You can't really be surprised at the general distrust and hesitancy. You can get a "Vaccine Passport" but you can't get a "Immunity Passport"?

Ridiculous

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-970830023526
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Yeah sounds like the lesson here is that nobody reads the update messages.
The challenge there is when people start using your personal project. Yes, you remain in control and you remain the primary user. But… now regression and features become a much greater concern because the last thing you want to do is harm other people even if they are only a secondary audience. As the project grows this becomes the most pressing concern regardless of who is the primary user.

That begs the question: Why bother growing the application beyond the smallest set of explicit use cases? When you are the primary user AND the only use environment or input samples are written by you life is simple. The moment you must analyze something not written by you, even if this usage is only for you, the problem cases blossom. If your application refuses to solve for those cases then you need to add more features or use a different application.

Those two scenarios seem to feed each other which becomes evident by traffic or usage numbers as you pull your hair out keeping up with some hobby application.
There are a couple aisles of rotating seasonal stuff. Mine's obviously full of Halloween decor and candy but there's still leftover summer stuff even back to 4th of July supplies and excess back-to-school stuff.

They do bring in new regular items like they've added a good bit of craft / paint stuff in the past year.
Anti-vaxxer is a pejorative word, it lumps people together in ways that aren't fair. Many were just skeptical and wanted to discuss and debate the evidence, and that was ridiculed, as evident everywhere in this thread.
Thanks. I don't understand how it's better though, wouldn't you need to start following the Rules of Hooks for this data retrieval (`count()`) as well, lest the renderer not know what all your dependencies are?
In all physical theories, any finite system has a finite number of distinguishable states. So it is not infinitely informationally dense, especially when working with discrete bits of information.

Not to mention, the finer the distinctions between two states of a system, the more energy you need to distinguish them. So, the less impact these differences can have, unless the system is extraordinarily energetic (and even then, you end up in fundamental limits of energy per volume, like the Schwarzschild radius).

So again, there is no sense in which a finite part of the universe is universally dense.

Even worse for your argument, all currently known laws of physics use computable functions (the randomness in QM notwithstanding). So, by definition, all known laws of physics can be simulated by an ideal Turing machine (again, give or take some randomness in QM, depending on the interpretation you chose to believe in and on how you chose to simulate the QM system).
https://americanfreepress.net/perpetual-war-and-the-global-m...

> What is insidious, as Ulfkotte confesses, is that typically, intelligence agencies use “unofficial covers”—people working for the agency but not actually on its payroll as agents. It is a broad, loose network of “friends,” doing one another favors. Many are lead journalists from numerous countries. This informality provides plausible deniability for both sides, but it means an “unofficial cover,” as Ulfkotte became, is on his own if captured.

> The American reporter James Foley, allegedly executed by ISIS, found that out. Ulfkotte confirmed to this author that Foley did indeed work for various intelligence organizations, as this newspaper reported on last month. He also stated that if a journalist is accused of spying, such reports are almost always credible.

The point of this article is that journalists are just as fallible to money as everyone else. That the alphabet soup agencies don't mind using journalists for their own ends. To assume that stops with spying is an argument from silence (lol, but to assume that it does go past that is also an argument from silence).
Ok, you know how people thought Cantor was crazy because he proposed that there were both countable and uncountable infinities? In retrospect, those of us who are mathematically inclined can understand the value of Cantor's work, since it gave rise to set theory and many more things that are clearly useful and important.

But they weren't always clearly useful and important. The value of Cantor's work was once so not clear that many serious and influential people dismissed and attacked it.

Would you like to not be one of those people? Then you should probably practice talking about why certain art is bullshit, and certain other art isn't bullshit, because it will strengthen your "is this bullshit" muscles, so you can more expertly apply those muscles to really important questions, like "are self-driving cars feasible within the next few years", or "do covid booster shots make sense".
an attempt to reframe goals to make me feel like i'm missing something. nothing new here.
Look, if you could actually show up with actual bodily autonomy then this would be a different conversation.

The fact of the matter is that no one is capable of being autonomous in the face of communicable diseases because if you are infected you turn into a factory for the disease that affects everyone else.

Citing a 99.9% survival rate is disingenuous when it’s infecting everyone. That’s blatantly obvious with Covid shooting up to 2-3 place for cause of death and if recall correctly one of those other major causes of death it’s competing with is cancer which is actually a basket of diseases with unrelated causes.

Even with the vaccine “mandate” the US gov has set, you still have the option to get tested frequently and not be vaccinated.

You can’t refuse the vaccine, refuse to get tested and prove you are immune, and want to walk around uninhibited in public when you could be carrying this disease. That’s not bodily autonomy that’s just saying “fuck you I do what I want” to society, so don’t be surprised when claims of “my body, my choice” or clamoring about rights falls on deaf ears to the rest of society
A fine post and I'm sure a fine tool, but why is an internal linter tool the subject of a proper academic paper?

I can't imagine writing an academic paper for any of the projects of similar complexity and general interest that I've worked on.
How do you know beethoven didn't intend for the remainder to be 79 bars of silence? (This is a serious question.)

Fundamentally, current A.I. is predicated on replicating stationary distributions. In that sense they are deeply conservative and can only "predict the past", instead of creating true novelty.

> they have tested it with audiences

What do they do if the audience says that there are too many notes?
Just saw this. The live update of the stack at each step with the function definitions on the left is really cool!
> macos for my work machine

When has Apple ever supported a computer for 10+ years like Windows routinely does? I have a 2012 iPad I can only use as a Kindle and PDF reader because the ancient Safari version on it doesn't support modern Javascript features like the "let" keyword that websites now use, and this is exactly what Apple wants: if I can't install Firefox on my iPad and if Apple won't update Safari, my only choice is to buy a new device. But I never again bought a new iPad, I learned my lesson.

My old iPad can still run the original Flappy Bird. New $1000+ iPad Pros can't do this, because Apple deliberately breaks old apps on new devices, to encourage developers to charge customers for an updated app that continues to work on new devices, which Apple gets its mandatory 30% cut of.

Apple also ties Xcode releases to the most recent macOS releases. Apple doesn't want you being able to run the newest Xcode on a 10 year old Mac so that you can keep your old iOS game you wrote in college still working, oh no, you have to buy a new Mac for that, and keep paying your $99/year membership dues.

Microsoft lets you run Visual Studio on very old computers, unlike Apple with Xcode.

High-profile ransomware attacks have made the news this year and so MS decided Win 11 should only be on computers that can secure the boot process so that ransomware can't encrypt your hard drive until you send bitcoins to Ukraine.
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That analogy is rather good here because it has a dual interpretation - in terms of the actual history that could be dredged up by wiki editors [0] yelling fire in a crowded theatre has led to ~81 stupid deaths globally and failing to yell fire at an appropriate time has led to at least 278 really stupid deaths in the US. In practice there, there is evidence that yelling fire is not encouraged enough.

There are real threats that are mitigated by an open and tolerant approach to speech. Cracking down on people will lead to a culture that is really bad. Which should be intolerable since the crackdown is only trying to defend against things that are mildly annoying.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
that seem less idea then a signed QR code thats entirely offline - basically allows the government to track when someone is scanned.
Facebook’s Instagram for kids is all about creating a ‘de facto lock-in effect’
I was on a webex recently, and after years of using Zoom I was all "oh, wow - is see Webex has a 'make my skin look worse' feature. Gotta compete with Zoom somehow"
Increasingly, our representatives are chosen by what district we live in.
Yes. Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar were all conspiring to keep wages down. Big lawsuit.
US$425 million settlement. See link above.
I like the idea (and even asked for something similar at some previous jobs), but it can be easily gamed. I could for instance just send the funds to myself or to a friend.

I am currently favoring the https://gitcoin.co model: individuals make donations to the projects they want to support, companies contribute to the fund only to match the individual donations, and quadratic voting rules determine how much each project ends up receiving in the end. Quadratic voting works to ensure that no single whales benefit from the matching funds and that the distribution is more even.

I've also have been contributing some of the BAT I receive from Brave to creators that are registered and I'd like to support (hi @geerlingguy!). It seems that if more people did that we could put some of the money from the ad industry into good use.
It is anticompetitive. I have always liked this patio11 bit about "poaching": https://twitter.com/patio11/status/606711798352338944
The part of Idaho where you can build cheaply (Snake River Valley, flat-ish land) is a pretty long way from the major hydro dams on the Columbia. The Snake River dams generate almost zero electricity; they exist in order to allow barge transit for farm goods. So the "cheap power" benefit is out.

Micron is a giant in memory device manufacturing, but they don't do logic chips. Memory and logic manufacturing are pretty different, and get more and more different as you get to more and more bleeding-edge processes. Proximity to Micron is nice but not a huge benefit for a foundry.

Lastly, Idaho is gorgeous and the skiing is awesome, but it doesn't check the box for hipsters who want a coastal city. Don't blame me, I don't think this way. But a lot of people do. Anyways Idaho is definitely way beyond driving distance from Seattle.
Nobody is willing to take a stance that strong, because they can't know that for sure. There could be further viral mutations, an unexpectedly sudden decline in immunity from vaccines, a string of unlucky superspreader events, a completely unrelated pandemic, or any of a lot of other uncontrollable, unknowable factors that could make continued restrictions necessary in an almost-fully-vaccinated population.

It's an unfortunate circumstance that 90% of people being fully vaccinated might not be enough to stop COVID-19 in its tracks. Even just 1% of people being unvaccinated makes millions of people who could catch, mutate, and transmit the virus. Especially if those people were loosely clustered together, and didn't take precautions against spreading disease, they could possibly keep the virus active (and hospitals busy) for a long time on their own.