skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The WHO says

"A large multi-country Phase 3 trial has shown that 2 doses, administered at an interval of 21 days, have an efficacy of 79% against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection 14 or more days after the second dose. Vaccine efficacy against hospitalization was 79%."

https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-sin...
All of those things are testable. It’s data in, data out. On the frontend, not so much. You can structure your code in a way that allows for intermediate representations, which are more testable. But past that? Things need to look right, behave in a helpful way. You can’t assess that from within the code. At least not yet.
I understand how you would assume that, but that is not the case for me at all. I'm hindered by JS-heavy pages on a daily basis, to the point where I rarely click any links on HN anymore.

For example, twitter.com takes 40-50 seconds of lockup to even begin displaying content, after which it is still unusable.

PDF inconvenient, and I didn't read this one, but at least I could close it as soon as I decided not to read.
This was the extreme end of the supply chain so to speak. Iceland was sparsely populated, Greenland even more so. They simply didn't have the people to set up new colonies further west, or much need to. Perhaps, if they had stumbled on a particularly rich area, they may have done so, but to get any significant number of settlers, they would have had to go all the way back to Scandinavia.
A long time ago I wrote goosh (https://goosh.org) which does the same thing for google. It's nice to see something similar for DDG. After a first test it looks like it only searches DDGs public API (so definitions, etc) and doesn't return results from the bing index (a search for "test2" e.g. turns up nothing).
Some analogy popped in my mind.

Imagine you have a sports car with beautiful design and powerful engine.
You love it, but you want the new model, because you hope that you can cover the corners of the track with more speed and control.

The new model is here.
You will have everything new, with one caveat.
You can only use the full potential on the straight parts of the track.
In the corners you will have the speed and control of the older model.

Then why buy the new model?
Windows supports Windows 98 API and it's more natural to use for some languages like C++. No change is planned there. Windows 98 API is also closer to Unix API, which can incentivize the programmer to use the same approach on windows and unix.
No, they suggested that Google tailors results to the things related to the hits that you follow. His example was political but it was just that, an example.
Basic-er Commodore 64 BASIC
>Additionally the ability to say.. start a web server and run it? The ability to run the actual generated binaries from any of those other languages?

You could trivially had those with VSCode in the browser. They just run on a remote build/CI/CD environment.
Even if you don't look at refurbished, here in France, a MacBook Air is 1029€ brand new.

A comparable ThinkPad X1 Carbon is 2499€ minimum (that's the base model, with 256GB/8GB, but with a high-res screen).

A comparable Dell XPS 13 is 1699€ (same, cheapest one with a high-res screen you can buy; though you can't have the high-res screen without buying 512/16GB).

The ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 (successor to T490, supposed to be the cheap ThinkPad) starts at an astonishing 2156€ for 1080p. That's the very cheapest T14 you can buy, period. I could buy a T450 new for $700 when I was in the US! T14s starts at 2369€, again for 1080p. They keep selling old models so they can still hit lower price points.

The cheapest T14 you can buy with a high-res screen comes with 8GB ram, 128GB SSD (WTF?) and costs 3408€ (no, not a joke) or 3548€ if you want a graphics card.

HP starts at 1599€ for high-res HP Spectre.

Even if you forget the whole "premium laptop thing", I went on the Dell website and asked it to list all high-res 13" laptops: the cheapest is the 1699€ XPS. They don't made high-res Inspirons smaller than 15 inch. I believe the cheapest high-res laptop HP makes is that 1599€ Spectre, though their website is buggy. HP doesn't offer cheaper high-res devices except an 11" Chromebook.

These are all the official prices from the official manufacturer website.

Even on ok1.de, which has extremely cheap student prices, it's 1499€ for a high-res P14s, 2159€ for the cheapest high-res X1 Carbon, and 2,019€ for the cheapest high-res T14s. And then, we're comparing it to the 900€ student-price MacBook Air.

I've researched it for weeks, and there isn't a single premium Windows laptop that matches the MacBook Air on price.
Others have cited Guns, Germs and Steel but I hope I don't have to explain that its premises have in many parts been debunked by actual historians who specialize in these subjects.

It's easy to forget that most of the Indigenous peoples in North America didn't die simply from "catching" diseases but were directly and intentionally killed or worked to death. Most people are hopefully familiar with the extent of the genocide in what is now the US (with everything from "plague blankets" to eradicating the bison to literally paying bounties for dead Indians) but Columbus' treatment of the Natives was also so violent and brutal that other Spanish colonialists complained about it.

In other words, the problem wasn't so much settlers bringing their diseases with them than settlers capturing the natives, working them to death, destroying their livelihoods and then actively trying to genocide them.

Having some level of immunity to smallpox or other diseases wouldn't have changed much.
> How does HN stand on the person of Eich? Very weird personal ideas from anti gay marriage to anti mask/lockdown.

Every Brave thread is full of people who hate his guts.

Being unsupportive of gay marriage and skeptical of covid policy/vaccines aren't weird stances, they're really, really common. Maybe not stances you agree with, maybe not stances that are correct, but common, logical and simple to explain. We're not exactly talking scientology and getting clear here. There's obviously crazy people in the group, but any group that's millions strong is going to include crackpots. If you go nutpicking, you're going to find nutcases.

But more importantly: Whatever his politics, Brave doesn't seem to be much influenced by them. That is, the organization says their purpose is to build a browser and help with advancing privacy and user choice on the web, and they seem to be doing just that.

Mozilla also claims to be a privacy organization, but has come out saying they're okay with third parties deciding what I should see on the web, presumably because said content adjustments would favor stanced on non-tech matters the Foundation endorses. That, I don't like.

There's a whole bunch of products I use from people I know don't share my views on things, but are focused on doing their job. Mozilla seems less and less job-oriented by the day, so I don't use them.

Many Vivaldi staffers and Eich likely disagree on politics, but both organizations don't let politics that aren't tech related to invade their work on their product. They just try to make a good tool, and their politics wrt tool? Privacy and user control, in both cases. So I use both. Because they behave like professionals, not activists on the job.

You know, like how the world used to be. People had their politics, and then they had jobs to do.
I doubt physical distance has much to do with it. Australia is closer to China than the US, for example.

Australia gets a LOT of sunshine and has a LOT of empty space, which is conducive to being solar friendly. Australia also exports a lot of coal and a lot or iron ore (which is then processed using coal-generated heat), which is conducive to promoting its value and suppressing any alternatives.

Electric vehicles, however, work towards solving a specific national security problem for Australia in it's "domestic fuel security"[0][1][2][3]. A problem of which the UK is kindly highlighting the importance.

[0]: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/a...

[1]: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-must-fast-track-...

[2]: https://www.defenceconnect.com.au/key-enablers/7790-what-s-n...

[3]: https://www.drive.com.au/news/government-scrambles-to-mainta...
Sure. And it's a problem within the company that amazon will have to fix. But right now, for prosecutors, I can only imagine that the manager will be found criminally liable.
Your text could basically be mine.

I'm utterly tired of Google's attitude and how little they really care about their customers. They have really cool tech and solutions, but their total neglectance of the individual but somewhat high attention of activists have made my view of a #1 company down the slope, I guess I would at one point have to try applying for some position to hopefully change my mind on that point.

I have a love/hate relationship regarding their Android ecosystem and lack of possibilites to keep an updated phone up to date more than 1-2 years.. so after many years listening to the Apple ambassadors among (okay, mostly non-tech) friends and finally went all-in on the Apple way of doing stuff, bought their "Pro"-version of wireless headset, their smart watch series 7 and their "Pro"-version smartphone series 12 (supplied from my work).

I feel totally claustrophobic about the lack of options and what Apple enforces. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, switching doesn't matter.. everything is Safari/Webkit engine, no firefox extensions.

Control volume of an app/media - no way, everything should have the same volume.. so my phone remains muted 24/7 and I hope important stuff vibrates on the watch (which is of course also muted as I cannot clearly select what notifications should sound or not).

If it weren't for my old android phone no longer receiveing updates I would switch back to my now three year old phone, at least that one let me unlock my screen with my fingers.. The Apple way is more.. if I, in the middle of the night, want to change track on my Bose Sleepbuds - I cannot do it unless I widely open my eyes and stare on the Apple camera so I am wide awake.

But an Android with 5 year lifespan.. then it starts getting interesting again.
80% of the world's energy comes from fossil fuels, so we can't just stop, or civilization comes to a halt and people starve and riot. There's 7.8 billion of us now.

That energy has to first be replaced by wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, electric transportation, etc.
Really good article. My first synth, that I had to save up for as a teen, was a DX7. However, wasn't FM synthesis part of the New England Digital's Synclavier system, which was available in the late 70s? Certainly the DX7 was really the first mass-market commercial offering, but I believe the Synclavier was first to market with frequency modulation. I wonder what the arrangement was with John Chowning, if anything, on this.

https://120years.net/wordpress/the-synclavier-ii-new-england...
>But they can do that just as easily today with the vscode app. The fact that this runs in your browser does not help (or hinder) at all: As you said, offline VSCode is just a glorified browser.

On the contrary, it does help a lot. Offline VSCode might be just a glorified broswer, but web VSCode will hook automatically with the vendors development/build/code repo backends. And you could have the appropriate environment (eg. a linux version x, with y libs, and z servers running) per project, available everywhere you go with no setup of your own.

>presumably they would have to give you a laptop to access it, and any laptop that can run it in the browser can run it offline, this is 99% the same codebase.

Yes, and then you can install this or that, diverge from the common environment, and so on. And you have to setup all of those, even if it's just some docker instance running locally or some cloud stuff you access.

With the bundled web-vscode+cloud-backend, you wont have to.

>Codespaces makes sense because you don't even have to clone your code, and the compute/build happens elsewhere. Plus collaborative features can be added with no hassle because authentication is already baked in.

Codespaces is the whole idea behind this too. In other words, this is just a component of codespaces / a codespaces type deal.
Recommend reading https://gitpod.io/blog/cloud-ide-history
Samsung and Maison Kitsuné on Limited Edition Galaxy Watch4 and Buds2
Author here: This is one reason why I used that term. I was definitely thinking in terms of the 'phase accumulator' looking up the sin table.

Everyone is absolutely right that this is the same as frequency. I think I was used that particular poetic flourish to emphasise how complicated the academic, mathematic explanation is, in contrast with the diagram. Quite likely I picked up that exact phrasing of "phase angle" from some academic literature in particular.
I was also dealing with a 24*80 display. While your idea works, it would cut the size of map that could be displayed in half.
You are in the minority. For most people twitter does not take anywhere near that long to load and I'd wager there's more people using phones to read and even as their primary/only device than there are with a connection/machine like yours.

I'm all for lighter sites but I'd still bet that an article published as a PDF would cause more inconvenience overall than publishing it on a typical js-heavy site. Further, there are more workarounds to js-heavy sites (blocking some js, mobile versions, rss etc.) than there are to pdfs.
What do you think of the Megacasting? They have moved to an architecture where they have one big casting in the front, one in the back and those are linked with a battery pack that has structure from the actual cells themselves. The machines are costume orders from IDRA in Italy, there seems to be somewhat of a bottleneck in how fast they can be made, each one is massive project. Would be hard for other manufacture to replicate that process anytime soon.

Other then BYD (and some research groups) nobody has attempted to make cells structural to the car yet. And BYD basically uses prismatic LFP cells that make it easier.

Unfortunately they have not yet managed to do the improvements to the wiring and moving to 48V. Elon basically wants to use Ethernet and PoE for everything in the car. This seems a lot harder to do then anybody outside the automotive industry understands.

Their cells and how they are produced is also quite amazing. They literally went back to 0 and rethought battery production from the ground up. The fans are trying to reproduce the process from the public video and available information (from Berlin application for example). It really seems like they simplified a lot, specially really small and difficult welding process that need to be done at high speed. They went so far as producing all their own manufacturing equipment as well, they bought companies like Hibar and have Grohmann engineering build these machines in Germany (new factory being built there as well). Will be hard for others to compete with battery production lines that can spit out 4-5x as many larger cells as a comparable 2170 line.

I know Toyota is working on its own solid state batteries, and you likely can't say more then is publicly available. Toyota seems to have made no effort to produce its own 'traditional' cells so far. I'm not sure if they plan to produce their solids themselves. And I will be very interested to see when an actual mass volume 100k+ a year car gets produced with them. I would be surprised if it was before 2028 or so. At that point 'traditional' cells will have made huge advances, it will be interested to see what advantage they will have at that point. I am eagerly waiting for more information from Toyota.

PS: The latest 'fun' thing Tesla seems to do (in Berlin), is to put the seats on top of the battery first and then drop the car frame on-top of it. Where the battery is the floor of the vehicle. Its almost like the old body-on-frame. I think the kind of stumbled into that because they wanted to eliminate the redundant layer in the floor and realized that the frame now has a hole in the bottom. I assume they will then manually insert the floor carpets in final assembly.
Lengthy, detailed 20yo article:

"The Secret History of Lead" (Nation, original gone) [https://web.archive.org/web/20090208070616/https://www.thena...]

The part I'll never forget reading (page 2):

"For this reason, most of the estimated 7 million tons of lead burned in gasoline in the United States in the twentieth century remains--in the soil, air and water and in the bodies of living organisms. Worldwide, it is estimated that modern man's lead exposure is 300 to 500 times greater than background or natural levels."
Small nuclear reactors could be the future of energy
> The words for the orders of magnitude don't group by thousand like in English

It's not only in English, as far as I know it's almost everywhere else, the entire Western world plus its former colonies and I think even places like China.

The Indian subcontinent is the exception.
In a way they're meaningless because they were just a way to extend the "space race" to an arbitrary milestone the US could claim for itself after having lost almost everything else to the reds.
Tesla reports record quarterly earnings despite global supply chain meltdown
If you're speaking about the United States's the (relatively small) tax gains, they only become advantageous for a marriage between a stay at a non-earning stay at home spouse and a high-earning breadwinner. Any other paring creates a tax penalty.
Reading the GP comment (going skunk), I wondered if the factors behind that turning out positively was the position of the fixer relative to the code/systems in question. If they're not stepping on anyone else's toes it works great.

This comment echoes that sentiment a bit, I think; there's an implicit dependency in there on the project not having a collective structural investment, whether that's explicit (overt, with explicitly delineated boundaries) or implicit (implied, fuzzy, part of collective culture), on the thing being fixed.
Yeah, but big companies have long lifecycle and bundling contracts that makes them more resistant to change.
Radio industry calls for government protection from smart assistants
There are waiting lists for Mach-E because they can't make it enough. Go actually look how many Mach-E are produced compared to Tesla Model Y. There is a reason for that.
> What about this? Is this even possible?

> (T a -> b) -> T a -> T b

Yep; that's the signature for the "extend" method of a comonad.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/comonad-5.0.8/docs/Contr...

Though I prefer the presentation with `duplicate :: w a -> w (w a)`, which is just the signature of Monad's `join` but flipped around.
> Comparing prostitution to physical labor

Its not a comparison, prostitution literally is physical labor...

> is no different from comparing selling your organs to prostitution

...whereas selling organs is not prostitution and vice versa.

> Indeed, giving away for free a part of what you earned is bad, but giving a part of yourself, be it psychological or physical health(which should not be separated, actually, but lets not complicate things. Lots of things we can lose and still continue to live), is worse.

Much wage labor, both physical and otherwise, involves sacrifice of psychological and/or physical health. We have, in fact, a massive labor regulatory and enforcement bureaucracy that exists not to prevent that, but to try to limit it to what is deemed reasonable for each specific job. (Including, where it is legal, for prostitution.)
AI, Race, and Architecting More Inclusive Social Spaces
I wonder why auto-curried function syntax has become so ubiquitous in explaining this. For anyone coming from a more traditional CS background, it's just extra cognitive overhead in understanding the meat of the argument.

For example,

(a -> b,T a) -> T b
(a -> b,T<a>) -> T<b>

Is just as good in explaining what bind means as the curried version, but more familiar to the vast majority of programmers and CS graduates.

Note: I do understand why auto-currying is extremely useful for doing functional programming, and I have no objections to teaching it. I just don't think it's important for teaching functors, applicatives and monads.

In a separate nit-pick, these three function definitions don't mean much on their own, and there are many pure functions that satisfy them without forming a functor/applicative/monad.
The Two Types of IT Companies
As we're clearly going heads-on into the "great attrition" period, here's an article to help employees to analyze the type of company they are working at and the type of company they are thinking of moving into.
Addendum: I should have added that from various sources, Wiki etc., it seems the W- boson does decay very significantly faster than the complete decay but we've still no further info about the timeline of events, as you say, it's likely not possible.

In hindsight, it seems the techniques mentioned in those links to measure a particle's time are unlikely to be applicable or adaptable here. That then begs the question about how did we initially determine that the W- boson's decay is much faster than the overall process.
Maybe a reference from a novel [1]. Rough Google translation of the summary: "The black iron is the material recorded in Jin Yong's novels. It is dark in color with a faint red light. It is extremely heavy, has a high melting point, and has a magnetic force."

[1] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%8E%84%E9%93%81/2949942
Fisher-Price made a working Chatter phone for adults
Seems that way. Yet another reason not to feel any guilt when using uBlock Origin.
CUDA was released in beta in November 2006, so it was invented by this point, even if it wasn’t well known.
Sorry but this entire post reads (skims) like you're playing top trumps with chip specs.
> This is exactly why I used that term

That's a lie, because:

> I think I was used that particular poetic flourish to emphasise how complicated the academic, mathematic explanation is, in contrast with the diagram

is a totally different to what the person you are replying to said
How to migrate an old MacBook to a M1
It took me a couple of years to recover, but I never went back to the industry.

Fuck unrealistic deadlines and unnecessary stress.

Fuck shipping half-assed unfinished products.

Fuck working on shit which is a net negative on the world.

Fuck using stupid-ass "frameworks".

I'd rather be a beggar than do that shit again.
Author here: I wish! I own a TG77, and it's an absolutely amazing synth. While I don't have any direct experience with the SY99, the 77 was so far ahead of its time. The sheer amount of features packed into the synth alone is an engineering feat.
What matters for FM is an instantaneous quantity: the derivative or increment of the instantaneous phase, i.e. how the phase changes from sample to sample.

What is usually called frequency, and has the same value in boring cases like an unvarying sinusoid, is the inverse of the period of the resulting sound as someone would hear it, which is not instantaneous and needs on the order of one period's worth of samples (usually more) to estimate, for a certain definition of period (e.g. interval between zero crossings) or a certain mathematically reasonable calculation (e.g. estimating the frequency of the strongest component from a fixed-length window of past samples).
Willingness to look stupid
> check for features based on the current browser shares

TIL! That sounds awesome. What are these called? :D