skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not every developer can agree on what good code is, I find it much easier to agree on what bad code is. Bad code increases the risk of bugs, slows maintenance and updates, and is bad for the bottom line. It may be hard to sell non-technical managers on writing the best code ever, but at the very least, sell them on avoiding bad code.
From an IP perspective, if Moderna doesn't think the benefit of disclosing the invention is worth the value of the patent (and you present a coherent argument for that), that's ok, they can not have a patent. But we shouldn't let them have their cake (the patent) and eat it to (not disclose the invention).

From a broader world perspective it's also pretty terrible that time is being wasted reverse engineering this instead of licensing it during a pandemic, but that's largely a separate discussion.
This kind of negates the argument that the drug companies shouldn't release the vaccine recipe because no one but the drug companies are sophisticated enough to manufacture the vaccine safely.

If other companies can reverse engineer it, then surely they're capable of manufacturing it.
Looks like Geekbench just got the HN bug of death.
60,000 is kind of the extreme outlier.

Melia dubia for example is 44m3 of wood per acre above ground biomass in the right conditions. That’s 28,000m3 per year per square mile, but a few methods which aren’t currently cost effective like extracting the root ball can apparently boost it further.
Vikings were in North America in 1021, well before Columbus, researchers say
>Well, offline VSCode is a glorified browser as well.

Not really, it may use electron for the front end, but a huge amount of what makes vscode useful and fast is the native binaries that power all of its functionality.
Isn't saving lives part of the expected value? This is a genuine question. If you had the opportunity to save someone's life without any monetary reward, you would do it, right? Because lives are very valuable. I'm having a hard time imagining knowing how to lead billions of people out of a pandemic and just...not doing it, I guess because it might limit some hypothetical future business opportunity. Not being facetious, I literally don't get it and assume I'm missing something.
Pinterest has a rich, captive market that use Pinterest in making their purchasing decisions. Pinterest should have direct links to buy everything. Paypal could help make this happen. I've always said I would love to have seen Amazon buy Svpply when it was still a thing because it was social shopping.
isn't newspeak where you remove words to flatten language and keep people like you comfortable?
Site is under heavy load:

1783 Single-Core Score

12693 Multi-Core Score
Yet, deployment/versioning of python remains a shit show. Just the other day, I ran into an issue with the setproctitle package where certain implementations exposed a method via CPython while others didn't. So not only did it matter which version of python you used, but it mattered how it was compiled. The kicker is, the official OSX build from python.org doesn't work, you have to use a version that comes with OSX.

Only Python would have such a ridiculous problem in 2021.

I love Python, but it's best left in the data science space. Maybe the odd micro-service in Flask.
Military propeller airplanes are almost all turboprops and do not burn leaded gasoline.

edit: perhaps "all", not "almost all", in the US.
In the article's context of classical art yes many famous paintings and sculptures show penises.
Compilers and transpilers are the same. The term "optimizing compiler" exists, which probably mean that some are non-optimizing. TypeScript is a great example of that (although it does optimize a few things depending on the target).

Babel can be used as a macro system for JS, and macros are compilers.
Fundamentally the profit motive ruins true innovation
I don't see it as disturbing, just focused. This phrasing helps to put the problem into perspective from one particular point of view—the cost in economic productivity. It does not imply that this is the only cost, or that there aren't other equally valid perspectives to consider.
>A more positive spin on this would be that it combines the best of all three.

A more accurate spin would be that it does a half-assed job of implementing features from each but runs off half way to chase after some other shiny feature.

That's the virtue of BSD; it's simple, it's documented it's complete (in features and feature implementation).
Pretty impressive, all things considered. Looks like it's roughly on par with an AMD 5800X, which is a Desktop CPU with 8C/16T and a 105W TDP.
They should have to disclose the subsequent work if they want patent protection for that subsequent work, right?
The free market of voters is not clamoring for such things.

Frankly I don’t see a solution aside from labor constraining supply.

Teacher strikes worked.

Internet blackouts stopped SOPA.

Country by of and for the people who keep putting up with bullshit.

Be men and tell your bosses you’re keeping your laptop shut until things change.

A lot less real risk in such a revolution.

Or do as comfortable, affluent folks do and wait until it actually effects you.

New technology, same old biology.
Should be the same as the difference between the max and the pro lies in the GPU core count.
> where I can read about your compiler escapades?

I don't really have a blog, but when I do write an article I'll link to it on twitter:

https://twitter.com/WalterBright

A collection of articles I wrote a while ago:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/index.html

Presentations:

http://www.walterbright.com/

And, of course, the Emperor who will get mad and put another continent under iron control if he's not mentioned:

https://twitter.com/classicempire
His whole post was about the ethical nature of the company. Of course it's more expensive than an equally specced Chinese phone.
I believe the criteria are more complex than just “7 days”. There’s something about AI or ML in the Safari “experiments” settings, and IIRC first- vs. third-party data is handled differently, and data may also be protected for more than a week if you previously had regular interactions with the domain.
I disagree with the idea that there is no way to measure code quality. As long as one is willing to sacrifice a lot of precision, it is certainly measurable. Just come up with adequately broad, discrete buckets.
Solutions like this depend on the will, skill and ethics of the coder.

Better IMHO to design a language in such a way that dangerous errors like this are completely impossible.

(I mean... this is basically why I switched from Ruby to Elixir for web dev, eliminating an entire class of bugs... If the language itself doesn't provide an error-reduction feature, then you are reliant on other developers to "do the right thing" and lose any guarantees)
It's entirely gatekeepy. We should be doing everything we can to encourage development where people are at, not trying to say that unless you do it a certain way (which costs a lot of money for a student, or someone in a developing country) you're not a "decent developer".
What's the feature that allows a website to open local files and folders?

Edit: I think I found it: File System Access API, supported by Chrome and Edge, not supported by Safari and Firefox
> H1Bs can transfer employers, it just takes a couple of weeks and some paperwork

My understanding is that yes, this is technically true. However it's not a H1B holder telling the government "I'm taking this new job, FYI", as much as requesting that your transfer be approved. The risk that the transfer will not be, and you're stuck in limbo of returning to the position you just quit, does exist.

For people on these statuses, any required interaction with USCIS can be anxiety inducing.

While it may not technically be tied to a single employer, it's not fair to say that holders have the same flexibility to switch jobs as permanent residents/citizens.
The way I understand it, every single new infection is a tiny little lottery ticket for the virus to mutate. I don't particularly care about Moderna's profits. I want the vaccine to be as widely available as possible to anyone who wants it at a price (free) they are willing to pay.

If Moderna makes a few bucks along the way, that's great. If Modern a can't survive without massive profits, I am OK if they go away as well.
I often find the confusions comes from not clearly understanding what is being communicated, and what you think the other side expects. The slide deck format, is often build from top-down hierarchy. Slides for areas A, B, C. When really you might have a narrative where you want to convey the material from C, with A & B as footnotes. Are you telling a story or writing the table of contents for textbook?
Can they remove them from Google image search results while they're at it?
You sorted by single core performance, then compared multi core performance. Sort by multi core performance, and you will see that the i9-11900K is nowhere near the top spot.

For example, the Ryzen 9 5950X has single/multi core scores of 1,688/16,645 - which is higher in multi core score than the M1 Max, but lower in the single core.
the patents in question don't cover all the details required to make a working vaccine.

I do generally believe that patent owners should be required to license their technology for reasonable fees but many decide to set fees which are too high so nobody licenses it.
FAANGs are always hiring. Any US citizen, who's qualified, can get a job there at any point in time.
U.S. tightens export controls on items used in surveillance of private citizens
US$26-US$36 a night at present (which, to be fair, is actually cheaper than I thought; I was there a couple of months ago but camped outside the park). Still not really hippy territory in my mind.
Just when you think things hit the top, another kid's out of the town.
Memory bandwidth as well.
Serial, Parallel, and Quorum Latencies
In theory a patent is where you provide full details such that another practitioner of the same art can replicate your efforts and in exchange you receive government protection from competition for a period of time.

According to the US patent office [1]:
The specification must include a written description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using it, and is required to be in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the technological area to which the invention pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same.

If the patent is not detailed or clear enough to enable replication, then it has not met the requirements of the patent office.

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/general-information-pat...
Soon enough the only thing left will be MS Access
Opinions aren't "against" anything, they're just different.

I thought what portion of the book I could stomach, sucked. Other people liked it. Both are fine.
I'm guessing it's fine for people who like Elm or the Redux pattern. I don't like that pattern as a go-to solution.
> I'm having a hard time imagining knowing how to lead billions of people out of a pandemic and just...not doing it

Once your experts are trained and hired, their lab built and years of precursor research funded, sure, the final step is easy. But several of those layers want to be paid. If they never go into medicine, or never go into vaccine research or never build the labs, you can be heartfelt all you want when the next pandemic hits, it won’t give you vaccines in a year.
No, the Max has twice the memory bandwidth as well - 200GB/s vs 400 GB/s, which will have a big impact on anything memory bound.
It's a little absurd to claim that nudity isn't illegal, but taking your clothes off is (illegally) lewd. Vermont has effectively kept nudity illegal without having it explicitly on the books.
Where is the graphics test? The M1 Max versus an NVIDIA 3080 or similar?
Or companies leverage the AI internally to listen to a report from the CEO - then sanitize it and release it to the public.
How does that compare to top of the line AMD Ryzen latest gen (site is dead for me right now)?
Bogus “Historic” districts: the new exclusionary zoning?
Yes, the drive for profits extinguishing the beauty from life yet again. If only the prevalent managerial culture was more philosophically sophisticated...
because China just "ganked" at least four years of BTC block rewards, AFTER developing the billion dollar BTC mining "pick and shovel" industry, now mostly being sold to who?

By most estimations China is sitting on / "HODLing" a fortune in BTC.

Weaponized global finance. The petrodollar war rages on in crypto land
I can't check for you due to hug but the 12900K was clocking in at about 1900 ST IIRC

Edit: Leaving this up so I can be corrected, don't think I have the right figure.
Genuinely difficult and important questions. I would say the bigger issue is that we can never, ever properly address these issues until we are ready to have discuss them in a logical and factual way. Based on how society currently deals with sex and nudity, I think we are still a long way from being able to have those discussions. But removing the most obvious and absurd restrictions (like banning only one tiny portion of adult female chests) can get us closer to being able to grapple with the more nuanced issues.
The number of ways that NIMBY insiders have to attempt to restrict the supply of housing and thus make housing more expensive for everyone is impressive.
This may also be a nit-picking response, but the sponsoring company is not the one "giving out" H1B visas. They can sponsor it, and request it, but visas are only issued by the US government.
Bluntly: no. Lives saved is probably not a significant component in the cost/benefit analysis when these companies are deciding how much they should invest in an avenue of research.
not just common, but encouraged by the regulatory and competitive environment. big companies like ibm offer patent bounties, so employees are incentivized to break improvements up into the smallest possible elements that will pass muster with the patent office so that they can maximize the amount of bounty granted per advancement.

similarly, companies like to lay minefields of patents around any given technology so that if they’re the market leader, they can slow down competition, but if they don’t have the winning version, they’re at least likely to get some royalties for the patents they have.

it’s perverse.
AIUI they have no patent protection on their vaccines, but rather on some patented inventions (processes or whatever). That is, there is no requirement to make a product from exactly one single invention, or to disclose details of unpatented processes or parts of a product.

Do you think there should be such a requirement?
I think you're living in a bubble if you still believe foreigners working at FAANG are underpaid compared to the native population. You are paid as per your level.
For those that can't load and are curious, the M1 Max scores about 2x the Intel Core i7-11800H in the Dell laptop on both single core and multi core scores.
> the exact same as a bank account you don't tell anyone about.

You clearly have never been on the business end of law enforcement gone wrong.
Easier said than done. You really expect someone to be that rational when they were already stressed enough to use their firearm in the first place?
Hospitals are vile and disgusting organizations designed to extract wealth from the most desperate. Medicare stopped paying for treatment? Ok. Please go die on the sidewalk.
It’s a different story when it comes desktop applications.
Would like to see the Metal benchmark too, but doesn't appear yet on the Geekbench Metal page. That would be interesting to see how Geekbench scores it against many discreet GPUs.
>Domestic violence against women is a thing because men are almost always bigger and stronger than women, meaning without access to a weapon every woman is potentially vulnerable to the violence of a man.

Sadly, it often turns out that firearms are often turned against women in a household:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9125010/

>readily available firearms place women at particularly high risk of homicide at the hands of a spouse, an intimate acquaintance, or a close relative.

It's hard to secure a firearm against one's partner.
"I can imagine an enterprise giving devs just this + something like local/Cloud VPS/CI/CD environment to work in."

That sounds horrible.
On the contrary, if you read carefully the article, you'll see that Moderna went out of their way to maximize the good they can do. They stated multiple times that they will let anyone who wants to manufacture their vaccine to do so, without them pursuing patent protection. They also went into some details how do make the vaccine.

Now, no matter how many details one gives, for someone without manufacturing expertise in that domain, the details will be insufficient. Think for example at the famous Saturn V engines F1. Almost one hundred were produced, quite a number of them are still around in various museums, all the blueprints exist, yet no one can make them again, because some know-how was lost [1].

I don't think it's so easy for Moderna to just "share the vaccine recipe". At least not to such a degree to enable someone who admits they "never formulated a liquid nanoparticle" to start doing that just following a few pages of explanation.

[1] https://ourplnt.com/remake-rocketdyne-f-1-engine-humans-moon...
Impressive but unbelievably expensive considering what will actually be run on it.

I kind of want one, but the 5800x for example is about 10x less expensive than a specced out MacBook Pro
Not when building large software projects.
No need to apologize, we all didn't like him. If you'd told us that the easiest way to get him to depart in a huff would be to donate some unused IP addresses to other groups that needed them, we'd have deployed NAT64 and heaved the legacy allocations overboard in a long weekend.
The real problem limiting supply isn't the manufacturing, it's the supply chain. We now have factories optimized to produce vaccines as fast as the supply chain allows. If we start messing with the supply chains and divert inputs to factories not at the same optimization level then overall output could actually fall.
> the company has not disclosed how to make the thing at all, not just how to make it at scale

They’ve also not patented everything, choosing to retain some of the most sensitive techniques as trade secrets. If this persists, we’ll see more pharmaceutical companies taking a Muskian approach to patents.
Hey - when we rely on money as the motivator for healthcare and assume the "market will fix it" this is what we get.

The market fixed it. It just fixed it in a way that most people would consider immoral.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition
>Perhaps there's value in a business of "teaching humans how to human".

If you hire people, the answer here is yes. My experience is that technical skills are 'easy' to teach, but interpersonal skills are almost impossible.

If you figure out how to train people from a wide swath of humanity, different backgrounds, and disparate experiences to be human people and communicate effectively and efficiently, you'll literally, not figuratively, be the king of the planet.
C is also a frontend to several other languages, which is why you can make portable code with it. Nim is the same. Instead of compiling to x86 for Windows and ARM for Linux, it compiles to C and JS. The idea is the same.
>They're ditching the Facebook name and branding, and focusing on a new vision around the Metaverse.

I doubt they are ditching it, and instead just abstracting the ownership chain one degree with a holding company and installing a straw man to blame. Watch him copy Larry and Sergei's moves, he may one day realize he held on too long and became something hard to un-become: infamous.
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If you really want to use something like that, Harvard's CS50 has made it available freely (under their own wrapper of tools): https://ide.cs50.io
Yes. All of it should be okay. Relax, it's just human bodies.
What's so terrible about it? We see all sorts of animals naked all the time, what's so special about homo sapiens? Should we make dogs and cats wear clothes too?

Nudism is a relatively big thing in German culture [1], there's a park in munich for example that's clothing-optional. The world hasn't ended yet and Germany seems to be doing just fine, so why get all worked up about it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freik%C3%B6rperkultur
How does this compare to a Mac Pro for video editing
Well lets say you have a process that requires stage A and then stage B to make product C, but stage B can't be done without A, and the result of B isn't useful by itself. Then you patent stage A and keep stage B secret.

I'm not a patent expert, but this seems to break the social contract of patents. Perhaps there is something in the patent law that prevents this?
I'm waiting to be corrected by someone who knows GPU architecture better than me but as far as I can tell the synthetic benchmarks can trade blows with a 3070 or 80 (mobile), but the actual gaming performance isn't going to be as rosy.

Also recall that very few games needing that performance actually work on MacOS
That's literal whataboutery and FUD.

Covid is a relatively known relatively high risk which has killed millions and left tens of millions injured.

A vaccine may cause problems. Possibly. Or it could also not cause problems.

So far there is no evidence to suggest that problems are particularly likely, or that they have been happening at all at significant risk levels.

The rational decision - clearly - is to deal with a severe immediate threat. Not to worry about something that shows no signs of happening because what if maybe perhaps could happen y'know.
so to simplify:

they have patent protection on some elements of the vaccine, but the formulation or method for formulation (i.e recipe) is a trade secret?

am I understanding correctly? because if so, then yeah it doesn't seem like Moderna's actually doing anything wrong.
"Friede says Moderna is at least in talks with the WHO. And he remains hopeful the company will ultimately agree to provide some kind of tech transfer."

Likely because Moderna realizes South Africa is not the United States. a far greater percentage of resources would absolutely be dedicated in the public interest to replicating the drug and completely reverse-engineering it; its only a matter of time. companies like Moderna cant blanket NDA entire educational institutions as they study this, and pipeline the results directly into quantifiable quarterly revenue. there is a much more tangible demand for transparency.

Moderna will likely make a round of offers and counter offers depending on how molecularly obscure the drug is based on South Africa's progress. Skilled and talented South African (and international) chemists and biologists who can demonstrate a sufficiently advanced progress may be in fact rewarded by Moderna simply walking away from the negotiations out of a concern there would be no meaningful ingress of cash for whatever they could offer.

Either way, as the article states this isnt about Covid its about Malaria and other infectious diseases that can be cured through the same novel approach. diseases for which a cure just isnt in the financial interest of western Pharma giants.
South African*
I miss Algol 68. ~

(Seriously, though - in retrospect, it feels like most of the complexity that the language was criticized for is standard fare in PLs of today, often in the same shape.)