skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You believe that undergoing safety trials with control groups is a bad thing because they take time?

You can always do more trials and more studies, but at some point the cost of delays outweighs the risks. A blanket "this is the degree of safety testing needed" for every single intervention makes no sense if the cost of that testing differs significantly — and when you have a rapidly spreading disease killing millions of people, the cost of delays is much higher than it would be if you're trying to cure the common cold.

No testing at all would be a really bad idea, but "we'll spend just as long testing this one as this as we would on a common cold vaccine" is also a really bad idea.

I'd also drive faster if I were rushing to the hospital with a dying friend, even though speeding is risky. You have to weigh risks and benefits and do what has the best expected outcome.
> And anyway, regardless of outcome, it will surely be more entertaining to watch a trillion dollar company go fully down the rabbit hole of some kind of cyberpunk fantasy than to watch them continue to dig the hole deeper on their society destroying social media tech.

I think the problem is that they seem to be headed towards doing both.
one major cause of the decline of arena shooters is those who are very good can expect to never die versus new players, causing a very high Dropout rate

I remember there was an interesting twist on this when, IIRC, Fortnite changed its matching algorithm to more likely place better players together with each other.

A bunch of those players were frustrate-to-outraged over the change. The reason that at least some gave? They were losing too much, and sometimes they don't want all the high adrenaline & stress of competitive matches and just want to relax and have it easy. (Yes, I know there have been more issues and complaints about the details of SBMM in Fortnite, this is just one of them)

It struck me as a uniquely selfish view, as though the entire ecosystem should be structured to their own enjoyment rather than that of typical players. Like if Gary Kasporov wanted to play in the local High School chess leagues and threw a fit when he was told he couldn't.
As a vim user, zsh's vim mode is far better. You do need a few lines of config for stuff like allowing deleting back past the insert position. However, I have never found it lacking, unlike bash which sometimes lacks some motion I try to use.
Give them $10 billion and spread the cost over those who get vaccinated.
Keep holding until the sell orders I have trigger, then put the after tax proceeds into my brokerage. If it goes up more, sell repeat. Never plan to sell 100% of my holdings. Once my brokerage account and/or the portion of my stash on crypto interest platforms is enough to provide a generous regular income, FIRE.
At one point, I decided to unwind all my use of macros in C. I was actually very happy with the result. My code was much better.
I don't think anyone is forced to do that. Put another way, maybe people should consider other dreams.
« environmental lead levels from leaded gasoline are still around in cities today, and cause continued neurotoxicity.«

Can someone explain how you can be exposed to lead from « leaded gasoline » even if they are not used anymore?

Is it contaminating the city water or something like that?
I don't often write Perl these days, but I did this week. I was amused to find that I was using "def" rather than "sub" to declare functions.
I think choosing Moderna vaccine is a poor idea. There's no logistical capability to deliver something requiring specialised cold storage in poor countries.

Africa and Middle East eventually will be filled with vaccines requiring nothing more than a fridge to store, and are cheaper to produce. To see WHO spending money on an impractical moonshot is mind boggling.
> If it takes significant work to reverse engineer the invention, that quid quo pro hasn't been met, the patent should be considered invalid.

So, company A patents something and discloses how to make it. It's an enabling patent, best-mode, etc.

Company A then makes significant further improvements needed to make the thing at scale. You're saying they should have to disclose this subsequent work?
Glad someone else thought so! I though I was crazy, for a second, thinking that people not dying was more important than some IP rights.
I don’t think yours is a good reading, either. They had already gotten all the negative feedback so there wasn’t much of that left to get. The outburst also didn’t change the primary outcome (no funding). All it did was open the door to a different set of questions and a potential advisor (in my opinion not very helpful in this case). We’re also relying on the OP to tell us the mood was better when in fact it could have easily been a pity party to the other people there.
A YouTube video dubbing suite written in Python and Vue.js
Presumably there are parts which are patented and public (how the vaccine works in principle), and then there are parts which are not patented but a trade secret (how to actually manufacture it at scale). This kind of thing is very common.
With all these cars trying to move from mirrors to cameras. I'm curious how it'll work with traffic safety. I enjoy being able to make eye contact with someone through my mirrors. If they can see me, I can see them.

With cameras that is lost, sure the driver _may_ be able to see me. However I have no way to verify that.
No idea why you would write this up or share it honestly. Call me old fashion but I wouldn't want to do business with someone who scream irrationally as loud as they can in response to simple questions or during business meetings. Especially since the outcome didn't lead to anything, just was 'something different'. Truly what is the message here?
> NaN is unordered: it is not equal to, greater than, or less than anything, including itself. x == x is false if the value of x is NaN [0]

My read of this is that comparisons involving NaN on either side always evaluate to false.

In the first one if X or Y is NaN then you'll get do_something_else, and in the second one you'll get do_something.

As far as why one order would be more optimal than the other, I'm not sure. Maybe something to do with branch prediction?

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-...
Are you in the celebrating death camp or not?
It was funded by US taxpayer money, and therefore the US had and has priority access to the vaccine.
First google result for "organizational cost of low diversity":

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/accentu...
I think it's an ass move to not make the production methods public within markets where you're unlikely to bring in any significant revenue. All the big budget western nations have (mostly) vaccinated theirs - now the issue is rolling out an vaccine that's affordable as possible to the rest of the world. Part of that effort is enabling domestic production wherever possible in a reasonable manner.
> In any case, it's really stressful especially for first time entrepreneurs and especially if you're introverted and not the witty think-on-your-feet type.

Yes, but maybe it's still a good predictor of which founders will succeed and which won't?

If you can't spontaneously answer probing, challenging questions from customers, employees, vendors, and yes investors, will you do a good job running and growing a successful company?
Terminal Function Key Escape Codes (2005)
This is absolutely unclear. If the user enters HTML and that HTML never gets to the server then why sanitize it? To protect user from hacking themselves?
Government research paper advocating behaviour changes to diets hastily deleted
Sadly still limited to teams or enterprise users. I hope they open it up to individual contributors soon.
A good measurement of whether a language is "dead" or not is the TIOBE index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

Is Perl dead? No, it's still among the top-20 programming languages.

Is Perl dying? Yes; it dropped 8 places among the top-20 programming languages.
My (limited) understanding here is that the US patent doesn't grant a monopoly to Moderna internationally and that breaks down the quid quo pro here. Other countries can and probably will nationalize the vaccine production and not pay Moderna licensing fees, or offer a take-it-or-leave-it pittance.

I agree this is a major breakdown though and given the circumstances I wish Moderna could have just been paid off some small licensing fees and collaborated with this other company instead of wasting time reverse engineering a lifesaving vaccine.
What did I miss? Dell XPS 15 with intel CPU has way higher scores… is Geekbench not capable of working correctly on Apple Silicon?

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/16376678
...or would have been.
That seems like a stretch to me. If the hypothetical issue you are describing were caused by a bug in the system's media player software, would you say it's a security bug there too, just because it could be used to play security announcements? With this way of looking at things you are essentially saying that any bug in any software that could be called by other software is a security bug.
Vscode.dev – Visual Studio coding in the browser
>privileged

Can we save this divisive newspeak for Twitter and not HN?
This is on the Windows version.

Windows 2000 is when the OS changed to UTF-16 by default. Before that Windows NT was UCS-2, IIRC only the DOS-based Windows versions were Windows-1252 internally, starting from Windows 1.0. So while ł wasn't supported in Windows 1, characters like ñ were. Windows has literally NEVER been an ASCII-based OS.
They're certainly indispensable to me! Some of them I wrote for the purpose of understanding the file format. Writing a pretty-printer is a great way to understand.
Dream come true! Congrats!
Nah, I meant the "even" hits lows with regards to basic consumer goods "these days". Constant, low inflation should mean it's forever in a state of hitting lows vs consumer goods.
Taking this article at face value, the company has not disclosed how to make the thing at all, not just how to make it at scale.

I would not suggest that the most efficient way to make it must be disclosed (if you want to patent the finished good but not the efficient manufacturing process), just a way.
The problem isn't that you need a majority; in many such situations you need a supermajority. It's usually not okay if your website can't be safely used by 49% of your users. In particular, Apple is notoriously slow at improving its JavaScript support in iOS, and they don't allow competing JavaScript implementations to run on iOS, so on iOS you're stuck.

In this case, as long as there is an easily-available OSS polyfill, it'll be okay. Ideally sites will only load the polyfill when they need to (primarily only if they're on iOS).
In fairness to your point, I guess I technically can't comment on your speaking, but your writing is definitely great. I wouldn't have guessed you're not a native speaker. Do you practice speech often? I'm a language learning fan but not a huge fan of talking in any language, so my speech always lags behind my writing in languages I study.
> Vaccines were not provided for free by any manufacturer. They were selling doses to governments as fast as they could be made making billions in the process.

Not all of them:

AstraZeneca vaccine - was it really worth it?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56570364
Because they were designed for leaded gas and you can't just modify certified aviation stuff without spending millions on the process of getting your modification approved.
It is always false. In the first block do_something_else() gets executed when either is NaN, in the second it is do_something().
Hmm. Tinder for Music doesn't sound anything like Last FM. At all. I'll check it out anyway. FWIW the great thing about Last FM was the fact that it tracked your listens on almost any device, linked you with people who listen to similar music, and let you stream "radio stations" based on their collective music libraries.
Many technologies only exist because of the profit motive. When should we destroy IP rights for the public benefit?

- IP for the best vaccines, vs worse ones otherwise available, so we are all healthier

- Higher yielding crop seeds, vs worse lineages, so that we can all eat better

- Efficient water purification techniques, so that we all have clean water cheaper

- Metallurgy for high performance alloys used in turbines and aircraft structures, so that we can all build safer airplanes for less

- Software to detect early cancer or heart disease from blood markers, so that we can prevent disease

Keep in mind, when you destroy the profit motive, you destroy much (Not all!) of the motivation people have to build better things
Actually, recommend you read into it at a little as you're completely wrong on that point.

An H-1B only requires a Labor Condition Application (LCA) which is basically an agreement to pay the prevailing wage and an assertion that there's not an ongoing labor dispute (strike, lockout) ongoing at the proposed location of hire.
I know what the reason is. I don't care. I use GPLv3 and have no interest in an OS that doesn't. You can run bash on windows or compile it yourself on any platform. microsoft even distributes it with windows.
I wrote an Awk script a few weeks ago precisely because I needed to filter some text. Python would be more verbose than I needed, Sed would become a write-only mess, but Awk in a Bash wrapper was just right.
Completely agree but an expectation that the nearest colleague should know this is unrealistic.
Single core regular M1 Macbook about the same. Multicore the Max is a lot higher.
It is weird to me to see 24 on a watch face. I know some countries use it but I for me after 23:59 comes 00:00 not 24:00.
> Outside such special cases like real-time DSP and graphics

Personally I see audio and graphics as the common case, and scientific computing as the special case ;) Do game physics engines expect denormals to be preserved?
The US may have gambled with the $2.5 billion dollar investment but it obviously paid off hugely and Moderna delivered essentially perfectly on their promises. I can understand why from their perspective they feel like they have already contributed quite a bit to ending the pandemic, at a very good price for the US taxpayer, and don't want to give away all their secrets.

I'm not defending the moral argument, but I think in terms of ROI you could only argue that Moderna got underpaid by the US government based on what they delivered.
That's a v4 score, which can't be compared to a v5 score.
I gave up on Bluestacks years ago. Was too slow to start/load, had some graphic issues with some apps, overall a mediocre experience. Nowadays I use Memu, it's fast and way more flexible than Bluestacks ever was.
M.I.T.’s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel
>how large a collection of programming language ecosystems does the world want or need?

There are many problem domains that can be solved by computers, and having a language specific or well suited to that niche can be a productivity boon.

As long as humans continue to discover new problem domains in computing, they will continue to develop new programming languages to work in them more efficiently (and existing languages will expand to try and fill that niche).
> AR is going to be bigger than mobile and the PC

AR will be a niche product constrained primarily to industrial applications.

There, we've both made our blind predictions, now we get to see who's right!
This used to be an exploited loophole. Wealthy people would use inexpensive "mineral exploration" leases to get long-term control of areas of Federal land that they wanted to use for other purposes. The only real cost was maintaining the bare minimum fiction that they were doing mineral exploration -- dig the occasional hole in some corner of the property, move a bit of dirt around. Meanwhile, they were doing all kinds of other personal things with the land and building structures enabled by having the lease.

The US DoI started clamping down on the use of fake mineral leases a few decades ago and put policies in place to strongly discourage this kind of abuse.
Ah. Are you spamming the comments here to push your app?
See you're using a NN to do spell checking there...
Im not saying we need to go back to screws. But to compare usb-c to the previous standard power connector lenovo used, which was shaped like a usb type a port but a bit chunkier. we never had issues with the ports wearing out or getting damaged with those. They lasted the life of the device just fine. But I have T14s with usb-c charging that need new chargers or charge ports after a few months.

Obviously YMMV but when you manage a device fleet you start to see more clearly how "average users" treat things and how designs hold up.
XSS is a known vulnerability in social hacking as well as shared data. Imagine an app which allows you to paste an input which will later be rendered as HTML. An attacker can create a malicious script and persuade the victims to copy it and paste in their app. This script might include `fetch` calls to a server the attacker controls which the attacker can use to spy or install malware on the victims machine.

The above example is a vulnerability in the app just the same, it just requires the attacker to consider different avenues of delivery (such as sharing the malicious script on a forum) then in traditional server connected apps.
GCP Tau VM Instances: Better Performance, Price-Performance Than Graviton2 M6g
For your interactive shells, of course. There are many conveniences over bash and far better autocompletion.

For scripts? Use Posix sh.
What do you think cognitive decline means? IQ tests are also called cognitive assessments and the accurate ones (not the ones you take online) involve a lot of different aspects of assessing how your brain is working. Many psychologists don't like the term IQ because it's too basic of a term...which is why many papers studying the subject do not include it.

http://pictonpsychology.com.au/home-2/assessments/cognitive-...
"they can never handle them." -> "a vocal minority can't handle them."

Bill jokes about everyone. Dave jokes about everyone. South Park jokes about everyone. Most are fine with that and are able to laugh at themselves.
Show HN: Create waveform art from your voice and save it to Solana blockchain
I've seen this thing in other areas too. One particular radio telemetry system has all sorts of patents surrounding it dating to the 1980s, all of which leave out critical details of the system.
What do you mean by production? I assume you mean extraction, not production. These companies cannot synthesize fossil fuels at scale.

In which case, the no-extract bid has the added benefit of not taking the resource out of the public's hands. The royalty is a pittance compared to the true value of the publicly owned resource.
I think you’re looking at a geekbench 4 score, vs v5 in the post. It seems that this machine performs significantly better than an XPS 15.
I'm not sure I follow your line of argumentation.

I would expect that any product with some degree of complexity (such as in Biotech) you have on the one hand patent protection of the application of the product and on the other hand hard earned knowledge on how to actually produce the product with efficient yield and consistency etc. (which you could consider trade secrets).
I like the movement in Titanfall 2 a lot. It feels like an evolution of the wall-jumping in UT2k4.

I definitely believe that there's a high dropout rate for areas shooters. My experience was dying a lot until I got better - kind of like Dark Souls for multiplayer. But I'm still surprised that they're not popular anymore given how well single player Dark Souls sells.
I too make six figures, and I don't think I do anything as expensive as completing flight school and co-owning a Cessna. I mean, my house is more expensive than that, I guess, and my car is (barely) more expensive than flight school might be, but surely amateur pilots have houses and cars too. About the only expense I have that might come close to serious flying as a hobby would be pets, but outside of the one time we had to pay for chemo for our dog it's not that expensive.
And people too!
This (Moderna being secretive about a life-saving drug in a time like this) makes me so fucking angry. People's greed has no limit.
I agree. It does not look like a simpification of the problem.
I have to deal with time zones all the time and WorldTimeBuddy is the best tool I found so far. I wish google calendar has better or at least similar UI to that.
That's a Geekbench v4 score, which isn't comparable to a Geekbench v5 score.

You can see the same laptop on Geekbench v5 here, where it scores much, much lower than the M1:
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10506812
Ah, I get your question now, I thought you were talking about const functions. Well, const values in Rust are funny things, they're not linked into the executable, they don't have an address or a lifetime. That confused me too for a while. They're purely a shortcut for a value expression, not that different from a #define in C.

Statics, in contrast, have a storage location and a static lifetime.

Compare:

const CONST_STRING: String = String::new();
static STATIC_STRING: String = String::new();

fn main() {
let x: String = CONST_STRING; // fine
let y: String = STATIC_STRING; // error: cannot move out of static item
}
You’re comparing Geekbench 4 and 5 scores - you can’t do that. It’s a different scale.

Here’s an example of a Geekbench 5 score: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10501477
Perl isn't dead but its usage is not growing and I don't see any reason it will ever grow again. Unless you're an old school Perl hacker there's little reason to start a green field project with it today.

I say that as someone that has written a lot of Perl over the years. It turned out to be an awesome language for CGI apps in the early days of the web (the reason I learned it). It was also a better system administration/automation language than some bash/awk/sed/grep amalgamation.

For me at least it fell down once you got over a few hundred lines. The TMTOWTDOI led to your own (or at least my) code being internally inconsistent and the lure of its shorthand meant coming back to old code took some effort to understand.

I moved from Perl to Python and it helped immensely with both those problems. Once I grokked Python's regex I could do everything in Python I used to do in Perl with the same speed but half the effort.

I don't see any attraction of going back to Perl. It was a nice tool for a time but now there's better tools (IMO). So once old deployments of Perl apps/tools are replaced I really don't think they're going to be replaced with Perl.
Paintmakers are running out of the color blue
Here's the actual Dell XPS 17 vs MacBook Pro: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/10502109?baseli...
Yes, they will do both as long as there is money in social media. There will be gobs of money there, up until the point it's made illegal or defanged. I think the probability of that happening continues to increase, either the democracies will save themselves or the future autocracies will do it for them.
But I think it's reasonable to assume that bi-gender toplessness will become acceptable even to those entities in the next thirty years or so. I certainly hope that'll be the case since it'll result in a lot less grief for society at large.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/10501477 V5 score for that
>https://github.com/cdr/code-server

This may be what you're looking for? An agent runs on the development computer, and you get everything that it has (debugging, compilation, etc).
A hex grid certainly addresses that problem, but since I was limited to text, squares it was!

The one unit per square comes about because it is very difficult to see a "stack" of units in one location. It also made combat trivial, just move into the opposing force's square. No special commands needed.

This wound up working fine, and I was always reluctant to mess with game rules that worked.