skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with you. I think the nuance that is missing here is that the degree of risk is different.

We know the degree of risk from vaccines is low, both in the short and long term. The side effects harm few people, and are not catastrophic.

With viruses, we know that side effects in the long term are real, and can be catastrophic. It is the reason that girl are vaccinated against HPV - HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer. This is a very big problem down the line, even though HPV itself is mostly asymptomatic.

So, it does not follow that avoiding Covid vaccine for children because the immediate likelihood of death from acute covid is the only issue. We are aware that the long term risk of viral infection can be very great with viruses. Avoiding infection is much better if the alternative is the possibility of cancer.
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

Although I'm partial to the better version:
http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
Consent in vaccinating children and adolescents between 6 and 17 years old [pdf]
Ok that's cute, but hn guidelines say the the post title should match the published title. The flexibility is for necessary shortening or scrubbing clickbait, not for editorializing.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just a data point about your last paragraph, depositing cash to make payments. My chase atm card does not allow to deposit cash directly to any chase or non chase credit card. I have to put it in chase checking, and then I can use it for payments. Also, capital one, synchrony, amex does not allow me to pay more than 10% of my outstanding balance on their credit cards.
Aliens (and any other sentient species intelligent enough) would cringe at how our species is expending insane resources to essentially waste our peers' time (by showing them ads) and trick them into buying things they don't actually need all while destroying our planet.
Wish the font was a bit bigger on mobile though.
A recent HN posting would like to remind you that this logic doesn’t work:

https://rxisk.org/post-ssri-sexual-dysfunction-pssd/

There are plenty of drugs with long term effects despite not remaining in the body. Every addictive substance comes to mind, but so do chemotherapies and many other things.
Looks like a typical layman response. Having car bumpers make people drive closer.

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/papers/pdf/3...

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1564465,0...

https://aaafoundation.org/understanding-the-impact-of-techno...
Even if this works, the only question it answers is which questions on the survey correlate with considering suicide. The title is deceptive in that regard.
From my limited understanding of Prime India: No.
Somewhat tangential topic, but ... It's interesting to me how most of the companies with real transformative potential have very little need for (dedicated) software engineers.

I think half of that is that most other engineering professions now come with some non negligible coding skill and the other half is simply that "software can solve anything" is a plain and simple lie.

I can't help but feel a little left out of innovation with "just" software skills. Am I too sorry for myself or is that a shared feeling?
TLDR: "You don't." (Because malloc hands you virtual memory and actually trying to use it might reveal that the system doesn't have the real memory to handle your request.

I kept reading hoping that there was going to be a solution, but not really; there are comments discussing disabling overcommit, but even that's a tradeoff (it does fix this failure mode, but you might not want to actually run a system like that).
Sacks and VanderZanden first met at Yammer in 2008. VanderZanden had written his own version of Yammer in Ruby on Rails and rather than compete, he joined the Yammer team. He left coding and became a business man leading Yammer's sales team. Then he went on to Lyft and Uber before starting Bird. At first Sacks didn't buy the idea of scooters working and was no where near ready to invest. But their history together and trying the scooters made Sacks a believer.
This difference between "malloc() succeeded and physical/swap memory is actually available" also has somewhat corresponding impact on how you measure memory usage.

One approach is RSS, the memory in physical RAM... but what if you're swapping? Then again, maybe you swapped out memory you don't actually need and ignoring swap is fine.

The other approach is "how much memory you allocated", and then you hit fun issues mentioned in this article, like "the OS doesn't actually _really_ allocate until you touch the page".

(Longer version: https://pythonspeed.com/articles/measuring-memory-python/)
What I've read is that these big brains are very expensive and we don't necessarily select for intelligence. Being hardier, or more reproductive can often result in more babies of the hardier or more reproductive than smarter does.
Asymptomatic spread is possible with or without the vaccine, but significantly less with it.
The way I look at it is that deplatforming by the existing centralized platforms is actually a way for them to create a more powerful moat.

Any competitor will immediately be inundated by spam, scammers, child porn, trolls, and Nazis to name a few. Since bad drives away good this will make their platform less desirable. The existence of a highly toxic refugee population deters anyone from creating competing networks.

I don't think this was planned or intended, but it works out this way.
Interesting to look at, though it would have to get really popular again to be worth it. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

And to be clear I don't want fake parity. I want it to verify the internal parity and then use those bits to calculate the data bus parity. Instead of paying 25% extra to get two layers of parity.

12% extra to go from zero parity to full parity was a much better offer than 25% extra to go from mostly-parity to mostly-double parity.
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I can't speak to the more advanced stuff and feature set, but if all you are looking for is some of the keyboard-based navigation, registers, marks, etc., it seems to do these quite well (in my case, at least)
And what if people want to work at a job focused on their technical field, and not on diversity? If the mission of the company is some diversity thing than it's their prerogative to test whatever views they want to test about it. But for anyone who actually wants to spend their time doing developer work, it's a big red flag that you might not want to work there.
Unfortunately, DNT is not a clear declaration of intent, because privacy evangelists view it as their moral duty to make that decision for everyone.

It's an inconvenient fact that - perhaps a decade ago - we had DNT, and advertisers were starting to respect it, but then browser makers decided to default it to on, making it pointless.
Hey, Geoff from Gitpod here (and the person who was behind cake to GitHub Codespaces). Indeed it is exactly related to that. Always was a fan of the idea of cake being shipped between product teams and the launch of Codespaces was a perfect chance to start a new tradition!

I would be v.happy to send cake (or macaroons) to the VSCode team as well but don’t have contacts. If you are in the team lemme know.
I just have two bank accounts. One I use to pay online, that I put money into myself, and another where I receive my salary. The most anyone can surprise charge me is about 60 EUR, because I don't keep more money in the online purchases account. The upside is that I understand all parts of how this works. I never managed to grok all the details about credit cards and their endless features. I just pay the bank to maintain two accounts with two debit cards, and it costs me the exact same amount every month.
In my work, we have develop on Linux, MacOS and Windows. Another advantage to this approach is that it allows you not just to incrementally automate steps in the process, but _steps on platform X_. It eliminates yet another barrier to starting the process of automation.
Authoritarianism has many forms, of which this is merely another.
https://github.com/windicss/windicss/discussions/176
i really like Gitpod as a company, but i'm wondering what's their survival plan as they're competing with Microsoft?
Because everybody knows how trivial it is to curl/wget the list from https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html, unzip it, etc.

The list is biased. Not only does it only have U.S. births, but also only those where the individual has a Social Security Number. I wonder how many the latter rules out.

For privacy, it also drops names that are rare, with fewer than 5 births in a given year.

(App is open source, so it’s easy to discover that’s where the names come from. See https://github.com/hamaluik/nomdebebe/blob/main/app/NAMES.md)
Dealing with the Evasive Witness
I have been looking at Plausible and competitors like Fathom and others. It seems like there is limited room for innovation and differentiation when you almost can't store/track any data.

How can you stay competitive long-term?
I understand what well understood means but typically that also involves long term human clinical trials, and for a good reason.
Sorry about your situation and I sincerely hope you get out of this soon.

My 11 year old son passed away earlier this year fighting cancer, he suffered from it twice over the past 6+ years. Our entire lives for the past few years have been trips and stays away from home

The first thing I can say is , you have to take care of yourselves both physically and mentally to be able to take care of your mother. You would end up making numerous decisions both small and large and the whole thing is taxing.
In the initial stages of the diagnosis, we did not know what hit us, initially I took a break from work until I could get a grip of the situation. We realized that no matter what, we have to deal with it and keep our son happy and safe, there is nothing much we can do apart from keeping him happy.

Working helped me (Working from Hospital) , it helped me keep the focus and not getting overwhelmed with sadness. I used to work for an hour, then back to my son and so on in the first half of the day.

For you personally, figure out what works for you as a diversion, Work, reading books , movies etc. You need some time off to keep you balanced. I tried all these for the last 6 years – depending on my mood and it definitely helped.

Please take to other families at the hospital etc., it helps.

Please make sure you spend quality time with your mom , doing things which you always wanted to do, talking things you always wanted to talk. It keeps them happy and it makes you happy.

Sometimes , she might not tell you what she is going through; be patient , be strong.

Have been a read only HN member for many years, registered to respond to this. If you want to talk please ping me back.
Why was the title changes from "How credit cards make money"??
Thank you for the book suggestion.

It feels like it does a much better job than modern self help books.
Yup, those 10x developers are so good and so valuable that we feel they're not worth their money so we'll dispense with their services. As people knowing that we're replacing them with less-experienced developers or even newbies doesn't impact the bottom line, I guess we should not have hired them in the first place...
It’s likely being OOM killed on Linux. Not sure what’s happening on Mac. Try allocating a terabyte of swap and it should run.

Alternatively use mmap & mlock to verify the allocation succeeded, but the process can still be OOM killed at any time for any reason.
Yes, for sure, in the end you should call people what they want to be called. I know lots of Chinese people who chose an English name rather than put up with hearing their Chinese name horribly mangled all the time, and I know other Chinese people who prefer to go by their Chinese name and coach people how to say it properly. Or as close as we can get.

In my case sometimes people have trouble with 'Sean' (Irish for John), so I just tell them to say whatever style of John they're most comfortable with. Since it's a biblical name they'll have heard John before in their own language and have access to something familiar.

But mileage does vary indeed.
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I don't see the 2nd one as much better tbh.
Past threads:

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577660 - July 2019 (5 comments)

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13207441 - Dec 2016 (19 comments)

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785164 - Dec 2015 (13 comments)

Writing a Compiler in 24 Small Steps [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652623 - Sept 2010 (16 comments)

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408241 - June 2010 (18 comments)

Other mentions:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
There’s a good list of games to skip.
Joe Biden Took “Inappropriate” Showers with His Own Daughter (Her Words)
What in the actual fuck!?
Generally, self driving cars are very safe, too safe actually. There are some high profile accidents, most of them involving Tesla because of the scale and way they approach the problem, plus an infamous one by Uber, but generally, self driving cars will not go anywhere unless they are sure the way is clear.

And this is the problem, self driving cars don't force their way, and they break when anything is vaguely in a collision course. If there is a problem putting them in NYC traffic is that they will stop all the time and create traffic jams, maybe get rear ended by other (human) drivers and fail to get their passengers to the destination because of some minor obstruction.
I like, "I see your point, you are right"
Super skewed by the cohort they cobbled together. Look at the COVIDNet data for the decile age bands of hospitalization at peak waves: [0]

>18-29: 5/100000 = 0.05%

>30-39: 10/100000 = 0.1%

>40-49: 14/100000 = 0.14%

I would ask why our agencies keep doing things like this and burning trust, but it's rhetorical.

[0] https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_3.html
Apparently "html and css programming" is a thing in 2021. We must be getting old.
More like, if you disagree with the politics that your employer's investors have lobbied for, you need to keep quiet. The lawsuit doesn't appear to have anything to do with the operation of U of F.
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I've created Vouch in an attempt to address this problem:

https://github.com/vouch-dev/vouch

Vouch lets users create and share reviews for NPM packages. Project dependencies can then be checked against those reviews.

Vouch uses extensions to interface with package ecosystems. It's simple to create a new extension. Extensions currently exist for NPM, PyPi, and Ansible Galaxy.

I'm currently working on a website to index known reviews and publish official reviews.

I hope you guys find it useful! Drop by the Matrix channel if you have any feedback to share: #vouch:matrix.org
So naturally, my knee-jerk reaction is to create some kind of checklist language and interpreter. Which is almost wrong, of course.

I say "almost", because it occurs to me that many steps are shared individually across many different workflows. If you see a single task as an automation target, then you end up writing simple scripts that perform very focused operations -- a strong advantage over a large complicated script that does many different things, some that are repeated for other complicated scripts.

In this setup, you end up with checklists that remain forever, with automation replacing some or all of the print commands.

Of course, my spidey sense tells me that I've just pushed the problem down a level, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
They already lowered prices today at Microcenter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/qn4y1h/cpu_m...
My wife and me didn't use a computer application. We used p&p and made a list of names we liked, then gave each other the list at a deathline date. Then we reviewed each other's list, if we had a name on both our lists it got a pre (this kind of happened with our first). Otherwise, marked any of the names the other person liked, and then it all started. What I mean with that, its multiple names. The name has to flow. It shouldn't be an offensive acronym. We want certain references (to our last name, and several family members). But all in all, its a matter of give and take. You win some, you lose some.

I'm sure the main principle of the matching can be made in a Tinder-esque app (though I never used Tinder, so I am kind of guessing how it works). But I kind of liked the ease of handing out the lists and the discussions. I don't think an app can (easily) replace that, at least not fully automated. The manual stuff can be made in threads with replies etc.

Just some words of advice: ensure you start when you know gender (can do gender reveal but don't wait too long), and take into account a child can come too early, so don't wait too long. Start proactively with the names. Even if the birth ends up in a disaster (it is possible) you still want to give him/her a name. After all, you knew him/her, especially the woman as she had the child inside her. Naming your child, even if its a miscarriage, helps with acceptance of the tragedy. In other words: it is not a lost effort.
FUCKING IDIOTS!
If I had to guess, AMD is going to wait and see if there's any reasonable volume that goes into the channel.

If Intel manages to get a lot of I5s out in the wild, then AMD could decide to drop prices. That scenario could have an impact on negotiations with ODMs and System manufacturers too. Keep in mind that most quoted OEM prices you see for CPUs mean about as much as a quoted Invoice price on a car.
That could get you some jailtime if the org decides you are embezzling, witness poorly done versions of the this same scam.
Yup. If you switch to the ‘Insiders’ channel (account settings panel on the dashboard) on Gitpod then you will be running these bits on Gitpod.
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There is no conflict of interest.

Expert witnesses get called to testify by either party and it’s industry standard they get compensated for their time. That doesn’t create any conflict of interest, and for the University to suggest it does is basically saying they believe their own professors are so unethical they would commit the crime of perjury in exchange for a meager expert witness payment.

Also, the idea they are a expert witness for the plaintiff in a case against the government creates a conflict because they work for a public university is the opposite of a conflict of interest. Whereas there would be more of a conflict if the experts were witnesses for the defendant (ie their employer).

The University is so tone deaf they don’t realize it’s a conflict of interest for the university to prevent professors from acting as experts in cases against parties that fund the university and even worse that they back track in the face of public exposure and pressure by allowing them to testify on the condition they can’t be compensated as expert witnesses…it’s a clear attempt to punish the professors if they do testify, which they probably won’t do now since they aren’t being compensated for their time.
FedNow, the Fed’s instant payment system to replace ACH, it currently ahead of schedule for a 2023 GA. Beta testing between a handful of financial institutions is working as expected (from what I’ve heard). One way or another, instant payments will be here shortly.
Helion hasn't published the triple product results for their latest Trenta reactor, but for the previous Venti they achieved a triple product of ~10^19 keV.s/m^3 at an ion temperature of 2 keV. The Trenta reactor has achieved an ion temperature of 9 keV. For D-T fusion, you need a triple product of about 3x10^21 kev.s/m^3 at 10 keV. For the D-He reaction that helion intends to use, they need to achieve a similar triple product at 50 keV. So it looks like they're still 2-3 orders of magnitude off from where they need to be to achieve ignition. Their neutron production rate is comparable to industrial fusors at ~10^11 n/s, which while useful as neutron sources are nowhere near producing net power. Compare this with tokamaks that have achieved a triple product around 1.5x10^21 keV.s/m^3, or about half of what they need to achieve ignition.

While it's possible that helion has made improvements to ion density and confinement allowing them to achieve a significantly higher triple product and close the gap to power production, I see no reason why a company looking for investment would hide such a result, especially while putting out press releases celebrating other milestones. I doubt they're anywhere near the point where an economical plant could even be considered, though I'd love to be proven wrong.
Operation Warp Speed is, to me, an indication of the power of government "intertia". Trump changed a lot of things, and while an uncomfortable amount of the U.S. government seems to run on "tradition" that isn't actually law, after 4 years of unchecked assault it was only at the very end that it really got crazy.

Warp speed is the work of career guys. Not even Fauchi -- he was important, but these ideas are put together, presented, and executed by the unknown 9-to-5ers.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and it's not what this site is for.
They aren't guesses. It's physics.
I am so sorry alcohol caused you this grief. It can be such a destructive force. I don't know what your current relationship with alcohol is, but mine was not good at all. I have been sober for three years and it has made a huge difference for me. I also know that people can drink responsibly. I can't. If you ever want someone to talk to, please feel to reach out to me.
Imagine a typical hierarchical manager. they have a bunch of devleads under them and decide to hire a "senior dev lead".

He could just hire someone on his own. But what if he let the other devleads have a say? What if 51% of them protested at his choice.

Democracy can start small
That shouldn't even matter. A conflict of interest doesn't invalidate what they would have to say. The problems with conflicts of interest in testimony is when that's deliberately hidden from anyone to see. Keep that in the open, and any problems from it will also be in the open.
Completely agree. More abundant clean power, combined with the eventual takeover of Graphene in the battery sector (dramatically increases power density, recharge time and reduces weight) and I believe we will have a path to significantly decrease global emissions.

When we get to the point of putting Graphene batteries in planes than can fully recharge in the time it takes to unload and reload passengers/luggage it’s going to be pretty incredible.