skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given his complaints about all college education not being the classics he manages to be even worse than that. Implicitly anything of practical value is considered "vocational" even highly complex and important fields like medicine, chemistry, and physics. All while relying upon unproven but furious assertions that they are somehow peak intellectuals and leaders.

Given that the other fields actually advance instead of being a frozen canon that are artifacts of irrelevant aristocrats. Notably mathematics was in the liberal arts but once it became practical instead of a flex it was heavily de-emphasized.
It is the same folly that alienation from the wordly is inherent superiority An enduring terrible idea that we have Ancient Greeks to blame. If anybody doesn't belong among intellectual elite it is those arrogant and cargo-culting fools.
>If you believe that wasn't/isn't the scientific consensus, then I welcome you again to find any public health official willing to state on the record how much viral transmission they believe masks are preventing. I'll expand the challenge to include heads of top tier medical universities. And I'll even accept a range, like "between x and y%." You will not find such a thing.

From https://www.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/news/your-mask-cuts-own-...

>A range of new research on face coverings shows that the risk of infection to the wearer is decreased by 65 percent, said Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
Damn, imagine making a world changing product used by close to half of the world's population to overcome a global crisis... and making less profit than a company that sells highly marked up leather bags.

Kind of a depressing thought the extent to which we prioritize things.
No problem, I enjoy reading about type theory and trying to apply them in practical programming as a hobby.
- Daniel Shiffman (https://natureofcode.com/, https://thecodingtrain.com/)

Nature of Code was the book that made coding click for me.
With smallpox so deadly, how did europeans intentionally put it on blankets given to native americans with genocidal intent?

were europeans conferred some residual resistance by variants being endemic across europe, but not the americas?
> No, it’s actually illegal in the US

You are misunderstanding what the GP comment said. The reality is that landlords/employers can and do discriminate based on race, religion, age, etc all the time. They simply just can't say it out loud, that's the illegal part.

I find that Asian people tend to be pretty open about this stuff, whereas in the west it's taboo. Don't think that anyone would be foolish enough to try arguing that there's no silent discrimination occurring in the US.
As far as I can tell from 30 seconds of research, this thing just bundles standard Linux syscalls in one package. "This machinery" is just typical Google overengineering, it's not doing anything except acting as middleware.

P.S. Yeah, I wish we had a better userspace Linux namespace toolkit instead of Docker.
In NZ some ISPs use cg-nat meaning that you will have many people under one public IPv4 address. Going by this logic you could ban a whole ISP in one go.
No, it should not. The USA imposing "democracy" by dropping bombs on civilians is part of the reason the region is unstable.
My point was that the regulatory system connects to how money moves. The interfaces where money comes in and out are places that regulation easily touches. I rather doubt the SEC would care if money wasn’t involved (purely in-game currency).
Thanks for the source!
I was trying to find that list with no luck.
Last few years? Java IDEs have been doing this for decades (plural). C++ IDEs for another decade beyond that.
> Project Veritas paid Izzy Santa a five-figure settlement

Settlements doesn't prove anything
I don't share this view. They would have had a lot in common at a point in time in their history, but who's to say the consequences of millions of years of additional evolution post-energy abundance, let alone the consequences of embryo selection and genetic engineering? We've had a few tens of thousand years of evolution with relative (but still not really) caloric abundance and look how much bigger our brains got. Add nuclear fusion and an extra 50 million years to that nascent process.

I think chess strategy is a flawed way to be thinking about this because we designed the rules and the solution space to be comprehensible to us. It's not surprising that we can understand AI strategy. That simply follows from the solution space itself being small and comprehensible.
I share the author's personal investment in this topic. It was my first introduction to the web3 world, and it really showcases the potential of truly decentralized communities.
Some of the flaws were visible, but overall how this community evolves and incorporates the input of its 17K participants will set up the norms and practices for DAOs for some time to come.
I'm hoping that the community created here endures and continues to test and expand the boundaries of this new type of organization.
I was wrong: https://github.com/Xe/site/commit/4cdc658dc2f6dcb327f3a2882b...
And in related news, anyone vaccinated, but without a booster (AKA me) will soon become "unvaccinated". Good luck in the midterms, Brandon, you're gonna need it.
Point taken on the subjective judgement on provocation - I'll try to do better there!

I do still think liberty vs life and the right balance between the two should they be in conflict is an interesting philosophical discussion to be had, fwiw.
Your answer was no, you cannot answer the question. Good luck in your future endeavors!

Edit: it’s genuinely hilarious in a non-ironic actual belly laugh way that folks can show up and pretend to be Above It All when it comes to little details about their brazen statements in support of their uh, beliefs? Required line of discourse from an employer or hopeful friend?

You showed up, gave me unsolicited “advice” to make sure I don’t get downvoted, and you got mad when I pointed out that I never asked for that advice.

And you still literally cannot answer a yes or no question. I wish you well in the future, particularly about your behavior and allegiances :)

My question was literally posing a yes or no question, then asking whether or not you were capable of answering that yes or no question. It’s a trip that you’re someho we incapable of answering whether or not you’re allowed to answer the yes or no question (I didn’t require that you answer the other question. I just asked if you were allowed to answer it in the first place. )
> Nobody knew who won, and there was a lot of misinformation spreading.

It was also very confusing to watch the live chat on YouTube. There was no authoritative communication on the official twitter or website about who would be bidding on their behalf. Nobody knew who the person representing ConstitutionDAO was, or if Constitution DAO was even participating at all. A good number of commenters were convinced it was a "rugpull" / scam.

Then as the article says, in the twitter audio room afterwards there was the "Dewey Defeats Truman" thing. Having gone through a few election cycles in the US, I must say it did remind me of election day results, but that's not a compliment.
Do not get me started on what disturbing problems exist for LVMH to be a $360 billion company in this world...
> With smallpox so deadly, how did europeans intentionally put it on blankets given to native americans with genocidal intent?

That's a myth, stemming from Howard Zinn. Zinn basically scoured various underground and left-wing pamphlets, some even anti-american cold war propaganda, and collected that all into an underground history, called "A People's History of the United States". It's wildly popular among a certain subset of the population, who take what's written there as gospel.

Zinn never provided a source for the small-pox blanket trope. Not because he invented it (I don't think he did) but because citing propaganda is not a good look for a historian.

When you try to do some archeological digging of these urban legends, the closest thing you can find in terms of real history is a letter from colonial times when there was a mention of this as a possible war strategy by a British administrator, Sir Jeffery Amherst, but there is no evidence anything like this actually happened during the British rule or after independence.

By the time it reached Zinn, it was turned in US cavalry officers actually giving blankets to Indians in the 19th Century. From then it spun out into popular culture. I think it's even included in the Simpsons.
> Reuss told an investor conference GM is working with seven chip suppliers on three new families of microcontrollers that will reduce the number of unique chips by 95% on future vehicles.

For those of us without a background in computer engineering, are microcontrollers easier or less costly to manufacture in the absence of chips? Any reason they didn’t do this before and are doing it only now, as a response to the chip shortage?
John Gilmore (who founded this project and whom I've been consulting for on it) has talked about this in the current NANOG mailing list thread about our proposals. He has several posts there, but the most relevant to your specific comments is probably

https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2021-November/2164...
Measuring source code conciseness across programming languages using compression
Then no one will sign up for trials because that would mean all their personal information and medical history will become public which could result in them not getting hired.
It's interesting that the exchange (juicebox.money) takes a 3% cut, so they made about $5M off of this, despite its apparent failure.
The really weird thing is that I have an older iMac that seems to be powered on constantly (albeit with the screen off - I don't understand why) and also an M1 Macbook Air which does genuinely go to sleep with the lid closed. I seldom use either of them more than once every week or two. The iMac sporadically reboots itself without my consent, presumably to install updates. The Macbook Air has been running since the day it was delivered to my door without ever rebooting (100+ days uptime).
I’m not deeply familiar with all the dynamics either. From what I can tell, the sitting government was democratically elected and passed a set of laws that are legitimately in effect per the laws of the land. Then a relatively small number of people used violence, widespread destruction, and intentional (illegal) disruption for over a year. Now the government is caving in to those forces that operated outside their Democratic process and laws. This is likely a strategy to secure votes for upcoming elections, but the optics of it looking like caving into terrorism makes the government look weak.
My naive observations on BitTorrent

- Residential Internet connections are asymmetrical. That's a problem and renders many clients as leeches.

- It is unreliable for long tail files. If a file is never read, it will never be replicated and will eventually disappear.

- Once the universities started cracking down on BitTorrent usage, it was game over. Dorms were practically the CDNs of the torrent world.
They waived the fee.
Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding
Could you elaborate more? Your comment doesn't make much sense otherwise - if anything I'd argue that NOT tying yourself to a single framework is what makes you grow into a senior developer.

I'd argue that Python (or similar) back-end and JS-flavor front-end is a better path to growing since it's just a much wider area of growth.
> So much shit to deal with

That's why only the most established SDC companies, namely MobilEye and now Waymo are doing it in NYC. This fact also tells who "has it" and who's just sales talks and promises.
Thank you. So many people want to escalate their issue to the status of some existential cause that we all must pay attention to. It would be a lot more valuable to hear about an actual way forward, rather than just some rent seeking.
It's amazing that people still have their heads in the sand about this when evidence to the contrary comes out regularly, e.g. PRISM, CIA coordination with the LA Times and New York Times, and Biden's press secretary Psaki directly saying they work with social media companies to determine censorship policies.
> Wouldn't this separation be designed into the process for data management during the clinical trial?

No.

> Almost all content is managed by computer systems that are designed to protect PII and intellectual property

Having worked in public sector entities dealing with masses of private data that deals with public records requests against that data for decades, no, its almost certainly mostly not,

> If it did not take decades for computer-structured clinical trial data to move across the corporation->government boundary, why would it take decades to move from government->citizens?

Because the first transition basically requires the confidential data, and even where it doesn't strictly require it, it is low legal risk in the event of error because the government is bound not to release it.

> If necessary, the reports can be re-exported from the corporate systems

No, even if that was useful, they legally can't, because only the records actually held by the government are subject to FOIA. The material held in corporate systems from which reports were made to the federal government is not subject to FOIA.
Updated my original comment to include my story. Once learning Ruby/RoR techstack, you can jump to all other techstack in NO time as it already taught you everything you need. The rest is ecosystem and syntax.

About your concern, other frameworks/languages offer you only part of story, Ruby and RoR offers you complete story in a concise way, it's the difference.
It's definitely not an easy place to live. My understanding is that even in a best case scenario where everything you need turns out to be theoretically available, you'll need a bunch of currently-speculative industrial processes to extract it at scale.

I'm not convinced it's intractable, though, especially with a few more decades of progress in industrial automation.
Thats better done by terrestrial robots I think.. maybe little crab shaped ones.
It's heartbreaking to see crates.io repeat nearly every mistake which npm has committed. I did not expect that from the Rust crowd which usually tends to design things carefully and with correctness and corner cases in mind.
People get content deleted on American platforms for lots of content that is no where near child porn in obvious reprehensibility.
Copyleft-next: a post-post-modern copyleft license inspired by the GNU GPL
Sounds like soon enough China will export this policy on all Chinese made products all over the world. As a means of creating peace. What’s to stop them from doing this?
How was this different from any other fund raiser? Some guys set up an LLC, raised funds and attempted to do something with the funds. They call it a DAO, but there's nothing 'decentralised' or 'autonomous' about it. It was a CO —centralised organisation— that managed the funds and placed the bid. And this is how it has to be if you intend to interact with anything else other than imaginary tokens on a blockchain, you need to be a legal person, which is antithetical to the idea of a DAO.
Some comments about Duff's Device from a compiler writer:

The biggest problem with this technique, from an optimization perspective, is that it creates an irreducible control-flow graph. In simple terms, this is a cycle in the graph that has two entry points from outside the cycle, and as a result, it is no longer considered a loop. This means you're going to disable any loop optimization--so Duff's Device is only worth it if you're going to write the optimal loop form already, and the compiler isn't going to arrive at that form.

For the latter part, optimization level matters: -Og and -O1 won't run loop optimizations, and -Os and -Oz might not. But if you're compiling with -Og or -O1, you don't actually care about performance in the first place. And with -Os or -Oz, the loop unrolling implied is of questionable utility (since you're increasing code size). If you really want it anyways... just add a pragma. All the major compilers support a loop unrolling pragma.

The benchmarks introduced to justify using duff's device are... bad. In the original use, the loop was basically doing this:

void duffs(volatile int *x, int *y, int N) {
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
*x = *y++;
}

Here, what's being done instead is:

void bad_duffs(int *x, int y, int N) {
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++)
*x = y++;
}

That doesn't seem like much, but it makes the code optimizable to x = N (N + 1) / 2; if the compiler can work out that x cannot point to y or N, and that y starts out at 0.

The last example makes it even worse by doing ++*x; instead, which means it's entirely down to if the compiler can compute N in the first place. But to justify the use, the N is made obtusely hard to compute, and the "Duff's Device" version doesn't even increment it all the times it's supposed to.
Neutrinos would go right _through_ the earth. Can't get a shorter path than that!
Have you wrangled with JSON using Go? Absolutely dreadful.

Have you written multiple microservices in Go? The lack of an opinionated framework often means that each microservice contains code that is organized in its own unique ad-hoc way with lots of repeated boiler-plate code. The learning-curve to understand how each service's code is organized gets old fast. With Ruby and with RoR I never have to waste time with this and I can get straight to the business logic.

When writing one-off scripts, I can see the advantages of dealing with just structs and functions.
The most fascinating part was that they raised $45mm in seven days from people from all over the world using really nothing but solidity contracts on the ethereum blockchain(no complicated PayPal integration, or Stripe etc., no web hooks or callbacks or AWS lambdas etc)

https://github.com/jbx-protocol/juice-contracts
Emotet Botnet Returns
"Hire folks, listen to them and get out of their way" is vague and vagueness is a lightning rod just waiting to be struck by someone who takes it a bit TOO literally in some way.

Obviously you can't get out of their way entirely, because you can't hire awesome people all of the time. You're going to have some average and mediocre people too. You need to know when to get out of the way, and when to impose rules and deadlines.

None of this invalidates the original saying, any more than "shoot for the stars" is invalid because stars are balls of radioactive gas that will kill you if you literally fly into them.
Talk with the Hand – On the expressive art of chirology
Ruby is NOT becoming static. It will just have tools like Sorbet or rbs files. The community will for sure stay mostly in dynamic programming. The huge orgs like Shopify or Stripe who want more strictness will now be able to do it in their Ruby codebases.
You’re literally pretending that the had an n95 mask for every citizen before that team was dissolved. That is a fairytale.
ES6 modules are just brilliant, it's like a breath of fresh air in JavaScript development. Your browser sees exactly the same thing as you write, which is such a great simplification. And yeah, you can still bundle/minify for production...
All it takes is one to get away on a subway near an airport. Some of the original vaccine hesitancy was about the smallpox vaccine when it was endemic, so not everyone would take it.
I would love it if what the US imposed was an actual democracy.

What the US imposed in practice was the shah coup in Iran, which was quite democratic beforehand, which in turn led to the Islamic revolution.

The US doesn't impose democracies, the US just installs its own corrupted dictators. Afghanistan was also just installed corrupted dictators.
> They couldn't have made the client stub interface more baroque if they tried.

I've never used this API but the cross process synchronization stuff seems like a difficult nut to crack. I'm curious which bits you think are unnecessarily baroque.

> If you can stomach the perf tradeoffs, compiling to WASM is much easier than this

I'm not super familiar with WASM, but it's unclear to me how compiling to that target addresses the problems that are addressed by this system? Does WASM have built-in security policies and sandboxing? Is it easy to call into a WASM-compiled library from your native C/C++ program? How?
Maybe just image processing from a regular camera feed is the way to go then. It's not like beach plastics are the same color as their surroundings in regular light.
A very late reply. I have been using NextDNS for a long time, but it doesn't block the video ads on YouTube that come up while watching a video.
> These companies were also granted liability waivers for these vaccines (and are making record profits from them). They should not get to preserve any "trade secrets."

You are welcome to convince Congress to retroactively change the rules based on which the firms invested in the research (and then to have the government try to convince the Courts that that change is not a taking under the 5th Amendment), but FDA has to comply with the law as it exists, not your fantasy of what the law should be.
Anyone know what the driver story is with SerenityOS? Is it a standard Unix/Linux thing, where drivers have to be compiled against an unstable ABI/API? Or is it more like Windows where drivers are forward/backward compatible?
Not on the side of OpenAI in the slightest, but you’re upset someone founded a business ostensibly reliant on an external business and their overall strategy — and then suffered the predictable outcome of that arrangement? This industry brought the faceless, API-driven, tickets-sans-phone-number business relationship into the world as the dominant model and then claims one side owes the other something in the same breath?

I’ve been growing more and more concerned about obvious entitlement slipping into folks’ ideas about business, particularly in this forum. One of the big ones is that an offeror of services is generally compelled to continue offering services because stopping hurts another business. There’s a word for that: business. You can’t have a detached customer relationship model and “don’t hurt your customers” in the same ideology. It’s incoherent. Pick one.

Here’s your algorithm to understand threats to an existential partnership of your business:

1) Are you lacking a contract? You suck.

2) Does your contract fail to compel the continued offering of services in a definitive way? You suck.

3) Does the same contract actually compel continuing service with no mitigating circumstances (like serving up hacked child porn, which is still your bad because they can justifiably say “secure your shit”)? They suck. Start with a demand letter and go from there.

That’s literally it. There is no 4. You’re favored to suck two-thirds of the times this happens to you. How you lost respect for OpenAI because a writing app single homed their entire future and paid for it mystifies me, and I say that as someone who respects OpenAI very little. Just a remarkably stupid business model your friend executed given the available competitors to their things. It’s literally common sense risk analysis.

What did your friend tell their investors? Or is this a bedroom app where you’re no longer a fan because someone lost out on a couple bills ARR from a trivially resurrectable idea? I’m thinking the latter, and #1 above.

And don’t misunderstand me, I’m not advocating for the above: I’m explaining it. Key difference. You might find I agree with your overall point in terms of progressive business, but consider it naïve to not look at it the same way today.
Out of date how? Tons of people write pure javascript and not typescript. They are all not as productive as you?