skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot to say but one of the big ones for me is normalizing the use of public key crypto for identity management.

Now anyone can create a keypair offline and suddenly they have a way for people to interact with them and they don't have to run any of the infrastructure themselves.

I like that it inverts the concept of "self hosting" into "everybody hosting".
One of my favorite features. I counted then recently - over 100.

The killer feature over aliases is that a) you can edit them and b) you can define them instantaneously.

Did you type `git diff --cached` one time to many? Up arrow -> Ctrl+a -> "abbr gdc " <enter>

Bam. `gdc<space|enter>` now expands to that. It's there forever. And that's how you end up with 100+ abbreviations.
The readers who matter should not have any issue understanding your code. You don't have to make the code understandable to most readers i.e. off the street.

If you make a function called add which actually subtracts, why is that any different to an operator overload?
Anyone desiring a more rigorous intro to the subject, I recommend the lectures of PPPL Director Steven Cowley. Like listening to James Bond 007 wax poetic about stellerators ;)

Getting to a Fusion Pilot Plant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35C0BewtfvA
Apple may not overpay, but if they're willing to pre-pay multiple billions of dollars that's a huge incentive for a company like TSMC, who gain the ability to instantly (well, "instantly") launch capital projects, rather than having to wait for three years of revenue to roll in first.

For all we know, TSMC is taking all that 3nm Apple money and putting it into producing new 3nm fab lines, which would honestly be better for everyone in the long term (except Intel, I suppose).
What were your thoughts on it in February 2020?
Experts seem to be freaking out about Nu's genome. It's far out, and also it includes some of the nastiest mutations to come up in virus evolution studies, such as this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-021-00954-4
Isn’t the difference with AI that viruses don’t have a “final goal” baked into them?

I think the process that you’re describing is the process of genetically evolving-by-mutation life forms in general. So not specific to viruses.

Human bodies are the vehicles for our genes to survive and reproduce :-)
What problem does this solve? What's wrong with the way I currently do "identity management"?
And then dismisses their findings as "that's a flawed argument and not how we do science" (17 minutes in).
what infuriates you so much?
1. As I stated, I didn't know anything about this, so I'm using language chosen by those before me on topic

2. You're explaining why this "joke" might be taken serious by CCP

3. Most jokes have a hint of truth to them
Let’s hope Delta stays dominant - at least for a while - and in time for our next “update” shot:

https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/343...
Manning was a man when he became a whistleblower.
On the other hand: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1463963516990373898
Do you see much difference between a fairly porous policy surrounding well-understood, olden vaccines and k-12 education and requiring a novel vaccine in order to engage meaningfully in public life at all?

So weird that folks seem to think these things are at all equivalent.

In New Zealand you will not be able to work (remote or not) if you don't get the vaccine.

Is that similar to the k-12 "mandate"?
Multi core support is an issue I’ve tried conquering with php, but went down a rabbit hole of running JS on a GPU instead.
It's so interesting watching this get picked up by the news.

Many aren't aware but interestingly these variants are identified and designated in the open on GitHub, here is the GitHub issue for this B.1.1.529 designation https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/343. I've recently started watching this repo as it's quite interesting reading about the different variants popping up across the world.
Well, yeah, this is the problem. Throw new users under the bus in favour of old users.
On twitter, the correction should have the roughly same audience as the original — unless you stop following the author. People who amplified the original still share that amplification.

My point still stand: I have not seen an epidemiologist write something that proved false without a clarification. Non-specialist write uninformed things but it’s not really new.
Go work for your local Amazon fulfillment center / Walmart / McDonald's for 2 months. Let the manager know you really need the job for healthcare and 40hrs to make rent.

You'll either be fired before the 2 months (which would have serious consequences for most people) or experience horrible abuse.
I worked with someone (this is in astronomy) who said that papers in nature were the most likely to be wrong. They are in nature because they have a dramatic (new/unexpected) result. One good reason for a new/unexpected result is a mistake somewhere.

Edit: I'm not saying anything about this paper. I know nothing about this. Just a meta comment that, in really hard to get published in journals, there might be a bi-modality of papers. Really important and really wrong :)
It likely says something that, as an epidemiologist, the only way I've ever gotten a paper into Nature/Science is during a scary infectious disease epidemic. The rest of the time, they're largely uninterested.
You conveniently ignored his points about Apple Daily and journalist arrests.
Emacs has a standard shortcut for moving around in terms of paragraphs, so you don't need to customize anything. It's these semantic(ish) movement commands that really let keyboard navigation shine—moving around in terms of paragraphs, code blocks, matching delimiters is not only productive but also combines well with other commands and keyboard macros, which makes a lot of repetitive things easy to automate in Emacs but difficult anywhere else.
"Who's Peng?"
The core argument is that Marek kills in 10 days or less, which is too soon for viral spread to happen. MDV vaccines keep chickens from dying, thus spread of hot variants can occur. Since covid doesn't kill that much, Marek phenomenon can't happen. The obvious issue with the argument is that the hot lethal variants are observed post vaccine availability. Earlier strains were "mild" or "virulent", but not "very virulent plus". "Death was relatively rare".

From an 1998 article on Marek, there appear to have been at least 3 jumps in Marek virulence, one in the late '50s pre vaccines (mild => virulent) and two post vaccine availability (virulent => very virulent, very virulent => very virulent plus), see chart on page S50.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0307945980841929...

From Andrew Read's own 2015 article:

"MDV became increasingly virulent over the second half of the 20th century [19,21–24]. Until the 1950s, strains of MDV circulating on poultry farms caused a mildly paralytic disease, with lesions largely restricted to peripheral nervous tissue. Death was relatively rare. Today, hyperpathogenic strains are present worldwide. These strains induce lymphomas in a wide range of organs and mortality rates of up to 100% in unvaccinated birds."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

The conclusion of the rebuttal article you linked to is rather terrifying. If there ever was a "the road to [chicken] Hell is paved with good intentions", this is it.

"In the history of human and animal vaccines, there have not been many cases of vaccine-driven evolution. But in every one of them, individuals and populations have always been better off when vaccinated. At every point in the 50-year history of vaccination against Marek’s disease, an individual chicken exposed to the virus was healthier if it was vaccinated."
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy, no? Because that's exactly what the claim is. I understand that it makes him less likely to misunderstand the research (probably) but its not a guarantee and is naive to depend on that fact.
Maybe you can find something that you like here:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Extensions
Does anyone know an article which lists the actual mutations of this one? The Wikipedia variant article still doesn’t seem to have that info
What? Please point to any time anywhere near there, that Anthony Fauci has called Covid a "normal seasonal virus".
> Why does it matter?

because the science matters. This new SA variant could be more transmissible or it could not be. Lets stick to the actual data and go from there.
PHP has done pretty big breaking changes in the past, the thing that immediately comes to mind is register_globals (there are probably others, but my PHP experience is mainly from a decade ago).

Originally GET/POST, cookie and environment values automatically became variables. This means page.php?id=123 gave you a variable $id. Along with no variable declarations, this was intuitive and was probably one of the reasons PHP was so popular with beginner developers. Unfortunately it was also the cause of untold numbers of security bugs, because people would write code like:

if (securityCheck()) { $isAdmin = true; }

//....

if ($isAdmin) {... }

Someone making the request page.php?isAdmin=true would totally bypass the intended check.

So in April 2002, PHP 4.2 [1] was released that disabled this by default -- but so many (badly written) applications relied on this that it was not until March 2012 -- 10 years later! -- that PHP 5.4 [2] finally removed this option entirely.

[1] https://www.php.net/releases/4_2_0.php

[2] https://www.php.net/releases/5_4_0.php
The topic is remittances, and the claim is that cryptocurrencies are good at them.

Remittances are when a person in one country sends money to another person in a different country. Usually, the first person works to earn wages, and sends them back home to their family, who use them to pay for living expenses.

To do this, you need to go from money in hand to money in hand. Anything else is useless. Again, the claim is that cryptocurrency is good at this. If you want to claim that it is, you have to actually show how to do that exact thing.
I'm thankful for living in a time when there is modern medicine, in a country with modern healthcare, without which I would not be alive today.

BTW. If society does not prepare for the next Carrington Event, it will suffer greatly. Technology is great, but it would be stupid to create too hard dependencies on it.
Also, there will be a next pandemic - as there always have.
And yet your hypothetical friend is fine, but China has seized land again.
So it's a horrible name for anyone who isn't a proficient Ancient Egyptian speaker.
Different regions of Britain have different styles of hedging and walling. For example "Devonshiring" is quite a distinctive mud bank with very dense hedging made up of a huge number of species. There will be a narrow or very narrow road running with hedges either side at around six to 12 foot high. My uncle's farm near Dartmouth (Devon!) is a good five miles through a lane that often brushes your wing mirrors on both sides simultaneously. Passing places are sporadic but usually less than 500 yards apart - often gate entrances.

On moorland, dry stone walling is the usual delimiter, see Bodmin (Cornwall), Dartmoor Exmoor, and heading up north - The Peaks in Derbyshire(ish), the Yorkshire Moors, etc and most of Cumbria and Northumberland.

One of the odd regions out is the New Forest (laid out about 1000 years back for King William I) This region famously isn't enclosed and is also mostly no longer forest too.

I've only covered England but Wales, Scotland and Ireland have their own varieties of land demarcation, mostly involving hedges of some sort unless moorland in which case stone is generally indicated in exposed areas but all are largely familiar to each other.

The article goes on about maintenance. Farmers fit a a device called a flail to the back of their tractors and trim the hedgerows after birds have fledged. They trundle along at around a slow walking pace. It can get a bit dicey driving in a lane in mid to late spring time because the overgrown hedges block your oncoming view.
I don't know what problem you are trying to solve? To stay with the example: Germany already bans CCTV except for specific locations such as train stations. People follow the law reasonably well, and the police just does it because any law-breaking would be revealed at trial. I'm sure there are ways for them to set up temporary cameras for specific purposes. Maybe it would be nice to restrict the possibility of distribution, but I can't remember any cases of abuse.

Now id yo could restrict the police's use of databases to send hate mail to anyone left of the clan (as in Bernie Sanders, not as in left over), that would be a worthy endeavor. But if I have a choice, I'll take a law with teeth and a prosecutor who cares over technology.
SA has low levels of vaccination, but they've had high infection rates. There should be substantial levels of immunity to earlier variants in the population. It's not directly comparable, but it should be possible to get some idea of how well the new variant escapes existing immunity.
That just means there's not enough data. The data from South Africa itself shows it's spreading dramatically faster than even Delta did which is already showing itself in the increase in new cases rapidly spiking up. Whether or not this new variant causes more or less sever disease is still to be shown
> The protocol is another form of abstraction we can use to decouple modules, the approach is more object-oriented than functional

That's not true that the approach is more OO.

People get confused because a lot of OO languages like Java eventually added support for something protocol-like, in Java it was interfaces for example, but for a long time Java, an OO language, didn't have interfaces, you only had Classes and Objects and inheritance.

Protocols and polymorphism is not an OO concept, and doesn't even need to involve Objects at all.

In Clojure for example, you can dispatch the protocol over a map, given two maps based on their metadata the protocol will pick a different implementation for the called protocol function. There are no Objects and Classes involved.

All you need for polymorphism is a sort of metadata over a datatype, it could be type information or it could be something else, like attached metadata like in Clojure.

In an OO language, and in Clojure by virtue of running on the JVM, user datatypes are defined using Classes and Objects, but in a language like Haskell they're not.

So basically you can implement protocol-like polymorphism, basically the idea that you dispatch based on meta-information about the arguments passed to the function with or without object constructs.

I'm pointing this out because it is an argument against OO. The fact that even in most OO language people have over time preferred to use such polymorphism over object inheritance hierarchies is a sign that Objects aren't as useful as ounce thought.

What is very useful though is to be able to define alternate function implementations based on some metainfo about a given argument, such as their type. So much so that all languages, OO and Functional will tend to have such feature.
I don't know, I'm still pretty happy to be living in new Zealand, with our death rate 1/300th of the US or UK.
Get a commercial one https://www.webstaurantstore.com/search/toaster.html

But probably not worth the space.
Seems like you are just redefining middle class. Middle class doesn’t mean not having depend on a salary.
The dependencies are not manuals. This could in fact be avoided if citation #1 were a Fine Manual.
> On the other hand, if fish doesn't work to your liking out of the box, and for many people it does not, there's no "messing with it" that's possible.

What do you want to do that isn't possible? I also haven't messed with it in months if not more (fish in my case, not zsh) but years ago I messed with the prompt a lot to get it to my liking. (From a previous zsh config.) It was perfectly possible.
> Creators of the POAP badge did not intend for these NFTs to be traded or sold, rather they are a way to prove your dedication to brands and provide a way to prove the journey that you have been on throughout life.

Emphasis mine.

This sentence made me physically shudder. Sounds like the worst kind of fanatical consumerism and conspicuous consumption. Oh, and you can also sell them - so in what way do they provide any kind of proof of your "journey throughout life"? Sounds like they will mostly provide proof you have money - like most crypto assets.

> The most exciting aspect of POAP for several of us is that it enables social interactions that are otherwise outright impossible.

What these social interactions are is left as an exercise for the reader, I guess.

Edit:

> As a collector, your POAPs are a record of your life's greatest moments and digitized into a collectible and trackable token.

God help me if my life's greatest moments involve attending some kind of conference, scanning QR codes, and "engaging" with "brands". This reads like parody.
So how come there isn't a black bar at the top of hackernews despite the fact there's a 'has died' article on the front page? Not important enough? Not in a tech field?
Could someone explain more the video demo? It ran the python interpreter which disappeared, but I didn't quite catch the meaning of this.
An expert in the field is more likely to be right compared to someone who isn't an expert. Their opinion should carry greater weight
lol @ "it's Taiwan's responsibility to not be invaded."

You're like a middle school kid who justifies violence with "talk shit, get hit."

How much does China pay you to shill on here day after day?
By the way, this image format can match PNG in terms of size if combined with another form of lossless compression, so if we allow for that extra complexity, something like QOI + Zstandard could possibly compete with PNG in terms of both size and speed.
>SpaceX didn't develop ground-breaking firsts like Sputnik and the moon landings

I would say the ground breaking things were done by amateurs like Mr Von Braun as children playing with rockets.

What governments(Hitler first, then US and Russia) did was escalating something that was already proven and worked, and that was proven my amateurs.

The flights of Otto Lilienthal or the Wright brothers were extremely short, but they were the groundbreaking things that governments later escalated very fast.

I certainly believe that break even will be proven by private companies, not by Governments bureaucracies that continuously say that fusion in 30 years is reasonable.

After breakeven is proven, there will be a tsunami of investments from Governments just like with aviation or rockets.
iMessage sometimes shares Read Receipts and Focus Time
if this variant is more contagious than Delta Plus, we will see it spreading in the UK. The UK seems to be the hub for corona variants. Alpha and Delta variants went haywire, if this one spreads in the UK we should be on alert.
Abundant Number
By that metric almost nothing "happened".

And I'd say VR is advancing way faster than desktops, and maybe even the rest of your list. You just don't remember the products that existed when they were still fairly niche, like the iPaq, Amstrad and Friendster.
If compared to Buzzfeed or the Daily Mail, definitely not. If compared to more specialized academic publishers, yes.
> The bank created money out of nowhere

This is the part most people don't know or understand. We should fix the banking system first. Only one entity should be able to print money, not all banks.
That's "read all the fine manuals", not "read the fine manual".

In the end you might eventually read all of them, but it's not the efficient thing now.
The evidence isn't yet in for immunity persistence post-booster, with Pfizer or Moderna. There's a chance that immunity wanes less quickly with the booster's 6 month+ window vs the original 2nd shot's 3 week window. Of course, if a mutation evades the vaccine's design then it doesn't matter much, but for the moment I'm hopeful that 5 months out from a booster is still a relatively high protection %.
Software Evolution and the Art of Kintsugi
> it permanently reduces your body's ability to learn how to counter different parts of other versions of COVID

This seems unlikely. It's usually considered that immunity to one variant gives you at least some immunity to other variants.

Could you provide sources for this claim?
Not sure if this is similar to what you’re looking for, but I saved this “adventure travel agency”’s website in my bookmarks a while ago, thought it could be interesting.

https://untamedborders.com/
> Programmers want mathematicians to make one of these: https://matela.com.br/pub/cheat-sheets/haskell-cs-1.1.pdf

There are lots of maths cheat sheets like that. Maths is big, like all-programming-languages big. Just like in programming, notations are re-used in different areas with different meanings, and different authors sometimes use different notation for the same meaning. A universal cheat sheet is impossible (just like a general programming cheat sheet is), but many cheat sheets or notation reference pages exist for particular contexts, one of which is "the basics", e.g. https://www.pinterest.nz/pin/734016439237543897/. Try searching or image searching for [math cheat sheet], [linear algebra cheat sheet], etc.

> mathematicians' refusal to provide easy reference material

This is an absurd claim. There is no such general refusal. On the contrary, many mathematicians provide their students with relevant easy reference material constantly. We sometimes spend entire semester-long courses providing easy reference material, and there are many books with exactly the kind of cheat-sheet you want inside the cover, or in an appendix or front matter (as well as the ones on the internet mentioned above).
If Microsoft actually follows through with their plan to desupport Windows 10 in 2024, then (guessing) over half of their installed base will be orphaned.

Linux now bundles NTFS.

What if a rescue distro, that erased \Windows, and ran all the applications under Wine or appropriate emulation, existed at that desupport date?

Microsoft's desktop dominance would be over on that date. They would cling to corporate desktops, but the general consumer market would be lost.

ReactOS is another wildcard for 2024.
I'm left wondering, why is this here? Why was it translated in English, even.
Yep so the rhetoric about it could easily have lead someone to think it wasn't much more to worry about than the seasonal flu.
In my area (Oregon), there are vaccine mandates for diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, varicella (chickenpox), measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis A/B, and hib (Haemophilus influenza B) that the vast majority of people have to get. In fact, I'd say they're more strict than the COVID vaccine "mandate" -- especially in a lot of states/areas not taking COVID seriously.

The standard mandates were largely the same when I grew up in Missouri/Iowa and I imagine they're similar across most of the US as a whole. If you don't get them, you can't e.g. go to school. I also had to get additional vaccines (tetanus, pneumococca, etc) in order to land some jobs over the years.

Requiring an additional vaccine doesn't really seem that different to all the others already mandated, IMO.
Recently we moved to use EC2 Image Builder, and it's been working great: https://aws.amazon.com/image-builder/

Note: We were already mostly Launch Templates/ASGs, so updates are always new instances (rather than patching long-running ones).
The question is: what do you do in the absence of data, or with only very preliminary data? By the time the scientists have had chance to fully investigate the moment for action has often passed.
Or in my case, my Dropbox.
Sure but there's a middle ground. 100 is probably reasonable (if we're talking about products).

10 is just stingy, as OP said.
How to read that branch diagram?