skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair Microsoft have no accountability either. But it’s easier to tick the ISO 27001 or SOC compliance box when they pretend they have some accountability.
As soon as something substantial comes up from Europe, including the UK, will end up in the US.

It's not really a quality problem, Europe produces tons of high quality stuff but anything that can scale scales in the USA.

Europe is not one of the richest places on earth by selling museum tickets, the place has the talent even has the money - albeit not at the scale of the US. I don't know what's missing but tech in the sense of "fast scaling high margin business that eats the world" is something that doesn't happen in Europe and I don't believe that any legislation will directly change that.

EU is more in the business of mitigating the risks of having your infrastructure run and data being processed by foreign entities. GDPR and the other stuff is all about that.
C++ had operator overloading in the 90s. Mostly we decided it was a bad idea.

Every generation must learn this for themselves though.
The Nu Rave epidemic of 2009 already claimed it
Look at JavaScript though. A few years back it was all about loose typing, mutation, OOP (with prototype), etc and now TypeScript is king, React and Rx are promoting functional idioms (immutability, purity). So I think that can teach us that when a language can be typed and functional there could be a vibrant community that uses it that way while there’s another that doesn’t
100% agree. Getting an M1 Mac has solidified this feeling for me too; I still want to be a Linux desktop user on philosophical grounds and will never go back to Windows, but as I age I have rapidly lost interest in tinkering and now want it to Just Work. Actually it isn't really the distro which needs fixing, but rather the package management space. Appimage/Snap/Flatpak need to be consolidated into a single open standard which is as easy to use as Homebrew.
Knock out this set of buildings in London, and you can kiss the entirety of the UK offline/most of Europe won't recover: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telehouse_Europe
What do you think the major drawbacks are? Speed would be the top of my list, but most projects to not need anything more than what python can currently pump out.
The current situation in Auckland, New Zealand provides very good evidence of vaccines reducing spread, though I don't think it has been written up in a paper yet.

We've had < 10,000 confirmed COVID cases in Auckland so the vast majority of the 2M population cannot have natural immunity. Behavior restrictions have been relaxed gradually over the last two months, yet the COVID case numbers (which were increasing) have actually leveled out at an R value of around 1. Vaccination is the only thing that could plausibly have reduced that infection rate.
>Can you elaborate?

https://teddit.net/r/linux/comments/hioivn/libreoffice_is_st...
No, they are still not the same. If I understand you correctly, you are saying that Dark Matter would correspond to Gravitons. But that would just prove my point, because Gravitons is just a hypothetical explanation of gravity, in the same way as Dark matter is a hypothetical explanation of, e.g., the rotation profiles of galaxies.

(And here we have so far left out that the only reason Dark matter makes sense is because we are trying to not have to modify our current understanding of gravity.)
The first time as tragedy, the second as farce...

As expected the linked site [0] gets the history wrong, [EDIT:] blaming JFK for getting USA into a conflict that Eisenhower had stoked over both his terms. (McGovern and Buford were shot down in early 1954.) One of the great things about assassinating your own commander-in-chief is you get to blame all your own screw-ups on him. For a while at least...

[0] http://blogs.tedneward.com/post/the-vietnam-of-computer-scie...
The conspiratorial aspect of the whistleblower situation isn't that it happened. It undoubtedly did. It's making a mountain out of a molehill and implying that the larger body of vaccine safety/efficacy data is suspect because of it. Maybe he doesn't imply this in so many words, but look at the titles of all his videos on vaccines (nearly universally highlighting supposed negative aspects) and tell me that's not the angle he's trying to convey.

"Pfizermectin" is absolutely a full blown conspiracy theory that contends Paxlovid is functionally the same as ivermectin and there was an effort by Big Pharma to suppress ivermectin while they developed an on patent alternative. He repeatedly emphasizes that ivermectin is cheap in his video. I can't put myself through watching any more of it, but I can only assume he doesn't mention that the required concentrations for ivermectin to display said protease inhibition aren't achievable in vivo.
Read past the title. It covers all masks, not just cloth facemasks.
Its not gambling its investing
That's funny I could swear it was a massively parallel, globally distributed, fitness-based genetic evolution with a singular survival goal.
It's probably because there is something nutritionally missing compared to actual meat and your body can tell. Macronutrients might be similar, but the micronutrient composition, down to the amino acid ratios and bioavailbility, is probably significantly different.
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I'm not really comfortable with it. I chose the field because it is mostly attractive to stereotypical nerds and few others so I wouldn't be out of place. I suspect the fact that engineers especially get hit so hard with this diversity drive has little to do with actual diversity but also other things.
like gangs who abduct you and force you to show your vaccine passport app? and if not, they inject you with the vaccine? lol
Is this a Cloudflare sell signal?
I'd adjust 6 to read:

Be very mindful and careful about which drugs you take.

Do your research (e.g. on Erowid) and know that while some drugs can have amazing, long-term benefits, others can be an easy way to downward spiral out of society. I'd include LSD and MDMA in the former category; opioids, amphetamines, and cocaine in the latter.

There's also a category of 'casual' drugs which require discipline if you want to enjoy the benefits and avoid the pitfalls. I'd include alcohol and marijuana in this category, but I realise this is a very personal thing. Just be aware that there can be serious risks to these which aren't fully captured by their normalised place in society.
Forever? Why would we need to do it forever when we don't do it for any other virus?
Or even better if they didn't treat tables like confetti. I haven't analysed the wordpress schema closely but on first blush it looks like a hacky premature optimisation to solve a problem, either one of performance, or data isolation, or to avoid unravelling use of magic numbers.

Realistically, content within the same "universe" should co-mingle in the same table. Multiple "universes" of content should be isolated into their own database/schema, which $wpdb should pre-select upon connection.

"SELECT * FROM options WHERE prefix = ? AND option_id = 241"
Yes, as always, it depends. The typical problem with array operations, e.g. in Fortran, is how well they're "scalarized", and the possible cost of not doing copy elimination over subroutine calls, for instance.

Presumably the exact semantics of a for-type loop depends on the language, but surely the C standard doesn't prevent auto-parallelization (including with SIMD vectorization, modulo arithmetic rules). Loops might also have OpenMP or other annotation.
> there are good reasons why universities don't allow students to include wikipedia links as citations in their papers

That reason is because Wikipedia is a tertiary source. It's too far removed from a source of information to be appropriate to cite. It has nothing to do with the reliability of the site; it's basically never appropriate to cite any kind of encyclopedia.

If there's a specific piece of information you found on Wikipedia, you chase down Wikipedia's source for that information and cite that. If you're using Wikipedia as a general reference, you don't need to cite that at all.
So it sounds more like moving all capabilities to China and waking up later that you don't have locally any possibility to make products.

Right now US companies are hiring eastern European developers directly for "whatever they want to be paid" and local companies cannot compete on salaries. Whole world is paying US companies, EU companies are local at best in couple of European countries and even then they have to spend loads of money on localization.

While US is 331,449,281 people and EU is 447,706,209 differences between EU counties are a lot bigger than between US states. If you start up with a company you can start in single language and single country - moving to other country takes loads of effort.

I might be wrong about how it is easy to scale business between US states but I expect it is a lot easier than in EU.
> What else would you recommend along these lines?
Aes Dana, Solar Fields, and Emancipator are all also good.

I like Lorn! I'll check out the other artists. Thanks for the recommendation!
> Why is everyone you're referencing -- and for that matter, you too -- so damn hysterical?

I am calling for scientific studies. More data to justify our actions and guide our decisions. You are...calling me hysterical.
Bad languages like Python, JavaScript, PHP are responsible for powering large part of tech revolution. Ability to write bad code easily is IMO large part of why they’re so popular. Low barrier to entry helps to build huge ecosystem.
Well, it's agreeing that Julia's goals (promises? aspirations?) are worthwhile. Whether Julia itself actually delivers on those promises is a different question that isn't addressed in the original post.
wow, i thought you were being sarcastic (I was laughing at your lmgtfy 'joke') , but they actually do list them. awesome!

https://corpo.metro.ca/en/covid-19-cases-ontario.html
This happened with regular phone service as recent as 2017 in Canada (1).

(1) https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/mobile/many-atlantic-canadians-l...
First off, I'm on the east coast-ish, so I'm not sure how much traffic I get from APAC.

Next off, the their front page says:

> Carrier-Neutral with Access to 200+ Carriers

You're telling me these 200+ carriers have no other POPs?

Going to their "Connectivity" page, they show four trans-Pacific cable that land there:

* https://one-wilshire.com/connectivity/

Meanwhile there are a whole bunch of other trans-Pacific cables landing on the US West Coast:

* https://www.submarinecablemap.com

As someone who lives in Toronto, I certainly worry about how concentrated TORIX is, but even it has three physical locations (IIRC), and most folks connect elsewhere as well from the spelunking I've done in BGP.

So if one of these major carrier hotels does have a problem, I don't doubt that there would be repercussions, but I'm not worried about "the Internet" as a whole.
I'm not in the hate COBOL camp, COBOL is very good at what it does, when I finally got exposure to system z and COBOL, I was astounded at how easy it was to work with record data there. It's something that's several orders of magnitude harder to do in the Unix world with its "bag of bytes" data paradigm. Everything that originated in the Unix world is really designed for that data model, and is really just a different way of thinking.
Somatic Hypermutation works on vaccine antigens as well, and diversifies B-cells so that the B-cells will recognize many spike mutations. Anyone who has been vaccinated or recovered probably has some B-cells which match this spike, even if they're not amplified and expressed into circulating neutralizing antibodies.

T-cells on the other hand don't diversify as much but they recognize primarily the host MHC section of the MHC-antigen complex, so they're already somewhat insensitive to mutations in the protein. The T-cells stimulated by vaccine or virus aren't special in that regard.

Arguably it doesn't really matter. If you get infected with this spike it is still going to have pretty much the same shape as the spike in the vaccine (after all even the mutated versions still need to bind to ACE2 and can't vary that broadly) and your vaccine-trained T-cells will still bind fine to the antigen-MHC complex that the spike forms.

There's this idea that antibodies and immune responses are like a key fitting perfectly into a lock where any pin being wrong doesn't unlock the lock, and that's just false. The immune system has a need to fuzzy match against antigens because it evolved against adversaries which mutate and attempt to reinfect.

You're pushing a narrative that spike-only vaccines are worse in the face of mutation, and there's just no evidence of that. On the other hand mRNA spike-only vaccines allow creating a very strong humoral response to the spike protein in the absence of significant side effects and their efficacy has been so far across the board superior to inactivated virus or viral-vector vaccines.
A true scotsman rolls their own callstack.
You can't discuss the topic you raised without discussing social issues because it IS a social issue. Affirmative action in hiring software engineers is not a distinct topic, you simply raised the topic of affirmative action among the tech community.

And I will say, it is fine to broach these subjects. Your concerns are legitimate. I simply choose to take a much broader view of things and feel that until we get much closer to making the world more equal and righting past injustices, we should try and use as many tools we have to close the wealth gap between majority and minority groups.
Oh boy here we go again
Netflix's 4k is also so bad. I swear, 1080p Google Play looks better. I don't know what it is with their compression, but it really really hates dark scenes, causing blocks and ghosting.
Lessons on the Future of the Metaverse from the Creator of Second Life
We cannot do the science, because such a randomized test would be deeply unethical. Compare to having pregnant women smoke cigarettes to study effect on the fetus. You do this only afterwards with observational data.

Next to politization there is also public health, which is more of a management science than an emperical science. And economic concerns.

From all the data worldwide, you only reduce risk of hospitalization and death, not for spreading to your grandmother or catching it from a bypasser sneezing in your face. To act like there is no risk for the leaky vaccinated, is to actually increase your risk. Data shows that asymptomatic breakthrough infections are able to cause long-COVID. Now you did not even feel sick and gave your body and immune system rest to clear the virus. Very risky!
Why would they bother? It would cost MSFT millions to do so, and Linux users wouldn't bother to use it.

I seem to remember about 30 years back MSFT produced something (Word? Excel? IE?) for Linux (or UNIX?). It died within six months or so.
If "experts" were saying not to wear masks, insisting that border restrictions were racist and xenophobic, telling people to go out and gather in large groups in public, then OP said absolutely nothing wrong by claiming it was no more serious than the seasonal flu.

Now we know that some "experts" were just totally wrong and had no idea what they were talking about, and others were in fact spreading misinformation abouta pandemic for political gain. But that is not OP's fault. You can't condemn him and absolve the actual people who reinforced that incorrect information to him in the first place. Ludicrous.
Yeah, while I run into the sharp edges that this feature addresses on a regular basis, it typically only costs me a small amount of typing to fix, and it's not that frequent. So it's nice to have but totally reasonable that they never got around to it before.
I've never seen recursive looping over a thing get turned into efficient SIMD code in any language. Starting with loops has no good reason to be better able to achieve that but for practical compilers it makes a huge difference.

Julia code might also uses a lot of in place operations which would be hard for a compiler to infer as safe.
I would say no - this legitimizes them as competition. Otherwise, there'd be no reason for the change.
If you're formalin-fixed wax-embedded you have absolutely nothing to worry about anymore.
This is my go to method as well, carried over from doing the same with paper books. There's something about getting the eyes tired (for better or worse) and mind active but distracted in fiction that helps me both sleep well and dream vividly. Other things help, but none of the standard advice works for me without either reading or complete physical exhaustion.
Italy only banned direct flights from China which was indeed worse than useless, but the US travel ban was based on whether someone had been in China in I think the last 14 days and most subsequent travel restrictions have been modelled on that one.
FYI, slight correction: it’s been classified as a Variant of Concern (VOC) now and has the name Omicron, not Nu: https://www.who.int/news/item/26-11-2021-classification-of-o...
Comparing failure to vaccinate with smoking or obesity are off the mark because it is not easy to quit smoking or overcome obesity. If there was an effective, cheap, safe and instant cure for smoking addiction or obesity and people refused to take it, societies would indeed by highly critical of those people consuming hospital resources.
Back to gopher. Use native compiled apps and APIs for everything else. I’m serious.

Probably shave a few gigawatts off the grid killing off electron apps.
More than just HOT AIR, this guy has no credentials. More importantly, not a single mention of Pfizer's new drug combo PAXLOVID™ found 89% effective against coronaviruses, US alone has pre-ordered 10 million doses. I predict all forms of Covid will be beat in the US, but those countries who fail to get in on the Pfizer deal will be loosers. Vaccines will be updated to be effective against this new variant as well as scientists will strike against new portions of the virus genome that appear to be more stable.
Cloudflare seems to provide free egress. Cloud providers like AWS have been overcharging for some time. This seems more like a minor correction on behalf of Amazon than a sell signal for Cloudflare.
Compared to the way it was during the lifetime of this model from a major company offering all price points, there is no longer a sizable enough percentage of Americans able to afford supporting this level of quality/superior-engineering for production to have continued past a certain year.
Semigroups in Swift
Sorry, I think you misinterpreted what I was saying. Synthetic meat seems morally better than a factory farm, however I don't think the choice is between factory farms and synthetic meat. I'm saying it would be better to to cultivate an approach where we collaborate with nature via humane farms and moderated consumption.

I don't have any economic answers, however I think the vegan vision of a human race separate from nature is very scary, and not separate from one where we eradicate the natural world through industrialization.
> We cannot do the science, because such a randomized test would be deeply unethical.

Thank you for perfectly illustrating the problem. I was actually sort of worried that people wouldn't take me seriously when I said that science has become so political that we actually can't do any. It sounds conspiratorial, doesn't it? But, alas:

1) I post results of RCTs showing that masks do little, if anything.

2) Someone replies that the evidence is insufficient for reasons X, Y, Z.

3) I say "great, let's gather more evidence to resolve those uncertainties".

4) Someone replies "we can't, it's unethical".

Quite a fine castle you've built on that cloud, good sir. Very safe indeed.
Harm the young to help the old... why are we doing this to ourselves?
I don't hate COBOL either. And you are right, there are some positive aspects of COBOL, including some of the data modelling ideas in the DATA DIVISION. However, I think if you look at PL/I, you'll find most of the same ideas present, but on the whole it is a nicer language. Some people hate PL/I too, and no doubt it can be overcomplicated (which is part of why PL/I subsets were so popular in the 1970s and early 1980s), but I think PL/I has most of COBOL's strengths with fewer of COBOL's weaknesses.
Yes, you can put out a burning gas well with a nuclear bomb
> Look at what the non-MS (and non-Apple) FAANGs do; they use OSS operating systems

My man, at Amazon basically all engineers use either Windows or Mac. The only ones using open source are customers, and sometimes not very much considering all AWS is a proprietary cloud.

Netflix on the other hand is basically 99% AWS too.
Wow I hadn't seen deno before, looks great. I dont like js/ts, but if you have to learn it for front end dev, it makes sense to use it at the back too.

I'm not sure what advantage Julia has over Python. Yeah it has some typing and can be faster, but its too similar. Still single threaded.
They should be regulated but in most cases they're just fine. The vendor gets paid straight away, minus a fee, and the customer gets to pay for their item interest free later. The issue is if they miss their payment, presumably.

The benefit to the vendor is that it increases sales / conversion rate & hence worth paying for.
Some of them do.

Most use Mac.
The answer is “literally anything else” we’ll still spend the money and use the talent, just not on ads.

I know some incredibly talented artists and writers putting all their effort into ads so they can make a living and it completely sucks.
I'm sure all tech companies use a variety of tech to make sure their products work across user devices.

But their infrastructure sure as hell isn't Windows Server on Azure...

And it's pretty well known that Google uses a lot of Linux internally, even if I'm sure some devs are also on MacOS and Windows for reasons.
> ... but the WHO hates both efficiency and fun even more than it hates freedom, it seems. Sad

Can someone clarify this part for me please? I find it incredibly hard to trust an author who starts a supposedly serious article with such sensationalist bullshit.
Thanks for all those technical details! For anyone else who'd like a broader tour around the AS/400, I can recommend "Inside the AS/400: Second Edition" by Frank Soltis. I bought it used for just a few dollars and really enjoyed learning about the evolution of the platform from one of its original designers, even though I doubt I'll ever put my hands on one directly.
> you can barely say the results out loud lest you get silenced by the angry mob

Please -- you're not being silenced, you are not some martyr, people are just disagreeing with you.
We still have two of them in production, running old heavily regulated applications from decades past.

If we loaded games on them, I doubt anyone would notice for a while.

Honestly though, I've had to take care of these dinosaurs for so long I can't stand to look at them much less log in if I don't have to do it.
If only there was a super cheap, safe, effective and instant medical treatment that could prevent obesity or at least its negative health effects. Because if there was, and yet obese people refused to take it and consequently soaked up a lot of health-care resources, you can be sure they would be demonized just as much as people who refuse to take COVID vaccines.
Oh that's a bummer. A bunch of companies do it.

I always like to check out cool things like this try to learn something / see what they did!

Makes me feel very Hackers I'm going to hack the planet as I copy paste view source. But hey, that's how Mr Robot learned ;)