skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any information on what blockhain the thing will be running on? Is it going to be one of existing chains or their own Proof of Authority based blokchain? Thus answering to question "how it's better than Ubisoft owned DB" with simple answer "it will be Ubisoft owned DB" and decentralization meaning distributed between 10 servers in different AWS regions. The servers can vote for adding new trusted authorities, but since the initial set is fully controlled by Ubisoft or companies that Ubisoft has contract with, they will never vote for adding anyone else.
Snapchat? How unprofessional, everyone knows that's what Signal is for.
Your first sentence is contradicted by the last sentence in your first paragraph (which is correct).

B-Cell immunity is much much harder to detect and cannot be done in any test given to the public. It's also difficult to determine from a positive b-cell result whether that person will have a strong or weak immune response - and how soon.

I think everyone in the immunology community is aware of the limitations of antibody tests, but I think it's wrong to attribute how it's portrayed in the media as corporate conflict of interest.

My impression is that it the media needs simple stories to build their narratives and cannot complicate things with b-cell immunity.

I agree with everything else you said, but I think the story for yearly (maybe bi-yearly) covid vaccines, as we have with flu, have a very strong case even given immunity memory cells.
Ugh, silly mistake on my part.
Quick! Take it back to the lab and put one of these on it!

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/colour-changing-magnifyi...
"based on my research, it's not that much."

How much is not much? What if all i had is not much to begin with?
$11B is actually not very much for what this is. Good deal!
I remember seeing this years ago and thought it was a bit subpar but it appears they've made strides since then. I might start using this again.
Premised on the undisputed fact that vaccine manufacturers are not liable for adverse reactions, leaving the victim with no remedy.
Yes, in the same way that 'literally' also means 'figuratively', which is to say that colloquial usage of the word is incorrect as regards it's intended meaning.

Whether or not that is a useful distinction is subjective.
Shut the fuck up, nerd.
Neither is microsoft. They aren't deliberately adding security bugs to their software. They just are doing a crap job of building secure software. You could argue they don't have the right incentives to fix that problem though.
The Better.com CEO says he’s ‘deeply sorry’ for firing workers over Zoom
My experience was the same and I quickly gave up on Tor for that reason. I occasionally toyed with it as a clearnet proxy but hidden services made me really pessimistic about its mission.

Fortunately it does seem like a lot of that has been expunged. I recently revisited hidden services, as well as the Hidden Wiki (which I'm almost certain had CP links a long time ago but my memory is cloudy), and it seems like that filth isn't tolerated anymore on most indexes I found.
New features for App Store product pages now available
That's a fair point.

I think the difficulty here is that because we had no way of knowing there things were going back in 1996, they didn't ask the questions/gather the information we would need in order to do the apples-to-apples comparison we'd need between these behaviors and their harms in 1996 and in 2021.

They wouldn't think to consider physical isolation separately from internet use: Unless you were hauling your machine to LAN parties, being on a computer was physically isolating. Likewise, monitors and accessories are way better ergonomically now so spending 60 hours a week online now is probably LESS damaging than it used to be (but still damaging).

Also, some degree of these impairments is acceptable depending on the reason: Most people in the trades aren't doing well physically after decades, we just don't care because they bring value. How much of the 'worry' about their physical state is because they weren't destroying their bodies doing something that made $$?

I'd be curious if you (or anybody) knows if gambling IN GENERAL is better or worse than it was 30 years ago. If online gambling is more of a norm now, is that due to non-gamblers starting to gamble, or are the people who would've been at the casino every weekend just saving the gas?

We can't solve these issues unless we know if the internet is a symptom or the cause.
It's really easy to sound smart when criticizing something, and HN promotes content that sounds smart.

I used to play a drinking game with friends where we would read HN submission titles and try to guess how the top comment was going to criticize it.

HN is simply not the place to go to share new ideas, projects, or anything that might undermine the consensus opinion.
That's in the mistake section. Along with Naomi Osaka winning the 2021 U.S. Open.
De-duping exact matches is a game changed -- search has been miserable to use because of the dupes for so long. I can live with near-similar documents. Very excited to test this out.
You're confusing case fatality rate (detected infection denominator) with infection fatality rate (total population denominator).

The study I cited was (broadly) CFR. That Lancet study is (broadly) IFR. If you proactively surveillance test 13.5% of Madurai's population, you're going to get a different class of people in your denominator, and your calculated mortality is going to decrease.

The BMJ study is probably the most broadly compatible, which leaves us at 2.5% (non-Delta) or 4.1% (Delta), which appears to be case fatality rate?

If we want to argue apples:apples, we should use EMR-based studies that attempt to calculate IFR, as at least they're reasoning with the same population composition.

This [0] has SARS-CoV-2 at somewhere between 0.26% and 0.83% IFR. Which for context, is compared to respiratory flu at 0.0088% (estimated total population EMR due to flu) [1]. So we'd expect about 29.5x as many people to die from SARS-CoV-2 (using the high end estimate of flu and the low end estimate of SARS-CoV-2, to generate the lowest possible multiple). If you want to, you can probably dig European numbers out of this excess mortality calculation [2], although that's all-cause mortality, with no attempt to isolate cause.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7543961/

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5935243/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7346364/
I seriously question whether we're at a level technologically that "control" was ever an option here.

With things like covid and the flu, vaccines will always be playing catch up with variants. Its not like the measles which doesn't mutate. Infection and hospitalization rates for vaccinated with covid are already significantly higher than the flu as far as baselines go .. it's reasonable to say we can't expect vaccines to snuff out this kind of disease.

Therefore, the only realistic way to stop the spread is with ruthless targeted testing, tracking, and quarantining. But the problem with that method is by the time we're aware of a problematic strain, its already spread too much for quarantining to be effective.

Nature is inevitable. Once we've done all we can, all that's left is to learn to live with it.
Oh goody, you want to argue that other people want the wrong things because their preferences conflict with a mechanism that you want to use for your social goals.

There are costs and benefits to every kind of living arrangement.

Most people who have actual experience with duplexes think that they are a bad compromise between single-family and apartments.

I was going to write that duplexes combine the worst aspects of single-family and apartments until I remembered that they also have some unique problems.

There are rich people who live in single-family. There are rich people who live in apartment-like housing.

No one who can afford better lives in a duplex. (I live in a duplex...)
> Just use things the way you're supposed to and you won't have bugs with this.

If we humans just learned to use things we're supposed to, we would never have null pointer exceptions, issues with use-after-free nor buffer overflows. Heck, we should all just use goto while we're at it, all it takes is to religiously stick to the rules!
like DRM?
My understanding is that folks locally didn't trust the Fosun-made batches, but Taiwan couldn't purchase vaccines from Pfizer due to Fosun holding the distribution rights

Hence the donations
> "Sure would be a shame if someone regulated you out of business" song and dance at the start.

From the article:

> "Baltimore's health department called for the removal of lead from paint, ..."

> "When New York City's health department proposed a warning label saying that the product was poisonous to children ..."

What song and dance are you talking about? The only thing I see are agencies doing the job they're supposed to do which is protecting the public while these greedy pig fuckers sabotage them.
There’s a huge difference. Rust syntax is a lot more complex than C, while this isn’t true for C v assembly.
For a successful technology(/medical intervention), reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled
Is bone demineralization an issue when using filters like that?
As a contractor, I once made a tool that made things easier for me. The "breakeven" time (time saved exceeded time spent writing it) was a day or two. I made the mistake of sharing this tool and was berated by the client. Every single time after that they made sure to remind me not to work on things "outside the scope" of the contract as apparently writing tools to increase the output they get per billed hour is out-of-scope.
What Does Payment for Order Flow Buy?
I interviewed for Sourcegraph and it was one of the best. Super transparent process, open source handbook, fun coding tasks -- really nothing to complaint about. Would be curious to know what made you have such a different experience.
I thought about this a bit more… there’s no reason this wouldn’t apply to a secondary infection with a different strain of covid is there? I don’t see what’s special about the vaccine that would make this effect noticeably worse than simply being infected twice.
> traditional inactivated vaccines yield more robust and long-lasting protection

This is wrong. The formation of memory T/B cells has nothing to do with the vaccine tech. Both create lasting T/B cell memory immunity.

The problem is that it takes a week or so for T/B immunity to kick in - so you still get sick.
Simmy
Both.

Smart voters wouldn't allow executive orders, forever wars, bank bailouts, hackable voting machines, winner takes all voting, the destruction of environmental regulations, subsidies to fossil fuel, unwinnable cold wars, outsourcing of all manufacturing, stagnant wages despite record productivity, record inequality, pandemic profiteering, opioid crises with obvious correlations, the smearing of heroes like Assange, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
LLVM is always inherently a "cross-compiler". In fact having to have "5 or so compilers" is just GCC being stupid.
That is a pretty bad faith interpretation of the original argument. You are assuming (incorrectly IMO) that the only purpose of people is to do work. While work is important, I think humans are inherently valuable, even if they don't produce anything else of value besides themselves. Instead of creating fake work for these people to do, I'd rather they just be provided for without doing fake work that accelerates us towards apocalypse.
I have seen it on the HN, but I hadn't looked closely. Thanks for linking again!
> Or did we need to build out the C and C++ ecosystems to make them easy and safe?

If so, the C++ committee wasn't interested in doing so. Preferring instead to say that new features don't have safety if there was any possibility that doing so might provide opportunity for improved performance.

Don't worry, when inevitably you blow your feet off with any of the new footguns provided, they'll be happy to tell you that it's your fault, a true C++ programmer would have known not to do that. "Git gud" as the gamers say.
I've read that, but am not convinced. It's very dependent on the particulars of the situation, the goals, the acceptable losses, and the belligerent forces.

A couple of situations:

1) Tyrannical government or Upstart AI wants to destroy dug in and dispersed local militias. Government will use existing military delivery technologies. AI will use non-human elements so blowback is not a concern. It seems here that gas is cheaper than bombs or bullets.

2) Upstart State or AI wants to do a surprise attack to depopulate or logisticall overwhelm a strategic city. Civilian casualties are desired. Again, gas seems like a clear win, here.

The idea that militaries have NBC protection that will just negate chem/bio warfare is a bit of a dream. The operational friction from having to use all that protective gear and protocols would be huge. Even just little things like not being able to aim properly through a rifle scope depending on which gas mask you're wearing. Also don't underestimate the fear/terror/shock factor of being on the receiving end of this horrible stuff.

The future isn't pretty, unless we can figure out a way to settle down and coexist.
I guess they think fucking children is less degenerate than smoking weed. Hah.
C is simple is a myth.

Sure it's simple in a sense there are not many keywords or features.
And you can learn it over a weekend and start programming in it.
But when you factor in undefined behavior, straight up user hostile choices done by common compilers in the name of performance, common patterns/library functions (that are all over books and stackowerflows) to avoid etc. C is not that simple anymore.

When you throw in concurrency, programming in C is quite hard.

I write this because I used to be an embedded C programmer, but that was over 10 years ago. I can still read code, sometimes even add simple patches (not to kernel ), so you could say I know the language. But it would take me several months of focused training before I would even dare to touch something as linux kernel.

Not saying that Rust is simple, just saying C isn't as simple as some people make it.
I think it's safe to assume that they were fed honeypots.

And you know something, I don't know if I'm even opposed to that.

The idea that the government must have a ton of CP stashed somewhere for such purposes feels about as disgusting as disgusting gets, but I'm not sure how many of those monsters you can catch without placing bait.
Omicron: Here We Go Again
>> So my refusal to drop the emergency that I was fixing (on my day off) in order to modify this tool that had already saved her probably tens of hours of tedium, let to resentment and ultimately to me being fired from the place.

Man, we live in a society… glad you are in a better place now!
Ok, let's change the URL to the latter one from https://twitter.com/TrackerTrial, which doesn't say anything.
See the words used "called", "proposed" not "enacted". The science and public health issues around this apparently changed once the lead paint companies made donations to the right campaigns and the regulators ensured that the lead paint firms had plenty of time to do that by loudly telegraphing their moves.

If the mob wants to burn your store down, they'll just burn it down. They won't loudly pontificate on the issue unless they want you to try and stop them.
No Rest for the Wiki
Heh, there were plans to add ownership&borrowing to D: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/07/15/ownership-and-borrowing-in... but of course bolting something on as an option is not the same as having the whole language designed strictly around it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29484989.
> Because drivers are inherently system-dependent

I'm not sure I agree with this. As someone who does development for prehistoric PPC embedded systems, I get to take advantage of a lot of drivers that were never really intended for my platform, yet work just fine because they're based on standard busses like PCI and USB.

Consider some architecture supported by Linux, but not yet Rust. Now, consider that a vendor might create a driver for their fancy new PCIe network card in Rust with the logic being "well, this card was never intended to be used in anything other than an ARM or x86 system". There's a good chance that if that driver was written in C, it would have worked just fine (albeit not officially supported by the vendor) on that old non-Rust-supported architecture, but now that's not an option.

Rust should not be used in the Linux kernel until it supports 100% of the architectures supported by Linux itself.
More conveniently, you could just say the words "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner" repeatedly to yourself. This prayer does things.
> weird dislike of government intervention

History is the best reason not to trust the government, because it has been behind unbelievably evil things; and politicians have promised to solve every problem you can think of 10x over, enacted legislation to do so, and lo-and-behold they all still exist.
He’s talking about text search and the post thanks @BurntSushi. That means they’re using the fastest text search tool out there - ripgrep. I won’t mention what it’s written in, because that clearly upsets you.

Benchmark - ripgrep is faster than {grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift} (2016) - https://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
It would need to be AI-generated deepfake imagery of course (I can't see any justification for using real imagery of minors). From a harm minimization standpoint, it's worth investigating at least (and I do believe I've heard the proposal somewhere, already).

However, it would require that we, as a society do something we don't yet seem ready to do: accept those folks with truly unsupressable desires of this sort as people, who deserve to be treated humanely and with compassion, if at all possible.
It's always TOS violations when convenient. Plenty of accounts violate TOS and go untouched.

Not casting judgment on this specific case, but the ease with which it's possible to selectively apply TOS to bans should be concerning to free speech oriented people.

Just make a broad TOS and you can ban anybody you like.
And they failed miserably. The only thing they acomplished is change by the sake of change. Every few months they move GUI elements in Teams and they call it an improvement. And despite their telemetry they still don't get it that messing with the title bar is a bad idea (hello Google, hello Firefox).
The deployment sequence that takes approx 30 days is terrifying but also probably one of the most complex things we would ever achieve if successful.

Have been waiting for this since I was a teenager. Can't believe we are almost there (launch on Dec 22).

Here's a short 2 min video of that deployment sequence if anyone wants to be fascinated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGLKQ7_KZQ

Also a short interview with Dr. John Mather (could listen to him all day) if anyone wants to know how the telescope works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P8fKd0IVOs
Have you considered frameworks like Orleans? Presumably you would have an individual actor “grain” for each vehicle and it would serialise the messages to it for you.

The state of the vehicle is kept in memory for some time.
Here’s hoping that “incident” a couple weeks ago will be the only one and everything will work out just fine.

This launch and perspective for science has me anxious and excited since its inception - and it’s been a while.

I will open a bottle of champagne when the first data will be sent from L2 with something along the “fully operational” lines.

Godspeed.
get an mba? that’s how i gained much of my knowledge, along with general business experience (product management and founding startups).

less flippantly, you can actually find a lot of free mba courses online now. here’s one page listing some resources (halfway down): https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/the-best-free-online-mba-cours...

uopeople offers a cheap online mba, apparently accredited even (i personally can’t vouch for it’s quality though). investopedia is also a good reference resource for looking up random business concepts.
Looks great, @microgilles!

Is it difficult to add new languages? I'd love to see Clojurescript support. :)
This was fantastic.

When I worked on Microsoft's DRM products in the early 00s I came to the sudden realization that if we had AR glasses in the future they could block out things from our vision and replace them with adverts. Ugh. It will come true.
Many of us use Twitter in chronological mode so their algorithm does little.

In which case I absolutely do not want accounts to be artificially increasing engagement.
This introduces unecesseary complexity for very small, if any gains. People realize the cost of complexity only when it's too late. Also, evangelism is never right. I wish the Rust folks would be more sensible.
>Increasing productivity never lays people off

Once, I worked for a medical claims company. We had a dozen people who just worked on processing claims. I wrote some software that cut the claim processing time in half. Instead of finding new work for the claims processors, they literally laid off half of them. I have never felt worse, as a software developer than I did that day. Management was so short sighted at that company.
First i'm not trained in these fields but I felt that partitions were combinations of elements (vectors in that space, the path being the additive operation) and a partition would just be the set of all paths. I don't know if that makes much sense.
You can install 06-250-10-GREEN or 06-250-125-975 in an undersink filter.
Get it into Busybox, and we will talk.

Until then, the footprint is too big, and the installed base is too small.

Microsoft itself is responsible for the POSIX shell - it was required to compile into a 64k text segment on Microsoft Xenix.

Without Bill's beloved Xenix, ksh88 would have been the POSIX standard.

It's all Microsoft's fault.
Opportunity cost.

Instead of investing in something long term, such as a rendering system to hedge against Epic Games and make inroads into film and immersive storytelling, they're chasing bullshit for a quick buck.