skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is significant for a few reasons: 1) Coronaviruses have been with us for a long time and will be with us for even longer and the notion of a "universal coronavirus vaccine" does not seem realistic at all (I am not so sure it is that desirable either); and 2) The claim that "Finally, we urgently need universal coronavirus vaccines" seems as vacuous as the claim that the vaccines were gajillion percent effective. As Cornell reports in a tiny footnote[1], the only reason they are discovering a lot of these cases is because of constant surveillance testing. Who knows what else would one discover if every day one got tested for every known infectious agent?

If a whole lot of people who test positive never get sick, does it matter that they tested positive?

Is it better to focus on treating people who get sick without killing them and not destroying the lives and livelihoods of others while accepting that we are all going to die of something?

[1]: https://covid.cornell.edu/testing/dashboard/
Yeah, I want to live in the alternate universe where Nintendo still owns Rareware
I was bound by this when working for a Big 4 professional services firm — it was ludicrous that I had far more restrictions placed upon myself than congress did for just being an employee of a firm that did audit and attest work (which was not work I participated in). At a bare minimum we should make them follow the rules that anyone else with access to manipulate financial markets has to follow.
At Arist (YC S20) we've found that we can have our cake and eat it too by using Ruby on Jets, which is a nearly 100% drop-in replacement for Rails that runs on AWS Lambda. Our service sends messages to hundreds of thousands of people at scheduled moments in the day, and traffic is incredibly spikey, so combining the productivity of Rails and the Ruby ecosystem with the cost effectiveness and scalability of Lambda was a no-brainer. It also passed muster recently when we subjected our platform to a comprehensive penetration test.

We also get the benefits of a mono-repo and the benefits of microservices in the same application footprint, because every controller method is automatically deployed as its own independent lambda (this is core to how Jets works), but we're still in the usual Rails mono-repo format we all know and love. Also very strong integration between ApplicationJob and background lambdas has been killer for us.

One thing I've always said is the real difficulties in software development happen at the seams where services connect with other services. This sort of strategy (and particularly, the mono-repo format) minimizes the number of seams within your application, while still giving you the scalability and other benefits of microservices and serverless.
Great read thank you. As someone completely disinterested in any of the affected parties, it sometimes gets annoying how loud is the "pro-American" / "Anti Russian" propaganda in the internet. It's always "America is good, Russia/China/Whoever else is bad" as if the USA was full of saints. Truth is, every country and government is willing to protect their interests, and it has been historically proved that the USA is willing to go the "extra mile" through CIA and other back channels (Pinochet and other South American dirty wars).

I cannot imagine the scandal that it will be if my country (Mexico) would allow Russia or China to place some weapons and troops in say, Tijuana or Cd Juarez. And yet, the USA has bases stationed all around the globe.
> The article glaringly omits the fact that Peter Jackson had to sue New Line to get the proceeds from the film [...] No doubt variety.com don't want to remind us that their content sources (the studios) can be dodgy as whenever they can get away with it

The article is "‘Lord of the Rings’ at 20: Why Peter Jackson’s Trilogy Was One of Hollywood’s Riskiest Projects Ever", not "Lord of the Rings: The Complete History of The Movie". How the money was distributed afterwards would be out of place.

The Jackson lawsuit was mentioned in this Variety article [1] on another legal case involving LotR. There the Jackson suit against New Line was on topic, and so it gets mentioned.

[1] https://variety.com/2017/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-lawsuit...
For anyone who thinks Europe can challenge Russia on the battle field ......

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/nato-runs-short-on-some...

This doesn't mean things can't change but currently Russia could roll over Europe in a week unless the USA intervenes.
Fun fact, the original developer (not publisher) of Lemmings is also the original developer of the Grand Theft Auto series - David Jones.
Assuming a perfect RNG, but PRNGs don't have infinite state. So it's either impossible, or has a finite probability, with a finite probability for each of those cases, for an overall finite (non-zero) subjective probability of it running forever (in ideal program-space; obviously it will never run forever in real life).
Go code that requires language (or stdlib) features first present in Go v1.n will not compile with any version of Go 1.m, m <= n. There have been a few of these (modules, soft-launched in (IIRC) 1.11, there were one or a few in 1.15, now generics in 1.18).

But, the backwards compatibility guarantee is that code that worked with Go v 1.n will work with Go v 1.j, for j >= n.

Next para is based on my recollection of the discussion around generics.

Specifically for generics, any code that doesn't use generics is untouched by the presence of generics elsewhere. Code that is, in and of itself, not generic will, in most cases, being able to call functions that are declared generic without extra hassle (there are most probably a few cases where a type annotation on the function using generics would be required). Code using generic data types probably needs to type-annotate, but there may be cases where it's not necessary.
With thousands of developers, we can afford platform teams that make all of those things painlessly on-by-deafault on our standard service frameworks.
I was just in Kaunas and ran into American soldiers -- or what I thought were American soldiers? We chatted and they implied this.
Ooooooooooooooooooo. The health research sphere is something I've always wondered about. I imagine in some ways it could be the absolute worst, being a terrifying nexus of privacy, academic, and health concerns.
Here's one I have been playing with success.

https://github.com/chrisswanda/passage
feels like the js ecosystem has been in this state for 5 years
Thank you mister for all the joyful hours as a kid enjoying Destruction Derby.
If you entire encrypted life is stored on a single computer with no backups you really should not be worried about ransomware and start worrying about things that will actually happen, like having your laptop stolen, or accidentally deleting something, or needing to replace your storage device.
The best start right now is to make two micro services:

All your services in one executable (one docker image)

Your UI (in another docker image)

From there you're free to separate things out more and more over time if you so choose. Having those two separate makes it so that you are required to at least have some kind of ingress controller that maps requests one way and UI assets another, so expanding should come easy at that point.
Hey, I'm on the GitHub code search team. We've had a ton of people join the waitlist, sorry it's taking so long to get through everyone! We're hoping to get most people access early in the new year. Stay tuned!
I'm an amiga kid who grew up in Scotland, when I was young I always thought these guys were The. Coolest. Lemmings is such an amazing game. I remember the first time I saw someone play it, I had no idea how it could be fun, but as soon as I tried it, I couldn't stop till it was "done" - The only other game I've ever found as enjoyable is TIM, The Incredible Machine.
While Psygnosis did develop many games, they did not develop Lemmings, they merely published it.
The Soviets turned the Volga River into a machine. Then the machine broke
Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”
In languages other than English, nothing beats GPT3. Code? GPT3. Probably other use cases as well. Sorry, no one is replacing OpenAI just yet.
The HIDDEN WIKI 2022
All sorts of trading strategies you could try out on a full, in-advance data feed, though.

Only follow the trades of those in leadership, give special attention to transactions involving defense contractors by members of the Committee on Armed Services, etc.

I don't doubt that Congress has its share of confident morons to skew the numbers downwards, but you might be able to identify people who somehow manage to make better moves.
Brothers in arms plotted theft, sale of US Army weaponry
Wow, all I have to do is take some chemical they discovered to stop aging?
* sharepoint
* itunes
* crystal reports
* amazon alexa
> I hate almost everything about JavaScript, its syntax, the decisions made and steps taken in its development

Well, one of them was done in ten days by a guy who liked Java and the other one was done in a few years by a guy who liked Smalltalk, so...
Provocative title, but I think it’s stretching the issue a bit. Flip phone can get text messages. You don’t need to have an iPhone.
What happens to all the work from the moderators once they realize they are working for a public traded company for free? Doesn't this break peoples willingness to build those communities once they realize their hard worked time is getting squeezed to investor dollars? I understand it was a private company beforehand but now it must really feel bad to know how much people are making off your goodwill. Totally effed up model.

FWIW I actually like reddit for the specific communities but tough to see how it isn't going to get further diluted and mods are increasingly going to be less interested is my take - further eroding its value proposition.
> I'm a dev/CTO full-time in Web3, we work on smart contracts and all that, we spend 0 time thinking about payments and finance. You're talking about DeFi, there's a LOT more stuff in web3 now that can only be classified as finance as much as any startup that uses Stripe to collect money can be classified as "finance".

Apologies, as an outsider I'm sure I have used some conflated terms. To clarify, I was explicitly referring to smart contracts (and the like). These programmed arrangements carry with them the minutiae and stress of what I imagine programming at a bank or large financial institution would be like. Coding a bug in a smart contract or at a bank can have very severe consequences. It should be done with the utmost care by highly skilled persons, not your average web programmer (which is the position you are taking by calling this stuff Web 3 and when, for instance, Ethereum decides to base its smart contract language on JavaScript).

While this is true for some specific segments of the current internet, it is not inherently true. Or rather, as a programmer, I can choose to avoid such fraught tasks.
You don't think Russia is looted to the bone and is not in a downward spiral? Just look at the tech sector there. Yandex is barely alive, and VK is now a property of Mail.Ru group.

Outside of tech the economical situation prior to invasion was barely better than Ukraine's.
When it gets to questions like these I feel that we transcend discussions of technology and end up on questions of philosiphy which aren't going to be going anywhere anytime quick.

I also feel that AI should be used to augment not replace human decision making, it seems that where AI shines is problems that are well defined with well defined solutions, and because the AI doesn't get tired, hungry or distracted it can do that really well, but it fails in novel situations[0]. As such it seems to me our best bet is to have the AI provide suggestions rather than have complete control.

0. What is meant by that is a read an article, can't find it now, about using AI to diagnose breast cancer, what they found is that about 90% of the time the AI could accurately check for breast cancer, but the other 10% of the time was an unusual mammogram or something relatively rare, and in those situations the AI would often misdiagnoise.
How indiagold rolled out 365 releases in less than a year using feature flags
second this. If you want a better rails than rails, check out blitz.
Not sure I understand this comment.

Unfortunately each of these cases often occupies an ICU bed for weeks. As a result we transfer dozens of other patients hundreds of miles away, and often after >24 hours boarding in the emergency department, because every other ICU bed is full as well (in addition to mandatory down time for the flight crews, which are also working overtime). With help from my ~5 person ED staff, I've called as many as 50 hospitals in a night (spanning 6 of the largest states) trying to find an open ICU bed.

Some relevant conversation on a thread I started in r/medicine: <https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/r6bl1u/not_accept...>
I am curious why are you saying that. I know Flask well and while I never wrote something with bottle.py, it seems ~90% similar, at least in the basics.
You can get an iPhone 8 for $200 on eBay.

And that is a luxury device - I am sure there are Android phones that are much cheaper.
I do a similar thing using Lima (which uses Qemu under the hood) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima

(I'm not a fan of Docker, but unfortunately work on some projects that use it)
Around 1999 I did a bit of work for a small shop with DOS 3.3 machines sending data to CNC machines over SCSI cables. They'd bought this stuff when it was end of life upgraded by the previous owners, and gotten the technician that knew the system along with it... a decade before that.

The tech had died several years ago and they were fully aware that when they had a problem with thsese machines that they couldn't fix, the business was done. They made parts for the fuses of artillery shells; so the actual business of their business was trivial compared to the connections and compliance paperwork, anyway.
Einstein did not really have a vendetta against Quantum physics. He won a Nobel for having established the basic theory of the photoelectric effect. I know what you mean, but it's not like he thought the idea was ridiculous, he came up with it in his youth.
How 'bout Insider Trading - - PELOSI ?
Oh, yeah, I'm definitely aware there's still a quality gap when compared to proprietary online TTS options--but I'm specifically interested in FLOSS+offline for my purposes.

And Larynx is game-changingly ahead of the other FLOSS+offline options.

(Probably the highest quality voice is the one that's used for the demo video narration--which when I first heard it I had to skip to the end of the video to confirm it wasn't a live human. :) )

My (mostly uninformed) impression is that there's room for training tweaking/improvement given how young the project is. And there's also multiple stages to the generation process so presumably there's opportunities at each stage.
Actually monoliths maybe faster than microservices.

Consider monolith -> cpu l1 cache -> end user

Microservice -> account servive -> foo service -> l1 cache -> end user

Ie monolith goes directly to cou cache

Microservice goes to network calls which are mich slower than cpu cache.

Also with microservices you will need distributed application performance metric for call tracing. Distributed central logging. Container orchestration platform to run all the services.
That is definitely novel, yes. Political success often depends on military success, but I've never heard anyone claim the opposite.

The implication of your position is that the only way the U.S. military could have "succeeded" would have been to mutiny. That seems... odd.
The "90% of everything is crap" dictum can be incredibly empowering. Read any book by successful comedy writers and they will say that 90% of the jokes they write are bad, and they know this will be the case every time they sit down to write. It's much easier to write every day if you embrace this. If you write every day for an hour, and 10% of what comes out is good... it adds up to a ton of good material over a year.
In the server room of a state government agency, sitting on top of a server rack was an old, yellowing AST 128 desktop PC (pentium 128). It sat there with it's little green light glowing and no one paid much attention to it. One day, a newer employee unplugged it and put in the excess equipment pile. Later that day, people were trying to track down a state-wide outage of the business license issuance process. They traced it back to the shared IBM mainframe, and then to an RPC service, and finally back to the AST PC that had been generating the unique license numbers on the HP Non-Stop and sending them to the IBM.

To prevent such an outage from occurring again, a yellow sticky saying "don't turn off" was attached to the AST.
> I think that final sentence is unduly pessimistic - after all, if practice did not play a big part in expert programmers becoming that way, what did? What hope is there for the novice who is frequently making off-by-one errors and the like?

It's not that the knowledge can't be acquired, but this is a type of knowledge often can't be explicitly practiced through some training routine.

A beginner may of course learn to check off common errors they've been told about, and may arduously step through the code in their head line by line, but an expert sees the code is wrong unconsciously and understands what the code does without stepping through it. The only way to learn that is to engage with code for decades. There are no shortcuts.
That is one perspective. As an exercise, could you articulate a sympathetic reading of a different perspective, to the extent that someone who holds that perspective would approve of your rendering? Think of it as following Sun Tzu's advice to know your adversary.

Again, the point in this context is that no matter what the crises are, the foreign influence of the US is in decline because of severe domestic distractions.
In a pure free market, trading by insiders is legal. It used to be that way in the US.

Also, keep in mind that regulation creates insiders of its own. Regulation always degenerates into a weapon of the corrupt.
This is one of the top stories on Reddit.

Some of the top comments on the Reddit story are calling for her death. No moderation. No dissent.

Reddit is going to get HAMMERED once it goes public.
Providing psychological counselling to students would be better approach.

IISC, definitely have money. Even a part time mentah health professional will do.
The carryless multiplication instructions are amazing and people should use them more often. They are just so poorly explained that they feel like magic.
Yes, we are a free-market. But there are people, like company executives (and high-ranking politicians) who have non-public information that does not belong to them. When congress uses insider knowledge, they are stealing from the ameria, and undermining any semblance of policy integrity.

And for that reason, the SEC has 10b-5 plans, which can certainly be critiqued, but at least removes the low-hanging fruit like "we are getting acquired so I'll buy as many shares and out of the money options as I can".

Iirc her husband was basically buying fairly far-out (~16-18 months) calls at the onset of the pandemic, and they were expiring around the time of, was it an antitrust hearing? The timing itself was poor, but the expiration didn't seem diabolical.

But it was just like, c'mon, I don't even like the anti-trust bent congress is on, but how are you thinking people are taking your goals in good faith when you have any explicit (and intrinsically timed) personal interest in not harming the businesses you are looking into anti-trust action against?

The Fed trading ethics thing with Kaplan and Rosengren was also pretty bad. But imo, they made real changes. They restricted a lot of individual trading, and anything they can still trade in, has to be requested 45 days in advance. I think they understood the gravity of what that said about them, and took real steps to remedy.

The STOCK Act otoh says Congress and employees have to report within 45 days...
When I worked at BBC online in 1999, I had the job of encoding radio and TV clips for the website using the free version of RealPlayer.
Recent languages do have syntax related to -concurrency- though.

Languages pre multi-core probably provided a VM/library, as you say, for threading, and then said "generally you should minimize threads/concurrency" (which for mainstream languages were the same thing).

Languages since then have embraced concurrency at the syntax level, even if not embracing threading. Node has event listeners and callbacks (and added async/await as a syntactical nicety), go has goroutines (with special syntax to indicate it), etc.

It's interesting that while languages have sought to find ways to better express concurrency since it became necessary to really use the chips found in the underlying hardware, they largely haven't sought to provide ways to better express distribution, leaving that largely to the user (and which has necessitated the creation of abstracted orchestration layers like K8s). Erlang's fairly unique in having distribution being something that can be treated transparently at the language level.

Mind you, that also has to do with its actor based concurrency mechanism; the reason sending a message to a remote process can be treated the same as sending a message to a local process is because the guarantees are the same (i.e., "you may or may not get a response back; if you expect one you should probably still have a timeout"). Other languages that started with stronger local guarantees can't add transparent remote calls, because those remote calls would have additional failure cases you'd need to account for (i.e., Java RMI is supposed to feel like calling a function, but it feels completely different than calling a local function. Golang channels are synchronous and blocking rather than asynchronous and non-blocking, etc. In each case you have a bunch of new failure conditions to think about and address; in Erlang you design with those in mind from the beginning)
My vacuum is canister one, so it is two-pieces vacuum which is why it is lumpy to my partner. The shark one we got is a upright vacuum.
The same can be said for commuting, and for wearing presentable clothes to go to work. Nothing new under the sun. The difference is that smartphones actually have other uses besides work.
I have many stories. Here's a fun one.

I worked for a company a long time ago that traded with companies all around the world. A lot of their customers were small businesses in rural Africa, South America, etc. and they in turn had local banks they used to facilitate payments to and from.

A large number of these banks did not have a reliable internet connection, or if they did, they most assuredly didn't use it for payment instructions. Instead, I had to jerry rig a system that used TELEX -- yes, TELEX -- connected to IBM's Lotus Domino/Notes suite of mail transport software. That way we could "email" domino and it'd connect to some fantastically expensive TELEX hardware which then went over the wire on whatever the hell network they'd use for that in the 2010s.

We had carefully crafted email addresses with the TELEX numbers embedded (ever wonder why email address specs are so complicated? So people like me can do dumb shit like this!)

We'd then send them very carefully formatted instructions in uppercase ascii, to conform with (I forget which, SWIFT perhaps?) payment instructions that were clearly invented in the typewriter era and then hoisted, kicking and screaming, into the digital age with nary a change.

Fun times. Worked really well and tied in with all the other stuff they'd hang off of Lotus Notes. If you ever wonder why a lot of businesses struggled to move away from it? There's your answer.