skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a large part of the argument for the position was that it was the reasoned words of qualified experts the fact that it is a complete lie full of signatures of imaginary people is even more destructive than one might imagine to its credibility because honest positions aren't normally advanced by lies.

If I produced a position that advanced the idea that water makes things wet and it was signed by Roger Rabbit and Porky Pig you wouldn't give it serious thought and assume that it pushing some untruth or other because generally the truth doesn't walk in clothed in a lie.

Positions unworthy of consideration don't need to be debunked because they have proven their lack of worth on their face. If you believe the ideas contained therein are worthy you ought to strip them of their association to obvious liars and present them bare to the world lest they be casually dismissed.
I generally enjoy pair programming when utilized occasionally and as needed, but mandatory pairing is just horrible.
>the software you can't inspect with reasonable effort/time before running, to ensure that it's not malicious.

And you cannot do that on open source either. Both cases require a chain of trust, and empirically, neither is significantly more secure.
ERC721A: An Improved ERC721 Implementation
They don't, they just know the original URL. IIRC, they also scrape news websites and it's impossible to automatically and correctly detect the location of a person.

Even if it's from a social network, you still can't be sure. Especially, if a photo have multiple persons.
1. To err on safe side - better have 2 immunities than 1 (esp when it's self reported)

2. Unity - we're in this together and I'm sorry if you live in a place where communities are disconnected
"Star Trek wowed us with visions of warp drives, holodecks, replicators, teleporters, and a slew of other high-tech wish-fulfillment devices. There was only one problem: Many of these technologies could never actually exist."

Huh? This person has been to the future? What a waste of that insight if this is all he is bringing.

What a poor article.
I use the exact same mechanism for four years now to locally distribute content among digital signage devices. The advantage of that scheme is that pairs that exactly know (by hash) which content they want to retrieve can do so from other pairs that already have the content locally available. All without revealing anything about the content to pairs that don't know the hash. I'm sure the same mechansim has been used before elsewhere?
That's actually an interesting side-effect. What happens to ARM now?

New players who are looking for a long-term strategy are looking at RISC-V (as you note) in part due to Nvidia's reputation. Despite the deal being quashed, they're probably going to continue along that route.

However, it seems like ARM licensees might also be making plans to become less dependent on ARM (the company). The Nvidia/ARM deal was announced September 2020. Qualcomm announced that it was going to buy Nuvia (founded by ex-Apple Silicon people) in January 2021 along with plans to launch their own internally-designed CPUs (rather than relying on ARM reference designs). I think this is a smart plan regardless of the Nvidia/ARM deal, but creating your own cores means that ARM has little-to-no leverage over you. You don't need their new CPUs. Sure, ARM still updates their architecture periodically, but you can happily continue along making your own CPUs under a perpetual license. Qualcomm is making the jump to its own cores so that it doesn't need ARM reference designs.

SoftBank is somewhat souring on ARM since it isn't getting the huge returns it was expecting by owning the CPU that everyone was going to use in the future. Will SoftBank end up short-changing R&D at ARM making their reference cores less competitive with Apple Silicon and future Qualcomm cores?

Even if SoftBank was able to sell ARM for $40B, they bought the company for $31-32B in 2016. Basically, the sale meant only 5% annual returns which is pretty bad compared to the huge gains an index fund would have made during that time. I think there's going to be pressure to find a way to squeeze money out of ARM.

Heck, with Qualcomm moving away from ARM reference cores, that's a lot less revenue for ARM. Even if Qualcomm cores aren't better, Qualcomm is still a huge portion of the mobile CPU market. Every ARM CPU maker that starts making their own custom cores means less revenue for the reference designs and less reason for ARM to invest in those reference designs. If ARM starts reducing investment in their reference designs a bit, that will put pressure on more companies to create their own custom cores.

The sky isn't falling and I don't want this comment to sound like that. I think ARM has a fine, sustainable business. At the same time, it seems like there will be pressure from SoftBank given the lackluster returns even with the Nvidia deal and Qualcomm buying Nuvia puts further pressure on ARM and it's hard to justify a major investment in something that is likely to continue having lackluster returns.
> They're doing preorders and are regularly sold out and backordered, despite having high prices and old hardware and weird bugs. That is what high demand looks like.

The custom Linux phone I make is also sold out! I've made zero units and there are zero available. That is what high demand looks like.
Not everyone [1].

There's a voting mechanism to decide if comments aren't relevant/contributing.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
> [employees] left to sit at home on unemployment... didn't adapt digitally to the take-out heavy model

The restaurant world, in particular, seems to have heavily bifurcated between owner-as-entitled-extractor and owner-as-management. I'm not surprised to hear that someone who failed the transition to take-out is also blaming labor for his business's hard times.

Not to say that there wasn't some determinism in terms of location, target market, and target demographic. But good judgement, simple business management skills, and just generally being able to roll with punches made a huge difference in terms of survival rate.
By VS and VSCode, the IDE/editor that belongs to the same company that does TypesScript.

If I really need to call tsc explicitly, the few seconds that I have to wait, versus the minutes on some other languages, won't make me lose sleep over it.
Yes!!!

1) Before the 19th century science was the domain of the landed gentry or those who could find sponsorship from someone of means. Things have been different since then, but positions have always depended on academic pedigree. It has always been (and likely will continue to be) easier to get a permanent position at a great science University if your academic training ran through a great science University. This makes sense in some ways, but it also reflects residual bias (i.e. the halo effect of great Universities).

2) If anything, the system of recruiting for faculty positions has become MORE objective and meritocratic over the past few decades. Here is a true story that one of my older colleagues tells about getting his first academic job in 1964: a senior Professor called my colleague's Harvard PhD advisor and said, "We need someone in your area. Do you have any good students at the moment?" Six months later my senior colleague had a job at UC. That can't really happen any more (though the system is still far from perfect).

3) One thing that has changed is the ratio of applicants to positions. This has gotten a lot worse over the years. As a result, training has stretched out quite a bit. Postdocs are common/expected in many areas of science now, and they are often fairly long. But many of the most capable and persistent manage to find a way.

4) Always remember, science is ultimately about people. Therefore, it is inevitably political. Heck, if it weren't for the fact that, in the long run, science ultimately has to explain and predict things in the real world, it would be just as dysfunctional as Congress...
Yea its hard to argue with Pfizer's data about its own products.
I have found that the attitude of "just silently do the robust and proper thing immediately and push it, instead of letting the entire team discuss this important infrastructure topic forever in order to ultimately come up with an abomination of design-by-committee-architecture, just to then find out that the remaining time now is way too short to implement it, which is why they then take all the stupid shortcuts to get it done in time, ending up with something barely holding together with duct tape that somehow works for the moment, but immediately tumbles down as soon as the next guy tries to build the next layer on top of it" is a very important senior dev skill, especially at the beginning of new projects when a lot of basic building blocks on which the more complex features have to rest later are still being created.
Realising you have nothing to lose is liberating & a strong motivator to discover and spend time on the things that matter in your life. Between taxes, healthcare and inflation there’s nothing left at the end of the ride anyway. So why would you conform to the norms? Why play the game? Especially when it’s becoming abundantly clear that our society won’t be able to tackle the much larger problems looming ahead when we can’t even handle a minor inconvenience like a pandemic. So yeah, sure, I don’t blame anyone for “checking out” of the rat race.
Scary fraud ensues when ID theft and usury collide
Does the software industry learn?
I waited outside GameStop on launch day to snag a Switch with my friend. We had heard about the bittering agent applied to the cartridges by day two and immediately tasted them ourselves.

Hard to believe the Switch is five years old…
The opportunity cost of having to look up a vendor store, go there, and wait an hour+ for them to replace my battery may as well be infinite.
She said: 'I am loosing every time!'

He answered: 'No, you are often winning, but when you lose you lose way too high.'

(-;
We can start discussing semantics then, when a language supports a feature, it is only when it is hardcoded on the compiler, or the language offers enough lego blocks to do it via a library.
Practical use: Once you have GNNs that predict the trained weights of headless models for vision, NLP, and other domains, you can test new architectures in all those domains much faster with fewer compute resources.

Research use: Can we figure out how and why these GNNs can predict trained weights for previously unseen architectures without actually having to train the models? Can we simplify the GNNs? Can we use the knowledge gained from studying these GNNs to speed-up conventional training?
IMO grammatical gender in Indo European languages (of which the Germanic and Romance language families are a part of) reflect how nouns and their references (pronouns, adjectives etc) are semantically linked by modifying the word endings of the latter to better reflect those of the original noun - I like to think of it as the equivalent of type suffixes in assembly language.
Sorry to go off topic, but do you have an insight on what is going on with the Versa Light issues?
In the first video in the series Destin himself says the Navy did not pay him.

https://youtu.be/5d6SEQQbwtU&t=2m47s

I do recall him mentioning his own biases and conflicts of interest at some point but I don’t recall what series that was a part of.
I never found a browsing interface as good as Winamp's. Basically it had three panels, in order: Artists, Albums, Tracks (you could enable "Genre"/"Year"/... as well but I rarely did).

So at any point, you could select an artist and see both their albums and tracks. Or you could select no artist and see all albums and all tracks. You could select an album there and see all tracks in that album. You could pick a track from the full list, etc.

All the modern players only show you one thing at a time and you have work through all those views. I don't know what I am going to do, I am browsing. Maybe I will click on an artist for which I only have one or two songs, in which case I don't want to see a list of albums; maybe I will click an artist for which I have a single album. Maybe I will click on an artist for which I have multiple full albums.

I can see that Foobar2000 Android falls into that category as well. I have to pick whether I want to browse by "Artist / Album" or "Album" or "Style" upfront. If I pick a style, I will be presented with a list of artists before I can see songs. If I pick "Artist / Album" and browse through artists, clicking on any artist will hide the list of all songs behind an "all tracks" button, even if there's two songs on two albums. Browsing requires such an unnecessary amount of clicks...

[edit: screenshot to show what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/ipnUiY4]
Having used Typescript with Svelte, I think that Typescript is still potentially useful, just not directly in `.svelte` files. There's nothing wrong with keeping all your business logic in separate `.ts` files and then importing them into your Svelte components, because those components can and often are primarily view logic, and the utility of having everything type-checked down to the template level is... not particularly significant IMO. If your Typescript modules are still type-checked and pass tests, then I find trying to make a Svelte project Typescript all the way down to be kind of paranoid.

To each their own, but I think life's too short to be adding types to your view logic and your templates. It adds so much complexity for so little gain. Maybe it'll get better at some point where it will change my mind, in particular when using something like Deno.
> I think of phones in much the same way I think of refrigerators or stoves.

Is that so?

I've never heard anyone complain about their fridge not receiving security updates any more, making it dangerous to use.

(Though the Internet of Idiotic Things wants to change that, of course.)
Jan 23rd, https://www.rt.com/news/546859-pfizer-ceo-future-vaccines/

> In a series of interviews with Israeli TV channels, Albert Bourla said it would “not be a good scenario” if people were to get boosters every four to five months. “What I'm hoping [is] that we will have a vaccine that you will have to do once a year,” ... Bourla argued that it is both easier to sell the idea and “easier for people to remember” if a vaccine is required only once per year, calling it “an ideal situation” from “a public health perspective.”
> Try booking speech or ABA therapy for a kid in Bay Area

Wasn’t this already the case nearly nationwide?
Yes I reckon they overcooked the algorithm since about 3-4 weeks ago I noticed a very large jump in legit email being false-flagged as spam by gmail.

Even many emails from GitHub issues tracker were shoved into Spam erroneously.

The "not spam" button is not working very well so far this year and I'm clicking the same kind of email dozens of times as Not Spam but this is flaky and not a reliable method.

What DOES work as a manual patch to fix this, is create a Filter for a domain or email address you trust and tick the filter option to Never Mark as Spam.

Time to leave Gmail anyway...

I've just finished reading about the process before I begin moving a dozen grandfathered personal and my SMB client domains from gmail over to Fastmail.

Fastmail is going to be much better value than gmail (once these previously grandfathered free domains are no longer free with gmail any more).

Fastmail Seive plus Dropbox integration looks really powerful and I'm keen to try it.

Fastmail Reseller Account is the practical way forward for a better value feature-set.

Moving DNS hosting to Fastmail also...
And everyone actually making competitive products was doing so because of their own extensions, not whatever Blizzard did.
From the last I saw, coc is still more feature rich than native LSP in Neovim.
How I Track My Hour Balance with a Custom Org-Mode Clock Table
Complete with kind of a weird takeover/resurrection story:

https://stoneagegamer.com/blog/the-xbox-almost-the-dreamcast...
In the UK our healthcare system is overloaded though because of 2 years of lockdown policy postponing any elective surgeries.

You are right on your figures though - when you look at excess deaths over 5 years there has been much fewer deaths because of Covid than the official figures would have you believe, but the impact of lockdown will be felt for many years to come.
It would appear that a country that is over 90% vaccinated and 60% boosted is having ~440 deaths a day with roughly 15k admitted to the hospital (ignoring simple ER visits) that week. It's worth noting that the 10% unvaccinated (even though skewed younger) are ~5x overrepresented at ~50% of the hospitalizations. It's about half as high as the peak last Jan although ventilators are less in use and treatments are better.

From your dashboard:
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
If the screen, camera, and speed were good enough in 2016, what's changed to make them not good enough now?

(rhetorical question)

As for battery, it's a lot cheaper & less wasteful to replace the battery than to get a whole new phone.
There is nothing that stops Google and Facebook to stop showing ads and instead move to subscription business model. Without right incentives status quo will remain.
> By your criterion, what Samuel Slater did was also immoral. Yet I'd argue it was actually for the common good.

I'll start with: I know I can never be unbiased about this.

But I'm much more comfortable with the US (and Europe, and other democratic societies) engaging in this sort of common-good "theft" than a country like China. The US et al. are of course flawed in our implementation of democratic principles, but I do not look forward to living under Chinese global political/economic dominance. I do not believe an authoritarian government in that position would be a good outcome for humanity.
I think Mexican corn farmers would disagree with you on US farm subsidies.
Since you seem quite interested in learning economic fundamentals, I highly recommend you check out the Moody's Talks Inside Economics podcast [0].

One topic they have discussed with fair regularity lately is the current inflation rate. They point out that you can tease out what factors contribute to that 7% inflation number, and once you subtract out 2-3 specific components, components that – with some inductive reasoning – we have good reason to believe are transitory in nature, the inflation number that applies to the broad majority of fundamentals is actually closer to the fed's 2% target.

I'm not an expert in this area and I don't grok the economics on a deep enough level to be able to reproduce their argument in situ here, but their case that the fed's strategy of holding steady is in fact the most responsible thing to do to achieve that 2% target.

[0] https://about.moodys.io/podcast-series/moodys-talks-inside-e...
This type of loan is really just a form of margin -- the same thing you can get at most stock brokerages (e.g. Schwab, TD Ameritrade, Interactive Brokers, etc). It seems almost impossible to distinguish the purpose of the loans -- e.g. I know people who use these loans to fund primary residence purchases because they lack income for FHA mortgages.

In fact, unless you have a cash-only account, you likely use margin every time you buy & sell a stock. Technically, stock transactions don't settle for 2-3 days. When your brokerage fronts you the shares to immediately buy, sell, or transfer funds, it's all margin under the hood. It gets even more complex once you get into options, swaps, and other esoteric financial instruments.

TLDR: It's simple in principle, but very complex in practice. Further complicating IRS rules is unlikely to win the whack-a-mole competition -- especially when IRS auditors under-target the ultra wealthy to begin with.
Eh, when I got a Switch last year I tried it out right away (after reading such articles in the past) and if you just give it a careful lick you will immediately notice it but it’s not as if it’s lingering around forever.
It’s mild. Everybody is getting it and that strains hospitals but it’s a mild illness and many infected people won’t even be tested let alone seek treatment.

How much evidence do you need of this being a mild variant?
IMO this is very elitist view of software developers' job.

The analogy from tangible world would be all the bridge engineers using "proven" / "boring" / "regulator endorsed" practices and techniques to build a "standard" bridge versus those constantly pushing the limits of materials and construction machines to build another World-Wonder-Bridge. There is nothing wrong with having both types of engineers.
I keep hearing that people in debt win when inflation goes up but the problem is you only win if you have assets that already appreciate in value or access to large amounts of capital to purchase assets that are inflation resistant. Simple example Tim is a manager at Lowe's Tim makes $66,000, each year. Tim spends most of that money on the necessities of life, a car payment a house payment if he is lucky, a rent if he is not, Tim spends some on groceries and basic living things to support his family. Inflation goes up 10%, Tim's boss fights for Tim and works hard and Tim gets a 7% raise which is unheard of because usually raises are capped at 5% so Tim is very happy. In the meantime his purchasing power has actually decreased.

Contrast this with Larry, Larry is very rich, Larry owns stocks in multiple companies, Larry also owns many assets and has enough capital to move it into other places to protect it against inflation. Inflation goes up 10% Larry's stocks, real estate and other ventures go up 12% because people are trying to find places to park their cash to avoid losing it to inflation.

In the end Larry ends up with substantially more money because he could take advantage of the inflation, and also because of his wealth had access to credit to take advantage of the low interest rates, meanwhile Tim has blown out his savings because his car's transmission gave out and he didn't have the money to buy a new one, and now is riding at the edge of his income because everything went up in price but Tim didn't want to end up enslaved to credit card debt just to continue living and the banks won't give you loans for "hey I need to buy groceries", so he got screwed by it all in the meantime the money and purchasing power Tim lost went to Larry.

So someone help me understand where my understanding is wrong, because yes I agree in a world of airless friction-less vacuums inhabited by spherical cows the inflation is good for debtors but in the world of the real it doesn't seem that way.
In my experience, I agree with the fact that top school people don't correlate with the best hires but my data shows that high clarity + high energy does not correlate with top schools! In fact, I have many high-clarity // low-energy folks as examples.

I think that not being crisp at communication does not mean you wont be clear. English was not my first language so I empathize! More recently, I've worked with south american developers who are not 100% fluent but are very clear in what they mean (ie. consistent and form solid ideas/thoughts/visions). And early in my career at Alexa, many researchers (lots of top-rate folks) were international and didn't have 100% fluency in english but were 100% clear about what they were building, their methods, and how we were going to test their hypotheses.

Unfortunately, the default meaning of clear is: speaks english well. But I am speaking about clarity in thinking and being able to represent that consistently in words.