skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I should have been more clear here, I meant specifically trials of what I presume could have been attempted if the vaccine was expressed as protein instead of mRNA.

Yes, and one vaccine approach is getting a bacterium or other virus to make a lot of a protein you're interested in, and then purifying the stuff you're interested in and forming it into a vaccine product. These are recombinant approaches. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDSVAX is exactly what you describe: a viral protein vaccine developed using recombinant approaches from e.g. Chinese hamster ovary cells https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8142140/

The first was a hepatitis B vaccine developed in the 1970s where yeast cells were modified to make hepatitis B proteins. Then the HPV vaccine used the same approach, choosing proteins that would spontaneously assemble into a virus-like particle that triggers a strong immune response.

Complicated proteins have to come from a living thing, in practice. So if you're going to administer a viral protein, it has to come from purifying virus that you've grown or from a recombinant approach of some kind (and growing HIV is problematic for multiple reasons).
The point of 1:1s is largely about building trust. It's very rare that anything seriously consequential gets discussed in a 1:1; arguably, if it gets to that point, you're doing something wrong. Rather, 1:1s are about thousands of little course corrections, pointing out something small that should happen, watching it happen, and then building trust that further communication will be well-received.

It's so you don't get blindsided out of nowhere with "I'm leaving for Facebook now" or "Sorry, your project is canceled" or "We're not happy with how things are going, so you're now on a PIP."

It's the same reason to say "Good morning" and "I love you" to your spouse every day and buy them flowers - by itself, it's inconsequential, but if you don't you'll likely hear "I'm leaving you for your best friend" in a decade or two. Same reason, for that matter, that people are looking at America now and going "What the hell happened?" Trust and emotions are real things too.
My Xbox friends that still play Destiny 2 are expecting the experience to worsen with the acquisition. Sony has paid Bungie/Activision a chunk of change/in kind advertising to make chunks of Destiny Playstation exclusive for years to the detriment of the Xbox experience (certain maps and certain weapons that would improve progress missing for a 12+ month window, etc). I'm not sure what the state of it is right now as I stopped playing once they adjusted Destiny 2 to be even more of a grindfest requiring far too many hours to progress. Plus, playing the same exact strikes over and over just got boring.
Now that may be entirely the right posture, but the triple equals signs in the post upthread did rather imply certainty.
When I say no real justification, I don't mean that a justification doesn't exist, I mean that it's rarely given in a coherent way.

I think a big problem with the vaccine messaging (from people and institutions) is that it ignores human psychology. To give maybe a silly example, lets say I was hosting an office party and I brought a soft serve ice cream machine. The value of ice cream speaks for itself, so I imagine I would be giving out a lot of ice cream. There are probably a few people that wouldn't want ice cream though. Maybe they're lactose intolerant, or on a diet, or they have tooth sensitivity. Lets say I start pressuring these people, mocking them and generally getting in their face about it. People would start to think something is up right? What if I then said "everyone must have ice cream, or you're fired", people would suddenly start wondering: why is this guy so insistent that I have ice cream? Is there something in the ice cream? Is this some weird Jonestown thing going down? I imagine a lot of people would refuse the ice cream on principle.

I feel like with the vaccine and the mask mandates "not getting sick from a horrible virus" should be able to sell itself. But people are now really distrustful, partially because the messaging has been so over the top forceful, often contradictory or misleading, and partially because the vaccine has been overhyped (remember when Biden said if you got the vaccine you wouldn't get sick? That's just demonstrably untrue.) And now people think that if they just double down on this it's going to help, but like in my ice cream example, it's just going to make people wonder what on earth is going on.

Unless you have some sort of real power over people, attempting to bully them into seeing your point of view just is not an effective way to convince anyone.
3 more years, your Reddit account will be able to drive and in 8 more years, vote ;)
> QUERY is a somewhat bad name choice, given that URL parameters are also refered to as query string

That has always driven me crazy
Good news for patent litigators in Texas.

On a more serious note, purchases like this are hardly good news for anyone but new patent holders, i.e. "patent trolls". In this particular case, Catapult IP Innovations is a newly formed company, taking $650 million in debt in order to monetize BlackBerry's IP.
GET is supposed to be idempotent, and shouldn't have irreversible side-effects. Still a good idea, in my opinion. Browsers know they can repeat GET requests but shouldn't repeat POST requests without explicit confirmation.

If I'm interviewing someone who claims to be familiar with HTTP, I expect them to know this. They might choose otherwise in specific situations for specific reasons, but they should know the convention.
It is their fault when they redistrict to expand their borders into the county, then realize they haven't the means to pay for all that infrastructure. Simple accounting mistakes can bankrupt them. Enthusiastic starry-eyed town councils want everything, but never even think about paying for it.

We're talking small towns here. Their council is a fireman, a baker, an insurance salesperson. Not a professional city planner. It seems inevitable they will over-reach and bankrupt the city treasury. It's a real risk.
They have the same name, hence the confusion when one doesn't know about that MSR work.
What motivated me to write it is due to, as I am trying to learn about the transformer myself, not being able to find a very simple reference to transformers. The annotated transformer (https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/2018/04/03/attention.html) for instance, is quite convoluted in my opinion, and uses difficult to understand syntax.

Thanks for the link, I haven't seen this before but It looks quite simple and nice.

I think the one in Pytorch itself isn't too bad as well, but there's huge chunk of block comments and the fact that it is entangled with other modules makes it intimidating to break down and test out / use immediately.

Yes I don't currently have no decoding besides argmax on the decoder logits(so no beam search etc).

I suppose if you just mean sequence generation there is a small function that can be found in the dataset class. But it might be good to put that somewhere visible.

I don't want to include beam search in order to not introduce anything beyond the core architecture (innovative contribution) of the original paper, and most other implementations have it. But it is a good suggestion nonetheless.

Thanks a lot for the comment! :)
They suggesting a model where you subscribe to individual YouTube channels rather than the platform.
> it is force of law that prevents large scale arbitrage of the form in this article.

This is actually exactly analogous; many people don't realize that the status quo of "multiple denominations" have ancestral ties to bimetallic currencies of the sort covered in this article.

It would have been difficult for Henry III to de facto outlaw smelting of gold coins because the scale of the gold penny's distribution was much smaller (making attribution of a smelting operation much harder), and because the ability to surveil this sort of activity was severely limited by geography.

But melting down US pennies is de jure illegal (nb: only since 2007 [1]) and the number of pennies you'd need to smelt down in order to justify the effort would probably make the sourcing operation noticeable to authorities.

[1] https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/20061214-united-s...
> you can't simply say "sandboxes don't work"

Why, though?

I find it extremely plausible that there is no sandbox which can prevent programs from escaping, and that the same is not true of physical separation. (Obviously even physically separated machines are prone to problems too; but I believe it is possible to resolve them.)

Regarding 'don't be nihilistic', I really don't think that's what I'm doing; I'm suggesting a path forward, a different course of action. It doesn't seem any more nihilistic to say 'let's move away from shared hardware' than to say 'let's move away from md5'.
No. You are just a MKBHD fan. There's nothing more to it. Someone else who doesn't know who Marques is will see a talking head interrupting the relaxation video. For the restaurant owner, it means they cannot rely on YouTube to play requested video content as commanded. This proves the point even further, technology instead of being smarter in the case of YouTube here, has grown to become an annoying anti-consumer product that constantly moves in the opposite direction of the user.
it makes a mockery of so many absurd rules other manufacturers in the US have to follow. Really raises question how Tesla get away with these.
If you ask PGE for 350kw, you'll see quickly how much more they'll charge you in demand charges :)
""It's the browser's job to keep users safe."

True, but incomplete. It is not SOLELY the browser's job. Browsers can only keep the users safe if the server provides credentials through an HTTPS certificate. As a site owner, it's your responsibility to provide these credentials for your clients."

HTTPS, or even using the internet in general, is not the only way to provide credentials to clients (users). For example, public keys can be provided using other protocols or even out of band.

Not every website is engaged in commerce nor otherwise needs to "scale" in a way that only computers can enable.
A 1x1 is really what you make of it. When you are the manager, you have a lot of latitude for how a 1x1 operates. If you find that your 1x1s are rarely useful, change how you run them.

In particular, you mention "time-sucking status updates". In my experience, often someone thinks you want a status report, but from your point of view you are sufficiently aware of the project status already. As the manager, you can just politely suggest that you are already happy with the project status, and move on to other topics.

Some of the most effective 1x1s are either when the manager has a tough problem to solve, or the report has a tough problem to solve, and the 1x1 can be some focused time to detect these problems and resolve them. This can be anywhere from a technical issue that this report has some expertise in, or a social issue like "I feel like it's been taking a while to reach an agreement among the team on topic X, how do you think we can speed that up?" Or perhaps you notice that a report seems frustrated on a project, but you aren't quite sure why, and you can use the 1:1 to draw that out.

I find it helpful to take notes ahead of time, with some ideas for myself for what I might be able to accomplish with a 1:1. Otherwise you run the risk of not really knowing what to say, your report doesn't really have anything urgent in mind either, and you fill up the 1:1 time with chit chat.

I really like this blog post on how to run effective 1:1s:

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-update-the-vent-and-t...

Running an effective 1:1 is an important managerial skill, it's something you can practice and improve at over time, and it's worth working at it since there is so much you can accomplish through 1:1s and you're likely spending a lot of time as a manager in them.
I looked online the other day for an 8 GB Pi 4, and could not find any, including at Microcenter (which claims to show store availability). I also looked to see whether the Jetson Xavier AGX is available. This used to go for $700, but I didn't really need it then. Now that I could use it, it's selling for at least twice as much.
I think that is what a lot of people miss also on other things.

Daily stand-ups are mostly also not really that useful - but getting team together so they are used to at least 15-20 mins talking to each other I believe has benefits anyway.

The same with writing unit tests, I see my team is writing too many useless unit tests. But then if we have habit of writing tests - important tests will get written as well. If we would skip tests and say that we write only "important ones" then I saw that no tests were written in period where we had such an approach.
Honestly a lot of cars are ugly. Look at what they've been doing to BMWs lately. Safety features combined with an unwillingness to look very different from the rest of the pack anymore have created these designs by committee that are not truly terrible where they won't sell but also not very good where people will look to them as a piece of art like an old aircooled porsche.
A resistive heater directly converts electricity to heat, whereas a heat pump instead moves heat, from the outside to inside of your car. The heat your car gains is reflected by the heat the outside loses. In that way, they can be 300-400% “efficient”, because we do not care about the outside air around the car getting a little bit colder.
No ñ no fun!

P.S: There's a Japanese one, good luck! https://aseruneko.github.io/WORDLEja/
It might be the fact that people are monitoring how the sausage is made with the explicit purpose of judging that process.

But when working with people in the normal job, nobody is watching them type they just eat the sausage.

I can relate. I don’t have anxiety generally with work and have been praised on my interactions with customers. But I feel anxious during interviews because they are actively trying to judge me.
They give non-developers at my work Surface devices, and those people have nothing but issues.
Introduction to Petname Systems (2005)
I've had a manager use exactly what I warned about when later being promoted to executive position. Also having the person bragging confidently about power over their employees.
Try pasting the link into a new browser tab. It's a redirect if you're coming from HN.
You’re forgetting about how profitable (and disgusting) Activision’s mobile play to win games are.

Besides, MS needs content for its subscription gaming service. It’s not like consoles themselves are profitable. They are just a means to deliver games to users.
It's always baffling to me people can simultaneously defend fairly liberal voluntary trade while supporting a command economy on one of the most important elements to trade -- currency. Clearly building an economy on an insidious command denominated currency threatens the entire market.
Fear the Facebook Metaverse
My usual experience is that the top rated post is either insightful or a chuckle, but if you delve into the child comments from that particular post, or any more than a couple down, and it is an outright flame war over something trivial.
There's no organism called "humanity" - there's a bunch of individuals with indirect, lossy access to the past through the study of "history" - which is useless if said individuals don't study it.

This is why you see so many older and/or young-but-learned people telling you to read history - and yet, it's really hard to listen to them until you start getting personal, emotion-laden experiences that convince you to do so (such as this pandemic).
I bought prime youtube, it's basically a pay-to-get-rid-of-my-ads, fine with me but yes lower price will be better. maybe that's what they earn from a visitor per month via selling ads?
Spent a few minutes searching. Didn't find complaints but there are publications around this topic:

> When conducting a systematic literature review, researchers usually determine the relevance of primary studies on the basis of the title and abstract. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-008-9075-7

> Results showed that abstract readability is significantly related to the online attention RAs receive https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-021-04112-9
Do you have any sources that describe this? I was under the impression that the US money supply arises from a highly dynamic process not directly subject to any single authority, especially depending on overall productivity and how "hot" the finance sector is running.
An Update on Wordle
You have to open it in a private window
I agree, and from the subordinate's point of view I feel having a regularly planned session lowers the barrier to raise issues early without making things confrontational.

Its the difference between "we talked about many things, including this issue" and "we need to meet to discuss this issue". I find the second starts everyone off on a defensive foot, regardless of peoples' best intentions.
Is the problem in editing a document, or just editing long documents?

Tip for long documents: If you have an outliner that works, and can fold text, it is fairly trivial to reorder your work, and arrange it like paper furniture in a model of a room, until you get it just right.

For normal stuff, I do this on a smaller scale all the time, right here in the "add comment" box at HN... type up ideas in a stream of conscious fashion, review what I've written, and then click the button.

Then I review it again... and sometimes go back and edit for clarity.

You can do all that in any text input field of sufficient size... Capture | Organize | Synthesize

There are no new tools required, just some skills/habits to learn.
The industry, at least in the US, is moving to support for the Plug & Charge standard which will eliminate needing specific accounts with different charging providers. The largest provider, Electrify America, already supports this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_15118
Yeah it's already created confusion for me. I read it as essentially a side effect free request with a request body. Not that the data behind it was necessarily immutable but that the query didn't do any mutations.
Except for React introduces major changes with every new version causing thrash.
He ain’t gunna find that heart o gold coin where he’s lookin’
What do you suggest i'd look into? I said i've never walked out of a 1x1 and thought it was "unreasonably effective". And when I discussed features of my 1x1s I discussed the majority. Sure there have been occasional nuggets of gold but I'd hardly consider it the primary outcome of majority of 1x1s. Feel like you're attempting to evaluate my 1x1s based on a couple of sentences I wrote in response to a hyperbolic clickbaitey title.
Windows File Manager (WinFile)
Does a situation like this actually exist? Managers succeed when their teams perform well, which is more easily accomplished when the people reporting to them who compose those teams perform well.
Seriously. Computing hardware is an order of magnitude more powerful than in the early 2000s, but the latency bar has never been raised the entire time. You could buy a $1000 TV and it has the same lag while changing channels as the gen 1 720p flatscreen you had in 2005. Manufacturers collectively realized they can get away with substandard products since consumers have no real choice in the marketplace for a lot of products beyond the competitors who have already raced down to the bottom years ago.
And, indeed, this has been done many times, by e.g. WebDAV (methods COPY, LOCK, MKCOL, MOVE, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, UNLOCK).
Turkish one: https://wordleturkce.com
The IT outsourcing companies do this at scale, pretending to be something during interview - and then really being something completely different once the "job" is won. It is deception as a business model.

It is not the fault of the "unqualified staff" at all.

Anyway, that is my take on it. Feel free to have a different opinion.
A 50-foot-long, 9-foot-high, 1885 circus poster was discovered in 2015 when a bar in Durand, Wisconsin opened a wall to expand the bar into an adjacent property [1]. After methodically removing the wall, the bar owners enlisted a team of experts to clean and restore the poster. The poster is the main attraction in the Orton Room, the bar's banquet room named in honor of Miles Orton, the owner and manager of the Great Anglo-American Circus and a performer featured on the poster [2].

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-19th-century-...

[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/wisconsin/articles/2...
I think in any endeavor it's important to try out different methods and situations. This post resonated with my hobby as a swing dancer. Lots of folks like to take group lessons where the format is teachers have a lesson plan and more or less spoon-feed it to students. This can involve some or no homework. It can be exercises to work on technique, just a new move to try, etc.

I've seen a lot of people overvalue this format of lessons as a way to "get better" at their craft rather than weekly practice sessions with a group or private lessons. This is usually because there's a lot more friction and effort to set up practices and private lessons usually mean _you_ have to come up with what you want to learn.

As others have mentioned though, the most important factor is to go into it being earnest and genuine. Group lessons can be done poorly just as 1:1s can be done poorly.
This used to happen to a company I was consulting at all the time. It was mostly in the context of hiring H1B workers from India. The company would interview "the ringer" in India - the guy was poised, articulate, knew the answers to all the questions etc. etc. But the guy who showed up didn't know anything, usually had difficulty with the language etc. This was pre-Zoom so it was all phone screens, making it much harder to be sure.

However, years later I was telling this story to a Wipro recruiter who said casually:

"Oh yeah, we call it the Hindu Switcheroo" (I kid you not)
What's the point you're making with your first two quotes? Are they supposed to be self-evidently incorrect? If you're just serving static content, why should you care whether there are governments out there that may be inserting content into it?

And while "encrypting only sensitive content calls out that content as being sensitive" is certainly true theoretically, almost every site has HTTPS, sensitive or not, so in practice it's not a concern.
From the employee standpoint, that means they've never tried to achieve the goals layed out by the company and their managers?

And from the manager standpoint, that means that they've never tried to assign work that matches up with the interests of people they manage?
It's been a few years since I tried to breach it but I'm your normative (arts education) audience for this and SICP's frontloading of higher-level math was a showstopper for me. I won't point you to examples but will say that How to Design Programs succeeded where SICP failed. Gregor Kiczales' How to Code, a MOOC based on HtDP is a masterwork of teaching that starts with the student drawing basic shapes and filling them in with color.

I think people who were raised on the more technical fare often have a blindspot for how unapproachable programming can be to liberal arts people like me. The assumed knowledge can be greatly discouraging. We so often need a new vector that speaks to how we learned to conceive of the world.
It's really ashame that we'll never see versions of those mechanical cars combined with the manufacturing precision and quality control available today.

Sure there are one-offs and some drop-ins available, but they'll never get dialed in the way cars do after a year or two of mass production.