skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just think there are so many other forms of distraction today. Young kids are carrying around cell phones, texting their friends. It’s that or they are doing something on Tiktok.

They don’t have time to hack like that anymore.
This is genuinely amazing - I'd love to give it a try. Any chance any of the work your team put into it is open source?
how does ipv6 change things
> if I suspect a state is impossible to reach, I'll add a fatalError()

Does Swift have assert statements? If so, is there a reason you chose this method instead?
VAERS is raw data - anything and everything that happens a couple days after getting the shot. it's dimensionless without knowing background prevalence of disorders, as well as incidence per 100k doses.

I'm not totally sure about your article, either. for instance, they quote someone saying Bell's palsy is one of the top three side effects from mRNA vaccines, but this Lancet article [1] shows that risk of Bell's palsy is only increased by the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine, not Pfizer.

anyway, hopefully this universal coronavirus vaccine works. I just want to be protected - I don't care what you do.

1. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...
>Solutions and suggestions would be appreciated!

Ban the usage of default values or default parameters anywhere outside of top-level / public facing functions. Plus assert everything all the time.

I've gotten into arguments with other developers over it but I'll take the inconvenience in developing now over tearing hair out over bugs later, anytime.
We - as in parents - literally can't get them. They are intentionally releasing the vaccine for under 5s significantly slower. The comparison doesn't make sense. This has nothing to do with demand.
We use pytype as well but nothing works runtime right?

I implemented a “check_type” decorator I use in many places but am starting to think I should decorate all the methods in my code with this decorator while building it or something.
What you're showing is that the early data showed a high degree of efficacy against an earlier variant. And 95% isn't 100%.
Which is why it's called artificial
One spectacular failure doesn't disprove the argument. If advertising weren't effective businesses and campaigns wouldn't spend money on it. You might as well argue that commerce isn't real because some products bomb and lose money.
While average temperature is up a bit, the typical high has not increased terribly much. Many record high days in my part of Canada still date to that 1936 heat wave.

You would adapt, a little bit. I personally find the swings in humidity between AC'd and non-AC'd environments to throw me off, like I don't know how much I should perspire. But I think people mostly just didn't actually thrive when it was really hot, historically. If nothing else, heat burden imposes real limits on the physical work both humans and domesticated animals can do. I can only assume in the distant past, like in the recent past when I worked landscaping, that many hot afternoons were basically write-offs, everyone lying in the shade.

> Air-conditioning is not even a hundred years old

High-intensity artificial lighting isn't much older than that. I think there's some analogy there. In the winter, people only got 6 hours of real work done each day, because they only had 6 hours or so of daylight. The way we construct artificial environments with ideal working conditions, is a major component to modern prosperity.
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Air-conditioning is not even a hundred years old and was originally not even invented to keep people cool (it was invented to keep machines from overheating).

Nitpick, you're close but according to Wikipedia:

"In 1901, American inventor Willis H. Carrier built what is considered the first modern electrical air conditioning unit. In 1902, he installed his first air-conditioning system, in the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company in Brooklyn, New York; his invention controlled both the temperature and also the humidity which helped maintain consistent paper dimensions and ink alignment at the printing plant."
1. They didn’t. The hottest parts of the US were heavily settled in part due to AC availability.
2. Houses were designed better.

Architecture used to be much more regional to account for environmental differences and take advantage of them.

https://archive.curbed.com/2017/5/9/15583550/air-conditionin...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/tim-har...
It reduced the odds, which was good enough.
Yeah. My pet peeve is `guard let … else { return }` instead of force-unwrapping. Like, why do people think that silently swallowing an error is better than crashing loudly and clearly?
Obvious shill is obvious, from the name to the gish gallop of 6 different arguments, when what was asked for was a quantitative argument.
or you might have an alternate prefix for "things that go in development build changelogs but not final changelogs", e.g. "-"
doesn't work in firefox.
It might come back due to obviously-bad Catholic ideas.
Polio vaccine has the same behavior, so it isn't really bending the meaning of the word.
That's because it basically doesn't work for children. It's nothing to do with the speed of the trial, the vaccine just doesn't work in children.

Even the approved one that exists today barely does anything. There were a ton of attempts before that that simply straight out didn't work.
I am not sure what you mean by that. Which resources do you mean? Everything happening in your program is running inside the Erlang VM, even file writing... And each process inside the VM does their own garbage collection.

The only way I could see the VM itself crashing is if it can't allocate memory, then it all crashes.
>> the current 7-day average is 380 deaths per day

Stop counting simple deaths. Instead count years of life lost vs average life expectancy.
Nikita: Persistent edits and edit requests related to certification and sales inflation of Green Day and The Who articles. Lol
I read that as DR DOS (Digital Research) which I was enamored of until MS DOS 5.0 came out.

Digital Research made GEM (a Mac-like desktop GUI) and included a pared down version called ViewMAX in DR DOS 5.0 but ultimately didn't deliver on providing a Mac-like interface.
The Perils of Telepathy (1918)
The moral difference is that a human drone operator might not be a bloodthirsty psycho and there is a chance they would regret and even suffer from mistaken killing and attempt to avoid it, or make a policy change in the future. With an AI drone everyone can escape responsibility.
You could also display it with a say or think block.
> This is a country where even the supermarket where you buy groceries will be used to infer your class status.

This is routine in the United States. And pretty much anywhere else with more than one grocery store. Grocery demands are highly informative as to social class; where you buy groceries is one of the first places people will look to judge your status, not the last.
Same reason people write Lisps instead of working with Lisp: It's fun, but not all that useful when you are finished. In the modern world, you can't really do much other than simple demos without encryption and networking and those things are much harder to write than a Forth system.
I would expect someone to believe this before COVID if they hadn’t done any research of vaccines beyond the dictionary definition. But of course this is absolutely false. Many (perhaps most) vaccines in regular use “only” reduce the spread of infection within the body and reduce the risk of serious symptoms.
Just curious to play around ... is the Lambda function on github too?
Whilst I totally agree with you, on the other hand, a child's first introduction to programming should be easy, intuitive and powerful.

What could be worse than an introduction to programming that puts a certain number of children off because it's not those things?

Clearly alot of kids manage to drive it enough to their satisfaction, but the failings of Scratch must leave many children behind.

I know my son gave Scratch a go and gave up.
Ha! I believe I wrote the first 68000 version of Forth, sold a copy to Scientific Atlanta.
I've heard the exact opposite, that the online community is toxic and one of the main downsides.

I assume both are true in different cases, and you just have to be careful what part of the community you get involved in.
things were bad before. now most people have antibodies, and now covid isn't causing much pneumonia, but don't you remember how bad it was? healthy middle-aged people were dying, hospitals were overloaded, people were on ventilators and getting lung transplants. case fatality rate was 2%.

it's better now, but the virus was horrible in 2020.
k. so this is an OCaml parser for a toy language?

I mean, cool, but... I don't know OCaml and this doesn't do a lot to sell the language over AntLR or whatever lex/yacc is called these days.

I just feel like I need to learn another language to learn the language to be efficient.

That's not really a criticism of the language, but it feels a little code-golfy.

Is there a use for these tools other than writing yet-another-language?

edit:I think ocaml actually can run perl5 modules, if I remember correctly.
It's happening right now in Australia, big builders are going bust leaving homes half finished or not built. Input costs have risen so much on fixed price contracts that there's really no other recourse for them.

Buying off-plan is common worldwide despite what others are saying in here.
> I first heard this story from sources that were not so friendly to China, so I didn't put a lot of credence into the sources, but now its coming from bloomberg.

You should reexamine your assumptions about these sources. Sounds like they deserve credit for reporting it earlier.
The pre-media-mangled epidemiology messaging early was never COVID zero, it was flatten curve and slow the spread, while messaging on vax was never bulletproof but reduction in personal outcome risk and lower prevalence.

Politicized media and partisan pundits (both pro and online commenters) reduced nuance of vax research showing both R and outcomes effects to ‘it doesn’t work’ or ‘it makes you impervious’, both of which resulted in people ignoring other simple measures either from lack of faith or too much faith.

From there, inevitable discussions like these threads.
> The purpose of a git commit message is to answer the question “why does this commit exist?”

Why? Every time I have asked this people say because you'll search the logs (which I have never done in my life) or because "it's good practice"
They do, thanks to capitalism. Bangladesh is a burgeoning export oriented economy. The GDP growth has been a big part of driving down child mortality (how else are you going to pay for vaccines, except being dependent on western charity).

Bangladeshis have the second most positive views of capitalism of any country: https://archive.dhakatribune.com/uncategorized/2015/05/05/ba...
> Here in Australia they will get hoses out on hot days desperately trying to cool the rail down to stop it buckling.

Have you got anything to show that?

Never seen or heard of that in NSW, and not heard of any track buckling issues during summer, either.
My open source project is a puzzle game engine called Free Hero Mesh. I am looking for contributors, of whatever kind of contribution you might like to do; post on the NNTP and/or IRC if you have interested please.

The IRC is #freeheromesh on the Libera IRC; there is also a Matrix bridge (although I have not tested it). The newsgroup name on the NNTP is un2.org.zzo38computer.soft.freeheromesh and the NNTP server is zzo38computer.org. There is also a web page http://zzo38computer.org/freeheromesh/ with some explanations.

I do not use GitHub for my own projects; it is fossil, and is mirrored on Chisel. (In future I might also add a mirror on GitHub too, but currently, it isn't)
>The primarily motivation for this, uh, bullshit, is home valuation. Home owners, not entirely falsely, believe that a trailer park near them will reduce the value of their homes (so they'll oppose a park even they don't personally think there's anything wrong with them).

A long time ago a real estate mogul that I'm related to told me this: "Trailer parks are section eight housing for White people. They are to be fought against as hard as we fight against section eight housing."

That stuck with me. Right or wrong, I'm under the impression that a lot of people agree with that statement.
The tenth amendment to the US Constitution says that all powers not explicitly granted to the federal government are reserved to the states and the people.

So, under the US Constitution, state and local authorities can enact laws that the federal government cannot do anything about. The state governments absolutely have the power to prevent local governments from restricting the installation of solar panels.
Pull the rope
This is the wrong discussion - what's needed is a vaccine that actually lasts for more than 6 months before immunity fades.

I remember reading very early in COVID how experts said finding a vaccine would be very difficult because we've never been able to generate long lasting immunity to corona viruses. And they were hoping COVID would be different.

Turns out - it's not different.
This comment comes off weird as I'm also discussing my depression and how I do similar things. It's not a rich person talking to a poor person, it is two poor people talking to one another.
You're conflating the 1st Amendment with free speech. The former is rooted in the latter. Free speech is a natural right, applicable to all situations. This is a free speech issue.
Zoning Paralyzed American Cities
Everyone who really likes Halo hated the show.
This is the move: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigali_Amendment
Ypu would if you didn't just read the homepage. There is Chinese all over it.
sorry, I should have said earlier, but I didnt want to get in a rabbit hole. I pay attention to lots of sources, to see what they say, and sometimes they can end up in the penalty box. This particular source makes a lot of grandiose claims that I cannot verify, so trust--. I don't completely discount them but my baysean trust for them was lower.
Manual for this unit is at
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0019/5952/files/Manual-RAD...

I assume 'dual-beam' is the same as dual-channel? Does the calibration technique mentioned in the manual indicate dual channel operation?
Not sure why you are down voted, its a somewhat fair point.

So I looked it up, the 542x series in this article do support "transparency" blt operations, but it might be fair to call them raster ops rather than full blending. They would be be sufficient for the parallax scrolling Duke Nukem here was implementing, which was sorta my original point.

OTOH, full 32-bit ARGB support shows up in the Cirrus line of adapters with the next revision 543x, mostly for video overlay though, although the way its wired seems to leave a lot of open doors for interesting effects too.

And full blown alpha blending shows up one generation later in the 546x series.

So there is full hardware support by the mid 1990's in fairly low end HW/PCs at that point. I've said before on this board that alpha blending was going on all through the 1990's and there are various ways to "cheat" and speed up what is presented in '84 (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/964965.808606). Pulling my Copy of CGPnP off the shelf it says under compositing "since it is fairly easy to do". I give you a demo from '92 with real time apparent blended transparency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLJhtefcoPE
see about 4 mins in. I sorta doubt this is the first case, but was one I vaguely remembered, since I was myself hacking these kinds of things with my schoolmates around that time as we tried to emulate what we saw others doing/etc. And none of us went into computer graphics or gaming oriented parts of the technology fields.

BTW: That demo notes it needs a 386+VGA, so we are talking late 1980's PC hardware.
I owned a couple as well. They were the least worst.
Just think a bit deeper about it. If you can get an equivalent sqft house built to similar cost of materials of a similar age and similar condition, why would that house be 1/3rd the price in one spot? The land and the property tax rate is the difference.
How about the single family that owns Fidelity and probably has significantly more power than multiple tech companies. Or the Koch family.

Consider that you might be focusing on the tech companies just because they are highly visible. If the goal is to determine what endangers American security, a consideration of where power is really concentrated would be worthwhile.
The transition to Windows was a lot more painful than the glossy history suggests. DOS had a huge eco-system of programs, TSRs to help you context switch, incredibly popular word processing and spreadsheet packages and solid networking if you had Netware available.

Windows wouldn't even load on some PC's depending on which memory manager you had installed, what else you were trying to run and what kind of network stack(s) you had loaded.

In some places, trying to get people to switch to Microsoft Word away from WordPerfect result in some very heated discussions. Similarly with products like "Sidekick"[0] - a manner of working that many people got used to.

Windows was often an imposition from corporate. Windows 3.0 was popular but it wasn't necessarily an improvement over the way people were working with IBM PCs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate-and-stay-resident_pr...
Yah. But you can have these instead [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feste_Fahrbahn#/media/Datei:Oe...

(right track, above middle of picture) Not only on bridges.

AFAIK this is the way to go with any sort of HSR, "Feste Fahrbahn", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballastless_track or whatever. I remember them even from the early 80ies, asking people about what that is, and why?

Edit: I see your [1] has a similar picture for an "expansion joint", but it looks functionally different, because not "seamless". With the stuff I know there is only expansion outwards, while there is almost no gap on the rail itself.
A real rogues' gallery.
Pfizer did not accept US government funding, and as such did not have to share the same data that other companies did.

You're posting an excessive amount of fear mongering in this thread.
You gotta love it when the second paragraph, quoting the supposed “expert” starts with “I think” and guesses the states have an unexpected surplus without actually checking any numbers
The situation is a bit different. It's common in China to pay for unfinished apartments. So the bank has nothing to foreclose on, and the property development company becomes even less likely to finish the property. The fear is that more people will protest by stopping payment in a downward spiral.
Covid deaths are higher now in the US than this time a year ago and nobody gives a shit. Half the country demonized the other half of the country for reaching the same state of indifference 6-8 months earlier than they did.
Umm, it's $600 per square foot in Boulder, CO.
Surely it’s easier to emit low frequency noise from various decoys
Was there a typo in your comment? “Find the rain” is poetic and I like it, but I suspect you meant something like “refreshing to see that the primary source is linked in the first paragraph.” (If so, I feel the same way!)

EDIT: in fact, I encourage everyone to click through to the paper: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)...

It surprised me for two reasons. One is that it’s responsive on mobile, unlike a pdf. And the other is that it has embedded videos which are presented as part of the research, which you’ll otherwise miss.
When building a new house, electrical outlets are cheap. That is a strange hill to die on.
That construction adds a layer of "let it fail." For example you might want to have your web server be able to mark a connection as failed instead of only being able to mark the entire server as having failed.
Doesn't mean others are in the same boat as you. The team I work on frequently write detailed commits to the point where I can (and have several times) successfully searched information from years ago on a block of code with the ticket number and the developers (even myself) reasoning at the time.

Maybe it depends on the project but I've found myself doing this so often that I won't stop, it's such a small task that has given me so much benefit. If it doesn't help anyone then nothing was lost.
https://www.fda.gov/media/144337/download

You think the FDA is going to make a decision about a vaccine without a preregistered, public, clinical trial?
Immigration does, unfortunately.
The problem’s fairly serious. As I understand it, real estate is really the only form of investment open to the Chinese people, and often, the property is bought and sold under the ‘greater fool theory’: no one actually lives in these buildings. Many don’t have working utilities. It is, (or was) an appreciating asset, handed from one to another until you can actually buy a livable place, or just make a ton of money off of, or Use it to buy foreign property, ie something more real.

So when building stopped altogether, due to government crackdown of developer loans, there aren’t any new entrants, and no greater fool to buy the worthless property, a lot of wealth might disappear in China.

It’s like US 2008, but much worse. Or perhaps US 2023… who knows?
I think you're thinking of the Cutter incident in the '50s, where they didn't properly weaken the live polio vaccine and it lead to cases of paralysis. I saw temporary blindness listed as a rare side effect of the DTP combined vaccine, but little else.

fwiw I did not notice any long-term side effects from my three Pfizer shots, nor did anyone I personally know.