skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere near enough space for all the parents to park. School wouldn’t release the kids to search out their parents’ cars on their own, but must confirm each child is released directly to the right parent.
Apple wants you to buy AirPods.
Extraterritorial Compliance and Small Business
>I'm missing something

The only thing you are missing is the hubris of the researchers involved, typified by the attitude of the author in this piece. In my opinion, the preponderance of the evidence available today strongly suggests that Covid was indeed created in a lab. Countless millions are dead and the lives of billions have been permanently upended. The fact is that there is no such thing as perfect safety, and there is always a risk that whatever viruses they are creating and/or modifying in a lab will be released into the wild. These researchers are risking the lives of millions with their franken-virus research - which is why it was halted by the Obama administration years ago. The engineering/modification of dangerous viruses should be completely banned with extremely harsh criminal penalties for anyone violating this ban. The fact that we are still letting these so-called scientists gamble with the lives of millions after Covid is an extremely withering indictment on our society.
Fuck. I gotta go see my parents.
Some people are better at writing than editing, some people are better at editing than writing.

I find it necessary to heavily edit when writing - up to, and including, this comment. I don’t mind it, and I don’t mind doing it to other people’s writing either, so this new way of doing things appeals to me.

I’d be interested to hear what anyone who’s able one-shot their writing thinks of this. I feel like that type of person may have less of a desire for this kind of stuff?
Eh, as the librarian who wrote the post you're replying to... I am actually ambivalent.

I wish librarianship as a field and industry were more what I'd fantasize it should/could be, but it's not so much.
exactly -- it's almost like the author just made the number up out of thin air or something...
I think a part of this problem is just simply a matter of scale. As more and more information gets generated and stored on the internet, finding the information you exactly need in 3-5 words typed into a search engine at some point just ceases to become probable or even possible. So search engines have to predict what you want based upon the limited information you give it (and does this using others things such as how often something is visited, search patterns, trends, and/or related promotions), and you end up perceiving it as it telling you what you want.

Sadly giving a search engine too many words can stop it from even searching, probably because that would cause a scan or result in a very time and computer/resource intensive search. So it doesn't even bother searching and tells you it couldn't find anything.
For personal use… I like the size, it’s a bit more portable than a 13” laptop (0.5lb lighter with Magic Keyboard, 2.7lb lighter on its own), smaller footprint). It does everything I need (surfing, streaming, email, FaceTime).

Would I be happy with a 13” MBA as my personal device? Sure. I basically flipped a coin - the iPad won because shiny new thing.

For work, inability to run Docker/VMs and install VSCode is a deal breaker.
I almost said the same thing, but a tuple starting with an atom is basically the dynamically typed version of an enum. :) You can safely think of ADTs as sugar and typing rules for such tuples, though I believe you do need dependent types to come at it from that direction...
PRC is essentially calorically food secure (with huge waste / room to optimize), has large energy reserves, and unlike island nations, massive domestic raw resource supplies. PRC is NOT Japan during WW2. Hence PRC is much more autarkic and can drag on war economy, perhaps indefinitely. Sure people will eat less meat and depend more on EVs (maybe even cope on bikes) during transition, but when shit hits fan, PRC + RU (is a powerful self sufficient land bloc with much greater long term war making potential than US partners trapped on vunerable islands. It's about asymmetric vunerability.

>The issue is in such a war China is also cut off

The Malacca dilemma was based on assumption that US had unilateral power to blockade PRC imports with impunity due to being domestically energy secure - it was an argument/strategy also based on asymmetric vunerability.

But that's increasingly not true, the TLDR is PRC rocket force likely already has capability or will in short term to _conventionally_ strike major US energy infra... US is existentially dependant on ~150 refineries - they are as dependant on these refineries as PRC is on maritime energy shipping. People conflate resource security as having more resources in your soil but it's really about the ability to protect the critical extraction/delivery infra. Otherwise Saudi wouldn't bribe US for security. Obviously conventional CONUS strikes is also a prelude to MAD, but it is also an equation for PRC establishing mutual vunerability with US, which greatly constrains US actions. Not to mention such capability also functionally dismantles US naval supremacy via port strikes (both capital and support assets) that underpins US global power projection.

My feeling is that the chance of US blockading PRC when she becomes as (conventionally) vunerable as PRC is increasingly remote. It's hard to understate how much geostrategic calculations must change once a relatively autarkic industrial power as massive as PRC is able credibly bring actual war to US homefront. It will be first time in modern history where conventional fires can penetrate CONUS to meaningfully degrade US society. US will have to assess whether it wants to fight a possibly existential war (possibly at best a pyrrhic one where she might not uphold her hegemony after) or abandon East Asia where PRC preponderance is increasingly difficult to match or deter, especially with respect to TW.
Rust doesn't have any sort of ad hoc polymorphism. Of course, you would usually have a sensible name for these functions (maybe new_0a is a sensible name, I'm not a Qt programmer but I rather doubt it).

Rust's "constructors" aren't magic, whereas the C++ constructors are magic, so they need ad hoc polymorphism or you could only have one constructor for each type.

Let's compare familiar types which weren't built using some sort of FFI magic, C++ std::vector and Rust's alloc::vec::Vec.

std::vector has 10 constructors, they can't have different names, so they're distinguished by their parameters, perhaps your IDE will prompt you with a list of options or you'll remember the parameters you need to do what you intended.

Vec::new() makes a Vec, Vec::new_in(allocator) makes a Vec using a specific allocator, Vec::with_capacity(4) makes a Vec with capacity for 4 things and so on.

Somebody else mentioned operators, note that Rust doesn't really overload operators either. In Rust the operators are getting implemented. If you don't implement an operator, then it doesn't exist, whereas in C++ the operators often have some pre-defined behaviour and you can change that using overloading.

For example if your type Doodad should like to be able to use the + operator on other Doodads, you can implement core::ops::Add<Doodad> for Doodad - now the + operator works when both sides are Doodads. If you'd like a += b; to work, you'd implement core::ops::AddAssign<Doodad> for Doodad. These traits require methods with the appropriate signature e.g. AddAssign::add_assign(&mut self, rhs: Doodad) saying this function needs a mutable reference to a but consumes b.

Oh, before I forget:

Because Rust doesn't have ad hoc polymorphism often people realise they wanted parametric polymorphism here. For example C++ 23 can almost do "bananas".contains("nanas") finally, but it uses a bunch of overloading to pull that off, since Rust doesn't have this, it chose to reify the idea that's filling out that slot in the C++ functions as a Trait, and it calls this the trait Pattern. So, all the places where you mean "You know, for matching strings" you can use any of the ways of matching strings because they implement the Pattern trait

"bananas".contains('b')

"bananas".contains("nanas")

"bananas".contains(char::is_whitespace)

"bananas".contains(MyCustomThing { "is it fruit?" })
Disclosure: I spent years on Stripe's IRC channel and most recently on Discord, so definitely biased.

People like to shit on Stripe due to bad customer support, but to be honest you could say the same about any other company.

There's always a better way to handle customer support, and the best way is to decentralize it.

When most of your customer support is locked in a geo-area, it's tough to get great customer support.

It's actually pretty simple to change this, you just need to be willing to change.

However as someone who is on Stripe's discord channel (for dev purposes), the # 1 issue is that people DO NOT know how to ask for help.

The amount of times folk comes into discord to ask about how to reset their password or block a credit card...in a channel called #dev-help... are you serious?

There's a whole customer support site with a LIVE-CHAT and yet you somehow make it to dev-help on Discord? You can't make this shit up.
The ease and availability of card processing has created an wealth of people who use it without understanding the agreements, risks and requirements of using it.

The processors focus on ease of use and friction-free on-boarding isn't helping matters.
Standard row-oriented databases store columns on disk like so:

ABCABCABCABC

Vector databases store them like this:

AAAABBBBCCCC

This allows faster queries if you just need one (or a few) columns, because unrelated columns don’t have to be processed at all. Caches are more efficient, vector CPU instructions can be used, etc…

The downside is that random single row access is more expensive because a row has to be reassembled from many locations.
Why didn't they simply build more chips in 2020 instead of shuttering all of those automobile factories?

At some point you're running into actual, real constraints, real bottlenecks in the supply chain, that will take years to resolve. You can't just scale up on short timeframes, no more than you can make a baby in a shorter time frame.
>It's commonly seen (among virologists) as having at least some merit.

The risk of millions dying is not worth the possible benefit of gaining better understanding.
We used RocketChat for a few years, but switched to Matrix/Dendrite/Element a couple of weeks ago since no one was really happy with RC.

Had a few weird bugs with Matrix (Probably Dendrite's fault) but so far everyone seems happy.

Element has become surprisingly snappy the last few years.
This webpage can be converted directly into a science class.
Why not solve war and hunger while you’re at it?
> C# for Unity

Scripting doesn't count for this comparison. Unity is still a C++ engine.
I’ve been using Safari almost exclusively for 2 years with no problems. I did prefer Chrome for web page development, but I’m not doing that right now.
That was a bittersweet realization for me. Thinking back to my own childhood memories and what age they correlate with. I have a couple school-specific memories from 4-8 or so. Then they kick in more fully from 8-13ish. Then it becomes more "normal". My oldest is 8, so he probably will only now begin to remember our life together.
It's also deeply human.
My dad’s death caused me to reevaluate the relative value of time during my child’s very early years. Prior to his death, I primarily saw them as developmentally critical but personally unfulfilling. After his death I reoriented much of my day to maximize time spent. I regret that it took this event to make me realize this but hey, personal epiphany has costs.

Also - many thanks to the OG Nest team; thanks to your hardware I have high quality video of my son and my father together. They were only able to meet outside due to peak COVID.
Except that natural omicron continues to kill people now? So it's empirically true that at least one backbone (i.e., the natural omicron backbone) plus the omicron spike remains able to cause significant sickness and death, despite the immunity we've built up, even outside China. So what's your argument that the risk from a different backbone is "zero"?
Classification of transcranial electrical stimulation and evolving strategy
OpenAI. I love how fast the world has gone from "lol AI could never do that" to "AI has unfair advantages!" Much of it is based around OpenAI demos like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2.

They've set the benchmark and expectations, and put it ethically high, even if it means ironically not being as open as their competitors. Just like Google set advertising and free software as the norm of the Internet, OpenAI set safety as the norm for AI. If many other companies held the lead by now, the internet would be full of sex chatbots, fake reviews, deepfakes.
So fantastic! And the HTML-brutalism design aesthetic really ties the concept together.
I think the rough part of that analogy is that steel is at a different stage in its lifecycle as a product. Some innovation, to be sure, but nothing like this pace. Here, iteration speed is paramount.

Perhaps SpaceX should move somewhat more slowly and focus more on safety, but I hope that people keep in mind that the only way to be perfectly safe is to do nothing with any risk, which in this case translates to making no real progress on rocketry. That comes with species-level risks.

And if you double the amount of stuff done for each iteration, it might increase production time by much more than double, or potentially make some of the more difficult things impossible, as focus and momentum is lost, and mental state decays more between iterations.
This might be true, but I suspect it's a knock-on effect of a known way to make writing more engaging: using active sentences (with an actual verb denoting action) instead of a passive sentences, which use a form of "to be" (is, are, etc.) as the verb.

Often, when writing active sentences, you realize that you need a subject. Often, that subject is... "you".

TL;DR: don't write crappy, boring, passive sentences, and people will read more of what you write!
No but when I was a kid there was a store that the phone company owned and you could go there to have issues handled.

Now stores are sales only, and customer service is online or on phone outsourced overseas.

Covid has been another excuse to cut back customer service and support.
This is spam. It doesn't matter that there is a news article behind that pay wall.
mRNA vaccine technology is completely different from the technology they use to create chimera viruses
Aside from that. It intentionally does not include any SoM/Carrier card combo even though it seems like everyone is going to that.
There's no way this is true. You simply aren't accurately remembering the actual experience of using that laptop 15 years ago. For starters, the laptop 15 years ago was using a spinning rust hard disk, so everything was much slower compared to today's lightning fast SSD. I remember when it used to take minutes to boot up a laptop and launch a few applications, and it took almost that long to resume from hibernation. Modern laptops are much, much faster.
It's not just overfishing (which reduces population of jellyfish predators) thats the problem, it's also related to the general loss of bio-diversity in our oceans. I read somewhere that climate change, pollution etc. favors more primitive species like jellyfish, which being simpler can thrive where more complex/interdependent species are showing signs of distress.
The charging mechanism for the second-gen pencil probably conflicts with the landscape camera. Also, they don’t have enough differentiators to the iPad Air.
Well, we already know Python is inherently slower than Rust or any compiled language really, so does one really need metrics to know that the Rust implementation was faster?
>The research described in the pre-print aimed to understand

The "aim" or the intention is entirely irrelevant.

>If you want to classify this study as GOF then you might as well do the same with any study of a virus where even a point mutation is made - good luck doing any virology under those conditions.

Good, let's stop mutating viruses in labs. Better to have no virology at all than to let these madmen continue to gamble with all of our lives.
It looks like a back-of-the-envelope calculation to me: twelve summers before the developmental changes she mentions divided by sixteen, when they start driving, get a summer job, start dating, etc. You could probably plot a curve of hours per summer, starting to decline at twelve and declining fast after sixteen...
No worries about Hurricane induced lab leak?
also, is py still interpreted or jit-compiled?
> Also it's not like this type of research helped us predict or even fight the pandemic. Millions have been spent on studying and modifying wild coronaviruses and it not only failed to predict this pandemic, but none of the research helped in anyway combating it.

I was under the impression this research was partly responsible for quickly identifying parts of the virus that are conserved in evolution, thus making them good targets for mRNA vaccines. If vaccine manufacturers had targeted proteins that have high rates of mutation, it would allow the virus to evade vaccine immunity faster, potentially making vaccines useless by the time they were actually rolled out.
It's not my definition. And I can't tell what experiments you're referring to, so it's not reasonable to comment. But the experiments done at BU had the potential to produce new viable virus sequences that could display a phenotype that included increased pathogenicity. The researchers had no way of knowing what the results would be in advance. They followed all safety protocols -- that's not being questioned. But their experiments would qualify as GOF experiments under a variety of definitions.
> 1) talk about failure to read a room

The people most upset in the room are the same people who have been screaming that Covid was not a lab accident. I wonder why they would be upset at someone showing how easy it is to weaponize a coronavirus?
You have a point. Both have a high CS ranking and both are well respected in education. I suspect that the numbers in the spreadsheet are a combination of the 2. That's why the number is so high relative to others.

Also, I suspect Microsoft has been a great contributor to the school. That's another reason it does so well in CS placement.
which book would you suggest someone starts with?
This reminds me of that song I really hate, Cat's in the Cradle.

I've long since retired, my son's moved away

I called him up just the other day

I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind

He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time

You see, my new job's a hassle, and the kids have the flu

But it's sure nice talking to you, dad

It's been sure nice talking to you

And as I hung up the phone, it occurred to me

He'd grown up just like me

My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon

Little boy blue and the man in the moon

"When you coming home, son?" "I don't know when"

But we'll get together then, dad

We're gonna have a good time then
Source for said spyware? Was not aware of this.
It's reasons like this why the DPA and other mechanisms exist. Having sufficient fab capacity in case global supply lines experience disruption is a strategic reserve of high national security importance.
Well, discrete images are an approximation/sampling of some kind of continuous process in nature. We therefore have a whole arsenal of tools to process this signal, ie photoshop.

Text? I'm not sure what kind of model we have here. Only now that we have word embedding and other nlp models can we hope to do the same kind of thing we do with text as we do with images?
Yikes. Time to diversify processors
If there's anything I've learned growing up in various churches... the people who aren't open-minded, aren't worth listening to. Thanks for highlighting that this author seems be worth listening to.
Well if the questions is:

> What are the main correctness risks in C++ if you just never use a raw pointer?

All the code on C/C++ IS a correctness "risks". Only constant, manual inspection could(maybe) say otherwise.

What Rust gives is significant reduction of the risks.
Too late to edit this, sorry.

> "Sometimes things just suck"

I don't want this to sound like normalizing a safety deficit. It's not OK. But the incident happened and that sucks. OSHA can't immediately fix things and that sucks. Punitive damages don't immediately fix things and that sucks; they add some motivation, but they don't directly fix anything.
I think this is a recent development and it is mostly older people who would previously not cycle as much anymore, but now drive e-bikes and so are going a lot faster while being physically more fragile. I think they were mostly one sided incidents (them driving into stuff or slipping).

For those people, I’d indeed recommend or mandate a helmet.

Do consider that in the Netherlands, people cycle 15,000,000,000 kilometers per year (that’s over 800 km per year per citizen, including babies etc.) to put the 50,000 injuries into perspective.

(Dutch source: https://www.fietsersbond.nl/ons-werk/mobiliteit/fietsen-cijf...)
Incredible! Approachable and fun to learn.

All education should aim for this bar
Yes. If your bottleneck is magnetic disc seeking times, no amount of language change is going to move the needle (hah!).
Okay, we just have a disagreement. Its no big deal. I appreciate your perspective.
This is the same issue with content moderation.

Something gets picked up that shouldn’t be picked up by the automated detection systems.

For the average user this is uncommon so even if the offending communication is dealt with in a clumsy and slow fashion it doesn’t happen often enough to visibly impact the bottom line of the company.

Eventually over time users hear stories of this and as time goes by the more stories are heard until it reaches a point where the average user regards it as a fixed property of the system.
If they're an ally, it's to our benefit that their military is strong.

If they become an enemy, it doesn't hurt that we built their military and know everything about it inside out.

If the US could make every other country's military a subsidiary of the US military, they would.
The typical experience is just fine and nobody posts to Reddit about it -- never mind posting twice.
Video https://youtu.be/pDKNEO0gDuE
i likely have < 5% left. I moved internationally and have parents in their 70s i will likely see them less than 200 days in total.