skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a solid repetition of antivax talking points but none of it is accurate. Data was being collected during the trials and in other studies but it’s harder because you also need to establish the direction of spread, which in the simple PCR model you outlined would require testing not only the person in the trial but everyone around them with timing precise enough to start establishing direction (if my wife and I both get sick and she’s in the vaccine trial, a point in time PCR showing both of us with antibodies doesn’t distinguish between the vaccine failing to prevent her from giving it to me or the reverse).

When the efficacy of the vaccines was so high for preventing serious cases, it would have been a medical ethics problem to delay getting them out to the public while trying to get better data on spread.

When that kind of data did come out later, it showed strong effects — unfortunately, as noted this was against Alpha and Delta was already chipping away at efficacy:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02054-z

> Two studies1,2 from Israel, posted as preprints on 16 July, find that two doses of the vaccine made by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, based in New York City, and biotechnology company BioNTech, based in Mainz, Germany, are 81% effective at preventing SARS-CoV-2 infections. And vaccinated people who do get infected are up to 78% less likely to spread the virus to household members than are unvaccinated people. Overall, this adds up to very high protection against transmission, say researchers.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2116597

> Before the emergence of the B.1.617.2 (delta) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), vaccination reduced transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from vaccinated persons who became infected, potentially by reducing viral loads. Although vaccination still lowers the risk of infection, similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated persons who are infected with the delta variant call into question the degree to which vaccination prevents transmission.
ChatGPT seems best at creating mediocrity outside a person's circle of competence because then the mediocrity is hidden to the creator and they can honestly act out this type of hyperbolic theater.
Yes I haven't seen anyone use it for some time but the `git+https` scheme used to be common.
The "user as the product" model works well for the user for a while, when business is booming. I now pay Microsoft for email simply because they have someone answering the phone over there, competent or not. I get Office as part of the deal.
Streaming. A handful of software engineers are now entertainers. This does a few things. It vastly increases their mindshare - they become one of the ten or so programmers known by the most people. It also encourages exaggeration. Streamers live off eyeballs. You want big loud over the top personalities with hot takes and extreme reactions.
> Millennials already tried, found it didn't work, found it was for nothing, found it will never work because the systems of humanity don't allow for it.

speak for yourself. I'm changing the world, one kind gesture at a time ^_^
> If I can't use Tweetbot, I'm just going to stop using Twitter. The official client and the website are just not usable for me.

This is the situation for me. I haven't been on the platform since this disruption.
Perhaps the field has become too fragmented. The MagPi Magazine [1] comes to mind, it focuses on hobbyist uses of the Raspberry Pi with articles on programming, projects. But as I say, m that's pretty niche.

And even then I feel like any sort of magazine is anachronistic in this day and age. Too bad too because unlike the various far flung forums, slack channels, or subreddits, a magazine was a nice centralized melting pot where even the cover of the magazine could ignite an entire electronics revolution (and here I'm thinking of course about the Popular Electronics cover [2] that featured the Altair 8800). We've lost our "pulp watercoolers".

[1] https://magpi.raspberrypi.com

[2] http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/userdata/images/large/13/...
I really enjoyed using Rust nom crate that lets you build arbitrary parsers using parser combinator approach.
Once you package a dependency, updating to a new version requires minor changes unless it's a major version change. What you do gain is the ability to easily upgrade and downgrade a particular dependency and verify the integrity of the installed files (something that pip, for example, doesn't provide as far as I'm aware, but the OS package manager does).
Original article this is referencing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z34dx3/fbi-wont-say-hacked-d...

And the relevant court document: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23569961-motion-to-r...
Neat! I need to read up on QEMU. I haven't looked into cross arch images in a while.
That could be the output of big company's Next Button, after downloading Q2 report...
Computer Shopper had LOTS of ads, but it was not just ads.

I loved it, but preferred Byte and PC Magazine.

I remember the Gateway 2000 ads. Crazy.
That makes sense if you want to and can depend on CUDA.

I gather there are efforts to provide a conversion layer from CUDA to other targets, but they seems to involve adapting the CUDA code to be more portable.
Very cute, but I wouldn't know where to start.
If you tried and failed, I have respect. If you didn't bother "because it's impossible" (nihilism) then I have zero sympathy.
Well, here's my point of anecdata: despite Python being a very productive language and very easy to use, despite it existing for more than three decades and being perhaps the most massively learned language by aspiring programmers today, you hardly see any stand-alone application written in it. I can name not a single application that I use on a daily basis written in Python. It seems it's strongly confined to the web-server, where the environments are well controlled via containers, runtime bugs impact a single page load and fixes can be applied continuously. People don't ship Python standalone apps.

Based on the buggy and unstable Python desktop apps I have used, I have a strong suspicion that developing large applications in Python is strongly self-limiting after the initial sprint.
Right. It takes into account both temp and humidity and either can trigger the cooling. It is a two stage system, so usually on the first stage is enough to get the humidity low enough to feel better.
+1 Laravel. Built-in queues is a killer feature that makes your Web App scale with little pain.
This is going to be interesting. I see significant improvements there, but keeping up with the model version will take a lot of work to integrate into all products.
> in a Java API you don't commit (at the language level) to the ownership of passed-in or returned mutable objects. In Rust, you do[.]

That's only the default, of course. Rc is commonly used in Rust to decouple ownership management from the simple use or passing of objects throughout the program, much like in any GC language. (Of course Rc on its own does not collect reference cycles; thus, "proper" tracing GC is now becoming available, with projects like Samsara https://redvice.org/2023/samsara-garbage-collector/ that try to leverage Rc for the most part, while efficiently tracing possibly-cyclical references.)
The 'sh' command that it corresponds to is above it:

find . -iname '*test*' -print0 | xargs -0 grep data

but possibly a bad assumption on my part that the mapping was clear. In any event, 'm' is for regex string matching, and 'f<' is for reading a file into a generator (basically an iterator over the lines in the file). It's a good point that more, simpler examples would help.
I was going by the general principle of pointing right to the source, which is Paul Haddad's actual post, rather than secondary coverage of it by someone else, which only got updated after Paul Haddad had posted, as well.
My tip is get yourself an experienced independent agent/manager to supervise the build - or treat it as one semester of a college course on how to build houses, and accept the costs that you would expect (with the full realisation that you are going to have to do two more to "graduate").

When I first did projects I got caught repeatedly with items that were not on the spec sheets or costings - but were 100% required. This is one of the ways that builders manage price competition with the inexperienced. They 100% know what the rate that is likely to get quoted will be, if they want the work they will quote lower than that and will use overruns to make back to the market or somewhat above (because by then you are stuck).

An experienced project manager will catch 95% of these issues some will sneak through but they will also have the contacts to get these sorted if the builders are unreasonable. You will pay out a chunk to employ this person - sure - but this will pay you back just with the cost overrun issue (in my experience) and at the same time you will have much less day to day work on your plate. So, it's basically a "free" assistant.

Also, what's a good job? You have ideas... but experienced builders (and your manager) will know where it's really smart to spend your money.
Westworld cancelation wasn't shocking but I was hoping that they would finish the show with 5th and final season.
Actually, the first document contains a number of amendments (all the currently tabled ones). Only the first one list seems to mention "imprisonment".
I would argue that there is a difference to the 'inspiration' you mention.
As I see it, what SD does with Getty's database is more akin to me as an artist taking the Getty pictures and making a collage from the photos (actively using them).

[There is a separate point around the value of the Getty database. Routinely, companies are sold with their customer list / database as a main selling point. Getty has undoubtable value through the sheer size of collected work. Nobody could expect that we just assign 'no' value to it, even if it can be accessed (with a watermark) for free by most.]
If we're talking a complete beginner with maybe only "hello world" level skills I recommend the Lego BOOST set: https://www.lego.com/en-fi/product/boost-creative-toolbox-17...

It teaches you step by step the basics of programming (loops, function calls etc) using a scratch-like programming language.
You can buy films from a Windows computer using an iTunes
If you came here to point out how content negotiation isn't a "trick" but rather a simple basic part of the core protocol: think first on the fact that there was once a time when you didn't know that.
Yes, the magic involved in Eloquent ORM, also the central use of Facades or that the models are based on migrations (which uses code comments as a crutch for auto-completion), instead of the migrations being based on the models (how Symfony uses simple PHP objects, from which then Doctrine generates the "missing" migrations).

I can live with both frameworks, but Symfony just feels cleaner and more transparent in its workings without using magic to make things look simpler.
"Dear EWG, This Is Why Real Scientists Think Poorly Of You"
https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien...
Software Design by Example (https://www.routledge.com/Software-Design-by-Example-A-Tool-...)

Available free online at https://third-bit.com/sdxjs/
I think thats known as torque vectoring - my (fwd) car uses the brakes to control torque to each wheel. it works quite well!
My windows do that - I still think it's pretty fun even after some time.
In areas without trees it’s common to build homes with rammed earth, bricks, cob, or other building materials.

The PGH book is mostly focused on a north eastern US perspective, where trees are plentiful.
> West should have bailed our Russia through some equivalent of Marshall plan...

Definitely should have. However, it would have fell into the lap of the US to give the lion’s share and I remain unpersuaded the US had at that time the economic strength to pull that off without putting itself into an existentially compromising posture. Politically I doubt the Russian Federation would have consented to the kind of terms Germany and Japan did for the Marshall Plan and GARIOA respectively.

The Marshall plan was offered to and declined by the USSR, and they declined on behalf of USSR Eastern European satellites, so there were marketing hooks to revive a Marshall Plan. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out informal overtures were made for a similar plan and rebuffed by the Russian Federation; after all NATO membership was briefly and informally broached.

I suspect the Cold War wore out both opponents, and for the US it was a closer call than many admit today. Much like WW2 in the first half of US involvement was a pretty close call that was only admitted much later.
DeepL takes aim at Grammarly with the launch of Write, to clean up your prose
Yeah, asp.net for example, supports both JSON and XML and relies on the accept header to decide what to send.
Same (amazing) site: https://worldradiohistory.com/Personal_Computer_World.htm

Also: https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorldMagazine/PC...
Just use typescript
It makes sense since separation of church and state isn't in the constitution. The establishment clause was to avoid the establishment of a federal religion. Many states had their own state religions until the 1800s. The founders did base the idea of Natural rights based on a creator. Most were either deists or christians. It's hard to come to the idea of inalienable rights without believing in a creator.
I'm out of defense for more than 2 decades now. Back then, MSCE, Java and Oracle were the rage. Just look up some job descriptions. They love the soft stuff like scrum master, agile, etc.. They need that check boxes for contracts.
Php's inconsistencies in regards to needle vs haystack make me weep. Javascript doesn't have anything remotely like that.
Someone should compare the price drops in RAM.

Prices dropped quickly back then.

More recently, I bought a 16GB MacBook Pro in 2013. 10 years later I would expect my next to be 64GB.
Which ones have been fixed?
Lion's teaming up to take over a pride. I've seen this documentary. If this is what humanity is now chasing, I don't think its going to be good for anyone, but needs must.
My fav was Lossless Data Compression, a really well written article describing how the algorithms behind PKZIP worked; Huffman & LZW coding.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byte/90s/1991/Byte-199... (page 309)
Happy to chat, my mail is in the profile
Not a book, but CS50x is a freely available course with high quality videos and lecture notes. The lecture exercises are programming projects of sorts. It teaches programming from scratch with C and then Python. Plus, since a lot of students take it, there are lots of online resources with tips, like the CS50 subreddit.

https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/
I personally don't prefer CUDA (or any other form of lock-down), however they started CUDA integration ~5 years ago (or even before that), so they need to start another migration effort to support another technologies.

While I use Eigen extensively on CPU, I don't follow any mailing lists of them, so I don't know the internal state and mindset.
How to find smooth parts of integers (2004) [pdf]
> Or you can just use Eigen via CUDA:

The link you’ve posted doesn’t mean you can do large dense matmul in CUDA right away, it’s just that you can use fixed sized vector/matrix operations inside kernels (which might be useful if you’re writing graphics code and need some vec3/mat3/quats.) You still have to write your own customized kernel for a large dynamic-sized gemm computation (with tiling and shared memory and all that jazz), and at that point it’ll be best to just use CUBLAS.
You would then find this Nihilistic attitude acceptable in a non-capitalistic country?
PHP has always been and will always be my goto language when it comes to personal projects.

I don't use it professionally, but it's such a breeze coming back to it whenever I work on my own stuff.

And the ecosystem (especially Laravel) is light-years ahead of ANY competition in ANY language in terms of ease of use while still having all the necessary features.

It's the only language for which I always read the release notes because it's so exciting to see it become even better as the years go.
I'm very sorry, you have found a bug. Dates and json lines currently not working happily together.

Try a table without a date column:

curl https://csvbase.com/calpaterson/iris.jsonl

Is ".jsonl" the right file extension, do you think?
I mean, I also once didn’t know how to program, doesn’t make programming a trick. As another comments pointed out, it’s worthy of an article. But a trick is a weird description for it. It’s like saying it’s a trick that you can do `console.log` and it will output it in the browser console.
Pay wall free: https://archive.is/pO6uR
don't confuse bad luck for lack of talent.

However, it is true that having an optimistic mentality can help you get lucky.
No, that is https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695455993367527, which is the preceding post. Unlike Hacker News, Mastodon makes the post linked-to by the URL have a different background and a larger font. And https://tapbots.social/@paul/109695822047176004 is very clearly a post that contains no hyperlink at all. That's because it was posted before The Verge then went back and edited its article.
There is this excellent Github repo for this: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

It has a collection of blogs for building various small projects to learn different languages.
Why is that interesting?

Both sides have presented evidence of war crimes and I already believe that soldiers do brutal things in conflicts.
Being old enough that I probably studied the http protocol before actually using it, by the time I encountered this functionality in the wild I already knew how it worked. So, no, there was never such a time.
Oh my god the hair tugging. I fucking hate her braid. (I never could finish the series).
Yes, if you want to use a microcontroller to do all the stuff the C64 did, including video and audio signal generation, well, it can be done (check out LFT's "craft" and "phazor" demos). But you'll need a considerably faster CPU.
I've been looking for ways to create gates with real life objects, and this one is quite novel! I think for linking gates though, you'd need some sort of connector system in between, like a longer metal piece from the ends. It's bizarre how easy a full adder computation is when you break it down.
"Data was being collected during the trials"

Not on infectiousness or spread, that's the whole point we're making here.

"When the efficacy of the vaccines was so high for preventing serious cases"

They claimed based on trial data 95% efficacy against infection, not just serious cases. That wasn't accurate.

"it would have been a medical ethics problem to delay getting them out to the public while trying to get better data on spread"

They had many months. Regardless even if this wasn't the case, it's easy: make them available and then don't impose any requirements or passporting until such data is available. They didn't do this.

You appear to classify literally any criticism of any process or happening to do with vaccines as "antivax talking points" even though they're precise and specific to this event. Do you realize that for vaccines to be safe and effective, you need a whole lot of people who are willing to be "antivax" in the regulators, pharma companies, doctors surgeries and more? The only reason anyone believes in vaccine safety at all is the assumption of lots of people who will yell stop at the slightest hint of problems. It's clear that this assumption is wrong and the people most afraid of being classed as "anti-vaxxers" are the very people meant to be watching out for safety problems.
The Advanced Beginner blog post series by Robert Heaton is great.
beej.us/guide is the first hit
GCC bug #323 (third oldest unresolved bug) is about to get fixed
I am mainly using ChatGPT to inform my google search options.

So instead of searching on google "what data stores to use for saving embeddings" . I ask ChatGPT "What are recommended datastores for saving embeddings". The second pre query gives me sense of better starting point, that to start with a generic query.
Show HN: GitHub-star-signs – show your all starred repositories
Wow - great site indeed. Many thanks!
I'm not nitpicking - I'm saying the reason most babies are born with 2 legs hands and a head is because genetic defects die off before birth (plus the screening we have for early termination nowadays) - and the failure rate starting from a single cell is huge.
This could be really helpful for procrastination. Since sometimes the hardest part is just to start, this could generate helpful nudges towards productive outcome.
Blog Post on “The Growth of the OCaml Distribution”
We recently worked on a project to build a binary installer for OCaml, inspired from RustUp for Rust. We had to build binary packages of the distribution for every OCaml version since 4.02.0, and we were surprised to discover that their (compressed) size grew from 18 MB to about 200 MB. This post gives a survey of our findings...
It wasn't on Dark level but it was still good. I was able to finish it within 2 days probably because most of shows nowadays, especially from Netflix wasn't that good.

I can't remember the last time Netflix released an amazing series.
Sadly, he enjoyed only one year of voluntary fame before passing away, at age 23. Of what exact causes I do not know, but it is said that he was an alcoholic.
I'm not sure what you're trying to avoid. After the plan is finalized, there is a discussion between the builder and owner about materials and furnishing (e.g. flooring, countertops, cabinet style, siding, roofing, HVAC, lights, paint, etc). But once those decisions are made, it's (hopefully) off to the races. That's the way it'll be with a budget builder or a luxury builder.

The actual construction is what is crucial. All builders and their subcontractors will be in a hurry to get the job done so they can move on to the next job. I expect most are professionals and care about doing a good job, but there are plenty who are OK with a shoddy job. They'll be most likely gone when the problems in their workmanship is done.

Hang out in /r/HomeImprovement for a while and you'll see all sorts of contractor fuckups.

Getting a good builder and subcontractors is a crap shoot. My wealthy neighbors a few years ago wanted to build their dream/final home. The builder left halfway through. They found a new builder and eventually completed the project but way past the original date. They finally moved in and had to deal with so many issues that it was hurting their marriage. After about a year, they decided to sell the house. The new owners were still dealing with construction issues (for example, the crawlspace wasn't properly waterproofed and had significant water intrusion).

If you want to be hands off, buy an existing house and hire a really good inspector to tell you what kind of shape it's in. Some inspectors don't do a very good job either, so...
Hasn't the promise of technology always been the automation of labor to free us up to enjoy lives of leisure? Instead it seems we are hyper-concentrated on speeding up the treadmill of productivity. The invention that comes right after the "next" button is a tool to analyze your nexts-per-hour trends.
I didn't use the word "fraudulent", and so I decline to continue this discussion with you.
I found Al Sweigart's books nice for beginners.

Highlights
https://automatetheboringstuff.com
https://inventwithpython.com/bigbookpython
I wonder if this is going to be confirmation that a large fraction of Tor nodes are in fact run by the FBI.