skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The major difference was that several of the steps went in parallel instead of sequence because there was the money, people, and will to do it.

That not true.

Important steps were skipped or shortened.

For example, blinding was broken a relatively short time after the beginning of the trial. Participant were notified whether they were part of the trial group or placebo group.

This makes the trial useless for the possibility of long term side effects.
Yes, I was talking in a conversation about a crisis in Argentina, telling about the political genocide of USA in south america, and the funded golpe and killing of political opponents, just to deny what is happening in Ukraine, because they're so close geographically, forgot that Ukraine borders with Argentina.. but you can't really fight yankees logic
Yes, it could absolutely do that.

The only way around that would be for Trezor to ship their devices with some sort of attestation function (e.g. a private signing key to which they publish the public key, or sign it via a PKI and include a certificate) and validating that, not just the statement "I promise to be running the authentic firmware", a hash over the firmware, a complete firmware dump or anything else not involving a challenge-response or uncloneable function of some sort.
The 18 variations are like a deck of 18 cards, the virus 'shuffles' one into use, next year another works better. The multivalent vaccine is for all 18 cards, evolutionary escape is far less likely, if not impossible.
Is it really a higher standard of living if you lack the amenities that make those places popular and as a result expensive?
Yes, and he did shit, I voted for him. We call him "tibio" as in warm, he was supposed to bring balance (yeah I said that) by going full nuclear with his politics and instead he did "warm" stuff, we were expecting (we wanted it, we needed it) a complete shock in our country, our economy, our lifestyle (for example, kill every protest which causes a transit chaos every fucking day in the city, it was his promise and did nothing) and he just scratched his balls. He did improve some things tough, but not on the level we needed.
Burma Shave!
Do you still have the pieces?
Fair enough. Perhaps, a popular revival with a focus on waste and environment under the counterculture might be more accurate, but perhaps even then it is still not very accurate given the long history of the concept.
Not the OP, but I can't wear glasses. Contacts are a lifesaver.
Why it's hard to pay your taxes
Paying our taxes could be easy but Turbo Tax profits from it being difficult, and Grover Norquist wants paying your taxes to be painful.
The Makefile is going to be running external commands, no? So you still have the same problem (what are those external commands written in?) - whatever the answer to that question is, your task runner could be written in as well, probably.

At least, that's how I prefer to do it. A project that's heavy JS? Use a JS task runner. Heavy python? Python task runner. Heavy shell? And so on.
The computer was trained to respond to a text prompt with code, without looking anything up or running the code. You would not outperform it at that task, but that has very little to do with your actual job, so you would outperform it at more realistic tasks.

Board games are many orders of magnitude simpler than real life, so it should be a lot easier for a computer to outperform a human with equivalent experience.
Thanks for the input. To be clear, I'm not advocating for any social changes here, and I generally agree with the current social approach given brain development stages and the fact that individuals choose their own partners these days. But one thing is, like, brain damaged levels of icky, and the other one is more of an eccentric and socially tone deaf opinion.
with chopsticks what you place directly onto your tongue is food, rather than a metal implement that you drag back out, providing a superior food centric organoleptic experience.

it's not about work product efficiency.
bitwig is better
Two comments here.

1) What about Kafka + KRaft, doesn't that suffer the same problem you point out in Redpanda? If so, recommending to your customers to run KRaft without fsync would be like recommending running with a Zookeeper that sometimes doesn't work. Or do I fundamentally misunderstand KRaft?

2) You mention simultaneous power failures deep into the fsync blog post. I think this should be more visible in your benchmark blog post, when you write about turnning off fsyncs.
It seems kinda foolish to buy a second hand crypto wallet.
This. The reality here is that CS combined with other areas will open a whole world and keep you employable for the time being (at least before any big corp comes with chatgpt 7, hehe).
This recently happened to the trust wallet browser extension due to using mersenne twister to generate their private keys. Issue is that this PRNG is not cryptographically secure. I think trust wallet is more popular than coinbase wallet as well.

https://community.trustwallet.com/t/wasm-vulnerability-incid...
1) Fake scares gets eyeballs, which is what advertisers pay them for.

2) Many things the media (including Hollywood) do, if you assume the "liberal media" smear is more true than not, don't make much sense—it's as if that smear is kinda bullshit and they all just love money and lots of the owners of the media companies aren't actually left-leaning at all, and, go figure, that does seem to fit reality more than the smear does, while also explaining their confusing-if-they-were-actually-commited-to-the-liberal-cause behavior.

3) CNN has made some moves lately that make it seem like they're trying to pick up some of Fox's audience after the Tucker Carlson firing. This may not be part of that (actually, I doubt it is—see point #1, "the sky is falling!" gets viewers, which sells ads, and that's enough to explain this) but then again, it might be.
One complication is that AVX is not one but more than a dozen ISA extensions each of which may or may not be implemented on a particular processor. This means software delivered to a customer should ideally check CPUID at runtime to dispatch the appropriate processing kernel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512
Use of non-sugar sweeteners: WHO guideline
Everybody's gangsta like they don't live near Russia until Trump is threatening to withdraw the US from NATO, then suddenly it's "how dare the United States not freely pledge its nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and the rest of its military to protect us in Europe on its own dime even though we refuse to spend even a base amount on our own defense, we literally can't even!"
No, it doesn't only take a few stupid utterances. The moral crusaders only have power with those who have none. Donald Trump still isn't in prison for doing and saying far, far worse over several decades.
Thanks for the quote. I do agree both are bad, but in the way that severely beating someone and murdering someone are both bad. It sounds like he is pretty out there.
> Pathfinder isn't widely used

Ofc. Servo was shut down before anything could happen with it. Making production-ready GPU font rendering is hard.

It's not spinning wheels anymore than OSS life cycle is spinning wheels (author needs functionality X author makes a useful lib for X -> it becomes popular -> amount of work increases -> due to pressure/changes in life author abandons lib -> another author has needs functionality X -> ...)

> I was responding to this: "I'd like to add - people have been doing large scale parallel software development for years in C++, in spite of C++.

Saying Rust has issues doesn't negate C++ having massive issues but also a bigger mindshare.
I would be immune to this attack because I always generate my own seeds, on a trusted computer. So I set up hardware wallets to import my seed, instead of trusting their seed generation algo. Of course this procedure doesn't protect against other hardware attacks, for example the wallet exfiltrating the private key somehow (R/F signal), but it certainly raises the bar for hackers.
This could be a big deal if the new vaccines work well, especially if they work well in older people. Hope for the best.
I thought they discovered their DNA had been messed with for quite a while. Anyway, hope Dawn’s girlfriend gets rescued - seemed a fate worse than death.
Yeah, it's basically a good market for scammers: you're almost guaranteed whoever looking to buy this is is looking to store some large amount of money, so as a scammer your chances of big success is very large.
their patience with biblical literalists who tout chatgpt hallucinations as evidence of biblical inerrancy may be limited
I've done pair programming on specific projects throughout the years and I find it to be utterly exhausting. I would resign if my job required it.

I find myself more productive at home because there's often way too much office chit-chat between meetings that does nothing but serve to distract. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but there's an understanding among my hybrid team that if we need to get something done, we'll be WFH those days. Not to mention, I'm senior enough to always be in meetings and never program anymore, and for that I can do anywhere especially when the people I meet are in different parts of the world.
If you're in the South, Ordering "iced tea" with no qualifiers will probably get you sweet tea. Everywhere else, it'll probably be unsweetened. We do have a variety of less-sweet tea drinks, but those will be typically referred to by a brand name.
Hasn't been all that shoddy on beta/nightly branches for me, can't speak for stable.
The entire IT field also, only occasionally ameliorated with actual repairs just before the company is sold to make it seem like the backbone of the company is as strong as it actually should be instead of the Papier-mâché simulacra homunculus system that relies on a sysadmin who hasn't been seen in the sunlight in 30 years but if Van Helsing ever locates and stakes him the whole company collapses and crumbles to dust just like he does.
I agree, and with over 15 years of experience with Live and a fruitful music career thanks to it, I have a deep respect for it. It’s hard to use anything else because of how many small, seemingly insignificant workflow features it has which add up quick in a session.

_But_ - man is it far behind the modern DAWS like Studio One and Bitwig in the low-level fundamentals like plug-in isolation, multithreading, and flexibility in terms of your ability to offload frozen tracks from RAM. This puts a bottleneck on the max size of a session before it becomes unstable and unusable. Even with 32GB RAM and a top-shelf CPU, my ability to finish a song grinds to a halt around the 100 track range. My songs can have 150 tracks with 1-20 plugins and 1-30 automation lanes per track by the time they are finished, and the number of hours I’ve lost from crashing or just waiting for it to respond could easily add up to months at this point.

And small things like the inability to know if a plug-in is the VST2 or VST3 version have been driving me nuts for over a decade.

My music is absurdly abnormal in terms of complexity though, and the vast majority of people will never encounter these problems. I worry, however, that the glacial pace of development likely due to the prehistoric tech stack at Ableton will prevent it from ever closing the growing gap made by the increasingly valuable feature sets of modern DAWs have been able to push out quickly and consistently.

Either way, Ableton Live is a great demonstration of the incredibly fine nuance involved in a good UX. They got a lot of little things right, and that alone has been the largest contributor to their success in the industry.
Wait until you ask it for quotes and stuff it literally makes up stuff and cites things that exist but not that page, etc

They’re generative models — it’s what you get
If I want to sell lemonade, tea or coffee by the road, I need to apply for 5 different documents of some kind or another in my city.

If I want to manufacture (or moreso, import) things with all kinds of unknown, untested chemicals, I am free to do as I wish with no supervision.
Well, that certainly explains why he finally got around to hiring a CEO -- no point running Twitter if his own tweets have to be approved by a lawyer.
The professional engineers who produce many parts of a car do not have ethics which oblige them to act if someone obtains such a part and adapts it to a nefarious purpose.

An automotive engineer doesn't lose sleep at night over the idea that someone might sharpen a piece of a chrome fender using a grinding wheel, and then use it to cut someone's throat. Or strangle someone with a fan belt.

That's exactly what this blog is asserting though.
> Nullptr is needed in C++ because `0` is the only definition of `NULL` that works with the type system, due to the lack of implicit `void` conversions.*

> C doesn't have this problem.

Except for conversions between data pointers and function pointers ;)

Initialization seems to be a special case, but with `-pedantic` the following code will show a warning on the initialization of `fp2`:

void* return_null() {
return 0;
}

int main() {
void(*fp1)() = 0;
void(*fp2)() = return_null();

return 0;
}
Ah, yeah,that makes sense. Hadn't considered that angle. Would track with the user behavior exposed here, namely getting their stuff from an unofficial source (be it the device itself or the firmware).
Incorrect move. Having an opinion is not destructive to society. On the contrary, interrogating our beliefs clarifies them and allows the truth to come through and controversial opinions are a vehicle for that. Wanting to ban and silence people who say controversial things is a sign of weakness and fear, that should itself be examined.
This just is another example to me how absurd it is to use crypto as a practical currency. There is no recourse for compromising your private key, and no way to know for sure that only you have a private key.
While I agree with you on the scientific front, I agree with the author on the risk/action cost front. There's not much cost to preventing the use of phones during school hours, it seems to be a net benefit to education and teacher/student relations even if the hypothesis is wrong.

Banning platforms from allowing under 16s to have accounts is harder because kids will work around it very easily, but I would be happy to see it happen anyway, and made Facebook's problem to deal with.
if you want a really cheap way to get started:

- Reaper isn't free, but it has an unlimited, 0 trade-off trial period

For some free open source synths:

- Vital is a great wavetable synth
- Dexed is a DX7 close that is phenomenal
- dsp56300emu emulates a bunch of classic high quality synths, notably the virus
- Surge Synth

...there are so many excellent open source VSTs you really do NOT need to spend any money.

I don't really know of any high quality open source DAWs, unfortunately.
Why were the same legislators willing to print money for COVID relief but not US debt ceiling?

Isn't it a basic law of economics that the debt ceiling needs to be readjusted basically annually due to inflation since it's denominated in dollars, which are inflating slowly every month?
They fog up and fall off. Sometimes very far off. Farther than I'm willing to climb.
I don't understand why the RSU basis adjustment isn't reported automatically. All of the information is available without my involvement...
Yes, it has happened before. In 2019, the SSL certificate for the Tor hidden service of the website The Pirate Bay was revoked by its CA. This was done after the website was found to be hosting illegal content.
The 90s "irrational exuberance" (to quote Greenspan) years being budgetary hard times is... not a take I've seen before.

(the crash wasn't until '01/'02)
Sign me up for this, I want a shot that's got a reasonable chance of being effective even if I need it every year or two.
Stallman also likely has autism and can't manage his public appearance nearly as well as Gates.
Basic Pitch: Spotify’s Open Source Audio-to-MIDI Converter (2022)
It can be empty even with a commitment to specifics, if the reasoning is "I don't care about harm, but some fraction of how the stock is doing depends on public perception".
Good catch, thanks. Should've been more careful with wording.
That doesn't jive. Mortifraction should be somewhat related to le petit mort and coitus interruptus,

Something like being close to having an orgasm while using pornography but being stopped because your parents/wife/girlfriend/someone else who would disapprove of such actions and have no reasonable expectation of privacy from suddenly arriving at your location.
Mainly, there are 3-4 reasons for considering alternatives to using booleans:

1. Booleans are primitive types without rich domain-specific information or context. When using true/false, it can be more beneficial to employ more descriptive options such as AnsweredYes/AnsweredNo, PositiveResult/NegativeResult, LightsOn/LightsOff, or UserOnline/UserOffline. Mixing and matching booleans of different domain types can lead to errors that the compiler may not catch. For instance:

bool isLightsOn = true;
bool isUserOnline = false;
bool isAdmin = true;

if(isLightsOn && !isUserOnline && !isAdmin) {
...
}

compare with Elixir:

case {lights_status, connection_status, user_role} do
{:lights_on, :user_offline, :unprivileged_role} -> ...
...
end

The example above is basically a Decision Table [1].

While booleans can still be used in system code or libraries, it is advisable to avoid them in application code.

2. Preemptive pluralization [2] makes it easier to refactor code. Going from two options to three is simpler than transitioning from one option to two. Consider the following examples:

bool isLightsOn;

or

type LightsStatus = Bool

vs

type LightsStatus = LightsOn | LightsOff

Suppose there is a new requirement to support dimmed lights. In the former case, significant code refactoring is necessary. In the latter case, adding a new option to the sum type is straightforward, and the compiler assists in handling the changes:

type LightsStatus = LightsOn | LightsOff | LightsDimmed

Similarly, let's examine another scenario:

boolean isOnline;

or

type ConnectionStatus = Bool

vs

type ConnectionStatus = Online | Offline

The latter option can easily evolve into:

type ConnectionStatus = Online | Offline | BadConnectivity

and later:

type ConnectionStatus =
| OnlineMobile
| OnlineFastInternet
| Offline
| BadConnectivity
| IntermittentConnection
| ConnectedToMeshnet

3. Booleans encourage the overuse of conditionals and branching, including nested branching. This can increase the cyclomatic complexity [3] of the code. It is important to manage cyclomatic complexity to keep the codebase maintainable and easier to reason about.

Also see "Get rid of those boolean function parameters" [4].

4. Booleans can indicate whether something occurred, but they lack both the necessary context and the timestamp indicating when the event took place. However, by transforming booleans into nullable or optional timestamps, one can achieve a rudimentary implementation of Domain Events or Event Sourcing.

user_connected_at: nullable(Timestamp)
lights_turned_on_at: nullable(Timestamp)
record_deleted_at: nullable(Timestamp)

NOTE: I'm not advocating for the pattern above, but it's widely used because of the limitations inherent in booleans.

--

References:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_table

[2] https://www.swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity

[4] https://mortoray.com/get-rid-of-those-boolean-function-param...
Growing revenue of a owner company as a argument for database? We have an Oracle fan here.
That hasn't been my experience. It's been that publishers pay less than that but do publish books that are delivered in a publishable form. But doesn't change the fact that most authors make next to nothing especially on things like technically-oriented books that have zero possibility of being best-sellers.

Which may be fine for some purposes but not if you're banking on a hit.
The best vision you can get is your real eyes plus contact lenses.

Vision surgery will correct the central portion of your eyes, and it won't last your lifetime.

After vision surgery, your prescription can continue to change, however it is difficult to correct the vision with contact lenses at that point because your eye has a "plateau" shape, which contacts aren't really designed for.

Also, if there is astigmatism, it's hard to correct it at low diopters of correction.
As somebody who was in the Phase 3 clinical trial for the Pfizer vaccine in 2020, I was never skeptical about the intelligence of my fellow Americans until I saw the way we handled covid. It's an article of faith in Team Hoax that "COVID vaccines will eventually turn out to be bad", even though unvaccinated people dropped like flies throughout all of 2021 (forever the year of the Herman Cain Awards). 400,000 deaths that were preventable by the vaccines. smh.
Believe it or not, a lot of people still don’t know much beyond RMS being the founder of gnu. I have certainly found that plenty of people are not aware of any controversies until they’re pointed out. Whether these organizers had any clue I don’t know.

I do think if you’re inviting someone to give a talk, you probably should do some homework to make sure that you’re comfortable with their persona. And if not, don’t invite them. But it’s less common knowledge than you might think.
No, that's what budget negotiations are for. The debt ceiling is about servicing the debt that has already been incurred. Biden submitted his budget proposal for next year like almost 2 months ago. The GOP has yet to outline their budget proposal, but when they do then both sides sit down to workout that budget.
The full article is at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/09/contact-...
I'm argentinian, I don't need to cite books or whatever, I live this everyday and can tell you that you're wrong. The only moment we had a stable relation with USA was with Macri from 2015-2019 because he was friends with Trump, before that they didn't even know we existed and I can bet that now they don't even care about us, all that "USA is the empire" crap is what the highest ranks of politics use to brainwhash their followers, and the repeat without even thinking or doing some research.
It's hard because it contributes to the fear factor. Imagine filing and feeling you have nothing to worry about (i.e., a random audit). I can't. The IRS is a subtle but effective tool for keeping the proles in line.
Felt pretty spontaneous to me: "My friend just messaged me, we're going to a new cafe that opened up near my house."

Or is that too much planning for you?
Thanks. Glad to have this pat and reductive answer to all of our problems.
> The other poster

Responded there.

> it's simply implausible that 10-12 year olds understand or call all that much about the economy or recovery.

I'm surprised about this kind of takes. Is it assuming that kids aren't affected by their dad getting laid off, or money getting tight in the family in general, adults' reactions to the news or everyday events etc...And of course it's also more complex than just money going in and out. Adults' feelings, anxiety, pressure usually propagate through kids.

The economy is not just a line going up or down in someone's chart.

> They only arose since the advent of smart phones and social media.

Are we positing that nothing else changed in comparison ? Do we really want to compare the war time many decades ago and our current situation and say phones are the only thing that differs ?