skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Severe side effects or death cases were excluded from the Pfizer phase 3 study by conveniently shifting blame on patients, inventing diagnoses or claiming they had a Covid infection.

Even if all that were not intentional, it would certainly raise the question why this should be the only case of fabricating data for studies. Since the RNA-vaccines are obviously not as positively effective as claimed, what else is there that might be not talked about?
And lastly why is the topic still that controversial when the safety and effectivity claims have not stood up to the real world test?
I write HTML by hand and one thing that's come in handy is HTML's built-in functionality for author-defined custom elements. We use ICON-LIST which wraps a UL and optionally an SVG if you don't want to use the default checkmark, and STAR-RATING which displays a rating out of 5 SVG stars. They aren't my most-used, that's probably P or A or LI or DIV or SPAN by number, but they're some of the most important I use frequently!
Thanks.

> In quantum algorithms, we play with the coefficients.

Is it accurate to say, more simply (simplicity being a high priority here), that 'we play with the probabilities' of collapse to one basis state or to the other - thus skipping the need to explain linear combinations or coefficients?
Well, Shopify is investing in optimizing Ruby, so they believe Ruby was the component with the most opportunity for improvement. And the results are showing there was indeed lots of places where improvements could be made.
If you do an asynchronous callback in an inner loop that tries to log the loop counter and a calculated value at the same time, you will find that the loop counter has incremented underneath you and you'll get for instance '20' for all of the logs. That was my introduction to this sort of problem.

The solution as I said elsewhere is to pop out the inner block to a separate function, where the value of the counter is captured when the outer function is called, not when the inner one runs.
Oh lord this looks terrible. Let's reinvent a bunch of wheels and maim the database and end up with.. I don't know exactly what, even after reading the page for over 5 minutes.

I've tried various Java persistence technologies but this one is proving a hard sell to me. I'm currently using jOOQ which has a different philosophy, it embraces SQL and brings it closer to Java and frankly, I'm very happy with it. And sure, JPA does a few things wrong (as the Permazen comparison points out) but from what I'm reading I'd still rather use it over Permazen.

The project used to be called JSimpleDB and it should have kept that name IMHO since very simple applications for developers unfamiliar with SQL may be one of the few valid niches for it.
I feel like I recall seeing something similar in nanopb.
Apple (and other streaming services) have been caught out replacing people’s local songs with censored/blessed versions. That is the main reason why some characters will not stream music; because they do not have full control over their own files.
KRPC perhaps

https://krpc.github.io/krpc/communication-protocols/tcpip.ht...
https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/issues/987 maybe (based on "And yes, that string in this post is entirely deliberate").
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On one side it's not great, it could be made more obvious to the library user.

On the other side, if they wrote multiple projects and never noticed the behavior, how bad can it be ?

It would be interesting if that extra header optimized the processing a lot, pushing other libraries to have it as an option.
CNCF is a "project" under the Linux Foundation.
The word "best" in /best and /bestcomments doesn't mean best, it means most-upvoted. Upvotes, unfortunately, happen for reasons other than bestness.

It's always irritated me but I haven't changed it, out of deference to history and lack of a pithy alternate name. Anyone?

Maybe /up and /upcomments?
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Me too. After being on Gmail for the past decade, I finally made the switch to iCloud completely. It‘s been a smooth transition.
> If anyone knows which library/language these issues the author is talking about are in, please tell us.

https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js/issues/987 maybe (based on "And yes, that string in this post is entirely deliberate").
Please add "(2022)" to title
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This feels like such a non-news. They've pretty much created a language which is deliberately dumbed down to be 20 years behind other languages, then they are proud that they could speed it up with a feature that was fairly well-known almost 20 years ago.

Sounds like the average iPhone reveal to me.
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Does that happen? I've not heard of that. Regardless, that does iPhones are still immune to everything short of armed robbery. That your front door lock doesn't stop thieves from smashing the window to get in doesn't mean it doesn't serve a purpose.
That kind of thinking is a bit flawed unfortunately. You might hit your peak for 20 minutes a day but you’ve provisioned your system for that temporary worst case for the entire day and other services are paying that penalty. If it’s the only thing you’re running, maybe. But in practice there are other things you want to run on the machine to improve utilization rate (since services are not all hitting their peak simultaneous generally)

That’s why good modern allocators like mimalloc and tcmalloc return memory when they notice it’s going unused, so that other services running on the machine can access resources. And this is in c++ land where things are even more perf sensitive.
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I don't get the point, the author seems to make the point that double envelopment was not relevant by WW1. Guess what, it was relevant in WW2 and is still relevant today.

The Reds were all about maneuver warfare in Russian Civil War and kept dreaming of it throughout the Cold War. A number of double envelopments has happened in the Ukraine war.

When you're economically weaker the war of annihilation is your only bet.
interesting, GPT refuses to summarize this content: "I'm sorry, but I can't generate a summary for that content." per https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary & https://t.me/hn_summary
Have you compared it against newer allocators like mimalloc or the rewritten tcmalloc (not the one in gperftools)? Jemalloc is a bit long in the tooth now.
There's a certain point in the security world where paranoia becomes a requirement, even though it only breeds more paranoia.

An outcome of this is the requirement to treat all possibilities as certainties, regardless of evidence.

In this way, entire sections of industry will auto-assume the backdoor was both deliberate, and used both both friendlies & hostiles.
As always, "designers" are optimising for what looks cool and fancy subjectively to them, rather than optimising for usability. In their defence, the latter is much harder :)
The same goes for "times this business is open" to store "9am-4pm on weekdays" you probably want to store almost exactly that string, rather than some ints. Generally speaking, dates stored as "ints" are mostly good for timestamps of events that have already happened (or even more precisely events that your application generated/logged live). Other use cases may be more rooted in the "human" dates than in absolute time
> which is 100% bug free

define "bug free". In Python, I've been reimplementing monads recently. It's such a shame that Python still doesn't have Null/None propagation. After each obtained result and before using it in the next chain, I have to run a series of sanity checks (is it Null or not, etc.) which should be resolved automatically by the language. Alas, most people don't care.

Something like this would be nice:

result =? foo(bar :? str)

meaning that foo should receive a str bar, but maybe bar is not str. Then foo should return something, but maybe it returns None (the =? part).
Most people are allergic to any sort of effort, so having excuses not to do something beneficial yet challenging is very convenient.
"Falsehoods Traffic Wardens Believe About License Plates" :)
Ah yes, you've got it.
One of my favorite bug stories to tell people.
And peripherals that have direct CPU and memory access. You could easily design a “backdoor peripheral” to a completely bulletproof CPU.
A video from Mark Rober about Zipline, to get an idea. I was very impressed when I first heard of them.

https://youtu.be/DOWDNBu9DkU
Same thing with the person who had NULL as their plate: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/8/14/20805543/null-licens...
I do that, and it's always a fiddly manoeuvre. Far from usable.
Apple service network is not so great, good reason not to travel with Macbooks. DigitalNomad subreddit is full of horror stories and international flights to get machine fixed.

PC has removable SSD and many cheap options to buy new machine.
Chinese blockade of Taiwan would likely fail, Pentagon official says
> There has never been a principle in US or English law that you have to do business with everyone all the time. There are, in modern times, certain protected classes that you cannot discriminate against. Otherwise, you are free not to do business with someone, or to set the terms on which you are willing to do business with them. Alleged rapists are not a protected class.

There's long been a principle that the innocent have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Protected class laws exist because, in their absence, too many businesses chose to discriminate against the same groups of people - but surely that reasoning applies even more strongly to discriminating against those accused of serious crimes. (Indeed historically there's a lot of overlap between the two - many lynchings were justified with rape allegations).

> I think that applies more to businesses like banks and payment services providers that can literally make it difficult for you to obtain food and shelter than it does to social media or content hosting platforms, which are relatively easy to self-host.

Realistically there are at most two viable video platforms (and if anyone is to blame for that it's the government, not Brand). If someone can take away your ability to make money they can make it hard for you to obtain food and shelter just as much as if they were refusing to sell food to you.
I love those stories. I can then engineer bedtime stories. Is there a place where I can find more?
That was low stakes, they already had the shooters.

What if that was theater?
> On the other side, if they wrote multiple projects and never noticed the behavior, how bad can it be ?

Many projects will choose a standard encoding to give them language independence, but start by using the same language and libraries on both ends of the pipe. Therefore,you might not notice the library is incompatible until quite late in a project's development when you try to replace a component with a seemingly compatible, alternative implementation.
As a tangent, it's sad that that mentality is often used when designing actual systems for end users! (not relevant here because this is just a fun project)
Thank you for your answer.

I'm still wondering why it's not available for SQLServer (because there are use cases for this feature).

It is "just" a matter of driver interface (I mean the piece of code that implement ODBC API) that "just" do not give this feature or it's letteraly not possible with SQLServer?
I mean, you're not wrong, but you're also missing the point. We don't need "perfect recall" in this case. It's not difficult to get any of the ChatGPT models to divulge their knowledge cutoff date. It's also not hard to verify with a handful of crafted prompts.

I think we can reasonably conclude it's updated.
> Now there are certain things they cannot punish people for (e.g. being black). Are you suggesting that the time has come to mandate that companies may not discriminate against customers for other reasons as well?

We should pick one or the other. Either it's fine to discriminate for any reason, or some businesses have a public service obligation and must serve anyone.
They don't have their own framing.

...and thus it was added.

We finally had to get down to individual bytes from the network dump to try to sort it out.

The perils of abstraction strike again. Chances are that if you had just written the code to directly send and receive the data you wanted, since you control both ends and know exactly what the bytes will be, you'd never have run into this.
Exercise in Coherence
Is everyone living in Russia supposed to be a Russian military expert?
No one has the right to win the popularity contest of celebrity. If the world wants to turn their back on you then you cannot force them not to. It would be as foolish as feeling aggrieved about not winning an election (an example that’s hard to use nowadays.)
Absolutely fascinating reading. Bound up in identity politics, but also shenanigans about how votes are counted, whats on the ballot, what combination of local politics vs the financial consequences for individuals (tax, benefits) you look at.

Puerto Rican's would gain some things in medicaid, have to pay different rates of tax, and lose some status in UN and LAC community contexts.

On the mainland, both major parties ostensibly support in principle self determination. That said, I don't see how the current political landscape could produce it, given the fracture lines.

I loved this footnote in the wiki page:

Another misconception is that the import/export taxes collected by the U.S. on products manufactured in Puerto Rico are all returned to the Puerto Rico Treasury. This is not the case. Such import/export taxes are returned only for rum products, and even then the U.S. Treasury keeps a portion of those taxes
Phase #2 is only a thing in a strict scientific definition. Nobody will remember the decades of overt denial that life could ever exist off of earth and obstruction of exploration efforts, and handwaving away of biosignature evidence when we do finally observe life on mars, after all. Even then naysayers will claim panspermia in order to kick the can down the road further.
Hmm I feel like somehow we ended up debating the definition of "neutral". I don't really care about that.

My initial point was that IMO, we should always think about the impact a technology may have on society before we build it. I am not completely sure what the technology behind deepfakes brings to society, but I clearly see serious problems. If a technology makes significantly more harm than good, maybe it should not be built in the first place.

Maybe I need another word to make you understand my point, because "neutral" clearly did not work.
My Bluetooth speaker switched to Chinese after a few years of use. I have no idea of how it did it and no idea of how to revert it. There is no reference to it in the manuals.

A few days before, I brought a robot vacuum home. It was made and purchased in China. When I started it for the first time, it bumped into my server and unplugged it.

Therefore a state-sponsored cyberattack is not out of the question.
Which isn’t the full text of the amended bill that has actually been accepted
for those wondering, he wrote at least 16 novels in the 80s... several in the same year.
It isn't. And I didn't say it was. But the current state isn't the ultimate risk that is being considered. The ultimate risk is war, under which both the US and China would invoke defense powers to compel industry to act in their respective nations' interest, and would apply wide sanctions.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fcc-report-apple-iphone-activa...

This article predates some of the parts behavior but shows that similar efforts have deterred theft.
> try submitting a dev.to link; it won't appear under New.

I think you'll see it if you're logged in and have showdead turned on.
Have you packaged or shared your codebase? If so would love to see it!
GNU Awk has an entire separate manual for TCP/IP internetworking: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawkinet/
Is it possible to disable it on http redirects? I haven't found any way to do that
Office is still huge in business and academia.
"At a loss, I telnetted into the SMTP port."

Ah the days when the internet was innocent.
This doesnt work for http redirects to https. I couldn't find any way to disable the server header in those responses without patching.
The American West is generally very sprawled (the big-box stores with a sea of parking as GP puts it above), and because of that speed limits are relatively high (but never high enough to be efficient). Coupled with close to zero protected bike lanes, and often times not even a sidewalk, it's just not reasonable to try your luck against the lifestyl^H^Hwork trucks. Last time I was in Santa Fe I stepped out of my hotel to go for a run, realized that was not exactly what the city designers had in mind, and just headed back in for the treadmill. I've played that game and it's just not worth the hassle, sadly.
> The FAA authorized Zipline International, Inc., to deliver commercial packages around Salt Lake City and Bentonville

Is there something about the geography or climate of these two places that made them the right choice to be the testbeds for this platform?
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I was talking 'philosophically' in that sense. The partial object does create a new scope that binds a few of those variables.

But you are also right that the mechanisms in Python are different (on some suitable mid-level of abstraction) for those two.
"The vast majority of new infections are through gay men having sex. IV drug use only accounts for 7% of new infections"

In the US.

The vast majority of infections (90%) in Africa are from heterosexual sex:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12665438/#:~:text=Abstract,a....

The primary driver of the enormous epidemic ongoing in Russia is by far IV drug users (and heterosexual sex):

https://www.politico.eu/article/everything-you-wanted-to-kno...

"Although needle-sharing among drug addicts was one of the main reasons the disease spread so quickly, most HIV transmissions in Russia — 57 percent — are now a result of heterosexual sex. Drug use is responsible for 40 percent, while gay sex accounts for around 3 percent, according to Russia’s Federal Research Center for AIDS Prevention and Control in Moscow."

The majority of people living with HIV worldwide are straight women (52%):

https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/hiv-and-aids/facts-and....

I agree with you that the claim from some people to make like sex and number of sexual partners has nothing to do with STDs is ridiculous. It annoys me a great deal.

Gay men are disproportionately at risk and affected due to number of partners and type of sex. But most people with AIDS are straight.

Anyway your LGB link is funny because it claims (I think out of confusion) that lesbians have more partners as well. But lesbians also have the lowest std rates of any group. Making them obviously the best and most morally superior of the orientations.
If I asked you to carve wood, would you prefer a carving knife or a Victorinox multipurpose tool? I get that it’s a bit or a cheesy analogy, but it’s basically why I liked Go. To me it’s the language that Python would have been if Python hasn’t been designed so long a go and is now caught in its myriad of opinions. Because I certainly get why you wouldn’t like an opinionated language, I really do. It’s just that after more than a decade, often spent cleaning up code for businesses that needed something to work better, I’ve really come to appreciate it when things are very simple and maintainable, and Go does that.

Similarly I’m not sure you would like working with Typescript in my team. Our linter is extremely pedantic, and will sometimes force you to write multiple lines of code for what could probably have been a one liner. Not always, mind you, but for the things we know will cause problems for some new hire down the line. (Or for yourself if you’re like me and can’t remember what you ate for breakfast). The smaller the responsibility, the less abstraction and the cleaner your code the easier it’ll be to do something with in 6+ months. Now, our linter is a total fascist, but it’s a group effort. We each contribute and we alter it to make it make sense for us as a team, and that’s frankly great. It’s nice that the ability to do this, and the ability to build in-house packages, is so easy in the Node ecosystem, but it’s still a lot of work that Go basically does for you.

So the zen is in relinquishing your freedom to architect the “linguistics” of your code and simply work on what really matters.

I’ve never used Interface{}.
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It may be time to liberalize housing laws at the state level, not the local level, in order to allow a person or entity who owns land to build housing and light retail on that land as of right. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...
Great write-up! It’s hard to find good “chonky” ui tutorials
> Games only hold a challenge until the game-writer's secrets are broken.

Games ultimately are code themselves, and you can manipulate it to some extent, creating other infinitely complex interactions (source: advancements in speedrunning or various game challenges like the A press challenge [1])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXbJe-rUNP8
Walmart is based in Bentonville. e.g.: https://corporate.walmart.com/news/2020/09/14/walmart-and-zi...
> Sounds like they could make them much smaller

This is usually regulated by zoning laws, and Walmart (et al) have no say in the matter.
> Chances are that if you had just written the code to directly send and receive the data you wanted, since you control both ends and know exactly what the bytes will be, you'd never have run into this.

Instead you would have run into different problems..
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I think it’s just the sites close to customers. Bentonville is likely for Walmart.
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Function that returns a function.

You pass your counter into the function, it returns a function that remembers the original value, not the value as it keeps iterating later on in the caller.
~90% of the JVM instruction set are simple RISC instructions, the rest is object maintenance. Writting a JVM is like writting an emulator for a simple CPU/platform.
You mean the 10 pages of the proofs located in the Appendix aren't read? I hate CS academia...
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>If you had a reference into a map

Maps in golang are of reference type, just to be clear.

https://go.dev/blog/maps

implementation: https://go.dev/src/runtime/map.go
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What open source tools could we use to model the impact on thermal exchange efficiency of: roof surface area given prevailing wind, the impact of rooftop renewables on laminar flow, features that cause passive airflow though the building,?

FWIU wind turbines and solar panels have a local heating effect at ground level; but does that help exchange wasted heat with the air above the datacenter?
(The heat is wasted inefficiently instead of thermoelectric recapture)

Really white paint reflects thermal radiation, but is probably very bright for techs maintaining units on the moon. Some PV (and maybe TPV? [Agrivoltaic]) panels have an underside with an additional layer of inverted panels.
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