skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's just that desperately needed, useful work goes undone(and the people who would have otherwise done it go unemployed) because the market doesn't incentivize it.
Any respectable C compiler does this.
That's assuming your preference is to have shorter/easier weeks as opposed to taking chunks of time off--which is my preference.
When was that? 40? 50 yrs ago?

Did you really mean engineer or did you mean entry level technician?

When I graduated high school in the late 80's, you would at least need a community college degree to become even a technician or technologist.
I'm Austrian and pro EU.

We were promised that the candidate of the strongest party in the parliament election will get the job.

Every time this comes up people explain to me again what I already know, and never ever they seem to remember what the people were promised before the election.
Yeah. I noticed that happening more lately. My response is to add that site to my site blocker. There are more (often better) sites than I can visit in a day ... and Slashdot stopped being one of them 5 years ago.
In general labs are not both a) bad at safety, and also b) doing gain of function research to make dangerous viruses more infectious to humans. The latter has been banned a few times due to the risk (see below). Both A and B were happening in Wuhan.

"In 2014, after a series of accidents involving mishandled pathogens at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the NIH announced that it would stop funding gain-of-function research into certain viruses — including influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) — that have the potential to unleash a pandemic or epidemic if they escaped from the lab. Some researchers said the broad ban threatened necessary flu-surveillance and vaccine research."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00210-5

p.s. The US NIH did ultimately stop funding that research locally, but continued funding it in Wuhan. Including the exact type of virus we're dealing with now.
This is actually a good environment for certain parties at play and this is why this status quo is upheld. The way this machine works in LA is that the city councilmember can unilaterally approve or dissaprove development in their district. Certain developers who can gain good favor with the councilmember can have their builds preferentially approved and red tape cut through for them. Commercial real estate investors then look to work with developers with a good relationship with city council.

This sort of setup helps everyone on the inside (the councilmembers, the developers, and the investors), but hurts those on the outside (renters, people hoping to buy one day, real estate companies who haven't yet bought into the machine). However, since those on the inside control the reigns of power, and those on the outside desperately try to work their way into the inside rather than break the system down and build up something more equitable, nothing changes.
Richard Stallman returns to the Free Software Foundation after resigning in 2019
Eh, I started around 2010 with salesforce.com and business intelligence stuff, then python and javascript web applications, then machine learning. Started a couple companies. Worked with a lot of different types of clients, from SMB to F500. Worked too hard in my 20s and now am pretty burnt on "SV culture" and the cult of productivity.

So if you want to be like me, work like crazy for 10 years, develop crippling anxiety, and then move to europe I guess :D
And we should ask that is. The fact that investigations to find patient 0, either never happened or were covered up is strong evidence for the WIV leak theory.
Is this a breach, or was this (as in FB as a data processor) already in their Privacy Policy?
Towards the end of 2018 was my first experience with VR, and I was blown away by it and became very bullish for the technology. When Oculus announced that Facebook accounts would become mandatory, I packed up my CV1 the same day and my heart has ached ever since.

I am aware of other devices like Valve Index, but that's still 'VR 1.0' technology. Oculus is already on 'VR 1.977' and Valve isn't going to catch up.

There is simply no other player in the industry putting in the kind of money and research that Oculus is. At this rate, they're going to dominate consumer VR and kill the dream for cautious and privacy-conscious people.
The D programming language:

out-of-bounds heap read/write: runtime, some cases at compile time

null pointer dereference: relies on hardware protection

type confusion : compile time

integer overflow: wrap-around semantics

use after free: prototype protection in @live functions, not a problem when GC is used

double free: prototype protection in @live functions, not a problem when GC is used

invalid stack read/write: compile time

uninitialized memory: compile time

data race: read/write to shared memory can only be done via library functions
I agree with parent's point to focus on defence, because a) defence is where the US leadership, but arguably also large parts of society, horribly failed and b) defence lies within your locus of control.

Before the pandemic, the US was actually rated #1 for endemic preparedness. No one had imagined that wearing a piece of cloth to protect others would become a political statement. No one was dreaming of the loss of half a million (!) American lives being remotely acceptable.

I would even go so far as to argue that from a psychological perspective the situation is similar to losing a war. US society will have to come to terms with what happened and how to prevent it in the future, and that's at the heart of parent's post.
I'll see if I can dig up the results...
I think the part that really makes this story stand out to me is the fact that even the ones who make it into this prestigious program don't actually wind up in some top echelon. The article says they find the skill gap between what the industry wants and what they have studied is too big.

It heavily implies that. The story says "Despite all the hard work engineering students put in, a survey conducted in 2019 found that 80 per cent of engineers “are not fit for any job in the knowledge economy and only 2.5 per cent of them possess technical skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that industry requires”."

But if you follow the link it goes here: https://www.businesstoday.in/current/corporate/indian-engine...

That story is about engineers in general, not IIT graduates specifically. It seems disingenuous to highlight the exceptional efforts required to become an IIT graduate yet downplay graduates' post-graduation prospects by referring to engineers in general.
CNN sold us on asymptomatic spread but it’s actually highly unlikely: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w
it's nice to see my vague worries, bothering me in the back of my head put into words. Also good to know that i'm not crazy for thinking googles results are surpisingly poor and generic. I sometimes get the same feeling using google that i get reading a poorly transalated manual from a Chinese company. Generic, admire the fact some effort has been made, little laugh inside. Except this is google (and ironically, the chinese copywriters are probably using Transalate)
> Safety issues at US labs are not kept secret

No, they are "inadvertently" misclassified [1] or kept secret because of bioterrorism laws [2].

> and they have also never caused a deadly global pandemic.

Neither has a Chinese lab, to the best of our knowledge. Doesn't rule it out, but let's not jump to conclusions.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/23/undisclosed-c...
[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/report...
Medical professionals are commonly wildly uninformed about recent research. Most GPs don't keep up on new research decades old let alone cutting edge research out of lancet.
Substack is what happens when the mainstream media elites overplay their hand and force heterodox writers out of the "mainstream". As it turns out there are still plenty of people who want to read this kind of writing, and we don't appreciate the gatekeeping from formerly reputable sources.
Dems Demand You 'Cancel Everything' While Breaking Their Own Rules
You might want to consider delaying it until 12 weeks.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067362...
That's a good point about the scale of the "making the world better". It doesn't have to be huge.

I think at the end of the day, it's really about finding meaning in your own existence, and such a large part of that for a lot of us is feeling like we are giving back to society or helping our fellow humans somehow. I think this is where I can see the author's goal of just writing being hollow. He writes about his fears that maybe his writing won't ever be discovered. It makes me wonder if he's writing because he enjoys the craft or he wants the status of being known as a writer.

If he really enjoyed the craft, maybe he would've enjoyed writing more. The status thing would be nice, but maybe he would enjoy having other people read his stories and connecting with them. That could've been something to keep him going and give him some short-term goals, direction, and connection with other people.
That article was clearly published in May 2020, I don't assume AZ sneaked that article in. Are you really saying that AZ was faking the press release in May 2020, so that in 2021 they could claim that the UK signed the contract three months before the EU?
Try podman, I really like it.
that's nice to hear, it is only lacking a proper programming language then
Because China first reflex is to deny anything is happening. By the time shit hit the fan, it's too late to do anything.
The biggest factor drawing me to experiment a little with Crystal is that it is one of very few languages providing what otherwise has been pretty unique to Go: Lightweight threads+Channels+M:N concurrency
This has no value proposition versus Kotlin coroutines and if it doesn't have first class support for structured concurrency, cancelation and most importantly reactive streams then this language is sub-par.
What Is Functional Monitoring?
Then the solution is to teach people not to mistake Chinese people for the CCP, not to police language. And this narrative of "white supremacist" violence is a concoction by the media. Whatever increase that can't be accounted for by increased reporting is most likely not coming from the white supremacists or even the white demographic. It's an increase in inner city tensions that have been around for decades. And the people predominantly committing these acts (and I assure you statistics point to a single demographic in particular) are probably not the type to follow Trump's speeches.
You seem to have missed the point..
sure it does. the company would have to prove malicious intent beyond a reasonable doubt and not leaving adequate documentation absolutely does not meet that requirement.
The parent comment is a reply to me so I’ll assume you’re also referring to me:

1. I voted remain and would again.

2. Everybody I’ve spoken to that actually lives in the EU agrees the EU has screwed up - it seems to mostly be remain voters who can’t move on who disagree with this.

3. If you have evidence contrary to my comment share it, keep the personal attacks to yourself.
Out of those Pythons the only one that's widely used in production, and it's been around for a long time. Python itself is an extremely simple language, which I think can work as one person passion project.

Modern python has grown significantly from its first release in the 90s though. I don't think that can happen today, we all want too much out of our programming languages.
Media outlets other than substack are also hiring terrible people, and optimizing for trash.

To me the largest difference between large corporate outlets and substack (and other reader-financed journalists) is that large corporate outlets will keep people employed for years that nobody wants to read and could never support themselves independently - journalists who are only important and interesting because of their access to the outlet. The outlets themselves keep those journalists around as pure vehicles for the opinions of their owners.

At least with these outlets, the owners are the readers. If the readers like trash, they'll pay for trash. If the owners like quality, they'll demand it. I don't have to worry about how the subject of the article will affect Bezos's net worth, or wonder how David Brooks, Maureen Dowd, or Thomas Friedman are still employed.
Can you give a citation for that. The generally agreed figure is that it was done 3 months later. Bear in mind, the EU has still not even approved production from the AZ Halix plant. EU has generally been doing things slower than the UK.
BioNTech is German and Pfizer is American. Am I missing something?
> unschool your children

Via homeschool groups or via your own? I don't know much about homeschool group, so I'll comment only educating kids alone: parents tend to underestimate the skills required for quality education. You need empathy to understand that your kids may not get some seemingly simple concepts. You need skills to explain to kids complex concepts in simple terms -- and this is not about merely applying Feynman's technique, but about knowing what language is more accessible to kids. You need to know a subject well to teach your kids effectively. The list can go on. In a word, education is a profession, and it takes years of experience to become a quality educator. Why do parents think that they can magically give "a much better education than anything that involves money"?

By the way, I recognize that there are always exceptions, especially that smart and driven kids probably need just parents' guidance and advice instead of full-fledged "education". I mainly have ordinary kids in mind, though, as they are the majority to whom education makes a huge difference. Case in point, I didn't get physics, especially free-body diagram and optics when I started learning physics in junior high. It was a retired teacher who removed my conceptual blocks by giving me very targeted exercises. I got stuck again in high school when studying electromagnetism, and it was another teacher who opened my eyes by prescribing inspiring problems like how to accelerate a static electron without a push. I was also lucky to get a math teacher who somehow could find incredibly challenging yet accessible problems that kept me in the discomfort zone. I have similar stories for writing class, for history class, and for chemistry class. Oh yeah, chemistry. A teacher in my senior year was so passionate about chemistry that I didn't realize that he taught us how to reason about organic synthesis at college level, to the point that we could solve some of the IChO problems. And the truth is that my parents could never do what those teachers did. I'm not sure how many kids were lucky enough to have responsible and capable teachers around. And if they don't, finding tutors is not a bad choice.
Your analysis is correct. Let's add one more factor:

At one point the prices become so high that people actually start getting out of the cities. That's what started happening in my country although it's going to be at least a decade until the consequences are felt (since the influx of people is still bigger than those who leave). But it did start happening.
The Israelis paid more[1] and placed orders earlier than the EU; it's not surprising their orders are higher priority.

[1] (https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-be-paying-avera...)
History exists for a reason. It's there to learn from.

If we can establish that a lab leak lead to a worldwide pandemic, we'd place much more importance on lab security and better handling procedures.

If it was naturally spread then we'd look at the feasibility of reducing the chances of this happening again, like improving sanitation of wet markets, implementing regulations, or even banning them entirely.

Frankly the notion of it not mattering to someone how covid came to be is absurd.

If you don't want something to happen again, you first need to understand the circumstances that lead to it.
But it did, eventually.
DocMe – an app to measure vital signs just from a selfie – is #4 on Product Hunt
DocMe doesn't require any new external hardware devices or wearables. This is a radically new approach that means DocMe takes advanced research in AI/ML (computer vision, convolution neural networks, transformer mechanism etc.) and leverages them in a simple and attractive app that even my grandmother can figure out (she uses DocMe to check her heart rate and respiratory rate and doesn't need to use a finger-clip SpO2 monitor anymore).
Web Vitals FAQ
Anyone knows how feasible would be to hack one with a raspberry pi 4 and a logitech c920 something webcam?
This seems absolutely unrealistic to me. Can you find a precedent? A single precedent of the company suing an engineer (individual contributor, not a manager) for quality of work after he left? I think if they tried they would have been laughed out of court; and out of all their future contracts, too.
I just started wondering, if things were any better if security libraries were written in higher level languages, depending on on a huge run-time support system that is written in what is essentially a portable assembly language, doing silly things like pointer arithmetic, manually allocating memory and so on... :)
It looks like they've listened and decided to add a prompt before updating:
https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183#issuecomment-79...

Personally I don't see why auto-update is the job of the software... why not just use a system-wide package manager? I suppose on Mac or Windows, that means using the Store, which heavily restricts what software can do. How shortsighted...
Please, stop with this bullshit.

The USA and UK are not exporting any vaccines, the EU is exporting vaccines, the EU is the good guy here, the EU has every right to ban vaccines exports like the USA, but it doesn't do that.

That's the bottom line, not some obscure contract bullshit.
Contracts don't matter if a soverign entity like the USA ban vaccine exportations.

Do you think we're all dumb and can fool us not to recognize a sparrow when we see one?

History will judge fat americans rushing to the lifeboats before foreign "women and children", it's disgusting and should be ashamed of yourself.
This was Javascript. And yes, I was teaching him how filter functions worked. But the point remains that if you're not used to them, map() and filter(), especially when stacked, are not that readable.
The UK is exporting vaccine components to the EU though.
So why are doses of AZ vaccine produced in the US not exported despite the fact that AZ vaccine is not approved in the US?
If you’re open hearing new information and revising your position, please consider listening to the podcast from Nature that I linked to in another comment. It’s not controversial nor misleading to say that [edit: much of] the scientific community views the “lab leak” hypothesis as a conspiracy theory. The main segment starts around 6:30.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00599-7

Edit: wanted to highlight that, while the Lancet and other publications have highlighted the mainstream views that “lab leak” is a conspiracy theory, that there is a prominent minority of scientists that disagree: https://undark.org/2021/03/17/lab-leak-science-lost-in-polit...
> When that sector experienced near-total brain drain after WW2 that intellectual diaspora

interesting take on "brain drain" considering most scientists which where of military relevance where either getting to work in the US (with some heavy handiness because of being a war criminal) or being imprisoned to do research in the USSR.
This is the world we're living in. Unfortunately, I can give you only one upvote...
Taken from the related post, here is a much closer video: https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t66.36240-6/10000000_...
The IIT (Indian Institutes of Technology) system is almost an order of magnitude more competitive than the average Ivy League University in the US.

About 0.9% of IIT applicants will be admitted. Compare to Ivy League Universities, which range from 4.5% (Harvard) to 10.6% (Cornell).

That said, I spoke with one IIT graduate who tried to downplay the experience. I could never tell if he was being humble or polite, or if he really felt the difficult was exaggerated. He was smart, but he didn't seem to have missed out on a childhood for the sake of getting into IIT. Of course, I grew up with several smart peers who made getting into Ivy League universities look like a walk in the park.
Looks cool. Thanks for the release.
With respect to the friends, I also wonder how much wasn't simply friends getting older and in the natural course of events spending more time with family and other interests. That's pretty much my experience that has very little to do with different financial goals.
Couldn't you apply this same logic to google analytics which has been embedded in most sites for over a decade?
I'm unnerved that the vote was so close, but it's undoubtedly the right call. Thanks to all of the Nominet members who voted yes.

Hopefully the remaining board members will appoint the two proposed interim directors and work can start on returning the organisation to its true public benefit roots.
A Gallery of Know-It-Alls: Those strange creatures called polymaths
Sources? I've heard the "EU signed before UK" multiple times now, but nobody ever links to a source. It just seems unlikely, no? Why would they be so catastrophically far behind in that case?

Similarly - the NHS is great, but not unique. Norway for example has a system akin to the NHS (and so do many EU countries) and there's no correlation there. Norway is waaaaay behind the UK and the US. Again, it seems unlikely that the NHS is the cause.

It's obvious you hate the Tories, but that shouldn't cloud your judgment to such a degree that you fail to celebrate the real achievement of the UK's vaccination rate.
A coin-flip would have reached the same conclusion 50% of the time.

That's why process is important: you can get lucky and come to the correct results with an improper process (ex: coin flips).
Zoom SDK
Hell, we just adopted a kitten 4 months ago, and the realization that he'll die in 15 years or so absolutely devastated me to the point that I started crying. He ate a (plastic) feather from one of his toys last week and I couldn't sleep that night (and kept checking on him) because I was afraid it would rupture his stomach or intestines and he'd die. I imagine these sorts of feelings are magnified a thousandfold when it's a human child.
ah yes, it has nothing to do with the petrodollar and the fact that the US can eat inflation thanks to being the world reserve currency.
Has version 3 improved docker on macOS in any way?
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The parent comments are referring to people who have made careers out of YouTube, not people who are paid "next to nothing".
Yes and AZ vaccine is not even approved in the US...
We all know that and that's why you should accept a resend with clarification of intent.
That was basically my reasoning when I first came here as well, and so I didn't buy. (Elsewhere in this subthread, I'm arguing exactly that point.)

The part that I didn't factor in was rents basically tripling while I was here, which apparently is not an uncommon occurrence in the Bay Area. In 2010 I was a genius for paying $1400/month in rent rather than $4000/month to buy a condo. In 2017, when rents were $4500/month but that condo payment would've still been $4000 (for a bigger place!) and the condo's value had gone up from $400K to $1M, I was less of a genius.

YMMV. I'm expecting very significant inflation and I've watched firsthand as a lot of my friends got priced out of the Bay Area, so I bought as a way to ensure that my kid will be able to stay in the same school district and remain near family. Time will tell whether that's a fiscally brilliant or fiscally idiotic decision.