skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're in a thread that was kicked off with unsourced statements about virology and epidemiology, but suddenly we have an urgent need for sources — actually, not just sources, because the demand was for proof — when we encounter the idea "Labs don't occur by chance in random locations around the globe"?

I would say you're supposed to engage the same way everyone had been engaging with the entire thread up to that point. But if you do want to transition to a more evidence-based approach to the subject — which I could get behind — I don't think the right way to go about it is to suddenly demand proof from the first person whose opinion you don't like.
There was a post here a few days ago by one of the Gentoo maintainers talking about how static builds are bad and this exact reason (security vulnerability that touches lots of things) was one mentioned.
Does hand sanitizer work for 12 hours? Think.
IMO it should read more:

"...it’s not that Substack will compete with existing publications for their *popular* writers, but rather that Substack makes it easy for the *popular* writers to discover their actual market value."

I've yet to read what I would consider high quality journalism on Substack. It's a lot of quick take opinion pieces.

On top of that, some may consider journalistic good writing a collective effort, in which an editor is usually necessary.
I thought the GP had a reasonable suggestion for a common other way of doing things to competitive examinations. What alternatives did you have in mind?
tldr: crystal is awesome!

I tried crystal recently to dump some data from a GraphQL endpoint into Redisgraph. I had done the same with Rust, but string manipulation was much simpler in Crystal (the string interpolation is amazing!) so it was much simpler to quickly throw together the queries I needed. I think for me, rust is something I'd use for building a solid library, whereas Crystal would serve more as an alternative to Go, something more for quickly assembling some building blocks into applications or doing glue stuff with decent performance.
The median household income in Massachusetts is $80k so between them they weren’t far off. Especially when you consider your costs tend to be lower when you aren’t working. I wouldn’t call that extreme frugality.
I don't think what you're saying is necessarily true. Browsers for example are very resilient at this point, and seem to handle auto-updates just fine. Worst case scenario you can use a different browser for a couple of hours. The upside is that auto-updating works in most cases and users hardly notice, while you're shipping security fixes straight to them.

With developer tools it's different. Your tool stops working and suddenly you cannot work. You often can't just change the tool either, without having to rewrite stuff. For this, it's necessary that versions stay the same until we're ready to upgrade. Same goes for libraries you're using and so on.
Antitrust laws don't exist to build a sustainable business on somebody else's storefront. And in the bygone past, grocers delivered themselves when there were far fewer of them than there are Walmarts dominating small towns.
This kind of reporting on vaccines is the kind of thing that bugged me even before Covid. It's as if the media likes to keep the 'good' facts out for controversy to continue (obviously I don't think that's what's happening, I'm just blaming incompetence).

It always only takes one number to silence the debate, and it's always missing. E.g. "new mumps epidemic, kills 200, wave of low trust against vaccines to blame". Maybe. Maybe not? You could clear this up instantly by also reporting how many of those dead were unvaccinated, and then it's crystal clear. But that kind of info is never in the story.
They also explain why the think what they do is the way to go, nonethless, in the very next paragraph.
tl;dr - the writer passes of systemic flaws as those peculiar to one elite institution in search of clickbait without presenting (non-existent) alternatives.

This is what happens when a reporter at a online publication of a quality between Buzzfeed and Slate writes a clickbait article on why an apex institution is destroying youth. Admission to the IITs is widely considered in India to writing a golden ticket in life. They can study abroad at virtually any university, get hired by multinationals in India or abroad etc. etc.

The points the reporter makes might be factually correct but are misguided and erroneous. This is not like students who don't study for the IITs get a more holistic education. Ask what exactly would the kids do if not study for the IITs? Workout, train physically, work with their hands on vocational skills? All these are either absent in Indian society or looked down upon.

The whole Indian system by virtue of demand >> supply due to 70 years of socialism/quais-communism is about state monopoly on education. Indian spend 10s of billions of dollars sending their children abroad for undergraduate and masters education because supply is so meagre. If your family is not wealthy then this is the only guaranteed way out, rather used to be, as things are slowly changing.

Hate to say this but there is also an element of sour grapes to the writer's lament - IIT graduates command social prestige, job opportunities and mating opportunities.

Now go write about how kids in the US work so hard to pass BUDS spend all their lives perfecting their physical endurance in detriment to their mind. Or the football players who devote all their energies to get noticed by college scouts. IIT's are no different just in a different realm. I would almost argue that the IIT exams are superior as they are atleast not damaging their body and wasting prime years of their lives not developing their minds.
You can opt out of auto-update on iOS (for both individual apps and the OS).
"Pretty good" compared to what? Top 15% of how many for how many spots?
Only of someone artificially limits the "supply" and the use.
If I were to start a company tomorrow, what should I use instead of Docker? Heroku and dev laptops' filesystems?
Nature does not have telos, but human creations very much do!

Evolution does not contradict teleology, BTW; you can use genetic algorithms in an attempt to reach a well-defined outcome.
Of course employees are miserable, all their time is spent on teams meetings instead of actually doing work, they're isolated at home, and they have no useful feedback mechanisms. Anybody who thought their employees were suddenly going to thrive during a global pandemic is horribly out of touch.
You missed the point. Sure a negative energy balance will cause weight loss. But even if you get to a BMI in the range considered normal you won't be healthy over the long term without frequent exercise. Just being thin doesn't help if you're weak.
Well, big chance that you're not their paying customer either...
So the only grocer in town isn't a monopoly, but a web site that is one of dozens of popular sites, among thousands which deliver to me, is?
> The problem is basically the welfare state, which requires a huge tax system/burden to support, and encourages 'welfare tourism'.

> Dropping all welfare for non-citizens, setting a minimum lifetime income tax paid to receive citizenship (eg. €100,000) refusing further immigration from troublesome nations and actually deporting those already there, as well as raising the retirement age to 70 - and with the savings eliminating payroll tax and cutting VAT to 16% (the legal minimum) across the bloc - are the necessary solutions

Do you have any source supporting your claim that welfare for non-citizens is a significant part of government expenses? Or any case, more significant than the contributions ( direct in taxation and less direct in products and services ) of said non-citizens?

Going on my observations, the concept seems ludicrous.
Acceptance rates are pretty meaningless.

For example Oxford and Cambridge have seemingly very high acceptance rates... but this is because in the UK students can only apply to one top-tier university. The Ivy League has tiny acceptance rates because many students apply to many of them. I guess you could apply to literally all of them if you wanted to? Does that make them harder to get into?
Even the Western countries that "responsibly" treated the virus are having pretty serious surges now. I guess anything short of a total and complete lockdown was irresponsible.

I'd say that the release of a highly transmissible and moderately lethal pathogen was the primary issue.
> More generally I’m looking forward to the day where the SaaS bubble bursts a bit or at least pricing consolidates - every Tom, Dick and Harry is taking a crud app and adding a few features and trying to create a b2c or b2b business

I see these "I could build this in a weekend" type responses regularly on HN, and in my opinion it could not be more wrong. Substack isn't a CRUD app with a few features, it is man-years of work on the technical side. More importantly, they've had amazing execution on the business and product side. Building a business is really hard, and because you could replicate substack-the-app does not mean you would can build substack-the-business.

> It works to some degree, but I’m looking forward to the day that there are enough programming specialists that many solutions are done in house

What a waste this would be! Starting a business today is tractable because we build on the shoulders of giants. Tools like JIRA, Github, Sentry, Salesforce, Hubspot, Zoom, Slack, Notion, Stripe, GSuite, ... and many more are so much better and cheaper than anything you'd build in house.
All bleeds stop eventually.
Fair disagreement!
Yes he did: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/18/politics/trump-defense-produc...
> automatically multiplexing the lightweight threads onto a smaller number of OS threads

For Crystal 1.0, the number of OS threads is always 1, isn’t it? So although this provides concurrency, it’s less powerful than Go where the same mechanism also provides parallelism.
It is not I don't think, but I could be wrong.
It’s a network security appliance - undoubtedly contains multiple security libraries.
The EU has exported 41 millionen vaccine doses of which the UK has gotten 8 million so far

Not “the EU”. Private companies with factories in European countries fulfilled pre-orders placed and paid for months ago. “The EU” owns no factories and produces no vaccines itself.
Oh agreed it's super frustrating. A lot of times you won't even get any feedback with the rejection, which is incredibly demotivating and tbqh, infuriating.

> you can theoretically interview at each of the letters in FAANG every year

One of those letters will let you interview many times in a single year ;) (but not for the same role on the same team)

If I had any final advice for those intent on going through the interview meat grinder it is that while l33tcode can be useful, you'll still want to understand some of the why behind popular algorithms and not just have a ton of specific ones memorized. This will save you when you have to talk through a problem you're not already familiar with.

Skiena's The Algorithm Design Manual was more helpful to me than any other prep material in that regard.
I don't think I'll ever end up using Substack. In a world where information is virtually worthless, why should I pay you for your opinion?
I mean, society won't function if you have to give everyone outside of your home consent to look or speak at you. Unless you plan on blinding and deafening the whole world, there's going to have to be a line somewhere about what we are allowed to learn about the people around us.
There's a rare exception when a real estate attorney with a reputation is also a part time agent. Finding one is a challenge. They give a lot of valuable advice, but it's only actionable when you have choice and the money, i.e. the buyers market of the expensive houses.
Human Trial Suggests Clearing Plaques Slows Mental Decline
Most of the media coverage and consensus, from the Washington Post to Nature, seems to be that:

- the lab escape theory has been thoroughly debunked by science

- the WHO investigation put the final nails in the coffin of this theory

- therefore, lab escape continues to be a fringe conspiracy theory at best

- coverage of the lab escape theory is politically motivated rather than scientifically motivated

- continued coverage is largely a combination of irresponsible journalism, disinformation and anti-China political propaganda

Does the USA Today article indicate a shift in this perspective, or is it just an outlier? Has something changed, for example new information coming to light?
Then I genuinely have no idea what your goal here is. What is your claim?

It seems like you're trying to waft a very serious claim in the direction of competitor, but you're being very careful to avoid saying anything explicit or specific.
No country is making vaccines, yet are allowing for their production and exporting. Well, some countries at least, in this case the EU, China, India and Russia so far. The only countries that haven't allowed exports are USA and UK.

The EU could take both the US or the UK route to prevent these exports:

- The EU could rightfully, and has the power to, prevent exports that are essential in a period of crises - which clearly applies to the current situation in Europe. This is the USA route, and it's legitimate.

- The EU can control AZ exports to guarantee they are fulfilling their contractual obligations, which AZ has been literally joking in the face of the EU. This is the UK route, and it's legitimate.

What the media is currently reporting is the second one, the EU is forcing the manufacturer to comply with their contract. If this overlaps with the UK contract, well then that's something I believe the UK must deal with the manufacturer like the EU has been doing for the past 3 months.

I just don't get the double standards, the UK enforcing a contract is good... the EU doing the same is... bad?
As a point of reference: where I'm at is rapidly gentrifying with phony, corporate clone office workers while hundreds of homeless people are living in tents visible outside next to the highway. There isn't enough affordable housing and the % set-asides are a joke because they're so few and far between.
> Never do something you're mediocre at, life just isn't going to be a good time if that's your approach.

What happens when you’re mediocre at everything.
I was commenting on the law relates to traveling for purposes of applying age of consent.

If someone is traveling for other purposes and does have sex, then the local age is applied, not federal.

The reasonable person test is sure to be resolved by court. But given their example, if someone is in Vegas and has sex with someone then the Nevada age of consent applies. But not if someone goes to Vegas with someone.

If I remember the details of the Minsky scenario, it’s that Minsky was visiting Epstein for some retreat and had (or was accused, I don’t remember) of sexing a 17year old (who was basically human trafficked and forced to sex people by Epstein). So that would seem like the purpose of travel was not sex, so local age of consent would apply. But a court could decide.

Of course, an admiral goal is to never be involved in any such scenario and I think a good heuristic is if one has to ask oneself if sex could be illegal, then one should not have that sex.
Ghost is getting more and more complex, maybe at some point we'll need a new platform that will be simple again
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I went through this in 1998.
Went from around 130 or so pounds in grade 10 to 200ish by the time I got into college. Would get up at 2am every day to study and spend every waking minute studying. The only exercise I got was walking around while still reading books. Still struggling with my weight after all these years.
The pressure I went through those 2 years was indescribable.
Spare a thought for folks who went through all this and didn't even get in.
> Its this sort of unscrupulous taking, of maximizing profit because its 'leaving money on the table' to not do so, is why we have rent control ordinances which work by capping the maximum yearly % increase in many of our big cities

No, the reason is because cities don't want to build more houses.
We've had code in OpenSSL written in C that was constant time until a newer version of both gcc and clang recognized (mask & a | ~mask & b) as a conditional assign and could do things like turn it into a branch.

Edit: It can turn "b = foo(); c = (mask & a | ~mask & b)" into "if (mask) c = a; else c = foo();"
Atlantic and Pacific is what it stood for. Wikipedia says it shut down in 2015.
This reads exactly as how in politics the left attacks the right and the right attacks the left. Attacks with nothing but headline grapping one-liners and oft repeated slogans.
They (BioNTech) themselves have only a few in Germany (2 or 3), but it's produced by other companies for them now as well totalling to around seven according to this German source: https://www.pharma-food.de/markt/standorte-corona-impfstoff-.... I say around because not all do the whole production sometimes only parts of it as it seems. Didn't dig very deep into it.
MacBook Owners' Butterfly Keyboard Lawsuit Gets Class Action Certification
If there were, say, ten top-end fab companies, I don’t think anyone would be worried. Today, there are 1.5. That’s obviously a problem.
Just FYI, the UK exports components of the Pfizer vaccine to the EU.

It's way more nuanced than you paint it.
Could you elaborate on your third point about Inking->Structure app? I've been thinking about this lately and am interested in what exactly you're looking for.
I'm astonished by the pushback from the Docker devs on this. rflay, ThomasNegeli, and Nuru did heroic work by gently and thoroughly explaining why mandatory, automatic updates are unacceptable for a dev tool. I would not have been so patient.

The fact that they had to hold the maintainers hands through this is disappointing. "it's a feature request not a bug" shows Stephen did not even understand the problem he introduced. Either that, or he didn't read all the comments before him.
Top Health Insurance Provider Tells Employees Not to Hire White Men
You know the automatic meme generator from Twitter and news items is the next iteration.
You can look at optical astronomy for how the "market" would look like if it was only science driven: all innovation happening on government funded projects, with very few companies worldwide having some manufacturing capability.

In any case, calling Goodard a entrepreneur seems pretty strange: he was a professor interested in rocketry firstly as a means of recording the state of the atmosphere at very high altitudes. To the extent the market gave him any attention it was as a source of cheap entertainment by making people laugh at him.
the sun LMAO, stop reading British tabloids
I'm not sure how much I trust cloud storage offering unlimited storage for $5 a month
Questions:

How reliable is it? As data is spread among users, and every chunk goes to different users, does it keep my files if 10% of the users stop using it?

Speed: the upload speed of the users impact my restore time, no?
If many people loosely equate IQ to merit then that is worrying to me.

It's all well and good if you're smart because it increases your advantage two-fold. But it basically screws over everyone else.
Awesome stuff! I love this language
AFAIK every other linux distro shipping with or providing options for LibreSSL also switched around the same time frame, e.g. Gentoo dropped all support for it. It's just not feasible to build 3rd party software (that are targeting OpenSSL) with it anymore (obviously, if you targeted libressl specifically, there's no problem, but almost nothing does). Maintainers have just gotten tired of writing giant patches to get things like Qt5 working again.
They also sent a Major General from the PLA to take over the lab. She since led the team which developed the Chinese vaccine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Wei_(medical_scientist)
Compared to Stanford and MIT, Caltech is not getting the same caliber student since the late 70s-early 80s (and definitely since the mid 2000s) when looking at international Olympiad winners, etc
> If anyone wants help or advice regarding healthcare systems and/or citizenship matters, I am here to help. Check my email on my profile.

I'll be emailing you. My wife and I are starting to work on a shortlist of countries to consider as immigration targets. I'm not interested in my children growing up in a "free market" healthcare system.
I don't know of an off-the-shelf one you could buy.

For the tinkerers, https://dontvacuum.me/ and dustcloud/dustbuilder as search terms.

I have a roborock(Xiaomi sub-corporate brand) firmware flashed to no longer need internet, hosts "the database" on itself which is great for latency/responsiveness, provides web page functionality so you can use it from your phone, computer etc.

I quite like it.
They wouldn’t even be able to check off tickets?
Would that that be F & N? :)

I know you can interview at multiple roles at FB provided 1.) you pass the initial phone screen and 2.) the onsite loop is different - say, frontend vs. product/backend. Doesn't work for me this year since I likely failed the phonescreen...

I've heard in theory you can apply to multiple jobs at N too.
This article is a gross misrepresentation of what it takes to get into IITs. I got into one, and I can guarantee that this article pretty much picks and chooses data points as it wants. Yes it is academically challenging to get into IITs, but there's two ways you can get into one: Devote your entire life towards "cracking" the game that's the entrance exams, or just study enough that you've mastered the understanding of math and science, but don't kill yourself over it.

Me and my batch of high school buddies managed to get into IITs (and NITs which are a step down from IITs) while putting in some work, but not killing ourselves. All of us were athletes, so a 2-3 hours of sports daily for us was a must. All of us did some amount of coaching, and though the coaching classes gave us enough exercises to last us the entire month, daily, we had enough sense to figure out how much practice was enough practice. (Surprisingly, it's not a lot) Most of us did have other hobbies, some of us ended up pursuing them full time.

Yes we always had the kind of students the article mentions, spending each moment they're not asleep on DPPs (daily practice problems). Guess what, some of them made it into IITs (which they would have even if they put in less effort), but a lot of them actually never made it despite putting in that effort.

Not all of us are the soulless robots described here.
Agreed. Diffs and MRs in general are terrible. We get 500 errors constantly when submitting MRs, if we can push up at all. And don't try to rebase with the button - OH MY it will just fail. Or it will succeed and the interface will not update. Yuck.

We are switching to GitHub. Which saddens me because I much prefer GitLab's interface. But I have lost the battle, due to GitLab's terrible performance.
Have you seen the ICNARC data? https://www.icnarc.org/Our-Audit/Audits/Cmp/Reports

It gives details of patients admitted to ICUs, and the patient characteristics gives numbers of people who needed no support in day to day activities, or needed some assistance, or needed full assistance.

That's not quite co-morbidity, because people with asthma or high blood pressure or obesity will often need no assistance.
This is a pretty low-information post and the discussion is therefore pretty generic. In such cases it's better to wait until the thing actually comes out, and with it enough information to support a specific discussion.

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