skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how your last graph followed from GP's post - are you replying to the right comment?

GP was saying that the US health agencies haven't looked very good in the past few years, and on Covid, they really have fumbled the comms execution. Before Covid, these issues existed in the agencies, but that was highlighted by the emergency + executive branch that was either incapable or unwilling to make it a priority. That's when it's even more important for our processes, led by our major agencies, to be crisp.

None of this past year was unpredictable. If these health agencies are so affected by the whims of politics, it reveals a systemic flaw.
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If you don't mind my asking, what was your study plan like? I'm self-taught and I'm in a similar position, I really need to study but I'm lacking an effective plan of attack.
I just keep it on a flashcard in my glove compartment, and look it up when I need to.
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Institutions like Apple, the NBA and the corporate press embraced this strategy a while ago. They echo CCP talking points about how terrible the US is, while largely ignoring factory worker conditions, Hong Kong and the ongoing Uyghur genocide.
I think there's a really big difference between being FORCED to get the vaccine, and being reminded that your actions have consequences on other people and not just on yourself. Nobody is saying that you should be required to get vaccinated. So really this is just a straw man that you're burning down.
This was my experience, except I couldn't switch between them very well, and my RSI more or less went away so I'm back on qwerty now, with no re-flare-ups.

Emacs with dvorak was... interesting.
Are you sure it's not because that's where cyber attacks come from? Because you do know that trading cryptos is illegal in China. Do you have any data to back up your assertion?
lol - they aren't just betting - they are aiding and abetting through their sycophants in the media, academia and amazingly big business too.

While we argue about right/left/dem/republican they continue to divide and conquer through attrition. And we are letting it happen right under our collective noses.
A small minority of work can't easily be directly evaluated.

If I hire a security patrol company, and they contract to provide a patrol that will visit twice a night and walk around the building, nonperformance would be almost undetectable.
Ukraine threatens to invade DPR and LPR. Russia gathers forces to scare Ukraine and to prevent that invasion. For me it's pretty simple. War is unlikely, because Ukraine won't risk it. Russia does not want to invade Ukraine either, because it's just don't make sense, at least right now, when they want to finish Nord Stream 2.
Again, drugs exist and are available now. So you shouldn't think of the options as "drugs are legal and available vs drugs are illegal and unavailable". They are available in either case!

Making drugs legal means that one can control the points and conditions of distribution. So one could require licensing, education, or even controlled application. Sure, you can take good, cheap, heroin, but you have to take it here.

Of course, the more onerous the path the get legal drugs, the more appealing illegal drugs become, so there's a safety -maximizing point somewhere along that integral.
Unless Russia gets another revolution, it's likely to remain its own pole. It has a sphere of influence, exports that its neighbours are dependant on, and an ossified political structure.
Notifications barely work in the Discord iOS app as it is, maybe it'd be fine.
I hate to break it to you, but progressive values aren't why the dictators of the world walked all over the US for the past 4 years.
What other bet is there for China to make really? If the West were growing in power, they don't really have many options.
List in this form is easiest to revisit and update.

Screenshots and further description is too much work for a list.
> Of course the individual cost is low for a single item (...) They aggregate the profit and the risk across a pool

It's not the only way ever to deal with that. We could imagine a cross-TLD insurance which would take care of legal costs, for instance. Or have for-profit entities pay the current registration price (more?) so that others can have domain names for free. Or have a donation-based model with transparent accounting so people can see whether they need to donate more money. Or crowdfunding campaigns when a specific issue arises and introduces legal costs.

I'm not saying i know the best way, i'm just saying we know for a fact the current system is only making TLD execs pocket 6-digit salaries out of a public service, and that's a scandal. If at all, they should be paid the same salary as anyone else working for the TLD. Yes, the same as even the cleaners/cooks if such things apply. This way, they'll have incentives to either make things cheaper for the rest of us, or share some of the wealth they accumulate off our backs with less-privileged folks.
Has that been resolved yet?
TL;DR: Author likes Rust. Rust exposed them to new things. The title is totally misleading and irrelevant.
Really? I always feel like I'm mixing up my 3rd/4th/5th languages.
Probably because the term "spyware" is already widely used for software which surreptitiously spies on the user without their knowledge, which is not the case here. Though I agree that "tattleware" is not a very good name. What about "jailerware" or "bigbrotherware"?
Facebook users can now petition oversight board to remove content
We know:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...
6 cases in 7 million doses over 3 months is exactly the rate that CVST would normally be expected at. While that doesn't mean we shouldn't investigate, it does mean there is no reason to be alarmed at this time.

> Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is rare, with an estimated 3-4 cases per million annual incidence in adults. While it may occur in all age groups, it is most common in the third decade. 75% are female. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_venous_sinus_thrombos....
>I'd like to think that extreme racism, homophobia, and other forms of bigotry won't be a winning recipe

It worked just fine in/for the US though. Look back at the US's rise to where it is today and it was pretty bad. Another example is that it is still pretty bad in the US today and it is top dog anyways. I doubt it will make any difference in PRC either.
Same problem here.

I learned to type on Dvorak 20 years ago and my ability to type on QWERTY still did not recover to even 1/5th of my previous speed.

It is pretty embarrassing sometimes.

On the other hand I use completely unmarked keyboard which coupled with Dvorak makes me largely invulnerable to pranking by coworkers by writing mail in my name (assuming I forget to lock my workstation which happens about twice in a decade).
I have some friends in this field as well (though they are in small sample size things, like specific breast cancer trials). Some of the fact-finding looks like calling up every patient who has gone through their treatment, but they have agreed to cooperate extensively in order to get into their trials. I can't imagine how painful it is to do fact-finding on this scale.
I was at qwerty speed with Dvorak in about 2-3 weeks as well. In the past couple years I tried Colemak, but I could not make the switch for some reason (from qwerty). I don't know why; I can't say it's because of the layout itself; could be that I'm 20+ years older than I was when I did the dvorak switch.
That's the view from inside the flamewar.
They certainly expect lower demand on their current chips as they run hot(er) and with fewer cores. They have bought a percentage of TSMC's production but TSMC is not very hot about them either as they are building new fabs for their 7nm chips.
I couldn't help being struck by "I needed to take a break and get over my burnout." Must be nice... I've been continuously employed since 1992 because I've had no choice but to be continuously employed since 1992. Burned out or not, the bills don't stop coming: if you're in a position to "take some time and focus on yourself" in between jobs, you're in a very fortunate place.
Too much work. Hard to revisit and update if i did that.
> so far in 2021 there have been more homicides in Portland than there were in 2017 and 2018 and we are on track for over 100 homicides this year

Out of curiosity, have any other items than "defund the police" happened in, say, March 2020 through the present, that might've affected crime rates?
Thanks a ton for sharing this! Super inspirational.

I'm a self-taught developer, 34. My first programming job was only at about age 30.

About 2 years later, I was consulting for Amazon, as a full stack engineer building a digital marketing project, which was pretty cool-- plus great for the resume.

After that, Amazon contacted me for an interview with them, which I failed (lack of data structures & algorithm knowledge/experience).

I still have the hopes of working directly for a FAANG company. So, just wanted to say thanks.

Currently I am unemployed, but I am about to start studying DS&A again & building some small projects. Fortunately, given the industry & skillset, I have recruiters contacting me frequently, which is a positive, uplifting signal.
> In the attempt to defend Minsky, RMS declared it "morally absurd" to call statutory rape "rape," and he spun an elaborate scenario regarding the likelihood that Giuffre—whom RMS had never met—would have "appeared entirely willing" to Minsky.

Ah, no, it was not elaborate at all. Although it may look like that to an ars technica writer. Or reader.
Same for me. My fingers remember dvorak and can't work with qwerty with just using the fingers' memory.

I use qwerty on mobile just fine. I don't think dvorak on mobile would be of any help since I type with thumbs.
It is. It's not going to replace Python, and if maintenance is the metric, then "rewrite it in rust" is not the right move. But I do think Rust will gain traction, be a round a long time, and slowly become a complement to existing C/C++ ecosystems through wrapping and binding.

I'm just not sure the other way will materialize. Until Rust can be used to feed back into C/C++ ecosystems and long-standing projects (like the linux kernel), it'll struggle to be the primary ecosystem / language for non-new (e.g., non-trivial) projects.
The app isn't the problem, the hardware is.

And also the company's ability to trust their employees, but that's another discussion.
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this is awesome, great job. by the way, i'm the creator of the API you're using for the nba example :)
No this is a very different form of clotting caused by auto antibodies that causes both clotting and low platelet counts. It's similar to HIT. Giving heparin in this situation would make things worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heparin-induced_thrombocytopen...
I think couple things about interviews I've come to realise is this.

1. DO NOT get emotionally involved or excited about an opportunity till the time you see an offer letter - those reeeallly sweet people that are so happy and courteous and smiley will switch in an instant, snap! throw you out faster than a used disposable cup and will not so much as give you the courtesy of a reply. They don't give flying f about you no matter how many hours they themselves invested in the process. See for them, this is paid work to talk to you, so they don't give a shit they do it for 10 hours and still drop you without even sending you an email. You are working for free during the interview process and have much more at stake in this process than the person you are talking to. You feel you're having a genuine human interaction with them? no.
You think it went well because objectively it went really well? Don't worry you'll get a 2 line generic rejection email.

2. DO NOT ever gauge your self worth as a developer to passing or failing an interview - you will destroy your own morale. Take hints and learn to be better, no doubt, but the decisions people make about you sometimes don't have anything to do with you specifically so don't take it to heart too much.
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Would this be an advantage for the Novavax vaccine as it doesn't do anything to hijack cellular machinery to create the spike protein, it just (as I understand it) has a bunch of pre-made spike proteins.
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Perhaps its not infighting?
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26792741
Stimulants -- amphetamines, cocaine, etc -- have physiological effects sort-of similar to Mono Amine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI). MAOIs were sold as the first generation of anti-depressant drugs. These substances have mood-elevating benefits sort-of similar to cocaine and amphetamine, but without the euphoria and crash.

Later generations of anti-depressants are less effective that the MAOIs, but MAOIs fell out use because doctors of that era tended to think newer==better, some MAOIs caused side effects when combined with fermented foods (fine cheese, etc), and patents allowed for a marketing budget for the pharmaceutical companies to promote their latest FDA-approved prescriptions to physicians.

Stimulants do their harm by shredding the mitochondria [0]. My observations are that Cocaine is a much safer stimulant than meth amphetamine.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18211048

Emotional stress is a very important driver of substance abuse. Anything that restores the mitochondria/metabolism helps with stimulant abuse. Most important is helping the person find meaning.
> Please post an example where its doesn't work, so that we can fix it.

Note: I'm trying this in a mobile browser (Firefox).

- Search for a word 'Decentralized'

- pick the second result: 'A decentralized web would give power back to the people online'

- On the result's (preview?) page, click the tag 'Decentralization'

I get no response, nothing updates, no new tab opens. Not sure what is the intended action (I'd assume it should be a new set of results corresp. to the hashtag). Same issue with 'google' example that you described.
i thought it was for the taxes
yes, just because a nation is on a gold standard doesn't mean they can't have devaluation of currency, like when spain dumped a bunch of gold into the market from south america.

Cryptocurrency wouldn't have this problem, since it has a hardcoded limit, unlike gold or USD.
If you use multiplexers you can connect a lot more devices (upto 64*254 = 16256 I think) on a single bus.

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-tca9548a-1-to-8-i2c-mult...

You could of course design your own multiplexer with more bytes of multiplexer address space and extend the concept indefinitely. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's possible.
This is a trope that is rather popular on the internet, but is not at all accurate at either describing or predicting history.

It's in many ways even less useful than Historical Marxism. (Which is a damn low bar to fail to clear.)
Balaji's probably right, again.
They have some massive negatives to deal with:

- China is net food and energy importer. Look at last year for a preview of future food. The land they leased in Africa won't help in terms of climate shift, locusts, etc. Who is the number of one food and energy exporter?

- China has an aeging population, and it's already a rapid shift.

- China's infrastructure isn't as well built as other countries (see their most important infrastructure project ever being the literal definition of half-assed), and it will start degrading, and maintenance is a pain. What happens when a few dams collapse, or nuke plant blows up?

- Supply chains are moving elsewhere.

- Taiwan has enough medium-range missles to take out the Three Gorges Dam, which is effectively MAD as far as China is concerned. One could also see Taiwan being a few minutes away from going nuclear, if need be(learning the Ukraine lesson).

- The US controls space, and will solidify it's grip in the next 3 years. Nobody is within even a decade of SpaceX's launch technology. 60s solid fuel missles to launch small satellites into orbit won't cut it. Putting Mir 2.0 into orbit won't cut it. A moonbase that is effectively an even more expensive and worthless version of Belt and Road won't cut it (and obviously will provide less jobs).

- What do you do about automation, if it wipes out jobs for all the restive angry young men?

Now sure, a war in the South China Sea favors China heavily, but I don't think the "Let's party in Taiwan" scenario is winnable for them without wiping out 80% of their agriculture, their entire biomedial industry and their main banking centre, along with a bunch of nuke plants and military bases. Not to mention the US soon being able to just stack depleted uranium telephone poles in orbit to protect it's dependencies. A larger scale war in SE Asia would probably just drag the region back 50 years, and China would likely be on the losing end as all their neighbors hate them, and India for example has a very competent military.

The whole "West is in decline" narrative assumes countries are static- the US is especially dynamic in terms of social trends. We are about to end the war on drugs and undergo a massive shift in our education trends as we realize most schooling is worthless, and there is decent chance we'll go to UBI. Now granted the current expamles of UBI in the ME don't bode well, but it's kind of a hazy future.

Now if this was for Western Europe, sure I could buy it.
> because US policy are mostly only until next election

elections in the US are like earnings calls for public companies and drive the same short-term thinking.
> They say some Chinese officials are convinced that the eu will soon drop its Xinjiang-related sanctions, because Europe cannot recover from the pandemic without Chinese growth.

Anyone else think they are grossly underestimating the EU?
Would it not be possible to have 2 phones - a corporate one and a personal one?
Ask HN: What other news sources do you use?
I've always felt pretty good about leaning on HN and Reddit for tech related news. As a SysAdmin some of the Reddit subs have been pretty decent for me in the past for getting news and opinions about AWS, RedHat, Python etc. But as I've gained more experience they seem quite repetitive and centred around people getting started and/or people getting certifications.

So where else do people look for general tech news? I'm pretty open to anything and as someone who is hoping to pivot more towards development and automation anything along those lines would be valuable.
On the other hand, here in the UK you cannot claim unfair dismissal until you have worked somewhere for at least 2 years so...
I tried Dvorak for a year and hotkeys are what made me go back.

Hotkeys are this bizarre mix of positional _and_ semantic locations. That is, some are the keys they are because of where the keys are placed (most notably z-x-c-v but also j-k-l-o and many others in various apps), while others are what they are because of their mnemonics. Neither preserving Qwerty locations for them nor using Dvorak everywhere is right.
Yes. High poverty is directly linked to an increase in crime. High unemployment leads to that.
I'm somewhat baffled by the reversing a binary tree thing in the article and in the comments here.

Unless you don't know what a binary tree is, or are forbidden to use recursion, you should be able to figure it out even if you have never studied algorithms. This is FizzBuzz level stuff.

The only difficulty should be if representing a binary tree in the language you are using involves pointers/references or nesting that you do not understand. In that case, the question has exposed a serious gap in your knowledge of that language which you really should fix. It's OK to not know the more esoteric features of a language, but you should know how it handles pointers/references or nested data structures.
Can someone tell me how nytimes gets away with no minority opinion piece writers.

I went on their homepage and 11 of the 12 opinion articles are written by non minority authors.

Can they do same here with unions and somehow get away with being anti union?

what is the logic here?
so, no long-term studies.
Your wpm is high. I'm in the 60s and Colemak actually improved my speed after a few months.
In terms of layering and fancy keyboard behaviours? The miryoku layout has a lot of very good ideas that are worth copying. https://github.com/manna-harbour/miryoku/blob/master/README....
I'm at about 15 years with Dvorak as well. It completely healed my RSI issues which were getting quite bad. Learning it was a mental challenge and re-learning Vim wasn't really fun.

I could type around 90 WPM in QWERTY and now I hunt and pick at it. I'm at that speed in Dvorak now so it doesn't really matter. If you play games at all it kind of sucks having to switch back and forth, but that's a small price to pay to not have career ending RSI.
I guess "if you just put in half an ounce of effort [...] try it sometime" seemed snarky to me, and still does. But if you say you didn't mean it that way, I believe you.

The main point, though, is that you gave another user's comment an unfair interpretation and then went after them repeatedly (and frankly aggressively) for it. That's not "word choice", let alone spelling. That's about how we treat each other in the community. I'm sorry for having distracted from that by bringing up the allcaps rule, but to my eye (ear?) it did add to the aggressive quality of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26780092.
This is what's been frustrating for me with world health organizations.

I get the need to make sure medicine is safe and effective, and we absolutely should follow those to a T when it comes to new medicines on the market in non-emergency situations.

However, that's not the case here. vaccines are well studied in general and J&J is one of the more "normally developed" vaccines on the market. After generally ensuring that it's safe (Phase I/II tests), there should have been a damn good reason to pull it even temporarily. The "we are seeing a small increase in blood clots" really doesn't seem like a valid reason to pull a vaccine.

Personally, I lay the blame primarily on anti-vaxxers. They've made us far too cautious around vaccinations. It has screwed up our risk management rules. I've no doubt that this pull back will result in anti-vaxxers publishing BS about the safety of J&J vaccinations to try and scare people away from it.
"NIOFSDirectory and MMapDirectory implementations face file-channel issues in Windows and memory release problems respectively. To overcome such environment peculiarities Lucene provides the FSDirectory.open() method. When invoked, it tries to choose the best implementation depending on the environment."
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Wait. You mean the progressive 'knowledge worker', 'green energy', and 'service economy' focus that left millions under & unemployed wasn't a winning strategy?
> Conventional wisdom tells potential founders not to worry about failure because they can "fail up" when things go wrong. In my experience, this was not the case.

The part that's not usually said out loud is that you need to be rich and/or well-connected to "fail up" when your startup fails. Running a startup may help you get connections, especially if your angel/VC network has a good reputation, and you happen to remind them of their younger selves.