skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Lockdowns of the duration that we experienced should be illegal

I fully agree with you. If people want to sit at home it should be a personal choice. However people do like to control other peoples lives, that is the bottom line and they will use any argument to justify it.
That sounds like a good first warning. But they persisted even after Greg KH complained to UMN and told them to stop. A more severe punishment for a second offense is needed, IMO.
+1

I've been vegan half my life and my recollection of cheese has mostly been replaced by the plant based alternatives. But I still think they've come light years from what we had back in '08.

I think a key to being able to enjoy plant based facsimiles is to not judge it based it on how closely it approximates the dish, but rather how good it is on its own as a cousin.
> IIRC this isn't true. Non-W2 earners are supposed to do quarterly taxes.

Maybe in theory, but I would bet, certainly not in practice for the vast majority of contractors earning an average income. You have to be the most honest, organized goody-two-shoes to actually pay those quarterly taxes.

It's also worth noting that many contractors live paycheck-to-paycheck, and even though they know they should be withholding 30% for tax, in practice they have bills to pay first. So when tax time comes (whether quarterly or yearly), they might simply not have the money.
i am not rust user, but many language are use its own pacage managing. making pacage first through language then through distro are two layer of review it must pass, so are always slow. i am not hearing persons complain on ruby, python, javascript, go, r, perl, ... use own pacage manage. rust are not a different here. in future maybe it stabalize and we are then having fewer update for to manage.
I went to the hospital a few months ago for something that could have been covid-19 and they did test the various influenza strains as well as the covid one. Not sure how representative that is though. I don't think the covid-19 swab or gurgle tests automatically test for the flu as well.
Just because you weren’t tested for the flu at your local doctor’s office, that doesn’t mean that the flu isn’t systematically monitored or that infection rates haven’t plummeted.

The headline is hyperbolic (the article says it’s dropped to “minuscule levels”) but it’s entirely possible to determine that by sampling a small portion of the population.
This area with nothing in it sounds like the oil spill “outside the environment” in the very excellent comedy skit “The Front Fell Off”.
https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM

Edit: Linked to official channel. Thank you for the correction.
Upvote for mentioning WordStar. I only used it some in the Texas A&M computer lab. I went from my dad's Apple II, to a Commodore 64 I bought in college, to a Macintosh after I graduated. None of them were WordStar platforms, but I remember it was very popular in the CP/M and MS-DOS world before WordPerfect took over.
It's not a problem with the language directly, but with its culture. People being excited to use new feature is a nice thing for them, but the trade off is that the consumers of their work may suffer.
Same. For me, dairy increase respiratory mucus production which makes me feel a little congested and increases the frequency amd severity of upper respiratory tract infections.

It also hurts my digestive system.

Both are subtle initially and ramp up with continued dairy consumption, so I can tolerate small infrequent amounts.

I suspect many more people have similar issues but don't realise.
>If Epic wins kiss free App Store apps goodbye as Apple will surely charge everyone to put things in their store

The goal here isn't to remove the 30%, it's to give the option for someone to develop an alternative way to host their apps, typically by use of their own store.

As we see on Android and even PC: many, many, many developers are fine paying 30% for that visibility, even if FreeDroid or Itch.io will let them keep 100% of their profits. This won't change much except for the billionaire companies who have the capacity to advertise themselves and deem 30% too much.
A "minimum quality of life" has nothing to do with your worker qualification. People can, and should, have the freedom to choose how they work.

The obvious solutions include new hybrid classifications or mandating certain benefits based on tenure. Why is this not considered? Why take away choice from those who specifically decided not to get a full-time driving job (which have always existed)?
I think this was only a problem with the HIV adenovirus vaccines.
Gotta drop the www off of it.
Hopefully this won't cause selective pressure on flu viruses to become more aggressive.
The largest gig employers (Uber, Lyft, Doordash, etc.) do not seem to provide a substantial premium for experience.

In 5-10 years, what will be the current driver's expectations for pay?
The whole world is going this way. The UK just brought in IR35 to force as many people to be employees as possible. But I don't want to be an employee. I was much happier when I started contracting instead.
Covid-19 Triple Mutant in India- what is it?
Correct. It's the extremely rapid pace of development in the language combined with enthusiast devs using the latest and greatest that make it unsuitable for general use. Part of this stems from Rust almost requiring installing with rust-up instead of from repos. This encourages the bad behavior.

Eventually the Rust dev community will grow enough to have non-language-specific-enthusiasts devs as a majority and it will slow down and begin to target actually stable releases. But as of now you have about 5 months functionality per "stable" release.
Fake meat was never made because of the health benefits. People want impossible burgers because they are unhealthy and taste like burgers.

> meat and cheese are what they are because the animals eat plenty of things and they are living creatures, you can't replicate this

I mean, you certainly can. Look at the companies making 'clean' meat and fish.
In the USA, we have a few organizations that try to keep track of the flu. I think they are mostly private companies pushing drug ads though.

Before covid hospitals, and doctors, didn't test for the flu viruses. Maybe in severe cases?

I know for certain private practice doctors didn't. All you saw was a chart on the wall differentiating a cold, from the flu.

In the USA, the government tries to target the upcoming flu vaccine, but is usually wrong on the strain.

Personally, I think Americans have been dying for years of SAR viruses, and the government has been blaming the flu virus?

We had a family Thanksgiving in my grandmother's house in '98. My sister brought her two very sick kids to the holliday. By the next morning (12-16 hrs after exposure) we were all sick, with the exception of my brother. 5 people who never felt so sick in their lives. I could't even muster the energy to take my slacks off before dropping into bed. 7 days later my grandmother died. I was always under the impression the incubation period was longer than a half day? Whatever that virus was, I will never forget it for a lot of reasons. And of course, my grandmothers cause of death was "complications of the flu", and probally should have been on a respirator, and not sent home so soon?
I really like Miyokos “artisan vegan cheese, smoked English farmhouse.” It comes as a little round. Ingredients list is all recognizable names, too. Does not even attempt to melt though. It’ll kind of crisp up.
Yeah, my programming OS was CP/M
I know multiple people who have never worked a day in their lives. They get food stamps, free health care and live in a $300/month apartment subsidized by the state (aka free).

They basically make money buying and selling items occasionally, when they see a deal. That's enough for them to buy all the "luxuries" they want ($5k car, $2k laptop) every couple years.

I think there's a big difference between peoples desires/definition of acceptable and what they put in to obtain them.
>why are game consoles not expected to be open platforms, but the iPhone is?

Modern Society does not require a console to function. Most would agree our Smartphone has become the central to many things in our modern society including but not limited to business from all industries.

>"Just buy an android"?

Today, the iPhone has 66% market share in the United States, 75% of U.S. App Store revenues, and over 80% of time spent on the mobile internet. It has a substantial market that puts their Anti- Competitiveness in question.
Yeah the Ubers and Lyfts of the world would have a stronger argument about their drivers being contractors if this was the case, but it's not.
That shifts the costs on to me, the taxpayer, but not necessarily an Uber customer, for non-wage benefits. Why should I, the non-Ubering taxpayer have to pay benefits for an Uber driver? That isn’t “progressive,” that’s shifting a cost from the two people engaged in a contractual transaction to everyone who doesn’t necessarily have any interest in the transaction.

If an Uber driver needs health insurance, that cost would be part of the calculus of deciding to drive for Uber. If the government provided it, the taxes required would also become part of that calculus. The deadweight loss from taxation can’t be ignored. Not to mention it isn’t my job to provide non-wage benefits to support Uber or a driver. That’s between them. Literally not my problem. If the Uber driver isn’t taxed proportional to their consumption of benefits, then I the taxpayer am forced to subsidize the profit of both Uber and the driver. If the driver has to pay for his own non-wage benefits, than that would be part of their determination of accepting the offered wage or not.
To build on this, there are parts of the ecosystem that explicitly outline their Minimum Supported Rust Version. Sometimes it's short (e.g. last two stable releases), and sometimes it's longer (6+ most recent stable releases).

What's not well expressed is that is that certain releases prompt a bunch of people to upgrade the newest libraries to require the latest stable release. And these releases are not easily visible or predictable from outside the community. This is driven by Rust releases that stabilize significant features; I'm talking about stuff like async, min const generics, impl trait, proc macro support. So support for older releases tends to wax and wane depending on how recently a big feature was stabilized.

There is one other contributing factor - cargo tries to pick the most recent version of library (that's SemVer compliant), not the earliest one, and MSRV changes aren't at this point considered a breaking SemVer change (as far as I know)
I thought Salesforce certifications had registration fees. Has that changed?
There seems to be only so much one can cram into an undergraduate's cranium in 4 years. Consequently the average time spent getting Ph.D. is increasing.
Most likely due to people staying at home. I don't believe a mask can in any way protect one from catching a virus [1].

Edit: if you downvote, please, comment why. I could be wrong, so would love to know your arguments.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7680614/
Where I live in the EU, a product cannot legally be labeled as cheese if it does not meet the official definition of cheese, which includes being made from milk.

We also have lots of vegan "cheese" type products with funny names like "Keese" and "Cheez" and some are pretty good.

I like keeping the names clear because no one gets confused and buys the wrong thing.
OK, agreed, I was wrong on my second point.
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as "bad luck.”

This quote assumes that what held true for most of history holds true today, when machines and computers can complete the tasks necessary for ensuring the flourishing of our species orders of magnitude more efficiently than ever before. Why should we assume that poverty would be the normal condition of man today?
> fake meak was proven to be non-healhtly

Here [0] is a series of nine short videos (with text transcripts and links to all scientific sources) on plant-based meat substitutes' health and environmental impact. The reported findings go against your claim.

[0] https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-environmental-impacts-o...
That sounds like a serious needle in a haystack situation.

Recovering them is easy, just do nothing about climate change and they'll melt out on their own.
Define fair. Quantifiably, preferably. At least not in some fallacious "when we've reached my desired outcome" sort of way.
Animal fat and protein cause inflammation, while plant-based fat and protein don't. Dairy contains all sorts of hormones and other stuff (e.g. real estrogen, antibiotics) that people should not consume regularly.

Milk alternatives on the other hand can actually be anti-inflammatory because they contain antioxidants. Whether that still holds true for processed versions of it... probably depends!

The other big risk factor in cheese is saturated fat. I don't know if plant-based cheese is generally healthier in that respect.
It really depends. It depends how much you travel and what you want to achieve.

1. Hotel benefits. Can be nice. I screwed out a few free nights out of the Accor loyalty program. Also, you start to get early check in /early check out/ free breakfast etc. which can be nice.

2. Free flights. This is a tricky one. Yes, I have done it. But most of the time it is difficult, except if you fly twice a month business class Europe<>US and are draining in miles.

3. Convenience. Gold status can give you convenience. You might get treated nicer, priority check in, extra luggage, and lounge access. This is much easier to achieve than free flights. As a word of caution: Getting gold elite status is an art. Make sure to have a look at flyertalk or another website to learn the peaks. Also, if you always fly airline X does not mean you have to be on their loyalty program but only in their alliance.
Well you used to be able to buy decent catastrophic insurance to protect you from unlimited losses. ACA effectively killed that type of insurance.
Plenty of C++ code can't use modern C++ features because of Linux distributions holding everyone back. I think this is a bad thing and don't want these concerns to seep into Rust as well (outside of "fundamental" libraries.)

Safety-critical systems may need these guarantees, but I object to them externalizing the costs they need to bear on the whole community.

Almost everyone should be on up-to-date compilers, assuming the compilers promise that they won't break old code. The more we move towards that world the better.
Doctors generally won't trust or use models unless they understand its reasoning.
Unfortunately, the number of cheese eaters who'll be swayed by this sort of argument and who aren't already ethically vegan is probably close to zero.
Plenty of employees have no upward mobility either. Though with 10 years of positive ratings, I would think The Algorithm would reward them with more frequent/better gigs?
> We want employers to provide benefits, as opposed to the government because that means higher taxes

This is a silly argument. You pay for your healthcare no matter what, it's just a question of who administers it.

> Then you put a million exclusions and tax deductions and other loopholes, so no one knows what they're really getting

This is precisely the current state of employer-sponsored healthcare, and also the wildly complicated medicare/medicaid system.

Universal coverage combined with higher taxes (ideally on people who already have lots of money and therefore place very little value on marginal income) is arguably better and easier to reason about than a mandate for employer-provided coverage and its associated opaque and complicated effects on labor markets, including higher fixed costs of hiring people and decreased ability for people to move between regions, industries, and even jobs within the same industry/career.
I think the major issue with classifying gig workers as employees is how the company cannot practically deduct the cost of the gig worker's equipment that they bring to the job.

In the USA there is a lot of idle car stock that is leveraged to make something like doordash and uber work, and with this employment change if the workers could also deduct their vehicle costs as part of doing the job, I would foresee a lot less resistance from the industry.

I also don't think the 'employees' are going to get benefits either way, if this passed then their hours would be limited to the benefits threshold time like a lot of other low income jobs do now today, and they would be forced to work for 2 of the gig companies, who now will put strict scheduling on them making it a huge pain the ass.

In the end, nobody will be happy with the outcome and everyone would be worse off, except the government with some more tax revenue, or less because gig companies buying equipment will probably deduct more in total.
Again though, define "decent". It will vary depending on who you ask.
this is why linear dynamics should be a basic course before ML/DL.
Next week OP discovers Kalman filter... and surprise, surprise!
Thanks! This is good information. I would imagine that ~4% less flu infections at the start of a flu season would be enough to slow down the season a bit, in theory, but not to the point flu has been slowed down now.
Workers actually could set their own rates higher but Uber puts a floor on how little a ride can cost. Uber tested this feature and found that everyone who set a rate higher than Uber's floor amount didn't get a ride...

Uber does not let you choose your clients because they discovered discrimination occurred based on who the client was and where they were being picked up from. You are free to cancel but repeatedly cancelling means Uber will remove you from the network (you aren't putting in anything good to the system...so maybe the system isn't for you)

The work gets done when someone requests it, you don't get to negotiate that as a driver. You are able to look at customers who want future work done (scheduled rides) and book those at your convenience. If you are working in an on-demand contract role, the work has to be done...on-demand.

The ride has to be done in the same way as every ride as that is the expectation of the product. Uber doesn't tell you how to drive, doesn't tell you to set your car up in a certain way, but it does tell you some basic ground rules for doing the work.

Dictating what car you can and can't use is like regulating the equipment on the platform. You can't use 2-door cars, cars past a certain age, and a few completely reasonable restrictions (https://www.ridesharingdriver.com/uber-vehicle-requirements-...)
As with anything that entirely depends who is at work.
Watching Linus Torvalds is going to make you arrive at your answer, but if you followed Don Knuth, you may have to reconsider.
have yet to read a comment that likes it :shrug:
Why not go one step higher up the abstraction, which is one step better, and provide healthcare irrelevant of jobs - it doesn't matter if you have 1 or 2 or none. You still have healthcare!
The implication seemed to be that it was somehow unreasonable to either see big tech as evil (which imo it often is) and suggested that they were somehow less politically influential or protected than local taxi businesses.

In my opinion the opposite is true. Uber (and big tech generally) is often worse than what it’s replacing, and a hell of a lot more powerful politically. They don’t just take advantage of laws or have laws that favor them, they blatantly ignore laws with little to no consequence. There was some negative attention to taxis before Uber even existed, but because the problem was on a much smaller scale not much attention was paid to it.
This. I also lost interest as soon as I saw the website just re-directed me to an app.
5gexposed.com is not really a reputable source. Anyway,

> Also, numerous experiments seeking to prove direct contagion through close contact, droplets of mucus or other processes have proved fruitless.

> From 1933 to the present day, virologists have been unable to present any experimental study proving that influenza spreads through normal contact between people. All attempts to do so have met with failure.

This is just demonstrably false. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3682679/
>Excess deaths exceeded COVID deaths every week of the pandemic: https://i.imgur.com/MeGMsRx.png

Not entirely sure how to parse that statement, but I think most people would interpret that as "non-COVID excess deaths exceeded COVID deaths", which doesn't match what's on your graph. E.g. for week 15, expected deaths = 55k, deaths - COVID = 63k and all deaths=79k.

The only truthful way to interpret your statement is that "excess deaths (including COVID deaths) exceeded COVID deaths". Which isn't that interesting of a statistic.
So what do you call it? A million bucks in a brokerage account no doubt means you probably lead a far more comfortable life in the US than most, but it is still very far from 'rich' in the private jet to St Moritz and your kids never having to worry about money sense.
Yeah, this is a problem that the distribution packaged rust compiler is quickly out of date compared to what most of the ecosystem expect.

However there is hope for a better future:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/65262 will allow crates to specify a minimum supported rust version (MSRV), this way, we can imagine cargo resolving algorithm taking the installed rust version into account when picking the version of a crate to download so it would pick the last version of the crate that still compile on your system.

Another thing is the Sealed Rust / Ferrocene initiative [https://ferrous-systems.com/ferrocene/]. The idea is to have a version of rust supported for a long time, and it is likely that many core crates from the ecosystem will decide to keep compatibility with that LTS version.
> The recent shit storm was not caused by a malicious act on the part of anybody at UMN. The "overworked" maintainers made a mistake and ascribed malice to the actions of a good-faith contributor who also happened to be from UMN

This is not true and is explained in the article:

> That said, there are multiple definitions of "malice". To some of the developers involved, posting unverified patches from an experimental static-analysis tool without disclosing their nature is a malicious act. It is another form of experiment involving non-consenting humans.

This is the “recent shit storm” and can in no way be described as “good-faith” particularly after the disgusting response from the researcher after being called out on their shit.
Depends on the company size. Smaller companies have more flexibility since you can directly talk to the CEO or founder. They don't have too much red tape or HR rules as well. In that case, it comes down the candidate and their record and ability to negotiate.
When and for how long I work is a pretty big one. Most employees don't get to just decide their hours on a whim.
I mean, so do garbage fast food burgers, so maybe that's the bar they are comparing against?
Yes! As a non-Rust example, the Go 1.15 compiler can't compile some Go 1.16 projects because they use the new embed library.

The idea in the root comment that it's somehow outrageous that a compiler for version N of a language can't compile versions N+M is ... strange.

PS I love your book :)
(For context: about a week before their first wave of deaths. Oops.)

https://imgur.com/a/OZzPVuY