skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>1. A way of speaking that puts an upward inflection on the last word of a statement that makes it sound like a question when it's not. (Common among teens and surfers.)

lol

I'm not native speaker and when I'm not sure about what to say next or I'm not convinced about what I just said e.g whether it makes sense (in general),

then I tend to talk this way (not intentionally, it just happens), even teacher asked me why I do this years ago but I couldn't answer

I guess I gotta be careful with this
I like the reach for Amdahl's Law, but it's about how fast you can speed something up by doing it in parallel, isn't it? What's to say someone else can't be eliminating the other classes of homelessness in parallel, making the problem effectively embarrassingly parallelizable?
It might be just me, but ever since I learned what a weasel-word was, I can't look at the title of a pop-sci article like this one without feeling the urge to dismiss it out of hand. They just stand out as weak and vague statements of things which compared to other sciences, they don't seem to be sure of much.

But who can blame them? They're trying to prove that a single cell, which is more complex than any system we've made as a species to date, spontaneously erupted from inanimate matter.

If I was tasked with proving that a usb drive with every codebase on Github on it made itself, and my livelyhood was on the line, I'm not sure what I'd do either.
CoL adjusted UK salaries for anyone from junior to mid-level are terrible, and saving even 1/3 of your income on that kind of salary is hard. Not to mention, the lower CoL areas (and correspondingly low salaries) generally just aren't nice places to be. The idea that you can pay someone 24k/year to write C and Python filling a "junior" role that requires two years of expirence is crazy.

Even if you adjust for healthcare, even if you adjust for cost of living, UK tech salaries are simply bad. I don't know why, and my only hypothesis is that there just isn't much respect for tech workers in the UK in general, or companies don't make much money.

I'm not asking for a Bay Area 150k, I'm asking for 35k outside London for a junior role and 45k for a mid role. It's unlikely I'd get it. The number of people who brush this huge discrepancy off with "healthcare costs" (which, in the US, is a matter of company-paid insurance), or "safety" (as if that's something which should cost half my salary in the developed world) or "social safety net" (something I'm happy to pay for, but that comes out of tax which I already pay, not the take-home) is ridicuous.

There's no way around the fact that UK tech salaries are low, even accounting for the high tax in Western Europe, and I'm tired of being told that they are in any way equivalent to US (non-Bay) adjusted for CoL and healthcare. I'm paid poorly, and if I could access the US employment market, I'd be paid at least 1.5x before converted to USD no matter where I am.

The fact that things may be worse in France or Italy doesn't mean anything to me. In fact, it just makes me surprised that the UK has done well in comparison.
It sure would be convenient if they Sherlocked the developers of commercial solutions. The globalSAN initiator's been working well for me, FWIW.
Or for Minecraft. Probably Verilog to Minecraft has been done already.
Especially now that it's USB 4.
> As NVMe disks and interfaces have gotten faster I’ve found myself saturating a 10Gb ethernet network.

I love this race between network speeds, drive speeds, and RAM speeds. The classic "net vs disk vs ram vs cache vs register" interview question is much trickier these days.
One of the most brilliant programmers I worked with had a 14-button mouse. It had cut/copy/paste/select all/etc all on his mouse. He hated typing and actually couldn't touch type. He would always look for code online he could just copy/paste with minimal modification. I thought he was out of his mind but the dude produced amazing results and I think to this day I've still learned more from him about programming than I have from any of the other amazing people I've worked with.

I love to think keyboard is king, but none of this matters—it's whatever floats your boat.
My children are in those “N other people”. They are not yet able to be vaccinated. It is not their choice.
Could you make it so that there is not only a blank page, in case one does not enable JS blindly on every never before visited website?
If you want to be real nitpicky you shouldn't be using '+' for non-commutative operations either. Ideally you'd also have some kind of distributive law, but if needs be any commutative operation will naturally result in a module over the integers, which I suppose works well enough.
I've seen this arise from financial policies whereby the IT cost centre must be financially self supporting.

Hence IT department has to charge everything it does, swamping everyone involved - business and IT both - in bullshit paperwork, taking time from everyone. Like a finance version of fighting entropy, you can have everything perfectly neatly ordered but it takes effort.

Then someone in IT gets sick of hearing bullshit hopes and dreams ideas from business;
"Ok, but what if cereal box toys were spruced up with crypto? Go cost it up will ya?"

And so IT swings the financial ban hammer with $20000 quotes. Bullshit begets bullshit.

There will be a "who you know" club of people from business and IT who can skip the bullshit, not fill out the financial paperwork, meet over coffee or lunch and hash out ideas. If this club does not exist, woe betide the company.
Has anyone tried searching for new basic operations like convolution or pooling?

We've been using these methods for years, and I doubt the first major development in NN vision (convolution) is the most optimal method possible.

Consider the extreme case of searching over all (differentiable) mathematical operations to see if something really novel can be discovered.

How feasible would this be?
The vaccines aren’t safe for everyone. Lupus runs in my family, I already have an autoimmune condition, and I’ve already had COVID. For me, getting the vaccine would be all risk (even if it’s unlikely) with no gain.
> you'll learn that while drugs are restricted at the shelter, it's a fantastic place to meet people who use drugs and find new sources of drugs

Is this not also a problem at homeless encampments?
Actually, I lived in a texas county where some (all?) of the bars required ID scans that I can only assume called the cloud to verify/store data
You wouldn't hit a TPM every time you wanted a random number. Your OS would just use it when it wanted to seed its entropy pool.

This is particularly useful at boot when entropy is very low.
> How TF is this news, on Wired

Wired was always a gossip magazine, but now it is just a gossip magazine. It's sad.
Back in the 90's, just to set the record straight. It was probably the first game that did it.
Isn't "don't break the web" supposed to be the most important priority?
Here is the answer from AWS - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-clients-of-o...

Disclaimer: I work at AWS, but as a solution architect.
This message has been brought to you by Pfizer.

Source or GTFO

EDIT: Your downvotes are delicious as you provide no source. The notion of vaccine immunity being stronger than natural immunity, especially with mRNA vaccines, is absurd. You are generating response to a single surface protein of the virus. The virus has many surface proteins and a natural infection will tune the immune system to respond to all of them. There is no evidence of vaccine immunity being stronger than natural.
I have the exact same setup as you, moonlander + vimium + vimac.

Out of curiousity, how are you binding Vimac?

I'm binding it to where the right-shift key should be, and it's worked well, but always curious about alternative setups.
From what I’ve read, the highest commercially available satellite imagery is ~0.3m

Which would make one’s head take up a whole pixel.

Now, I don’t know what the best military satellites are capable of, but I’d wager there’s a reason many companies, governments, and armies still find airplanes and drones (and even blimps sometimes) very relevant today for ground imagery.
OPs point is that many of these long term symptoms can be observed after other infections too. Influenza is also known to have longer term side effects especially in children (sound similar?)

Unrelated but important: I think a lot of people miss that this pandemic has infected millions of people, so all of the one in a million events happen with enough frequency to where you will find significant proportions of the population displaying ever symptom you could imagine "due to COVID".

We had a woman who started hemorrhaging a week into her infection. Do you think that was caused by COVID? Probably not, but I'd bet you could find a thousand people where that happened just because of the sheer size of infections.
I think this is a genuine possibility given that the poster describes themself as an L6, whereas a FB engineer would typically refer to themself as E6 or IC6.
Would love to see more mention of naturally acquired antibodies / immunity, else (as in this article) the term "unvaccinated" is overloaded in my opinion. For example, are stats around naturally immunized folks different? I imagine so..
Jesus! I haven’t seen stuff like that even in Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, bogota or Mexico City.
Truly medieval stuff!
1.2M Tesla Cybertruck Pre-Orders
> the industry seems to have rejected fully integrated blade systems

In my probably too simplistic mental model, the blade systems approach got overrun by the advent of multicore processors combined with virtualization and containers. While not 100% equivalent, it’s close enough and the price difference ends up making the decision in most scenarios.
That sounds a little too... bureaucratic?

Anyways, final approver should be somewhere between you and the CTO.
No, I’m not discounting it. That’s what I’m talking about when i refer to people resistant to things “pushed from above.” I’m saying that’s part of the issue, and it’s only going to be solved (if it can be), by depoliticizing the issue and making it a mundane medical concern. And that’s going to take time, and backing off the stick.

Or… you know, just give people 500 bucks (including everybody who already did it.)
Because knowledge is power over the environment and filling your head with lies is hard to unlearn.

googling doesn't disabuse you of ingrained lies.
Decent price and looks reasonably featureful. Good job!

Question: Who are you using for Bank sync?

Yodlee? Plaid? Something else?

I'm a mint ->> Personal Capital convert who both use Yodlee, and I'm curious who you use.
Nobody gives a shit
Coercing poor & minority populations into bending to the will of the powerful, and saying it's for their own good has a long and tragic history. I am not sure whether your argument is in bad faith, but it does seem willfully ignorant of history.
Jay Bhattacharya, the known loon, and an economist from George Mason University are not people anyone should take advice on public health from.

Meanwhile Israel, which vaccinated its citizens at impressive speed, has already ordered booster shots for the over-60's and is considering another lockdown.

Unless the spread of the virus is curtailed, there will be a steady stream of new variants that the current vaccines do not protect against. Right now, we are putting pressure on the virus to become more virulent. If we don't squash the virus the chicken and pork lines at Tyson will stop with every new variant and the economic damage from the continuous waves of disruptions will be greater than that from any effort to stomp out the disease now.
For those of you who read Radical Candor by Kim Scott, the advice the employee received from her manager is closely resembling the advice that Sheryl Sandberg gave the author of the book. That advice is used as a model example of what "direct, but caring" advice should look like in a corporate environment where there is professional trust between employees.

It's interesting how that same advice is here displayed as an exhibit of overt sexism.
It sounds dystopian because it is.
>in human clinical trials for around 10 years

And no approval. In other words, this is a dangerous class of drug that has failed to obtain a single human-use approval in 30 years. Thanks for the info!
Apartheid was a system of separation based on essential personal characteristics. Vaccination-admission requirements would lead to separation based on behavioral choice, probability of disease transmission, and liability risk.

It seems like an inappropriate and needlessly emotive choice.
Keeping clients of OpenSearch and Elasticsearch compatible with open source
10k for five years isn't that bad when you factor in upgrade policy, support staff and scale it up to a company of 50-60k employees.

just reducing some of the policy enforecemnet requirements with machines being virtual is probably worth the cost of two or three laptops

no need to overthink VPNs with tricky clients vm's already on the right network/subnet/whatever, hell each machine can have nice software controller azure IAM roles it's a dream for cloud working
If we're down to talking about Guillain-Barré, then I'm definitely not concerned.

37 cases of "covid-associated" GBS falls in the category of "lighting strike risks" in life. Yeah, it can happen, but it's pretty damned rare. I'm not changing my life for it.

Also, of course...GBS is associated with at least one of the covid vaccines, itself:

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/guillain-barre-syndrome-a...
Have you gotten much traction on the subscriptions? I made some financial simulations for my own use and was thinking about ways to monetize, but I dismissed subscriptions as I didn't feel there would be a big market. I'd love to be wrong about that.

Anyway, I don't plan to actually make a product out of mine, but if you're interested in speeding up Monte Carlo financial simulation by literally a million times, let me know :)
Good write up from a great guy. IIRC the author of that page, Nick Touran, works (worked?) for one of the Nuclear Startups that Gates funded. Met him and had a few drinks once, guy knows his stuff.
Hey hey hey, GNU C has __attribute__((cleanup(fn)))!
> None of this gets around over-eager Cloudflare or Akamai rules set up years ago by some contractor that the businesses have no real ability to change.

If the business has no ability to even change the CloudFlare settings I don't expect them to be able to provide an API.
Truck + driver means you have a real person who can kick boxes around and find stuff in the back.

Add drones and you have to create an automated drone loading system which works on multiple drones simultaneously.

Otherwise you have truck + 2 (3? 4?) drones + person, and the person loads one drone while the other is/others are delivering.

That will save some time, but not enough to be a game changer. There will still be kicking of boxes.

Meanwhile drones will have to autodock to a charging cradle, land, be loaded, deliver, and then either repeat or autodock again.

The system breaks down badly if there's any kind of issue.
If you want to ditch the physical keyboard/mouse, there are apps that let you use your phone as a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
How do you assuredly get R0 below one with a leaky vaccine[1]? R0 can stay >1 with 100% vaccination if the pathogen is contagious enough and the vaccine is leaky enough. Note that the reference I provided is from 2015, so we can rest assured it's not particularly politicized. There is a very real chance that we're going to look back on delta fondly if a Marek's disease type scenario unfolds. Then again that's pretty much optimal for big pharma if they have a vaccine that's effective against a hypothetical omega strain that will reliably kill or maim the unvaccinated.

Edit: Here's a nice slide deck elaborating[2].

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

[2] http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~denis/epi/edinburgh11/talks/Pellis...
That is equally right as irrelevant. For the transmission of the disease the total population counts. The virus doesn't distinguish between humans who can get vaccinated as by FDA decision and who not.
A topless club can kick people out for touching the dancers. You break the rules of a private club and they can kick you out. Under the guise of research people weakened Linux. Neither party in this situation has clean hands.
Exactly this, for anybody who's done public speaking training, this is baseline feedback you'd expect to get from your coach. Upspeak, vocal fry, junk speech and all other elements of speech devoid of information are to be minimized within reason, while still sounding human and relatable.
ah, found it here for others who might be interested:

https://www.buxfer.com/help/security

Yodlee and SaltEdge
Server Side Rendering Vue.js 3.2 on Cloudflare Workers with renderToWebStream
Lies, damn lies, and statistics...
> How is that sexist or condescending?

It isn’t inherently, but context is important. In a culture of sexism, it’s not uncommon for women to use more passive language and more deferential tone than/with their male colleagues; sometimes this is a matter of adjusting communication in an effort to be heard, sometimes it’s a cultural difference where those communication styles are rooted in a broader set of instincts around inclusion and empathy.

None of this is universal, of course. But it’s pervasive enough to be a trope.

> Is it sexist if people give her the same advice that helped me? How could one have formulated that to be non-sexist but still useful advice?

Let’s take another common trope about sexism as an analogy. There are a zillion variations of men giving women advice to “smile more”. One that often comes up in the workplace is “people have said they think you’re angry with them, they might be more receptive if you smiled more.” This is something that (1) is seldom said to men, and (2) would have a totally different connotation if it were.

And bridging back from the analogy, uptalk (ending sentences in a way that sounds like a question) is often already a “smile more” type of effort or instinct. Turning that on its head and also advising against it is damned if you do or don’t, and from the same sexist culture effectively suggests women should really just be seen and not heard.

None of that is implied or in context in the advice you received.
> Another possible explanation is that Blacks are more likely to be criminals, and these stops represent police getting bad guys off the street. [..] City-wide, 68% of no-arrest stops city-wide were of Blacks, the same proportion as arrest stops, which means that Blacks were no more likely to be criminals than others who were stopped.

If, despite being stopped more often, the stop is equally likely to result in an arrest (I'm assuming that's what "no more likely to be criminals than others who were stopped" means, since if they were less likely, the author would surely mention it), doesn't that support this explanation? Of course there are problems with this, since an arrest itself is up to the cop's possibly biased judgement. Which brings me back to

> There is more policing in those beats, they argue, because that’s where the crime’s happening. There’s a logical problem with this argument, because more crime will always be found where more policing is done. But leaving that aside

How quickly he moves on! But there is a solution: look at crimes not affected by over-policing, such as homicide, or look at victimization surveys [1], that don't involve the police. Finding the results is left as an exercise for the reader.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Victimization_S...
I’m shocked Apple employees are allowed to use Slack. Anyone in the industry long enough knows there is always someone that has full access to everything when they are the provider, regardless of what they claim. Strange that Apple would even take the risk.
Self reported data on things like this is absolutely useless, even though I’ve had lingering taste issues myself. If the media is constantly talking about long COVID it’s no surprise that people will think “gee, I have been kind of tired since I got infected.”

Even my own taste issues might be something else - the only reason I’m confident they’re there is that it’s intermittent and takes me by surprise. I have two friends that think their sense of taste isn’t quite the same as it was and it’s steadily that way, which to me sounds like it could just be all in their heads (or not).
> Not just "free" as in beer; free as in "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC-ND)"!

That's pretty much the literal definition of free as in beer. It sure as hell aint free as in freedom.

Not that i begrudge that, its their book they can do what they want with it.
I’ve seen organizations that just run Intel nucs.
> an overall risk of illness and death that is on par with every other year I have been alive.

The excess death statistics would like to have a word with you, but more importantly:

> If I ever become so afraid of death that I demand that other people give up their basic human rights

Are basic human rights really what we're talking about here?

If so, they've always had limits when it came to impacts on others. The freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of someone's nose; the freedom to spread certain pathogens might end there as well.

Of course, the article here is talking about vaccination as a condition for participation in venues where density and proximity is a concern. "Basic human rights" may well not quite reach into unqualified access to "indoor dining, in indoor fitness facilities, indoor entertainment facilities." Hell, it's hard to actually make an totally unqualified case for bodily autonomy itself, even though that's a good principle to start from, it isn't the only one.

Basic human rights were not lost from the world by smallpox or other vaccination mandates. They wouldn't be destroyed even if there were going to be a federal mandate for covid vaccination, which doesn't even seem to be on the horizon. They are certainly not going to be destroyed by proof of vaccination being required for entry to restaurants and gymns.
> I work with a bunch of C folks who don't like C++ but love Rust

There are literally dozens of us!
Some laptops have mechanical switches nowadays, I haven't tried them but they couldn't possibly be worse than normal laptop keyboards.
Thanks for the tip on REAMDE - it and Dodo are the ones I haven't read.

I'll add Fall; or, Dodge in Hell. It's Stephenson's most recent book, and has nice scifi and (HN-crowd-relevant) societal concepts. Beware of a very slow opening.

Also: Project Hail Mary. Similar to The Martian in the right ways. More ambitious, with all its benefits and plausibility traps.
For a little background: elasticsearch-py 7.14.0 added a check to reject connections to AWS Elasticsearch Service hosted versions of ES. This surprised me today when I did a production deploy and search died. Shame on me for non-specifically pinned dependencies.
It's the sort of claim thats fairly meaningless to the average person, but becomes meaningful and embarrassing if its exposed as vaporware (and the sort of person that's more impressed by this than any other announcement about power stations is the sort of person that's really interested in the detail of how it'll work).

During the Cold War the US and USSR made all sorts of tendentious claims about the superiority of their socioeconomic systems, their military prowess and mendacious things the other side was supposed to be doing and denied all sorts of things they actually did, but they didn't try to lie their way to the front of the Space Race.
> OPD justifies this spatial disparity with crime rates. There is more policing in those beats, they argue, because that’s where the crime’s happening. There’s a logical problem with this argument, because more crime will always be found where more policing is done.

Is this true? Will you find white murderous gangbangers if you stop and frisk enough people in Piedmont?