skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facts like these don't matter to the COVID-obsessed. Turns out that screaming 24/7 for 18 months at people they're going to die messes with their cognitive abilities. Go figure! And here I thought doing this would keep us calm and rational.

We basically have a best-case scenario today and an awful lot of people don't care and still think it's doomsday. Vaccines are fantastic at reducing COVID to a cold, kids are at no risk, the overwhelming majority of adults are at no risk, vaccines are available, natural immunity is great, and ironically, vaccines DONT stop transmission. So, we're all gonna get it, anyone who wants to be protected can be, and unvaccinated people don't matter because COVID is already endemic and we're all gonna get it so we have a clear path towards herd immunity. This is great!

And here we are, instead making illogical and probably illegal rules that accomplish literally nothing, make everything worse, perpetuate irrational fear, etc. We scapegoat "the unvaccinated" and start this medical class warfare and just ramp up unnecessary hatred of each other. And worst of all, it doesn't protect anyone and probably will make COVID worse.

Are we having fun yet?!
I would also add that Constraint Programming has a small but very dedicated community, and the amount of innovation in the space is incredible given how niche it is. Some things I find amazing:

* Dozens of solvers with hundreds of search methodologies

* Intermediate Language specifications (FlatZinc) to allow solvers written in one language to interact with completely different languages via a common intermediate language.

* Entire catalogs of useful constraints https://sofdem.github.io/gccat/

* Solver Competitions https://www.minizinc.org/challenge.html

* Peer Reviewed journals https://www.springer.com/journal/10601
They give a nice comparison of S2 vs H3 here https://h3geo.org/docs/comparisons/s2

Which is better definitely will depend on your use case.
No need to call the CDC, they have already researched the rate of adverse cardiac events after vaccination and you can find their results here.

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
I guess you could say that, but this isn't really "news". There have been a variety of studies[0][1] over the past 6 months from various countries showing the remarkable effectiveness of covid vaccines. Just some people apparently don't want to believe it.

2 random examples:

[0]https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fc...

[1]https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-says-99-covid-dea...
There's actually an increasingly common naming pattern that I think is very weird, but in the end, I just let them do whatever. In the grand scheme of things, having a unique name can really help you stand out, and they can always go by a nickname. It doesn't hurt anything, and it could very well help.
That is not colluding at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collusion

Just because Walmart says on their website that they sell an item at $5, does not imply they have made an agreement with other sellers to also sell at $5. Nor does Carvana saying they will buy a car at $20k imply an agreement with other buyers to also buy at $20k.
For those who don't catch the reference, in the '90s Enyart would read on his radio show obituaries of AIDS victims (or as he called them, "Sodomites") and play "Another One Bites The Dust".
Tires were hemp-reinfoced plastic, then steel-reinforced plastic, they are now actually fiberglass-reinforced plastic.

It doesn't matter. So long as elasticity is provided not by gas compression, but solid material compression/tension, that solid material will deteriorate fast.

Downvote me all you want, but this idea won't fly. It can't compete with regular tires at anything above 20mph.
> Driving drunk doesn’t imply violating driver’s own bodily integrity against their choice.

I'm not sure what you mean. Police would use force to stop a drunk driver from driving drunk.
Well the major ones just sell them the data so I guess it's all the same
What's the PPP pay per hour and hours worked per week compared to the US?
The reason I think that maybe Æ should qualify is that it's not entirely unlikely to occur in immigrants' names anyway (or at least the lower case version). There are systems for transforming such characters to something that appears in passports - my own name has an umlaut, and I've obviously got a passport. I'm not American, so my passport is of course not issued in USA, but I suspect few countries would see a name diversity as great as USA so it can't be a new problem for the authorities there.
Hopefully not. We pay taxes so that the government will uphold the law. If there's a law designed to protect Colorado's children, it should be enforceable whether or not the threat to those children is also in Colorado. If that's not the case, then the law probably deserves a rethink.
The answer to this question is almost certainly "no".

It is ironic that what was originally the most hyped feature of Java has now been removed. But nobody is going to miss it.
> If you actively discourage people from taking a safe vaccine, you are responsible.

Just jumping in here to reply to this statement... if you're talking about someone expressing their opinion to others that they shouldn't get the vaccine, the person expressing that opinion isn't responsible if the other person decides not to get the vaccine; the other person is the one who is responsible for their own actions and decisions. It's on them to weigh that advice with whatever other advice they are hearing.

I do agree that people are responsible for consequences of driving drunk, or lying about the status of their STD testing.
The Veritasium youtube channel has a great video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU
I think the field of tech is more segmented than many realize (in terms of culture, technology, even geography to an extent)

For example, I've got a decent-sized network and I've only ever met one person who works in government tech. And it wasn't through that network. But you can't tell me the government doesn't have legions of people working on its systems.

Even talking with this friend about work is like speaking another language. He builds, tests, and manages huge digital systems, but all of it is done using this product called Microsoft Dynamics, which I'd never even heard of. He doesn't really write any code, but the medium he works in is as complex and powerful as a programming language ecosystem. Yet there's almost no crossover between the jobs each of us might apply for. It's like an uncanny, alternate universe, coexisting with the one I live in. I think there are many such universes and it's entirely possible to go through your career without ever meeting someone from one of the others.
Very important for thise people, but nut much for population statistics. And immunocompromised people can generally be vaccinated, the question which is still open is how effective the vaccine is for them.
The fact is that PG&E does not provide power to the entire state. LA's DWP (municipal), SCE, and SDG&E serve major areas.
Yup, which points out the fundamental problem: Facebook is a product of its incentives. Its incentive is to maximize engagement. Why? Because more engagement equates to more ad revenue. The externalities of this behavior do not align with what society seeks. Therefore, if we wish to fundamentally transform Facebook, then we must change the incentives. The incentives are not going to change on their own. Enough time has passed to demonstrate that the market will not correct for this. This can be deemed a market failure. This means some intervention by the state must be made. I propose that having the platform free should be illegal. Instead, the company should be forced to charge customers a recurring fee, sufficient enough to cover operation costs, and to no longer obtain revenue through advertising. This, I believe, will shift the incentives to produce the behavior we as a society seek. Facebook will no longer optimize for engagement, as that no longer drives revenue, and must instead compete on something else, like quality of experience on the platform. Of course, such policy would have to be applied across the board for all social networks as to not undermine Facebook's existence with a competitor offering the same service for free.
my company needs this so bad
There are 12 pentagons conveniently placed over water. The docs are a pretty interesting read.
https://eng.uber.com/h3/
Technical Default for Chinese RE Evergrande
you're still doing it. you're just stating as an apriori fact that the authors aren't communicating in good faith.
> where worker cooperatives take over the world?

Suppose that worker cooperatives have taken over the world.

Suppose then that the worker cooperatives must choose between policy options, for example { "increase payments to retired workers", "increase investment in disaster preparedness", "increase investment in infectious disease biochemistry" }.

What is your recommendation for how the worker cooperatives should decide how to allocate resources? Presuming you do not recommend prediction markets.
Hi everyone, I’m one of the developers on the Seq project — I was delighted to see it posted here! We started this project with a focus on bioinformatics, but since then we’ve added a lot of language features/libraries that have closed the gap with Python by a decent margin, and Seq today can be useful in other areas or even for general Python programs (although there are still limitations of course). We’re in the process of creating an extensible / plugin-able Python compiler based on Seq that allow for other domain-extensions. The upcoming release also has some neat features like OpenMP integration (e.g. “@par(num_threads=10) for i in range(N): …” will run the loop with 10 threads). Happy to answer any questions!
>>> So if in one population you get 458 deaths from Covid compared to 57,263 from all other causes and in the other population you get 38,964 from covid compared to 65,170 from all other causes, we can immediately tell that one population fared much better at least when it comes to your chance to die of covid compared to chance of dying to all other causes.

I think your math is off. What if the first population only has 458 people in it? 100% mortality for that population would obviously suggest you want to be part of the other population even if their total deaths were higher. The issue I'm calling out is that we don't know the size of each population. I certainly don't think vaccines increase mortality, I actually believe it has a large positive impact. The point is this data doesn't help us understand how impactful it really is and, given all the debate over this, if they'd framed the data with better context, this could actually be a very useful study in ending that debate.
all construction projects require blood sacrifice; It Is Known. Them splinters ain't accidents, the spirits of the wood demand their tribute.

I'm glad to see the acknowledgement of the Old Wisdom in the thinking for construction in environments where such fluid transfer would otherwise be difficult, instead of the presumable accident it is most places.

Ever wonder why underwater construction is such a bitch? it's hard to get the blood where it's supposed to be.
I'm confused. Isn't this considered treason??

They get no jail time? They get to buy their way out?!

> “Hackers-for-hire and those who otherwise support such activities in violation of U.S. law should fully expect to be prosecuted for their criminal conduct.”

I know they lose their clearances and pay a bunch of money, but this seems like it merits a lot more punishment than that.
I think it's often that the compiler/environment do not leave enough information for the debugger, typically by optimizing out local variable names and their values. By the time you figure out the obscure settings to be able to see the live values of variables and other state, you may have done a lot more surgery on your build system and slowed things down to a crawl compared to adding a few print statements.
A less humorous unusual status code is 451. Unfortunately, it probably should be used more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
A great comment supporting another great comment and yes, your "guess" is correct.
yes, recipient sees your email address (of PayPal account)
I did write some DOS viruses back when I was a kid, including a "stealth" one (invisible when reading the infected files via int 21h) and another one polymorphic (encrypted with dynamically generated decoder). I've never spread them, although I did upload another simpler one to an antivirus vendor BBS as a "new virus", so now it's known as "Areopag-480" and such. I thought all of the sources of things I wrote back then were lost when I typed an extra space in "rm -rf ~/something" back around 2000, but recently, while looking through some old books, I've found a piece of code of the stealth virus I wrote around 1992-1993: https://twitter.com/ivan4th/status/1434625057553330178/photo... I didn't have a PC at my grandparents' dacha back then, so I was writing code on paper instead during the summer
This makes a lot of sense. I guess I just wondered if people end up degrading the quality of their work to maximize speed instead of inspecting their process which is another part of the artistic flow. Everything you've said here is a good refutation of my original comment.
>I think your scenario sounds a lot more like a bubble.

Depends on the job you have, and how far you go out of your bubble.

>but in general I think it's quite rare.

Like Fortran...but not if you work at Cern.

And Cobol...but not if you work at a Finance institute.

And PL/1...but not if you work for IBM.
Yes. But in the move to java 9 they broke java’s customary backward compatibility and left behind a lot of users.

It doesn’t help that there is no good, clear and complete guide on how to upgrade SOAP clients.

I went through this recently and learned that because jakarta uses multi-release jars, we have to do the regular dependency changes and also change our fat-jar based build/release to Docker images. In other words, they decided to throw out decades of users’ investment in learning the ecosystem.

I’m not surprised that people seem to be leaving the ecosystem.
I wrote a lot of COBOL "back in the day" (the 80's) and I don't think it would take me much effort to get back up to speed. So I think I can fairly count myself as a COBOL programmer!

That being said, I like languages that came later much more, and absolutely would not choose to create a project today using it. I also wrote a lot of Pascal in the 80's, then moved to C/C++ and Python. Python is the language I've used the most in the 2000's, but now I'm studying Typescript, and think that is a perfectly fine language which I plan to use professionally. I've also studied OCaml and Rust and would absolutely choose the latter now for anything where efficiency was a prime requirement.
Identifying Computer-Generated Faces
This sounds like Simpson's paradox again: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...

Anecdotally, my wife has been working covid ICU this month and to her it's not surprising. The people with breakthrough cases apparently have so many comorbidities that it's not surprising at all they'd get vaccinated with high priority but also have an immune system that doesn't do a great job learning new skills from the shots.

The people for whom the shot is least effective are the ones that get it the most.
It's quaint, it's a joke about IoT devices before they were everywhere. I'm currently disappointed that the office has "upgraded" coffee machines and the new one has a permanent internet connection and shows ads/branding (for coffee) when it is idle.
The problem with C++, is that while std::{array, string, vector} exist, and there are compiler options that make operator[]() behave just like at(), there are still lots of people that will happily use char * instead.
> I think your math is off. What if the first population only has 458 people in it?

I think your thinking is off.

How do you get 57,263 other deaths in a population of 458?

This data is not comparing population sizes. It avoids it by comparing your chance of dying to covid to something else that is supposed stable between populations -- chance of dying to all other causes.

We just need to know that population sizes being compared are large enough (as evidenced from the number of deaths included) to be statistically significant.
Yet another reason Australia should have kept TLD .oz!
both pigs and dolphins experience extreme duress when they see their friends getting killed.

That said, dolphins will actively protect humans in the water when sharks are around. for that reason, I'm disgusted at the idea of eating an animal that actively chooses to assist us when we are in danger.
obscurity increases security, doesn't it?
Reminds me of the twitter "Enhance Your Calm" 420 status code in lieu of 429.
I think print statements are actually useful in ways that typical debuggers are not meant to be; they make it easy to show changes over time, and they provide a tight feedback loop between observing the value of some data and performing interactions that update that data. For example, if you wanted to know how a coordinate calculation changed as you scrolled the page, print statements would be more useful than a debugger. I don't think this is exclusively why debuggers get less use, but I think that print statements aren't inherently a thing to optimize away from.
It points it out, but it's not conclusive. From the article you linked:

The data from Piketty, Saez, and Zucman is not divided among federal, state, and local taxes, so it is difficult to tell exactly how much the rich were paying in federal income taxes specifically during this period.

Some of the distributional assumptions in the Piketty, Saez, and Zucman paper are questionable. In particular, the authors assume that the full burden of the corporate income tax falls on owners of capital, which may not be correct. However, the authors note that they “have tested a number of alternative tax incidence assumptions, and found only second-order effects.”

> The Saez paper points out that even among the 0.01% people were avoiding that top rate.

Of course there were - tax avoidance is inevitable, but to say literally none of them were pay the stated rate with no evidence is disingenuous.

Bringing this back the overall point of the discussion - with a marginal tax rate that high (even with avoidance) it raised the effective tax rate nearly ~600 basis points higher. That's significant.
The warping you’re observing is a result of the projection used to display the map on a 2D screen. They actually do use pentagons to solve the tessellation issue.
An interesting case study is the Nenana Ice Classic[0]. There is existing research[1] on the accuracy of the betting pool as a prediction market, but to me it looks like outcomes farther from the median result are not predicted well.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenana_Ice_Classic
[1] https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/201...
I attempted to try it out but the site displays poorly on Firefox and the PWA doesn't even seem to work.
Eh? Standard American and British usage is the same with regard to quotes that span multiple paragraphs. Given that it's understood that speakers can alternate without each quote being attributed, e.g.:

Bob said: "Any opinion on this, John?"

John said: "I have two things to say."

"What are they?"

"One of these things is this.

"The other thing is this."

– how would you punctuate that? If you close each paragraph with a quote, then there's no way to tell who's speaking except to label each paragraph:

Bob said: "Any opinion on this, John?"

John said: "I have two things to say."

Bob asked: "What are they?"

John answered: "One of these things is this."

John continued: "The other thing is this."

And if you don't open each quoted paragraph with a quote, it's very hard to tell which paragraphs are quoted:

John said: "I have two things to say.

One of these things is this.

The other thing is this."

The third thing, he kept to himself.
It reads as an appeal to irrationality or the opposite of reason. Educated or not, not particularly useful.
So.

All of today's practical public key crypto could be broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer - if one existed which today it does not - thanks to a trick called Shor's Algorithm.

However, there are new public key algorithms that aren't affected by Shor's algorithm. Two problems. 1. They're all worse, they have huge keys for example, or they're slow, so that sucks. 2. We don't know if they actually work, beyond that Shor's algorithm doesn't break them on hypothetical Quantum Computers.

Even if you decide you don't care about (1) and you're very scared of the hypothetical quantum computers (after all once upon a time the Atom Bomb was also hypothetical) you need to deal with (2).

Post-quantum schemes like this for SSH generally arrange that by doing two things, they have the shiny new Quantum Resistant algorithms, but they also have an old-fashioned public key algorithm, and you need to break both to break their security. Either alone won't help you.
How do you sign up for it?
> The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics cites data that shows warehouse workers are injured nearly twice as often as other workers in the private sector.

That does not seem strange? At one end you the scale you have sedentary office jobs so a warehouse job being ~2-3x higher seems pretty normal.

> Lightly added that the data on musculoskeletal injuries, such as sprains, strained muscles, and torn ligaments, at Amazon’s warehouses “is skewed.” She said that’s because the company’s workforce has many people in the 18 to 24 age range, which she said is more likely than other age groups to claim work-related musculoskeletal injuries.

Interesting if true since I would expect the opposite.

There are many other factors at play. If the warehouse is at a reasonable temperature, good airflow, etc. and you are provided/reimbursed the cost of footwear then it doesn't seem like it would be too bad compared to other physical labor jobs but since the number of workers is so large it makes the news.

I would be surprised if Amazon's warehouse was worse than farm labor jobs considering exposure to heat and the elements. If we want to raise the floor on work safety/comfort, IMO it would make sense to impose these requirements for all jobs rather than single out warehouse jobs.

There's a danger with targeted legislation like this because it could lead to a scenario where the 'cost' of these restrictions is more easily absorbed by a company like Amazon or Walmart but a small warehouse company or even a new Amazon competitor has a harder time competing because the new regulatory burdens increase the barrier to entry.
How do you measure better soft skills which are crucial at any kind of a leadership role? Almost no jobs are easily measurable by output, we are not working assembly lines.
Every programming language has a library to parse urls.

Please, for the love of your own mothers, people: stop pretending like you know how to parse urls like they're strings. You don't. And even if you can, you won't do it right every time.

It's been demonstrated over and over again.

Just use the already tested url facilities to give you the host/path/query parameters
It wasn't retrospective. It was a prediction, available on the day of the election, and before. Basically, you are talking nonsense, rationalizing your priors.
This is an increasing problem in Israel as well.

Soldiers who spent years in the exploit-finding units of 8200 (Israeli NSA) can work for NSO and stay in Israel. But they can also leave the country and work for foreign entities. Sometimes without even knowing who their employer is

One famous case was "Dark Matter" a UAE company who set up offices in Cyprus and offered 8200 soldiers 7 figures (in USD) a year salaries to relocate, outside of the Israeli Government oversight - which NSO need to adhere to, and work for them