skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree.

Nothing's worse than the cult of POSIX. Half a century ago some people gathered and figured out the lowest common denominator of all the unixes of the time. Now it's 2021 and we're still supposed to restrict ourselves to this "standard" system in the name of portability. POSIX has so few features that restricting yourself to it is masochism. Every unix adds their own extensions, they would be almost unusable if they didn't. So why is GNU criticized for doing the same?

The author says GNU is just some optional userland. I find that amusing since in every traditional unix the POSIX userland is deeply integrated with the system. He talks about glibc but the BSDs and even Windows ship with their own libc that I can't ever get rid of because they're the only supported way to interface with the kernel.

Linux is the only operating system that actually frees us from this cult. Unlike other systems, the kernel/userspace interface is stable and defined at the lowest possible level: processor instruction set architecture.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/...

Only on Linux is GNU truly just some optional userland. You can throw it in the trash if you want. You can make your own. Who says you gotta have little commands like cp, mv, grep, sed, whatever? Who says people have to use some "standard" shell from the 80s? You can make a graphical userland if you want. A 100% Rust or Lisp userland. Even no userland at all.

People complain about systemd but I actually have a lot of respect for it. The developers had the balls to trash all this sacred POSIX stuff and make something new that actually uses Linux kernel features. The resulting system is better for it.
>Sure, it takes other things than income into consideration as well.

In fact, mean income feeds 0% into the index ranking. Intergenerational change in income feeds 0% into the index. Income inequality (fixed in time), feeds in 10% to the index.

> They do consider income as well: "In Denmark or Finland, for example, if one’s parent earns 100% more than another, it is estimated that the impact on a child’s future income is around 15%, compared to about 50% in the United States...".

That is a reference to another study in the section explaining "why social mobility matters". It was NOT included in the Index ranking. That line data isn't sourced well, so it is hard to follow up on what exactly they are comparing and how.
It feels like if they released a serverless/Lambda equivalent they would start taking a lot of business from the big 3. Workers are somewhat close, but the v8/isolate pattern limits them to narrower use cases. A more traditional serverless that could sit at the center and be optionally fronted by Workers would be nice.
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Try using !s for Startpage.com results. It is proxied google results.
>“These are price-distorting entities,” Vishal Garg, the founder and CEO of Better.com, a digital homeownership company, told Motherboard. “They harm our customers.”

I skimmed the rest of the article and I'm not sure how it distorts price. The only thing that's actually substantiated is the spread that ibuyers have (eg. buying a house at $895k and selling at $905k), which is more "markup" than price distortion. Supermarkets have markups as well, but I wouldn't characterize them as "distorting price".

Further down there's mention of some sort of conspiracy to corner the housing market or something.

>Such a model costs too much, Garg said. “I don’t like it because it means that consumers are going to lose money,”

Of course they're going to lose money, compared to if they waited and found the perfect buyer. But in exchange they get liquidity. On the flip side, there's also costs to not having liquidity, eg. the market moving against you, or having to wait months for a sale.

>Garg compared the iBuyer model to ticket scalping, noting that iBuyers tend to be most active in hot markets like Phoenix and Raleigh.

ticket scalping happens because bands sell tickets for less than it's worth, usually to whoever shows up first. the scalper's role is therefore as an arbitrageur, buying something that's mispriced and selling it for market price. Is there any evidence that's the case for zillow? Are they beating everyone to the houses that are mispriced?
Great article! I'll dig more into the skyscraper technique, thanks.
If you mean the OP, our software rewrote the URL to a broken link - https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/600. I've fixed that now.

Sorry - I've been working on code to follow redirects as well as replace submitted links with canonical URLs, and there are still bugs in corner cases. Will track this one down.
I think your car is completely flexible too? It can also leave and arrive anywhere you want.

Cost may be a bit higher though. You’re liable to burn through 30ish liters of fuel at a price of around €50.
The YouTube use case isn't interesting to me, but if arbitrary images/video could be streamed to this it opens up a lot of possibilities for the price point. HUD alternative?
The Escape is pretty much a larger Hatchback Car. Lifted slightly with bigger tires and more headroom. Compared to a sedan you get more cargo space options. For a family cars make zero sense.
I'm not sure that adds up - if that were the case, vaccinated people with breakthrough would have the same outcomes as infected unvaccinated people.

But that does not seem so - the outcomes of vaccinated people are way better even when they end up in hospital.

This paper would just show that viral load reduction is not the mechanism how this happens - which I don't know what mechanism would that be then - but the outcomes are still different.
I started a personal blog in 2021
Straight out of the obfuscation and doubt handbook. Instead of addressing the issue, go straight for attacking the messenger and divert, deflect, and distract.
I've been responsible for hiring for most of the last 20 years. I've literally never had a false positive where I recommended someone and they performed poorly. I have had one case where I said no, was overruled, and then the person turned out to be awful. To be fair, I have no idea how many false negatives I've had where I said no but they would've been great.

I'm always puzzled by people/companies who find this difficult. I don't believe for a second that my intuition is magical. I have a very simple interview process and it works really well. I just ask you what you did, and then I keep asking you increasingly more complex or detailed questions about what you said you did until one of us hits our boundary of knowledge. Then I ask a couple of social questions, usually in the form of "Have you ever dealt with x kind of situation?"

Funny anecdote, I asked one guy if he'd ever had a coworker he had personal issues with. He told me some guy made a racist comment and his response was to ask the guy to step outside to fight. We did not hire that guy.
actually, companies can buy the amount of TPU time that AlphaFold used. Note that the price breaks from "here is a listed price" to "contact sales" at the largest size (TPU v3-2048). I assume that during initial training and experimentation that DM kept 1 or two TPU v3-2048 busy 24/7 for 6 months to a year. That's entirely within the budget of well-heeled companies
Here's the detail of Back Bay (including this morning's 302nd walk which took me to the corner of Beacon and Arlington): https://imgur.com/a/FqQmFNf
Look at Table 5 on pg 19 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

For those under 50, the single-dosed have the lowest Delta CFR of 11/83009 = 0.013%;
for unvaxxed it's 132/248803 = 0.053%;
for double-vaxxed it's 48/85407 = 0.056%.

The lower Delta CFR for single-vaxxed vs twice vaxxed holds for those 50+ too, 1.935% vs. 2.173%.
You could test it on AWS Graviton 2, the benchmarks will be similar given they are both based on N1. The only differences are cache, PCI-E and Memory.
Presumably the team started with existing methods on their fleet of compute and was forced to develop new ones. While development happens your fleet also grows and your ability to utilize it expands and you end up not going back to ever try methods that are generations behind on your current fleet because the overhead of making it work doesn't justify it.

It's like asking if using the google homepage from 10k iterations ago would perform better than the current version on the present user cohorts. There's just too much invested to justify testing things like that when you can use the time to improve what is showing promise.
When I joined Cloudflare in 2011 Matthew recommended the book.

I bought "The Innovator's Dilemma", read it, and said to myself "OK, we'll do that then".
Everyone sees that the check could have saved them that one time. Nobody sees the cost of the check, applied over and over and over...
Does it mean that a vaccinated person who caught the virus and developed minor symptoms has a better chance to develop longer lasting immunity than those only being vaccinated and without the dangers of no vaccine?
Tribalism may be the cause, but the cure (perhaps) is to approach these things in good faith. There are so many bad faith actors out there whose primary purpose is to evangelize, intentionally sow division, or both.
Remember that about 70% of these treasury bills are held by the public. This makes up social security, retirement accounts, they are held by mutual funds, pensions, and banks.
A default would shudder the world economy, and destroy confidence in the USD.
Getters and Setters also permit you to specify that something can only be retrieved or assigned, but not the other. This is non-trivial in most programming languages so having this as a common pattern is useful. Though I like C#'s properties versus seeing a bunch of getFoo and setFoo methods running around, if Java had provided the same or a similar capability there would probably be no controversy. It's the noisiness of the Java solution that seems to irk people more than the concept.
Interesting what you interpret into my words.

With cultural fit I meant that she needs to fit into our diverse team. She should probably not have biases against people coming from different and diverse backgrounds.

She needs to be able to work in a collaborative team setup within our core team as well as be able to integrate into project teams with even more diverse people.

Someone who shows that they would not play well in this team sport while also being self sufficient when necessary would not be a cultural fit in our org.

I dann don't care about the color, gender, age or educational background. On the contrary I enjoy the multibackground people around me. It is inspiring.
What it tells you about the candidate pool may be less than what it tells you about the qualifications for the position. Job requirements in the computer industry routinely include nonsensical requirements (5 years experience in something that's been around 3 years, 2 years experience in each of 8 items for an entry level position, etc.)

This is endemic to the point where applying only for jobs where you fit the job description is a losing strategy.

And even if your own job posting isn't one of those, how is the applicant supposed to know you're one of the few employers who actually means what's in the job description?
At some point in time after infection, viral load might be the same, but:

> the viral loads
decreased more rapidly in vaccinated than unvaccinated individuals in Singapore [3], suggesting
that vaccinated individuals may remain infectious for shorter periods of time.
Don't use that as a final product, use it as a crossword book generator. Selling the books would be a lot more lucrative (or selling the actual puzzles to someone who already prints crosswords.)

Especially if you can generate them from arbitrary lists of of clues:words.
Thank you, I had to read several comments before I figured out which "Go" they were talking about :)
ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 5
> Natural immunity from a previous infection still reigns supreme

Except for the part where you had to get sick for the first time, risking death and long-covid.

I also remember talks that the previous infection needs to be a serious one - asymptomatic case will not give strong enough immunity. But I'm not sure if that got confirmed.
Mike, thanks for the lengthy excursion into history, but for me it is not new information (and actually being from Russia I'm used to seeing russian churches all the time).

And the thing is, traditional stock russian churches are rather different from Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the latter being a rebuilt copy of a late 19th century design. And being such a late design (by the standards of our churches), it is hard to unsee that all major details of it are borrowed from Taj Majal: the dome, the ancillary domes, the proportions of major details. Famous Russian painter Vereshchagin (of the Apotheosis of War [1] fame) openly criticized the project for being a 'direct recreation of a Taj Mahal church from Acra'

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_War
PReP would be cheaper, actually.

And, most people pay for their vaccines via insurance.

The flu shot isn’t free.
From a few years back, but here's an example: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...
My issue with this is the price. Not because it’s not worth it, but because it means no one outside of hardcore enthusiasts will buy one, that means very little software will ever be developed for it.

Also I find the presence of the floppy drive in 2021 ridiculous. Yes the C65 had one - but that was a prototype machine from 1990 that was never produced. There’s no c65 software available on floppy disk, so no reason this couldn’t have used sdcards instead.
The science very clearly shows that your chances of severe illness / death are much lower for vacinated covid patients. This has been widely shown to be true for quite a while.
Today I learned about the broken link building technique. Wow that is gross. At least the way that site says to do it is by straight up lying to people about how the link moved to a new site.

It wouldn't be so bad if they would at least say, "I made a page with similar information", but suggesting that people straight up lie about it tells me everything I need to know about the ethics of the site that is making that suggestion.
> Many, many casual users came across this because it was incredibly widely shared, and because Facebook's algorithms push such content far and wide.

That's my take, too. I know exactly the sort of mass-produced garbage content they're talking about, since I see things that my friends interacted with in my Feed. Therefore I am part of the 140 million people who was exposed to the media produced by these operations.
>"In real terms, the nation would soon return to high unemployment rates, approaching 9% compared with its current rate of 5.2%. Also, come November 1 checks for millions of Social Security recipients would be delayed, Zandi noted. And stock prices would likely plunge by one-third, sparking that $15 trillion loss in household wealth. Meantime, mortgage rates and other interest rates for things like credit cards and auto loans would spike."

Not sure if this article is alarmist.

Wiping out 1/3 of the stock-market and spike in unemployment if true would have triggered enough entities to force a resolution.

I remember there was a debt-ceiling crisis during the Obama era as well. Is this the same old political maneuvering seen before?
Maybe one of the lesser search strategies will find a better search strategy? Isn't that how humans came around after all?
‘Find your way’ app helps patients, visitors navigate UC Hospital
I prefer the web version of YouTube because the app has way too many ads.

I was really disappointed to see that uBlock doesn't work on Firefox for iOS. I bought an iPad for other purposes, but if was meant as a media consumption device, I'd return it. The internet is unusable if you can't block ads and cookie notices.

Does Safari have something better? I'd lose my history/password sync, but at least the web would be a bit more usable.
It's only impossible to discuss them if your argument is based on a strawman that's been repeatedly debunked by actual science. People are exhausted with all the hypotheticals that are predicated on the things that are not true being true.
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FWIW, dollar for dollar, Graviton2 is impressively quick.
I've done two moves, one from MySQL to Pg and the other from Pg to MySQL. I'm not opposed to leveraging their nonstandard parts where necessary.

Some companies end up with a mix of different DBs and it can help to consolidate to share expertise or resources.

Though at this point both have grown much closer together in capabilities and performance.
There is Phil, the free crossword maker http://www.keiranking.com/apps/phil/ but I haven't had the best luck with its automated fill. Lately I've been using Crossfire http://beekeeperlabs.com/crossfire/ to make puzzles and its auto fill is quite versatile, even if some of the choices can be iffy (but easily fixed with some manual tweaking). You can even provide your own custom dictionary for it to use in the fill.
What Is Cohort Analysis? A Guide to Increasing Customer Retention
have a copy on my bookshelf! Didn't have a pdf though nice.

The gawk one is useful if you're into some of the gnuism specifics
So by your reckoning, old people with families and a life outside of work are... stupid and don't do anything? Are you serious? Being smart and showing you have great motivation to get things done in NO WAY relates to how old you are, if you have a family, or a life outside of work.
I keep wondering the same thing myself. I mean there are NUMEROUS web-component frameworks & UI libraries that should make this a non-issue.

Is there a licensing problem? Is it an artifact of the preferences of those who typically contribute to open source projects like this?

Bleh. It's hard to sell management on a product that doesn't look sexy, whether it works or not.
'Google' is most searched word on Bing, Google says
But aren't slide rules themselves nomograms?
Intermittent fasting makes fruit flies live longer – will it work for people?
Weird this young project isn't as polished huge, mature and widely used projects.
There seem to be many separate ideas in this article.

> I want to surround myself with tools that help me perform my daily tasks

That describes the OXO cork-puller, to some extent

> or beautiful objects that are frivolous but nice to look at and touch

This leads to more consumerism and waste, which is one of the other points in the article.

> I want things that last a long time, that are easy to fix, and that didn’t damage the people who made them or the places their materials were extracted from.

This is a reasonable point! Finally. (although it doesn't seem like the cork-puller necessarily doesn't also adhere to these traits...)

The article seems to be a hodgepodge.

Tangent: maybe we need to come up with more clever ways to use a single gadget to fulfill multiple functions, instead of buying one gadget per function. But wait, this is already partially true, at least with respect to kitchen tools - you rarely, if ever, need a large spoon with holes in it - just take your large spoon that doesn't have holes and drain the liquid out by pressing it against the side of the pot. Inconvenient? Sure. But less waste. So maybe the goal is to convince people to put up with some amount of inconvenience in order to save the environment...

Or, go back to expensive, but super-durable, goods that will last decades, and ideally also be made out of recycle-able materials.
Considering that single travel tickets cost 3€ at the moment, and yearly ones 730€, that would be a godsend. One can also hope that one day they'll allow traveling on a single ticket for the full two hours, not just for one journey. However, it's unlikely the BVG will ever budge on pricing.

Earlier this year, there were rumors of a cheaper "Homeoffice-Ticket" which would only be valid on certain days, and in the end nothing came out of it either.
> The fewer SKUs therefore isn't a result of impressive engineering but rather impressive profit margins.

It also signals impressive yields to me. The M1 is very small, only around 120mm^2. I’m sure we’ll see more than two SKUs when the new MacBooks launch.
I wonder how this relates to 5G which also pushes more storage and even compute to the edge.
it will be interesting to see if they can start to load models like GPT-3 ASICs and realize some serious performance gains.
> Vaccinated are just as likely to be infected

This is definitely false.
The syntax isn't nearly as nice, but Perl can be handy if you're doing something more after splitting into columns. And it's usually already there / installed, like awk. For just columns:

$ printf "a b c d e\n1 2 3 4 5" | perl -lanE 'say "$F[2] $F[4]"'
c e
3 5
The latter is closer than the former, but I’ve put in a lot of time reading postal regs and studying library classification over the years, so I can navigate their index pretty quickly, is all.
US's death and ICU rates are higher than Alberta though, which can be explained by the difference in vaccination rates. So Alberta's current wave is not out of ordinary.

Rate of death (per 100k population) over the past 7 days:

Alberta: 2.3

United States: 3.01

Number of COVID-19 patients in ICU per million population:

Alberta: 268 / 4.421 = 60.6

United States: 62.5

https://health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/epidemiological-s...

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths...

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-icu-patients-per-mi...
I've never bothered to learn much AWK, but that's mostly because Perl is my bread and butter language and has been for 20 years, and focusing on knowledge of that seemed a better investment (especially since with a few judicious flags, Perl is a passable AWK replacement even for very small one liners).

That said, if you just want to supplement your knowledge of other shell tools and pull out something that can do some obvious text munging, AWK has always looked attractive for the task to me.
Great example!

How does research in software assurance treats the human side of behaviors and desires, which can't be formalized? Are there protocols that can increase reliability for an established purpose?