skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenSSL code does not look like the code cited in the article.

OpenSSL is known to be complex, hard to audit, etc. But they do have standards.

You may want to take a look at LibreSSL or BoringSSL instead if you are looking for something more modern and maintainable.
That first link doesn't really back up "zero effect on reducing the spread of covid". It's a non-peer-reviewed discussion of some graphs from Our World In Data.

Their analysis is incredibly shallow, for example comparing Portugal or Iceland (high vaccination rate, mostly open, lots of COVID cases) to Vietnam (low vaccination rate, completely locked down at the time the analysis was done, not many COVID cases). You can't make any inference about the vaccine / caseload relationship when you ignore the fact that one country is completely open and the other had such a strict lockdown that people were struggling to get food.
> Military politicians are older than humankind itself.

Just curious, is this just hyperbole or do you have an actual example?

ETA: I mean the "older than humankind itself" part. Like what does that mean in this context?
You mean like security warranties US and UK gave to Ukraine for giving up their nukes? Yeah, that worked great.
I was going to say this. Many of the people up here don't have an energy demand high enough to warrant a full scale generator.

The portable generator my parents have has hookups to connect it to the main breaker panel of your house. The only thing it lacks is autostart on power failure.
>The price comes first, and the buyer second.

The price is determined by the intersection of supply and demand. With a bull market in real estate, demand is greater than supply. Buyers have a greater effect on price than sellers. In the extreme, market prices converge to the maximum loan as GP described. In practice, people with higher incomes, liquid investments, or previous home equity can out bid individuals who assume the largest mortgage they can.
Is it because Wikipedia has Tiananmen Square articles?
Florida reporter tweet about Friday's delays, https://twitter.com/benbeckeranjax/status/144703647319525785...

> Source tells me “some controllers getting vaccinated and the mandatory (48) rest period required after controllers get the vaccine” led to staffing shortage at Jax ATC in Hilliard that resulted in mass flight delays/cancellations in Florida on Friday night.

> ... The Federal Air Surgeon determined that FAA medical certificate holders may not act as pilot in command, or in any other capacity as a required flightcrew member, for 48 hours after each dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines. The Federal Air Surgeon made this determination after evaluation of available medical information about these COVID-19 vaccines and potential side effects, https://www.faa.gov/coronavirus/guidance_resources/vaccine_f...
i love a good dutch comment
They probably don't like the Tiananmen Square articles.
If you study for the exam, wouldn't that make it deterministic?
I've never heard anyone tell me that JavaScript is slow.

I remember node.js benchmarks in the front page of hn showing it to be as fast as hotspot jvm. And this was pre 2012.

And since node is single threaded, you had to run n.cores instances of your app.

For the longest time as a kid what I was lied to was that Java was much slower than Ruby/Python and my perception was painted by the startup times.
I think that's because it's technically illegal to do a walkout...

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-a-southwest-airli...

In reality, a lot of pilots can just message each other on the side and say "f-it". Idk how many it takes to take down the system, but I suspect even 20% out sick could cause a cascading failure.
We Can Shut Down the Crimes Exposed by the Pandora Papers – If We Want
It emerged in another thread that since the 1950s inflation has averaged 8% a year.
Will try to find source...
IIRC 15% for Campbells Tomato Soup.

https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-price...
Yes but. https://dev.to/jaredcwhite/the-shocking-immaturity-of-javasc...
There are many things to consider in addition to just JS, like bloated frameworks, dependency hell, startup times... yeah a single benchmark may not show much difference, but when you consider everything else there is a noticeable difference between a JavaScript CLI app and Go/C CLI app.. I can visibly even see a difference for CLI, but my process manager clearly shows any desktop GUI use for JavaScript is severely less performant than most native counterparts.
Smaller packs, same price: curse of ‘shrinkflation’ hits shoppers’ baskets
Obligatory mercury retrograde comment
Banks are genetically incapable of doing anything useful in terms of technology. Their mainframe architecture was outdated 40 years ago! They will forever maintain their hacks and buggy software.
“More people moving to cities” and “more people living alone” sounds like it should add up to “more apartment buildings.”
AI (GPT-3 and similar technology). It's spawning a new generation of games, probably similar to roguelikes in that the effort bar is low enough that someone of generic skill can build one on their own. Games have the potential to be far more emergent than they ever were. AI Dungeon is like the Zork of today.
What has been the problem(s)?
You simply need psychopathy at the top:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Things are much easier to understand with the above template.
The same shadowstats just takes BLS CPI and adds a constant to it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27124745
World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO
That number is probably derived from BMI. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268...
The question wasn't how could the customer be impacted. None of those scenarios have to do with the customer being held legally liable for the IP violations of a vendor whose product they use.
I don't think vaccine mandates should be unlawful from private companies, but IMO it would be better if they gave a choice between a vaccine and having a recent test. If you need a vaccine or a negative test administered in the last 72 hours to attend work, it's very inconvenient to choose the test route but at least employees wouldn't be able to make the argument that they are being "forced" to get the vaccine.
My favorite way of generating a negative rail using more modern components, the inverting sync buck configuration, is especially maddening. The circuit's input, the positive voltage, is the regulator's VCC: so far, so good. The output, the negative voltage, is the regulator's VEE... which sounds fine until you remember these are single supply regulators and so that's their "ground". It's the regulator output that's the mind-bending one: it gets tied to ground! A switching node output, grounded, just does not look right.

It actually makes a lot of sense once you draw it out. The startup is the truly confusing bit, but fortunately it's only unstable for your brain. These guys are actually pretty robust if you can find a part that withstands the full voltage stress (|Vin| + |Vout|), which isn't too hard these days. Highly recommended for a production-quality negative rail generator. Just don't try and do it with a regular buck; synchronous controllers only need apply.
Fwiw, one of the highest paid coders I ever knew worked for a big stuffy bank. He was unfireable because he was the only one that knew the internal systems as well as he did. Learning COBOL may be a huge long term competitive advantage in the workforce, especially if the current dotcom-esque funny money dries up.
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Maybe there is something between the lines, but it really does not say much other than the obvious "our operations are worse than other carriers".
He has a bachelor's degree in physics (which he got at the same time as a degree in economics). This does not qualify as training, in my book, to discuss complex processes such as terraforming. He has never practiced in the field, and dropped put of that PhD after 2 days.

He is a businessman with an undergraduate degree in physics. It is literally true that he has some training, but less so than any junior engineer working in the field for a year or two.
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Are you saying in the USA your fixed rate lasts for 30 years?
Its there a significant premium on the duration?
In the UK fixed rates last 2 or 5 years.
> Under the RLA, our Union is forbidden from taking job action to resolve labor disputes

Which is the reason why the union can't explicitly say it's because of the vaccine mandate. Once a company begins demanding injections in exchange for the right to keep your livelihood, previously agreed upon "forbidden labor actions" are null and void. I support them to shut down the entire country....and I have a feeling this is just the beginning.

(Not to mention an actual "FDA approved" vaccine isn't even available in the United States...they deceived you.[1][2])

[1]: https://covidblog.oregon.gov/approval-versus-emergency-use-a...
[2]: https://www.foxnews.com/media/ron-johnson-no-fda-approved-co...
The most American thing about Monopoly is that the rules get changed so that the most profitable single action is parking.
Super true, and JS frameworks haven't always been kind on their CPU usage (cough AngularJS).

I think desktop GUI apps also have browser rendering engines chewing resources.
Probably trying to build a case that they're just trying to compete, not steal traffic from existing sources via their position as the search provider.
If you haven't already seen it... here's every episode of NML. I can just go through these over and over and always laughing. I miss him.

https://archive.org/details/Norm_Macdonald_Live/Norm+Macdona...
For most of human history we built our own homes. We only stopped because having others do it became more convenient.
> You don't want a program where in 100 different places you handle exceptions and pop up error dialogs. What if you want to change the way you put up that dialog box? That's just terrible. The exception handling should be centralized, and you should just protect yourself as the exceptions propagate out to the handler.

That's assuming a definition of an exception as a generic error you can do nothing about except tell it to the user and maybe retry the operation or kill the program. But in practice exceptions are used for more than that, they're a sort of union type where a method can return a result or an error, but because Java didn't have union types exceptions were used to signal that. For example parseInt will throw a NumberFormatException if it can't parse the string you pass as argument (NumberFormatException is unchecked but it really should be checked).

I think it's the coexistence of these 2 different ways things can go wrong under the same term that is the root of the confusion around Exceptions. The first way is using an exception as a normal outcome of a method, like parseInt above. Using the word "exception" for that is wrong, it is not exceptional for parseInt to return an error if you pass to it some string that does not contain a number. It is expected and will happen every time. The type system should be able to represent that with an union type or Either<> or something of the sort instead.

The second way things can go wrong is when the program is put in contact with the outside world, and the outside world is messy so things will happen that are not what you expect. You try to open a file but it cannot be found any more, you try to allocate some memory but the operating system refuses to do so, some network call is taking too long and so on. Those will have to be dealt with case by case, sometimes you can do something about it, sometimes not. I know programmers don't like that very much but I don't know what can be done about it, it's just the nature of dealing with all the edge cases.
it remains true that react is unable to use the DOM at its full performance regardless of virtualization.

part of it is that after all react is a library and not a compiler (which is good per se, I like that you could use react with only vanilla .js and .mjs files or even once big HTML file) which means that for the react runtime components are black boxes and cannot be statically analyzed nor statically optimized.

in the case of a table with 70k rows, even if the component only returned one jsx without any computation react would have to run the same diffing algorithms (this could be solved with a useMemo, but not always)
> As CEO of a company that's taken tens of millions in funding you a) are independently wealthy

Raising tens of millions doesn't make you independently wealthy, though it greatly increases the chance you may be someday. To me, independently wealthy means you can stop working and live a very comfortable life using existing funds and the wealth they generate.

Founders who have raised money — even tens of millions — are generally dependent upon the business that raised the money. If they walked away from being CEO, they might be rich on paper, but they also would have just tanked the commercial value of their largest asset (stock in said company).
> The purpose would be to produce dust to spark a warming feedback loop…

That's like spiking Earth’s atmosphere with greenhouse gases to promote global cooling.
Does he really think a desire to leave is unique to the c-suite?

I think what he's suggesting is that people might be surprised that even CEOs feel that way. Outsiders tend to assume people with money and power are happy and where they want to be. Escapist fantasies are probably not something most CEOs routinely admit to.
I operate under the assumption that all transatlantic cable endpoints and satellite down links and large-scale ISPs are already compromised. Maybe not as obvious as having a dedicated “NSA Room”, because the tech has progressed to the point where it’s no longer necessary.

The smaller fry may or may not be compromised, but it wouldn’t take more than trivial effort for them to become compromised if the NSA wants in.

Any commercial VPN you can install, is likewise already compromised. You could install your own endpoints at a service provider, but all those service providers are already compromised (see above).

I’m sure that TOR was hard for them, and may still offer some challenges, but I’d be really surprised if they can’t compromise it when they want to.

And I’m also certain that I personally remain a person of interest for them, based on some things I said back during Crypto Wars I. I’m sure there’s a lot of people above me in the list, but I’m also certain it’s a fairly long list and that I’m on it.

So, I think the only thing a reasonable person can do is to continue to operate their lives, make sure they address the non-nation-state attackers that they can, and try not to attract the attention of the NSA.
https://sci-hub.st/10.1038/s41593-019-0517-x
He split the data into 50 packets. He was asking for $100k per packet, or $5mil. They nabbed him after the first packet.
All I see are arbitrary exponential functions being drawn to extend the existing line.

Maybe I'm "being gen-z" but it's crazy to know that people actually bought into this when global warming, etc, are not accounted by people drawing the lines (and so are any forms of black sheep events/inventions)
Thanks for that article, that's an entry point I hadn't seen before! It reminds me of this database of famine foods from Purdue University: https://www.purdue.edu/hla/sites/famine-foods/

I got into it by wandering around the SF Bay Area and looking up plants with fruits on them to see if they were edible. That was how I ended up cracking open hollyleaf cherry pits and leaching the cyanide out of them, and roasting and grinding bay nuts to add them to chocolate cake.

There are indeed a lot of interesting native and introduced edible plants. It causes me to pay a lot more attention to the nature around me and to learn a lot of new things. I've thankfully avoided a visit to the hospital so far :)
Makes me think of those mini cans of soda, which are a flagrant rip-off.
I don't know that I agree with this article, while there is absolutely a problem with package/framework/build tools churn that makes development super painful, I don't feel that developing with JavaScript has been any more painful than developing with VB, C#, PHP etc was in the past.

All languages have their pain points, and modern JS/TS, while undisputably having their quirks, aren't particularly more quirky than JS (IMHO)
> Surface of mars is going to have radiation levels on the order of 20 uSv per HOUR - we are talking RADS/year (not mili rads).

Sure, but there is a difference between solar radiation coming from a clear source that you can shield against, versus potentially coating the planet in fine radioactive dust that would get into every nook and cranny it finds. Radiation from the sky is bad, but radiation inside our lungs is many times more deadly.

To be fair, martian dust is already extremely toxic, so mixing in radioactive fallout may not significantly increase the need for scrubbing everything down.
Facebook cannot fix itself.

FTFY.
He is right.
First hand knowledge.
In the past when I have written basic benchmarking code like the first example, the compiler will typically optimize all the code away.

I am curious why this did not happen or what optimization flags were passed in.

If it was prevented optimization through flags, is this a fair test?
That would mean that 60% to 65% of those that died were not obese!

Just FYI, the CDC says that about 42% of American adults are classified as "obese".
Often the limiting factors for an airline aren't the planes, but the humans to operate them. If the pilots aren't in the right place and available to fly, then an overnight to reset the positions of the planes does nothing. Nevermind the fact that resetting the network would in fact burn up flight time which seems to be in short supply.
Norm was an entertainer, yet a very private person. I half think all of his misleading was an attempt to keep people from knowing him too well. The other half thinks it was just a joke to him...like his age. Every time he mentioned his age it was incorrect in one direction or another.

We're talking about a guy who didn't even tell anyone (that we know of) that he was dying of cancer. He went so far as to say that doing so would be narcissistic, as it only burdens other people. Pretty interesting take I think.
This looks awesome. Has anyone here actually tried it for your day to day/daily driver? I don’t have any of the supported phones to test on so I’d be eager to hear opinions from those who’ve used this.
At all travel points trains/planes the government will require a vaccine passport check. This check will require the person to provide id to match against the vaccine passport information. At this point your information/location are verified and entered into a government system.

As for tracking by private companies. At your local pizza shop your location may not be tracked through the open source clients you list but at larger venues the opportunity for information gathering/sharing is possible. Previously one could buy a ticket to a game from someone outside now everyone eventing must identify themselves.
A counter intuitive one was changing from a dual monitor setup to a single, slightly bigger monitor. I think it's because it discourages unnecessary multitasking at least for me.
Does that still exist as a policy?
For lower numbers this completely optimizes away for me too, but after a certain point the loops stays in place (with no flags)
The given C program has no input or output and exhibits undefined behaviour (signed overflow). Even with the most rudimentary of optimizations, this program will execute in constant time. https://godbolt.org/z/YdshfqdWs
Thanks, also some scenarios in the comments.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/did-labor-action-ove...

> Not official evidence but just asked a close friend who used to work at SW for over 20 years. They texted their former SW union rep (non-pilot union) and they responded that they have >600 flight attendants without hotel rooms tonight due to the unexpected cancellations. They say the story/reasons they are given for the cancellations are constantly changing but they personally think it is a pilot sick out. They may be wrong but non-pilot SW employees think that’s what’s going on.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/10/did-labor-action-ove...

> As to why this airline and why now, an RT article mentions that-‘SouthWest Airlines became one of the last major US air carriers to introduce a vaccine mandate for its employees last Monday after the company was reportedly pressured by White House coronavirus adviser Jeffrey Zients to comply with President Joe Biden’s vaccination order. Some 56,000 SouthWest employees have until December 8 to get vaccinated if they want to keep their jobs.’
> I assume the current administration could direct the Dept of Defense to make military pilots available to Southwest in the event of an extended availability issue with their union pilots.

No, they could not, not without a wholesale reworking of the entire FAA. Pilots are trained and certified on individual airplanes; even highly experienced pilots need retraining in order to safely fly a new aircraft. Shoving a bunch of military pilots into 737s is both highly illegal, and would probably result in some plane crashes.
What an awful website. Auto-play videos, numerous pop-ups. Ick.
The article makes me think of the movie The Russia House. It still has an excessively Mary Sue ending but parts of the movie are probably a better portrait of how this sort of thing really works than your typical James Bond flick.

This is not the sort of thing anyone should do to add a dash of excitement to their boring existence, though one comment here suggests "playing spy" for titillation is a shockingly common motivation for such cases.
When my father passed away, it was surprisingly comforting when people sent their condolences. It's pretty simple and doesn't even have to be heartfelt. Just seeing people there and not being alone helped. Especially when you lose someone who's been there for you all your life, perhaps the biggest fear is being alone.
20%? That would mean they have 20% extra pilots on standby ready to take over for the sick. I think it is far lower than that, more like 5% or less. I suspect it might be closer to 2%, that there are no real backups. I bet that when someone is stick someone else is called in on their weekend. That would be the labor action: pilots refusing to work overtime/weekends when called to cover for someone.
America. I was totally ignorant of this process but I was later to learn it was quite common. This would have been in the seventies and eighties.

Kind of a paternal boss who thought regardless of your job performance you only needed more money when you had to support a wife and family.
When can glibc be built with Clang?
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