skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow many people in this thread are jumping to rebut the idea of meritocratic hiring. I'm with you on that. I think meritocracy is a naive idea and it's actively damaging when hiring teams think they can boil the talent of candidates, and their effectiveness to do a job, down to some objective and comparable score of merit.

I also don't give a shit about making my page loads quicker. That's rarely what the world, or the business for that matter, needs.

What I'm talking about is the specific phenomenon of discriminating against a candidate based on their gender or race, and whether people think this is okay.

I'm concerned with the process of hiring software engineers because it's something I have to do daily, and have done for a very long time. I'm coming here to talk about it (rather than other social issues) because I think others here have experience in the same area.
"In October 2021, Prasad prompted social media controversy when he published a blog post comparing the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic response to the beginnings of Hitler's Third Reich. Bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan said that Prasad's arguments were specious and ignorant, and science historian Robert N. Proctor said that Prasad was "overplaying the dangers of vaccination mandates and trivializing the genuine harms to liberty posed by 1930s fascism"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay_Prasad
Yeah right, with all the restrictions and regulations EU will never touch anywhere near "superpower" territory, ban anything you want, even with toughest protectionism (which is always bad) EU lacks manpower, knowledge and education for sufficient IT sector development.

Software developers like (as one might assume) to earn money and immigrate to US on first possibility or job offer, where there is ongoing boom in innovation and development, where companies compete to hire them, nobody likes to be suffocated with heavy EU taxes and get lower salary because main competitors are banned.
I used to have a security badge to get in there back in 2003 or so. When I was shown around someone said they could cause a minor recession in 5 minutes with an axe. Also they had me grab a fibre that carried all of Japan’s internet traffic. If you pulled that it would route everything the other way around the world through Europe and the east coast.

I had a long lost picture when they were doing some street construction outside and marked all the buried cables with spray paint. Lines going everywhere…
After the vaccine was available it was mostly unvaccinated dying. It's called freedom.
Well, it would work if the same rules applied to everyone.

But instead, we have a ruling class that owns the companies, lives in detached houses in gated communities, has multiple cars, flies first class to vacations. And we have the serfs working "jobs" in these companies, treated like shit by egomaniac bosses, and are constantly told to adopt the continuously lowering living standard in the name of rather abstract and unquantifiable goals. That also, coincidentally, prevents them from competing with the ruling class. Am I really the only one seeing massive hypocrisy here?
> The trade off is that these jobs often come with immense stress and a lack of work life balance.

Not at all. I have a close friend making close to $500K building internal dashboards at FANNG. He's on at 10 a.m. and off by 5 p.m. Every day. The only time he and his team are stressed are the final few days of a project, and that usually requires working "overtime," according to him, which is past 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
> with an in-game integration of marketplace for gold and items instead of going to ebay

That's what happened with Diablo 3's Real Money Action House and... It didn't end well.

They had to convert the RMAH to a regulat AH after some time.
You alread listed 3 single points of failure. I get what you mean: the entry point search engine, the global cache and the global backend/storage/compute.

But look I live in Hong Kong, I dont feel that way: there are other backends, we could survive without the caching for a while and Google is forbidden for 1.4bn people who get on with it very well...

Depends what you call the internet. Yes, facebook and whatsapp are gone the minute one of those 3 companies screwed up.
Some of it is about improving their public perception. We get a bunch of ads in Australia from mining companies trying to let everyone know they are digging up materials for renewable projects and not just coal.
Sure, a polarized plug and a ground mitigate different kinds of electrical hazard, but you do need both of them to mitigate all the electrical hazards that a metal-bodied kitchen appliance would otherwise present.
If you wanted to escew protection for ease of use, you could just map the unibus page into the user process and let them fiddle the attributes directly.

Additionally the 8kb pages were subdivided into 128B contiguous blocks, with a base and limit, allowing smaller granularity.

The feature set that the 8086 gave you was more or less still available, there was just another option that was deemed more useful in most cases.
So the hospitals would just refuse people?
Travel bans slow down the spread only if they are done for all travelers. The piece meal approach done by many countries where only certain countries are banded do little to stop the spread. The virus spreads too quickly and eventually it will come in via the travelers that are allowed to come in. Testing and retesting is probably the only way to slow it down other than a complete band on travelers.
It's no Hacker News anymore, it's one fucking disgusting propaganda mouthpiece.
Burn in hell, HN.
I know many educated and smart people who are anti vaccine, including doctors, some of them got fake certificates and that is in a modern western country. Nobody is checking it properly, they just see the green colour and let you in, nobody even compare the name to some ID. So the benefit is to get into places they couldn't get into without the vaccine.
Most people aren’t wearing N95s, and to my understanding, no jurisdiction has a mask policy that requires them.
The mostly did at the time too, I think. The Handbook's sentiment was largely "you can make me use it, but you can't make me like it".
In Sweden? ~300 [1], so about 40 years worth of traffic accidents.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/438009/number-of-road-de...
What we're missing is the valley, where huge piles of cash are in search of anywhere to go to. Where as little as a sales pitch can give you backing to hire fifty people for two years... After which everyone figures out the idea wasn't any good, investors didn't win on this ticket. And you proceed to think of your next pitch, with nobody holding the previous failure against you.

Or, so I've heard.
It's cool. I'd be happy to see this rip the non-vaccinated community and lol
- "Travel bans don't work": supports banning the unvaccinated from traveling to particular establishments, supported preventing anyone from traveling pretty much anywhere during the first lockdown stages last year

- "Walls don't work": closes and locks door when entering own home, probably has walls in house too

- "Ivermectin is horse paste": is actually not good for COVID, but is on the WHO list of essential medicines and has saved countless lives and has a side effect profile that's tamer than most of the antibiotics that most US doctors will prescribe as a precautionary measure for a multitude of things

The more they BS-us, the less we listen. Is that what they really want?
Florida has a higher proportion of elderly residents at higher risk. When you adjust for demographics the death rate in Florida is about average for the USA.
> individuals who were both previously infected and vaccinated were still able to neutralize the mutant virus.

Mainly because of the infection, not the vaccination. Infection trains your immune response to detect multiple factors of the virus, the mRNA vaccines are only for the spike protein which has considerable mutations in later variants like this one.

Arguably, traditional dead-virus vaccines might provide better long-term protection for this reason, but we went all-in on the new tech.
> In 10 years, Europe will be a software superpower.

LOL not at €40k/year for senior devs they won't be. You'll sooner see Europe become the #1 exporter of H1Bs.
Vinay Prasad seems to be a contrarian who recently compared the US COVID-19 policies to Hitler's Germany[1]. In the article you linked, he's citing his own study on cloth masks. Most would agree that cloth masks are the least effective masking option at stopping viral spread. Cloth masking is just the easiest target to attack in an anti-mask agenda. He also implies doctor's have inherent bias against HCQ and Ivermectin, while being pro-mask.

Basically the dude has his own biases and agenda here, and the study he cites isn't a definitive nail against mask wearing.

1. https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/how-democracy-ends
Thanks for posting it. I knew Chomsky's position (that the US involvement in Vietnam was actually a war against South Vietnam, with North Vietnam as the excuse) but had never taken the time to actually read this interview in detail.

Yes, this makes the whole ORM analogy fall apart, because it's based on a misconception. But I think the analogy still works when using the popular understanding of that war as the comparison.
It was a mistake in C++ too, fixed with the explicit keyword.
It will be over if we go inside and plug into a matrix like world. That was the missing piece from the first lockdown. Mass VR simulating our world.
Or with Netflix, GAMMAN.
Such an excuse. You find the doctors or find a way to get people to help. It’s an emergency. Figure it out.

Forcing society to grind to an halt because some “experts” just waive their hand and give up is absurd.
Ehhh, not really. It really depends on what you mean by convergence. You could add every single one of F#'s features into C#, and I still wouldn't consider them to be same language or the other to be irrelevant. The strength of F# is the primary coding style: mostly functional, mostly immutable, expression-based, strongly typed with global type inference. The way most C# is written is almost the polar opposite: mostly OOP/imperative, mostly mutable, statement-based, statically typed but with a less expressive type system (no sum types, exceptions and nulls over Result and Option) and very limited local type inference.

The F# style is enabled by a set of features - some of which would be really hard to add to C# (such as currying and global type inference) - but even if they were added, the millions(?) of C# developers would be unlikely adopt the functional style just because it was possible. A language is not just a list of features; each language has its own culture and "idiomatic" way of doing things.
Ask HN: What’s a good solution for messy handwriting recognition for mobile app?
Looking for an API, pretrained model or some guidance on how to implement handwriting recognition of post it notes, handwritten paper notes etc. for a mobile app.
Seems the renderer has "helpfully" added closing tags for the `<string ...>` generic parameter lists since they look like *ml...
No, these are not public policy studies. These are medical studies. Do they measure the effectiveness of an experimental medication on people who stop taking it? No. If I were to measure things as you propose, I guarantee you I could conduct a huge study showing that exercise doesn't make people healthier, just because most people won't adhere to an exercise program. That has no bearing on the effectiveness of the intervention.

The point of these studies is to show people that the intervention works if people do it. And, yes, there are public policy studies showing that mask mandates don't work, but that doesn't mean they don't work for the people actually wearing them. It just means people who refuse are cutting their noses off to spite their faces. As noted in another comment, this isn't the beginning of the Third Reich, and should not be controversial at all.
The existence of Covid won’t end, but the pandemic has to. Living with overloaded hospitals forever, or doubling/tripling our health systems capacity to deal with it permanently don’t sound like very good ideas.
I suspect that it's easier to throw together a NY Times article than to write a completely coherent e-mail. /s
It's tricky.

- fwiw, I personally plan to wear n95 mask outside of home in enclosed public spaces for the foreseeable future, and for things like shopping etc (where I'm exposed to strangers) basically indefinitely / as long as social norms and laws will allow.

- I would like for strangers around me to wear masks. There's too much uncertainty and I don't know how to quantify and otherwise address risk from stranger e.g. In waiting / cashier line, or worse yet elevator (enforced enclosed proximity). I really see no good reason to be in an elevator with unmasked stranger.

- how long and where do we legally mandate masks? Whooeee, I'm glad I don't have to make that awful formal call! :-)

But yeah. If risk is forever, than at least some of us will use ways to mitigate the risk forever in turn. It's not binary, it's a sliding scale that's very individual. so... Yeah. Welcome to the new world! Cyberpunk dystopia future is here! :-)
> Here the "external" source of money for players would be the investors who don't play the game and for investors it would be players playing the game because they think it's fun

They are all part of the same system, both the investor and the players buy or get some AXS, and both hope that AXS will go higher so they can make actual $ later on. None of them are putting $ in the system that they do not want to get back later on, which is very different from someone buying an iPhone: they know Apple will never give them that money back. So it's still a 0 sum game, no matter if some people are playing and others aren't.

> Nothing about the setup fundamentally prevents people from spending real money on real games, and from the token's value to increase as a result, like any normal company.

I agree, that's the last part of my comment. But mechanisms need to be put in place for people to spend (and not invest) actual money in the ecosystem, say through advertising, or buying things (that you cannot resell later at a higher value), and the profit needs to be in part redistributed to the community. That's not happening today in Axie, maybe it will eventually, but today it is indeed a Ponzi scheme.
I won't say that it applies to all meat, but mostly to beef.

Also, beef need not vanish, it could just go expensive, like, say, foie gras.

I personally am totally fine with chicken, fish, and shrimp providing the bulk of animal protein in my diet, and relegating a steak to rare festive occasions, as it was historically.
Finally, the web has a way of authoring and publishing documents.
BitTorrent is amazing. It just works. Anyone anywhere can create a torrent of their files, dump the magnet link somewhere, and everyone else can reliably retrieve it. It is self-reinforcing; the more people using a torrent, the better the robustness, redundancy and download speeds. You can often get better speeds from downloading something via torrent than from a web server. It's an open protocol that is relatively easy to implement, it has a diversity of lightweight clients for all OSes and is fairly resistant to censorship. To me it's pretty much perfect tech that solves a real problem. I hope Bram Cohen got rich off of it somehow.
Those delivery people may be carriers. Better to grow and eat your own produce and avoid society at all costs.
But we already know what's going on. The medical field cited Delta as a problem, and it was. With your numbers of 75% being equivalent or worse than Delta, that alone enough to spur action. And where are your odds coming from?
Ribbit's max library contains most of the R4RS predefined procedures (even call/cc). The main things missing are variadic procedures (unfortunately this includes the "list" procedure so you need to replace (list 1 2 3) by (cons 1 (cons 2 (cons 3 '())))) and also all the file opening operations. There is read-char, write-char, etc but they only do console I/O. These things could be added at the price of a larger footprint. One simple way to do this is to have the RVM run the code of a meta-circular Scheme evaluator written in Scheme.

If you are interested in building a a self-contained HTML document that embeds a full featured Scheme implementation, you should look into Gambit. Check out https://try.gambitscheme.org
No, I would tell: since you are at-risk, use the means provided to stay safe and take precautions to reduce the risk of getting infected.
You are wrong. The virus has a higher chance of mutating if left to spread. By slowing the rate of transmission we also slow down the rate of mutation. I bet we would be seeing far more dangerous variants at this point if all countries would have just kept business as usual and allowed it to spread unhindered.

In the mean time we have developed numerous vaccines and possible treatments, and have only seen a handful of dangerous mutations. The lockdowns certainly seem to be working as intended.
> Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors.

The urbanization % for the four countries are: 82.9%, 87.9%, 85.5%, and 88.1%. Which one of those do you think is Sweden? Do you think it's at all plausible that such small differences could account for an order of magnitude more deaths?

> The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language

What are the numbers, and why would that be relevant?
> In the article you linked, he's citing his own study on cloth masks.

This is a blog post summarizing his review of every study on masks ever conducted. So yes, he's citing that. You should read it.

I linked to it because most people won't have time to read 30,000 words on masks, and want the TL;DR.

Everything else you've said is an ad hominem.
I see so many comments about how great the EU is v.s. the US based on how much the government provides. How can you be surprised that people and corporations in the EU aren't going to have the same drive as US companies to be competitive? E.U. companies do well with long, incremental growth (German cars are great) but not with innovation and fast growth.
You’re right and you just need to compete. You don’t necessarily need to win - just compete better at one facet of the market, whatever that may be. You don’t need home runs, you just need quality competitors that have enough success to be sustainable.

The EU would seem to think creating a Vimeo would be a waste. The US is winning because they recognize that Vimeo is successful, even if small.
Did you read the article in the least? Anarchism literally opposes both a “single public sector overlord” and “multiple private sector overlords”
This is an attitude I hear a lot from within my own family, but it ignores one of the primary reasons we took such measures in the first place: the healthcare system not being able to service that amount of load. It's not even about people dying from COVID as much as other, unrelated patients being denied access to necessary care because the healthcare system is flooded.
Hmmm maybe there's not a problem for you to solve at all. There might be personal reasons on why he lost it, and maybe listening on why and what other things he focus now on might be a more insightful and engaging conversation.
For a variant with this level of transmissibility, doesn't it seem likely that it's already present in every nation with significant international travel?
> Locking down has tremendous costs whether mental or economic, you just can't compute and make a nice graph of it

The gorilla in the room that no one’s wants to acknowledge…we locked down to allow people who were likely to die within the next 3-5 years to maybe survive a couple of those years. The price of the lockdowns economically, physical health, mental health, and in education will be paid by folks who were probably never in much danger from this virus for decades.

I fully believe that historians will look back at this time and talk of the lopsided cost/benefit.
You are free to believe that. I'm free to read foreign news and make up my own mind. Besides the latter article was published just a week after the peak. I can't believe people in the west are lead by the nose by central truther committee like google). Look the data is black and white, clear as crystal. It WORKS. Japan, India, Africa, Bangladesh

https://www.google.com/search?q=banglidhesh+covid+rates&clie...

https://www.google.com/search?q=india+covid+rates&client=ubu...

https://www.google.com/search?q=japa+covid+rates&client=ubun...

its going to ZERO. And it isn't a mystery!!
I used to have similar thoughts until I got my MBA. We live in a capitalist economy. Investors consider where to invest by comparing an investment opportunity to a safe rate of return. They need some upside (greater returns) to offset the risk of less certain investments. Maximizing profits or at least ensuring hefty returns is important for a firm to continue to grow and receive investment dollars.
With arXiv I mind less for some reason, but I pronounce TeX and LaTeX as teks and lay-teks because:

- That’s how I pronounced them when I first read them.

- That’s how everyone else pronounces them when they first read them until someone who has heard this factoid corrects them.

- They look exactly like commonly-used English words.

- It feels like a dumb prank to take the name of a writing system, whose sole purpose is written word and which will be most discussed in written media, and give it a deliberately odd pronunciation that people don’t usually discover until they talk to someone about it.

I’m grateful to the legendary folks who built these things, but I still wish they would’ve honored the Least Surprise Principle and picked better names.
Doesn't even work right on Firefox mobile. The sunburst just stays in the same spot for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. What a waste of cycles.
Atari 130XE - manufactured in 1986, works till this day (with some SIO mod), brings joy to me and to my kids.
Fun side note, spotify (from sweden) started of with a collection of pirated (scene) releases, prolly from thepiratebay(sweden): https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...
a) So you’re saying hundreds of millions of people are going to die suddenly over the next 2 years from flu and “medical conditions”. Be curious to see the studies on this looming catastrophe.

b) Australia is not an authoritarian country by any definition and ABC News is highly respected as an independent news source.
Oh yes that’s a nightmare. They turned saving a file into a kafkaesque dystopian hell hole.

This is one of the things I like about Numbers etc on iOS. It abstracts this away so we’ll I don’t have to give a crap and it appears instantly on all my devices.
> nd what - if any - role their openness to a certain anti-parasitic, protease inhibiting drug has played in their success.

There's a trial study currently in progress in Japan to investigate this, but all the evidence we have points to ivermectin being of no benefit to Covid patients unless they have parasitic worms. See, for example: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-much-more-t...

It's not an unanswered question, in other words. Ivermectin doesn't help against Covid.
I've never seen anyone in public with an N95 mask since the pandemic started but I've seen plenty of cloth masks, bandanas and those cheap hospital masks.
I think the advice to avoid an MSCS should be taken with a grain of salt.

You can learn a lot in a well-taught graduate systems course with a serious project component.