skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you not have seen any? I see the KN95 type masks all over the place in public and it’s the only kind I use any more, even for my kids.

I live in Virginia, FWIW.
Can you elaborate? If someone can pump out leet code I would assume they would be a half decent programmer and it would just take some time for them to be as productive as you wanted. Then again I’m mostly self taught and never done leet code and I still manage to be a good programmer according to those I’ve worked with
Using molecules and atoms to conduct the double-slit experiment
And if you need 100TB of bandwidth it's a 1% discount.

My guess is that the majority of their revenue is coming from a few big customers, for whom this is not a relevant discount at all. I thinkt that they are introducing this offer to get developers to adopt AWS for small projects, hoping that they'll then use the same service they are already familiar with for big projects.
But end of the nineties and early to mid 2000s with broadband was peak speed!
That's nothing like it at all. It's more like the fridge offering to buy groceries for a flat rate of $4 after delivery costs.
Don't the vaccines put evolutionary pressure on the virus to mutate in order to escape them? I'm thinking of the hospital superbugs which are resistant to antibiotics.
>All the lockdowns are breeding viruses which are stronger and more infectious than ever.

Not sure you where you got this from, but this variant came from a region with subpar vaccination rates.

>The way viruses normally work is that they evolve to be less deadly over time, and this evolution happens quite quickly. The less deadly strains spread quicker (because carriers aren't walled up in bed), and by the time the deadly strains get to people, they already have partial immunity after catching the less deadly strains.

Also very incorrect. Delta has a higher hospitalization rates than other variants

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
The original paper:

"Quantum mechanical double slit for molecular scattering" https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abl4143
> [EDIT]: one thing that's still not solved in Julia is code startup time.

> Many people will sell you some sort of workflow that works around the problem, but it's the same old tired arguments people would use to defend traditional compiled languages, and I'm not buying.

I mean, Julia has a REPL so you can basically edit code as the process runs, which definitely makes startup time less of an issue. The fact Julia can produce such fast code is also pretty nice.

Starting a new process every time you want to run a snippet of code isn't getting the best out of a dynamic language...
The reasons are irrelevant - South Africa still ends up effectively "punished", and encourages reduced transparency, and delayed announcement. Personally, I don't care, but the mechanism is clear.
Are you sure its the same people? For all that anti-AAPL people that hate ports there are also people that hate them for their anti-right to repair shenanigans but may not mind the ports(other laptops that are loved are also removing them) likewise there is a group of people that never cared about the ports being removed because they favored things like the increased portability or the amazing new processors that you can only get with them now. My point is that there are multiple groups on HN that may not intersect.
It's there a point to using pihole of you have a secondary DNS. Your device will just do a round robin request and could end up with DNS records you want filtered?
My experience with Discord is that I hate to search for past content on it. I had to do it a couple of times because Google / Stackoverflow didn't return anything but burying the solution to a problem in a chat doesn't look good. IRC had the same problem. For some reason Slack is a bit better at it, maybe because I only use Slack for customers' projects so I know what to expect.
Epstein Victims' Compensation Program
I understand that this is an oft-repeated meme, but what are these mountains of products that go to the landfill in six months, and who has the money to buy them?
I mean, for a country that hasn't been truly forced into a war in basically a couple hundred years pretty much all defence acquisitions are "political games". That doesn't mean that this particular one was the particular game "anti-american".

You don't even seem to really disagree that it wasn't a sensible purchase for canada, if only because you don't seem to believe that Canada has a plan for its military that is sufficiently fleshed out to justify it.

If you want a cynical reason there are much simpler ones. The Liberals are a center left party that continues to be at least a little in love with austerity, and it was an easy high price tag to axe with basically no meaningful consequences in the short or medium term (because it's not like we were going to get them in that timeframe anyways).

Never mind that as half of a quasi-stable two-party power structure they pretty much always benefit from taking easy stances that are opposite their conservative pair.
Endemic aerosolized variants could ultimately cull / mame everyone with a weakened immune response. The end game could be permanently higher overall mortality and reduced respiratory fitness in a significant part of the population.

If humans evolve to adapt then those adaptations may come at the cost of something else, given large enough time scales.
Well that last bit sure came out of left field.
In the U.S. the manufacturers have figured out that they can make more money selling an "extended warranty" than they can selling the product itself. So the included warranty is as short as they think they can get away with, to encourage you to pony up for the upgrade. It's actually in their best interest for you to believe the item will die the day after the warranty expires.
Python is not a bad language, programming languages do not have to be unreadable or have a steep learning curve to be good. The problem with python is that it’s implementation is slow and offers a ton of hang ups that you have to know the language in and out to even know they’re there. There’s a post here about once a year that details some of the funnier things.
That's not really that shocking. It's pretty much the same way everywhere.
I liked tops10 but once you used a Unix directory tree the tops10/version model just didn't make sense any more.

If streams had made it out the door sooner sockets might not have swept the world.
Not early, pre-mature. The South African scientists have said it will be weeks before useful analysis is complete. You'll have to web search for the ref, I'm busy, but it shouldn't be difficult.
In a sense, we're very much aware of the collapse of the Western Roman empire because its reputation is overblown and its documentation is otherwise extensive.
For reference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_network
> If one accepts that unjust bias exists in the system, it is impossible to correct that bias without discriminating to some degree against those whom the bias favors.

As Justice Roberts said, the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

It's disturbing that so many people cannot see this. It seems to be a capitulation to the inevitability of bigotry, as if we are unable to be fair and always have to discriminate one way or the other.

> There also seems to be an unspoken assumption in OP's post that diversity hires are never as qualified as white male hires.

I see absolutely no evidence of this and I worry that you are reading your own prejudices into OP's words. OP's ideas are squarely in the tradition of the early US civil rights movement, which was focused on working hard to bring about equal treatment rather than simply discriminating in the opposite direction.
Just watch YouTube videos about how everything works too. Operating systems , compilers, data structures , modern computer systems. Look up elementinfs of computing systems or whatever has all the info u need.
What's unclear is whether shrinking everything to state control actually improves matters.

Possibly concentrating all the power worsens the situation.
fucking awesome deal for the folks buying turkey wraps.
The canonical example of image recognition for AI is recognizing handwritten digits from the NIST dataset; you'll find it in most computer vision tutorials.

If you want to learn about rolling your own:
https://towardsdatascience.com/classifying-mnist-digits-usin...

https://machinelearningmastery.com/handwritten-digit-recogni...

https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/classification...

The only issue is that you'll have to find training data for letters. I'd be surprised if that didn't exist.

Also, Google has an API for recognizing handwriting: https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting

I haven't used it, so I can't vouch for it one way or another. But that'd be a pretty easy way to go!
Have you not set foot in a poorer nursing home? You don't need a source to understand they aren't let outside much or given vitamin D. Just go pay those old people a visit and ask.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/covid-19-vaccines-can-ad... COVID-19 vaccines can adapt to new variants. Here’s what it will take
Health Feb 9, 2021 6:37 PM EST

> It would take six weeks for researchers to go from “plugging new variants into the vaccine” to “make a new vaccine ready to go into people,” he said, but that does not account for the time it would take to have a drug approved. Weissman compared the process to the way the vaccines for the seasonal influenza are modified each time it circumnavigates the globe.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/26/biontech-say... BioNTech says it could tweak Covid vaccine in 100 days if needed

> BioNTech says it could produce and ship an updated version of its vaccine within 100 days if the new Covid variant detected in southern Africa is found to evade existing immunity.
> Why are you hiring for language skills rather than problem solving aptitude and conceptual fundamentals?

All I'm saying is that signal to noise for the common tests you give for 'problem solving aptitude and conceptual fundamentals', is much lower when you are hiring for a python position. You think you're hiring for those things, but you're actually hiring for leetcode-optimizers.

I mean, I'm not trying to do hire like that, and I think I have an interview that tries to test that effectively, but I have had to deal with the downstream effects of people who are doing hiring like this, and that has been a real problem for me.
> except for the tweets embedded.

but I would never have read those tweets were it not for the article. Does that make it worth reading?
Actually curious, what items are people in the Western USA buying that the east coast is not? Why not single out the Eastern USA here?
Probably because we should have been, and now some of us have learned. It’s been a pleasure going two years without any upper respiratory illnesses for me. I look forward to being steadfast in that since it’s really not that hard to wear a mask, and it’s not hurting anyone else when I do so.
Best case scenario: A virus that causes only mild symptoms, spreads quickly, and causes immunity against the original (more harmful) variants.

Just lift measures and let it do its work...
I would say that those are not bad languages. People are just elitist and think if your language isn’t strictly typed, functional and gives first year CS students a headache it’s a bad language and “creates spaghetti code.” The only thing wrong with dynamic typing is it’s slower and is harder to debug, but people are able to be way more productive in these languages you call bad.
Hah, that's a good way of seeing it.
Hmmm... this seems to be an odd first impression.

There is the use of @ (but to signal macros), but otherwise, the syntax is much closer to a cross between Python and matlab except nicer for doing math.

I tried writing a few programs in Julia and got sucked in by how effective it is. The real surprise is that just a few weeks in instead of pulling up R to do a quick calculation my fingers decided they wanted Julia.
Well then I have to ask: what hypothetical rate of death could exceed your definition of minuscule? How many per capita deaths do we need to reach before you will agree that societal intervention is warranted? A number would be appreciated.
I'm aware you can pay money to solve problems.
It's not difficult to discover this. Look at basic research with autoimmune patients. It's already well known.
Except that when these variants strike in waves they overwhelm hospitals that even the fittest among us still need from time to time. Perhaps permanently increased hospital capacity and a few million fewer people is a better trade off. Assuming there aren't other less visible costs.
What consequences do the lockdowns have on birth rates? In some western countries it has been shown that births have decreased by more than 10%. What are you going to tell those thousands of people who will remain childless because of these policies?
Considering data from other non-human species, it seems implausible that we could prevent all possible future pandemics. We may be able to delay or mitigate some, but eventually nature has its way.
I personally think that leetcode-interview-passers that I have had to work with do poorly with actually useful tasks like, writing organized code, writing tests, documenting, etc.
"That’s 1 injury every 1M miles driven." - so if the driver covers 10.000 miles per year, that driver needs to drive 100 years for him/her to be injured in a crash.
This is cool, but I've seen a few projects in similar theme, and it has not been obvious to someone who is new to self-hosting what are the pros and cons of this, trueNas, NextCloud, unraid, openmedia vault
If you get behind in the payments, does Microsoft turn your computer off?
This is why I find it so annoying that CS programs seem to worship functional programming (at least MY program did!).

No, I AM going to write procedural code, and it WILL be faster than your "high IQ" 1 line recursive solution. Also funny to see how little recursion gets used in CUDA/Pytorch/GPU programming - which is what we are seeing to be more and more important over time.
Andrew does a special kind of work to be fair.

For the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4De2tMjPRCE
In America it would disproportionately affect working class immigrants who get a measly two weeks a year to see their families.

We do not have and shouldn't have a zero covid goal and negative tests + vaccine checks are a reasonable enough. AU/NZ are outliers, but there are countries with strict border policies like them but that failed to contain their spread, such as Australia's neighbor Indonesia. That suggests there's more to the story that requires further study. Australia + NZ are not good case studies for Europe + NA to follow because they are rich islands with limited ports of entry that get less international air traffic in a year than busy European or NA airports get in a month. Furthermore I don't see what the major quality of life improvements for Aussies/Kiwis has been as a result of their overly strict policies. They have a statistic they can be proud of but at what cost?
Theyre multi-platform portals to the capitalist endpoints of work, and shopping, and paid leisure, but abstractions to hardware they are not. Merely abstractions to differing operating systems.
Long term thinking, but would more rail capacity help?

It does seem like long haul trucking is overrepresented in our logistics chain.
Before I became dedicated to becoming a technology professional, I was in training to become a professional in music. I did some of the things one might do, Berklee, gigging etc. While none of that panned out for me (and really shouldn't have), I still can't help but hold some of those that inspired me in awe. Stephen Sondheim was one of those people, though a bit later than some others.

The quality of Sondheim's writing, both lyrical and musical, drove the craft of musical theater forward in ways that make him unique amongst innovators... you can see some of the roots of this not only in that his original mentor was Hammerstein, but in that he also studied with the likes of Milton Babbitt. The mixing of traditional popular song with the abstract thinking of academic composers led to something that I don't think could have appeared without with a songwriter from only one of these backgrounds.

A truly sad day for music and theater.
> Does there need to be a UI for viewing the key details, and for approving/rejecting upgrades to the web app?

There do need to be standards for displaying such errors and requesting key verification in the browser. e.g. DNSSEC and DoH/DoT errors should also propagate up to the browser eh? How do web3 browsers handle keychains?

https://github.com/blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier-js#...

From (an obscure comment with pictures on) "Roadmap update for TUF support
" https://github.com/pypa/warehouse/issues/5247#issuecomment-9... :

> Only users with package release permissions can create a new SoftwareRelease record for that project

You can log hashes to sigstore now, which is a centralized db supported by The Linux Foundation. https://sigstore.dev/ :

> How sigstore works: sigstore is a set of tools developers, software maintainers, package managers and security experts can benefit from. Bringing together free-to-use open source technologies like Fulcio, Cosign and Rekor, it handles digital signing, verification and checks for provenance needed to make it safer to distribute and use open source software.

> A standardized approach: This means that open source software uploaded for distribution has a stricter, more standardized way of checking who’s been involved, that it hasn’t been tampered with. There’s no risk of key compromise, so third parties can’t hijack a release and slip in something malicious.

> Building for future integrations: With the help of a working partnership that includes Google, the Linux Foundation, Red Hat and Purdue University, we’re in constant collaboration to find new ways to improve the sigstore technology, to make it easy to adopt, integrate and become a long-lasting standard.

But then DIDs and ld-proofs (with at least the current trust root in a trustless DLT of some sort) are even more standardized.

Software Releases, [Academic, Professional, Medical,] Credentials, Legal Documents, Server Certs, ScholarlyArticles: all of these things can be signed and may already be listed in the Use Cases documents for W3C DID Decentralized Identifiers [1] and W3C VC Verifiable Credentials [2] which are summarized in context to Keybase here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814802

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-use-cases/

[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-use-cases/
>but not really such an outlier compared to the prior finds

I'm in complete disagreement with you on that. It's obviously part of an established iconographic tradition and in that stylistic sense, it's not outlying. But the craftsmanship is in another class entirely. It's a qualitative leap from every other known piece.
If you believe cloudflare egress is "free" I have a long list of "free" and "unlimited" services to sell you.

Cloudflare simply doesn't share egress pricing.
Here is one:

https://github.com/TakekazuKATO/TailRec.jl

It works by inspecting the code and rewriting a function to turn tail calls into loops.

The interesting bit is that it was very easy to write because of the strong macros in Julia.
I think the US already has a better than average rail freight system.
Projects like this and Apache Bookkeeper could lead to some really cool layered databases at some point. Bookkeeper is already used to back Apache Pulsar but it could have application in any domain that can model state as a set of immutable logs.
The saddest part of the analogy is how US-centric it is. "Vietnam" is a boondoggle to exit from, not a home that's suffering through a bloody conflict.
The NY Times has really gone downhill when compared to 20-30 years ago.
No these languages are the drivers of the tech revolution. PHP was widely adopted because it allowed people to rapidly build personal websites and then those people went on to build companies with it. Python is popular in ML because of its syntax being close to pseudo-code and allowing people who aren’t programmers to interact with all the old math libraries you used to have write C and Fortran to use. JavaScript is popular because it made the web more interactive and thus a ton of people who made websites learned it as their first programming language when they were young.

Python and PHP are so big because of the languages themselves and their implementation, Js is a bit different in that regard I’ll admit.
> consumer harm

If there was a flat limit on the total you could end up paying, maybe… but there isn’t.

Giving cheap loans to people who can’t pay them isn’t “just fine”, it’s predatory behaviour.

…but anyway, regardless of either of our opinions, it increasingly looks like it’s going to be legally regulated, so, the point is it’s a risky play for Microsoft.
This isn't really my area so this is conjecture and guesswork.

If various immunocompromised people get infected then by a fluke their immune system could be just powerful enough to contain the infection but not eradicate it, this will remain the case until the virus becomes too powerful and the host dies.

It's not the absence of selective pressure that is driving the mutation here, it's the mere fact that the virus might survive the selective pressure that does it.

Also from some of the explanations I've read of Covid-19 the mere duplication of the virus isn't all that damaging, the harsh way the immune system eradicates infected cells is more damaging. So someone with a limited immune response might survive for a surprisingly long time.
The truckers that work out of ports (drayage truckers) are distinct from long-haul truckers. They're different people with different tractors and different trailers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayage
South Africa, where this strain originated, has a vaccination rate of 25%.

Though I'm also curious why this only happens for this virus, and not any of the others we've destroyed with vaccination like smallpox, or reduced to nothingness like polio or measles. (short version: you don't know what you're talking about).
Not really. Rail works great where it exists but there is still a pretty huge last mile problem so it generally gets transhipped onto trucks at some point.
Java falls apart on the point about post factor extensibility.

See this talk for examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
How Cloudflare Builds Software
>Arguably, traditional dead-virus vaccines might provide better long-term protection for this reason, but we went all-in on the new tech.

That argument sounds good in theory, but we have data we can look at to assess — Sinovac is inactivated virus and it's efficacy was 50% against the early strains. Also, work has shown that spike antigen vaccines broaden the range of antibodies produced by previously infected immune system to increase neutralisation against later variants, even though the vaccines were of course based on ancestral spike protein sequence..
This is a book review but it's a lovely piece of writing in its own right with some interesting history and other tidbits. The book was written by the late Edith Schloss and found, edited and published after her death.
im guessing christmas presents for the most part...
But are they doing that selflessly and out of charity, or are they biking for the exercise, car pooling/public transport to save money? In other words, doing those measures out of selfish reasons.
Probably but those are things they can pick up on the job pretty quick, while it’s a lot harder to teach leet code style problem solving while solving actual business problems.
I agree. Take a zinc copper combination. Taking one will lower the other and vice versa.