skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because diversity efforts are largely ineffectual and, if you are interviewed by people of your own race, unconscious bias will help you.

Some studies showed certain ethnic markers are harmful for applicants:
https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/employers-replies-racial-n...
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes...
One of the painful aspects of WASM is there's no blocking calls. You can't say "wait for the next event;" instead you must return to the outermost event loop, and wait to be called back.

How does Python-in-WASM work around that? For example, how does `for line in sys.stdin:` work if you can't actually block on stdin?

Emscripten has some support for this via the "asyncify" transform, which layers additional control flow to enable return all the way up the call stack, and then "rewind" back down into it. But this bloats the code (and is also buggy) so maybe it's not being used.
Countries that did well responsibly implemented WHOs basic epidemiologic principes of test, trace, isolate to contain spread - 101 epidemiological strategy WHO recommended. Including NZ. Import statistic numbers of covid cases oringated from PRC has demosntrated it was managable because PRC never allowed it to get bad in the first place via draconian lock downs. CCP quarantined entire province of Wuhan, they did more than enough to buy time for any country with capability to execute competent containment. Which BTW was also early CCP propaganda... literally telling countries to take covid19 seriously by locking down but was instead met with lockdown skepticism. CCP, like WHO, did enough.

>Even now the CCP propaganda is still trying to convince Twitter and Facebook users that covid started with deer in the US.

And? Of course CCP is going to tit-for-tat origin propaganda started by US. This treaty will no doubt attempt tackle the politicization of pandemics in the future, but likely to no avail.
Did they really just put "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition…" into the abstract? I am not going to believe that was accidental.
The reason the WHO changed it is because they did not want to have the politics of directly connecting the virus to China become a hindrance in their work. See also: "The Spanish Flu", the "Mexican Swine Flu" and others, associating a virus outbreak in name with a particular country allows for politicization which in turn can hinder doing something about it.

Only very few countries tried to do this (with specifically calling this a Chinese Virus) but that did quite a bit of damage to the WHOs mission of trying to help curb the pandemic.

You can accuse the WHO of a lot of things (for instance: not calling a pandemic early enough and not being far more pro-active in calling for governments to curb the spread), but the problem there is that they can't sound the alarm too often too early before people will start to ignore them, which is just one more variation of the prevention paradox.
1997 called. It wants animated GIF icons back.
What about stop being an employee and either be an individual contractor/consultant or start your own consultancy business?
We get a flat ~800$ for an on call week (Thursday to Thursday) and Friday is off. Nothing extra for working night, but you’re not expected to work a full day if you had an incident the night before.
Into the early 1800's, privately-owned warships were not at all rare. During the Revolutionary War the vast majority of the Navy consisted of privateers (aka private citizens warships).

http://www.usmm.org/revolution.html
The article is about transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in our existing environment. Not about how to build cool/heat buildings.

How many buildings have MHRV now? or could install MHRV without replacing or adding to their current heating/cooling system before it needs to be replaced - which would "challenge running costs as well as carbon status" for the next few years or more.
Okay, so then use RuntimeGeneratedFunctions+Revise. Done. Julia can do it, but having a setup so that people can do instant review of changes on the live production system is still a little bizarre and I wouldn't do it even though we could.
He's been a proponent of improved ventilation.
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I'm a driver and I want to be able to pick genres.

All else being equal, if the driver of car X can pick genres and the driver of car Y can't, I'm buying car X.
Very cool, I did some experiments with libxml on a WASI environment a few years ago (https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/wasm-libxml2).
Good luck cramming an iPhone including battery into the frame of something sized and shaped like ordinary glasses.
This interview was pretty awkward for the WHO:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM
> A lab leak still seems like the most likely origin theory.

No, it only seems that way to ignoramuses who have zero clue about how often zoonotic jumps take place, it is the default assumption, not the 'last resort' after all theories about man made plagues have finally been put to bed. Absent hard evidence a lab leak is not the null hypothesis, but merely a (remote) possibility.
> T-Mobile gave Boost nearly double the required time, Boost complained that it wasn't enough

The CPUC says T-Mobile representatives lied under oath. They claimed that Dish would have until 2023 to migrate customers off of the CDMA network. T-Mobile is facing sanctions because of it:

https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDocs/Efile/G000/M398/K955/...

Not a long read.
Didn’t read the article? But in the US inside there aren’t plastic barriers. There will be no updating of hvac systems. I’m pro mask indoors, but favor places that are pro vaccine card. WA and OR were more appropriate to this than CA.

You will not, outside super heavy government subsidy, get better interior filtration in the US.

I say this as a business owner who could probably persuade the building owner to offset part of the charge, but the cost doesn’t make sense.
They could start with something like Telegram’s “secret chats”, where users explicitly start e2ee conversations separate from regular conversations.
>Unchained from their desks, the hordes of newly remote white-collar workers descended upon all the magical mountain towns, and in just one year, the median list price for a home in Crested Butte jumped 40 percent, to $895,000. Rents soared, too—20 to 40 percent in Colorado ski towns like Crested Butte, according to one June 2021 report.

The market adjusts if it is correct to adjust, at least probably, according to the probably efficient market hypothesis. The question is whether it's correct for the market to adjust.

Is it a durable trend for computer-based work to be performed from the comfort of far-flung locales? Because this would probably change the demand for, and therefore the construction and presence of, housing all over the place. Crested Butte happens to be first on the list; just wait until they discover Ocracoke.

But housing can't just appear and disappear willy-nilly. It's heavy, for one thing. So yes, the solution to a durable increase in housing demand is to build more housing.

What about a transient increase in demand? Suppose a bunch of people want housing but won't in five years. Suppose we know this, just for the sake of a simpler analysis (cf. for the sake of argument). What then?

The most common suggestion I've heard, in the second scenario, says you probably want some way to ensure that the people who are likely to stick around don't all get driven out. This is where you start to look at policies like rent control and property tax abatements for long-term owners. This also includes affordable housing incentives of various kinds.

But these policies conflict with construction and therefore long-term planning in municipal policymaking. Over the long-term, concealing a durable increase in demand with stringent tenant protections creates a double standard and a new kind of inequality. This is one case where a political debate turns into a prognostication contest. Unfortunately, fortune-tellers have a poor track record regardless of political leanings.

Optimistically, we can plan for both eventualities at once, as long as we're clear about what we're doing. A major barrier to the compromise option is the tendency for political polarization to poison the well. Advocates of tenant protection raise spurious "positive-feedback" objections to upzoning, citing effects that disappear in well-controlled studies. Advocates of housing deregulation overestimate the impact of modernized affordability incentives, and underestimate or ignore the possibilities for innovation and general social benefits thereof.

I'm arguing for uncertainty. I generally support housing construction wherever it's fiscally sound. But we can't expect that construction to materialize where the market isn't convinced it's necessary, simply because it would meet our social objectives. And we can't ignore the future to meet social objectives right now.
I visited the "heavily moderated" 4chan you talk of a few days ago, and came across a post full of hundreds of comments stating "uncivilized ape" people like me should "kill themselves or be prepared for the consequences". When I see people complain about this stuff the most charitable interpretation is that you want this kind of "discourse" to become more acceptable for your consumption or dissemination. And this is far from a fringe opinion on that site.
When dealing with mountains, ground water scarcity is a serious issue, so “just build” is fairly tough to do.
For anybody who has had chronic sinus infections, I have some advice: Try rubbing kimchi juice inside your nostrils.

The bacteria colonizes the nose well.

This is coming from someone who has a humidifier, did nasal rinses, bought various menthols products to rinse nose, stayed in a room with 99% humidity for hours a day, took antibiotics, sprayed xylitol nasal spray, took lozenge probiotics.

Barely made a dent.

The bacteria found in kimchi seems to slowly spread deeper and deeper into your nasal cavity.

I don’t want to hypothesize too much on why it works. I’ve discovered that most of the time we really don’t understand the causal mechanisms. And even if we do, years later the explanation changes.

I’ll just simply say a lot of people have suffered from chronic sinus infections and have found relief from this route.

But if kimchi juice isn’t your thing, you can order the actual probiotic online. Just search “sinus infection probiotic”.

If you do decide to use kimchi, make sure it has garlic and doesn’t have vinegar. The garlic promotes the growth of the specific bacteria you need while the vinegar destroys it.
That's a goal for me as well. The Zachtronics "design puzzle" games are considerably more interesting (to me) than most standard "program a robot" games. Some others of possible interest:

Hack 'n' Slash is a game about applying debugging/hacking tools to itself. https://store.steampowered.com/app/246070/Hack_n_Slash/

Human Resource Machine and 6 Billion Humans are fairly simple as programming goes, but the UI and debugging experience are nicely polished. https://store.steampowered.com/app/375820/Human_Resource_Mac...

Baba Is You, arguably, it made me think a lot about puzzle game mechanics. https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/

Shameless self promotion, PrograMaze is a little puzzle I made. https://gashlin.net/games/programaze/
on point !
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Oh man, RIP to Mininova. First torrent site I ever used. I have many fond memories of that site.

The biggest being the introduction to all the content that was so far out of reach for me, as a young kid. I could get vintage games that were long out of sale in retail stores (this was before mass GOG and Steam game availability), and conveniently sized movies by aXXO.

Another memory was when they switched to legal-only content, creative commons stuff. Logging in one day and I had to double check why there was almost nothing "mainstream" present anymore. Introduced me to the concept of torrenting as a convenient, reliable method of file sharing, rather than just for getting stuff for free (illegally).

And a final present memory is seeing fudged peer numbers, which I'm so glad I have a screenshot securing this memory, and securing this time in history of the web.

https://i.ibb.co/tb2rV6h/mininova-2009.png

https://i.postimg.cc/63h9m9VW/mininova-2009.png
Do you ever run a descaling cycle? You can use citric acid or a cleaning pack that's basically just Citric acid.
Presumably you develop a vaccine that targets this variant and give it to the most vulnerable while those outside the risk group don’t need it. That’s how rabies vaccine works: most people don’t get it but those who work with animals may since they are at an increased risk.
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To be honest it's cringy even reading for the first time.
Also, angles in degrees lean heavily on 2, 3, and 5, and 12 can frequently be found lurking in that crowd and serves as a useful signpost in that way.
Yep you need to specify the maximum memory amount up-front. Its defined as "webassembly memory pages". Each page is 64kb. You need to specify an initial and a maximum amount. The webassembly module can call memory.grow() to grow it by a page until it reaches the maximum. Though you can't "un-grow" or decrease the amount of allocated memory.
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Agreed, the WHO has to walk a fine line between trying to further its mission and not raising the stakes politically. I'm sure that each and every one of the members of the various committees has their own views on this but at the end of the day what matters is whether or not they can perform their mission. You see the same with sports, where the athletes may or may not care about the political situation they are in at all, but their participation, protest or lack thereof will be taken as a sign by all of those involved.

But ultimately, that is not a WHO problem, but a UN problem (parent of the WHO) and one that we will sooner or later have to take care of. Similar nonsense surrounds various other countries in the world with everybody tiptoeing around the problem.
Good documentary about Steward Brand, the author of Whole Earth Catalog: https://www.weareasgods.film/

He also founded The Long Now. Come to a talk if you’re in SF — they’re great. https://longnow.org/ https://theinterval.org/
Generally, but with a lot of exceptions and weirdness. For example, my OnePlus 6 is not supported, but if I modify my IMEI and APN those "impossible" features like VoLTE suddenly start working. Before they stopped automatic activation, I could put my SIM out of a supported phone, put it in an unsupported one, and those features would work for between fifteen minutes and a couple of hours.

On the other hand, some handsets that are blatantly missing LTE bands are on the whitelist, such as the Chinese Oneplus 8T.
No. The persecution of religious minorities in Europe culminated in the Holocaust, which led to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Don't blame the minorities who have suffered and continue to suffer.
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How does that compares to Brython [1]?

[1]: https://brython.info/
I'm expecting this is just the bus power to the "modules", the different sections of the ISS. I rather expect most modules probably have a down-converter & run off something like 12, 24, or perhaps the shuttle's 28Vdc.

ISS isn't afraid to waste some power. The photovoltaic arrays send power to a "sequential shunt unit", which adds resistive load to maintain a constant voltage/current from the array. Admittedly, not applicable when running off battery, but it shows that power efficiency is not really the priority.
power user as an intermediate state. Do they represent a lower activation energy or a hard-to-prevent adduct that occasionally gets all the way across?
The world is changing rapidly year by year. And if change is necessary to accommodate it, we’re better off realizing all the negative consequences sooner rather than later… especially if later means it has snowballed into something far larger and more painful (e.g. US mortgage subsidies).

Markets tend to just look bad, but I think they’re more realistic. While the government will pay someone for a job/pension to do something that was made obsolete in the 70’s, the free market appropriately makes him redundant. The former isn’t better. It’s a deadweight loss to society, even if it appears more humane.
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I have $25k remaining credit from Google Cloud Platforms, which expires in about a month. I got the credit over 2 years ago and had hundreds of severs for various websites, database storage, elasticsearch instances, dedicated servers for random cron tasks, etc. But I still haven't been able to exhaust the credit. I even used it to train several models using multiple Tesla GPUs. But beyond a point I felt like I didn't know what I was doing with the models and stopped wasting GPU cycles on them.

I feel like if I don't use it for something useful it'll be wasted. Any ideas?
Any common sense organization would be strongly suggesting that people wear N95 masks with vents (more comfortable) to protect themselves. But here we are - still wearing whatever we can find around the house.
> What if web content wouldn’t just “appear” when a page loaded, but instead popped, slid, faded, or spun into place?

What if ... no, thank you, get your 0.5 second delay and shove it where the sun don't shine?
> keys are from the past.

As a surfer, this is problematic.
Site stopped updating models after 2016 (hope blakbird is alright), had to pop on wiki to find relief that technic line is still ongoing. Great memories. Donated my collection worth $$$$ to an orphanage after graduating, still a decision that I guiltily regret to this day.
I don't think that's it.

If you do suspect that someone is a child predator, encrypting what is probably the most likely stashes of incriminating evidence would make things harder to build a strong case. I could see a lack of encryption being useful even when everyone follows rules that many would see as too strict (I don't fall in that camp, I think).

I don't think trade off is worth it though.
Not necessarily only in German. A lot of Indian languages also say number in this way.

In Bengali, we don't use full words for the 1's place, but a derivative of the root.

31- ektrish- ek (eka- 1) trish (30)
32- batrish- ba
33- tetrish- te (tin)
34- choutrish- chou (char)
35- pointrish- poin (panch)

and so on.

Now that I mention this, I also remember that Sanskrit words for number are like this, as well-

35- panchatringshati (pancha- 5, tringshati- 30)
> not calling a pandemic early enough and not being far more pro-active in calling for governments to curb the spread

I'm not sure if I agree that they did or didn't call it early enough. But lying to the public is what rubs me the wrong way. The WHO should not contain any politics, but that's exactly what it has done the entire time. They spent more time pandering to the CCP than being a /World Health Organization/.

While china was telling the world it's racist for calling it the Wuhan Virus or Wuhan Flu, it's own state run media was continuing to call it that despite the WHO giving it a name.

When we knew it was human transmissible, the WHO was parroting the CCP telling us it's not. When countries were stopping flights. The WHO was telling everyone not to stop flights. China was stopping flights while telling America it's racist for stopping flights.

At some point we need to ignore the child throwing its toys out of the cot and focus on the actual issue.
Only a small fraction of American settlers / colonists were fleeing religious persecution, and those mostly came from a few countries in western and northern Europe. There weren't many religious fanatics emigrating in the 1600's from Greece or Poland.
100%, the amount of houses that are just sitting up at Park City, Sun Valley, [insert popular ski town] is shocking.
The problem described in this article is not a shortage of housing for those who want 2nd homes in places like Crested Butte (although that may well be a problem of its own).

The problem being described is the infeasability of the people who work in these towns to be able to live there.

You can double or triple the number of mountain resort towns, and perhaps that would ease the "challenge" of being able to afford a 2nd home there. But by itself it will have almost no impact in the challenge faced by the people who work in these towns.

As the article noted, and as others have highlighted in comments, most mountain resort towns are intensely space-constrained, "just build more" is generally not an option for a given town. I doubt that "just build more mountain resort towns" is a solution either.
Conversational interfaces, i.e., chat bots including Google Assistant, take this approach but eliminate the pre-submit feedback that is so handy if you're at a keyboard.
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What do you mean “the Internet”?

I can go back to my days in college (84-89), where we communicated with UUCP to various other universities and organizations. I occasionally read USENET news at the time, and also sent e-mail. But we didn’t have a direct always-on connection, instead we had old-school 300 baud modems. At the time, I also had a 300 baud Hayes modem at home (connected to my Apple ][+ with 64KB of RAM, thanks to the 80-column card), and could use that to dial up to BBSes in the area, and connect to the university computers.

Later, as I recall, the university did get always-on connectivity to ARPAnet (via a T-1, I think), which later became the backbone for “the Internet”.

Then I went to work at what was then the Defense Communications Agency in 1989, and we had a group inside the agency that was responsible for running the one-and-only Network Information Center for the Internet, although the actual work was contracted out (to SRI?). At the time, I was doing classified work elsewhere in the agency, but I did stand up the first recursive DNS server on our internal network, because I was sick and tired of always updating the HOST.TXT tables on our machines.
Omicron variant now in North America, Canadian officials say
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Not just instruction cycles, but how many human cycles wasted, too? The years is 2021 and I'm dealing with yet another random bug somewhere because two sides of a serialization don't agree on an order...
Hi. Welcome to America. The laws/rules are different here. I have a feeling German unions aren’t run by literal mobsters, either.

Please learn the definition of “excess profits” before harassing me more.

Every company you mentioned is worth significantly less money than Tesla. And where does VW rank in revenue to market cap? A quick glance shows Apple makes about 80% more revenue than VW, and has a market cap 25x higher. The money isn’t going to shareholders.