skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

Only for the record, the message I get from EU:

451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111.

Maybe it is just me, but the "therefore" is not consequential.

AFAIK, if you don't gather data, you don't have to protect them, GDPR or not.
Julia has this https://github.com/JuliaMath/FixedPointNumbers.jl. In general, fixed point is a little slower, but it's not awful. Fixed point is really good for small bit-widths in hardware though.
>with six sites and R&D labs throughout Europe.

Any country harboring this scum deserves at best a few month to clean up their backyard and laws before facing sanctions.

Depending on which European countries those are, I suspect a few of them won't even need prodding.

For the people working there it may be wise to quit now, because after today they can hardly deny having knowledge their employer is selling software to repressive regimes which those use to spy on journalists among others.

This is utterly incompatible with democracy, morally bankrupt, and prison sentences are appropriate.
the big benefits are the simplicity of the model and returning to the hypermedia network architecture (with its attendant benefits)

don't worry! If you need to kick out to some front end scripting we have a solution for that as well:

https://hyperscript.org

So no ugly javascript! ;)
This does kind of raise an interesting question. Where do you draw the line between disagreeing and harassing?

If a group follows around a student it seems like harassment, but if they follow around a politician it would likely be called a protest. What if the group was following a professor? Or the president of the university? It seems like it's a matter of how much power the person holds if it is a protest or not, but the line is still somewhat murky.
How is this offensive?

We in the west are mortgaging our future to help people who are 80+ lives a few extra months or maybe years largely in isolation, how is this a better alternative than letting them see their families and enjoy doing the things they want to do? Why are we putting kids, who basically are guaranteed not to die through the COVID wringer to save old people. These kids are the future.

Besides plenty of people warehouse their parents in nursing homes, is that a better option?
Regardless, history is for the hardware that changed music, changed the field. A device that never made it out of the inventor's garage should not be a "synth history changer".

It can of course be a curiosity.
Are the logs permanent? If not then GDPR doesn't cover it. Can you use the logs to identify users and their behaviour? If not GDPR doesn't cover it.

If you keep permanent logs with information about users, then yeah that is a problem. But it should be a problem, that is a big potential security/privacy issue.
Depending on where you're from the answer differs greatly. But a very simple (and most likely a wrong one) is that no matter the circumstances, it takes a preponderance of bad outcomes to shift quickly on policies.

And the policymakers for the most part, have not shifted in the past several years. In the USA, Biden has pretty much carried forward the policy from Trump and Dr. Fauci is still the director of the CDC during this time. If national policy and sentiment were to change the biggest sentiment would be to change the CDC director.

The election was just last year. Now, regardless of the reason why individuals voted for them, politicians feel as if their winning means to move forward on all parts of their agenda. One of the biggest reasons for Trump's loss is how COVID was handled. So the direction that this administration has is to handle COVID differently than Trump, which means, do more to combat COVID.

In the USA, I would not expect anything major to come out at the national level with regards to COVID. VA just had a shift happen with the governor's race (I live in VA) and VA might be a barometer for what changes can happen at a local level.

And sadly, I do think I have to tie my expectations more with politics than science or data.
Amazon makes it very hard to flag listings that have this problem and they often take no action when you do report it.

I recently complained to Amazon about some flagrantly irrelevant 5-star reviews on wireless headphones that were actually reviews for backpacks or CDs. It took about a month and numerous, numerous emails to different places to get them to deal with it.
That's entirely correct but doesn't change that the problem exists now.
Most mics have mediocre sensitivity. Stick a blob of blu-tack or similar cohesive putty on it, take it off when you want to use the mic. Test by making recordings -- some machines have two or three mics.
I have not a deep knowledge of GDPR but wouldn't their study abroad / student exchanges programs with universities from Europe be considered like doing business in Europe?
Same with Firefox on MacOS. Chrome and Safari do find "fi" for "ﬁ" and "ﬁ" for "fi".

This suggests some questions.

1. Are ﬁ.com and fi.com the same as far as DNS in concerned, or could both exist as separate websites?

2. If they are separate websites, do the various password manager browser extensions recognize they are different, or might they fill in your fi.com password when you are getting phished with ﬁ.com? Same question for the various browser's built-in password and form savers.
Homage to Arthur Appel's First RayTracer
I think you are describing build-time feature flags or feature toggles. Similarly, this type of thing can be managed at runtime via integrations or implementing a database backed version yourself.
Yes they were
Unless they have to store those details for N years because of local laws. Obviously they could hide old cards in the UI and/or implement a soft delete.
Your post supports with facts - ie. your own experience - the idea that moderate members of a group don't get oppressed, which is missing the point, in my opinion.

I think the point of the parent of your post and the article is that regardless of what you believe, you should have the right to your opinion and should not be persecuted for it.
I agree with almost all of your post. I would only offer that you consider that the most important task of a developer in most organizations is to eliminate complexity beyond a bare minimum. Having a simple, safe, and predictable version control workflow is within that purview, even if it means most people do not use or remain ignorant of the full power of the tools at their disposal. All other points stand, and the simple workflow doesn’t have to be TBD.
Sometimes you have to do things before a meeting, you don't just meet and approve something. You have to actually read the published research.

Here is some recent information release 3 days ago:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/pfizer-s-paxlovid-...
This is a completely backwards way of looking at it. If you don't have the budget, create a static website and throw it behind github pages or s3 or whatever. An entire university with a school of computer science cannot figure out some standard way of doing this ?
Well, I'm not a programmer/have never worked with computers for a living and have no formal education in computing, and I have recently been designing my own language as a learning/fun exercise. It looks a lot like forth and ksh had a baby that grew up to become a state machine.
> The jury is still out, but data from SA indicates it might closer to a mild cold than bad cold.

And Norway, and Florida, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591980
It is basically the same thing as JVM or CLR (specially in regards to the CLR), just with more marketing appeal.
Unfortunately you can't rank up the production of nurses like you would rank up production of ammo or masks. It takes to time to either educate a new nurse or divert and re-educate an operational nurse to a new function (pulmonary and respiratory syndrome surveillance and care) and then you miss a nurse for `regular` care.

> made a difference: increase hospital capacity to care for COVID patients.

Why would they have ? They've been told it's just a cold last year and they are told or tell omicron is just a cold.
Then why are we forcing nurses that have already had covid to be vaccinated or face termination??? That makes zero sense during a f*cling unsolved pandemic.
I'm sure everyone's experiences differ, but in my travels Go has shown to carry the lowest rate of "who wrote this shit?" when you come back to a project five years later. I agree that it puts the burden onto the programmer upfront, but reduces it down the road. Tradeoffs...

I have a lot more fun writing code in other languages. I enjoy not having that burden on me while writing code. In an earlier life that would have been important to me. Now that I'm old and curmudgeony I've started to value other things.
I think it's common to just not be taught floating points need to be handled a lot differently than whole numbers, so the common experience is getting bit by it. I don't remember ever being taught that in my traditional schooling, personally.

This is a good link to send to people: https://floating-point-gui.de/
Eh, talk is cheap. Glad they’re speaking out against China, but as far as I know it costs them nothing to do so and they stand to gain some positive PR.
An apartment that comes with total surveillance. Like Alexa on steroids. How do we get off this train?
That's fantastic news. I hope it expedites and stabilizes the project as much as it sounds like it will.
Yes, makes sense to me. I think translation of novels (maybe particularly modernist novels, which I think Dogra Magra is considered) is not just harder than anime or other pop culture, but more, uh, conceptually strange? I was just thinking of Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse", like, what would it mean to translate that novel, which for me is very much about the words themselves. I liked it because of how much I struggled with its particular sentences (Some people can read it fluidly, certain portions really baffled me for a while).

So I searched for To The Lighthouse translations, and of course it has been translated to several languages, but also among the first results were academic papers discussing the implications of how it was translated, which makes sense to me, it's interesting.
The truth is we basically always had triages like this in every stronger flu season. Source: Ask people that went through emergency department in the last 10 years, you can randomly pick people.

Covid is a serious disease and it does increase load. That will cause problems because the system was finely tuned to always be near to 100% workload in normal operation. That ICU beds were reduced with financial incentives! by the state no less just last summer is a complete joke.
Request a laptop with whatever they want pre-installed. Use that laptop only for work for that client.

Another solution: Virtualize a pc, put everything that you need to work for that client in that VPC, install they drata only in the vpc. Or better yet, ask them to provide you with a VPC image with what they want.

I can understand being piss about it, but unless you are ready to drop them over this, getting angry will be of no consequence
As in: almost zero.
> Your desire to return to "normal" is counterproductive to preventing the spread of contagious disease. A lot of the country has already turned back to normal, and it shows in the fact that we have 140k cases a day and thousands of deaths per day. When 9/11 happened, we vowed to "never forget", but with Covid, it seems that self-induced Amnesia is what people are actually fighting for.

Which reminds me of this article: https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/1918-pandemic-compared-to-... Covid-19: We're already forgetting the best lesson from the 1918 pandemic - There are individual and collective dangers to this forced amnesia.
It doesn't make sense. It makes people (except kids, who have no voice) feel better, and is the "safe" political choice for leaders in various areas.
You realistically don’t need to do anything at all. It’s just spite at this point.
This sounds like you're arguing workers should leave things to their "betters"...
Yes... "helps" as in 'help Asahi grow sales for Apple laptops'.

Not saying it's a bad thing, just pointing out the obvious for those who're not seeing it.Apple is well-aware of the state their operating system('s') and ecosystem is, especially to the tech-savy and skeptics around privacy and the shitty general trend that computing follows. In the case that people magically start growing a conscience or care more about these things, they're prepared to switch gears or stop "thinking differently".

Arm macs are a nice piece of HW(with the exception of non-upgradable memory due to SoC but it's a understandable compromise given the gained performance of such glued design-choice), however it's a shame we need to pray the Gods for decent ports/development of Linux distributions to make them usable.
It’s such a sad situation. Billionaires knowing they are helping make addicts. Tens of thousands of doctors benefiting from the addiction because they want to pay off their million dollar loans, the dead family members, sigh…
With previous waves you were likely to become PCR negative around 2-3 weeks after initial infection, though it was longer for some people. We don't have data for omicron yet on this.

As for whether you have omicron - that depends on the precise test the lab runs. Many UK labs test for three covid genes - S, N and Orf. Delta was S-gene positive. Omicron is S-gene negative but N and Orf positive. If the test is S-gene negative (often reported as S-gene target failure, SGTF), you can be pretty sure it's Omicron at the moment. Alpha was also SGTF, but isn't really circulating anymore.
Coincidentally, total US deaths from COVID-19 recently surpassed the highest estimates of US deaths from the 1918-1920 influenza pandemic.
> Except what is your assumption for hospitalisation % in the more transmissible variant based on?

"half" is not an assumption at all, it's an illustrative example. By the way, "e.g." is short for "example".

Now, 50% is a plausible figure, but no-one really knows yet. There is no real figure yet.

0.1% (assuming you start at 2%, that's a 20-fold reduction) ... I find that closer to the outer limits of plausibility, but YMMV on what you find plausible. IMHO we'd be lucky, very lucky to have anything like that. You can hope, but as they say "hope is not a plan".

What's _also_ plausible is that Omicron is not less virulent _at all_ in itself, but that South Africa's better experience this time around is due to protection due to prior infection (very common there) and vaccination (less common, but still over 25%, and more likely among the more vulnerable), and improved treatments.

Reported here:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-17/omicron-g...

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/south-africa-seeing-sli...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/17/covid-omicro...

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2021-12-17-forste-omikron-erf...

> And you didn't answer the second bit.

My apologies, I thought that this was more like a conversation and less like an exam. The mechanism is the maths described, the evidence one way or the other will come about in a few weeks.
I made website to list devtools I use or find interesting
SOC2 isn’t prescriptive. SOC2 is just a certification that you are following your own internal policies.

If the company made the mistake of creating a policy that they use this software as one of their controls, then the auditor will ding them if they don’t use it.

It’s an absurd system.
Probably the one labeled "SOUTEiN" — appears to have that "layered" look.
I think even those examples border on usecases for more complex state management along the lines of redux, Zustand etc. To me, useState with a complex object is an antipattern. I'd much rather use multiple useState invocations. This eliminates the need for extendState and for handling functions and promises.

Also, take a look at Redux Toolkit Query and React Query. Both provide advanced query state management based on hooks.
> The only way you get experience is to do things.

Why can’t you do sysadmin things at home?
USA healthcare is great! You just need money to access it, and it’s not a very good value, since we spend almost twice as much of our GDP on it than Germany. Americans also on average don’t benefit from it as much, but that is just due to many not having then money to access it very well.
The extendState one confused me a bit as I just keep one “atom” of state per useState since Hooks were introduced (so you’d end up with foo, setFoo, bar, setBar). I hadn’t really considered doing it the way they are doing it (which feels more like the old this.setState API). How do other people use it?
Having access to cheap internet just makes it easier to perform all the additional life administration stuff that people in the 70s didn't have to do but we have to do on top of busting our asses for 40 hours a week to pay off someone else's mortgage.

Comparing utility providers to ensure you're not getting absolutely shafted? Made easier by the internet!

Booking flights? Made easier by the internet!

Having to go through your bank statements to ensure you're not being ripped off by a shady fly-by-night operator? Made easier by the internet!

/S
They can send you a laptop running whatever they want. Unfortunately, you can’t install an agent not under your direct control on your freelance business laptop, because it would potentially compromise your confidentiality and security agreements with your other clients. This is out of showing your other clients the same level of respect that your subject client can expect.
Excellent! Love the extended state.
That would make omicron a good thing if it pushes out Delta and has lower severity, right?
react-testing-library provides a helper to test hooks in relative isolation - renderHook.
That's great man, you'll be a convert eventually! But if you wait until the steps are laid out for you easy as pie, you'll miss the speculative gains! At least you can say you followed the rational doctrine!

Oh what's that? You really think 12 years of development is too long to buy a sandwich. Well if that's an issue for you I recommend you look into this thing "Quantum Computing." They can't even make those things do calculator math and its been forever. Sheesh.
What's the longest dead end on the tube network?
The “cost” of being GDPR compliant is negligible if you simply put static content on your website and don’t track users.
Forget tolerance I want liberty back. What makes tolerance so good that it should be prioritized over everything else? I want everyone granted certain inalienable rights and then allowed to live how they want as long as they abide by their rights and the rights of others. If people want to use their right to vote, follow the process, and support something that others disagree with, that's liberty in action.
I understand where you are coming from and something like you just mentioned would be a nice feature. However, it does seem worth mentioning that most people are not going to want to write code in web assembly text format. The current tooling exists so you can load binary data which wouldn’t embed well into a script tag. The primary use case is compiling code written in other languages that often have a runtime that comes with them. Because of that the payloads are often much larger than anything you would want in a script tag as well. There is also more to it than just loading a script. You get to have shared memory buffers and you have control over what to share between the JS and WASM env. This configuration is simplest with JS. It’s a very small amount of code to load WASM and configure these things.

If web assembly text format was just a more performant scripting language then I’d go with your proposal. Since it is meant to be a visual representation of WASM binary format and that binary code is more useful when it can be configured, I don’t mind the current implementation.
Now, Godspeed to get GPU cores working in Linux!! If we can get a usable Linux distribution working in Apple Silicon without too many compromises, the new hardware would make a heck of a laptop.
Exactly. It’s analogous to why California and New York are now worried about not having enough energy after closing multiple nuclear power plants.
> In quadratic the total number of votes you have depends on the distribution. Very hard for innumerate people to understand.

But it's something they'll encounter and have to understand to fill out the vote paper (which I imagine would look something like a simple math worksheet).

> Ranked choice is just ranking your preferences. You don’t need to understand the underlying math

Not to vote, but the problem I have it is in the end, "the algorithm" spits out who wins, and that's going to be totally opaque to most people.

On the other hand, pretty much anyone can easily figure out "which number is biggest."
Just when I was going to chime in that IATSE had seniority rules [1], I found that SAG-AFTRA does too!

[1] https://iatse99.org/job-referral-rules/

[2] https://www.opeiu537.org/Portals/local537/cbas/.SAG-AFTRA%20...

You can't escape it.
As in: NOT zero?
Maybe I'm very naive here but does SOC2 explicitly require monitoring? Can't a contractor simply sign a form that says all relevant rules are followed on their end and thus if that's not the case, the company is off the hook?

If active monitoring is really required than the only solution I see is one device/customer and thus as a freelancer I'd have to request said device be provided by the customer.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

~ George Orwell, 1984
> It's blocked in the UK as well, which is not in the EU or EEA

'members or ex-members of the EU' would be the actual correct wording.
yes and no.

It's normal to have software that safeguards company's intellectual property (how suitable this particular software is, I cannot speak). However, with that goal in mind, it's also normal for company to provide a dedicated, company-owned-and-managed hardware as well, such as laptop or phone.

Demanding that employee or contractor use personal hardware but install monitoring software seems a lose-lose proposition for everybody - it will not necessarily achieve the level of control and safeguards that company desires, and it compromises the contractor's ability to safeguard their own and other clients' data.

Depending on circumstances, my own approach would be to start with a friendly email indicating that you understand and support their goals, and propose that the best way to achieve them is to use customer provided and managed hardware.
As a manager, I can’t even imagine a scenario where I would require someone to be online at a certain time.

Maybe it’s the type of work or business requirement that causes this behavior, but I view this as such a violation of autonomy that it would immediately kill team morale.

You sound like a very creative/talented developer, if I were you I would not put up with this.
People in China are taught to love their country. Seems to be working better for them than what we do in the west, the exact opposite.