skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This actually also happens I our (tech) field: Several years ago I was working with 2 other very smart developers. We were the tech team in a small startup, in charge of keeping the systems running.

One of the 2 guys and I had quite some experience with "real life" systems in general. The other guy, really smart but his experience was in competitive programming (leetcode like things, super complex algorithms, etc).

At some point something broke in production. While looking at the first logs, the algorithms guy gave his diagnostic... but the other guy and I knew it couldn't be such thing due to some very subtle things in the error that was happening.

That kind of experience makes the difference of the time it takes to find the root of a problem.
Your assumption that I'm assuming that is even more bizarre. But regardless, plenty of them do want to become citizens -- especially the kind that speaks their mind in public. There's nothing wrong with making the offer.
Many compilers and runtimes support them just fine. CPUs don’t really support them, with the exception of POWER. The dirty little secret (use case measurement), however, is that Intel’s software library on x86-64 is faster than POWER’s instructions. I don’t believe there is any roadmap (e.g., 5 years out) to add hardware support mainly because customers don’t need them or want them (globally speaking) and software is fast enough for majority of use cases.
I just find it fascinating that a country like Germany with a very well developed health-care infrastructure and a comparatively well protected (vaccinated) population is seemingly facing larger pressure on its health-care system than the US.
1) Are you seriously asking this? Europe sees huge backlogs of delayed surgeries, e.g. of cancer patient treatments.

https://www.scotsman.com/health/coronavirus/covid-scotland-s...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/nov/26/late-diagnos...

2) Because you can't improve health care systems within a short time frame. People are quitting their health care jobs in Europe in big numbers due to being overworked due to the pandemic.
There's Kotlin script if I recall correctly. But not that developed yet nor easy to use outside jetbrains ecosystem (IDEA).
At this point I assume it's clear to everyone that all humans will be exposed to COVID. Get your vaccine or don't, but one way or another your immune system will have to sort it out.

The biggest story of COVID that no one is talking about is the absolute failure at all levels (political, medical establishment, etc) to increase hospital capacity.

We are in year 2 of a global pandemic and, at least where I am, there has been a reduction in ICU staff, beds and hospital capacity more generally. Vaccine mandates taking qualified healthcare workers out of the workforce is one of the biggest own-goals I've seen.

Why haven't we increased hospital capacity to deal with a highly transmissible disease we knew was never going away? Lockdowns, mandates, personal freedom restrictions are all just cover for not handling the basic blocking and tackling of fortifying our medical systems. All that money and none of it increased the ability to care for COVID patients. What a shame.
> The new variant is basically a bad cold. Why do we still have these silly mandates??

In the case of more serious disease (which the Alpha, Delta, and other variants perhaps were), the "mandates" (assuming you're referring here to horizontal interdiction like lockdowns, school closures, etc) make even less sense. They stratify spread acuity by socioeconomic status instead of risk.

Achieving a vertical stratification, where the low-risk cohort (which is enormous in the case of all variants of SARS-CoV-2, and easy to identify by age and comorbidities) experiences a highly acute spread, is a much faster path to endemic equilibrium, and is only disrupted by what you rightly call silly mandates.
Those are good points. I have found that languages that don't force me to use a feature don't teach aa well as ones that do. I usually don't want to use those languages later though ( java and oop or Haskell and functional) because I like having options. Nim gives you lots of options it sounds like.
I think the important numbers here are the salary and housing cost ones.
In 1970 the average house could be purchased for less than 2 years of salary. Today it costs 5.8 years of salary. The cost of housing has sky rocketed relative to income. Housing is the largest bill for the vast majority of people and it eats a massive portion of their take home. Likewise the cost of a vehicle has seen a very large increase percentage wise and very often transportation is the 2nd or 3rd largest cost for a family. So if housing and transportation costs are vastly more expensive then its stands to reason that financial pressure has increased proportionally on most people reducing quality of life. Arguments about 'having cell phones' means we are better off now make no sense. Another thing to consider with that argument is all of those cell phones are built in China where most manufacturing jobs have fled leading to the collapse of an industry that used to fuel the middle class and could comfortably provide a living and sense of pride for so many people.
> Seems like you are talking about social inequality (a zero sum game) vs poverty (a non zero sum game)

The two are not opposed. There is significant overlap significantly in many ways, even in the way government treats the very definition of poverty. In most countries, you'll find that poverty is defined as a percentage of median income.

Let me try to rephrase to make this more tangible. The minimum of things and services I need to procure to get minimally acceptable social inclusion is lower in some contexts than in others. 1970 versus 2021. Silicon Valley versus rural Latvia. I hope you get the point.

> The idea that no one was expected to own cell phones so they didn’t enrich our lives is clearly false.

I was certainly not claiming that! Cell phones or cars can clearly enrich the lives of those able to afford them. Their existence also creates a potential gap between haves and have-nots though.

Or to formulate it more sharply, you couldn't be poor because of not being able to afford a cell phone in 1970. You can be poor because of not being able to afford a cell phone in 2021. Does that mean a cell phone is a bad thing? Of course not!
The scale of some Chinese people's commitment to support of their government's chosen narrative against facts is quite impressive / scary.

Zealots make great cannon fodder, and the more cannon fodder the higher the chance of winning.

It bodes poorly for Hong Kong, Taiwan, and any other country with a coastline along the South China Sea.
Then we shouldn’t be allowed to drive… or just go out altogether. Too many dangers out there, you see.
1) in Italy it’s happening already. Northern Italy, mind you. Non urgent hospital activity is basically suspended, and even some urgent surgeries are being postponed because there’re not enough doctors and nurses.

It’s a mix of covid and antivaxx philosophy though, not just covid, some doctors and nurses who haven’t vaccinated have been suspended and it’s hard to find replacements right now.
Swiss army knife can opener has lasted me 20 or so years (along with the knife, itself). A similar design.
Delta is still the dominant strain in the US.

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.

Lets not go back to a world where it was normal to show up to work sick and we had very little in the way prepared for when a deadly disease was spreading. The culture around sickness and disease has to change. This is vastly more important than "getting to Mars" to save humanity.

> We have all the data one could hope to have, vaccines, treatments, we know how to care for those that are sick, and the vast majority of people that are dying are basically at the end of their natural lives anyway.

Really? In the US We have politicians of all stripes actively subverting data from being gathered and distributed. I could write a whole book on how the US failed during this Pandemic.
I am not from the US and never talked about the US.
I get what components are supposed to do, but how does wasm currently talk with the browser and javascript code? Can it manipulate the DOM and execute asynchronously (like promises) or is it just a black box that receives some data and returns other data synchronously?
Because once government takes power (and this is a taking — precisely zero of these measures are subject to votes and it’s all done pursuant to governors’ emergency powers) it does not easily give it up.
No, it's awful.
My prediction is that this will turn out like the Area 51 raid. No one's really gonna do anything, but it's a scary thought.
Using the age and sex of a person instead of their name is a common convention among journalists when either they do not know or are not allowed to release a persons name.
Read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. He talks about this a lot, but in the other vein. He was probably the most powerful man in the world and constantly reminded himself he is nothing but a sack of meat and bones.
Wouldn't actions like add to cart, etc all require contract code execution?
What? PCRs are by far the best proxy we have for active infection. And no, people don't typically (ever?) test positives anywhere near 3 months after.

Common symptoms being less specific doesn't make PCRs unreliable.
"And the current use cases are sufficiently different that it's like comparing apples and oranges."

Uh, what?
This whole thread and post is about the argument that replacing existing apps with dapps will be better (or worse).
I would just like my (young) children to not have to wear masks at school - that’s really hard on them and they have been doing so for 2 years now. How does that make sense - especially if they are vaccinated?
Dig deeper on this. At least in the US, a big part of "full hospitals" isn't sick people, but a lack of staff due to vaccination requirements and people quitting.
Correct, but the hardware is from a Chinese company.
Nooo unsigned integers suck, if you subtract 5 from 3 what would you get? Then I had a stroke of genius and figured it out, I have no idea what I'm doing.
You seem to have fallen into a weird and frustrating space on this website. I sometimes wonder how the mentality degenerates like this on an ostensibly highly educated platform.
Or you’ve been fed false data by certain groups that had an interest in making you believe healthcare in the US is much worse than it is.
I found the book The Art Of Web Assembly [1] to really help me understand it better. A lot of other books seem to focus on a specific part of the tool chain. This one shows you all of the examples in web assembly text language. While I wouldn’t want to write a program in it, reading it with the context provided by the author really helped me understand what is going on. It also helped me understand why so many things are the way they are in the current iteration of the WASM world.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/dp/1718501447
Indeed, it can very easily be identified due to some gene deletion.
That's not what was said. I think the offer is nice even if they don't want it.
It is not an offensive comment. It is an accurate observation that differentiates this pandemic from others. HIV causes misery for a decade or more before finally visiting death on a person who otherwise might have 60 years to live.

Surely you can see that public health responses need to take this into account?
Our politicians and medical system executives have completely failed to do the one thing that would have actually made a difference: increase hospital capacity to care for COVID patients.

All these mandates and lockdowns are just performance art to distract from their abject failures.
I mean come on! Since when do we care about the old and vulnerable /s
Just watched part 3 and I've gotta say, I love the website stuff. "You gotta buy the .com"
Sounds prudent, but can the government actually enforce this? How?
I am hoping that as the picture of Omicron becomes clearer, if this initial perception proves accurate, we will seriously look at lowering restrictions. But I don't think impatience is called for.

It's been less than a month since Omicron was discovered. It's not easy to know exactly what the ramifications are in such a short time, and it's frankly impressive that we even know as much as we do.

As one comedian put it: "Give it a second! It's going to space!"
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It's not quite what you're asking, but it you want to limit your searches to a particular repo, you can just type that into the URL bar (and then bookmark that): https://cs.github.com/$OWNER/$REPO, just like how the repo's primary site on GitHub is https://github.com/$OWNER/$REPO
Yes, cryptocurrency is the purest form of fiat currency, which is to say a very weak one. The difference is that almost all other fiat currencies are backed by an organization with real world power: for example, the US dollar is required to pay taxes in one of the largest world economies, which guarantees trillions of dollars in demand, and it’s what the US government uses to pay millions of people and buy all kinds of different things. Other countries currencies follow that pattern to varying degrees which is also why we’ve seen efforts like the Euro to, among other reasons, increase the overall volume.

Cryptocurrencies lack sovereignty and don’t have an alternative source of baseline demand, which is why they’re volatile on a level normally associated with collapsing states — especially if they’re like Bitcoin where the deflationary model encourages everyone not to spend. When anyone can easily set up a functional equivalent, there isn’t much to anchor the valuation. This is why people created things like NFTs to give others a reason to buy their tokens rather than someone else’s but that’s not especially stable until those NFTs are accompanied by legal contracts conveying tangible value.
He's basically saying that if you're old, it doesn't matter if you die. And I thought kids these days are edgy.
In case you want a quick example of a backend application in Nim, I've written a small post[1] describing how to create a room based chat using it and HTMX. In total, it's around 70 lines of code (though it doesn't cover more advanced use cases, like username collision). I too have moved from Go to Nim, the syntax and ease in which I can turn a feature into code has been much better.

[1]: https://arhamjain.com/2021/11/22/nim-simple-chat.html
As a non-native English speaker, on of my favorite things about English is that you can (ab)use just about any noun as a verb and make it sound natural
Why would we downvote rationality friend? We are living in madness.

New data out of South Africa showed that the risk of hospitalization from Omnicron was 29% less than the original strain which was already pretty unlikely for young, healthy people . And another study just showed that this new strain multiples faster in the airways than in the lungs, which would contribute to less severe outcomes. But yet, there are talks of more restrictions, more panic, and more fear due to omnicron.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/14/south-africa...
They plan to reimburse receipts for up to 18,000 who hit the signup first.

Did Kraft pay NPR for this story? Shouldn't they have done so?
In Julia, there is the `isapprox` function to inexactly compare 2 numbers. (you can use it in infix form: `x≈y`. By default, two numbers are approximately equal if their relative tolerance is less than `sprt(eps(typeof(x))` (around 1e-8 for 64bit Floating point numbers)

Using equality to compare 2 floating point numbers doesn't get you anywhere, specially if you are using mathematical functions (the implementation of `sin` or `exp` could vary with operating systems or software versions)
I agree that's cool. It's usually sold as for finance applications, for compliance with rounding rules from the pre-binary era etc. But really, any number that lived as a decimal digit string somewhere in its lifetime should probably have been decimal throughout.

But I don't think it would have mattered here anyway. With finite precision floating point addition is not going to be associative, decimal or not.
The problem with this is that it presumes you know which actually has an advantage in that scenario to within the error margins.

In the $10 example, I'd argue chances are very small that you actually know who provides the most value because just a tiny shift in the measurement criteria could shift things in the other direction.

If such a tiny edge matters, it's an indicator you have a problem.
Health care overload is mentioned by others and the main reason. I hope you don't have a heart attack when the ER and ICU are filled with people who don't need to be there. It is heartbreaking that someone made this health crisis a political issue. I've lost two uncles before the vaccines were available and I can assure you that they didn't want to die just because they "only had 10 good years left". Your selfish comments are why we are in this position. God forbid humans do something for the greater good. Masks (e.g.) have been popular in Asia for a long time and help stop the spread of colds and flus. I wish our western culture had honor.
I feel like you've got that backwards: making the site available if it violates GDPR would be violating your rights. Making the site unavailable to you is respecting them.

That's not to mention that what's much more likely here is that a student focused and student run campus newspaper in West Lafayette, IN likely just considers the EU out of scope of their audience vs the cost of figuring out if they're GDPR compliant.
> The new variant is basically a bad cold.

... for fully vaccinated people.
Wow that explains why downloads were slow. I'll check out dlp, thank you so much.
This is a very shallow statement. Probably 99.99% of people fleeing the above-mentioned communist countries were detained at border and sent to camps with tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands being literally murdered while attempting to do so. Obviously the big difference in this case is the numbers of potential asylum seekers, not the origin.
You mean opt in by default / opted out by default?
So, I have to disable logging on my servers to comply with your regulations? No thanks.
> during a f*cking, unsolved pandemic

What is an "unsolved" pandemic?

And what statistical features of endemic equilibrium do you view as sufficiently absent to judge that this pathogen is still pandemic rather than endemic?
The internet runs on free open-source software. Who pays to fix it?
> People who want to protect themselves have and those that don't aren't going to.

That's not really true. Here in Germany there's plenty of people who tried to get a booster shot but were turned away because it hasn't been 6.00 months since their last shot[1] (including me, tried to get it before Christmas and the inevitable o'micronwave). Other countries might be more reasonable, Germans gonna German I guess. Come to think of it, that probably explain things like people being turned away on the 25th because they're only eligible for the shot on the 26th and stuff like that.

[1] The "STIKO" says it has to be >=6 months, and >=5 months only in "special cases", EMA says >3 months, federal health ministry says >3-4 months, state health ministries say anything between four weeks and six months. My state says three months. Which one is applicable is basically impossible to know.
From memory, R is quite slow, and has syntax I found really ugly. Dots as part of names (my.variable), $ for member access, operators wrapped in % for pointwise operations, eg %*% for pointwise multiplication.

These probably shouldn’t matter but did for me. FWIW the statistical offering was fantastic.
I'll edit with a link once I'm on desktop but there was a study in 2013 that showed ICUs are at max capacity 16% of the time in the U.S. the healthcare collapse panic was and has always been F.U.D. - during peak pandemic we actually terminated tons of healthcare worker positions reversing a growing trend in that sector mid-pandemic. Now we're decreasing hospital bed capacity and some places like Colorado. The hospital's aren't overwhelmed, they're overstressed by FUD and regulations forcing them to stop elective procedures among other stressors.
I Canceled My Birthday Party Because of Omicron
What is wrapping all new features in a #ifdef NEW_FEATURE //code #endif called?

My process over the last 7 years working in game dev has slowly evolved to this where I'll ask a contractor to implement a feature on the main branch but make sure that it is completely toggleable via a #define NEW_FEATURE

I thought I was pretty clever until I read an article on HN a few years ago that this is exactly what Google does lol
> You basically need another passenger with you otherwise you'll have to do a lot of stops. I'd even say its a bit risky to drive like that.

Oh, FFS. Pre-GPS, I would look up my destination on a map or street atlas and learn the route. If a portion was especially tricky, I might jot down a few reminders, or pull over before that leg and review the map.

Is GPS a wonderful convenience, especially with traffic monitoring & such?

Hell yeah, I love it and wouldn't want to go back to maps without a damn good reason.

But don't pretend it's somehow vital.

> So you are saying having a high def video call with my brother living across the world, for free, is just like calling him in the 60s?

The vast majority don't use video calling.

Still, constantly available communication is, IMO, a huge net positive.

> Do you physically develop all your photos?

That was obviously how it worked before ubiquitous digital cameras.

Photo situation is better today, though I might argue that the low marginal cost of each photo leads to people robbing themselves of vivid memories of what they're seen. There's some research that supports that idea, though I don't have a reference immediately on hand.

> Come on now. Try learning C++ in a library, good luck with that.

That's exactly what I did. Checked the ARM out of the library. Eventually bought my own copy when I decided it was worth it.

As much as I love the wealth of information available on the net, I sometimes miss how good libraries used to be.
A Website Is a Room
> one tends to want to work with the code rather than just looking at data

I've observed the opposite trend.
The more senior people get the more they care about the data and less about the code.

Programming = Datastructures + Algorithms

But it's the Data-structures/-models that dictate the algorithms and it's the domain and data therein that dictates the model.

Most companies could survive their code being lost. None would survive loosing all their customer data.

Functional programming is all about data, react is about data, machine learning is about data, google and facebook are about data.

Code is an incidental means to an end, in 90% of all cases, except flight software and games maybe, but even there the trend is towards data driven ECS-Systems and "collect all data for a timestep, and execute your flight control program to compute all actuator outputs in one go"-approaches.

And observability is one of THE hot topics in the biz right now.