skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Just because there is a GC, it doesn't mean one does not have to be aware of the existence of memory. OOM errors are thing even without leaks in GC languages.

Besides, leaks are only a small part of memory safety anyways.

And I'm not surprised that you find the biggest leak in Javascript, the language that probably the biggest percentage of amateur/inexperienced developers are working in. (which is not generally a bad thing, but increases the chance for these bugs)
I think you're too quick at making assumptions which are not correct unfortunately. Let's recap:

> there's no selective pressure for it to become less lethal.

> If people take measures to prevent spread of a disease that’s literally selective pressure.

How trying to slow down its spread can "force" it to become less lethal?

The only possible answer is that lower lethality gives it more time to spread around right?

It turns out Covid has a long incubation period, in fact plenty to use the host to infect other people.

Tl;dr: Given the length of the incubation period a less lethal virus would not gain much in terms of its ability to spread. That's the thesis I'm hearing.
Southbridge
Do you have good data for the claim, that unvaccinated people without a prior infection of corona have a significantly lower risk of hospitalization with omicron than with delta? The last I have heard is that data from South Africa has to be taken with precaution, because there are high rates of prior infections.
"“If the shoeshine boy is giving stock advice,” he thought, “then it’s time to get out of the market.”"

But what if the shoeshine boys say a crash is coming and it's time to get out of the market?

How does one even get out of the market? There seems to be a huge inflation issue going on, so simply exchanging stocks for money does not seem the way to go, either?
Having used a range of video conferencing systems, your description of Meet lines up with pretty much every Meet session I've been involved with. I'll meet the same group of people on Zoom another time and it usually works much better on Zoom.

Meet = glitchy low-res videos, freezing screen sharing, etc even on high quality fibre connections
Zoom = smooth high-res video and generally usable screen sharing (with minor glitches that usually sorts itself out in seconds) even on low quality connections

The difference is like night and day, no joke...
I think that when the default c compiler turns source into an executable called "a.out", everyone is motivated away from "a". Having a compiler called "cc" renders "c" problatic. Similar arguments probably continue across the rest of the alphabet - the brevity only contributes to a lack of clarity. That's what shell functions and aliases let you do for a personal set of preferences.
Five ice-age mammoths unearthed in Cotswolds after 220k years
Exactly the same solution here using the Aten US224 device - https://www.amazon.com/Aten-Corp-User-Port-US224/dp/B00B1RX0...

One of the computers is a work issued laptop and with this solution i won't have to install any software.

The monitor is rather slow to switch inputs, but otherwise all is good.

The only visible thing on the desk is the button for switching USB devices.
Oof.

Fully agree that Snopes comes off very much in her support here - however, at least they still seem to do their job and describe her actual actions in due detail in the article - even if this leads to a completely ridiculous outcome ("Can bombing a government building really be called terrorism? Hmm, difficult to say...")

This seems better than the OP's fact checker, which just presents the story as "fully debunked" without actually doing so.
As Noah Smith wrote: [0]
> it’s easy to delude ourselves into unreasoning optimism in the face of an onrushing threat. It will still be weeks or even months before we know for sure whether Omicron is a step in the hoped-for transformation of Covid into yet another common cold virus, or whether it’s just another deadly super-variant. But interestingly, there is now some research showing a possible mechanism by which Omicron might be both more contagious and less harmful. A new study from the University of Hong Kong shows that Omicron replicates much more quickly than Delta in the upper airways, but much less quickly in the lungs, where Covid does its real damage.

The study: https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-c...

[0]: https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/omicron-update-inflation-u...
The paper is 7 months old and has been submitted a dozen times. Most discussion is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378444

The title is promising, but when I read the paper half a year ago I found it disappointing, no practical value. Academic considerations to get a conference paper.
Hey now you can make plenty fast Angular apps, there should never be a case where you skip letters, it's all about how you use the tools available. There are dozens of barebones websites that recursively SELECT 1 row at a time from a remote database and that is just as painful.
probably because that looks like it's not good
Do you run it inside a sandbox?
Taking pressue off the healthcare system was the main goal of all restrictions, this was communicated right from the start at least in Germany. Because what happens when the healthcare system breaks down could be seen in various countries early in the pandemic.
I agree. For all we know, it seems covid has mutated into a common cold virus.
Did later editions (e.g. 95b) still run on the 386? I remember running 95b on a Pentium 166 MMX with 32MB of RAM and even that was a challenge at times!
I’m sure in a few weeks we will discover there was already widespread domestic transmission of Omicron, in Germany.

When Omicron was initially discovered, the United Kingdom promptly closed its borders to several African countries—but oddly not whiter infected countries like The Netherlands.

This was of course pointless politicking, and did nothing to stop the spread of Omicron in the UK, which was already established.

If only the UK had instead chosen to implement decent sick pay, or immediately ramp up the booster program, or implement work from hone guidance. Instead the UK let it rip fir three weeks, before suddenly panicking.
This is not really true. Tests taken by professional test centers have only been chargeable for sth like 2-4 weeks in November for unvaccinated people - this attempt to let unvaccinated people pay for their play did not work out very well, so tests are free for all again. There also is no shortage in test kits, you can buy them by the hundreds in regular supermarkets.
>Kotlin + Gradle development ecosystems are dramatically easier to live,

I know Xcode is a piece of crap, but truly, nothing approaches the level of mindfuckery that is Gradle.
The best are still these Usborne books:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/amp/usborne-coding-books

Nothing else comes close. Just install some open source version of Basic and you’re good to go.
There's a lot of 'indicates' and 'suggests' and 'potential' there rather than clinical outcomes. Given how the unvaccinated are mostly locked out of things at present, current case trajectories and hospitalisations 'suggest' the overall vaccine outcome is not one that solves the problem in any meaningful way.
Imposters (2010)
If you come at it from c/c++ systems programming and you never even had a decent package management story then of course Rust will be a blessing.

Those that will be confused and wonder what the hell it’s about is those who come from node/go/Java and think that using http is a “hello world” example of what Rust should do with ease.

> I also dont know why npm and node get so much shit for needing so many libraries but rust and cargo get a pass for these small libraries everywhere.

I think one big difference is the less promiscuous (but more frustrating) dependency management. In node I end up with 15 versions of a popular “should have been stdlib” library. In Rust you usually just have to allow one. So the libraries that form core functionality tend to be conservative about changes and get absorbed into std.

Js obviously doesn’t add things to the core platform very quickly.
Except in that ecosystem Rust is no match for C++/CLI and C++/WinRT tooling.

Yes they are Windows only, but lets be honest most pure .NET shops aren't moving away from Windows, as .NET cross platform has left part of the commercial ecosystem behind and no one is willing to port those stacks into cross platform ones.
You know, a hypothetical 400m long dirigible, made out of modern materials, could carry up to 3000 tonnes of cargo: https://erik-engheim.medium.com/calculating-lifting-capacity...

That would give it a cargo capacity of around 100 FEUs. Which isn't bad. Trains usually top out at around 200 or so. For ocean crossings where trains are either impossible or impractical (assuming tunnels/bridges), a large enough dirigible could really be competitive.
Also use https://pagespeed.web.dev/
Stop lying. We can't solve any problems if you keep denying reality.

- Up until mid-2021 people still thought "transmission was exceptionally rare" in vaccinated individuals: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/yes-vacci...

- Biden said it would stop transmissions: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g...

- Fauci said it would stop transmissions: https://web.archive.org/web/20210604093134/https://www.medpa...

This is late stage narrative from 2021. In 2020 they were still questioning whether "breakthrough infections" were real. The narrative shifts over time, but if you know how to use a search engine you'll see it clear as day.
Do you have any evidence that your suggestion actually works for real people? All studies on this I've come across say that anyone using common wisdom will both exit and re-enter too late -- i.e. they tend to end up selling low and buying high, and even just holding would be an improvement.

(I'm saying "even just holding" because a constant-fraction rebalanced portfolio is a disciplined way of actually buying low and selling high, and not only in a bear market.
Evidence of that? Adjusting for seasonality most places seem worse this year than last before the Omicron emergence.
Do you have 'good data' that I should be afraid? I'm through with fear of the unknown and everything I've heard about Omnicron, including the outbreak this article talks about, suggests that I'm right about it.
I remember scirate is pretty old - the domain was registered in 2007. Given the low number of comments now, and with those are concentrated into a narrow part of arXiv, it's unlikely to take off generally.
I am a bash expert.

This paper reads like it was written by clueless academics with no real world experience.

Multicore bash already exists and is seldom used, through the "parallel" cmd.

Other points address no particular issue, and would actually make the language more painful to use.

Bash has its limits, which pushes you to use a full fledged language if you attempt to walk past them. It's a good system.
I use mine via terminal the same way as YouTube-dl. The commands are the same too.
Bahnhof, a large Swedish ISP, soft-blocked the Elsevier because of Sci-Hub ban
Offering these two data points for the Flutter side of things at least.

The first is Google trends results for Flutter vs Swift globally in the last year.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F010sd4y3,%...

Along with StackOverflow’s 2021 report that shows Dart is more popular than Swift.

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021
Fear mongering and anxiety induction are all the rage with the Corona virus and it's variants.

Always goto another source of information and be critical all the time, that helps a lot as you point out.
So, you basically say he was wrong to state his opinion openly.

> I really, really wonder what would have happened if he'd sought out diverse co-authors.

I wonder too what would have happened if Jesus sought out diverse co-authors for his teachings.
Fairly impressed that it runs Facebook. Out of all the websites I use, I find Facebook to be the most slow (presumably due to its heavy use of JS). This is despite most other websites I use preforming fine on my personal 2017-era X1 Carbon and work 2017-era MacBook. I'd have thought it would fall off the rails on a 13 year old machine!
How does it do this? Is this something the uploader of the video provides?
Until Valhalla arrives, Unsafe package and JNI are options as well.

Or is it ok to use cgo to work around Go's shortcomings, but not JNI for Java's?
In my personal experience, even getting an average web dev to touch a slower Windows machine is mission impossible. The best you can hope is "ewww, this sucks so much and it's ugly, why would anyone do this" and then arrogant walk back to their 3000$+ MacBook to shovel more JS libraries into the website. I've literally not seen a single rockstart javascripter actually willingly try to test things on Windows, much less attempt to use a low/midrange machine to see if their code works well.
The end goal of any measure, including vaccine passes, has always been the same: preventing a large number of deaths. Vacccines still prevent a large number of deaths, both directly (strongly reduced risk of death from Covid) and indirectly (reduced strain on the healthcare system). These hold true even if vaccines only effect outcomes after getting Covid and have zero effect on transmission rates at all, they're not up for discussion. As such there really isn't much of an ethical dillema here. There is plenty of data available on all of these points. Whether someone somewhere incorrectly touted vaccines as stopping transmission at any point isn't worth discussion, it's just another one to add to the list of "uninformed statements made about vaccines" which is billions of lines long at this point.
Your opinion of those titles is irrelevant to the point. In fact, your calling the Federalist "polarizing garbage", and that you compared a magazine to the news section of the NYT and don't seem to know 2 of the most famous right-leaning titles in the world, should be a sign that you're not reading widely enough and that you're not doing it without bias.

What you should be doing is reading them, agreeing with them is beside the point - that's what getting out of an echo chamber looks like.
Log4j is not a standard library, it is just very popular, and it proves the original concern. It is treated as standard but it is not, and package muddle the waters even more. Remember leftPad.

The lack of a stable ABI is also a problem. For example, on my Linux distro, if a library has a bug, I just update the library and all software using it are fixed. No need to recompile everything.

So, essentially, the cargo system makes it easy to import weak code and hard to fix it later.

I am not saying that cargo is terrible, but it is a problem with rust that is not to be dismissed.
Humans have experimented with very diverse types of economic systems the last tens of thousands of years, and in all cases we have evidence of, there are recurring periods that could reasonably be called crashes.

Some of the fundamentals make that hard to avoid, I suppose: natural events and people's tendency to self-reinforce behaviour within their groups.
I take 2000mg. That's about 12-14mg/lb. I think I'm on the high end of dosaging. I've recently encountered reports of people getting unwanted effects like dulled emotions. That's part of what helps me be more productive. Procrastination is largely an emotional problem.

One factor that fits into my situation is that I think I have glutamine-glutamate dysregulation due to chronic stomach problems. NAC, GABA, L-Glutamine, lithium orotate all have drastic effects on me. That is a signal that serotonin and GABA production are screwed up in me.

I've been using NAC for about three months now, at the same dose. The effects are consistent, although not "noticeable" like a drug. It's more like the target lock mechanism in my brain starts looking for productive activities instead of hedonistic activities.
And no one of course goes to hospital from a cold (sarcasm), but if a few do from Omicron it'll be code red again and off we go.

If Omicron is a fizzer and with Trump out of office what are the media going to do to keep bringing in all those precious views?
Love the reading dates, thanks for mentioning that!
Yeah, but the idea of “informed consent” is misunderstood broadly. There is no constitutional right to informed consent. Not all human subjects research requires informed consent — or even consent. There are other institutional ethical lapses that are much more dangerous — and there are also ethical attitudes that rest on the researcher, not the institution.

Righteous indignation over something like this is dangerous, not least because it can lead to science being much harder (more bureaucratic and more expensive) to do by all scientists. “More oversight” or “dissolve the irb” all put too much responsibility on the institution.

Sometimes, we should just blame the people who did something rude and stupid not the institution.
We should definitely treat this with skepticism, given the source anonymity.

Such statistical data is freely available under Freedom of Information law in the UK. (Privacy laws obviously protect individuals, but not public bodies.)
The only positive thing I see about them is that it forces people to read code and get some understanding of the project they’re working on. But in general, we should rebel against code reviews - they are one of the things that make programming a corporate chore and not something fun. 99% of the time is spent on useless nitpicks and the rest of the 1% can be done with more testing or design sessions.
People wanna get rich quickly. Dont want to buy products that underperform SPY because of edging and managing expenses
I live there and there was a shortage where I was up until recently, and prices for home kits are higher than they used to be. Free tests are free but you must go to a testing center, potentially having to book beforehand. In the UK you get a set of 7 free tests via mail if you ask, and you can ask once per day, so effectively you can test every two waking hours if you feel inclined. There's definitely a difference in testing going on between the two countries.
It's user-provided.
> modern managed languages like Kotlin or Go offer decent speed, enviable time to performance, and are memory safe by virtue of using a garbage collector for dynamic memory management

Take this with a grain of salt: Go data races can still lead to memory corruption and security vulnerabilities (no one uses the inbuilt data race detector in production, few use it while testing).
They have been trying to break YouTube-dl for many years (and similar framework for iOS) and the code maintainers just need to update their code slightly to find another workaround and get it working again.
Quite interestingly while building a WebGL application I had a slightly reverse experience. While it worked surprisingly fine on some older potato laptops, the experience on Macbooks with retina screen was consistently problematic. That was due to the sheer resolution that had to be rendered per each frame. Took quite a bit of optimisation work to improve it.
I think you mean false positives? Or are they just bad all-round?
There are two ways you can go lower: the cpu cgroup, and cooling_deviceN. I'm still working on memorizing the first approach :) but it works well just about everywhere; the second is simpler but employs intel-specific hardware-level throttling which may or may not behave usefully (it may have been the cause of a couple of mystery soft hangs on an old Pentium box I have here, presumably things are less glitchy now given how frequently laptops throttle nowadays).

While the cgroup approach is (like cpufreq) doable by poking around in /sys/fs/cgroup (you mkdir new directories to create cgroups), cgroup-tools makes it a tad more straightforward by making the steps less verbose. (Besides cgroup-tools, "unshare" and "nsenter" ship with util-linux and can issue the syscalls necessary to start a process in a given cgroup, which you can't do with pure bash.)

The setup is always the same - you create a new "cpu" cgroup (here named "cpulimit"), then configure CFS (completely fair scheduler, I think? I thought there were multiple schedulers... maybe this only applies if using CFS? I think CFS is the default everywhere) with a period and quota. I think the period is used to derive an internal tick rate. The quota is a fraction of the period and the ratio (yay you get to do the math yourself) represents how much CPU the task gets to eat. I think the ratio applies across all the CPUs. I have no idea what happens if you bring PID-level CPU affinity into the equation. Maybe you can select which CPUs are enabled for the cgroup, and the math applies to whatever's enabled. Haven't answered any of that yet. In any case:

# cgcreate -g cpu:cpulimit
# cgset -r cpu.cfs_period_us=1000000 cpulimit
# cgset -r cpu.cfs_quota_us=100 cpulimit

A fairly straightforward demonstration: in one terminal run

# cgexec -g cpu:cpulimit yes | pv -l > /dev/null

while in another terminal rerun the last `cgset` with quotas of 1000, 10000, etc, and watch the output rate go up and down. (In this case 100 is a good starting value, but anything more complicated than printf(); in a loop will probably finish launching in 2023 if started with a quota of 100.)

The nice thing is that the cgroup happily sits in the background until explicitly deleted (and systemd leaves everything it didn't create alone) and you can just poke at its values anytime. Network cgroups can probably do interesting fun things to traffic as well (oh yeah, network namespaces = discrete iptables/nftables per namespace).

Lastly, the cooling_deviceN entries are in /sys/class/thermal, and have cur_state and max_state. YMMV; setting cur_ to max_ may well take several minutes to undo (very much the case on older systems at least) - maybe try that on a throwaway-able session. :D (Think "Task Manager (Not Responding)"...)
So how is the $50 per month savings is going to help you buy that $1M home?
Pyramid Investment Scheme dupes $165 each from a million in India
Can anyone explain how this would be exploited and its actual risk level?

I understand the log4j2 cve -- craft some input so that log4j does a lookup and insert your arbitrary code there.

But how does this being in XCode present a risk and what level of risk?

Is someone running XCode in a production server somewhere? The most likely case I could think of would be in a CI type server, and this would only be vulnerable when a build is getting is in progress?

It's not on the level of "my app runs on tomcat" type of bad, I wouldn't think.
Relatively high yes, but with emphasis on the relatively; I would be surprised that there would have been more than 3 false negatives.
Try the witness!
> I found this: https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/ which is a meager list without any link to the packaging source.

I clicked the first

https://guix.gnu.org/en/packages/python-pyxel-1.4.3/

It says "Package source: game-development.scm" linking to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages...

It's a lisp code that does what a shell script might do, but declaratively. Indeed it isn't much different from an Arch Linux PKGBUILD.
At least in my social and work circles, it's pretty normal to take a test before attending a larger gathering, or meeting more vulnerable people.

But then, Denmark has an average of 17 tests per person, the highest in the world by some margin.

Norway is 1.6 per person, Finland 1.5 and Sweden 1.4.
As long as unsafe code blocks are validated in each crate release, e.g. race conditions in shmem/mmap.
Use yt-dlp which is a well maintained alternative to YouTube-dl and doesn’t have the throttling issue. All commands are the same.
Previous research from Hong Kong mentioned this information.

Spreads less in the lung, much more in the nose.

Not: this is lab info ( = no human protection kicking in. The title is kinda sensational because of that)

https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-c...