skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have those in the US too, it's called the "defense" industry. Our permanent wartime economy isn't for the good of most Americans or our talent pool—free education and healthcare (the largest discrepancy in public funding between the US and EU) would increase available talent but is considered authoritarian despotic socialism/communism within the American Overton Window.

Why take on a risky career path like being a doctor if best case you're half a million in debt and that's assuming you don't get weeded out at any point? It's no surprise we have shortages of engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers, etc.

Even a bachelor's degree is on average 32k for in-state at public colleges assuming you graduate in 4 years. Contrast that with my German peers who didn't pay anything and yeah, maybe I wouldn't have been a software engineer if everything else wasn't so volatile. I certainly don't feel as essential as doctors or nurses, especially now.

Sure it's cheaper to start a LLC in the US and you can hire/fire on a whim practically, but 63% of Americans don't have enough savings to cover a $500 emergency. Doesn't exactly leave a lot of wiggle room unless your parents have a basement for your MVP and some seed money.
Not really.

Last week, the error bars were 0.1% to 16%, which was much more uncertainty IMO.

This Nowcast model is "only" a 3x fold from lowest to highest. Sooooo... this is actually a lot more accurate and certain than last week's prediction.
I personally don't really mind this since at the end of the day the entire org exists to support sales, marketing, and retention. Within reason, if those groups say they need something to bring in revenue then they get it.
Why does _france_ need to hide their millitary bases? I mean, France?
In the 90's they had the "Dehydrated Pork Patty". I am not surprised this set them back for the next 30 years.

Though the British troops near us had some kind of canned cod fish in tomato sauce that was worse.
Why? People do that all the time for other projects. Why stop that for *just* Rust?

As the guy explained, Rust comes with a lot of benefits, and mentioning Rust means getting those benefits.
Saying it's ontologically inadequate means that it's insufficient to describe what we consider "real", and thus the wave function by itself cannot describe one world let alone many worlds.
If you have looked at rust, you would understand that "Written in Rust" means something more than just the face value.
Written in Rust means that there will be less memory/concurrency bugs due to the language itself ruling out classes of those bugs and that is a feature that I would definitely care about in any peice of software I use.
google "new york coronavirus" and look at the massive past 10 day spike in the new cases chart. This isn't going to end well.
These numbers are very difficult to interpret without knowing the base - how much of the population is in each category.

Also booster vs double vax - is that just that the shot is more recent, or does 3 shots make a qualitative difference?
Ask HN: Recommended Domain Registrars?
I'm currently on Hover, which is mostly fine. Except it doesn't support a certain kind of DNS record (can't remember which; ALIAS maybe?) which is necessary to get requests without the www. prefix to resolve correctly to my Heroku apps

Google Domains is out because I don't use Google products/have a Google account

Security is a high priority because my emails go through one of my custom domains

Those are about all of my requirements; it's also just hard to know which registrars are trustworthy

Would be very grateful for recommendations
How are the investors hoping to make their money back?
We may be getting to the point where more speed is not as important.

To an extent this is true, but part of this is just how long US broadband speeds stagnated, especially upload speeds, killing off any product ideas that required high upload bandwidth. I'm sure that over time we'll find uses for more speed.
Aren't the HVAC systems in planes pretty much better than any other indoor hvac systems? If you are going to ban anti-vaxxers, planes seem like the last place you should.
It's twitch.tv for sex workers. It's not a replacement for chatting with random people of the opposite sex.
Her recent paper on this is worth a read: Rethinking Superdeterminism, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.00139...
Potentially neither. "I stopped maintaining my LinkedIn due to recruiter spam" would be a believable statement in my opinion.
If a person can do the job that's expected of them I don't find it unethical (assuming they're not working for competitors, utilizing resources of one employer for the other, etc.) They're not hourly employees and double-billing.

Employers are dishonest and unethical all the time. Just because the norm is having one employer (to the primary benefit of the employer) does not make it unethical to have 2 jobs.

Having said that, I wouldn't want to deal with the stress of one employer finding out about the other(s).
The quality, in my experience, is very substantially lower. It is peculiar.
Ask HN: Recommended two-factor authenticator app for personal use?
I haven't really looked into authenticator apps before, but with the increases in SIM-jacking I think it's time. I don't use Google, so Google Authenticator is out. I use Duo at work; can you use that for arbitrary personal services? Are there others apps that come recommended?

Also, just general questions: are these apps usually free (if not, free isn't a hard requirement)? Is there some standard, or does each service only support a subset of apps? What happens if you lose your phone?

Any info is appreciated

Edit: One more question: I see rumblings from some people about using password managers as an alternative to 2FA apps. Is that a valid strategy? Does one make the other redundant?

Edit 2: I found this excellent deep-dive on the overall mechanism and the major players: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/choosing-2fa-authenticator-apps-can-be-hard-ars-did-it-so-you-dont-have-to/ Based on this I'll probably go with Authy
New case count arrivals should be normalized against sampling rate, there's been a massive increase in NYC test collection capacity via mobile vans and testing tents on sidewalks.
He probably didn't think that, but could not sell his project without getting potential investors to believe it. (At the time, nobody knew exactly how wide Asia was, although travel time on foot showed it was not as big as it would have to be.) Things haven't changed so much.

But he continued insisting, to his dying day, that he had reached Asia.
This is why I pushed for a developer advocate role at my last place. The idea was shit on pretty quickly.
Yeah, but it is really too early to tell. The cases in that update are largely in young people (age <= 65) and it takes about a week from symptom onset to end up in hospital. That data seems to be as at 9 Dec, even if the hospitalisations were high the data would not necessarily show them.
None? I have LinkedIn account for about 10 years and found it useless for job search anyway. I use it like facebook to connect and occasionally chat with colleagues from previous companies.
Abd why can’t we test at home? Looking forward to pill treaments and cheap home tests. Vaccines weren’t enough it seems, odd that’s all we talked about in the media
Bill Dembski Reviews Erik Larson’s the Myth of Artificial Intelligence
You can always outsource parts of the job too
The only good thing that has come out of the rise of devops is all the conferences I have been able to attend.
Not sure what you have in mind with "manuals", but I believe there were treatises on every subject, e.g. Vitruvius' On architecture (~20BC), "a guide for building projects. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. It contains a variety of information on Greek and Roman buildings, as well as prescriptions for the planning and design of military camps, cities, and structures both large (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_architectura

Ptolemy (100-170AD) wrote treatises on many subjects, and his works on astronomy and geography "never ceased to be copied or commented upon, both in Late Antiquity and in the Middle Ages" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

Vegetius wrote a military manual On military matters, extremely influential until about 1500.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetius

Apicius wrote On the Subject of Cooking, a cook book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicius

(So much ancient writing hasn't survived, e.g. none of Aristotle's many writings survived - what we know as his writings are just his students' lecture notes.)
Right, that’s pretty much how a 7 day in the future prediction is going to look when rates can double daily. The pattern fits from SA data roughly though. But that’s not ceterus paribus, etc.
Wait ... how come when you turn the "Nowcast prediction model" into OFF then there are zero Omicron cases in the US?
Perhaps not, yet I have never seen anything so lovely.
Honestly, one of the best things you can do for your mental health is to spend less time in front of a screen.
> When I said armed, it's pretty clear by context that I was referring to firearms.

Yes, but that’s not what “armed” normally means, or what it was used upthread to mean, and a counterargument where you redefine terms to mean something else... isn't a counterargument, but closer to an admission.

> Alberts and Ibrahim were charged with having firearms on Capitol grounds.

Alberts was immediately charged with having a firearm on the grounds; the recent change is the charge of disorderly conduct in a Capitol building.

> Although Ibrahim was a DEA agent who was charged for LARPing and doing a photoshoot of himself in front of the Capitol with his DEA badge and gun

He was not charged with LARPing; nothing in the charges indicates he was not a serious participant.

> so that's going to be an entertaining one for the government to explain.

I don't see what’s entertaining about it, or how its any different than the handful of active duty service members charged. Yes, the government holds people accountable even when they work for the government.

> Still, your characterization of this as an "armed group" is also false

It wasn't my characterization, but it's also not false. It was a group, and they brought, forcibly stole, and used a wide variety of weapons..

> couple individual idiots bringing firearms to a riot is obviously entirely different than an organized squad "storming" the Capitol.

Among the very large groups storming the Capitol were several organized squads (the overall size of the group was much more than squad size, somewhere in the brigade-division-corps range.)
They may not have 3rd party tracking, but they sure have a lot of first party tracking. Multiple times a minute I see requests coming from my Roku.
There are jobs where you're clearly just trading time for money. And there are jobs where you're basically expected to be working for multiple clients (but presumably not sharing confidential information)--though in some industries that means not taking jobs from multiple competitors. But, yes, taking multiple full-time jobs in an industry and lying about it makes you dishonest. Of course, if the companies are just fine about it that's totally cool.
I wish reporting would be clearer - Omicron or Delta?

At least in South Africa, the Omicron death rates are VERY divorced from case rates.

https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/14726640604455690...
I second this. You'd check your oil when driving to next town 50km away and if you decide to drive to country nearby you'd have to spend few weeks hardening everything.

Imagine Japanese cars from the period. You'd drive for 20kkm without oil change and will be sure it will start next morning at -20C.
That is beside the point. It's expected you will bring your best effort to the job and not do half-ass sloppy work. The article is not recommending you work 16 hour days, they are recommending you bite the hand that feeds.
Omicron sweeps across nation, now 73% of new US Covid cases
Lightning isn't that energetic. A 16 MW wind turbine can capture the energy of a lightning bolt from thin air in about 1 minute.

The average lightning bolt that strikes the ground contains about 1 billion joules of energy. That's 1 GJ of energy.

The Siemens Gamesa’s SG 14-222 DD wind turbine has a capacity of 14 MW. In 71 seconds that wind turbine would capture the energy of a lightning bolt.

There is an enormous amount of energy in the air moving around us. I can very well believe how that movement can charge up lighting.
19,137 Delta cases in Denmark, also from Table 2 in same doc.

0.07% fatal, 0.11% ICU, 1.5% hospital
0.9% Covid-recovered
50% double vax, 3% booster
44% unvax, 3% single vax
>Scientists have continued to say from the start that each strain will become weaker but more contagious.

Explain Delta then.
Right, I'm assuming the two companies would be in completely different spaces. Otherwise I'd have significant ethical concerns.
Oh lord, this should be a Law. You only find the exact framework or app you've been looking for exactly one day after you've finished implementing your own solution from whole cloth.
Are you sure? I searched around for employment contracts and the first result that isn't trivial (ie. less than a page) has a "full time" clause, eg. https://www.lawdepot.com/contracts/employment-contract/?loc=...

>Duty to Devote Full Time

>The Employee agrees to devote full-time efforts, as an employee of the Employer, to the employment duties and obligations as described in this Agreement.

The template linked above also an option of specifying work hours, so that makes it extra risky from a legal point of view.
Most salary contracts prevent moonlighting like this to one extent or another.

You’d need to vet the fine print on whether working 2 40 hour per week jobs is ok. Not to mention that both jobs may ask more hours of you at any point.
> easily maintained

the best maintenance is no maintenance

these cars required 10x more work than counterparts from abroad
> it's time theft

Depends on your contract, but I think very few companies can legally expect to "own your time" unless you're logging billable hours, or clocking in (hourly wage). If you're logging billable-hours and double billing, yes that IS fraud. Obviously, if you're clocking in, it's unlikely you'll be working two jobs simultaneously, and if you are, it's unethical.
I mean, excessive regularity during combat could be a liability, couldn't it?
Because they are a transmission vector and … some do get seriously ill.
Several years ago I worked in a small office with a coke machine, and we would put the empty cans into a bin next to it that the cleaners would (presumably) take away from time to time.

At some point we noticed that the office was becoming infested with fruit flies, and after some investigation we discovered months or years worth of those cans in a closed off hallway, in a dozen giant trash bags.

My manager tossed a couple of the bags into the back of his car and drove to a nearby grocery store where there was a can recyling "machine" outside, that you could feed the cans into and get a receipt to cash in in the store. One. Can. At. A. Time. He spotted some kids skateboarding nearby and said "hey do you want to make some money" and gave them the cans, then made a couple more trips to get the rest of them.

Probably he could have gone inside and spoken to a manager to arrange a more efficient way to offload the cans, but those kids were absolutely stoked.
Variable income makes me smarter
Not much different.

If its ivory or you like to tinker, you could fix it.
Probably just a capacitor or coil.
You can find the circuit diagrams online.

If its not or you want to spare yourself the hassle , just buy another one.
You may even buy a shiny 'new' W48, albeit not cheap:

https://www.manufactum.com/telephone-w48-a67326/

There also is a german shop selling 'new' spare parts if you need new microphone capsules.
Sorry, the website is not in English:

https://telefonmanufaktur.de/73-hoer-und-sprechkapsel
I know people that make more than 7 figures with one job. Is your friend located intentionally or something? Otherwise I don't see the point.
I see a lot of people talking about reputational risk around this, but I'd be more worried about the legal implications. Most of us have contracts that grant IP of what we create to our employer at least during work hours - if you get caught doing this how do the IP implications unwind given that both your employers have the same rights to what you produced? Would it be legally equivalent to selling a bunch of IP that you never had the right to?

This whole phenomenon is just the pinnacle of the privilege that we enjoy as software developers. While warehouse or hospitality workers work two or three jobs to stay above the poverty line and have their every move tracked as they do, we choose to parlay our autonomy into occupying two well-paying jobs at the same time.

When our employers force us back into the office 5 days a week, it'll be the people who did this who made that happen.
You can test at home with rapid antigen tests, for something like $15 per test where I live in the US. You can also swab at home for PCR tests but by the time you mail it in, a few days will pass and it sort of defeats the purpose of doing a PCR test in the first place (early detection).
> There are only a very very few jurisdictions where demolition permits are an impediment.

Really? I would have assumed that any city required a demolition permit, but I've never really thought about it.
The oldest ration — not MRE — I've seen him eat was from the Boer War; the oldest piece of food was from the US Civil War. Steve1989 is a treasure.
... is this a tech person's equivalent to what a significant portion of Americans do just to pay rent? Only with the added fun of breach of contract, etc tossed in?

I thought it was satire at first.
Personally, I had double the savings after lockdown (no tolls, parking, fuel, car repairs, downtown lunches). So lockdown was basically like working twice as long. And then freelance work would be double that. So even a little part time work boosts you so much.
It is called "wire fraud" a federal crime. The US has a ridiculous punishment for it [1]. Wire fraud is the favorite of the feds since it is loosely defined and easy to prosecute. Feds also use this law to get people to turn on others due to it's extreme punishments (you will sing). If you sign anything stating this is your only job - don't do this.

(1) that the defendant voluntarily and intentionally devised or participated in a scheme to defraud another out of money;
(2) that the defendant did so with the intent to defraud;
(3) that it was reasonably foreseeable that interstate wire communications would be used; and
(4) that interstate wire communications were in fact used)

"Wire fraud is a federal crime that carries a sentence of not more than 20 years’ imprisonment and fines of up to $250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for organizations." [1]
> We live in a cultural climate that loves machines and where the promise of artificial general intelligence assumes, at least for some, religious proportions. The thought that we can upload ourselves onto machines intrigues many. So why not look forward to the prospect of them doing so, especially since some very smart people guarantee that machine supremacy is inevitable. Larson in THE MYTH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE successfully unseats this inevitability narrative. After reading this book, believe if you like that the singularity is right around the corner, that humans will soon be pets of machines, that benign or malevolent machine overlords are about to become our masters. But after reading this book, know that such a belief is unsubstantiated and that neither science nor philosophy backs it up.

The best way to dispel the hype is to explain to people that computers can not do anything without algorithms/software. So if there is any intelligence anywhere in an AI system then it must have come from people because they're the ones that invent the algorithms. This confusion between algorithms and some mystical disembodied pure form of intelligence only benefits the hucksters that are selling new age promises of digital salvation.
The other day, an HN post showed RadioShack.com has changed hands and the home page is all about a new type of crypto. Just checked, still is.

I’m surprised that RadioShack link still works, including the Add to Cart and Checkout buttons! Maybe the new owners are keeping the old e-commerce side alive?
Why would you want to use Zig for webdev?
or working a job and having a hobby that it turns out later can be profitable? Or working a job and working on a startup on the side? Or, hell, working at a job and doing your own, unpaid, yardwork on the side, or childcare?
I assume these people you know aren’t lowly software engineers.
> how much of the population is in each category

Denmark population is 5.8 million people, https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/denmark-popul...

> booster vs double vax - is that just that the shot is more recent, or does 3 shots make a qualitative difference?

Probably the former. There are many papers which show declining efficacy each month. Mass-vaccination campaigns in each country probably means that # of shots can be used to determine recency.
Find 2 companies who both need a remote worker to deal with aspects in common...fill both jobs, and have fewer BW problems, use realfakes avatars to handle the occasional zoom call and use 2 different IP addresses for verisimilitude.
Do you make seven figures with one job? I have zero friends that do.
Because they're a NATO member with a pretty large and advanced military force, in a very accessible area of Europe?
It really depends on the question.

My observation was from the standpoint of "is omicron the most prevalent variant," which this week's data suggests probably, but it could go either way. Last week's error bars would suggest that the answer to that question would be "very unlikely."

As you point out, a 95% CI of 0.1% to 16% is also huge.
The Pantheon was not completely off limits. Pope Urban VIII. (Maffeo Barberini, pontificat 1623-1644) had the bronze cladding of the Pantheon taken down to have 80 canons cast from it. He has had a cover-up story spread that the bronze was used for St. Peter's Basilica.
> Technically the shortest UTF-8 representation is _the_ representation and _correctly_normalized_ Unicode is uniquely represented

Not necessarily the shortest (NFC means not using composed characters from later revisions of the standard), and you only get a normalised representation if you've actually normalised it - if you've just accepted and maybe validated some UTF-8 from outside then it probably won't be in normalized form. IMO it's worth having separate types for unicode strings and normalized unicode strings, and maybe the latter should expose more of the codepoint sequence representation, but I don't know if any language implements that.
One biggest downfall of lisp is that people just call anything with parenthesized prefix notation "lisp".
Honestly, the community is the most off-putting part of the language. The hype makes it difficult to find quality content; all I find are strange comparisons to dissimilar languages and "I rewrote 'Thing' in Rust" posts.