skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're looking at this backwards which makes it look bad. The reality is, humans haven't been treating other humans nicely in labor relationships for tens of thousands of years. I don't think you'd be able to look back even a decade and say it was better than now, so rather than "reached a level" of inhumanity, I'd say we reached a new level of humane treatment with a law like this. Its just another step in the right direction after centuries of progress. Without laws this good behavior is left up to the culture of the leaders of a company. Its similar to how before child labor laws, some companies didn't use child labor. Now that theres a law for it, no company does (at least on the soil where then law is in effect) which causes the next generation to see this better state as the new normal.
The key difference is the word profit. Peloton et al do not claim to make a profit, there is no dividend.

The reason the difference is important is because if you we understand what a Ponzi scheme really is, we won't be able to identify them and prosecute them. Claiming that "everything is a ponzi scheme" is actively harmful.
> Which argues that maybe language choice just doesn't matter that much for security

No it doesn't. There is actually no logical way to infer from the parent statement that language choice doesn't matter for security.

> But in practice they work well enough to push C's foibles down into the noise floor.

This goes against findings from research that has been done into the sources of security vulnerabilities. Microsoft and the chrome dev teams have published that 70% of their security bugs are a result of memory safety.

If C is used in 100 years it will only be because of inertia. Today there are better choices in the domain of low level systems programming languages.
Putting a charge through to visa if you damage the car is more reliable than trying to charge a debit card. In the US people without credit cards often have poor credit, often from not paying back debts (or so goes the stigma), and I'm not sure if you can just charge more to a debit card later (it's been a while since I've used one).

Plus, then if you can't pay, it's visa's problem, not theirs.
It supports an order of magnitude less hardware than Linux.
What is a layer of "disconnection"? Is this a new rhetorical device?

Facebook does actually help build the connectivity up in these countries so they do in fact pay for the infrastructure. It is still exploitative in that they mislead folks in developing countries to think they have access to the internet when instead they're on Facebook's private network. But they do pay the cost of connectivity, at least somewhat.
AVUV or VIOV
We already know that infection does not "generate a broader response", actually. Nor does it generate a more effective one.

The opposite is the case.
I haven't paid close attention recently, but my understanding is that government datasets do get imported to OSM—but they're not perfect and still require some amount of clean-up. So it's never as simple as downloading a file from the local government and uploading it to OSM. Drawing house by house may not be the most efficient way to improve OSM in the long term, but it has lower skill requirements than sanitizing and validating a third-party dataset.
The Feynman Technique–how to learn anything
These work too!

Well aside from the fact that paying rent on one person’s salary is nigh-impossible these days.
~ 40 years ago, Smalltalk had:

(1 to: 20) collect: [ :each | Array with: each with: 'hey' ]

And Smalltalk got it from Lisp.

Just saying for comparison.

Edit: forgot to mention - the syntax is entirely consistent and unlike Linq does not seem bolted on to the rest of the language.
The other side of this coin are apps that blatantly show banners on opening them to go to their website and purchase a subscription for cheaper. I reported one such app a few times to Apple (using the new report an issue feature on the App Store). It’s probably been at least a couple of months, and that app still continues to do the same.

It’s very clear that the rules are arbitrary and are not enforced uniformly. Apple doesn’t even seem to have an inclination to solve issues when they’re pointed out.
Do we have Doom running on it?
Man banned from leaving Israel for 8k years over child support payments
The thing is the above things are not a general thing. Those are rights that IT workers specifically don't have, that are otherwise mandated by labour law. So, one of the countries that has these things is actually Canada (or more strictly speaking, the provinces of canada, since this is provincial jurisdiction but they all broadly follow the same formula including afaik this exemption).

IT is not the only field with these exemption but it is perhaps one of the least motivated. Afaik, it was added to the list when most IT workers were working in critical infrastructure like telecom. It's not really justified anymore, if it ever was (imo it isn't justified for anyone, but I am probably rare in thinking that in an entrepreneur-focused space).
You can still set your own separator as a parameter to the urlparse function. It's just no longer accepting semicolons by default.
The first problem with this hot take is, you're completely ignoring the severity of cases, and death, in favor of just a raw case count.
Agree, I have probably spent two years behind the wheel of one of their cars, its the best in the business.

You never know what you're gonna find once you get there, but you know there will be something that can comfortable sit five adults, and more or less hold their luggage, even if its a full size truck.
as mentioned in the thread it would need more RAM to do so
I'm sure there are also people who would love to computationally infer the preferred ending to an NFL game of their choice, too. Or change the ending to a movie of which they can only tolerate the first hour.

It would enable some really cool ideation and modeling, maybe even some of which could be used for psychology work, or sports psychology in the case of the NFL (I'm reminded of those "imagine yourself winning" tricks)
I’d love to try it!
The Tomer's technique - Be as smart as Feynman and you to will be able to learn anything
Interviews at FAANG don’t really work like that. The typical interviewer has very little say in metrics used to evaluate the candidate. Their job is to evaluate the candidate based only on those metrics, with little room for anything else.

Part of the reason is standardisation. There is lots of training given to avoid bias. I think you’ve misunderstood what the parent meant by interview skills. The criteria don’t select for social skills (beyond the basic), but rather for algorithmic skill. However, most day-to-day development will not require as much of it, which is the parent’s point.

I think most people are aware that the system is not perfect, but the process of determining the metrics (as far as I understand it; I’m a fairly new interviewer) is pretty data based. It’s been optimised to hire people without relying heavily on the interviewers all being very experienced (because that doesn’t scale enough for FAANG).
Is there a term for this phenomena yet?

"if another language is being discussed, Rust must be forced into the discussion, no matter how tenuous the connection"
Only thing that comes to mind immediately is VLA/alloca but I'd have to check. Most of the gnarly pointer things are fair game and work just as well as their C counterparts.
This reads like the lead-in to an episode of Black Mirror.
I completely agree. It’s concerning how eager and compliant people are with these nonsensical mandates. These last two years hammered home to me that there are way more people than I thought who either enjoy dominating other people or who like being told what to do.
The tests are not cheap
> So close to getting to the actual root issue (ambient authority), but so far away (blaming the programmer, instead of structural deficits in the OS).

Indeed, this is the entire point of the post! (Well, the second point of the post. The "deeper issue".)

- The root cause is ambient authority: the fact that log4j (and its further dependencies like JNDI) can just create a network connection without having been explicitly given the ability to do so.

- This is not the fault of the programmer. I was focusing blame on the programming language not having capabilities, though as many commenters including you have pointed out, capabilities at the OS level are also very important. Ultimately you want both, and they complement each other.
There appears to be a genetic component in certain populations.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Genetic-factor...

Also, underreporting and asymptomatic rates are much higher than initially assumed.
I suggest reading up on Simpson's paradox, which keeps showing up in these kinds of data evaluations regarding covid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
> Is there anything that can be done in C that can’t be done in unsafe Rust?

Duff's device <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device>.
For many languages isn't that the FFI to C?
There’s nothing selfish about not wearing a mask if vaccines are safe and effective.
That 0.4% chance is not random though - it's heavily weighted toward 18-29 year olds with severe existing co-morbidities, extremely high BMI's, etc.

For an otherwise healthy 18-29 year old, it appears that the risks from taking the vaccine are comparable / slightly exceed the risks of getting Covid.

Your statement that most myocarditis cases do not require hospitalization is inconsistent with the public health data Ontario is releasing - it's closer to 60%+ of (confirmed) myocarditis cases that require hospitalization.

(https://twitter.com/KoenSwinkels/status/1462266769880621056/...)
Wealth inequality renders many of the assumptions about social utility being maximized by free markets invalid. That is, I believe, the parent commenter's point.

Furthermore, your example is exactly wrong. Restrictions are both on price and on the quantity that can be purchased. Without both controls, in shortages, the earliest speculator is free to create shortages by hoarding, and is in fact incentivized to.
> it's Ruby with Python style syntax.

It's not. It's a language on its own with Ruby-style syntax and close-but-not-same semantics.
Now I wanna know whether this can be reversed, constructing a 3d model from the dot pattern!
Drop a pack of 128 automated rovers with the antennas and let them crawl out to their designated grid

Which brings up the thought that someday hundreds of years from now someone is going to install GPS on the moon (and mars) and ruin radio silence

I wonder how they precisely position things on the moon now.
Tesla Phone: News, Price, Release Date
Oh god thanks.
Could webassembly provide that? As far as I understand it can be seen as a target callable from any runtime (C, rust, python, the browser...) so a new language could implement wasm and all its libraries could be used?
Yeah, when we are two years into the pandemic, with 5.4 million deaths and over 280 million infections by COVID, with tens of millions of health workers globally working long hours and overtime in their sweat-filled protective gowns and gears, all you could care about is whether your daughter can see a world with faces uncovered.

If people can just stop their BS, get vaxxed, cover their face, and avoid gatherings, the pandemic would be over in a month, and we wouldn't need to do all this shit, would we?
> I don't know. I feel that many people got unfairly labelled as "anti-vaxxer" because they simply opposed to forced vaccination

Unlikely because the most of the same people chose not to get vaccinated themselves well before any mandates or requirements came into force, and were posting arguments online warning people not to get the vaccine or that it hadn't been sufficiently tested - as you yourself do in this post.

This indicates that they weren't just opposed to forced vaccination, but opposed to this vaccination in particular. It was quite rare to see someone post something along the lines of <<Everyone should get vaccinated, and you are in more danger from COVID-19 if you don't get vaccinated than from side effects if you do. However, I am opposed only to forcing the vaccine on you. Please get vaccinated yourself instead!>>
There are some architectures that C supports better than Rust due to having gcc's backends as an option as well as LLVM, but within a given architecture that both support, I don't think there is.
Cross-compiling OpenSSL to Rust and then compiling the Rust would also not get rid of the memory-unsafety vulnerabilities created by writing OpenSSL in C.

Nevertheless, if you wrote OpenSSL in Rust, or any memory-safe language, it would not have those memory-unsafety vulnerabilities.

The same applies when writing in a capability-safe language. It's fairly deliberately ignorant to call these kind of properties "magic".
Flip Your Lid – A Simplified Rubik’s Cube Game
People were labelled anti-vaxxers because they were opposed to forced vaccination? I can't say that this is a sentiment that's new to me.

The Israel data clearly showed that the vaccine was protective against infection in the medium term. Just not as much as originally.

>A few things to consider, the paper's calculated myocarditis risk post covid is overestimated as it is impossible to know how many people actually caught the virus. It is reasonable to assume that the actual delta (risk myocarditis post vax vs risk myocarditis post covid) is actually larger, I believe this is just the tip of the icerberg.

We actually don't know that. We see from this data that you can have myocarditis without the usual symptoms of a strong immune reaction. For all we know, there could have been a hundred thousand cases of myocarditis from COVID that didn't come with associated COVID symptoms and resolved themselves, going without any diagnosis.

Actually, we generally don't even know the real rate of myocarditis in the general population. It's relatively common that someone is admitted to the hospital for another symptom and myocarditis is diagnosed, without the patient even noticing.

As for females, for any age, there is zero statistically significant result for myocarditis included to the vaccine, at all. So for all we know, the vaccine may cause zero myocarditis in females. It's almost certain that further stratification would help.

The reason why there was not anymore stratification is because myocarditis due to the vaccine is so rare that if you do stratify it, you cannot come to any conclusion.

It's possible that there is a misestimation of the background risk. However, given that most cases of myocarditis are mild, the vast majority of myocarditis cases without a positive COVID test almost certainly went undiagnosed, so this is a fair comparison. Cases that have been diagnosed can also be misatributed to background risk, if there are no other covid symptoms and thus no covid test is administered.
I specifically do not want to live in a society where people cannot willingly cover half their face, especially when they’re sick or it’s flu season. (Not to mentioned during a pandemic that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in my country.)

Luckily my country is also a representative republic where we can vote for what policies we want. (Although I certainly have issues with the many ways my vote is subverted or rendered less-than others votes based on land.)
My favorite chestnut regarding this is the one that occurred at Houston Intercontinental: https://archive.ph/Z3gjx

> SOME years ago, executives at a Houston airport faced a troubling customer-relations issue. Passengers were lodging an inordinate number of complaints about the long waits at baggage claim. In response, the executives increased the number of baggage handlers working that shift. The plan worked: the average wait fell to eight minutes, well within industry benchmarks. But the complaints persisted.

> Puzzled, the airport executives undertook a more careful, on-site analysis. They found that it took passengers a minute to walk from their arrival gates to baggage claim and seven more minutes to get their bags. Roughly 88 percent of their time, in other words, was spent standing around waiting for their bags.

> So the airport decided on a new approach: instead of reducing wait times, it moved the arrival gates away from the main terminal and routed bags to the outermost carousel. Passengers now had to walk six times longer to get their bags. Complaints dropped to near zero.
Really hate imprecise language, a Ponzi scheme is literally a fraud predicated on bringing jn a constant supply of new investment dollars to pay the earlier investors (fraud because there either is no underlying asset at all (Madoff's returns) or its value is fraudulently misrepresented to investors (the original scheme by Mr. Ponzi himself))

It is not

* speculation or "asset bubbles" (I don't believe in bubbles, but they are definitely not Ponzi schemes)

* MLM / pyramid schemes (although these can also be Ponzi schemes, usually when the promised levels of operational support, marketing, product dev, etc. aren't honored)

* pump and dump / option manipulation ( these can be fraudulent, but they're not Ponzi schemes - they don't require a steady flow of investors to sustain themselves - in fact, one large institutional investor can be sufficient)
Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity
Apparently this is the GothamChess recap in question.

https://youtu.be/PmQs1KhB948
A Covid treatment with happiness as a side effect? Sign me up! ;)

Is there a problem with taking SSRI's for 10 days though?
Alas most post-graduate programs are under subscribed, and it is important for reasons of prestige etc to maximize enrollment. There is no point in trying to convince others to reduce numbers - those are the very metrics _they_ are judged by.

I've [1] adopted the approach of meeting the student where they are answering their question, then trying to take them one step further. I try to encourage good habits, and at the same time ceasely mock bad habits (in a gentle, running-joke, kind of way.)

That said I also demonstrate the use of Google in answering a bunch of questions, for which the internet is overflowing with answers. Google is a fantastic resource and there's a lot of great stuff out there.

[1] I am not an academic, and my "students" are not in school. They are typically professionals, trained in another discipline, who were around when computers started, and there was no software so they had to write their own. They have 40 odd years of programming experience, but usually with zero formal training. Seeing individuals in this age-group make breakthroughs though is immensely rewarding.
That's not true because the compiler of the magical safe language would likely reject the Windows 10 source and "cross compiling" is actually a major rewrite.
3 times a day, morning+afternoon/evening+night, I'll catch up after scrolling to "last visit" on hckrnews.com.
I think it’s generally true. Check out the discussion sections of the primary sources, they are usually pretty forthcoming about the limitations of the data and methodology.

This in general has been what has kept my uncertainty factor high on the question of omicron’s virulence, while you can find plenty of news headlines misrepresenting the research (on both sides of the issue).

(I’m a scientist, but my field is not bio- or medicine-adjacent)
There's no credible information here. It's all just unfounded rumors.
> but at the very least they're more transmissible.

The "more transmissible" may be partially confounded by novelty. E.g. what's influenza's R0 in an immunologically naive population? Who knows.

Vaccination doesn't fully answer what the equilibrium transmissibility will be. either, because there's things like mucosal immunity.

> I think omicron is seen as less severe because so many people have had at least one shot of the vaccine.

So far the (weak) evidence we have points to both:

- A somewhat lower severity of infection from omicron than delta regardless of vaccination status.

- Moderate protection against severe disease from a 2 shot mRNA vaccine series, and pretty good protection against severe disease after a recent 3rd booster shot.

So, that is, it's not one or the other, it's both: Omicron is probably less severe overall and has its severity reduced further by vaccination.
You do get better service (very little upselling), but I haven't seen much better in terms of getting the car selected. When travelling for business, I usually book the smallest car available (or the least expensive if it's not the smallest), because it's just me. I've been given three row SUVs and minivans.

OTOH, it takes nothing to sign up for the rental company's 'frequent renter' programs and that usually gets you access to a priority counter or line, which can save a lot of time when the regular counter is busy. Usually a car will be waiting for you when you get there, but depends on the facility and the busyness factor.
Right, so the rate is 200 cases per million vaccinations.
The COVID rates are 450 cases per million vaccination.

So I did remember correctly, and it was indeed lower than infection, presumably because it wasn't delineated by vaccine, also IIRC Moderna is contra-indicated for young men in Ontario.
Cost, power, board complexity, reliability.

Embedded development is much different than what a lot of developers are used to.
I think it's not the tax rate; most despotic regimes grab as much or even more from their subjects.

It's the legal framework, the laws being actually enforced (low corruption), and just the culture of the lay people who learned to trust each other after centuries of that. Formally Sweden is a kingdom while Nigeria is a democratic republic, but it does not change much.
Having your stomach stapled is am extreme and expensive surgery requiring multiple doctors and support staff, lots of recovery time and years to fully take effect. It also carries a high risk of serious side effects.

It is nothing like a vaccine.
Poverty in poor countries and poverty in rich countries are two totally different issues though. In poor countries poor people don't learn to read, get physical trauma from being near starvation so often etc. That is relatively easy to fix, we have already fixed all of those in every developed country, that we are able to fix them in other countries by injecting money isn't big news. We already try to do that in every poor country, and it succeeded in most places where there wasn't corrupt regimes to take the money.

Fixing the kind of poverty you find in Sweden is much much harder though, we don't know how to fix that. They do better than poor people in many other countries, sure, but they still do way worse than people with wealthier backgrounds in just about every measurable way.
> Lockdowns necessarily cause stratification by socioeconomic status rather than by risk. Even in an 'effective' lockdown, we still see spread among the "essential workers" who keep society going, and in their households, which are disproportionately likely to be multigen.

How do you explain countries like Vietnam, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, where Covid was eliminated from their societies via lockdown (and border control to prevent re-introduction) before the Delta variant spread? It's true that only China and Taiwan have retained Covid-Zero status in the face of Delta, but it seems like the success of lockdowns turns upon characteristics of the pathogen including its population mortality (the more deadly the virus, the more likely the population will support and assist in extreme measures to control and eliminate it within national borders).
After his most recent title defense, Carlsen has been quite vocal that he is only interested in defending his title against the “new generation” of chess players like Duda and Alireza: https://www.chess.com/news/view/magnus-carlsen-defend-world-...