skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're misunderstanding. The dashboard is per Capita (so you don't need to account for the stuff you're describing), and shows 5x lower rate of vaccinated people hospitalized (and 10x lower ventilated). A far cry from the ~1.5x rate mentioned by ggp
TurboExpress
It's not clear to me what actually just happened.
How does this compare to Opstrace? [0]

[0]: https://opstrace.com
There's no guarantee of that. Omicron seems to be exceptionally capable of infecting both those who had the current vaccines and/or previous variants.

Maybe Omicron provides immunity to Rho (or whatever is coming), but it may provide no protection to Sigma.
Quebec has a history of being a separate economy, and speaks an entirely different language from the rest of Canada. While in theory, everyone is expected to learn cereal box French, in practice, most anglos don't bother.

NYC has an economy five times the size of Colorado, and tons of already established firms already operating in it, which would have to comply with this law.

This thread keeps talking about remote workers, when remote work is an incredibly tiny minority of all employment. It will follow employment trends - when in-office job postings start having clear salary statements, remote will follow, if only to remain competitive. And all it will take to make this happen is a few metro areas passing laws to this effect.
If your budget is in the upper upper 5 digits range, it's trivial.

If a serious attacker is set on getting your stuff, it's just a matter of time and money. It's down to how much the data is worth for the attacker.
Why bother having the states roll it out? We can fix it once in a federal law and avoid 50 different hard to undo implementations that are all inconsistent, so HR needs to run a "oh, you're applying from NYC, that means I need to include Health Care premiums but not RSUs" filter vs. "Oh, you're applying from California, so I have to include RSUs at an additional 0.0154% of calculated benefits and..." etc.
For an alternative, maybe relay the texts to a slack channel (that's easy enough to receive on a phone for your coworkers). Zapier can probably integrate twilio/slack quickly.
>For example, A/B testing, anomaly detection and merge queues.

A/B testing is arguable a product based thing. It can be called "engineering" but it's not strictly a software thing. It's associated more with UI.

I've never seen anomaly detection used with software development. Looks more like a data ML thing.

Merge Queues are just a collaborative tool. I mean you can use this on any document outside of software engineering. Say, for example, CAD drawings where a bunch of people work collaboratively.

I don't think your examples are focused enough to be strictly things that are part of "Software Engineering" in the same way agile isn't strictly "Software Engineering."

>Software processes are designed with mathematical/statistical backing when needed.

This is rarely done. Very little statistical methods make it into the dev process or are even influenced by the dev process. When it does make it in there's no common methodology either as it's usually just some data driven behavioral changes based off of some analytics. The reasoning behind why it's like this is clear. At it's core software is deterministic. Code is simply a series axioms and theorems that can be logically proven correct. Statistics is for unknown processes and is usually employed at the intersection of software and real world stuff like the failure rate of ssd drives.

A passing unit test does give more confidence that a program is correct. This is a statistical phenomenon, but hardly anyone tries to actualize it from a statistical quantitative standpoint.

>does it work and is it cheap? In software, both of these are usually non-issues so things can vary a lot more.

I disagree. These are issues and we do use methods to mitigate these things. We want our software to work and we want to build it at a certain cost. Agile and measuring velocity is a way to monitor costs and working software is verified through mostly testing.

But most of this stuff isn't engineering. It's done out of necessity. There's no mathematical modelling going on as it's hard to even quantify the costs of software or even correctness. Hence why it's all arbitrary processes made up by managers.

>I suspect you will call this arbitrary, but I see these process decisions as conscious choices. The fact these aren't grounded in mathematics or statistics is not a big deal to me because the goals/focus are more complex than does it work and how much does it cost.

All decisions made in any field even say plumbing is a conscious choice. The difference is in engineering we use science and mathematics as much as possible to optimize these choices. We don't in software. Mainly because it's hard to model it.

>In software everything is a tradeoff rather than having an absolute answer.

Everything in life is a tradeoff. It's like this in fields OUTSIDE of engineering as well. The thing with engineering is you try to optimize your choice using math and science as much as possible. In software no such optimization procedure exists.
There was a great scene in Station 11 which is partially set after civilization-destroying pandemic in which one character who was born before the pandemic explains to someone who was born after how ride sharing apps worked on a cell phone. It's magic of you describe it from scratch. The tiny device has access to a detailed mail of the entire planet, knows where you are and then a car shows up to transport you to your destination without exchanging and tangible money or even talking about it.

It's also telling that older SciFi gets this all wrong. In Asimov's Lucky Starr the protagonist had a space ship that can travel through the outer layers of the sun and someone had a dwelling on an hollowed out asteroid. Tables use energy fields for easier cleaning. Yet, the ships board computer doesn't even have a display and needs to print everything.
Some places have been pretty close to "let it run amok", ie indifference by the population and government, widespread antivax sentiment, etc. I'm talking about places like Bulgaria, Russia, etc. They have seen around 0.75% of the population die.

Letting the original run freely would have likely cost at least 1% of the population, plus the long covid, lack of treatment for other conditions etc.
I work as a freelancer, but I wanted also to work on some side projects. After 4 years I make more money with my side projects than with my freelancer jobs. Normally I work 30% as a freelancer and spend 70% of my time working on my projects. As a freelancer, you have still people (=clients) who tell you what to do, but with your side project, you are your own boss. you can work really fast and try new stuff out, it's much more fun.

I'm running to B2B SaaS with subscriptions. The more customers I have, the more time I spend on support tickets or billing stuff. I'm really bad at self-discipline, but after 6 years working from home I finally find a routine that works for me. I start working very early (around 4-5 a.m.) and try to keep my afternoon for my own projects or time outside. I also try not to use social media before 1 pm.

I've stopped judging myself when I sometimes have days where I do absolutely nothing. It's fine. I like to relax my mind and wander off a bit. There are other days coming where I'm working till late and are much more productive.
OP is college-age, and most colleges have a variety of seminars, which are a great place to start. The people who attend these seminars usually are interested in talking about the same topics informally afterwards.

If you're not in college, any course with content to study where you see the same people multiple times in-person is a good place to meet people interested in talking. If you're not sure what interests you, check out the continuing education catalog of your local community college. If you don't have much practice striking up conversations with sober strangers, it may take a few sessions before spontaneous conversations start up, but by the midway point of every wilderness or language course I've taken people were very chatty.
That’s one thing i am willing to defend to death lol.

I have a cheap casio watch that has this feature, and i love it. It doesn’t beep like an alarm continuously, it just does a singular beep at the top of the hour. It isn’t obnoxiously loud, and it helps me being mindful of time, as it is too easy for me to get engrossed in something and lose track of time.

No one has expressed a concern so far at work (back when we were in the office), and it has imo been even appreciated. Meetings started running over much less, and no one takes offense, as people by now know it is an automated beep and not me trying to push them “please end this meeting soon, it is running too long for my liking.” It isn’t super loud, and is easy to ignore (as it sounds like a random singular faint beep somewhere, cannot even pinpoint the direction it came from, but by now I have told everyone already what it was).

Note: years after I started using that feature, Apple introduced a similar feature for Apple Watch, except instead of a beep it does a single vibration on your wrist that only you could feel/perceive. That only vindicated my belief in usefulness of such a feature lol.
Confidence is the key
Where does the money to do Bitcoin mining come from? From the users who want to write to the Bitcoin blockchain.

Same with the blockchains that support larger amounts of data. Whoever wants to store data pays for it.

The specifics of how the storage of rare content is incentivized depends on the protocol.

On Filecoin the publisher pays an ongoing fee.

On Arweave it is paid upfront. The current estimate is that $10 will store a GB for 200 years.

So doing a tweet on an Arweave powered social network would cost you something like $0.001 if you want your tweet to survive for 200 years.
You choose to live in SF, NYC or wherever, you get all the advantages of opportunity and networking with that, what makes someone deserve that?
The huge disregard for environmental issues, I suspect that Norton customers who allow this feature will see an increase in energy costs that eat into any profit they might receive from the work the mining activity
Are they still doing zero Covid now?
Perhaps for their next trick they can improve the customer experience in a related niche with bundled ransomware.
By that time the coin would have crashed 30% more
I think that a powdered shake is pretty similar to the pill idea. Protein or meal replacement shakes are widespread in use in 2022.
DuckDB – Why DuckDB
I'd be "No thank you Microsoft/Google/etc. Also, what do I need to do to make it sure it never switches on next time there's an update."
Is ML still a popular subject in CS? I remember about 4 years ago going to a recruiting event at a major engineering school and seemingly every student was specializing in ML.
I don't know if I could go back to the office if they told me I needed to.
A free dictatorship would be one where the dictator's powers are very limited, but he is not democratically elected.

> liberty as non domination, one isn’t subject to the arbitrary will of another.

Yes exactly. I just see things like "interfering in private negotiations/transactions between free, equal people" as fundamentally authoritarian/dominating.
Teacher salaries vary a lot by state. Some states pay quite well relative to the US median income.

https://study.com/academy/popular/teacher-salary-by-state.ht...
Levels.FYI is useful, but wildly inaccurate in my experience, especially as you get further up the levels
Serious question: what are the benefits of burying cables? Purely aesthetic? Losing power less than once a year due to a downed line really just isn't a big enough deal to justify the expenditure. Even low-prob/high-risk event justifications aren't particularly compelling (there are much more important ways to harden the grid). If this went up for a vote in my muni, I'd probably be a "no". So many better ways to spend the money, even if we scope to just electricity transmission.

My read on this has always been that the US has above-ground cables mostly because it wasn't bombed to hell at any point after the discovery that it's nice to bury power cables.
I do agree with you, teachers are absolutely necessary to get value for many kids, but we aren't talking about completely doing away with teachers, just putting them on remote in order to prevent the spread of a deadly disease. It's sub-optimal, but I'd rather an alive dumb kid than a smart dead one (or perhaps more likely: a dumb kid with alive parents than a smart kid with dead parents).

If we're really worried about losing learning, why not allocate money at the end of the pipeline so that the kids can do more free higher ed / remedial education?
Here are the benchmarks [1] using a no-op appender. There are some micro-optimizations I can make, but I think this is a pretty good start.

https://github.com/tersesystems/echopraxia/blob/main/BENCHMA...
Do You Need to Get into NFTs or Is It Just for Geeks?
I use a benchmark that's pretty rough on languages, basically lots of maths and loops.

Python 3 and Ruby 3 (with no jit) both take about 90 seconds on my computer.

Ruby 3.1 with --YJIT takes about 35 seconds.

TruffleRuby takes 9 seconds (!!)

JS (Chrome) takes 8 seconds.

C++ takes just over a second and C is about a second even.
I can't find my prior comment, but I have seen multiple job postings saying "remote work is available in..." proceeded by every US state but CO and HI.

Rackspace was the company doing it when I posted an example, but I know it happens elsewhere too. Was it SpaceX? I forget.
If you don't post a range it makes it trivial to make lowball offers since the candidates can't know the difference. This is discriminatory since it allows radically different offers for the same position without the applicant or anyone else being able to check the behavior.
Back in 2018, there was an article about fitness apps like Strava exposing secret military locations:

https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-f...
So, we’re doing whataboutism for this now? You don’t have some answer like “using as much electricity as Argentina to mine bitcoins is the price of freedom”?
Mozilla to pause crypto donations while they review climate impact
From a quick reading of the entire article, I came away impressed with how much was quite accurate.
Let's start a DAO for it
So how does it compares to Clojure?
I find IKEA's materials work remarkable - their materials are finely engineered to be light and pretty enough, and, at the same time, being sufficiently strong to bear the loads it's designed to. I'm writing this on an IKEA desk with 4 big monitors and 2 laptops, plus an assortment of external drives and docking stations.

It's certainly not designed to bear my weight on 4 small spots, however, so I wouldn't even try that. It's not made of solid wood, but the furniture-equivalent of an F-22 wing.
All true. Gates was specifically losing sleep over Java on the Windows desktop, which never really took off.
No one deserves anything, they deserve it if they can convince an employer to pay them that much. Theres no rule stopping SF employers from paying 50k for software engineering positions in the area.
Okay, sure! I created a form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9lWrieLAn9azMI_88... . Does it work for you?
Well, if I had been born in the 60's i will not have survived my cancer diagnosis.
why is my comment not visible?
I dont think the army permits transferring confidential information via privately owned phones, or via foreign companies, before. And neither does it now.

Note that we have mandatory military service. Every year thousands of new recruits will perform military service for around half a year. After that, they have to attend three weeks of military service yearly (refresher). This always requires organization; when to arrive in the barracks, equipment to bring, request for leave, corona updates etc. Also coordination at which McDonalds to stop at the freeway.

Same for professional army members. They need to communicate somehow, without using super encrypted email or radios (schtichwort "fill guns", super).
Military IT is also as you expect (old and cumbersome).
Pixie is definitely similar in their eBPF based approach. I believe there are differences in the types of data they collect and correlate with. For example we collect logs and state information (node status, node conditions, pod scheduled ect) along side our eBPF based metrics like latency. I'm sure there are things they collect that we don’t as well.
I use gminer to mine ETH and the mining fee is 0.65%.

The 15% mining fee that Norton 360 is charging is a little higher than that.
> Nobody said immunity; nobody said prevention.

What on earth? Yes they did, all along.

December 2020:

> Fauci Predicts U.S. Could See Signs Of Herd Immunity By Late March Or Early April

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/1...

> "I would say 50% would have to get vaccinated before you start to see an impact," Fauci said. "But I would say 75 to 85% would have to get vaccinated if you want to have that blanket of herd immunity."

Talking about herd immunity is definitely saying immunity, and doesn't make sense unless the vaccine prevented transmission.

Then, May 2021:

> Masks off? Fauci confirms ‘extremely low’ risk of transmission, infection for vaccinated

https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/dr-fauci-confirms-extreme...
Well, WhatsApp is famously used by politicians all over the world. I would guess that the military do have secure encrypted means of communications but these are probably to be used at actual military operation and are probably very inconvenient to use. On the other hand, it's very convenient to communicate with your social circle and professional using the same device even the same app.

By military purposes they probably don't mean to message buddies to break the door during an operation, for this they will use proper military gear. However you can imagine military personel discussing military stuff on WhatsApp etc. Stuff like scheduling things, clarifying information, discussing classified stuff to form an opinion or make a decision.
I'm also curious about the rigor of this argument, don't know why you've been downvoted
Get a different job. If teaching would put your children at risk, you should not teach.

Whatever a small number of teachers or students need we should not rearrange the education system for the benefit of edge cases. We should optimize for the typical case - average health people, and make adjustments to support the edge cases, not the other way around.
> Lockdowns, social distancing, masking, etc. for life?

Very few places did lockdowns at any point so I wouldn’t expect that to start now, butthe ones which did were successful in breaking spread. It doesn’t need to be continuous, but it’s clearly effective for preventing huge spikes.

Similarly, we’d save lives and billions of dollars if we established the same social norms which some Asian countries have about wearing masks when you’re symptomatic. It doesn’t need anything like 100% compliance or time to be useful – we appear to have lost an entire strain of influenza this way.
I recall a country with "Internal terrorists".
Oh wait, I can't even name that country, right? That's completely different and does not apply in other cases, right?
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The seronaive are. The unvaccinated with a prior infection are unlikely to require hospital care: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120
I agree with you.

NFTs in their current hype cycle with art is a shallowly thought out implementation.

It requires a governing body to source the originals but then you essentially have a coin at this point.
Only Threema is allowed now.
I think this is a lot of nostalgia talking. Learning things through the internet absolutely forced me to be independent. If I wanted to find something all I needed was to look for it. Instant messaging made it easier to interact with friends, not harder.

I can't deny that the experiences youth have today are different than those that were had pre-internet, but I will absolutely push back against the notion that they are worse. Building stuff with your hands is undoubtedly a cherished childhood experience for many, but just because kids are interacting over the internet doesn't mean they're not thinking for themselves. In fact, I would say they're thinking for themselves even more since the options are so much vaster. Is building an elaborate world in minecraft or roblox really that different from building lean-tos or model rockets?
I strongly disagree with your views on "sound money" and fiscal policy.

If you look at what Bruno Kreisky did, you'll see that he didn't "steal from" the future, he invested for it. He basically built the modern Austria I know and love.

I also think the whole "stealing from the future" talking point is BS - to paraphrase Keynes, in the future we'll all be dead :-).

But it's okay for us to disagree here. In a democracy, we can just vote for somebody that represents our views. If either of us can convince the majority to see things our way, we'll get our way.

Now if we had an inflexible monetary system like the one you're proposing, even if the vast majority voted to do things my way, we couldn't anymore, because we robbed the democratically elected state of its power.

This is what I mean when I say Bitcoin is antidemocratic. It entrenches your ideology on a technological level and removes all democratic control.
Why is it harder to stop because it's a plugin?

I understand torrents (they are distributed) but do the plugins also use distributed content sources?
They've been trying to up their game since the 2016 cyber attacks, I know the army tried to hire top security and cryptography experts. I don't know if they're very successful though, the intersection of (Swiss citizen, PhD level in infosec, willing to work for the military) is probably fairly small.
Comparing the rates only makes sense if one believes the risk is distributed equally among the two populations. However, the most vulnerable are the most likely to be vaccinated, and the least vulnerable are the most likely to be unvaccinated, so the vaccine could still be very effective even if the rates of hospitalization are equal, or even worse for the vaccinated population.
Russia isn't a great power though. It only wants to be seen as a great power
Covid tests can miss Omicron if they don't require a throat swab, study suggests
> Could anyone in 1990 have predicted the smartphone, let alone 1922?

Yes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
In english writing, sure.

I don't think I've ever heard someone say "That'll be dollar 50" though? I they did, I'd assume they were talking about something that costs $1.50
A diversion from Ukraine?
The next update removes your ability to turn it off.

The only correct response is "Fuck you Microsoft/Google/etc. You're expunged and I'll never trust you again."
Tips to grow your North Korean Startup
As an alternative to maintaining an Emscripten fork, Browsix could be added as a new target to Zig.
There issue is not peaceful protesters. There are real terrorists taking over critical infrastructure