skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m no fan of Biden but let’s be clear that this transcends administrations. Trump put Fauci on TV every day, Trump granted billions to big pharma. Just like Biden takes the fall for dumb wars started by Bush and Obama, he’ll take the fall for Trumps dumb fight against COVID.

The problem is that we have institutions like the Fed and the CDC and WHO that have been proven completely incompetent when power is deferred to them. They panicked and now we pay the price.
This is the wrong way to do it! Just install RISC OS Pico, and avoid the many layers of indirection!
You’re ahead of the game being 23 and asking this already. I wasted too many years drinking heavily at bars and clubs being part of the cool kids. God the things I could’ve been accomplishing and the different social circles I could’ve been a part of instead.

It’s hard, everyone who has found a way out can try to explain but ultimately it’s a personal choice which involves lots of foresight and discipline… and/or hitting rock bottom.

Best of luck. It may help to itemize all the short/mid/long term negative effects and try to internalize them so you “feel” the loss each time you decide to drink.
Multiplicative Systems: Understanding the Power of Multiplying by Zero
By that logic, if every dev would face very serious legal consequences, the client could not just hire another dev.

I never liked the "will find another" trope.

The Chinese , after the opium wars, simply executed dealers and users.

Very radical, but you bet dealers wouldn't just find the next user and vice versa
Confirmed. Cute doesn’t scale.
At google, a building I was in had conference rooms named after craters on Mars. This didn’t work as well in practice as it sounded on paper.
The death rate isn't the same for your 1st case of covid and your nth case.
> "TS is just fancy JS" is like saying "Java is just fancy machine code"

Terrible analogy. TS doesn't compile to WASM or anything, it compiles to human-readable JS. Java doesn't compile to C++ or C. The JVM is an entire platform.

> More importantly, it's been an innovating force at the language and editor tooling levels for web developers worldwide.

MS has always been decent when it comes to tooling but there's nothing particularly innovative about TS.
Depends on your definition of freedom, certainly. If your primary definition is "the range of behaviors for which the government will not prosecute you", it's probably the highest one not currently involved in a civil war.
> So that first edition has real scarcity

Lots of things are scarce, but have no value. The value is in possessing a scarce and "authorized" representation of a popular thing.

> You can never make more. Can't say that about NFTs

Like any limited-edition thing, the promise is that there won't be more. You could absolutely forge a first-edition Harry Potter book. Someone probably has. And it would probably be more convincing than a "forged"/regenerated NFT. There has to be some trust in the official producer, and yes that's hard to come by in this space!

> I think NFTs are a tax scam

Well sure, like art or wine. But not all art or wine.
Agreed! If these a important lifelong buddies then you salvage the friendship by doing things together that don't involve/require drinking and hope that they don't declare you an outcast.

But if this is just some scattered collection of folks whose lives revolve around getting drunk together, then IMO it's no big loss to move on. There's plenty of awesome people out there to discover.
I would argue interrupting the experience and wasting billions of peoples time clicking on cookie banners is also a form of harm.

Right. We should just be able to set a blanket "No" in our browser preference tab, and be done.
> less exploration by kids today.

I don't see how this can be true. By the time I started high school a decade ago I realized that 90% of human knowledge was freely available to me on the internet. And I explored every crevice of it. The world is at our fingertips in a way it never was before.
You must be taking some weird specifics here. Nothing I can see lists San Fran as second densest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Maybe that is why Terry from Brooklyn Nine-Nine constantly speaks of himself in the third person. (The character spent a lot of time in Japan)
I think it’s the language. Haven’t really tested but in C# that would be something like that, 8 lines of code instead of 40:

public static byte[] func( uint p, uint q )
{
int pw = 32 - BitOperations.LeadingZeroCount( p );
int qw = 32 - BitOperations.LeadingZeroCount( q );

Span<byte> buff = stackalloc byte[ 9 ];
ulong val = (ulong)q | (ulong)p << qw;
BinaryPrimitives.WriteUInt64BigEndian( buff.Slice( 1 ), val );

int totalBytes = ( pw + qw + 7 ) / 8;
buff[ 8 - totalBytes ] = (byte)qw;
return buff.Slice( 8 - totalBytes ).ToArray();
}

In C++ about the same, albeit you gonna need either C++/20 language version, or some non-standard compiler specific intrinsics for bit scan and byte swap.
It's not just intellectually lazy, it's deadly. The last thing we need is to conflate politics with a catastrophe that will wipe out our lifestyle, a significant proportion of species, and potentially our civilization.
Pachyderm is hiring Python and Go Engineers to build world-class Data Versioning
>No.

What kind of a reply is that? You can search what he wrote on every topic which is sensitive for Kremlin (Crimea, Donbass, MH17, Navalny, Skripals, Syrian chemical attacks) and in every post he would take a "Russia did nothing wrong" position.
The metrics presentation on the page are very misleading. The use of color is confusing (red generally means bad or getting worse, green means good or getting better). The up/down arrows are seemingly red or blue arbitrarily. Why are the four rows each colored differently? Just a bizarre UI.

If you have to present data to a user, please read a book by Edward Tufte first. His books will change your entire perspective, e.g.

https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
Inflationary monetary policy is wealth transfer into the upper class without most people realizing it. Wealth, be it institutions or individuals, will always push for central banking as it entrenches their power.
I have omicron right now (4-5 months after 2nd jab, so pretty much no effect from that) and it's just like a common cold (certainly wouldn't call it "battling omicron"). I have zero problems with getting this each year.
That's not feasible either. Where does the money come from?
I remember seeing favelas in Brazil next door to ultraluxury apartments 10 years ago thinking that this is probably what the future of the US was going to be like if wealth inequality steadily kept climbing.

And here it is.

r > g in the flesh - the other side of "the magic of compounding".
Dumb question that's been vaguely nagging at me: If a host can have both at the same time, in what sense are they competing? There are plenty of cells to infect in a particular host aren't there?
The spread is so fast, all charts now look insane and would be terrifying if not for the mild symptoms.

I wonder if it is possible for a virus to wipe itself out by spreading so quickly that it ends up with very few left to infect, assuming it doesn't mutate enough in time.
C64 Artworx Strip Poker and the pirated data disks that were always corrupted.

I think I'm actually pretty good at (video) poker now because of years of playing through these in their different incarnations.
It doesn't surprise me anymore. Aren't we well into the mainstreaming of woke opinions by now ? The elect are as allergic to sociological statistics as the right to vaccines.

All numbers point towards the counter productivity of police abolition, removal of standardized testing, BLM protests, 'compassionate' district attorneys, school closures, unquestioned affirmation of identities, "trust science" and dozens of similar initiatives.

Yet any criticism is met with firings, being blacklisted from industry/social media, character assassinations, and forcing these people to find refuge with the right.

From heavyweights like Rowling, Chapelle to academics like Chomsky, McWhorter and statisticians like Nate Silver. No one is spared with no space for nuance.

This is one of my uncharacteristically emotionally loaded comments on HN. I don't want HN to become a flamewarry place, so this will be a one off comment. But, it does feel a little hopeless.
If past history is any indicator, then yes.
If you're not making thousands of parts, injection molding is the wrong manufacturing method.

You might be able to buy an injection molding machine for pretty cheap, but it's useless without the appropriate tooling which costs a fortune, and the learning curve for operating an injection molding machine is very steep. If you don't have the equipment and skill to machine your own tooling then trial and error is going to be real expensive - I'd definitely invest there before trying injection molding yourself.

I would recommend calling up a chinese injection molding shop and having them run your parts instead - they have the experience and volume to produce tooling quickly and (comparatively) cheaply, and that's all you really have to pay for. You could always go through the trouble and expense of producing things domestically after you've validated your design. The one downside is that they'll usually just make your design as is, whereas a domestic shop will usually assist you with some design for manufacturing to make sure you get something that actually works for you, but the cost is so high its still often better to screw up a few times with the chinese shops, and nowadays some of them are better with their customer service anyways.

But for short runs you really should consider alternatives. The appropriate one depends on what you're making. Urethane casting is great for making plastic parts with tolerances comparable to injection molded parts - you can even use 3D printing to make the master molds. CNC machining is also very economical for short runs.
If there wasn't a major adversary with similar weapons that might have happened. Low-yield tactical are probably more effective than things like the "MOP" bunker-busters. But the hard-line we've drawn on the application of nukes has prevented such a slippery slope in our proxy wars.
Counterexample - When my wife calls me daddy she’s definitely not referring to my role as a father.
tell that to someone bleeding out
+1, I work in a small, fully remote company, and up until the past 2 weeks, I know of only one colleague who had been infected. 5 people were out last week because of COVID. 5 people who live in different states.
He… doesn’t have the ability to control whether he stands silently behind other people while they work?
Omicron has probably saved Florida (andnother southern states) from a horrendous Delta winter wave.
> We've had existing devs do the take home tests

... and?
I remember our school computers you had to start the machine without anything in the floppy drive to get dumped into BASIC.

Unfortunately it was a very limited BASIC. I guess there wasn't much space in the BIOS ROMS. It was pretty much always worth it to boot DOS and start GWBASIC.
I love using JavaScript for white boarding. It's very forgiving, it's not strongly typed, interviewers are all familiar with it, and large companies almost always allow it. Python is second. I avoid Go, Rust, Java, Scala, etc.. Too verbose.

I do the following in JS:

- General graph algorithms (shortest path, backtracking based)

- Traversals for graphs / trees (depth first, breadth first, iteratively, recursively)

- Heaps (min, max)

- Tries

- Matrix manipulation / traversal. This is a very error prone for a lot of folks even though it looks simple when they need to write it by hand, and I always need to putz around with 5-10 problems.

I have enough exposure to common interview questions that the above is generally enough.
This, of course, works incredibly well for tuberculosis and HIV, for but two example.

This comes from a flawed assumption that the human body has evolved to solve for all sicknesses. It turns out that it's remarkably frail. Yes, there are cases where side effect medical chains exist, but in many of those cases, we manage the side effects because the body wasn't able to fix itself.

Yes, you can make the case for type 2 diabetes or high blood pressure, but those are not every case.
Thanks for posting this. I'm new to .net core. While looking over the code - I'm curious. How are hosted services such as the one in your example code triggered or called? For example - if I had a separate process that needs to process some data by sending it a similar hosted service, would I need to send it via a message queue or maybe expose an http endpoint within this hosted service that gets called from the separate process (i.e web app?)
Any new medical alert/fall alert companies/tech for older folks?
Again searching for a not used-car-salesman-like company to use with my mother. She's unsteady enough on her feet to warrant getting a medical alert wearable. But all the companies (Life Alert, etc.) I easily find online are pretty much the same as the last time I looked (5 years ago) save for https://www.unaliwear.com/product/kanega-watch/. Unfortunately, mom's arthritis makes a watch not very practical.

Any new companies, products, services out there disrupting the medical alert system?

Thanks, as always, for your help HN!!
I think so, but the real trick was even getting to the interview. I have no idea how we filter candidates but I know we don't end up interviewing that many people as a team. I'm at a bigger company but our interview process is pretty practical and you only meet with members of the team throughout the process.
That observation doesnt exactly strengthen the original comment on Mexico but okay. Seems we are in accordance about Cuba for lack of objections anyway.
There is an addon for this actually. Adjust colors for your own pleasure and press F2 (or whatever you want).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-backgrou...
You can't control how other people feel, but you can control what information you choose to give them to inform those feelings. From this you can observe patterns and shape what future information you choose to give them.

You can't control how other people feel, but you sure can do a lot to shape it.
Why are you hoping for Covid to become endemic?
well the problem is people don't put "self care, relaxation, valuable time with family" on the TODO list. ever. If you make it a priority then you'd get it done.
Consulting, lecturing or writing on hire. Also, selling owned goods such as out-of-print books, clothes, electronics. Joined with this, drastically reducing expenses during these three weeks (no extra spending, switching to one meal a day, etc.)
I don't have any data to back this up but I think there's no way your assumption is true. If people made posts like:

"Show HN: I showed up at work and did nothing else this week"

or

"Shown HN: I read some blog posts and a chapter of a book today"

or

"Show HN: I followed the tutorial for this language/framework"

or

"Show HN: I had an idea to build something but I gave up after the 1st weekend working on it"

then you would get a much different picture of the distribution of users with actual side projects.
Does it only evade natural immunity and not that imparted by vaccines?
Amateurs and Professionals
I have a demo of this here [0] (all the software is in /opt/appfs/rkeene.org). It's using GoTTY [1] for presenting a Linux pty and terminal to your browser, and a simple sandbox.

[0] https://rkeene.dev/js-repl/?arg=bash

[1] https://github.com/yudai/gotty
Samsung’s tiny Freestyle projector is fun so get over it
He definitely missed the mark about alimony or men not bearing the majority of child support
We can't know that because it hasn't been around long enough. But as far as taking a bayesian prior, I'd start by assuming yes except in rare cases and correct your model as evidence comes in.

I'd guess that because, for the most part, that's how the previous variants behaved. Relatively robust immunity, with subsequent infections generally being rare and more mild. Since Omicron has a lot of mutations on the spike protein which is the primary antibody target, it has greater immune escape potential because the antibodies don't fit as well.
Yeah I remember steele saying they wanted to make c++ move toward lisp.

But you got me curious.. what kind of backend code was written in c++ ? did people write server side logic in it ? I remember seeing some Oracle C code but it felt like a strange thing and not a c/c++ land. But to be honest that's not my world.
I wasn't (and am not) especially interested in the book, but I did enjoy that episode -- and in general really love In Our Times. It is truly free education for the "educated layman".
Whether or not a site is hosted in the cloud, it will break from time to time. S** invariably happens, no matter what. So, even if you host in the cloud, you're going to have problems, but they will be different problems. A developer to backup and support the site will be required, one way or the other. Case in point: polyhaven.com (the subject of this article) is not reachable as I write this.
Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing
What does 100% prevalence mean? 100% of people are at least silent carriers?
> HN people seem to line up 20 interviews and spend a week doing them.

Having mentored a lot of college grads and also interviewed a lot of candidates, it's actually extremely rare for people to line up a huge number of interviews in a single week. It can be done if you really, really treat it as a numbers game, but it's not how most people do it.

> Take homes are untenable in that situation as half the interviews would still be a full workweek

Take homes shouldn't be taking a full workweek.

If anything, take-homes make it easier to stack a lot of interviews because you can do them at your leisure in your own time.

> I was already interviewing 4 hours a day with 3-6 people

I think this is the disconnect: You're taking time off of work for live interviews, but take-homes come out of "extra" time. If you're interviewing full time, a take-home is still more flexible than a live interview.
Most crackheads either died, went to jail or got clean. It's not a sustainable lifestyle. Cocaine takes a lot longer to bring someone down.
Explaining QD-OLED, Samsung’s display tech that’s wowing CES
Since that's an hour-long video, what do you consider the most salient points of his plan for Java that it ended up embodying eventually?
In France, the most famous illeist is the actor Alain Delon (still alive): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Delon

It has become a traditional joke in itself for a few generations!
it's not possible to automate away all components of the concept of "service". there will always be time consuming or tedious tasks that people will pay other people to do. they likely won't look like anything we can imagine now
svelte-spa-router is a hash based router and will work with any web server. Routify requires a rewrite rule for it to work.
This is focused on API Design. Not on developing a DL library from scratch.
Exponential growth. Lets say that there is one delta infection and one omicron infection in the population. Each delta infection causes two more people to be infected, while each omicron infection causes three more people to be infected.

The growth of a single delta infection:
1 -> 2 -> 4 -> 8 -> 16 -> 32 -> 64

Versus a single omicron infection:
1 -> 3 -> 9 -> 27 -> 81 -> 243 -> 729

Omicron started out as 50% of the cases and over 6 reinfection cycles became 90% of the cases. Delta just can't keep up. These are made up numbers but that is the general idea.
Oops: For the record, DomTerm is https://domterm.org, while bothner.org is (I believe) some unrelated German family. (My personal/family website is bothner.com.)
IIRC there was a study showing Omicron antibodies are effective against previous variants, but not vice versa.

[edit] I think this is where I heard that. Feel free to judge for yourself how reliable the source is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLbJ0H8zdc
I'm now 10 days clear of the last obvious symptoms - but I've been having major trouble focusing since the end of the Holiday and not sure if due to covid or not.
I suppose my original sentiment was that HN gives me the I'm-bored-and-need-a-distraction-fix better than reddit. It's like reddit and HN are medicines that treat the same ailment, and HN is cherry flavoured while reddit tastes of old-cheese.

I wonder if this reddit usage strategy would work:

1. unsubscribe from everything
2. create an html file with links to just the subs that interest me
3. either
3.a. Browse using old.reddit.com (while it still lasts)
3.b. Write a userscript that removes all the annoying UI elements like the upvote bar, and suggestions.

I don't completely hate reddit. It can't be beat for breadth of topics and user population. It's the unhealthy parts of reddit that I don't like. The "appizeness" as you put it, where RedditCorp is prioritizing engagement at the cost of utility and community.

I'm also turned off by the the anti-social behavior of the users, which is typical of today's social platforms. I'm too young to have taken part in newsgroups, I wonder if they suffered from the same behavior problem.
High level software engineering jobs are paying enough money that you should be a net positive for the company or you get cut. It is silly to coddle someone who is getting paid >200k a year while most of the population struggles to make ends meet.
That foreign nations are inciting revolutions is Siloviki rhetoric, used by authoritarian regimes to justify surveillance and arrests of their opposition or at least undermine their support by the public.

And this is exactly what we are seeing in Kazakhstan: people riot over increasing cost of living and the president blames it on foreign agitators. Because that is easier and more convenient than actually engaging with the issue.
Yet another Next Big Thing that I was right about predicting would fail. The problem I saw was lack of discoverability. This is also a big problem for voice assistants. About the only thing we use our Alexa for is kitchen cooking timer and voice activated jukebox.
Hmmm... mild symptoms after being vaccinated. It's almost like the vaccine worked or something. How weird.
Programmer's Pyramid
> A pandemic is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of individuals.

> An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time

In no way has "rapid spread of infection disease across multiple continents" ended. The past few weeks should make that a bit more clear. Being vaccinated reduces the negative effects of infection, and may also reduce infectiousness and spread, but it didn't end the pandemic.
Yeah, Java is almost certainly not the optimal language for low level programming. It's like C++ with oven mitts.
I miss RSS so much!