skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't sure which of these responses to shoot down, but prior to the definition change of what a vaccine was (which happened last year, well after the release of these "vaccines") that was precisely the definition. And all these claims now that no medical authority ever claimed the vaccines were going to make you immune... I understand that the "memory hole" is a real thing, but gosh, this is seriously not difficult to find:

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https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-herd-immu...
> "If you have 75%–80% of the people get vaccinated, you create an umbrella of herd immunity — that even though there is virus around, it is really almost inconsequential because it has no place to go, because almost all of the people are protected," Fauci says.

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I mean they're even now just distorting the term "immunity" to mean something new, but still pushing it in relation to vaccines:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20220111/Third-dose-of-mRN...
Not the person you are replying to, but one of the first classes on my "let's get a bachelors starting at 36 years old" required us to create a LinkedIn profile as an assignment if we didn't already have one. I think they've just become a de facto thing that is expected.
I too was wondering that as the ideal gas law states that PV = nRT. When you compress a gas it gets hotter, conversely, allowing it to decompress cools it. I assume they store the heat energy...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed-air_energy_storage
I've been wearing N95s ever since they became affordable (again) in the fall of 2020. I don't like masks, but if I have to wear one, I'm going to wear the best one and one that actually protects me. I mean this in the general sense of all particulate filters/respirators, rather than strictly N95s.

I currently wear the 3M Aura. It fits very well, my glasses never fog up and it quite easy to breath through. I used an oximeter during a long 8hr session of wearing it and had no impact on my blood oxygen levels. I work out with these masks as well and it's fine, although I do need a bit more rest in between sets towards the end of my workout. As a bonus the headstraps don't just make it fit better, when I remove it temporarily, it sits around my neck like a scarf, rather than hanging off my ears under my chin.

The masks may be disposable, but they also last long enough. If you get 5 and wear one each day of the week, then store them in a tupperware box, you can get a week's wear out of each one. $2-3 per week to be protected is a good deal.

I've tried to give my extras away to family and friends and I've found some of them weirdly resistant. They're fine wearing cloth or surgical masks, but not these. I know there's no chance of getting everyone to wear these, but I don't think anybody should be wearing anything but.

I wonder if some city/country somewhere could supply N95s to the entire population and strictly mandate them for a month whether they could stamp out Omicron.
I've known a lot of mathematicians, some of whom were really good, and five nines (one-in-one hundred thousand) is an implausibly high standard for humans to reach. I'm certainly nowhere near there.

What's worked for me is to develop an intuition about how things 'should' look, so that if I do make a mistake I'll get a 'hey, that's not right' feeling a couple steps later.
Except corporations basically never pick, blowing a small hole in your argument.

What precisely is your data source for this nonsense?
More mask -> Less social interaction -> More media attention -> More fear -> More mask...
If it's airborne, you're exposed to all of the people in the facility, and all of the people in it within the last few hours. The dividers likely make minimal if any difference.
Has there ever been a study that shows whether face masks work when used in public with COVID? I keep looking, and I find it kind of incredible that we're two years into a pandemic, and except for one study in Bangladesh with masks (that wasn't really that clear) - there is nothing to say that any of these masks are working.

There are a bunch of studies with the Influenza virus (different virus) and surgical masks in school settings, both with and without disciplined hand washing - and the meta-analysis of those studies suggests that masks (not N95) - don't really do much to prevent transmission of the virus.

I religiously wear my 3M 8210 N95, tight enough to leave welts on my face and indentation in my skull - so clearly I would like to believe it's helping - but I would kill to see a good Randomized Control Trial. Obviously wouldn't be double blinded - because of course you would know you were wearing a mask - unless you gave one cohort faulty masks, and the other ones actual filtering masks.... The ethics of doing this with Covid are obviously questionable, unless you could find a group that had already made the decision not to wear masks...
That’s not true — again showing the problems with headlines like these.. (drive by viewers integrate the headline into their understanding even though the actual article is very light on information).

Nearly every early case — before there could have been “pressure” to hide the origins was connected to the market:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm4454

This alone doesn’t disprove a lab leak of course, but it tilts the odds dramatically compared to the alternate scenario where WIV employees were among the first infected.
Criminal record only a problem for the subset of businesses that care/check about that sort of thing, which is less than what others are saying (25 years experience in UK).

Over 60 and a junior programmer isn't easy, your salary expectations are possibly higher and your willingness to grind through problems is also probably lower, I know both of those would be the case for me, and mean no offence. So yes to be honest it will be a bit harder for you, however, its a job seekers market at present and with perseverance I don't doubt you'll find a job, and without that same grit you'd unlikely to last as professional engineer today anyways.

Most companies don't do all that leetcode stuff in UK, interviewing is still a pain though.
In C you find

- types of varying width (how big is an int?). Rust solves that

- null terminated strings. Rust's are saner

- what happens in an overflow? What are implicit casts? Rust clarifies those edge cases

- standard libraries often use NULL to signal error, no actually -1, no actually non-NULL. Rust has Result

And I haven't even scratched the surface...

All those cases are pretty basilar and happen everywhere. For me it's clear that C is much more complex than Rust if you think about the edge cases. All those safeguards are vital.

But yes, Rust is a much bigger language than C so it won't replace it for really low level, scarce resources tasks. For that look at Zig
That’s a cool stat, but whatever…Just traveled (USA) via airplane. When I arrived at the airport, people were sneezing and coughing everywhere. On the plane, same thing. I’m my Uber, same thing with the driver. I tested positive after all this, albeit with mild symptoms. Seems everyone has it. Also seems like no one cares anymore (at least all these people). If Covid was a more serious issue, we’d all be doomed. Doesn’t seem USA govt thinks this is a big deal because otherwise they’d shut everything down. Know why there are no flight attendants and flights canceled, because everyone on planes is spreading it. And now the quarantine days has been reduced. Carry on people…
I think it's worth expanding this a little more.

The problem with standard libraries in general is that it's not really possible to adjust the API later if it turns out to not be well-designed. And it turns out that "oops, we got the API wrong" afflicts, well, literally every standard library I've ever worked with (note: this even does include Rust, as young as it is). Examples include:

* C/C++: wide strings, locale support, std::unordered_map (it prevents you from using a good hashtable implementation)

* Python: mail parsing libraries, http requests [and this even after having an exceptionally painful major version that allowed them to break compatibility!]

* Java: java.util.Date, java.util.Vector [as opposed to java.util.ArrayList]

* Rust: raw FD support, std::io::Read interactions with partially-uninitialized buffers

There is something you notice when you look at standard library misfeatures, which is there are different kinds of issues. The simplest issue is something like locale support in C/C++: you can just simply not use it, and everything will be fine. On the other hand--and this afflicts Python the most of any language I'm familiar with--having a broken implementation in stdlib can dissuade the community from making a good version of what you want (this is what happens with the mail format stuff). The worst possible kind, though, is when you make a core type with an utterly broken API--and this is what java.util.Date qualifies as.

Having "batteries included" makes it more likely you get more severe kinds of API failures in the standard library. Already, the Rust ecosystem has had evolution in core package libraries that allowed it to absorb poor API design--consider the shift from error-chain to thiserror/anyhow, or the futures 0.1->0.3 change.
This brings to mind the other post about the Amish that's on today's front page. I believe the Amish sometimes use compressed air as an alternative form of power.
CAES has lower efficiency, probably closer to 70% and only if you use something to reheat the air. (Compressed air loses temperature and needs an external source of heat to restore it to full volume)

Even if you use natural gas as a reheating element, the compressed air stores a significant amount of energy and is doing the majority of the work.
The top 10% of individuals own a record 89% percent of all the stocks [1]. Using never before seen measures to support the US bond market and at one stage buy individual corporate bonds has created a market in which participants believe they will always be back stopped by the Fed. Hell they are still doing 60 billion of monthly bond purchases (extreme monetary policy) [2] when inflation is printing multi decade highs. I have seen it quoted that in order to repair the Fed balance sheet by "running off" their purchases it will take them close to 30 years of continued "tightening". This is the new normal for centrally planned economic policy in the US, socialising losses to the government balance sheet.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/15/fed-will-aggressively-dial-b...
Depends on the job.
> my understanding of the justification is that restaurants can relatively easily space out/put dividers up between their tables (such that risk of transmission between parties at different tables is lower)

Because air doesn't move? It doesn't mix? On the contrary, the virus persists in the air for longer than an entire room air turnover.

Since Feb 2020, the studies show HVAC's air patterns in restaurants do infect other tables, quickly even. Roughly, air handling collects contaminated air and spews it on some tables in concentrated form (those tables experience all the air fast, not just subset of diffuse air more slowly; then in time all the air is mixed). Similar findings in 2021 for classrooms where student desks at risk are heat mappable based on HVAC configurations.

Grandparent post is right. You see other polls saying e.g. 60% of people being extra careful now with Omicron, at the same time, nearly 60% still going out to eat. So either people are stupid, or just don't understand because nobody's informing them. I'd suggest your post falls in the under-informed category: dividers are for how droplets work, but not for how air works.

Ridiculous we still don't deal with the air situation, but (a) way too much narrative was set back in the "it's not airborne" days for the media or masses to be interested in grappling, and (b) no landlord wants* to fix the air handling which was all sized for energy cost reduction not health.

* On HVAC upgrades, it's initially interesting that HVAC firms aren't upselling HEPA filtration etc. -- why isn't capitalism solving this problem? Surely they're lobbying for the new business! But then one remembers that 'venue shopping' or 'advice shopping' is a thing. Any HVAC firm under contract to workplace building owners is putting the relationship at risk if they tell the landlord or occupants on the record to spend a bunch of extra money. On the contrary, their incentive to keep the building contract is aligned with the landlord's incentive to not hear about having to spend 10x the original cost of the system on upgrading it.
You do not need to use LinkedIn. They are a scammy, spammy company that was so bad that getting acquired by Microsoft made them better, not worse.
Having worked for both union and non-union employers - it's a mixed bag. Unions have advantages and disadvantages. They are great for worker representation - but that's a double-edged sword. Ideally, unions protects worker's interests. In practice, they often lead to abuse, stagnation and corruption. I've personally witnessed union employees who contributed nothing for years, get perpetually shifted from team to team to team and even promoted because it was too complex and costly to fire them. I've seen union stewards padding their own pockets with members dues through lavish "retreats" to five-star resorts. We must not forget that unions are made up of people - and people can be awful.
Redesigned AWS Console Home
We should not looking for just any benefit and then if we see some, no matter how small, force everyone in society to do it. There are tradeoffs. For me as a parent masking young kids is unconscionable. Masks _scare_ my 18 month old daughter and she loses out on all the social skill building that comes with reading people's expressions.
I know many people that follow limited/exclusive releases for things like Yeezy/Air Jordan sneakers as well as PS5's and graphics cards.

They pay $500/mo for access to a bot that will allow them to make these purchases.

Most of the community lives on discord.
I just hope the wordle developers manage to cash in on their going-viral jackpot without losing it to copycats or spoiling the experience for players.
Interesting. There's a good video describing the operation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOWjwwKSR78

After watching it, I now understand that they aren't flooding the entire borehole, but rather are building a smaller high-pressure chamber at the bottom. The chamber is connected to pipes to a surface reservoir. When air is pumped into the chamber, it displaces water up toward the surface. When generating, the water flows back into the subsurface chambers, forcing out the high pressured air.
MariaDB has this and it sounds really powerful: https://simonwillison.net/2018/Apr/25/system-versioned-table...
tl;dr The wealthy and powerful are impeding progress by blocking policies that would threaten their wealth and power. Let's pretend that's just an oversight and we can fix it by pointing out that there's a better way.
The Covid generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids’ brains?
I mean, they’re fogging because the top of the mask leaks, and the breath takes the path of least resistance and goes around rather than out of the mask.
Anti-maskers weren't being condemned for pointing out that ersatz cloth masks weren't very effective. They were condemned for levying that criticism as if it was a justification for doing nothing, as opposed to an argument for more effective off-the-shelf respiratory protection.

(I ignored your attempt to drag "mandates" into this, because the primary aspect is personal behavior. I've yet to see an anti-mask-mandate protest/movement where everybody voluntarily wears respirators and distances, while philosophically arguing against legal mandates for doing so. And I would remember if I had, as this would align with my own politics)
Given it's GS, $250m is peanuts.
The linked study actually uses FFP2 masks, not N95. Here's a relevant part from the abstract regarding how an FFP2 performs:

> We find, for a typical SARS-CoV-2 viral load and infectious dose, that social distancing alone, even at 3.0 m between two speaking individuals, leads to an upper bound of 90% for risk of infection after a few minutes. If only the susceptible wears a face mask with infectious speaking at a distance of 1.5 m, the upper bound drops very significantly; that is, with a surgical mask, the upper bound reaches 90% after 30 min, and, with an FFP2 mask, it remains at about 20% even after 1 h. When both wear a surgical mask, while the infectious is speaking, the very conservative upper bound remains below 30% after 1 h, but, when both wear a well-fitting FFP2 mask, it is 0.4%.
Pandemic is over, I hope we can now gather all the real world data on how we dealt with it and see which one was effective and which one was profit driven.
I'm glad you've had a better experience than me. I only checked the two closest Fred Meyers and Safeway, not Winco.
Because the information is widely available for making. The barrier to entry has been greatly reduced. That's why I always troll those people who complain about Haskell being the choice of language for the Cardano cryptocurrency. They say it's hard and no developers will use it. They just demonstrated why they shouldn't be writing anything related to finance or other critical infra. There's so much complaining because they see a gold rush and want to jump in without the skill needed.
It’s curious to me the abscence of c++ interop as a focus. I understand there may be more important problems within the Rust community and it’s not yet ready to take center stage, but there’s soooo much to be gained from being able to piecemeal rewrite c++ code into rust in a low-friction manner or to make Rust as easy an option to reach for as C++ to write new code for an existing c++ codebase (eg a goal could be that all new code in Chrome/Firefox should be being written in Rust). The cxx crate is neat and a good start but it’s still too immature and ultimately you are limited to anything that can be hidden behind thin interfaces.
Gotta get those economy numbers up before the delayed State of the Union address in March, in order to not lose horribly in the midte... oh perhaps I'm being too cyncial? Nah.
Theoretical knowledge is aquired at an university or by reading a book on computer science. Then, you apply that knowledge when you use C or Rust. It is good that Rust book teaches about some CS concepts, but that is not a job of a book about Rust and can be considered a bonus.

To really learn about the innerworkings of the CPU, you must read a book about...the innerworkings of a CPU.
3B1B has stated that the series is mostly useful for summarizing or augmenting existing knowledge after taking the class; it's not for learning Linear Algebra fresh. If you sum all the minutes in the 3B1B videos it's basically the length of one video from a university course.
You’d still need to solder components to the posts, and only then you could do the wirewrap connections between those posts. It just doesn’t make any sense.

I believe even “back then” the wire wrap was only used on backplanes; modules plugged into those were through-hole PCBs plugged directly into the posts that were wrapped around in the other side.
That is the correct think to do.

Remember, never be loyal to your company because a company CANNOT be loyal to you. (You can be loyal to a good boss though.)
Maybe the former. It’s not always easy for someone to shake things up career wise, and they said they’re already trying.
But it isn't really correct to say Wardle is being 'punished.' He hasn't really lost anything. He made it as a n amusement for himself, and others are using it. He hasn't made Wordle a business, so he has no business to lose. It may be unethical for others to copy him for a quick buck. But he can ignore that if he wants to.
There was an episode of Dr. Oz from April 1, 2020 that demonstrated exactly how difficult it was to properly fit an N95.

The surgeon general released the demonstration of making a cloth mask from household items on April 4, 2020.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9YLXEhSjVsw

Fauci on February 5, 2020 wrote in an email:

> The typical mask you buy in the drug store is not really effective in keeping out virus, which is small enough to pass through material. It might, however, provide some slight benefit in keep out gross droplets if someone coughs or sneezes on you.
I agree, of course, there are some domains where garbage collection can be problematic, most notably game engines and DSP. High integrity applications and hard real-time systems like the airbag controller you mention usually go a bit further, it is often forbidden to dynamically allocate any memory, or at very least it may only be requested once at the start.
Right, so it didn't affect consumer prices for 13 years. So why would anyone believe that it's at fault now?

It does seem kind of disingenuous to blame inflation on a something we've been doing for over a decade rather than the major black-swan event that happened two years ago. Especially since pandemic inflation was nearly instant: lockdowns -> shortages -> price gouging.
Catching a cold may create more immune protection against COVID-19
Yup, exactly. I use my glasses to seal the top. It's weird but it works.
If somebody must be blamed for this “outrage”, shouldn’t we blame the author for “punishing” websites by admittedly searching for Wordle on the App Store instead of Google (which finds both websites and apps)?
Yes, their website says they have a thermal store.
SQLite may be uniquely well suited to building graph databases out if all of the relational engines, thanks to this: https://www.sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
What I’d like would be doing something like the way notifications work or what Apple did for video streaming with the TV app: make messages pluggable so I could have a single app listing all of my conversations like I had with Adium a decade ago. I might still open those apps for extra features when I need them but it’d be nice to just see my last message from someone without having to remember that e.g. we normally use Signal but sometimes use SMS or WhatsApp in groups.
> If we wear them improperly they loose their ability to do their jobs

That's not true. They will just have lower efficiency. This study itself tested the effect of not fitting the mask (not even adjusting the metal nose bridge), and the effect was not dramatic.

It's like saying "if you don't wear your mask 100% of the time, you might as well not wear it at all, since you could be infected in the 1% of the time you don't wear it.
The cheeses shortage (cream, yougurt, etc) has been blamed on a cyberattack in October.

>In October, a cyberattack against the largest US cheese manufacturer contributed to a nationwide cream cheese shortage shortly before the holidays, Bloomberg News reported, endangering holiday treats for millions. Bloomberg reported the attack targeted plants and distribution centers. As a result, Wisconsin-based Schreiber Foods was unable to fully operate for several days — just as it was heading into its peak busy period before the Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas holidays. The company is one of the country's largest marketers for dairy products, including cheese slices, yogurt and the all-important cream cheese, with annual sales of more than $5 billion.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/business/cream-cheese-cyberat...
I've worked in US and northern EU and in the latter there is basically no funding (relatively) and no talent feeders like FAANG. Senior engineers are also enamored with unnecessary complexity and founders still want to treat technical folks (even very senior) like cogs in a machine.