skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wikidata gives you a "full breakdown" of machine-accessible external identifiers for any entity. So, if you know how to query an external source, you can use it to verify any claim you care about.
Are these proper graduate jobs, though?

I mean, I've heard that shitty customer service jobs with abusive customers, abusive bosses and terrible pay are having a lot of trouble hiring right now - but you can get customer service jobs without a college degree.
Will it? If your beard prevents a seal you're just going to be sucking in air from through the sides like you would with a standard mask, no?
Covaxin Booster Shown to Neutralize Both Omicron and Delta Variants
> So in reality, the inflation in the price of socks would be/is more than 40% save for the fact that people are now wearing older socks on average.

And this is bad... how? I'm not sure how presuming the opposite (ie. demand stays the same) makes more sense. For instance, during the 1973 oil crisis, supply was literally lower than demand. If we expected demand to stay the same (for whatever reason), wouldn't the price of oil go to infinity?

>How does this get reflected in the CPI?

hedonic and/or quality adjustments are done for certain CPI categories.
COVAXIN booster neutralises both Omicron and Delta variants - 90% serum samples showed neutralisation of Omicron
Goldman Sachs invests $250M in compressed air energy storage
What how many languages have a GUI framework in the std?
Disney+ saw 1M lifetime downloads in 45% of markets where it's available
This was lately on HN, so you can check yourself: https://www.armbrustusa.com/pages/mask-testing
Go quite literally has a syntax incantation for marshaling data across threads (channels). The novelty of Go is that it's language-level as opposed to library-level. It's nice, but in practice I don't think it makes a huge amount of difference.

Java also has some basic thread synchronization primitives built into the language. It's way easier than you probably think. And it gets even more interesting with the upcoming project loom, which gives you the same programming model for lightweight and real threads.

Async programming is a pox on the industry. It's very useful in rare situations that require extremely high performance, but for general business processing, function coloring adds a ton of accidental complexity.
Why isn’t there more protection shown? Is it people not wearing the masks well? Or not wearing them consistently?

One thing I’ve thought was ludicrous since the beginning of the pandemic was the idea that you should mask in a restaurant “except while eating.” That’s comically stupid. I understand we love our restaurants and don’t want them all going out of business (and that huge workforce being unemployed!), but there’s no point fooling yourself, if you aren’t going to wear the mask the whole time when you go somewhere then there’s really no point.
I'm on board with doing more than nothing to deal with Omicron (and future variants), but risk of death for recovered and vaccinated people is factually much lower than it was prior to vaccination or recovery. The situation is changing.
>> I have absolutely no preference for one theory over the other. Or neither. I
have no special evidence, and speculation at this point seems pretty pointless.

That's a false objectivity. We have very strong prior knowledge that diseases
arise naturally, without the need for human intervention. To assume there was
human intervention requires accordingly strong evidence, at least as strong as
the stength of the prior knowledge.

This is where Occam's razor comes in. We do not need to imagine lab leaks, when
a natural origin suffices to explain the pandemic.

Also, the "3 observations" you list are observations used to justify the
hypothesis that a lab like happened, not observations that caused the hypothesis
to be proposed in the first place. First people assumed there was a lab leak,
then they went out to find reasons to support a lab leak. That's putting the
cart before the horses. Solid reasoning needs observations to precede a
hypothesis, not the other way around.
Fake News. Here is the real-world study. It is pre-covid and without pro-covid bias: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190903134732.h...
Eh.

At least a few years back you could get in as long as you could code.

I got to 6 figures without a degree, it might be harder now, but you don't need to attend a top school to become a programmer.
One benefit from the user's side that I've experienced is that, when debugging, I can go as far into the call stack as I want or need, using the same tools I use to inspect my own Julia code and read things in the same language throughout - no jarring context switch. This helps significantly with building a complete mental model of what you're debugging, and with ruling out a whole class of potential issues at or beyond the language border.
After a quick bit of searching around I think Sun, Sol, Sonne, and many more are the name of our star in various languages. On the other hand language usages is what defines the meaning of words, so if other stars are commonly called suns, those two words are synonyms.
> Alternatively one can build a parser combinator library that compiles to a large Regex.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you meant, but I don't think you can do this in the general case (since parser combinators can describe languages that are more complicated than/not describable within regular languages).
I’m pretty sure real wages are falling for the lower class
Bryan Cantrill has an interesting talk that discusses various languages in terms of their values that you might finding interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZ1pCpJUIM
Just one question as the rest was discussed numerous times before:

> At least with XMPP, I can point the same client to some other server and potentially continue a conversation with someone somewhere else, with the exact same OMEMO/PGP encryption.

How do you just "continue a conversation with someone somewhere else" when your XMPP server goes down?

Typically, you register an XMPP account on an XMPP server. If this server is offline, your account is unreachable as the account is managed by the XMPP server not by your client. Therefore, you can't use this account anymore. So you need to go to another XMPP server, register a new XMPP account, and then try to find your contacts again (which may be cached by your client or not). Finally, you have to convince "someone" that this is just you with another account on another server. There is also no verified E2EE anymore. If "someone" uses the same now-offline XMPP server, "someone" also needs to find another XMPP server.

How is this different from "when Signal goes down one uses a completely different instant messaging system", apart from using another client?

> That is why decentralized/federated is better

And we already explained (also several times) that XMPP is de-facto centralized as the vast majority of users only use a tiny number of XMPP servers hosted by an even smaller number of hosting companies. Which means: If one of these hosting companies blocks XMPP traffic (e.g., if a rogue state starts censoring) or one of these XMPP servers goes down, a huge part of XMPP users is affected.
That's granted. That's selection step 1. Then UNIX cum Linux approach eats the world for a couple of decades, pulling its weight. If it was inherently flawed, if SoTA approaches were addressing inherent issues, then it would have failed selection steps 2..n. And we would have long ago bitten the bullet to replace the "lucky" legacy. So, yes, the lucky contender has issues, has warts, can certainly benefit from x, y and z, but as is, it continues to be viable at scale and that is not "luck".

Second, we simply don't know, considering all aspects including human resources and engineering economics, whether Xerox, DEC, or IBM's alternatives would have fared better than UNIX. I'm open to learning why/how if this is a shut case in your opinion.
Django security releases issued: 4.0.1, 3.2.11, and 2.2.26
Or they could be engineers. Cost benefit of learning a new language to support something designed and built in random language by some one who didn't actually know how to do high quality design work in that language is rather low.

It is like reading the first Turkish works of an English poet, who decided to learn Turkish by writing poems.
Call for a moratorium on climate research until governments take real action
I've bought a pack of N95 couple of days ago. Glasses are a major first problem. When I exhale most of the air goes out above straight into the glasses. With the cold temperature outside it's problematic to see. But IMO this proves the point that N95 masks are mush better. It slightly collapses when I inhale and most of the air goes through it, the fit is good. While for ordinary masks the air goes freely through the sides. Ordinary masks protect others from large droplets, but small droplets or aerosol go freely with the air. N95s become quite wet inside quite quickly for that reason.
I don’t think this is right? C, C++, and JavaScript certainly had very spartan standard libraries. Python and Java certainly emerged in the mid 90s (within striking distance of the 21st century), but I’m not sure the state of their standard libraries at the time. I suspect other languages also had smaller libraries but can’t prove it.

With respect to mainstream 21st century programming languages, I’m only familiar with Go, Rust, and C#, of which C# and Go certainly have pretty comprehensive standard libraries. Other mainstream 21st century languages I can think of run atop either JVM or .Net and I believe they have access to the Java or C# standard libraries, respectively but I’m not sure if it would be fair to say they inherit those standard libraries or not.
Well, everyone except Macron, that probably see it as his only way to win the upcoming election.

Anyway I hope the whole thing won't be memoryholed and that a special tribunal will judge the people involved in stripping citizens rights (undue lockdowns and vaccine pass) and forcing a dangerous and ineffective product on the people. One can dream...
Why omit your actual increase?
How is it being punished by app stores if it's not the app stores themselves creating said clones? More clickbait trash...
I'm skeptical of any ear-loop design (although I wear them myself in relatively benign environments such as Costco). For "hot" environments such as airports, shuttle busses, airplanes, I've switched to the kind that has bands that go around the head. The difference is profound: when taking the mask off you notice that there are _smells_ that have been filtered by the mask. Never had that experience with the ear loop kind.
No, I think they are expecting people to just get sick and die the way we accept automobile accidents, lax regulation on body-destroying foods, air pollution significant enough to measurably impact cognitive function, etc.

It's not like "fuck it let's just get covid" is the first obviously bad idea we've adopted to reduce our mental burdens.
There's a talent shortage because most companies don't want to make security a priority. The executives just go "eh, we have insurance for that" beyond some base threshold of security focus. The companies don't want to train either. I see way more dev postings that security ones.

I'm an application security champion (in addition to being a dev) at my company and I'm looking for a new job. I see very little for security and almost none that are entry level. The ones I do see don't pay as well as the dev jobs either.
If anyone has anything else they think was missed or should be included then let me know!
This is what Ada does.

A very strong type system, makes native binaries, has low level control, but it writes and reads super simply. Generics are at the module ("package") and function level, not at the type level, and can take other packages as parameters.
Companies consist of their employees, who have to live somewhere.
> I cannot A/B test my experience as an unvaccinated person, but it feels like a light seasonal cold.

I think that's a key point and it really needs to be frankly communicated that way: vaccination mandates are what makes it safe enough to re-open safely. The U.S. has relatively low vaccination rates thanks to a well-funded political movement but as soon as there are personal consequences for those decisions most people do the right thing.
And error handling, async runtime,...
I'm pretty sure that they can't do it without your consent (and cooperation) - they at least have to verify your identity documents (name, address, DOB, etc), get a list of your addresses for the last five years, enter your driving license number, and probably other information too.
When I wear an N95 regularly I make sure to shave around my chin and beard. If I don't then I can feel all the airflow going through there instead of the filter material.
> Is inflation negative?

This would be strictly worse for the United States than any of the other options. It would result in hoarding and the cessation of spending which would likely destroy the economy. Please don’t post stuff that seems like common sense but is in fact not sensical at all or at worst a complete fabrication which I’m guessing this is by the numbers.
> Barring security vulnerabilities, a library that does a well encapsulated task like parsing json might work just fine without updates for ten or more years.

JSON library updates are a constant tedious chore for many in the Java world. Jackson and Gson have both had several we've needed to make over the years. Now, _most_ of these are due to non-default features where you allow it to deserialize arbitrary types that we don't use. But clients big enough to insist on a BOM and internal security teams both just see "Jackson version x.y.z has a RCE on it, you need to update", even if it's literally impossible to trigger without changing the application code to enable insecure features.
You're right in that really effective innovative leaders are rare.

Still... I am not familiar with many examples of cases where the leader was removed and not replaced and things didn't fall apart.

I would like to see more experimentation in this area though. We don't experiment nearly enough with social structures.
In Germany YouTube banned the channel achgut.com which kind of does solid work, although providing some alternative views. They lost in court (as far as I know multiple times), but they are not afraid of banning since the penalties are rather small.

https://www.achgut.com/artikel/youtube_verliert_erneut_gegen...
It's just... odd. It's a signal that the candidate has some reason for not wanting a LinkedIn account, which could range from a messy history to a passionate belief in not having an online record. All of which _might_ translate to a difficult candidate who isn't prepared to make it easier for the employer.

As ever with these kind of eccentricities, if the candidate is good enough they can pull it off, but otherwise it's a orange flag.
Let's face it, Congressional Democrats are getting wiped out either way. They blew it this past year. I'm saying this as someone who has only voted Democrat or third party in elections my entire life.

They went too far towards "keep the elite status quo going but blame inaction on this one guy" and they're going to be punished for it, big time. Meanwhile Biden had plenty of power by himself to do so much more than he has done (his campaign promise of $10k student loan forgiveness, for one).

Most of them probably don't even care, because they can just sit back, blame the Republicans for not being able to do anything again, and raise money for the next two years. People like AOC and Bernie probably care, but they're not going to be able to turn the ship around.
> And I'm amazed at how gold-bug conservatives so conveniently ignore the previous 13 years of furious money-printing that accompanied near-zero inflation levels.

Are you aware of the degree to which is ramped up?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
> As long as you're based in the UK your precise location is also unimportant

Is this a legal requirement or is it company policy?
My unpopular opinion is to emulate an extremely reduced subset of x86. For example, jump to main and emulate the result of `int main() {return 2;}` compiled with gcc. You already have the compiler (no need to cross compile), you already have the decompiler and you can run the binary on the reference machine without an emulator. You save so much time having this entire toolchain already and you can start emulating simple C programs for x86 with <10 instructions and 1 or 2 addressing modes. I've written about this process before in Node and Go [0].

Yeah everyone will comment after me that x86 gets way more complex over time but if you just want to get a quick intro and you aren't a perfectionist x86 is kind of compelling.

And recently I wanted to try emulating MSP341 at someone's recommendation because it has a very simple architecture. But just getting a C compiler for it isn't easy! When I've tried to cross-compile C to other archs like RISC-V it also wasn't straightforward and I just got stuck in this toolchain spot.

If it were easier to cross-compile simple languages like C then writing emulators for other environments would be easier.

If you're on a new Mac, my whole argument applies for aarch64 instead of x86.

[0] https://notes.eatonphil.com/tags/emulators.html
Can we please stop repeating this "normal behaviour in many countries in Asia"?
Because those countries still get flu and covid. Something being normal somewhere does not mean that it has any measurable effect.
For the first, Mathematica
Yes.

Omicron is already less deadly by 10x. Covid has a 0.5% death rate pre-omicron. With vaccinations it brings the death rate down to negligible.

At thus point I think we need to stop trying to protect everyone. Some people as going to die. It’s tragic. But we can’t keep locking down everyone.

I am currently going through Covid. I could die from it. I probably won’t. It’s an annoying cold at this point. We have to change policy to accept that for 99.99% of people omicron will be mild and will confer immunity. Some people will die like the flu. We have medication now that works. We have vaccinations that work. We have masks that work.

Let’s move on.
Sure, just for managing the project-level language versions + project-level library dependencies. Doesn’t need to be exactly venv, but venv has proven simple enough to use that it tends to reduce headaches, rather than add more, in my experience.

The reason is that pip/most package managers have a default to install a package globally. Which can be annoying especially for noobs.
Most routers today have automatic patching schedules, so at least that one is getting better.
I'm assuming you're referring to significant digits. The tables in the BLS news releases[1] have 2 significant digits. Is there any reason to believe that we couldn't measure average price increase across the country within 2 digits of accuracy?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.t02.htm
Maybe my nose is funny or I'm just dumb but I've never managed to get any of these cheap masks to seal well enough over the nose that my glasses don't constantly fog up when it's cold. (workaround: act like they're reading glasses)

No problems with reusable half-masks with their flexible rubber seals, though those are kinda impractical for the purpose of papers-please-compliance.
That's not true: leakage decreases protection, but there's a scaling relationship rather than a complete elimination of efficacy: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24275016/
I never used LinkedIn to land a job. I once received a relevant offer (compiler specialist located less than 500km away that requires relocating; the recruiter actually did a good job). I never got a ton of spammy offers, but I got enough to delete LinkedIn.

But YMMV. I also don’t have Facebook; I use GitHub as a portfolio page and do have some open source going on there.

Witnessing what happened to Marak, who broke his own npm libraries and got locked out of GitHub, my conclusion is that the platform does not operate on the user’s terms. Yet another mega corp.
Personal advice: unless you have a very specific reason to do so, completely pass on advanced calculus, real/complex analysis etc., and continue with discrete maths instead - you will find it immediately useful. Only later, when you find you need it, choose other topics, carefully selected. We only have so much time in life, and the range of fields to study is enormous, so choose wisely. Don't blindly follow the advice of people who will tell you to study everything, you will soon realize it's impossible and it will only leave you sad.
this looks like this will help apps other than games as well. nice. really hoping for wine to shine so that more software can be used in a linux environment helping with reducing windows dependence.
I've found that `-march=native` with _any_ optimization level will almost always result in faster code. However, that faster code isn't always backwards-compatible to older generation hardware. And, where it is backwards-compatible, it can actually be slower.
This is so annoying. They measure X and then claim that effect is Y. Which was not measured at all.
Yeb.. real wage growth is down 2.4% on average YoY[0]. Given how much raises the tech sector is getting, it means everyone else is getting absolutely crushed.

0. https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/us-consumer-price...
Some of the details are unusual though especially the Wuhan Institute of Virology taking down it's previously public pathogen sequence database before the thing kicked off.
I would only call code without proper abstractions WET (Winnow Everything Thrice). What acronym can we fit into "damp"?
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> Why would you allow the above to happen to your citizens?

In peace time, its logical to continue military developments on individual members of the public. Besides there are more constraints on military activity at times of war, biological & chemical weapons are banned, propaganda or pysops continues to be developed though as its not banned under any international convention. Psyops can both microtarget and blanket cover huge parts of the population.

The public make the mistake in trusting those who rule over them.
Fair enough; in retrospective, I've focused on "Interoperability" part of your last sentence, where I find Apple to be more-or-less awful.

I cannot much contribute to the quality aspect in the context you speak of, so I'll take your word - of the many kinds of geeks I've been in the past, I've purposefully never been an Audio/Video geek, because I feel that way madness lies (for me) - for the type of reasons you outline and many many more :)
I'm pretty sure this article was a result of someone playing Mad Libs.
I disagree, the alternative is either no access to website data or access through a tightly controlled API (which can come with the same problems if API compatibility is not guaranteed).
So much of not a big deal that Douglas Ross (leader of the Scottish Conservatives), as wel as numerous other Tory MPs said that the PM would need to resign if it turned out that he attended.

Why is it that you enjoy being lied to?
I’ll leave anybody who comes across this discourse a simple

Google “Trump administration stockpile budget cuts”

and stop attempting to discuss in good faith with you, who apparently really wants to be right on the internet when they’re completely wrong.
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There are 20 packs of N95 respirators sitting on the shelves at most Home Depots here in the US.
Gp seemed to be talking about job interviews. What cops can ask and what a potential employer can ask aren't the same.
There is one caveat though, as long as Rust depends on LLVM, it won't fully make it.
Nah, they'll just take credits, which are supposed to be returned by their grand grand children. /s