skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You missed GP's point, which apparently was equating personal privacy with China's national security. I didn't think twice about China's lack of transparency. It's normal and expected behavior from China, so I would never suspect it to mean they were hiding something that was actually salient to the global pandemic... they're just hiding everything, but all it amounts to is hiding whatever corruption comes with government. IOW what they're usually hiding is often well known and is nothing interesting. Suspicion of things being hidden, wild speculation on it and tenuously attaching it somehow to common strife seems to be a conservative theme.

What always interests me is:

1) How many pandemics have there been?
2) How many lab leaks have there been?
3) How many lab leaks have caused outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics?
4) What is the cause of every other pandemic?

The answers lead me to believe a lab leak of virulent COVID, if it occurred, and let's assume it did, is only a coincidence, and the hidden cause of this pandemic is, while somehow the most unsuspected in light of the assumed lab leak, was the same cause as every other pandemic, ever.

I think the article just shows that experts are human and subject to human bias, and as such, like everyone else that similarly succumbed to bias, foolish for considering or believing in something with literally millions, tens of millions, or hundreds of millions to one odds against (lab leaks happen occasionally, there have probably been hundreds to thousands of lab leaks in 100 years, but over eons there have been millions of pandemics, and in recorded history, there have been enough of them to see a clear pattern: viruses jump species, people living and working in close proximity to animals are infected, the infection spreads).
I would need to see the math, because nothing adds up to even 1/10th of their claimed revenue. Best case, they bought 10mwh on jan 5th and sold it at the perfect time on jan 11th. This would give them 2k in revenue in 6 days.

Wheres the rest? And what about if you cant nostradamus predict the best times to buy and sell?
Don't you think it's bad design to only allow one request per function? We shouldn't have to migrate to different cloud services to be able to unlock a common pattern. Optimizing the function to allow handling multiple requests while resources are available should be something that the functions infrastructure auto-magically does.
good. Tesla owners have been complaining about phantom braking for a while now with the new update. I would hate to be behind a Tesla that phantom brakes in the middle of the highway even if I come to a complete stop, the person behind me may not stop in time.
Yes, and the high achiever will be further blunted by seniority-based promotion practices.

If FAANG-type companies unionize, one can see a possible positive outcome for the smaller competitors, as the quality talent will leave $BIGCO for better opportunities in the smaller companies.
This whole debacle is sort of humorous. I fully support the rights of workers to unionize. The problem is in "Non Right to Work States" the unionized can clobber people that choose not to unionize and coerce them into participation. This is incredibly unethical, immoral, and unconstitutional and violates a person's right to self-determination and other human rights.
The flip side of this is that LinkedIn can sometimes bring you lots of unwanted messages from recruiters offering worse jobs that also pay less than what you currently make
I mean, the boy's father also says that there will always be "horse and buggy" Amish. We are forgetting that there are different Amish orders that lie on a spectrum of conservatism within the Amish community. Even if there are some groups that end up looking more like us there will always be the Amish who don't use the internet, electricity, and probably even diesel power.
Has anyone ever successfully converted a large legacy Apache/PHP/MySQL site to UTF-8? If so you deserve an award. utf8mb4 is just one issue and not the worst.
I managed to get through a BSCS w/ a minor in mathematics. And 20 years later I still count on my fingers when working out problems. Or counting change. Or working out the final price on a 30% off sale while shopping.

The odd look I got from from calc professors while taking exams was kinda funny.
A New AWS Console Home Experience
if you trust them now with not logging and selling your data, you should trust them not doing anything to screw you over, and giving you sufficient warnings before a sale happens so you can re-evalute that trust.
if you don't trust a provider, you shouldn't use them.
"i don't trust any VPN providers" is a reasonable position, but your argument saying "all VPNs will end up selling data" is still flawed.
Amazon workers in Alabama will vote again on whether to unionize next month
A lot of people only want to think about it on their individual level, instead of realizing that every measure like masks, even lower quality masks, slows the spread on average and prevents the waves of infections from being as sharp or as massive, which really matters in terms of hospital capacity and general economic disruption caused by simultaneous sickenings. But it's probably preaching to the choir at this point about large segments of society being essentially selfish and myopic.
I switched to Apple Maps a while ago. Google Maps kept directing me to take traffic shortcuts that might have saved 30 seconds but then required unprotected left turns across multi-lane roads (western U.S.). It got to where I had to inspect my next few turns at red lights to make sure it wasn't trying to be too "helpful." YMMV but I've been pretty happy with Apple Maps.

Edit: I forgot the name of the setting (no longer have GMaps on my phone) but I know there's a way to make it more or less aggressive. I did play with this before dropping GMaps but it had no effect.
There are quite a few reasons why I don't want unions:

1. I don't want pay banding based on job title, I am capable of negotiating this myself. This is especially true because I can remain at senior Dev level but based on contribution I can be compensated, not by title .

2. Historically there's evidence of damage to industry caused by unions.

3. The unionised work places I have heard about second hand, do not sound like places I want to work. For example unproductive employees not fired, promotions and internal job moves being extremely bureaucratic and check box oriented.

4. I do not want to be forced to pay union dues.

5. I do not want people telling me I must strike.
Here is what I think (US-centric):

- Most people are tired of masks and even if they use them, they are neither wearing them nor cleaning them adequately

- Vaccination/boosters are the only reliable defense for the average person

- In 3 years or less, people will wonder what all the fuss was about and simply will treat COVID-19 like a common cold. Your management and colleagues will expect you to show up for work, COVID or not.

I'm not justifying this behavior. Just stating what I think we'll see in the future.
On that note do you have a good explanation for why the air needs to be reheated? I didn't quite understand that from the video.
I’m on board with that, but what feels gross about this is the author does it for fun and gets ripped off by hucksters piggybacking off it for money. And, presumably, much of that stuff is trashy shovelware.

This isn’t an honorable way to make a living.
You just wrote the standard definition of that, but that's precisely the question.
Seems like everyone wants to make everything in Rust these days! /s
Humans learn quickest through mimeses (imitation of what they see). That is why airplane flights start with a certain ritual demonstration.
I've liked this article for many years, but it's been hard to focus on it since learning about the dark consequences of the Amish way of life: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a30284631/amish-sexua...
It requires less surface area, both due to compressibility and due to hydrodynamics. Additionally, water is a strong erosion source, air is not, so this can make use of existing excavations much easier and deep excavation is very very expensive.
That middle-man has more power than you do in a huge number of cases. There are very few individual workers where the bosses will suffer mightily if they refuse to work. But almost every boss will suffer mightily if a huge portion of their workers refuse to work. That is the leverage unions have over the bosses that individual workers almost never have.
I've seen activity on this topic recently on HN so I would imagine this will be a thing on job postings in the near future as went "unlimited PTO".
That's not what I have been reading about the study. The evidence seems to be on the pro-mask side, but it does not appear to be _that_ clear. I'm not an expert in masks, health, or even statistics, so I'm not here to say you are right or wrong. I'm just pointing out that there is a debate. That itself is enough to want to look for more studies, don't you think?

To answer your question, the point of more studies is to increase confidence in our opinions and decisions, make better findings, realize errors, etc. And you are quickly jumping to conclusions with "folks like you are just going to dismiss them out of hand".

Now, my question would be: what do you mean by "folks like you"?
This says a lot more about your place than about OCaml, so I'm not sure why you mention this here.
We use ReScript at Draftbit (https://draftbit.com). We're a small company with about 13 people.

Former coworkers have messaged me saying that they miss writing ReScript and wish they could convince their team.

We have about 1200 ReScript files on both front-end/back-end. It's great. It feels much safer to refactor and write new code.

We use TypeScript in some places, like TypeORM and we're able to consume those types on the Rescript side. Rescript generates and consumes typescript types via gentype.

I'd strongly recommend you try it!
Yes big tech employees are equivalent to the wall street bankers in the 80s. Sell their souls for money. They have no room to cry about morals, they know the deal.
Autonomous Delivery Robot Adds External Airbags for When It Crashes into People
On the other hand, in academia you are nuch more likely to find the moral relativistic nihilists that wouldn't care a past white collar crime conviction.
A Rubric to Evaluate Non-Technical Co-Founders
From my European perspective it looks In the US the only unions left are the most hardcore, extremist unions.

All the "finding a common middleground", reasonable unions have been eradicated by anti-union policies. And yes, there are lots of unions like that in the countries that I can speak for (Denmark, Germany).

It is sad to see e.g. police unions being used as an argument against unions in general now.
The HP-48G was my favorite, lost with a lot of things due to water damage thanks to a random roof leak leading to a closet. The HP 32S II has been my go-to scientific calculator since college (one random class wouldn't let you use graphing calculators), it's still going strong now 20 years or so later.

Other than those, on a computer, I use the emacs calculator.
Just write in the style where all your names are like 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder1Folder2Folder3Thing.ts`.

(to be clear, this is sarcasm, please don't do this!)
> var Ha = new Date(2021,5,19,0,0,0,0);
> My assumption is that this is the launch date for Wordle

But not 19th of May 2021, but 20th of June 2021

Every time I look as JavaScript, I find a new reason to hate it.
Terribly sorry about that. Perhaps if they have serious health concerns, they should take preventative measures such as being vaccinated, wearing masks, or isolating.

But as far as the people I work with every day, who also do not wear masks, I have not spread COVID to any of them. Nor my family, nor my volunteer groups.
That's fair, and I didn't want to come off as complaining that it had been shared at all. It's just that these sort of articles frequently come up and I've never seen any that show any other side of them than "pious, salt-of-the-earth people". Then the comments roll of the form "the Amish seem to have life figured out".

There's definitely something to be said about being more intentional in technology adoption. I don't think that's the same thing as being slower about adoption. But I also don't think being more intentional is really what's going on with the Amish.

Like all religions, it's a system of control. You'll see people (rightly) criticize the homophobia, misogyny, and anti-intellectualism of Evangelical Christianity and Wahhabism in Islam. And then an article about the Amish shows up--who largely share a lot of those sorts of beliefs--and they're depicted as a quaint, harmless people. Maybe it's because they live in enclaves and don't proselytize, so they aren't harmful to us, but they still inflict those abusive beliefs within their congregation.

IDK, maybe it's no different than articles about how the Taliban weld scrap and guns to Toyota Hyraxes to make technicals. It does feel different, though.
Ask HN: Why has Europe suffered so much from Covid?
When I say Europe I mean the EU + UK. This is one of the richest, most developed, and most prosperous regions in the world. Most citizens have access to free (but under strain) health services.

Europe is also fortunate to be sitting on an enormous stockpile of vaccines (while many other less weathly countries are still waiting patiently).

Given all the above, why did Europe suffer so greatly from the pandemic given its plentiful resources? Even the collection of statistics vary wildly from country to country and even within countries. (From under-reporting to over-estimates, to calculating excess deaths - will we ever know the true death toll directly and indirectly through COVID?)

One again, Europe is the epicentre of COVID as omicron spreads like wildfire around the continent.

Scientists and health workers have worked tirelessly throughout the pandemic. So is it the political response to the pandemic where most blame rests? Or it that simplifying an enormously complex topic?
"so what you are day is" that's a good way to be accused of putting word in someone's mouth.
I have this setup in my homelab, use it to isolate networks by role. The bash script to setup and tear down the namespace is here:

https://github.com/VTimofeenko/wireguard-namespace-service/b...
Some years ago I met a fellow that was former Amish, still lived extremely simple and dressed almost the same. He left because he got the engine bug, ended up becoming a diesel mechanic and pursuing proper degrees in diesel tech/diesel mechanics, was just purely fascinated by machinery. Interesting guy.
So because I said that "the vaccines" themselves made the claims at immunity, you are interpreting that as false, based on the notion that the approval was not contingent on them providing immunity. This does not seem like a misunderstanding to me. It sounds like the painfully obvious interpretation of "Authority figures representing scientific institutions, with credentials, promoted these vaccines, claiming they would grant immunity." I think the only way you don't interpret it that was is if you are trying to obfuscate things (perhaps to yourself because recognizing corruption in scientific institutions is a direct attack to some people's egos and identities).
Thanks ! Hope you will enjoy.
That's a great idea! I think you win for my weekend project...if nothing else it will be fun to bring up that I made a Brainfuck compiler.
Ah didn't know, do you have a map with all the bat viruses say last 20 years in the wild + Wuhan? Couldn't find one, perhaps I don't have the right Google keywords.
I would be interested to find one I like and use it for a desktop companion project, not an original idea but I am not an artist ha.
Anonymous and untracked aren’t the problem. Facebook is where most of “thought, desire and opinion” manipulation occurs. Totally the opposite of anonymous and untracked. How about Twitter? After these we have our own mainstream media spreading misinformation and running d&c psyops on the citizens. And we also can put a lot of blame on our vaunted universities. How many communist revolutionaries have been produced by radical tenured professors. I’d say most.

But you want to blame anonymous and free speech? Rather fascist no? Should we do it like the CCP?
Are you giving back to the people who enabled you to do so?
Wanting to make more money to keep up or get ahead versus staying put in the same job for years or sometimes decades is a re-evaluation of people's priorities. But it's not the only factor or only priority for a lot of people, sure.

There's people in this very thread that say they're planning to interview because they're not getting a COLA adjustment.

I already switched jobs and got a significant raise in the process this year, or else I might be joining them if I get a sub-COLA raise (it's sounding like I might based on what I've heard of the process so far). Hell, I still might later this year, I don't know. It wouldn't be the only factor for me, just a factor. Things are mostly good here, but I've stunted my income trajectory quite a bit already by staying way too long at previous jobs, and probably should play a bit more catch-up, and I'm only likely to get that by switching jobs again.
“Occam’s grooming implement” is a riff on Occam’s razor. It caught me way off guard and I had to read it three times, but it was worth it. English is a really strange language, and well timed word play is a real gift.
The idea that people who do more and create more value should be compensated more is perplexing?

What?
I wouldn't say "just like any other organization." Most organizations are authoritarian and workers have literally zero say in the operations at the top. Unions are democratically controlled. This introduces a meaningful difference in corruptibility.
I still use my old Nikon D700 for some things, like as a timelapse camera or for simple product shots.

The 12 megapixel sensor in the 35mm format is still much better at gathering light (without any fancy AI manipulation) than any modern small sensor camera, and the few Nikon lenses I still have around—one manufactured in the 70s—are extremely sharp and still great for many situations (though lens coatings, even on tiny sensors and smartphones, are vastly improved nowadays).
If I were playing a video game and there was some armor which gave me even 10% protection, I'd put it on.
The site I link to isn't a "conspiracy site", it's a blog written by a guy who does lots of data analysis. Please, have you not learned yet that this word is meaningless anyway?

There are lots of cases where mask mandates were not added and removed at the times you claim, which were geographically next to each other, and in which there was no observed difference. There are lots of cases where mask mandates were added and the trend of the case graph didn't change at all. These are evidence against the hypothesis that masks work which was, note, the standard belief prior to mid-2020. That's why public health officials all said mass masking doesn't work. It's because it doesn't.
> To really learn about the innerworkings of the CPU, you must read a book about...the innerworkings of a CPU.

But C doesn't map to the "inner workings of the CPU", it maps to a certain abstract machine, defined in the C standard [1]. If you think that C maps to an actual CPU, you're already using C wrong, and it probably shows – in the form of undefined behavior bugs.

[1] standards, actually, pick your preferred version
Don't get me wrong - the Bangladesh study suggested that masks were a good public health initiative and should be used. What it didn't do was reassure me that they were a strong individual NPI.

In much the same way that not masking was recommended early in the pandemic as a public health initiative to reserve the masks for first responders - wasn't particularly good advice for the individual.
> But this age of bits-enabled protest has coincided with a slowdown in atoms-related progress. Altogether, America has too much venting and not enough inventing. We say that we want to save the planet from climate change—but in practice, many Americans are basically dead set against the clean-energy revolution, with even liberal states shutting down zero-carbon nuclear plants and protesting solar-power projects.

This implication that people are doing "too much" online protest seems like an insidious attempt to censor unwanted political discourse online, especially at a time when mass social gatherings can be dangerous super-spreader events. (The term "slacktivism" is another example of this attempt to disparage people's efforts to use the internet to raise awareness of important issues.)

As for why "we say" we are against climate change, but "many Americans" are against solving it, has the author considered that the people against solving it might not be the ones who think it is a problem? Without providing statistics, it's completely possible that these could be disjoint sets, and it's not inconceivable that some minority of people want to stop climate change but think that current efforts are enough (or that other proposals are not worth the cost).

The examples given are slightly weasel-worded, not listing which "liberal states" and which "solar-power projects" they mean, nor what the objections to those climate change measures are (nor how much support those policies really have), but it suffices to point out that California planning to eventually shut down its last nuclear power plant (which is on a fault line, and built in the 60's) can be compatible with climate goals, especially as the plant generated only 18.3 TWh in 2018, whereas solar generation alone increased by 23.0 TWh between 2013 and 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California#Electrici...
Exactly. Two additions:

- N95's are used in many other industrial settings - medical is just where they're used to protect against covid. They're terrific masks when used appropriately.

- N95's do nothing to protect against getting covid through your eyes, which is a perfectly viable means of contracting SARS-CoV-2, as with any similar virus [1]. This makes the 75x reduction figure seem particularly silly.

(disclaimer, I make a mask with integrated eye protection)

[1] I cite some studies here: https://narwallmask.com/#h:why-is-eye-protection
I'd strongly encourage you to look into your mask hierarchy. Cloth and surgical masks are not particularly evidence based devices. Even N95s have a lot of pseudoscience supporting their use (minimal size of viruses). They probably do something -- but go around in a well fitting N95 mask and an active lifestyle and you'll see that it's simply infeasible.

Your commentary about medical professionals is bizarre -- of course fewer medical professionals catch covid. They are exposed to it nearly constantly and generally have functional immune systems. If you work in a hospital, something you'll notice is you just stop getting sick very much.

Everything is a game of tradeoffs. Cloth masks in particular are obviously not worth the tradeoffs. Surgical masks are likely not. Maybe N95 are in particular situations.
The source provided by throw0101a shows that 21 states allow organization of private military unit without any authorization of state government at all. The 'common view' that they are 'allowed' seems to be rooted in reality.

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites...
Mullvad has a custom-built bare metal UEFI implementation based on coreboot, I assume stboot is an evolution of that, which means it takes as close as you can get to full responsibility for initialization of all system components like processor, chipset, Ethernet, USB, everything.

As a result they can absolutely disable USB entirely by never exposing those parts of the device tree to Linux.