skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this study, with two people talking 3 meters apart and one infected, if only the non-infected person wears an ordinary surgical mask (not n95), it increases the time to the 90% bound for infection risk from 1.5 minutes to 30 minutes. So at least in theory it's certainly not for nothing.
I'm sure it depends on your vantage point, but I would argue that ML is more likely to be considered a subset of Statistics than the other way around.
Interesting note; the original game is the third result on DuckDuckGo. An app store result is the first one, followed by a polygon article, then the game
> You likely won't be able to get work with any firm that has customers in the financial, military, and medical spaces. This rules out a lot of sectors common to the UK and major cities. No hosting companies, Cloud vendors, service/consulting companies of reasonable size, etc.

What is this based on? I've had 2 checks in 19 years of working privately, including contracting for 15 of those, many of which were outside the UK. Nobody in the chain, not HR, hiring managers or recruiters are incentivized to examine a candidate deeply once they've been accepted for a role, and for contracting HR rarely even enters the picture.

In both cases where a check was carried out, it was for a company I could not recommend working for regardless of income. One of these resulted in the only time I have needed a solicitor to ensure timely payments. From this angle failing DBS sounds like it might be a blessing in disguise for OP
He's doesn't seem very credible though. For example, there's a lot of very obvious reasons which could help explain this[1].

1: https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1481042778293358593
What is good practice today is bad practice tomorrow.
It's hard to believe that people working in one of the most seek-ed/desired jobs in the Valley / tech world, are unaware of how things might be elsewhere.
The FED changed its definition of M1 by including deposits that were previously only part of M2. M2 always includes M1. The surge in M1 in April 2020 is because its definition changed. Would you elaborate on why and when you believe M2 was changed to "look less bad"?
Everyone will have a laundry list of things they need, depending on their use case. I'd like a general purpose language that fits somewhere near C#, Swift, and go. Similar to, but simpler and higher level than rust. Basically, take rust and sacrifice some of the lower level power for slower, but simpler more concise programs.

- A strong static type system, but not as in-your-face as Rusts. Abstractions must be cheap in runtime, but not so cheap as to come at the price of more complex programs OR SYNTAX. Strong support for things like sum times with exhaustive matching. Generics. No Nulls. Annotations. All the things you expect from a modern language.

- Struct-oriented imperative programming, like Rust. That is: not a functional language, not an OO language, but a focus on imperative and immutable.

- A runtime with a garbage collector, to enable the above.

- Utf8 strings

- A rust like error handling system with catchable panics for "actually exceptional" things, and forced Result/Option types for everything normal.
AI has been co-opted as a synonym for machine learning, if only for marketing purposes. Machine learning existed for decades before it was "renamed" as AI.

I just don't see anything intelligent yet. People somehow have gotten confused with the success of machine learning being treated as intelligence. We have a lot of statistical models of things that are very successful, but those aren't considered intelligent. For reason, machine learning telling you something about data has suddenly been treated as AI. Machine learning can do some impressive things, but I think its short-sighted to equate AI and machine learning.

Intelligence is really a tough thing. Watching a video of even a single-cell organism displays a sort of intelligence and behavior far beyond anything I've seen of machine learning. So why is it intelligent? Or is it intelligent? I'm not entirely sure, but my point is that machine learning is orders of magnitude incapable of describing (i.e., modeling) even the simplest self-directed and self-adapting behavior that we see in the real world.
How is the pandemic over?
This honestly scares me more than the new Wi-Fi standards that can sense through walls. This feels like it allows for much more ubiquitous surveillance. They might not know your precise location, but they'll always have a rough idea where you've been making it impossible to avoid more precise tech.
Thank god we have these fact checkers now, otherwise we would actually have to use our own judgement as adults, and we all know where that leads - people coming to the "wrong" conclusions!
Jack Dorsey tweeted that hyperinflation is real, so all Block (nee Square) employees are having their compensation 10x to deal with it. True story!
Leadership structure and bureaucracy are the basic problems of all organizations. Empowered executive and operational roles with non-sticky seats subject to collective input would work. But the problem remains the human element and dynamics of group pyschology.
The Science Behind Why We Age – Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #1
And the thing is it doesn't necessarily have to be one cause. In fact it almost certainly isn't just one thing.

But yes, inflating the USD is the elephant in the room. I am not surprised either.

Why? Because, whether one agrees with the economic decisions of the last 2 years, we have fiat currency for a reason. The whole point of being able to stretch the dollar, or not having the dollar be based on anything tangible, is so that all holders of USD are effectively taxable.

That being true, is anyone from the IMF to the Federal Reserve to the US Treasury and Congress going to be upfront about the implicit taxability of the dollar? Most Americans are completely oblivious to this; although even Gen Z and Alpha are privy to price increases, most people don't conceptualize inflation as a devaluing of the dollar itself, but rather as the increase of prices of items in isolation. They don't realize that these price increases are effectively planned and that they occur to the benefit of someone else, as opposed to being the result of some force of nature or incompetence of leadership. Even those who have a sense that they are being robbed might not put two and two together, in part because of articles like these that blame easy things, like corporate fat cats or, worse, the people themselves buying "too much" at the behest of the advertising industry.

If mainstream economists and politicians came out and openly said that inflation is a tax and that they're just going to keep printing more currency when they feel like it and keep raising the debt ceiling, the narrative would collapse because too many people would gradually lose faith in the system. The Soviet Union still appeared more powerful than it really was for many years, but the true reason it came crashing down was that the Russian people lost faith in it. You can keep a failing system going indefinitely if everyone believes in it and plays along with the game of charades. If people stop playing the game, all of a sudden it's apparent that everything they valued was imaginary all along.

So yeah, expect more rhetorical gymnastics from DC. The incentive structure is not there to have them speak otherwise.
Google just increased executive pay massively, while telling employees inflation was transitory and not to expect a cola. Also, they say they don't pay based on cost of living, but rather "the top of the market". They get this number by sharing salary info from many companies and bidding just slightly higher than the rest.

It's a pretty blatant attempt to collude with other companies to keep wages down, and keep exec pay high. This, folks, is why we need a union.
They were tested with both poorly fitted and well fitted FFP2s.
I interpret it as eliminating the barrier to entry to those that know how to set up custom equipment. I haven't tried, so I don't know how large that barrier is, but it seems safe to say there's a very low probability a random person could accomplish it now vs when it's default hardware and requires no technical expertise.
Jumping ship makes sense for each individual. I think the question is whether it makes sense for someone at the top of the org who can change this.
Could I have a cite on this, to satisfy my curiosity? What was changed? By whom? Where's the evidence that it was changed on purpose, for this specific reason?
A related topic would be collective bargaining - which is often (but not always) associated with a unionized workplace. If you're a sub-standard employee, you win big through collective bargaining because pay bands will move toward the mean. If however, you are a high-performer, you will likely be under-compensated in a collective bargaining environment because your excess effort will be used to compensate those who contribute less. In a non-collective workplace, you will be evaluated and compensated on your personal contribution and negotiation skills.
Spot on. The UK is a particularly acute example.

Dwindling fossil fuel reserves is something that most people have known about for decades, now. I used to frequent forums, read books and watch documentaries about Peak Oil as a teenager in the 2000s.

Fast-forward to 2022 and I've just been offered a "deal" by my energy provider of £3000 up from £1200 last year. Unsurprising given this country relies on imported natural gas for almost all of its heating and over half of its electricity generation.

And yet, much of the conversation in the press is literally, unironically blaming green initiatives and calling for cutting the meagre taxes that fund them.

We're in this mess and facing a bigger mess because every successive government has kicked the can same as with everything else. Choosing a new one with a popularity contest every four years is starting to seem naive and unfit for purpose, frankly. The failure is systemic.
I think it's more about the direction of the water vapor than the fact that the masks can pass vapor. If there was no leakage one might expect vapor to leave through the mask uniformly or in the same pattern as it did without masking (e.g. mostly forward.)
I don't know, but I feel like the past 13 years just let the dry powder accumulate. COVID and resulting stimulus and supply shocks were the spark. When speculators saw the market dynamics they were able to use the cheap money to speculate, kicking off a feeding frenzy. Markets are non-linear. I think we crossed an important threshold in March 2020 and the fed wasn't active enough to realize or react to it.

That said, you did see asset prices reach questionable levels even before COVID. I pulled most of my money out of the market in late 2019 for that exact reason. I was convinced we were due for a correction then.
The narrative for decades has been "if you don't graduate from college you might be destined to be a loser." I think that's part of what needs to change.

But I also think the student debt problem is more nuanced than just "terrible majors". Tuition has increased faster than just about anything (sans healthcare, I believe) while wages were mostly stagnant. Previous generations could largely get through college debt-free working part-time at minimum wage, regardless of major. So I don't think the student debt crisis can be chalked up to "terrible major" selection. The level of student debt is, in part, driven by the way universities spend money to attract "customers" err...I mean students. I think we need to find a way to mitigate colleges being run like businesses in that respect.
This isn't tech related. Washington post is trying to manipulate public opinion again. They are trying to use pathos to make us agree to some law that has a bigger agenda than caring about the lives of children.
Some companies are doing this but it varies by industry. I have family on the comp boards of a few publicly traded companies and they are doing across the board raises of 5-9%.

My current company is not and so I have been interviewing.
In rust an int is an int, in Python this changes with versions. Std lib needs to change along.

> Version pinning is a bad practice because it slows deployment of security updates.

How is that not true for stdlibs?

> It also only works for end applications, as libraries cannot reasonably pin their own dependencies.

Really?
The guy has been working on this almost 25 years. That's not pitching and abandoning.
By my own very much baseless estimation of people wearing FFP2 in Germany: about 10% have their noses out, 60% have the mask completely unfitted, and 30% have at least tried to fit it.
> In Germany a company needs to be profitable. If you run your business at a deficit for too long, you get your business closed, and then you usually even have to pay back a lot of taxes.

What is this about? The government forcibly closes companies that lose money?
It was actually entirely done through the professor’s notes. I’m not sure what the reference materials were but it seemed pretty standard (group theory up to free groups and relations, ring theory up to principal ideals).
This[0] shows an overall 4% wage increase for all employees compared to last year, while inflation is up 7% year over year. Wages are not keeping up with inflation.

[0]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CES0500000003#0
It might be useful for sourcers and recruiters, but the interviewers never look at your Linkedin profile.
I don't know about blue and green bubbles, but it is super annoying when somebody "likes" my message. Really? A simple Ok or Thanks will suffice.
Shutting down is the last resort. If Telegram wants to continue operation, they have to comply to the local laws.

Infiltration also isn't as easy as it sounds. They can use that as a defense. Which actually happend several years ago. They failed to get rid of the NPD, a Neo-Nazi party, because they couldn't be sure if their plans were legit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_G...

Getting a company to obey the law is probably easier.
That's certainly a possibility, but is that intelligent or are paintbrushes already intelligent? :) In other words, in that case, it would simply be a tool directed by an intelligent being. We have that in many senses with generative and other computer-based art.
I have seen airlines discourage that. I wonder whether it makes things better or worse (or whether it is some sort of prisoner's dilemma - making it better for yourself, but worse for others?).
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/6/22870787/mozilla-pauses-cr...
Housing, healthcare, school are still things that most people are involved with, and they have experienced massive inflation.
No problems with age. Hope to be hiring fairly soon - optimisation and statistics - happy to chat.
Keeping in mind I can always be wrong or remembering incorrectly

I really thought there was some good data that came out showing that the profits made from elective surgeries that the mid to large hospitals churn out absolutely dwarfs the profits made from COVID patients. I think there were a few of the massive hospitals where COVID patients $ was near breaking even… but it just doesn’t add up.

The summary was that by the end of this a good amount of hospitals will likely go under due to revenue lost from repeated cancellations of elective surgeries unless they get some form of bailout.

I guess we’ll see anyways.
Even professors doing trendy "AI" research conflate the two terms.

Only because doing "AI" gets you bigger grants.
What do we learn from that?
> But why is my grocery bill 40% higher than it was 2 years ago?

Massive widespread crop failure. https://www.bakingbusiness.com/articles/54799-usda-confirms-...
So if it has a history of working with other viruses, why would you think this is a crowd control exercise and not attempting something which has worked before?
The Origins and Nature of Computation (2006)
Neural Style Transfer in the Browser with WebDNN
> There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.

But there is! Few parents say "I hope Jimmy grows up to become a great carpenter." White collar professionalism is what we groom our kids for.
IF!! You have kids learning math is right there with a full program. I forgot all my math so I keep up with my kids and help at least 15 minutes per day. I have been tripped up with 5th grade word problems - it is fun. Follow along with your kids math - it will move quicker than you think.

I remember my last math class: Number theory. I got through the final, shook the professors hand and told him, "this is the end of intellectual ability". I have never seen a professor laugh that hard. Once you get past abstract math classes thin out fast and it just gets weird.
> then try to find your contacts again (which may be cached by your client or not)

You can save XMPP account IDs in any mobile address book.

> Finally, you have to convince "someone" that this is just you with another account on another server. There is also no verified E2EE anymore.

I'd pretty much just do a video call at that point.

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

You don't have to use another client software.

> 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.

Equally applies to most messaging apps out there. Some XMPP apps have the benefit of also supporting using Tor and hidden services - Signal/WhatsApp/etc, don't.

Don't want to use the Internet at all and your friends live close by? You can even go wild and do something like:

- https://github.com/ddamianus/Lora-Chat-Device

- https://github.com/jgoerzen/ax25xmpp

I realize this is something most people would not do, but XMPP's _flexibility_ allows this to be an option if it was something people wanted. Can't do Signal over LoRa.
People still work for Amazon, so we can be sure it is nevertheless true that some people don't know how good things could be for them.
Scittle: Write ClojureScript in an HTML script tag
I've used Rescript (and ReasonML before that) for side projects, I really like it. I'd say it main strength is also its main weaknesses; it's not JS with a C# sauce (like TS), it's OCaml'ish with a JS sauce, making it really nice in many ways but also harder to pick up for JS folks.

That's where Typescript clearly has the advantage; being just JS with types makes it much easier to get started, and the fact that its #huge also helps a lot.

It's a bit sad as I think ReScript is much better on many fronts: the type system with crazy good inference and soundness, very easy to configure and add to existing projects (it just outputs JS files even with TS types), the module system is amazing (gone with imports) and creating simple bindings to existing JS/TS is also quite easy once you understand the basics, I'd go as far as saying it's easier than TS . It's also really fast, both the compilation as well as the JS it outputs.

Because of the adoption hurtle I doubt it will be as big as TS, but I really hope it gains enough momentum and usage to just sit comfy in its niche, for that I think it needs to grow a bit further.

I do think the ReScript team has made incredible progress on all fronts; I think ReScript is much easier to pick up than Reason, because of the language tweaks, but also the new website is so much better than the scattered docs in multiple places.

I hope it will continue to improve and more people will give it a go!
Does this technology only work in select places or are underground caverns fairly commonplace?
They were saying you shouldn't generalize the "job market" by taking anecdotes from "the tech job market." Responding with another tech market anecdote doesn't refute their claim.
Figure out who benefits and profits from those things.

IoT is largely a "push" system in which hardware is sold for under cost to get it out into people's homes and businesses for data collection, and VR promises to be the sort of thing that will, after some short experimentation, end up in a "Yeah, I mean, we figured out how to make cell phones addictive to maximize user engagement and behavioral surplus for profit, but they're nothing compared to THIS!" state.
FAANG stock price increases and the California startup bubble have increased money availability to the US software industry and massively inflated what coders cam earn there over the last 15 years. Eventually this has translated in raises across the US as other companies lost their best coders to FAANG (and MS and unicorns that pay six digits).

Europe remains fairly isolated from this effect because (a) not enough EU coders want to move to the US even at triple the salary to cause a shortage of coders there and (b) FAANG and US firms can get away with paying less in Europe because remote work is not yet quite equivalent to being on-prem in the US...
I’ll give you a hint: they don’t have one. they just want to complain.

Kind of shocking to see objectivity normally flexed by HN thrown out the window as soon as the subject of masks comes up.
Wow, thanks, I appreciate the correction. Very much not my area, but I had no idea.
Germany doesn't have adtech companies like Facebook and Google that vacuum up cash from the entire globe and deposit it all into San Francisco, or finance companies that vacuum up sketchy money from global oligarchs and deposit it all into London.

Why don't German developers move to SF or London? Some do, but then they're not software developers in Germany...

Why don't SF and London companies hire Germans to work remotely? Some are willing to - but they're also willing to hire Polish and Bulgarian developers, so the market rate isn't that great.
I’m not tone policing if that’s what you’re suggesting. If that is indeed what you’re suggesting, then the failure in comprehension is your own.

My criticism is not about how something was said. My criticism is specifically about what was said, in that I found it irrelevant.

I’d like to learn more about the topic, but I can’t learn anything about the topic from personal judgements made about an interlocutor. It’s just noise and detracts from the argument being made.
I think it's more complicated than that. The projects that are getting the funding are usually the hard, technical ones, but that funding also supports better docs + more time for API design. This doesn't apply to bleeding edge stuff, but look back through the core SciML libraries and there's no shortage of effort directed towards "dull" stuff like docs + improving compile times. Likewise for the core language: a lot of recent work is bread and butter engineering like (again) improving compile times, filing rough edges off of APIs and (gradually) tackling the deployment story.

Now, one area where this dull problem work isn't as noticeable is on the "core" deep learning libraries (Flux and Zygote). AFAICT those two haven't received any significant funding for a couple of years, and there is at most 1 full time, active contributor for both of them. Compare with JAX or even higher-level wrapper libraries like Flax, Haiku or PyTorch Lightning, which have 5-10+ full time core devs. Given this, is it surprising that progress on anything (including docs + interface design) is slow?
It's really trivial for an employer to do, and it's required by compliance regulations.