skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Victorian government did in fact grant Djokovic an exemption: https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2022/1/11/explainer-why-aus...

Medical panels established by Tennis Australia and the Victoria government granted Djokovic exemption from vaccination to play at the Australian Open on that basis. Djokovic’s lawyers argued that he had every reason to believe the same standard applied at the border.

However, the federal government did not and now there's a lot of finger pointing – the Victorian government then also backtracked on it by refusing to file another exemption for Djokovic: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/05/novak-djokovics-vaccine-exem...

The Serbian arrived in Melbourne on Wednesday evening local time, but faced trouble at the border, with Acting Sports Minister Jaala Pulford confirming that the state government was not supporting his visa application to compete in the Australian Open.

She tweeted: “The Federal Government has asked if we will support Novak Djokovic’s visa application to enter Australia.

“We will not be providing Novak Djokovic with individual visa application support to participate in the 2022 Australian Open Grand Slam.

“We’ve always been clear on two points: visa approvals are a matter for the Federal Government, and medical exemptions are a matter for doctors.”

This is a particularly mind-boggling piece of grandstanding, given that the Victoria government had literally approved an exemption for him before. To make my position clear, I'm not at all a fan of what Djokovic is trying to pull and I think the guy should go and get vaccinated already, but this is a hot mess of the Australian governments trying to attempt some kind of face-saving measure.
The state of Victoria also granted him an exemption. I think it's funny that there can be miscommunication between the state and federal governments just like here in the U.S.
> Music is culture and important. Yes, it is important to be paid for your music, but it is more important for music to be heard.

If artists aren't paid for making art, much less art is created. So if music is important to you, you can't just ignore the question of how to pay for it.

It's nice to say "let's make art, not money", great soundbite, but artists are people just like everyone else, who deserve to be compensated for their work. And who can't live without having money to buy food.
I think it is great. You can buy DRM-free lossless music from countless sources like Bandcamp or Qobuz. And if you don't want to bother with that there's always Spotify & Co., which gives you access to a pretty large catalogue of music for a very reasonable price.
> I use reading glasses. Would I need to wear them inside the headset?

Depends. We're planning a diopter adjustment (either as baseline or as a stretch goal), which might be sufficient. Alternately, there's enough space in the headset for glasses and it'll also be possible to get prescription lens inserts.

> I dot lots of video conferencing. How would I appear in a zoom or msteams call with this on?

You would appear like you're wearing a headset. Not much we can do about that, unfortunately.
Obviously theft is not a long-term solution. Being a lowlife is no way to live. There are people working the skin off their bones on two jobs just to barely live. And some entitled shmuck wants the easy way out?
Don't assume. Not everybody is a native English speaker and able to pick up nuances such as when "quite a few" means "super many, lol" and when it means "a few" or "a bit more than a few".

(EDIT: TIL from the sibling comments that it always means "super many, lol" which surprised me) (I'm not a native English speaker)
Big discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29861752
The biggest problem for me is that this style of interview focuses on theoretical efficiency. And the discussions about the interview process only cares about "real world engineering" vs "interview questions". We are discussing algorithms and data structures. What about actual performance? Your code will run on real hardware. Are we interviewing considering that?

Do you know what memory alignment is? Padding? Branching? The implications in performance of a cache miss? These questions are never asked!

Two nested for loops O(n2) where you considered memory alignment and your cpu cache size when choosing the data structures and defining your structs will perform better than your O(log n) algo with a high missing rate and branching all over the place.

In my day to day I work on a garbage collected language (which I think are great, don't get me wrong) and I'm tired of seeing programmers thinking that memory is free, GC is free, syscalls and networking are magic...

Software engineering culture is broken in general. From the education phase to the "real world".
> This is bizarre logic. "I got screwed, so someone else should get screwed too!"

Not at all.

The government sets a bunch of strict rules with no exceptions and tells people it's very important that they obey the rules.

It's entirely reasonable for people to take that at face value - if these rules are important, they should apply to the rich and famous just like they do to everyone else.
And this one contradicts both cies and me, but it's in no way authoritative of anything.

Here are a few alternatives (equally unauthoritative, but demonstrating my use of the term):

"Strongly typed is a concept used to refer to a programming language that enforces strict restrictions on intermixing of values with differing data types. When such restrictions are violated and error (exception) occurs." ... "Examples of strongly typed languages in existence include Java, Ruby, Smalltalk and Python. In the case of Java, typing errors are detected during compilation Other programming languages, like Ruby, detect typing errors during the runtime." [1]

...

"Dynamically typed languages (where type checking happens at run time) can also be strongly typed. Note that in dynamically typed languages, values have types, not variables.

A weakly typed language has looser typing rules and may produce unpredictable or even erroneous results or may perform implicit type conversion at runtime." [2]

...

"A strongly-typed language is one in which variables are bound to specific data types, and will result in type errors if types do not match up as expected in the expression — regardless of when type checking occurs." [3]

This last one gives a clear delineation which mostly matches how I use it (e.g. C and PHP described as weakly typed - C allows you to override types and PHP does all kinds of nasty implicit conversions; conversely while specific Ruby API's may do conversions, the type system does not and do not allow implicit conversions, and do not allow you to coerce your way past the type system)

You can find all kinds of other variants, so sure, it's not a term that has a definition that everyone agrees about. Your linked article has a point that it's a term one need to define.

I however stand by my assessment that the definitions in most common use fits Ruby.

[1] https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24434/strongly-typed

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing

[3] https://medium.com/android-news/magic-lies-here-statically-t...
Around two months ago I started to do a rather minimal bodyweight fitness routine (around 30 minutes 3 times per week):

https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/routines/bwf...

I'm not sure how much of my motivation is the constant progress I'm making and how I will keep the motivation once progress slows down.
A more thorough article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/epstein-barr-viru...
“You agree that everything you write is work for hire owned by us, in return for your salary” is pretty common in full-time employment contracts. Certain jurisdictions have chosen to pass laws limiting it, so I suppose it would be legal otherwise.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

https://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=49.44.140

For morale and tech brand reasons, some companies have a process to officially bless releases of work they might have had a good case for owning.
He posted images, here you go

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And?It was prime?
> Is omnicron worse than a common cold?

Yes, in many cases substantially worse.

> If vaccinated people are spreading covid, and maybe more so

That's not accurate either.
Its kind of a victory that if I would participate and broke hands or legs of every reasonable player, I would win (a bit extreme but you get the point). Meaningless victory on its own, but trophy, bragging rights and sponsors contracts will follow nevertheless.
As an Australian I am ashamed of our government's actions. Purely political theater to appease their domestic base. But it has backfired royally on them. I hope the polls reflect this.
As another layperson, there seem to be links between virus and diseases that are at face value completely unrelated, HPV and cancer, Epstein-Barr and MS, H. Zooster and Alzheimer.

Makes you wonder how many more diseases we will eventually find out are actually triggered by viral infection.
The idea that a diplomatic passport can save this guy is kind of delusional. In the event that being issued one while in Australia would actually change his status, the Australian government can expel foreign diplomats at will. It's not like Serbia has some strategic importance to them.
> Australians have been barred from visiting a dying parent in hospital, blocked from seeing a new grandchild and forbidden from having a wedding. Should they accept that a tennis star gets the leeway they were denied?

No, they should not have accepted being barred perhaps. When you are oppressed just insisting no other one is treated justfully (the way the court decided in accordance with the law) is not a morally right solution. Also expelling a person who has already got in the country physically and attended a courts makes no sense from the epidemiological point of view - he has already brought the virus in if he had it.

And by the way attending a wedding or a family meeting where people stand close, often in a small room, is quite different from just visiting a country or playing tennis (which doesn't require you to stand close to anybody, let alone in a room).
Same in Portugal.
Time locks have been around for more than 100 years, I'm pretty confident that if something like this was desired by the powers that be, it would have been implemented. What I'm assuming is stopping it aren't the engineering challenges, but the fact that currently it's cheaper to let the thefts happen than it is to mitigate them.
This is a loaded question.

In slovenia, more people have died from smoking related illnesses than covid (even in the last two years), but somehow "corona lives matter", peoples personal choices to go out, get ill, and risk the 0.5% chance of death don't matter, governments take more and more power, because "every life matters", but on the other hand, you can still buy cigarettes everywhere.

If every life matters, then ban cigarettes, tax the shit out of sugary sodas and junk food, if you're willing to sacrifice basic human rights, also force people to exercise, and more lives will be saved than from corona. If all those lives don't matter, but corona lives do, someone is doing something very very wrong.
YouTube moderation is probably in a tight place financially. IIRC they've never generated a return on investment for Google, so all their revenue is split between paying creators and keeping the lights on. Could they pay thousands of people with bachelor degrees a quality salary to research a couple dozen videos a day for the highest-quality moderation? Sure, but the shareholders and creators on the platform want their share as well, and the viewers already hate the amount of ads on the videos. So we will probably have a skeleton crew of low-pay low-skill workers reviewing thousands of videos a day for moderation for the rest of the foreseeable future without something outside of the company forcing quality moderation otherwise.
Computer model seeks to explains the spread of misinformation: like a disease
Pretty sure that it's OOTB for completely vanilla Emacs.
As someone that speaks Serbian, him and his family offer an endless source of entertainment. Like for example his father comparing the situation to Jesus' crucifixion, or Novak's regular pilgrimage to Bosnian "pyramid" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_pyramid_claims) for its magical healing power.
For people who are skeptical of how regulation can help with this, Japan actually used to financially penalize buying large cars relative to small cars. The small ones are called kei cars: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car

There's much less of a savings benefit to buying kei cars since 2014, but they remain very popular. The decades of government incentive probably helped normalize them, and they really do seem to fit better in Japan's smaller streets.
He blocked himself from participating by being an anti-vax idiot.
I dunno, I’ve been using iTerm for years, which fully supports Cmd+arrow to jump to the start and end of lines.

You’re correct, it would very much annoy me if my terminal was inconsistent with the rest of the system, and I am disappointed that the system terminal is not setting a good example.
I'm pretty sure they are many criterias that would prevent a top player from participating.

It's the best player who is not injured, has not taken any drug, is not sick, accepts all the rules of the ATP, including all the anti doping procedures all year long which are pretty invasive, who can get a visa to come to the tournament, etc etc.
The (probable) origins of MS uncovered
I'm not directly familiar with GraphQL but using known standards is always good.

I'm not exactly sure how it would work though. Is Python's Flat is better than Nested principle relevant here?
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say but... it's the purpose of elections to gauge public opinion of government actions.

https://twitter.com/BenRothenberg/status/1481535321204727809

On top of that taking this to a referendum would have been a waste of money and time.
It's trivial to find: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-to-england-from-another-c...
Not much within reason that you can do to stop a portable oxy torch, and the train doesn't need to be stopped, they just need to hop on and off at the right times. People hop moving trains all the time. All you're doing is shifting the numbers around in the same equation.

But I think the bigger issue is just that you're talking about retrofitting an aspect of the global transport complex. Why would the entire shipping industry change it's approach to standardized containers just to stop some thieves at a specific American spot? The cost of using special containers for this specific route would be prohibitive I imagine, and hard to manage the logistics of.
Following a comment I saw on HN, we now have several code snippets that we ask them to read through (biggest is like 12 lines) and tell us, at a high level, what it's trying to do. Great results, we've found people who learnt all the lingo completely failed when it came to reading and interpreting code.
I literally sold my old apartment last year for almost the same price I got it for… so no profit. And my current home was bought this year… therefore considering the current housing market.
> keeping the file sent to you is a copyright violation, because YouTube didn't authorise such use

Except that the copyright of the contents is with the creators, not YouTube. And also something being in the terms of use does not make it legal, and they cannot make fair use illegal.
Well maybe. There's a unprecedented pandemic on, it would be surprising if the rules were not proportionate to that.
Why sacrifice yourself before your political career ended? Why not do it afterwards with extremely high capital gains and income taxes (100% tax for anything above $200k) for retired politicians?
I don't think people < 60 have significantly more problems to adjust than younger peers, but one simple fact is that younger people usually demand less benefits.

Sometimes people want to test how you react to offensive questions, although these seems to be borderline illegal depending on your country. Maybe they want to know if you take the opportunity to advertise maturity or something or get defensive about it.
You'll have to be more specific than "EU" because I've never seen an American-style SUV in Western Europe. Closest I can get is a crossover SUV like a Mercedes GLA.
It is a thing in Romania with larger cars like BMW X5 and so on.

That's mostly because it was fairly easy to get a drivers license with bribes up until a few years after joining EU. (until the anti-corruption agency was set up)

Also due to crappy roads and very aggressive drivers in larger cities. Rich people would just buy the larger car to protect children either from their stupidity or other drivers.
You are confusing high profile art theft in Europe with low profile UPS theft in the US.

The trains are clearly being robbed out of desperation by the poorest citizens. If those citizens lived in the EU, they would have free healthcare, free education, unemployment subsidies and housing. And so they would not be forced to steal our packages.
If it's true the that he lied on the form and was going around doing press stuff while positive with COVID then they're seeming pretty reasonable. You or I would get the book thrown at us in this situation.
CCTV in an age of universal and accepted mask-wearing is pretty ineffective. I have video of people breaking into my business and stealing five figures worth of goods a few years back with specific identification of them, forwarded to the police, who have done nothing with it. Non-violent crimes (specifically property damage or theft) just aren't prosecuted, especially on the west coast.
But the grandparent comment assumes that you can keep a certain percentage of engineers you want to by making them an offer that gets them to stick around.
After Xenix and DG/UX, only available at the campus, getting Slackware 2.0 as cover CD on the Linux Unleashed first edition was the workaround of having a UNIX at home given that NT POSIX wasn't going to cut it.

I had to copy the files into the disk and do an installation from hard disk to hard disk via boot floppy as my SATA-IDE CD-ROM wasn't reckognised by it at the time.

Nice to see it still going on.
Even disregarding that the exemption was issued by the tennis association to play in the tournament, not for entering the country… it was predicated on him being able to provide a valid medical reason, _and_ not lying on his entry documents. Neither of which he managed to do.
One of the early papers on the Big Bang was by Alpher, Bethe, and Gamow.
Literally 1984 or 1989 or something like that
To give some other perspective, here's the text from Djokovic's statement on his Instagram page:

> STATEMENT BY NOVAK DJOKOVIC 12 January 2022

I want to address the continuing misinformation about my activities and attendance at events in December in the lead up to my positive PCR COVID test result.

This is misinformation which needs to be corrected, particularly in the interest of alleviating broader concern in the community about my presence in Australia, and to address matters which are very hurtful and concerning to my family.

I want to emphasise that I have tried very hard to ensure the safety of everyone and my compliance with testing obligations.

I attended a basketball game in Belgrade on 14 December after which it was reported that a number of people tested positive with COVID 19. Despite having no COVID symptoms, I took a rapid antigen test on 16 December which was negative, and out of an abundance of caution, also took an official and approved PCR test on that same day.

The next day I attended a tennis event in Belgrade to present awards to children and took a rapid antigen test before going to the event, and it was negative.

I was asymptomatic and felt good, and I had not received the notification of a positive PCR test result until after that event.

The next day, on 18 December I was at my tennis centre in Belgrade to fulfil a long-standing commitment for a L’Equipe interview and photoshoot. I cancelled all other events except for the L’Equipe interview.

I felt obliged to go ahead and conduct the L’Equipe interview as I didn’t want to let the journalist down, but did ensure I socially distanced and wore a mask except when my photograph was being taken.

While I went home after the interview to isolate for the required period, on reflection, this was an error of judgement and I accept that I should have rescheduled this commitment.

On the issue of my travel declaration, this was submitted by my support team on my behalf as I told immigration officials on my arrival - and my agent sincerely apologises for the administrative mistake in ticking the incorrect box about my previous travel before coming to Australia. This was a human error and certainly not deliberate. We are living in challenging times in a global pandemic and sometimes these mistakes can occur. Today, my team has provided additional information to the Australian Government to clarify this matter.

While I felt it was important to address and clarify misinformation I will not be making any further comment out of utmost respect for the Australian Government and their authorities and the current process.

It is always an honour and a privilege to play in the Australian Open. The Australian Open is much-loved by players, fans and the community, not just in Victoria and in Australia, but around the globe, and I just want to have the opportunity to compete against the best players in the world and perform before one of the best crowds in the world.[1]

[1]: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYnO7cDqbdj/
Mandating that players who are in the highest risk group for myocarditis must be vaccinated had no good basis to begin with
No, it’s not bizarre at all.
If he really was positive in December and attended several events while knowing that he was positive without taking any precautions it’s a criminal behaviour and they have all the rights to ban him on these grounds.
If he wasn’t positive then it means that he forged his test certificate, that is equally bad.
I don’t see any issue in banning someone that has been proven to be an health danger for the general population.
> it does seem like various branches of the Australian government are infighting and contradicting each other. If Mr Djokovic was not good to arrive, could they not have got their act together, and told him so clearly, before he set off?

It’s not an appearance, scotty from marketing wanted the states to bear the brunt of the issue, so Djokovic was “good to arrive” in Australia, which didn’t mean he was good to arrive in Vic, or that everything was ship-shape with him playing.
COVID deaths in Australia are currently the highest they've ever been, how many people usually die of colds in a given day?
I agree with this wholeheartedly, as someone currently going through a similar experience.

Management is an incredibly complex job, especially in software engineering, and the fact that we "promote" senior developers to it as if being a good developer was the only requirement to being a good manager is part of the issue in my opinion.

I'm sorry you went through this, and I'm glad you were able to extract some good out of it.