skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make it sound as if this was the majority but it is not by a long shot.
30 people who were working in the Downing St buildings stepped out to the garden to talk to colleagues. It’s not a big deal. Indeed they would be safer outside than inside. Safer than the NHS nurses posting dance videos on TikTok from their ward. We’re not talking about an illegal rave in a Whitehall basement here.
This always boils down to the push-pull between self-centered and group-centered people. The self-centered only care about themselves, and favor letting the weak die to further that end. I think they sound like monsters, and they probably think I sound like a "cuck."
Another example of using a different metric, from Hans Rosling:

>> A decade ago I lectured to the staff of the Ministry of Health in Cuba. After my talk the Minister happily said, this graphs showed that Cuba is the healthiest of the poor countries! On the way out a young staff member whispered in my ear:

>> – He is wrong, Cuba is just the poorest of the healthy countries.

https://www.gapminder.org/news/cuba-poorest-of-the-healthy/
I'm not assessing whether it is creepy or not, but how can 'it sells' have any place in that argument?
Ask HN: Where Is the COLA?
Cost Of Living Adustment (COLA): increasing pay to match inflation to result in a net zero change in purchasing power. theoretically separate from performance review/salary raise.

Why aren't companies doing this? I've only seen one company since leaving the military that does performance review+COLA to change pay. Myself and many friends got a ~3% pay "raise" last year when mostly everyone agrees inflation was ~6%! This is a pay cut. (the one company i personally know that does cola+performance, the CEO is prior military).

isnt this obviously bad? you guarantee employee turnover to keep ratcheting payscale (which the US is seeing on historic scale) and disgruntle the remaining workforce. does everyone really think theyre saving on payroll short- and long- term by not doing COLA?

what am i missing?
You're trying to make a joke, but the flippant dismissal of all the UB is pretty much exactly what they're talking about.

Writing C with a "how hard can it be?" attitude is a great way to get a CVE named after you.
I think we have different oppinions of what the word fact means but the general consens is something like this. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fact
Language semantics != stdlib.
To put a slightly finer point on it, I can't see through your walls with my lightbulb, but I probably can see through your walls with my router.

Your creepy neighbor in the apartment next door is getting a new toy.
Thanks for inspiring some hope in me Bart.

I think today will be a good day.
A piece on the radio yesterday said that officially (statistically) rents aren't up much, but new leases and people renewing are seeing something like 20+ percent increases. IMHO there is a LOT going on that's not captured by the official numbers.
That's not what soundness means in a type system. Of course untyped input has to be parsed and validated.

An unsound type system means that you can write code that compiles, but experiences a runtime error caused specifically by the types (not the values or the business logic conditions) not actually being compatible. The famous example is having an array of a subtype being used as an array of the supertype:

function doStuff(animals: Animal[]) {
animals.clear()
animals.push(new Cat())
}

const dogs: Dog[] = [new Dog()]

doStuff(dogs)

dogs[0].bark() // <-- type error

In a sound type system, that code would not compile because we know that you can't treat an array of Dog as an array of Animal in general.
Nobody is advocating an N95 mask for the rest of your life.
How is nullable by default fixed in c#? The typesystem is perfectly fine, as well as generics. Do note that the majority of languages does type erasure - it is not a flaw, but a feature.

Boxed/unboxed I agree could take a bit of love but that is happening with Valhalla.
FWIW inflation is great for existing debt holders - you get to pay back that $1 you borrowed with $0.93 worth of inflation adjusted earning. If this keeps up for 5 years your effective debt burden drops 30%

This all assumes earnings rise with inflation, which does seem to sort of be happening.
If the OS doesn't get updated, then some of those electron apps might stop working properly as they are expecting to target a particular version of Chromium.
Hence it gives "only" a 70x boost in protection, not a 100% protection cast iron guarantee.
I find it fascinating that people are so against inheritance/polymorphism, these days.

That's one of the absolute best ways to DRY. factoring out common base classes is a classic OO exercise. It's possible to drastically reduce the size of a codebase, and the potential error exposure, by doing some simple extractions.
Not defending the original comment because no source was provided, but I didn't know this was up for debate. It stands to reason. Now, how much more unvax vs vax are dying could be debated, but to say they are dying at the same rate would be to claim that the vaccine has no affect whatsoever.
Thanks for the links everyone. I wasn't aware of Crystal. I'll check it out.
> Still, the firm found that U.S. emissions in 2021 remained 5% below 2019 levels.
Agreed, perhaps there's a lot we can learn from their experiment. For example, by not using artificial lighting do they have a habit of "two sleeps" like our ancestors did?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva...
AFAIK you can turn some of that off if you like compiling kernels and I think there are some sysctl tuning parameters you could play with.
There a lot of cases in scientific computing where using "glue code" of any sort can kill performance. You miss compile-time optimizations that can perform whole-program analysis.

As a result, despite Julia being very FFI-friendly, the Julia community is trying to move towards a "pure Julia" ecosystem. Sometimes this attitude makes sense (Julia-native BLAS), other times not (Julia has no HTTP/2 packages).
This is just another version of the "so you don't care about the children?" argument.
Working at Coinbase: Intense and demanding, balanced by deliberate recharge time
I didn't use the word "exact." But regardless, the way CPI measures are used by policymakers and others assume they are highly accurate. Otherwise a 2% increase in the CPI would be meaningless, since there could either be inflation or deflation.
No. I have never used LinkedIn to apply for a job, and have received multiple offers (and solicitations to interview) without ever having one. But I've also never worked or applied at a place that seemed to expect me to have a LinkedIn.

In my experience, having a personal website has all of the upsides of being on a "professional" social network with none of the downsides.
No, it’s the perfect reason for not pulling software into the standard library, which has strong backwards compatibility guarantees and cannot be as cavalier about changing interfaces and deprecations as external crates.
Agree with this and would also add: in addition to being able to do algebra fast and have it be second-nature, at higher levels it helps if you are able to do it 100% accurately. 5 nines isn't enough.

I didn't appreciate this until I was a graduate physics student and was frequently frustrated by minor algebra errors in long, complex problems.
Could you pleeease go tell all of the people that have overflowed the ICUs of the nations hospitals that they’re overreacting & should just go home with their common cold symptoms.

Because there’s currently like 2500+ national guard members deployed to hospitals in my state alone, all elective procedures are cancelled in the major hospitals of multiple states (anything that won’t literally kill you in 3 days is elective, even end stage cancer surgeries), other types of appointments are backed up for months, and quite frankly - for the appointments I and acquaintances have had - providers are burnt the fuck out from two years of this.

Like, seriously. When thousands of national guard members have to be routed to civilian hospitals to keep them running - I don’t think “science” is taking a loss. It said this was going to happen, all of you “it’s just the common cold” people made everybody rage against science and not care, and now nobody can get meaningful healthcare because the person the nurses & attendings are referring to as “the walking dead” just have to be kept alive & filling an ICU bed for 3+ weeks stuffed with a ventilator they’re never going to have removed until they’re dead.
I'm in a small city in the midwest and if you went to a store today you would think there was no covid. It isn't like my state was declared the least safe for covid or anything.

I went to see Spider-Man at a 4pm matinee -the first movie I've seen in a theater since this all started and I was the only person in the theater wearing a mask.

And my state attorney general is going on tv saying he doesn't believe the statistics and the state legislature is says that teachers need to be impartial when teaching about nazis...

And people wonder why I'm such a misanthrope.
No. But it’s still worth buying a 10-pack and see whether it solves some of your problems, because in the worst case, you still have 9 masks which will actually protect you from the virus.
I'm about 80% sure that this graph eventually ends up back at the initial state.
yes, but no, it isn't "just 10 minutes", you should give it the care and attention you'd give to your cv or any other professional presentation of yourself.
You're describing pretty much every country with more-or-less free elections.

What is true is that, whether people in the US look around their own country or look across the pond at Europe overall, it's increasingly difficult to lay everything on one political party and one politician in particular. Or indeed to argue that most policies/interventions (other than vaccinations that tend to prevent serious outcomes) make a huge difference at all.
I've always been interested in what programming might look like if it evolved from a non-linguistic base. We tend to assume that having programming using a text-representation is the obvious move but what if a different set of historical/technological priors had led us to build programming abstractions upon something completely different?
15GW of coal plants will retire in the US in 2022 [1]. 79 percent of new electrical generation or supply capacity in 2022 will be solar, wind, nuclear, and batteries (per the US EIA) [2].

Sure, there's still about 10GW of natural gas coming online, but if natural gas price volatility/price stays high, that'll rapidly drive uptake of low/no carbon generation tech and batteries. And in the interim, that natural gas is cleaner than coal.

Follow along as global electrical grids decarbonize at https://app.electricitymap.org/map?wind=false&solar=false

[1] https://www.power-eng.com/coal/coal-to-represent-85-of-elect...

[2] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2022/01/10/solar-expected-to-be-...
High inflation and rising wages is a great time to have lots of debt! Certainly much better than the past two decades of debt-saddled college graduations.
Agreed - both should say "Some scientists".
> A new deterrence doctrine, nobody knows what will happen.

I'm quoting someone else's apropos statement here: "You don't just turn a country's electric grid back on."
I don't think pizzagate is doing well. The thing is a Wuhan lab leak never really was a conspiracy theory. Theorizing a bat coronavirus may have come from the nearest known source of bat coronaviruses doesn't really require much conspiracy.
It's the minimum standard, really. Most reputable N95s seem to hit over 99% in real tests.
Even quotes don't actually work. I've witnessed google query rewrite even with full quotes. I've also seen other posts on HN from others who've had this happen to them.
IMHO most of the time it's better to create a special 2-case enum for your specific use case. It's 3 lines of code, which gives you significantly clearer naming than "Either" and "Left/Right".
I wish they included KN95s for comparison... I prefer them because they're easier to take on and off, and the seal seems reasonable to me (breathing in/out causes the mask to deform, so it's clearly filtering some air)
Or Orwell’s essays on British education, or Pink Floyd’s “Brick in the Wall part 2”, or Supertramp’s “Logical song”

British grammar school is brutal.
The experts know that the average person mentally skipped STEM classes in high school, and that they can therefore follow politically viable discussions on ‘inflation’ which is an entirely political # because it is preference based (politics is preference).

E.g. we should have seen headlines saying inflation has been increasing dramatically over the last few years as housing prices have shot up, but conveniently for politicians, housing prices were not included in the ‘basket’
Every legitimate protest throws those kind of people out. They don't. You may want to ask them why. Funnily enough many of those "protests" are organized by known extremists or those party members.
75x, ignoring everything else, that is.

However, we don't live in a perfectly sterile world, so that number is probably going to be a lot lower in practice. A pity that they didn't measure that.
Another idea in the opposite direction: somebody should build a $20 firewall/tappable ethernet cable with some kind of builtin eBPF support + a universe of community packages.

The community would then share privacy-enhancing I/O profiles for every kind of device. If years later e.g. my adversarial lightbulb pivots to brokering kompromat SIGINT, I want to filter that out, and I want not to be the first one to write a filter like that..

Does it change the internal state of the lightbulb’s logic? No.. but hopefully it would even be able to simulate the state loop of the lightbulb well enough to guess what to filter out.

Of course there may also come a time when somebody starts to sell $20, 60 ghz-spectrum-only-visible “human activity fakers” to disrupt the collection of such data. Maybe with a “Honey, I’m home!” package being the most popular, lol
Hackathon Starter: A boilerplate for Node.js web applications
Yeah this was also my experience. I expected a world of hurt when migrating to Bitwarden but it just worked!
Ah well I guess I'm looking to make freelance librarian into something you can be.

I figure if you configure the client to keep track of whose annotations you have a history of using, you've got a real granular view of which content providers to pay. I'm imagining a game where we all put $5 in at the start of the month and we all pay each other based on whose content we use the most. Some users will pay more than they make, others will make more than they pay.
Life expectancy numbers dropped by about 1 years in most countries, but since it is in the middle of a pandemic it will go up again when this is done. 1 year temporary drop for just 2 years is really small, it means that if covid ravaged us like this every single year people would just die 1 year earlier on average. Divided by a lifespan of 80 years it means an average person lost about 0.025 years or about 8 days. 8 days average lifespan is worth doing something about, sure, but I doubt the magnitude of the response we have seen was actually worth it.
Niftywhip: Create and sell NFT art with AI
Certainly streaming / telecon / video calls are a very mainstream feature of smart phones...
Using C instead of Rust is similar to rolling your own crypto because openssl is too hard.

There are easy languages like Python or Go. But they are not suitable for many low-level, high performance tasks.

Rust is competing in the domain of easy to use languages. It is about low-level system code.

Edit: Rust in not competing in the domain of easy to use language
There's been massive inflation in the previous 13 years of money printing, it's just that it all went to assets such as stocks.
The Richard Feynman Collection (Christopher Sykes)
Five documentaries with and about the great American physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88), all made for the BBC TV 'Horizon' science series.

- Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)

- The Complete Fun to Imagine With Richard Feynman

- Feynman: The Quest for Tannu Tuva (1988) aka Last Journey of a Genius

- Feynman: No Ordinary Genius Part One - 50mins

- Feynman: No Ordinary Genius Part Two - 50mins
As an employer, I find LinkedIn profiles faster (and thus nicer) to screen (we're a company that doesn't ask for a set application format) - since you don't have to adjust your brain to the format! I'm less likely to miss stuff, but might skim faster versus reading your story.

That said, if someone just sends me (I'm cofounder, post series B startup) an email directly which is well thought out connecting your skills with what we're working on, I will 100% read it / consider it. This ticks a box that you're interested in what we're working on - which we need to feel to hire you.

I do not now look at the vast majority of submissions, since the vast majority of those are generic, so we have a full time recruiter looking through.
Its descendants can now be found in the House of Lords... https://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-04-20/house-of-lords-st...
I'm still rocking an SL510 from 2009. It's been relegated to home server duty due to it's bulkiness, but it still runs like a champ. I like them so much, I just upgraded to an X1 Yoga Gen 6. Beast of a product line.
Looks like the USMA has taken defensive action against all the HN visitors pummeling it's website. (pages loading slowly, if at all)
Presumably these tests were performed with well-fitted masks, or else it would seem inconsistent to claim both that N95 gives a dramatic improvement and that leakage dominates. Personally, I have yet to find a disposable mask, whether N95 or not, and with a nosepiece, that fits well enough that my glasses don't fog up when I go indoors (they do, however, meet the inflation test.) This leaves me unsure how much better N95s are in my case, though I will continue to use them.

When I worked shifts in a vaccination center, I used medical tape along the top edge of the masks I wore.
People are digging through their trash and reusing Target’s pill bottles (2016)
>Still, the firm found that U.S. emissions in 2021 remained 5% below 2019 levels.

While I agree that fighting climate change should be a top priority and probably no country is currently doing enough to get to net-zero CO2 fast enough, I don't think the comparisons to a crisis year like 2020 are all that helpful.

Seeing the problems is important, but seeing successes is important as well in order to prevent everyone from loosing hope.
Hotel prices seem pretty… unimportant?
No one except the most credulous buffoons really believed the "MIT is more free" nonsense about the GPL, it is, was, and always will be a push to move away from "Free as in Freedom" to "Free as in Free Tech Support".

Large Corps won't use your code if its AGPL? Thats a feature, code away without worrying about breaking anything!
Sometimes you don't want to pause (with await) and give something else the chance to execute (happens a lot in UI).

When code is sloppily written you realize that at some point you can't use much of the existing code outside of async.

One nice example of polluting the codebase is having async local storage. Now everything that reads from the storage needs to be annotated async and now your initialization pipeline might be insanely async. Good way to avoid it is to read the whole local storage at the beginning (having a sync interface) and then everyone just reads without await.

From recent experience, I did exactly that with storage and ended up removing thousands of async annotations that were no longer necessary.

Similar "mistakes" happen for other things and then at some point you are putting loading guards everywhere because your async operations are always awaiting and letting the UI update when it should not.
yes, but if it's not forming a tight seal it might not be filtering enough to matter
I think Linkdin is largely a productivity trap. There are whole articles out there about how to optimize Linkdin, but I’ve never glanced at it for the 100’s of people I’ve hired over my career.
No, this has to do with prices and values. If you're getting a higher quality of surgery for the same price as before, the cost of a surgery has effectively gone down.
Record: I'm not hiring now, but if I was, I wouldn't necessarily hold any of this against you. Heck, I wouldn't even know about it, since we don't do any kind of criminal screening. The main concern I'd have is whether or not you can do your job. If I did know about your past, I'd want to be sure that you would be clean moving forward. I think (and hope!) you overestimate the negative impact on your career.

Ageism: the main problem with hiring older people is that they are expensive relative to new grads. The other problem is that they are often perceived as being inflexible and lacking desire / drive.

Expense: It's a trade-off. Sometimes, you need the expertise, and it's worth the extra $$$. Sometimes, not. But in my opinion, it's almost always worth paying up (within reason) for experience. I tend to err on the side of reverse ageism, which is unfortunate for junior engineers who interview with me.

Drive: This perception is a false one, but it is pervasive in HR departments from what I've seen. If you can get through HR to the actual technical interview phase, I don't think this will hold you back, as you're clearly engaged and interested.
I posted the article because I find it an interesting take on technology, restrictions on technology usage, and working around (hacking) the limitations of those restrictions.

I think that's a perfect combination for a Hacker News submission, and it perfectly fits the scope of the article. If the article would have gone into detail about how not all Amish are likeable (I wouldn't know, I've never met one) and whether or not they screwed people over in business deals, it would have made the article less suitable for an HN post, I think.

TL/DR: there's a time and place for anything.
Utterly fascinating article. The OG steampunk hackers. I wonder what the latest is in 2021, have they decided that smartphones are anti-community?

What can we learn from them?
The infographic is based on ACGIH's Pandemic Response Task Force[1]. The list of references for respirator/mask information is available on their site[2]. I can't speak to the veracity of the evidence provided, but there is evidence.

[1]: https://www.acgih.org/covid19/
[2]: https://www.acgih.org/covid19-references/#resp
...but who is to blame here? Are the scientists who were in fear of harassment, intimidation, and career destruction to blame? ...or is it the institutions that facilitate that sort of punishment.

I would think twice about punishing victims.
My experience is that it's slanted whichever side of the easel you're one. The evidence is really clear when you measure results between various search providers, and especially when searching up contentious or controversial topics. So it doesn't really change direction so much as it confirms one particular set of beliefs depending on which search engine you're on. I think this is clearly in Google's disfavour, because people have started to notice and they're actively searching for alternatives to Google in order to avoid it.
> the power they wield in the job market

This is new. Somehow stimulus/asset inflation is causing this (lower labour market participation).
Financing Open Source Software Development with DAO Governance Tokens
> They will (semi)randomly pick some third-party crate which in all likelihood is totally unvetted.

It doesn't have to be that way, though. Why can't there be first-party crates? If the Rust core team is adding functionality to stdlib why can't they add functionality to a crate instead? Then you'd have a collection of first-party, vetted crates for devs to choose from.