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I having full-time dedicated pricing experts on payroll makes sense as a rare thing.

(1) When pricing is hidden, this means in practice you have every sales rep trying to maximize pricing for the individual person. Meaning there are in fact millions of "pricing people" in companies around the world.

(2) When pricing is NOT hidden, pricing is rarely updated, which is a good thing. Ads, comparisons, press releases, etc all may reference pricing. Changing pricing on your existing customers really can cause churn (which for SAAS outweighs the typical margin gain).

(3) The author doesn't mention discounting, which is in fact playing with pricing, and something companies do a lot of.

(4) For transparent pricing, finding the right price doesn't really change that much. So if you only have a few products, investing in a full time person seems like maybe they would be really busy for the first 1-12 months then...do nothing? You really probably need new products coming out regularly to justify someone dedicated to the role.
The evidence I use to determine when water is about to boil is my ears. I hear a staccato creaky sound that accelerates just before water boils, that is very distinct and easily picked up by microphone. (Curiously, I've never seriously asked what makes this sound, physically.) How do rice cookers do it?
Real wages for working class folks are rising at the fastest pace in 40 years. It’s middle class folks who have stagnant wages.
As a child starting from $0 I built up almost all of the money I have now doing contract work by making closed source software using open source software. Being able to quickly make things without even having to spend any money is great for someone with no money. It didn't make me poorer as someone with $0, it made me much richer. I know my software was a positive to the lives of many people even if it is closed source.
I think it is the other way round. The tiny, 'selfish' fraction want to shut down the 'group' that is society because they are more at risk.
Austria requires FFP2 which is not quite as strict of a standard as NIOSH N95. At the 95+% filtering rate, it’s really the mask’s fit that is making or breaking filtering ability.

N95 masks fit very tightly, come in different shapes and sizes to fit different people, and will leave imprint marks on a persons face. This is beyond what the general public is really willing to go through, so they’re really not used many places outside of medical settings, and it’s not really realistic to have them properly fit tested by the general public.

We do have real world data to show that properly fit tested N95s work very well when used by trained people, from the hospital settings in which this is done. But like any equipment, it’s only as good as it is used properly.

It may very well be possible that leaking FFP2 masks aren’t much different than other masks in effectiveness against highly transmissible variants.
Do you really think that most people will buy that given that we haven't had a similar pandemic in 100 years?

Also, if you're going to appeal to authority, please link to the HN comments that explain how "lab leak" explanations are rubbish. I'm more than happy to read them. In my opinion, we don't have nearly enough information to make such a decision, one way or the other.
> I have yet to not experience that standard libraries turn into very stale and outdated things relatively quickly that carries an enormous maintenance burden

Maybe. I think .NET's core libs are excellent. So are Go's. I'm sure it's a maintenance burden, but man... It's so nice to be able to build a project with maybe 1-2 dependencies instead of 100s (as in my typical Node and Ruby projects, if you count transitive dependencies). It's hard to overstate how much of a strength I think a good stdlib is.
That certainly would be good for the environment.
You’re 100% wrong here and very loud about how wrong you are. Why? Why are you so vocal about something you’re not educated about (economics)?
For yourself, perhaps.
A pretty repulsive person judging by her own words... By her own admission she Peter-principles her way into Harvard, and then starts to agitate because her political football team (the Israeli Government) is being attacked by faculty and students who don't like its invasion of Palestinian territories and various atrocities and deny the "natural right of the Jews" to whatever they lay claim to...

Replete with the usual tropes and fallacies that US Israeli advocates love to retread -- conflating dislike of the Israeli government or military policies, or dislike of Zionism with anti-semitism; alleging that any issue that involves a Jewish subject (like Larry Summers' resignation) is about antisemitism; and trying to evoke sympathy from the neocon evangelicals in the audience by crying about wokeness and leftist takeovers while herself being an affirmative action driven political/social climber.
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But risk isn't a 1/0 binary. Every moment you are wearing a mask changes your risk. Spending 1 hour in a restaurant vs 10 hours in a restaurant. It all adds up and it all matters.

So yeah, taking your mask off while you eat is definitely going to raise your risk. But not as much as simply not wearing a mask the entire time you're in a restaurant, moving around, getting closer to people and different areas of the restaurant, which probably all have variable particles in the air, etc.
I've gotten hired due to LinkedIn exactly once, and it was helpful. However, that's not how I "use" it. LinkedIn's best use is what it was intended for: a professional networking social media space. Here's how I've used it successfully.

Put your resume on LinkedIn. Send connect requests to people you've worked with and who you'd be willing to work with again. Accept connect requests from people you've either worked with or know from professional networking (meet ups, conferences, user groups, open source project collaborators).

Why?

If someone asks for your Resume, you can first point to your LinkedIn profile (less of a pain).
If someone has a job opening, they'll have a way to contact YOU about the opportunity (yes - I've had this happen multiple times).
If someone with a job opening pings you (hiring manager or team member NOT A RECRUITER!) you can "introduce" people and help a former co-worker find a job or contract work (I've done this a couple of times).
From time to time you'll get pings from former co-workers who might not have another way to contact you - It's nice to talk shop over beers.

Summary: LinkedIn lets you keep your professional network separate from your personal network.
A fine example of how hiring and assessing candidates can really be arbitrary
If everyone's basic needs are met, they won't be so discontented and thus easily be swayed by destabilising propaganda.
You can click on the timestamp of the comment and then "favorite" to save it :)
If your project can be written in Python or Go, then yes, do that. I don't think Rust is trying to compete with Python or Go.

However, if the project needs a low-level language. Then skip C and C++ and use Rust.

Almost from the start, high level languages have been about safety. In assembly, memory is untyped. That leads to way too many bugs. So languages evolved to get more eleborate type systems. Compare for example K&R C with lacked function prototypes with current C that does have them. That saved huge numbers of bugs.

Traditionally, garbage collectors had to be used to maintain memory safety. However, that conflicts with many of the uses of C. So Rust had to come up with something that is both safe and compatible with C.
Is it defined by you who is allowed to participate and what makes a protest legitimate? If people there make illegal actions, the police has to intervene. That's it.
As a coder who just got out of jail himself, I was never asked for a background check for any development job in the UK. Maybe if you were going for a military/intelligence contractor position, but otherwise, I've never even heard of a British firm doing a criminal background check.

Just my 2 pennies.
Where was this headline?
If it's 5% per year we should be 10% below 2019, not 5%.
Writing software, especially systems, low-level software is hard. Writing C the language, is not hard by itself. You can't confuse problem domain with language's percieved shortcommings.

Rust won't make systems programming any easier, it will still require the usage of unsafe part of the language. Only, you will also have to deal with a much more complex langage than C. That is why Rust has failed to replace C and C++.
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Thanks, that's really good to know.
For which country are you talking about? The picture is different in different countries.

In my opinion countries who reached 80% of vaccinated people should remove all the restrictions, but again, this is just my opinion, and I don't have any decisional power over it.
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The policies and interventions have been fairly uniform in developed countries, with fairly uniform results. The only conclusion we can make is that barring very authoritarian zero COVID polices (like in China) or being a literal and figurative island (New Zealand), we can’t stop the pandemic with just vaccines and masking.
I wonder if the current debate of carbon extraction tech becoming relevant to fight climate change is real or more of a PR stunt
I was going to add my own post recommending 3Blue1Brown. I'm glad you've already recommended it :)
No it doesn’t. Tokio has some official support without being in the stdlib.
I’d say the problem is that Apple reserves this as a privilege for themselves.

On Android you can set Signal as your SMS handler and use it as a similar dual client. I miss that feature when using iOS.
You’re right, a json parser may have been a poor choice. Perhaps something like a UUID generator, or a parser for some more well-established and stable text format would be a better example.

On the other hand, something like a json parser needing to change all the time to support the ecosystem is another good reason to keep it out of the stdlib, IMO. There are limited hands to work on Rust itself, and I’d rather they spend their time making improvements to the core of the language, stabilizing features, and so on. As a user of rust, I’m willing to pay the cost of finding a good json library if it means I don’t need to update rust versions just to deal with some issue in JSON parsing.
You dont even need to do that, go overt plain sight in yer face and call yourself a search engine!
Most definitely.

Most of the time I don't even see people wearing their surgical mask properly. Hell, I just went to a medical clinic, and the assistant there didn't even press the nose wire completely against the nose.

And that's not counting the chin diapers, nose rhinos, and the countless people taking the mask off by pulling on the outside of the mask instead of taking it off from the ear loops.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.
Indeed, otherwise the CVE database wouldn't be full of exploits due to off-by-ones memory corruption issues.

By the way, it is sooo easy to test for them,

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/this-shouldnt...
Its 95% at the worst particle size for filtering which is 2.5 microns. Above and below that size they perform substantially better.

The minimum size of a covid19 carrying particle is 4.7 microns, resulting in at least 99.7% effectiveness at worst.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC7579175/#
[2]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9487666/
You might be using left/right brain to refer to people who typically do one thing to them do something “opposite”, ie artsy people do science (these aren’t opposite but people treat them as such).

Just be careful as there’s no such thing as left/right brained people. It’s an old idea.
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I don't know (and I'm not defending this validation, as I take issue with a number of premises) but my understanding of the justification is that restaurants can relatively easily space out/put dividers up between their tables (such that risk of transmission between parties at different tables is lower), but that no such accommodation can be made easily for the aisles, bathrooms, bar, and other intermediate spaces. Thus the rule, which around here is "wear a mask if you aren't seated at your table".

Given how restaurants around here are still packing people in, though, one has to assume that the initial table-spacing premise is compromised, undermining the whole endeavor.
I completely agree about a lot of math books seeming too abstract. I hated math until I took an interest in physics and realized I needed math to understand the ideas being presented. Suddenly it clicked that the math was actually a way to better represent the ideas, not just a trick for getting answers. Seeing how math applies to create and represent knowledge gave me a huge appreciation for it.
To me, inheritance and polymorphism are two different things. Polymorphism is about different units implementing an interface or equivalent protocol and that rocks. Inheritance is, essentially, dumping a bunch of code into your new class, and most of the time just imposes constraints and breaks API boundaries for no good reason. After studying and doing OOP for about 5 years, I don't see the advantages of inheritance over composition. The only value I see is libraries exposing base classes that enforce behavior on user-written subclasses, stuff like React's Component or Java's HttpServlet. Seems to me we can have polymorphism without subclassing as long as the programming language has a half-decent type system.
Linear algebra is _much_ more complicated than normal algebra
I wear N95, but... I have a beard. I'm painfully aware I'm sabotaging my own efforts and do not have a perfect seal.
does everyone really think theyre saving on payroll short- and long- term by not doing COLA?

People accept an annual pay cut. They have for decades. Employees don't leave, and whether they're happy or not generally doesn't matter so long as the work gets done. Have a look at a graph of the net worth of wealthy people over the past 40 years and then ask yourself if it works long-term because it obviously does.
Risk isn't binary. But constantly taking your mask on and off has risks of its own from touching and rubbing. Similar to not touching your face with your hands to avoid germs, you should not be touching your mask frequently.
> Is Austria on a different track when it comes to the epidemic? Not really. Where is the 75x protection?

Well, the article claims 75x protection when you wear an N95 mask. Are all families in Austria wearing N95 masks when at home with each other? I doubt it. Unfortunately there are many, many opportunities for infection: like at school/daycare/work then bringing it home to your family. Wearing a mask while shopping is probably a good thing (it certainly can't hurt!) but 75x mask protection is never going to lead to 75x fewer COVID cases.
My understanding is that vaccines never claimed immunity. Ever.

They claimed milder symptoms, less complications, and less hospitalizations.
You sound like someone who really enjoys building up and tearing down straw men.
When I read this comment and the username that wrote it, I can't help but wonder if it's a reference to Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
Haskell has the first four of those features, although it can't directly use the disk or figure out what data structure you'd need.
The regex crate is owned by the Rust organization, but is not part of the stdlib. That said, I don't think there are any GUI crates that are as "standard" as regex is where this would make sense.
Go read the methodology for CPI calculation.

They tell you exactly what they are buying and do, in fact, adjust for qualitative differences like reduced service at a hotel.

The entire point of the CPI is that it is an exact representation of what buying the exact same set of things exactly one year of part will cost.

The socks are irrelevant as far as CPI is concerned since it concerns itself with pricing only, and not the knock on effects of reductions in demand due to pricing.

There are teams of PHDs in every major country in the world that only work on this one number, their methodology is then picked apart by more teams of phds in academia who produce alternate methodologies and slightly different numbers. Do you really think that in the past 100 years of doing this work that they haven’t come up with ways of adjusting for the fact that Motel 8 stopped serving waffles?
I said it's over for me. For my elderly parents or unhealthy people, it's not over.
I think a lot of people have been burned by inheritance done wrong.

With a lot of other techniques, if the implementation isn't perfect and you don't own the library you're using you still have a lot of power available to patch things up and make everything play nicely together. Inheritance mixes implementation details with your type checking, so in a lot of languages that can make it extremely painful to turn a body of almost-good-enough code into something that's actually usable.
You missed the emphasized part of your quote, and you didn't quote whom the mandates affect.
South Africa?
Is the idea of omicron parties floating around?
Here is a more nuanced take: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/facts/

There is serious problems with facts merely being true statements if you start poking at the edge cases a bit.

Consider that there are things that are, and statements that are true. If the two are the same, then all statements that are true must also be things that are. But it is true that if I were to lick my own forehead, it would become wet; yet I cannot lick my own forehead. This is an example of something that is true, yet cannot be. The statements that are true is a larger category than the things that are.
I did my bachelors and masters degree in cooperation with different companys in germany. Over here it is quite normal that companys have open positions for cooperative degrees.

For most it comes down to some evening courses or courses crapted together on a few days so that the other days are available for part time working.

At my university we had it a little different. For Bachelors it was:

- 1. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 2. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 3. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits

- 4. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 5. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits

- 6. Semester: Studying (Full time)

- 7. Semester: Working with writing a paper on some work project specific stuff to gather some more Credits (3 mo) + 3 months bachelors degree (most of the time based on the stuff you worked on before)

The Semester breaks we needed to work full time but also needed to take our 30 days of vacation in that time.

So I think we got the best of both worlds. Hands on experience on the work and full time studying on campus.

In the companys I joined since then I'm heavily opting to get some cooperative students. Usually by the time of the 4th semester they are up to speed and help a lot in the 8 months they are there.
Yes with J&J
If you read the book "The Design of Everyday Things" you'll find a chapter on error. Human error is a thing and if it's a common error it's a design error.

N95 masks need to be worn correctly. If we wear them improperly they loose their ability to do their jobs. Nurses I know have had training classes on wearing them properly. It's not obvious or just works.

I was in a school board virtual meeting earlier this year. When it came to the open comment period in the meeting a nurse go on and politely shared the number of times the school board members and errored in their use of the masks.

So often the mask guidelines and expectations of their effectiveness are based on the assumptions people will wear them properly. Sadly, that's just not the case.
The first cases were found in a wet market. The lab is miles away from it:

The first known human infections from SARS‑CoV‑2 were discovered in Wuhan, China.[37] Because many of the early infectees were workers at the Huanan Seafood Market,[50][51] it was originally suggested that the virus might have originated from bats or pangolins sold at the market.[30][33] It was later determined that no bats or pangolins were sold at the market.[52] Bats are not commonly eaten in Central China.[53] The Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Wuhan Center for Disease Control are located within miles of the original focal point of the pandemic, Wuhan's Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, and this has been used to argue in support of the lab leak theory. However, another explanation for this is a tendency to build virology labs in proximity to outbreak areas.[54]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory#Wuhan...

What's more, the proximity of the first detected cases to anything is a red herring. We don't know where the first transmission happened. We only know where the first cases were detected. For all we know the virus started in Alaska.

Finally the location of the lab was only noticed after people started talking of a lab leak. Some people said "lab leak", some other people said "OMG there's a lab close by!".
I've gotten a dozen interviews recently without a LinkedIn.
This is why we need local self-hosted AI. Keep the waifus safe.
> I will be what the vaccines (falsely) claimed they would make me: immune

This really isn't true — actual experts never claimed that you would be 100% immune to everything forever. The vaccines performed as advertised against earlier strains and even with Omicron's substantially greater immune evasion compared to those earlier strains they're still quite effective at keeping people from having severe cases, which is exactly as the scientists described them — and that still seems to be better than natural immunity.

The end game here is vaccination: the U.S. has a low rate and that means that we're seeing the same medical system overload as before. Vaccination mandates are what will keep that from happening so that's what we should be focusing on as the metric for relaxing safety measures.
It would be a red flag for me if a potential employer distrusted candidates without LinkedIn accounts.
Why are you looking at m1? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
> so the overall effect is as bad as delta and alpha

I took the overall effect to mean deaths. Based on CDC statements, it seems like they are finally trying to divide hospitalized “from” vs. “with”. I’d expect a more contagious variant to show up more in hospitals for people who have come for unrelated reasons.
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An airplane that has constantly filtered air is a hot spot but Costco is relatively benign?

Your risk calculus is out of whack.
Do you dislike async/await? If so, why?
A word of warning for anyone inspecting the Wordle source code: the answers for each day are stored in a list ordered by day. If you search for today's answer, the next word in the list will be tomorrow's answer, etc. Be careful not to ruin the fun by seeing tomorrow's answer in advance!
> What’s not clear is why the MIT license and closed source software are unethical.

Is it ethical to allow unethical behavior?
I used LinkedIn to get a job. There was a company I wanted to work for. I reached out to a recruiter at the company on LinkedIn via DM. He set up some time to talk that day, and a formal interview happened a week later. Couldn't have been easier.
I bet if UNIX was sold with the same market prices as Xerox, DEC, or IBM's alternatives, it would have been a footnote on the history of OSes, like many others since the mid-1950's.
All the best people I’ve ever worked with were odd.
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I'm looking for front-end developer position with React.js.
My last position has finished and I'm ready to start immediately for new one.
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