skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On-the-job training would typically improve skills needed in your day-to-day work. A master's programme should improve academic skills (things like abstraction, reflection, generalisation, communication). The first makes you better at your current job, the latter makes you more flexible and versatile for any job.

Both are valuable, but for different reasons. Whether pursuing a master's degree is worth it depends on your individual circumstances.
I was a genetic engineer for two decades:

- Clear signs of molecular manipulation in the sars-cov-2 sequence. There are none. Almost all of the alleged manipulations would have left unmistakeable, damning evidence in a recognizable vector. The only remotely interesting thing at all in the sequence is the furin site, but plenty of coronaviruses have those, and it just likely indicates selection/propagation in a secondary host species... exactly like the ones that caused SARS-1 and MERS.

- Failing that, even a scrap of evidence that anyone was even culturing (not just sequencing) this new sub-clade. You're not going to catch a respiratory virus by accident from a sterile rna-stabilized swab or a database entry. Compared to the vast, unregulated wild-meat industry in China this is such an unlikely vector.

- Any epidemiological connections to WIV? There aren't any, just the original fact that the outbreak happened in Wuhan (...across the river, in an animal market with known coronavirus hosts species.) All of the index cases are associated w. the market - not WIV. There were a number of western scientists interacting w. WIV researchers in Nov/Dec at the start of the outbreak and no independent reports of any sickness or anything out of the ordinary.

There's no evidence for a lab-leak. Increasingly febrile accusations of conspiracy and speculative just-so stories aren't evidence. Someone like me would be easily, readily convinced by some hard facts... but none have been presented. As a biologist that's what I and many of my colleagues find frustrating about this... it just seems like people emotionally crave a human agency to blame. I used to think René Girard was silly... but maybe he was right about humanity and scapegoats.
I doubt it, ocaml has very little job offers. Didn't you have a process or better communication to avoid this situation?
> But Trump, his party, and many many people in the West would care only for the political capital they could make from it, with potentially catastrophic results that would make COVID look relatively minor.

There are plenty of people who voted for Trump and other Republican candidates who have scientific and engineering backgrounds. If I had to try to characterize those people, in terms of what makes them different from the science and engineering people who tend to vote Democratic, it is that the Trump / Republican supporters tend to be the entrepreneurs or senior management people in private industry, while the Democratic supporters are often management and staff at institutions in or aligned with government, health, and education.

It’s not fair at all to say that Republican-supporting science and engineering people care only for the political capital they can make. They actually want many of the same things as the Democratic-supporting scientists and engineers do— to prevent this from happening again.

The difference is that in this case, the Republican-supporters wanted their viewpoints to be freely debated, not denigrated by the mainstream media and/or censored by social media.
This is 1) obviously about supply chain issues, so upfront with the reasons and 2) seems to be genuine about not believing masks are effective in preventing COVID. If that is accurate this is not a lie, because there is no intent to deceive.
It may be thought of false, but historic documents from many European countries mention and detail it as the common habit. There is no theory or claim about its benefits, just that it was habitual.
Fact is, there's nothing that points to Wuhan as being a more likely source of viruses in the first place. It's not a tropical rainforest area, for instance. And indeed, the closest wild relatives we know of have been found much farther south.
It doesn't seem far fetched that in the near future an "artist" doesn't need to be able to draw at all. If GANs or the like become sufficiently tunable, I can express myself by telling the GAN what I would like to have drawn.
It is, ~12 million users in a country of ~90 million.
Ok, then we can rephrase OP's comment: "or they would still be using their old software, because reimplementing everything in a non-GC language took too long"?
The equivalent to section 230 would be Section 10 Telemediengesetz, but from my own experience law enforcement here seizes first and asks questions later for anyone that's not a household name.

NetzDG is much less broad, only applying to social networks (so not Telegram) with more than 2M users.
I started it last year again and was surprised that the network is still working.
They won a Pulitzer last year and were finalists 3 other times. I don’t think this is quite the stretch you’re making it out to be.

BuzzFeed News is indeed a very different beast to BuzzFeed proper.
Julia lets you write `3x` for `3 * x` because it’s unambiguous, since variables may not start with numerals, but `ax` is not `a * x`, because `ax` is a legal identifier.
Another example of how centralized messengers are more vulnerable than decentralized, end-to-end encrypted networks, where anyone can run a client.

To clarify how regular people could get access to a client… any https website could host a front end widget, for instance. Easy delivery via web browser (which is general-purpose enough that it can’t ban all possible widgets and hard to ban).
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/funk/todesdrohungen-t...
„In Germany, alleged individual cases of calls for killing from the lateral thinker scene have been discussed for days. Research now shows that there have been calls to kill every day since mid-November.“

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/telegram-verfassungsschutz-...
„Radicalized Corona Deniers
What can the state do about Telegram?
Corona deniers use the Telegram messenger service to let their fantasies of violence run free. The state wants to take action against it. The new interior minister is facing a mammoth task.“

https://www.tagesschau.de/regional/nordrheinwestfalen/wdr-st...
„North Rhine-Westphalia
State security investigates corona demos: anti-Semitism in Telegram chats
At a demonstration against the Corona measures in Kamp-Lintfort, a participant is said to have shown the Hitler salute on Tuesday. The Duisburg State Security is now investigating.
The Duisburg State Security is investigating in the vicinity of the demonstrators who demonstrate as self-proclaimed "walkers" against the corona policy. The allegations are massive: It is about anti-Semitic hate speech. The focus is on chat groups that run via the "Telegram" service. The demonstrations are planned there.“

https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/br-recherche/querdenk...
„MAD is investigating two other soldiers
Investigations are currently underway against at least two other Bundeswehr soldiers because they made radical statements against corona measures. Research by BR and tagesschau.de revealed this .
One should pay close attention to the choice of words, according to a mountain hunter in a more than seven-minute voice message published on the Telegram messenger platform in December last year. The Bundeswehr is a "company" in which everything is done to "destroy us patriots who are trapped in the Bundeswehr". What is meant is the obligation to enforce corona vaccinations for soldiers.“
Yep, just like "Oh you are downloading via torrent? Why do you do illegal stuff like that?"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Where is antifa when you need them :)
Which probably explains why the government really really wants that backdoor so badly.
Unfortunately, it turns out that it is not too rare that these people doing something in between prepping and planned terrorism are police or military.
The question was how to Embed servo, not how to Run servo
What language are you used to that doesn't do this? I think I would go nuts if I had to always use the fully qualified name for all symbols.
I don't see the issue. People (should) have a right to meet other people with similar interests and organise.
AFAIK, this is the only really good study of mask-wearing. It's large (300k people!), and it's randomised. It tried two kinds of masks, "surgical" and "cloth":

> We used high-quality surgical masks that had had a filtration efficiency of 95% [standard deviation (SD) = 1%]; this is substantially higher than the filtration efficiency of the cloth masks we designed, which had a filtration efficiency of 37% (SD = 6%). These cloth masks had substantially higher filtration than common commercial 3-ply cotton masks, but lower than hybrid masks that use materials not commonly available for community members in low-resource settings (54).

The key result:

> We find clear evidence that surgical masks lead to a relative reduction in symptomatic seroprevalence of 11.1% (aPR = 0.89 [0.78,1.00]; control prevalence = 0.81%; treatment prevalence = 0.72%). Although the point estimates for cloth masks suggests that they reduce risk, the confidence limits include both an effect size similar to surgical masks and no effect at all. (aPR = 0.94 [0.78,1.10]; control: 0.67%; treatment: 0.61%).

It's a shame that even with such a large study, the phenomenon is so noisy that we can't get a strong signal here. But i think the takeaway is that masking has an effect, but it is rather small.

There's a lot more detail in the paper. Including this gem:

> We find no evidence that any of our village-level or household-level treatments, other than mask color, impacted mask-wearing. For mask-color, we see marginally significant differences, small in magnitude. In surgical mask villages, blue masks were more likely to be observed than green (adjusted percentage point difference = 0.03, [-0.00,0.06]), and in cloth mask villages, red more likely than purple (adjusted percentage point difference = -0.02, [-0.04,-0.00]). Text message reminders, incentives for village-leaders, or explicit commitment signals explain little of the observed increase in mask-wearing. Compared to self-protection messaging alone, altruistic messaging had no greater impact on mask-wearing, and twice-weekly text messages and a verbal commitment had no significant effects.
When new freelancers ask how much they should charge, the answer is always "as much as you can get away with". In my experience, competing on price gets you the stingiest penny pinchers.

However, if your customers are the product (advertising, affiliate marketing), then you should squeeze your advertisers more, not your customers. So many content creators ruin their hard work by going too hard with monetising their users.
The news shows the extraordinary. It also reports car accidents and car shows, but not all the millions of people driving everyday.
Wouldn't they be kicked off the app store for that?
Yes, more context is needed.

Here's what it says on page 8, and on page 7, listing the email from Ron
Foucher:

... Given the evidence presented and the discussions around it, I would
conclude that a follow-up discussion on the possible origin of 2019-nCoV would
be of much interest. However, I doubt if it needs to be done on very short term,
given the importance of other

activities of the scientific community, WHO and other stakeholders at present.
It is my opinion that a non-natural origin of 2019-nCoV is highly unlikely at
present. Any conspiracy theory can be approached with factual information. ...
An accusation that nCoV-2019 might have been engineered and released into the
environment by humans (accidental or intentional) would need to be supported by
strong data, beyond a reasonable doubt. It is good that this possibility was
discussed in detail with a team of experts. However, further debate about such
accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active
duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in
particular.

The Telegraph cited only the last sentence ("However, further debate...") and
left out the preceding text where Ron Foucher staes his opinion that a
non-natural origin is "highly unlikely". This is a clear attempt to take a quote
out of context to make it look like it says something completely different than
what was actually said.

Further, this is from page 3, listing the email from Francis Collins:

Though the arguments from Ron Fouchier and Christian Drosten
are presented with more forcefulness than necessary, I am coming
around to the view that a natural origin is more likely. But I share
your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence inspiring
framework (WHO seems really the only option) is needed, or the
voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential
harm to science and international harmony...

Which is clearly calling for open, public debate, rather than keeping quiet.
But everyone (even you) refers to Eth Classic as Eth Classic. I think we can accept that the fork succeeded and "Etherium" is not Eth Classic.

I don't claim anything, except that the blockchain we now call "Etherium" does not contain the deleted blocks, and that therefore blockchains are not immutable.
Thank you for providing a balanced argument containing facts and further descriptions, in the best spirit of HN. Sadly, it will not keep this thread from becoming dominated by single liners and cheap shots. For evidence, see below.

It all boils down to the question of whether Telegram is a public forum or a messenger service.
You mean people who organize protests without permit (because they don't like the mandates for masks and minimum separation that would come with the permit), and when confronted with police claim they are just a couple hundred people who happen to be on a walk at the same time by pure coincidence.
Interesting - do you have a link by any chance?
iPhone users have no sideloading capabilities and for androids you need to be at least a bit tech savvy. speaking only for mobile access if telegram gets dropped from the app stores it would shrink the user base.
Easy in comparison to make everything yourself and configure every little service. This needs understanding of service and how they work and it needs much time.

After 20 years doing this, my postet example is stupid simple, that works for 80% auf all equirements.

For the rest 20% you need a good admin, or book a service with a good admin.
Germany banned Wolfenstein 3D when it came out in the 90s. What happened? Wolfenstein became one of the most viral games in Germany. If people want to get Telegram in Germany, they will one way or another.
Yes, but there's limits - like similar interests in extremism, calls to violence, assassination plots...
There's no reason to assume any of that.
How nice of you to leave out the attacks against the police and journalists. And the use of children as human shields, like they demand on Telegram.
If your typical query visits all adjacent edges of a few nodes then the locality you're talking about is great. If your queries typically aggregate over a few types of edges across many nodes then this locality is the worst case.

So the question is, do we actually want to run graph algorithms or is the data graph structured for other reasons? You're implying that choosing a graph representation means we want to perform graph analyses. I disagree with that if we're still talking about the semantic web.

RDF is a general purpose knowledge representation model. The triple structure lends itself well to combining data from different sources with little coordination. It happens to form a graph, but running graph algorithms is just one of many special purpose problems.
I'm not an American, but these "fact checks" are not really based on actual facts, but mostly on "correct" opinions.

For example, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/06/january-6... or https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/04/bidens-cl...
Ah. Good to know.
That rumor was making quite the rounds back then.
Well, I'm not in your situation, only you know what is the "right" thing to do. If you don't feel comfortable working with children in their 20s and 30s, you can always try starting a business or working as a freelancer.

Here is a good starting point.
https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/best-freelance-websites

Keep in mind that these types of websites always keep a relevant part of your money. Think of them as a Google Add investment. Try to create your own brand and make it clear that you have a website where they can contact you in the future.

Best of luck!
Everybody wants to be the one who decides what is extreme and what is mainstream so they can silence and ostracise those who don't think the way they do.
While Julia doesn't go that far, it does allow implicit multiplication if the first operand is a constant:

julia> x = 19; w = 5; y = 10x + 2.0w
200.0
Why is Telegram not a social network? What's the key differences between a social network, a forum and a messenger service (with groups) that we could define to figure out what telegram actually is?
Yes it is. Install e.g. ubuntu, install the services, done.
Every other mentioned problem is a problem of your provider, not of your setup.
you can always build your own app from source IF that's an option. The app itself is open source. https://github.com/TelegramMessenger/Telegram-iOS
I heard a story about California preparing for the case of a pandemic in reaction to SARS many years ago (Schwarzenegger in 2006) stockpiling medical gear and building mobile hospitals that could be quickly moved to hotspots as disaster relief. The next governor (Brown in 2011) then cut funding to retain and renew it in an attempt to slim down the states budget.
> anyway, at the time this was a more than reasonable request. Because the very first persons we had to protect were health professionals, and we didn't have enough masks for everyone.

So that makes it ok for them to lie?
I do not agree. And the trust is lost as a result.

They should have explained that we should prioritize masks for health care professionals if that was their reasoning.
> Sun is the name of the star that the earth orbits.

I thought it was "Sol"?
Interesting I had no idea. So, there’s groups that would work on the web client presumably but not the app. What happens if you join that group using your browser and attempt to see it in the app?
"I want to ban the other guy's political speech" is business as usual for centuries even in the "free" west.

Whats new is "I want to band all criticism of my religion", that aspect is new for the "free" west.
That is exactly what has happened? The police will be aware of this, and the government need to decide what to do.... The first step is clearly to engage with the platform. Maybe its you that doesn't understand?
Ex-Theranos computer brought to computer repair place, data intact
Thank you so much. That video basically addressed my exact confusion! The internet is amazing.

I think I'm correct in thinking this paradox does apply to other modes of transport such as subways, but that by itself doesn't mean that we should therefore build more roads because in general infrastructure spending would be better allocated to other modes of transport for numerous reasons. I do agree with that argument, but it seems there would be nuances there. I'd agree it's generally more efficient in the inner city, but less so as population density decreases. In areas with low population density the car is probably by far the best mode of transportation and there its use should probably be accepted.

I think my confusion comes from how it's often sold as a black and white thing politically where, `car=bad` because this clearly isn't true as general rule. If the argument is simply that within densely populated areas the use of public transportation should be promoted over extra capacity for cars then I completely agree, but where I live I would argue some questionable city planning decisions have been made. Specifically, lanes have been removed from roads to make way for bike lanes and speed limits have been reduced almost universally. While I'm all for promoting cycling these bike lanes go almost entirely unused because it's very hilly and things are too far away for cycling to be a practical mode of transportation in most cases here. In this case the pros and cons don't appear to add up and I suspect the city planners are probably just out of touch with the differing transportation requirements between where they are in the inner city and in areas such as mine.
Is it a group or a public forum? With the t.me links, isn't it more like a public forum?
> And if the Amish hackers and early adopters teach us anything, it’s that you have to try things first. Try first and relinquish later if need be.

Wow this reminds me of "break things and fail fast". I used to have a negative-ish opinion about the Amish but the more I learn about them (and other groups such as the Mennonites) the more I appreciate the way the conduct their lives.
What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?
And in another way, the Amish are the guinea pig of their lifestyle. Maybe it will play out that strong, small, local communities have a huge long-term advantage in some important metric.

I think it's very good that we have so many diverse cultures and lifestyles. There are many routes to happiness.
>For me it was the masks. The masks were my tipping point.

Before covid we knew masks were effective. Doctors obviously wear them during surgery. masks are important when dealing with HIV and such.

So when Fauci and others came out and said masks didn't work. They were knowingly lying. Worse yet, there were instructions on how to turn a tshirts in masks as well as how to produce hand santizers. They took these down.

The correct decision would have been to say exactly the fear, 'we have supply issues, we recommend cutting up old tshirts.' Not only does it prevent spread, it solves all problems.

Then we went a week later and they talked about 'new normal' and '2 weeks to flatten the curve'. Their lying didn't stop. They lost any smidgen of trust they had. Then they came out with emergency approvals to use experimental medicine for something that clearly isn't a vaccine and they are lying and calling it a vaccine? Sorry but this amount of lying should make literally everyone question their motives.
I personally consider IRC (or I guess more precisely, IRC clients like Weechat (Not to be confused with China's WeChat)) a contender, as it provides chat functionality as well as the ability to create channels for themed discussions.

No, it doesn't have emojis or inline multimedia, but IMO it delivers the important part of chat and leaves the unimportant parts for other applications (like opening a hyperlink from IRC chat to see the clever meme someone posted). It also doesn't do video or voice, but there are other applications for that as well. For purely text chat, IRC is a lightweight (and self-hostable FOSS) solution.
It's a trade-off. If you have no disk, the disk can't fail, but the network can, and the remote PXE server can, and the remote SAN can. You can get into a state where you have to pray no servers reboot. Intermittent errors can be real annoying when it makes provisioning fail. (used to work a server farm that'd do server rebuilds over PXE, and ran a few diskless cluster projects)

An alternative is you use a RAID array and mount your disks in read-only mode, or use physically read-only disks and when you have to replace a disk, you pre-mirror the replacement disk. In this way the local disks can be replaced as they fail and there's never a point when the server is at risk of not being able to boot.

......or they could boot from CDROM :)