skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No mask mandate has ever reduced the R number or growth trajectory anywhere in the world. And no study has ever confirmed beyond reasonable doubt that cloth and surgical masks work in any way against covid. KN95 perhaps, N95 definitely, but that's fairly obvious since it actually fits on your face and has a particle filter.

Could you confirm this with a study ? This seems ridiculous
The steps are to investigate the criminal / terrorist activity, identify and arrest the culprits, and reach an appropriate outcome in the justice system. Engaging the platform in so far as the platform can legally assist the investigation. Closing (or publicly threatening to close) the platform is not helpful in any way.
My router is in the basement. Reception is great throughout the house, including the second floor, and even decent out in the garage or on the deck. Similar setup and results for my in-laws who have a massive house (3000-3500 sqft).
Wait, why?

Inflation is happening quickly all across the world, not just in the USA. Inflation is popular with debt holders (home owners!). We can literally just accept modest inflation.

Maybe it's politically bad for the party in power, but I just don't see Trump in 2024 calling for interest rate hikes unless he wants a mutiny from his own party on his hands.

As such, I don't see why we have to actually fight modest inflation at all.
They do, and they're still better than no union. It's all relative.
The cost of real property aren’t included because that is considered a capital investment in the USA BLS numbers. A house is not an item that is consumed, since you can generally sell it for more when you’re done. It would be like including the cost of stocks and bonds in inflation.

The cost of housing, not houses, is the biggest single component of the CPI. That means that the cost of rent, or rent equivalent, is very much factored in.

We very much do have headlines about the crazy costs of houses. But housing costs, that is the price to consume one month of housing service (aka rent) are a different thing.
Every protest has someone organizing it. It is their job to distance themselves from certain groups and to send them off. And if those groups don't comply, the police is happy to help. But instead of doing that, they happily walk side by side with those groups and participate in protests that are organized by those.

They want to be accepted by the majority? Then they need to stop walking with literal Nazis.
Ah yes, the MMORPG sleep regimen.
This seems to be an ~8% increase, in line with the numbers from the linked article.
If Google does indeed suck, wouldn’t employees leave for a company that doesn’t? I wonder what the attrition looks like
Like most here, I am very good at web scraping and automated form fills. I keep trying to figure out a profitable side project or business idea to make out of it and keep coming up with nothing that works.

Any good ideas?
I hear this from time to time. Is this common knowledge, or is there some academic literature that reviews?
>> Do you really think that most people will buy that given that we haven't had a similar pandemic in 100 years?

Sure we have. Off the top of my head: AIDS, Ebola, CJD, SARS and MERS and H1N1. In fact people thought that AIDS was a US bioweapon that got loose. Or something. Pandemics make people believe all sorts of weird things.

>> 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.

See OP, for instance.
>These factcheckers should try to dilute the extremes, and bring nuance in the debate.

That's what they should be doing, but instead we get stuff like this[1], which poisons the well for "fact checking" as a whole.

[1] https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/785299708730339328
I judge them very harshly, they deserve no respect or sympathy. It should never be acceptable to walk with people that minimise the holocaust or talk openly about how they had talks with former army members of armed insurrection in their telegram channels (there are screenshots to prove that). They chose "Reichsprogrom Nacht" of all days to do a candle procession through Heidelberg for instance, with known Neo-Nazis in their ranks.

But yeah they should be free to continue to self-incriminate themselves on Telegram and elsewhere. It is not like they are some kind of sophisticated state level threat.
Dispersion matters, as does exposure time. A single inhalation of recently expelled air can be enough. You might waft past someone in Costco, but you could be sitting in the air current of someone shedding virus particles for hours on end, even if the particles are eventually being filtered by A/C.
It could signal that this person goes against the grain, maybe has a disagreeable personality, too cool to join the herd, might put up a fight about being asked to do other things. Some of these qualities can be very valuable, but most hiring managers don't know how to leverage these qualities. Tech people might be impressed, but hiring managers who live their lives in LinkedIn could be put off. Imagine trying to get a job as a recruiter without a LinkedIn profile. That would be impressive.
Samsung union situation is in a bit of chaos, but it is in progress: https://samsunglabor.co.kr/

Edit: if you want to learn more, here is a news article titled "Samsung Electronics concludes its first collective bargaining" (Maeil Business, 2021-08-12) https://news.v.daum.net/v/20210812160601200
The Mojiang mine viral outbreak actually occurred in 2012.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
> Rust to me is starting to feel like how Haskell was a decade ago, where it seemed like everybody was talking about it but serious adoption was always just on the horizon.

I think you might just not be aware of how widely adopted Rust already is. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dropbox, Cloudflare to name just a few companies already have important projects in Rust. Curl is adding a Rust backend. The Linux Kernel hasn't committed yet, but groundwork has begun and it's looking like it's going to happen. Serious adoption has already happened.

You're right that we won't see mass rewrites (although there have been some). That's just too big a project. But new projects are increasingly choosing Rust. It'll be a decade before Rust is the de facto standard if it happens. But personally I consider that quite likely.
Looks groovy! Thanks for the heads up
Some solutions:

1. "Regulate". Create an official body that charges a flat fee for any use of any OSS and then pays a % to developers based on some obscure metric. This would likely lead to corruption within the newly created body

2. "Ads". Display ads on every platform that distributes software. Then, pay part of the revenue to each software based on # of downloads/etc (this is similar to how Youtube pays content creators). This would require cooperation from distributors (Github, NPM, etc). In my opinion, it would be good for both devs and platforms, as devs would prefer platforms that pay fairly over platforms that make them give stuff up for free. But it will never happen because it would hurt capital and the platforms are controlled by capital

3. "Become unionized". Collectively remove content from traditional platforms and move it to a cooperative platform that charges $ and fairly distributes it

I think #3 is the most realistic one. There is a "museum of the working class" (forget the name now) in Manchester where they have the banners of the first industrial revolution secret guilds and societies. The new tradesmen were being abused by capital so they organised under secret oaths such as "never help a tradesman that doesn't belong to the society" or "never undercut a fellow's price". Capital will always try to make workers work for less, the only way to stop this is to get organised
All of the people I went to school with who are struggling with debt and jobs today are those who picked terrible majors or shouldn't have been in the major in the first place. They knew that it would be bad going into it and still went ahead with it anyway. We need to figure out how to stop these people from committing these mistakes earlier on in the process. There is no shame in going into less technical trades—especially since they are in high demand.
> because while 50 or so years behind everyone else, the Amish are still going to adopt grid electricity, smartphones and Node.js sooner or later.

[citation needed]
I'm not sure that will work, as Wine will probably break the DRM, which is the reason that non-Chrome OS Linux doesn't get Netflix 4k in the first place.
Any edition of "Mathematical Ideas"[0] might be a good place to start. While it may seem too basic for some, I feel that it covers a lot of concepts and material that are very useful when programming - problem solving, set theory, logic, number theory, basic algebra, etcetera - and does so in a way that is gradually cumulative and not so daunting.

Maybe this book will help you to realize you don't really suck at math, you just had some terrible teachers or whatever. It's also a great introduction to many different mathematical subfields so you can see which ones are most interesting/useful to you for future study.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Ideas-14th-Charles-Mille...
As someone with a "Watch Later" queue recently filled up with oscilloscope and variable power bench PSU reviews - I'd also love to know.
France & Spain were very strategic to how things played out, but they joined years into the war after the failure of the Germain plan at Saratoga. Once the US revolution got under way, England had a herculean task of trying to occupy the entire east coast & US population of 2.5 million, the entire British army was only 48k people (spread across 3 continents) at the start of the war. The war was also incredibly un-popular in England, until France got involved, so devoting resources was difficult. It was almost a civil war since the colonists were British, not a foreign threat. Top military brass actually turned down the post of overseeing the war rather than fight their countrymen & opposition MP's wore the colors of Washington's Army to parliament.
Try your hand at a CHIP-8 emulator. The instruction set is really small, well documented, and easy to implement for your first project.

https://multigesture.net/articles/how-to-write-an-emulator-c...
Why should findings from pottery generalize to reading? It's not like reading is an activity with a clearly defined goal for each attempt, where one gets clear feedback based on which to "improve".

If we were discussing a textbook where "reading" equates to solving exercises, I might agree with you. However, attempting to apply a metric-driven approach in a field where metrics are vague/implicit (which books are "high-quality", and what value does one get for the time spent reading them?) sounds like a fool's errand.
Thanks, I use both Auth0 and Fusion Auth. Auth0 I use for online services, pretty much to be able to forget about auth and its workflow for around $32 a month. My apps also host offline maybe at home or on a corporate domain and sometimes cloud is a no-go. Its here where I use Fusion Auth. The linked guide helped me greatly 6 months back.
? What is your control group for claiming that masks don’t work? Florida?
The CEO is elected by a board and the board is chosen by shareholders. If the board and CEO don't perform they can be fired.

The threat of termination is what causes someone "typical" to act "atypically." Survival instincts kick in, and anything goes.

Or you could be right. The CEO in such a position refuses to act immorally and is than fired by the shareholders for not hitting performance metrics. They then hire another and another... until they find a CEO willing to throw away his morality to hit those performance numbers.

Do the shareholders care? No.
Very true! I think the philosophy of letting external crates handle it and seeing how stable they are before considering inclusion in the stdlib is a good one here. Maybe in a few years we see that the uuid crate never needs updates and is super stable, so someone opens an RFC to pull it into std.

The thing is it’s easy to be wrong if you’re trying to predict up front what is going to wind up being stable and low maintenance and what isn’t, so the precautionary nature of what gets into the stdlib I think reflects that.
It's not actually a standalone executable (for example, on Linux, it has a dynamic dependency on libc), but everything else about it seems accurate.
Ask HN: Consumer/sales psychology – any good recommendations?
I would like to get more into the topic of sales psychology and get a better connection with my clients but have no idea which books/sources are worth it and which to choose first. Do you have any recommendations? Particularly I'm looking for books but any other sources will be appreciated :)
The most extrapunitive, other-blaming, people I know are sociopaths so I'm going with the latter explanation.
"Willingness to pay" is a very specific term on economics and it doesn't mean "oh, sure I'd like that, I'll call you".

It means exactly that those people will pay, with nobody forcing them, if you offer the product without further constraints.

It's also an abstract value that can only be measured once the item is sold.
What do you mean by unhealthy?

I have a friend, perfectly healthy, who was forced into crashing on their bike during commute in order to not get wrecked by a car.

He fell & broke a few ribs & wrist, was not able to be seen for 28 hours in a major city. He’s still waiting on actual treatment (surgeries) & could/likely will have long lasting damaging from the delay.

Perhaps it’s over except for our entire healthcare system has completely collapsed in the sense that it’s genuinely non-functional, except for keeping wave after wave of people, who workers already know are not leaving the hospital alive, in a bed for a few weeks.

Perhaps I’m a bit angry, but I think it’s not at all considerate of your fellow citizens to say things like this - presuming you’re in the US, that is.
Companies in the private sector pay you based on the market for your skills, not cost-of-living.

They may move in tandem, but they are not in lock. If there is a shortage of talent even without inflation, your market rate will rise. Likewise if cost of living increases, but there is a surplus of talent—your compensation can still fall.

Almost anyone browsing this board makes far more than the cost it takes to “live”.
Funny, when I first signed up it was a reference to a joke that a pizza with radius z and thickness a, its volume is pizza. It's only since then that I've read Snow Crash (a book I do think about quite often..) maybe I should retcon my etymology lol
"Fairly uniform" is covering a lot of ground. On the other hand, there has been a ton of ink spilled and screaming on Twitter threads over Sweden or Florida versus other countries and states. And very obviously different outcomes in the US/Europe vs. many other areas of the world that aren't China or New Zealand.

But we probably mostly agree. A lot of differences in policies and behaviors (that many have and do feel very strongly about) are probably in the noise relative to other random factors.
open source is a great code license scheme, but a horrible business model.

Shame it's not worked out for him, but when it's voluntary most businesses hear "free tool"
Everyone can benefit from a union IMO. The Googlers that most need one are probably contractors (ie, not actually Googlers).
FDA head: Omicron is a “natural disaster most people are gonna get Covid”
Amazon has also done the same [1].

[1] https://theintercept.com/2021/02/10/amazon-alabama-union-bus...
The hypothetical in this is that this suddenly opens the door to RF-based physical sensing, when every attacker that can gain from this is already using it, just via custom equipment.
I would love to have a service like wallabag or pocket combined with a visual bookmarker like raindrop.
Okay, I don't want to give you a pep talk or pretend that I know you. But we're at the point where I recognise your username as "the-negative-person-who-doesn't-like-their-job-and-doesn't-make-that-much". I actually knew the pay-cut story in your comment before I read it because you've shared it before. So either I need to spend less time on HN or you need to ligten up a bit and shake things up career-wise.
I think the numbers I saw for cloth was a modest reduction.

Surgical refers to a broad range of objects, from a slip of paper to ones with high-filtration layers. For the latter, if everyone wore them, they'd stop COVID spread. See data from Asian hospitals, Indian social workers, etc.

With omicron, it's very possible only N95 reduces R0 below 1, but we don't know that yet.

A lot of it is theatrics, but high-filtration masks do help, even with imperfect fit.
As a casual observer of casual observers, it bothers me when I see people more concerned with how someone said something then what they said.

This flaw in human comprehension is responsible for a lot of what’s wrong with our society.
Unicode handling. There are two big projects on that front in the crate space, but this is, for me at least, the biggest gap in the std lib (but then I'm writing a text processing/formatting system so it matters a lot to me).
the metrics have said otherwise. the golang team has implemented more sophisticated GC algorithms similar to the JVM's and the performance differences where negligible and had significant downsides.

uber was able to solve there issue so the GC in golang seems perfectly fine.
> An airplane that has constantly filtered air is a hot spot but Costco is relatively benign?

An airplane where you are packed in with other people in a small tube close enough that you are essentially (and often actually) in physical contact on one (or both if you are neither in a window or aisle seat) side is a hot spot, but Costco where you are moving, everyone else is moving, there are wide spaces where you don't have to be particularly close, and high ceilings and wide bay doors so it's essentially outside, is relatively benign.

> Your risk calculus is out of whack.

No, yours is, unless you are on some weird airplanes where everyone is wearing a breathing mask so that the constant filtration happens before your exhalation gets all over your neighbors.
As a counter to your anecdote, my last three jobs have come through LinkedIn and I use it as the SOLE platform for anything work-related. I refuse to apply for a job that doesn't ingest my LinkedIn profile information; my resume is just a PDF copy of my LinkedIn profile (which is fully public too); and I tell people to go to my LinkedIn profile because business cards died 20+ years ago.
I knew Danielle Fong from Lightsail Energy, folded in 2016, and at that time compressed air seemed like a great solution especially for LatAm that needed robust low cost batteries for critical infrastructure (like hospitals) on an unreliable power grid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Fong

Would be great to see this technology reach maturity!
But, you then have all the problems with JS/HTML/CSS that web developers have. Like for example being able to support scroll bars and the like in a reasonable way. We accept certain poor behaviors from web apps because they are bound by a technology stack that is in many way sub optimal for the needs of the user.

I was employed doing what we called client server development in the 1990's, where we wrote the frontends the users interacted with in vb and later delphi. I would put the visual and operational complexity of some of those applications far beyond any slack/etc type application (one actually had a chat function built in). They were also distributed, but instead used proprietary protocols over proprietary wireless networks (until later when we were some of the first customers for cellular data). And I say it not to brag, but there were two of us working on the front end, both part time over the span of maybe 5 years. And we could do large logs/chat histories where the scrollbar reflected where in the data set the user was viewing and they could smoothly scroll or jump to any arbitrary location. I can't remember the last web application that could do something even that basic. Slack definitely cant. I'm pretty sure there are more developers working more hours on the slack front-end than we worked on those applications. So, I'm not sure where the claims of developer efficiency comes from.

People make a lot of claims about developer efficiency, but just about none of them are backed up by more than their gut instincts, which I would claim from the end user/3rd party viewpoint seem to be completely invalid. The apps are overwhelmingly poor on any number of fronts, and apparently have a lot of man hours poured into them.
My current employer is all too quick to say how well the company is doing, I bought up COLA with a director and was told 'we were all the in the same boat'

Sure we are, and that's why I'm jumping ship
You elicit my first ever OMG. Yes, granted! :) But that's just mechanics of computing history. That was the lucky break. But it wasn't 'garbage' getting lucky. It wasn't some lame specimen that survived a battle that killed off titans of a species. It was and remains a contender. And, to the point, its authors determined (certainly influenced by not being or as SoTA aware as academic CS lights) that a compelling 80% solution with a [simple] versatile conceptual model can work and it has. Same story goes for Go the language. Of course it is like PLT reto with bolt-ons, but like it or not, it is a viable approach to building software and systems.
A U.S. child is shot every hour, and hundreds die annually
In part because of consolidation in the industries relating to food.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/27/business/beef-prices-catt...

In this example the price paid to ranchers for beef hasn't risen all that much but the end user price has increased drastically. That the meat processing industry has 4? companies controlling 80+% doesn't help.
The "OPSEC fairy" as referenced in previous post is typically a random coworker, so no, they generally not have a broad license do tinker with your workstation.

An actual OPSEC person would not go and change your desktop's background, or send an email for free donuts to all your coworkers. An actual OPSEC person would just write you up for a security violation.
tying back to the article... so you want to own a server?
The impending global melt down of climate change and bitcoin isn't enough? The fact that our entire government handles a pandemic worse than some 3rd world countries? The fact that our country just let more people die than all of our previous wars combined to support capitalism?

The fact that polluters have been allowed to leave ticking time bombs all around our country without having to pay for the clean up, that we are still mining coal, that our obesity crisis could be solved by walking and taking the bus, but politicians are terrified of letting gasoline rise to its actual price?

I dunno man, you want more?
You're missing the point almost entirely.

Yes, they're abiding by a weird set of made-up rules, but a set of rules that they've agreed upon as a community in order to preserve a specific set of moral and philosophical imperatives. The rules aren't there just to make life difficult or to exclude technology for no reason, but to preserve a culture which they (and other similar communities) believe is more important than simply adopting any technology without due consideration of its effects.
I'd recommend maybe trying something simpler, like a Motorola 6811 or a MIPS processor. Their instruction sets are pretty simple and straightforward. But, I can see how that might not be as fulfilling.