skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. But also, in current culture, it is politically useful to pretend you have only black and white thinking.

I dont think all or even most of people who use those is truly confused and dont understand. Instead, allowing anything else then "if not 100% miracle it dont work" would force them to admit they are wrong or politicians they root for are wront.

It is much easier to beat the other side in argument if you pretend you are too simple to understand percentages and shades. Because contemporary culture treats nuance as weakness and pretty much accepts that kind of argument.
Who took care of you? Given it's an ex-communist country, I wouldn't be surprised if child care was cheap/free.

Here in Switzerland, "full-time childcare costs are around two-thirds of an average Swiss salary" apparently, so quite often people prefer to do it themselves rather than work mostly to pay someone to take care of their child.
> World War II didn't start with the invasion of the Soviet Union, it started with Germany and the Soviet Union agreeing to dismember Poland, IIRC.

Why not start counting WWII from the Munich Agreement [0] of September 1938 when Britain and France gave Hitler a go ahead to occupy Czechoslovakia? This capitulation by Western powers greatly expanded hitler's appetite craving for more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement
Improved quite a bit, but still isn’t the fastest compiler ever.

Fabel (the F# to JS/Python) compiler is also ok speed wise.

I’m developing on a Mac but have team colleges using linux. Can’t complain. JetBrains Rider is years ahead of Visual Studio IMHO.
> Or here is a neat trick lawyers don’t want you to know: just don’t get married.

This 100%. Eleven years into our relationship, with now a 7 years old kid. We were raised in non-religious families and we are non-religious, so why get married? Why then bring the "religion of the state" in our lives? We don't need no public servant to officially declare us married. We don't need no state-endorsed paper. We don't need no more administrative burden.

A breakup would, indeed, be bad enough in itself to then add insult to injury by having lawyers on both sides competing to see which of them has the sharpest teeth while they'd be bleeding us dry.

Just screw that entire system.
The most compelling argument for POWER was to make sure there is competition to amd64/x86 and we do not develop a monoculture. I think arm and risc-v have filled that hole nicely and taken over for POWER. Without readily available and affordable hardware I do not see much of a future for POWER in open-source. It seems entirely dependent on IBM to keep it going unless this changes.
Remember the days back in 90‘ (Must have been 1994) when installing Slackware distribution on 486 DX from about 15 floppy disks to the internal HDD.

Had running Linux as web proxy until about 2001.
Interesting to see that what was quite normal at that time has become to a topic of interest again.
Purelymail is great for $10 a year. It's a one man show, but I had no issues with it so far.

https://purelymail.com/
"Why These Numbers are Different

Provisional death counts may not match counts from other sources, such as media reports or numbers from county health departments. Counts by NCHS often track 1–2 weeks behind other data."

Your source itself says that it does not yet have complete data for January 2022.
N/A beer has gotten surprisingly good over the last couple years. The brand I’ve been getting around here is Wellbeing - I like their Amber and Pale ales
Send a CV to natan@robusta.dev
I would recommend marijuana or cocaine/lsd/mdma. Pretty good trips and better overall feelings.
That’s discussed in the slices section of the article
The vaccines were approved to keep people from dying, with a secondary goal of REDUCING spread. The experts were very clear that vaccinated people would spread it less than the unvaccinated, and all of the data shows that’s correct. Omicron didn’t exist when that data was being assessed, so think about it like someone in 2000 saying RSA 1024 was good encryption — they were hardly in the pocket of big crypto when they updated that to RSA 2048 a few years later after the attacks got better.
But why? Sure it’s boring, I certainly don’t enjoy doing Leetcode, but if the job requires it I’m not above practicing. It’s not like I’ll have to do it once I get hired.
Read only top half of the article.

Would like to add that at least in plain C, doing var[index] doesn't invoke any checked() or unchecked() access function call. It's rather compiled into assembly instructions to calculate the address where the data is expected and load it into memory in one or two lines.
For strings, you need more than the allocated length: you need the current length too. Otherwise you end up with:

- O(n) algorithms that are constantly scanning strings looking for a zero byte

- strings can't contain zero bytes

- strings have to contain one zero byte

- putting a zero byte in the middle of a string chops it off

- probably other nonsense I haven't thought of

Please don't adopt another half-assed solution just because it fits more easily into C's existing set of crap. That's how we got fake strings in the first place.
Large companies often end up with middle managers saying bullshit about "oh, that's just how we do our payroll, etc etc" in order to keep people ambiguous about how secure and long-term their role actually may be.
Working like that, at least at Google, will only suffice up to about L4. If you're good at leetcode, you might be hired at L4 directly, but if you're a normal person then it means you have one promotion before you need to learn completely different skills to advance.

I do nothing that looks anything like leetcode whatsoever.
Define sick.

I just sat at home with no sense of smell or taste for 2 weeks.
Also accept the reality that hospitals being at capacity is the normal and not a anomaly. Just part of our hyper-optimized JIT economy. Near 100% utilization rate has been reality at flu-seasons for long time. And economically it is just not realistic in general to keep excess capacity.
It would be nice if the Commission followed the example of the French government and deployed Matrix for secure communication. I don't know what the going rate is for a thorough security audit of a chat client, but carrying out such an audit would be another good way to spend EUR 5000 on securing free software.
One such example is the ability to copy my own email address. Gmail makes it so damn difficult it's mind-boggling. Whenever I try to copy my email address other elements are included in the selection, right-click is disabled and probably other annoying things happen: https://i.imgur.com/Ds0ROuT.png

Protonmail understood this and catered to this need without much fuss: https://i.imgur.com/1ZhWOsC.png
Now there is: see bit_cast above.

But in fact memcpy to a local is very often a better alternative, pre-C++20. Compilers optimize it away.
Why Kompute and not OpenCL ?
India's daily Covid cases rise by 337,704 in last 24 hours – govt
Have you read the EUA?
So don't admit it to anyone. Work on it by yourself or by sharing it on HN / Reddit / etc.

It still reads too much as a very first world of a problem to me, admittedly. I recognize that us the people need to have a goal and a direction, otherwise we start feeling like aimless leaves on the wind -- but you can still do a ton of things at home (if you work remotely which you should) while checking your Slack and email every 15 minutes, no?

But if it really bothers you so much then you have to make a choice between (a) prestige / a lot of money / boredom and (b) enjoyment / medium money / purpose. Apparently in big corps you can't have both. Being stuck in a FOMO feedback loop and being unable to choose between either path is very toxic and produces a lot of internal pressure. At some point you have to choose for the sake of your mental well-being.

...Or, as other commenters alluded to, find a job that allows you to combine them. I do doubt that many other companies can give salaries in the $250K - $500K annual range though. But who knows.

As a general observation throughout my life, us the Homo Sapiens seem to suck super bad at picking a side and/or to leave a toxic relationship before it starts to poison us long-term. We must proactively work hard to periodically challenge our priorities and reassess our situation. So if you are up for an advice from a stranger: do that and do it often, something like 2-3 times a month, for whatever period of time, until you feel you finally are where you belong. We the people hold on to things for way too long. It seems to be our default mode of operation.

It also doesn't help at all that our current civilization seems to thrive on bombarding people with FOMO, sigh. But we gotta adapt and find our own way through it all regardless.
Why on earth would you vaccinate kids? It’s not going to do anything to the spread of the virus, as the grand parent post mentioned it is extremely infectious and neither masks or the vaccines have been shown to make anything else than a dent in the levels of infections. They aren’t at risk of the virus either. The energy would be better spent convincing the few >60yo who haven’t been vaccinated to get the shot. But keeping restrictions until kids are vaccinated? What is the point?
I have an old Am586 in a drawer that I could send this guy. At least he would have a math coprocessor.
Since you don't have any issue being around it, just order a tonic, coke or 0% beer at the bar. Half-decent friends won't require you to drink. Most of my friends slowly switched to non-alcoholic drinks at some point in their 30's. I drink a little, but something about my body's reaction changed to alcohol as I got older and it mostly produces sleep instead of euphoria now.

And for what to do if you'd rather not spend your weekend at the bar with friends, well you can do anything else, and that's a pretty vast category. Just do a brainstorm on the things that interest you. Sit down and list 10 things. Then 20. Keep going till you have a list of 100 things that interest you. There will be that many things. The world is an interesting place for most.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hobbies
Can my partner nocebo themselves a baseball sized swelling under their arm near the lymph, after the shot?
To some reasonable level, the vaccines do prevent transmission. However, no vaccine is perfect - just look at the flu vaccine - even if the strains picked for the vaccine for the year are right, some people will still get the flu.

The vaccine helps to prepare your immune system to deal with the virus - in some cases that means it can fight it off entirely, or in other cases it will be able to fight it off quicker and your symptoms will be milder because your body is prepared.
> I want multiple conflicting versions of Elasticsearch on the same host

Why do you actually want this? Even having one ES is a bit of a smell that you're probably over-engineering things.
Cannabis? Or are you looking for a hobby? How about painting along with old Bob Ross episodes? That’s how I learned to paint landscapes. If you mix it with the cannabis, it’s even more fun;)
Imagine a job, say "Professional Football Player", where the only criterion for getting the job was "In three weeks, show us your six-pack, do 20 chin-ups, and do the 40M sprint in under 6s".

You don't have to dribble the ball, you don't have to answer a quiz about the rules of the game, you don't have to tackle anyone, you don't have to kick the ball, you don't have to be good at positioning yourself.

Clearly the test seems pretty odd as a way to pick players. But it has benefits as well. The expectations are clear. People who can't do it won't try. People who are in the ballpark and pass will feel special.
I'm a hiring manager and while I despise Facebook/Meta (https://twitter.com/search?q=%40trevaustin%20facebook&src=ty...), there's no denying that it's a positive qualification on a resume.

It's not what you want to do with your life, but I've had jobs at suspect places while I was getting established (Palantir) and lots and lots of others have too. It's better than having worked somewhere people haven't heard of (ie above replacement value) and much better than having worked somewhere with a reputation for doing poor technical work.
>Last I messed with POWER i couldn't find docs

You can use google nowadays.
> 3. There are now vaccines. There is now a large portion of the population that has vaccine immunity.

Yeeeeesss. The vaccines are beneficial in preventing serious illness but it's important not to overstate their efficacy.

As I write this I have COVID, which I caught from my girlfriend. We're not sure where she got it, but she started showing symptoms and tested positive last Saturday. I started showing symptoms on Monday but didn't test positive until Wednesday.

We're both double vaxxed and boosted. In my case I had 2 x AZ and 1 x Moderna. Can't remember off the top of my head what she had. Both of us are in good health. Neither of us have underlying health conditions.

She's fortunately started feeling a lot better now but I've really only just passed rock bottom. I feel much better than yesterday but still far from well. The internet is full of stories of people who were all, "I had COVID: it lasted 4 days and was no big deal," and then a week later are either in ICU or dead, so I'm not taking anything for granted. Seeming to get better and then getting rapidly worse, or having it linger on for a surprisingly long time, is something of a hallmark of COVID. (Of course, there are also plenty of people for whom it really is no big deal.)

Probably I won't become seriously ill or die, but COVID is no picnic, and if you had the choice of getting it versus not getting it I'd advise against it. Even with Omicron, if a large enough proportion of the population were infected at one time, our healthcare systems would collapse under the pressure. Whilst I don't like to credit the current UK government with terribly much intelligence, our experience in this country has been that it has required some degree of careful management to avoid that scenario playing out. Even still, our death rate is high compared with many other nations.

There's also the fact that the picture is very different across different countries: for example, the situation in Ireland is very different to the UK.

TO BE CLEAR: Unless you have a very clear and specific medical reason not to, you should get vaccinated, but let's not pretend the vaccines are a panacea. That's misinformation as much as it is to state that they're completely unnecessary, that COVID is some sort of elaborate hoax, or - and I don't have enough faces or palms to adequately express my despair at this perspective - that they're some sort of government conspiracy to track us all with nanobots.
You can focus less on the nights and more on making most of the following days by getting better sleep and waking up earlier. I've gotten religiously into golf during the pandemic and am in much better shape because of it.
This guy parents.
Statistically... For kids is much more dangerous to sit in car or have parents alcoholic. Just because it is not in news and we used to it, it doesn't change fact, that kids suffering and die because of other s*its.
> I get that everybody is tired of it, I am too, but it feels like we wasted two years of everybody's life just the take the bullet anyway.

Clearly at some point, we’re going to end the pandemic-related restrictions, right? It seems a valid question to ask periodically “is now the right time to stop doing X?” Whatever X is and whether or not you think X is effective vs X’s downsides are all factors into your answer, but factors that shouldn’t preclude asking the question.

There are going to be a range of people’s answers from “YOLO!” to “but think of the children/grandma!” Society (with government as the instrument) would do well to decide based on the science and stats, not on what the extremists on either end would prefer.

At some point, we’re going to stop wasting everyone’s years all together, but that’s inevitably going to take all the years away from (kill) at least one person who would have survived if we’d stayed locked down. It’s a living Trolley Problem.
What about an indoor sport? Maybe you’re using the excuse of alcohol to have those social interactions, so you just need to shit to a non-alcoholic activity. I’s say cannabis is your closest drug alternative, but maybe go 180° and go for a fitness social scene.
There’s that, and American obesity / general lack of health. (Just a guess.)
If it's the social aspect of drinking you're after, try diluting significantly. No one is going to measure the units you've consumed. Load up on (non-sugary) chasers, or alternate between non-alcoholic drinks and low-alcoholic drinks throughout the night. If you can limit your intake to a couple of units a week, I suspect (I'm not a doctor) that you will get most of the health benefits of not drinking at all. Sometimes I find kicking back with a non-alcoholic beer / mocktail and some finger food has almost the same relaxing effect as the real thing.
By salary you mean total comp, and in my experience "not at all."
velcro is so obnoxious though and magnets can be dangerous (if we’re still talking about children clothes)
>This can of course be done without the new syntax, and it seems exceedingly useful. Are such structs commonly used in C projects?

There are string libraries that work that way in C.

If you do it manually, without a lib, then you need to check that the length is valid yourself (after every operation), so it's not as useful as a language with first class support for it.
(first, I am not a D user but I really like what I have seen. I wish WG14 would take more inspiration from D than from C++)

C23 will require 2s-complement.

Signed overflow is still UB in C. I think this is a better choice than wrap around, because overflow is often a bug. With UB, you can use static analysis (to some degree) or run-time traps (if the compiler supports this) and then fix those bugs. If it were defined to wrap around, those bugs are much harder to find.
> Growing by hand for calories is a negative return activity.

Industrial agriculture, with the help of chemical fertilizers, has only been a thing since the early 19th century.

I find it hard to believe that agriculture, in all the centuries before that, was negative in return. How did sedentary humans feed themselves for these thousands of years before that if not with manual agriculture?
if there’s anywhere that single use plastic makes sense it’s the medical field… everywhere else? not so much
> In my experience the parts of a (study) book where you feel dumb and frustrated while reading are generally the best parts.

True, but not always. Just as often, such parts are terribly written for one or the reason. It's possible that particular section of text is the least favorite of the author so they rush through it. Another possibility is that the author gets tired by the time that section rolls around and just goes thru the motions. Or that the author plain doesn't think a certain section is important enough to expound on it carefully. Yet another possibility is that the author is not universally well-versed in the subject they are writing about: they know some parts better than others.
Of all the benzodiazepines it is particularly pleasant to have a Valium or a Xanax and go to a party. It has an effect very similar to alcohol but doesn't have the physical toxicity. If you have even minor anxiety symptoms you probably won't have a hard time getting an ℞ for Xanax from your primary care doc for 30 pills or so, particularly if you intend to substitute it for alcohol.

Even though those drugs are very safe (in the short term) on their own, watch out that they are highly dangerous to mix with alcohol -- if you do that you could get over-sedated, do crazy things, black out or die.

Other drugs of that family are less good as a social lubricant, particularly the long-acting benzodiazepines such as Klonopin or Clorazepate which could still be sedating you 24 hours later.

Unfortunately if you use BZs regularly for a long period of time you can get an addiction which is particularly hard to kick.

In the realm of speculation it's been imagined that a partial agonist for the benzodiazepine receptor would have a cap on its effects even if you took a large dose and would be very safe for recreational use, kind of like the 'Synthahol' from Star Trek. One advantage is that the effects can be reversed with this stuff

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2244412/

however there is a lot of apprehension about using that drug for BZ overdoses because a person who is badly dependent on BZs could have seizures triggered by Flumazenil.
Go to sleep early and enjoy having the whole Saturday and Sunday for outdoor activities
I believe the point at which the author leaps from a clear and beautiful worded explanation into deep complexity without accompanying explanation is the point at which they no longer fully understand it themselves.

Having attended many a conference and spoken to many an author, the deep bit of maths in their publication without any understanding is most often the bit you later find they copy and pasted.
The FDA didn't approve the vaccines under emergency use to lessen the symptoms, only to prevent transmission.
Have you had any luck with friends at after school activities? Bike sail swim scout, legos etc? If your son got cut out of the school play group it’s going to be hard to make up for but sometimes you can still make a friend or 2 in the extra curricular activities. Now’s the time to sign him up for all the fun summer camps too. They will be full by February
In short? Children, and making stuff as resilient as possible.

Re: medical emergency, we’ve already had a few of those - it’s a 30 minute drive to the nearest emergency room/hospital, and we keep a well-stocked first aid cabinet that can cater for most trauma, and have stuff like a defibrillator, tourniquets, epinephrine in it, as you never know when I’m going to stick a pitchfork through a power line or fall off a roof, or stick an axe through my hand (that was the first emergency) or when my wife is going to get swarmed by hornets again (we discovered last year that she has a severe allergy).

I’m also putting some stead in the idea of EVTOL being a normal and affordable thing by the time I’m in my dotage, which will make our current inaccessibility moot.
Or so somebody said in an interview or thought they did, but otherwise Java is nothing like Objective C with respect to messages (and of course, wrt to syntax, but that's not that important).
My readings were more ominous, that without the Haber process, more natural processes cannot extract enough nitrogen to feed us. That situation is partially alleviated if we stop eating meat, but not completely.

This is just one example of a larger realization, which is that humanity can no longer sustain itself without a complex and sophisticated technological society.
This sounds really unlikely. Does your country also not honor any sort of verbal contracts?

Would a business agreement concluded over email not be binding? Can you get away with fraud by just tricking people into agreeing to use docusign?

If (not cryptographically) esigned contracts are not binding in your country, how does that not cripple law enforcements ability to combat fraud involving such contracts?

If I sell you a car and we use a contract like this, do I then get to keep both the car and the money? If not, how is that contract not binding?
How NAT Traversal Works in Tailscale
Moderating doesn’t really work if you are an alcoholic. It’s easier to quit than go through torture of waiting for the next dose IMO.
It's not usually the assets that cause a problem. It's future income that's the issue and usually in the context of a woman who raised kids and a man that worked.
Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans