skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From December 11 to January 7, 2022, 107 patients died in Scotland who were vaccinated twice.

Most of them (more than 95 percent) received the second dose more than six months before their deaths. As many as 96 percent of them "had other health complications that contributed to their deaths," the PHS report said. Their average age was 78.1 years.
Google relents: Legacy G Suite users will be able to migrate to free accounts
Pure, unadulterated BS. I was in the hospital for a few days last year (unrelated to Covid) and as part of the standard discharge process, I had to walk around (with a mask on) while my blood oxygen was measured. It was slightly low, so the nurse said "take off your mask for a second" and sure enough, it popped right back up to normal. She said she sees it with almost everyone.

You're breathing in less air, and more CO2. There is no way it's not going to have an impact.
Ask HN: Is there a job board or newsletter for jobs without leetcode interviews?
It seems that a lot of people(me included) don't like leetcode interviews.

Do you know any job board or newsletters for job offers without any leetcode interviews?

I'm thinking of making either a job board or a newsletter listing only jobs without leetcode interviews,
does that seem like a good idea to you?

Thanks
> Wtf, masks absolutely work.

I’m not that sure. A lot of experts agree that there’s not much quality data to reach that conclusion.

Most “definitive proof” comes from mechanical studies (they measure how far your saliva is reaching with and with out mask), but that’s not the only important factor.

Masks are not designed for full day use, and by wearing them everyone is constantly touching their face, mouth and nose. This sounds to me like a way worse infection vector. Viruses like covid can survive for a long time on surfaces.

It’s hard to separate the effects of masks from that of hand sanitizer, vaccinations, or other measures taken.
There are plenty of alternatives out there to build a community, sell things, etc. The bit about contributing was aimed at people like us who work in software.
Electron appear to have dropped support for their previous automated testing framework Spectron - https://github.com/electron-userland/spectron/blob/master/RE... - and now suggest Playwright as an alternative: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/automated-te... and https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-electronapplication/
Are there any regex builders that work with natural language inputs?
praying irrationally for shipping the junk to the moon.

that'll show em.
What're the best practices for dealing with this if one is a victim?
Eventually...and maybe once we get to 100% clean electricty we can look at adding more things like 100% EVs, heat and cooking stoves. However pushing to add them now doesn't help the situation. Old appliances in general should probably be replaced...a 30yr old freezer is probably not as efficient as a brand new one, just like a 30yr old gas stove is probably not as efficient or leak free as a brand new one.
The integration of Weaviate Vector Search with OpenAI’s embeddings is a massive step for Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence!

In addition to the Image-Text representations from CLIP, OpenAI has just published (and are selling as an API) new Code-Text embeddings.

This application domain will supercharge developer productivity in the next generation of Codex style models. When OpenAI’s Codex is augmented with Weaviate Vector Search it makes it easier to update information, understand predictions, and overall lessen compute costs!
> 7 minutes

There are so few areas of software engineering where a time limit like that is remotely realistic. What a gas.
I think this comment is reasonable and the replies to this comment are filled with bad takes.

Currently designed Jetpacks don't have brakes, or any safety features really, but that's just a lack of development.

You could easily think of hundreds of safety features that would make Jetpacks in a distant future seem pretty safe, from auto pilot/recovery features, automated object detection and avoidance, body suits with built in airbags, better designed packs that give things like 100x better articulation control, built in parachutes, the list could go on forever really.

Meanwhile cars actually have additional dangerous properties: being stuck in very confined tracks where any other user errors affect you, limited visibility, and a massive amount of heavy metal surrounding you.

I don't see why Jetpacks couldn't be as safe as a cars given they had an equal amount of investment into safety as we see modern cars. And to answer the article as to why they aren't popular, it's pretty easy to see that they just kind of suck as they are now, they need improvements in nearly every dimension.
It's so annoying how first generation technology is trashed by a community that should know better.

Of course it will be inaccessible and inefficient.

Where is the spirit of innovation?
People have mentioned here that a Heroku-like layer would be incompatible with k8s. Based on the description of k8s as a distributed OS, I don't understand how to reconcile these things.

I'd want to deploy a k8s infrastructure, but have an easy experience on top for developers that might not maximize k8s use initially, but allow devs to move down a layer eventually. The whole time the ops folks would be running k8s and limited layer above that'd keep devs in a particular lane.

Isn't this feasible?
There's more to HTTPS than just data integrity promises. One of the most popular topics on Hacker News is privacy, so I'd imagine people here would understand why virtually all public websites should be HTTPS only.
You may look at the data of how much protection masks add between the ages of 5 to 11 and 2 to 5. And how much other mitigations measures add (ventilation, cohorting, etc). You'll find that high quality masks for teachers reduce spread a lot. Masks for kids - the effect can't be clearly registered.

And using masks for kids, particularly outdoors is a hazard in itself. Masks tend to block lower peripheral vision. Which results in kids tripping and falling more often. Falls and playground injuries are a common cause of hospitalizations in the US [the order of 100k kids/year]. Masks also reduce ability to communicate [hazard]. And it is unclear what is the long-term impact on kids development.

Overall, at least to me, masking kids outdoors at this stage seem wrong. Indoor - questionable, it'd be good to see more statistics for this particular mitigation measure, if de-correlated from other mitigation measures.
Bitstamp as well
"Promise theory" by Mark Burgess tries to explain why a declarative approach may be desirable for those kinds of systems.
We were self hosting sentry for a lot of years, until sentry changed its self hosting requirements and moved to docker. In the meantime it added a lot of extra dependancies that I presume are useful for the sentry cloud (since it needs to monitor thousands of apps) but totally useless for our organization (having to monitor like 10 apps). Also sentry changed its license to non-free.

This Open Source project is implementing the sentry protocol so you can use all the existing sentry integrations for your projects (by changing the DNS) and is much, must simpler to self-host.
The key point is that you are wrong. It is absolutely due to a physiological process. You are telling me that it is "all in my head," and that it is impossible that a cloth mask over my face restricts my airflow. I am telling you it isn't.

>I tried to explicitly state that I believe that your mental experiences are real and worthy of attention and care.

I appreciate that. But you should be aware that people with anxiety hear this all the time. "What you believe is true matters. And is important. Now, having said that..." it isn't helpful and not really all that respectful, really. I can tell you with 100% certainty that restricting my breathing gives me anxiety. Not the idea of it, but the actual act itself. And that I feel less air entering my body, and more anxiety, when I wear masks. Other people have said the exact same thing happens to them in this thread. It's your choice who to believe.

Edit: saw your edit. Maybe it's not "oxygen," per se, and another chemical is to blame. That would be helpful, if I knew the exact mechanism! But unfortunately, not very useful in solving the mask/anxiety issue. I've opted just to get a shitty mask (in medical terms) that will suit me, for my health needs.
Any chance you can share the topic of the FB group? I'm curious to know if it was politically motivated (even non-political topics can have their own, internal politics, too). Maybe someone is trying to silence you?
>The main difference is in the small cases where there is enough community interest to actually take a company's internal patches and do the work of cleaning them up to get them upstream.

Exactly. It's also why the argument that open source has an advantage because many eyes can look at the code is also a mostly empty promise, and why things like Heartbeat happened despite everyone knowing the criticality of code like OpenSSL being absolutely solid. If you don't have enough of the right people looking at the right code then you get things like Heartbeat.

I'm not pointing this out to argue that Open Source is worthless, but rather to encourage people to not get complacent - Open Source is not a panacea and should still be vetted as you would vet any other part of your solution.

>So the result is that, in practice, companies contribute back to GPL-licensed projects for the same reason they contribute back to BSD-licensed projects: because they want to be able to pull in new code from the upstream, and having to rebase a patchqueue every time they want new upstream features is more expensive than engaging with the maintainers to contribute their own code back.

You mean people act in favor of their own enlightened self interests? Who could have guess that?
Ham fisted attempts to force people to do the right "moral" thing rarely succeed. But we have people who insist "if we just had a better policy!".

Sigh. Think of how much more productive we could collectively be if we stopped worrying about how to control other people, but instead structure our approaches to influence their inherent behaviors to get the better outcome naturally? And if they still go their own way shrug and go on? The GPL has evolved into a beast that would make the most aggressive HOA blush - yet the same people who would rightly go after a busybody HOA have no problem cheering misguided efforts like GPL 3 on? It's pretty amazing.
> inherently dangerous things can be made relatively safe with enough systems around them: roads, signs, traffic laws, licenses, seatbelts, and so on.

While this is true, the issue is that what is required for "enough" can vary very widely. In particular, what would be "enough" for jetpacks (and flying machines more generally) is a lot more than what experience has shown to be "enough" for cars. Some indications of why that is are the frequency of airplane accidents involving experienced pilots, who have had a lot more training on how to fly a plane than anyone gets on how to drive a car, and also the amount of time and effort and the level of continuing human supervision required to keep commercial air travel as safe as it is, even though that also involves experienced pilots and has the support of many complex systems.
> A great starting point is FIX.

I beg to differ. FIX could almost be a case study on how not to design a protocol.

Session management and recovery is outside the login protocol? Check! Can’t reliably recover from a failed login or wrong password attempt? Check! [0] Message boundaries are nontrivial to detect? Check! Field values are binary but cannot represent the byte 0x01? Check!

But FIX has a brilliant extensible hierarchical message structure that is more type safe than JSON, you say! Sure, kind of, but the encoding of lists of nested objects is utter nonsense. Not only is it somewhat redundant (the number of repeats is sent first, but the number of repeats is also determinable after parsing the whole thing, resulting in some awkward questions about what to do if the numbers disagree), but it has worse problems. Specifically, if the sender and receiver don’t agree on the precise set of fields and their order in each nested object, then the list cannot be parsed. This makes the whole concept of extensibility someone dubious. (This is because there is no delimiter between repeated objects; instead you notice that the field you’re parsing can’t legally belong to the object you’re parsing, meaning it’s time to use a crystal ball to determine whether a new repeat has started, the whole list is done, or an error has occurred.)

On top of all this, the standard implementation, QuickFIX, is a work of art, and not in a good way.

FIX SBE is IMO not at all better except that it can be serialized and deserialized faster.

[0]. No, really. If you try to log in to someone else’s session and the server rejects the password, you have just fried their session. The protocol cannot recover. Sometimes I wonder if this was deliberate, because screwing this up at the protocol level takes some creativity. Imagine if trying to log in to someone else’s email account caused their next login attempt to fail! Oh wait, some password attempt policies do this, but FIX does it by corrupting the whole protocol state machine rather than merely having a misguided policy.
The atmosphere has plenty of carbon dioxide. You probably need to ship minerals and I guess water.
Kudos, this really feels like one of those ideas whose time has come.
I'm tinkering on something very similar for longer than I care do admit, except I took on the daunting task of replacing RDF, and I'm sufficiently disillusioned by years of frontend work to base the UI off of TUIs and HyperCard.

One thing that I experienced as a huge hurdle for semantic web technology is the lack of browser APIs to actually work with RDF/JSON-LD/Semantic Web data. There's really no complete and straightforward way to transfer, store and query semantic data in the fronted. JSON-LD works around this by exposing the graph as a tree regular old JS can work with, but that looses a lot of the flexibility and power of the original graph model, e.g. path independence and proper queries.

I'll definitely keep an eye on how your ideas and solutions evolve!
Your engine dies while driving, nothing happens.

Your engine dies while flying, good luck, pal.
The point I'm trying to make is a corollary to “A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain". It's an acknowledgement that sometimes the customer is bikeshedding from start to finish. It's the recognition that rapid iteration can mean a short planning horizon that traps an architecture in a local maximum that won't deliver on business aspirations.

In a past life I had developed 3 generations of tooling to support a certain complex and information-dense task that was essential to the business. Generational change was not incremental and required months/years exploring the problem domain and prototyping and backtracking and intentionally not consulting anyone. If I came out of stealth too early I'd be directed back to a gen 1 approach that was functionally and architecturally exhausted and could not meet the business needs at a reasonable cost. By the time I was done I understood the problem domain better than the business did. (I will stipulate that most of the time this is a bad approach--but sometimes it's absolutely necessary.)

My (aspirational) purpose at work is to surprise my customer with valuable and insightful solutions that they could not have arrived at incrementally, or with their methods, or with their team. Surely you can see how this is in direct conflict with rapid iteration in collaboration with them?
I appreciate the feedback! The article had to take a wide approach to levels of technical understanding as the platform lends itself to a really wide range of development experience.
I don't understand why Europe is being so bearish on nuclear. It'll solve all of their energy woes without becoming dependent on Russia.

Europe doesn't have significant earthquake or tornado risks either. It's about the best place for nuclear you could imagine.

Germany shut their plants down and is now buying LNG. That's a downgrade.

Nuclear is the quickest path to green, and it's staring us right in our faces.
If I wanted to build Clearview as a hobby project, but "better" in terms of its detection capacities, what would I have to do?
I always lead with STOAE so people don't have issues guessing my first one at least. I also tend to follow with UNLID if STOAE has zero or one hits.
How old were the machinese you operated? I'm imagining turn of the century steam powered weavers. :)
You must be joking!
Have you tried exercising with surgical mask or N95 respirator?
I train regularly with N95 since Omicron started and they definitely negatively affect airflow and aerobic exercise performance. N95 respirator even more than surgical mask. I am used to them and don't have anxiety, but they aren't comfortable at all. They also affect temperature of air that you are inhaling as it mixes inside the mask with the hot air that you exhale, increasing your rest and cooldown time.
Isn't Amdahl's law only applicable to systems that some parallelism?
If you want to get to work in the morning, then a drone full of autopilots and AI is the safe and reliable way to fly across the city. But for living the Ironman fantasy of sailing through windows then you'll need a jetpack with all the associated dangers.
Yes - we put zero emphasis on education, qualifications or years of experience.

Our process instead gets you to demonstrate if you’re a good fit for us based on your skills - both technical and wider - and alignment with our values.

We’re not actively recruiting at this moment but will be later in the year. Pls feel free to submit your details :)
Yeah, water is a very good radiation shield, and seafloor gunk doesn't hurt. The concrete casks probably sink pretty easily too.
In Firefox you can set dom.disable_beforeunload to true in your about:config to disable this behaviour (globally)
The best way to get ahead is to start budgeting properly. Get an app like YNAB and get to the point where you can go for a few months without a job. Then, when a company decides to go dark-side, you can afford to leave and spend some time looking elsewhere. The stress reduction is insane. All of a sudden, losing your job isn't the end of the world.

The reason employers have so much leverage is because their workers are living paycheck to paycheck. If workers could just leave at any time for months on end then they would be in a much better situation to negotiate for better pay.
> masks absolutely work

The handful of large, high-quality studies show that cloth masks have no significant effect on transmission, and FFP2/N95 masks have at best a small effect. The article talks about specific reasons to think that even FFP2/N95 masks might be substantially less effective in schools.
Referring to other humans as "subhuman" is disrespectful, at best. Where do you get off saying ANYONE isn't a "living being[s] with spirits and hopes and dreams?"

Having different priorities than you do does not make someone "subhuman" and I would seriously reconsider the language you are using.
I think we probably expected something closer to a motorcycle as far as danger and accessibility.
It sure does!

On the other hand, having some mild programming capability gives a lot of people a lot more agency in their job and is a good thing. It's just that once they've proved out their idea and it is ready to be a real thing, they are overwhelmingly going to prefer to hand it off to the "experts".

I think there is a lot of opportunity in a no-code product that believes that this is how it works. I've just not ever seen anything where the developers say "this is great, I can slide right in and keep going with this!". It's always "what a mess, we have to start from scratch!"
Lessons to be learned in the field of data anonymization!
It's not about whether the risk exists. It's about what changes to the risk we're willing to impose on other people. Do you have the right to increase everyone else's chance of dying while walking in public? By how much, relative to the status quo alternative of driving yourself?
ARTSY MODEL CHUNK here. It's not optimal, but it is pleasing to me in an aesthetic sense.
You can do this on Reddit. No matter how successful and busy a subreddit may be without the presence of moderators, you can request ownership of a subreddit if the moderators have not been active in some time.

I found this out when someone did it to me. I had an account that I only used for moderation duties. I didn’t need to post on it. My community was doing just fine.

Well, Reddit transferred it to someone else and they turned it into an SEO spam generator.
Fun fact: Rust's regex crate won't let you do this. If you try to escape a character that isn't a meta character, you get an error. So in cases like this, it will erase your doubt.

(There is ongoing discussion about relaxing this rule for some characters, since it is so common in some cases. For example, escaping / so common that folks try to do it with the regex crate and are surprised when it returns an error. / is rarely a regex meta character, rather, it tends to denote the start and stop of regexes, e.g., in Javascript or sed.)
I'm not saying people should build their own platforms. There are plenty of managed forums, shops etc out there for people to use. We should help our friends and family by steering them towards those instead of relying solely on FB and IG for instance.
What is the best battery life for a bluetooth low energy beacon?
I mean, you're either trolling or incredibly daft to think it's my job to teach you how to think
There are some genuine N95 duckbill style masks that have much lower pressure drop.
I should also note that we’re often able to make the call in 12-15 hours. As soon as we’ve seen what we need to, we finish the project and move forward :)
Force banks to do this, immediately. They can levy it on any organization with a banking license or wants access to FEDWire or the ACH system. Force it for SWIFT access too, if the bank has an online banking system for users.
I guess I meant lack of fear in a very basic way. Not being afraid to jump off a cliff can be pretty detrimental to one's freedom.
Seems wild that it would take this long.
> It's why even modern flight is centered around the idea of stacking multiple 2d environments

That's for sharing the space. It's not only a set of stacked 2D environments, those are also divided in road-like spaces, with a limited number of junctions.
Do you mean a Rust Rc<> or a generic "borrow-checked language" Rc<>? In the former case, yes, I absolutely agree that Rust is not ideal. However, my argument is about a theoretical language with a borrow-checker, in which case - why isn't something like Lobster sufficient, which automatically detects when you have multiple owners and inserts reference counting under the hood?

https://aardappel.github.io/lobster/memory_management.html
As I said in other places, I was more thinking of managed forums, shops, etc.
One reason I keep a High Sierra + Mojave machine around is that 32-bit apps will not run on anything after Mojave. This includes Catalina, Big Sur, and Monterey.
If you’re using old versions of Office, Adobe CS5 or CS6, or if you need the functionality of QuickTime Player 7 then you’ll need to find other options.

For example, there is no other app for Mac that handles the assembly of time lapses with the simplicity and speed of QT7. Many apps will do it, but in a more cumbersome way.
> What exactly do you think licensing would provide that a formal quality system couldn't?

A uniform minimal accepted standard and ethics. Excuses against licensing generally arise from people who don’t understand it from a lack of experience, an argument from ignorance.

https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/cgi-bin/uy/webpages.cgi?...