skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s making false claims about the vaccines’ safety and speaking at antivax events. He doesn’t need to believe what he’s saying - plenty of people find it profitable not to - but that’s irrelevant because his public statements have the same impact whether or not he believes them.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/01/23/dc-anti-v...
Cointracker Raises $100M
You're framing it in the negative way, that he is ruling out candidates.

Instead, he and all the rest are viewing it positively: ruling in the 7% of the 300+ million are black women, That's 21 million never considered before, always ruled out by racists and sexists in history.

What's the problem with giving representation to a minority? How is it different from literally every pick, which is based on politics? Politics tends to dictate everything in politics, surprise surprise.

As much as purists and idealogues like yourself want quality only, you'll never define a pure and quality pick in the USA when there are 2 teams with vastly different views of quality. I guarantee you could never name a single judge who both sides would choose. Obama tried, his name was Merrick Garland, and that pick was stolen by McConnell, and Trump used it to foist a hardcore conservative on us instead of Obama's centrist moderate pick.

You're complaining about a black woman being chosen when the last democratic pick was literally stolen by the party which represents the minority in electoral and popular terms.
The Early Days of Unix at Bell Labs – Brian Kernighan [video]
You're assuming that public organizations would run a more secure responsive network. My interactions with public institutions makes me doubt this assumption, especially for something as vast and complicated as facebook's network.
why don't they take their own advice (that they are always telling conservatives who get banned from platforms): create your own Spotify and Rogan
Are you intentionally misunderstanding? We are talking about censorship, not the policy around masks.
I imagine poor people wore rags, discarded material crudely sewn together.
So basically you skipped over everything I said and made a straw man of "modesty is equivocal to policing women and deciding they must have less opportunity to men". Like you literally cannot consider the subtleties of what some non western believe. Forcing women to believe what you do.. "for freedom" isn't feminist. This is just bigoted intolerant nonsense, and your righteous indignation doesn't make it okay. You would get kicked out of most western feminist groups for saying this stuff. Women aren't uncivilized because you think their views aren't worth discussing and because you cannot understand the difference between women valuing modesty and someone else mandating it. It's exactly the same type of paternalistic thinking that religious leaders use to tell women what to think and what they can't think
Do you recall the famous 'fan-fiction' fable of Prufrock on Reddit that was asked what happened if a modern military [Platoon?] was transported to ancient rome, and how would they fare against roman legions...

It was supoposed to have been opted for a movie... and then douchebagery ensues and it never made it to light...
> Your entire platform say "do a rolling update" and don't look back?

Yes. GCP literally has a button that allows you to Replace/Restart all the instances in an Instance Group. Our deployment system just pushes a new GCP template and GCP does all the work rolling it out. No Kubernetes.
Because middle schoolers don't have to deal with sexuality or suicide or arguments with parents?

We did some 40 years ago when I was in middle school, has this really changed? Or are we just burying our heads in the sand and saying that the internet and such doesn't exist?
Two things:

1. We're hiring and would love to speak with you: www.cointracker.io/about

2. When crypto ends up being properly treated as a currency, it may take off in such a significant way that our portfolio tracking and other related products may drown out our tax business entirely
This is helpful context in understanding the saying: "If anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well." (Matthew 5:40) The ethic described in the modern vernacular is to "go the extra mile." (verse 41)
do you mean N95 masks with a valve? If so I agree, but the ones without a valve are way more difficult to breath in, that is kind of the point.
I've seen pink flamingos so I think my existing model of "bird things" could accommodate a pink duck.
[pdf] Single-Node Fault-Tolerant Stream Processing
They come up in practice a LOT actually. The challenge with curve/curve intersections boils down to tolerances. Visualize two circles with different radii, with the smaller circle inside the larger circle, that meet at a single point. When understanding those circles as primitives (centerpoint, radius) finding that intersection point is relatively trivial. However when simply thinking of these as arbitrary curves, we have a condition where those curves are getting progressively closer together, but it's really hard to tell if they exactly touch, and exactly where.

Of course at a point we'll get close enough to consider there to be some intersection, but do we get "close enough" for a single point? for a portion of each of the curves? Does the result change with the scale of the circles? Does it scale when the relative radius between the circles changes? Making those kinds of judgement calls within the algorithms is really a challenge, but makes a huge difference when building a geometry library and for usability (for other developers, and end users). Knowing your use cases may be helpful in determining what's the right approach for these situations.
Like a lot of users of the services of several government, gov.uk is consistently the best for many reason: simplicity, language clarity, accessibility, very lean design. There’s a certain… brand, i.e. the four aforementionned qualities taken as far as possible, that I really like -- but not everyone enjoys the assertive use of screen space. Just remember: visually impaired people pay taxes too.

But for web developpers, that’s not all: it’s very deliberate, there’s detailed public guidelines, a scrutiny that developpers of the most popular open source project might recogonise. The overall result is that the people working there are very good. They are principled, and typically very complementary of the independent-minded polymath that many of us have worked with. They understand accessibility in detail and many dimensions (think: both rare handicaps and aging web-clients).

I’ve worked with several and I would strongly recommend considering experience at the Government Digital service (GDS) as a very good signal on a CV, akin to senior role at a big tech, or early engineer at a successful start-up.
What I do with such is I copy-paste the challenge scaffolding to my local IDE to make the solution. Once done I copy-paste the resulting code back to the web interface for a run. Worked well during my off-line challenges years ago. Otherwise I would refuse coding over any cr*py interface, especially live coding.
PowerShell on Windows, Linux, and macOS
Owners rarely pay for crew. They only pay for a skipper and first mate. But the rest of the crew is not paid, but all expenses paid.
Got to be careful when picking the boat and the skipper. Bad boat, differed maintenance can be the kiss of death in the middle of the ocean.
Bad crew can result in conflicts: alcool and drug use, bad hygiene. You can get away from the boat, for 20-40 days...
https://web.archive.org/web/20220127154033/https://www.theat...
FDA Asks Court to Delay First 55K Page Production Until May, Pfizer Intervenes
off-off-topic: i've recently discovered (through a job listing) that the moj has been doing some open-source work around all the software they use to manage prisons and prison-related stuff. surprisingly interesting - e.g. https://github.com/ministryofjustice/prison-api
Hopes Radix-UI improve their list of components ex: still there is no Select component

https://github.com/radix-ui/primitives/discussions/375
Have you reviewed the article you linked? The Steele Dossier was compiled by a British source, and the one claim that's generally agreed on is that the Russian Govt highly favored Trump over Hillary. I'd recommend the summary to get aquatinted, then the subsection "Risk of contamination with Russian disinformation considered"
In a way it's reassuring that people of all political stripes can at least come together on one point: that the CDC has been asleep at the wheel during most of this pandemic. Hopefully at some point there will be a discussion about how to reform the body to be much more proactive.
Writing is work. Work isn't just physical labor.
Wages are “sticky”, and do not adjust as fast as prices for goods and services, and certainly don’t change much MoM/QoQ outside maybe a few niche industries.

That’s the problem with high or relatively high inflation.

The professor is correct, though, that consistent and predictable inflation is at least less bad than inconsistent and unpredictable inflation.
Ah, wasn't even aware of a fork (but makes sense!).
> You can still write Javascript and solve business problems without knowing those things.

It depends what the requirements of the role are. For some frontend React work maybe, but the engineers we were trying to hire would be working on APIs and processes that handle high volumes of streaming data. In that context using sync methods over async would significantly impact throughput.

When asked "why are you using a sync method here" the answer would often be "I want the code to pause here before the next line executes". It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what's happening under the bonnet that IMO is required for this sort of task.

Also - I agree that labels like "mid" or "senior" shouldn't carry a specific list of knowledge requirements, but they are useful to set benchmarks for what a candidate should be able to roughly offer in exchange for the level of comp they are requesting.
From the link: "Rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 is calculated by dividing the number of cases for a vaccination status, by the total number of people with the same vaccination status, and then multiplying by 100,000."

I'm as surprised as you are, but those particular graphs do indeed support GP's statement about vaccinated having higher case rates. (Doesn't mean the risk is the same: are the vaccinated more likely to have parties?) But GP has no evidence for the vaccinated "spreading it just the same".
IMO, I think we just need a way of easily firing people if they suck. It's very very difficult to termi ate without fear of retribution so the barriers to entry just keep getting taller.

If we could take a gamble on people and see if they sink or swim we could give a lot more opportunities.
Amateur ivermectin ingestion has directly caused people to die.

Rogan's own words:

“This doctor was saying ivermectin is 99 percent effective intreating Covid, but you don’t hear about it because you can’t fund vaccines when it’s an effective treatment,”

This is objectively false.
The title could be re written as "Americans’ gas stoves are as bad for the climate as less than 1% of US all cars".
It is interesting that it is obvious to you. Did you grow up in an unconnected region and then become connected later in life? How would your perspective change if that was true. Is this speculation or have you spoken to someone who had that story? I find it fascinating what facts are assumed by societies. That the current way of life is the best is a reoccurring theme amongst societies with very different conditions. To me it is more of a defense mechanism that rationalizes it more than anything else, but that's just my opinion.
They didn't lock down just to keep the spotlight off. The participants decried "you don't represent us" and proceeded to get uppity and then the mods wend scorched earth which culminated in locking the sub. I'm sure the spotlight didn't help.
To quote another Substack author: If these people had been covering Robert McNamara we’d still be in Vietnam.

The idea that people are only allowed to consume approved ideas is deeply disturbing and authoritarian. If someone is publishing the wrong information, simply do fact checking. Censorship only serves to fuel greater mistrust of institutions.

When adolescents (or their parents) who legitimately get myocarditis from the vaccine are immediately deplatformed for "medical misinformation," a lot of parents are spooked into mistrust of everything they're told by authorities. The vaccine can simultaneously be both incredibly safe and carry some small risk, and people are allowed to be presented with this information and discuss it openly.

Tech platforms are not making the world a better place and the people who call for or support censorship are evil human beings.
> but a large low pressure steam engine is perfectly possible.

Irrespective of whether it was possible for the Greeks to make them, what would be the economic incentive for them to build large low pressure steam engines at scale? In our timeline, the only serious application of large low pressure steam engines was pumping water out of mines, from after 1720 or so. Even with the incentive of the industrial revolution, it took almost a century to get small high-powered engines, with the first public steam train in 1825.
Taxpayers of the UK ought to get free hosting with this platform, considering they already paid for it. Cut government spending if it has resources to do this sort of work. Government is not to provide business services.
Absolutely aced the interview, they offered me the role of the boss of the boss that I was interviewing for, a massive sign on bonus, a salary so large that it would have affected the debt to GDP ratio of the country and the biggest corner office they had. On my way out through the lobby everyone applauded, it was a great day for all.
Like gpg aims to be simpler. Does not use a keyring.

More on sq : https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/01/26/202101-sq-release/

You can try sq with `cargo install sequoia-sq`.
Again, I don’t oppose GMOs (as you might note from the examples in my comment) but it’s the height of sophistry to claim that they’d solve this problem as effectively as vaccines reduce the risks from the virus actively circulating now. The latter is a direct causal relationship, the former is one factor affecting one of multiple overlapping problems.
Negative interest rates increase the money supply though, and explode the valuations of real estate and other assets.
Thanks so much Aaron! Having amazing YC partners certainly helps.

The biggest learning for me has been the power of trust. Working with amazing people, partners, investors, etc. who are deeply trusted means that the friction of every task, project, job, launch, deal is much easier. A small decrease in friction at each small step of the way compounds into a faster and faster flywheel of momentum over time.
The Non-Engineer’s Guide to Bad Data
Sure, I don't mind leaving it to the scientists. I'm just wondering "out loud" for 2 reasons:

1. "experts" have been relentlessly debunking vaers the past 2 years. This is even discussed in the limitations: "Given the high verification rate of reports of myocarditis to VAERS after mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccination, underreporting is more likely."

2. This isn't the first analysis of this kind, yet prior reports have emphasized an important distinction not found in the OP:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0

> the increased risk of myocarditis after vaccination was higher in persons aged under 40 years. We estimated extra myocarditis events to be between 1 and 10 per million persons in the month following vaccination, which was substantially lower than the 40 extra events per million persons observed following SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Possibly not what's happening, but this is a well-known occurrence in comparing subsets to an overall set. It's called Simpson's Paradox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
Seems weirdly selective to point to "over time it is 0%" ... well yes, I assume that if I never get another vaccination that at some point in time I may be susceptible to COVID.

What this study does show is that with a booster shot you are offered significant immunity against COVID, including omicron. I'll take 50 or 60% over 0% any day of the week.

I am incredibly grateful for the vaccines, which have done (and continue to do) a tremendous amount of heavy lifting as far as global health and reducing severe illness and hospitalization is concerned, despite those who like to pretend that they are pretty much useless.
Yes, they stopped tracking by age, I believe October 24th. So when you switch the graph to view by age group you're seeing the graph upto October 24th. It shows you data before Omicron. There's a disclaimer on top of the page explaining this.
Actually, I think that's the reason people build new date pickers (or new anything else). The new (fill in the blank) to rule them all has to take every possible permutation of use cases into account, and as a result, is necessarily "bloated" for whatever purpose you intend to put it to. In most cases, it's not just bloated itself, it also depends on other (fill in the blank)s to rule them all that are themselves bloated, and inconsistently compatible. It's also necessarily way more complex than just annotating an HTML input form element - again because of the huge number of different cases it has to support, so take a while to learn how to use and to learn its own idiosyncrasies.
Tesla notches record Q4 profit, cites supply chain challenges a ‘main factor’
Depends on the contract and what the supplier can do. I know of a greenhouse that did take the plants back, then put them on sale there. I don't know if that is normal for plants though, or just how that one operated. Plants can also be composed to make better soil. Or they might need a few to come back which they grow for next year's seed?

For books some can go to half priced books type stores, but if there are a lot unsold it probably isn't worth the shipping.
I’ll take a contrary opinion here - this seems like mostly a good thing to me.

When I was in high school, the course of my life was significantly impacted by a company doing something very much like this. In 1999 there were about 300 kids K-12 enrolled in my small rural school, and Intergraph largely paid for a new computer lab and program. They included a frankly silly amount of hardware and software: ~25 workstations, two of which were dedicated to GIS work and one of which was for CAD/CAM. There were survey-grade GPS units, Microstation J for CAD, Geomedia and ArcGIS for GIS, 3DS Max, Maya, and Solid Edge for 3D modeling… you get the idea.

The best part was that it was one of the first times they’d done this, so the program basically consisted of them delivering everything to an unused classroom in the gym and driving off. I ended up jumping at the chance to play with any and all of those things I could. I spent the summer putting together the lab. I spent more time at school that summer than I ever did during the actual school year; I was involved in everything from carpentry to hardware installation.

About half way through the following school year they sent a couple of representatives to observe the classes, and we were asked to present a project that we’d been working on using the lab. My project involved using the GPS/GIS stuff to accurately map a hiking trail in a nearby town, make graphics to illustrate the idea, and provide cost estimates for a couple of different options for the path itself (dirt, gravel, pavement).

By the end of the second year, what had started as “give some money and tech to a school and see what happens” had grown into a non-profit in coordination with the state college. That group pick 2-3 kids from each of the ~5 schools that were involved then to travel to Lahaina, Maui to give them a jumpstart on getting their own lab together. I was one of those kids, and spent two weeks in Hawaii on their dime to install a second computer lab and basically just be a resource for the teachers there while they figured out what they were supposed to do.

They sent me to my first teach conference: the Intergraph Graphics Users Group (“IGUG”). I got to fly in a Chinook helicopter simulator, got a ton of swag, and generally just got to spend three or four days just geeking out with professional nerds.

I can honestly say that Intergraph - and the EAST Initiative that grew from that initial grant - directly changed the course of my life with a program that sounds a lot like the one in the article.

They even paid to paint the floor their “signature purple”.
Social media is just a basic telecom utility service. Most of societal communication takes place on it. It’s fundamental enough that most individuals, businesses, celebrities, and government officials participate in it. I don’t understand the distinction you’re making - to me it seems fairly fundamental and it also seems like social media depends on network effects, which justifies regulating the biggest ones.
- 20 hour mini-project (50% filtered out — 2 left)

Is this paid? This seems like an awful lot of hoops to make people jump through.
No need for the attitude.

And it doesn't have to be widespread - given the thin staffing margins that hospitals already run on, losing a small amount of people in a large facility can have outsized effects.
> VMWare has had a high availability mode for over a decade. It keeps checkpoints of system state elsewhere and synchronously replicates them.

So you don't have one VM's, but two. In case of Op's scenario you are paying for 196 CPUS instead of 98.

> If the primary reboots, it checkpoints RAM to the secondary pauses the VM and unpauses it on the secondary a few milliseconds later.

So a very small downtime, but not 0.
If it’s not clear from the title, this article is about maintaining the constant-time property of Rust cryptographic libraries when compiler optimizations tend to compromise that property.

There should probably be some kind ——constant-time compiler flag to prevent the compiler from compromising that property when it’s a higher priority than raw performance.
Actually, wanting to be comfortable all the time is irrational. You should intentionally make yourself uncomfortable occasionally in order to avoid becoming too "precious". Hypothermia is an old friend of mine.

https://davidgoggins.com/book/
Both true.

I'd even say that "theories," is probably the wrong term. More "school of thought."

I would also point out that the USD/EUR/GPM/Yen/etc are "run under MMT" in the basic sense. They simply have different ideas about inflation.

Broadly, MMT thinks same year spending is the main inflationary mover. Monetarism thinks cumulative national debt is what impacts inflation.
This is my dream (especially the part about sailing around the Med). I bought a 34' boat two years ago, however I still work full time and have a six-month old. The best I'll be able to do this summer is go on a three week long trip on Lake Michigan, which is a great start but a far cry from sailing around the world for years on end. I have a few rental properties but not nearly enough to sustain my family without a job.

If you don't mind me asking, how old are you? Do you still have a job or freelance? Or are you living entirely on savings at this point? Did you buy the boat in Europe or sail across the Atlantic?
“Financial Conditions”
It's a great example of Moravec's Paradox. We spend all our time thinking about what moral choices machines ought to make after cogitating upon the profound intricacies of the cosmos. We should be more concerned with figuring out how to teach them to successfully navigate a small part of the real world without eating glue or falling on their noggin.
My one experience of digital magnetic tape is mini-dv cassettes. I recently ripped a bunch of old home videos from some cassettes from the 2000s, and quite a few were fairly damaged. Compared to the vhses from the same time and even older, they were way worse.