skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mosquitoes rarely bite me unless I'm their only option. They won't bite me at all if someone else is in the vicinity (so, my poor girlfriend).

You can quickly confirm whether it's no biting vs no reaction by the fact that you can see them flying around and landing on you. Or rather, around everyone else except you. They aren't invisible. Here in the tropics, other people will be covered in them.
People should code in Haskell more, and we would have massive amounts of reusable code. All the problems stem from premature optimization, and rush to market.
Or Newcastle, or Durham, or St Andrews, or St Martin's (if you're that way inclined), or... .

I know, the list is longer than Oxford and Cambridge. But it's a neat shorthand.
They probably make money by having it there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS#Containment

> The World Health Organization declared severe acute respiratory syndrome contained on 5 July 2003. The containment was achieved through successful public health measures. In the following months, four SARS cases were reported in China between December 2003 and January 2004.

> While SARS-CoV-1 probably persists as a potential zoonotic threat in its original animal reservoir, human-to-human transmission of this virus may be considered eradicated because no human case has been documented since four minor, brief, subsequent outbreaks in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS#Prevention

> Many public health interventions were made to try to control the spread of the disease, which is mainly spread through respiratory droplets in the air, either inhaled or deposited on surfaces and subsequently transferred to a body's mucous membranes. These interventions included earlier detection of the disease; isolation of people who are infected; droplet and contact precautions; and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), including masks and isolation gowns. A 2017 meta-analysis found that for medical professionals wearing N-95 masks could reduce the chances of getting sick up to 80% compared to no mask. A screening process was also put in place at airports to monitor air travel to and from affected countries.
Instead of saying that children are their property I would say that they are their responsibility. In many countries parents are happy to outsource their kids education to the government. In the US parents want to actively be part of the process. That's the personal liberty aspect I guess.
No, you can't, not without knowing what is inside of bar().

bar() could contain an infinite loop. bar() could call rand() and try to reference the null pointer 1 in n times. bar() could issue forth nasal demons to haunt you. bar() could call os.exit. bar() could recurse until the stack is exhausted. bar() could suspend and not resume. The OS could kill bar() from outside before it returns.

Who knows what shadows lurk within a function's stack frame?

Run it and find out.

The invariant which needs to be preserved here is that if bar() returns, the log will print, and equally important, if bar does not return, the log will not print.

That's what a good async system can preserve without knowing what's inside bar.
Forget having their careers destroyed. The fact is that most people who graduate with a PhD will not have an academic career on the tenure track, and it's really easy to see why once you pay attention to what's going on.

The thing is that academia is not a growing field anymore. So, if a professor graduates more than one student, they're feeding a glut of candidates who will be competing for one job at some point. For instance, in the field of engineering as a whole, 7.8 students graduate with PhDs per professor over the length of an average academic career [0]. In environmental engineering, that number is a whopping 19.0! (Also from [0]).

As a graduate student, once you realize the field isn't growing, you can actually see the phenomenon at work. Just look around in all your classes. That same handful of people you see in most of your courses, especially those leading into your intended specialty, those people are probably your competition. Now multiply that by every university in the country that teaches in your specialty. You very quickly come to the conclusion that you'll probably have to wait for someone to either retire or die before you get an academic position, and that's actually 100% the truth.

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[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4309283/
Also Suzhou, Hangzhou and Wuxi

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/902836853999276074/...
What I don't get is, China has more than enough money to buy a vaccine that is more effective, and more than enough research capability to develop something against omicron if it's that bad there. Why don't they?

(Also, why didn't we scale the vaccines with the confidence we had, instead of waiting months doing nothing just because the complete results weren't available?)
Their vaccine doesn’t work - forcing everyone to get it would only highlight that fact.
I have a new MYLR and it feels on par with the Highlander it replaced.
Author here.

Despite not liking the idea of function colors, I do think I like your idea of having functions express what capabilities you have to have permission for to call them. A long time ago, I saw someone talk about fine-grained permissions within a programming language, and I think they are the same idea.

I would love if that could be done without function colors, though.
We're building a similar tool that's self-hosted only (https://github.com/centerofci/mathesar).

I'm glad there are more tools to make working with data easier, but I don't use any of them because putting my data into a proprietary service I have to keep paying for is a dealbreaker.
I click the links and see nothing topic related. I don't have an instagram account.
The problem as I see it, when you get that famous, you look like a piggy bank to some people. Say you were walking down the street and tripped over someones foot, most likely you apologize and move on. But if Ed was walking down the street and tripped over the wrong persons foot, that person would quickly turn it into "I'm suing", "you hurt my foot", "I will need therapy", "I think I need to go the hospital". Now none of those things may be true but they are all in service of one goal: "I just had an interaction with someone super famous and super rich, let me see how much I can extract from them for my own gain".
What does this reply even mean? Are you seriously comparing the privileged plights within the ranks of academia to victims of a tyrannical ruler?
I initially read the headline as your torso should be less than half your height, i.e. your legs should be more than half of your height and just kinda stared at it. “Shin surgery for the perfect body, guidance says”.
It's an abusive system that only benefits large corporations.
Exactly. Unions end up becoming chums with the university admins. The students come and go but the admins are around a long time. Eventually the university just turns the union into a lower tier of management that effectively keeps all of the students in line. The admins learn which "issues" are favored by the unions and which issues hold sway with union. Then when they want to fire someone, they just frame it as an issue about which the union doesn't care.
That really sucks but I'm not sure what the connection between this professor's probably illegal action and unionization.
Longevity is not the only thing that matters in life. I and I think most other people would rather live in a liberal country even if it means my life expectancy is slightly decreased.

“Millions of deaths” sounds like a lot because the world (and Chinese) population is high, but the per-person life expectancy impact of an unchecked Covid pandemic is quite modest.
I'm talking about the entirety of the new wave of "narrative sculpting", of which reddit is most definitely a significant part, by censorious mechanisms as an adjunct to what was previously a prevalent and well accepted viewpoint on the primacy of absolute free speech. The same tools that enable that censorship enable any kind of it, no matter what loaded description is used to justify the censorship.

If it honestly could be kept to purely policing cp and super intrusive gore spam, that would probably not be something worth getting up in arms about. The fact of the matter though is that it is near globally applied by this point in time to force the perspective that the owners of the centralised media services want and shut out every opposing view for as long as possible truth be damned. And that is utterly unacceptable. It is turning the world into a complete hellscape.
I've learned products designed to replace spreadsheets have a huge hurdle because the people who use spreadsheets treat operating the sheet as their job. Replacing them removes their autonomy and control over an information process, and subsumes the value they bring to their employers - so they will resist products that threaten that. Excel is a complete management subculture.

The other advice I give is if you are generating analytics, have a PowerBI connector of some kind because the people who make decisions (managers, etc) make them based on PowerBI, and not from an interface their staff is a peer at using, and likely has control over. In enterprise, they want data in metrics their staff can't see, hence a separate tool.

Spreadsheets will always be with us I think. The opportunity may be in creating one that is has sufficient work-alike features with legacy ones, with new power features (python, etc) where there is a connector between the high power open development environment, and the familiar Excel ones managers use. Key thing being not asking managers or sr. employees to change.
There are other factors at play. For one, I have a Chinese wife who has elderly parents (not in Shanghai), for now they fare well, but we might need to look after them sooner or later. Another factor is that I have a few years contract in a startup I care much about, sure we could do remote, but this would be a blow to them. I will try to solve these and see if we can move to Taiwan or somewhere else relatively close by.
> Not everything has to be a side hustle or a shippable product.

Thanks for saying this. It’s really important. Reminds me of this article too:
https://repeller.com/trap-of-turning-hobbies-into-hustles/
> The collective knowledge gained in making quality automobiles since Toyota started until now is widely available...

Yes, this is a fair point, I do concede.
Because in politics winning or losing elections has nothing to do with competence but with popularity and how good you are at moving the blame off yourself to your competitors.
It would, wouldn't it?

The problem is that I am feeling like I am arguing a strawman (regulations are always bad!) when my point is that calling for regulations for Big Tech will do jack-shit to actually solve any of the issues affecting society, and more likely than not it is just going to help Big Tech cement their dominance.
Yeah. Won't have any software problems if there isn't a software industry to begin with.
Easily. It's just a matter of running through the streets at random and punishing the people they caught badly enough.
Interesting concept. Weird license though.
Just reading that list brought back memories (born in 1977). I grew up poor, so I didn't have access to a lot of what my middle class peers in that time had (game systems, paid extracurricular activities, or even a VCR) so shows like these were staples of my experience, and perhaps a strong reason I've had a lifelong love of learning.
Meanwhile pro-restriction people were constantly saying “if we’d only had a REAL lockdown like China, this would all be over by now!”

I guess you guys don’t really use that argument anymore, huh?
Disheartening is to hear that people view Carter as a nice guy but incompetent. "Nice guys finish last." Perhaps it is ingrained in our Western culture that we expect leaders to be aggressive and aggrandizing.

Carter is the only modern president to have a successful second career after presidency -- through the Carter Center. He has detractors as all politicians do, but to call him incompetent belies his long and varied career, including the one in this article.
It's famously where high-achievers go to feel bad about themselves. Also the Amhole stereotype is well documented.
Sure, you switch out four calculus TAs for calculus with professional TAs. Who is going to TA deep reinforcement learning, or under-actuated robotics, or any of the major-specific courses that takes a lot of relevant knowledge to actually teach properly? Any of the people out there who has the insights to TA these classes thoroughly enough are gonna point and laugh at you if you offer them anything below $200K.

Also, seems like you are completely ignoring the actual "labor" that the graduate students provide for their research labs. The number of professors in Computer Science at MIT who actually writes code at least once a week may shock you, but the truth is, for MIT to be on the top of the food chain someone needs to keep the wheels turning.
U.S. Copyright Office Rules A.I. Art Can't Be Copyrighted
Right now we have a couple of user groups in mind:

- We've been using it internal for more detailed product feedback on looms where we can draw and give some feedback to our eng team
- We've seen users using this for music feedback, sending drafts of songs to give feedback on before publishing them
- Finally we've see a use case similar to frame.io, essentially a lighter weight, less enterprise version of frame
It is entirely dependent on hardware (much like MacOS). There are "zero configuration" distros like Fedora that work fine for these purposes. However, most distros don't really serve that niche; the Linux community is full of people who like to have their cake and eat it too. The idea of running Windows software and games on a Linux kernel like it's native software, the allure of tweaking things endlessly to your liking to iron out every complaint of your OS, the idea of building your own workflow instead of conforming to the presets that someone else uses... these are the things that long-time Linux users value. Accordingly, people make OSes to fill that void. It's obviously not for everyone, though; I know a lot of people who love the idea of free software, but balk at the idea of spending a couple hours writing a config for your desktop to get it juuuuuust right. I can't knock them, but if you're enamored with pedestrian OSes, then you're going to inevitably feel failed by Linux at every corner. It's not trying to be MacOS, and when it does... glares at GNOME ...the results don't usually "just work", or behave like a Mac for that matter.
I just a couple of days had a conversation with a Chinese friend about this (he is living in Sweden). Essentially he said that previously he thought free-media/free-speech was something he understood, but did not consider terribly important for his own live (i.e. you still live a good live, the Chinese government was lifting the population out of poverty ...), but seeing the media and how they dealt with suppressing covid news (especially news how people with other conditions who did not get treated, that just disappeared from social media) he realised that this could easily affect him as well.

So in summary it was not about that he didn't know that state media was manipulating the news, but more that the crisis showed how this could affect anyone.
Only by people who don't want fair elections and apartheid. He was a good president.
> Countries that did not go into lockdown early on such as Sweden were seeing up to 15% death rates.

No they weren’t. Show your source.
Ask HN: How much do little games like Wordle make developers
We know Wordle was bought for more than 1 million dollars, but generally speaking, how much money do these games generate? I see them all the time, and if Wordle is the best case scenario, I am guessing most of these game make, if they're lucky, 100 dollars a month. (https://time.com/6143832/new-york-times-buys-wordle/)
Anyone would have lost to Reagan. He was extremely charismatic.
Ok, maybe don't click Instagram links if you don't use Instagram and then complain because the links don't work? lol Millions of people do (and I assume many HNers do) and given this post, may be interested in seeing some videos from people first hand in Shanghai. There are many other comments in here with awesome info that you can easily scroll past this one that's irrelevant to you and consume info in a way that works for you. I'm offering another type of data that may work and be of interest to others. To call it "spam" because you can't view it is very concerning.
Yes, when you compare numbers lexically, "cmp" will say that 2 sorts after 10, and "<=>" will say it sorts before:

perl -e 'printf "%d %d\n", 2 <=> 10, 2 cmp 10'

prints

-1 1
>> the sunk cost can sometimes be too high just to up and move advisors.

This isn't really the definition of sunk cost, which is the appearance of having tangible impact on decisions while being independent of the future choice. If it has bearing (as in this case) it's material to the decision and not sunk.
You don't need baby formula, it's sad how MANY Chinese fall for baby formula propaganda banned in west with formula samples given to new mothers in Chinese hospitals. Only 1-5% of mothers are unable to breastfeed, the most of the formula buyers just believe fairy tales and feed their kids unhealthy formula and then they complain about being unable to get formula.

Also you dont really need much for baby besides breastmilk, you can make fabric diapers as in old times (yes, it's inconvenient, we went easier way) and that's about it, since baby just need breastmilk, clean clothes and diaper, when older you are fine with boiled smashed vegetables, so these complaints really feel but completely clueless (lazy) mother and only justified complaint is rash ointments which can be really issue and ain't that easy to deal with at home.
Let's just keep moving those goal posts.
I mean there are only so many notes, the combination must have been all covered by now, right? So some overlap between songs is to be expected I assume.
You can pick a CC0 melody from this list:

> The goal: to copyright every single combo in order to give it to the public so musicians and artists can use melodies without worrying about copyright issues down the line.

> The algorithm created by the two programmer-musicians can put together every single 8-note, 12-beat melody combo.

https://mashable.com/article/music-melody-algorithm-midi-cop...
Except this is still true at US schools that have had a union for many years. The pay and benefits go up a little bit but the fundamental issues remain. I've never even heard of a grad union trying to bargain for true changes in funding structure or degree requirements.
“List of things named after members of the Bernoulli family”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_m...
> https://twitter.com/prafdhar/status/1511863583906275328

As with most of Dall-E's output, it looks fine at a glance,
but is just gross when you look closely.
The kids ear is deformed and blends into their hair in a deeply unsettling way.
Donations are a small part of their income.
"Live by the blurry bureaucratic tornado, die by the BBT"
Just because something could be done, does not imply that it would be done. I can't speak for the decision makers, but it's clear that they have decided that it wasn't worth it. And that was probably the right call until Omicron.
“Every banana republic has a Bill of Rights.” -Anton Scalia
The failure of restrictions to meaningfully contain Covid that became obvious in Western countries ages ago is only now beginning to happen in China.
They would ring fence the village / suburb.

I don't see a major difference between nothing entering or leaving an apartment compared to entering or leaving the village / suburb.

Both will run out of food in a similar time span.
I don't think the GDPR mandates cookie banners at all, but somehow I'm still subjected to them. Most of them don't (explicitly) ask to collect my data, they just ask if they can use cookies.
Bad economy, high inflation, energy crisis, and pretty bad international context (Iran, Afghanistan).
What actually is going on in China, is there some type of economic meltdown in progress ? Like, we can say it's because of covid, but something seems a miss to me.

> This is the biggest, richest, most international city of China and people are starving, without medicine, and without freedom.

What?
Putting aside details, I would like to read something about Zig that addresses both the "no hidden control flow" claim and the "colorblind async/await" claim.

On the face of it those 2 things seem incompatible. Why are they compatible?

If Zig followed the C philosophy, then your async code would basically look like nginx, i.e. state machines and callbacks. Not saying this is desirable, but it does work (for some definition of "work").
> Are there scenarios when either operator (cmp or <=>) works, but they have different behaviour?

It being Perl, you can basically throw anything at either operator if you like. It's trivial to find examples where the answers are different:

perl -wlE 'say "a" <=> "b"; say "a" cmp "b";'
Argument "b" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at -e line 1.
Argument "a" isn't numeric in numeric comparison (<=>) at -e line 1.
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Japan also has tsunami stones in some coastal communities:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnin...
Looks like this supports a lot more than Microsoft PowerToys which can do a couple formats https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/powertoys/file-expl...
The potential difference can be measured between any two points in a circuit, but EMF is the source of electrical energy such as a battery or generator that produces the potential difference that can be considered to "drive" the circuit.

As I understand it, an EMF has to come from nonelectrical energy, such as chemical, thermal, mechanical, or electromagnetic energy. So if you are drawing your circuit with a battery, you could call that EMF but if you are drawing it with a generic voltage source, you would not call that EMF per se.
>There is house help readily available

There is house help readily available in the U.S. - the caveat is that you can't afford it unless you're super-wealthy relative to the average population. Incidentally, that's the same in India.
Another thing is that the Chinese society is still very much likes to "report" things. A few days ago somebody in my community went outside to throw trash, no less than 5 people in the Wechat group posted pictures asking "why N is outside?"
I love this, so creative and fun to play!
People like you truly can’t be reasoned with. Your obsession with Covid as being worse than any possible mitigation strategy is borderline religious.
“I can’t believe Reagan won. I don’t know anyone who voted for him.”

Yes, I know the quote is paraphrased and was originally about Nixon. I just find this befuddlement why Jimmy Carter lost amusing.

Man got very badly played:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter%27s_engagement_wi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_oil_crisis

He was also attacked by a bunny:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter_rabbit_incident
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It’s not missing a factor that was an issue, but jumping from size to difficulty without justification.

“All cats are mammals therefore all cats are blue.” The conclusion being false isn’t a logical fallacy. However because the conclusion isn’t supported by the argument it is a fallacy.

It common to see this kind of fallacy for example: “Smart people learn things faster, therefore all experts are smart.” Yes, you just said two things that seem related, but that doesn’t mean the first statement implies the second.
Not really, strikes are a short-term thing and bringing in new international students is something that takes many months at least.