skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's setting a pretty high bar for the author, no? They're locked inside their apartment building and can't really go out and start knocking on doors and surveying the population at large - in fact I think that would get them into trouble pretty quickly. So we don't have anything but conjecture and common sense (and various reports, videos posted elsewhere in these comments) to go on.

I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that if there are people who are not able to earn money and there's spotty food provisions from the state, that people will be starving.
China's government didn't want the western-made mRNA vaccine. They lobbied and propagandised HARD against it.

Now Omicron hit and their own non-mRNA vaccines don't work. And even if they did, people still believe the propaganda that mRNA is bad for you.

Hard lockdowns are their only tool.
On the other hand, isn't it evil too to ask people to sell time of their life for less than they could have? Nobody has unlimited time on this planet. At some point you have to sell hours of your life.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/shanghai-official-says-h...

Things don't get better from here.
You are going at this backwards. Ask yourself why were these requirements established in the first place, and who was in condition to meet them.

Also, do realize that even these requirements never translated into any kind of service guarantee. It does not solve the overall issue.

Case in point: "clean water requirements" in the US did not stop mega corporations from turning bottled water into a multi-billion dollar market, and it only pushed "dirty" manufacturing to China.
I've installed Artix (Arch based) two years ago in a 4 years old laptop. Just had to install a network program, because I didn't want to configure wifi on the terminal. Everything else, since then... No yay -Syyu has caused any issues.

Additionally, you have to consider that macOS and Linux have different purposes. The later is meant to be used to perform computational work. The former is meant to spy on you. Naturally people who want to spy on you will work very hard for you to not have any barriers - whereas Linux people are more focused on empowering you to make more computational work.
>product based job

Product based tech jobs are quite few relative to the rest. Most is just lame IT and service based jobs like the ones you described that usually offshore or nearshore.

I'm sure they can offer 80k, but from my experience they're also quite demanding and selective when hiring.
No, grad students have been unionizing across the country, including Berkeley, Columbia, and many other places
The only appropriate response is a public flogging. I also hope he validates my cynicism rather than solve the problem.
Don’t mess with finance companies,

I worked at one indirectly that was part of a major bank.

They used to even have local branches (stores in Wells Fargo parlance).

Citi, Wells, etc so had them back in the day before they were shamed into shutting them down.

Financing small purchases is just bad financial hygiene.
Really? How come it didn't cost millions of lives elsewhere that didn't impose such strict rules?
You haven’t considered that many talented developers have to send kids to nursery or buy a home without help from their parents.
That's....not even remotely true.

First of all, they are by definition not vertically integrated, because the same company doesn't create the hardware and the OS.

Second of all, have you actually compared the selection of hardware between Apple and any of these brands? I'll admit it's been a little while since I tried to give someone recommendations on a Windows machine, but the selection is just dizzying, and not in a helpful "here are all the different possible variables you could configure, and here are the possible values for them" way. They have (or, as I said, had) multiple different named lines within each product category, and several models within each line, and then each model has different possible configurations.

And unless you're the kind of person who has already studied the components enough to be able to build your own computer, you're not going to be able to easily tell, "Which of these actually has the most of the things I am looking for?"

Meanwhile, Apple's product lines aren't quite as simple as they once were, but they're still very straightforward. It's generally quite clear what the tradeoffs are when you're comparing between any give pair of devices in their lineup.
The day we forsake death and replacement is, literally, the day we stop moving forward as a species. It would be the ultimate act of selfishness.
< Is that a common strategy?

Yes. And it’s a good one. Even from the point of view of job satisfaction. The more $ you are paid, the more expensive it is for the company to waste your time.

Also, it means you are working with other high-paid people, which means they are results-oriented - not there for some childish, naive crusade to change the world.
How about a system76 laptop, with their POP_OS?
The operating system designed for a specific hardware, should "just work".
Would it be possible to have an algorithm that produces the images from the training set whose parts are most similar to the produced output? This looks super impressive but I still wonder how much the network just recycles parts of images it has seen before.
The easiest way to hide it is to report death was caused for another reason. If someone like yourself is going to take their numbers at face value they have already hidden it.
Yes well that’s the issue with utilitarianism and any other calculated ethical system. You can always justify some horrible things by saying “but we saved X more lives.”
There's some wash trading, but it's very little. Chainalysis publishes reports on stuff like this regularly.
I’ll be in Mumbai in June as well. Are there any hackerspaces that you recommend that I can visit? Would be up for a coffee if you’re up for it.
No one really picked umatrix up again did they? Still not outdated, but no more updates from gorhill right?
Coming from Sweden I'm surprised they aren't already. Do you also not have student unions to represent you until you reach undergrad?
It’s not too late to be a high school teacher and own a cafe.
That's not a problem, those are all individually useful when doing systems programming. Sometimes you're implementing a thread worker and you want (1). Sometimes you want to plug in existing functions and you want (2). Sometimes you want to use I/O completions so you want (3).

It makes sense to avoid this in a javascript runtime because you actually almost always want (3) there. It's too late for node to change it unfortunately. But I'm also pretty confused as to why zig, a (relatively) low level language, considers it important to remove this distinction.
> Access to client side scripts on my machine has to be earned in trust

I agree that it's all about trust. Why would you ever enter information on a website you don't trust? What extra information can be gathered using JS that can't be otherwise? Or what is the exact harm done if they send extra requests to a tracking API?

My point is that once you access a specific website you consent with that website sending HTML/CSS/JS to your computer and executing it. The biggest problem those days is when that website is sending your information to other entities, 3rd parties, for other purposes than improving your experience. I think having "tracking" to detect errors, loading time issues and improving the user experience is perfectly reasonable if implemented in a proper way.
This is basic numeracy. Looking at several instances of something and asking "Is that a lot?" It was many more suicides than you have seen on an average day but it may be a surprisingly small number given the situation. Percentage is a tool to help you ask "did the many incidents I heard about represent what most people there experienced, or not?"
So what is the endgame here? Covid is not going away. Does that mean that China will become an isolated island with waves of lockdowns for the next decades?
You are already taking marketing and finance classes and want to work in the marketing or finance department of a Tech firm. You're taking exactly the classes preparing you to do the job that you want to do, so what are you asking about?

Yes, Tech firms have marketing, HR and finance departments, like all large companies, and a good way to enter is to do an internship or apply for junior roles, like everywhere.
Sounds like they’re only advocating incremental improvements to the current policy?

Compare China death rates over the pandemic to basically anywhere else. If saving 5-10 million lives (estimated based on % of US population lost to Covid) doesn’t count as working, what would?
This question peers into the "explainable AI" issue of "black box" solutions like this.

Based on my understanding, the only way to do this would be to write a separate classifier algorithm using the same dataset.
It'd be almost impossible to police, although you could in theory do it. An apartment building can have its main doors locked and bolted and guarded by a few police and that might trap hundreds of people.
I cannot find anything substantial that the author thinks is materially worse about today’s show than the one from his childhood.

The animations and style are different, or the length has changed, but so what. That’s changing with the times.

This feels a bit like an old man ranting “it was better in my day than it is today!” Memories get locked into our brain at certain ages and become out reference point for what we consider “best”, and anything new isn’t as good. We tend to talk about nostalgia with rose color glasses, overemphasizing the the good parts while forgetting the bad.

OK boomer! I’m 42 and have a 3 yr old daughter. I grew up with Sesame Street and I try to watch as much of it with her as possible. (We watch on public television WTTW, not HBO.) I cannot say it’s gone downhill.

One key point pioneered by Sesame Street that’s still true today is trying to make a show that parents watch with their kids because then the learning continues after the show stops. One example is featuring musical acts feature artists recognizable by adults.

Another key point is showing diversity. Sesame Street keeps a variety of characters it has tremendous value. The the author even mentions this as one of the good things! The worked has grown up and we show diversity a lot more today than in the 70’s and 80’s so what Sesame Street pioneered has now been adopted by everyone. The show hasn’t gone downhill, other have risen to the level of excellence.

Another pioneering part of Sesame Street was developing child entertainment around research and learning outcomes. I’m not sure how that compares between the original and today but curious ti know.
Doing resource-locking client-side authoritative sounds like a security issue.
You have no idea what teachers do, do you?
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For the uninformed, what is the purpose of a student union?
No, I’m surprised MIT wasn’t already. Big arrogant institutions really require a union.
Your question backfires: Americans are used to being humiliated by their employers and see nothing wrong with the hypothetical.
From GP comment it sounded like there are multiple mom's with infants in the building and statistically most of them should be breastfeeding. So if I run out of formula another mom is probably the best solution to not let my baby starve.
Ok, so conspiracy theory logic.
Ask HN: I'm feeling stuck, how do I get out of it?
I’m a team lead but the job feels more like senior developer with some management responsibilities. In my previous job I had the same role but with much less hands on work and had the opportunity to lead multiple teams. I prefer that so I started looking for engineering management jobs.

Here are some stats: ~30 applications out of ~100 reviewed job postings. Got 7 interviews out of which I didn’t pass the first or second interview step in 4. In the remaining 3 I didn’t pass the last interview with the hiring director or VP. These 3 interview processes took me a lot of time and energy. On average I had 6 interviews in each of them.

I’m not happy at my current job but I really try to be positive and productive as much as I can. The interviews are taking significant portion of my time and that affects my performance. At my current job I’m in the middle of very complex project which causes me a lot of stress. I joined this company with no previous experience in their tech stack. Somehow that didn’t matter for them and me. I thought this would be similar job to the previous one where I didn’t do much IC work. It isn’t and I think I made a mistake. Actually I took this job because I didn’t get another manager job I was interviewing for at the same time and the salary was much better than the one I had.

I don’t think I can leave my job right now to have more time for the job search. The financial risk will just increase my stress and it will negatively affect my interviews.

For the interviews I think I do everything I should (obviously not) by learning about the companies and their products, answering to questions with real examples from my experience (combined with how you are supposed to answer leadership/management questions), and being generally positive and enthusiastic about the jobs. I don’t get feedback from the companies even when I ask. Which I guess is expected due to possible legal risk or they just don’t bother.

The reason I’m looking for manager instead of team lead roles is that I don’t think I’m good with combining management and IC responsibilities. I feel way more confident when focusing only on one of them. I could go back to IC only role (I still get the thrill of solving problems with code) but I strongly prefer management responsibilities at this point. I understand that in a lot of companies managers are expected to be hands on but there are some that this is not the case and I got rejected at those.

So I really don’t know for how long I can keep doing this. It has been 4 months since I started looking for a new job and the current one is just getting more stressful due to mainly how I respond to the whole situation I’m in.

Does anyone with similar experiences have some ideas about how I can help myself?

I’ve been on hn for a long time, I just created this account for privacy reasons.
Wonder what other joyous opportunities for unforeseen functionality they're unknowingly baking into their "IoT" devices.
Western mrna vaccine proven equally useless at preventing spread which overwhelms underdeveloped PRC medical system. Living with covid wasn't a choice after vaccines failed 1 of 2 epidimeology goals. Second being preventing severe disease which Chinese vaccines are almost as good at. Covid zero is simply superior to depending on vaccines if it can be maintained.
<=> has some of the semantics of Fortran's "arithmetic" IF statement.

This can be useful, as the Fine Article shows, in sorts and searches, I've rolled it by hand a few times for tests like "is this offset in the line we're examining".
Because it is synchronous/thread-blocking.
You would not know what people are really thinking because sharing misery will land you in jail. Is that how separated mothers feel in lockdown jails?
>and your library's functions will be specialized at compile time to be async or not-async based on what kind of writers and readers were passed in

Based on what I've seen in Rust's async, you don't actually want this in a low level language. Those calling scenarios are fundamentally different. If you magically make something async, other code can now suddenly mutate state that your function is referencing on its own stack and really mess things up.

In Rust this isn't an issue because you're not allowed to pass references into an async function that outlive the future. If you take a synchronous function that holds references and add the async keyword, you probably will get compile errors about this. I don't think Zig has anything like that.

>Zig's view on this, which I endorse, is that suspending to your event loop is not substantially different from suspending to the kernel.

No, that doesn't make sense, not even in the context of Zig. Suspending to the event loop allows other coroutines to run. Blocking in a syscall stops the whole program and all the coroutines.
Yes I imagine it's a consequence of target-based management practices infiltrating the public sphere. The "bad press" blocker works if the media is free and independent. Unfortunately in many countries it is often in the hands of corporate moguls and is co-opted into the exact same narrative building. The CIA famously tried to use the media for their own devious ends. In the UK we had the Hillsborough disaster among many other examples of press cover-ups.
What makes this lockdown stricter than past lockdowns such as in Feb-April 2020?
Elect leadership. Who then negotiates with the faculty.
Sounds like a scene from The Man In The High Castle.
Ah reminds me of the digits in your Slashdot UID, anything less than 5 digits used to cause a kefuffle in the comments, like as if the gods had descended.

I miss Slashdot, not the same after Malda left.
That’s the question a lot of people seem to have, but think about it: they’ve already bought themselves 2 extra years of vaccine + therapeutics development, and beefing up of medical infrastructure. There’s no way they can do lockdowns forever, and they’re open about that in all the media. But there’s a point in those other trends at which opening up becomes millions of times less dangerous, and we’re just not there yet.
That's exactly right, he specified a style with each and cherrypicked out of 40-60 pictures: https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1512119623315075081

>Btw transparency for this now-viral thread: I didn’t just paste prompts into dall-e, I played with style (eg. cyberpunk, oil, etc) to keep it interesting and diverse

>If I had to quantify, I’d say I’d generate 2 or 3 batches (tweaking prompt) before choosing my fav two pics, each batch outputs 20 images (two tabs 10 per), so prob technically cherry picked 2 out of 60. That said usually other 58 weren’t really broken, just boring / bit less fun
Yes, there is a roadmap here https://github.com/EYHN/space-thumbnails/issues/1
Clean water requirements have to do with the delivery of water to my house not bottling it.

>It does not solve the overall issue.

It makes it a whole lot better then it would be otherwise. Power companies can and do get fined for not doing what they should, a power that would be beyond the ability of an individual to do.

Because of things like the USPS damn near anyone in the US can mail something to anyone else for a decent price which is a net positive for society.
It's true in terms of organisation and discipline I never believed they would be as successful as they were, but they did it. My wife's home town was locked down for a while due to having I think 8 cases of Delta, but after about 2 months the city was open again.

The problem is they have bet the whole farm on that strategy, and Omicron is infectious enough that lockdowns even of the kind China has used so far may not be enough. They tried locking down Shanghai in a rolling manner but gave up after only a few days and locked down the whole city. A few days isn't long enough to evaluate the effect of a strategy, it takes weeks for the data on new cases to come in. This suggests that the rolling strategy wasn't viable given the data they already had.

One issue is that the Chinese vaccine Sinovac seems to be only about 50% to 78% effective, and even the higher value simply isn't good enough to achieve herd immunity even with high uptake. The problem there is that the Chinese media, which means the authorities, spent a lot of time throwing shade on western vaccines and bigging up side effects. This has had the effect that a lot of Chinese people don't trust Covid vaccines, including Sinovac. As a result uptake has been abysmal.

So when other countries like here in the UK are almost completely back to normal thanks to mass vaccination, China is still stuck relying on the same lockdown strategy they started with, and have no clear way out of it. Meanwhile Omicron is leaking through their lockdowns.

They're still in with a chance, omicron has been around for 9 months and they've managed it so far, but they're taking an awful risk. Long term unless they do something about vaccination, their best hope is that a very infectious but also very mild variant comes along and immunises their population for them. How that's compatible with strict lockdowns though is unclear to me.
Force elders to vax. Build up antiviral stockpile. Maybe wait for milder strain. Roll out phased living with covid experiments by region. Take a few extra years to spare millions of deaths.
Always happy to discuss it. From what my psychiatrist said, Seroquel messes with histamine channels in a way that Benadryl counteracts. From personal experience Allegra does not have this effect.
When I was a grad student at a public university, we were affiliated with a larger union (CWA, Communication Workers of America IIRC). So not unheard of I guess.

Exactly what benefits we got I don’t remember, but things got interesting once when CWA was talking about striking :)

Edit: This about 10-15 years ago
>First of all, they are by definition not vertically integrated, because the same company doesn't create the hardware and the OS.

What matters is that they put the combined product through mostly the same testing. While the PC OEMs have only some to say about Windows' direction, they have the same experience picking components and integrating for Windows as Apple has for macOS.
Unions can be good. They can be operated poorly and inefficiently too. Good luck to them.

Consumer unions seem like a neat idea too.
$2000 one time checks are not what is causing inflation. Extended unemployment insurance... I doubt it.

Inflation right now is happening because logistics are messed up. Yeah, turns out that when things get messy then the price of things go up, cuz it's harder to get things done.
In this case, the union is for grad students employed by the university (i.e. it has the same purpose as a normal union).
There are usually "student council" programs that give a handful of elected students a regular audience with administrators, but most of these programs don't have any teeth.

Graduate student council programs in particular are often built as a compromise to prevent the students from forming an organization with greater efficacy.

Anecdotally, some PIs I know have had to directly contend with rising organization among students and handed out a raise and a bonus to their labs.
Is this related to the article? How do you track time spend on page for a single page-visit using Heap? Don't they have to use a similar mechanism as described in the article?
1. Protect students from advisors who want them to work 100 hour weeks.

2. Get dental insurance for the students. Almost no US graduate school offers this.
> You can tell by not entering any PII into the site in the first place.

That's not the definition of PII. At best, that covers a small subset of PII.

PII means any information that can be used to identify you, either directly or indirectly.

When you access a website combined with which link you opened or which search keywords you used can be used to infer who you are.

How do you tell if a script is not shipping that info to an undisclosed third-party?