skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The other challenge with hiring someone who has done "it", is they may not want to do it again, especially in startup contexts. "Find me someone who has scaled the infrastructure of a fintech startup from Y to Z". Some people may enjoy the same challenge again, but lots may want some variation (eg different company stage, different industry, different scale).
Brightness and contrast in reflective color LCDs are very poor, because the polarizing filter blocks half the light, then the color filter on each subpixel blocks a further two thirds, so a fully "white" image will only return one-sixth of the incoming light. Power efficiency has also improved for backlights, so there's less of a benefit to omitting one than there once was.
Welcome to DSLR Astrophotography (2018) [pdf]
"Parallel" here means you don't change them independently. There is a constraint that they must always be in the same order, so key[i] corresponds to value[i]. Typically there is an API to do array operations like insert and delete that maintains this constraint.

So if you're sorting the keys and swap two of them, you make the same change to the values.
Chapps: The Caching, Highly-Available Postfix Policy Service
There are more stressful and dangerous careers that do not have travel positions as a norm.
> I would love to see some peer reviewed papers about vaccination efficiency of Chinese vs. European vs. American vs. Russian vs. Cuban vaccines

The recent Hong Kong outbreak allowed a direct head-to-head comparison of Sinovac and BioNTech/Pfizer. The results were a bit surprising: 3 doses of Sinovac were just as effective as 3 doses of BioNTech.[0] This study only looked at Omicron (nothing that is circulating in HK), and only these two vaccines. China has other vaccines using different technologies as well (CanSino uses an adenovirus vector,[1] Angui Zhifei Longcom uses protein subunits [2]). There are studies about the various vaccines, generally conducted outside China.

> Just like with infection numbers, which appear suspiciously low in some countries, there does not seem to be much good information on the vaccinations.

Ironically, this perception is due to the information bubble in the West when it comes to China. There's a ton of extremely detailed information about infections in mainland China, but you'll simply never read about it in the popular press in the West. If you read Chinese, you can look up the address of every newly infected person on each day. Many cities will publish detailed contact tracing information about each case, telling you where they've been and when they were there, what trains and planes they've taken (and what seat they sat in), and all sorts of other information. It's kind of difficult to convey just how wrong the narrative that "we don't know what's going on in China" is.

The thing is, once you see the measures that China is taking, such as border quarantine, mass testing, and extremely detailed contact tracing, it's not at all mysterious how the country has managed to contain SARS-CoV-2.

> Geez, I wonder why especially old people - who lived through the CPC's chaos years ...

Those old people tend to actually be the most committed believers in the Communist Party. There are other issues at play, such as belief in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

> I am just saying that when an outbreak eventually will escape controllability, we will see a delayed mass dying.

It will be far lower (per capita) than the death toll in Europe and the US, because China managed to get through the era in which vaccines and antiviral drugs were unavailable without suffering mass infection. If China manages to vaccinate (or even boost) most of its elderly population before the lifting controls, its per-capita death toll will be only a tiny fraction of what the West has experienced.

0. This is still a preprint, but it's from a well respected group: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.22.22272769v...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convidecia

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZF2001
Before clicking the link I knew "Mr. Rust's Wild Ride" will be waiting for me on that article. Welcome to the hype train, 3rd edition: Ruby -> Node -> Rust. Everything else is just, well, inferior and I'm going to bash its brains out. Needs some "Rust" in the title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political....
There is a museum in Michigan dedicated specifically to the Edmund Fitzgerald. When I was there, I realized that they would play this song every other song; they'd play Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, then some other contemporaneous song, then Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, then some other contemporaneous song, etc. And Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is relatively long compared to the other songs of its era, so it's probably playing in the museum about two-thirds of the time.

I could never work there. I'd go insane.
Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization
Funny watching the different spin on this story. Alternative take from the Times (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/28/business/gdp-inflati...):

> The U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of the year, but strong consumer spending and continued business investment suggested that the recovery remained resilient.

...

> In the first quarter, slower growth in inventories shaved close to a percentage point off G.D.P. growth. Companies raced to build up inventories in late 2021 to make sure supply-chain disruptions didn’t leave them with bare shelves during the holiday season. That meant they didn’t have to do as much restocking as usual in the new year.

Similarly, from Bloomberg (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-28/u-s-econo...)

> The report is more an illustration of how GDP calculations tend to be volatile from quarter to quarter, not necessarily indicating weakness in the economy or a sign of recession. The contraction was due to a jump in imports and a drop in exports, coupled with a slower buildup of businesses’ stockpiles. On a year-over-year basis, the economy grew 3.6%.

...

> Together, trade and inventories subtracted about 4 percentage points from headline growth. Government spending shrank, also weighing on GDP. But real final sales to domestic purchasers, a measure of underlying demand that strips out the trade and inventories components, accelerated to a 2.6% annualized rate.

As always: synthesize from multiple news sources.
Yeah. I am no expert by any means.

I was thinking of something more along the lines of an integral fast reactor were the heavy elements are removed and reused in the reactor leaving the waste "purified" of those heavy elements. So the really dangerous stuff never leaves the building and is used up to produce energy.

This means instead of having waste that is dangerous for tens of thousands of years you only have to worry about it for a few hundred.

But I guess the some of the output from a IFT then could be used in something like a CANDU reactor?

So you could use the combination of the two to use up most of the fissionable material and until the waste is so depleted that it is useless and is turned into ceramics or glass and safely stored.

Something like that.

Regardless this means that nuclear reactors provide the closest we can possibly get to truly renewable energy source and provide a path forward away from fossil fuels that could meet the energy budget of the planet for the next hundred thousand years or so.

Anybody who really cares even a little bit about the environment and global warming should be clamoring loudly for this sort of tech.

Large scale nuclear power production combined with locally produce small scale (I mean distributed) solar makes a lot of sense, IMO.
I don't believe in nginx (or Apache) for any use case. We now have better tools for serving static sites, for managing proxies, or serving dynamic content.
it is bad because the population is growing, so when you factor that in, per individual the decrease is much larger.

5% growth is when everything is kinda normal and 25% of people/businesses barely get by.

-5% growth is when most people and 75% of businesses/people cannot get by

(all percentages are my gut check estimates but based on some empirical data)
More expensive real estate
I think the actions taken in 2008 delayed the effects until... now.

All the insane stuff that's happening and will happen is the hangover of not having a depression in 2008 and delaying it by printing money and propping up banks.

But you can't delay the inevitable.
A First Look at DNS over QUIC [pdf]
"Bubbling up" is the default in C++, when the code you call throws an exception and you don't have a try/catch for it.
Here is the actual report below, it says the flow chart is actually from a DHS report

https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8202/final

edit: you can see that if you look at the bottom of the imgur picture as well
That chart seems to only go back to 1987, which is after the decline in interest rates started: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/REAINTRATREARAT10Y
yes because our current economy is leveraged which means even the slightest deviations in key figures like this would send ripple effects. If you keep the interest rate low long enough people will just borrow themselves to no end.
> A little = 140€ / month. Wow. What do people do, redecorate every year?

Buy one new couch and there goes your budget for the year.
I recommend you stop watching CNN and thinking that's the entire country
> The risk I guess is that being informed might make me want to overrule the experts. On a population scale the advice might be bad. Depends on how good the experts are.

My experience with "experts" has been almost universally underwhelming. The only notable exceptions I've had is with a couple of veterinarians.
American regulator seeks comments on Apple browser ban
This reminds me of one of my first consulting gigs, where someone asked me if I could do "it" where "it" was something I had done before a couple times. Sure, I said. But then I get to the company, spend a few days and see enough to know "it" wasn't the problem at all. A bunch of other things were keeping "it" from happening and they didn't want to change those things. Thank goodness I was consulting and could bow out.
Stripe Home (2018)
I also don't see: Theory of Computation or any Algorithms course.

It looks like someone can come out of this program and not know what big-O is, and what it is of major algorithms in computer science. Sure you can get by day-to-day, but a Computer Science degree should entail:

- algorithmic complexity

- turing machine vs stack machine vs state diagram

- computer organization

- programming languages

You come out of that with a circuits-to-programming language awareness of how things get translated and executed to the lowest level along with algorithmic complexity and estimation and awareness of "what a computer can calculate".

This looks like it falls short, but the devil is in the details.
Hey Apple, can you bring iPhone 13 video recording to 2022 please?
So, I really don't like rants, but I had to do it. First I am mad on myself, not checking it before, but also mad on Apple, again. Yes, I was "forced" to switch from my old Android phone to something newer, and yes, I use both platforms - Windows and OS X (M1 MBA), and I had before an iPhone (old 4S), so I wanted to give it a try, picked an iPhone 13 and start using it.

And then, just last week, I realized on my vacation, shooting some videos, that you can't pause the video recording. And I went crazy, like really, in 2022. where an Chinese Android phone for 150 USD can do that, the mighty flagship of Apple can't do that, and you know what else can't do? For some reason, iPhone 13 can't switch from back to front camera while recording.

In the era of TikTokers and vlogers, this can't be done..

Yeah, my rant is over, now I listen your rants :) Thank you!
> all with incentive and opportunity to lie to some other members along the chain, but not to their immediate neighbors

And how does blockchain prevent them from lying?

> you need to sign up and authenticate literally all the farm organizations in Europe, and all the competing grocers and transport companies. They all need to sign that they trust the third party service to be a fair and neutral record keeper

Instead they all need to sign up onto the blockchain and lie directly on the blockchain

> Each tomato can have its own blockchain with attested entries from each fertilization, spray, and transporter, all added and attested at the point where lying is hard

Fertilizer put on the record that tomatos are fertilized.

Sprayer put on the blockchain that tomatos were sprayed.

Transporter put on the record that tomatos were transported.

You arrive at the shop to find rotten potatoes instead.

How did blockchain help?

Also note that in this current world that is so horrible according to you you arrive at a shop to find tomatos that have passed all inspections and have been delivered to you. What eaxctly does blockchain intend to solve?
Yeah, "wildly" (as in _very_) foreign languages work well.

I'm glad I discovered The Hu (for example [0] -- edit: forgot about the intro on this one, might want to fast forward a minute), with which I am usually not worried to be distracted because of the lyrics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4xZUr0BEfE
Wildfires helped fuel global forest losses in 2021
The vast majority of "services" in the US are healthcare, food services, technology, and financial services.

Aside from cloud hardware, the impact on the rest due to supply constraints from China has been extremely minimal.

Very little food comes from China. Almost 0 energy. And financing costs are 100% set by the Fed.

China plays a very small part in the US inflation story.
It's not just truth vs lies but the emotional tone. For instance, people can incite violence with truth or lies -- they kill you just the same.
Business and investor interests quickly point to the federal reserve as a scapegoat for policies which they needed to prevent bankruptcy in the worst period of the covid crash.

We've had a surreal 2 years where the US is clearly in decline yet the stock market and rampant speculative investing suggest a booming economy. It's been a bit of a fantasy for the property-holding class, while regular people still largely see unstable work schedules, omicron spreading, and crumbling roads/infrastructure.

Fiscal policy is badly needed, along with a big wealth tax to fund it.
By popular demand, we released hard-coded text support as part of this announcement.

We support React, Angular, and Vue. We are working to improve the user experience for editing hard-coded so there is more context of where the text is in the code (and UI).

The environment is selected when a repo is connected but can be changed in your settings as well. Typically customers are making changes to the development environment. We treat content as a feature with a PR to the [development] environment for each content change.

*Branch-based changes are not yet supported but is in the roadmap.
>in a 2nd tier food journal

I'm not taking either side here because I don't know enough to feel confident doing so, but I do have an issue with statements like this.

The paper should stand or fall on its own merits, if we only accept content from specific "tiers" we open the door to scientific corruption.
No, you don't. Take it from me.
> I just turned 30 and do well for myself as an employed consultant, but I wouldn't consider buying the dip, unless the dip is at least ~100% of the current market prices (which I don't see happening, but who knows).

You wouldn't buy a house unless it was essentially free? A dip of ~100% means prices at ~0% their current level.

> Going in debt for 30-40 years has zero appeal for me, it just seems like a terrible move.

Debt on its own doesn't matter so much. You already know that you will need to live somewhere for the rest of your life, so that expense is unavoidable. The question is whether you want the amount of that expense to fluctuate according to the market, or if you want to lock in a steadily-decreasing expense with a 30-year fixed rate mortgage (steadily decreasing in real terms, because $100 in 30 years will be worth $50–60; yes, property taxes are likely to increase, and maintenance will move with the market, but mortgage interest and principal will decrease in real terms).

> Even if someone gave me a million Euros, I wouldn't spend 600k of those on a house and then another 300k on renovations, that seems like a terrible waste of resources. With that kind of money, you can buy three small companies in Germany, or stop worrying about retirement, etc.

$1.05 million is hardly enough to live on. That's just $35,000 per annum. It's not nothing, and I surely wouldn't sneer at a gift of $1.05 million, but it wouldn't let me retire today.
I have had the luck of working with this kind of trust from a company and it is a great experience. It can even work as a contractor. Case in point: for my current project I was hired to port a library from Rust to Java, but since the original library was not mature enough I ended up writing an independent implementation of what the original library was intended to do: a fake MySQL server that lets you handle user requests with custom logic.

I had never dreamed of things unfolding that way! Learned a lot and still enjoying it.
The worst job I ever got hired at (about 15 years ago) wanted asp.net, C#, html, css, javascript, xslt, and SQL.

It turned out the whole of the job was optimizing SQL queries because you were not allowed to touch any other part of the application because that was all handled by jealous developers in Norway.

They wanted people who could do it, but they didn't actually know what it was.
What's your argument? The point the article is making is that Go says it's simple, but isn't, while Rust doesn't say that it's simple, and uses its complexity to solve the complex problem.

Bubbling up means returning the error to the caller, and is general error handling jargon.
I partially agree with that shaming strangers might not be a good way forward. But I also believe in some basic level of 'holding each other accountable'.

Maybe, besides political leaders and businesses, that should be limited to inner circle family and friends with whom you have a more complex relationship, and where there is a little bit more receptiveness towards critique. Even in that context it's probably better to just live the lifestyle yourself and hope they will follow.

On the other hand, if you put something out there, to be discussed publicly on HN, I don't feel obliged to only give positive feedback necessarily. Also, the author picked this up in a really nice way and has already added carbon stats to the page.

But man, it's so hard if you deeply care about something to keep your mouth shut. I don't know if you have any topics that make you feel like that?

Edit: actually responding to the rest of your comment, I'm a strong believer in the power of individual choices. The whole plant-based movement for example in The Netherlands (and outside) over the last few years was fully driven by individual consumer choices and little bits of money shifting in other directions. European politics actually tried to hinder it for a while, but at some point when something becomes the popular thing to think, politics will have to follow.
Wouldn't that fact be very important for a valuation of the company?

Perhaps this was the source of the panic? Would user numbers be subject to auditing in cases like this?
I wonder how the numbers look if you only look at Americans with mortgages though?
Twitter DMs to have end-to-end encryption like Signal?
There has been quite a few examples of Biden saying something and the white house backpedaling on the comment.

It's a very real issue that lots of people beyond Biden have commented on.

Ukraine does produce significant food/calories. This is almost certainly going to be bad for europe.

I made the obvious case about what might happen soon. I am happy to believe Psaki is the one who is wrong. Which is not really difficult to believe given trackrecord.
Misusing TypeScript assertion functions for fun and profit
Eh, plenty of people get stuck using technologies they hate.

Perhaps the OP is forced to use it for work, or already put the time and effort into building something and cannot afford to rebuild it from scratch.
And? Do you think Americans are willing to give up everything they have and start warring with each other? Because a civil war will mean exactly that. You think inflation is bad, civil war would crater the economy like no modern-American has ever experienced.

Americans don’t even want to give up their private healthcare, and y’all talking about civil war.
> Been watching eink for a lifetime now. I read each announcement as a red herring at this point..

I didn't even want to read the announcement, because I already know it's showcasing exactly the tech that I want but will never be made available. I've had half a dozen E-ink devices and I love them. But it seems like the company behind the tech has an active incentive to keep it out of consumers' hands.
Seems too many devs use go for something it is not meant for. Tried doing math calculations in go - not a good a idea. But for backend stuff like rest api, web servers, networking, sysadmin and devops tasks, it shines.
> This was 10 seconds

10 seconds is a long time of the trim wheel being cranked nose up. The same situation would apply to a stuck trim switch on the yoke. (Indeed, a stuck trim switch is worse in this respect because it cranks constantly and doesn't "yield" to the pilot pushing the switch the other way... of course, the checklist didn't presume a pilot should be diagnosing stuck AOA vs. stuck trim switch and thus recommended immediate use of the trim cutout switches instead of trying to electrically trim the other way).

There's a reason that trim runaway is a "recall" procedure in the QRH that pilots are expected to know-- it gets scary. http://www.b737.org.uk/images/runawaystab2020.jpg But it was the assumption before the MCAS disaster that pilots could deal with trim runaway, given that there was a history of flight crews dealing with trim runaway incidents in flight successfully. But MCAS was worse because:

A) It did it more often, so flight crews were exposed to this dangerous situation more than ever before

B) It did it in a sneakier, strange way (no constant movement of the trim wheel).

Still, some real-world flight crews did overcome MCAS doing the wrong thing without crashing, even if others failed the test.
That's one thing that India got right in response to Covid. The primary focus of the stimulus to alleviate the supply side constraints[1][2].

Many were questioning the approach of focusing on supply side, making small changes, observing and reacting instead of a big mega stimulus the likes of USA did. Good to see some merit in India.

[1]https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/wai...

[2]https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1461787145027338245
That'd be an interesting thing to learn about afterwards.

Oh, I was flirting with death? Good. Good.
The poor-man's scope, yes. I still have an AM-radio-sized battery-operated amplifier from Radio Shack in my toolbox, but it's been a long time since I used it.

An AM radio works too, and works above audio frequencies, wirelessly! The loopstick will pick up harmonics off everything in the circuit so you can hear a lot of what's going on. Helps to know what might be going on though.

I had a boss that had retired the following interview question (maybe it was a PhD qual question, I forget): He'd give the candidate a portable TV and an AM radio and have them measure the horizontal scan frequency of the TV. It was probably a chestnut in some circles.
Yes, but the US allowed the virus to spread like wildfire before vaccines were available.

Taiwan was slow to begin vaccination, but in the end, that had a relatively minor effect on mortality, because the virus was not allowed to spread in the first place.