skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the CCP’s exit strategy?

For a long time, a combination of lockdowns and mass vaccination to keep the virus at bay at home and hope that the West would follow suit out of its own interests - which did work reasonably well for a long time in China, but collapsed with Omicron as Sinovac and the other domestic vaccines were/are ineffective against it and its sub-lines and they had gone all-in way too early in the pandemic by claiming that their domestic vaccine was good and no Western experimental technology needed. Additionally, Western governments lost the popular support for COVID containment measures after the second or third waves (begin of 2021) thanks to Russia-backed misinformation campaigns, which led to a ton of deaths and the development and spread of Omicron.

The problem is, their original exit strategy doesn't work any more, but the CCP can't change course without Xi Jinping "losing face" - they made him effectively a half-god, he can't admit to mistakes, even improvements (since that would mean the old course was not perfect).

> Could they feasibly claim to have eradicated covid?

Again, until Omicron appeared, I would say so, yes - and factually, there was at least one line of influenza that was eradicated as a side effect of the anti-COVID measures, and RSV was also kicked down hard (although it came back with a vengeance the last months as there currently is no vaccine). Even taking into account that the COVID numbers were fudged in China on all levels out of political motivations, it is clear that the general idea of border closing and strict isolation for positive people worked (e.g. New Zealand).
Not sure it's a story at all outside of Houston. When I lived in Atlanta, boil water advisories were pretty common because pumping stations losing pressure and a random assortment of other issues that plagued the neglected, but being rebuilt by court order, water system. Though stories about Atlanta's sewage overflows into the river sometimes made news outside of the local area, simple boil water advisories didn't.
> The sperm concentration of the COVID-19 negative group was significantly higher than those in the COVID-19 positive group. No statistically significant difference was detected between the groups for sperm motility and morphology. It was observed that men with COVID-19 had decreased sperm concentrations suggesting that COVID-19 may have a negative effect on male fertility. However, in the long term, more comprehensive studies with a large sample size are needed to understand better the changes in sperm concentration.

- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.27971
I remember having this on a VPS in the 3G/HSPA era, circa 2008-2013. It did make a difference in browsing.

Around that time some cellular operators would offer similar compression turned on by default when fetching content using their network.
I assume some of the skills you're trained on are technical too. Your organization sounds like it does a lot to develop engineers, do you think it's paying off regarding competition or other tech companies?
Hi there! In the article I only briefly mentioned IPv6, it was long enough.

Indeed, we do happy-eyeballs where we can and _strongly_ prefer IPv6 when origin host resolves AAAA. However, we still need IPv4, since there is still a big chunk of traffic that only works IPv4.

If the client gives us a chance, we'll strongly prefer IPv6.
Predictions on the soon-to-be-called death of social media marketing
Show HN: Phoenix10.1, a Personalized Radio Station
Why don't you like it? Do you perceive rights being lost, or...?
The subsystem absolutely was necessary to properly support fork(). The NT kernel has always supported fork, but Win32 can’t cope with it, forking confuses CSRSS.EXE. POSIX/Interix/SFU/SUA used PSXSS.EXE instead which wasn’t upset by forked processes.
I mean Canada had a bunch of people die from unsafe drinking water not that long ago.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkerton_E._coli_outbreak
Lets assume for a second that I can, through the construction of some black magic 3rd party tool, recommend you the perfect videos to watch without any tracking of your profile what so ever (not really possible but lets just assume that it is for just a moment). Would you ever pay a 3rd party for that service? If your answer is: I wouldn't so it should be Youtube that provides it for free rather than a 3rd party, then you get what we have now. A standardized garbage product that works in the best interest of Youtube rather than its users. The product isnt dysfunctional due to lack of data, it is in fact perfectly functional for what Youtube is trying to make it do. They are optimizing for watch time and all their research indicate that this is the best way to maximize for that.

If you aren't willing to signal to the market that this is a problem that you would be willing to pay real $ to solve, then it will never get solved. If there was any actual demand for proper search and recommendation engines, plenty of us around here would have created 3rd party tools to solve for just that. But the reality is, in spite of how dogshit Youtube's recommendation engine is, people are just not willing to pay for a solution.
> unless you are poor and cannot afford any other reasonably okay living place, one should not be living in those conditions.

??? Are you actually saying poor people do not deserve clean water?
But the question is whether there is a benefit to having children once you get old, even if nobody else does (ie including getting old yourself in “the calculation”).

Demographically you’re in a world of trouble still, but then having children is actually far more important if society and its safety nets are collapsing.
Josh Long on Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3
I think I might have a use case for that, I'd no idea that it was now available in wasm!
It’s not clear to me why China wouldn’t just get Pfizer and/or Moderna to sell white label versions of their vaccines to at least vaccinate the older population in China. And if not the US vaccines then the Oxford vaccine, which is being sold without a profit even in the West and is far superior to the Chinese equivalent, would be a cheaper option.

A big driver of the problem however is that a regime built on controlling the population will almost always default to controlling the population as the answer to its problems.
The fact that this is the solution is shameful.
Depends. This sounds like an incident. If this is a regular occurrence then there's something that needs to be fixed, that is, funds need to be reallocated to redevelop core infrastructure.
Right? Just click on Safari's address bar to see this in action!
OpenBB – open-source investment research software platform
For example, Romania. Equal opportunity is a reality here.
Those "highly effective vaccines" are around 75-80% effective, compare to 90-95% for the best vaccines
https://myacare.com/blog/comparison-of-covid-19-vaccines
But strictly literal, what you call "superficial", truth is bad in itself. If someone were to publish "X, who's been called a paedophile by some" or "of Y origin, an ethnic group some claim has a reduced IQ/less hygiene/eats foetuses for breakfast", would you shrug and say "yeah, some would say that"?

In general, there's more to text than the literal meaning. Text suggests, and an institution like the BBC knows that.
Please refrain from pushing these conspiracy theories on hacker news. There are better uses of one's time than arguing about conspiracies online, so let's not do that.

Maybe you might be interested in a comic on the topic instead? If so, please enjoy this:

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Thank you.
The first check might be in a completely different function in another module (for example a postcondition check before a return). Removing dead code is completely normal and desirable, warning every time it happens would be completely pointless and wrong.
Yeah it's been performant (wifi), but I use TimeMachineEditor, so it will only backup to my NAS once or twice per day.

In terms of stability, I haven't had a problem with TM on a NAS for a few years, but yeah the corruption is why I used to use CCC instead.
Ha yes I almost edited my comment earlier to mention that calculating tax is probably something most people should just outsource to a third party.

I also have experience with wage tax calculation systems, and the solution we went with was browser automation that used a third party wage tax calculator. That stuff can be impossibly complicated -- and with many governments it changes every year too!
So how do you use that training stipend?
China also requires everyone to have an app which gives you a color coded status based on the results of COVID tests taken by you and by those in your family and neighborhood, which defines what activities you’re allowed to engage in and what areas you’re allowed to access.

Basing that off vaccination status would be far more palatable and would be far less disruptive.
iceland though part of europe, is far (literally) removed from it ... an outlier if you will. not sure if conclusions of tfa can be debated based on just that ?
The can and have convinced most working age people to get vaxxed. The issue is the low rate of vaccination among those who are 80+. These folks rarely interact with organs of the state, and there’s not much you can do to coerce them. Simply put, old people have run out of fucks to give.

It’s of course compounded by the reportedly lower efficacy of Chinese vaccines compared to mRNA vaccines.

These two factors combine for a predicted high mortality rate among the most vulnerable group can be expected.
> Or you know, just turn off UB.

You cannot “turn off UB”. The behaviour is undefined in the standard, and nothing the compiler can do will make it defined. There is a profound misunderstanding of what undefined behaviour is in a lot of the comments. It is not a compiler setting. The way to make it defined is to change the standard.
>UB, on the other hand, exists for compiler authors to optimize.

s/exists for/has been exploited by/g

The worst part is the optimizations aren't even that significant. (I recall a blog post of somebody testing this but I can't find it rn)
Sure, until you find out Stripe is killing accounts wrongfully[0], something that has been happening since a long while. Even the first comment there hints it[1].

> It's very difficult to build a standardized solution that just works, so relying on outside software can make your problems worse.

I want to see you doing billing without software.

Also, Stripe is not available for every country under the Sun because it's U.S. based. Not that Lago isn't, but at least Lago is open source so you just use it locally.

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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33743750

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744053
Is that web scale[0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
No surprise, the new CEO fired the team responsible for detecting and taking down bot accounts. Previously these teams were taking down 500,000 bot accounts every day, which suggests that Twitter might be accumulating 3.5M bot accounts every week.
no.. absolutely not. i have "actually lived" there so its not like that.
I've been called a 10xer before, and I'm the only one in my company currently at that level. We're a data company first and software second.

Trainings don't work. What does work is pair programming but you have to do this effectively. Say you have 3 buckets, frontend, backend and infrastructure. Ideally, you want to pair someone who has very full infrastructure and backend buckets, with someone who has an overflowing frontend bucket. Mix and match. There's no value in pairing two more backend oriented engineers together.

There's also no value in categorizing things in frontend and backend, if you just have a frontend engineer that throws things over the hedge to the backenders garden, you're going to have a shit shoveling contest and this doesn't work. Of course, you should still have people specialized in certain domains, but you should try to share knowledge within your team as much as possible and try to broaden's people experience instead of having people work on their own little islands. Pair someone with a backend background on a big frontend ticket with an experienced frontender and before you know it you'll have two full stack engineers that'll possibly grow to become a "10x" or whatever that means.

Code reviews are critical and it's important to have someone in your team that carries a big stick and isn't afraid to use it. This is a sensitive thing I've noticed, I've worked at companies where I wasn't the only 10x engineer, and the code reviews there were a joy because I was getting very valuable feedback. It wasn't so much that my code was wrong, but more something like `{} as MyInterface` could also be written as `<MyInterface>{}`. There were a lot of style related comments. What I notice in my current team is that people feel like this is unnecessary, but I always felt like it is valuable when another engineer suggests something like "maybe you could abstract this?" because it introduces a bigger picture that I may not have thought of before. It's very loathsome to carry the big stick, but I feel like if I dont, we're going to go back to the old patterns of not writing tests, not thinking about architecture.. Those kinds of things.
Wow are you the guy from: "Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast in 2022": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM ? :)
> I don't believe that it does. If the invalid arithmetic proceeds without crashing, and produces a value in the int32_t i variable, then that issue is settled. The subsequent statement should behave according to accessing that value.

You may dislike it, but that is not how UB in C and C++ works. See [1] for a guide to UB in C/C++ that may already have been posted elsewhere here.

It is a common misconception that UB on a particular operation means "undefined result", but that is not the case. UB means there are no constraints whatsoever on the behavior of the program after UB, often referred to as "may delete all your files". See [2] for a real-world demo doing that.

[1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213

[2] https://kristerw.blogspot.com/2017/09/why-undefined-behavior...
..you do realize Meta is an American corporation, rather than Chinese or Russian?
I think the biggest problem is lifting the measures indicates admitting mistake
There are a few quintessential elements for a satiating lifestyle pivoting around a recreational vehicle. An RV dishwasher is not always deemed to be a must-have item, but it is a significant time-saver and is something you might want to seriously consider purchasing, at the very least for the convenience factor.
Great to see a C/C++ CPU-based implementation that runs on a variety of platforms. Most other ASRs seem to be either abandonware, a whole bunch of Python that only runs on PC, and/or solutions that send all your audio to someone's server.
China did eradicate CoVID for long stretches of time.

From about April 2020 - April 2022, there were only isolated outbreaks, caused by imported cases, which were quickly contained. The vast majority of people in China could live relatively normally, as long as they didn't have to travel internationally. Most people didn't experience any lockdowns during this period.

A couple of things have happened that have made things more difficult. The rest of the world has decided to "live with CoVID," and China has reduced border quarantine times to make international travel easier, so there are much larger numbers of imported cases in China than before. Omicron spreads faster, and since most Chinese people (particularly young people) are vaccinated, they have fewer symptoms, meaning outbreaks are not identified as quickly. Finally, the government has tried to take a lighter touch, which means they have let outbreaks grow to larger sizes before imposing lockdowns.

A few weeks ago, after the Party Congress ended, the government announced 20 new measures aimed at loosening CoVID restrictions. When the latest outbreak began, local governments did not react nearly as aggressively as they previously would have. That meant that the outbreak has spread much more widely than any previous outbreak (even the original one in Wuhan). Some cities have responded by reversing some of the 20 measures, leaving people confused about what the policy is.

One major issue is that while China's overall vaccination rate is quite high, the vaccination rate among the elderly is quite low. For whatever reason, it has been very difficult to convince old people in mainland China (but also culturally similar places, like Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore) to get vaccinated. If China allows the virus to spread widely, a lot of old people will be at risk.
I'm not sure I understand. How does "lab-leak vs non-lab-leak" relate to this?
* Mild Covid is linked to brain damage months after [1][2]

* Here is a collection of threads describing all the possible negative influences COVID has on the cardiovascular system, the brain, kidneys and the autoimmune system. https://twitter.com/laurieallee/status/1521178772023652352

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-covid-even-m...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5
It removed redundant check then, why not warn about that? gcc -Wpedantic even warns about empty statements fcol.
“I think that if you took a Unix user from the early 1990s and dropped them into a 2022 Unix system via SSH, they wouldn't find much that was majorly different in the experience.”

Well they might freak out about what you did with telnet and how you logged in without a password.
Not Taiwan. 78% of >75 years old has second shot. 70% has 3rd shot.

Source: https://covid-19.nchc.org.tw/dt_002-csse_covid_19_daily_repo...
A large part of being 10x is the motivation. You can't train motivation.
I'm stumped they didn't consider buying other vaccines. Maybe they don't want to be reliant on the west. They're indeed doing a mistake keep the lock strategy...
An interesting discussion to be sure. But can't "net good" be a satisfactory judge for the Sacklers' crisis?
Because all have politicians on board.

Most famous was Finnish Labor Minister, who was on board of a company hiring "temporary workers" permanently, thus bypassing labor laws.

When asked, she basically said "I was there for coffee and pastries, I was not responsible for their day-to-day operations".
By some estimates, that statement might be true.
That's pointless. Then just publish the number of words or (A4) pages.
Thank you for this (albeit a different project). My immediate question when I read the last part of the page was 'What about PyPy!?' PyPy might be different for the original post's execution, but I still assume some significant speedups?
Yahoo Pipes was the direct inspiration for jsPlumb, name and all, back in 2009. We were surprised they hadn't open sourced the UI and decided that somebody should make something like that available. Big fan of Pipes.
There is more:

* pcp https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6887

* ds-lite port allocation mode https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1100125799/...
> If my program contains UB, and the compiler produced a binary that does X, is that a compiler bug?

UB is (usually) input dependent as well. So shouldn't this be phrased as

> If the compiler produced a binary that on some input leads to UB and does X, is that a compiler bug?
Are all these submissions about Musk's every movement, or predicted movement, interesting? I just don't know how much valuable conversation we can have about it.
Svelte Has Taken Off
Svelte has gone from an average of 400k weekly downloads to 28m within the span of a month - what is going on?
My understanding is that the additional piece of the jigsaw is the refusal to import more effective vaccines as it would reflect poorly on Sinovax and the prounouncements around it. No idea how significant this aspect is but I thought it was worth mentioning for completelness.
Bolts rust and seize or strip or bend or break in ways you can't simply reverse the installation process to remove.
I don’t think vaccines are nearly as effective as advertised.

I don’t know how this data can be torn apart but it seems plausible.

https://drpanda.substack.com/p/whats-causing-all-these-exces...
Hm... the looks of pretty recruiters sending me invites on LinkedIn make me want to switch jobs.
> Even without vaccines, the current covid strain is not even that harmful.

Among the unvaccinated (of which there still exist a shocking amount), it absolutely is harmful. Even amongst the triple or quadruple vaccinated, it can be dangerous. My s/o's sense of smell was impacted for months, we were out of work for two weeks - but a friend of ours for six months and she's still not at the performance mentally that she was prior to catching that virus. There's estimations that anything between 5 to 50% of cases end up as "long covid" [1] - and in a country like the US, which has had about 98 out of 331 million people infected with COVID, even going for the lower end with 10% still means almost ten million people whose productivity will be seriously impacted for a long time.

Add on top of that that many people of labor intensive jobs moved on during the pandemic to better employment conditions... and you see the problems like we do in Germany: public transport has gone utterly downhill to outright collapsed in some regions because so many people catch COVID, RSV or other bugs and there aren't enough staff left to replace them, the medical system is ablaze because the workers are burnt out after three years of pandemic with the last two years having to listen to politicians that "the virus isn't bad" while they see in their daily work that the politicians are lying. The death toll was immense as well - for healthcare workers it's one thing if an old person dies of cancer or of old age because that's how life tends to end, but so many young and healthy people died as well.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01702-2
> I'm skeptical of anything whose central claim is "I can easily turn front end data requests into SQL and back again in very few lines of code".

Same for me. The Elm video is showing off a toy, an interesting toy, but a toy. The presenter also says it's for now only useful for fun projects.

Something with a more mature backend in the same direction would Hasura (a GraphQL and authorization layer over Postgres) with a generated-from-the GraphQL-spec client library. A generator for Elm exists (which give you strong type-safety over the API barrier).

It does lead to a situation where SQL barely used. The GraphQL used to query the db is very SQL-like though :)
Your criticism seem extremely polite for a ranting moth :)
There's a myriad of ffmpeg examples on the web so I wish there was something like https://explainshell.com/ specifically for ffmpeg (including parsing filters). I can imagine it could even include visualization, e.g. a two-way mapping between CLI parameter and on-screen rectangle for picture-in-picture/watermark removal coordinates, cut marks in video timeline, tree of input/output streams, tree of filters... so a CLI parser+generator.
China has a 87% COVID vaccination rate, which is higher than the US (79%). However, the Chinese-made vaccines are not very effective, and many of the unvaccinated are elderly.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1279024/china-coronaviru...
vaccination-rate/
> "If my program contains UB, and the compiler produced a binary that does X, is that a compiler bug?" It's not a compiler bug.

True, if the language spec is the only thing in the universe you care about. But there are better and worse things compilers can do in the presence of UB, and the big one is warning you about it when it possibly can.

There's another big discussion on the front page about signed integer overflow in particular, and gcc screwing the developer over because it was UB when they thought it was just implementation defined:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33770277