skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No vaccines, that I am aware of, currently authorized anywhere in the world prevent infection or transmission of the currently circulating omicron strains, for most people. At best they reduce hospitalization and seriousness.

China is having the very large waves now because they locked down for so long. Thus they had a very small population with pre-existing exposure to the omicron strains. So when some BA.5 derived omicron strains starting getting into the Chinese population a couple of months ago they started taking off in the very large, very crowded (by international standards) cities.

Eventually enough people will be exposed to these new strains that their immune systems will be able to fight back and prevent reinfection and then we should see the shallower waves that are occurring in other countries now.

Compare what's happening now to China with their first Omicron wave to what happened to the US with their first Omicron wave: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklycases...
Waldorf Education
They did raise the price significantly, and also quintupled the production.
That looks pretty good. kind of an apt representation of kubernetes
Don't miss the discussion in another of today's items:

Show HN: Futurecoder – A free interactive Python course for coding beginners

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34289581

> I'm introducing my 8yo daughter to programming at the moment
Why would one need to know when a game fish is breeding? Would one want to get pregnant fish for the eggs as a delicacy or in the case of something like salmon, for whatever reason, specialize in or avoid them after they have metamorphosized for the breeding process? For the land animals would it be to have easier hunts during that time or shortly afterwards?
I'm not as jaded, I've been lucky enough to work at nicer places, but having made the same jump I would strongly recommend the same thing.

Either nights and weekends, or after a few years as a SWE you could just retire somewhere cheap and go nuts on your game dev passion.
The benefits of addressing some tech debt can be hard to quantify. An architectural change could enable you to add new integrations or otherwise build new features faster, but you can't always predict the magnitude I'm advance. I agree that some devs can exaggerate the importance of this though.

I still think you need to sometimes look at software as requiring some base level of regular maintenance funding, like a fleet of vehicles gets regular cyclic maintenance in any transport company.
Netflix series Fauda is great. You won't regret watching it. It is Hebrew-Arabic bilingual.
Hashtags aren't like user accounts, no - they're strings that are part of a tweet. In theory, a separate data structure shouldn't be needed since you can just search the full text of tweets, but in practice, I don't know how that scales for the number of all-time tweets.
I skimmed through it at 10 second intervals but I didn't see any police cars?
Can't emphasize the "Burning Problem" part of it more! If it is not a burning problem, it's not a problem worth solving. If your solution is something that is slightly or significantly better than the stuff on the market, but their existing solution is something that still works for them, however complex, they will not buy your product.

Perhaps it is also worth rephrasing it as "a burning problem for the buyer", which might most likely be a stupid unscrupulous solution that doesn't make sense like those sensors they have in hotels to detect employee whereabouts. Stupid and completely useless, but still "a burning problem" for hotel managers.
One interesting research group tackling this question is ex-computer engineer, currently biologist Prof. Micahel Levine's group.

They built xenobots (biological robots) from frog cells which are not evolutionarily programmed to do tasks which they accomplished. Their research in part deals with emergence of agency at multi-cellular level. And they want to get at the fundamental signatures of what makes some collection of agents into a new single agent at an higher level.

Checkout, https://youtu.be/XheAMrS8Q1c

And a new research paper (inhavent had the time to read yet) on this question of how coherent higher order agents emerge from underlying sub-agents.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0268...
I think realistically the true figure would be a lot higher.

In my 17 years working in tech - most (but not all) managers mostly serve to promote their own existence.

The more sociopathic ones seem to try to buzzword their way to C-suite roles, while the majority end up living out their working lives booking "important" meetings with far too many attendees and "fixing" problems by purchasing new "enterprise" software/tools.

The upper floors of many companies become a vast sea of Madogiwa Zoku[1].

[^1] https://japanesequizzes.com/portfolio/madogiwa-zoku/
Out of all the possible ways you can tax me, a wealth tax is easily the dumbest and easiest to avoid. I wish the US would do it just to show the world why this is so absurd. I don’t even want to get into it, just that the folly would be enormous and my laughter very loud.
I’ve heard many sorts of rationalizations to excuse substance addictions, and this sounds like one, too. It’s easy to be seduced by the feeling of getting high, making you prone to self-deception.

You can learn how to unwind without getting high. Getting high can act as a short term coping mechanism for stress, anxiety, etc. but it also throws you out of balance, leading to burnout.
"Performance error: strings can't keep up"

On Firefox or Edge (Chromium) running on a 32GB 5950X + 3080.
Any shift from monetizing search via AdWords to monetizing single-answer responses via a chatGPT-like interface is going to involve major revenue disruptions.

Meta is a great example. The company is still reporting exceptional revenue results, but because Mark is forcing the company in a new direction, the stock has been crashing since there is no more guaranteed revenue growth in the near future. Zuckerberg can still do it because he is a founder-CEO and the way the board is structured.

If Google announces tomorrow that it’s shifting to a chatGPT-like model and will likely see revenue disruptions for the next N quarters, the stock will crash hard. Does Pichai have the pull to withstand quarter after quarter of declining revenue?

I don’t think so.
Eels appeared to be an alternative currency, the kind that can be "minted" by a lot more individuals compared to precious metal coins or bank notes, and can circulate in excess of legal tender authorized or issued.

Most of the rents call for even numbers of eels, but the mentioned levy of "1/2 of all the fish and eels caught there" is more like a percentage tax. It does bring to mind the possibility that fully grown eels were probably all supposed to be about the same size so they were the standard of exchange, with the remaining catch being converted locally at a variable fish-per-eel rate depending on what those other fish were like.

The data's so sketchy it could have been anything, but something looks fishy about the 13th century. How did the number of eels due skyrocket so dramatically and then pipe down to a more representative trend the very next century? Especially considering that eel-based rents were a directly declining arrangement over the centuries.

Somebody needs to audit this, there might be some kind of currency exchange manipulation or insidious devaluation responsible.
The only other party that's capable of pushing this kind of functionality onto the industry is Google, and Google does not have HDMI out on any of their current Pixels. Perhaps it's intentional to prevent Android from competing in the same market as Chromebook.
Actually, the Russian textile industry needed cotton, they were a major customer of US cotton, then they saw an opportunity to grow cotton in Turkestan. So they started growing cotton there. Even after the 1917 revolution, Turkestan remained a major cotton producer, and population growth, increasing demand for cotton, the ruthless Soviet central planning dried the lake. That YouTube clip might have a point about water leaks, but even with 100% efficiency they would dry up the lake anyway, the inertia to grow cotton was too strong.
> bureaucracy were created as a reaction to something bad happening

Probably, but not every bad thing happening requires a response. Sometimes mistakes or bad things happen, and you just say, "use better sense next time", and then you move on.
There are alternatives you know
I’d like to go with wider interpretation of Conway’s law[0], and think as if people organizations and code bases develop under similar laws of nature.

Then I’d rephrase the theses:

“Here are all sorts of ways to write good code with fewer helper classes and less boilerplate code”.

“That sounds nice for a small code base but it would never work for a large code base”.

I don’t have a proper synthesis for these, but I’d say that large code bases must be split into smaller ones, so that each sub-project is more focused and has better code quality. But also all those things matter only while the code is your product that makes you money. If you write the code as a contractor for sale (or you prepare a company for an IPO), you’re not incentivized to improve code quality, you just need to cram enough features in order to close the project and forget about it (or do absolute minimum to maintain it while your maintenance contract or vesting schedule lasts).

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
I'd argue that once you start with "Mastodon" it's game over. Branding is important if you want to attract anyone but die-hard techies, and for a service that relies on network effects to deliver the most value, you need all kinds of people, not just techies.
Now I'm curious to see the same experiment stopping with the 3 minutes of eye contact as a control. Maybe that's all it takes.
An AI struggling with CSS might be the best evidence of intelligence :)
Terracing is an ancient technology that turned arid land into gardens.
Madogiwa Zoku (people who have been promoted beyond function)
Given it’s much harder to get malware through the App Store than it is to get it through the macOS notarization system (or just telling people to right click open your dmg), you certainly won’t find iOS malware affecting a large amount of users unless those users seek it out (via jailbreaks) or are individuals at risk of extremely targeted attacks, which is what lockdown mode aims to guard against: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...
Payola on Reddit
The hard part is finding out which half to fire.
I think capturing ideas is lame. It delays thinking of more of them. The benefits of thinking to oneself come not from a single idea, but from the compounding effect of all of them. And you're not thinking of your next idea while you're wasting time capturing the last one.

It's better to let your mind wander to maximize the compounding effect between the ideas, rather than to fret about memorializing every vainly appealing thought (and btw, I bet if you did that while sober, it would look just as ridiculous when reading it the next day).

Just let it flow, man. You'll remember the good stuff.
>minimum level

Meditating again on the conflicting requirement that:

1) Cops be intelligent, physically fit, free of troublesome political biases, cool under stress, be willing to risk being shot by criminals and,

2) Not be paid $500,000 a year.

"Cops are paid too much" is an evergreen topic on sfgate. Here's a recent story: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/S-F-overtime-costs-soar-... If you want the best of the best of the best, you'll have to pay for it.

"Pfft, I could do that." Okay, why aren't you? Quit your tech job today and head to the police academy. Hmm? You don't want to? That's odd...
The government absolutely can seize land for projects. Eminent domain.
I’m not a team player either. I’m not sure what information you’re seeking.
Sure. But stating a belief without any reason why this would be true, or more precisely, why this hypothesis would be preferable over the currently accepted hypothesis which does have supporting evidence, is just not very convincing.
A solution used on one street in Seattle is to have the drainage ditches on the side of the road have places where the water can slow down and soak into the ground.
As long as the megacorp I work for is exempt, then of course!
Gary Hamel here. I co-wrote this piece for HBR a few years ago. Since then, the problem of bureaucratic drag has only gotten worse. Our most recent estimate is that an excess of bureaucracy and lack of empowerment reduces economic output by $18 trillion dollars per year across the OECD. The average Fortune 500 company has 8 layers of management, and few truly new ideas survive the journey up the chain of command. As per Gallup, only 1 in 5 employees believe their ideas matter at work, and only 1 in 11 are free to experiment with new methods, tools and products. If you want some practical ideas on how to bust bureaucracy, whatever your role or title, check out my book “Humanocracy” (available at Amazon), or “The New Human Movement” video series on YouTube. Love all your comments.
There is absolutely no need to confine yourself to C for embedded projects. C++ is supported everywhere by default.
I think it's helpful to define the word important because important can mean either most fundamental, or most urgent. The answers as to "what is important" for the two different definitions will almost always give very different, possibly opposing, answers. That being said, it sounds like you're asking each person to define importance for themselves subjectively, and then answer accordingly.

Since I posed the "important" issue, I'll answer both. Though there is a common thread. The common thread is health. Health is a word with a relatively vague definition, but nonetheless a powerful concept. Our society is a complex system and healthy can be a description of individuals, groups, the whole of the population, and the environment. For now let's consider the health of the whole human population. Even if we now have scoped health, it's not hard to see how impossible it would be define it precisely, because as the population and culture evolves, so must our idea of health. If we optimize for only a few metrics (e.g. max profit and minimum death) we hurt the dynamism/holism of the system. There isn't a single set of metrics that actually covers everything and it's dynamism. Despite our difficulty defining it, we know it when we see it, and this brings us to the most fundamental problem in society.

Most fundamental: What is health for society? How do think about and map physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health into comprehensible value systems, and then map those to policies. Instead of relying on static definitions, what are some of the perhaps more dynamic markers of health? How do we incorporate new technologies into our concept of societal health?

Most urgent: What are the areas that are currently causing, or have massive risk of causing, "disease" or suffering in society? Climate change, bio-tech risks, failing food systems, authoritarian drift, education (decreased sense-making capacity and the degradation of the information commons). Those are my big ones, but there are others.

Much of my thinking is influenced by Daniel Schmachtenberger (though no affiliation). If these ideas resonate with you, check him out on the youtubes. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daniel+schmacht...

Am I working on it: I am studying systems science generally, I work for an educational nonprofit, and I'm experimenting in increasing my own health capacities and doing some teaching and coaching others.
Like Pinterest. I don't ever want to see it in my search results.
Because they don’t pay a market rate.
Yeah, but I get the impression that Torvalds was just being realistic; if given the ability to realize a full system I don't think he would have objected. Tilck, on the other hand, is deliberately an educational kernel that seems to reject fancier features because they would undermine its goal of staying small, simple, and understandable to students.
There are full reservoirs:
“ And the challenge is that when we get a lot of rainfall like this, it's not forming snowpack in lower areas. And reservoirs tend to fill up rather quickly. Then we have aquifers, and they have space, but it's hard to get water where it needs to be so it can infiltrate into the ground. And even then, it's hard to get it in fast enough.”
> Apart from startups, who is hiring in tech?

Defense industry is hiring big time.
As an active user on a thematic instance (metalhead.club) I’ve seen an initial tsunami wave in the immediate days/weeks of the twitter craziness, then a dropping off in the following month. But the instance has easily increased in size by several times, and those on board seem to be engaged. But at the end of the day, the instance I’m on is more active and more fun as a result. This isn’t a pissing match for Mastodon admins or users. I don’t suffer from Twitter FOMO :)
The idea is to build something using technology that he already knows and to focus on the business and not get bogged down on learning new technology. Keep it simple
> The unsolvable task has been used in canine cognitive research to assess persistence, problem-solving behaviour, human-directed communication, and social cognition

At least grad students may take heart that (despite any confounding fondness for free food) they may be easily distinguished from dogs, for it is unlikely their advisors are ever (deliberately) setting an unsolvable task?
IMHO, it's a bug if it's not specified. If your code looks portable and compiles on a big endian machine and fails, that's a bug. You should really at least fail compilation.

I don't care about non-8-bit bytes either, and a bunch of other things, but having to deliberate add checks to "say no" just because someone might decide to use your code on some odd machine is a pure waste of time and even encourages the sort of lock-in and "environment nitpicking" that proprietary software vendors love.

As the saying goes, common sense is unfortunately not so common these days.
Who would think

Some statistically averaged words

would be a poem

some dipshit...
I put heavy in quotes, perhaps I should have put professional in quotes too.

Here is a larger climber who is sponsored by a lot of climbing companies: https://www.instagram.com/drewclimbswalls/?hl=en I'm not sure the extent to which he might be considered a professional, but having multiple sponsorships suggests it's semi-professional for him.

He's not pushing the limits of the sport, but he's promoting a more inclusive attitude. Climbing for a lot of people is about having fun, and very few people will send the hardest climbs, but you can be professional without being elite.
Does anyone else find the Polars syntax kind of clunky and ambiguous?

For example, from the link, here's how Polars and Pandas handles manipulating data in a subset of a dataframe:

f = pl.DataFrame({'a': [1,2,3,4,5], 'b':[10,20,30,40,50]})
# Polars
f.with_column(
pl.when(pl.col("a") <= 3)
.then(pl.col("b") // 10)
.otherwise(pl.col("b"))
)
# Pandas
f.loc[f['a'] <= 3, "b"] = f['b'] // 10

Its not clear in the Polars approach that the column "b" is being modified. An additional minor nitpick here is the use of when/then/otherwise for their conditional logic. Aren't these just if/else-if/else conditions? It's seems more in line with mathematical/python convention to use if/else... am I missing something?

The Pandas equivalent, on the other hand, is much more concise, and more explicit. It also seems more mathematical to me. Polars mutates the dataframe, whereas in Pandas a function is applied to a dataframe indexed like a matrix. Pandas also benefits from it's reliance on symbolic notation, it makes everything visually clearer, whereas in Polars, the use of pl.col("b") and other similar methods contribute to multiple nested brackets and redundant naming calls contributing to less interpretability.

I know there's a lot of thought thats been put into Polars, so I assume I'm missing some of the advantages of the Polars approach, and would appreciate anyone who can shed some light on it.

I do understand, and partially agree, with the idea that indexing in Pandas leads to a lot of bugs. But in the example above, Pandas isn't really using indexing, it's using a boolean map to "index" the values from the same dataframe, so should be fairly robust. Is there a reason why Polars is trying to avoid this kind of filtering in the row/column indices?
> Rare work-life balance. In other professions, your work day ends at 18:00, and you forget about the job. Not here. You will most likely always be online and checking the code, even in the evening.

Im not working a second im not being paid - its fun, sure, but its not that fun that i'll work for free.
I spent a few years coding C after using C++. The cognitive load needed to keep code correct was crushing, and switching back to C++ was massively liberating.

I didn't code any memory leaks, use-after-frees, or buffer overruns, but the effort to avoid them was ever-present, a continual drag and distraction from what the code was meant to achieve.
The linked document is a 2 page PDF in the form of a Q&A. The portion the title quote is from is as follows:

> Do you have any thoughts on the collapse of FTX and the crypto market in general? Do you expect contagion?

> I do not expect the fallout from FTX to spread beyond the cryptocurrency/NFT space. Based on the information that has come to light so far, the collapse of FTX was not a result of lax risk management, inadequate accounting procedures, or some feature inherent to crypto – it was purely fraud. With respect to the wider crypto universe – I view the asset class as too dependent on the “greater fool theory” to be a desirable investment. Fortunately, although FTX and firms
like it have increased marketing of their products in recent years, the lack of any noticeable widespread market reaction to FTX suggests that they are still fairly concentrated in the hands of a relatively small subset of investors. Moreover, the differences we observed in the aftermaths of the popping of the tech bubble and the popping of the housing bubble showed clearly that credit-fueled asset bubbles create far more contagion when they ultimately deflate. There does not appear to be a significant amount of leverage dedicated to the cryptocurrency/NFT space at this time, so I do not expect contagion to spread very far beyond this particular asset class.
You can plan all you want for the first release, but as soon as users start using it there will be changes. If you want to make that a new project with planning that is up to you, but that fact will always continue. Release, change, users demand new changes etc. And that is so true. I've never had a project that was truly finished, also because i suggest new features, especially when I see how they use it.

The client doesn't know what is possible, we need to understand their business.
Great, staple a few ML accelerators to your NIC. Nvidia sells them! You could build an entire supercomputer style setup 100% optimized for Twitter data movement and computation with COTS hardware IMO.

I strongly doubt that entire datacenters need to be used if and only if Twitter obsessively optimized for hardware usage efficiency over everything else. In reality they don't and make some pretty big compromises to actually get stuff built. Hardware is cheap, people are not.