skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting let go from FAANG basically because I didn't ignore huge red flags while getting hired (thought bc it was a FAANG there wouldn't be atrocious mgmt policies etc).

The requirements for the position as the recruiter described was Go / Elixir experience, did my code screen / take home in elixir and nailed it, principle engineer reviewed my code and green-lit my application mostly bc he was also a devout elixir fan. My manager had a language barrier and seemed pushy when I did my on-site and told her I wanted to use the normal allotment of time for the take-home (they fast tracked my app which would've only given me two days for a take-home that is usually give 5 days). Learned the team wasn't doing any Go / Elixir (was "maybe going to transition at some point" and never did) and was basically just servicing a shitty monolith built in Ruby.

Lots of $$$ so I just decided to take the offer, since my prior situation was a startup that was trying to avoid paying me my full salary and boss didn't "believe" in benefits.

Team at FAANG was also socially inept enough to always send my comments up to my boss instead of team member meant to onboard me - first task was also horribly scoped and made me look like an idiot for double checking my work (small fix with HUGE implications and side-effects if done wrong, with flaky tests galore). Boss berated me for being the only person who would tell her I wasn't going to be done at the end of the day, but never caused a critical problem in prod. Basically got fucked when I admitted a mistake that I promptly fixed and re-deployed, proving their BS "nobody gets blamed for fuckups" policy was definitely bullshit.

I got paid $20k to leave as my team was let go for unrelated reasons (you can guess which FAANG) and did some work with a friend on a startup for a few months. The transition out / lack of luck searching for new jobs really kicked me in the stomach and confidence - and on top of that I'm still looking for work. But hey, hopefully 2020 goes better.
> Static typing is useless for exploratory data analysis and data wrangling.

In my experience, doing this kind of task in an weak-typed or duck-typed language is already tedious. Function signatures don't tell me enough detail to know exactly what I'm working with, so I end up spending a lot of time digging through documentation or print debugging. Why not let the compiler, or the function signatures do this work for you?
SHA-3 was finished in the aftermath of Snowden's revelations, and NIST's credibility was very low at the time, they needed to be extra conservative about security margins for this reason.
Isn't this exactly the same in other areas such a cancer research?
I'm curious, how is the compensation, e.g. compared to the lowest levels at https://www.levels.fyi/ ?
In a lot of ways, the field has already come to this conclusion. At NeurIPS this year some of the biggest topics in Deep RL were model-based RL and meta-learning for RL, both of which aim to learn a generalized representation of an environment that can be used in a variety of downstream tasks.
That is the only advice if you have customers or not. Talk to the market. Find out if they will buy. That is why OP needs some basic sales skills (clearly lacks them).

Sales is the solution to the problem of not having customers.
Their proposed number of rounds is:

AES: 11 instead of 14 for AES-256;

Blake2: 8 instead of 12 for Blake2b (IIRC, Blake's rounds are derived from Chacha);

Chacha: 8 rounds instead of 20.

SHA-3: 10 rounds instead of 24 (Keccak).

(§5.3, "How many rounds?")

I'm not any kind of cryptographer, just an engineer who sometimes interacts with cryptographic algorithms, so I cannot comment on the specific recommendations.

On Chacha8 vs 20, see this tweet from DJB (2018): https://twitter.com/hashbreaker/status/1023969586696388613
> Different dementia rating scales may give different results because the study is underpowered for the effect, and/or Aducanumab is only effective in a subset of patients.

Though if a couple thousand people is underpowered for the effect, that's not a great sign for the drug.
What a Google thing to do, punish the internet for having such unoptimized sites but can't even make a good one themselves.

Welcome to the future of the corporate googlenet! Thought my phone froze while scrolling only to realize they locked the UI thread downloading some images.
Leveraging Disk Imaging Tools to Deliver Rats
Huawei’s Revenue Hits Record $122B in 2019 Despite U.S. Campaign
Well, also the leakage of nearly all information on everyone with a clearance:

https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-spies-in-china-may-have-...

Edit:
You may have heard that the CIA did not trust OPM, but, once you have a list of everyone with a clearance that is in the OPM databases, you have good grounds for assuming anyone missing, who should have a clearance, is a spy.
> Why does chemistry have to be less boring? We are not short on chemists.

Because there's more to life, education and knowledge than just being grist for the mill of capitalism.
My sole gripe with TW is the lack of a pretty GUI and a power mobile app. Both problems I can solve on my own, mind you, but still...

Plus I know it'll be a huge problem if I ever have to work with anyone else.
If you are thinking about the fear of contraband imports of yellowcake, well none of that has ever been found and its highly unlikely to have existed. The removed yellowcake had been stockpiled prior to the first Gulf War, and was declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency and under IAEA safeguards.

Of course at one old point Iraq had WMD programs. But you were completely misrepresenting the situation by stating for the later period that "The funny thing about that conspiracy is that the WMD were real. Hussein had them, and and its true that he didn't give them up". Even the very article you linked stated clearly: "There was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said." As for the small amount of chemical weapons or precursors, they also have not been interpreted afterwhile has having any significance regarding the willingness to comply.
Or I could just, you know, continue using Chrome.
The hardware isn't fixed, though: I am both simultaneously writing software and deploying servers. I have an incentive to choose cheap servers, and in fact tend to run as much stuff as I can on tiny little instances that are just barely little slivers of CPU in the cloud somewhere. Locally, for app-based designs, I do a lot of work on phones, which are extremely variable. I have no clue if I am selecting numbers here large enough, and "choose what you can maximally tolerate" when you can also spend more money on faster hardware or require fancier phones from your users is nonsensical as it doesn't provide me any way to prioritize this expenditure versus other costs. I really wish someone would just tell me what I should be doing every year--including expirations on passwords or whatever else is required to deal with how the requirements change or alternatively telling me how to upgrade existing hashes to better ones (which I can never tell if the off-the-shelf algorithms even support, which is really annoying; like I would expect with something that has iterative rounds I could just iterate all my passwords a bit more every year to account for faster machines, but I think the final round is always different?)--and I can do that and feel good and point at it and say I did that.
From the colors and font I thought it was a Dropbox landing page at first
> failing both the applied and pure camps

Yes. Neither its use nor truth. Just a bunch of stuff to learn.

Much less could be covered if driven by applications/problems or from axioms, and the rest of the math ecosystem is built around it. So, hard to change.
Career advice, should I search for a new job?
Dear HN,

I started my career as a developer little more than 3 years ago in a growing startup (nothing high profile), in a team of 4 devs: me, one intern, one junior and our manager, a senior with 10+ years of experience.

With less than 1 year in, the team recycled aside from me. Our manager and the more experienced devs left for other places, and the team responsible for our C++ codebase was rebuilt with junior devs and interns, and we were left to work things out on our own. The next in line in the hierarchy was the CTO, and he had a hands off approach. With 2 years of experience, I was made tech lead for our C++ team, 5 people at the time.

One thing that always nagged me was that for most of my (admittedly short) career, I had no mentors I could learn from. Even as a tech lead, I was the first one assigned with this role and our CTO had no idea what was I supposed to do.

A couple of months ago I got a new job in a very small company, to work with 2 senior devs. In my mind it was an OK opportunity to branch out in technologies and to learn closely from more experienced devs. I recently learned that both are leaving the company, and that they already hired 2 interns to work with me to carry on the current project, with me as architect. This got me really worried.

While I do feel that I am learning day to day, I fear that my career will be stunted if once again I am left working somewhere as the seniorest dev (with barely 3 years of experience) this early on. I know I learn a lot by myself, but I feel I could learn more with more people, and more experienced people.

Are "leadership" experiences attractive in the job market for developer positions? Should I be searching for a new position, somewhere where I won't be tasked with training new hires or leading projects, just put into a position where I can learn more about the specifics of working day to day as a developer? Can someone provide me some career advice?

Thank you very much!
This may be different in the US but all the separated bike lanes I have encountered in Europe are wide enough to pass other cyclists. There are also much fewer "slow newbie" bikers swerving around unpredictably than you seem to suggest.

Yes, sometimes you may need to slow down a bit because someone is already overtaking or the lane is too narrow but I will take that over having to share the road with cars any day of the week.

And FWIW I've been commuting by bike for about 20 years so I wouldn't consider myself a "casual".
Instead of trying to squeeze blood from the mammography stone that has failed to improve longevity in breast cancer patients despite enormous investment over many years, AI/ML need to take a broader perspective and look at modalities like circulating tumor DNA and 3-D ultrasound
Company is literal trash, employees are basically criminals involved mass data-raping and global surveillance.
I think the only realistic strict improvement is abolishing Daylight Savings Time everywhere. In a calendar, you don't really care about past events, though a good calendar will probably need to handle it, but most people would benefit from eliminating that occasional complexity.
Yes. Or dysbiosis, i.e. your own commensal bacteria, fungi and phages going out of control in different ways. The consequence of this in both cases is that your immune system mis-classifies some of your own tissues as non-self and attacks them (autoimmunity). See introduction in:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.18.881433v1

The reason is that both pathogens and your own microbiome mimic your tissue components. Especially proteins. They want to avoid being recognized as non-self, either to infect you or to keep their symbiotic relationship.

Hence, in some scenarios it's hard for the immune system to classify a virus or a commensal as foreign and the mimicked tissue in your own body as self at the same time.

The first reference in my previous post explains it well. Viral mimicry is quite old and well established in the literature both as an infection strategy and as a cause of autoimmunity [1-3]. But microbiome (commensal) mimicry is surprisingly unexplored, except for a few recent studies. Some are those I referred to in my previous post.

Note in many ways tumors are also an immune problem. They should have been caught by the immune system. There is growing evidence that this is also related to mimicry and dysbiosis.

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-74594-2_...

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199912303412707

[3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/279/5355/1344
Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
YouTube to Limit Data Collection on Children’s Videos
I’m not sure I’d call Times Square photorealistic, a lot of those people really scream “I was edited in and my lighting has nothing to do with the setting” to my eyes.
The "big bodies, tiny heads" style seems exactly the opposite notion of what you'd want to convey with a tech company too[1]. It's like the exact opposite of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chibi_(slang)

[1] Unless it's some sly reference to "smart technology, dumb people"?
That sucks, I truly hope you’re in a better place now
> Using code comments really seems like the wrong place to prioritize changes.

It's a poor place for long-term tracking, but it's a great place for recording notes while minimizing context-switching cost while coding.
Why those two in particular?

Especially 3D US - so far it's mostly been used for "cosmetic" purposes of getting a 3D picture of your baby. There hasn't been much clinical evidence to its usefulness from what I can tell.
And as my MD will tell you, voodoo! No one can ever replace me. No "robot." :-)
> You can always choose not to act on what you learn. You can't act on what you don't know.

You can also act on what you think you know but in fact don't. False negatives kill people but so can false positives.
Awesome article! Out of curiosity, can you share the site this work was for?
> and costs about $20,000 less for the most-expensive model

That's not the price of the top-end Highlander, which is the AWD Platinum, which is $48,800 (without any options).

https://www.toyota.com/configurator/build/step/accessory/yea...

The highest priced Model 3 is the Performance, at $56,990 (before $1,875 tax credit)
What is the K in that last graph (F5) and why did it move compared to previous?
completely irrelevant but an fyi: blob.cat is back up
(well, kinda anyway, it's still having some stability issues but it's not completely down)
U.S. had its slowest population growth rate in a century
I have similar thoughts thinking about currency. It seems incredible to me that we (in the UK) ever managed to pull off decimalization!
Huawei sales reach $122B in 2019, smartphone shipments exceed 240M
Been there. I realized doing something was better than planning most of the time in the initial stage.
Most ideas or things you will come across have already been done, so trying to find something original isn't a solid strategy. If it's entirely new/original, then it will come to you naturally. You will discover it because you are the consumer facing the problem.

Otherwise, focusing on getting feedback and people to talk to you, get them to send their email (even though I personally hate the practice of collecting private info without any product and sending 'spam') is important to maintain their investment along with a simple sketchy prototype to show off. It's easier to give feedback on something that you can see or interact with than written details. Showing vision is better than explaining it even if it is completely basic. Your users will flesh out the product for you, they will tell you what features you can add, how it should work and how you can actually do it.

All of that wouldn't happen without a basic structure. Without seeing a shitty painting, I wouldn't comment on it.

I wonder how depressed marketers and other similar people feel for manipulating others and hogging their personal life with irrelevant things.....such as getting someone's dad addicted to a gambling or social platform and that resulting in negligence.
Then I guess it was a "happy accident" and the US got lucky that the Marshallese got exposed to radiation and we had the chance to conduct experiments on them without their informed consent.

It would be like someone wanting to test the effects of electrocution and placing a live wire on the street. Someone "accidentally" steps on it and you can conduct your experiments on the victim. But it wasn't intentional since you didn't tell the victim to go step on the live wire.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "intentional". Did they douse Marshallese directly? Did they blow up the nukes hoping some of the radiation landed on some unsuspecting Marshallese so that they can see the effects and conduct experiments? To me both are intentional, though some could argue only the former is intentional.
And just like that, he was Ghosn.
I only counted 64 MB, but still this page took 3.18 minutes to fully load according to my Firefox devtools.
What I didn't get from any of the articles is how long the radiation is expected to be a problem. We are 60 years and its still very radioactive. How many more years before its not?
a company known for making billions out of the stylishness of their products, it's bikeshedding, really are you sure?
I guess you're aware of http://termux.com?

It's effectively a linux distribution for android (with a large repository of packages), that uses the existing android kernel. So no rooting required, and has the power efficiency of android.
Ask HN: How to stand out as a junior engineer
I graduated from an above average CS program in Boston, have stellar intern experience along with side projects on GitHub, but unfortunately my launch into the professional world didn't go as smooth as I would've liked.

I've had 1.2 years at a very risky startup but got to do really cool work and then 8mo. at a FAANG (joined a large 150person startup that had recently been acquired by said FAANG) but unfortunately my team was terminated for reasons out of my control.

I've been looking for work since October and unfortunately I feel completely backed into a corner. I don't have a huge tenure anywhere above 1.2 years. I'm not hugely experienced in any one thing. Standouts are really just Go, Elixir and Vue knowledge. I have references, but most of them are barred behind NDAs or from the first company I worked for where I didn't leave on the best terms because they were withholding salary.

I've had a handful of on-sites and made it through 2-3 rounds in 10-12 other interviews but just can't seem to get offers. Being in the workforce has also lead to my leetcode skills suffering, something in college I usually made up for with stellar side projects.

I feel trapped and for the first time in my life really don't know how I should go about digging myself out of this. I feel like I've picked the wrong career or that something is wrong with me - I sincerely appreciate any help or advice any of you are generous enough to offer.
Isn't it now called "Adobe Thinking"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacroMind

MacroMind

Industry: Software
Fate: Merged with Paracomp
Successors: MacroMind-Paracomp (1991)
Macromedia (1992-2005)
Adobe (2005-present)
Founded: 1984; 35 years ago in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Founders: Marc Canter
Jay Fenton
Mark Stephen Pierce
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Products: MusicWorks, VideoWorks, Art Grabber / Body Shop,
Comic Works / Graphc Works, MazeWars+, Director,
Three-D, MacroModel, Fireworks, Mouse Practice
Could it be called an ink coating? My understanding is that the distinction between ink and pigment is that ink is a solution while pigment is a suspension, can there be both kinds of coatings? or is it a meaningless distinction to draw in this context?

Sorry to barrage you with these questions if you don't know, but you brought up a pretty fine point so you seem knowledgeable about this :)
Recently, due to a router placement issue I used up all my mobile data so my connection was slowed down to 16kbps.

Most sites/apps don't work at all at this speed with the notable exception of Hacker News and Facebook Messenger.
It's not politically easy to push legislation that increases competition for MDs.

They've been successfully pushing back against scope of practice changes for RAs, PAs, ANPs, PTs and other midlevels, let alone allowing foreign doctors in without an expensive residency medallion. And on the data side, hospitals are doing all they can to make sure that is as locked down in their silos as possible, because all these AI papers have been posing a fundamental threat to their bottom line (Medicare and employer reimbursement for physician and related services).

Basically every single decision-making regulatory body on state and Federal levels is full of MDs, with inherent conflict of interest.

Now new FDA chief is an old-school MD again, and his first order of business was to call a conference studying the potential dangers AI can pose to patient safety.
shouldn't this be "jittlestand" as mittlestand implies German businesses? Brittlestand is analogous term for British businesses.
AFAIR: The cables have a few partial answers to your question: There is a centralized system that can give detainment orders. (supposedly a Blackbox to the People at least who follow its orders with boots on the ground)

One day apparently it spat out 24k names. They managed to imprison about 9k the following day.

Naturally the government know quite a few things about what you’re up to and this is a factor.

Going to the mosque is a supposedly the easy way in. Not sure in what xinjiang city the mosques are still accessible. All I could find was locked down ones with all kinds of barricades and monitoring devices.. I would be surprised if there was in Xinjiang unlike eat china anyone left who would dare to go to a mosque.

Some of the detainees are used by the state as force labor and leased out to companies. It’s speculated that this demand also can causes mass detainment.
Thank you kind stranger :)

Unfortunately, I'm still unemployed but luckily my BS detector has had a nice upgrade, I've at least sort of improved my algo skills and had some time to think about what I really value in life.
> In the original context, at the top of the thread, we are talking about whether it is reasonable to respond to police executing a no-knock warrant with deadly force

I don't think anyone suggested that it was reasonable to respond to the police executing a no knock warrant with bullets. In fact a massive downside of no knock warrants is that a police search may be mistaken for a home invasion.

In a home invasion one can in most places render your home safe by shooting an invader but in most places shooting the cops will result in a very long prison sentence. We segwayed into a discussion of what the right thing to do in the event of an actual intruder. Perhaps you didn't notice?

> you may presume that you have done something to convince them that you are worth the effort of going above and beyond what is otherwise reasonable, as most jurisdictions with no-knock warrants require a reason for the surprising entry.

You presume wrongly about the cause of no knock warrants. Most are for drugs. Most find no drugs. 10% in new york city actually involved kicking down the wrong door.

https://www.newsmax.com/FastFeatures/no-knock-raids-SWAT-fac...

> It's not going to get more respectful

Yes. Yes it is.
Yes, this is quite common.
From what I understand the increase in demand for labor was not to use the tool itself (which I believe would generally be water powered, not hand cranked) but rather the tool induced a greater demand for raw cotton and provided expansion opportunities to industries that consumed cotton. So more people were picking cotton and working in textile factories.
Don't forget the sticky social buttons that overlap with the text the whole freaking time.