skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, if all companies adopt this technique, that's 4+ hours per company. If a reasonably-competent person applies for, say 100 companies and expects a 10% callback rate[^], then they're dedicating 40+ hours just to do tests and "challenges" before even talking to a person. That's a lot of time to blow for a mere chance of talking to a person. I mean, I guess I'd do it--especially if I was desperate for a job, but if I was still employed I'd think twice and maybe find a way to grin and bear my current employer a little longer...

I think when your company comes up with a hiring scheme, they need to analyze it, understand and be cool with the kinds of applicants their system is screening out. In my view, most SV tech companies' practices tend to screen out the "skilled professional who's currently semi-comfortable at her existing job" and filters in the "desperately needs a job and will jump through hoops and put up with whiteboard hazing to get one." Which class of applicant does your company want to court?

[^]: I consider myself "reasonably-competent" and the 100:10 ratio was about what my last job search was like a few years ago.
That caused the jump. But those cases were there all along, just not reported. Now they have - again - changed the criteria and made them more stringent resulting in an apparent drop in the number of cases.
Why do you keep referencing Mad Max?
> Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your tone

Perhaps you are. See my other comments on the subject e.g. here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22397271. I also think you are exaggerating the risks when you say "coworkers over thirty", considering death rates at thirty are still well below one percent of those ill enough to go to the hospital and get tested. That sort of language is exactly what I was reacting against in my comment.
How do you imagine we could make hydrogen distribution better than electrical grids with their ~5% losses? Hydrogen is notorious for leaking easily and converting electricity->hydrogen->electricity is incredibly inefficient. We'd have a lot more transmission loss with hydrogen than even with a very poor electrical grid, while also making the whole system more expensive and dangerous.
US: Record Trade deficit + record fiscal deficit + record govt debt + record corp debt (all during a period when economy is supposedly doing well) = time bomb
Until the End of Time
Isn't this true for anything that you regularly touch but don't regularly wash? Like your wallet, your keys, your headphones, your car steeringwheel and on and on.

Why single out the phone?
Even HN doesn't accept the link, but it's http://ai/.

.bh, .dk, and .pn have similar arrangements, but this is the only one which isn't a redirect or server page.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by a coordination problem"
The large majority of desktop users do not have free IT at a price of a phone call, hence 1% on Steam.
Structural demographic transition across the first world. This will lower productivity and labor participation rate, and will increase the reliance on social safety nets, which will likely be funded with debt and/or central bank intervention. Japan is the future for everyone, it’s just the time scale up for debate.

In the US alone, 10k people turn 65 each day (retirement age for Medicare eligibility and their full retirement age for collecting Social Security).
For me right now it's Kotlin. I believe it picks a good balance of simplicity/readability vs expressibility/power.

In particular I find it's generics, data classes, infix operators and extension functions very useful for expressing business logic concisely.

These features let me write half (or less in many cases) the code I might need to in Go.

More importantly is Kotlin is much easier to refactor. Part of that is there is just less code to refactor, the other important piece is tooling and IDE providing awesome automatic refactoring tools.
So if a crippled person needs somebody to go to the bank and withdraw $1,000 for them, and they figure they can hire somebody trustworthy for $50 to do the errand, is that person not being paid what they’re worth, because they added $1,000 dollars of value?

This is a terrible example. Moving something is not the same as creating that something. Moving $1000 could be worth nothing. It could have negative value. It could be worth millions.
> Good on him for being an explorer and pushing the limits.

NO. Just, no. This guy willfully ignored the knowledge and expertise that came before him; both, in how to accomplish the task and the demonstratively provable physics that show his goals were folly.

If he just claimed that gravity was false and jumped off a cliff to the rocks below to prove it, it would just be "local idiot jumps to his death." Some how, if you add rockets and a flat earth conspiracy it gets praise?

No. This is the tragedy of the U.S. education and mental health systems.
I developed it with a Vive and WMR headsets.

It should work on Oculus with the right setup, but I haven't tested that.
I can’t speak for the Win 2, but the Micro PC’s keyboard is miles ahead of the Win’s. I would never use the original Win for terminal work if I had a choice; I have used the Micro PC for it.

DisplayPort output via USB-C is another plus (monitor/mouse/keyboard/charging with one cable!) though the Win 2 may have had that as well, I’m not sure. The original Win did not.
You can short bubbles via long term put options, that's what I do. Tech (XLK, QQQ), green themes (PBW, TAN), borderline personality cults and ridiculous dreams (TSLA, SPCE), US corporate credit (JNK, LQD). Of course because it's options you always have to consider whether the market perception of IV isn't already too high. For example SPCE is a ridiculously good short but "the market knows" and the IV is ridiculous too.

Also no two recessions are 100% alike. Most importantly - will the next one be deflationary or inflationary? Even that is hard to say. Growth in credit suggests deflation, but then if we face mass bailouts then gold and oil will be the places to be. Also, the virus thingy may be quite inflationary (disruption of supply chains, no more stuff from China!) if it materializes. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it's not about "crisis/not crisis", but rather "what is currently severely mispriced, and will correct when the market volatility rises?". This can be either up or down in price.

Finally, if the world temperature goes to, say, +5*C or the virus is really super bad then this is risk that's not hedge-able via capital markets, because it will fuck up capital markets themselves. Think of this as counterparty risk.
The beauty of Go is that it's so simple that you don't need a debugger. Do you need a word dictionary to read this comment? No, because this comment is simple. Same with Go. But if you need a debugger, there is Delve [1], though I only used it once to debug a dynamic programming algorithm.

[1] https://github.com/go-delve/delve
I also bought 3 months supplies of Emergen-C, Mucinex, Robitussin, and Alka-Seltzer orange and green Cold and Flu pills.
There's some work going on related to that in the community - if you're interested, the search term to use is "Verifiable Credentials". I'm not that up-to-speed about it, unfortunately, but it's about solving that potential problem.

(Disclosure: I also work for Inrupt, but views are my own.)
Off topic:

I love this intro:

Did you pitch for a t-ball team, because thanks for that sweet setup!

On topic:

Some businesses require so much funding up front that it’s not feasible. As always, there is a great blog post by Joel.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/12/strategy-letter-i-...

And I wish I could take credit for thinking about the consequences of making it harder for companies to be acquired, but I got the idea from Ben Thompson’s (Of Stratechery fame) Exponent podcast.

(This link will take you to a website at the time stamp of the podcast if you don’t have Overcast installed)

https://overcast.fm/+BihkIZ9fA/31:05
Planting is very easy. Bury some seeds in the soil (not very deep) add water and if the temperature is right a plant will grow :)

The biggest mistake beginners do is too much water/to frequent waterings. When pests/disease appear ask in reddit until you start identifying the problems yourself but if a plant has enough sun, water and soil (don't overcrowd a small pot) and the temperature is correct for it to grow don't expect many problems.

If you don't have enough sunlight for fruits you can start with herbs like basil, parsley and coriander. Cherry tomatoes will probably also work but don't expect a huge harvest without appropriate sunlight. Carrots are a tiny bit harder to grow but I got a few to grow in a pot near a window so it's not impossible but they do like a lot of fertilizer.
The phone has an on board charger. The battery itself has its own controller which will disconnect the battery from the charger if it goes over voltage, under voltage, or over temperature.

The "percentage charge" of a lithium cell isn't really any measure of its safety. Even at 0% charge the cells can still auto ignite, there's an incredible amount of energy in them when they're considered to be empty.
Yeah pretty much.

Using cgo has been the source of near endless pain for me when writing systems software. It criples portability, drastically changes runtime behaviours and generally is best dealt with by CGO_ENABLED=0.
While I do not agree with everything presented in this article (especially item #2), I definitely share the overall sentiment.

For some of our customers, we operate 2 environments which are both effectively production. The only real difference between these is the users who have access. Normal production allows all expected users. "Pre" production allows only 2-3 specific users who understand the intent of this environment and the potential damage they might cause. In these ideal cases, we go: local development -> internal QA -> pre production -> production actual. These customers do not actually have a dedicated testing or staging environment. Everyone loves this process who has seen it in action. The level of confidence in an update going from pre production to production is pretty much absolute at this point.

The amount of frustration this has eliminated is staggering. At least in cases where we were allowed by our customers the ability to practice it. For many there is still that ancient fear that if we haven't tested for a few hours in staging that the world will end. For others, weeks of bullshit ceremony can be summarily dismissed in favor of actually meeting the business needs directly and with courage. Hiding in staging is ultimately cowardice. You don't want to deal with the bugs you know will be found in production, so you keep it there as long as possible. And then, when it does finally go to production, it's inevitably a complete shitshow because you've been making months worth of changes built upon layers of assumptions that have never been validated against reality.

This all said, there are definitely specific ecosystems in which the traditional model of test/staging/prod works out well, but I find these to be rare in practice. Most of the time, production is hooked up to real-world consequences that can never be fully replicated in a staging or test environment. We've built some incredibly elaborate simulators and still cannot 100% prove that code passing on these will succeed in production against the real deal.
The standard technique is known as a "short sale", or "shorting" [1]:

You borrow a security at price $X, and sell it immediately. The price declines to $X - $Y. You buy it for $X - $Y, and return the security to the original owner. You just made $Y.

So if you think there will be a recession, all you need to do is short the assets that will experience a decline in value as a result. The trick, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is knowing exactly when that will happen. If the price goes up instead of down in the time period you agreed upon with the lender, you lose $Y.

Another technique mentioned elsewhere is via options. You can buy the right (or "option") to sell a security at a later date at a fixed price. This is known as a "put" option [2].

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortselling.asp

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/putoption.asp
Be more productive, less robotic when inbox need too much attention
I don't know enough about the cases. But initially identified cases doesn't equate to patient zero. I think it was just the first case chronologically identified.
Ark.

Besides that, I wonder how many people missed that bit of circular reasoning in thhg.
Intuit has had a path into the government and has been screwing customers since Clinton. This is not about one party or the other - but it shows up there - it’s about the ability of corporations to affect the agencies themselves and then turn to xo grass as a last resort.
I find it hard to think of cases of corruption that are not rooted in malice.
Famicom Party: Making NES Games in Assembly
It gets in your way when you're debugging or writing quick scripts.
> The battery will be charged to 100% constantly.

So? That's a non-statement as far as safety goes. It's as relevant as the color of my shirt, or the current date, or the state of the moon.
Stay liquid, try to save money, put it in things that do hold their value in times of crisis like gold (or yes perhaps bitcoin/ethereum). Then when the crisis happens buy everything cheap.
It is still relevant, They updated the copy in 1985 to keep it modern but also true to the original. The straightforward message of that book is as powerful as ever.
> At the same time you shouldn't assume experts, the media, etc. are somehow mass conspiring against your health/safety. Assessments are probably reasonable to follow.

True, but it's also not their job to work for my personal benefit. Mine is. Their job is to do the greatest good for the greatest number, but what is good for the most people is not always good for me. My job is to keep myself and my family safe, and I don't trust bureaucrats enough to make the call that I have to lose out for the "greater good".

All that aside, at least according to China, the mortality rates aren't all that high (a few percent). We'll see what happens elsewhere, but I don't think there's reason to panic yet.
Monetizing mods is hard, you will need to police the community to make sure assets are not stolen, handle QA and refunds, compatibility between mods, you also need to keep the community happy - you see with latest paid mods from Bethesda where people are asking questions like "why should I pay 5$ for a few armors and a weapon when a 15$ DLC had new teerain, new NPCs, quests, armors etc.
What are your thoughts of Ada/SPARK as a replacement of C? In my opinion it is a better C. At times I wish it were not so verbose but I consider it a feature. It has everything you mentioned that made Go fit the bill, and so much more that makes it even better at both low-level programming and high-level programming. My main and only problem with Ada is that it lacks libraries, it needs a more vibrant community. This can be changed though!
Trump Buys YouTube's Homepage For Election Day Ad Blitz
> Whenever we want a great candidate, we go from resumes to hired in less than a month.

A month is considered fast?!

I guess as long as the great candidate you're hiring is not looking at other options.

A recently saw a recruiter lamenting that their clients needed to be told that if they don't make a hiring decision within 2-3 days of introduction, they tend to miss out on the best engineers, who get offers from elsewhere within the week and take them.
I recently decided to clean out my freezer and pantry, just to clean out some of their longer-lived residents. It took me about 2 weeks.

Maybe it is a USA-only thing, but I think also you may be overestimating how much food is in a 2 week supply.
> The evidence for this claim is that the designers claim it, that's totally sufficient

My argument is exactly that, their claim is unsubstantiated, and people's experiences in practice contradict their claims. Not to mention that some of their design decisions are objectively bad, and go against their claim in the first place: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16474
> Less snow means more evaporation in a critical water resource

What?

Evaporation is constant.

This is a play on words to sway readers. Stop this.
Just like the "fallacy fallacy" is also a fallacy.

That's not the point I'm debating. Whether I'm OK with product design choices of Microsoft is my own consumer decision. But what really is getting old, is the utterly predictable and abysmal level of discourse on this matter on HN, Reddit or wherever.

My point is, that since the Internet has learned about whataboutism, it is being used to shut down any criticism of bias. In fact, your comment uses the common formula for that "Just because A does B, doesn't mean that C can do B."

Sure, but then your actions don't really correspond to your words. If you take the amount of privacy invasion in Android, for example, HN should be loosing their collective shit on a daily basis. They don't.

This is obviously just people emotionally bashing things they have been taught are outside of their "tribe".

And that has zero credibility.
So the only thing that self-hosting would be missing is all the magic that Google is doing server-side to optimize the served files for the particular browser that is making the request.

Things like encoding (WOFF vs WOFF2) and font hinting need to be dynamically enabled/disabled based on the browser making the request to get the best possible result.

You can’t do that with self-hosting without writing some code.... that would be a great open source plugin to have, so that self-hosting could be done without any quality compromises.

Getting the right asset served to every browser was the reason I punted on self-hosting fonts last time I tried.

For example, I care much more about the page looking correct (legible crisp rendering fonts) than shaving 10Kb off the page size. Nothing is worse than the wrong font package causing blurry letters on 20% of your users’ devices.
I think there were a bunch of other great replies to this, but just to chime in: I think there are positive and negative impacts on "startup culture".

The negative:
- added friction to building a startup, since one exit path is harder.

The positive:
- more focus on profitable companies, as opposed to ones that will only be viable if acquired.
- a more competitive market, which might be better in the long run for start-ups

I don't think the question we should be asking, though, if the effect on startup culture. I think what we should be asking is: what is the effect on users/consumers?

To that end, imagine if the online ecosystem today included Instagram, WhatsApp, DoubleClick, Zappos, YouTube, Waze, just to name a few. Yes maybe some of them wouldn't have survived, but maybe that would have been the right thing to do.

And I think that's the question regulators should be asking too. Whenever a large company is acquiring a smaller one: is this clearly good for consumers or not? I mean, if Intuit can make a good, believable case that this is good for users (ie "Once we buy Credit Karma we can give all our users free tax filing) or something like that, by all means, that's great... but I doubt that's what's happening here.
“If the service is free, you’re the product”
> These kind of sanity checks should be baked into the design process, but unfortunately not everyone seems to do them.

Could you please writeup an essay on this and publish it in an industry journal? This should be required, it should be a social and cultural norm across all engineering professions.

The story of saving the Citicorp Center to uncontrolled oscillations from an incoming storm is fascinating.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_t...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-7IlAdAtg
This is really cool. What are you using it for? Usage examples, debugging, etc.?

I'm the CEO at Sourcegraph (universal code search for companies to use on their internal code). Our product is really optimized for searching a company's internal code right now, but soon we'll start working on offering much better search for public and open-source code as well. If you'd like to help out or just chat, please reach out! sqs@sourcegraph.com
We’re saying the same thing: progress might eventually occur, but the outcomes will be for the next generation of CA residents.
> Note that it is not necessary to install the Signal app on the device that runs Haven. Doing so may invalidate the app's previous Signal registration and safety numbers. Haven uses normal APIs to communicate via Signal.

Hm, I wasn't aware there was a way to do authenticated e2e encrypted signal messaging without a phone number? If there's an Api, then any third party app can send signal messages now?

I can't seem to find anything related to this at signal.org - what am I missing here?
If the price was charged by the isp, you wouldn’t feel it at all...
Very fertile ground for 2-3 years, due to game-scarcity.

It's not that Dreams is revolutionary (it's not, just a step forward), but that you can create with only a console.

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Game makers are a very cool and exciting product category, but also very old, and never seem to really take off.

Making games is hard, even with teams of experts, the best tools money can buy, and inhouse tooling.

Programming - a subset - is also hard. There was once a fad of programs that generate programs, like The Last One https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_(software)

A similar impulse was thinking AI will be easy...
Safari will no longer trust certs valid for more than 13 months
Site doesn't load content w/o JS enabled (or some other BS.)

ORT (Only Read Title)

No: economy doesn't have glands.

However, consider, can cells feel joy? Everything we do is done by cells: we see because the cells in our eyes can see, we digest because our cells digest, we move because our cells move, we think because our cells think, and so on...

If we allow a an analogy (however imperfect) between cells and the body, and between people and their civ/society/economy, then it seems to me that, yes, you can measure or quantify a given civ by the joy of its members.

Bhutan actually formally collects and analyzes data to form a Gross National Happiness index (as contrasted with the GNP metric), and attempts to use this as feedback for their government.
> Now it may be that there emerges another alternative but at present Rust has blazed a memory safety trail that I don't see anyone in a position to challenge

Apparently Ada (among other alternatives) keeps being forgotten by Rust community.

Genode OS and NVidia are two high profile examples that decided to go with Ada/SPARK instead of Rust due to tooling, market certifications and not having to deal with borrow checker.

There is even a Webminar from NVidia explaining why they went with Ada, after considering Frama-C and Rust as possible alternatives.

Rust community has more to gain, by gathering around all the languages that provide memory safe systems programming, instead of trying to be Duncan MacLeod among them.

On positive note, Microsoft has held an internal Rust Summit, and Kenny Kerr has made public his first Rust/WinRT attempt.
Blockchain came and went. I'm unsure of what the current scam/buzzword is on VC's bingo cards.
No, but there's an American one:

"You either die a hero, or live to become the villain."
Sounds like the word "Pandemic" is getting the "AI" treatment: A lot of people have heard of it in the movies, the movies make it seem like if this word applies to your situation is an end of times scenario and people should be panicking and worrying.

I don't think that's what the CDC and others want to get across. Much like (most) AI researchers and partitioners trying to downplay the fear mongering.

As a species we really seem to love Existential crises.
Cities are growing. the pace of life is changing
The creators were working on Google Search and tired of various aspects of it, and tried to fix their annoyances with Go.