skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leaving 2 back to back short term jobs off resume? Should I tell interviewers?
Last year I left my position at company A for a new job at company B. That new job ended up being a bait and switch, and the position was nothing like promised. I quickly left and joined company C. Company C had good work, but the work environment was very hostile. I was going to stay, when a coworker at company A mentioned that if I was unhappy, they'd love for me to come back. I decided to return to company A.

I'm now getting laid off at company A (whole office is being shut down), and need to find a job. So far, I've completely omitted companies B and C from my resume, but I'm worried that they'll come up on a background check. Any advice on what to do?
Most humans live closer to 27 degrees north of the equator. I mentioned California natives because that’s what I’m most familiar with. Plant preservation is a thing in northern latitudes too..
StreetScooter EV goes open source
Maybe the old strategy would have succeeded:

https://www.wired.com/2011/10/meet-the-one-modular-ev-created-by-fifty-companies/

Maybe more than scaling in a old german government agency:

https://www.electrive.com/2020/02/29/deutsche-post-to-cease-streetscooter-production/

What do you think?
Do any languages actually do this?

Do any languages somehow use their GC to update references when a growable array is reallocated? I'm not aware of any language that does.

Furthermore, its hard to see how it could. In the case of a simple copying/compacting collector the whole world is stopped and the pointer graph traced. But you obviously can't do that every time a growable array needs to be reallocated. I understand that there are more complex solutions that avoid that pause, but still not any I'm aware of that would be exploitable for reallocating an array.
This is an area where I think it is easy to not think it is a problem if you happen to live/vote in a place with reasonably operated polling operations.

I've been voting for over 30 years and have never waited more than 30 minutes to vote and it is usually less than 5 minutes yet in a nearby city they seem to have all sorts of logistical problems during every election including long lines, running out of ballots, etc.

I think I recall some folks from Australia describing in HN, their system as having an independent agency/office that is responsible for voting operations. Perhaps something like this would remove the disparities we have between polling locations in the US.
Warp drives do not violate causality though: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/119522/how-does-...
In Texas anyone could have gone in person and voted starting on February 18th.
Filtering Duplicates on the Command Line: 30x Faster than sort|uniq
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RBS file parsers (Python) the authors wrote, along with the sample telemetry data files used in the study: https://github.com/JaehyeokHan/Windows-Telemetry
Well, I'll try, but I don't know if I can explain it very well. In The Last of the Mohicans, Nathaniel (Indian name: Hawkeye) is a British-American scout and frontiersman who has largely forsaken white civilization, and lives/hunts/travels with a Mohican chief and his son. He speaks their language and understands their ways. The influence is a bit mixed up though; in TLOTM, there is an exiled chief, the last of his race, who wanders in the wilderness keeping his true identify a secret, but it's the Mohican, not Hawkeye. But in most other ways, Hawkeye is like Aragorn.

Another obvious similarity is the theme of the passing of an age - the natives have lived in their own old fashioned ways for centuries, but now they're receding, and their way of life is fading away in the face of increasing colonialism.

Finally, the storyline of the three companions Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli tracking their friends the captured hobbits across the wilderness, hopelessly outnumbered is pretty much lifted from TLOTM, although Toklien's version is far more epic.

I'm surprised that you would never have heard of this. I read that book only recently, but I always believed it was an influence on Tolkien. I remember reading that he used to dress up as a Native American to entertain children. Here's an interesting quote[1]:

"I had very little desire to look for buried treasure or fight pirates, and Treasure Island left me cool. Red Indians were better: there were bows and arrows (I had and have a wholly unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow), and strange languages, and glimpses of an archaic mode of life, and above all, forests in such stories."

TLOTH is pretty much set entirely in a forest, populated by almost mystical race of forest-people and their enigmatic white friend.

If he read books from that era (like Treasure Island) and had an interest in "Red Indians" then he must have read TLOTM.

I hope I've made a good case for this, but if not then I think reading the book will make the link much clearer.

[1] http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/jrr_tolkien_in_his_own_wo...
Natives in the far north still preserve food for consumption during winter months.
The difference here is that they (FB) are able to create 3D model based on only one photo. If you have multiple photos from different angles, you can just use geometric relationships to figure out where the points lie in 3D space. However, with only one picture, you need to "guess" (using ML), as there's not enough data for proper 3D reconstruction.
Well, what are you supposed to do?

If you have the snuffles, are you supposed to react like it's COVID, or react like it's just one of the million other colds and such going around every winter until things get bad enough that your symptoms concern you?

If you react like it's COVID, then what - go to a hospital or otherwise burden the health system? All they can tell you is to quarantine yourself, unless/until it gets bad enough that it's worth testing you.
Hair bundle cells of the inner ear can also sense heat:

Thermal Excitation of the Mechanotransduction Apparatus of Hair Cells
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29395911
Come on, please don't defend one person by slurring others. That just makes this place even worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batteries

This happened to me a long time ago and it made me a permanent Android user, not that I don't have issues with that ecosystem but I use an isolated google account that isn't tied to my real email and desktop activity.

But after 3 Android phones, each was still completely usable after 3 years and each was able to be replaced on my schedule instead of being required after an OS update "surprise" which is what happened with my only iPhone.
The CDC doesn't do much (any?) local testing but they established ridiculously stringent guidelines for having people tested. There was a case in NYC over the weekend from a man who had recently returned from a trip to Japan. The CDC wouldn't test him because Japan wasn't on the list at the time and so his case didn't meet their overly strict criteria. The hospital discharged him and he went home... on the subway. Flu symptoms but no flu, recently traveled to a country with community spread, and the CDC said he didn't qualify for a test kit.

According to the CDC there were no cases in NYC until yesterday but that is almost certainly a lie. The quoted numbers from the CDC are completely worthless.

This lack of transparency and accountability is causing people to panic more than they might otherwise. And now that proper testing is finally (maybe?) getting underway we're likely to see the number of cases skyrocket which will cause people to freak out even more.

This panic response from the general public could have been and could still be avoided if the CDC and the federal government would just be open, honest, and transparent with people. But they aren't. They are tripping over themselves relentlessly which is causing panic and stirring conspiracy theorists.
This is the best thing ever!
Apple made a choice to lie about it and mislead people, leading people to buy new iPhones when they could just replace the battery.

If someone crippled your car and told you: 'just buy a new one from me' while knowing there's a far cheaper fix - I'm sure you'd call it fraud too.
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I might argue that the only reason this is on the front page is because of the confusion surrounding "CNN"
> how many times do you switch systems

Daily. Am I ever thankful that VIM is (mostly) the same across OSes. :/

Work: OSx

Play: Windows

Hobby: OSx terminal (effectively Linux)

The bigger problem for me is that muscle memory between OSes is broken by something as simple as "how to do I get to the head (or tail) of the current line I'm on?" On Windows, it's Home/End. OSx is Cmd+Left/Right. Terminal, it's Ctrl+A/E (or Home/End, sometimes).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a problem with mutex sharing as well?
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Coke and Pepsi are getting sued for lying about recycling
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some evidence that being indoors too much when young could contribute.
Funny thing about fintechs that are more tech than fin, they tend to go down right when you need them.

Coinbase was a little like this in the early days. Exactly when you would need market access (aka liquidity in or out) would be the time it would go down.

Kind of downtime that would get you fired at an investment bank in 2005 is seen as matter of course out in SF.
This state's rights issue was, thankfully, already lost when laws were passed to combat widespread racial discrimination[1] in voting. Those laws have been repealed but the federal government has a good historical justification for enforcing more laws around voter accessibility.

1. Among other requirements, the ADA likely requires that polling places and some proportion of booths be wheelchair accessible and mandates the accessibility of braille ballots.
These are just novel ways to interface with a payment processor. They'll be useless until they remove the need for a payment processor entirely.
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Heh, no, but it was a close call. Shipped in August of 95. I was working on Office "95" at the time, and we were seriously under the gun, for a few reasons. Firstly, it came down from on high that all Office apps needed to be ported to 32-bit, as opposed to running in Win95's 16 bit subsystem (this was a massive job, and introduced numerous bugs). And to make matters worse, this was a time when software was delivered in boxes, which contained CDRoms, or 3.25" floppies, as the customer desired. Win95 had completely reserved all of msft's manufacturing capacity for like 6-7 weeks, so in order to ship in 95, we had to ship like 2 months earlier than a normal release.
This is true. These days, Google does very poorly with the tail, and may not even index a lot of sites...definitely some older sites that are still up just drop out of the index, and cannot be found even with exact phrase searches.

If there was one open source project that I'd support would be an open search, but are there any serious, well funded efforts?
The two "fast"'s are relative. Epidemic dynamics are likely to differ in different countries for a bunch of reasons.

And, it does appear to be less lethal outside of China. That may be because healthcare systems are not yet overwhelmed, or it may be because of the smoking and pollution exposure in the different demographics. It is probably even both of those things.
I love the phrase "carpet decision". Although we don't have it in English, I'm guessing it's roughly equivalent to "blanket statement", something that applies in all cases without exception?
Thanks for the answer. I guess I have been misled, since Go proponents (including in HN) always argue the latest iteration sof their GC (which was discussed a few times here) had one of the lowest latencies of most production languages; and that is what made it suitable for many tasks.

Since I don’t have a sense on the timescales, I will take your word for it that it was the reverse.
A video can be both age restricted and marked as Made for kids
As far as Welch is concerned, I'm pretty certain that his system was never going to find him in the bottom 10% of any possible ranking. Call it Gödel's Management Strategy.
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Here's an amateur rejoinder: It's possible, if not probable, that the infections have actually spread far more widely than what has currently been detected. Those wider cases may have been almost entirely silent, and resolved without significant incident.

If that's true, then the actual rate of fatalities (or even serious cases) might be a lot lower than first thought.

The truth, of course, is that currently no one really knows at present. Right now we have educated guesses at best.
In what ways is it less slanted?
Yes, but this dataset is essentially manually populated. Someone has to isolate coronavirus from a patient, sequence it, and then upload it to GISAID.

So the question is why is it ominous that no one in Iran has isolated and uploaded a sequence?
The Webcodesk online version is designed to demonstrate the components and how they can be combined in an application. The components themselves can be created in the local version - it is Open Source.
Wireguard is one way to secure your connection to another machine. That machine could be a "VPN server" - which typically mean one of two things:

1) By connecting to that server, you get access to private resources as if you were on the same network. Say, access to a printer, a web camera or a file server that aren't exposed to the Internet.

2) You gain access to the Internet through that server, so that your publically visible IP changes. This prevents anyone between you and the server to see the content of your traffic (eg: your isp, the hotel it staff that runs your free wifi). It can also grant you access to resources that are exposed to the internet - but filter access based on IP. Such as a CRM system, or webmail system.

If you are connecting to a VPN server, then, by definition (virtual private network) - your connection should be secure. Wireguard is one way in which that access can be secured - and it's new/modern, simple and widely regarded as following best practices. Alternatives are ipsec via eg strongswan, OpenVPN and a bunch of nasty proprietary solutions constructed out of mixes of libssl and obscure hedge magic.
What if consciousness real but not a neuroscience issue? If you want a thought experiment to illustrate that, imagine a VR world where the inhabitants are connected in with headsets. Nothing inside the world will explain why it feels to everyone like experiences are being exported out of it.
Interestingly, solving the hard problem of consciousness could effectively prove whether or not God exists.

Most Abrahamic religious teach that everybody has a "spirit" inside their body, and these spirits are somehow responsible for the experience of consciousness and controlling the body like a hand inside a glove. This is further reinforced by heavenly visitors in religious texts (i.e. Jesus talking to prophets before 0 B.C. in the Bible would indicate that a body-less spirit is indeed conscious).

Proving that consciousness is a totally explainable phenomenon given our current understanding of physics would essentially prove that (at least the Abrahamic) God doesn't exist (i.e. if we could create conscious machines on-demand).

On the other hand, proving that consciousness is the result of some previously undiscovered form/interaction of matter could provide evidence of the existence of "spirits" (i.e. if said "ethereal" matter exists in brain before, but not after, death)
Surgical masks don't protect health workers from patients. They protect patients from health workers.
> They were slowing the phones to preserve battery life, giving the appearance of longer useful battery lifespan.

Not quite accurate. They were preventing the phones from spontaneously shutting down by limiting CPU. Processor spikes can drain older, feebler batteries.
The think I don't like about scrum is that they teach that you literally don't need to know a single thing about the underlying business - in fact, that is discouraged - following the process to the letter is what counts.

It is sold as a one-size-fits-everything process model, which can be run by non-programmers with zero experience who took a few workshops and got a scrum "certification".

It applies to any business - now including finance, accounting, and more ...

So I'd say by definition, a scrum company can achieve level -1 or 0 at best. It fits the Level 0 description PERFECTLY.

An actual formalized process which could be optimized would have to be set by subject matter experts after some deliberation. And would be designed to make an impact on product and quality.

Scrum can never achieve this - because the fundamental idea is that you can manage any business with the same established process - it will fix all of them ... no matter what the problem is ...
Republican states hate the core concept of America: the people are created equal.

They pass deliberately onerous "voter id" laws - which are still, afaict, functionally illegal poll taxes, aggressively gerrymander, do everything in their power to declare ballots invalid, and even before this were making it intentionally take unreasonably large amounts of time to vote while also fightingly kind of Election Day holiday.
Fair enough. Having an FPGA can certainly make various aspects easier (especially for supporting higher precision outputs), but shouldn't be necessary for basic engine running.

As I understand it, most of the difficulty in modern engines is the tuning anyway. No longer is it just a VE and lambda table, there are so many dimensions that need to be taken into account for a stock car (variable valve timing or lift, electronic throttle control, etc), to get excellent emissions.