skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work as a PM in a pretty big tech company, and I’m a cofounder of PrepTick (an interview prep startup).

Here’s a rundown of what we’ve been seeing in the tech job market. Situation’s super fluid, so it’s quite likely a lot of this might be inaccurate a week from today.

-Big companies (FAANG, Microsoft, Uber etc) continue hiring unabated. It looks like any contracts made are being honoured.
-Medium and smaller companies seem to be pausing hiring. A lot of scheduled interviews cancelled. Some candidates told us they were informed these companies would get back in 6-8 weeks.
-The majority of venture funded startups seem to have entirely stopped hiring, or seem to be on the verge of doing so. Some relatively urgent roles still remain open. Anecdotally, reasons seem to be either runway extension (defensively, or rarely - explicit guidance from investors), as well as a sheer lack of time, too many key people involved in firefighting expected changes in revenue/demand

Some incidental observations we made that might be useful for recently unemployed engineers/analysts: Lots of Banking tech roles still open, inspite of the pounding their stocks have taken. Banks pay decently, work environment is rarely as awesome as Tech but it’s a living. Accounting tech and Consulting tech seem relatively unaffected.

As an interview prep company, we know we can do a lot to help folks affected by this situation. Up until now we’ve focused on 1-1 coaching/practice simply because it’s proven to be incredibly effective. We really want to do something that can help a winder audience given the situation - and until things stabilize, we’re probably going to do it for free (think webinars, interview content, videos - we’re brainstorming a bunch of ideas)

If anyone has thoughts, or might be interested in helping/collaborating, drop me a note at [redacted].
We’re going to do whatever we can :)

PS - first post here, bad formatting, edited to try and fix it.
Yes, a new sourdough starter will go through several phases of strange and awful smells before it settles down to a consistent yummy sour yeastiness.

Personally I'd question whether its worth even bothering with a dry powder starter, I just make mine with flour (mix of rye and wheat) and filtered water. The yeast is either present in the flour or is picked up naturally from the air.
Instant yeast, 1/12th teaspoon <-- how does one measure that kind of thing ? wouldn't it be easier and more accurate to use grams ?
I’m not seeing that (Firefox anti-tracking?) but it‘s trivial to hit the reader mode button in the address bar: it’s a better experience anyway.
> and if you don’t work it properly it’ll be too weak and again won’t rise.

Yes, but no-knead recipes tend to be wetter and they come out okay.
I find that the companies who do not allow work from home are the ones who have a poor management system.

They are also aware of that and hope that having someone at the office means less slacking.

This is not a stupid approach. Fixing management wild obviously ne the right solution, but it is also much harder to do.
Did your pee turn brown?
Weight lifting isn't an endurance sport. If you want mitochondria obsession, look for anything long distance.
Everybody always wonders about the heart and never about the intestines.

Shit in shit out, day after day after day. If not for you guts never tiring, your heart wouldn't get any fuel, you'd get a fistula and die of sepsis, you'd back up like a lot of people's pipes this week because they're flushing unflushable wipes.

So here's to the real unsung smooth muscles of the body. We salute you.
Immediately- b2b charge for the value your service provides and cover all costs
But at this stage, I feel Shopify has better chance than eBay on branding... The long term value and potential scaling effect is still the mainstream before we live under universal basic income era.
Rust definitely does not share the simplicity of C.

It is the equivalent of C++, not C. You can write code which you cannot guess the machine code, as soon as you use any of the abstractions, just like C++.
its also when you fart in bed under the sheets.
If you wait long enough, the obstructing popup goes away ;-)

One of the rare occasions where I endured such pain because I was so interested.
Whether it has an effect is not an issue. The issue is that it is referentially transparent.

Sure, we could have a discussion about whether partiality is an effect. Someone, somewhere is having that discussion. If the Haskell committee had had this discussion in 1987, chances are we wouldn't have Haskell at all.
Elon Musk: Should Have 1000 Ventilators Next Week, 250k N95 Masks Tomorrow
Apple makes you sign the same contract that e.g. google makes you sign, which says basically "I sign away all rights to anything I create to the maximum extent legally permissible under California law" (You can look up what those exceptions). For companies like Apple, this basically means they own everything you might do, since their "area of business" in essentially limitless.

However, once I signed away my rights, the experience at Google and Apple was quite different. At Apple, I waited months, with multiple follow up pings, to get approval from a lawyer for a one line trivial patch for an OSS project. I had to give an argument that my contribution provided a direct business benefit to Apple, and generating goodwill in the community was explicitly listed as a reason that is not valid. I couldn't contribute to any Google run OSS projects either (some issue with the CLA, not sure of the blame, TBH).

In contrast, at Google you are encouraged to contribute, don't need any approval for normal OSS projects, and I have easily gotten approval to release two personal projects.
People are going to spend more time with themselves - learning more about themselves and their families, improve closest relationships, find new hobbies, learn new things. A lot of people will come out of this with their habits changed in a positive way.

Many countries will have their economies halt - causing them to bring forward new laws and cut on taxes and different costs associated with owning a business, a lot of extraneous work and spending will be cut away and bureaucracy will be slashed,
healthcare will be taken more seriously.

Startups that were gonna die in 1-2-3 years because they dont have any real market fit will die out and the overblown ones will have to reform the way they approach business.

But mostly, this will be a push for Universal basic income and into a "more socialist" direction for many countries.

A fun new world awaits us.
We moved to Zulip after trying Slack then Teams. Currently use Teams for video calls mostly.
Dough is infinitely ... transformable. Mess with the recipe and you will get something else. It will probably still be quite edible but it won't be the loaf you signed up for.
I think the reason flying is so often vilified is because it represents a huge proportion of an individual's emissions.

The reason flying represented only 2.5% of global emissions is because most people never do it. There's a small subset of people, mainly in the West, who do the vast majority of flying.

As this BBC article makes clear, a return flight from London to San Francisco represents half the emissions of the average London resident. If you fly a couple of return long haul trips a year, they'll emit the same as everything else you do for the rest of the year.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-h...

Looking at old aircraft will make the figures seem worse, but it's not like new aircraft are an order of magnitude more efficient.

The best case budget airlines (high seat density and high seat utilisation) today get about 2.27L/100km for each seat. The 737-300 was about 3.46L/100km - so about 65% of what it used to be. Better for sure, but not "we've fixed the problem" better. I'm not sure to what extent those figures take into account changing seat density and utilisation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft
And someone else in your household picks up one of those items a couple of hours later (not knowing it only recently arrived via delivery) and touches their eyes, mouth or nose...
> "I don't think there is any panic buying going on. Buying for 6-12 weeks for a household is a very rational"

Rational or not, that's the definition of panic buying. If everyone bought their normal 1-2 weeks worth of supplies then there wouldn't be a problem.
Love the write up. OSHPark PCBs - wondering how many revisions it took to get that keyboard layout working! I'd love an 8bit era keyboard and case that you can plug your own PCB into - I'm itching to design something from scratch but I know what will happen if I need to do a full cycle design process - eventual apathy :(
It’s a war on cryptography, not cryptocurrency. Governments have gotten addicted to being able to intercept communications and feel threatened by any technology that might prevent them from doing that. This leads to all the positive uses being threatened because it’s extremely hard (or maybe impossible) to cripple nefarious uses without collateral damage to legitimate ones.
No. Now let's have a look at that bwain of yours.
Newspipe official instance now open (freely). Newspipe is a web news aggregator
I've checked it out and believe that it is excellent for people trying to visualize their findings in R. Thanks!
Not everyone who applies is qualified.
There is a risk that the response to this epidemic will tear some parts of American society apart. Some of the rhetoric in this thread is both representative and frightening in that regard.

People of low means do not like getting told that they must go back to work and accept the risk of losing their parents and getting permanent lung injury. They will also not like getting told to stay at home and default on their rent and mortgage.

People in a situation like that can take desperate measures, especially when there’s many millions of them.

You guys really need to step up the political measures to take care of these folks. Emergency bailout style. The time has never been more ripe to test out basic income.
I meant logistically easier.
The top answer is missing one part:

The heart is actually "resting" 60-70% of the time, the time between contractions, and it fires in a staggered fashion.

The high level of mitochondria means it can produce the ATP it needs during these short rests and is ready to go the next time the SA node zaps it.
Well, this just listed out my concerns pretty well and I spent the last hour installing this on my devices. Specifically, how do I explain to a fortune 500 IT department how this is secure in a few simple sentences?
Is Brain Dead Dead?
Markblog looks promising, thank you!
Speaking from experience, 1/12th of a teaspoon of instant yeast is below 1 gram. So you need specialized equipment to measure this. But you can estimate 1/12th teaspoon fairly accurately.
> >But we know that unbounded growth is neither healthy nor possible.

> Why is it unhealthy?

Assuming unbounded growth with bounded resources?
> Italy found that among fatalities the median age is over 80 (older than the average lifespan of an Italian man).

> 99% of fatalities were among people with a prior illness. About 50% of the deaths were people suffering from at least three other illnesses.

This is true, but what about the overcrowded hospitals this causes? People who weren't gonna die will now die. And what do we do about the doctors and nurses who are pleading with everyone to act?

Perhaps something along the lines of strict contact tracing could have been done, but now it seems like it's out of hand.
> martial arts studio and they're still open, and that feels sub-optimal.

Here in Norway all non-essential businesses that require close contact between people are required to close until further notice. That includes all gyms, tattooists, hair dressers, nail bars, non-essential physiotherapy, etc.

Bars, restaurants, and cafés have to enforce a one metre separation rule (usually done by removing every second table) and several towns have prepared orders to close them entirely if bars are discovered to not be complying.

We are also encouraged not to travel unnecessarily and people with cabins in the mountains are forbidden from using them unless they already live in the same kommune; this is to avoid overloading the health service in sparsely populated and remote areas.

> not enforcing measures is that it leaves the public to pick up the bill.

I've been bombarded with texts and emails from the companies that I deal with reassuring me that they will allow bills to be deferred, tickets refunded or rebooked without cost, etc. (including from National Express in the UK).
Yep, get the clicks first then correct any click bait titles.
Thanks for mentioning that, I think do this date it's one of the very view 3D games with destructible terrain. I remember in particular one testing level (maybe it was just in the demo), where you were put in a hall with some explosives to experiment with (probably to showcase the engine). When I was a kid I remember that I wanted to create a U-formed tunnel around the hall and was pretty impressed when this was indeed possible (and had respect for tunnel engineers as it's hard to get the direction right).

#####################
# #
# +---------------+ #
# | | #
# | | #
#| |#
# #
+---------------+

+|- ... original hall/room
# ... tunnel

I was really impressed at that time and frankly I still am. Good times.

EDIT: The level was called glasshouse. This video might be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8KeFgzqsPQ
epiphany looks good, thank you for the recommendation
It's too small to use a normal gram-accurate kitchen scale; received wisdom is that one quarter-teaspoon of instant yeast is about a gram. So a third of a gram is a twelfth of a teaspoon.

Thanks for a prompt - I've now added a note in the text to this effect!
With FDM it's difficult to impossible, yes. Even with a really fast delta & klipper.

With SLS this is however realistic. Maybe two hours for a batch.
There is no need to imagine, we have the forecasts from the Imperial College report:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

There are 40 million 40-somethings in the USA, you're proposing that 100% of them will have lung damage.

Let's imagine that 80% of the population is infected, that 80% of cases are symptomatic, and that 80% of the 4.90% of hospitalised cases (this 4.90 is direct from the report) get damaged lungs. This is one million 40-somethings, not the entire population.

1 million sounds like a lot, but its only 2.5% of the population at that age range, and assume worst-case.

You know what causes reduced lung functionality in adults? Asthma, driven by air pollution from vehicles and coal power plants. 7.7% of adults have Asthma. Where is the war-scale drive to eliminate fossil-fueled vehicles and power generation?
Android or iOS
Learning Golang in 24 hours by building a REST service
"a high ranking officer mentioned if he were a Palestinian he’d be a terrorist" - That was Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister.
They are, but it's shallow:

>>> x = ([1,2,3,4],"whatever")
>>> x[0].append('z')
>>> x
([1, 2, 3, 4, 'z'], 'whatever')

And python gives you access to anything:

>>> def gotcha():
... z = globals()['x']
... z = list(z)
... z.append("I've seen'em do it man!")
... globals()['x'] = tuple(z)
...
>>> x = (1,2,3,4)
>>> gotcha()
>>> x
(1, 2, 3, 4, "I've seen'em do it man!")
Would you be to expand on why EBay’s problem is shipping?
PDF link: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S1045-926X(05)800....
Hear hear. I've explored the old USSR via youtubers like bald and bankrupt and various urban explorer channels (and of course, the amazing HBO/Sky show, chernobyl) but I would love something as digestible based on older computing systems from Russia and beyond. Just yesterday, an urban exploration channel found a bunch of abandoned computers in a bunker that I could not find a single reference to on the internet (and that looked fairly intact).
When my dad comes from Canada to the US, he still has to touch it because he has to enter a PIN. But at most stores, when I use the chip from my US card, I don't have to touch the terminal at all.
Nice! I see some Django-related FAQs. Anyone used this with Flask?
> foldr is deciding where to map [] and :

This is a way better explanation than the cryptic:

" it (foldr) takes the second argument and the last item of
the list and applies the function, then it takes the
penultimate item from the end and the result, and so on.
See scanr for intermediate results. "
Sure it does. 40% under 50 years old means 60% are 50+ years old. The median is by definition the 50th percentile; aka, at least 50 years old and likely somewhat older, since more than half of all cases are in people who are 50+ years old. Median age being 65 aligns pretty well with that, given that 65 is somewhat above 50.
Flu-like pandemics loos mild in Africa for the same reason why there is seasonal variation in transmission in the north. High humidity, sunlight and high temperatures change the transmission of the virus.

* Sunlight is good disinfectant and deactivates viruses.

* High temperature works for the viruses the same way as with other organic things without metabolism (like food), they decay faster.

* There is negative association between humidity and viability of viruses in aerosols. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3457514/
I loved this game as a kid and wish I could get a version for my Android phone. The current Lemmings available for Android is awful.
'Selfie app' to keep track of quarantined Poles
Current situation in Geneva, Switzerland - 2 critical male patients, one 27, one 29, no prior comorbidities at all. Not sure they will make it. Wife is a doctor and just checked this in their information system.

The idea that relatively young (most of folks here) will be just fine is not true. With overwhelmed healthcare, most criticals will simply die. Once doctors will get sick (and they will), it will make everything, I mean literally any disease and injury much more dangerous. Sure, most will survive, hopefully without any permanent lungs/kidneys/testes damage (was this confirmed or just a rumor?).

Maybe as humanity we've grown weak and can't tolerate medieval mortality rates anymore, but this is who we are right now. There is no easy solution to this. There is unavoidable harsh economic impact coming. Nobody has clue which option will be at the end better than others.

Accept it, and try to find ways to help fellow human beings instead. We are in this all together, rich and poor, left and right alike.
What about the staff? Are they still doing room service? What about when the guest leave, to the hospital or after the 14 days? Who disinfect the room?
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
> This is sadly a very realistic comment. ... this is how I see that conflict with my untrained eye

If your eye is untrained, how do you know that the comment is realistic? The data are the following: 183 Palestininans shot dead, 9200 shot in the knees "often with life-changing injuries". [1] On the Israeli side, 0 or 1 dead, 4 to 11 wounded. (data from Wikipedia).

These are the facts: an army shooting on people without receiving any damage. So, did you ask yourself where did you get the idea that the killed and wounded constituted an actual threat? I can tell you: it comes from the people who shot them. And do you think they would tell you they're shooting on harmless people? Of course not.

> People fighting for something hardly shareable (land) with hartred on both sides.

Again: you don't realise it, but this is spin. The two sides are not equal. One is illegally occupying the other's territory. The other one is not. When you see two people fighting in the street over a handbag, you don't say "they're fighting over something hardly shareable, with hatred on both sides". You ask yourself who is the owner of the handbag, and who's the thief.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/world/middleeast/israeli-...
Even Apple Is Interesting in Migrating Their C Code to Rust
As humans go home, Facebook and YouTube face a coronavirus crisis
Yeah, Lemmings seems like a prime candidate for a modern remake for mobile/touch screens. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet!
I appreciate your thoughts in this thread, and more importantly, your willingness to explain your decisions. Your diligent moderation throughout the site ensures it remains a terrific, unique and much-needed resource. Thank you!
Italian officials demand UK health minister delete coronavirus 'fake news'
> Apple Pay does not work if you are wearing a mask

Unless you have an Apple Watch, you don't need to use your phone when you have one of those (just once in the morning when you put on the watch, to authenticate)
Look we can all agree if you’re writing ASM your going to use goto’s. Further if linked lists are tiny or rarely used, it’s not a problem. If you can ensure the data stays in L2 cache it’s far less of an issue. If any number of things they don’t create problems, but frankly the general case encountered by most programmers are not that.

PS: If you don’t feel like pointing to a concrete example, I am going to counter with 99% of the stuff you can find here: www.google.com.
Ask HN: AWS is telling us using Python for ETL is an antipattern, true?
Me and my team happily use Python + Dask for various things, one of them is ETL jobs. Most of what we do with Python is reading data via ODBC drivers and bulk uploading it into AWS S3 and Redshift. Now AWS is telling our IT that this is an antipattern. It seems Glue or Talend would be the best practice. I am confused as to how is having version controlled Python code to do ETL an antipattern? I can read and manage code much better than UI's. I always thought of tools like Talend as good to haves, but not as necessary if you have a solid team that can do Python. What is your experience?
The SBA statistics are sobering.
46 days for application, 24% approval per slides.
In my experience, asking for $50k was harder than $350k and a large distraction. Vendor financing and credit cards filled the gaps.

IME if you needed capital, you weren’t approved for capital.
If you were cash flow positive with solid income and 2 years of operating history and tax returns, you could put up collateral and refinance at a lower rate.

Over ~5 years I was denied ~5 times, discouraged from applying ~3 times.
I was approved once after several years of track record with a co-signer pledging a property with 100% collateral.

That small business (exited 2019) would have really struggled to survive right now. It would also be a difficult time to ask friends, family or spouse to help.

I wish I had a better policy suggestion to offer; it's a hard problem. Good luck to all small businesses out there, I’m pulling for you.
They can be provided simultaneously, that's the normal case.

Suppose an ISP wants to provide IPv6 besides v4. What does that ISP need? Well, first, v6 from the upstreams, that's simple, and v6-capable name servers, routers, that's simple too nowadays.

But there's more. Suppose that the ISP has some homegrown scripts connected to its monitoring or accounting, written by a ninny years ago, uncommented, and some of those assume IPv4, and noone wants to touch them.

Suppose that ISP outsources its support, and the outsourcing company promises to do the needful regarding IPv6 support but never actually does it.

Suppose that that ISP is in a country where ISPs have to answer automated requests from the police or courts, and one of the software packages involved in that has a v6-related bug. Or the ISP worries that it's poorly tested and the ISP's lawyer advises that if there are any bugs, the ISP will be criminally liable.

And so on. Enabling IPv6 may need a fair number of ducks lined up.