skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read https://twitter.com/balajis starting early February and documented many of the posts. He was one of the earliest to call out their BS and anti-scientific agenda.

And then the House tried to remove Trump's travel ban:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/12/house-committee-vot...

You can play politics or you can look at reality.
Standard IQ tests are basically offlimits in the US as they feature a well known, well studied disparate impact.

But I think your correspondent is underselling work sample tests. They are not perfectly correlated with IQ testing, and do in fact measure something beyond IQ; on it's own work sample tests are only slightly worse than IQ testing, and combining IQ testing and work sample testing improves predictions of hiring outcomes vs just IQ testing.

That said, very few workplaces have well calibrated whiteboard interviews, or take home interviews, or pair programming screenings.
WanderLog is a YC company. This is a YC website.

It also shows that where their experience comes from, adds validity. In this case, I can go directly to their website and see the results of them "reining themselves in" on a production website.
In addition to enacting the CDC effort to distribute tests.

That some of those tests were contaminated, or that the FDA may have made a hard call in proceeding with redistribution or calling an audible to multi-sourced testing, is a strategic problem.

But let's not say nothing was done. I'm sure there were plenty of sleepless nights at the CDC, before we even had confirmed US cases.

(Happened to drive by it today. And it's easy to forget that there are people, just like us, who are trying to do their best there. We all make mistakes. And sometimes we don't, but our bosses do, and we get blamed for it anyway.)
To be clear: I'm certainly not opposed the idea of air-dropping GM-manufactured ventilators to needy hospitals (though I'll admit I don't see how it's ever going to work in time and genuinely think this sounds like marketing on GMs part more than a serious idea).

I'm just saying that the person that needs to get off their ass and move on these ideas isn't Mary Barra but Donald Trump (and McConnell and Pelosi of course).
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Yeah, you're right. I didn't think any sane person that's eligible for an SBA loan would be complaining about a 4% interest rate. Private unsecured small business loans run like 20%.
Ask HN: Are we approaching another 2008/dotcom boom crisis?
> I probably am biased from the culture on these sites but it still seems all to easy for people to still get dragged into fruitless discussions, overly emotional flamewars and trollbait that they will regret later.

Life is about emotions and regret. If you don't have any emotions or regrets, you haven't lived. I hope people internalize that as well. Also, my top peeve on social media these days are virtue signaling goody-two-shoes. The paternalistic moralizing and talking down to isn't my cup of tea. If people wanted that, they could go read Aesop's Fables.
This blog has interesting information, like how to properly remove a mask to avoid infecting yourself @ 14:59, and to not contaminate your house with outdoor clothing by leaving it outside: https://youtu.be/yyucJekT87E (turn on subtitles)
Shirt and tie sales take off, pants free-fall.
This is a stressful time. My school just sent out an email to kick us out a few days ago (we have one week to move out). As an international student, I have no place to go. After seeing this, I am even more worried as I don't know my internship at CloudFlare NYC can happen or not.
> what sucks about these bailouts designed to help America out are all the people that this won’t help.

Contrary to what you might think, this helps more people than just the banking industry. Without the banks giving out loans, your neighborhood McDonalds stops being able to hand out paychecks. Without incentive to do investments, your own company starts hoarding cash and laying off people just to survive. If a bank goes down -- not only does the bank and all of its employees suffer -- the banks are not prop shops: the money is owned by someone else. Your 401(k), your city's muni fund, pension fund, university endowment, etc., gone.

None of this is supposed to be a justification for trickle down economics, of course. Trickle down doesn't work. This is about saving what we have right now. An argument could be made that the banks are too big to fail, sure, but that doesn't change what needs to be saved, right now.

> I hope the US government remembers 2008 and doesn’t just bend over to the banking industry to only have this same thing happen again in 10 years.

These are very different times. 2008 is probably caused by the financial industry itself, sure. But this time around, the fundamentals is the problem: no matter how good the banks are, they're just not going to survive without help if the whole economy just shuts down for a year.
There were conflicting issues that seem to be coming out now.
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/18/who-claimed-i...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-scientists-destro...
For extremely high values of "low"...
Interesting, I'd love to read that report if you can find the link again.
Hairy butt guy here, it works wonderfully ;)
Laid off:

No, I'm self employed (software business). That does not mean that I'm impervious to macroeconomic conditions, but it does mean I have developed a forecasting mindset that generally keeps me ahead of downturns.

Hiring:

No, not at the moment. But that doesn't have anything to do with COVID. I tend to hire very little and no one permanent.

Honestly, I struggle with tech people who run out of cash or say they can't get hired. I understand that not everyone can ace an interview or makes enough to save up a large cushion -- at the same time you have one of the most valuable / sought after skills in the market today.

A little late for this advice, but:

MAKE SURE YOU GET PAID WHAT YOU'RE WORTH AND SAVE SOME CASH. SOME AS IN MONTHS' OR YEARS' WORTH.

Really, you don't have to be "rich" to have a 1% level of financial stability. It's really about having enough cash to have enough time to weather a downturn or move into a new area without pooping your pants.

The response I usually get is "but x happened!". Yeah, no shit, that's the whole point. We can't see into the future but we can buffer cash.

If this downturn ends up hurting you -- learn from it!
I'm terrified for how this may play out in Venezuela.
Can't the government always print ten times as much?
You're overlooking additional options like "The patient would have survived without a ventilator, but one was used to improve their condition and it turned out it was a defective GM ventilator because who needs regulations"

Also "the ventilator was fine but 12 months later it's still in service - who's going to throw out a working ventilator? - and now it's killing people because who needs regulations"

You can't just throw out all the regulations. "Any treatment" is not better than No Treatment. You have to identify which regulations are appropriate to discard in the situation - many, sure, but not all. You wouldn't want someone 3D printing your ventilator with materials that will off-gas toxic fumes and kill you when you would have survived (barely) without the ventilator...
@guessmyname: ‘It sounds like you are not aware of the existence of the term “Social Engineering”.’

Sorry for the delay in answering, “Social Engineering” is not hacking. Manipulating the SS7 protocols for nefarious ends, could be considered hacking.

https://blog.securegroup.com/phone-hacking-through-ss7-is-fr...
Haha, glib examples indeed.

I agree with you about remote reverting to a large extent.

I have been working 90% remote for a while, but most of my co-workers have not and it is driving them crazy after only a few days.

We know that a large subset of companies would prefer to have visibility and control.

I still think that even if only 5% of the tech employees forced to work remotely for the first time these next couple months get a taste for it, it will change the landscape of remote work in a noticeable way.

Even if just a few decent sized employers see and acknowledge good productivity in these next couple months and the talent pushes the issue, it could end up with a lot of 300k positions in california being replaced by 130k remote positions basically anywhere else.

After being forced to do it for a while, it's hard to imagine this not happening to some extent, especially in areas that aren't especially strongly affected by stock market news bites.
The BBC has (and has been made fun of for having) a text box at the bottom of a lot of their articles requesting input from readers on how they are impacted: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51949243

Making fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-rkzJ6yZw
Vikings lived in hard times and found good very useful/valuable as loot
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I think the healthcare system and medical supply chain are two separate things. A universal healthcare system (for E.g. Sweden) still has a normal supply chain. The only difference is the profit motives are not present and the government can effectively pump money in without violating economic principles of supply/demand and pricing.
Smart videos for curious kids (curated site)
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/
I think you may be missing how the bonus system works at many companies. 100% is defined as the maximum contractual bonus for consistently excellent performance but there is a separate discretionary maximum for exceptional cases beyond the contracted bonus. This discretionary bonus cap is often on the order of 50% higher than the contractual bonus cap. It is for when the maximum bonus is insufficient to reflect individual performance. A 120% bonus typically denotes a discretionary bonus beyond the contracted maximum, which almost always implies you are doing amazing work beyond the scope of your role.

Details vary by company of course but the tiny percentage of people who earned >100% bonuses at companies I've worked at were exceptional performers.
Why not try Herbs which were proven to cure people even during the 1918 Spanish Flu.
Lomatium Root was used during that time with success.
http://debrasnaturalgourmet.com/lomatium-root-possibly-the-b...
name any society ever where you couldn't have traded gold for a fish
> Let it run for 10 seconds, use hot water, use a rotating sprayer (or just wiggle around a bit) and there is absolutely nothing left.

Personal experience does not agree with you. But I'm glad that it works well for someone.
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I'm running firefox and mail in macOS, and 12gb are in use. The OS keeps things loaded in memory if you have it to spare.
So mothball them the same way the military does equipment. We don't have a shortage of land in this country.
Cite some examples?
500 >= karma I think
I've been wondering about getting a razer blade stealth 13" for some time, I'm just worried a bit about its built quality.

I do prefer Mac OS as a daily driver, but I would like to be able to do some light proof of concept ML training on a laptop with an nvidia card, and also sometimes some CAD (I've had terrible experience dual booting windows on this current mbp)

I'm currently trying google colab to see how much I can do with doing everything in the cloud
The handheld spray attachment (bum gun) thingies are ubiquitous in urban India now. I lived for an year in the middle of nowhere on the outskirts of Mangalore in a small rented room, even they had this installed!
I should add - if it wasn’t clear above, a person needn’t have experience in both the backend/ops areas and front end.
Is this a bill or a resolution? Because resolutions are pointless nonsense, so much as I wish the US would leave off, who cares?
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Whiteboard exercises are there to show how well you understood topics, how well you can think on your feet and how well you can communicate. Most whiteboard exercises generally deal with pseudocode. Haven't seen a whiteboard that can compile and run the code you write on it to test your code or your coding ability.
A lucene based solution would probably scale better and would allow you to implement more complex behavior. You get analyzers, stopword filters, synonyms etc. out of the box, and you can express things like "virus within 5 words of lung" or "covid or virus but covid is way more important".
I believe given the rather small dataset and the fact that you won't even expose more complex queries on your interface, the main benefits are the analyzers and various filters you can use.

If you are already doing stemming, stopword filtering and maybe synonyms you're probably fine.

(My email is in my profile if you want to discuss this in further detail)
You need to start thinking of this as a logistics problem, not a tech problem. Ventilators is a solved problem. What is needed is a stream of parts and manufacturing capability. I'm not sure if car manufacturers are the right partners but they do have a lot of people that know how to put stuff together. They can put an assembly line for ventilators together; get a stream of parts going and start manufacturing long before we reach the peak of this epidemic. Their workers are not going to be doing anything else so let's let them have their shot. Meanwhile, other companies could start on parts manufacturing. Some design should be chosen; standardized and then we need to start moving. Everywhere. Ditto portable ICU units, negative pressure environments and training for people to help others during this epidemic. If not many more more lives will be lost.
For Google+, by one measure (all registered profiles), the "1%" were actually the 0.16%

When considered against all profiles which had posted at least once, which gets around the forced-account dynamic, the comparison of 0.16% vs. 5.09%, is ... approximately π%: 3.1434185% Much closer to the 1% rule, and probably more accurately reflecting actual lurkers, which should bring it even closer in line.

https://blogs.perficient.com/2015/04/14/real-numbers-for-the...

NB: The research above was based on methods I'd developed, and reached results quite similar to my own, though it was done independently and I had no idea it was performed until Eric Enge published it.

Communicating just how thin active G+ usership was, to many of those active I=users, proved surprisingly hard. People have little innate grasp of statistics or very large numbers -- 2.2 billion+ profiles at the time.

Also, MAU (monthly active users) is a far better measure than regisration counts.

Especially for mandatory accounts.
You say that from the comfort of writing a HN post. Do you have much at stake to make such a condescending suggestion?
While the economy is certainly headed for a few rocky months, I think the tech sector will bear it out better than average. They are better equipped and better set up to keep working remotely, less reliant on physical supply chains which are getting disrupted.

That being said, as the total money available in the system goes down, it will impact the demand tech companies have for their products.
Saudi Arabia has shifted away from thinking like manufacturers to thinking like investors. Oil doesn’t matter to them - it does now, but it doesn’t psychologically. Wealth is what matters.

Oil is still their golden goose - their special “10x” or “unicorn” status sauce. If the forecast for long-term global oil demand is losing steam in light of desires to shift away from fossil fuels, then perhaps sooner is the best time to sell those assets to accumulate wealth to save and invest in other areas to grow more wealth (ex. Vision Fund).

IMO - the price war is a short game to fund pivots into different long games - and as we all know, starting out with wealth to fund that is a nice situation to have.
No one cares about any of this stuff. Rules need to be tossed aside to minimize loss of life. All FDA rules surrounding drugs need to be suspended for COVID19 patients. We need to start doing what china did and start using non approved anti-virals to save people's lives.

We need to start vaccinating at risk populations(75 or older) with the trial vaccine if it is shown to be effective in the upcoming weeks. We cant wait a year.
Is almost a pound noticeable?
The problem is that, if you wait to act until the shortage is actually upon you, you’ll act too late. These things take time to make and distribute. You have to act before the tidal wave hits if you want to have them in place when it does.
Unfortunately, in the past when local companies did that they were punished because the demand evaporated and the government wasn't willing to keep buying and stockpile. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/05/8113874... mentions how one manufacturer kept trying to get the government to help maintain supply, but they didn't. Now all the local manufacturers are scrambling and the US stockpiles are insufficient.
Because overconfident Reddittors >> HNers
There's a crowdsourced handbook here, please contribute:

ToC: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

Doctors: https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/doctors

Self-care: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DioVg-8nu25up0JMdd-w3AsJ...
Is there sufficient reason to believe they haven't been for corporate bonds?

I've been reading about corporate bonds causing the next financial crisis since at least 2015.
It’s not that it’s against the rules. It’s just that you’ll be downvoted by those that hate billionaires and that will impact your ability to comment. I’m glad I accumulated enough karma from before HN became like this that I can handle losing some karma to say what others have been silenced from saying by downvoters.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/07/29/against-against-billio...
"Ignore it if you want, but asking everyone else to join in your self-induced blindness" contains at least three personal slights, of escalating intensity.

For sure it's ok to quote the plausibility guideline at me. We all need to work at it, and it's not easy. I do find it implausible to read your sentence (the one I just quoted) as free of any rancor etc. If you tell me you wrote it in that spirit, I believe you, but intent doesn't communicate itself on the internet. Most of the time, when people post such things, they are flaming somebody—so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Would you consider making it available in Canada? Just tried to download it, but am north of the border.
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I wonder how this will impact educational apps that are trying to get last minute features for use in environments with a teacher. I know drops is trying to roll out an update at the moment.
The headline number is annual total compensation. So yes, ~$200K of shares will vest every year. The normal deal is 4-year grant with even vesting (sometimes after a 1 year cliff), so in this case it would be an $800K equity grant over 4 years. Some places like Amazon and Netflix do it differently, but that's the standard.

They usually use the stock price on the day of the offer or the day you start or something similar. So in this example, if the stock price was $100 on the offer date, you would be granted 8000 RSUs on signing, vesting over 4 years. What they are actually worth on the day they vest depends on the stock market, which means each vesting usually results in a slightly different amount in actuality (even though the # of shares per vesting is constant).
In practice, facing down some 25 year old who’s been at the company for all of 9 months, it is all about “the answer.” In some cases, it’s about 3 answers. Often, it’s actually about their answer — you must do it their way, otherwise you are wrong.

This is not the case 100% of the time, but it is often enough that if you’re interviewing in SF, particularly at startups, you will see it at least every few interviews. It’s ridiculous.
I felt the same way as you about my 2015 13” so I reformatted the drive with apfs and did a fresh install of Mojave. Got a ton of storage back and it runs like a new machine. One of the best things I’ve ever done.
A commercialized health care system has lots of perverse incentives leading to price increases and profiteering. This sets the weakest fraction of the population up for losing all they've built up in the last 3 months of their life while barely impacting the strong. It also means that those hospitals don't care about overpaying for their supplies and medication (but not their workforce) because they get to pass those costs on to those already weakened people.

FWIW: Gall bladder operation in NL all in: 1500 euros, non-subsidized and paid for out of pocket because I wasn't paying into the local healthcare system when it happened. Same procedure in the USA: $24000!

https://www.lendingpoint.com/blog/gallbladder-surgery-costs-...
My phone screen locks quickly and uses a long PIN so it's terrible for recipes. I've been trying to think of a cheap simple alternative.
the tender offer from SoftBank is officially off the table as of yesterday. Awkward now it seems Neumann will continue to own a huge chunk of the company from the sidelines.
There are a couple possible re-thinkings. The disturbing one is where it is noticed that we are essentially sacrificing a bit of the economy to reduce fatalities. So next time it is decided that company valuations are worth the extra deaths[1]

I submit that rethinking needs to be started early rather than late so the discussion isn't dominated by euphemisms for some very dark path.

[1] As we know, social isolation is to spread out the pace of acute cases so as not to overwhelm hospitals. But it obviously slows the economy considerably. The alternative would be to not to isolate, keeping businesses wide open and allow the medical system to be overwhelmed with its accompanying higher mortality rate.
The bleach is for the sprayer not the sprayee.
No, not really. Reporting on real-time events, rather than past events, generally relies heavily on tips and sources to fully develop a story.
From G+, in the final months of the service, daily creation and deletion of Communities (not Profiles, though a related proxy measure) was in the 1,000s per day.

For Profiles, odds of being deleted (usually a banning consequence AFAICT) was far higher for those which had posted than those which hadn't.

Given churn in troll and spam accounts, percentages can be quite high, even multiples of legitimate accounts.

Both observations based on outside measurements -- I am not and have never been a Google employee.
The businesses that make up Yelp's customer base are crumbling by the day. They're a "help you find restaurants and bars" app in a time when governments are either telling their citizens to not go to restaurants and bars, or just straight up forcibly closing them. I don't see how you can call this a kneejerk reaction, like at all. A virus caused recession is the world thing that could have happened to Yelp economy wise. Withdraw applications and let them know why? Lol. They aren't going to notice. Those applications aren't happening. If people with applications haven't been told that yet it's only because HR is either too busy getting the mass layoffs in order or job hunting themselves.
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They're already using MD simulation in certain areas of drug discovery (computer aided drug design). Naturally, as you mentioned we're compute-limited so the models are simpler and the questions we ask of it are also 'simple'. But that is not stopping us at all. While not exactly MD, My S.O. works in drug discovery and they use simple computational screening models to simulate the chemistry and screen out tens of thousands of possible drug candidates.
Ha! Well you made this lurker laugh, and reply! Also, it is not uncommon for me to write out a reply and then delete it before submitting because I second guess that the comment has value.
Same everywhere. Grocers are still going to be open.