skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole "masks don't work" line being pushed by the US government and the media seems to be about keeping people from buying masks that are needed in the hospitals

I actually don’t think this is correct, it’s a reasonable assumption but actually the “masks don’t work” has been accepted Western medical dogma for decades. They were giving the same advice years ago even in times of no mask shortage - to only wear a mask when you know you are sick or if you are a care provider. See, for instance, a roundup of research and previous advice here. https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...

I think the main thing that made CDC turn around now was that the number of asymptomatic or very-mild symptomatic patients with COVID-19 who are spreading the disease during the initial infection when they don’t know they are symptomatic really makes the advice to not wear a mask unless you are sick not make sense since you don’t know when you are sick until it’s too late...
Well no, they’re trading in dollars because that’s what the people they’re buying from want in exchange.
Would you put more weight on complaints despite getting the desired. I got the job I wanted and I still think it's a terrible system.
I love the little joke that you ran "top" in the window that you had to look toward the ceiling to see. :)
Is this like Microsoft Office 'click to run'?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-cell-phone-...

Not so sure they were. The testing wasn't exactly great and compliance in the real world is... less than realistic.
By even posting this tweet, it is implied that there is no human-to-human transmission. They could have easily said, "So far, preliminary tests have found no evidence of human-to-human transmission, however we have only just begun research into the matter and thus still recommend social distancing."

Why didn't they say this? Because China seems to have pressured the WHO the entire time, including saying that the borders shouldn't be closed.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/02/china-coronavirus-who-h...

>And what is the obvious interpretation? Mine is ‘it is preliminary, so results can still change’ and ‘found no clear evidence does not mean evidence will not be found later’.

If that's what they meant, then they should have said so. They didn't. As I said before, this is a major health organization that needs to be clear in its communication, not speak in riddles.
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Technology Connections (amazing Youtube channel btw!) has a few videos on using an Onyx Boox Max as a 2nd monitor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytpRnRke6I0 (Intro)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfX0vlCa4k (2nd channel longer look, mini review)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38dcArwCNc (6 months later, tips / tweaks / long term review)
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Is Google having trouble finding qualified engineers though? If so, what is evidence of this?
I imagine the neck strain after a full work day. Ergonomics is very important. I like the idea though
What is EXPLAIN?
Thanks for the recommendation.
Plan to use a remaining credit to buy this course.
I think it would be interesting to ask a candidate what question they normally ask when they conduct interviews, and have them to walk through the problem. Has anyone here tried that or heard of that being done?

I think you could potentially learn a lot more from that than you could with your own problem. First, there would be a lot less stress on them since it would be a problem they're presumably very familiar with. If they do a terrible job coding it up, well, that's a super clear signal. Second, stuff like how well the do setting up the problem, what kind of problem they choose (is it some generic Leetcode problem, or something they came up with themselves), what they look for in a good solution (just that it works/that it's over-optimized/obeys some arbitrary style standard/etc.) would all provide a less clear signal, but still useful information, especially regarding seniority.
While I'm pro meritocracy(and think that, contrary to an increasingly popular opinion, anyone of any background is capable of showing merit in this field), technical interviews can be done very poorly and swing so far the other way that they dehumanize the candidate.

Years ago, I had an interview for Yellow Pages. I know, who the hell still uses Yellow Pages? Well, this was back in 2014, though I'm still wondering this now. Anyway, the entire interview process was very depersonalizing. Nobody asked me about my background, why I was interested in working for them, or anything like that.

They had me go into a room and sit down at a computer with someone who was presumably an engineer. I had to solve several code problems in JavaScript and Ruby, each one having to be solved in under a minute. If you didn't finish one, it would just erase what you worked on and moved on to the next problem.

After those shenanigans, they brought me into a board room with 6 other people, and I they asked me to solve several brain teasers, including the "burning rope" problem. These people were stone cold! No humor about them. Fortunately, I memorized most of these brain teasers from the internet and previous interviews, so this part wasn't so much difficult as I had to act like I hadn't heard those questions before.

I didn't get hired, and it was for the best because I'm not a robot, and I don't like brain teasers.

YellowPages.com looks a lot better than it did in 2014, but let's be honest, it's a glorified ripoff of Yelp with shitty search results. In fact, it looks nearly identical to Yelp. I wouldn't have been proud to work on that.
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Does the FCC reserve four digit call signs only for broadcast companies and nobel laureates or something? How does that work?
Wow. Wow.

> I promised myself to never be a dick to people I interview.

I personally going through a personal mini trauma.

I don’t want explain what is it. But the way you think is very fascinating to me. I want to be a person like you. Not some asshole who literally ruined 1 year of my life.
Thought experiment: Imagine we limit all development teams to one
A lot of software would not be possible. So then imagine what would we need to make it possible to develop the things we need by only one person. We would need better tools and lib's.

Now to develop these tools and lib's, we still cant use more then one person, so they in turn need tools and lib's to make that work feasible. Keep building tools until eventually each project can be done by the team of one.

Every time a task becomes too big for someone, we don't hire someone to join them in completing the task, we hire someone to build the infrastructure to make the task manageable by one again. Management by locating pain points. Software development doesn't scale, but tools do.

https://twitter.com/EskilSteenberg/status/1248473940827074560
This is super cool. Very impressive project. I had not realized ffmpeg could run client side. This opens up some really interesting possibilities for media editing and sharing (imagine if video sharing platforms enabled people to edit/annotate videos in the browser before publishing)
No, there's zero debate to be had. They actively intercept and confiscate medical supplies that states purchase to save their populations from dying. Blue states, I might add. Which is of course a complete coincidence. (And other countries haven't been immune to this either, but that's another story.)
Sandboxie is now an open source tool
Is this working on Safari? I got nothing other than a Side Bar and Black Screen
Ask HN: If you are unemployed, what are you building/doing to sharpen up?
You know this is a false equivalence. The Bar is to make sure you actually understand now only law, but also things like ethics. Whereas a Google interview wants you to code an AVL tree in Brainfuck with your toes while reciting the alphabet backwards because "that's what they made ME do and I got hired and am smart, so that must be what works".
1/3, and I dropped out of it because it wasn't teaching me (or any of the other people I met there, including those who didn't have my prior experience) anything - I got a first in the first-year exams if that's the kind of thing you care about. Absolute best case is that that degree has two years of useful content, and I rather doubt it.
...if there was only one common datetime library, and it pulled in 800 MB of dependencies. In that case, I might default to using unix timestamps, too, despite the edge cases.
> The do nothing case is pretty clear 1-2% of the Global population dies.

And the population of the Earth could handle that without a blip, particularly as it is concentrated in the groups with the least economic contribution.
Pros: it's super light, works outside, runs off of USB power, feels good on the eyes, has a high resolution and a very decent refresh rate. Convenient contrast buttons on the front and a quick clear button. It's VEGA mountable. But I got a lead weight so it's heavy enough for my adjustable monitor stand.

Quirks: Expect ghosting. You'll have to press the "clear" button if the only thing moving on the screen is the mouse. This is oddly satisfying and not nearly as annoying as it sounds. Like "time for a fresh slate!" Getting the right contrast is also something you'll have to get used to. Dark themes are basically unusable because of ghosting. The monitor's very high DPI isn't handled well by gnome, so stuff is smaller on the eink display than on my main monitor. It's got different needs than an LCD in terms of software configuration of themes, color management, etc. I don't think any OS was made with this thing in mind, so there are quirks. I wish there were some better "per-display" settings in gnome. But oh well.

In spite of the quirks, I don't regret getting this thing at all. It was expensive but now I'll be able to work outside. It's way easier on my eyes.

Right now I pretty much just use it for reading and writing code or doing stuff in the shell. And it's great for that. Vim is like the perfect text editor for this. I also got vs code setup alright for it too now, but it's really great with vim, and has been motivating me to use vim more.

Btw, I also got the Dasung "not e-reader" tablet which is also awesome.

These devices are quirky but really well made and designed.
No they aren't. 100K was the _lower_ bound of those predictions at one point. Now it's 31K. For models to be useful they have to have at least some sort of predictive power. IHME models are total bullshit that, if the feds 100% believed in it, would have caused a complete disaster due to NY hoarding massive quantities of equipment and supplies they did not need. Federal field hospital in IHME's home state, WA, was taken down the other day. It did not see a _single_ patient. The Javits temporary hospital in NY is also almost empty. NY hospitalizations are way down. ICU admissions are down even more steeply. We won't even get the 60K deaths the models are currently predicting. Not even close.
Because they're not interviewing people, they're playing the role of interviewer that they once saw on TV.

The goal of the interview is not to subject someone to a test, it's to become informed about them and their abilities to do the job.

The industry has this weird defensive position where everyone believes there's an army of imposters trying to invade them, and it's become a complete parody of itself.
Why does OPEC have extraction limits?
Poland for the win :D
Algorithms are just more tools to solve real world problems. Algorithm questions might be better if they were geared toward application rather than implementation.
Brilliant!

Now, I know that there are many companies that force people to be on with a live video feed, and that many don't really like it.

How about recording a 3-min clip and playing that in an infinite loop - creating a fake feed (remember Keanu Reeves' Speed?) - so that people can avoid not being seen, but still get things done better? A mask on the face is a simple addition to avoid detection. As the saying goes, modern problems require modern solutions!
> would they have survived for decades competing with airlines that did "riskier" planning for a pandemic?

if the other riskier airline didn't get a bailout, they would've bankrupted today.

So in good times, the riskier airline returns more money to shareholders. But those shareholders should know that it's taking a bigger risk.

And the difference isn't so much that an airline will be pushed out of the market by not returning 100% of the earnings to shareholders.
Maybe this would have been a better response to the grandparent comment than downvoting it, as I don't think it's reasonable to expect most HN commenters to know the difference between UHF and HF (or even that they're different things), and the article makes no mention of it.
I would think when the type of need is uniform across all states (testing, supplies, containment rules, support for workers and businesses, etc...) and the only difference in each state is in the volume of the need, the Federal Government would take charge. It has more funds and the ability to mandate uniform rules. It also has access to people who are paid to be the smartest folks in the room in dealing with pandemics. This is what the CDC was designed for. Having 50 different states try to piece together a response to an international problem seems destined to... lead us exactly where we are - a day late and a dollar short. Avoiding this was predicated on not having a complete imbecile at the helm though. It really mucks everything up.
FYI the for sale link on your site doesn't work.
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Here is Qt's response, very brief: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-and-open-source
This pandemic will amplify the wealth inequality drastically. The poor will lose their jobs and houses, while the mega rich will find a way to tap into those trillion dollar stimulus funds.

I don’t understand why Congress wouldn’t pass a simpler, $1000 to every person with SSN and address in file + $500/dependent.

It would have been faster to process and get that money out. It would save people from losing their homes and put food on the table. IRS still hasn’t started sending those checks out and so many people will still miss out. IRS is the most effective institution that could aid millions of people in a short time.

I just don’t get why America is so afraid of being a bit socialist ? Wouldn’t this save the people & economy in the long term?
If they actually understand the stuff they learn this way, I'm fine with that! It's strictly better than just doing nothing.
A fellow bitx40 owner! Great to meet you. I love mine. I've hacked it to the Moon and back! They are great little radios. To bad the ubitx is such a turd.
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Taiwan effectively stopped the virus at the border. They have only 380 cases and 5 deaths recorded total from the coronavirus.

It’s too late now for countries that have allowed the coronavirus to run wild for months and spread throughout their society to emulate that.

Vietnam is another success story as well I think - 255 cases, 0 deaths.

This is definitely the ideal model to follow which is to prevent the disease from rooting itself within your borders, allowing the economy and society to continue as normal.

Once you have wide-spread community transmission as Western countries do, emulating this approach becomes difficult... I believe the lockdowns are an attempt to effectively reset the state back to a lower number of active cases so that a South Korea style containment of the disease could be attempted.
New graduate here who has this admittedly been on only one side of the interview process. In my interviews I got mostly white boarding problems and one take home. The author was mostly correct in discussing the advantages and disadvantages of both (namely the extra-time for take home assignments and archaic algorithms for white boarding) but I feel there are a couple points I can add.

First, I actually believe white boarding questions (at least the automated kind) are assigned more indiscriminately than take home assignments. Many companies just send you online timed hackerrank or leetcode questions as a preliminary filter.

Second, the entire interview process rewards people who study for the interviews rather than those who like to build projects. Unfortunately I believe companies miss out on a lot of qualified candidates, albeit reducing their false-positives from obscure algorithm-type problems. With so many applicants, reducing false-positives ensures quality hires so it works on the company’s end.

Overall, my opinion is the interview process is relatively broken. Take-home assignments offer more insight into actual development skill, while whiteboard questions filter out a large portion of people (many who would be just as good, if not better, at actual implementations.) But it works for the interviewers so change seems unlikely. This is just my experience for new graduate interviews; perhaps it is different at higher levels.
No sane non-narcissistic person will ever fathom doing 2 PhDs. You do a PhD to learn how to think and research things. The only reason you would imagine doing a second one (assuming you're not someone who completely misunderstood what a PhD means), is so you can boast about it.
They should channel their showing off into displaying how awesome and sociable and good with candidates they are..
Yeah penny wise, pound foolish there by these people.

$9k seem expensive, but I don't know the price of these things so half willing to accept it. Then seeing they are charging $31 for a power cord now makes know they are charging too much for the the main thing they are selling.
How i hacked worldwide Zoom Users?
Seconded I've taken a number of courses and this is by far the best mooc I've taken.
Pretty awesome visual. Although seeing change in time as a like chart and magnitudes in a bar chart are the most effective.

Great domain name too.
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This isn't necessarily a bad thing. But it's not only an IQ test: it also assesses how good is someone at solving problems. The individual shouldn't come with the perfect answer in a limited amount of time but show a good thinking process which put him on the right track to solve the problem.

When doing coding someone can have to solve an issue which doesn't have an answer on stackoverflow, so having problem solving skills is valuable.

Also, being good at algorithmics and data structures enable someone to come up with better solutions which might matter in a particular case.

I think algorithmic questions are better than asking questions about random methods from a particular framework.
Pretty sure gcc doesn't enable trigraphs unless you pass a command-line option to do so (and maybe it's included in -std or -ansi or something like that).
The Fed can inject liquidity, but it falls to Congress to generate demand when the economy cannot. The Fed's best move would be to commit to backing any level of spending passed by Congress and signed by the President.
No, there might be a nice debate later, but this crisis isn't an exercise in theory. There are people dying right now because of an administration that downplayed the crisis, failed to react, and is now actively sabotaging our state level response unless officials perform personal favours to the president.
This is the issue I have faced, and probably why I am leaving this whole mess behind. I still love engineering, but it's time to move to a mentor/consulting role. I've been in this game for over 10 years, and just can't be arsed to do any more testing. I once had someone ask me what a "cookie" was...

Storytime: I used to work at a huge Japanese multinational (you can probably guess which one), and I rose through the ranks pretty quickly. After two years (which given their turnaround, made me pretty ancient), I left the firm for greener pastures.

A few years later, they started a new sub-division, and a personal contact recommended me. It was a decent pay bump, and despite the negative press, I didn't mind working there, during my tenure. I figured I'd be a shoo-in. It was for a non-technical role (PM), but they wanted someone with a tech background, which I had. They then wanted to give me an online engineering test just as a formality. It was a quick test, and I solved it with little issue.

Fast forward 2 weeks and I get a rejection email, saying that my code wasn't up to snuff, and they'd be moving on. It took everything in me to not write back saying, "Hey, go to your main service and log-in. Ok yeah, so the interface and client backend to your SSO and the user management services that millions of your users interact with each day -- I wrote all of that. Oh yeah, your absurdly complicated coupon system -- I wrote a lot if not all of that too."
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Should western museums return colonial cultural artifacts stolen from Africa?
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What I don't get is that the price per square foot goes up as the size goes up. Doesn't it usually work the other way around?
> I do not value an open platform. I only value a good user experience and I value my problems being solved in consistent and elegant ways with a focus on design.

Fully agree. While I still criticise Apple on keyboard, hardware defects, sometimes unfair competitive advantage, I still prefer user experience over whatever ideology such as Open or Close, proprietary or Free. And I vote that with my money.

The only problem is when User Experience is not up to standards, such as the early days ( and arguably even today ) Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade. But then of coz I still have choices such as Spotify and Netflix.

Again, none of that is to say I agree with charging 30/15% for its direct competitors. Given nearly 80% of the App Store platform are Gaming revenue. I wish Apple could use this opportunities to lower its fees for Non-Gaming Apps to 20% and Subscription to 10% charge. I think that is a much more fair price.
I think you are generalising too much, there are also some good courses on Coursera. But many are more shallow than e.g. EdX, which has some excellent more in depth courses.
China is getting dollars from foreign purchasers of their goods paired with a forced exchange to yuan (holding large values of usd In China is illegal).
Just because something is priced in dollars doesn’t mean it is paid for in dollars.

Fundamentally in every real transaction in the world the seller gets the currency they want to hold and the buyer gets to use the currency they earn in. Because otherwise there is no deal.

The whole purpose of the global financial system is to sort out those mismatches so deals get done - and make a turn while doing so.