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The federal government can order ventilators, but you need the part.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-24/ventilato...

It can also order or overpay for the creation of a successful vaccine, but you need data and time to see if it works.
Yes, Cannonball teams traditionally use two drivers plus a spotter.
Don't focus on the domain, focus on the coding. i.e. don't talk about what they were doing, talk about how they did it. Where there any performance considerations? concurrency? what did they do for testing? was it automated? How the thing deployed? do they maintain it? etc. etc.

In doesn't matter that in all of the above I'm talking about the code used to talk to little green men on Mars (which you know nothing about), but it matters how I used code to solve all the problems which are common across all kinds of software.
Fascinating ... the dates Dec. 1, Dec. 6 and Dec. 16 are mentioned in this article, which almost match the flu dates I mentioned above:

https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/chinas-devas...

Based on those dates, it's possible Covid-19 was on Chinese airliners as early as Dec. 1 - 8. Wuhan has an international airport that connects to Shanghai (Pudong), which is a major international hub.

So that moves the onset possibly back into November.

Researchers should be looking at Chinese death certificates for the month of November if they're looking for patient zero.

(I've read about one unconfirmed US flu case in October that sounds like corona, but I'll look around for some more info.)
You can't look at one nation's currency in isolation.

Since other nations are simultaneously loosening in a competitive devaluation, buying foreign currencies and equities won't necessarily protect you.

I've yet to see a step by step explanation of how the dollar is supposed to crash. While there are many hyperbolic and hand-wavy theories getting passed around, none that I've seen acknowledge the role of other nations or of second-order effects.

I agree it's prudent to own some gold and Bitcoin in case the bottom falls out, but the probability of hyperinflation seems pretty low to me even if the Federal Reserve prints a few trillion dollars during a crisis.
If you were to go in to an interview for a welding gig you would likely be asked to produce something simple like a cube or other basic shape. Nothing extravagant, but it demonstrates competency with the tools, materials, and techniques. I have tried very hard to replicate this in our hiring process. But the sad reality is that many applicants cannot code to the level suggested by their resume.
It’s very common at the big tech companies in the US (FAANG), and by extension many smaller companies that are cargo cutting their hiring practices. But certainly not universal.
I normally hate "BSAB" arguments, but in this case they are hard to defend against. The modern New York Times is basically the result of staring too long into the Fox News abyss.
It doesn't actually make sense to fork Elm. There are pretty good general-purpose languages already which offer a superset of Elm's (the language) functionality. I think all of them already have Elm-like implementations available as libraries. In fact there's at least one migration tool that helps convert away from Elm: https://github.com/darklang/philip2

Choosing to hard-fork Elm and create lots of internet drama just doesn't make sense compared to moving to one of the above.
From that video:

I have a feeling that the answer to the question is like, "What if so-and-so was hit by a bus?" It's like, "It'd be bad." I think that's the general answer but it's something people worry about.

That's... confidence inspiring.
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I would say contributing or maintaining anything on Github would make you a possible target, you never know
feel free to check the articles and commentary by CNN, MSNBC, Gov Coumo etcetc from January thru the beginning of March... the Federalist is the least of my worries..Dorsey and his spawn are wrong
This too. And then you're only as good as the interoperability your platform is providing.
You can lay them off. You just have to rehire them by June 30th. And 75% of the loan must go to payroll, so you can't axe the entirety of your staff. If you can layoff someone who makes close to the maximum for UI, with the $600/week bonus, the laid off make an adjusted $1000/week for the duration of the bonus + qualifying period. That's a pay raise for many employees in the service sector - so the employee is also incentivized to be laid off to make close to as much as they did (or more!) and do absolutely nothing.

This is all contingent on you re-hiring them, of course. Otherwise it's bad for the employees and you might get penalized under PPP. But restaurants around the nation are axing their entire staff and promising to bring them back June 30th, while maxing out PPP loans. Plenty of other businesses, too.

>> The entire point of PPP is to incentivize companies _not_ to layoff their staff.

Yes, I am aware. Would you also believe that the government had competing incentives with another program in unemployment insurance that caused this situation inadvertently?

We almost did this at my company; our accountant ran the numbers and we would have benefited to the tune of nearly six figures in doing so (spending the excess on "qualifying purchases" with the remaining 25% like rent), but I felt bad exposing my employees to the phone trees and websites of the unemployment office. They're overloaded AND incompetent.
Algorithms interviews are IQ tests, the end.
What exactly is happening when the lead of a smaller acquired company ends up running the acquiring company? Surely there must be a lot of pre-acquisition people near the top who are salty about losing their chance?
Isn't it the companies' role to turn those junior developers into senior developers? Where else are they going to come from?
Ah, that's interesting. I read an article that said he was bullish on US stocks in February/March, but I must have been misremembering.
PGP doesn't hide metadata, anonymous remailers hide metadata. Add a sufficient volume of dummy messages and all of a sudden nobody can do traffic analysis, either. Think ATM: There's a constant volume of "cells" but only some of them are actually carrying anything.

That, or blasting your message to a huge number of people, only one or a few of whom actually receive it because it's encrypted and then steganographically hidden in spam. Again, use dummy messages and there's no way to predict anything by divining the ebb and flow of spam volumes.
A source to back this up: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/wall-st...
They don't care and feel unappreciated. So here's an opportunity to feel better. Who cares if the company needs someone?

Sadly I've even seen this from a company founder who felt that as the company grew they were no longer the "big kahuna" and felt a need to make up for it by showing off in an interview.

(experiences as a co-interviewer not candidate)
No. People would just have to vote politicians in that support more power at the state level. This has happened throughout US history.

Secession is unconstitutional, and no state has a military. In fact, the US military would already be there (and most troops stationed there likely wouldn't be from that state).
Take home interviews should be time-limited and proctored real-time. If it's more than 4-6 hours then it's too long. The problem should have multiple parts and just difficult enough to make it unlikely for most candidates to complete everything. The problem should unique enough and broad enough to allow the candidate to demonstrate good code structure, problem solving, creativity, and algorithmic ability. It should obviously not be something so straightforward and simple as to be a question on stack overflow.

The candidate should be encouraged to submit early and often for feedback, and to not be afraid to ask questions. Sometimes a subtle or complex element of the problem statement can help spur this interaction.

Finally the grading should be a blend of both objective criteria such as a series of heuristics and unit tests, as well as subjective measures such as code cleanliness and structure.

Multiple people should be involved in the grading, and a repository of previous submissions should be compared against for consistency.

I and my team used this technique for years to great success, hiring some of the world's top talent.
The ESP32 is a lot better in many ways, but it suffers a bit from version 2 syndrome. The decision to go dual-core in particular. Personally I'm looking forward to the ESP32-S2 coming in quantity.
You have to take a macro view however.

China was in recession/depression before shutting down their entire economy for almost 2 months and have barely recovered. They suffered a supply shock. And now because the entire worlds demand has declined, China is now suffering from demand shock. And foreign manufacturers are now FLEEING which adds to massive loss of permanent jobs. That’s on top of a debt overload and they don’t control the worlds main currency

Japan and Germany were close to recession before the virus hit. Plus they are mainly exporters. Plus automobile is their big export...which now the demand has collapsed around the world.

US comparatively is safer.
If businesses had to run at all times with the contingent risk of a pandemic built into their cash flow model, virtually no business in the travel, tourism, or entertainment sectors would ever be funded.

How would you operate, say, a restaurant with the pandemic risk on your balance sheet? You’d need, what, twelve months of cash available for a rainy day?

All of the dynamism of the marketplace would evaporate and we would have Soviet-style restaurants.
To a certain extent yes, but it's a problem that they've made much harder for themselves by trying to support both OCaml-style first-class functions and C/Java-style imperative control flow. If the NLL work around control-flow keywords had gone into first-class functions, I suspect we'd see a good solution by now; conversely if they'd committed to C++/Java style with what works there (i.e. exceptions) that would also probably make for a result that was easier to use.
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I had one with Game Closure. They flew me out to their offices after being impressed with a game I made and made it seem like I was basically granted a job, and an interview was a formality (admittedly, this did result in me slacking a bit and I was a dumb young college student with a bit of pride). The interview was purely high-level mathematics and algorithm questions which I wasn't prepared for, they said they'd be willing to pay $40,000 a year (that's nothing in Silicon Valley), and everyone was just kind of horrible. Then the CEO walked in, endlessly berated me, and honestly said I'm a fraud and a liar and I can't program. I laughed when they gave me the rejection call a week later and said they'd be willing to call me back if a new spot opened up, because really, it's preferable to just skip on the formalities after calling me a fraud.

The only thing that really did bother me was two engineers showed me a game they were working on and asked me what I thought. We talked a bit and I ended up giving them a bunch of "here's what I'd do to make the game more fun/interesting" ideas, and everything I mentioned was at some point added to that game (these were fairly basic concepts such as level designs, so it's possible they had some thoughts on their own). I learned never to give advice to a company without compensation, at least.
I can't "blame" a corporation, because it's not a person.

But they are run by people, those people are the ones crafting the legal and regulatory environment that encourages this behavior, and we can certainly blame them.
Notably, the main OpenStreetMap database does not use PostGIS, and stores longitudes and latitudes as scaled integers.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rails_port/Database_sche...
This seems like a violation of roommate privacy.
>A rooted Kobo H2O with koreader in landscape mode is vastly better

What would be the interface for using it as external display? or are you telling about using it just as a document reader?; in that case it might not even serve OP's needs.
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You mean IP?
I have an app written in Swift and weights between 8-20Mb(depending on device and iOS version), which is not too far of from a typical website these days and the startup times are phenomenal(between 250-500ms, depending on the devıce).

Writing in Swift is a delight and this is the feature I was dreaming about because having the user to install the App is not easy these days(100 impressions on Appstore Search would get me about 8 installs) however the people who install it are quite happy according to the feedback.

I would imagine that the experience is similar to Apple's AR experience on Safari, which I feel can be improved but much nicer than opening the Appstore still. Let's hope that it's not too limited and can be possible to give a good feel to the user about the App's full functionality.

The article talks about letting the dev to pick which part of the App would be presented but I suspect that the actual implementation would be similar to making an App Extensions - basically creating a separate mini-app that shares the codebase and the resources.
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Look, if you spend five years with a girl, you’ve gotta marry her. Clearly, you didn’t find anything wrong with her enough to break up and she can’t wait around forever. Are there better women out there? Almost definitely. They didn’t just commit five years to your chubby ass though.

Likewise, once you make someone put 4+ hours into tech work and it’s good work, you’d better hire them or apologize profusely for wasting their time.
Getting your foot in the door is the first step. It’s helpful to have a good presence on LinkedIn and not ignoring recruiters even if you think they sound clueless. Getting a referral helps a lot too. That got me interviews with Google but Microsoft, Faceboook and Amazon were all either applying online or responding to recruiter spam.

I’m finally about to jump to a big tech company but up until now I worked for a small company on the east coast and don’t have a blog or any public projects on GitHub.
"Shortwave radio" occupies the HF band, which has very different behavior from the UHF band discussed in this article. Amateur and commercial broadcasters have been using HF for transatlantic communications singe long before high-frequency trading existed.
Re: time spent on take home

Take homes can & ought to be timed.

I've had the opportunity to do this fornat twice and I think it works well.

Here's how it works:
They ask you to pick a 3 hour time window to work on the project.
You pick the time.
They send you the project prompt in an email right at the beginning of your time interval.
You have 3 hours to read the prompt, design, implement, test a solution.
If you miss the deadline, project counts for nothing.

Both the times I did this the prompts were absolutely doable in 3 hours.
They were the kind thing you could do in about 2 hours if you had the ability to read the project prompt ahead of time and think about it for a few days.

Personally, I work well with time constraints. This format feels closer to a workday where mid-afternoon you might challenge yourself to finish a task before 5pm. Its a lot less pressure than having to juggle a conversation and having your code scrutinized in real time.

It forces a real time constraint that keeps you from piling time into something you just don't know.

Its hard to cheat, and it also forces the company to make the task achievable in the time frame. This format forces them to realize when the task is too big for anyone to finish in the time.
> but in the Netflix special American Factory

A single, sensationalized data point.
> 2. A way to rotate the before-mentioned sphere around you without forcing the user to rotate it's head. This would avoid much of the neck strain. It could be done by, for example, holding a button on the keyboard while moving the mouse or by a simple keyboard shortcut to rotate the sphere by X degrees in any direction.

one more thing for the author to play around with (I don't have the hardware to try it myself) is experiment with speed/acceleration -- the mouse pointer movement has speed and acceleration parameters that affect how it moves, so that if you want you only have to move your mouse very little in real dimensions to move it thousands of pixels.

It might cause motion sickness, but maybe you can get away with pitching/yawing 5 degrees for every 1 degree of head movement, so to look "straight up" you only have to tilt your head up 18 degrees. Hopefully you'd still have the illusion of being oriented in a space.
I love using terminals and I've always wanted a VR window manager so I've put some thought into how it could work.

I've always envisioned an infinite 2D plane. I would love a terminal that stretches off forever above me, like the Star Wars opening text. Or a spreadsheet that goes on forever in 2 dimensions.

You could also embed your 2D-non-euclidean spaces in 3D. Want to enforce 80 character line wrapping? write on the surface of a cylinder that literally wraps around after 80 characters.

Another idea could be to use depth instead of colours for syntax highlighting. Comments could pop out of the page.

I think there are a lot of possibilities.
I would strongly suggest taking this app down. Some of the data points are very private and personal, which means that the potential for abuse is high.
The highest possible price for a MacBook Pro is US $6099. How do you get $19000? The iMac Pro can get to $14,299.
I see this differently. Buyers are given a choice. Choose what works best for you. It's similar to buying an annual subscription vs. monthly installments.
Overall, I like the product... much needed.
Your explanation involved a bit of mind-reading here to deduce that the Japanese don't want riyals and that people wouldn't value things in star-bux.

Going by actual evidence, if the Japanese are trading with the Saudis it is pretty clearly they don't want riyales, yen or dollars; they want goods and services that they are trading for. They would be ambivalent about what they traded for that oil in as long as they ended up with the most product out for the least yen in.

There is evidence that the Japanese want dollars (their foreign reserves are jumping), but there is no particular evidence that they want to trade in dollars. If anything it is more likely that they are trading in dollars because SWIFT is the cheapest way of moving money around internationally and it has some sort of favouritism for US dollars.
The Fed pumped /tons/ of money into the repo market.
My longest QSO on FT8 is a touch over 5100 miles on 5w. That was pretty fun, especially since my little Bitx40 is feeding a Z dipole in the attic of my single story house. Definitely not optimal.
One time I hired someone who provided a very intellectually stimulating conversation over the phone.

He couldn't ship anything.

Now, I make sure I ask someone a question over the phone, and watch them code. You could call it an IQ test. I call it a technical interview.
Thanks for sharing! I have been working on the exact same project with Tensorflow & BodyPix, really helpful to compare notes & see the pyfakewebcam approach!
Are you using it as an external display? Is it seamless as in traditional color monitor albeit the refresh rate?
Do you have X number of years of non-programming related roles on your resume? Do you list the year of your college degree? These things might signal your age/over-experience/lack of programming experience enough to get your resume culled.

There's also the fact that most jobs are looking for exact matches rather than someone smart enough to get up to speed on their tech stack. So they want to see X years with Y technology. If you're coming from a different field it can be hard to check those boxes.
We'd see some adaptations though.

Apple would make cheaper, less fancy versions.

A lot of people would stop upgrading every year or two. That's hugely wasteful anyway.

More people would buy used.
Well, now you've heard of it.

I've heard of it, and I've heard that they just sort of take their good old time (and yours) with round after round after round of the process.
It seems back up now -- the archive.org backup that is, not the original tweet.
Looks like updated link is https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
I've long wondered why electrophoretic displays (the generic term for E Ink, which is a proprietary name) continue to be exponentially more expensive at sizes larger than a Kindle while other technologies like OLED have become vastly more affordable in larger formats over a similar timeframe.

The best I can tell is that there just hasn't been an investment in scaling up fabrication anywhere near what the likes of LG (mostly LG, actually) has done with >40" OLED panels. Presumably the demand isn't there yet, and so larger-format electrophoretics remain the product of low-volume, high-cost manufacturing processes.
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This is also a good reason to use a VPN and tools like Tor, even when you have nothing to hide. The more normal it becomes the less likely it can be used as presumption of guilt or probable cause.
I think the modulations schemes are largely the same across the board for 5G. Also 4G LTE and 5G signal waveforms both look a lot like CDMA.
I agree, that book is much more useful than the advice in the posted article.
Surely there's some limiting factor preventing truly infinite QE.
Agreed. I prefer testing how well a candidate can dive into other peoples' code, understand it, and make changes to meet a spec. To respect their at-home and in-person time, that means sending them a small and straightforward codebase, making them extend it in clearly pass-fail ways, and then when they come in you have them talk about the code and extend it a bit more.

The take-home portion serves a few purposes: it filters out uninterested applicants, weeds out non-coders, and lets people prepare in their own time and way (rather than on the spot in an interview). The in-person portion then checks that the candidate can do the work themselves, can communicate about their work, isn't obviously a pain to work with.

Most take-homes test the wrong things: whether someone can start a greenfield project, think up interesting new features, or put in more extra hours than their competition. And most in-person interviews test the wrong things too: have you studied interview problems, are you good at coding and problem-solving out loud under time pressure, and how well do you scrawl syntactically correct code on a whiteboard.
> You Can Ask the Candidate to Present Code they Wrote.

I have always wondered why this isn't more common, it makes so much sense to me. When you submit an application you usually submit links to your blog, GitHub, projects etc. When I attend an interview I expect us to talk about those things. This is what the person is supposed to be good at. Instead you are met with a predefined set of puzzle questions.

I think the purpose of the interview is to allow the candidate to show what they are good at and what they are excited about and to see if this fits well with what your company is doing.
You could buy insurance for it. Wimbledon is getting a $140 million payout from their pandemic insurance because they had to cancel.

That said, one could also say the taxes businesses pay to the government are like insurance premiums for acts of God and at that point the government can step in...