skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the issues with interviews are

* they're not cheap (although not that expensive all things considered), assuming you spend say 10 person hours on two calls and an on site.

* they produce false negatives. on the spot exam style algorithms interviews don't reflect day-to-day work, and they filter out people who might be great at the job, but aren't used to the specific type of stress that interview creates.

* they can produce false positives. failure to check for interpersonal skills in leet koders can leave you wishing you had never hired them.

* they're painful for the candidate. ideally your role is the best fit for a candidate. people only have so much emotional and logistical bandwidth. they may take an offer after interviewing with a handful of companies before they ever find you.

now, I don't have numbers for those last three points. I don't know if anyone does. but we can look at most hiring processes and see that they are a problem, we just can't tell if it's a big enough problem to consider the process "broken".
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Evaluate the argument. Does the reasoning make sense, and is it supported by the evidence introduced? Think of counter-possibilities — what could or would falsify the author's supposition? Find out who disagrees. Does their reasoning make sense, and is it supported by the evidence they proffer? Etc.

This is known as "critical thinking."
Yes, at least in some respects, HTML forms could have been that way, but in practice, they are not:

For one thing, and this is important, with every browser I tried, I get periodically interrupted by messages that the browser displays and that are not part of the form. Just recently, I was again asked for security updates by the browser. Sometimes when opening a form it gets prefilled by the browser, sometimes not, and sometimes only some of the fields. Some other times I get asked whether the browser should translate the form. Sometimes it asks me whether some fields should be prefilled. Sometimes when submitting a form the browser asks me whether I would like to store the form contents for later use. Sometimes the browser asks me at unpredictable times whether I would now like to restart it.

An important prerequisite for getting a lot of work done is for the system to behave completely consistently and predictably, and not to interfere with unrelated messages, questions, alarms etc. This is also very important for training new users, writing teaching material etc.

Another important point, and that is very critical as well, is latency: Just recently, I typed text into my browser, and it stalled. Only after a few moments, the text I entered appeared.

I never had such issues with COBOL applications. Today, we can barely even imagine applications that are usable in this sense, because we have gradually accepted deterioration in user interfaces that would have been completely unacceptable, even unthinkable, just a few decades ago.
The "location" data would be self size limiting since its based on the users who are using the app provided by a local public health agency, like a city or county.
To some APL and J are the equivalent of C to assembler. It is not obfuscated, it is concise: brief but comprehensive, and easy to understand if you take the time to learn it like you would other PLs. I think Ken Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought" covers this pretty well [1 PDF].

[1] http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jzhu/csc326/readings/iverson.pd...
Given that the Python foundation has been trying to get folks to run a python-to-python converter for more than a decade and have not completely succeeded, I'm skeptical that an AST transformer is really sufficient for migrating off those legacy systems.

More constructively, having worked on a (close to decade-long, by the time I joined) project to migrate a financial institution's business logic off an IBM mainframe onto more modern architecture, my main takeaway was that these systems have worked pretty darn well for decades with relatively little maintenance. The reluctance of companies to migrate god-knows-how-much data, business rules, and institutional knowledge (e.g. of data entry folks, business-level administrators who have to navigate these systems to do their job, etc) off a time-tested system they trust at massive expense, is completely understandable.
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> Edit: Reading the spec, I found a piece of information that may be of interest

Shouldn't you read the spec before commenting?
And Elon Musk was a software engineer before he started rocket ship and electric car companies. Intelligent people are fully capable of making jumps between disciplines and excelling in several of them. Sorry, but looking at someone's credentials rather than looking at their reasoning skills alone will lead you astray. You've got to reason. You've got to engage your critical thinking skills. No one is saying Lyn is the oracle of our times. She's got very good analysis, but there are many others and a lot of them are on Twitter. I recommend to engage with that crowd. I've seen Lyn debate with them on Twitter, and it's always an interesting conversation.

Other thinkers in this space I'd recommend:
Raoul Pal: https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI
Danielle DiMartino Booth: https://twitter.com/DiMartinoBooth
Luke Gromen: https://twitter.com/LukeGromen
Brent Johnson: https://twitter.com/SantiagoAuFund
Ray Dalio: https://twitter.com/RayDalio

...etc. Search around. Educate yourself!
"Enacting" stay at home measures are as simple as recommending them or working with states to set a standard set of measure, which did not happen. Instead, the focus was on keeping people working for the economy.

You're too quick to interpret something illegal just so you can jump on the complaining-about-education band wagon.
Evaluating the Genuine Fake (2019)
Microservices can be useful in medium/large companies where you have many teams of devs and it becomes cumbersome to have them all work on one monolith. As long as there's good communication and understanding of needs between teams, each team can develop their services how they want, in whatever language/platform, with their own review and QA and deploy processes.

For smaller teams or small projects it isn't really super useful. Also, my personal experience is that when you start making microservices, the monolith doesn't go away. It also isn't so cumbersome if each team is in charge of one or a few services and you only split things if there's a clear benefit.

I'm probably saying things you already know. My point is that I think for multiple cooperating teams, monoliths and microservices are complementary.
You're wary of sites with opt in email list subscription links?

From the site header ABOUT page:

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We run this project using Open Source Software and embrace the notion of Creative Commons, and supportive sharing.

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We don’t run advertising on our site because we find it repugnant, compromising and unwanted!

This project is entirely not-for-profit—an open library funded by a small crew of dedicated media activists throughout the world. This freely accessible library is our labour of love project for positive social and political change. Even though it is a hard job, we don’t get paid.

We don’t receive any outside funds of any type, and we don’t receive nor would we accept money from any corporate or government entities. Our vested interest lays solely with humanity and the natural world, not this culture, not this system.

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We don’t work with any commercial organisations, religious groups, political parties, etc—we’re entirely independent and self-determined in order to remain effective about what we set out to achieve, which is to cultivate and nurture an effective culture of resistance to the pertinent social and political issues outlined in this library. It is why filmmakers make films, it’s why we do what we do to support getting them seen and acted on. Where it goes from here is up to you…"
Maybe the libertarian party is awful at campaigning but they are absolutely correct on economic policy.

Or rather predicting the outcome of current economic policy.

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>For instance, it allows programmers to quickly create user interfaces by declaratively describing them, in a so called SCREEN SECTION.

>The resulting interfaces are very efficient for text entry, and allow users to quickly get a lot of work done. The interaction is so much more efficient than what we are used to with current technologies that it can barely be described or thought about in today's terms.

It's not common anymore, but Unix clones still have dialog(1):

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dialog
> maybe the dollar will fall in value but if you are in the US and have USD liabilities

Are you proposing that the value of USD rises and falls in a geopolitical and macroeconomic vacuum?
They usually have predetermined readout dates since p values can fluctuate throught data collection and prospectively defining those dates prevents you from being able to just pick the best time for a readout and skew results
Thanks for the answer. Now, I am not sure your tracing key gets updated as far as I understood. Isn't the individual 15-minute long identifiers that get updated?

Also, not sure you can limit to surroundings just yet... people are still moving too much.
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Introduction to Hacking PostgreSQL (2007)
If you want that much to program in a functional style, maybe use a functional language. It will probably be more efficient, compile faster, and be easier to maintain.
I wouldn't want to spend more time doing it, but I do think today's newbies have missed something in not seeing them and playing with them for a bit.
When you say it like that, it makes U.S. Treasuries sound like the S3 of the financial world. Simple, reliable, and comparatively inexhaustible. malloc() for the financial web.

Also very opaque to the average person.
Can you please post a link to this?
Lowe's and Home Depot are open, Sherwin-Williams paint stores are open, the gun stores are open... People have different views on what is essential, to them, and nationally we don't have any agreement on what is and isn't essential or vital. There are many exceptions. Yes, to many people, their church is a vital service.
There are plenty of jobs which are meaningful yet worthless from a capitalistic respect. I've turned down plenty of jobs in the past that would provide much more benefit to the world at large because they couldn't pay me enough to save up comfortably for retirement. So instead I've just worn these golden handcuffs for the past few years while working in marketing tech (which if anything is a net detractor from society). I'm a fantastic teacher and enjoy getting the opportunity any chance I can, but I could never do that for a living because the wages wouldn't leave me with enough to be financially secure in this nation.

It's amazing how much of privilege there is attached to volunteer work. So much of it can make a significant difference in other people's lives. Yet such time commitments either require that you've made money elsewhere (normally through means not super productive to society) in your "real job" making business widgets/yet another spreadsheet, or that you also willfully give up on your own financial security.

Even if a significant portion of the population were to become couch potatoes I posit that society would be no worse off in the long run. Such people are not the people currently making the next cure for cancer, or rescuing people from burning buildings. Such people are those barely getting through the day as is, not giving a crap about their boring job, just going through the motions to make money for someone else. Sure the companies that currently pay an unfairly low rate for those people's limited time will suffer... GOOD, such predatory behaviors should not be supported, propped up, an even enforced as they currently are by our government.

By providing people with an alternative to meaningless work we not only free up those who would want to do truly beneficial work to do so, we also provide much greater market power to those who simply want something minimally productive during the day. So many people make minimum wage or less for amazingly demanding and unsafe work. Currently that is the only option for so many people, so those employers who are unscrupulous can wield so much power and demand so much while providing so little in return.

Even if a significant percentage of the population ends up just spending their time out hiking, watching tv, or generally spending more time with their friends family (horrible outcome right?!?), if the rest of us get to benefit from either of the two previous scenarios then the only humans who wouldn't be better off would either be 1) those who think they deserve all the riches of the world even if they must bury the rest of us, or 2) those who use insecurity to force people into laying down their lives to fight their battles for them because they can keep those "lowly" people from having anything of meaning in this life.
Have you read much about the religious gathering to understand whether it is similar to a normal church service?
True, if Begich was a professional trader focused on biotech stocks, that behavior would be entirely normal.

But...the guy is a career politician from Alaska. What are the chances he suddenly decides to roll the dice on an obscure biotech stock 2 days before a positive piece of info drops?

You can see his other disclosures and its all mutual funds and blue chips.
Which they're doing in a phase 3 with thousands of data points, as the press release states.
Where does that energy go although? The waves go to 0-ish, but that air pressure / energy has to go somewhere correct?
Your comment was very puzzling to me, as I couldn't figure out what kind of misunderstanding about this article would prompt a comment such as this. But finally a possibility occurred to me: perhaps you think the point of this article was simply to say that there exist "systems that defy detailed understanding". It is possible that one could think that, if one went in with preconceived expectations based only on title of the post. (But this is a very dangerous habit in general, as outside of personal blogs like this one, almost always headlines in publications aren't chosen by the author.)

But we all know such systems already: for instance, people! No, this post is a supplement/subsidiary to the previous one ("Computers can be understood" — BTW here's another recent blog post making the same point: https://jvns.ca/blog/debugging-attitude-matters/), carving out exceptions to the general rule, and illustrating concretely why these are exceptions (and what works instead). It is useful to the practitioner as a rule-of-thumb for having a narrow set of criteria for when to avoid aiming to understand fully (and alternative strategies for such cases). Otherwise, it's very easy to throw up one's hands and say "computers are magic; I can't possibly understand this".

(The point of the article here is obvious from even just the first or last paragraphs of the article IMO.)
Ugh, I hate GitHub for polluting the terminology. There's two distinct senses of 'fork' here:

a) A short-lived branch hosted elsewhere for managing the merge process. This is a technical fork.

b) A long-lived branch that may never be merged back. This is a social fork. Like egcs vs gcc, or Vim vs Neovim.

It's the latter that seems to have stigma attached to it.
Anyone who has used the BIOS setup function of a PC before the EFI bloat took over will find that interface familiar, it's certainly easy to use and quite efficient.

Here's an example screenshot: http://www.buildeasypc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/step12...
Tough situation. More power to companies that keep fighting the good fight.
And Matthew 6:5-6

> And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
the application runs entirely on your local system. no information is uploaded. No network requests are made. if you are concerned about security, Nautilus is open source. You can check out the code on github. You can even clone the repo and package the application yourself.
One person spread COVID-19 to 45 out of 60 other participants at a choral recital near where I live, before the lockdown was in place. All in the span of one recital. 2 of them are now dead. 3 more ended up in the hospital.

They followed all the recommended pandemic safety procedures - there was no person-to-person contact, none of the attendees felt sick, there was no sneezing or coughing, everyone kept distance from eachother. Simply singing in the same room was enough to spread the virus.
It's not like you can go buy the drug on the open market. The fda are the gatekeepers, and as gilead states in the press release, they are currently running a large phase 3 study with a control group etc to confirm these results
Fire Fauci the Fraud Now
Didn't that choir all get it because they were singing together?
Right. Fine the hell out of them, but don't give them a platform.
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I read the whole article through. Now I have done so twice. Maybe I have a blind spot, maybe I misunderstand something, but I don't see where you address the number of tests needed. Certainly you don't address the need (or lack thereof) for geographically & genetically diverse testing.

Your background also does not appear to contain detailed experience within the manufacturing and deployment side of vaccines, so I hope you'll forgive me if your lack detail on that end isn't mitigated by simply saying "Manufacturing would not be the limiting factor here" without further explanation.

You say you'd like to get this proposal in front of influential people, but why would Bill Gates assume the logistics are fine, not a problem, without you specifically addressing the issue?

And if I can't get answers to the questions I've raised after 1 full reading, one slightly faster reading, and an exchange with the author himself, then if I were a person of any influence I would not devote limited time to this proposal. Presumably you posted here to get such attention. Presumably you would engage a bit more and answer in greater detail if you knew I were someone who could help advance this in some way. (I'm not-- I have access to researchers in academe but no influence) But I don't see you getting the attention needed, not without a proposal that moves beyond the R&D phase in significant detail

Personally I find the lack of logistical details beyond the R&D and sequencing side of things indicate that your own business interests have you focusing on that end of the project to the detriment of other factors that need to be taken into consideration. Please note that I'm not saying you're doing this for the money: Only that your current area of professional endeavor is the area of the problem where you have focused your proposal, and the areas where it's lacking are not bolstered by your simple assertion of "they are are not a problem."

You have posted to an audience that is not automatically going to know how your R&D could be logistically deployed, but also an audience that knows ideas are easy, and execution is hard. If you wish to have your proposal widely accepted here, if you wish people here with connections to those who could influence anything, these are things you need to address.
> The lifetime risk of death being involved in a car accident is 1%.

You're off by a factor of 100. It's .01%.

> The lifetime risk of dying of an opioid overdose is 2%.

For who? Someone who uses opioids? Maybe, on average, again you're off by a factor of 100 or more.

> We do not know how deadly it is, all we know is that of people who go to the hospital

No, of people who test positive, which includes people with relatively mild symptoms that don't go to the hospital, but had reason or ability to get tested.

South Korea is probably the best current testbed here, they had very widespread testing and they've had very, very slow growth recently so the CFR numbers are probably relatively accurate. They see a 3% CFR.

> Which is why Sweden remains open for business. And you know what? They're doing just fine [1].

Normalized by population, Sweden has seen more deaths and more infections than California, by about 50%, and it will likely continue to grow at a similar rate. The problem with exponential growth is that things look like they're doing just fine until suddenly they aren't and there's no way to fix things.
Irresponsible to who? This doesnt get the drug approved. They're running large phase 3s and all, which is what let's them put the drug on the market. In the mean time compassionate use data is useful to know.
I think it's a break in issue. When you first get them the tips are stiffer and not covered in ear wax. As usage increases the rubber becomes more pliable (because it's so thin) and becomes covered with a layer of ear wax over time, causing lower friction and thus a higher probability of fall out.
There is no pandemic.

This is all a fraud.

Fuck you liberal fucks!
They probably could be. Policy responses have erred on the side of caution, which is entirely fair, but it's unlikely that clothing stores or bookshops are a significant vector of infection.
I just tried this and couldn't get anything to load (Firefox). Maybe I'm just doing something wrong? Didn't see any errors in the console
In the early 80's we had terminals (Newberry being one brand iirc)that would talk to the mainframe and in this instance a Honeywell Bull DPS8 range and these terminals had block mode, so could just type out using the cursor keys to navigate and key in all your code or feild attributes as you would for a transactional screen layout input interface. Then having effectly edited and dealt with localy, could hit send into the edit buffer and covered much WYSWYG form of input and layout for screens. So many ways of doing screen editing and text entry in the real early pre PC days would of been down to the terminals and local cursor, send whole screen block mode form of editing. Unlike character mode (very early systems way of pooling terminals) in which it had to handshake each and every keystroke in effect. Though even some of these terminals could be configured to allow full screen editing mode and sent via character mode batch polling. Terminals were not cheap back then either and when the PC came out, terminal emulation software was one of the big sellers in some markets who would spend lots on the early PC's and more on this software as cheaper than the dedicated terminal offerings.
Same. I never thought they would change it, but I'm glad they did.