skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't be depressed. It's false that any reasonably good programmer can get a job at those companies. There are plenty of reasons why you may not get a job at any of them (bad luck, peer competition, interview antipatterns (google Yegge on this), maybe algorithms aren't your strong suit, ageism, etc). Even worse, from initial rejections you can spiral down into anxiety that will hinder you in future interviews, and listen to this: you cannot tell a person not to get anxious at the prospect of rejection, either.

People who say it's easy are arguing from an optimistic point of view specifically addressed as unhelpful at the start of the article.
I wish there was a way to do this but with popular/classic board and card games instead.

My friends are, for the most part, not board game nerds. They want to play commercially successful games like Trivial Pursuit, Balderdash, Uno, etc. We've had a real struggle to find a sensible way of playing them.

Eventually we just had one household point a webcam at a physical copy of Trivial Pursuit and everyone else play via Zoom, which was less than ideal.
I wonder what % of those with jumbo loans are completely out of a job? And further in such circumstances that they cannot afford to pay even a reduced or deferred mortgage payment? Or move into a lower cost apartment in another market? Going straight to the street tomorrow sounds like a stretch with options along the way especially for someone who was in a jumbo in the first place. Loans take a long time to default/evict and lenders are probably not in a rush to put the liability on their books right now either.
I feel like this situation calls for making you a partner. If you are SO valuable the company can't even survive without you, then you ARE the company and should be treated as such.
> One of the trade-offs of wearing sunglasses is that you cut off this process.

I assume that's one of the tradeoffs of sleeping or closing your eyes, too.
I'm surprised there is no mention of jackbox. It's setup to be played by a whole load of friends around the same tv, using their phones as handheld answer devices. We made it work over discord video chat with one person sharing their screen and was a hoot. Quiplash is a lot like cards against humanity and drawful is neat play on pictionary.
You're not giving the whole picture if you don't mention that IBM's market cap has seen very significant decline over that time period.

IBM has been producing insane cash-flow over this period and their strategy was to pay out dividends/buybacks rather than to invest in new markets

Is IBM even getting bailout money? What does IBM have to do with the bailouts?
You can probably tune how much of a hit SMR is by changing the size of the CMR region. The more CMR area you have, the more you can sustain bursts of writes without needing to reduce performance for recording recent writes into their respective final resting places. It's more or less the same logic of hybrid drives, with the difference reading from CMR is not faster than from SMR, so you can deallocate already SMR'ed information immediately after a successful write.
Sounds good until you’re both in your mid 30s and realizing that it’s now or never.
Florence Nightingale: Great Woman of Mathematics
So, to be clear, you are saying that we use(d) chimps for research because of their genetic similarity to humans?

That, my friend, is the point being made. We've come full circle.
Thanks too. I had not heard of the "TidyVerse".

The TidyVerse is a opinionated group of R packages that all function similarly. ggplot2 is in there, and I already use that one.

I do like R for analysis. (I choose to use it over excel or Stata for my data analysis/ classes), though I wish the help pages were better.

Its a hard language to grok, even the data type names are unclear (data frame, vs matrix, vs vectors..). I'll take a look at the tidyverse packages.

https://www.tidyverse.org/learn/

any additional learning resources you'd recommend?
Ask HN: How to Learn Swift / iOS Development
I'm looking for book/course/materials recommendations for learning iOS development. Self study, not a bootcamp or other paid or ISA program

I have a fairly straightforward game/social chat concept in mind to use as my muse. It doesn't require any complex math, physics engine etc, would mostly just be a crud app with some timing elements. I do have some experience developing simple web apps with ruby (rails + sinatra) so not starting from 0, but am still very much a beginner. Especially with regards to languages like Objective-C and maybe swift that aren't as intuitive/readable to someone without a CS background.

Many thanks.
Yeah, that's the conclusion at the bottom - evaluate for drug-resistant sepsis as a last-ditch option.
I find tidyverse a bit slow, and I don't like having to memorize all the verbs. I typically reach for data.table these days as a nice middle ground between base R and tidyverse. Your thoughts?
https://www.libelektra.org/tutorials/python-bindings
There's a great new talk by on Gjengset on youtube that tackles just this question:

Rust NYC: Jon Gjengset - Demystifying unsafe code

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAz-maaH0KM
Incidentally multicrafting in AC:NH was one of the cases I was alluding to. Making Fish Bait is painful.
I also found it highly biased, romanticizing one side and demonizing the other... falling in the false dichotomy of evil vs good. In Spain often people doesn't remember that in order to have a prolonged civil war there are two equally powered sides needed, both with equal social support and both with equal lack of will to negotiate. I think it is a major mistake to bring back to history the conclusions and ideas from the present, the "democracy" of the "republic" was also highly flawed and often the left sides would try and fail a coup d'etat wanting a communist revolution and it never achieved law and order. The country was just highly unstable politically and socially since the decadence by the loss of the oversea provinces and everything concluded in that war all together.
The Bank of Japan’s balance sheet is at 110 percent of GDP.
A machine that has a stack and runs a series of instructions in sequence, no looping or branching, is a pushdown automaton. That's significantly weaker than Turing complete.

(A pushdown automaton can do branching if it wants, but the lack of looping / going left is critical.)
Life Sciences Financings and Commentary #4
can I say 'bullshit' here without being rude? Hospitals ONLY provide services they can profit from. They could have a doc in an office to do the stitching you refer to. And save a crap ton on overhead. By offering a 'luxury pathway' not only do they up their profit, they make everyone else who is trying to save money for the system look bad. Hospitals CHOOSE not to offer cost effective care because there is less profit in it. And then they hide behind Stark regulations - 'we cannot help private practitioners, sorry'.
Skype and HN have alternatives. Wikipedia and YouTube do not.
Is it too jaded to say that it most likely has always been, for all time? And that we are simply more aware of it these days?
This is total news to me. So is the US housing industry owned by the US government?

My impression was:

- conventional is within risk margins of banks and they own that risk

- fha requires pmi, that is insurance you buy to cover the extra bank risk

- va, mortgages to veterans that the government own
I'm not saying it will not happen, there are certainly clues pointing out in that direction so no need for "except" :). On the other hand there are scenarios compatible with the data you are mentioning that do not lead to population stabilization.

For example. Let's say that while the majority of the population (Population A) is reducing its fertility rate a subpopulation (Population B) keeps it at a higher rate. Let's suppose that both populations maintain this behavior for several generations. In this case we would see an initial reduction in fertility rate not leading to a stabilization of the population

Will this happen?, I don't know. What I'm saying is that I feel in these discussions often people place too much faith on their preferred extrapolations ;)
> Anti-vax information can get people killed.

No. Not vaccinating children get people killed. Therefore, the reasonable response is to mandate child vaccinations (together with fines and other punishments for non-compliance). With such mandates (that are already in many countries), non-compliance is limited to very tiny segment of population.

> The "5G causes coronavirus" conspiracy theory is causing people to burn down mobile phone masts.

The "5G causes coronavirus" is an obvious nonsense, but lets assume for the purpose of an argument that it is true. Even in such case a reasonable response is to petition your MP or do mass demonstrations, not burning mobile phone masts (as violent vigilantism is generally unacceptable approach).

As violent vigilantism is completely unacceptable reaction regardless of truthness of such statements, it does not make sense to blame that statements for such reaction based on being false (unless that statements also contain calls to violence, but in that case even truthfull statements would be responsible for that).
Hard to disentangle monetary policy from political policy. They are strongly interlinked.
Eudaimonia dramatically improved my late game economy in Alpha Centauri.
I haven't used Spinnaker outside of a few tutorials and experiments, but Flagger is far simpler. It's just a "Canary" CRD you install that controls nginx-ingress (in our case). Watches prometheus, nginx and does things to a deployment.

Spinnaker invents a lot of new terms and complexities. Flagger just does one thing, and it does it pretty darn well :)
I've heard of people who did this and went on to retire. OTOH I don't know of any engineer who left Big Tech to take advantage of their financial security to do something _highly impactful_. In other words, the "Google mafia" was a lot weaker than the "Paypal mafia".

The problem is this : most creative engineers don't have the mindset to mindlessly study for algorithms interviews, only to then have to spend years in constrained engineering roles.
There is a point when something makes sense.
And there is a point where something becomes "slightly unsettling".
RE: Chip implant: https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO20...
Maybe they don't cross the Po then, not really seen them in Emilia :)
Actually UTC + timezone is exactly the wrong thing for "wall clock times" (things like meetings or departures where the time at the location is relevant).

The conversion to UTC will lose the original local time so you cannot retrieve it once time zone data changes, unless you perform reconversions every time you detect such a change in tzdata. And countries changing time zones happens more often than we think (and also on short notice).

Thus it is important to distinguish between instants (e.g. for recording when exactly something happened after the fact) and wall clock time (e.g. for coordinating people and goods at a certain place, like meetings, concerts, departure times). For the former use UTC, for the latter use a localised time zone (e.g. Europe/Rome), not an offset time zone (e.g. not +0200).

For more information Jon Skeet has written about this multiple times.
They aren't removable AFAIK without destroying them, which probably calls home.
The problem is you need two complete sets of reproductive organs simultaneously. If either the male or female has a single defective organ, nothing works.
Reduced infection rates through Black Mirror level contact tracing?
Probably because no one feels sympathy for General Mills having their shitty cereal knocked off by walmart.
That's a pretty good hypothesis. I honestly don't know.

The reason I've preferred purple and (dark) blue is that they only require two properties to have a monopoly, so you can get monopolies sooner. It might be confirmation bias on my part, but my memory is that when I get these monopolies early it often prevents people from developing the orange properties. But like I said, I honestly don't know.

You're probably right that in the long run the orange properties would pay off the most based on being ~7 away from jail, but I wonder if games play out long enough for that to outweigh the effects of getting monopolies early.
> My question is: if a government deficit is adding money to the economy, what a government surplus is doing? That's the meaning of "taxes destroy money".

It's rare for the federal government to run a surplus, but it did have one for four years straight in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001[1]. During that that time, the monetary base increased 32%[2] and the M2 money supply increase 23%[3].

No matter how you look at it, despite the government running a surplus, the money supply continued to increase. How do you square that with your claim that surpluses remove money from the economy?

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASEW

[3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE
Show HN: On demand short remote therapy sessions.
Encapsulation[0] might be the term you are looking for. Enforcing object boundaries makes it easier to reason about program behavior and enforce security guarantees.

If objects can only change their own data, then all change affecting the object is either caused by the object itself, or indirectly by another when information crosses the interface the boundary presents (e.g. a message was received).

Most languages use a memory model that doesn't even have the concept of access rights, everything can potentially affect anything else. If your program has to be secure, this is a nightmare.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_progra...

Also interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_passing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
Nice! i'll check them out!
Hiring is still going on in most of North America. Hedge your bets look at other companies and interview. Preparation for one interview is preparation for lots of them
Whoa, never thought of that. If you look at how much blood needs to be treated in the paper it's only 3.5ml per kg. So most likely enough blood is being exposed on a daily basis.

However I think the major difference is going to be the intensity of the dose. Cells get through the retina and sclera pretty quickly, less then a second, and UV from sunlight isn't actually that intense on the ground (3mW/cm^2 [0]). Dosing in the paper ranges from .1W/cm^ to 200W/cm^2 for anywhere from 10 seconds to 30 minutes. In the minimum case this is ~5 orders of magnitude more UV.

On a side note, I really dislike the default layout of NIH reports. I always have to pick the classic or PDF to be able to read them.

[0] - https://ag.tennessee.edu/solar/Pages/What%20Is%20Solar%20Ene...
Cerberus for schema validation.

https://docs.python-cerberus.org/en/stable/
They already track phones, and will keep doing it even with wristbands. Chip implants would hopefully be the start a revolution, but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
Official Product-Led Growth Certification Launches
What a nice little gist, just what i needed to get motivated over the weekend.
> “Make games, not engines” is fine advice in general but you can make an engine for your specific game without making that engine look like Unity. You don’t need a sophisticated custom level editor, you can just use something off the shelf like Tiled. You don’t need an extension language (like C# or Lua), you can just do the whole engine + game in one project, with one language.

Note that the original meaning behind "Make games, not engines" was exactly that (IIRC when it was originally written in a blog post that somehow became popular, Unity was still a MacOS-only engine and other engines were prohibitively expensive to indies), not that you should avoid making engines.

Basically it was about focusing on making the game and have your engine implement just the features your game needs, not the feature some theoretical game might need in the future. It was an advice meant warn against scope creep.

Also it was directed towards people who actually wanted to make games with their engines and it wasn't directed towards people who just wanted to focus on the tech side (even though the advice was still to have some sort of demo game to drive things).

Somehow over the years people started using the phrase as if it meant "stick with making games, do not bother making engines".
Who is the “we” you speak of? Are we talking about the 1.6 billion overweight people in the world?

Certainly not the 0.8 billion undernourished, or the 3.5 million people who have died of hunger so far this year...
Actually, let me put it this way. If you are relying on your employer to provide opportunities to make friends, you're shifting responsibility for maintaining relationships from yourself to your employer.

I don't think that's a good idea. When people elsewhere on this thread have commented that back in the day people's main opportunity to make friends was at work, they didn't mean that work gives them opportunities actively but rather that it gave them personally the opportunity to personally create a relationship with a coworker.

Agreed? There's a huge difference between the relationship you create by inviting a work friend over to your home for dinner and video games (or going to a bar even) and the relationship created by the "team" going to a "team building activity" together. Don't rely on work to provide the context to make a friend, but it's fine to rely on work to provide an opportunity to make a friend.

Within reason and assuming good actors, etc. I probably wouldn't share every detail of my personal life with work-friends and certainly older generations did not. I suspect the two are related; you have to be more guarded with work friends because social vulnerability can be very risky in a work environment. My mother didn't talk about her disability with work-friends much, only the work-friends she'd invite over for dinner. I share about my condition much more because I want and expect even "just" work-friends to understand and accept my limitations. The story I hear is that it didn't use to be at all safe to be vulnerable like that with colleagues.
> expect to pay 50% in taxes (+ 25% VAT)

Don't forget the tax prepayments that might be 1.33x of your previous taxes, i.e. you pay 100k in taxes for one year and for the next year you need to prepay 133k.
A few friends and I invented a board game several years ago and we all thought this pandemic time would be a great opportunity to get back into it.

I set up a real time board game maker online, called DoomGrid[0]. It's very basic and just uses Firebase to sync a bunch of game objects across everyone's game board.

We also published the rules for our invented game recently[1] (warning, only 70% complete). We've now spent over 10+ hours developing those rules and the story behind them.

If you haven't tried inventing a game yet, I'd highly recommend it. It's really fun! I personally enjoy it just as much as actually playing the finished game. And it's very rewarding the play something you crafted from scratch.

[0] https://doomgrid.com/

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GBGlrMk4By5IZ28yCqq3vHAo...
Came from a podcast a while ago, so alas no.
Gitlab Patch Release: 12.10.1
Exactly, from my personal experience that is the hardest ball to juggle: there are changes that will be painful, that won't have an immediate impact but that over time will compound to it. How do you sell this to people that are going to go through the pain but very likely won't be there to see its benefits?
Sounds like Dinesh from SV :)
Gotta tell you guys that the Fed is going to get restructured. Basically its going to declare bankruptcy and stiff the central banks to whom it is indebted.

Trump is looking to nominate Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve as she is the one who will do the restructuring. [1]

How is he able to do this?

“The Fed will finance a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for each acronym to conduct these operations. The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each SPV and be in a “first loss” position. What does this mean? In essence, the Treasury, not the Fed, is buying all these securities and backstopping of loans; the Fed is acting as banker and providing financing. The Fed hired BlackRock Inc. to purchase these securities and handle the administration of the SPVs on behalf of the owner, the Treasury.

In other words, the federal government is nationalizing large swaths of the financial markets. The Fed is providing the money to do it. BlackRock will be doing the trades.

This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump.” [2]

So what does this mean? The US is going to go to a gold backed currency. The federal debt is going to be wiped out. With no federal debt to pay interest on, personal income taxes are going away. The whole wealth transfer mechanism of the central bank system gets cut off.

Edit: Take note of the change Trump has made in recent weeks. Has he been tweeting out that the Fed needs to do this or that? No. Because he can just order them to do it now.

2nd Edit: Also, notice how the IRS dealine for filing and pay has been delayed, for the first time in history? Because Trump ordered it. The IRS isn't even pursuing collection actions on old taxes owed. The filing deadline is going to get moved again to the end of the year, mark my words.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/trump-to-nominate-judy-shelt...

2. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-cure-risks-being-worse-1...
All I was bleating about was precision of speech. In a formal or semiformal context, I'm not going to care about semantic accuracy down the pub (wait a minute, what effing pub? They're all closed. Dammit, this sucks, it really does).

Precision and meaning matters when debating IMO, as I've outlined elsewhere on this thread, that's all I'm getting at. Lack of it causes lots of problems, beyond random guys exploding at you on the interwebs.

Don't worry about offending me, you hit a very exposed nerve by accident, wasn't the first time. No probs.
when all of those changes will be in stable? will it be 1.44 or more likely 1.45?
When I picked up Docker, I had already been using other container technologies for several years so I personally don't know of any modern or complete learning resources that I can recommend. However I would recommend starting out by understanding what namespaces are, i.e. how container isolation works. You should also be aware of what cgroups are and how they are used, but you won't need profound knowledge of them when starting out. The man pages [1] [2] might be a good place to start.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/namespaces.7.html

[2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/cgroups.7.html
Sex is good for your heart
A hug keeps tension away
Sex can be a stress buster
Weekly sex might help fend off illness
People who have sex feel healthier
Loving support reduces risk of angina and ulcer

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/sexual-health/benefits-of-love-...
And it's still not even remotely enough. 5-year inflation expectations running at 0.67%, CPI falling. The shock to aggregate demand is being allowed to exceed the supply shock. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T5YIE
Don’t forget the infection risk.
Considering how much weight the words of a president have I wonder if some of his underlings will now go out and spend energy on investigating these ideas. Throwing out such ideas during a lunch with colleagues is fine and fun but doing this during a national press conference aimed to inform the public seems highly irresponsible. I watched the process conference where we he talked about the idea of putting light into people because it may be an idea. If I was one of the medical advisors I would have had to work really hard not punching him in the face so he shuts up.