skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Never admit that you were fired. Your prior employer isn't going to tell anyone, if they know what's good for them. Small, inexperienced companies with no lawyers might, but no real business is going to risk a lawsuit by saying anything bad about you whatsoever. They'll confirm that you worked there and that's about it.

Six months is not a big deal. You've been told all your life that gaps in your resume are a problem, and some people here will tell you that they ask about it, but they're all just following a rote pattern. You don't want to work anywhere that actually cares about this. Most people couldn't care less. You can always leave the months off your resume if you're really worried about it.

Do not under any circumstances tell people that you were unemployed or lost your job due to depression or mental health. I'm not going to sugar coat this for you. Never admit this during an interview. It's a bad idea to mention anything health related. It's also none of their business, unless you require an accommodation that needs to be addressed before you're hired.

Companies rarely check references. They might check your employment history, and they might ask for references to check your professional qualifications, but hardly anyone speaks to references. Don't put any on your resume. If someplace cares, they'll ask. Hopefully you have some ex-coworker willing to say a few nice things about you. If not, you might want to say you haven't stayed in touch with anyone from that particular job. If you can't summon any professional references at all, that may slow down your job search, but really, people don't usually check. Don't lie; just don't stress about it that much.

Lying is never a good idea, but you shouldn't be offering up negative information about yourself. Forget about what's fair, legal, politically or morally correct: there's a stigma around mental health issues and you don't want to bring them up with a potential employer.

You'll be fine going forward, although now isn't a great time to be looking for a job, so it might take longer.
> That number without a % is meaningless

Unless you were one of the 1000.
Between this article and the comments, I'm bookmarking this page as a good list of these games. I'd be remiss if I didn't add my own humble attempt, a Boggle-like game to be played over screen share: https://wordgame.paulbutler.org/
Free speech applies to the government, not businesses. Which is good because if it didn't there wouldn't be spam filters. Don't like their rules? Host it yourself.
Could just be at the wrong door.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/09/aiyana-stanley-...
Discord has video chat, as well: https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/11500098275...
I know, I was only objecting to his attempt to resolve the confusion by saying "you're using logic". That's not the problem, and the lender should realize it and say something more productive.

In case it wasn't clear, the original commenter was referencing this part:

>>“I told the guy at the bank, ‘I’m trying to use logic here,’” Adler said in an interview. “And he said, ‘That’s your problem.’”
UK scientists want to test Covid-19 vaccine in Kenya if ‘it fails in UK’
One of the selling points of tidyverse’s readr was “no stringAsFactors = FALSE necessary.” That’s how annoying it is.
Google Malware Checker – Google Malware Checker Tool – Google Safe Browser
They interview everyone who does well in their programming competitions, it really doesn't require any luck at all.
Jira is a classic example of a product oriented towards how companies buy things.

Every time a moderately expensive purchase is needed companies get together, write down a list of things that they need the product to do and then compare the options on the market. This process results in a 'winner' who checked the most checkboxes.

It's a process that doesn't take into account the subtler more analog things we should be rating products on - basically how 'nice' they are to use (in a corporate setting I would phrase that as how 'efficient' they are to use, but it's the same thing).
It makes sense that they'd use the Ubuntu font, but at least for me it's terrible for reading. All the emoji were a problem though, and the bold typeface.
30 seconds per turn per player. Max.

Optimal is 10 seconds.

Keeps the energy high and you can finish a game in 15 minutes.
Great point about the Iyashikei theme! Its very prominent in anime as well.
It's not because the rules would apply to you as well. You'd have to do the same thing.
> I think you're fundamentally not understanding why we have virtual machines in language implementations, or process boundaries in operating systems, and why these things are good and useful.

No. My understanding is fine.

> You wouldn't write the code in the kernel because writing safe code is almost impossible for humans without a lot of tooling help, and that tooling looks a lot like a sandbox.

Right, but with EBPF, you have exactly that.

My question was in response to your How do you write programs which decide, at run time, to move compute closer to the hardware?

To rephrase, my question was this: If you have the ability to move code into the kernel without concerns of stability or security, why would you wait until runtime to decide whether to do it? Why wouldn't you just do it unconditionally?

> You wouldn't write the code in the kernel because writing safe code is almost impossible for humans without a lot of tooling help, and that tooling looks a lot like a sandbox.

Of course. My question there was about the use of JIT rather than ahead-of-time compilation. As we've now both said, the answer is that EBPF is able to move the compilation out of the hands of the user, avoiding having to trust the user. It may also be helpful that the input to the JIT can be built up at runtime, as with the routing example you mentioned, but this could be done even if we trusted the user to handle the compilation.

This doesn't mean my suggestion is unworkable. You could entrust the user with the compilation process, and you'd still get the robustness guarantees, but, well, you'd have to trust the user. Better to have the kernel handle the compilation (and ideally caching).
https://ba.net/poker/live/

https://truco.ba.net
for truco or spanish card games
Have you considered other markets where your saved money can go further? For instance, Portugal? Of course, the downside is that the local market in Portugal, Spain or other less expensive European country will pay less and have less opportunities than the UK. But maybe you could do remote gigs?
Something similar happened to me during this outbreak.

Got my CS degree from a no-name university in a third world country a few years back, got a job in one of those software sweatshops getting paid peanuts, moved to a new one an year later where I worked my ass off to learn things and generally be a good developer, but here too I was paid a pittance, mostly due to my education and previous job. I hated working here by the end and wanted to leave.

Somehow I got an interview from a company in [COUNTRY] who were willing to sponsor my visa along with good pay. I studied hard for it (coming home from work at 10pm, preparing for interview until the late wee hours of the night) and cleared the interviews. Finally something good had happened to me, but just before I was scheduled to move for the new job, this outbreak just fucked everything over.

The company still hasn't rescinded the offer, but I don't really have any high hopes, everyday I wake up in the morning expecting a rejection mail from them in my mailbox. Whats worse is that I had left my previous job since the joining of the new one was so close before all this happened, so here I am sitting jobless leeching on my family till god know when.

Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to get this out.

Edit: Any reason why this comment is dead?
I've been studying for the past two years and have failed at multiple FAANGs, some twice. Failed at FB, NFLX, AMZN, in addition to MSFT and UBER.

Then again, I'm not entry level (10 yoe), so I might be competing at a higher bar. However, I'd gladly join any of these companies as a junior engineer without hesitation.

I've seen stories of, amongst others, someone who studied while in prison get into GOOG, someone who was a aesthetician get into NFLX, a cab driver who got into UBER, all as SWEs.

I actually wish I wasn't a SWE so I could compete at the entry/junior level. I feel my 10yoe (SWE at investment bank), which gives me a TC only slightly higher than a FAANG junior SWE, is wasted.
Okay, how’s this?

Tell me one major biomedical discovery, not comparative anatomy or physiology, that we learned first or best from chimp research. I have a PhD in this and can’t think of one.

I agree that they're very genetically similar to humans. I agree that this, in some ways, would make them a good model organism. Where I disagree is that it's true we productively use(d) chimps in biomedical research for this reason. Instead, I would argue that the limited amount of biomedical research that's been done on chimps is because of the genetic similarity, which is the other way round.
Okay, what number do you think is the worst possible case? Is there a reason to believe that there's a nearly 100% chance that people will get infected?

It's true that 5 was just a number out of a hat, but I think you'd have a hard time picking a big enough number that it invalidates my point. Even if you pick 100 as you're claiming, you're still looking at a double-digit percentage chance of not getting infected, which you're taking away from people by deliberately infecting them.

Incidentally, saying "If we assume" is different from saying "We can assume". I'm not assuming that number, I'm merely highlighting it as one of the many possibilities.
Awesome, thanks!! Codenames is one of our gamenight crew's favorites; will def try it out this wknd! :)
One of the things that's important when we discuss any kind of censorship and freedom of speech is what we call "Chilling Effects". If you know taking a political position is going to result in your family being arrested and put in prison, then your speech is being curbed even without being punished and it's one of the insidious wrongs of censorship.

When a grown man who was in the marines for several years is afraid he's going to lose his youtube channel talking about why he can't find pork ribs, that's a chilling effect. When a multi-million dollar videogame streamer is afraid he's going to be demonetized if he talks about why he's filming from home instead of his studio, that's a chilling effect.

The goal of a good censor is not to enforce censorship. It's to get the people to enforce it themselves.
Can you point to evidence to back up your claim that "The general evidence for washing hands as an effective counter-measure is very very strong."

Meta-studies show that the effectiveness of hand washing alone is minimal https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4891197/
I enjoyed that podcast, and would second your recommendation, but for me the best philosophy podcast by far is The Partially Examined Life[1].

Here's their episode on the Nichomachean Ethics: [2]

[1] - https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/

[2] - http://traffic.libsyn.com/partiallyexaminedlife/PEL_ep005_6-...
Preprint: Self-reported symptoms of Covid-19 are heritable
Sorry that I don't have the sources here, but I remember reading a few times that many people will have a low amount of antibodies.

Then, on this video, the doctor mentions that we don't know yet how much antibodies you need to be completely/somewhat immune, which makes sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtP-QPv39kg

Also, even if you are immune, we also don't know yet how long that immunity lasts.
Speed monopoly! Played with those fun chess timers that you get to smack at the end of your turn.
You'd be surrendering colossal economies of scale were you to do that, causing much higher food prices. Most people in big cities don't care to grow food, and most people who grow food don't care to live in big cities. The parent with whom you're agreeing also mentioned a lower local diversity of things grown, which means that to get a decent variety of stuff, that actually increases reliance. I think if anything, we're going to see a desire to become less reliant on others (especially internationally) which will drive people to grow a larger variety of crops locally.
Isn't the oven one of the keys? And how true is that 'leopard spots' on the cornicione is a sign of a well made pizza?
Google claims its AI can design computer chips in under 6 hours
Imagej: Open scientific N-dimensional image processing
"a tad clunky"? Every single person I've shown boardgamearena.com has commented on the subpar UX.

But then we play a few games of Coup and all is good :)

https://acquire.tlstyer.com/ is a good implementation of Acquire
Just to back up your statement, from the actual study, under Limitations:

> Fifth, clinical outcome data were available for only 46.2% of admitted patients. The absence of data on patients who remained hospitalized at the final study date may have biased the findings, including the high mortality rate of patients who received mechanical ventilation older than age 65 years.

MedPageToday notes this, but unlike the study, they start with the headline of 90% mortality, and don't mention until the very last sentence "that clinical outcome data were only available for less than half of admitted patients." This just seems wildly irresponsible reporting; I don't know if the reporter didn't really understand the limitations, or what, but at the very least, that should not have been the headline, not without a major proviso included at the very beginning.
Well, you can't test a treatment for 5 years if you release it within 18 months.
Reading the article made me wonder when the remove of unsafe was due to refactoring the code and when it was enabled by enhancements to the language since the code was originally written.
Germany, with Skies Cleared by Coronavirus Lockdown, Produces Record Solar Power
Over 30 Amazon employees test positive for Covid-19 at warehouse outside NYC
This story supports that opening statement:

"The [University of Southampton & NIHR] researchers worked alongside F1 team McLaren and industry experts including INDO and Kemp Sails to come up with the design, which is now available as open-source to be manufactured around the world.

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-04-23/hospital-first-to-widely...
It's always felt slow (I mean, since early in the OpenOffice days). I've assumed it has something to do with its Java dependencies. Back when I used linux I'd stick to Abiword and Gcalc and such when I didn't need Microsoft compatibility, for that reason. On Mac, Pages and Numbers and such are nice and light. Google Docs is too input-laggy and glitchy for me.
is that a joke? it's like 20% ads
It maybe too cynical, but I'm fond of the saying that I'm loyal to the company as longs as the paycheck doesn't bounce.
Years ago a good friend had this quote hung up on the wall by her desk: "ἔστι ... ὁ φίλος ἄλλος αὐτός" (A friend is another self), which I loved: you experience the world through loved ones too, and expand your consciousness (on a related note see Hofstadter's Strange Loop on his thoughts about having a version of his deceased wife's consciousness "running" in his brain).

Later I learned that it came from the Nicomachean Ethics (https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristotle-nicomachean_ethi...) and is much deeper that I thought.

Bonus quote from Antisthenes: "τῷ σοφῷ ξένον οὐδὲν" (The wise person is foreign to nothing). One interesting thing about this one is that Ancient Greek had two words fro nothing: ouden and meden.
Other than the structuring, moving from topic to topic without explanation (e.g. Categories), I actually agree. Maybe terrible isn't the right word. He's a lot more like reading modern math.
You're right, mostly imo.

I don't know where you're from, but where I grew up meat was an occasional food.
The diet was mostly vegetables/fruits/grain, with meat from hens/ducks once a month or so, cows and pigs were slaughtered right before winter so there was more meat during winter but still for a family of 5-8 that's like a serving or two a week.

IIRC that's the standard diet for millennia - mostly plants but still occasional meat.

I don't think humans are made for vegan diets, but the current consumption of meat is absurd - we're eating better than kings and nobility used to.

How is it possible that meat can be cheaper than vegetables, it's rather ridiculous. Industrial farms are quite literally animal Auschwitz, yet people don't see the problem with that because they're "just animals"? Funny how that works.

I think slowly raising taxes on meat would gradually lower demand, and soon enough, production. Can't see us getting off meat completely, maybe lab grown will be successful.
I am fortunate enough to live in an area where insects are still pretty common.

Every summer and spring we are visited in our garden house by bees and wasps and butterflies, praying mantis and hovering moths - all variety of other things, beetles and bugs galore. Our kids have learned to keep bees safe and how to safely shepherd a wasp out the window. We delight in the butterflies visiting our noses, and even in the last week witnessed our pear and cherry trees turn from flower to fruit bud with a little help from our friends.

Then there was a time I witnessed a mantis defending my outdoor shoe from my foot, only to discover its egg sac deeply embedded in the shoes depths, which I of course left alone until a thousand critters made their way into our garden.

It's hard to imagine there are places in the world were such delights are not so easily experienced.

I believe the modern world has done us all a disservice by breeding squeamish generations incapable of holding such critters in their hand, in wonder.

If you're a parent, teach yer kids to love bugs - with respect of course, we have not much use for ticks - and encourage experiments which show the world of insects and their life cycles to future generations.
How many teams are _actually_ running real retrospectives I wonder?
Of course! We love Codenames too. We are fielding ideas for next week's game so we'd love to hear about the other games your crew plays.
Pickle is a stack machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_machine). It is Turing complete.
See source code and documentation at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/pickle.py#... https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/pickletool...

N.B: "Turing complete" really means a lot less than you seem to believe.
I guess, Mozilla's pdfjs also should be there?
Another addition that I've found really fun is Lords of Waterdeep. The board game version of it is a chore to play due to setup and how massive the board is. The digital version is way more fun as the board game is set up already for you, and not as daunting.

Lords of Waterdeep is available on Steam + iOS + Android - it's the exact same game on it them all. Cross platform gameplay works which is really amazing. AI also exists and isn't half bad.

Your non-computer using friends/partners can play on their tablets/phones along side friends who have gaming PCs.
> Come to think of it, maybe that last one is why HN doesn't like it. ;P

It’s demonstrably clear that the SV startup scene is a meritocracy where the best ideas get funded. Just ask Adam Neumann and Elizabeth Holmes ;)
In Plato's Protagoras it is argued that virtue is a unity and is basically knowing what one should do (e.g. courage is knowing what should really be feared and what should not be).

I'm not sure what you are asking in your last question btw.
Is there a good study out there showing that an expert can reliably distinguish between average and expensive wine? It should be quite easy to prove, but all I ever hear about are studies showing the opposite. Because there's a huge financial incentive in making people believe that expensive wine really tastes better, I think it's reasonable to be more skeptical of wine experts than e.g. WW2 experts.
I know from the creator of Dominion Online[0] that he had to upgrade his servers since the start of the Corona crisis. Lots of new users, leading to all sorts of problems. He seems to have things under control now, though.

[0] https://dominion.games/
It is not strictly a Mate feature, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Also, I should have been more specific, I'm not just referring to monitor detection but also combining/switching between them without any issues in various use cases.
Thats what they are doing, and I, the customer, am no longer getting the value I signed up for.

For a "customer obsession strategy," this one should hurt their bottom line, either with cancellation of prime subscriptions or lost sales. I am not saying amazon should be penalized or taken to court. This is just the biggest vulnerability I have seen out of the Amazon machine, and I think its very interesting.
Wait, so the planes were the objects preventing solar power reaching record levels?
My friends and I have been loving TTS. $20 is a pretty good deal for a sandbox where all the heavy lifting has been done already so you can just have a good time.
> HTML5 + CSS3

Nope. I'm going to argue this every time I see it. It only demonstrates basic arithmetic. When an external actor has to come along and take each iteration's output and manually do things with it, you don't have Turing completeness.
Handy for purely/largely blood-borne diseases.

Useless for stuff that lives in the tissues, like SARS-CoV-2. Tough to irradiate the lungs.
I use an online shared spreadsheet (like EtherCalc[0], or Google Sheets) to play my turn-based combat boardgame[1] with friends during the covid19 quarantine lockdown.

I think it's a lot faster and easier than using roll20 or other online boardgaming platforms, requires no signup nor learning any new shortcut.

[0] https://ethercalc.net/
[1] https://www.tomcooks.com/projects/snipr/
How did you make the switch to Systems Programming?
How did you train yourself and what technology stack I (perhaps mistakenly) would think between the front-end, back-end and devops jobs, Systems programmers are a dying breed.
Thanks for the overview. For those like me who mostly visit HN for the comments, a ~concise summary like this is helpful. Upvoted to counteract the (imho aggressive) down.
This is a really helpful tool! When are you planning to release it to macos?
F1 teams making ventilators is probably a pretty bad example. I bet these ventilators are very expensive, hard to maintain and have probably a lot of little problems. I work in medical devices and if there is one thing I have learned it’s that there is a big difference between having something that works somehow and something that’s ready to be produced and maintained in the long run. I agree that big companies tend to stifle innovation but they are also very optimized and there is a lot of invisible work that has to go into achieving that state.

I see the same in software. We sometimes have interns whip up some system that on the surface looks good and innovative and makes the old timers look bad and unimaginative. But once you try to deploy them they usually fall apart because they ignored some inconvenient real world details.
What problems did you have with concurrent writes? I just lock stuff and people have to wait. (i literally lock the page if there's someone else there)
Ryzen 3 3100 and Ryzen 3 3300X Have Different CCX Configurations
That's what I'm saying. These graphs are too broad for a country because the numbers change a lot between cities. I'm expecting that some cities even report less deaths because of the lockdown (less risky activities, less traffic accidents, less labour accidents,...). So even if the numbers look similar to the ones of previous years, it is not distributed as other years.