skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The days where gov workers traded high private sector income for stability and retirement was finaihed sometime in the late 80s, when offshoring, immigration, and massive amounts of productivity started being squeezed from labor to capital.

I live in DC, and at my age many professionals who don't really have any lucrative skills or degrees are now hitting the 6 figure club in late 30s as GS13s. They'd be making less working at some private company without any pension, longer hours, less vacation, and worse benefits, and no guaranteed promotions.

In this town, a lot of people would be more than happy to get a nice office job working for the Federal Government, but it's not that easy anymore unless you're a certain special minority or other who gets pushed to the head of the line.
Could it be both true that there are indeed companies who are bad at hiring AND that you haven't picked on more subtle hints about what the problems were?
I'm interviewing a lot of people. Our company makes it a fundamental part of interviewing to give honest, action-driven feedback (e.g. we recommend pieces of training, books, even competitors sometimes as we think they'll be a better fit there).
One of our selection criteria is the candidate's reaction to feedback. It seems you disagree rather strongly with some assessments. There might have been other selection criteria. Either they were not transparent enough about them, or you were not listening.
I often read about the divides between Zuckerberg and other decision-makers in the company, but I’m always unsure what the divides revolve around. Could anyone in the know clarify what the stakes are here? What is Zuck’s vision? What are dissenters unhappy with?
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No end-to-end encryption plus forced Google Mail registration preventing anonymity.
Yawn, Google. Yaaawn!
And here I thought this was about software development.
sshfs is the biggest one for me. Allows you to use all your local tools.
QALYs, surely? :)

Dying early would boost DALY count.
> Our public health organizations (and the media) have adopted the following belief: It is worth it to either mislead the public or to outright lie in order to achieve compliance. If it's not clear from the article, I find such a position detestable, not only on ideological grounds but also because functionally it causes people to endanger their health by engaging in superstition.

In Italy it's pretty evident from the communication from the government, the experts (which released a "disaster story" of possible 150,000 ICU cases in a month, a number so high that should have been at least explained) and the media (including tabloids).

Since Germany has started reopening, media here (but, according to what I read - but please correct me if need be - not the case with the major German papers) started saying that "infections are accelerating elsewhere! See? Our model of
lockdown is the only one that works!"

It might be true, but it should be grounded in facts and not in misrepresentation of them.

P.S.: Since you mentioned a critique of the widely-used model for this epidemic, do you have any more links to dig further? I simply do not know enough and I want to inform myself more.
Considering that he alone has the majority of the votes, I don't see how any of these board member departures change anything (nor does the linked text make any attempt at explaining this.)
ever heard of a thing called HIPPA?
> They can do whatever they like and as users we would never know about it.

> If they wanted to do this they would've done it a decade ago and we likely would've found evidence a decade ago.

Aren't these two sentences contradicting each other?

I don't share your faith in Apple's or Google's commitment to privacy. If the source code for these apps is entirely open so independent third parties can audit it, then we can talk. But taking their public statements at face value, given their past track record, seems extremely naive to me.
Make deep learning models fast on embedded hardware
> No one I talked to had gotten much new math done. They were preoccupied with the news, distracted by kids at home, and pulled between online Zoom meetings.

So, it's a time-management issue, nothing to do with math here.
I go for a bundle of these[1] every 2 or 3 days, depending on how often I train and in the days between D-3 (1000 IU), vitamin C+zinc (1000mg for C), magnesium citrate 200mg.

IMPORTANT NOTE: I do train a lot and I'm in the 6-8% body fat range so generally I have higher needs. The ones in the link are bundled up in small bags of 11 pills and the values are for 2 packs of 11 which is a complete overkill if you are not a top tier athlete. 1 pack of 11 every 2 or 3 days is sufficient for regular people.

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Thanks, looks very useful.

Since you seem to be industry practitioners: I moved away from RL 10 yrs back disillusioned with lack of real-world applicability. Has that changed significantly? The only major name I’ve heard of is Vowpal Wabbit. Maybe there are more applications being done in stealth. Any insight? Thanks
I haven't kept up with the Ozone Hole lately, but I believe it's not uniformly distributed so keep that in mind too if it's still a problem. I'm pretty sure it was usually more of a problem in Australia than South America for example.

I couldn't believe it the first time I went to Singapore, in 35C heat all day in the sun at a theme park, and didn't even get a minor blush on my pale skin due to the humidity and latitude. Definitely eye opening coming from NSW, Australia.
Didn't you notice that monitoring all internal traffic is desirable in most companies, and sometimes is a compliance requirement? Didn't you notice that company-wide root certs were being pushed by corporate OS / browser policies for years, if not decades?

I really fail to see a point here. Can you please mention a compelling case?
This is quite an important point, though I would hope that someone who decides to dedicate 10 years or so of their life to the task would read up on the topic. (I mean that non-ironically, I suspect it is often lacking and doesn't happen.)

On the flipside, I have had several real teachers about whom I frequently wondered why they had chosen teaching as a profession. It was like they lacked both the aptitude for it, and had an intense dislike of students. To be fair, most were not like this, and there were a few truly excellent ones. But to make the argument that they are all highly trained, excellent professions is a bit of a stretch.
> Spreading FUD about this contact-tracing initiative will literally result in more deaths.

This comment seems to highlight the OP's main point, namely that the idea of discussion/debate is being removed, replaced with right-think.
What's the code point for uppercase superscript Z?

j/k there isnt one.

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

No doubt those emoji's are more important and historically common than superscript uppercase C F Q S X Y and Z.

https://github.com/jakeogh/unicodehaz
>Preventing aging and death is one of the most noble things we as a species can strive towards, in my opinion. I believe this should be the ultimate goal for all sentient beings, not just humans.

The people I know who value nothing above their own lives have been without exception weak and deplorable. You can try and spin this as "preventing ALL deaths, not just mine" but in my experience it's just self-deception. People who can't psychologically handle their own deaths and subordinate it to other goals or principles are too weak to do so.

I'm not arguing against preventing aging. It might be a wonderful thing. But with few exceptions when talking to people who had been on the brink of death and destruction they all said it was the best part of their lives, some saying they would go back to it in an instant.
The general view of microservices was largely invented out of thin air ;) when you look at Martin Fowler’s wiki or Adrian Cockcroft’s presentations which were the originating popularizers of the term , it was all a reasonable refinement of SOA.

But then you’d get some that would make bizarre claims like a microservices must be under 100 lines of code. :shrug:
Thanks. That was helpful.

So then, it does seem that if we successfully contained the virus, and then avoided infection spread until a hypothetical future vaccine is developed, that we could avoid the number of infections required by some amount.

Just to tie it back to the broader lockdown vs not lockdown debate, we could probably say that a successful full containment strategy+vaccination could decrease the net area under the curve. As far as policy is concerned I still think the costs of locking down for that long (particularly given that the time is unbounded) is not worth it, but that is a very valid point that I will need to circle back and weave into the document.
>That's how we end up with nothing but layers upon layers of focus tested marketing speak and people afraid to challenge orthodoxy.

A billionaire with a massive social media presence publicly mocking some random guy in Thailand: speaking truth to power.

A billionaire lying about his company going private: speaking the truth that others dare not.
> Didn't you notice that monitoring all internal traffic is desirable in most companies

No I did not. Sorry. Just because it's popular does not mean it should be implemented.

Also isn't HTTP content makes the whole monitoring crap easier? Sigh.

There are many BYOD companies, it's uncivil to monitor other people system wide.

Lastly, encrypt with TLS then MITM decrypt is not carbon friendly. It's such a retarded waste of energy. Might just allow a directive in CSP to force downgrade everything to http. Problem solved.
Don't we need to warm up before doing any max intensity exercise to prevent injury.
The article you linked to shows that the positive rate mostly hovers in single digits.
I recall some ads from the 1980s saying "No coding required - just use our scripting language!" It must have been a successful pitch, as the ads lasted for years.
Show HN: Hex Edit Pcaps in Vim
This is one of my first ever Vim plugins, so go easy!

The general gist is you can open a pcap and use vim as a hex editor.

Much of the background hackery is powered by the Python module Scapy, so I intend to extend the functionality around that too.

Hope someone finds it useful; let me know what y'all think!
There's a large gap between "let run out of control" and "stay locked indoors when the disease has been controlled." A gradual reopening starting now can find the place on the spectrum that works.
> It is opt-in

It won't really be opt-in, and we all know that. Yeah, most probably the Government won't come knocking at your door forcing you to enable the app but what will most probably happen is that the person choosing not (or simply not able) to install the app will find out that they suddenly can't enter certain stores (which will probably have signs like "you're not allowed to shop here if you don't have the tracking app enabled"), or ride public transport, or just be allowed in at their places of work.
Animals as Leaders and Chimp Spanner make this list for me as well. I got a chance to see Intervals live and they're the most impressive guitarists I've ever seen. SO dialed. A lot of these bands (polyphia especially) don't really gig like the album, but Intervals is every bit that good in person.
It's perfectly okay to advocate for killing old people on HN as long as you do it politely. But sarcasm is verboten.
Making ? Surely you meant raising.
Thanks, that does make intuitive sense. I wonder for a virus like SARS-CoV-2 that has a high R_0 and thus requires maybe 80% of the population to be immune for full herd immunity, if that means that the overshoot would be pretty mild?
50/50

If it feels strange. Hire that guy, pay his salary and split 100/0.
> Pixelmator looked like it would one day be a real Photoshop competitor

I am, at best, a journeyman in the ways of graphic editing and someone who bought Pixelmator the instant it arrived but this isn't right - it might have become a real Photoshop competitor for people who needed basic graphic editing facilities once or twice a month, yes. Same with Affinity Photo. Without a laser focus on quality-of-life tweaks and jank removal (haven't seen it in either yet!), they're both doomed to GIMP-level "coulda beena contender!" existence.
I went thru the 10 questions and it didn't really come across as a "test of toughness" - the questions were variations of "how well do you cope with stress". Also why would I want mental skills like Michael Jackson?
It is a different product. But I am not so sure about the codecs ;)
This is the silliest defense I've read.

Stop making excuses for him and treating him like a child.
So basically the "no-code" founders that are making money are the ones building "no-code" tools for people who can't code and those teaching people to start "no-code business."

I can't imagine you can build or even conceive a complex app without understanding the technicalities of how it all works. It seems to me majority of the no code tools are used for content websites with payments.
Tyler Cowan and Glen Weyl on an ambitious plan to reopen America
A fascinating discussion on "How we reopen". Learn more here https://ethics.harvard.edu/covid-roadmap

(Made my morning to see both these names pop up in the same notification when I woke up )
I used an IKEA picture frame for this purpose. It was relatively easy to fit one of the larger Waveshare screens inside, I only needed to cut a hole into the cardboard on the backside for the wires.
A Pi Zero fits pretty nicely behind the cardboard piece that holds the screen in place, as the frame is rather thick.

If you only glance at it, it looks like I framed a paper printout of my agenda.
The Safety Boat: Kubernetes and Rust
Finding freelance clients during Covid-19
I have seen maybe once or twice in a decade a driver running a red light. I see about 1 in 10 cyclists running a red light. The proportions aren't even close.
Note: that's in an economics journal, "The Quarterly Journal of Economics". Not sure what, if anything, that has to do with math.
It’s funny to think about the differences in technical ability here. I build stuff for people to edit that our team often ends up editing for them. It’s not a complex CMS. People just get nervous and/or are lazy. Just existing in the digital age is a struggle or an annoyance for them, let alone this.

Occasionally I run into someone in Marketing/Sales who is in love with the idea of Zapier. It’s always Maslow’s hammer run amok.

My guess is this no-code thing is just taking advantage of the increasingly large, seemingly untapped demographic you mentioned here. They just don’t realize the actual cost they’re committing themselves to.
A broken AAAA record, perhaps. Sometimes the AAAA is invalid or broken without getting noticed by the sysadmin. I've personally reported broken AAAA records before.
This is a classical joke among new students to Mathematics to break the habit of the English language description being translated to the Mathematical problem statement.

It goes in a question and answer format something like: "You knew a girl in high-school. In situation A, you find out years later that she is a stage actor and a dancer. In situation B, you find out years later that she is a stage actor. Compare how likely the second one is to the first one" In plain English there's an implied meaning of "she is a stage actor and not a dancer" in situation B. But that is not the statement. Situation B is as likely or more than Situation A but not if you use the English language description which suddenly is under-specified without real-world information.

Obviously you pick the things to play to the priors of the person you're asking so that if they think actors frequently dance you put that in there. That leads them down the false rabbit hole of whether it's "stage actor and dancer" vs. "stage actor and not dancer" that you're comparing.
Disclaimer: I don't believe long term issues may not arise. I simply don't know.

That said, most evidence I've read is fairly anecdotal, or made up mainly by case reports. Has anyone compiled so far (this is a honest question, I don't know) the incidence (this is what matters) of different issues post-recovery?
A couple? One for adding (or automatically always), Two when joining, One when you have hardware in physical meeting rooms. It is perfect.
OK, so what's a "4-s sprint"?

I presume that this employs a stationary bicycle. But against what resistance? Also, four seconds hardly seems enough to even reach maximum exertion.
Especially since back in the day they made those messes in PHP.
A sad irony is that between all of the smart people viewing HN, we could build practically anything we want... So, why not build instead of complain? People forget that these gigantic corps also have weaknesses.
Some of your complaints lack credibility.

For starters, I find it odd that you claim that the recruiter gave you feedback, and on the technical skills of all things. If you reached the last round of interviews of a FAANG, that round does not focus on technical aspects and it's more focused on soft skills and personality traits that emerge during the interview. In fact, I know for a fact that they don't look at the solution at all, and look at the process that the candidate follows such as how he takes suggestions and how he attacks problems or how he adapts to changing requirements. Sure, there are technical questions, but they barely fill 30% of the interview time, and even then their main goal is to gather info on the candidate's personality traits.

With that in mind, it's easy to believe you bombed your interview if you are the type of person who opens a discussion on a public forum attacking your interviewer with accusations of being too incompetent to evaluate you and too immature and having no clue about how great you are and how awesome you did. Just from this post alone I was readily convinced I would hate to work with someone like you, and apparently so did your interviewers.

If you ask me, they've clearly dodged a bullet.
Sounds like over stimulation too. If you’re constantly stimulated by high dopamine, low effort activities (eg social media) then your base level of dopamine is so high that mundane or high effort activities don’t provide enough dopamine to seem worthwhile to your body. Then motivation and concentration on these activities becomes very very hard.
I and most of my siblings try to get it every year.

It's recommended for anyone with frequent contact with children.
Vilnius is one of the most beautiful capital cities I've had the pleasure of travelling to, and the one that can really pull this off. Low density of population, huge parks and open spaces. It's beautiful.
I feel like a bad user because I could not figure out how to use this. The demo looked nice, but I could not figure out how to create my own animation from the provided svgs
Because the paid G Suite behaves different than the free Meet they announce now. Makes sense, because external dial (via phone) costs them money.
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I've used it and never noticed bad call quality and it performed pretty much very similar to Zoom. Not needing an installed app is a huge bonus.
Jumping cold out of your couch/chair and sprinting 5 seconds every hour, multiple times a day, sounds to me like an optimized 'quickly destroy most of your body joints' routine.
I disagree with both of the conclusion in this article.

1. Contact tracing is just a necessary evil, and I for one am fairly happy with the way Big Tech has handled this. Many nations in the EU preferred a centralized approach so they could follow the epidemiological development of covid-19. It was Apple & Google who in the end decided that "nope, not doing that", thus dictating a more privacy-preserving way of doing this. Likely because it's in their interest to have this app/data-collection being as privacy-preserving as possible, to avoid the type of FUD that this article is trying to disseminate. If you accept that contact tracing is necessary, then what we are currently seeing is actually the best possible scenario for preserving everyone's privacy and the web's openness. I'm all ears for better approaches. What would YOU have the smartphone producer's do?

2. This brings me to the next point: censorship. It's tricky. Not just in this instance, but in general in the current development. Personally, I'm seeing more and more that an entirely "open web" doesn't seem to work out so well due to all the misinformation we're disseminating, and something's got to give. The example the article is citing is a very good one, I think the conclusion that are drawn in the article are wrong:

> They were sharing their observations, and opinions. Right or wrong, is not the point.

In my opinion, this is EXACTLY the point! A medical doctor who uses his authority to spread what he thinks is the right message, but goes against what most informed scientists consider correct, is EXACTLY spreading misinformation. The same way we're seeing this with anti-vax, homeopathy, chem-trails or whatever other nonsense: Yes, science is a discourse, but the right way of discussing is within the scientific community. So you don't call a press conference to spread your observations -- especially if the implications of you being wrong are so dire. You write a paper (NEJM is publishing a lot of discussion-pieces these days, why not send it there, to reach the medical audience?) or maybe as a first step you call your friendly epidemiologists and talk it over with them. Given the circumstances, removing this video was absolutely the right call.

With that said, I agree that this is a much, much, much larger problem. Given how important Youtube, Facebook and Twitter are in disseminating information, it is concerning that they can pick what they want to publicize/suppress (often w/o chance of recourse to the censored). To me, this is one of the biggest issues we have in our current times. I hope we'll be able to find good solutions. But given the current situation we're in (not just Covid19, also populism and targeted misinformation), censoring might be a necessary first step to fight our way out.
The reason for rejection, for better or worse, is that this is a functional element, like a button, rather than part of running text.
Or burpees.
> If the authors had given a table for the US, we could see what their model predicted, but they did not, and _you_ assuming that the US is a linear relation to GB may or may not be accurate.

The Imperial College team actually did model country-by-country numbers in a follow up report on March 24th:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

The United States estimates for several different scenarios are:

Unmitigated: 2,654,410 deaths

Mitigation strategy (social distancing whole population): 1,358,164 deaths

Mitigation strategy (enhanced social distancing of elderly): 1,090,267 deaths

Suppression strategy (triggered at 1.6 deaths per 100,000): 474,227 deaths

Suppression strategy (triggered at 0.2 deaths per 100,000): 84,124 deaths

The differences between mitigation and suppression are explained in the paper.
Doh! Thanks for catching that. That is a really glaring mistake on my part.

(The irony in me having said it was "exactly" what Wikipedia says is not lost on me :P)

https://gitlab.com/ryankemper/writings/-/commit/093ade629447...