skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Some common ones seemed to be they follow a bot, they have inflammatory bio, banner, or profile pictures. Many tweet really polarizing things.

Perhaps many are real people who get banned often and create new accounts, hence the recent account created dates and inflammatory bio, banner, etc. I often hear about bots and their influence on the internet, but I don't seem to see them that often. Granted, I try not to spend a lot of time on social media, nor do I actively search for them. I suppose I have never seen a clear definition of what makes a bot a bot.
I'm a FANG software engineer from a top 3 CS school with experience in low-level networking. I am currently starting the process of interviewing with HFT firms.

Would you be willing to share the name of your firm, and more generally your experiences, here or in a unicast channel?
Linux has a "fix the source and recompile" mentality to backwards compatibility.
I searched for "java.lang.String", the first result is from javadocs for java 7, then java 8, then java 9. Anything more recent is nowhere to be seen. This is even worse than google, where java 11 is the third result. I really like the idea, but I would expect the first result to be from up-to-date documentation, not from a version of java that was released almost a decade ago.
Thirty years later, I still miss the Turbo Pascal / Borland Pascal, Borland C(++) experience. Few, if any, 'modern' IDEs have yet reached the simplicity and ease of that development environment.
I normally work in the middle of four time zones my team is spread amongst.

Yes, it can be a pain. Sometimes you have a 6am meeting and sometimes an 11pm meeting and sometimes both in the same day. You have to have your shit together enough to deal with day-long lag for non-urgent stuff, and you have to care enough to jump on urgent stuff at all hours.

Even if you might rather have a chummy relationship with your colleagues, you have to be a bit more distanced and professional in order to accommodate the time difference.

But if you have a good team, you also should ask yourself: is the convenience of collocation worth losing the team?

At the risk of veering OT: there’s a pretty good business in arbitrage around these cultural blockers. For instance there are thousands of people working for Indian companies in Central-Eastern Europe because (mostly) German companies are a lot more comfortable if they can meet the dev manager on any given day and fly home for supper.
I encourage you to give generously to your local food bank. You'll be doing the right thing.
Sounds like the writer is scared that their bullshit job is on the line.

People have tried outsourcing programming forever. The last visible result was planes falling out of the sky. These jobs are highly paid not because they are done in the CBD, but because they require traits most people don't have.
There are difficulties in communicating over the phone and video.

I don't know if others agree but during the Pandemic I've felt that the quality of TV news programming has gone down considerably because of the people interviewed or the reporters are behind a zoom etc. connections of questionable quality. It is often hard to understand what they say and it is not so pleasant trying to listen to them over the lo-fi connection.

So I think that until the tech of virtual meetings improves considerably there's an extra cost for not being able to communicate in person.
Because when I say fanny I don't want to hear from HR.
As someone who spends way too much time on Twitter (been using it since 2008), I see these kinds of articles often and have hardly ever encountered these types of bots.

Additionally, I've had my own account locked and shadow/ghost banned on twitter for having the words coronavirus or COVID-19 in tweets. It took weeks of never tweeting those words to undo it.

I've even had my personal and business twitter accounts suspended all at once for "Violating Twitter rules of using multiple accounts for targeted harassment." They restored some of these accounts after filing an appeal and they said "We're sorry, but our systems mistakenly flagged your account." They never restored all of them and the ones restored have been locked permanently again because one account logged into the app used the C words again. One of the suspended accounts never to return was a 10K follower image bot for tech and old school computer images. Another was an account for my main business to announce news and server status updates.

Whether bots are mucking up Twitter or not, Twitter itself is a horrible platform and company. I can't wait for the service to disappear into oblivion.
I suck at these riddles but can you choose what color you want and is a difference in size of the bags evident?

If so I would put all of one color in one bag, all of other color and 2 of the first color in other bag.

Now I have two different size bags one with all one color and one with very little of that color.

If I can pick bag and color I want I pick the small bag and say I want that color.

If I can't pick bag but I can pick color when they choose bag I choose whatever color is most likely to be in bag.

If I have no choice in anything I would always have the 50% chance of whatever color was assigned to me, this makes me assume I have some choice.

on edit: obviously distribution is an example, probably smartest distribution is one in one bag, rest in other bag.

on edit2: realized I described separation of colors poorly.
Please don't be a jerk in HN comments. If you know more than others, it's great to provide correct information, but please don't put other people down.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
credit_guy: you're either a shill, or overly trusting.

There have been several medications in US history that turned out very badly, like thalidomide.

And Emergency Use Authorization implies less testing, not more.

> The only way for it to be wiped out, like the smallpox virus was, is to have a very determined vaccination campaign.

I disagree. Around 5% of the population has had corona and survived. They seem to be doing fine.

Sounds like you're one of those guys who believes everything you read, and thinks hope is a strategy, and a short-term one at that. That's the second epidemic - hope is not a strategy.
“Working under the Health Canada research license, we have developed over 800 new Cannabis sativa lines and extracts and hypothesized that high-CBD C. sativa extracts may be used to modulate ACE2 expression in COVID-19 target tissues. Screening C. sativa extracts using artificial human 3D models of oral, airway, and intestinal tissues, we identified 13 high CBD C. sativa extracts that modulate ACE2 gene expression and ACE2 protein levels.“

Sounds like it hasn’t been tested except in a computer model.
As smt88 said:

> Money isn't the only issue, of course. Language skills, culture, educational background, security clearance, tax laws, infosec, time zones, law enforcement, etc. are all also factors.
It also boils down what should be an accommodation for worksite preference to a sudden demotion to ‘you are no longer worth it on a global scale and that changes everything’.

Companies are what they are, and they will optimize for this. To remain optimistic, we have to continue believing in the startup space to continuously innovate software standards, where users are unwilling to accept substandard software experiences. That will keep this field moving forward versus a wage race to the bottom.

Entrenched corporate companies would love tech to stagnate, that way they won’t ever have to innovate and can cost optimize developers down to the bone.
> There are actually some really obsessive twitter users who will spend 12+ hours a day active. They typically produce a ton of content, and a lot of replies. I notice this on celebrity/political accounts especially. (Apparently people are calling this the 'reply-guy' now)

Lol there are definitely some real people that post as if they would not pass the Turing test! Repetitive replies, etc.
Hmm, I think 50/50 is the worst you could do. What if you put 1 black marble in 1 bag and the other marbles in the other bag. Then even a random choice would get you .5 * 100% + .5 * 4/9 = 72.2%

And also, if you can look at or touch the bag before picking it, then just pick the one the looks like it has only 1 vs. 9 marbles!
There's a medium option: have an alert popup saying

Convert the image to a format the site accepts (jpg)?

[ ] Don't show this message again

[OK] [Cancel]
> Why would a company limit it self to the U.S

So this is essentially protectionism. I mean if engineers outside the US are just as talented and productive, why should a company only use US engineers, especially if their marketplace is global.
Sure. In the thread I elaborate that they typically have already cranked out thousands of tweets. Some seem more innocuous. Some seem to have already gained 50 followers in a month or two. That’s possible, but hard without a viral tweet. Some might be real users.
The assumption that windows package manager does not permit opting out of telemetry seems to be wrong.

The whole issue is not stating how to opt out and someone assumed that it means it is not possible. However, based on the updated readme https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#datatelemetry there was a way to opt-out from the beggining, just not documented.

Yes, it should have been clarified from the start, but I think it's positive the option was always there and they managed to clarify how to opt-out in mere 7 hours.
Why would you just go out and tell lies like this?
They have some really creepy dns hacks when you access your webpage.

you will access <personally>.<identifiable>.<stuff>.pixel.archive.md

(also mail.ru)
If you want to be more intentional about how you use your time online, I launched Intention on HN a little while ago:

https://getintention.com

Spent a lot of time getting privacy right: It only asks you for the sites you select (not all sites like most other extensions).

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22936742
Yup, classes are the way to go.
Come gather 'round people, wherever you roam

And admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you is worth saving

Then you better start swimmin' or you’ll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'
The submitted title ("A job that can be done from home, is a job that can be outsourced") broke the site guidelines by editorializing. Accounts that do that eventually lose submission privileges, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and please don't do that.
If you follow my suggestion, you'll know the answer.

If you don't like surfers, think video gamers, artists, chillin' with the boys (as another poster mentioned), hanging out at the mall, going fishing, hanging out in front of the drugstore, watching TV, etc.

Now, I might make an exception if they were into drag racing :-)
Yes, that's... what I said. But xf86-input-evdev also handles touchpads. xf86-input-synaptics, the other driver mentioned by TFA that is either unmaintained, or done, depending on your point of view, is definitely for touchpads. They're certainly not "done" when it comes to touchpads.
Cats are also very aware of changes on their habitat and are kept in way too small space to express natural behaviour. Most house cats are extremely stressed. You can see this if you even move one bigger object in the house and watch how the cat gets anxious. The behaviour is much more complex than the human emotions we project to cats. They are different, we don't know how they feel. But most cats are not "happy", we just fail to see it and laugh when they run around and do stupid things out of boredom and stress.
Edit: Also Stockholm syndrome... And would cats hang around humans if living in their natural habitat and not receiving food from humans? I don't know.. But the spectrum of "do they care about humans or not" is much wider than just that question.
You can’t do that though. There are only 5 marbles of each colour so there’s no way to split them so that both bags have the same distribution. Thus your closest to 50/50 would be 2 black and 2 white in one bag, 3 black and 3 white in the other, giving you a 0.5 probability of guessing correctly.

You’re better off putting one black marble into one bag and all of the rest of the marbles into the other. That way if you pick the bag with just one marble you win by default and if you pick the other bag you have a 4/9 probability of getting a black one. This gives you a total probability of 13/18 = 0.72.
Were you around for what came after him?
Do you mean what's the purpose of banning, or the purpose of posting that we did it?
That quote is misattributed and I also think it is not something Dijkstra would have said. Quite the opposite actually. However, I think this quote from him is much more beautiful:

In their capacity as a tool, computers will be but a ripple on the surface of our culture. In their capacity as intellectual challenge, they are without precedent in the cultural history of mankind.

(Turing award lecture, 1972)
> Are you stating that cost of living impacts your skill level?

Not at all. If all things are equal except the cost of living difference then a company can get X units of value at a discount by hiring the person with the lower cost of living at a lower salary. The discount is equal to the cost-of-living difference.

Of course in the real world things are rarely "equal" except for cost-of-living and so the effect is only going to be seen in the aggregate.
https://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/helping-you-to-decide/about...

"Anyone can register a decision to become an organ donor after death, there is no age limit."
Thanks. At least we know it should be coming in PG 14. Hopefully Zheap too.
Who Is Germany's Self-Proclaimed King
I don't know enough about this to say for sure, but ACE2 receptors are at the molecular scale, and them saying "3D models of oral, airway, and intestinal tissues" seems to suggest if this is a computer simulation, then the simulation scale is large. I don't think they can capture molecular dynamics as well as large scale effects at the same time.

edit: yeah. if you read the paper, they got some human models (real clumps of cells) from some biotech company and ran tests on it.
Wow that’s a lot of money, where I’m from I see the cost for full time nanny at like $450 per _month_ (plus meals).
My issue is that you can’t disable the default tab bar, so you end up wasting a lot of space by rendering each tab twice. It also makes the habit (of using the default horizontal tabs) a tough one to break.
I'm a little shocked to hear this, but I've had a similar fish story with Microsoft!

I interned at Microsoft my junior year of college. Toward the end, I interviewed with Google and got a competing offer.

But during the negotiation process, the recruiters had Chris Jones (Windows Live VP at the time) call me to try talking me into joining Microsoft. He told me his story about how at the start of his career, when he was comparing offers from a few companies, Microsoft (relatively unknown at the time) sent him a salmon from Pike Place Market --- and that gesture convinced him to accept Microsoft's offer.

Two days later, a package of smoked salmon on ice from Pike Place Market showed up at my door in Tucson, AZ.

(I went to Google for non-salmon-related reasons, but sending me food
mostly became a reminder that Google was offering free food as a perk!)
Like I said, I've tried a lot of them. They're all good apps, but none seemed to fit the way I like to plan and track what's going on.
Depends what you mean by slow. Go is garbage-collected, Swift is reference-counted. Each has advantages and disadvantages. But also, that doesn't apply to stack-allocated values. It's not as simple as one being faster than the other.
From what I've heard, MS stopped doing puzzle interviews a couple decades ago.

But stack-ranking ...
I've always been pretty nomadic, and one trick I was taught long ago when you need cash in a hurry is to go stand outside a self-storage facility and look for people that need help moving. I was able to make $50-$150 a day when times were tight.

I bring this up because people actually do call day labor companies for this all the time.
I suppose the "too low" bit is obvious.

If UBI becomes too high, people will stop working, inflation will rise, and there won't be a safety net of subsidies and welfare left to help. So if e.g. the price of housing rises, the UBI will be eaten up more and more by rent and mortgage, and people with only UBI will be as poor as before, and people will be forced into very low paying jobs.

Furthermore, I've never seen a convincing source of funding for UBI; at the first sight of an economic crisis, UBI will be lowered. At that point, there's no way to revert the UBI, leading to a new poverty trap.

And reality is going to be wilder than my imagination.

If the problem you're fighting is poverty, then provide welfare for poor people, stimulate work for them, make schools accessible (in backwards countries where that isn't the case), etc., but don't try to restructure society. That's just ego.
Yeah, I use Datagrip, which lets you easily copy a query's results to TSV data in the clipboard, so you can't quickly paste into Google Sheets.
uMatrix can protect against this if you block third party everything by default (which I do).
What do you actually mean by 'we cannot generate a burst pulse with our current technology'? What is the obstacle?
> One is MauiKit stylized MAUi and another is .NET MAUI. The acronyms for both are generic enough that this complaint feels like a reach.

Yea, like the Microsoft Palm PC isn't a rip-off of the Palm Pilot :]

https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-78/microsoft-introduces-p...
If anyone has the time and git skills to post the detailed git commands necessary for this type of workflow I (and I think others) would appreciate it!
Here[^1] is a video of Instagram's Kevin Systrom explaining the transition after Facebook acquired Instagram. The whole interview is good, and the segment would better be taken in context. All the best.

[^1]: https://youtu.be/Fgn2fhZBAVA?t=3365
> humanly impossible at the moment to fit it into the button of a baseball cap
It’s actually pretty close, considering the size of this LiDAR module:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=93&v=xz6CExnGw9w
@ccmcarey: “Chrome accounts for ~70% of browser use”

That would be Microsoft Chrome :]
This will be fun to play with. It would be cool if there was duck duck go bang code for it.
You'll probably like the tools from the U of Indiana's social media labs: http://osome.iuni.iu.edu/tools/
Jane street is a very successful company that uses Ocaml for everything. Any other companies like that?
White Man in NorthAm came into post-apocalypse caused by sickness, brought on by earlier White Man in SouthAM and LatAM, spreading northwards. And maybe, just maybe a lil' bit of climate change.
wouldn't putting one black marble in one bag and all the others into the second bag give you the highest chance of being able to draw a black marble? .5 * 1 + .5 * 4/9 = .72
same. still getting the free licenses and not installing the client. their model can't be sustained forever, and we can all help with that.
that sounds reasonable (and a unixy solution - combine good individual tools into a better whole)
Very nice commented code, it really looks like the best practices of some Assembly books back then.

Also love the remark about high level languages and the choice to go with Assembly, no kids, C wasn't always as fast as you have been sold on, specially on home computers.
Analogy:

I heard meditation is good, I wish I had some time though.
Yesterday I got blocked in an elevator for 6 hours, so I got plenty of time.
I tried to used this opportunity and tried meditate though.
Didn't work
Plummeting? Sure, deaths are down, but at a quick glance it looks like ~1000 people are still dying a day. There is a lag in deaths from people socializing, and a lag in people socializing from states opening up.

Unfortunately, I'm almost certain things will get dramatically worse in the next 2 weeks. Come laugh at me in 14 days if I'm wrong :)
See also from 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8082728
Macrogen’s AxenTM Covid-19 RT Test Kit Gets Export Approval
I agree that there is a blurry line between corporate censorship and corporate choice. One way to draw a distinction is if the the corporation is typically in the business of publishing opinions, and intentionally suppressing of a specific idea to meet a goal or objective.

>If your minority opinion on Covid is welcome on Platform A, but banned from much larger Platform B, both of them being private entities, does this count?

Censorship does not have to be universal. For example, some speech is banned in churches but permissible in public.

>f it counts, how is that different from the New York Times refusing to publish my dissenting opinion on the local galleries, which I am free to publish on my universally accessible blog?

In your example. if the New York Times normally allowed the public to post gallery reviews, but refused yours specifically because it fell into a category they want to suppressed, this would be considered censorship.

>If it’s just that “not publishing what I want them to publish” counts as censorship then (as per my first, unloved comment) I think it’s a perversion of the term. Many places have real censorship, as in “publish this idea and you go to jail.”

I agree that many places enforce censorship with severe punishments, but punishment is not central to the idea of censorship. For example, an effort could be made to destroy all evidence of Oscar Wilde's Homosexuality. This would certainly be an act of censorship, even if Wilde is not harmed, or even if those who resist are not punished.

>If I’ve got it wrong, please, enlighten me.

Wikipedia has a decent summary of different types of censorship if you scroll past the political section [1]. Some examples of corporate, religious, and self censorship. This utilization of the word is not new and consistent with what I have said.

I think that the idea that censorship can only be imposed by a state under threat of punishment is an inaccurate and restrive view. That said, if you feel strongly that this is the wrong definition, you can just substitute the word censor with suppress when whenever you read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
I think you mean EOTF (electro-optical transfer function)? Or am I just unfamiliar with EOTS?
Unfortunately, I was only an intern then new-grad during those early aughts of Forstall's reign. He was quite a brilliant man, very quick-witted and always one step ahead of you. Steve Jobs entrusted all of Apple's coolest projects with him for that reason. So all the biggest demos you saw on stage were under Forstall's leadership at one point or another.

However, if you wanted to work on those cool projects, it meant you had to work with Forstall and he was intimidating to say the least. A mini-SJ people internally would call him. Any feature you were working on that needed SJ approval went through Forstall's monocle eye first.

On the one hand, he was one of the few leads that would remember my name and say hi to me when passing in the hall. On the other, I was scared to look him in the eye lol. I do think he held his reports to unreasonably high bars by expecting long hours of work and he seemed to find joy in seeing people squirm. It was weird.