skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience while interviewing with MS is somewhat similar with respect to not hearing back after each stage. The initial phone interview was quick with what seemed like a lower level HR person who asked basic questions from a list with many mispronunciations of MS SQL technologies. I didn't hear anything for three weeks so I called them and they said, "Oh yeah. We want to schedule another phoner with the product team". A few days later I interviewed with for about an hour with two engineers and it was more inline with what I had expected. This time I sent an email the next day thanking them hoping that would at least keep me in the back of their minds. Same thing. About three weeks later I called to find out my status. "Oh yeah. We would like to fly you to Virginia for an in person interview this week". They set up my flight and hotel and I went through three interviews with different groups and left thinking, "Well that was horrible and embarrassing. They are way above anyone I had ever worked with". Same thing. Sent an email thanking them along with my expenses. About six weeks later I needed to know my status since funds were getting low. I called them up and was told I wasn't ready to work for them. But I should add them on LinkedIn to keep in touch. My self esteem was pretty shot, but I ended up with a pretty sweet job that week. I still get emails from them every once in a while when a position opens up, but three years later I still get a little anxious when those emails hit.

So yeah, their post interview stage communication seems to be the weakest part of a process I am sure I was one of hundreds going through at that time.
As an American I completely agree with you.

The fact of the matter is that the federal government does not have a huge bearing on most Americans lives. I live in Colorado and therefore get to enjoy marijuana whenever I want despite the fact that it's not legal at the federal level. I like it that way.

Yet when we talk about this virus that is making everybody so miserable via lockdowns and for some killing them, suddenly everyone talks about it at a federal national level.

As if the United States is a small homogeneous country.

The virus hit New York City hard and nowhere else in the country. if you remove New York City from the equation the United States is at the top as far as low numbers of deaths per 100,000.

if you include New York City the United States is still doing better than the United kingdom Spain, Italy, and Belgium etc.

However the news media in this country is in the mode of if it bleeds it leads. they like to scare people to get them to keep their eyeballs glued to their screens and their prescription drug advertisements.

The most recent thing that they've been doing is focusing on absolute numbers rather than relative numbers with the deaths. Same for positive tests. The number of tests being administered has gone up radically and therefore more positive cases are turning up. The media in this country has conveniently left out the fact that the positive test rate is the number that matters and that has gone down all over the country.

I really really dislike Donald Trump like most of the people on this website. However I'm old enough to remember when a previous Republican president started a needless war that cost thousands of American soldiers their lives as well as trillions of dollars and I'm not even counting the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis that were killed. The current president is incompetent and just says dumb s* all the time. That's honestly the extent of it and I have to constantly hear the whining and complaining as if the world is coming to an end. It's frankly very irritating and the media doesn't help.
So... don't do any fact-checking because the people you're fact-checking might go to a platform where there's no fact checking? I hope you recognize how absurd that idea is.
This is great, I am definitely considering using this for some of my side projects so I don't spend hours with JS just to display some JSON output as HTML.
thanks for linking my stuff!
Back in high school, in 1989, we got a tour of a GE light bulb factory (closed now since 2010 when they outsourced to China). It was interesting as the machinery looked to be early 20th century, but retrofitted as needed with modern PLC. They had 18 parallel lines cranking out bulbs. The automated warehouse was neat. Robotic pallet fetchers controlled by a VAX.
Why? To drive up the COL for students more?
I'm always welcome to new input, but the two cases I cited have compelling facts behind them.

Being that I'm not thrilled to carry these notions, I'd be more than happy to have my mind "changed".

Go for it: change my mind. I'm not spoiling for a fight -- I genuinely don't like being "wrong."
Most CIOs now expect a U-shaped recovery from Covid-19 pandemic
Yes, please, let's definitely see fact checking on all those things. I hope that's Twitter's longer-term plan. But I think starting with politicians, especially POTUS, is a pretty good place to start.
Destroyed is too strong; it would basically terminate all social media sites, news aggregators, comment sections, forums.. everything since precisely nobody is going to sign up for the legal liability. (Except, maybe, for megacorps like Facebook, with a net gain of nothing)

I would like to see it greatly narrowed.

Even if we ignore this particular instance as a special case where the act was justified, large companies having unfettered control over most political discourse in the country, and wielding that power in an arbitrary, unaccountable way is still a problem.
this functionality has already been available as part of github pages. Not really sure what you are adding here.
For those unaware of what Slydial is, it is an app that sends calls directly to a person's voicemail.
None of the features of CLIs that you described qualify as discoverability IMO. Tab completion, etc. only work if you know the name of the command that you need, and few to no CLI utilities or commands are named well.

Say you need to remove duplicates from a list, for example. If you happen to know that the utility to do that is called `uniq` then it's useful that you can use `man uniq` to see the available options, but if you don't already know the name of the utility you're looking for, you're stuck Googling for it. (The name `uniq` isn't obvious but at least it's intuitive. For the many commands that are neither obvious nor intuitive, good luck.)

Compare that to, say, Excel, where if you press Alt,A to bring up the Data tab there's a nice, big button labeled Remove Duplicates, with an M on it to indicate that the full keystroke sequence for that command is Alt,A,M (fewer keystrokes than ` | uniq` even with tab completion, for what that's worth). So in addition to accessibility, there's also discoverability.
You are making two different points here. Natural selection is guidance, but guidance without any will or preconceived notion of good and bad. In this super simple simulated experience, you provide the guidance and depending on your guidance, you can get what fits your world. The second point is around form following function and you are inverting cause and effect. So, under natural selection, certain functions are selected for, and as form follows functions, those forms procreate and proliferate. In this simple simulated world, you choose directly for form (there is no function to choose for) and forms that are pleasing to you will procreate and proliferate. If you like whorls and I like straight lines, our created worlds will be populated by different creatures. Finally, guidance does not mean direction. A boolean guidance (live or die) does not provide direction.
> Mueller went out of his way to say that his investigation did not exonerate Trump

I think it was inappropriate for him to stress this, and that it undermined his legitimacy and the legitimacy of the investigation. It isn't the job of an investigator to "exonerate" people that havn't been charged or prosecuted for a crime.

As far as I can tell all these comments did was validate his supporters beliefs that the investigation was a politically motivated attack, and simultaneously served as a psychological "out" for his detractors that were convinced he was in cahoots with Putin to undermine the country. Widening the divide between 2 sets of people that really ought to reconcile.

Disclaimer: I am not american, so this is an outsiders perspective.
Despite longstanding illegalities of trying to bully social networks, Trump's executive order to kill Twitter's fact-checking will probably be waged through the FCC.

I suspect he'll grant new draconian powers with NO congressional approval whatsoever. "His" FCC will comply, WTF lawsuits will be filed, Twitter shuts up, and he amps up his mail-in ballot propaganda!
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The GE switches are made by Jasco. I have a few different brands of zwave switches and the GE/jesco ones are my favorite. The newest version is much more compact and they auto sense line and load so they are much easier to fit in the existing boxes.
From the article, it sounds like he did pursue. After some interviews Microsoft dropped contact.
But look at all that shareholder value!
I have an alternative plan. Get a hotel room. You can book it by the day, it is cleaned every day, and most hotels are now offering day-time only packages that people use as offices. As a plus you earn points and you can pick a new location anytime you want. The front desk may also be willing to store flip charts, markers, etc.
Have you found what you want in life?
There are so many things out there. Are there anything in particular (whether it is physical or abstract) that you are willing to spend your life to obtain? Why?

I am in a situation where I want to learn everything I possibly could. But my greed leads me nowhere as I am constantly switching subjects. Sometimes, deciding what to learn kills most of my time.
It's actually pretty hard to run an online platform that sets the bar at "free speech" and not have it kind of suck.

Trolling is free speech, being a jerk is free speech, hate speech is free speech, pornography is free speech. Any forum that sets the bar at "free speech" is going to be filled with the dregs with depressing speed. There's a reason why Gab never really gained serious traction.
Not everyone is able or willing to develop large-scale open-source community/project.. Also, mono is a much large and more significant project that runs on Linux, not a Windows app.
Except that everyone stopped wearing masks about two weeks ago.
Much, much more subtly nasty, it's also legal for NULL to be defined as:

#define NULL ((void*)0)

and then passed to a function that expects variadic int* parameters on a machine where register-sized addresses are word-aligned and thus int* has a different sizeof (and/or bit-level representation) than void*.
Mozilla CEO says layoffs needed amid shift from browser
Until recently wearing masks Was not a CDC guideline
This

Choose your fucks wisely.
The CDC’s Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many Scientists Say
Is any of that necessary? Applying extra scrutiny to the president is not unusual.
I’m a Gatsby fan and have built several sites with it. But I do recognize it’s a dead end at its core. Its main use case is data driven static sites, and it does that case very well. But when it tries to extend beyond that, the results are mixed.

But with that said, I give Gatsby a lot of credit in pushing forward the idea of a cohesive React framework. I just think Next.js, Remix and other newcomers are ultimately going to achieve that way better than Gatsby.
That is really sad to hear. Regardless of the past, archaeological ruins are collective humanities’ shared treasure and must be preserved.

Somewhat OT, I wonder if there’s a way to teach history that wouldn’t make people’s dislike it just because of perceptions like this. The Roman and Ottoman empires don’t exist anymore, what do people get my being angry at states that are gone?
> This is appalling.

Your /s is (hopefully) missing.
This is very unhelpful - I'm not really in a position to code review Microsoft's implementation and compare it to this document. I was hoping for something more like some high level details from the author of AppGet.
No, no. Internal civil strife.
Large corporations often have more to fear from the liability of bad PR than they do from lawsuits. Most CEOs hate bad PR more than paying out a billion dollar fine — the billion dollar fine isn’t their money, and doesn’t cost them any status at the country club.
Can't think of a more wasted effort then trying to compete with maintaining a package manager in your spare time than a clone from the OS vendor who can out resource, outspend, out market, out evangelize, out reach you, etc.

It would a futile endeavour, a realization acknowledged by the author, any further dev cycles on it would be wasted & are better spent elsewhere.
I'm sketchy on details, but in the posting the author mentions that the creator marketplace is opt in, so there's (comparatively) few people on there.
Is appget dead yet? Is the windows solution that much better?
> There have been quite a few larger products, where Microsoft failed spectacularly.

Sure, but not because of failure to reverse engineer someone else's product.
Not all SMB shares. If you use a Mac to host an SMB share, it'll appear on other Macs with a nice Mac icon. ;)

I don't know, I find it funny/charming and I'd be sad if Apple got rid of it. It's something of an easter egg—you can't tell that it's a BSOD unless you open the QuickLook or Get Info window (or set your Sidebar Icon Size to "Large").
Thanks! This is what I need.
Trump to 'sign executive order about social media'
Follow-up: 33.4 was because I'm an idiot. I have a surge suppressor with coax in/out between the wall and my modem (lost a cable modem, router and networked laser printer to lightning a few years ago). Removing it puts me at 103/23.0/4.53. I'm sure I checked after adding the surge suppressor, but not, apparently, in quite a long time.
What about Cloudflare/AWS? Cloudflare notably denied to service some unruly websites, and those websites got DDOSed off the web.
Another oldie but goodie that still seems to be around is the Internet Oracle: https://internetoracle.org/ .
That problem is called TiVoization. It’s addressed with the 3rd version of the GPL. Sadly, Linus is adamantly against that clause.
(A)GPL doesn't protect ideas. Patents do that.
After decades of sanctioning Libya the united states finally got what it wanted by decapitating the state with violence; one wonders (global political dynamics aside) if for the unfortunate citizens of Libya, it would have just have been better to have gotten it over with earlier.
New app for iOS devices – Beacon Buzz
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Beacon Buzz is an app that shares curated commentary and opinion articles that matter to you. The day's most thoughtful perspectives from across the political spectrum are gathered multiple times each day. Stories are picked by professional journalists and are solely picked based on their value to the reader.

Users will be given the opportunity to react to each story to give more context to what it can provide to other readers. Other social networks use the like system. Beacon Buzz allows users to react if they learned something new if they changed their minds as a result of the piece, and more reactions that are being developed to bring more context to the articles that matter to you.

The app will only available for iOS users for the time being. Launch is less than a week away.

If you're interested in receiving more news or want to apply to become a beta tester and give feedback, check out http://beacon-buzz.launchrock.com/.
The IBM mainframe architecture was such that the mainframe didn't deal with individual keypresses at the terminal, instead interactions were bundled at the terminal and sent a record (which could be a whole screen full of XEDIT work) at a time. This meant that normally only IBM terminals could be used, but it was possible to use a dedicated system for managing dumb ASCII terminals to translate to EBCDIC and emulate a lot of the computational power of the 3270 terminals.
I guess I'm a noob but I always stumble when trying to use the chrome dev tool profiling.. I love other aspects of the dev tools but not that
Unpopular opinion, but... set up your own e-mail server. I've been running my own off my home connection for quite a while with basically no spam problems.
In the US, the people doing the background checks are contractors too...
How to Configure Store Pick Up Option on Your ECommerce Website?
Let us suppose a world where there are 17 computer programs we need.

apt-get is one of them.

Great program! It has done the job we've needed for decades!

Millions of people are happy. Is there an ethical reason that should change?
Also with government officials starting to describe every protest as "riots" and "terrorism", it's feared that they are paving the way to grant Chinese authorities power to legally "arrest" anyone anywhere. It's not yet confirmed that the execution will be carried out by Chinese officials, but the law grants them power to do so.

Also search warrants were originally needed for the police force to break into private properties (not that the Hong Kong police respect any of the current laws now though), after passing the law, they are no longer need.

The scariest part, however, is how vague the law is. One can never truly define what is criminalized. For example, what is "foreign interference"? The HK government has been criticizing the protests as being "influenced" by the US. It's their say to impose a crime upon you. Most "criteria" for acting against the "law" are speculations.
And doing this for months. Without noticing.

Honestly this isn’t ultimately engineerings fault. This is a SaaS business Someone in their company is responsible for the COGS KPI. For that person to either not notice an increase in COGS, or to not be aggressively incentivizing engineering to reduce COGS, is giant red flag.
That usually has more to do with the age of the people you work with than the company culture.
Y’all wanted government regulation over tech - here you go. Be careful what you ask for.
I'm in a similar situation, but I think deciding what to learn is extremely important, so it's logical that this takes up most of the time.
Dang, I figured that stuff would have been included in the barcode. There must be some way to track this automatically because I doubt stores are managing their inventory on tracking this manually in 2020.
I'm convinced the sole purpose of some open source projects are to be good enough to prevent other open source projects from filling the void, but bad enough to keep from competing with vested commercial interests.

This might just be one of those cases. Why would Microsoft want to invest in another distribution platform when they already have the Microsoft Store where they can do whatever they want?

Sure, WinGet has an MIT license, but that doesn't mean anything. The only important thing is who gets to commit to the manifest(s) on the master branch. That's Microsoft. They own it. They control it. They curate it. They decide who gets to distribute via it.

I'd bet money they'll tie it in to Azure somehow at some point.
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I would say engineers have a different perspective than upper management.
Shameless plug for those of you who prefer video tutorials to written https://youtu.be/nbwt3A9RzNw It's an intro to Snowpack v1 but it'll still give you a good idea of what Snowpack does and how it differs from Webpack. I would agree that Snowpack isn't quite there for production projects, mostly due to the fact that many projects still don't ship their modiels as ES modules.
What do you mean by SSR with Gatsby? Dynamic rendering at the time of page request, or rendering static HTML at build time? If the former, can you share some links?
That is one of the stupidest graphics I have ever seen in an academic journal article.
Last time I checked, something being open-source doesn't mean corps like MSFT can shit on them.
Right, but we need those lower paid jobs to be done so we either outsource them to countries without UBI or we pay people more to do them, raising the price of goods such that the UBI is no longer sufficient to be basic... Likely a mix of both. Seems to me the inevitable future of UBI is a guaranteed below the wage that's too low to be liveable and an economy with fewer jobs for poor people.

The outsourcing is a big deal for exactly the point you list. In order to get someone with no need for income to survive to work an unpleasant job, you'll need to pay them a pretty good sum because otherwise they'll spend that time investing in themselves (or just not working). Improving labor relations for the poor is a nice idea, but all that newfound employee leverage is worth exactly nothing if the process is moved to another country.
> Boeing, which has been struggling for the past year with the safety of its 737 Max jet, has spent over $43 billion buying back stock over the past decade.

https://www.newsweek.com/boeing-airlines-under-fire-90-billi...

Step 1: Give billions in stock buy backs and ask for billions in tax cuts

Step 2: Demand that taxpayers to bail you out in a recession

Step 3: Repeat
Taking notes helped me to stay attentive during lectures that were not engaging. In several courses my classmates photocopied my notes and used them to study for midterms and finals. I think taking notes during lectures is more efficient than sleeping through lectures and spending many hours studying.
Exactly. This fits right into his playbook of (1) cry loudly about something and say you’re going to take action (2) do nothing while his base gets pumped on how Trump is “hard on Twitter” and not putting up with their obvious bias (3) the next scandal drops in a week, everybody moves on and forgets.
Another similar ruling just a few hours ago rejecting an appeal in a different case.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/499808-appeals-court-r...
Strangely, I see no calls to limit CEO comp and such...
Double standards much?
A pandemic-era LWN update
This isn't really easy to solve. I'm only (a little) familiar with Chapel which I think is the most widely used high level HPC language; how data is distributed needs a lot of thought and is specified by the programmer according to language constructs of "locale" and "distribution".

The other hard problem an HPC language needs to handle is error handling. What happens when a processor goes down, data isn't received in a timely fashion, etc. How a data processing job might get rerouted to a different server and how intermediate data calculations might get checkpointed so the loss of one result doesn't mean redoing the whole computation.
House effort to pass surveillance overhaul collapses
> the first Microsoft Flight Simulator was on the Apple II?

Back then, Flight Simulator was still owned by subLOGIC. Microsoft got a license from them to make the IBM PC version.
> Gatsby still has a pretty good UX compared to Java though.

Lol, talk about damning them with faint praise.
The Demise of Local News Is a Pandemic Emergency
Make your program private, increase your bounties 3-5x, put in a $1k+ first bug report bonus and invite in people who have previously reported good and/or well documented bugs and you'll save time and get a lot more out of it

These free-for-all bug bounty programs are a drain on resources that could be better spent elsewhere

The real value hackerone and similar should be providing is filtering out the time wasting reporters and the vendors who slow roll on reports - but they do neither of those
Twitter deserves credit for creating their platform, absolutely. They created a platform where everyday people can interact with top media and politicians.

Now that it's here, and they're all on it.. "the coffee shop can throw you out" seems a little trite. I don't like Trump either, set him aside, what if we were on the wrong side of Twitter's politics?