skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a hypothesis: that professor would have abused you as a working slave. And he knew that no person in his right mind with significant work experience and “above minimum pay” could be Ok with it.

I suspect it had nothing to do with your qualifications - rather he probably wanted to avoid saying “sorry, but I wont be able to abuse you enough”.

At no institution in Germany have I head of “if you don’t publish in a year, you are out”. Usually you work 2 years as a slave with no context what your research is and after the first couple of years, you are allowed “to think loudly about a topic”.

This encounter is not “normal”... Keep looking. And yes: Academia knows that industry works on hard shit. And they often don’t want “outsiders to take a look under the rug”... They create a fake world to justify themselves more often than not...
this is on the front page already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23459963
I didn't take that literally - rather that at a startup, most of what you do has an immediate and obvious impact on the company.
Depends on who you want to be anonymous from right?

Would personal VPN's be a wrong tool to use even if the goal was to be anonymous only from ad-tech companies ?
Some counter experiences, just based on my own annecdata.

> * You, the individual, are not important. The product is important, the department that delivers the product is less important, the teams that comprise the department are less important than that, and so on. Again, accept the reality and just relax.

Working at startups I have never felt less important as an individual. The product is #1 and I only exist as a cog in the machine to produce that product and make the founders money. In a big company I was encouraged to pursue professional development, my professional goals and dreams were catered for and I felt like I could make personal progression.

> * Expect insufficient test automation, lots of regression, and plenty of repetition. Also expect everybody to be an expert that is in a hurry and things in a unique way. Just be patient, politely nod, and just relax.

Again, opposite experience, startups don't have time for test automation whereas big companies generally do.

> * If you don’t like being bored and are highly risk adverse you might find the big company life highly depressing.

I'm often bored at my startup though never lacking for work. It's just that the work can often be monotonous work because the startup doesn't have time to automate it or hire someone to do it. At a startup, its rare that you're encouraged to explore something new that might not work out. There's just not the time or budget.
I personally think that one should always look behind from where they are coming and focus on tomorrow. This will help them achieve their goals, both short terms, and long terms.
No, I remember talking to people in defense research around that time period working on facial recognition.

Please take the "sophisticated" and "state-of-the-art" phrases as marketing.
> in terms of excess deaths all Nordic countries look identical Finland, notably, doesn't even count covid deaths outside hospitals according to the THL, so comparing Swedish and Finnish covid stats is a bit silly

Where did you get those numbers from? EUROMOMO doesn't include data from Iceland, but for the rest it's obvious that Sweden is an outlier in regards to the overall mortality rate:
https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country

Denmark, Finland and Norway are below the normal mortality rates for 65+ since the lockdowns began. Sweden is clearly above. I assume there's not another epidemic over there that we've missed?

Again, I'm not saying the Swedish strategy is wrong, I'm just saying that the failure to protect the elderly has invalidated Sweden as a data point.

There has definitely been a bunch of deaths related to COVID-19 in Finnish retirement homes, but in terms of overall mortality rates for people 65+ it's quite obvious that it's not a big problem. Actual COVID-19 diagnoses are still reported by THL, including everyone who gets diagnosed by the public health system in Finland. Finland has unrelated, considerable, issues with care for the elderly, but that's a completely different topic. :)

> Let's not forget that lockdowns were a knee-jerk reaction enacted by scared politicians, not a carefully considered and data-backed policy.

Definitely. Lock-downs are last-resort measures taken when you've already failed to do what you should have done in the first place; extensive testing of travellers and contact tracing/quarantine of people who are sick. The other Nordic countries failed miserably in that regard.
Flu season is about 2-3 months usually and kills, depending on severity, 1-2 million people each year.
> similarly brilliant developers at all age levels.

Being a brilliant developer has absolutely nothing to do with being a brilliant or even effective interviewer.
> When Oracle hired a good chunk of experienced AWS engineers to build their new cloud platform, they retained lawyers for each candidate to smooth the transition.

When somebody else pays for your lawyer she's not your lawyer.
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Does it seem like those names would not support a trademark suit? Would you have to use the word "Hole" in order to attract users?
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It's larping.
Hmmm, no i was responding to the actual content of the article which is pointing out social media is causing people to overreact to issues outside their area of influence because of what they see online. My point is, I watched a large majority of a community go out and protest over things in another country, ignoring the issues not only caused by the recent lockdowns that seem to matter nothing any more to these people, but the actual issues of their own community are seeemingly not worth addressing, but getting all self righteous about an issue not a single one of them has ever experienced.in their lives, while businesses in their community have closed down because everyone needs to stay away from.eachother. but the second a cop kills someone in America, that means fuck all any more and a thousand people can all stand arm in arm and shit and it's totally fine they're walking past businesses they've forced closed because a week ago they were too scared of dying. What a crock of shit.

It's a spit in the face at everyone in their community whose lost their jobs, their businesses their livelihoods, their homes over the last several months. All of that was for nothing apparently, because a cop killed somebody in another country.

ETA: To FriendlyNormie, thanks for showing how all this is a bunch of lip service as you advocate murdering a random commenter publicly. You clearly care about your fellow human beings.
I'm guessing that nobody cared to try.
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Hmm, I just got around to reading this tab after opening it several hours ago and can't help but feel like this guy is overthinking this way too much. If a person wants to have a first/last name structure in their app/db, fine, let him. Make one of the names optional in the database and only fill it when the submitted data looks like a first/last name structure. Add properties to your model to return whatever you need to display.

Some of the things in his list sound like particularly interesting stories, like why he's talking about when a person's name is assigned at birth or 5 years later (what piece of code needs to reference that? why would an app ever need to know that unless it's checking if a person has ever changed their name?

Any programmer who can tie his own shoes will know names aren't unique. Ever. Most of the rest of them just make me wonder "why would that ever be an issue???". And oddly, several of them make me think of "hmm, that reminds me of that bug X..." scenarios, none of which were problems with naming, just general programming bug scenarios like forgetting a database comparison on your DB of choice isn't case-sensitive, things like that.
I have never seen Gardening Leave used in this manner.

Usually (and I know this from personal experience) if you are senior enough you have a notice period of 3-6 months and under normal circumstances you are expected to do a proper handover before leaving. Sometimes they don't want you to come in to the office or have access to the corporate network/data but they still want access to you in case they need it.

Non-competes are usually 18-24 months and I don't think anyone is going to pay that for you to sit on your butt.
300 is already pretty big. I went from 20 years where by far my largest company was 16 people, to Microsoft, and I'm pretty happy.

The biggest transition for me was the amount of cross org digging and asking and such required. So much is constantly in Flux, and internal integration points are often poorly documented or have apis based off protocols from a decade ago, or whatever else. You spend most of your time doing that, figuring out how to integrate with various old, half supported systems, getting pushback that the integration won't be supportable, etc.

This is in strong contrast with a small company where you are generally working with public, well documented tools, and everyone you work with shares the same goal.

That said, I'm happy now that I have gotten used to it. The scale of things you work on is much greater.

One thing I'll say is don't sell yourself short by taking a job at the low end of where you think you should be and telling yourself that you can work your way up. I made this mistake when I was unemployed but not desperate. Your project could be canceled or there can be blockers or reorgs or whatever else that keeps you back. So wait for the offer that you want.
> Linux doesn't help this by overcommitting memory that it doesn't actually have.

As long as the POSIX fork/exec pattern is implemented with a CoW address space, you can just write all over memory to cause new physical allocations. There's no malloc ENOMEM return to check in this case.

(You can do this on Windows too via RtlCloneUserProcess and friends.)

You could "solve" this problem by implementing fork/exec to use copying instead of CoW (like Cygwin and PDP-11 Unix), but I don't think anyone wants that, especially because you'd usually throw away the work with exec() anyway.
No, it's only in the province of Bergamo and there is selection bias because people that chose to take the test presumably has symptoms before.

As a counter-anecdote, I know two people from a less hit area, both of whom had fever, and none of them had any antibodies (like, the test said 0.0 for both IgM and IgG).
I've been almost completely alone for about 3 months now, at least physically. And honestly... I couldn't feel much happier in that regard. It's been great. Maybe I'm broken or something.
In [1] it says in the last 10 years the # of deaths from the flu was 10 to 60k, avg about 30k for all americans. I'm not contributing fear. I'm talking about the facts of the situation and the fact is its a serious issue. I'm frustrated that so many people act like it won't hurt them so they dont care somehow. We have to make serious choices between variations of opening up and helping the economy vs saving people. We need to do this in an informed way and not what can ideologically help or hurt various politicians.

[2] is a great article about how different cities in 1918 made various choices about socially isolating and the impact of that.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html

2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/journal-plague-year-1...
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This was not a random sample, with reasonable probability of a selection very skewed towards those suspecting a higher infection risk.
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Would a company like Amazon not have full time lawyers retained on salary instead of relying on outside counsel with that conflict?
From my understanding, yes. All that an ad-tech company like Google needs is associating your IP with your Google account once and they will know that all traffic from that IP address is yours. Especially when you are the only one using that IP address. Also, visiting a Google site is enough for Google to associate your account with your IP.

This is all coming from my knowledge about networking and browsers. This doesn't mean it is proof that Google is actually doing this, but I would make no sense for them to not do this.

Edit: typo
Sounds terrible.

I will only use the state-wide automobile insurer for all my insurance policies for all types or cover they offer that I need (vehicles, building, and home contents).

Why? They have an outstanding reputation and physical offices in both cities in the states (Tasmania).

Needing to make an insurance claim is almost always going to be a stressful event to some extent. Being able to walk in and talk to a real person if needed is something I’m willing to pay a premium (pun!) for.

When it comes to insurance, for me, cheapest is not always best.
I can code that FizzBuzz function with only two tests
A poll from a week ago might be pretty out of date now. Americans' perceptions of the police fell about 10% during that time:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/06/amer...

An important factor to watch is how that phrase "defund the police" gets defined--see peer replies here for examples of how people can interpret it positively.

I predict some of the ideas behind it will indeed become mainstream and we will see police budgets fall in the next few years. LA's mayor has already committed to cuts, for example.

I would not underestimate the impact of social media to rapidly move ideas from the radical fringe to close enough to the mainstream to have political impact. See for example InfoWars, avoiding vaccines, "Q"-type conspiracies, heck even Donald Trump himself.
I had the same experience and the comment about relaxing resonates with me.

Coming from the startup to the big company I could not understand why people leave the office at 5pm. There would be another few hours to work.

Also lots of meetings.

As the previous commenter said. Relax.

I guess you will have a broad skill set from your background and actually in big Corp the nice thing is that with this broad skill set That you can engage in so many different projects. And it is tempting to do so. But you only have this much time a day, and it will not be easy to accelerate your pace. This frustration can be bad for your mental health.

So my advice is relax. But also don’t forget the thoughts you had when joining the big company in the first months. Maybe keep a journal. Because you probably had good ideas but might get overwhelmed by the complexity of the big Corp.

If you have not read the “Accelerate” book, I would recommend this as well.

Also you can observe Conway’s Law in its beauty.
> There just aren't good arguments for noncompetes. People often bring up trade secrets, but that's not convincing -- there are already laws against stealing trade secrets, so you don't need noncompetes for that.

Technically yes, but to play devil's advocate: it's easy for someone to provide trade secrets to a new employer without leaving a trail of evidence behind, and it's a lot easier to prove someone worked for a competitor than it is to prove someone gave a competitor trade secrets, so there is a valid argument for why employers might want to enforce non-competes.

Whether that justifies their enforceability or not is a different question.
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Wow, that is absolutely insane.
Deno moving internals away from TypeScript
I’ve case you are serious, replace chrome with:

#!/bin/bash
echo 1000 > /proc/$$/oom_score_adj
path_to_real_chrome
IE11, unfortunately, isn't _quite_ dead yet, and ES6 is definitely not the last word in useful JS language features.
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I wonder if mesos with it's somewhat more tidied up infrastructure and codebase and less moving parts could make it as a k8s replacement, if you absolutely must run Linux container workloads (though I understand mesos can run a anything not just Docker-/runc-like images).
Interesting.... But am I the only one who recalls seeing multiple articles stating that they suspect type A to be the most susceptible? It's curious because due to this study's findings it would appear that while type O fairs the the best, type A has slightly better chances compared to type B and type AB. So in other words type A is the second most resistant? Am I interpreting that right?
Because you think the virus is too contagious and the attempt will fail. Or alternatively, because you don't realize in the beginning that the disease is deadly enough to be worth a lock down.
About 2 years ago there was an online game/simulator where one could add “information blocks” onto network nodes and see if they become true.

It nicely demonstrated how things became a “fact”.

Does anybody have the link to it?
> No, the assertion that nginx on ubuntu is equivalent to kubernetes os mind-numbingly wrong

Read the actual post, instead of projecting your nonsense.
I’m a bit dubious in the Heroku-is-less-secure-than-k8s claims
I really like the simplicity of Swarm and continue to use it.
>There is nothing inherent in black people that makes them commit crimes more, these are societal factors.

You fundamentally cannot prove that, but people are making policy as though it is true, at the expense of others.

>Imagine a white person had to pay 100x the scholarship because the richest people are all white.

That's literally what affirmative action is. Not quite 100x but the same is happening - and not just to white people. You're familiar with the recent ivy league scandals, right?
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The problem with this argument is you're already compiling your JavaScript to JavaScript anyway. You already can't paste ES6 into the JS console. And don't even start if you're using JSX. I think the opposite: nobody should write JavaScript. You should write in any other language than JavaScript, there are hundreds to choose from. https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
> It's a pity that docker swarm did not make it.

Sorry I do not understand that statement, in my naive opinion Docker Swarm seems to be a thing. Care to elaborate, please?
Very intresting take on the situation. Thanks for taking time to comment.
> I think you fail to understand just how prevalent these issues are for people of color every single day.

> Justifying one's existence and identity every single day is exhausting on a level that all other problems are simply irrelevant when existence is in question.

I struggle trying to figure out what this means in 2020, and I would think it would depend a fair amount on the individual and region where they live.

Is this observable mistreatment that people are receiving every day, or is it more of a constant sense of not belonging, like being an outsider of some kind?
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Big-O as commonly used in the CS literature sometimes doesn't translate to Big-O on actual computers. For example virtual memory translation can add a log term where you wouldn't expect it: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1e90/c55362cf7793dc0b2521f6...
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If the killer meteorite had waited a few million more years some intelligent descendants of theropod dinosaurs might have sent up a rocket to stop it.
Fair enough, but he only said that after I typed in the code and successfully demonstrated that it passed all the test cases (it was a one to one, hands on interview).
> ES6 has been widely supported for quite some time now.

ES6/2015, sure; ES2021, though...

For the latest useful JS features, you need a compiler, whether it's TypeScript or Babel or...
Is this exclusive to AWS or have other divisions of Amazon behaved similarly?
Another issue for me: if I’m commiting often, the interviewer gets a sense of how long it took me to do each task. This turns it into a timed test I’m supposed to do with all the distractions of home in my free time...

Of course, one can always rewrite the git history to lie about your process...
Imo: the best way to run K8s is via some managed provider. Sure you can do it the hardway a la Kelsey Hightower but in production and if you’re not staffed with k8s experts I’d rather give that to a provider and focus on what I know — the code and biz logic.
Does this mean that their standard lib won’t have types, in the same way that Node’s doesn’t? I’m not entirely sure how it works but VSCode seems to have types for the Node standard library somehow and it’s really helpful. I assume that’s Microsoft’s work so does this basically mean that unless Microsoft do the same thing for Deno it’ll be a worse editing experience compared to Node in VSCode?

Or would the Typescript internals not have been available in that way anyway? It just seems hard to compete on ease of use with Node in VSCode without whatever magic is making the editor so smart - which I assume is something to do with Typescript.
>It is seriously not hyperbole that the CCP should face Crimes Against Humanity for biological warfare.

It sure sounds like hyperbole. Hong Kong has had a bit over 1100 cases so far, which is frankly trivial.
I was responding to your comments, trying to piece out what is happening where you live. I did not added up to being consistent, especially after I read whole thread. I understand it is because pieces are missing, but comments are whole I have.

Organizing actual in person protests takes effort, resources and pre-existing network of people. That does not happen out of nowhere. That goes for blm protests, anti-lockdown protests, white supremacists protests and anti-racist protests. Past historical mass protests also always had notworks of activists behind them, none happened without at least informal organizational structure existing.

The violence (smashing car) also does not happen out of nowhere. You dont have personally happy peaceful people reading something on Facebook suddenly going violent. There is series of escalations that takes months, getting used to violence step by step that leads to that.
> I could learn anything psychedelics could teach me using other methods

how do you know what they would have taught you?

I'm sorry to hear that you had such a negative experience with these substances.
Hmm, I was asking as a few days back the IBM FHE release provoked me to ask what were the use cases for FHE? This seems to be, tantalisingly, the most interesting so far.
Not directly related to TFA, but directed at people doing stuff like this in general: you cannot say things like "don't spend more than a few hours on this" or "don't worry about it too much" seriously.

People are competing for a job with these, potentially a big career step. A lot will spend every waking hour between receiving the task and the deadline working on it, because that makes sense when you're fighting for a job alongside a bunch of other people.

Anyone who actually follows the "don't spend more than a few hours on this" instruction is going to be at a huge disadvantage to the other people that almost certainly will ignore it, so as much as you try to make sure to reduce the pressure, you can't.
What did Arq do? I have also had some weird glitches with Arq in the past (but no data loss that I’m aware of).
I had a similar problem, setup a small cluster and it worked fine until next upgrade and nightmare repeated on each upgrade. I realize spending most of my time on fixing k8s issues rather than doing any valuable work
No - you don't have to write the code in Typescript to get types - you can manually write type definitions for Javascript code.

In this case it would be even easier since it's already in Typescript and would presumably be a straight port, so all of those type definitions can be automatically generated from the existing code and will just work.
O(n+n * log(w/log(n)) )

Wouldn't this decrease again for large enough n, and even go negative after n=2^(w * 2)?
Astral characters?