skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worse in humanities. Many university presses won't dare to publish books on themes that are antithetical to the dominant theories and/or paradigms. Being part of the dominant clique is necessary to publish books there.
SEO is the reason. Most people are unaware that Covid is caused by a SARS variant, or that the underlying virus even has a different name.
I came from multiple startups to a FANG and this advice is really good. Seriously, you’re going to need to relax.

Also I recommend reading “corporate confidential”. I was confused initially why being an excellent engineer who could “deliver” didn’t make me shine at bigco. The book helped me get on a better path.

Also relax.
How to Feed Crowds in a Protest or Pandemic? The Sikhs Know
It's amazing to me that, in all the discussions and articles on HN that I've read about interviewing, no one ever mentions coupling their favorite filters with gut instinct.

Not everything has to be measurable to make good decisions.
You need rigorous tests though. At some point you end up with a hacked on version of typing. I appreciate that Typescript will tell me "this value might be null, and that function doesn't handle null" rather than writing a bunch of runtime checks to make sure the value isn't something invalid, and then writing tests to make sure those work.
That's not what "faster" means. Computational complexity means expected asymptotic behaviour followig certain assumptions. More often than not don't happen in the real world, or don't take in consideration real-world properties such as tiered cache and the impact of cache misses.
> The worst filter is choosing at random.

That seems more like a baseline case than the worse one. I feel like I could definitely come up with one that’s worse than random. Negative points for indications of intelligence, knowledge, collaboration, and kindness.
Optimizing the Build with Rust/WinRT
Because they are getting big bucks from embedded vendors anyway.

Also all embedded FOSS OSes use non-copyleft licenses (RTOS, Zephyr, NutX, mbed,...), Linux hardly matters to most of them.

And the few that actually use it, aren't contributing to upstream anyway.
Why would I find it depressing if I’m risk averse? You sound like the only risk is getting fired for a random reason, which could also happen at a smaller corp.
And it would be worthy of public outrage if a tool manufacturer were supplying hammers to child abusers for the purpose of child abuse. The fact that hammers can also be used to construct buildings is completely irrelevant.

This entire “tools are amoral” argument seems to deny the fact that in most cases we don’t need to judge the intrinsic morality of a particular tool, because we can just look at how the tool is actually being used.
True, sorry for that. I responded to the title and to the comments.

I feel people are a bit too hyped about this and since I have used stuff like this to help me with my mental state, I hoped that my comment might be interesting food for thought.

My opinion feels a bit like a counter comment to what I read in the comment section. Since it was so different, I felt the need to make it.

Apologies for not responding to the main article. I support drugs research though. It’s silly that we as a society don’t learn about all our tools, we should learn how to use them.
Yeah, pretty much every single "smart" device I've ever bought has had vulnerabilities that never got patched. It's ridiculous.

On the plus side, my 10 year-old laptop still finds a use as an access point/firewall for all those things. :D
What you say is not true - it could be true potentially but the data shows that's not the case. Tests counts relatively stable recently but pos counts went up and percent of tests that were positive also increased.

See https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/. As you see on this page, many states are increasing absolute number of tests - Texas is actually steady for a week at around 18k tests per day. But the % of people testing positive is increasing (see that same website).

On that page scroll to 'how is my state doing on testing' and look at Texas, it's interesting to compare states. Notice last week number of daily tests was around 18k/day. Test positivity went from 5.5% to 7.7%.

This isn't a political issue, it's just the actual numbers. Compare to say Wyoming (increased tests unlike Texas from 472 to 690 per day, test positivity went down there). Oregon is getting worse (2.4k tests/day, in the last week 1.5% to 3.4% of tests are pos).

Texas is having increasing covid-19 positive tests, it's not from increasing the number of tests and icu bed space is going down. This website gives the data source so you can look at it yourself.
I wish arxiv could be more like a blogging platform with standards and less a PDF repository.
There is no "you can only go up" trajectory to development experience.

A 30 year old might be half the developer they were at 23, due to burnout/disillusionment/less time. Developers can flounder after previously being excellent. I've seen it.

Something I've also seen a lot is developers getting promoted to levels they cannot handle, and imploding as a result (it's hard to recover from this).

Some people could not lead a project with 30 years of experience. Some people could lead a project with 0 years of experience.

Age is basically irrelevant.
Here is my list.

* Things work a lot more slowly in big co's.

* There's a lot more ego involved so prepare for a lot of ass lickers(I really can't think of a better term).

* A lot of "meetings", "discussions", "planning" and so on, which often are just means to kick a can down the road.

* More time to relax.

* Nearly impossible to change the status quo, not impossible but a very slow and painful process.

* Often more freedom to experiment with technologies and proprietary solutions if you find a way to justify them(which is often not a difficult task).

* Plenty of ways to squeeze out training, seminars, certifications and whatnot, just make sure you read the tiny font at the bottom.
Traditional Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems do this, and this component is known as a Language Model (LM).

Typically you would use/train a LM for your domain or specifically for your dataset.
@redis_mic I’m sorry but we’re not a body shop :). We are a marketplace for dev talent. Backed by Y Combinator.

Also, what is your definition of spam? I have just shared some of my experience of hiring remote team members. Yes, there is a link to the full version at YouTeam blog, but how does it make this spam?
It's an absolute brain dump of an article. I went in really interested but couldn't make it past the first few paragraphs.

Thanks for summarising...
Everyone should stop being nannies.
This sounds awful. In fact, TDD as a whole is awful. I'm a developer, I can make any awful code pass any test I want.
You're right on course, but I think Jungian archetypes are powerful for that very reason: it's a feedback loop. Archetypes not only embody different things and different kinds of people, but people are influenced by these universal archetypes as well.

For example, consider the trickster Jungian archetype. This archetype is universal to every human cultural, indicating (to me, atleast), that it's a core part of the human psyche, rather than some platonic shit that rose to the top of Jung's head.

My ex-girlfiend was getting a PhD in anthropology, and the different cultural archetypes and their similarities to each other among different, unrelated cultures astounded me. We independently come up with the same stories, over and over again. This cannot be a coincidence, rather it's a reflection of the unchanging nature of humanity.
The medieval explanation was far more revealing than the pyramid that came after.

I highly recommend "everydays" as a way to mastery. I've done in arts and music and I'm still mind blown at how fast and proficient I got.

The rules are simple: do one thing every day, that you can be held accountable (aka. in public). Such as a daily jam on twitch or soundcloud, a piece on IG. Keep it up, after 2-3 days you get much faster, after 10 days you do it flyingly, after 30 days I find the curve flattens a bit as you're pretty much as proficient as could be. Time to then start another goal as "everyday". If you miss one day, don't sweat it. Pretend that day didn't happen.
Any reason why this is better than audit? I read README but i’m still not clear.
That’s a very clear vivid picture. I find it very hard to imagine if I am honest. However, your comment made it a bit easier.

It sucks to live like that. I wish I could help. I’ll take a few minutes to see if there is some low hanging fruit. I know a few people quite close to me who fit this description.
This seems to presume that the members of this group have common interests to negotiate on (they dont) and to ignore group psychology.

If I have high individual negotiating power and I want to, say, work from home then I do not benefit from unionizing with a majority of people with low-power who do not want to work from home.

it's quite plausible that the minimum common interests the group has are already satisfied by the employment terms, and then, the negotiation is an opportunity for "union reps" to game the system to the advantage of some over others.

You iterate this over a large number of negotiations, thrown in "union" as now a group and not a mere negotiating block, and you get the police union.
Cyan, violet, even blue/green aren't the same in every culture/language and sometimes even missing altogether.

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

It's also worth knowing how our sense for colours did evolve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Unive...

And on top of that the colours can differ in symbolism
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/colours-in...
It’s being used in both contexts these days
I'm sorry, I've been reading and re-reading this. Were you being snarky? With perfect forethought, why would anyone ever choose against wiping out the disease early?
Or maybe covid is simpler than SA... ah can't remember never mind.
I was also pretty sick in early March but not sick enough to get a test then (they were in short supply of course). I recently got the Abbott blood-based anti-body test and I was quite surprised that I hadn't had covid-19 either.
Because having two unrelated names, one for the disease and another for the virus just confuses matters during layman discussion.
That’s really weird. But it fits the pattern my friend observed. Tested PCR positive with mild symptoms but negative for ABs...
The other interpretation is that you need just one good candidate, meaning you'll have to filter out many - some of whom would also have been good, perhaps even better.
>Although one study found the blood group O only to be protective across rhesus positive blood types, differences in rhesus factor (blood type + or -) were not significant in 23andMe data. Nor was this a factor in susceptibility or severity in cases.

I'm O -ve and everyone else in my family are O +ve. Going by the rate of infections in my state, I'm of opinion that it's just matter of when and not if we'll get infected by COVID-19.

So, I'll update my data here when that happens.
The whole article is bereft of any reasonable logic as to why it makes sense for Apple to buy DDG.

The article does mention an important detail that the so-called analyst fails to properly account for: from Google’s perspective, its opportunity cost—the amount of revenue it stands to lose if the deal were to be renegotiated adversely—is at least $25B. Google therefore has every incentive to maintain the status quo, or at least be allowed to offer to pay more than $8B to remain the default option on iOS.
@illuminated thank you for sharing your perspective. I totally agree: the culture/values fit only becomes visible over time. As wise man once said: when you hire you always guess, when you fire you always know :)
It's deeper than that. The chemicals used in analog color photography didn't have a dye profile that could capture people of color effectively until the 80s.
This is great! Now I'll never miss another Alan Smithee film.
I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I don’t know much about machine learning, but I’m pretty sure a common technique is to use a model that is trained on a huge number of relevant data, and that model outputs a fingerprint of a given input, and the fingerprints of two inputs can be used to estimate the similarity of those two inputs.
Some massive majority of human genetic diversity is in Africans alone. I doubt faces don't reflect this.
Great work! I think simulations/models are a great tool.

some feedback:

>there is no tradeoff between saving lives (due to COVID-19) and reducing widespread economic damage

It is easy to show that there is no tradeoff by assuming that economic damage is only dependend on the duration of the lockdown. Why not aim for R=0? This would save even more lives and reduce the duration of the lockdown to what? 3 weeks? It will just stop all economic activity for 3 weeks. More severe policies have a greater impact on economy. And my intuition is that this dependency is non-liniar. Each reduction of R by 0.1 could for example double(?) the damage to economy. I only skimmed your article [1] - so maybe you already addressed this?

>Counterintuitively, the policy frontier (economic vs human damage) is concave and non-monotonic, and has three distinct regions.

Not surprising at all. I think the right hand side negative slope region of the policy curve is the herd immunity strategy (at least I call it so). It was discussed (and rejected) months ago.
The form is a bit hard to use. it would be nice to be able to drag fonts up and down the list until they are in order 1-6. this way I could compare close fonts side by side. it is also harder to read the fonts depending on the position on the screen, so its not a real fair comparison.
The article would be more helpful if it had specified how exactly proxy servers help make browsing more anonymous on the internet. I would also have expected someone who is talking about proxy servers to compare and contrast VPN and why or why not use one over another.

The article initially identifies all the talking points w.r.t online browsing surveillance (cookies, fingerprinting, isp snooping etc). But it never tells how exactly a proxy is solving all those problems. If the author had in fact dug into those aspects, it would have become apparent that a proxy only changes the clients IP address visible to the website. Cookies, fingerprinting still exists.

I haven't followed through on the instructions yet for setting up proxy. But the authors ignorance (intentional or not) about proxy servers impact, makes me question if it's even worthwhile to follow the instructions.

I am still curious on a couple of things after reading this though
1. What is the difference between a proxy and VPN?
2. How much does hiding my IP address help w.r.t hiding myself from corporate surveillance?

Here's a list of stuff that I am currently experimenting with as part of balancing browsing experience v/s being anonymous.
1. Use a VPN[1]
2. Configure Firefox to resist fingerprinting
3. Do not use ISP's DNS resolver.
4. Block JavaScript on browser
5. Use Tor as your browser.

[1] setting up a personal VPN was a breeze with https://trailofbits.github.io/algo/
> which comes with fake “typing…” indicator.

Being forced to use a chatbot sounds annoying, I agree, but for people who aren't like us on HN who are in the know, the typing indicator fulfills an important function: instant replies can be jarring to users and inhibit their ability to understand the interaction as chat. (There is some evidence to think this intuition is right, by the way: https://chatbotresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/icis2...)

Let's not get into whether chatbots have done more harm than good, but I think we can agree that if we're going to have them at all we should do them right.
I recommend thepointsguy.com to help you answer the question of which card
Britain goes coal free as renewables edge out fossil fuels
> At a startup you are actively changing the world.

That sounds very exciting. Can you point to one startup that's changing the world?
In the big-Oh algorithmic complexity sense; in a loose sense, for any pair of implementations (radix sort, kr sort) there exists a word size w and a list size n such that If either w or n increases, the time for radix sort would increase more quickly than for Kr sort - and this, eventually kr would be faster and keep getting faster. (Assuming that the hash can indeed yield average O(1) access, which is probabilistically but not deterministically true)

That said, word size w is, in almost all integer dieting problems, bounded by 128 (by 64 or even 32 with high probability) which makes it acceptable to regard as “constant” in which case both sorts are essentially O(n) and it all depends on specific implementations (with radix sort likely significantly faster in practice)
I read everything downthread of this and am flummoxed at how much people are talking past each other. If the UK has 40k deaths, the only way the UK is close to herd immunity is if the IFR 0.05%. People can quibble about how many actual cases there are, but no matter how you slice it, reinforcing the parent poster, we are a long way from herd immunity.

Also, remember that if you want to argue the IFR down, that means you're arguing the R0 up, which makes herd immunity more difficult.
Daniel Radcliffe Responds to J.K. Rowling’s Tweets on Gender Identity
In the years before the acquisition by Verizon, while Marissa Mayer was still CEO, Yahoo had rebooted its own search engine, an effort that was abandoned shortly before the sale. At that time, Apple could have very well acquired a formidable search engine if they wanted to.
To your last point, to me, it feels that they try to hide their private labels. Some are named “Amazon XXX” but most are not: Solimo, Presto and countless clothing brands.

I mostly realise that they are Amazon brands when I notice they are strongly pushed by Amazon’s algorithm.
How to Get Feedback/Customer Satisfaction Score on What You Have Built
Not directly related, but the "sign in to medium.com with Google" dialog on the top right corner with my account name on it is really freaking me out.
'No evidence' that Covid-19 is airborne, B.C. health official says
The way it deals with async/await also seems pretty tedious.
To me, "democratic" basically means "majority rule". By that definition, a website offering "social media" is the antithesis of democratric. The website owner is always the deciding vote.
Satellite data shows Covid may have hit China earlier than previously thought
> All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by
> operating in a capital constrained environment.

Even in big companies you will be constrained by budgets, and possibly even more than you're used to. The big companies have money to try many different things, but normally products start small, and can be killed if they're not going to be profitable enough. Especially if you're ina leadership position, you're going to have to convince people to fund your products.

The other big thing to consider is politics. Don't get me wrong, politics are everywhere, even in startups, but there's a difference. You're going to have arguments with people that you can't go have a beer with after work, and you have to consider how that will affect your relationship after the argument.
From this announcement it seems PHP was not a language at first but rather a set of higher level tools.

From what I read on Wikipedia, this version did have language features already. Can somebody in the know explain why they are not mentioned in the announcement?
Politics.

You better brush up on your social engineering, learn when to smile and when not to, and watch your back. Rationality and intelligence will not get you far on their own, because the game isn't about who's the smartest or who has the best ideas, it's about leverage, prejudices, cliques, "prestige", and ultimately money.

Remember you're there to play with some toys, occasionally commit code, and get that sweet money.
Nice little project! I did something similar [0], but instead of telnet, the lib opens a websocket and you connect with your browser.

[0] - https://github.com/ggerganov/incppect
If only browsers had a similar fallback.
The token amount is just there in the contract to notarize on paper the NHS as the 'client' in the contract, because you anticipate this will be questioned as a dodgy deal.
And hey, it means higher reported signup numbers!
You have just said that we probably have quite a few cases of Covid which are not counted and are not part of the model because they were undiagnosed. I agree.

If we somehow magically started accounting for those cases the R0 would immediately go up (more cases per unit time means increased R0) unless the number of those cases is zero.

Thus, the R0 estimates we have are currently all underestimates. Covid is likely more contagious than we are calculating, not less.

Now, this doesn't matter to the people who recover, of course. And it effectively is correct in that people who simply recover aren't a big problem and so the R0 is roughly "correct" in the aggregate.

However, that incorrect R0 DOES matter when you start talking about vulnerable populations and how far you need to go to protect them.
I think there are two aspects to this, the first one as you mention is that often reviewers just asked to cite relevant papers (and it's not unusual they come from the same author, because the fields are small).

The other aspect is, that there are a some black sheep who will ask you to cite a whole bunch of barely relevant papers (often >5) all from the same group. With those you very clearly see that they are abusing the system. I suspect that these instances cloud people's judgement on the first aspect, so they always interpret the question to cite as fraudulent.

As a general advice if you suspect reviewers are try to push their citation counts up, a note to the editor (or PC if a conference) will typically help, because most don't look very favourably at this.
The first sentence is true. The second sentence can be true but often isn’t. If 90% of the workers at a firm are worth $50,000 a year and 10% are worth $200,000 a year a union will represent the average worker, screwing the top 10%. The closer you are to the average of the members in your union the better they represent your interests. If you are far from a representative member the degree to which they will fight for your interests is markedly less.
> it will happily beat other "faster" algorithms

When it applies, there are essentially no faster algorithms - it’s O(n) if the word size is constant (it often is), which cannot be beat asymptotically. kr sort is only asymptotically better if word size is considered variable.

It’s irrelevant if you have no radix to sort on - comparison sort is provably at least O(n log n) which is slower.
There are only seven symbols with two rules. If you skip the subtraction rule and just consider them more symbols, it goes to twelve symbols with one rule. Seems like your solution is more appropriate than a parser.

That being said, there’s nothing wrong with saying “I’d like to see you write a parser. Let’s make one for Roman numerals so it’s fast and simple.”
> In academia, you're absolutely right. But outside, sorry, no.

Now consider that there is nothing outside.

Because that's the mindset of PhD students, and more often than not it is also true.