skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you make it sound more ill intentioned than it is. Freshman year is crucial to forming new connections, finding organizations to join, and adapting to a new environment. It's not just about "dealing with remote learning"; it's also very much about meeting new people face-to-face and making friends they can lean on over Zoom for the semesters to come.
Hardware encoding cares about consistent real-time output above all else, with power usage as the runner-up. It can focus on that because software encoders are just flat-out better for use cases involving quality - they have access to more flexible/accurate math, they don't necessarily have a real-time/low-latency constraint, they can be updated when new encoding tricks are discovered, they can be massively more complex without ballooning the cost of a device, etc.

They're complementary options rather than competing. Each does something well, and it sounds like you want the thing that software encoding does.
> I don't have a BS job, I'm a programmer.

Honestly I have to suppress the urge to laugh heartily at this statement while I recall all the times over my career that I've seen software rewritten and reinvented not only for no tangible gain, but often to its determent!

I mean, my god man, we currently work in an industry where it is considered reasonable to have a chat program take seconds to load and occupy gigabytes of memory, where the addition a one-off uncustomizable theme is a headline worthy event, and a 1.5Ghz proc with 8GB RAM that runs off <5W is considered 'woefully inadequate' to run desktop software.

I'll say this for current tech though: the high-end computer games look really really good.
I know it is difficult for older/elderly/less tech savvy people but we have to keep trying to educate whoever we can.

First, if someone asks you to make ANY payment through Gift cards, assume it is a scam and move on. Hang up. Even if tehy are claiming that you son/daughter just had an accident or was arrested.

If you do get someone to tell you that your family member is arrested/in an accident and needs immediately help, tell them to txt you the address of where they are and you will take care of the rest. Hang up then.

The Govt. never calls and asks for money on phone. They do call sometimes but will always send paper mail when it comes to money matters.

If you are not sure, hang up and call back yourself after checking the legit number online through the main website. Never call a number that is from your voicemail etc.
Looks impressive. Was looking for something like this from a long time. Glad finally I found it. Best wishes and than you dev!
There are pools of cheap-ish labour but none comparable to China. They are much smaller and many, like Africa, are not able to take this on now.
vector art layout step is surprisingly manual! I wonder if there's a market for a CAD tool that focuses on creating 2D cutouts for 3D models
Plan to Prohibit Employers from Microchipping Michigan Workers Passes House
Why would the density need to be distributed across classes? I think the idea is to have fewer people in the dorms, so that e.g. no one shares a room, to reduce potential for spread of disease.
The reasoning is that individual states have Opinions about the validity of software patents and they're going to keep issuing them until somebody with the proper authority clarifies that the law means what the law says, although as far as I can tell none have actually been successfully enforced.
Please show me where I can pick between similar consumer devices where there supported codecs are easy to find, or, better yet, I can pay extra for non free codecs.
Frequency is proportional to voltage, and the voltage drops when the supply is insufficient, so this is absolutely about storing energy.
Relevant: Writing system software: code comments. from http://antirez.com/news/124 + https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18157047
I think manufacturer responsibility is a function of both the purpose/use of the product and their removal from the particular nefarious uses.

For example, if a company makes nuts and bolts, it is true that they can be used to make bombs or oil rigs, but they are also used to make hairdryers and ovens and many other things. Additionally, nut and bolt manufacturers usually do not sell directly to the end users of their products, they sell through a long supply chain. If a supplier sells nuts and bolts to an oil company or arms manufacturer, that supplier is more responsible than the bolt manufacturer because they are the final step in selling to the business of dispute.

If the company makes nuts and bolts which are only useful for making bombs, then the manufacturer responsibility increases because they know what their product is going to be used for. Basically, if you can answer the question "what is this product going to be used for?" before you distribute it, you inherit responsibility for that use, because you could have chosen not to have distributed it, and therefore prevented that use of the product.

In the case of Autodesk, their products have a wide variety of uses, but they supply directly to their customers, so they know who they are selling to and therefore what each particular license will be used for, and therefore they incur some responsibility.
I would recommend the following:

1. Between TMobile's "Name ID" app, and Google's call scammer screening, I very, very rarely get any scam calls through anymore. That's a huge change from recent experience for me.

2. I absolutely love Android's "screen calls" feature, where it does speech-to-text over the phone. 9 times out of 10 it just discourages scammers from going further.

3. Most importantly I think is just to train (and practice!) people that if they don't recognize a caller, just hang up. Don't talk, don't apologize, nothing, just hang up. People are socially conditioned to think that's rude, etc., but it today's age, that is by far the safest thing to do.
Nice analysis.

In my hiring process, we use a number of filters to gather the data we're looking for to make a decision. That requires a bunch of different steps. By the time we're done, we've spent at least 8-10 hours talking with this person.

From a technical perspective, we do the following:

- A short screen to go over the resume and ensure we've got a rough fit to the right role.

- A simple consistent coding exercise using coderpad. (surprisingly some fail)

- A series of consistent open-ended questions we ask everyone about their tech background, such as, what was one of the most difficult bugs you ever fixed?

- A set of consistent design/architecture problems: "given this design, what problems do you see? How would you fix them?"

- Another consistent, more involved coding exercise with an existing code base that is VERY much related to the work they'll be doing.

- A Q&A session on a wide range of technical topics. Goal is NOT for someone to know everything, it's to get a bit of map of their strengths and weaknesses. We found we make assumptions of what someone knows based on our background and their resume. We try to make this fun.

- Another set of behavioral and situational questions with a shared scoring rubric on values such as teamwork, collaboration, communication and leadership.

And then we have to take all of that data and look at it holistically and across a wide range of candidates. And even then we'll make mistakes, but we keep trying to optimize it, reduce bias, and make it better for candidates and us alike.

One last note: I like to finish my first interview with the question:

"Is there anything about yourself that you really want me to know that we haven’t discussed?"

Because I know I've only had ~40 minutes to get to know this person. I have my agenda of what I want to know, but I could easily miss a lot. So I want to give them a chance to represent themselves in the broadest way possible.
As a descendant of polish Jews and an eventually a user of various IBM software and hardware I can say confidently and definitively state that I would have much preferred they chose not to serve the Nazis at the potential discomfort of today having to buy a laptop that wasn't a ThinkPad (pre-lenovo).
A company should operate ethically. It's not that complicated.
Not at all, just puzzled why people do things like this that don't seem to better their situation.

Unless he's doing exactly what he would really want to do with his free time, in which case it is optimal.
After spending over five years moving through Latin America and Africa, I have a slightly different view of the "developed world" than most who live in it.

I personally think what the scammers are doing is no more morally corrupt than Nike paying workers fifty cents an hour to make a pair of shoes for $2 than they sell for $400, or health insurance companies denying coverage to people literally dying in the name of profits.

All of the above (and scammers) are extremely morally corrupt and "wrong", the only difference is some of them have been normalized.
Fully automated assembly lines rarely make sense economically even in Europe, and Japan.

A "lights out" factory needs a really expensive, complex widget to make, but one which doesn't vary, or change over time much.

Game consoles are exactly like: long product life times, and can be engineered specifically with automated lines in mind, without compromises.

Robotic factories are by no means a final solution for manufacturing.
It's not just Harvard. I feel bad for anybody who was due to go to pretty much any university this year because they're going to miss out on so much of the experience.

If it were me I'd be looking to defer and reapply later, but then I went to the University of Nottingham and, if they'd chosen not to accept me when I reapplied, I'd probably have been just as happy in Bristol or London. If you're due to attend a high prestige institution like Harvard or Cambridge, where demand far outstrips supply, it becomes a much more difficult decision. Attending those schools is an end in itself and if your heart is set on that end you might feel you're risking a little too much by deferring.
DHH has always been against the VC culture.
What would you have the us do about this? We are already in a confusing trade war with China. Because of it being a part of china I don't think the west is ready to go to war with China over it.

It's horrible, it's what China will do to anyone they get power over. I want everyone to leave there, I am terrified for all those brave young people. Their only hope is to leave.
All these test kits would check for the presence of small fragments of RNA. If you are applying the test on lots of sewage, it is likely to find some weird false positive that is not COVID-19 in the first.

I would find it even more interesting if there were specific agents in sewage, irrelevant from COVID-19, that would cause a false positive.
Please show me where I can purchase a roku-style devices where I can easily chose between codec support or pay extra for non-free codecs.
I disagree, what if not time is worth optimizing? It's the only thing you can't get more of.

edit getting down voted by the immortal apparently...
> Your priors on us being able to predict, independent of social conditioning, some arbitrary social attribute based on someone's face should be very, very low.

What does "independent of social conditioning" mean here? Can you give some examples of social attributes that arise independent of social conditioning?
> This logic does not hold up. Let's say you sell hammers, and a person walks into your store and says 'I'd like one hammer please — I'm going to go bash my friend's skull in'.

This is called a "Faulty analogy" or "False analogy": https://examples.yourdictionary.com/false-analogy-examples.h..., https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definit...

In this case, you've equated two things because they can both cause some amount of harm, but have ignored the quantity of harm, the existence and quantity of positive benefits, and the presence of stated intent.
Firefox with gorhill's uBlock (search GitHub for official links, because there are imposters) is less buggy than Brave. I highly recommend it.
Government sanctioned harassment of software engineers
The American government has a program for targeted harassment of software engineers who they believe are yelling in frustration. I'm not talking about yelling at work (it's well within reason to fire someone for yelling at work). If enough people say you've been yelling at work or yelling in your own home they will work managerial networks and have you fired from your job. They then participate in rumor campaigns and abuse networks further to keep the person unemployed until they believe they are unemployable.

The entire purpose is to trigger PTSD in a way that prevents them from being able to think straight or causes paranoid schizophrenia. I'm not asking you to believe a single thing I'm saying, look at anyone who has worked in software engineering in the past twenty years and track down where they are now. You're going to find thousands of people who are dragged along on job searches when there were plenty of available jobs just so they could be forced out of the job market.

Once again, this is implicitly government sanctioned at every single level of the government, they all know it is happening and they actively encourage this kind of behavior.
Don't you then 'just' use a ribbon with a plug & socket. PS4 is massive, size constraints can't be that tight?
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I once went to a car show where Samsung was showing their Android Auto connectivity. They had a raffle for a 49" 32:9 monitor, I put in my name. A few weeks later an email came saying I had won. Of course I thought it was a scam, on second reading I remember giving my details for the raffle, and I genuinely had won the nonitor..
There's definitely decreasing marginal utility of each additional dollar, but IMO the slope is very gradual (if not flat) for what software engineers are making in the Bay Area. Housing and college costs are only slowing down a bit in the face of cataclysmic shocks to the economy. If you can get another 30k in annual comp, that roughly translates to an extra 100k in house budget which is a big deal.
> But I feel like laptop-style scissor switch keyboards are more precise and comfortable.

I agree. The best keyboard I have ever used was a SteelSeries-branded keyboard in a MSI GT70 Dominator Dragon laptop. The keys had great depth/travel, took a fair bit of pressure to press (only a bit annoying after super long sessions), and coupled with the pressure/feedback, the tactile feel was just amazing. I started with Cherry Reds for a number of years before I realized that the switches were the reason my typing sucked. With Cherry Blues my accuracy got much better but still not perfect, and the switches just felt cheap to press and the clicking noise also sounded cheap/plasticky. Recently I switched to Matias Alps quiet clicks which are reminiscent of that SteelSeries keyboard but still not quite as good - the keycaps don't attach perfectly to the switches so they rattle a bit, and the switches just don't feel as good. I'm going to try some low profile switches once I've convinced myself that it's worth spending another $100-150 on a keyboard which probably won't be that great... Unfortunately I've grown used to a split keyboard with my custom keymap and I love it a lot more than the normal keyboard layout so I'm stuck with shitty switches.
Ask HN: Open-Source Social Media Feeds Aggregator
Folks, I am looking for a Desktop Client which which will collate and display social media feeds
As of now most of them are online solutions like curator.io and they are all freemium models
What I am looking for is to collate and display feeds in a desktop client locally, this is the requirement my client has
So is there an open src framework out there I can build on or any ready to download clients ?
Because the number of positive cases is rising faster than the increase in testing.

Also, make sure to split out the data per state/region. The decline from NYC for example made up a huge amount of the decline. Otherwise you run into Simpson's Paradox.

Miles Beckett did a decent Twitter thread on the topic:
https://twitter.com/mbeckett/status/1278750652160634880
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> A job interview is meant to be a quick snapshot to tell a company how a candidate would be at a job.

> Unstructured interviews can make sense for certain roles. The ability to give a good first impression and be charming matters for a salesperson. But not all roles need charm, and just because you don’t want to hang out with someone after an interview doesn’t mean they won’t be an amazing software engineer.

If that's the attitude someone has towards interviews, then no wonder they draw the conclusion that they don't work.

The real issue is that most teams either don't give much attention to interviewing (because they have their primary job to attend to), or too much of the process is delegated/outsourced elsewhere (where people only tangentially understand the work area, and/or have no deep knowledge of the job role).

Lean on interviews for measuring soft skills, and lean on demonstrations (portfolios, code tests, pseudo-code, problem solving, etc) for measuring hard skills. Every job requires some balance of hard and soft skills. If you use the wrong tool for the evaluation, or if the person using the tool doesn't know how to use it, you get the wrong result. Interviews have their place, but technical evaluation is not it.
What is wrong/weird with it?
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If I could have one change to electronics manufacturing, it would be a ban on glue for non-waterproof devices. Most repair-hostile trend in history.
Richard Feynman: “I don't believe in Computer Science..”
"I don't believe in Computer Science. To me science is the study of the behavior of nature and engineering or applied things is the behavior of things we make."
What you are describing is essentially a centrifugal governor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor, I think?
I've started instituting a new rule of no internet on Sunday. in practice this means i dont look at anything that requires a web browser. I still make use of internet based service such as tv streaming apps etc. I usually start out the day feeling anxious about not looking at my phone, and then end the day feeling a lot more relaxed than usual and I usually did something fun because i wasnt just reading crap on my phone all day to fill the void.
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For me the killer feature of this is the " you get diffs that can take you, in a single keystroke, to the very lines that were changed – loaded right there in your editor." Combined with branches being sandboxed had me extremely interested. Both of these have been a personal pain point/pinch point.
With that said, the mere mention of keybindings had me running for the hills (muscle memory, user training, etc.) In fairness they do end with "One hopes the idea is intriguing enough to encourage development elsewhere". While I'm not going to be the one picking up on that one, it has made me realize that the things I growl at about Github are experienced by others so yes, there is a market for something like this because up till the point of the keybindings I had my wallet open and was shouting 'here, take my money, I want this'
Systemic change is an emergent property at the level above individual actions. If Autodesk chose not to supply a mining company, sure the mining company could go and find another software supplier. However, if multiple companies refuse to sell software to the mining company, then it becomes much harder for the mining company to acquire software and do their business. This would be an example of systemic change at the market level.
I think it's a great idea and you should keep trying. Lots of places (somewhat understandably) won't deviate from their policy because consistency of the interview process is a good goal.

But at places that are a bit more flexible, it may work.
And yet, test positivity goes up? That makes no sense.
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Star Wars is the story about Space Wizards right? It's like a Western, except it has Space Wizards for some reason and also the main hero wants to fuck his sister? Some of them were pretty OK, I liked the one where Indiana Jones is captured by Space Nazis. I didn't watch all of them, there are lots and it seems like the quality is very variable.
We seem to be stuck in perpetual loop of scientific papers across disciplines ranging from economics to medicine being repeatedly questioned for lack of reproducibility, plagiarism and outright fraud. The solution seems obvious - scientific notebook publishing replete with data and calculations. The technology exists and has done so for close to a decade - Wolfram's Mathematica came out with its first notebook release in 1988 and IPython notebook in 2011. This solution has been discussed ad-nauseum but the implementation seems to be ad-infinitum. Is it merely an adoption issue or are there other hurdles?
> Some people would counter that money is not everything, which I mostly agree with. But it can be traded for time

Yes, it can be traded for time to spend on things you enjoy doing -- such as your hobbies.
Remember: Don't try this at home!!!

Disclaimer: I'm sure this is snake oil, but I'll try to give a comment as neutral as possible. But don't take it as endorsement. And if you see some hidden bias, you are right.

ClO2 is very similar to bleach/chlorine, but weaker. Chlorine can be used as a good disinfectant outside the body, an you can take a small amount. (In many places tap water contains a small amount, or you can add a few drops of bleach to avoid some illness. Only one or two drops per liter.) I guess ClO2 is also useful as a disinfectant outside the body, but I really doubt it is useful inside the body.

The problem is that the ClO2 is an oxidant, but it will react indiscriminately against the first thing it finds. (Exactly like bleach/chlorine.) It is fine to clean a table, or some equipment, because some materials don't react too much and it will cause burns the virus, bacteria, and even a bug or another unlucky thing that is there.

In the body it will react with whatever it encounters, like sugar or normal proteins, antioxidants or whatever it finds first. If the idea is that you drink ClO2, it goes to the guts, then to the blood, and then to the lungs, then the chance that the ClO2 will survive all that trip and then reach the virus is tiny.

The antivirals drugs are drugs that don't react with everything. The virus are very small and you are big, so if they are not specific they will react with you instead of the virus. Some of the antiviral drugs bind with a part of the virus. Some bind with the part of your body where the virus attach. Some are slightly broken versions of normal molecules, that are ignored by your body but confuses the virus.

Anyway, hand waving is not enough, the important thing are clinical trials. He claims that he has been proposing this for a few decades and that it is useful to treat similar coronavirus in other animals. Is there any study with a randomized control group published in a journal with peer review about ClO2 as a cure for any illness?

Even for animals, if it works in dogs and cats it may work in humans. There is nothing specific in ClO2 about humans. It is much easy to make a study with rats than with humans, because there are less ethical problems.

Most of the context info in the video is right. But I'm worried that the important details are wrong, very wrong.