skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if your goal is to specifically suppress fertility [0]? Do you have a checkbox that says "I am making efforts to reduce my sperm count"?

IME, it takes about 3 weeks of consistent effort to get one's swimmers to go away. Maybe you know what is it about "3 weeks" in the spermatogenesis process?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-based_contraception

(edit IMO -> IME)
S4E9b Council of Wizards Part 2 with Bell, Bowe, Maxie, Lindeman, and Voss
I'm so glad this realization is the top comment on HN.

I think Fizzbuzz can be actually a reverse test: if an experienced programmer can fail fizzbuzz in an interview, then maybe it's the interviewer who screwed up.
My experience has been about once a month the iOS app (phone & tablet) will revert from Latest to Top. It will show an easy-to-miss toast message saying "You're now seeing top tweets first."
I assumed it rather than say it out loud, but my idea is to have standard, vetted questions, to reduce the risk of a question being mal-formed like that (unless you want to see how they make tradeoffs in response to an overambitious spec). Your situation sounds rather different. Do you think my scenario would work better?
You can gain some control of updates via GPO or installing with a config XML specified but you don't get anywhere near the granularity of WSUS.
Good point. I would guess that you are right, Anything over ~GMT+3 likely would have potentially been granted access.
The extensibility of emacs is insane is why, it really is more like an OS that happens to have editor functionality. I think the only thing that even gets close is Eclipse which has a ton of performance issues which I'm convinced are due to the (enterprise-y) way they try to achieve that extensibility. After that would be the IntelliJ platform, it's usually much faster and nicer to use but also has performance issues and is known for using a ton of RAM.

VS Code is doing well here compared to its competition. It is quite extensible, you can add extensions to it written in JavaScript that can add new UI and make changes to the editor view. It's also much more performant than either of the other two IDEs I mentioned, even after you load it up with extensions to replicate some of the most used features from those IDEs.
I still want downvotes to exist, but I'm especially interested in being able to identify comments that oscillate in the sense that they get many competing votes.

I have a fair amount of karma on HN, but in the past few years that karma plateaued and I find myself getting as many upvotes as I did before, but now more downvotes.

I'm sure that I'm not the only one that has experienced seeing their comments oscillate between black and grey.
A significant portion of the size is formatting and panic unwinding code. Some of this can be reduced by using `panic=abort` but it is a known issue.

Worth noting that a lot of the code size is a constant addition that won't really scale with your program code.
>I agree. I really dislike being asked to produce code of any complexity in an interview setting, although I do think it's important to see a candidate's code to understand how they solve problems for more senior roles.

I've been around the block a few times and I LOVE system design interviews, both as an interviewer and interviewee. They are much more collaborative and "fun" for me. The good news is that I've been managing for several years at this point, so those types of interviews are far more prevalent than coding.
This time it's quite different that blaming another state for the result of the election you may not like. There is some significant evidence, there is a motive, and I dare say you can't really declare it a negative action in this case. If in this way they can save lives (even one!), good for them.
As I said to the other commenter, I didn't even mention the BBC in the comment you're responding to. Ofcom rules mean that all TV news broadcasters must be impartial (i.e. can't openly support a particular side).

Do people outside the UK think we only have the BBC or something?
Headlines are frequently clickbait, unfortunately. You have to read the actual article and then decide hire slanted it is. It’s not uncommon for the article to actually be pretty good and then an editor slapped a bad headline on it.
There are normative ranges but being outside of such a range alone is usually not enough for a diagnosis. Especially in the arena of mental illness, "abnormal" behavior must also present as interfering with life to earn someone a diagnosis as nearly everyone has some "abnormal" behavior and it would be counter productive to literally diagnose everyone.
I wonder if we could have Twitter pause or blue-out the mobberatti when things get too hot.

PG&E style automated trips when things reach a certain pitch when it comes from the blue-checks (at least the ones historically looking for reaction)
Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser
'Videos for the prepper will “explore apocalyptic scenarios and how to “prepare” for them.”'

Interesting that it seems to suggest that preppers aren't /truly/ prepping for these scenarios, or that the scenarios aren't real. If anything, it seems like Covid-19 has proved a surprising number of preppers right in some sense.

It may not be a zombie situation where people need large stores of ammo, but the modern world can fall apart to such a degree that the ability to survive outside of dependence on normal systems is an advantage.
The stock market is completely detached from the “labor market”
He should team up with Debbie Sterling, who built a hair washing robot,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAF1CaCykwQ

and start a salon.
So market incentives are provably not the way to best outcomes for humanity?
When I moved from the UK to the US, I left some money in my UK bank account for a bit... A few years later I called up customer service with "Hi can you please transfer all funds to this new account at another bank in another country, and close my UK account? I don't remember any passwords, don't have the 2fa fob you gave me, don't have the phone number you have on file and don't live at the address on file." They asked me when I opened the account, which branch it was at, and who my employer was, and that was all it took. The phone call was under an hour, most of which was spent on hold. All of the required "security" information could be figured out from my public LinkedIn. Scary stuff.
University of Maryland teaches Rust for a single lecture as a part of their CMSC330 (Organization of Programming Languages) [1] undergraduate class. The lecture slides are available online [2].

[1] https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2020/cmsc330/

[2] https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2020/cmsc330/lectures/25-...
Re-Engineering the Government's Operating System – Singapore Gov Tech
What happened? Was it related to the Obama/Bezo/Etc Bitcoin hack?
Ooops, my big bad, I'll add a memo regarding this!

I couldn't make it work in Firefox yet:
FF has a limited support for SpeechRecognition, that is enabled only via a flag. Even then it didn't work with my example. I'll dig into it further!

Meanwhile, to lessen the disappointment:

You can try this example in desktop/android chrome

OR

In FF open about:config and turn on these flags
media.webspeech.recognition.enable
media.webspeech.recognition.force_enable

(remember to turn em off after)

And then try official MDN example for Speech Recognition:
https://mdn.github.io/web-speech-api/speech-color-changer/

Sorry for the trouble!
Ask HN: Which companies you know about that have a great interview process?
There's a lot of talk recently about how tech interviews focus too much on stuff like whiteboard coding and tricky algorithmic questions. Not just FAANGs, but smaller companies are copying this model of interviewing as well.

To offer a counterpoint, I would like to know which companies you know about that have a good (or maybe not insane) interview process. I'm not interested in dedicating months of my life studying for tricky interview questions instead of doing real work and becoming a better developer.
Which is fine if your job is really going to be centred around developing algorithmic software in a unique or high pressure way. The problem is most software engineering day jobs are nothing like this, so the test is not a good filter.
Infrared images could become part of everyday life
Many good points, but to clarify, you're arguing that being treatable is merely an obvious indication that it's a medical issue, but not the only indication? Lots of things in non-mental health fields are acknowledge to be medical problems but also remain untreatable.
Russian hackers target Canada, U.S., and U.K.’s Covid-19 vaccine research
I've heard the following theory:

Most trading volume is algorithmic, so it only takes a small number of real humans doing unusual trading activity for markets to move.

I've phrased it like this because I don't have expertise.
Your view on this and your username are linked I assume?
> Under UBI, how many people would willingly give up their jobs just to live on a subsistence level income, and for no other reason (e.g. study or childcare)?

Well the proportion will probably be smaller than the vast majority, skewed towards the asset rich when state pension ages kick in, but I don't think it'll be zero. Though even if it was zero, you've got the problem that under normal circumstances a full third of the population already doesn't work or seek benefits, and suddenly you've got to find the funds for them.

> Under means-tested benefits, how many people without work are discouraged from taking low-paid or part-time work because their social security payments are clawed back, resulting in no financial gain for them?

Relatively few even without competently-designed tapers and EITC schemes, bearing in mind the number of people receiving benefits contingent on unemployment is normally a relatively tiny fraction of the working age population.
I'm building an embedded project that currently runs a python script for automatic brightness. It takes a brightness value from a sensor over I2C, applies a function to get an appropriate LCD brightness value and then sends that to the display driver over a serial port. Would this be an appropriate project to write in Rust to learn the basics of this language?
> This isn't a Facebook problem

This is most certainly a problem Facebook created, however. Blaming the public for "not knowing how to use nukes better" while still building and cramming nukes in their inboxes is just ridiculous and it's time for this charade to end.
That was not my point. Obviously it's a descriptor of a problem, but not an appropriate explanation for a cause. Say you have high blood pressure. That may be because you weigh 400 pounds, or because you have a genetic condition, or because you smoke, or because you are stressed 18 hours a day, but it's not an explanation for anything, and everyone knows that.

Assuming you had an omniscient scientific tool every abnormal change in behaviour by definition has a correspondence to an abnormal state of the brain, that's just saying the same thing at a different level of abstraction.

When everyone is obese and has high blood pressure the correct cause of correction is probably setting different social incentives to fix a systemic problem, not mass producing insulin and betablockers, because you stopped at an overly reductionist level of description and mistook it for insight.
Thanks for the links, and I appreciate where you're coming from. As is often the case with open source projects, no one is to blame, it's just gone in a direction that's no good for me.

However, I can't imagine that spec is going to be drastically simplified, so I probably won't have another go even if the tooling improves. I don't properly understand large parts of it, and therefore won't be able to troubleshoot or keep up with changes.

I wish the projects that do have the tech chops to implement this properly well, and I'll continue as a user. But I'm going use something simpler if it comes along.
From corporate spying yes. However GDPR contains specific carve outs for national security, Police, etc.
Most unemployment systems in US states were designed with the intention to keep people from getting benefits or getting them off them as soon as possible. Unsurprisingly, such systems are minimally robust when they actually need to be used, en masse.

Maybe we will learn a lesson from this, but the number one political priority right now seems to be indemnifying businesses from pandemic-related harm caused to their customers and employees, so I’m not optimistic.
A bit more than a decade ago I think body worn cameras would have been almost exclusively associated with spying. I think the important difference is whether the camera is used for transparency or for information gathering. A body camera used (or intended to be used) to monitor police is, in my mind, a body camera aimed at increased transparency in the policing process. A body camera used to collect data like license plates or used for facial recognition seems more like spying to me.
Hackers Convinced Twitter Employee to Help Them Hijack Accounts
Thanks for this thorough explanation. And thanks to everybody else for patiently answering my questions.
I don't fuck around with scrolling-based social media after leaving Facebook.

I will regularly do a bit of Hacker News and a bit of Reddit but that's it for me.
This is fascinating.

I just threw together some absolutely atrocious javascript to make this "verified accounts can't tweet" a feature.

Fire up the console, and run:

```

javascript

var verified = document.querySelectorAll('[aria-label="Verified account"]');

for (var i = 0; i < verified.length; i++) {

verified[i].parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.

parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.innerHTML = ""

}

```

At least for me, this deletes the DOM nodes for all tweets from verified users in my timeline.

I don't want to permanently unfollow all verified users, but having an option to hide all activity associated with those accounts in my timeline? That'd be nice.

If anyone who actually knows what they're doing wants to suggest a smarter solution, or make a chrome plugin that does just this, I'd be forever grateful!
> I discovered deep subconscious emotional healing techniques

Can you elaborate on this? Can you recommend any resources?
I've been off Twitter and Facebook for years, but I'm still stuck on HN and Reddit. I'm weening myself off of both of these, but god damn is it hard. Social media really clogs up my brain.
This is a more general and larger problem where society is constantly bending over backwards to cater to the 2% lowest performers.

If you added up all the costs of the people at the lowest extremes (by various metrics), I'd venture to guess that we could increase our prosperity (by various metric) by an order of magnitude.

Example: When I started my startup, we made the decision not to hire any salesperson who wasn't proficient in using a computer (we have no IT support line). We also made the decision to not sell to any customer that couldn't figure out how to use the website (we have no telephone support).

I cannot even tell you how multiplicative the benefits are. The 2% employees who couldn't use a computer or clients who couldn't use the website were responsible for 90% of the issues we had at my prior company. Everything from regulatory complaints, to lawsuits, to ad-hoc report requests, to virus infected PCs, to... the list goes on and on.

Having smart people is great. Not dealing with idiots is equally important.
it will be interesting, for sure. In your example though, I personally feel like this is a case of "ignorance is bliss" - I have many ways of finding interesting content - I treat Tik Tok as a guilty pleasure, much like my relationship with ice cream. In a world overwhelmed with choice, and just sort of mental exhaustion from politics, world events, current affairs, and overall negativity, I'm very happy to just sit and consume ice cream for 15-20 minutes a day!
Isn't it obvious? All the hacked accounts were fake accounts from the start managed by twitter employees who fill them with content every day to simulate an active social network. The hack just revealed that Twitter in fact rules the world and all these other companies, billionaires and celebrities simply don't exist.
How does any sane, professional person even use Twitter?

Do people have jobs?

We get quite a ton of email/messages for work, then you maybe have some browsing interest, then personal family messages - how on earth does anyone have time for Twitter, unless they are in the press?

I gave it up forever ago. There is absolutely nothing to miss but the tiny dose of dopamine or however it goes.

There's nothing there.

Nobodies 'Zen Soudbyte' matters, at all.
The constitution doesn't have any special protections for the "press".

Generally, the courts have fairly consistently held that there is no constitutional differentiation between journalists and non-journalists in protection of free speech.

Special privileges and rights for the press are granted by means other than the constitution.
How Rust Is Made and “Nightly Rust”
Interesting. I assume those accounts are not used by actual people but managed by social media companies, so the DMs should not be anything personal anyways.
"sociopath" isn't even a diagnosis in most of the world. That said, there is a distinct recognizable group of people exhibiting such dominant-abusive behaviour and they are easy to recognize. We all know our schoolyard bully or neighborhood tyrant.
> Yeah you're right but staring at 30 second clips of better lives

That's instagram. TikTok is about average people having normal lives doing funny skits, often making fun of their own hardship rather than bragging about how they're living the high life as in other social medias.
When someone is better at something than you, they just had more chances to fail
> immediately after I ditched that bank account.

Because they showed you the signature and let you practice, right?
> Someone needs to be the CompTIA of tiny programming challenges, where you prove once-and-for-all (in a proctored situation) that you can solve FizzBuzz or whatever, and get that fact recorded in some database.

I don't think any of the major companies would accept such a solution. I mean, they make people who already passed their own interviews once re-interview if they leave and come back or apply again too long after they pass and decline. If a company isn't willing to trust its own interview process as a once-and-for-all test, why would they even consider doing so for a third party test?
As systems get more complex, whether they need to be or not, the issue I believe is no one takes the time to explain or document why. They just plow ahead building complex stuff at times seemingly so they can say “look at this complex system I built to solve that really hard edge case”. When 99% of the use cases were already solved.
Or whoever did this didn’t want to draw a terrorism charge if they got caught and just wanted to keep it limited to wire fraud.
The smallest Rust binary ever produced was 145 bytes. https://github.com/tormol/tiny-rust-executable

That is a bit extreme but it demonstrates the lower bound.

There's a lot of things you can do to drop sizes, depending on the specifics of what you're doing and the tradeoffs you want to make.

Architecture support is where stuff gets tougher than size, to be honest. ARM stuff is well supported though, and is only going to get better in the future. The sort of default "get started" board is the STM32F4 discovery, which has 1 meg of flash and 192k of RAM. Seems like you're well above that.
I've done this for two of my previous teams. One team was appreciative and it saved us some time for elevation prep work.

I built something else that was also for elevation prep work for my second team. It saved some time and boredom by automating some reports running for 15-20 projects. They didn't care. That group was very concerned with status, conformity, and prestige as far as how you got rated. So for people like me, nothing was ever good enough.
That is a metaphor. I guess people should not use colorful language when others might jump to any criticism.
I really liked the writing in this article, it's compelling and fun to read. I do however think the author misses a broader point somehow.

The idea that 'mental illness' is a boogyman label which one will avoid at all costs is a good one. Who would want to self apply this label? You'll throw your lot in with the person talking to themselves on the street corner.

Instead of this, we are now supposed to start trying to encourage people to humanize mental distress (no need to say disorder now), indeed to extend this even to those suffering from more severe problems.

All of this is well and good, but the problem isn't really the term 'mental illness' is it? It's that we have decided as a society to reject all mentally ill people as hopeless cases, broken beyond repair.

It doesn't have to be this way. Many mental disorders are recoverable, and there is a huge amount of unknown about the rest. We have literally made a poor cost benefit analysis years ago and stuck with it for far too long without much thought.

What we should do is recognize that mental illness impacts most of us at some point in our lives, and that it severely impacts members of our own families (if you don't think it does, they are probably not telling you because of the stigma).

What would we have to do to resolve this? We would have to decide to dedicate large financial resources to helping the mentally ill recover if possible, or to find an existence which is mutually beneficial if not. Many countries have done exactly this, and with the considerable resources we have in this society, there is little doubt that we could find more answers to helping find real recovery.

Once people observe that mental illness is not a badge of shame, but an actual illness like many others, I believe that many more will be encouraged to seek assistance, and that we will all be much better off for it. As a nice side effect, you will no longer have to feel like shit knowing that the bipolar person on the street is likely to get roughed up frequently and meet an early end because we decided that's the way it is.
I have tried virtually every ssri. They all make me extremely tired, too tired to function. But still would encourage people with anxiety to try them as there are very few other good options.
Each of these projects is something I think I could probably figure out how to make in a year (but not really - I simply couldn't do the hardware side with my toolset).

Then I look at his youtube videos and see he is putting out one of these videos each week.

The level of productivity is insane.

For example, in the basketball 2.0, he mentioned doing the 1.0 version a few weeks before. Then in a few weeks, he is doing something equivalent to Mark Rober's dart board (that took Mark 2 years with help) - while creating other videos.

How is this possible?
Nice. Thinking about it, also deleting the whole right column (trending, who to follow) would really make Twitter a happier place.
Link to EFF page:
https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

Link to previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23824845