skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this affect the data behind the COVID-tracking sites like John Hopkins CSSE [1] or COVID Tracking [2]. Seems like there's a lot of cross-sharing (and web-scraping) of data between these sites (per [3] CDC gets some of their data from [4]), so not immediately obvious which data is ultimately sourced from CDC vs other primary sources (such as state and local govt Web sites in [5]).

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html and https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

[2] https://covidtracking.com

[3] https://towardsdatascience.com/a-short-review-of-covid-19-da...

[4] https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

[5] https://covidtracking.com/about-data/sources
Oh god. Nightmare fuel
Have you ever read Coders at Work?

One of the things that terrified me when I read it was Ken Thompson's description of his interviewing process.

Paraphrasing: He would ask about a project the interviewee was proud of, then drill them with critical questions about it.

I actually like the general idea. But the social pressure of this situation seems to be quite intense.
There are many exchanges and services where you can sell BTC for XMR (Monero) without revealing your identity. And with Monero you cannot trace addresses or transactions.
Oh, I forgot, this is hackernews, where the only way to improve products is by collecting massive amounts of data on users! Pardon me! I'm gonna IMPROOOOOOOOVE.
The link to reinstall old update worked!
I just bought a specced out 1950x on a x399 with 64gb ram (plus the box, power, etc) for about $800, which I think is the fair price for 3 year old hardware. It needs a GPU, but for my usecase it's perfect.

I'm also in Europe, so prices are higher.
Do you actually believe that? How much money will I get from 1 share? How much money would I have to invest before my fortunes actually rise with the real fortunes of any particular company?
They haven't gotten to beanstalkd yet...
Did you consider NOT using NVidia? Both the capital cost and operational costs are huge compared to fairly high end Radeon cards (NO, I"m not an AMD employee - I merely choose based upon my personal budget)
I think the point is that people are more likely to get into a collision if they're messing around with an infotainment system when they should be keeping their eyes on the road. A simple radio+CD player with physical buttons for everything is easy to operate without distracting the driver.
I thought Mahk made it clear JD Power is garbage
You engaged my point, provided meaningless allegory with the "animal kingdom", and then complain when I asked for more information or explanation. "Debating" or "discussing" usually requires a _bit_ more effort on your behalf.
Coal was the alternative we chose, so it set the standard to beat.
I would LOVE to get my 2 hours back in a day because of a last minute interview cancelation. The only person who would be truly irritated is the recruiter, who's job depends on meeting candidate quotas. Even then, they want you to be successful.

Trust me anyone reading this, if you are not feeling well, or something is distracting you, please, please, do feel free to reschedule your interview, even last minute.

Once you go through the process, and it's a no-hire, that is recorded in the system and you won't be allowed to try again for some extended period of time. At my company, it's 1 year.
Just finished reading the whole book and it is full of golden nuggets. I'm stuck in an area of life where I needed this. Would recommend it to everyone. Is it fine if I write a blog based on book review(#TODO Habit 3), with credits and a link to your book?
That's way riskier though. There's a reason they are using BTC.
They could have the error code, name and a small explanation about what the error means. Eg.: The program tried to access an invalid memory address and had to be terminated. That is likely a bug in <program name>
This is only the start, and more like the tip of the iceberg as for what is to come. You should be very concerned.

This could affect American tech workers traveling on business, even outside of China or Asia. A lot of developed countries require Americans to obtain a visa waiver to enter their country. Even Europe is implementing theirs, the ETIAS.

We might see a lot of things closing off, irrespective to Americans, or maybe even much softer versions of the great firewall of China occurring, over actions like this.

Even if I am way off, it is still worrisome.
I feel like we already knew this when Jack Dorsey's Twitter account was hacked.
lambda's take up too much space and are really ugly. They're visual noise and serve no purpose. Besides, the name 'lambda' is bad, and intuitive. There's a reason why no new languages have chosen 'lambda' for anonymous functions. Python:

map, filter, zip, etc should produce concrete values, not iterators. It's annoying to constantly turn iterators into lists. Like if scala's map or fold took in a list and produced an iterator, that would be super annoying. There's no point. If you want an iterator, turn the collection into an iterator. There's no reason for a function to take a list and return an iterator, unless that function is 'toIter.'

Ugly python:

list(map(lambda x: 2*x, [1, 2, 3, 4]))

Julia:

map(x -> 2*x, [1, 2, 3, 4])

Or even better Julia:

2*.[1, 2, 3, 4]

I dunno, it's like Python tries its best to make code super verbose and ugly. I just don't understand why it is the way it is. It doesn't make sense.
I think it's effective for college candidates. You pay them much less, they often work on greenfield projects where learning existing code/process is less important, and the company gets to try out more candidates than they end up hiring. All of that while still doing right by the candidates.
Android TV, dev options turn the webcam support on plug in a USB webcam and you’re sorted.
Violence does not necessary lead to a loss of life.

Not sure what you mean by my viewpoint being warped. As far as I am concerned, your viewpoint appears rather primitive to me. The workers, who built the car are real. The pain of doing any work is real, just not as dense a physical pain, but very long lasting - that's why you have to sum over it.

If you thought I meant pain of these workers - that just proves your understanding is primitive. That description is just a way to approximate the total amount of pain, that needs to be endured to build a car. The subset of population, who will actually end up feeling its equivalence as a consequence does not matter for the point.
After 5 hours of uninstalling and failed windows system restore points, and a quick 24 google search worked! The below link mentioned really fixed the issue on multiple pcs. Thank you!!!!

"%Programfiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.12827.20470
They haven't yet gone after the most prominent Twitter user.
I probably fall somewhere in the middle and err on the side of paper still. I absolutely always start with pencil and paper and get the basics laid out and then after I think I have identified all the first level problems and issues I'll start building in code. If I find that I missed issues though, I'll return to paper and update my model and rethink it . Then go back to code, and usually I find this means I'll change less code to make things work in the end. At some point there is no point of going back to paper for minor design changes while you are actively developing things though, however I find having & maintaining a high level model, an architecture model and a roles & responsibilities model in documentation form is super helpful and can reduce the time to get up to speed, find issues etc.

FWIW, I also have been writing code for a long time and have worked on projects where to compile the entire code base with tests could take hours of machine time to complete, there was no concept of quick change/compile/test cycle for the entire product (maybe small modules). So you absolutely designed things and thought through them first, then moved to code. Obviously interpreted languages now and shorter compile times means you can sit there and experiment and it sometimes is faster then thinking through the problem at least at first, but I'd argue people who do this still usually miss a number of cases and will have to return to the code more then the person who laid it out and through through it (regardless of if they did that on paper or in an electronic document etc).

I have worked with people that do both methods, I have my preferences and like the tradeoffs I take, but I would be hard pressed to say one way is right or one is wrong, as long as you get to the same end goal in a reasonable time period I really don't think it matters.
What I see is most cops not wearing masks. So from the get go they are out to kill people. That says more about their mindset than anything could and proves that it's not just one bad apple but the entire profession that's out to harm and murder people. Fuck them and their supporters.
There is definitely a substantial number of people who know Python and have had little to no exposure to C or C++. To the point where they'd really rather see something like this presented in a language they're familiar with and that they can try out in an environment they've already got setup.

There's no harm in having many articles on a given subject (think how many monad posts there are) - if you dislike one you don't have to read it, there's plenty of other interesting stuff out there :-)
> The easiest bullet point to see this distinction for is "Christianity is the norm". It's not saying that being Christian makes you white, but that white people in the US made Christianity the norm. For example, people tried to cast Obama as un-American by claiming he was Muslim.

Were the Obama religion conspiracy theories being driven by "Christianity is the norm", or by Islamophobia? Suppose, counterfactually, that instead of a nominally Muslim father and stepfather, his father and stepfather had been Jews or Hindus or Buddhists? And, likewise, suppose, that instead of spending some of his childhood in majority Muslim Indonesia, he'd spent it in Israel or Nepal or Thailand? And, suppose instead of an Arabic-derived middle name, he had a middle name derived from Hebrew or Sanskrit or Pali?

An "Obama is a secret Hindu" or "Obama is a secret Buddhist" conspiracy theory would have had far less steam, because whatever misconceptions the average American likely has about those religions, far less Americans fear them than fear Islam.

And "Obama is a secret Jew" would have struggled because it sounds antisemitic, and antisemitism is far more taboo in American culture than Islamophobia is.

Anti-Muslim sentiment in American culture is largely specific to Islam, most of it is not driven by some generic "hate everyone who isn't Christian" sentiment.
Apart from a CFR many times higher than flu, and an infection rate many times higher than flu - somewhere in the region of a third (!) of all COVID-19 infectees suffer long-term, maybe permanent debilitation. We're talking lung scars, chronic fatigue, neurological difficulties. The flu doesn't do that, not at that kind of rate anyway.
> It wasnt really 100% clear in the article. Does the USB issue apply to current/new orders from them as well?

The new PMOS version gets a new hardware revision, 1.2a, which is when the issue was resolved. The earlier versions (including the Ubports/1.2 and Braveheart/1.1 revisions) both have the issue.

I own the 1.2 (ubports edition) version of the phone, and I really want the external display capability, but I've never been any good at soldering something so small! It sounds like there will be some volunteers helping to fix the issue on the earlier versions, if you send them the device, which I very well may do.
"please keep in mind that going to hospital can be financially ruinous"... in the US only, not in the rest of the civilised world
>Several high-profile Twitter users, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and the official Uber account appear to have been hacked, and all promoted that address, saying any funds sent to it will be doubled.

speculation time: How did those accounts get hacked? Did they all get spearphished? Did twitter get compromised?
That's one of the few accounts that might get you drone striked for messing with. It may stay safe.
I'd even buy my own waterblock in that case.
Sounds more like Twitter itself has been compromised on their end at that point.
This criticism of the Energiewende is a core point of the program of the german green party, combined with the plan to end coal power as soon as possible.
It would be also much easier to track. Significant gains this way would not go unnoticed.
Well, yes, if you looked at my comments you'd see I'm part of that "everybody" set.

But to moderate it a bit; in my interview training at Google it was clear: the interviewee doesn't have to get the answer correct. The point is to see how they think.

I mean, I think it's still insulting, but there is that.
The infographic is very clearly not saying that any of those bullet points are bad or racist or only the domain of white people. It’s saying that those bullet points are things which enjoy a special status and approval in society.
Numerous dupes, primary submission is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
Apple and Kanye West too.
For a small company it matters, but for a FAANG interview the person rescheduling your interview is completely disconnected from the people making the hiring decision so it would literally not make a difference.
> "the function f(x) = 15 is an average, but since it's a constant function it will almost always be a terrible one"

It has minimum variance, how can it be a terrible estimator?.. ;)
God, imagine them declaring war on China from Trump’s Twitter...
Welcome to life outside of developed countries. This is life even for some countries considered 'developed'.
I posted this here and it got flagged.

https://twitter.com/asculthorpe/status/1283501026281127937

Try to warn people and you get slammed for it.

Ugh.
Defense is as much about creating and maintaining jobs as it is about building war machines. The military-industrial complex is very politically motivated to keep jobs over any real need for efficiency gains.
The formatting is fine, but I learned surprisingly little about the candidate's work, skills, specialisations, character or aptitude, considering what they must have done over the course of 20 years.

So the example resume doesn't seem to me like something to aspire to.

(That said I've been struggling to write mine for a while, so I don't want to imply it's easy.)
You are saying without an argument, that I should not express my opinion. Don't expect people to listen to you - you will be disappointed.
Thanks for all of these epic rants, they are pretty darn articulate, and full of tasty taboo claims that are much appreciated by the angry minority on this issue.

Joe Rogan and Bob Saget were talking about how "everyone" has been having COVID panic attacks and nightmares. What happened to people? How did hypochondria become a mainstream lifestyle in the safest place and time in human history?
That worked perfect for me also. "%Programfiles%\Common Files\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\officec2rclient.exe" /update user updatetoversion=16.0.12827.20470

After 5 hours of failed attempts and many failed system restore points the updatetoversion link above worked on multiple pcs
I like that you're happy with the ones you have, but it's a weird flex to say that you "couldn't be happier" _and_ that "sound quality isn't great". Would you not be any happier if sound quality _were_ great?

I know that there's a kind of pleasure from not worrying about disposably cheap products, but there's also a kind of pleasure from having nice things with extra features where the trade is usually just taking care of them slightly better.

Personally I'll never go back to wired headphones after experiencing the freedom of wireless ones. Know of any wireless $16 throwaways?
At Poloniex, we quickly blacklisted this address. Prevents all of our users from sending money to them. Many exchanges likely can do the same thing.
Sorry, but there's a simpler way to see it for what it is: Just imagine replacing white with black. Each time an organization publishes one of these "problems of xness" or "dismantling xness" or "confronting xness" or "Dear X people" or tells "x people" how to "do better" or requires all (and only) "x people" to attend a seminar to criticize themselves or tells children in public school that "x people" are guilty of <whatever> and need to be corrected in some way, etc., etc., just imagine replacing "white" with "black" and imagine how quick and explosive the response would be by those in power in the West. The culprits responsible would be instantly labeled racists, publicly and loudly denounced, and fired.

So whatever that infographic is, if the people who wrote it would consider it a racist attack if someone else did it and used "black" instead of "white", it tells you how they really intend it, regardless of how they might edit the definition of "racism".
A company that valued good design would have went with the floppy image. It's a very Microsoft thing to go with the inscrutable error.

On the other hand, this is the OS/2 project, which Microsoft did as a political hedge instead of a true desire to invest in that particular future. I don't fault them for not overthinking their decisions.
There is a space missing in the title ("X chromosome").
Your computer has performed an illegal operation.

sirens heard outside
There should be periodic de duplication of laws. And also removal of laws are are now archaic —like being able to sue a spouse for abandonment or laws that impinge on civil liberties but aren’t enforced.

For every new law they should remove one or two that are redundant or archaic.

Theft is illegal but then they have other provisions to make sure it really is illegal. Once is enough.
Numerous dupes, primary discussion is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23851275
The impression I got from reading the pitch on the official Boeing site was essentially: "You are mandated to buy 72 planes every year, how would you like to buy a cheaper plane? We'll even throw in some extra kit!"

https://www.boeing.com/defense/f-15ex/
Frankly, your argument is nonsensical, if you have something past tone policing your own conclusions, it'd be helpful.

Currently we're stuck at figuring out how an infinite prisoner's dilemma leads to an outcome that caps losses to one agent, and the cap somehow falls below "things we don't need to do" or around "things we have to do"
Sadly, apparently, the name is taken over by another concept. For now.
Maybe, but the question is: who are they going to share it to?
Not sure if that is FAANG or US but nah; I recommend people and people recommend me to large corps and the interview is pleasant banter and nothing else. If I see a whiteboard I would walk out anyway; what is this, grade school? If my resume and references do not help then I have no interest working for you.
> Then why call them white at all? Is his a cultural, or a racial definition? Do you believe the two can be separated?

White is a cultural definition in the US which used to be legally defined and still carries cultural implications. It is intrinsically tied to race because race is also culturally defined. The US's "one drop" rule defined people's race as Black even if the vast majority of their ancestry was "White European".

As an analogy, consider the names we give various colors. We can tell that light blue and dark blue are different colors, but in English we will default to calling them both 'Blue'. In Russian, you cannot call those two the same color. There is a continuous gradient of colors, and we divide those colors into different named categories due to culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term#Basic_color_terms

Culture determines racial boundaries as well, since there are no clear genetic/cultural dividing lines between the "races". Slavs used to be excluded from Whiteness in the US because they were considered "Asiatic", but now we consider Slavs "White".

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

So to answer your questions, "White" is a cultural concept which is used to define racial boundaries in the US.

> it's not clear that this has anything to do with the scientific method itself being a "white value."

The scientific method is not a "white value", but whiteness values scientific data over interpersonal opinions. One example would be: "IQ tests show that Black people are dumber than White people, and that explains why there is an income gap". You would be elevating scientific data over personal narratives of schooling and job discrimination.

I'm not saying that science is bad, what I'm saying is that science is a combination of technical and cultural aspects. The bullet point is referencing the cultural motivations and impacts of science more than the technical aspects.
Should Women Avoid the Keto Diet
Guess this a attack from the TikTok world /s
Do you know they haven’t shorted twitter? Lots of ways to play this game.
My current daily driver is getting old but it still works. I'm going to buy the pinephone and try to use it as a replacement for my daily driver. If it's not convenient enough I will switch back and still have an interesting device to hack on.
An upvote is warranted for a life long gift to kids to be able to communicate confidently.

A downvote is warranted for giving a bad advice on gaming a system and giving both parties in an interview process a poor indication of what is expected in possibly years to come.

Thus, no vote given.

I think given what I read about debate teams -- on podcasts and here in HN, I am on the fence on suggesting that to my kids. There are certainly great benefits, but not too certain if those out weights the drawbacks.
Ok, so what can I as an interviewer do to reduce stress for the candidate?

Let's make good use of this discussion and compile a list of practical suggestions.
You only need to fill a position with a person that is good enough.

If you reject someone who would have been a good fit but still hire someone good eventually, that’s ok.

A bad hire is not fun, not for HR, not for the hiring manager, not for the colleagues and ultimately not for the person who got hired. Especially if they had to move for the job, possibly with family.

A bad hire has massive negative consequences for many people. Of course you want to avoid that, if that comes at the cost of not hiring someone who would have been great occasionally, that’s unfortunate but acceptable.
Outlook down? How to fix it
Playing in the market leaves substantially more of a trail to follow.
There was a Nokia Linux phone I remember being really excited for and went to demo it in a store. This was maybe 10 years ago.
Who cares about favoritism vis-à-vis "the meat grinder," if you're just trying to hire good employees?
> Harvard's endowment is like 3 times it's budget.

That's like comparing GDP to net worth. It's not completely useless, but caveat emptor when comparing a first derivative to a zeroth derivative.

But yeah. The Spanish Military a strange example because a) it really depends on the community and b) we're talking about different types of power.

In terms of soft/cultural power, the Spanish Army might well be more influential than Harvard in Spain. But, again, only in a weird apples-and-oranges way.

I think maybe parent might have meant in terms of hard power. In a complete vacuum, the Spanish Army could probably topple the statue of John Harvard. But, again, it's completely unclear to me why that would be a useful/interesting/anything-other-than-amusing comparison.

The example I used in another thread, which I think actually works: In Utah, BYU is almost certainly more prestigious and powerful than Harvard.
Someone just sent 4.5 BTC...
Presumably, there was a fake BTC address to go along with that tweet? Otherwise I assume Musk would just return any money...
They could have inconspicuously joined the numerous TSLA shorters and made 100x that with one tweet