skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had a couple of months of that, and now not only is traffic back up to the same density as before, it also feels like a fair number are driving just a little bit worse. It could be my imagination though..
Perhaps (though doubtful) you could verify if there are no backdoors in the chip design, microcode or firmware source.

But that's not sufficient since you can't reasonably verify if a particular piece of hardware has the design, microcode or firmware that it is supposed to have. For all you know there's a tricky modification there that's not in the documents you got. There is published research on nearly undetectable alterations of chips during manufacturing, altering its functionality; chips can lie about the firmware they have, etc.
> project confidence even if I know what I'm saying is BS

One of my very worst bosses had this quality. Perversely, it was about the only thing I admired about him.

The guy could walk into a meeting of NASA flight engineers and engage in conversation without uttering a single fact that would betray his total lack of any knowledge/qualifications.

n.b. He was fired not long after I left the company.
using django too. and thank for the explanation.
It's the more "conventional" views is what PG called it. I think that would almost always mean what the majority believes or what is traditional.
Wow. My experience is so different.

I wake up somewhat earlier than normal, though I'm groggy and take hours to fully wake up once out of bed. My productivity is completely shot. My wife, daughter and I spend the day grouchy and stressed out. I worry about my job and my sanity. After work, I find no joy in my hobbies -- I'm worried about how little I accomplished, and start dreading the next day.

I don't miss commuting, the one thing I find in common with your post.
Pretty sure the tax man will call that “benefit in kind”
It's not an argument. It's an assumption.
So that's why my automated build wasn't triggered ~4 hours ago. I was like "no way github is having issues again, they were down just the other day, it's probably just docker hub's fault". If they decided to publish a blog post about these series of outages later, I bet it would be pretty interesting.
> People bomb, including good people. That is sadly part of the system.

It seems like there's probably some value in a "MoneyBall" company that identifies a way to interview without most of the anxiety. Perhaps hiring a few people with remarkably high EQ who customize the interview setting who review the inteviewees' work and watch them program over a few days in their own computer and IDE.

I know I've interviewed people that have frozen up, but for whatever reason I didn't pause the interview and address the anxiety, but rather I tried to adjust the questions (which generally didn't work).
But did they see if being neurotic is a net positive or negative for doing the job. Skill isn't the only variable in being good at a job.

If you skilled but you neuroticism makes you less productive even compared to someone less skilled who cares about skill level.

You could end up with a skilled team that folder under low amounts of stress.
I'd rather pay Aple 13bn and have them stop their idiotic business practices.
However, it can also be argued this makes following the thread and the generated conversation cumbersome and confusing.
Can someone explain this so a non-physics PhD can (at least partially) understand it? ;)
>I think you're assuming the info-graphic is saying "non-white people can't share these values". I see it as saying "non-white people are punished if they don't share these values" or "non-white people are punished by saying they don't share these values".

Then why call them white at all? Is his a cultural, or a racial definition? Do you believe the two can be separated?

>A longer bullet point to explain is the Scientific Method, but I'll take a shot at that one too. Science is a way to seek truth and reduce bias. However, the people who practice science are not fully objective actors free from bias. For example, evolution is absolutely true, but social darwinism is how many people understood evolution. A scientific truth was used to support a political position. People who would complain about inequalities could be said to be anti-scientific because they were arguing against the natural social order. Science itself isn't the issue, it's people using science to reject individual stories or support their priors.

I'm honestly not sure how to respond to this. It sounds like you mean to say that science was sometimes used in a biased way. This may be true in some sense, but it's not clear that this has anything to do with the scientific method itself being a "white value."
This was a thing before the crust firmware was implemented. With crust it should last up to 24hrs and when you disable the modem up to 100hrs.
It doesn't give a good first impression, but failing miserably is somehow even worse...
Neither is bleeding broken nor animal. That is nonsense. The cornered tribe would not be among two most powerful parties.

Having president, majority of supreme court, senate or house suggests you are not cornered. And both parties are represented in those.
Once all the people who exist today, yes.

I anticipated this response of yours. It sounds like a great gotcha in its surface, until you realize that every fast-spreading respiratory virus works like that. It's happened with every flu pandemic, including the recent H1N1.

SARS-CoV-2 appears to be an incredible spreader and a poor killer. What that means is the cost of perpetually trying to avoid infection are very high, whereas the benefits (avoided mortality) are quite low.

Case in point, SARS-CoV-2 exhibits a fairly high degree of pre-symptomatic spread. I believe that this is almost certainly due to the findings of interferon-mediated early-course immunosuppression (read: in the early days of infection it prevents your immune system from reacting strongly, meaning that unlike many other diseases there is a period where you have enough viral load to spread it yet don't express symptoms). Also note that it does not exhibit asymptomatic spread, which would be even "worse" since pre-symptomatic spread only gives you a window of maybe days whereas asymptomatic is by definition across the whole disease course.

Now factor in the fact that many people are either completely asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic (few symptoms). For those people, which may even be the majority of cases, it's such a not-big-deal that most don't ever realize they've had it. Some will have more of an actual cold, and some will have symptoms comparable to a run-of-the-mill flu. A small fraction of those infected will go on to experience increasingly severe symptoms, probably comparable to a normal SARS-1 infection (since SARS-1 is quite nasty), culminating in the worst cases in the need for invasive ventilation at which point death is incredibly difficult to avoid. (This is obviously an area of active research but it appears that the severe form of the disease is related to a state of immune disregulation where pathological cytokine release syndrome, the tissue damage from widespread neutrophil infiltration, etc wreak havoc).

So, we have a virus that spreads incredibly well, yet is overall incredibly mild, and has very well-defined populations who are at real risk of severe outcomes. That is precisely the type of virus that is a horrible candidate for lockdown, which damages the entire society in the attempt to prevent what is perceived as a greater threat (but is actually not, in my opinion).

So, as a society we saw a papercut and chopped off our hand. Oops.

I am happy to provide sources for pre-symptomatic spread, interferon-mediated immunosuppresion, etc, but first I wanted to make sure that you were here to engage in good faith dialogue; i.e. whether I can convince you or not, you are actually willing to read (or try to read) the papers. I'm a bit scarred by numerous times (here and elsewhere) where I've invested a bunch of time into detailed posts and then quickly realized that the person on the other end was never serious about addressing the problem of SARS-2 but instead was there to toe the party line and reinforce their pre-existing conclusions.
TFW the brand name you want is Chinese and Amazon offers you Chinese knockoffs of the Chinese thing you want.

(I was shopping for a replacement power brick for a ThinkPad.)
The gas station cashier doesn't make a decision, they follow a policy. No sane business assumes that cashiers think.

I'm an escalation point for a not for profit that I serve on the board of. Our policy is that to be in a public space on our property, you must be masked. If you refuse to comply, the frontline worker's protocol is to ask you to leave the property. If you refuse to leave, you are trespassing, and the employee or supervisor calls the police. Supervisors are empowered to make some limited accommodations, but masks must be worn in public spaces.

If the employee ignores the policy, they are given one warning, then treated as insubordinate, usually terminated.

State regulations are very clear in our state, so if someone wants to sue, go for it. 95% percent of "health concerns" using masks are BS, and protecting our people is more important that worrying about an ADA lawsuit. Usually the people with a problem that leads to a police call flip out and act like an ass on camera, so have fun with the judge.
> When I was in a manager-of-managers position

Why did you quit your manager-of-managers position?
What kind of team are you with? And how many leetcode-style problems have you solved in your actual work over the past week?
Yeah, I think that's the gist. Fake PoC of a CVE, people ran random code, author caught them in the act via a canary token [0] and rickrolled them.

0: https://blog.thinkst.com/p/canarytokensorg-quick-free-detect...
Did that. Doesn't seem to matter for shit in any interview I've had, except maybe to pass an initial HR filter. Waste of fucking money that was (I'm kind of joking, I did learn some valuable things in college).
Before a human reads it, a machine will read it.

It is 2020, every other HR who wants to squeeze out a little more time for themselves (may be to use it to browse insta/whatsapp/FB) would end up using some shit "AI/ML tool" sold by some snake oil vendor portraying it as suberb intelligent automation that aguments recruiters' intelligence for recruitment, at scale.

Every one first has to please the API/ML-model even before a human casts a look at the resume.

Tune resume to be read easily by a machine.
IMO this sounds like fairly shaky ground to build your economy on
One trend I've noticed that is markedly different from when I started programming in 1998, is how dependent we've become to program via Google/StackExchange searches.

I'm not sure I know how to write anything from scratch anymore, because I just search/read/alter/test. The breadth of what I work on is 100x wider than it used to be, and so I've become absolutely dependent on quickly reading docs, copying code found online, and then deep diving into testing and rolling it out the door.

I deliver a TON more, but I'm convinced I'd bomb literally every interview I go to today. Today, for example, I updated our firewall rules, updated some Java business logic, tweaked some javascipt and PHP on the site, reversed an odd macro email-phishing virus we got, configured a new RDS server VM for clients, and updated some network GPOs. 20 years ago, I would have never worked on ALL of those things in the same week - let alone the same day.

Maybe we should interview with small take-home tasks to be submitted with some write-ups to test how people research, reason, and write-up problems, rather than writing code on the spot on a whiteboard. ...but maybe that's just me.
Ask HN: Software to Navigate OS with Keyboard?
I read about an app that allows the user to navigate their OS with keyboard. It isn't tab-based (pressing tab moves through menus etc), and it isn't controlling the mouse with keys. Instead, it divides the screen into sections, and pressing a key puts the mouse in a section. I think the section then subdivides into more sections, and pressing a key moves into one of those sections, etc, until your mouse is on the button or input you want. And it's supposed to be super-fast.

Anyway, I've tried googling for it but can only find tab-based nav or controlling the mouse with a keyboard. Any ideas?
Traditional tech interviews (live coding challenges, algorithms, brain teasers, etc) have so little value and cause so much suffering in candidates, they are borderline sadistic IMO and in the end you are just as likely to make a bad hire, then not be organizationally prepared to deal with that so you end up with a broken team and bad outcomes. Why?

There are still challenges with contract to hire but overall I've had great success with it. First of all, we get a realistic deep look at candidate capabilities before we commit and they get a look at what it's like to work with us. Then we're very prepared to part ways because that is the entire point of the contract to hire. If feels 10x more successful in hiring great people than any other approach I've personally seen and, very critically, it is more humane and respectful.

There is a hypothetical concern that highly pursued candidates won't wait around for that but we've found exactly the opposite is true. The best developers are happy to see we have a more sound hiring process and are psyched because we have a credible case that our teams are really high quality and free from the random bad apple that spoils the work experience at most other companies. Great devs aren't worried about being hired today or in two weeks, they know they can get a job anytime they want. What makes great devs great is usually their passion for great craft, process, culture - if we can credibly promise that, they overwhelmingly are happy to do contract to hire.
Japanese robot to clock in at a convenience store in test of retail automation
The ethical problem here is the consequence of the same game theory you're citing as a solution - the next country can always cut taxes more
Different definition of "driving". This is about the act of driving, the requirement of negotiation a vehicle on a road. This isn't about being overwhelmed about the extent of driving necessary in one's life, but overwhelmed by the mental tasks necessary to do things like merge onto a freeway.

Little sympathy from me. I had to work through lockdown, driving to work nearly every day, including more than half of the weekends.
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Feels more like a twitter exploit. Just about every prominent crypto account is pushing this scam out.
> Was anyone injured when the cruiser was set on fire

I don't know, but if I was a police officer on the scene my first instinct wouldn't be a thorough inspection of the car to see if anyone was in there, it would be to make sure that woman doesn't do it again. I don't want to risk another firebomb.

> Was the woman armed

Was the firebomb not enough? Clearly she was armed with that. She may have more. Again, if I'm the police officer on the scene I don't know this and I don't want to take any risks. Secure the assailant first, sort things out later.

> Was she literally any sort of physical threat to the officer or officers who threw her to the ground?
Yes. The threat of serious bodily injury from burns. In that moment there is no way of telling what else may be up this person's sleeve. She has already shown that she indents to cause serious damage with little regard for potential collateral damage.

So I too may be a super facist, but I'm totally OK with urgently and immediately taking the woman down.
Using "blind" as a negative figure of speech is about as intelligent and empathic as is using "crippled". Talk about priviledged people that can not see the POV of outsiders.

-- a blind admin/coder
One angle to look at this from is that if Slack or GitHub goes down, there's a good chance your competitors are being held up too. It's like an armistice on (your corner of) capitalism. Whereas if it's just your system, you've been put at a slight disadvantage.

Also, unless it's happening every week there's probably an element of, "well it doesn't make me regret the overall choice to use this service, so there's no sense being upset about it".
Also iOS 13.6 and Safari 13.1.2
Is that a common thing to do…?
I've never had a drivers license; grew up in st louis, and have lived in boston, toronto, and now oakland (amongst others). Prior to the shutdown, I used BART and the ferry for most of the commuting, and bikes for everything else. I've got a couple cargo bike setups; I find my Brompton folding bike (with a couple attachment bags) has plenty for weekly grocery trips, and my older Xtracycle is fantastic for multi-day bike/camping trips or much larger loads. We pretty regularly do vacation by train with folding bikes as carried luggage...
White supremacists also often hold up the nuclear family as ideal when they say it is under attack by feminism, immigration, multiculturalism, homosexuality and cosmopolitanism. The nuclear family is not typical in many other cultures that, as another poster mentioned, value many kinship relationships as well as neighbor relationships very highly and extend the family unit accordingly.
Thanks for replying! I didn't expect the lead dev to actually reply. I will certainly drop by when I find enough time.

- yes, this is self-hosted. I can't check the version, but I think it was recently updated

- notification emails in non-html mode don't carry over the bold, not even in the form of asterisks, so it all blends in with multiple messages

- the "drafts" feature took me a year to discover. Sadly, messages were recomposed. I think it's useful when the composing is interrupted due to external reasons, but not something to work around user action causing clears

- thanks for fixing the collapsing bug, I'll see how my opinion on the composing workflow changes

- CPU load is not that bad, but still way worse than my IRC client or a non-JS forum, so

- I may be somewhat unique in that I automatically `kill -STOP` and `kill -CONT` the browser when not using it, sometimes keeping it frozen for days at a time. That is causing the server issues. Notably, I haven't yet seen any other software or pages having problems with that.

One thing I always respect is the desire to keep improving! Kudos!
This all makes sense, thanks for the details.

I think the key element is how you calibrate towards the candidate, bringing common sense into the process. This is something Google tried to cancel out to increase fairness, which failed in my experience.

Maybe another issue is setting the bar too high during the interview to improve the metric on retention, sometimes it might just not be the match that the interview appeared to have.

I usually try to work with people on something small to get a feeling for how well we work together before committing to larger projects, but at some point I’ll need to start hiring, so I’m very interested in this topic.
Consumer Reports relies on elective responses to their reliability survey. Doesn't this make their rankings problematic and statistically invalid?
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The only thing that interviewing assess is how good at interviewing the candidate is.

I swear that for 90% of the typical software interview loops, someone with some minimal understanding of computer science that spent 2 month studying the typical Leetcode problems would probably have been fine and do way better than a software engineer coming out with 10 years of experience that didn't take the time to review his leetcode problems.
Well for many end users at large companies they won't have the authority to do so and will have to wait for their support group to do so, assuming they let the update through.

Some have a victim pool, er, test pool, to help protect from such as this
Yes and No.

What JD power does is make a massive number of categories to give awards in. They then choose metrics for the survey that prioritize certain traits of the vehicle.

The surveys themselves are conducted in a fair manner and awarded companies truly deserve those awards. But, in some sense, them winning it was a foregone conclusion the second the metrics were selected.

It is like conducting a strongest man competition that prioritized height over anything else. Then the competition was conducted and people from Netherlands won handedly. By the metrics, Netherlands has won the competition fair and square. But, using height as the main metric for strength made their victory a foregone conclusion. Same thing.

Their surveys are free. But, they charge automakers money to use the awards in marketing. Honda or Toyota doesn't quite care for JD power awards because they win a lot in other comparisons. But, American manufacturers rely on these awards to look better, because frankly they don't have much going for them.
I think it's primarily because you put actual content right in front of them, increasing the chances of them getting hooked by quite a bit. Before your blog post has any chance of hooking people, they have to first take the plunge of clicking on it. Threads eliminate that friction.
"Someone makes less money working than they do on unemployment" isn't enough information to figure out which one is out of whack.
Also if you go air cooling and are confident with your abilities, consider delidding to drop temps. more (5 to 20C). If you go air cooling I would assume it is on the basis of long term stability, so don't use liquid metal either. Also invest in a nice PSU (gold minimum) with your peak load pulling only 75% of the rated max wattage

Edit: Like most things look at components real-world testing figures, in this case, wattage, as opposed to TDP when planning
Not being able to tell if it's a bad hire is the core problem for the rest.
I believe that there's one big flaw in this essay, and it's these two sentences: But they can't overcome orthodox privilege just by learning more. They'd have to become more independent-minded.

I don't necessarily disagree, but from reading a few comments here, I believe that they are counter-productive in so far that nobody likes to think of themselves as somebody who isn't independent-minded.

When somebody now reads about something they haven't experienced (having opinions they know they can't share without undue pushback) and then goes on to read that this is because they're not "independent-minded", it'll automatically trigger their ego-defenses, making it hard for them to even accept that the author isn't just arguing in bad faith because their horrific beliefs are rejected, and at the same time makes them double down in the belief that there is no such thing as an Orthodox Privilege.
can you give an example of a few of their "idiotic business practices"? They seem to be market-leading in quite a few areas.
Not at all. By far the biggest engine of emigration is money. In my country (Romania) there are millions of people working in western Europe (2 million in Spain, 1 million in Italy, probably something similar in the UK + Germany + France). A large number of them are parents who leave their children at home and work for most of the year there to gather money.

Even if you're talking about just software devs, people still move to the west for higher salaries, though I believe there is more movement towards the US, especially since the software industry has a lot of local branches of US companies.

But I can tell you from the ground that at least the common perception is that you are generally going to be wealthier as a software developer in western Europe than in Romania, even though in Romania software devs tend to be much better off than the majority of the workforce (and even though software devs in Romania don't pay income tax on their salaries, which is a nice 15% rebate).
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