skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was the last interesting project you personally worked on and what were the challenges with it? What technology did you use to solve them?

I mean if you literally can’t remember anything of what you’ve worked on ever, no I don’t think you’d be a good hire. And also this part is surprisingly hard to bullshit. You can say “well I worked on an eCommerce site and it was hard because we had a lot of visitors” isn’t a full answer. If that’s as much as you can give me, no I don’t believe you contributed much to that project. Maybe I’m wrong and you are brilliant and just can’t remember, but it’s a risk of false negatives that I think most employers will find acceptable. But: “It was hard because we had a very complicated system for determining the final price of the whole cart because of discounts offered if you bought certain pairs of products together. I didn’t implement that system and we had plans to eventually rewrite it but in the meantime we started calculating the prices in our task system instead of during the web requests. It reduced web server load and made adding things to the cart feel faster.” Me: “OK that sounds neat but how did you prevent race conditions? Say while the first calculation was running the customer added a second item that triggered another calculation? What if the first task finished after the second?” Then: “Ah yes I recognized that it would be a problem when writing that code. At first I tried using a lock using Redis for the cart but that just made the tasks serial and the whole thing took longer. Plus if a task failed or was interrupted it could cause issues. So instead I just put the latest task ID onto the cart object in Postgres so I always knew which the latest task was. When a task finished and wanted to update the price first it would lock that cart with the Redis lock, then check if the ID still matched its own, then update and unlock.”

The above tells me how they think and what they think of. If I’m not getting enough technical detail out of them I will ask stuff like “what Redis primitive did you use to create the lock?” But usually the interviewee will go into lots of technical detail all on their own.
Happens on Chrome on Windows too, so it's not likely a Safari-specific issue
You can never be to certain what other people are dealing with outside of work. Sometimes, management knows things that they are not at liberty to share.
> SpaceX is trying to build a starship

No.
> News broadcasters are denouncing it as dangerous

It is dangerous. Proper dosage and monitoring are necessary to guard against risk of QT prolongation and retinopathy. It's possible for it to be true both that it saves millions of lives and that it's dangerous to take unsupervised.

> A drug with a 10-50% success rate will still save a lot of lives.

There is zero evidence that it has anywhere near that level of effectiveness, even when combined with zinc and azithromycin for the most favorable population and conditions. It might have some effect, but touting it as a miracle cure when other treatments are already known with greater effect and lower risk is irresponsible.
TL;DR: Lots of math is used to show that a novel mechanical card shuffler using psuedorandom numbers needs to be run twice in a row to be effective at preventing players from guessing the resulting cards.
What got me hooked on delicious back on the days was the addons, replace firefox bookmarks and well integrated add button, not like nowadays javascript bookmarklets opening a popup, im trying bookmarks.dev but dont see the point in using it how it is today.

And of course suggested tags.
Thanks for replying! Sounds like I should try it out. My maths could use a refresher and I could use an engaging way to learn it. Much appreciated.
Strong disagree. Incrementing the major version in cases like that is just going to confuse people.
I actually care far more about potential employers and governments scraping through my history for inconvenient opinions than any mob.

The odds of being noticed by a mob are like getting hit by lightning, the odds of some lowest bidder contractor building a tool to detect inappropriate twitter hearts are almost certain.
Think the reality of fast food photography has some crossover to the subject, photo studios are less important because you can just take 200 photos with your own camera and then pick the 1 good shot from that.

With fast food photography, it's the same ingredients they just brute force it and have a whole stack of genuine buns, pickles, patties to pick the best of a bad bunch.
Or they version by marketing
Moonlander Mark 1 – Ergonomic Keyboard
GP specifically mentioned property law.

Exactly.

"...capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt."

This is a way to look at things as useless as the "natural state" thing, and for the same reason: it's looking back, not forward. It's condemning the money and the production means as evil because of their origin, not their usefulness.

It's far more interesting to look at how societies evolve when you tweak the rules. It turns out that the results of abolishing capitalism are not pretty.
Already happened... Mutant orange
They did say that they were planning on changing it so maybe you got a different one. I gave them HTML, and they claimed that "JSON would have been better" despite the specification asking for a "page" with "no need for styling".
"According to one source, some raw material (possibly the solvent) used for the production of FLIT was similar to that used for LF-1A fuel for the Lockheed U-2 high altitude reconnaissance aircraft, causing a nationwide shortage of bug spray in 1955. Fuel LF-1A was produced by Shell.[6]"

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

The citation is a book source and it's a book I don't own I can't vouch for the legitimacy.
A market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

If you want to sit on the sidelines and watch valuations soar to unreasonable levels and not try to claim a piece of that fine, but don’t cry when you see how much you missed out. AMD could be the next NVDA.
Link to the white paper itself referenced in the article (48 pages): https://radvac.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/White-Paper-SA...
China's craigslist, 58 Tongcheng, provides community for masses of unemployed
Just curious, is there a different reason to use “sic” besides spelling errors?
That assumes adverse reactions will have a gradual, reversible onset. By that token you could keep taking acetaminophen as long as you don’t feel like your liver is failing.
Lots of people do. We write cuda all the time.
Ghana is using Zinc, Zithromax to treat persons with Covid-19
">The crystals, which blink when exposed to a beam of electrons, could be useful for environmental cleanups, sensors, electronic devices, and solar cells, and the research team will further explore their capabilities."

Hmmm, maybe this could make an electron beam detector/tracer/debugger... and/or a substrate or part of a substrate for electron beams to interact with in some way...

Perhaps transistors and circuits could be created with electron beams and the right substrate in the future...
We need new AI, that would take a wall of text and return few words of essence.
Because it was convenient and powerful. Ever since Google Reader shut down I lost track of technology news. Yes, I can read the same sites/blogs I read before one by one, or subscribe to their newsletter, or follow them on Twitter... but it's not the same. And the tools that were available to replace Reader were always short in some aspect. Google Reader was killed in favor of Google+ (which failed horribly). After that RSS went downhill.

RSS readers were useful because you had all the news/posts in one place (instead of many browser tabs/newsletters/social accounts). You read, curated and shared from the same place, and you were able to easily choose what categories you wanted to read and when.
Pastor hosts funeral for George Floyd, ‘reburies’ him in Imo State Nigeria
Yes, that is a common view amongst most physicists.
I've already seen that list. Here's the question I posed.

> What other protests have anywhere near this much violence?

The recent protests/riots have caused at least $500m dollars in damage per Minnesota's own claims. And substantially more if you include everything across the nation. There have also been at least 15 deaths as a result of the riots.

So I pose the question again, what other recent protests have caused anywhere near this amount of violence? From what you have provided, none. Almost no deaths and about a 100th of the property damages. Nothing you provided comes close.
The data indicates that Hydroxychloroquine doesn't work for COVID19. It is by far the most studied existing drug for this purpose, and it didn't pan out.

The study that indicates first that it was dangerous was retracted, that one was bad science and probably outright fraud. But several other studies later have shown that it does not work.

This has nothing to do with Trump, though him pushing the drug without evidence is just fundamentally wrong. This is about the science, and that simply does not support using Hydroxychloroquine for COVID19.

Here's one of the larger trials for hospital use of Hydroxychloroquine that didn't find any benefit:
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2263?ijkey=355d5085a0ae...
This sound interesting. Do you have some more details or maybe even some code somewhere?

I would love to find ways to more easily identify users on here. The username, despite my best efforts, I mostly overlook or can't remember.

On Forums, with Avatar images, this used to be so much simpler.
> Being ahead of Intel in outsourcing manufacturing will help them keep up with demand.

I don't think that follows. You realize the world is capacity constrained on leading-node fab capacity? And that by going fabless, AMD now has no guaranteed capacity?
If your doing Android Development with the ARM emulator, then its crazy slow. However, if you use the x86 emulator - then you get native speed.

Xcode/iOS's emulator is actually x86 - which is why it seems faster than Android's default emulator.
>> So, four times as difficult?

Or, by "twice squared" they mean to say "It has been squared ... twice". That would be 16x, which is probably more in line with the total deltaV requirements.
Java Programmer Wrote Console Tetris in Haskell, What a Learning Curve Was Like
Steps toward room-temperature superconductivity
Finding a Niche for GigoBooks
A homeless person on the street gets the best value for his/her minimal dollars when buying goods produced by a free market.

A homeless person living on the street can rant about whatever government conspiracy he/she chooses without being imprisoned because of free speech.

These rights do matter, even to those with practically nothing.
Has there been evidence given why these 4 and not Microsoft are at these hearings? I understand each case is subtly different but it seems conspicuous in it's absence. In terms of Big Tech companies potentially violating anti-trust feels odd to include companies 1,3,4,5 but not 2? (Not actually sure what the current comparative values are)
The article mentions a "football sized package". Hope there is no confusion between American and European football.
For internet, in my town, you choose between Verizon and Comcast. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

Verizon FiOS is excellent as far as connectivity, but as a corporation, they suck.
Look at the link I posted. The vast majority of ICs are US designed.
VW’s electric ID.3 model draws flood of orders from new customers
I disagree. Working in IT infrastructure / DevOps for years theres nothing worse than maintaining aging infrastructure that was too tighly coupled or "too unified".

One job, one tool is still valid today.
I’m not nervous. I’m saddened by the lack of courage, lack of independent thought and this common belief that it is healthy and worthwhile to try and control how other people perceive you.
The US news media (left, right and upside down) is sensationalized trash. Fueling hate (stereotypes), outrage and inducing fear..all for profit!

I've tuned it all out minus some pertinent local news.
Genius level here....
Drugs are dangerous.

www.henryford.com/news/2020/07/hydro-treatment-study
They are assembled in China. FoxConn doesn’t even do the majority of the manufacture of the parts. Their primary role is assembly.
This? https://research.google/pubs/pub45226/

AMD already has a cuda to rocm transpiler, but their libraries are so lacking that many things cannot be converted.
This is neat.
I was taking a Trigonometry course online. Was great at first but I kept running it references to “as we learned in Algebra or Geometry”
Well dang it, I aced trigonometry in college, but apparently I have completely forgotten some basic building blocks. So I need to start back at basic algebra and work my way up to find the missing gaps.
Proper photography is important, and a sense of personality is needed to start a conversation.

There are differences in the way men and women are expected to behave on Tinder and elsewhere, but a critical step is getting past "your photo is worth a swipe" to having something to say to each other. Many women will delete you if you have nothing better to open with than "hi". You are expected to actually look at the photos (and read the text) so that they feel you are actually interested in them.

They want to know something about you, too. Action shots, backgrounds, even just your smile says a lot. Taking the time and thought to get a good photo will attract more interest than just a random selfie. But it's more than just being the best approximation to ideal maleness. It's a sense that you are a person worth hanging out with.

If you can teach this to men, awesome. I would say that I found some of the portraits on your front page a little stiff. One had a purely black background, and while an attractive photo in itself it was a blank about personality.
Better question: What will we learn that we cannot learn from all the Martian rocks we already have on earth.

There have been plenty or Martian meteors found in Antarctica, and no doubt many more if we redoubled our efforts to find them. Many once claimed to have found evidence of life in these rocks already. Some of us are even old enough to remember President Clinton's speech on the subject. (That isn't a deepfake video. The US president really did talk about the discovery of life on mars.)
What is the social contract of semver, as a library consumer? If either the patch or minor versions change, I should not care since everything is backwards compatible. But if the major version changes, all bets are off. This seems like almost no contract at all.

It seems to me that this same information could be communicated by combining the minor and patch versions into one number, and changing the name of the library rather than changing the major version number.
Would it not be more useful to size a pizza in terms of diameter, not number of slices or how many people its supposed to feed? As you point out, a 6cm diameter pizza can be sliced into 16 pieces, but also some people just naturally eat more than others anyway.
Sort of related question: How often does the FCC go after small scale electronics suppliers? Like, say I wanted to make a small microcontroller based device for cars to control the air compressor for air-ride suspension (just an example).

Technically, since this device has a digital clock, it needs to be certified, no?

How do companies like Arduino get away with selling devices that presumably aren't certified?
Django can handle 100Ms of requests per day
So, author takes one anecdotal news story of a person taking the drug ending upin suicide, and immediately thinks that the drug is harmful. If anything, this irresponsible jumping to conclusions is the most unethical thing in the whole story.
A community collection of the best web development posts this week
Why We Started Using AWS Secrets Manager
I mean... sure, programming is just putting together 0 + 1 and calling it a day too. I think you're severely downplaying how unlikely it is that this was just "done". It smells like death, so it would be unlikely anyone would necessarily want to eat it in the first place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7Bb0Qg-oE
Most recent blog post, 18 months ago. Most recent tweet, 13 months ago. I wouldn't rely on that service as a daily tool.
Recruiting intensity is critical for understanding fluctuations in labor market
I would argue that revenue is a weird metric to measure company size too.

Doubly so when comparing companies like Exxon and Facebook, which have very different operating costs.
> No, I’m saying everyone else is more guilty of the same sins.

Given the sin in question is "lying", I'm pretty sure that's just not true. Can you give another example of a space corporation with such a consistent strategy of very publicly overpromising to win contracts and investment?

> Generally with more money behind them, too.

I'm not sure who you're referring to. NASA might have more funding, but if you subtract what they turn over to SpaceX I'm not sure that counts. Other aerospace companies have other obligations in the aero part of aerospace, so funds devoted to those obligations are not particularly relevant either.
Different versions of your site can be running at the same time
People are getting kidnapped off the street by unspecified federal agencies. It's a pretty sensible time to be nervous about what you publicly broadcast.
Why did you have to go and remind me of that? I remember when that channel's programming was actually good. I to this day cannot understand what bloody happened that apparently necessitated taking a channel built around educational or informative programming and swapping all that out for... whatever TLC does for itself now.
Here's the full paragraph:

Cases and deaths averted. It is estimated that a cumulative 1.2 billion fewer malaria cases and 6.2 million fewer malaria deaths occurred globally between 2001 and 2015 than would have been the case had incidence and mortality rates remained unchanged since 2000. In sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that malaria control interventions accounted for 70% of the 943 million fewer malaria cases occurring between 2001 and 2015, averting 663 million malaria cases (range: 542–753 million). Of the 663 million cases averted due to malaria control interventions, it is estimated that 69% were averted due to use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) (UI: 63–73%), 21% due to artemisininbased combination therapy (ACT) (UI: 17–29%) and 10% due to indoor residual spraying (IRS) (UI: 6–14%).

My impression is that HCQ is not involved in any of the mentioned interventions, but is considered an alternative to ACT for some specific species.
Looks like it has more "self service" capabilities. But not sure.
But i think most of the problems are better solved by running an IaC tool like terraform in CI with a pull-request workflow.
It's due to the day/night buttons being anchor tags as opposed to any Safari-specific issue.

If you wanted to keep the the ability to link to specific states, but avoid the history issue, you'll need to use the History API — https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History/rep...
I think there is an interesting question here but I'm not sure I follow the train of thought.

First of all, I doubt that whatever happened relatively recently with regard to certain design choices in hardware and software is related in any way to how different implementations of BASIC fared against one another in the 1980s. Regardless of the conclusions, there are simply too few people involved in making these choices now that also know what the situation was then.

As a matter of fact, one of the perpetual problems in the field seems to be that so many already identified problems with certain design choices and solutions to them are being forgotten, and have to be rediscovered again by every new generation of programmers.

And I'm not sure how all this can be framed into the Europe vs America debate: most of the big things happen in the US. Arguably, having a huge single market and less regulatory overhead helps but it's also because this is where the financing is. However, there are people from all around the world working on these things, so to what extent the final outcome can be called "American" is debatable. The founder of Commodore himself was a European Holocaust survivor. And we really have to be careful lavishing praise on "elegant" and "efficient" European products lest we forget about whom to hold responsible for monstrosities like Systemd. Could it be just that we tend to remember the most succesful products from the past, and those originating outside the US had to meet a higher bar to become so?

Perhaps there is an argument to be made that at some point while stuff in Europe was still being "built to last," American businesses have already been discovering the allure of planned obsolescence. This would pertain to the hardware side of course. As far as the software is concerned, I think everybody just got lazy the moment they could get away with it due to the rapid advancement in hardware performance. So from the era where you could have Jet Set Willy or Dynamite Dan (platform games with dozens of levels) fit in 48 kB, we've now "developed" ourselves into a corner where even winver.exe (a program whose sole purpose is to display the Windows version and an "OK" button) takes more than this (56 kB on my system).

While I concur this outcome is not desirable, I can't really agree it happened because of "moving close to the metal." On the contrary, I think this was only possible because of moving away from it, one layer of abstraction away at a time. To paraphrase the quote attributed to Churchill, BASICs of the future will no longer call themselves BASICs but I think if a BASIC was being invented today, it would look like another JS and it would be part of the problem, not the solution.
>I'm 99% sure that if SpaceX's starship takes off, it will fly to Mars and back within a few years.

Define "a few years" and I'll bet you it won't, with whatever odds you want.
C'mon, don't leave us hanging how big was the pizza?
But it is what's going on? I understand that it's helped in a lot of areas, but it seems like the general consensus is that corona is not one of those.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/donald-trump-jr-...
Please do not disparage the opinions of others in such a snarky way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or perhaps they mean table football?
I occasionally wonder where forums have gone.

There are communities still out there, but there seems to be no modern forum software? They have either been around forever or, if a bit newer, do nothing without mbs of JS.

Now that activitypub is here, there seem to be half a dozen reddit clones in development. Microblogging and social media are also everywhere, but what about forums? What about topic-centric, lasting conversations instead of hot-topic and people-centric chats with no history?
There's plenty of evidence supporting vitamin D and general immune health, hopefully they have an open window.
In Ontario, the letter of the law says you can be fired during probation for any or no reason (modulo human rights legislation), but in practice an employer can still be sued for wrongful dismissal if the employer terminates an employee without demonstrating cause.

It’s best to have experienced employment law advice when devising any scheme around using probation as a kind of hiring scheme, as opposed to as a last resort if things go very badly.

I will not give legal advice, but for example I would be very careful before implementing a “Survivor: Tech Island” scheme where the company hires more people than it genuinely expects to keep following their probationary period.

I have been told that if I hire someone I think is questionable with the thought that “if it doesn’t work out, we’ll just let them go during probation,” that can backfire as I make a conscious choice to hire them despite my reservations.

Again, INAL, but I would tread carefully around using probation for winnowing candidates out.