skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More frustrating to see empty testing centers, faked numbers and lies about flu that is just step more higher than swine flu.. Why do you lie about statistics.. People like you make do not believe on any medical people anymore.
To me that seems obviously not satire. It's even a cliché to say that one should hire people smarter than oneself, not be the smartest person in the room, etc.
They are and they aren't competing.

The problem is that "long experienced developers" are often worse than "unproven newcomers". They aren't any better and instead of being a "lob of clay", they are "molded steel" and all the bad habits will never go away.

True senior engineers from reputable companies are of course different than newcomers and they are interviewed quite differently at big companies. But the problem is that what candidates understand as "senior" and what FANNG companies understand as "senior", often have little to do with each other. And the reason is simply that most people who apply for a senior role, wouldn't even pass the entry level interview at a FANNG company. It's just the sad reality. And this does not mean the entry level interview is wrong. It just means that these "senior" candidates were instead just junior developers who never developed beyond that from a skill perspective (except in their own heads).

And at FANNG companies, to even be considered for a senior position interview, you MUST have the credentials on your CV to prove it. However, a lot of candidates will never be interviewed for a senior position, even if their CV is "ten pages" long, because its apparent that this experience will be unlikely to have prepared you for a senior position at a FANNG company.

Being a senior engineer at a FANNG company is demanding and difficult on many more levels than just raw coding. You could be the best coder in the world, but that won't make you a senior engineer. It will make you a top mid-level engineer and you will never get beyond that without acquiring non-technical skills. Most people simply won't be able to do this job, no matter how long they stay in the industry. And I can assure you that there is little similarity in how interviews are conducted for these positions vs. college grads.

A senior engineer is essentially a developer who wants to still code, while also being a manager and a leader.
I'm aware that's the status quo, but it is most certainly not immutable. Many have been advocating for legislative solutions such as removing platform immutity for editorial algorithms or even regulating algorithmic feeds.

I'd rather see something more decentralized become popular organically, but I rarely get what I want.
Why in god’s name would you ever pick the word “Xonsh” for a project?

If the initial “X” isn’t alienating enough, stay for the “nsh” consonant cluster at the end!
Cosmonauts mock Russia’s space leader on Twitter, a robot calls them drunks
Worse, the corporations have to meddle with their own regulation because they know other corporations will. My understanding is AT&T basically wrote its own consent decree.

Who in their right mind decided that the solution to a national monopoly is a handful of regional monopolies...

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

> In the early 1970s, American antitrust regulators became suspicious that Bell was abusing its monopoly power, and in 1974 the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice brought a lawsuit against Bell claiming violations of the Sherman Act. In 1982, feeling that it could not win, Bell agreed to a Justice Department-mandated consent decree that settled the lawsuit and ordered it to break itself up into seven "Regional Bell Operating Companies" (known as "The Baby Bells"), which it did in 1984, ending the original company's existence. These "Baby Bells" are now independent companies, and several of them are very large corporations in their own right, such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, and CenturyLink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System
Yeah, I love the physical mute button on my mike.
I disagree. One good example is switching between windows of the same application.

On Fedora, I can do this with Ctrl + Tilde. On Windows, there is no shortcut for this. On Mac, this only works if the app is not in full screen mode.
Another vote for Eero. It does require an account, though.
I know StatCounter isn't 100% accurate, but I'm stunned at OS X being at 27 percent usage share in the United States. I had always assumed OS X usage was still at about 10%, which is where it was a decade ago.

I suspect we'll see this creep up even further in the coming years, if Apple releases cheaper MacBooks (~$700), in response to Apple Silicon lowering their manufacturing costs. They've dramatically lowered the costs of the entry-level iPhones, iPads and watches and I don't see why that same strategy wouldn't come to the Mac.
> Does that mean write is atomic? Technically, yes: future reads must return the entire contents of the write, or none of it. However, write is not required to be complete, and is allowed to only transfer part of the data.

This is technically right interpretation of what POSIX says but totally ignores the fact that in such state the application will know that this happened and should handle that. Because in the first place the rest of the write request did not happen at all and it will not happen unless the application retries the write(2) with rest of the data. Most applications simply ignore this situation which is the reason that this situation is guaranteed to not happen on any even vaguely unix-derived OS (and exactly this is the number one reason for error messages of the "Error: Success" kind).
> I did used to entertain the idea of communicating near instantly over great distances.

> And then I better understood the stupendous energy requirements to shout/yell/make noise for a two-way round trip of sound waves from one county to the very closest neighboring county. And it is just not practical, even for a civilization at he end of the technology development tree (as known to us 1k years ago).

If we were to look at communicating via radio waves with the technology of the ancient Greeks, they might wonder how we could possibly shout loud enough to be heard so far away.

And why, if visits from another world were possible, would everyone know? If I found myself in ancient Greece and talked over a walkie talkie, it would be the same as something with crazy advanced travel technology just stopping by on their safari trip through our solar system.
My hunch is the browser isolation product sounds a lot like an experiment I built some years ago and got bogged down in when I was working on it solo.

Is the browser isolation product a "modern web proxy" that presents say, a social media management site (like Tweetdeck) or an internal app via a rewritten URL, rewriting the HTML, JS, and HTTP headers to hide authentication from the user?

If so - wow, to get that to work performantly requires deep understanding at all levels of the HTTP stack. I had a web proxy written in Haskell some years back that implemented online, nested HTML and JS rewriting and injection, and I was so close to getting modern web apps like Facebook and Gmail to render perfectly. Server side rendered sites were feature complete, but sites using a virtual DOM required care to proxy out DOM builtins like createElement and setting attributes, and that surface area is quite large.

For sites using chunked transfer encoding, it worked on a chunk-by-chunk basis, as opposed to blocking until the entire document had been transferred to the proxy. The additional latency was just the time to parse a chunk. Orders of magnitude better perf than any of the web proxies that many of us on HN used as kids to subvert school network restrictions, and much better compatibility.

It's a little sad my project never saw a release, but I would be very excited to see a company ship something very similar or even better.
In theory, yes.

In practice, this will depend more on my negotiation skills when talking to Elon Musk and less on any technical challenge :)
“Assume good faith” is an hn guideline for comments, not interviews. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re mitigation: already answered with previous “or” clause.
Outflow (“spaghettification”)of star tidally disrupted by black hole(full paper)
For some reason this page does not load for me in Safari on iOS. Safari says: “A problem repeatedly occurred on” and the URL of the web archive page.
While procrastinating I did build this tool to fight procrastination :'D
Worth looking through here and related links: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Most are. GM OnStar systems & Tesla I know for sure are designed in a way that a malicious hack of HQ computers + research into car firmware could lead to a push that would kill potentially millions of people simultaneously. If I really dived into the others, I wouldn't be surprised if ford, VW, toyota and others had similar system design issues.

We are just lucky we live in a world where even 'hackers' don't go that low. I hope future regulation will mandate remote access airgaps. I don't think it's a big price to pay for non-entertainment / GPS software updates to require a physical connection
>Death rate? They're still arguing.

Trouble is it isn't a fixed number. It depends who the people are, what treatment is available and so on. It's come down over time for various reasons. These things aren't as simple as they might be.
A very interesting result is Cencov's theorem.

Just for the heck of it do you know if anyone has investigated IG and General Relativity? Can you share refs?
Is there a crowdsourced, fact-focused social network that doesn’t depend on ad revenue? WT.social? We need moderation with popular support, and a values system that isn’t influenced by capitalist concerns.
Travel restrictions and mass gathering bans (as well as school holidays) were contributing to the situation, too. Even Sweden had some measures in place, as well as fully closed borders and mass gathering bans. This will be a next step in the current situation for most other countries.
There isn't a shortage of carpenters. There is a shortage willing to work for the wages offered. I've done carpentry work in the past, offer enough money and I'll leave my tech job. I'm not the only one who could do carpentry for the right price.
I don't think it's satire. People are presumably reacting that way because what Slava's saying is outside their acceptable range, so they need an alternate interpretation. This is missing his point, which is to write things that break out of acceptable range—or rather, not to not write things because they're out of acceptable range.

On the other hand, it's a merciful way of resolving the cognitive dissonance, since the alternative would be "what an asshole" and that would make for a worse thread.
Orcas are both dolphins and whales, in the similar manner that dogs are canids and carnivoras.
He's alone.
My prediction: Somebody with a realistic chance of inventing whatever the next javascript will be will do fine. Recruiters who screen them out are hurting their company not that candidate.
The eugenic impulse to eliminate disease has lead us down many a dark path.
Depends on how much of the process you'd like to do! If you want to build the actual PCBs, I'd suggest starting by learning how to blink a single LED on a PCB. I have two video series that teach that:

* Shine on you crazy KiCad - Blink an LED using a RPi https://contextualelectronics.com/courses/shine-on-you-crazy...

* Getting To Blinky - Blink an LED using a 555 https://contextualelectronics.com/gtb

Both of those series will teach you how to use KiCad, which is open source and always improving.

From there, you can learn how to design in an ESP32 or similar module. Or if you'd like, there are some other courses on the CE site that show you how to build other devices.

As the other comments alude to, you'll need to dive into firmware and higher level software on the web side of things. I always recommend adafruit and sparkfun boards and tutorials to get started with that quickly. Building off of a known dev board is a good way to make sure you're actually making progress and not just troubleshooting your own hardware. Both of those companies create open source hardware, so you can take the files and use those as a reference or even as a starter project for whatever you want to build.
And how do you propose to keep staff from getting covid if "infection rates skyrocket?"

Daily testing doesn't help much if you end up disqualifying most of your staff.
What I Learned from Failing the 100 Day Coding Challenge
No company can guarantee this.
How is this level of incompetent management and spending tolerated? Yes, provide housing for the homeless, but who thought it was remotely a good idea to waste money like this?
I get that some people just _need_ direct human interaction, and they can tolerate some amount of isolation. But there are also those of us with exactly the opposite needs.

Until this current health crisis forced remote work on a large scale, those of us who thrive in solitude were forced to work harder to do our jobs well despite the extra social demands. Now many of us can breathe and are more productive, more balanced, and happier.

Let the extroverts have smaller offices, and let us introverts work remotely. I can be quite social, I can perform music on stage, and I can genuinely interact with other humans face to face and leave everyone feeling enriched. But after all those things, I'm exhausted and need low stimulus recovery. I may be in the minority, but I believe it is a larger minority than people might expect.

Frankly, I'm tired of hearing one-sided stories of how "everyone wants to come back to work!" No, we do not all want to come back to the office.

In fact, I will going forward only accept remote positions. There will thankfully be more of them as companies are recognizing that remote can work and that reduced office costs are good for the bottom line.
Actually, just a few days ago, I got fed up with Apple and tried to switch to Microsoft, and make it my main development machine, and so far I have to say I am impressed.
Twitter thread describing the experience: https://twitter.com/PetrHurtak/status/1314854634394185728
But "has ways to help mitigate" stage fright has nothing to do with assuming good faith. You'd have to assume magical powers.

It's like if someone has a fear of spiders, and you bring out spiders during an interview but claim "we have ways of mitigating this fear."
Does Betteridge's Law of Headlines apply still here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
If cancel culture doesn’t depend on implicit threats of career repercussions, then no one should object when we pass laws to protect employees from this kind of mob-based termination. Of course, in this substantial thread, I don’t think anyone has disputed that CC is about threats and harassment and at least one CC proponent has advocated against employment protections. This is consistent with my observations in other HN and Twitter threads, but I’d be happy to be wrongness provided we protect employees from this kind of mobbing.
Its a no-brainer to wear a surgical or N95 mask instead of homemade pantyhose on your face.
Sky Hub has developed an observational platform UFOs and UAPs. It's a group of engineers and scientists that are approaching subject skeptically. They are data and evidence focused non-profit organization. You can check it out at https://skyhub.org
Do you know about Hurricane Electric's free IPv6 tunnel broker? www.tunnelbroker.com. I have used it for a very long time, and it has been very stable and reliable. The only technical requirement is that you have control of a globally routable IPv4 address where you can set up a tunnel endpoint. I.e., "carrier grade NAT" (a contradiction in terms) won't suffice.

I still use HE's tunnel even though Spectrum Cable has provided good native IPv6 service for several years. Ping times over HE are just as good as native Spectrum, probably because everybody peers at the same place in Los Angeles.

The only problem with HE is that Netflix is clamping down on VPNs, and they consider a HE tunnel to be a VPN. So my home router advertises the native Spectrum prefix with a higher priority than the HE prefix.

My own frustration with IPv6 is that virtually no public hotspots support it. My Verizon phone does, so I often use it as a hotspot even when public WiFi is available.
> scientific body rising up to demolish them for obviously bad work

Come on man, let's be fair: a couple of tweets and a few snarky emails hardly consist of the "scientific body demolishing them." I'm not sure if I agree with Bhattacharya's study, but it's hardly been universally repudiated. This just low-effort politicizing by Ars Technica (which has a spotty record to begin with).

Even this critical blog post[1] has all kinds of colorful discussion (mostly by academics) showing that things are simply not as cut-and-dry as we'd like them to be.

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...
Public figures can use knowledge panel to monitor their search presence
>You could make the argument that Linux was going to make the CLI mainstream again.

What? The CLI was never going mainstream.
> largest religion's central tenet is "turn the other cheek"

True but that doesn't bode well with organizations that took upon themselves to enforce their alleged rules.

Or, in other words: Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition

> as they're practiced in 2000 AD, are certainly much more liberal and tolerant than their Bronze Age counterparts.

Yes, I can agree with this statement
Given that most services are unlimited, I would like more apps to maintain 10% randomized utilization.. ATT can try to find my data in the sh*t I use to bring down their network and scum bags in the desert can store my possibly encrypted 100mb/s streams indefinitely.
No, they did not. Right now, Swedish authorities are reconsidering their approach and opting for more strict measures. See https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/it-s-been-so-so-surr... for the review of what happened there.
> Intelligence is way too diverse to be broken down into a linear scale

The article is written with this in mind, that's why there's multiple tests (coding and written!) for both "talent" and "judgement."

Intelligence isn't really very diverse, when you need people who are s-m-a-r-t smart. That means you need smart people, not half-smart differently-abled people.
Good advice, much needed
Me: Hobbyist game dev who's dabbled in Unreal and a lot more in Unity. Experience in both C++/C#, but a lot more in C# recently.

I pick Unity every time. Yes it has many many issues, but as a hobbyist you'll pick a version of it and stick with it. Improvements isn't where the end goal is at, it's at allowing you to deliver a game/product on a given version.

C# is definitely a lot better than old-school C. Unreal C++, everything is just extremely clunky and verbose. Sure there are blueprints, but then now there are free alternatives for the same on Unity as well (although not working as well). If you need to know something there are 10x more free resources for Unity. If you need to buy something, there are 1000x more items on the Asset Store.

You don't need Unreal for Quixel, you can also use it in Unity. You can also use Substance. Sure there are many useless assets, but there are also many many many awesome assets in Unity. Use them.

Both editors have issues. I won't comment on Unreal. Unity's can be a real piece of work sometimes. They all give you issues and make you go arrrgh.

Networking. Unity has nothing by default, it's all in the Unreal corner. If you want to do it in Unity, install Raknet, cloud options, etc., you'll have to figure it out. It's a big ball they have no clue about.

Financial terms, let's see. Both are ok. As an indie first you need to produce, then it's about the fine print. Both are ok, really.

Last point, 100% agree. It's about producing a game. Both engines will fight you hard if you try to produce anything outside their default mindsets. Unreal by default focuses more on fps action. Unity is more open. but GameObjects are extremely heavy and restrictive. You'll need to figure out instancing (until whenever DOTS becomes production ready and useful). Other issues, newer options like HDR isn't supported in Unity by default yet, so if you're heading that way it's definitely not for you.
You can find details on it here [0]

> S2 Systems NVR technology intercepts the remote Chromium browser’s Skia draw commands, tokenizes and compresses them, then encrypts and transmits them across the wire to any HTML5 compliant web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, etc.)

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-remote-browser-is...
and then there's mmap where you can observe changes at byte-level granularity.
I can't say I've ever seen that (I still use dwarf 3 however). Is there a certain pattern to it?
Tolkien said many times he despised allegory, but it is hard to ignore what could accurately be called the Christian rebirth of everyone's favorite wizard.
I'm not commenting on the specific valuation, but I think you're looking at their valuation without probabilities priced in.

A $30b valuation is a very rational valuation if you assessed there was a 50% chance of a $0 valuation and a 50% chance of a $60b valuation.
If you claim it matters, but not enough to impact the purchasing decision, did it actually matter?

Like you showed your disapproval of Nvidia by giving them your money anyway. So... They're right - people care enough to complain, but not buy something else, so it doesn't really matter.
I recently switched to the Unifi Dream Machine from AirPort Extreme. I’m thrilled.

The major upgrade for me was the analytics available in the Unifi controller (built-in to UDM).

The analytics (channel scanner especially) enabled me to see the neighboring interference that had degraded the Airport network quality and was causing my devices to act weirdly.

I see WiFi as an arms race. My 5+ year old Airport (802.11ac) is no longer a match against newer ISP gateways with built-in access points. The UDM (802.11ac Wave 2) not only competes properly, but can analyze any future problems that will occur as neighbors change out their equipment.
Because of the confusion between a results and a methods paper: https://twitter.com/joelindsey/status/1293593320657162243?s=...
I'm debating about whether or not to post this but if it makes it this far then I opted to do so.

A year or so back I stayed over with some extended family, one of which was 'In to IT and earns a living from it. During that time (using the I.T guy's network) I noticed that one of my phones was eating through the battery at a crazy-stupid-mad rate. A quick check showed that this particular phone had begun uploading a metric shit-ton of data on an otherwise normally asymetric data profile (in other words Data Uploaded vs Data Downloaded Ratio).

A check with the 'family IT guy' confirmed that he had Remoted In to a high value clients' system to trouble shoot something at around the same time that one of my phones began to furiously upload any and every thing on its' memory card.

Sounds like one of those "Cool Story Bro" types stories right?

All I will say is that because one of my 'Low Hanging Fruit' thangs got p0wned I was able to alert the $corp of the problem (since the probe originated on their end not mine).

As with all things in Life, YMMV.
"The satisfaction of seeing your career flourishing without you having to do anything will give you a valuable peace of mind."

Without you having to do anything?
Is there any evidence that this malware misrepresents itself as Microsoft? The spam emails which seem to be the primary infection vector do not appear to have any Microsoft-related branding.