skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the opinion you form of a candidate is based on a combination of multiple things.

Also, in my experience, the candidates whose resumes contain questionable/silly things rarely turn out to be great; there is a negative correlation between questionable/silly stuff in the resume and quality. None of the top tier people I've interviewed (the kind where you start thinking "this guy should be interviewing me" during the interview, let's say I've had 5-10 of those) had anything questionable or silly in their resume, and for all of them I was sure the person was going to easily pass the interview based on just reading their resume. This correlation is in fact quite strong in my experience - I can't remember exactly, but I feel like the best candidates I've had who've had anything questionable in their resume were mediocre at best.

Note: just simply having a low-effort resume doesn't count as "questionable" here, I've had low effort resumes where the applicants turned out to be pretty great. Of course, that doesn't mean you should write a low-effort resume - it reduces your chances of getting an interview in the first place. People should just write honest, informative resumes. It's not really that hard to do as long as you're not thinking about how to manipulate the person reading the resume.
How about making it turing complete?
This is a great project, I think the author’s imagination is very rich. I haven’t found a similar project on github
IMF and World Bank buys them some cheap human capital to spread it. Effortlessly.
I would assume we talk about fresh apples. If you process it in such a heavy way it is something completely different. You can also eat a lot more dried apples then fresh ones. Or you can drink a lot more apple juice then eat apples.
At 220 there isn't much you can do if something shows up at the limit of your beams or if somebody decides to change lanes at a wrong moment.

You are effectively giving away your life to the clueless people driving in front of you and also to the fact there is absolutely nothing obstructing the road.
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Does all the vaccine manufacturing happen in the same fabs / factories? Moderna says they can make a billion does by next year, Pfizer says the same, so does that mean we have 2 billion doses available? Or do they share factories and we get either of them but not both? And it seems like there’s many of these companies working on this, so if we have 10 promising vaccines from 10 big pharmas we can get 10 billion doses?
Actually no, most physical sports are not like that because the human body has limits and exceeding them is counter-productive because it leads to injuries.

Most professional soccer players spend about 1-2 hours per day on training. Off-season they will spend slightly more but that's only for about 3-4 weeks.

Doing anything more leads to injuries.
Are they perm cookies?

Session cookies AFAIK are allowed under the US and EU privacy regs and are necessary for some sites to function, for better or worse.
And all that is just for being able to write `response = await fetch(...)` instead of `fetch(...).then(...)`.
This is a cool project to play around and do but I don't think people will use it in a practical sense
My public school matches everything on your list except map projections, but it is possible I just did not pay attention to that...

I was taught world geography, just have no memory of different map projections
"...advertisers pay for free classifieds" - profit or brain melt?
Also some non-web services can act weirdly with them. In my personal experience Google's voice to text including Assistant commands and transcription often just fails to go through, or takes tens of seconds to get a response over a VPN.
> tutorials by an IM Joshua Waitzkin

Thought I recognized that name. He's the kid on which Searching for Bobby Fischer is based.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Waitzkin
The notarization check is on first launch of an app, but it doesn't occur on subsequent launches, unlike the certificate revocation check.
I want multimillion profits not revenue
> Remember, we are talking about the ads themselves, not data collection or anything like that

How do you separate the two? How can the ads be personally targetted without that data collection and sharing?

I have no objection to adverts relevant to what I'm doing right now. Adverts for DB related books, cloud services, other techie things, etc... while looking at a database related article? Fine. Following me around other bits of my life, not fine.

I don't mind a waiter trying to upsell me a bottle of wine while I'm ordering a meal in a restaurant. I would object if the waiter followed me home, via the supermarket to watch what I was buying there, and knocked on the door to suggest I buy a drink from him while I was cooking dinner.
Sorry, I meant "from scratch" meaning no computers. Pen and paper, compass and straight edge, that kind of thing.
Varying levels is just as meaningful as high levels in causing attacks. So you'd might have been caused by the precipitous drop.
> Python for example, horrible runtime performance, but people were drawn to it for probably syntax and tooling reasons.

Tooling? How so? Like the REPL? Because when I think of tooling, I think of things like IDEs, dependency management, and distribution. Python has one of those things now (IDEs/notebooks), but even that took a while, IMO.

Python is a weird case study for me. I'm not trying to flame war or anything- just pointing out my own blind spots and/or biases. But I just don't see much of anything redeeming about the language. It can be pretty easy to read, but I don't think most code I've seen actually is easy to read/follow.
So a vaccine can cause problems after months, but not after years? Where did you get these timeframes?
> Software engineers are best analyzed on a bell curve and once identified according to such plotting relative to other developers the criteria becomes clear

Absolutely. Four out of six software engineers are average and interchangeable - they get tickets of average complexity done, and make mistakes, some of which are caught by other average programmers in code reviews.

One out of six engineers is junior, or is effectively junior, and is a drag on teams until they get up to speed. They can only do simple tickets, every pull request must be carefully monitored etc.

One of six engineers is one standard deviation above the rest. If a new system or module or library is to be built, the team defers to them for architecture. They notice subtle problems others miss. They are up to date on the stack and know what features and problems are coming down the road. They tend to do the needed work outside of what the standard ticket requires.

One feature I have noticed about engineers one or more deviations above the mean is their focus, when needed, on the build system. They work to make a simple, working, fast as possible build. If the build is breaking, or gets too complex, they will address the problem in the build system and then get back to work.
The great thing about batteries is that they _should_ be serviceable. It looks like a replacement leaf battery for your car is available for ~5k, which is stupidly expensive for a repair for a 6 year old car (that will hopefully be 8 or 9 years old when you do replace it). One would hope that within 10-15 years that follow up legislation has been passed to either make these parts affordable/user serviceable, or to have them standardised. In an ideal world, all cars would use a standard set of batteries, and instead of waiting 40 minutes for a fast charge, you just "swap" your battery with another one and keep going. 40 minutes later, your old battery is usable by someone else.

Of course, we could find ourselves in an apple-google situation where the cost of the cars themselves is reduced to a price point that a mass market can stomach, and the cars are "disposable". That thought makes me sad.
Especially OpenSCAD's language: paying the price to learn a new DSL is only a reasonable investment when said DSL brings in a ton of added value as compared to a generic programming language.

OpenSCAD's DSL is a rather feeble attempt at a functional programming language, brings in almost no added value compared to - say - python and worst of all is very limited and has no library ecosystem.

Do yourself a favor and learn one of the python-based solutions that end up calling the same computational geometry engine (namely CGAL).
I'm getting more and more incentive to just drop macOS and start using Linux as my daily driver. Apple has absolutely no excuse for this, and I hope they correct it.

That said, I am curious which laptop brands today are most compatible with Linux. I've heard good things about Lenovo and Dell XPS. As for which flavor of Linux, I have my eyes on Arch...
> The trial involved 30,000 people in the US with half being given two doses of the vaccine, four weeks apart. The rest had dummy injections.

> The analysis was based on the first 95 to develop Covid-19 symptoms.

> Only five of the Covid cases were in people given the vaccine, 90 were in those given the dummy treatment. The company says the vaccine is protecting 94.5% of people.

Aren't those numbers way too small to make any statistically significant claims?
What "nasty stuff" would Slack being doing that's worth the bandwidth / implementation costs of building a redirect loop in the unlikely case, that 1, the user disables JS; and 2, that the user occasionally reenables JS while keeping a non-functional Slack tab open?
That would be cruel. The turtles would be unable to right themselves and could possibly die.
Thanks. I started this since it had a low-entry barrier but, going from basic to a mature product was quite challenging and a great learning experience personally.
> What is the easiest option then?

A non-modal editor like VSCode.
Does this mean that if a lot of people refuse to take the vaccine then we could still be dealing with masks, social distancing and lockdowns to protect those that refuse the vaccine?
I agree - there's a huge different between wall-clock time spent on a task, and amount of actual progress made.

Perhaps a talent in an area is simply the ability to use your practice time on those things that actually take you further.
> Not jumping through hoops... the point is that you can write untyped code in Java

Sure, but that already means you are jumping through hoops.

> > > Java's type system is sufficiently powerful for 99% of real-world use cases

> > Every big project that uses reflection/introspection or annotations or some kind of code generation tooling shows that the typesystem is not sufficient.

> Annotations and reflection are a feature of Java, they are not external to the language. Annotation and code generation are separate features from the type system - Rust's code generation and annotations are very commonly used. Reflection is equivalent to runtime typechecking that is common in JS. How can you say Java is worse then JS in this regard when the poor parts you point out are basically what JS does?

Well, maybe I misunderstood you. And with "sufficiently powerful" you just meant "someone can kinda use it to build something". Well then, yes. Saying it just doesn't make much sense to me in a discussion about ergonomics where people complain about type system limitations.

> Implementing an Either<A,B> is trivial in Java.

Okay, let me copy&paste how this can be defined in F#:

type Result<'TSuccess,'TFailure> =
| Success of 'TSuccess
| Failure of 'TFailure

or maybe a language closer to Java, here it is in Scala3:

enum Either[A, B] {
case Left[A](a: A) extends Either[A, Nothing]
case Right[B](b: B) extends Either[Nothing, B]
}

I'm curious to see the "trivial" implementation in Java that equals the ones from F# and Scala. Mind that both solutions I gave allow to add a "fold(left -> handleLeft(...), right -> handleRight(...))" function which allows to manipulate the content, depending on what it is _without using any casts or reflection_. This is possible in Java, but I don't know any "trivial" solution.
I constantly find myself wondering “what if this pandemic happened ten years ago? Twenty?”
Maybe try to defer them for a week?

I do that, and have had no issues in the Windows 10 timeframe across 3-4 Win 10 OSes, one on canary, err Windows Insider (slow ring).
The popular candidate that the Electoral College prevented from becoming President was Clinton, it just turns out it's easier for an unfit candidate to win via the Electoral College than it is for an unfit candidate to win via the poplar vote.
Or, they were able to manage this horrible condition, and lead extremely successful and productive lives, despite the lack of modern medicine, because of their personal experimentation and resulting lifestyle changes.

Or, yeah, maybe they were just dumb lifehacking sheep.
> It also detects Firefox's Private Browsing and tells me that reading in Private Browsing is a privilege for paying subscribers.

Wait, so if I don't want to be tracked, their solution is to sign in to an account which is tied to my meatspace name and credit card?
>They didn't contract Covid, but we're they exposed to it in a lab environment, or just set off on their way to be evaluated x months later?

This is what is referred to as a 'challenge trial'[0]. It is something the UK is apparently working on but afaik, neither of the current vaccine candidates have used any form of challenge trial. This is one of the difficulties with vaccine testing...if I were to vaccinate everyone in the world against small pox, how do I prove it's effectiveness?

[0] https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/a-challenge-trial...

Edit: for some fun, I figured I should link to the 'COVID challenge trial volunteers advocacy organization'. Yes, an advocacy group for people who want to be infected with COVID. https://1daysooner.org/
Many of these items have a fence value of near 0. The second they pop up in a real auction the police are involved and the whole chain goes down. Their real value usually comes in as a bargaining chip if caught for some other crime. The second way is if someone specific wants to have an item. There is no real 'market' for these type of stolen items. The third way is to 'ransom' them. A stolen TV has value as it is semi common and usually you can offload it. A stolen one of a kind piece of artwork/book/etc basically has a 'investigate me' sign on it.
I think the term has negative connotations because of people who build the wrong thing before asking critical questions or clarifying anything that would help shape the requirements.

I understand some people enjoy being just implementers, though. I don't think that's enough but to each their own.
Building the BBC's media CDN [video]
I'm guessing you have strong opinions on what makes something a Real Solution and not just Inane Bullshit I Don't Actually Need
Looks like about 80% are longer than the session and about half are 1-2 years. If you need 18 cookies for your site to even function, you're doing something wrong IMO.
With this attitude, UIs will never become more intuitive.
I'm not sure about ammo but weapons are of course heavily regulated. So much so that as a registered weapon owner you must tell the Police of the route you take from home to the gun range. At least this is what I heard many years ago. I have no interest in this topic besides being firmly against all forms of weapons in the hands of civilians.

And you're not allowed to store the weapon assembled, and you must use a certified gun cabinet. These are also things I've picked up along the way, without actually looking into them.
Okay, I think it was not a good idea to compare these languages from the beginning. I don't think this discussions leads anywhere.
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I don't think a freshman CS student could afford to apply for a patent. This is only reserved for big companies or engineers backed up by wealth. You also often get things patented that nobody thought about patenting as they are that obvious. It's just a mechanism to gate keep and secure profits for big guys. I have a friend who has multiple patents and their investor only agreed to put money in their project if they patented it and shared all revenue. They were not actually interested in the product itself apart from likelihood the patents will bring money. The project is now dead, but patents stay blocking anyone from trying the same idea.
What I meant was that GitHub's API does not check for the Host header, and the API allows connections from any source. Thus, CORS isn't an issue at all.
1) They are a measure of a very specific kind of intelligence: the kind of intelligence required to score high on IQ tests. I score pretty high on IQ tests but I can say without a shadow of a doubt that my intelligence in other areas is, at least as it appears to me, below average.

2) intelligence does have some elasticity. When you think of intelligence has a culmination of pathways/heuristics/low-level-techniques, it’s easy to see how many pathways are self-reinforcing and not easily taught or measured. You can be predisposed to a particular kind of intelligence, and not everything is attainable by everyone, but what we call intelligence is close to what we call talent: seems like an innate quality, but actually reflects long-term hard practice with countless hours dedicated.
Except it does, which is why people made tools like this:

https://appuals.com/stop-windows-7-from-upgrading-to-windows...
But the cream floats to the top.
Anyone know the difference in delivery mechanism between these two? Both are mRNA right?
And only 10bit HDR support? Weak. Though I guess PQ has been patented by Dolby?

https://www.avsforum.com/threads/smpte-webinar-dolby-vision-...
You are wrong. In the U.K., which drives on the left and is in Europe, it is not expressly forbidden to undertake (pass on the left) anywhere, including motorways. This is independent from the legal requirement to remain in the left-most lane if possible.

On designated one-way streets, and thus not on motorways, passing on either side is expressly allowed. Of course, reckless undertaking at high relative speed on the motorway may be interpreted as illegal under other more widely encompassing laws.
Such a fun little hack. The killer feature is that you found a way for anyone to create a new short URL without a pull request or any changes to the original repository. Nice work.
Responsibility can take different forms. That's my point.
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Good question. In a sane world, we'd be allocating the total manufacturing capacity (whatever it is) to maximize optimal vaccine production (whether that's only the most effective one, or a diversity of vaccines at certain proportions) without regard to intellectual property, but this is not a sane world.

One article said the reason of these vaccines can be stored more easily than the other is they use different proprietary formulations of inactive ingredients to carry the mRNA. Again, in a sane world, the most effective one would be shared, right? In the US, this is the kind of thing the Defense Production Act could be used for (instead of keeping meat plants open!!).
I dunno. Kylie Jenner turned her makeup line into a billion dollars.
I hadn’t heard of that but I have the same problem when I eat apples. Makes sense now.
Ben Thompson on the latest Exponent[1]: "When you start out a company, you're walking around and you have complete freedom of movement. And then you get some processes in place, you get better at things, and now you're riding bike. And then you're driving a car. And eventually at some point, the best, most efficient companies are like bullet trains. They're so much faster than anybody else and so much more powerful and so much more efficient, it's like "how can I compete with that?" Well it's actually quite straightforward how you compete with it, you go somewhere there are no bullet train tracks."

[1] https://exponent.fm/episode-190-intel-apple-disruption-and-d...
This is definitely just a fun hack and not meant for production! For production ready short links with low overheads I would personally recommend using Firebase URLs or cloud firestore.
Vk.com released its PHP – C++ transpiler
M1 Chip Beats GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 560 for Graphics Performance
Not at all. That is why the N on these trials is so huge. 5/15000 vs. 90/15000 is going to be statistically significant anyway you slice it. It’s a 45-fold difference. You can approximate it yourself with a t test.
Pangea theory is much more obvious when you look at that map.

Also it is interesting that it is as if the whole "land" of the world is basically a big island in the middle of the ocean.
Pfizer's can actually be stored for 5 days at normal fridge temperatures after removing it from deep-cold storage.
Agreed, but the Pfizer vaccine isn't as bad as most people think: you get 5 days are normal freezer temperatures. That is more than enough time to drive from their manufacturing location in Wisconsin (this might be a cold storage faultily and manufacturing elsewhere - I'm not sure) to anywhere in North America - so long as wherever you drive to already has people lined up to get the vaccine.

The above won't be hard to do for the first 3 months at least: just give the shot to health care workers as they come in for their scheduled shift. What gets hard is when you want to do a walk-in clinic: you need to figure out how much to order without knowing how many people will show up.

Note, don't take the above as a statement that Pfizer will (or should) ship at higher temperatures. While it works out on paper that they can, they have been putting effort into arranging really cold shipment for a reason: it is best to give the entire time stored at higher temperatures to the end clinic. Human logistics are the hardest part of this and this and really cold shipment gives more flexibility to the hardest part.

In any case: with both vaccines the hard part is ensuring people get their second dose on time after starting the shots! This is by far the most difficult logistical issue with either vaccine.
The difference between 5 and 90 is highly significantly different from equality.

And same as with the BioNTech vaccine, the testing continues until they have 160+ covid cases in one of the legs.
Yeah well thats just modern software I guess. Malware as a feature.
And meanwhile some people actually took the time to look at the statistics. A lot of countries with lockdowns had more trouble than countries without lockdowns. e.g. Argentinia with masks and lockdowns has one of the worst curves of the planet... while Sweden is doing fine.

And COVID-19 is strictly following Gompertz-Mathematics - just like a seasonal corona-virus. For any usual outbreak (f'/f) is falling exponentially all the time... There are no visible trend-changes around most policy-changes.

And there's no statistical epidemiological evidence that masks did anything good. In some countries with masks things got a lot worse. (more efficient catch+inhale? Or catch+transmit without being infected?)

Most of the hype around COVID-19 is just cheating by using "reporting date" instead of "date of death" to make Gompertz-Functions look like seriously dangerous exponentials...

If you have some datasets that allow to compare "reporting date" with "date of death" it is astonishing to see how many reporting-anomalies appear around policy-changes...
If we're bringing up basketball as a comparison for development skills - or intelligence in general - then Scott Alexander has written about this too: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/01/talents-part-2-attitud...

His take is that someone short may never make it to the NBA, but that shouldn't mean we discourage them from ever throwing a ball at a hoop.
No. The full trial was on 30,000 people, every phase 3 trial picks a certain number of infections to stop at in order to draw results. Of the control group, 90 something got COVID, while only 5 of the vaccinated group got it in the same timespan. This is considered a big enough difference to call the vaccine effective (so far).
Thinkpads:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop/Lenovo