skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what that has to do with crypto though? That's how all currency works.

> And are you really going to negotiate that day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month, year-to-year? What if the value drops significantly in the middle of the day? What do I pay you at the end of the week?

Whatever we agree on. My current pay is mostly company stock, and that has a big fluctuation, yet tons of people seem fine to pay in stock and be paid in stock.
You know that jew hating was "branding" and bullshit from the tories, right? Literally false conservative propaganda.
let me guess you are under 30?

when someone has a spouse, two kids, a mortgage to pay, a whole bunch of daily chores to finish, pressure from manager to finish under tight deadlines, a simple depth first search looks like a very big problem at the end of the day.

People pay cognitive tax that robs them from doing intellectually difficult tasks. This is well documented in behavioral economics. "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir"
I think this argument would stand on its own without the very specific claims about the person in question, which are a little strong unless you have personal information.
You know that jeep hating was "branding" and bullshit from the tories, right? Literally false conservative propaganda.
Thank you for the truth glummy glooma.
Because leetcode is way more boring than making things? Also you learn a lot more by trying to do a good job and working with smart people, they are just not that easy to bring out in an interview.

That being said if you think it’s right for you, go for it.
That’s true and this isn’t an AWS vs Azure vs GCP argument.

Once you decide to move from on prem to either of the cloud providers you get the benefits of being able to take advantage of scale efficiencies, letting another company do the “undifferentiated heavy”, elasticity (not having to provision for peak capacity), a global infrastructure, quick provisioning of resources etc.

Yes depending on your use case, you can gain benefits from moving off prem/colo to any cloud provider. The benefit once you move to any of the providers to switch providers is negligible.
Atom underperformed too though.

There was a Lenovo Zenfone that shipped with an atom and even in Java apps or running the few Android NDK apps that shipped x86 APK's, they weren't fast.

Fun fact, Android used libhoudini (basically, reverse Rosetta2) allowing arm NDK apps to run (but they were pretty rough).
Hm? Stolen assets you say?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_Unit...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_austerity_packages

A 51% attack doesn’t let the bad actor steal someone else’s coins. It lets them reverse and double spend their own spending. They can’t directly steal coins. The flexibility of open source software gives opportunities to mitigate such an event, should it happen.
Feels like blast from the past..
I thought the "blockchain everywhere" hype was over and most people realized a regular database might work just as well?
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Central banks seem to accept low deflation now. At least here in Germany we have low deflation. The money the central banks print is not for preventing inflation. They would need to put money in the hands of common people, but it just stays in the financial system and keeps asset prices up.
Actually Linux has my favorite display scaling --- if you just have one screen.

I spend all day with Firefox, terminals, and emacs in XMonad and they all scale perfectly with no raster UI elements. (XMonad's pixel boarder I didn't bother to scale.)

On Windows and MacOS last I checked, there was a lot more resized raster bullshit.
Do you have any proof of that? Otherwise it's just conspiracy theory. Sometimes people do things that don't benefit them. It's called charity. I don't think that Bezos is a saint, but I also don't think he bought the New York Post to be his mouthpiece nor would the editors allow it.
> you would never run out of space

You do see how that can't possibly applying to literally everyone, right? You can't use the argument that "they said it would grow with me" to store 1TB of emails and be surprised when they start charging you.

15GB is a lot. Even if you receive 5 emails with 1mb attachments every single day, that's still almost 10 years. With normal text emailed, you will never run out until you die. Most cloud providers give 5GB. It's fair to say that it has grown with you to a reasonable storage size. If you need more than 15GB, it's fair to say you're beyond that.
Yes, I used to target iOS dev audience as I am one myself, but now I am switching to web dev as I find it more fun.

I have sold $5k+ worth of ebook on iOS dev over 2 years here : https://autolayout.fluffy.es , not a lot but I think it is a good experience.

Now I am still looking on what product to build for web dev audience haha
Mathematician cares about experimental physics because it settles his dispute and satiates his ego.
Bought an Oryx Pro a few years ago, had to replace the LCD, keyboard twice. Terrible build quality, poor battery performance. I would not recommend these laptops.
For regions and subpopulations of the US, this isn’t true. Philadelphia had ~25000 residents in 1790, and 5000 died in 1793 from yellow fever. That’s 1 in 5, and even NJ isn’t at 1 in 500 from COVID at this point.

http://physics.bu.edu/~redner/projects/population/cities/phi...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/fever-m...

I’m guessing other order-of-magnitude or greater events can be found in US history. Battlefield deaths were also atrocious before sulfa drugs and the like.

Would normally be a bit pedantic, but the title does say “most difficult months in US health history”, a pretty high standard to meet.
I just yesterday set up fetchmail[1] to fetch e-mail from yahoo over POP and deposit them in a self-hosted mailbox (for my partner's longstanding Yahoo e-mail address). It may be worth a look; it can fetch from IMAP or POP and spit them out to LMTP or SMTP. (N.B. it didn't work with IMAP on Yahoo for me, but using POP was no problem).

edit: Perhaps my /etc/fetchmailrc file can be a useful starting point for someone[2].

[1]: https://www.fetchmail.info/

[2]: https://hastebin.com/raw/ororunutev
I'm going through the process right now and I think my favorite one was an interview with a company that basically asked me to review some mock code which had nothing to do with their business just to get a sense of a) my thought process, b) see if I really understood the language I said I knew, and c) could communicate with another engineer.
Thanks to the not-union, the other party is not simply a single worker relying on an hourly wage job. Instead , the worker knows what can reasonably get from the company and if the company wrongs the worker, the not-union has the resources to help thanks to the subscription fees collected from the large number of members(potentially billions just like the companies).
WebP is the still image format of VP8 (like how HEIC is the still image format of x265). It's no more dangerous than any other image.
Yes. They design the machines themselves, while system76 use clevo.

It's rare nowadays to have end to end ownership. Very sad.
I was a teacher for a laughably short time, and I think what you are talking about would be called an "authentic performance task". Also, I think what interviewers are attempting is called "assessment", and I can say these tests are the absolute laziest version of it.

Genuine assessment is very hard. I worked at a leading bootcamp you would know the name of and was asked by $BIGCO to create a one dimensional assessment for all (guessing) 10000 of their programmers, so they would know who to fire. I refused. It isn't that simple.

I think a company like hackerank likely got that contract.
Ok, so now your criteria is that a hard drug is one you can overdose accidentally on?

Well, accidental overdoses do happen on legal prescription medications, also on alcohol. Would you consider those "hard drugs"?

And, back to water... accidental overdoses have occurred from drinking too much water. Paradoxically, it tends to happen when people have heard that they should "drink lots of water" when they're exerting themselves and getting hot, but they don't realize that it's important to get electrolytes with your water, or drinking too much water will disturb the electrolyte balance in your blood and you could die.

So even by your "accidental overdose" criteria, water would be a "hard drug".

Also, if I can infer that you consider accidental overdoses to be undesirable, then you should be all for making drugs legal, as it's their illegal status that leads to more accidental overdoses, because (as I said in another comment in this thread), when drugs are illegal their users don't know the purity or dose they're getting, while when drugs are legal their known dosage and purity leads to fewer accidental overdoses.
Kinesis Data Firehose is now pretty much Flink. Flink is a pretty good product.
Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
The optimist in me says that cloud gaming will expand the category, not move it from local to cloud. Cloud gaming can't beat the laws of physics, and cloud hardware isn't free. So action/fps games will always have a home on local hardware.

But cloud games have an advantage too and maybe we'll see new kinds of games/experiences that are not possible with local PCs.
"double encrypted SSL"

Not sure if serious ...
US Sanctions Forcing Huawei to End ARM Chip Production
> 3% of earnings going to shareholders just does not at all mean the company drops by 3% in value.

But this is not what's being claimed. Dividends are measured relative to stock price, not earnings. And a 3% dividend - that is, a per-share dividend equal to 3% of the share price - absolutely does cause the price to decrease by 3%.

It's pretty clear why this must be the case - it's one of the weakest possible forms of the efficient-markets hypothesis. If it wasn't the case, people would buy (sell) the stock just before the dividend and sell (buy) just after for a nearly guaranteed profit.
Another shortcoming of trending repos is language. I often see a trending repo in a language that I cannot read.

Some options are:

- Put a translation for me so my interest can be piqued.

- Let me choose which language I can read so you can personalize it.

- Figure it out based on repos I have starred or forked.
I actually enjoy working with all that bureaucracy because at least I know I'm not serving ads to people.
On a 15"? You're probably going to lose meaningful battery life and increase price for barely noticeable gains.
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback. I'll de-emphasize the remote focus, since I'm close enough to NYC that I'm willing to split my time.
I have to check the list, but what I’ll be looking for is a community for entrepreneurs discussing Year 5, or 10+ experience topics. Most I’ve checked drown in startup 101 topics.
As a consultant to large orgs who was paid handsomely to fix the situation you describe, I can say that is exactly what they think, and also exactly wrong.

[edit] Many people in these orgs are doing exactly that. Having come in, diagnosed the ultimate crap that kept them on that 1 button for six months, helped give them the autonomy to do what was needed helped everyone involved, from the devs to the PMs to the division itself.

It's a common and insidious pattern, but even big companies benefit when it's broken.
Techno-Optimism for the 2020s
Perhaps just the hoop-jumping is itself a proper test. It shows you're willing to work hard towards a goal, and are at least reasonably smart.
Why did you assume those jobs will stay in US?
TL;DR: you're testing for likability and other emotional response.
It’s very much on my list. I was really gunning for yarn 2 for some greenfield projects but after finding its awful rough edges I looked more at pnpm and it feels much more in line with what I want.
You're talking a lot about different types of devs, but it sounds to me like you are just "not a laptop user".

That's fine. But it really has nothing to do with what type of dev you are. Many more than just webdevs are happy to compile code on a laptop.

So yes, these laptops and intro level desktop are not for you.
What's the advantage of using Regolith over i3? I'm curious because I have i3 set up, and want to see if Regolith is worth switching to.
> Doesn't seem to be the case so far in Sweden. In fact Minnesota's per-capita rate of COVID deaths just surpassed Sweden's even though they've done much more in the way of lockdowns.

According to Oxford and NYTimes, Minnesota has relatively lax lockdowns compared to other states: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/18/us/covid-stat.... States in the US with more lockdowns also have lower hospitalization and case rates, which suggests that lockdowns are at least correlated with lower infections. To prove causation, you might want more evidence, but to me the mechanism of how lockdowns prevent infections is pretty clear.

> The degree of hospital overcrowding seems overstated at the moment: https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1334565211148152832

This is lazy analysis. Like another responder said, national averages don't matter much when individual cities are being overwhelmed. A tech analogy: You can't say that your service is healthy just because its median latency is 50ms. If the p99 latency is a minute, then your service has performance issues.

Second, because of containment measures, the prevalence of the cold and flu (and other contagious diseases) has also gone down. 2019 is not the correct baseline to make a comparison -- 2019 with lockdowns (and no COVID) would be.
^This is literally a golden advice.
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If they’re just going to scrap the dish, it would be cool to own a piece of it. Anybody know if that’s possible?
> Plaid is literally the only way to do ACH without microdeposit verification

Yodlee? https://www.yodlee.com/account-verification
I think the real issue remains latency. Gaming companies are using it but the users don’t want it. Try playing call of duty or doom over the network and it’s going to be a terrible experience.
The ‘last mile’ for Covid-19 vaccines could be the biggest challenge yet
Imagine even considering anything other than M1. Candles versus flashlights here.
This isn’t my topic so I’m not qualified to speak on it at all. That said I clicked anyway and... am I crazy for reading the first paragraph in a hyperventilating tone?
In any large company there are lots of process rules and internal deadlines that are unrealistic for whatever reason and don't get followed in practice, leading to many last-minute exceptions. I don't know about the specific case of research papers, but if would not surprise me at all if "one day before the deadline" were a common submission timeframe at Google. Of course that not ideal and probably sucks for the team in charge of reviewing these things, but in that context it wouldn't be such a "damning" piece of evidence against her and the other researchers.
They could always use RISC-V instead.
The only problem with the “race to the bottom” with airlines is the lack of tools to allow easy comparison of like with like, which in turn means airlines don’t (yet) have many different sized seats and service levels on a plane.

One day we’ll see flight aggregators that allow you to specify how much luggage you have, how tall you are, what kind of seat you want, if you want a decent meal, etc, and will give you a unified seat price.
There's a clever little meme floating about showing a perfectly normal, happy, healthy, unmasked family with the caption "conspiracy theorists" and then in the adjacent panel a visibly paranoid person with a mask and face shield captioned "normal person".

Cheap, but clever.
Language models like GPT2 process language like the brain
I agree: herd immunity through infection without a vaccine has never been seriously accepted by the scientific community.

However, that has not stopped Trump from alluding to a herd immunity approach: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/29/trumps-be...

During his town hall before the election, Trump even claimed that "over period of time... [developing] a herd mentality" would cause the coronavirus to "go away." From context, a reasonable viewer could assume that Trump meant "herd immunity."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2020/09/16/trump-says-...
Smart watch
Recent trends
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Sounds like they want to rationalize firings in a way the blame is on the engineers.
Does NeoVim support that out if the box? For regular Vim I'm using https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-navigator.
This is interesting. Will Carta be disclosing 409a valuations as well?
As a recent owner of a Lenovo Flex 5 14 with AMD4700U, I recommend verifying that USB-C alternate mode / Display Port capability is available. On the Flex 5 it isn't and it's quite annoying that docking for multiple displays, etc. is nerfed.

It's mystifying that there's pretty much no availability of competitive spec'd machines for such a great performing processor / GPU on the market. This Pangolin is slightly amazing for allowing up to 64GB of RAM -- all other options using AMD Ryzen 4XXX I've seen are limited to 8GB of soldered RAM, 1080p display, and 720p webcam. I was somehow lucky and got a 16GB version of the Flex 5 in July. Now it's completely disappeared from the market.

It just feels like dark market forces are preventing good options that people really want to buy.
A great achievement, probably done with much less budget than Google's Sycamore.
Shortening is a likely outcome. But in theory it's even possible that the immune response prepared by the vaccine only prevents virus spread to organs where we notice symptoms but does not clear out those places that the virus colonizes during the pre-symptomatic infectivity phase that seems to be the super-power of this particular virus. And that this success prevents another immune response that would otherwise clear out those spreading springboards. Of course this perfect storm of what could be called "vaccine enhanced infectivity" is an extremely unlikely scenario, but at least weak forms of it that cause longer infectivity, but not much longer or even permanent infectivity could remain undetected for years.

The reason for all this uncertainty is simple: testing for infectivity doesn't scale, definitely not enough to continuously observe test groups large enough to experience cases.

But Ithink there is hope: chances are someone is designing a study that recruits a number vaccinated that live together with someone unvaccinated. Then in case their unvaccinated peer falls ill you can observe the vaccinated one, that should be well in the test scaling envelope. We know the attack rate in unvaccinated households and can compare.
But why is Dell so far ahead of Clevo?
I'm not sure what language you work in the most, but based on the build issues I might guess c++, in which case I'd say check out conan central. It's still sad compared to other package managers, but if you're building c++ all day, it's a game changer.

https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/tree/master/r...
I am not expert enough to weigh in heavily on what's the best way to do that, but I feel like "software engineer" is just a title to make us feel great while we assemble our components much like the workers on an auto manufacturing line, but with a tiny bit more education and day-to-day work differences. However, with all the low-code and other tools which make it easier to write software and deploy it (crappy software, but "it works") soon we'll see "software engineers" turn into "software assemblers" or something like that. Sure, there will be a handful of programmers who will need to code those tools, or specialize in algorithms or writing code on constrained environments (embedded), but those will be the surgeons who make all the money, and the rest of us are the closers (whatever they call the surgeons who just sew things shut and finish up the procedure).
I am not very sympathetic with Timnit Gebru in this affair. At the same time, I am discouraged by the number of comments here that go over the top, fail to recognise nuance and uncertainty, and engage in name-calling (“virtue-signalling SJW” and so forth).

A plague on both your houses!
Authentic.
Goodness, you and the OP have really hit the nail on the head.

I spent the last 5 years quite happy at a simple dev shop. Then they hired a bunch of people, paid them more than me, and allowed them complete free reign to write what ever kind of code on some brand new projects. After a year of this, one person quit mid-project, another died mysteriously (covid?), and then another just recently quit. My boss expected me to just pick up the slack on these three projects that were written in the most arcane and buffoon way possible. I basically just said no, and left. I had already been driven half insane over the year just trying to figure out the crap they were committing.

This was in the spring and I'm still unemployed. I'm mostly Java and some older languages, and was really looking forward to jumping onto python and django. But it's been a struggle really learning django good enough to interview for without any good experience behind me. I have a family and on top of covid issues and this year in general, sitting at home trying to learn a giant web framework is not very motivating when I could be spending it with my family (which were already severely affected by all my time I "wasted" going above and beyond at my last job for 5 years).

I just recently did an interview for a small django shop that didn't even test on django. Instead, I was given a half page of python code and asked to "fix" the problems. No requirements or tips. There was a syntax error, a bug, and a few cosmetic things.. I managed to find 8. All this while being stared at over Zoom. I was informed that "junior" devs can find 10-12 "problems", but they only hire those that "find" more than 18 (apparently 25 is the max).

I still got the code and look at it every now and then. Half a page of code that does nothing but take a list of "item" objects and print out an aggregate of a total price by item type. A loop over nothing but:

total[item.type] += item.cost

Of course there was some random data mangling above and below that, but that is the logic. Find the problems?! Should I raise errors or use a namedtuple or defaultdict? Half a page of code that could have just been a Select/Group by in SQL. No senor dev should be summing data like that. Sadly they said the code was from "production". They have "interviewed" over a hundred people in this year and hired only 1. All this for $45/hr 1099.

In the beginning, I briefly thought I could use my savings to start some kind of business, not sure what. But I've blown most of that just paying the bills while I "interview".

I used to love software and would dream and breath it. But I've never been so unmotivated over these last 6 months. I'm debating on just applying at a local small town municipal IT job for $30 an hour. Giving up basically. Just show up at 8am, answer the phone mindlessly for IT "problems" and tell people to try restarting their windows machine (at least 3 times minimum) and screw of playing solitaire the rest of the day. But it seems so pointless and waste of a life. But even that doesn't motivate me, but just makes me more depressed and even slower going.