skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you not want business people to understand the technical constraints? Maybe easier in the short term to make the decision for them but longer term that just builds up barriers and an “us” and “them” culture, which becomes very unhealthy.
With the low cost of hobby/DIY drones and other aircraft I expect the number of "UFO" sightings to skyrocket.
> Your translation means "coronavirus did not result in an increase in deaths in 2020"

That’s simply a lie - you are deliberately taking the “yet” out and replacing “showing” with “result”, which indicates total certainty, from my translation. I am not editing comments earlier in this thread FYI, you know I translated it correctly. “Ännu” means “yet” and “visar” means “showing/shows”. I encourage non-Scandinavians to Deepl translate it; language barriers don’t exist in our age due to machine translation.
Is that really the case? I had visions about some place on some far away coast where exactly that seems to be the case.

Sankt Franziskus, or something like that.
> When are we going to start putting all these efforts and resources into focusing on the vulnerable populations and not painting with a broad brush.

We have been. That's why the vaccine is going out to them first.

We have too many people in hospital. Even if all spreading stopped right this second, the number of people going into hospital will continue to increase for another 2 weeks. This is the busiest time of year for hospitals, and we already have more covid paitents than we did in April.

If my child needs an ICU bed, I want one available, I don't want it filled with 80 year old covid patients.
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>I had myself, my wife, and a cat in 450 square feet

So, like the average "family with 2 kids" size of house in most of the world :-)
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I’m a peon, so I don’t know what options were discussed, but I suspect once you’ve been revealed to be that dishonest, it’s hard to trust that you aren’t pulling other shenanigans.
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Woudn't it be a nice way to destroy the respect of core conspiracy theorists who convince others that they know everything?
Thanks, I tried to clarify this in my original comment, but it can no longer be edited.

I'm not sure that changes much. To me, "BIPOC" is anything but inclusive. It's an acronym that apparently was used for about a month, by people of a very specific political ideology, and seems to be criticized by the very people this term is supposed to represent. [1]

And what does totalitarianism have to do with anything? I am all for putting a bit more power in employees' hands (esp. for issues where HR will throw an employee under the bus), but can we please keep the divisive political rhetoric out of it? Not shoehorn "BIPOC" and politically-charged language everywhere?

I am a "BIPOC", but I feel this rhetoric will be more effective with (mostly white) progressives/liberals, not the people it purports to represent.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-bipoc.html
I don't want to run down the process completely. You're right that some level of classification is necessary to access services in the current system. That's fine as long as people realise that that is all a "diagnosis" is in this field. Too often people think a diagnosis means there is a tried and tested correct treatment...
Clearly I did not. Been a lot to keep up with last few months.
It’s fantastic. You can program in MicroPython, or C using Arduino IDE. I'm barely fluent in C and had no problem getting some basic stuff running last night.
Getting sick and tired of this blockchain nonsense. The whole industry is a cash-grabbing hype.
iOS saves screenshots of tabs. I scrolled through my own and found a bunch of old tabs (didn't realize I had so many) that just showed pure black.

macOS saves screenshots too, to show when hovering over a tab. Curiously, it doesn't seem to use these saved screenshots in Show All Tabs. Also I just tested, Show All Tabs on macOS is no longer loading unloaded tabs. I have a window with 13 tabs right now, only two of which I've visited since launching Safari, and the others just remain as blank in Show All Tabs.
As if grandma even want to be in isolation in the first place.

My grandma would rather took the small risk of dying of covid to go outside, socialize with their friends and family.
Their employer isn't you, it's themselves. You have hired them in their sole proprietorship capacity.

> Of course they can have opinions or refuse to do things in certain ways. But they can't force you to have a pink wall color, or other things. At most, perhaps if the see something dangerous or illegal in your kitchen, they may have a duty to do something about it.

You're not their employer, you're contracting their employer.

> Harassment: again, quit your job, apart from that, general laws about harassment should apply, independent from you being an employee or not.

No thanks, that's an objectively worse world.

> Why do you get people to have the duty to take care of you, but I don't? Who should have the duty to take care of me?

Because that's what running a business is. Since you're self employed you have that responsibility to look after yourself.

> Now what is your duty towards me? Is it now your duty to see that I earn a living wage and have job security forever? All just because you simply wanted a new wall color in your kitchen?

Nope, that's their employers duty.
>Unfortunately there is no compromise that can please everyone

We have started working Thursdays and Fridays in the office and the rest at home. Its nice to get out and do something different and still have all the time savings and time to think at home most of the week. It does still require you to live close to the office though.
That isn't the calculation though.

No-one is saying make it slower for less money. The Oxford vaccine is being rolled out fast, millions of doses available - actually millions more because, since they aren't so concerned with making money, India are able to make their own locally.

This isn't a questions of scale - everyone is doing this at maximum scale. Some are just making more money from it than others. The Moderna one is more expensive because it's for-profit not because they've spent more money scaling up.

If anyone knows otherwise let me know.
Kinda apt to name it after a phenomenon that causes communications outages
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Does leetcode really do much in terms of algorithms though? In my experience, a lot of problems can be solved with sheer brute force, or by merely using the language built-in data structures and memoization tricks.

I think algorithms per se don't necessarily give you much of an advantage. For example, LIS[0] is fairly frequently-run algorithm if you work with web stuff, but nearly no one in that specialization knows how to write it from memory (and knowing about it doesn't translate to being able to write other algorithms)

Where I think leetcode helps is in giving you an opportunity to practice the skill of putting together various building blocks in a semi-realistic fashion (e.g. having to use a memoization trick to get under the run time threshold is something that is similar to real life performance work, despite the exercise itself being completely unrealistic).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_increasing_subsequence
How much of that public spending is on the prison industrial complex? On "law and order?" Not all public spending is equal.
> Assuming equivalent machine costs

I know of at least one automation equipment company that prices their machines in China at about half of what they charge to US customers, because that's the price point that the market will bear. Exact same machines, same specs. Just like any other region-based price discrimination.
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Ask HN: How can I make $5 on the internet?
I've been working on side projects for a long time (7 years) and never actually made a $1 on the internet. Really, not a single dollar. Most of my side projects were failed app/business ideas.

So, my New Year's resolution this year is to break the ice and make a quick $5 on the internet. No constraints, can be anything (well, almost anything :).

Does anyone have any creative ways to make a few dollars online?
Yes, I would openly encourage different types of work contracts in California / the US. I'd commit, for example, to 1-2 year auto-renewing contracts. Probably would need a few conditions:

* If I am terminated without breach of contract I still will receive full compensation (at least for some months).

* Contract may not be broken related to any unexpected health issues.

* No arbitration requirement if one side accuses breach of contract.

Of course this would benefit me more than the employer :-)
A few things here:

1. Background check companies usually only contact the positions you list to verify your dates of employment and title. They probably won't contact a job you don't let them know about.

2. If it helps you sleep at night, you can still fill out the background check form accurately, but leave stuff off your resume / not talk about it in the interview. Again, there is no rule that you need to talk about every job you have ever had in chronological order on your resume or in the interviews. As long as there is nothing untrue, or some sort of strange conflicts of interest, you are totally welcome to omit things that aren't relevant.

3. In the rare, extremely unlikely chance that you have to explain yourself, it seems perfectly acceptable to say "I've only been at this job for a few weeks. I am not sure I am going to stay longer, so I didn't think it was relevant".

If you are interviewing for the CIA, then definitely list every job. If it's a normal tech job, people simply don't care. Fill your precious chance to impress your interviewer with things that are actually impressive.
Curiously, in my non coding management role, I busted out Djikstra’s algorithm last year to the amazement of most of the developers, who thought the problem in front of them was insoluble. It turned out that yes, it is in the general case, but it was totally possible to brute force the results required for the constrained task at hand on a laptop in Python and store the ~60k optimal solutions in a lightning fast key/value store.

I didn’t reproduce it from memory though (but I did choose to port a Java version in preference to any of the existing Python versions I found, because it’s code was structured in a way that I grokked much easier. Possibly due to my not totally expert idiomatic Python skills, I’m really a Perl coder deep down.)

(And I never had to do any whiteboard performative coding to land this gig either.)
It's the effect of their long-range cloaking device - it scrambles the photons bouncing off the craft so it always creates an indistinct image.
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I have a habit of slogging through difficult patches that has, for the most part and with only perhaps two notable exceptions, served me well. However, I want to tell the story of one of these exceptions as a counterpoint to other comments here.

A few years ago I started a job where, within the first week or two, I had serious enough doubts about whether or not it was going to work that I spoke to my manager and said that I wanted to leave (even though I had nothing else lined up). He was really good about it and after we talked I decided to make more of a go of it, but it was the wrong decision and I've always regretted it.

In the end I stayed for 8 months and was miserable and frustrated for the entire time. This was, I think, a contributory factor (though by no means the only factor) to the breakup of a relationship that I valued very deeply, and that I have also always regretted the end of. The end of that relationship was really the final straw: the moment I realised I needed to bail, and that I should have bailed long before.

I still I didn't have anything definite lined up, although I did have three options on the table. In the end I chose one of them and started after taking a month off to recover. Even had I left at the beginning, I don't think I'd have struggled for work though.

Every situation is different, and staying is not always the right thing to do especially not - as was the case in my situation - where the cultural and ways of working gulf is so large. I have no awkward explaining to do about my CV but there are sometimes more important concerns in life.

(I've omitted a lot of specifics because I don't want to name either the organisation involved, or impugn the people either - many of them were great. There was certainly nothing unpleasant going on of the sort we've seen discussed a few times recently on HN. It was simply a case of an unresolvable culture clash. The commute was also a horrible slog - anything between 60 and 90 minutes each way even on a motorcycle, and I hadn't realised how exhausting that amount of riding every day would be.)
It's almost as if Freedom Markets™ would benefit from clear rules, professional administration, and fair & impartial referees.
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>personal safety be damned

Apple is working on fixing that. There is a setting on ios 14 that can alert you when it hears things like a fire alarm, dogs barking, people yelling, etc.
Think about what that implies regarding the difference a competent government makes. Half a million dead, maybe even more, in the US alone. Granted, Taiwan was in some way lucky to have had SARS to get the acceptance needed to install their emergency law, but still, others had too and did scratch. Switzerland even gave up its stockpile of pandemic supply two years ago.
I have a friend at Microsoft that decided to switch teams. He absolutely regretted it. This isn't to say Microsoft is bad (he had plenty of good things to say about it) but he said that switching teams gets really messy. The people on the previous team feel betrayed, the people on the new team feel like you are an opportunist, and unless you are running away from a specific department manager there is likely going to be very little change between the teams. He also complained that he feels like he started a new job, is starting on the bottom of the new team, but without the benefits of new job title or salary.

He regretted switching to the new team, when he expressed his disastisfaction to the new team manager the team manager felt like he simply wasn't a good fit and transferred him to a third team. Now he is the guy who has been on 3 teams in 6 months and he feels all the same problems as before, but with the label of being a "team switcher" whenever something doesn't go right.

Over Christmas he told me he plans to start applying for new jobs outside of the company at the start of the year.

As a manager, I have personally moved employees from other teams to my team twice and neither time did it work out well. There is often a reason that the previous team wasn't working out. Many people see switching teams as an easy and secure way to get a new job. But it is a lateral move and not a job switch. I haven't seen it work out well in either of the two times I have allowed it. Both employees lasted less than 6 months after switching teams.
Leetcode focused on tricks and memorizing algorithms.

I've rejected a good bunch of candidates that can pass coding tests while not having any good understanding of theory, hardware, OS, networking, security
I would expect:

ROI > 1 = profitable ad spend
0 < ROI < 1 = ad spend does not cover its cost
ROI < 0 = losing money because of the ad spend (the ad is damaging to your brand)
> It's a blue smear.

Flying object successfully identified, case closed :)
So what damage do you estimate this blog post will do in USD to the price of Bitcoin
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Who's to say what is a mass shared delusion and what is consistent reality? According to those you consider to be under delusions, you yourself are under one, and they are in fact seeing the truth for what it really is. It would be nice if it were as simple as some sort of Ministry of Truth, but that idea has been explored well enough in theory that it doesn't seem reasonable to try as a real experiment. But maybe it's inevitable that society reaches a point where that seems attractive, and we try it and live out something more closely approximating 1984 than life already does (we already are there tech wise, smart TVs are telescreens, they just aren't quite as obviously sinister yet). And then we learn our lesson and some improved iteration of society emerges thereafter.
Double your teams salary to get the cost to the company including benefits like health insurance (which are very real).
Ooh, good point. I've heard some of the Asian animation industry is super bad about burning people out in just a few years.
I don't see anyone's knickers getting twisted, just people sharing their opinions.

I will say that I find it (very slightly) annoying when I can find the exact part I want with LEDs but can't find it without. Lighting seems to be default on for the vast majority of components, so its existence forces me to deal with figuring out how to turn it off whereas a non-LED component just does what I want.
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Either
SpaceX is working with the government on a secret space craft or the government stole SpaceX's tech. Reason I say this is because you can see on the side of the air craft jets shooting out trying to self correct its landing. No one has that except SpaceX....or Amazon stole the tech and they're using it.
> Or, nobody has a better idea...

No...

> at least not one that’s possible to administer cheaply.

Ah, yes. AFAIK, Behavioural interviewing works, but it does require training and thoughtfulness. You have to know what you're looking for, and ask questions specifically targeting that. You definitely cannot just throw a random employee into an interview with a list of questions and expect it to work.
...and hair loss.
To be fair, I would probably give the candidate with the most party tricks extra points. It demonstrates an interest in the subject matter as well as an ability to demonstrate it in an exciting way. Also, how fun would that interview process be? Just sayin...
Try reading the tutorial. F* uses refinement types, which means that logic is checked before the program is executed, at compile time.
They could also have motivations to use more specific testing or lower PCR amplification cycles. The PCR amplifications of over 40+ in the US and EU lead to many false positives. There could also be genetic factors found in only South East Asians. Also, they're an island, just like NZ.

There are a lot of variables, but the biggest factor: they're literally an island.
I find that on my over ear headphones, the physical barrier of the headphones blocks out a lot of higher sounds to some amount and the anc kills the low sounds. I can still hear stuff while I'm not playing sound but when I turn on music I can't hear anything around me.