skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks really nice. Wondering if it would make sense to have sections for a list of skills and/or projects (rather than just work experience)?
Bay Area SWE from Flint, MI here.

> on paper it seems like a good idea to fight the rich company to give employees a bigger share of the profit

That is explicitly a non-goal of this union.

> Just look at what unions did to the people of Detroit

Let's say for argument's sake that the UAW wasn't formed, the Great Sitdown Strike just lead to policy changes (hard to imagine after how they were treated). Do you think the auto companies would have been as successful without the quality of life the UAW afforded its members? Anecdotally, my uneducated grandfather immigrated to the states for one of those jobs. Do you think that the auto companies still wouldn't have moved production overseas to maximize their profits? Even without the UAW, a job in Mexico still paid a fraction of an American job in the 70s.

> Also they can leave

If your gripe is that your work is now being used in a context you find ethically wrong (like Project Maven), moving companies doesn't solve the problem. Voting with your feet doesn't make any positive change, it just leaves you at the least problematic workplace.

> Twisting the arm of the boss to give you more, when has that worked in the long run ?

I don't know. I guess when it resulted in political action like the 40hr 5dy workweek? Honestly, I don't know though.
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It could also be race related - the US has a lot more minorities than Norway.
I've never found padded cycle shorts very comfortable and find it quite annoying that finding good quality cycling shorts without padding is getting difficult. Without padding they can also be used for other forms of exercise/sports.
I was (and still am)!

I even currently run one of these: https://koolance.com/pc2-601bw-liquid-cooling-system-black - I've had to replace the pump this last week. It didn't die, but the plastic got brittle and cracked. I ran it, without flushes, adding tap water when low, for about 18 years. No corrosion, all liquid looked great! I modified the old Swiftech WB to mount to my 3930K, overclocked to 4.5GHz and am typing on that system right now! If you're curious, it tops out at about 75*C at ~150W CPU power usage.

I still have a CCFL (and my $5 blue LED to replace the power light), and have been thinking of incorporating it into my next build. I plan to build a sleeper system using a case from the 90's, but fully watercooled and upgraded (along with an ESP32-powered fan control/thermal monitoring system I'm coding up now - this is where the magic still is in 2021 IMO)

I also did cut a window into a PC with a dremel. Those cases are quite thick and hard to cut! I totally don't miss hauling that big PC case and a 17 (or 19?) inch CRT to a friends place to LAN. Was really fun, though.
Just be curious and cross pollinate your ideas between different domains. I think the best ideas are not forced, but organic.

I come up with an idea for an invention about every other month. Usually they've already been implemented, or wouldn't have a large enough market.
> Because, effectively, the exFAT filesystem is OSS since August 2019

No its inclusion in Linux was the result of a decision by Microsoft, not a granting of an open license. Any other implementation still has to apply for a license:

"For customers wanting only a patent license, you can contact us to learn more about the exFAT licensing program and request a pricing proposal."
> Folks that don't do well with someone looking over their shoulder and talking to them while they're trying to work

I am one of those people myself, absolutely cannot do it. But interviewing isn't like that and shouldn't be. It is more like, cooperatively working on a problem with a colleague and then presenting and explaining it to your teammates. That's a pretty valuable skill at work, even necessary, I would say.

The whole "loner dev in his cave" stereotype, most of the time, just materializes in the form of a dude writing code that no one can understand or maintain, with a cherry on top being that dude not being able to effectively explain it to other people either.
You know, there's more than one parallel to religion here ); since newcomers seem to approach the "holy trinity" of HTML/CSS/JS as act of revelation. As in, there just has to be a deeper sense in CSS layout models, and if I fail to discover the reason why CSS properties and olde HTML presentation attributes are essentially representing the same thing with different syntax, it's my fault for not recognizing the grand plan behind it. Thus, if I finally managed to see a dubious use case for it, I've advanced one step in the hierarchy of the CSS church. That's how military hierarchies are build - by giving people ranks, thereby using their desire not to loose height energy aka sunk cost fallacy. Of course, unless you're doing CSS/web design all the time and nothing else, soon you're leaving your trail of knowledge acquisition in the form of a CSS framework product or consulting, at which point you have a vested interest in CSS staying opaque.
> I (from the UK) don't understand: you don't have to join a union. Keep your current contract and don't have a say in Union representation and negotiation, if that's what you want.

That's not how American unions work. If you don't join the union, you can't work there.
The difference is in the incentives. The union tries to make it's members happy. The employer tries to avoid liability and make a profit.

One of those is more aligned with your interests than the other.
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Spotify also has a relationship with Sony's Flow Machines AI music project.

Shall we try to guess why?
If it were me, I'd drop all of the .NET nonsense, and focus on making it possible to use the same native windows API on x64, ARM, and other platforms, using the resources in a manner similar to that when backwards compatibility was one of their goals.

There's no reason that a DOS, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95 app shouldn't run today, on an ARM machine, or on Apple Silicon. Just in time compilers allow everything to run in a virtual machine, why can't the OS just do it by default?

I'd add version numbers to files, just like they had in Files-11 on DEC machines.

Ok... enough of that... my initial reaction was, of course... oh sh*t, here we go again. 8(
Well, as much as people hate certification and standardization in this industry, even something as simple as "a tech union or the IEEE or Triplebyte produces a standard algorithms /data structures interview exam, candidates take that once and are certified for at least 5-10 years, and technical interviews then become more domain-specific or at least less academic", could be a nice alternative to the status quo.

Go through the Leetcode gauntlet once and get credentialed then, instead of every single time you want to change a job, with multiple prospective employers.
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A lot of that cost is due to inefficiencies by the institutions doing the sequencing. My current employer spends much more than my previous employer spends in order to sequence & analyze a single sample and the only substantive difference is in the process itself.
I had a contract signed.

No idea what happens where you live, but in Spain, a signed job contract is not worth the paper it's written on. They could just fire me the first day (there's always a "test period" during which they can do it no questions asked).

We operate with some good faith assumptions. Actually it's the only time that such a thing happened to me.
I stumbled upon this looking into BGFX[1]. I've been looking for an abstraction layer over Vulkan and Metal and it has come down to BGFX and Diligent Engine[2]. Diligent is still a bit lower level than I'd like, so I started poking around to see who was using BGFX. I was surprised to find Microsoft is using it in their C++ version.

[1]https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
[2]https://github.com/DiligentGraphics/DiligentEngine
It's sad that they're using card checks instead of secret ballots for the effort. Card checks are a tried and true method organizers use to intimidate people.

Source: several family members worked in union shops. In many cases, they were forced to be part of the union to have a job.
Actually, your point reminded me that a great many employees don't receive health insurance through their employer. Those people are disproportionately low wage workers. Before Obamacare, they had no option but the very expensive individual health insurance market.
Here's the link to Zeddynet (mentioned on the page), which is apparently somewhat similar to the card I mentioned in a different comment.

https://www.sinclairzxworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=1771
Alright, I get it, but I’m not the target audience. Could you build a product that’ll help me disappear without a trace? An opposite, if you will, of what you’ve built.
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Runtime safety and compile time safety are not the same thing.
Compile time safety is not a silver bullet but it does protect against quite a few classes of errors.
Cool! She was the primary author on one of the first Perl6 compiler implementations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugs_(programming)
I was recently forced to use Facebook Messenger (thanks God it's soon over), and I'm hating it : it's slow on mobile, even worse on PC, where it regularly makes my whole OS hang requiring a reboot.

Scrolling back is atrociously slow, and it doesn't even seem to have a search feature !

I'd take XMPP alternatives like Conversations, Jitsi, Pidgin any day ! (And Element of course.)
Half... lol
It's generally higher than that depending on the data you use too. Most statistics you see are based on 1-2 year recidivism rates, so if they end up in prison at a later date then that's not included. For example, the UK keeps data of up to 9 years. It increases from 46% to 78% during that time period, so really almost 4 in 5 people return to crime.

Another thing to note is some base it on reconviction, instead of reimprosonment, which obfuscate the data again.

A decent summary of some research done in 2020 in recidivism rates: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/recidivis...
You've made a lot of comments and mentioned many numbers and statistics, but I've yet to see any sources linked. Could you add them?

And please don't say something like "do your own research," that doesn't help the conversation at all.
The HGP likely sped up the COVID vaccine - by making DNA sequencers and printers cheap. Viral genomes are typically obtained by taking a swab from a human, mapping the reads to the human genome, so only viral sequences are left.
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On the plus side, if China innovates new technologies, it will make everyone else's life better too, as US innovation has done for the last century or so.
Progress in human genomics is often hidden from view. Eric Green gives some great general pointers, but here are more concrete applications:

- NIPT vendors (Natera, Ariosa (Roche), Verinata (Illumina), Sequenom (LabCorp) and others) have successfully commercialized carrier and prenatal screening for severe genetic defects.

- CareDx has commercialized pre- and post-screening for organ transplant rejection.

- Invitae, Color, Foundation (Roche) and others are scaling genetic testing, specifically clinical exome and panel sequencing (and solving the reimbursement problem in the process, by amortizing the cost of sequencing a patient's DNA across multiple physician-requested tests). Because variants need to be understood by physicians, this also enabled public/private data sharing partnerships for variant characterization (ClinVar).

- Grail (Illumina), Natera and others are on the verge of commercializing routine cfDNA cancer screening.

And here are more fundamental improvements which may yield more successes like the above:

- Oxford Nanopore has provided much needed competition to Illumina in lowering the barrier to portable sequencing and de novo whole genome sequencing.

- The ENCODE project has used ever more sophisticated assays to characterize functional regions of the genome.

- 10x Genomics has scaled and productized new ways to do single-cell transcriptomics, enabling breakthroughs in understanding functions of genes (by mapping differences in their expression across cell types and conditions) as well as development of CAR-T cell therapies (training and selecting the patient's own immune cells to fight cancer).

- UK Biobank has provided privacy-preserving access to a large cohort of annotated genomic data from the NHS, enabling more powerful association studies between genes and disease.

One of the bigger balancing acts in this industry is the monopolistic tendency of Illumina, Roche, and a few other big players to buy everyone up. This has clear anti-competitive effects but also incentivizes a lot of startups looking for that exit.
From their numbers, it doesn't matter much. Even if we take the highest number from their range ($175k) and double it, that is $3.5M/year for the 10-person team. That is still an order of magnitude less than $30M/year.
>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

Those are valid points, fully agreed. I think the discussion of those topics must be included in an interview process and discussed in-depth too, leetcode-style problems are not sufficient enough on their own.

>Leetcode focused on tricks and memorizing algorithms.

Strong disagree on "memorizing" and only partially agreed on "tricks". Those "tricks" (like knowing that you should use a hashmap when you need a key-value datastructure, or memoizing [aka caching] repeated operations) are very useful in real life problem-solving situations at work. I can tell you for a fact, I don't remember almost any particular problem from leetcode, and I ended up solving certain problems multiple times on leetcode, because I couldn't recognize them at all. However, thanks to leetcode, I obtained a pretty solid intuition on which approach to use in a particular situation, and it helped me out in the workplace immensely (even if I don't directly implement those approaches or remember the specifics 99% of the time).
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>Do I really need to add modifiers to everything I say to indicate that I'm not speaking in absolutes?

Fair and I do try not to do this wantonly. Here I feel that your gp argument breaks down in the absence of such an absolute. If indeed, we cannot prima facie trust that unions work in their members ( and their students') best interest; why shouldn't we use the troubles of unionized education ( or unionized policing...) as a caution against a possible bad outcome?

Perhaps I misunderstood; and this has just been another internet argument for the wind .
You are right! Thanks very much for the correction.

The notify-your-friends section has been updated accordingly.
That got farmed out to a consultancy with the ear of one of our glorious politicians..

I will shit on gov IT any day of the week but I'm not blaming GDS for that particular fire.
Yes, I get all this, but is anyone selling a product? For example, a company like Finless Foods (which I'm decently familiar with) isn't selling meat to customers yet. For this reason it is unsurprising that the general public doesn't know about them, let alone to the same degree that they do for Facebook (billions of users) and Tesla (~1 million vehicles sold). I'm saying these are unfair comparisons (that's at least 6 orders of magnitude difference in users!). If people could get FF in their local supermarket I'd understand your point, but they're (like every other cell-cultured meat company) producing small quantities, learning how to refine the product, and how to scale. It is wildly misleading to say that FF or MM should have the same recognition as Facebook or Tesla. I was asking if there are companies NOT in the research phase and are producing products that I or someone I know would be using. Such a biotech company would be a fair comparison to FB or Tesla and I'd understand the criticism of the lack of fame to them. But you cannot compare companies with 0 users (or 0 planned users for at least a year) to companies with millions or billions of users. That's an insane comparison, regardless of how groundbreaking these technologies could be. Yes, lots of potential, but they aren't there yet. It is potential.
There is an interesting doomsday arb that I have been toying with (fully believing that USDT is 90% of the alpha in BTC).

The trade here is to be long exchanges that are USDT backed and short exchanges that are USD backed. This ultimately leaves you with a net short of USDT vs USD but it's very different than just being short USDTUSD on an exchange because those very exchanges won't be solvent if this unravels.

So basically if the world doesn't end, you're mostly hedged (you have have manageable spread risk between the two exchanges) and if it implodes, you should see prices on the USDT exchanges skyrocket as people buy crypto to send elsewhere where they will immediately sell for fiat. The result is that BTCUSDT soars and BTCUSD plummets. Now, you'll never get paid on your BTCUSDT length but you will get paid on the short leg in your legitimate USD exchange

At the end of the day there are better ways to make money in life though. But the trader in me will probably put a few quid to work here.
They are trialing 2nd version of the system and it's better in every way - as in all the things you wish can be improved, they went ahead and did it (more solid bike, faster card swipe, better lock)
In my opinion, that is not why Bitcoin’s price rose last month but I do not wish to share all that I know and give my hand away (for free). Many investment managers, who previously only flirted with cryptocurrencies, have started making rather high price predictions to their followers or investors. Most hold a 1% to 5% of their portfolio in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies as a hedge but not as a primary bet. If I remember correctly, a 1% position in Bitcoin in 2017 combined with a 99% position in the S&P500 would’ve doubled the performance of a 100% S&P500 portfolio. Something like a 14% return vs a 28% return. (Then in 2018 if you didn’t rebalance your portfolio, it would’ve dropped down quite a bit.)
He asked for proof. What part of this statement do you object to? Or is asking you this question not allowed as well because it's not curious enough?

> You’re speaking with a pretty authoritative tone there as though you’re absolutely sure that Facebook has had a change of heart and only wants to host quality content, and there’s no other reason why the pages were removed. Do you have some sort of proof for that, or are you just speculating?
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I’ve done some research in the past trying to answer that question as well, and I concluded that there really wasn’t any, at least not any large ones.

Ethereum allows decentralized smart contracts, but the value seems fairly limited. The most promising use case I found was for a decentralized exchange... but that doesn’t seem valuable enough to justify its price. Also, a decentralized exchange + smart contracts are possible via L3 solution on Bitcoin and Lightning Network too.

Three other competitors in the smart contract space are also among the top 10 coins: Polkadot, Cardano and Chainlink.
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> The only thing that seems to count is your tenure, so don't fuck it up. You might not even get to the leetcode step if you do.

This is flat wrong. Are you only applying to Fortune 500s or something?