skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding and experience is that nearly all tech companies will still subject you to the whiteboard interviews for any role that involves coding, regardless of experience and even regardless of whether you have connections inside vouching for you.

I've had great pre-interview conversations with hiring managers discussing technical topics, several concluding with them saying that they'd love to have me on their team. Have had friends/excoworkers vouching for me sometimes. Then I go screw up on the leetcode interview, and that ends the story.

Pretty much have been drilling leetcode every day since my last failure at FB last year. (Bad) luck of the draw saw to it that I drew a question I couldn't tackle.
The UK also put a lot of effort into the full vaccine supply chain. And wrote a more comprehensive contract with AstraZeneca than the EU did. Details in the different approaches are here:

https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...
I’ve had a lot of rejections in my career and I have learned that the best advantage I have that I can bring to an interview is my conversation skills. I may not be as good as another engineer on paper, but if I can get an interview that usually changes.
I mean, I want both. Or rather, there's a cutoff point where I am okay with one, or the other. Right now the state of things are in a worst of both worlds scenario. I think cars are:

Too expensive and complex now in the name of "safety". Most additions to required car safety features beyond airbags has been minimal in actual gains compared to the added cost and long term repair complexity induced.

I think entry level cars should be able to be much cheaper and barebones. The recent requirement for backup cameras is one example of too much for too little. I just want a car that gets me from A to B reliably. I don't even care if it has good radio/speakers, power windows, etc.

On the flipside, I hate driving in general. I'll happily pay for a self-driving (or nearly self driving, at least) car with all the gizmos needed to make it work. However I will only "buy" such a car (in the sense of legal ownership) if it has a lifetime warranty or reasonable trade-in guarantees. Otherwise it'd be lease or long term rent only as the repair and upkeep costs on so much proprietary tech would be insane past X years, if its even possible.

Cars are a tool, not a fashion / status symbol for me.
You take exception to their generalizing and then generalize yourself which I'm taking exception to. I love my wife deeply, but work time apart makes our time together better. It takes all sorts.
This CDC article explains and quantifies the increased COVID-19 risk of obesity.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm
RedTorch Formed from Ashes of Norse Corp
America used to be behind on digital payments. Not any more
I wish anti-vaccination protest would be real, that would mean that I would get my own vaccine faster, but I don't see that happening.
Yes there is a privileged class. But that is the case everywhere. And it is most probably very corrupt too. However, what the China system has and the western systems do not have, is the absolute power of the party to set the policy and execute it. This includes making the powerful people (oligarchs) obey, or removing them from power if needed. It breeds infighting and turnover which is good for finding the most capable people. This seems to be impossible in the west; the wealthy powerful people are not removable from their power, irrespective of who is in control of the government.
There was an article a saw a few weeks ago about some guys based out of Oakland (maybe someone else can find it) who has accumulated 5 figures worth of rental debt. It talks about how he had just moved into an expensive place at the beginning of the pandemic, got laid off, then couldn’t pay for the whole year.

IIRC, he eventually moved, but still couldn’t pay rent and started accumulating even more rent debt there. I can’t imagine who would rent an apartment to that guy.
I know the answer is probably not, however do you have plans for things like hipaa compliance? I’m struggling to find a great IM solution that is - perhaps self hosted as others have asked?
What was the severity of heart bleed?
This is not true, the contract for EU and UK are largely the same. The EU even signed 1 day earlier.

This is FUD originating from AZ, which are downright lying.
You can join Phillips hue units to your own zigbee network without Internet or even the Phillips hue app.

Zigbee2mqtt and a cheap zigbee dongle is all you need really. You could add home assistant for a better interface but there is no need to involve Phillips or the Internet. One of the huge advantages of zigbee imo.
> You do not have to decide if it works for everyone and discard if it doesn't.

First, I am not discarding the advice. I was responding to the idea that successful practitioners didn't get lucky.

Second, my assertion is that the advice is useful for only a small segment of the population. The goalposts have moved to the opposite end of the field if we are now talking about advice for everyone except for a small segment of the population.

> I mean if you want everyone to have the same opportunities, you are welcome to give up the advantages you might have so that others get better opportunities.

Nowhere did I say that everyone should have the same opportunities.

Finally, your link does not seem to refute my point (I've seen it before).
Genie?
>Most of these people would be much happier if they simply invested time and energy into finding a job they enjoy

Many people reach FIRE without much energy, it's an incredibly easy "set and forget" style of life. Many use its concepts to get in a position where they can find a job they enjoy.

This skips over the part where the individual might want to be entrepreneurial and needs the funds to be in a position to take such a risk. Or the job they love is inherently in a shitty position (passion industries teeming with bad conditions), so it's a "pick your poison situation" until they have leverage, and in many cases, both poisons make them feel miserable anyway.

The idea that there's a job out there for every person they'll enjoy doing as long as they put in the energy, is an incredibly idealistic and even privileged mindset we should be getting rid of.
I think that in the systemic terminology, a mature forest is a carbon "stock". Deforestation means getting rid of that stock and putting all of its CO2 into the atmostphere by burning it. Unless you use all that wood for something else (buildings or whatever) which is possible but I think it's unlikely. I might be wrong though!
The migratory range of bats is apparently up to 2000 miles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7149675/ (no idea whether this describes the specific bats that are known reservoirs of these viruses).
I’ve had that happen a couple of times. Do a video/phone call with an SME that goes really well... then it doesn’t.

The second time they were locking down a time I could fly somewhere and the whole thing went poof. Fortunately I was in a good job and it was no big deal, but it would have been very stressful if I was between gigs.
Italian company Adienne Pharma & Biotech has signed the deal to produce Russian vaccine domestically. They are waiting however for the approval of said vaccine by the EU.
Loads of cashback systems use it. You get directed to Lieferando or whatever and the "click" is registered using the referrer.
I subscribe to this theory. I didn't subscribe to it originally because it seemed to dystopian. However on reading the recent politico article (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin...) really changed my opinion about it. To be clear I think it would have been an accident at a Chinese government lab that was underfunded and overworked. Seems to me like the likeliest candidate. I don't think the current US administration wants to point the finger at the Chinese government since it will cause a lot public anger. That and the Chinese government most certainly covered all their tracks by now.
COVID-19 is special because it doesn't cause severe illness in most people. SARS killed a far far higher percentage of people it came in contact with, and made 100% of them sick, so it was much more easily detected, and therefore contained.
Which is pretty inevitable with our system of housing development. If you're a large property owner and you want to make more money, you have two options:

A) Build more housing, to create more units you can rent out.

B) Don't build more housing, and use the reduced supply to raise the rent on your existing properties.

Since option B has a lower risk and a higher return on investment, is it really surprising that most metro areas have a big housing shortage?
Hmm that's a good point.. That does seem like a flaw in the plan..
Weeeelllll... it depends on how you calculate it. Minimum course credit grade was a "C" and total A-C were unaffected; or, at least, in the noise. There was some motion from D-to-F, which affected total GPA average for the course. Honestly, I don't remember the magnitude of the change.

These courses had 600+ students in them.

I'm also certain they stopped a lot of this when I stopped teaching. The "cheaters" would get caught, later, anyways.
I don't think it makes you sound uninformed... Most places you go into for PC components will know exactly what a "molex connector" is in relation to PC hardware. When building a PC, knowledge of Molex brand connectors isn't all that relevant.

It's like asking for a Kleenex instead of a tissue. Or back in the day, when you needed to make a copy of something, using the Xerox machine was quite a common term, even though Xerox made more than one machine, and most machines probably weren't made by Xerox.
Of course it's subjective. That's the whole point.

And knowing for yourself still needs an explanation.
While that's true, I've noticed that my installation of Thunderbird has recently started allocating anywhere from 30 to 40% of resident memory (%mem column in top), and it takes a very long time to switch tasks to or from Thunderbird. It's an older laptop with 6 GB of RAM, but I don't recall encountering issues like this on much older machines with just megabytes of system memory.
Crystal is sponsored by https://manas.tech/ and the company actively provides paid support to a number of commercial clients.
Breaking changes have been really low lately. I have a couple of shards that work on 1.0 as well as they did on 0.27 or so (that's 10 major dev releases ago). And with 1.0 there is a guarantee to not have breaking changes until 2.0.
I don't agree to the other points too, but that's more subjective.
That's what the people at Rootclaim concluded as well https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/what-is-the-source-of-cov...
> Forgive me for the observation but it seems to me you've put big name companies on a pedestal as though they are objectively better jobs and maybe have some blinders on in terms of the real scope of opportunity that is out there.

Except maybe for Uber, all those companies they listed failing at are objectively better at attracting attention to your resume than some no name, smaller company nobody's heard of.
The Lawfare Podcast: Nicole Perlroth on the Cyberweapons Arms Race
The floor on keeping HDDs spinning is about $4/spindle-month (assuming $0.60/KWh total cost in a data center) and 150 drives probably eats more power than the rest of the enclosure and a rack switch, so call it $6/spindle, and Backblaze aims at $30/TB upfront cost and seems to have only >=4TB spindles so there's plenty of room for unlimited plan users to keep making them money at $6/month. I, as a fairly nerdy person, only need to back up a hair under 2TB at this point, and I assume I'm past the 90th percentile of bb's unlimited customer distribution and they would still make money off of me if I kept 2TB there >15 months on the unlimited plan ($30 / ($5 - ($6/spindle * spindle/4TB * 2TB) month).

I think their best advertising for B2 is the quarterly hard disk stats, it's a shame they made this mistake with the fb tracker; I can't store data in my garage as cheaply as they do. ~100W continuous for a box with drives at $0.30/KWh (CA PG&E) is $20/month.

I'm jumping through the hoop of s3backer to turn B2 into a vdev for a zpool with encrypted datasets; I'll have to try something similar on rsync.net with sshfs.
Wait, Einstein had a physics project? Like, with lab and everything?
While the article is interesting, there is one dynamic it missed: tech debt.

Starting around 1975, housing supply stopped keeping up with the growth of housing demand. It picked back up fifteen years later, around 1990: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-goldilocks-problem-of...

(But that is on a national level: in the West, in comparison, housing growth hasn't been sufficient to house the new households formed at any time in the last 70 years and so the problems run deeper.)

Normally, cheap housing is housing that was expensive housing 30-100 years ago. Think of all of the post-war apartments in NYC, or the Boston multi-family houses built around the previous turn of the century.

Since many cities currently lack the recently-aging housing that would normally be filtering down market right now, the elasticity at the top is affecting housing too new for developers to be out of debt on, and thus we are unlikely to see it translate into lower prices on the low end until another 20-25 years pass and we get out of this housing doldrum.

(Not the West, though. Sorry San Francisco: you just have to build more places where people can live.)
Not if you're not used to it. Literally had this over the past few months working with a junior programmer who had a really hard time understanding stacked map()s and filter()s but understood them easily when I unrolled them into nested for loops.
Jack Goldsmith spoke with New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth about her new book, "This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race." "They discussed the dark world of markets for zero-day vulnerabilities that are so vital in offensive cyber operations, the history of the markets, how they work, who the players are and why the United States doesn't control as much as it used to. They also discussed broader issues of U.S. cybersecurity policy, including the recent SolarWinds hack."
I feel like its the cash buyer who is dictating these sale prices, no?
>have the means to create a vaccine and so save the planet

is that true though? Aren't a lot of diseases being worked on in labs without the means to cure them yet
They are both super hard to separate and yet they separate on their own when not observed.
I find the information in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26544947 credible, and they indicate that approval is not the major issue. Instead, the EU's contracts with the pharma companies cannot be met, because the US and UK legislated/contracted to bind local production to local use, with the UK even specifically requiring/strongly encouraging Oxford to use a UK pharma company (instead of a US one) in order to ensure they could bind local production to local use.
So Wechat...?

Also msn messenger was a copy of icq as well... as was AOL instant messenger. But China at the copy-cats?

Huawei are a copy of Cisco!? Yet Huawei make half the worlds telecoms and Cisco don’t.

Uber was always shit in China. Didi was more like Uber X and Uber copied them... Didi won from the beginning.

No, not a race card. You are being racist. Applying a higher standard to Chinese than you apply to Americans. That’s called prejudice, and racial prejudice is racism.

Edit: To be clear, I’m referring to Ubers original Premium service in China. I’m not sure they even got to Uber X in China.
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20140407.txt is the advisory, but this was back when OpenSSL wasn't as well maintained.

It would have been CRITICAL.
I fully admit the "can't" is mostly in my head. Need to work up the courage to do so, due to many reasons. Societal (what a bum!), family (what kind of role model would I be for kids?) and just fear of running out of money due to black swan event. I wouldn't say my fear is completely irrational, but it's not all rational either.
Maybe, but I think it's fairly obvious that this is naturally a hard problem (e.g. having teams of people sample potentially millions of animals in the field) unless you get lucky or catch it in the act.
Looks like breach theory is finally reaching mainstream. Good to know wokies protecting "poor China" will finally GTFO.
If you only applied to positions you knew where the best candidate - how did you not feel that the job would not offer you new challenges or the position is too low?

I tend to keep interviewing or lets call it networking. The position I did fit a 100% I ended up declining as they were mostly position I thought I would go downwards in my career and pay, even if it sounded interesting.

Glad you found that place of continuity - still trying to get there...
France, a while back, was receiving good numbers but were failing to keep up in terms of demand\infrastructure.

I think now EU is far more active when it comes to the efforts but initially, they were not.

It seems like there is more resistance in the EU to vaccination and data sharing than in Israel.
Long ago, if you mentioned "Molex" to someone like a TV repairman, they'd be thinking of larger pins and housings, around 0.2 inch spacing. Naturally, Molex now covers a phenomenally wide range of offerings, but searching Google Image for "molex connector" brings back some fairly consistent connector types for the first page of hits.

It could be a case where a brand name carries a historical association that isn't accurate any more.
That would possibly be a solution, but alas I don't think it's going to happen anywhere soon.
> COVID-19 is one of the few serious diseases that can transmit when the carrier is asymptomatic.

Is this actually true? It is certainly not true for HIV, and of course is not relevant to diseases like Zika that are transmitted by mosquitos.

Edit: I found the answer to my own question: https://www.kff.org/infographic/ebola-characteristics-and-co... (see second bullet point). Given that this lists Hep C, HIV, Influenza, Malaria, Polio, and Tuberculosis as possible to transmit while asymptomatic, I'd say "COVID-19 is one of the few serious diseases that can transmit when the carrier is asymptomatic." is most definitely false.
Rejection is a strong word to use when some algorithm didn't find the keyword it was looking for. Not getting an offer after interviewing isn't really so bad either since it's a learning opportunity where you get to meet people and ask questions. Before covid it usually meant you got a free vacation too.
If it can be accessed from the Internet, then it ain't security camera. The perps can tell when you're not in :]
It was CRITICAL and warranted new severity level added [1]

[1] - https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2015/09/28/critical-securi...
Another selection bias is that we can't say if the virus originated there, but only that it was first detected there. Even if it originated in the countryside hundreds of miles away it makes sense it was detected only after it spread to a city with the labs to discover the virus.
> What exactly enables experts to understand a thing, and not "random people"?

Mastery of the domain. Yes, any random person (of sufficient intellect) can become an expert in any topic for all intents and purposes. But it takes a lot of time and effort that they'll have to devote to it. I don't think it's reasonably to expect that everyone will be an expert in everything, and it definitely isn't efficient.

With lots of things, you can do general plausibility checks, but you'll miss essentially all of the non-trivial issues if you're not experienced with the methodologies and tools. It's like asking somebody with no programming experience to judge the merits of some architectural choice. They won't be able to make an informed decision and you can't present a complete picture of the intricacies and implications in a 30 minute talk.

From my experience, your average general physician can't tell you a lot about viral infections beyond what you can learn in 30 minutes on Wikipedia. And that's miles away from being able to actually judge vaccines, or the usefulness of masks. What they typically do is rely on experts that write guidelines and recommendations.
Not at all, I said what I don't subscribe under and cited my anecdotal evidence. My "generalization" is actually putting people in groups, which by itself admits that a generalization is impossible.

But it could possibly be offensive to some people that I call their couples "good roommates" which is a fair reaction -- I still have the right to my opinion however.
I've recently thought of creating a page full of my recommendations, so I can send it to my friends and to unsuspecting strangers. So, this came at a good time. However, I imagined something a little different for myself.

Firstly, I'd make the sections easier to navigate. Your current implementation requires scrolling until I find "software" or "movies", whereas I'd like my visitors to be able to find them quickly.

Another thing, is that I usually would like to add a short note next to each recommendation, explaining why I like it, or saying what I think of it. Just putting the names or links by themselves seems a little barren to me.

Lastly, you ask too many permissions imho.

These are just my thoughts, so take them as you will.
Don't do it unless you have to.
Could you explain why evidence that the virus evolved naturally contradicts the lab-leak theory? I'm all ears and waiting to hear the reasoning. As others have pointed out, lab-leak does not imply artificially developed.

> I’m a bioscientist.

And I'm a Bayesian analyst. Surely your position is that it is a coincidence that:

- the virus appeared to originate in Wuhan

- genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis

- The bats carrying CoV ZC45 were originally found in Yunnan or Zhejiang province, both of which are more than 900 kilometers away Wuhan

- According to municipal reports and the testimonies of 31 residents and 28 visitors, the bat was never a food source in the city, and no bat was traded in the market

- Wuhan is home to two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus

- Within ~280 meters from the market, there was the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention
(WHCDC). WHCDC hosted animals in laboratories for research purposes. In one of their studies, 155 bats including Rhinolophus affinis were captured in Hubei province, and other 450 bats were captured in Zhejiang province

- one of the researchers described that he was once by attacked by bats and the blood of a bat shot on his skin. In another accident, bats peed on him. He was once thrilled for capturing a bat carrying a live tick

Not conclusive by any means, but I have yet to hear reasoning by which we should exclude the lab-leak theory, besides that the virus evolved naturally, which does not contradict the lab-leak theory whatsoever.

Also, from your article:

> As a team of researchers from the WHO

This WHO? [0][1] Doesn't instill much confidence in me, to be sure.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM

[1] https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/...
> in some circles, lab related equates to malicious bio-weapon

Well that's the problem with reducing every argument to absurd extremes.

It's part of why modern political discourse is fundamentally broken.

We counter discourse out of fear of what the extreme form of that accusation will be - not based on what the argument is actually saying.