skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I'll be preparing for the next interview rounds in my career, I'll make note of some problems that are both short/easy to explain, and have really interesting optimisations that are almost impossible to come up with on the spot (unless you've done a lot of similar stuff or that exact problem before). Then, when the interview is (nearly) over and it's my time to ask the interviewers something, I'll drop one of those in their lap to see how they react, and if they can come up with something that's not laughably stupid/inefficient. My point being that, if they're not capable of solving problems like that under intense time pressure, they're not up to the task of interviewing someone else on them. If they do give a good response, kudos to them, I'll be impressed.

Though I think my expectation is that they'll get annoyed and stop the "interview".
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We will ask if the vaccine somehow cause those 6 people to be hit by a car, if we decide the vaccine caused that would be listed. (I don't see how a vaccine could cause people to be hit by a car, but I'm open to suggestions)
So, I think a far better way to think about what is called Tech debt is as Maintenance Load. Chelsea Troy has a series about thinking about Tech Debt from that perspective. I also think that the way we often talk about tech debt ignores the fundamentally human nature of software development.
Thanks for the very comprehensive reply. It does sound like GNS is gaining more traction than I thought, and I hadn't heard of re:claimID, which sounds pretty interesting in its own right.
It has similar efficacy as the single dose J&J
Very nicely done! Keep up the good work. Any chance you are making it open source? Fine if you are not , but at least consider doing that if (!) you ever get fed up with it (wish everyone would do that if legally possible).
Yeah that's pretty disappointing. Gotta implement a "bus clear" feature in any system that relies on I2C working consistently.

Slave devices that rely on clock stretching are a total pain in the ass, as well. Tend not to play nice with other normal devices.
https://www.i2c-bus.org/clock-stretching/

The main thing I use I2C for in recent designs is multiple channels of power monitoring, e.g. using the INA226. I agree that SPI is preferable for sensors that support it.

https://www.ti.com/product/INA226
For #1, you can just put #!/bin/bash at the top of the file to use Bash. Bash is still available, it’s just not the default for scripts that specify #!/bin/sh.

#2 is still currently tricky, but Rob Landley (former Busybox maintainer) is working on a full bug-for-bug compatible Bash clone called toysh which will be included in an upcoming release of Toybox[1]. Once that’s released, I’m looking forward to (hopefully) never writing a script for BusyBox ash again.

[1] http://landley.net/toybox/about.html
I imagine I'd end up with the same result if I applied for programming jobs - get interviews because of the range of programming experience I have and tools I'm comfortable with, then summarily fail every interview question about linked lists etc.
Investments do not compound fast enough for middle class people for it to really matter. Most people must work for an economy to function. If everyone can stop working and rely on income from investment growth then there would be no more human capital to grow those investments because everyone is waiting for investments to grow rather then producing work and labor which is the true driver of growth.

Therefore, Anyone who relies on investments for income not only by the above economic logic must represent a very small minority... but people who get income off investments are gaining income off the backs of people who labor to grow those investments.

Second, realize that the spending habits of the rich and the poor are roughly equivalent when scaled. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/08/01/157664524/how-...

It is completely erroneous to think poor people are stupider than rich people so much so that middle class spending habits are responsible for most of their suffering.
This political group wants something, so they are just trying to make readers mad until they get it.
That's interesting. Maybe it's too small a sample, but I always found it interesting that NYT has at some point employed two very influential frontend developers: Mike Bostock (d3) and Rich Harris (svelte, rollup).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Having all comments that disagree down voted means that it's biasedand likely astro turfed.
> a virus that has 98% survival rate

You know, for all the continual fear mongering about coronavirus last year, the constant reminders of who was most at risk, the hyper importance put on masks and cleanliness, etc it is shocking to see things put this way now.
One difference is that J&J has been tested for only one shot and AZ is tested for two shots. Also the amount of vaccin you get shot in your arm could be different. The clotting incidents between the two are certainly different, AZ has much more at the moment.
Well, it starts at "Not actually as bad as I thought", especially when using ISRU; to actually very cheap indeed if you build local infrastructure. (eg. linear accelerator direct to earth's surface is an actual realistic option).

[Assuming people invest in infrastructure], In the mid- to long-term you might be able to ship goods to earth from a moon based factory cheaper than you could from some earth-based locations.

This isn't really anything special about the moon either, mind you. It's the facts that:

* In comparison, Earth has extremely strong gravity;

* Gravity effects compound.

To get some intuition, look at a Saturn V.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Saturn_v...

To get to the moon from earth, you need the whole thing. To get back, you just need the top half of the lunar module (to get to lunar orbit) the service module (to get to reentry) and the Command module (to survive the reentry). A tiny part of the entire assembly!

(purists might point out that the system could be rather smaller if there was no intention of a return mission... which is fair enough. It's just to get an initial intuition across here!)
Some things might not be noticeable, such as disinfecting certain surfaces or performing routine maintenance such as cleaning filters until it’s too late.
> It doesn't have much in common with Mexican culture (nor French gastronomy) and is borderline cultural appropriation.

Coming from an American perspective, I'd say this is a good thing.

What y'all are seeing is exactly what we've been seeing (and what Europe as a whole - and the world as a whole - has been seeing for thousands of years): the proliferation of new cuisines. Calling them "tacos" is of course a bit of a sacrilege, but there's more than enough precedent for similarly-named food to have wildly different forms (see also: Spanish tortillas v. Mexican tortillas). And aside from that, this seems like your bog standard fusion cuisine - and given enough time, it'll have its own distinct identity, just like how Mexican food now has a distinct identity instead of being "merely" an amalgamation of Spanish and Aztec cuisines.

More broadly speaking, this is the same mechanism by which cultures proliferate and evolve into new cultures. Cuisine is one aspect of this, and here in the US at least it even helps drive that process; food is communication, and being the fatasses we are, we sure do a heck of a lot of it :)
Learning Dvorak was one of the best decisions I've made in my career/life. It took a few weeks of effort to get back up to parity with Qwerty but it's paid off for decades.
The dance is stupid, leaving hundreds of K (or even millions) on the table is stupider.
I see IPv4 A records. I am guessing what's happening is that when you look up the DNS over IPv6, it gives you AAAA records instead of A records. Or, it can depend on locality. Cloudflare is not a DNS provider that gives the same answer to everyone -- its goal is to direct traffic to the cache that's closest to the end user.

Edit: I looked into it more and I can get IPv6 and IPv4 DNS servers to serve me both A and AAAA records. The site is now down, however :)
alternate/main url from 6 days ago: https://kaboomjs.com/

previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26728774
Yes, it's misleading because it ignores the revanchist reasoning of Russia in favor of simple "Russia bad, Russia invader, Russia imperialist" narratives.

Novorossiya was historically a part of the Russian Empire for a very long time. Russia clearly wants it back. Whether they are justified in getting it or not, I have no comment. But the least we can do is actually understand their reasoning.
They didn't pause it because they're considering cancelling it. They're pausing it so they can communicate to patients and providers what to look out for after they take it. Once processes are in place to handle future blood clot events, they will resume vaccinations.
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Or they could have some check if things are cleaned. We accept so much detailed tracking when in reality it is unnecessary and open to abuse.
I wonder if we randomly select 7 million people (without vaccine) and observe them for couple of months - how many of them will get the blood cloths
> If you’re young and healthy, the chances of dying from COVID are basically zero.

Hundreds of young and healthy people have died from Covid-19.

The risk is “basically zero” but so is the current known 1 in 7 million risk of dying from this blood clotting.
So it's not just a scam, it's a scam pretending to be a medical app? The walled garden method has been proven a failure and needs to go urgently.
> The democracy is still in a good shape despite some challenges.

What political pathways do you see for correcting both our two-party system and increased gerrymandering? It seems to me like those two factors are large contributors to our increasing political polarization, and fixing them would require the political parties to behave irrationally from a game theory perspective.
Users don't read and just click on things.
If this guy cannot easily get a job, the developer shortage in the Bay Area is wildly overstated.
> Do you have a single source to back up these claims?

I have many. You should start with these:

https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/pdf/mp2...
On the medical benefits alone it seems obvious to continue giving J&J. The counter-argument I understand is that J&J's supply is severely limited due to manufacturing problems right now, so pausing it doesn't significantly slow down the vaccine rollout. There are a lot of people right now that saw headlines about J&J's manufacturing defects, and now this one death, and are convinced those are related. Visibly pausing something that is such a small percentage of the vaccine rollout might be a good political move.

Full disclosure: I took the J&J vaccine last Thursday, and would do so again right now.
It could be that the side effect has delayed onset, so there could be many people out there who are about to have the side effect but haven't showed up in stats yet. In that case I think it makes sense to pause for a while and wait for updated numbers
How’s does ADHD medication compare to Meth? Is it the higher dosage with Meth? When I took Aderall it said methamphetamine salt.
> YAGNI

Because code is written by humans, it behaves in ways that are not too much of a stretch to call “organic”.

We need more literal and figurative gardeners in programming, but everyone is a hurry to get their 10k hours in before they learn how to adult properly.

Gardeners make suggestions to plants, but the plants end up doing their own thing about half the time, so everything becomes a negotiation. When you try to assert your will too hard, you can kill the plant.

If you’re pruning a tree, the tree reacts by putting out more branches. If you do it too aggressively, the result is an ugly, unhealthy tree. If you stay below a threshold, everything keeps working as expected. So you have a pruning budget every year, and renovating a tree nobody has maintained may become a four or five year project.

The first year you cut off the sickly branches, and the one you keep walking into. Second and third year you do preventative maintenance, removing crossed branches and bark inclusions (future calamities). By year three you might begin making aesthetic decisions, and by year five you either finish up or start over because the tree has changed so much in the last four years.

Like software, usually this plan is in your head, not on paper. But for software it doesn’t have to be this way, we just haven’t done anything about it yet. I hope that 15 years from now we have ways to record code reviews not attached to PRs, noting targets of opportunity and storing them with the code. That way, when I’m adding a feature I can also look at the refactorings suggested by others, especially the ones that are not locally apparent, like architecture and code duplication issues. Having to fix a problem the moment you see it is a very ADHD mode of thinking.
Each state or even district divides it differently. Where I am, 11 year olds would either be in 5th grade (primary/grade school) or 6th grade (middle school). But sometimes 5th is lumped in with middle school. Sometimes they have junior high which is something like 12-14. They usually consider high school (14/15-17/18 year olds) to be secondary school. This goes back to my grandpa's time. Most people in his generation got 8th grade diplomas for finishing primary school. Secondary school was high school, but wasn't mandatory or even that common in many places.
Ask HN: Working with MBA Partners
HNers who have worked with MBA partners on a startup: was it a good fit, did the skillset apply well? I've heard some mixed opinions.

I was also told that 2nd year MBA students sometimes work on startups part-time and take advantage of some of the startup resources provided by the university (tech clubs, etc). I know a lot of the standard startup advice is to go at it full time, so how do these student-launched startups tend to fare?

I'm curious because I'm currently working on networking with potential future partners and I want to focus on the right types of people.
One of the best moves I've seen a cleaning service company make is provide a pre-paid smartphone to employees (and pay the bill if they worked over 15 hours per week). They had two problems: employees would get their personal phones shut off for non-payment, and they had push back on installing their mobile app. The shut offs were costing the company a lot of money because when they needed an extra person on a shift or someone didn't show up they couldn't reach the employee. Providing a phone also reduced turnover by about 14%.
Your chance of dying from COVID is heavily dependent on your age and any preexisting conditions, so any comparison that uses a single probability for everyone is totally wrong for a very large number of people.
Nobody has investigated 7 million doses, so its at least 7, but probably more. The UK incidence rate (for the same issue in the AZ vax) was like 10X what was initially reported.

And its probable that these incidents are concentrated in a small segment of the population (young & health maybe women). So your denominator is very inflated.

If you can save 20-40 lives by just giving young women Pfizer and using J&J on 50+ year olds (for whom the risk might be literally nothing) then its a no brainer.

Not doing so is killing 20-40 people for no reason.
First. What do you say about prevention of the formation of unions? Who benefits from that? The owners of the companies certainly do. Are they stealing though? No. Is it still a problem and making inequality bigger? Yes, because then workers have no negotiating power and have to accept whatever salary they are offered. In the limit, that salary could be food, water and shelter, and we'd be back at slavery.

Second. If you have 1B to invest, and I have 1k to invest and we both invest... there is no stealing, and you're getting richer much faster than me. Now you're not to blame for having that money, or investing it, but it is undeniable that the wealth inequality between the two of us is only ever going to grow, all things equal.

Third. Ever heard of lobbying? Who do you think lobbies and for what purpose? Hey, Let's use the free market and have people pay as much as they can for insulin. Let's make it legal to do that. Let's say that's 500€/month. Welp. A poor person just lost half their monthly savings. A rich guy? Barely a blip. You know who's also a rich guy? The owner and co. of the company of makes insulin. Where is the stealing?

Cmon. Saying that unless there is stealing then it's ok is so uninformed I have no words for.
> That's why they stopped.

More to the point, they have temporarily paused because the usual treatment for blood clots can make this particular type of blood clot worse. So they are pausing to give the medical community enough lead time to get up to date on treatment protocols.

Vaccines are held to such a high standard. We wouldn't have approved even Aspirin if we applied the same standards.
Money = debt.

As a society builds its wealth, it builds debt.

Japan went through this. They built tremendous levels of debt. Private debt is 200% and their government debt is 250%. Just before their debt problem got out of control their deficit spending made the world think Japan was going to take over the world. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JapanTakesOverTh...

The thing is... Japan in the late 80s didnt seem like they had a debt problem because they always do this in a 'debt to gdp' but if your spending also increases gdp. It hides the problem until its a disaster.

Now it's china...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-debt-idUSKC...

China knows they have this problem.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/26/new-signs-show-that-china-is...

That's the problem. China is taking over the world etc but its from 2 factors.

1. They've built their debt to unsustainable levels like Japan.

2. Special economic zones migrating their country to capitalism.

Why is China so intent on taking control of Taiwan and Hong Kong for example? They need them to pay their debt problem.

Also notice, more and more products are made in Vietnam and other countries.

China also has a bit of a slave labour problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps#Forc...

It's not so much a genocide but rather slave labour, the chinese debt problem is so bad that they are only maintaining the status quo because of their slave labour.

When does it change? When does it break? May never change. The USSR fell and got rid of their gulags. china may never fall.
> This is obviously mainly due to the boom in developed world esp China

Europe (and the "West" aka where Europe sent its surplus citizens) went through its fertility transition [0] earlier than the rest of the world. Hence it increased its relative size as it experienced a high fertility / low death period, and decreased its relative size after it went to a low fertility / low death while part of the rest of the world went into their high fertility / low death phase.

So we can probably expect currently high population growth to transition to the low fertility / low death endgame. China is already well past it.

As far as I know, no country went back to a high fertility / low death scenario, though countries stabilized at various level of low fertility.

Most Western countries have institutions that rely on population growth (high debt that would lead to enormous debt per capita if the number of people decreases, unmaintained infrastructure, pay-as-you-go pensions...). So they will either have to fix their fertility rate in a dramatic way, massively reform many of the core institutions of society, or have high immigration & handle it well.

[0] https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jel.49.3.589
As did unintentional injury, which was due to overdoses.
Or maybe I should put it another way: they've seen past the priorities of values of the West.

I think that, as civilisations, we all aspire to mostly the same values. We just have very different priorities. For the Chinese, it's economic progress over freedom. (In fact, they are mostly free to say whatever they want as long as they don't try to rally and secede or topple the government. As a point of anecdatum, I discuss politics with my brother-in-law over WeChat. We don't always agree with the official narrative. Neither of us has been censored or arrested.)
Yes, and probably staying in bed will have its own risk of blood clots and depression leading to suicide.
You know, I was thinking last night about the parallels between this and the anti-trust investigation into Microsoft back in the 90s. Back then Microsoft was in a heap of trouble over the fact that they bundled IE and didn't allow vendors to bundle other alternative browsers. Users could still install other browsers, but the fact that the OS came bundled with IE was seen as an abuse of Microsoft's market position.

Yet here we are, in 2021, and Apple won't even allow you to install software on the device you own without their say-so. There are admittedly other browsers on the app store, but they all must use Safari's rendering engine.
Some folks seem to be able to switch and keep their old ability and some can't. I was able to switch back to Qwerty pretty easily, but it made my wrists contort in such odd ways that I never noticed before. So I generally wouldn't go back to it.
We usually test vaccines for a decade because of the risk of unknown short term and long term side effects. If we don't know why people are getting blood clots from the vaccine, then we don't understand the vaccine and could be creating long term issues for many people.
Ugh, I've been using a datasheet from Panasonic [0] recently, and it's been a trip. The original Japanese is all there, with a lackluster English translation below each paragraph. Plugging the Japanese in to Google Translate for the particularly bad sections usually helps. At least this version is clean, I ran across a few PDFs floating around for this part that looked like they had been run though the print-scan-jpeg cycle a few times.

0: https://mediap.industry.panasonic.eu/assets/custom-upload/Co...
Yeah and we only just started to roll this vaccine out - so it's fair to say that the risk will likely grow beyond that.

You're right that 7 / 7,000,000 are good odds, and most people would likely take them - but it would be unwise to not give people an educated choice between vaccines if there are known risks.
No worries! Thanks for doing what you do!
What's up with the violence bad sex good meme? Why should violence be censored?
Ermm, the jnj uses an adenovirus to deliver the plasmid DNA(1). I'm only referring to the jnj/astra here not the mRNA ones. And I think that article I linked represents a real risk it's not like we've tested for this danger before going ahead with a mass vaccination campaign where even rare events can become a real danger.

Additional dangers of DNA vaccines include production of anti-DNA antibodies and autoimmune reactions(2). I think we should be communicating these dangers to the public so that healthy individuals at no risk can make a proper benefit-risk decision, instead of just saying "vaccines good" and brushing over concerns.

(1) https://coronavirus.medium.com/decoding-johnson-johnsons-cov...

(2) https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-62703-110-3...
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Why do you focus on these billionaires? There are literally scum people who sell drugs, are working on human trafficking and chop people heads off to be billionaires, maybe you want to focus your anger more on people like Pablo Escobar than Bill Gates?
Birth control is already severe blood clots at 1:1000 . Only affects people with uteruses. That's cool.

This is 1:1000000 of a severe event, but affects men as well. HOLD THE LINE - It affects a.... Man!
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