skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is just where we are in the long term debt cycle. The US dollar will devalue in the next decade, but we aren't facing a collapse or anything. We are out of monetary tools (interest rates near zero) to stave off deflation, so we will turn to fiscal tools (printing money). This is a good thing as it will make the US more competitive on exports. We may lose our global reserve currency status but that is not a sustainable position, so it is somewhat inevitable.

The US is still one of the most desirable places for foreign talent. I hope we maintain that position. That creates demand for US resources and provides the people currently here with a comfortable retirement. China is not so welcoming to foreigners, nor is it very desirable given the pollution.
Not a doctor, so talk to your hematologist! Ads bind to blood factors (Ad5s to FX, HAdVs to FIX, etc), which facilitates organ uptake and interferes with the coagulation cascade and triggers complement activation. Thrombotic thrombocytopenia is a known complication from gene therapy studies, so it’s not surprising, but concerning, that rare but serious coagulatory disorders are appearing in the widespread use of a zoonotic adenovirus. I’m certain quite a few other folks on here are better-informed than me, so hopefully we’ll get some more discussions going on this topic.
This "unity" comes at a horribly steep cost.

Side-stepping for a moment the humanitarian and ethical costs for a brief moment, an enforced homogeneity of ideology leaves little room for independent thinking. At some point, you end up passing down every decision down and idea down a party line like a bucket through a fire brigade. That severely stifles innovation and creates an incredibly narrow view of your options.

But I promised we'd come back to the humanitarian and ethical costs. Diversity is strength. It's more than twee corporate advertising, it's a truth. It's hard to approach new problems when everyone is reading off the same song sheet. Strengths become reinforced, but weaknesses become far more weak; it's a very brittle strength.
If age based feature access is part of the platform it should be a content maturity permission whose access level can be set or restricted via parental management tools just like network access or screen time can. Requiring a different version of the app to manage each combination of allowed privileges makes things far too complicated and ends up having undesired side effects.
South Carolina -- availability varies, but most parts of the state have at least some appointments and they seem to be becoming more readily available.

> there are large numbers of vaccine denialists who are choosing to forego the vaccine altogether. That leaves some localized surpluses.

The people that do not want the vaccine are a part of why. There are different reasons for this, with some just wanting others to get a chance first. But noone is going to force people to take it.

Its also really unfair to characterize this as "rural areas" with "large numbers of vaccine denialists". We have urban areas with vaccines available and rural areas with full appointment books.
Wrong. China is not betting on it, rather the US is betting that China is betting on it, to poise China in an adversary role.

China has plenty of its own problems to mind and its road to mondernization is far from over. It's the US that's in question. Why is it fussing over China so much? Why not mind its own business? Why blame everything on China when the US could spend the time improving lives for its own citizens? Or is its blood-sucking, globally exploitive economy cannot function without the sacrifice of an imaginary enemy?

US is the one that gets red-eyed all over a country that's doing good, just because itself can't seem to get out of the decline. What the US doesn't have, others can't either.
> "A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism"

I used to live in a major middle eastern country when this was going on. People were outright talking about the Crusader wars and there was a terrible sentiment against anyone with a light complexion.
Are those really tutorials for AVR chips or tutorials for the Arduino ecosystem?
Arduino is not limited to AVR, there is no need to put up with the limitations of those aging chips, unless you are accessing hardware registers directly you can probably run the same software on a STM32 or SAM D board.
Learned Dvorak when I was in university; reverted to qwerty sometime after that for some reason. I think because the typematrix I was using broke.

Picked Dvorak up again about a year ago after getting one of those fancy ortholinear keyboards.

My qwerty was a quick 'undisciplined' hunt-and-peck. (e.g. typing the 'y' in 'your' with the left hand finger). Dvorak was trained with the 'discipline' of each finger being assigned to a column.

Qwerty feels somewhat disorganised and chaotic compared do Dvorak (even on the same keyboard). Dvorak feels more comfortable.
Yeah except China actually cares about continuing that improvement. You've got that spring water now, but who is working on getting you a newer, better spring water, and has anybody called them a racist sexist misogynistic homophobic demon yet?
So, you’re suggesting that the USA is in decline because marginalized groups are demanding equal treatment?

I’ll agree that police violence is a symptom of much larger systemic issues, but you seem to be implying that the larger
systemic issue is... people are unhappy with the USA and they should stop being unhappy and support the USA.

Have you considered why they might be unhappy, why they may very well have legitimate grievances?

Perhaps we can strengthen our union by addressing these centuries old grievances? My understanding of your post is, you just want them to stop complaining without doing anything to help them.
You presume management has the capability to judge the quality of the work.

Janitorial work — like, say, being a sysadmin — doesn't necessarily result in instant visible problems if you just decide to skip work one day. The problems are probabilistic, and often consist of smaller problems that compound over time. In this sort of job, you can frequently "get away with" not doing your job for a few hours, at the expense of working a bit harder the rest of the day; you can sometimes even "get away with" not doing your job for a day or two, at the expense of likely having to do a bit of "fire-fighting" work when you get back, rather than only prophylactic maintenance work. In either case, your absence won't necessarily be noted, if you're not part of a team with a supervisor specifically attuned to the KPIs you're delivering on.

In jobs where "when you're doing the job right, nobody notices", the reverse also applies: as long as nobody is noticing anything going wrong, then they assume you're doing your job.
Doesn't the compiler optimize out clones when it can?
You can't really protect the vulnerable, especially when the vaccines wasn't developed.
Any source for the 50% antibody claim?
> "We're (mostly) hackers for bleep's sake."

Ironically, the old-school hackers who made the word "hacker" famous, like the ones who built the UNIX ecosystem before Linux was even a thing, knew their CS fundamentals like the back of their hand. They'd have zero trouble with the coding aspect of these interviews.

Very few people on HN are hackers.

> "If you look at Goldman Sachs or Microsoft, BOTH are investing heavily in tuning their recruitment process to identify and hire neuro-atypical people"

That's just a publicity stunt. I'd bet money that few of the neuro-atypical they hire last long in those places.
From time to time you’ll see a recruiter looking to ‘re-invent’ the placement model acting as a talent agent; representing only tech rock stars.

They never last.

The temptation to steer individuals to companies paying a bounty of 25-33% OTE is impossible to pass up.

Ultimately, you’re the best pitch man for advancing your career.

Try thinking of yourself in terms of Product/Market fit. Who can you best serve?

Finally, borrow a page from Jaleh Rezaei on Cold Outreach. See her brilliant presentation here. > https://www.ycombinator.com/library/9n-how-to-generate-leads
Selective reporting and editorial bias, is what I'm referring to.
It doesn’t matter what Ukraine is attempting to do, and it wouldn’t be an invasion it’s their territory.
What about other degrees? physics or math come to mind, they're probably self-taught at software engineering but they may have a problem solving and abstraction oriented mindset that far surpasses any ability to solve leetcode problems. They still shouldn't pass your initial screening?
From reading the article, I'm reasonably certain that Avaaz is using Facebook's own definitions.
Finnish sauna is better than Swedish sauna.
I can see that being useful since it's external. The things that I saw and questioned were feeding it to cows to kill internal parasites.
Have a look at my 2nd earliest submission about full employment and the consequences it would bring, it's pretty refreshing reading.
WTF Is Inter-Process Communication?
Why would you have to relearn Vim? Just remap all the key where they used to be.
How long has China's thumb been on the scale?

Does anyone really believe the wumao is limited to China? The CCP has its hands in everything. Social unrest, identity politics, political correctness. They're patient, easier to overthrow the west by sowing internal division and weakness than guns and armies.
I agree that the "West" is in a decline, and I'm hopeful we can get out of it. The issue I have with these articles is that it suggests the "West" has always ruled the world, when reality is a bit different. The US was never hegemonic over Russia, China, or India.

China also has some serious issues to tackle related to their massive growth and demographic problems. This is made worse by their unwillingness to open up their markets and try to fight the US on consumer spending - which powers much of the economic power that the US has.

China tries to control the narrative as it is advantageous to do so. Reality is, I think India's economy has more chance to overtake the world than China but nothing is for certain.
> Personally, I lay the blame primarily on anti-vaxxers. They've made us far too cautious around vaccinations. It has screwed up our risk management rules. I've no doubt that this pull back will result in anti-vaxxers publishing BS about the safety of J&J vaccinations to try and scare people away from it.

This has nothing to do with "anti-vaxxers". Vaccines usually take years to develop precisely because we give them to everyone, and rare, long-tail risks matter. This was the case well before the MMR autism scare defined "anti-vax" as it has come to be known today.

In this case, we bypassed that standard development process. It was the right choice, in my opinion, but it's not the right attitude to start claiming that our standard level of risk mitigation for vaccines is excessively cautious because "anti-vaxxers" exist. That's simply reactionary.

If anything, we've tossed out all of our usual standards of evidence in 2020, and did a bunch of stuff willy nilly, with no supporting evidence or rational consideration of trade-offs. We tore off all the safety belts. We don't need lower bars for evidence, we need less reactionary hysteria.
It isn't pure problem solving but it also isn't memorization "plain and simple". It's a mix. It's unlikely you'll see exactly the same question as one you studied. The problem solving portion is figuring out how to apply one of the techniques you've learned to a novel problem.
So you consider China (which is winning) a society with a more conservative philosophy? I didn't realize China is a small-government free market place...
So Phillip Cross is accused of conflicts of interest. He could move to edit other pages but insists on continuing without explanation. From the diffs he has a pretty clear agenda and isn't in it to just fact check, fix grammar, check sources etc.

What really troubles me is how little concern editors have for the precariousness of WP's reputation. Spewing legalese while missing the larger point, misstating the case in escalation to arbitration, dismissing the claims within minutes of hearing a defence etc. Wikipedia's model is at high risk to opinion farms and any suggestion that that is happening should be taken very seriously by editors, lest they look like they're complicit. When that happens it will quickly suffer repetitional damage that will take much, much longer to repair.

But they want to debate the rules and definitions, make counter accusations... To dawdle over such an obvious case is going to be hard to forgive.
So, for RSI, I have an alternative hypothesis. My issues are only with my right hand. I'm pretty sure the problem is not QWERTY, it's just the ]'/ keys. Having that one extra column of keys to reach across in order to get to the enter and shift keys means my right hand experiences a lot more wrist movement and stretching than my left hand does.

(I find hitting the enter key on an ANSI keyboard to be irritating enough that I'm frankly impressed that anyone tolerates ISO keyboards.)

I'm currently giving an ultra-minimalist keyboard, the Atreus, a shot. I'm still in the adjustment period, but it seems to be promising, and a much smaller adjustment than abandoning QWERTY entirely. Bonus points for not being the size of an aircraft carrier, like most ergo keyboards are.
For all the hand-wringing over the decline of the West, it never seemed very likely to me. Half the world's GDP comes from the liberal democracies of North America and Europe. That economic and political power is not going to bow down to any other world power that is not ideologically aligned. The West will do business with China for exactly as long as it's in the West's interest. If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that supply chains can change and businesses can adapt when required to.
Fyi, you can harvest tax losses and use them to reduce future tax bills, so yes...
Currently the maximum size of a single document is limited to 1 MByte. That is an artificial limitation resulting from the fact, that SeekStorm does not only indexes the content of the document, but also stores the original document.
Somewhere there has to be a limit.
Surely companies account for this in their interview teams? Or are they just haplessly floating on the narrowly applied intelligence of their workers? (Or something else, not suggesting a divalency).
This is the right answer. With proper touchtyping technique, the split does not matter.

I use Colemak with my Kinesis split keyboards but that's irrelevant.
I’m not spending time reading a salon article, but I’m willing to bet money that their definition of “repeat misinformer” is total bullshit.
Do we though?

What % of the general population do you think can actually come close to estimate the real cost of their complete annual health care premium cost (let alone actual procedures or services like emergencies)?

And what subset of that do you think would be incredibly shocked at the actual price ?
And then we had excess deaths in NY State because Governor Cuomo FORCED nursing homes to take in infected patients! And then he gave immunity to the whole industry from liability if they didn’t take precautions.

And he became the darling of the media and even won an Emmy.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/03/cuomos-nursing-home-...
You can't learn Rust by StackOverflow, that just doesn't work. It is well known, I repeat this everytime I see it happening, and they never listen. It's deeply frustrating.
In the long term, the West (Europe at first) went from at best a not particularly interesting place compared to, say, China to the global hegemon because

1. it became much better at war than the others [0]

2. it became much richer than the others [1]

Much has been written about how Western values and/or institutions and/or any other causes led to 1 and/or 2 and the interplay between 1 and 2.

The warfare advantage is primarily tech-based against peer enemies. Training and sheer size may matter against asymmetric foes but against China it's basically whoever has the best technology.

Given the relative size of Western countries and the rest of the world (China is about four times as big as the US for instance), the West needs to be many times richer per capita to be a larger economic power than China or India. Note that the West used to be a much higher percentage of the world population in the past.

There's a lot of catching up both in technology in particular, including military technologies, and economic catch up more broadly; it is very unlikely that the West can leap again and grow/innovate so much faster than China & India can't catch up enough to dominate.

People in this thread seems to be too focused on what they see as a cultural decline within the US and not see the economic and technology long term catch up.

[0] see for instance https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691139708/wh...

[1] see for instance https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691090108/th...
ALLO – Whiteboarding, documentation, and video chat in one place
just freaking leave facebook already, you don't need it
While in many cases that may be the implication, the author clearly states that is not their intention in the first few paragraphs:

> The statement Rust is for Professionals does not imply any logical variant thereof. e.g. I am not implying Rust is not for non-professionals.
For those of you in the Bay Area, the USS Pampanito also does this.

https://maritime.org/education/edupampanito/pampanito-overni...
There is also the word "formication": Formication is the sensation that resembles that of small insects crawling on (or under) the skin when there is nothing there.
That's interesting to know. When I got my Pfizer jab, the lady said "oops, I did it wrong" and blood came out. She didn't jab me again though and I just assumed it was good to go. Should she have done it again at a different site? I was told elsewhere that it doesn't make the vaccine any less effective, but I'm curious what others on here think now...
and those skills lead to job offers. As proven by the thousands of CS devs that "jump through the useless hoops" and end up with jobs.

I agree that a lot of story around interviewing is broken and that many of the questions don't relate to day to day jobs... like creating a binary tree or "how do you move a mountain" (IE: https://www.amazon.com/How-Would-Move-Mount-Fuji/dp/03167784...) - but they do show that you know CS basics, know how to learn them or have basic problem solving skills.

As much as people bemoan CS interviews... currently? They are a necessary evil to certain segments of the job market. Can you get jobs without them? Sure... just like you can get jobs without degrees - but your resume will get round-filed for a large number of jobs without a degree and you'll not make it past initial filters without knowing "basic" CS trivia like binary trees.

Whether you're okay with a limited job pool or not is on you... I don't have a 4 year... but I have a 2 year with many years of experience and I'm okay with some of the limits until I eventually get a BA. I still make six figures and know I can find a new job if it comes to it - as I've done repeatedly with limits. I've never balanced a binary tree for a job interview but I have "failed" online tests because I wasn't "fast enough" on code tests. I'm still employable and successful.
That's ridiculous. No dictator has walked all over the US in the last 4 years or ever. Anytime we failed diplomatically it occurred with the knowledge that our military dominance was insurmountable and complete, but that it's use indiscriminately would not serve our overall diplomatic strategic policy of caring about human rights, and self-imposed limits on how we use our military. Any of our failures in war against dictators etc directly stems from self-imposed limits on how we use our military power. We could literally glass them but we don't. Thank goodness.
1. Well, maybe in Europe. tap water in the US isn't especially good.

2. Air quality is improving fast.

3. The the right to unaffordable health care?

4) Obviously you have never lived in China. Sorry to break the news to you. Yes, China is attracting young people from all over the world too.
I would like data on this too.

I use Dvorak on keyboards and QWERTY on touch screens.

I find QWERTY difficult to touch for all the obvious reasons but actually pretty good for 2 to 4 fingers typing on a iPhone / iPad. I have seen people typing faster than I do with only 4 fingers and their thumbs, usually with a machine gun style.

Dvorak is (great for | forcing you into) touch typing, except that right pinky overuse. It feels good but you don’t really have a choice.

My wife doesn’t touch type and is bent over the keyboard, looking down at the keys. Dvorak would not help her until she relaxes down on her chair, and type with more fingers and without looking.
China is not worse than it was 50 years ago however it's development is unsustainable and superficial.
Seriously. While we were pretending that communism was defeated and the Cold War has been over since 1989, the CCP has infiltrated western corporations, institutions, and schools right under our noses. Lord knows what sort of havoc they have instigated and what IP they have stolen.
> With the benefit of hindsight, a 3 month shutdown while hospitals got their acts together (combined with protecting the vulnerable) would have roughly quartered the remaining deaths, but at far lower cost than the full shutdown.

Where was this "full shutdown" you speak of? Not anywhere in the US. In Wuhan, and some other Asian countries, sure.

Didn't we kind of have the 3 month shutdown-lite you're referring to? Mid-March through about June for most places were at varying levels of shutdown in the US. But recall things started opening up in June of 2020. And cases started rising again into July.

> The US is apparently already at ~50% antibodies, not counting vaccination.

Citation? That seems like about 3X the most optimistic numbers I've heard from credible sources.
I don't think "irreversible decline" meaning the raw metrics get worse. I think here it means the structure and ideology of the CCP means they will never be able to deliver what the West can deliver, especially on the personal freedoms front.

Maybe decline is the wrong word, and collision course is a better one.

As China globalizes and becomes more exposed to the outside world, they will start to wonder why they can't vote on things like environmental regulation, or why the local factory pollutes their river but they have little say in that process.

In this sense, this is the decline. It's the CCP being undermined by their own economic liberalization.
I admit grass is greener on the other side. However every company (even Google) has it's downsides.

But it's all relative. At least from this side of the fence, I see FAANG (and other top tech companies) have less downsides and more upsides, relatively speaking, compared to your typical non-tech companies.

The point is emphasized by friends and ex-coworkers who've jumped ship to FAANG and other top tech companies after working at non-tech companies like where I am. All of them seem to love it.