skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from a Nordic country where we use a version of ISO layout I would not go so far as to say that US-ansi layout is optimized for programming, but programming languages are definitely constructed around US-ansi.
Unless the driver has parked in an unsafe location (fire lane, impeding traffic, etc) I cannot imagine a police officer would give a damn about whether or not a truck driver was behind schedule.

There are pretty strict legal limits (in the US at least) over how long a driver can be on the road without taking a break.

In fact, unless they only hire owner-operators, falling asleep at the wheel and causing an accident will almost certainly jack up the company's insurance rates, much worse than them running behind an overly tight schedule.
Nice work, going to try out later.
Even if they did, PWAs are so heavily nerfed within Apple/Safari as to be mostly useless.
I’m not sure I understand your argument (and I’m guessing the downvoters aren’t either). This is a situation where the process will definitely, unambiguously, kill more people than moving forward with the vaccine.

I guess you’re suggesting culling a small fraction of the population might encourage better behavior at the voting booth? We already have plenty of historical evidence suggesting that’s not true.
The Algorithm Design Manual (just the first few chapters of refresher on data structures and stuff) and Cracking the Coding Interview.
Typing, in the programming language sense, is a major can of worms that a general purpose shell usually avoids with a deliberately bare bones type system (e.g. text, binary, directory and symlink).

How can a shell do anything serious with asserted file types that can be missing, wrong, malformed, unknown or mendacious? It's hard to go beyond offering a best-effort "open with the associated program" application as an alternative to vi, cat etc.
I've been in the same boat for over a decade. I was a "top of the game" game developer (multiple console OS teams, multiple AAA titles as lead), when into VFX and was doing well, got an MBA and was doing better... then I pursued an ambitious startup (what are called deep fakes now, but applied to video advertising), got global patents in '08, and ended up bankrupt by '13 because nobody believed what I was demonstrating in front of their eyes was possible at scale, or they wanted to do porn (which I refused.)

Now I'm working in an industry I don't like, facial recognition, because 99.99% of the potential employers I've contacted either can't figure out what I could do for them, think I'd be bored with whatever they do, or think I'd be too expensive. I even had one interview recently when after an hour the interviewer says "sounds like you're tech light, so..." WHAAT? They had no idea creating media production systems or working in VFX is all digital technologies.
We shouldn't legalize meth. We should legalize moderate doses of time-release amphetamine (not methamphetamine, basically adderall). It would displace meth in the marketplace to a great degree if it's readily available, and while it is somewhat dangerous if heavily abused it is far less addictive and dangerous than meth. Making it time release would also somewhat reduce abuse potential. Yes you can crunch it up and snort it and some people would do that, but those are the same people who will snort meth and snorting 50mg of clean pharmaceutically pure amphetamine would do less harm.

Highly concentrated and dirty street meth is what the incentive structure of prohibition gives you. It's significantly more potent than regular amphetamine, so it's easier to transport larger quantities. It's also a lot easier to make with off the shelf materials and precursors. Amphetamine isn't really more complex to make chemically but it's harder to make it with materials you can buy from a trip to a regular hardware store. Hell there's a "one-pot" meth synthesis around that you can do in a two liter bottle in a single step if you don't mind a filthy product and a chance of blowing yourself up. There's nothing that easy for amphetamine.

Note that amphetamine is more common in Europe where prohibition is somewhat less strict. In the USA it's all meth. Regular amphetamine is rare.
> It can be done.

Definitely. I’ll add that it doesn’t take as much time and effort as commonly portrayed online, especially if you have many years of development experience already.

Keep in mind that many of the online FAANG cram-style study guides and anecdotes about grinding LeetCode are largely targeted at college grads who don’t have many years of experience, and who also likely have a surplus of free time.

For developers with years of actual programming experience, it’s not as difficult to study interview problems as it sounds. Even more so if you spread your practice over a long period of time. Doing one problem per weekday over the course of a year will get you quite far in LeetCode without much time investment.

I grab a random LeetCode problem on my lunch break if I’m eating alone (aka every day during COVID). I pick a different language that I’m familiar with to rotate my skills. I’m not even interviewing, but it’s actually kind of fun to do the harder problems and play with all of the little optimizations. And I get to keep my skills fresh in programming languages I’m not currently using in any projects.
It's supposed to at least correlate with future free cash flow, which it doesn't do either. Sometimes I wonder if quantitative easing and corp tax cuts have distorted the stock market past the point where Benjamin Graham-style theories of value investing have become invalidated.
Fully agree. No employer shall tell me what to install on my private phone.

Come to think of it this might be a really good reason to get an obscure phone (PinePhone?) as your personal phone so they can't do this.

"Yeah, this is my phone, sorry, your app won't work with it"

But regardless, employers should provide a work phone if they want an app installed, and the work phone should NOT have to be carried around 24/7 unless it's an on-call rotation, and in which case the rotation duty cycle should be limited to a reasonable number e.g. 10% or less.
> the exact kind of stuff that people from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds don't know and don't care about

This attitude is condescending towards those that come from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds, most of whom are perfectly capable of learning and developing an active interest in these subjects.
> If 90% of the population had a (sustainable) lifestyle of current dollar millionaires, and the remaining 10% had a (sustainable) lifestyle of dollar billionaires, there would be lots of inequality, but it wouldn't be problematic.

I strongly disagree with this and I think it runs counter to human nature. You're looking at quality of life as if there were some kind of absolute measure of it, but it really doesn't work like that. Quality of life is always measured relative to the people around us or to whom we are exposed in media or social media.

If you look at modern Americans they have fabulously lavish quality of life in comparison to 19th century factory workers or 11th century peasants. Even people in the poorest quintile have access to safety, food, housing and entertainment that would have made people from centuries past gasp in awe. Antibiotics! Virtual reality! Same day shipping!

But what really counts is how we perceive we are doing versus people we can compare ourselves to. That's where the suffering comes from. You have running hot water but your neighbor has a spa tub. You have the iPhone 6 but a friend just got the 12. You have a safe job that pays your bills but a classmate vacations in Portugal. I've been in other countries where the average quality of life was much lower than the US, and no one knew the difference or had any shame or sadness in their smaller cars, smaller bathrooms or lower square footage.

If there were trillionaires but they all lived on Mars or some faraway continent and we knew nothing about them then they wouldn't cause us social suffering.
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Could the folks with JS disabled get a small semi-static page with the top interesting HN stats, and a message that say something like "Here are some simple stats. For the full interactive experience, please enable javascript"?
Sure. Pretty easy to beat the standard set when there's no union though, which in my experience is "your manager listens to your concerns and explains to you why it isn't a problem". The parallel power structure offers you the possibility of recourse, but not the guarantee. And if you want to put effort into having your concerns heard, you'll be convincing people (your coworkers) whose interest generally align with yours.
From the guideline: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize". [1]

The original article title is "Is Russia going to war with Ukraine and other questions"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe Apple needs a granular content rating framework that platform apps can apply internally rather than the rating being entirely an umbrella policy.
I don't find myself to be any faster in Dvorak (70 wpm, like before) and from other users and people online, that seems to be typical. There are some possible gains at the high end, since from what I read most of the confirmed world record holders for typing speed use alternate layouts (for example, https://www.typing.com/blog/fastest-typists/).
That’s not the difference the parent is asking about. He’s asking if the adenovirus based vaccines available are meaningfully different.

Reaching beyond the parent’s words, both AstraZeneca and J&J have now had issues with blood clots. If it’s a similar formulation then perhaps you’ve found something and Adenovirus vaccines with a different formulation are unaffected. If they’re very different then perhaps other variations of Adenovirus vaccines need more attention.
> You're a social club, too.

I get what you're saying, but you spend 40+ hours a week with the people you work with, so the social stuff matters. If someone is really good at their job but a complete asshole to their coworkers, nobody is going to want to work with them, which will likely end up being a net negative for the company's productivity.
So Dr. Strangelove: "You can't have privacy here; this is the land of the free!"

We badly need to find a suitable level of tracking that is less than 100%, or the whole world is a tarted-up game reservation.
Past success is an invalid indicator on the stock market as well
Yes..and no.

The absolute rate of other kinds of poverty have not collapsed. But that statistic hides the fact that the population who are that poor has changed. People who were there moved up and out, while people who were poorer have moved up to that bracket.

It is only after people stop moving out of extreme poverty to the tune of a quarter million per day that we can expect to see reductions in less severe poverty brackets.
As a former student, I can't recommend Lambda. I am speaking to their quality of curriculum and lack of transparency towards their students. I hope from working with Amazon there'll be some quality assurance.
You don't have to be "legendary" to have that kind of leverage.

If the software has any level of complexity, an org does not want to incur the cost of training a newly hired engineer and waiting 3-6 months while they get up to speed.
It's interesting because you have people in the US that keep touting the public transit system in Europe. What reliability challenges have you seen?
I never thought about it like this. This makes a lot of sense and is blowing my mind. I've worked at the same company for the last 16 years partly because of fear of losing healthcare.
Yes, as a non medical/statistician person, I'd be really surprised if we had the same quality and quantity of data on the birth pills and this new vaccination.

The risks could be higher, but maybe our data is not yet there.

Just as a side note, the risks (and gains) are different, maybe I really don't want a child accidentally, but I don't consider the coronavirus too dangerous to me (it's just a hypothetical, this hypothetical person could be wrong, but in the end we all operate on incomplete data)
Good to discuss, but I'm not 100% sure about some of the points here.

- The `h` problem is purely about moving your index finger, so I don't think it makes sense to talk about the bigram being popular. The relevant number is just how many `h`s people have to type in general

- Shortcuts staying the same: saying that there exists a variant of Dvorak created to do this too is a huge point in favour of Colemak. The point is so good that people modified a 70 year old layout to match it! How popular is this variant?

- Saying that Colemak is bad because of Vim, then saying it's good because of CapsLock/Backspace BUT that doesn't really count because you can also do this reprogramming with Dvorak: can you not also change Vim? Maybe this is much harder
Advances in Renewable Energy
Ho boy looking up Xinjiang then reading this comment was a trip. Any ways Dropbox is pretty great and seeing the differences in sentiment towards TSLA stock compared to Bitcoin over the years has been great. Can't pick all the winners.
Sorry, I cannot spend my vote on such a vaguely described person - I live in this country and its my future. My list starts with representation. This person must represent interests of a big group of people wich includes me. This person must represent interests of businesses I find valueable for my country. This person must have a prioritized list of problems to fix with the corresponinding steps he think must be taken. Otherwise, as you correctly stated it is not worth participating.
So, sorry, neither Nemtsov nor Khodorkovsky doesn't pass, BTW are there someone else?
Yes, but you don’t need to know how to “reverse a b-tree” for that. You just need to be aware of something called algorithmic complexity and big-O notation. You don’t even need to know how to determine the big-O for all the known algorithms and data structures: they can be readily looked up in reference books.
Working well with others is a big part of competency.
replace the human race with robots
Iran is less expansionist, more "Everyone around us hates us and America hates us, so we can only preserve ourselves only by preemptively making them 'friendly'". Even Safavid Persia stopped expanding after its peak, following which the only time it went expansionist was under Nadir Shah. The "us vs the world" mentality grants the theocratic regime legitimacy. The Iran-Iraq war (Saddam's mad campaign in other words) did not help in soothing this mentality either - it still remains in recent memory for many Iranians.

The rest are of course expansionist.
> whether or not the interviewer subjectively likes you

Yes, because we've been burned by this in the past: firing somebody who's impossible to work with is WAY more difficult than just not hiring them in the first place.
On the contrary, tons of companies don’t do this shit. FAANGs do without fail, but the world is not all FAANGs.
Yes, asking employees to put spyware on their personal phone is crossing a line.
In the article it says the app claims not to track location outside of the geofence, but it's unclear exactly what information is being tracked and where it is stored. I'd really be interested to compare the data transfer inside and outside that geofence.
This is sensationalism and fear mongering.

The type of blood clots (low platelet) the J&J causes gets worse with the standard treatment of blood thinners. This was on the CDC call this morning.
People in this thread seem very confused about a lot of stuff so I’m going to try and make some clarifications:

1) This is an RCE, so what it does is achieving code execution in the browser, i.e. it can run arbitrary code from the attacker, it’s literally like running a compiled program inside the target’s browser. This doesn’t bypass Chrome’s sandbox, so a lot of OS operations are not reachable from within the browser (for example, a lot of syscalls can’t be called).

This is the first step in an exploit chain, the second one would be a sandbox escape to expand the attack surface and do nasty stuff, or maybe a kernel exploit to achieve even higher privileges (such as root)

2) WASM being RWX is really not a security flaw. W^X protections in modern times (even in JIT-like memory mappings) makes sense only when coupled with a strong CFI (control flow integrity) model, which basically tries to mitigate code reuse attacks (such as JOP or ROP). Without this kind of protection, which needs to be a system-wide effort as iOS has shown, W^X makes literally zero sense, since any attacker can easily bypass it by executing an incredibly small JOP/ROP chain that changes memory protections in the target area to run the shellcode, or can even mmap RWX memory directly.
Is Discord going to be banning 1-to-1 or small group (not server) conversations that have NSFW content as well? This is obviously a move to placate Apple, but even with taking this step it seems to me that they may still get into hot water by allowing private chats.
True corrected it to “gene-based”, both jnj and astra use DNA encoding btw.
That's software in general.

The core money-making algorithms don't take many human bodies to develop. At Google, 500-600 researchers and core algo developers likely do most of the heavy lifting.

Otherwise, 90%+ of their developers are likely solving routine problems.

Although, most of them likely convince themselves that only the "chosen ones" among mankind can do what they do.

The reality is that most of software, even at the FAANGs, does not require the type of interview questions these teams enjoy asking.
It doesn't have wide adoption yet, but it's coming! https://uavcan.org/
you can have millions in an IRA if you had rolled over past 401ks etc.
The crawler is a part of SeekStorm.

"Well-defined": Just a guess: We are doing key text extraction, i.e. we try not to index boilerplate stuff an and menu items. As "well-defined" is within a short list item, it might be accidentally skipped.

So, that is not yet perfect, and considering the diversity in web page structure it probably never will.
But we will try to improve.
Whenever you catch a cold or flu those are generally DNA viruses (unless it's a coronavirus cold). Those don't alter your DNA.
[I don't use either layout and don't have much wrist strain / any RSI]

I wonder how much of the benefit from using these alternate layouts is due solely to the layout, as opposed to some combination of the layout and better awareness of correct ergonomics, using stretching and warmup techniques, etc.

Hard to quantify of course. Would love to hear from anyone that switched to one of these layouts but didn't make any other changes in their wrist health otherwise.
> Imagine [a list of things that did not include the Internet itself] with no moderation.

Dysfunctional to the point of being unusable indeed.
Both technical contributions and a positive social environment are necessary components for a business.
The pandemic made the author an “expert”. The whole article amounts to “see, I was right all along!”, says the writer of articles on “economics, technology, and the media” (and not anything related to medicine) who read one article last year that supported his view. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The author, turns out, isn’t wrong. But they are arguably right for the wrong reasons.
Truck drivers are making a huge fuss about electronic logging devices (ELDs). They say these trackers reduce safety in a variety of ways. I recommend the “Over the Road” podcast which is where I learned about this.
> Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis is rare, with an estimated 3-4 cases per million annual incidence in adults. While it may occur in all age groups, it is most common in the third decade. 75% are female. [0]

6 cases in 7 million over 3 months with mostly women being affected is exactly what we'd expect to see.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebral_venous_sinus_thrombos....
How is making it safer to do drugs manage addiction?

Ok, so I don’t get adulterated drugs, that still doesn’t do anything for the addiction.

Are we then going to actively discourage people from doing drugs? If so how? What effective form does that take?
Choose a startup by evaluating it like a VC
> CS fundamentals have a big impact on the kinds of programs that individuals can write

Sadly, there seems to be very little correlation though. I've known programmers who graduated from a top CS school with extremely strong CS knowledge, who still write barely comprehensible code. And vice versa, people who have never been taught big-O, but who write the most maintainable, well-reasoned code I've seen. Most programmers aren't building e.g. databases, but writing software that provides business value.

Take home tests can be ok, as long as they are limited in time (<2h). I was adverse to pair coding, but found it to be not as bad as I thought, unless it's 100% pairing all the time. Well, whatever the solution, I think anything that's closer to what day-to-day work at a company looks like is going to give richer feedback/signals than whiteboarding.
That's the article, thanks for finding it.
The [normal?] rate is 3-4 per million adults over the course of a year. The J&J vaccine has only been administered over about 3 months, so we'd expect only about 1 per million for this sampling period.

This syndrome has taken only 1 to 3 weeks, I read 2-12 days elsewhere, to show up in people who've received Janssen's vaccine. Six total out of 6.9 million doses administered; I have no time to do the math right now but I think it might be worse than you think, plus we have to consider this very same thing showing up in the other vaccine of roughly the same type that's been widely prescribed in open societies, AZ/Oxford's.
Definitely not under reported. I've heard about it, despite an incidence rate of ~10^-6.
Expect to take a few months to get back up to your old speed, perhaps a year to surpass it (not everyone does.) Whether this is a good investment depends on your age, if you have or will likely develop pain from typing QWERTY, and whether you’re able to learn an alternative layout during a time when quick typing isn’t as essential. If you need to regularly use other people’s computers, you’ll retain your ability to type in both layouts.
> Imagine putting 10% of the billionaires of the world on a boat, those who pull the strings of their empires to keep their nations into status-quo, and imagine the boat sinks.

How do we make this happen?
Did or have you experienced any ageism?
I like how BBC calls the vaccine made in the UK the Oxford-AV vaccine but can't call this correctly the Janssen vaccine.
I'd rather all the people gaslighting the public by saying the vaccines are completely safe, totally worth any risk, "trust the experts", etc - when in reality young people seem to have a better chance of dying from CVT than COVID - move to a deserted island.

If the real argument is "the cure has a better chance of killing you than the disease, but please risk your life for the community", I'd rather people be honest and say that in the first place.
Aye, fixed.
I really wondered if this would be related to the mockumentary "Look Around You"[1]'s somewhat famous "Thanks ants... Thants"[2] line. If you're reading my comment and you haven't run across these, you might find them pretty amusing.

But... it is (reasonably) not related to those things at all.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBaVwwuErmU

2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jtU9BbReQk
I am curious about your wire-guard setup. Have you been able to automate the setup or is it still a manual process to set up a new customer connection? I have been waiting for wg-dynamic to be ready because I dont feel like using static assignments. It looks like it could be a while until wg-dynamic is ready. What has you experience been?