skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's your problem. There is no such thing as rational lockdown policy for an airborne virus.

OP states that the original lockdowns were reasonable but then complains about continued lockdowns, and my comment was responding to that sentiment.

You're making an entirely different argument -- that lockdowns were always unreasonable.

> Pretell: where exactly did lockdowns work? Surely not in East Asia where multiple countries are experiencing exponential growth in covid cases right now due to seasonality. Despite widespread adoption of masking, contact tracing, etc. Certainly not in Sweden, where they never implemented them, yet they continue to have either middling or above average results in terms of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths.

This is probably one of the least intellectually humble/curious things I've ever seen someone write on hacker news.

There's an entire literature base being developed on exactly this question, and the answer is very clearly "it's complicated". For each of your examples I can give a counter-example, and that exchange would be completely specious and unscientific political punditry. This is not a question that can or should be effectively litigated in the comment section of a hacker forum by armchair epidemiologists, at least not without thousands of hours invested. And certainly not helpful if not entered into as an honest search for truth without preconceptions.

I don't feed trolls.
"Luncheon meat" is the generic term I've seen for it in Hong Kong English, since Spam is still a trademark.

The problem is mostly that your average American does not know how to properly treat it.

It is technically edible out of the can but you really want to brown it in a pan. And you need a relatively large amount of carbs to soak up all the sodium (so for Asians and Hawaiians, rice.)
How do you manage when different people in the same area are in different meetings? That's where I see the problems occur - there'd be 4 people in my immediate vicinity having 4 completely separate conversations. That would never work.
Building our founding team | Mani AI Inc | REMOTE | https://www.mani.ai/

Hello,

My name is Naren Keshav & I have bootstrapped Mani AI Inc. mani is a consumer facing, augmented reality application currently available for iOS.

What is mani:

We see a lot when we move around our world. When you want to communicate about what you see within your reach, the communication channels have loads of gaps. When you see something that you want to communicate, you can place your message as sticky notes.

Progress so far:

So far, my focus had been to build a base for the company within my skillset. I am keen on building a team - with people, who would like take this journey.

For our future:

I believe a product like mani would take shape in our near future. The real question is whether mani resembles closely to that unknown shape/form. Here is how I see our future: https://narenkeshav.com/essays/mani-future

Great things are done by a team. If you find it interesting and looking to be part of the founding team - would love to chat with you. My email address is nkeshav at mani dot team

Thank you for your time,
Naren
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Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Webpack, Lerna, GraphQL, Node.js

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True. But it’s hard for home users to buy an enterprise license.
Hmm makes sense. I used to be the same way in my college days.
This was discussed a day or so ago, attracting 194 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27340414
We're looking to make our first PM hire within the next few weeks. If you know of someone who is looking to shape the vision for a software product with traction in the market, please let me know: https://uncountable.com/careers/senior-pm

- Jason
not a fan of fighting back, but you need to fight back against these type of people.
i would report suspicious activity both to the HOA board and the police. let’s see how they handle this.
If you work in a team that requires lots of collaboration, you might not get to restructure work.

Can people call you or message you to clarify what you just now pushed at 11pm? Do you respond immediately? Let's say you do immediately because you restructure your night time as your best work time, does that mean you're automatically exempt from 8am meetings in a few hours?

Come to think of it. Pushing code at 11pm is not that unusual even pre-covid, but the expectation for the associated communication might be totally different.
What is your process for evaluating "how someone solves a problem" and how does that inform your hiring decision? Does it simply come down to "does this person solve the problem the way I would"? How do you address confounding issues like performance anxiety induced by constraints not present in a normal work scenario?

My observation is that many companies don't address those problems well.
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We're looking for our second founding engineer to join us on the journey. This is a special time: you’ll play an instrumental role in shaping everything from our culture, to our engineering workflow, to our process design/architecture. Really fun and interesting challenges ahead.

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Courier is the fastest way for developers to build notifications for their app. Our APIs take the tedium out of integrating various notification channels, while our visual designer lets anyone design a message template and deliver their notifications to the best channel for each user with a single API call. Email, Push, Slack, SMS, you name it. Think "Stripe, for notifications."

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Ah, bing maps.
"Just 4 hours" for a chance at the job, and how high a chance depends on the employer (i.e. how early in the process they drop the take-home exercise on you, whether you've already come to terms on pay at that point, et c.)

In general I just wish places that weren't FAANG would be more open about their process. Do I need to brush up on leetcode shit before applying, or no? Are you gonna quiz me on obscure corners of a language that I reflexively avoid because they're terrible, so haven't thought about in a while? Gonna talk architecture? Will I be writing code with someone looking over my shoulder? Pairing? On what kind of thing, generally? Is your filter for the 200 candidates who apply to hit them with a take-home assignment or longish automated test first thing, so I know to just skip applying at all (screw burning that much time to apply for the privilege of getting an interview at just one place)? With FAANG you know what you're getting in to, so at least you know you're about to step in a big pile of shit and can put on your waders first. The blind roulette wheel of hiring outside FAANG is its own kind of trash-fire.
I'll never work from home. I'll go so far to say that I'd only work for companies that require you to come in. My experience WFH has been abysmal.
It seems like a neat technology but it would be useful to have some concrete examples of what you can do.

The company sales pitch seems to be about fleet management and over-the-air updates. This doesn’t seem very relevant to me considering that I’m a hobbyist flashing a single microcontroller over USB, and I never run more than one program at a time. But perhaps I’m just not the target market and I’m not imagining the right use cases?
Do you have a source for that? Coming from a country where there are 16 different parties in parliament (the Netherlands), neighboured by two countries which each have at least five parties in parliament (Belgium and Germany), I find that statement difficult to believe.
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Probably very similar until aerobraking begins.

But as a targeted country, why would you care? Either way you are definitely being attacked by the USA.
I wonder if Starship would work for deploying kinetic weapons from orbit. The old Project Thor idea is pretty unrealistic- you don't want to leave a major weapons system out of your control & in full view of everyone- but you could get all of the benefits by launching say a tungsten rod or rods the size of a schoolbus from a rocket high above the target. The high cost of Starship might be offset by not using relatively expensive ICBMs.

Kinetic weapons have a lot of potential- one large one to take out a bunker such as Iran's nuclear mountain nuclear facility, or perhaps a shotgun blast of many smaller rods to take out distributed targets. Pretty tough to defend against the latter
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NASA Announces New Planetary Protection Officer
I'm pretty sure they'll at least need to load cryogenic fuel wherever they're trying to relaunch.

For military operations it might actually be a possibility to just not relaunch though. Explode the engines/anything sensitive and just leave it there. They're surprisingly cheap to build (compared to a lot of the expenses incurred during combat operations), at a (public and old) target of $5 million/ship.
Possible. Although having Notepad++ do a content search is still faster. The Windows search usually just hangs with zero results for quite a while. Can find it faster by browsing manually.
If you want to get a nice tour of different chocolates every month, I recommend Cococlectic ( https://cococlectic.com/ ). I'm not affiliated with them in any way, but have been receiving craft chocolate from them each month for years.
Yes, like in the post, you will get the ones that taste like tobacco and chalk sometimes, and other times you'll get something divine. It's a fun surprise each time the box arrives.
Those sharp corners are dangerous. At my old work we got a batch of control interface cards for some industrial equipment that suddenly stopped working. A chip receiving ~100khz serial data through a short cable would randomly stop working and get hot. Power cycle would fix it. Classic signs of latchup. Turns out the chip sending the data had gone through a process shrink that caused it to switch much faster and produce and put much sharper corners. These sharper corners would ring so hard at the other end they would latch up the receiver chip. We added some termination to mitigate the ring and the problem was fixed.
Not everyone is wealthy enough or wants to move into an area and buy a house. Landlords make this possible. They also keep up with all the maintenance that any homeowner is familiar with. Houses are in a constant state of decay.
Plot twist: Facebook quietly puts its panopticomonopolistic thumbs on various scales to encourage such bloat, for exactly this reason.

I'm not so unparanoid as to imagine that this is implausible.
> I'm a virgin so I want virginal women.

I have interacted with women that wanted virgin men (not to mention being surprised at the excitement of the woman who took my virginity, I am pretty sure in the end it was not a fantastic experience for her, though we're still friends). I was friend of a bride for a wedding where the man had never even kissed a woman before (the officiant embarassingly brought it up during the ceremony), and was told privately by
the bride that this was a plus.

> want nice girls so I should be a "nice guy."

This is one of the axes where the incels are correct, women since time immemorial have say they want "nice guys". Why would you (publically) say anything else? It's a very pro-social stance to take. I'm not sure that women's preferences actually take nice-guy-dom into account. OTOH, incels insistence that women exclusively like bad guys is probably overreach, though definitely nice guys tend to be less assertive which is very likely a negative quality for the modal heterosexual woman, and since sampling rate matters for raw success dating and sex dynamics, it exacerbates the illusion.

(The other axis where the incels are correct is the myth of "there's someone for everyone". Yeah, we should kill that one with fire.)

> The point is rejecting to get a sense of power or self.

I could be convinced but I'm not sure. I think this is more of a PUA thing.

> They'll complain about outcomes but never offer solutions.

Very true.
Are you allowed to paint your house what you want or are you restricted to something like ten shades of beige?

From what I’ve seen, Non-hoa areas tend to have more variety in landscaping and color and are more pleasant to look at while hoa areas are drab and have a monoculture office park landscaping that some how makes plants feel lifeless and can’t be environmentally friendly.

They do prevent trashed houses and a number of other ills, but they do it by forcing everyone to be equally mediocre. They are like the porridge of architecture and landscaping.

And a lot of them claim to be about maximizing home values which is definitely not true. They are about preventing a house from lowering the values of the neighborhood, but that usually means preventing nicely done houses raising the value of the neighborhood.
>sure, but can it model my amp?

I believe you can already create your own impulse responses (from your personal amps).
I'm referring to a programming interview, where you are writing code with the candidate -- not a brain teaser.
> It does not send your personal files to MS. Stop with the lies, please.

what does this option do then?

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_599...

and of course: it's enabled by default
Going back to Chrome after years of Firefox is an awful move IMO. Maybe it’s time to try Vivaldi.
I have had good results with the decrapifier script by CSAND on spiceworks [0]. It's been getting maintained for a while now and it's on spiceworks so while I'm not a windows nerd enough to judge it, I'm pretty sure it's good if not great. I used this tutorial [1] when installing a new machine, you run it in "audit" mode before the out of box experience. I used -appaccess and -xbox. In my case I'm giving this PC to a friend so she'll get the new PC experience without the start menu garbage.

[0]: https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/4378-windows-1...
[1]: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/148624-how-to-clean-...
This and three extensions that make it even better:

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... - bit easier to manage, you can place a sensible button next to "Open a new tab" that gives you a menu to open a new tab in specific container, also easy to assign site to a container which is vital

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... - this makes a temporary container every time you open a new empty tab (if you open a tab from within it stays with the temporary container), when you close the last tab from the container it will remove the container after a while. This extension should not be used with tab syncing from the former extension if you use Firefox Accounts to sync tabs and stuff.

- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... - this makes it manageable to use the temporary containers extension. Because every time you open a new tab with new Google search you will see a cookie consent popover. It gets old fast, this clicks it for you.
Is anybody else thinking about "Rods from God"? Aka orbital hyper-dense kinetic kill weapons? If SpaceEx can launch 10,000 satellite before starship, they can launch thousands of K-Kill rods with Starship.

There is little to no realistic defense against such a weapon. They can have very little electronics and the little they are naturally heavily shielded. The are mostly a chunk hyper-velocity metal that should be fairly immune to laser or missile based defenses.

I guess we have treaties limiting weapons in space. But for how long will these last?
I’d greatly prefer 5 day weeks and 52 extra vacation days to a 4 day week.
Do you get the check that you need any account, or the check that you specifically need an account with ID verification?
No it wouldn't be fair to say that.

Lots of stuff exist specifically to help with onboarding people into the community. Like the recent announcement of adding a C parser into the frontend.
there is cost and there is “cost”. most money go into labor and actually getting someone to get out there. they need to be bonded and insured. they also need to get the job done. it’s a hassle
What will happen is some high profile company that has a few Amazon devices on their network will have these devices exploited to gain network access and get hit with some ransomware/data theft/etc... and then there will be a big legal battle between Amazon and the hacked company and this whole idea will be shut down and consumers will get a $10 class action settlement for each device.
This isn't supplanting parenting duties, it's giving parents the tools to actually parent. Without this your options are basically no YouTube access at all or full YouTube access with zero granularity in-between. The default for logged-out people has to be restrictive or else it's trivial to bypass. The current rules for porn, alcohol, and mature games are a joke and have been since their inception. Everyone being born on Jan 1 1901 is a meme at this point. It's checking a regulatory box without actually doing anything and if YouTube tried it they would be raked over the coals.

Libraries do restrict the materials that can be checked out by minors and I doubt that counted as supplanting parenting. How else could you give your kid any level of independence without the cooperation of other people?
Do you have a source for that? Most of Western Europe has more than two parties in parliament, thus I find that hard to believe.
One of the companies I interviewed with did what he described and it was nice. I thought the cool thing was that in the second interview they wanted me to walk them through some of my thought process for why I did/searched for certain things.

I didn't end up taking the job, but boy was it a breath of fresh air compared to some of the other interviews I've done.
Products in https://www.auburnsounds.com/
also PDF generation, SIMD, static websites (CommonMark), and a lot of internal tools. There is a wide gamut of applicability. (EDIT: I have become that blurb programmer :o )
Whatsapp managers and engineers belong in prison for multiple violations of privacy laws and data theft across the globe. You are criminals.
http://archive.is/g7tU3
In Search of the New
Name a second one who did it in front of 10M people.
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake
Right, and it's not the tobacco industry's fault that people die of lung cancer, people should just know better than to smoke in the first place.

And if you didn't know, children will eventually start using computers by themselves, probably before they are 12 (probably in first grade or kindergarten, I wouldn't be surprised). A huge portion of internet users are children. That's a fact. The reality is that a huge portion of children are online, and advertisers are specifically targeting children on youtube.
What are the multiple ways you are under the impression of?
'the first american, columbus' the fuck are you talking about? so all the people that were already living on the continent just don't count? Fuck Columbus.
Bingo.

I do quite a few coding interviews for my company and, frankly, the pass rate on the coding interview is dismal. It's one of our most effective filters for bad candidates.

What sort of torturous questions do I ask? Merge 2 sorted arrays is one of my favorite.

How many people can pass that? less than 50%. A good number of people don't even get to the "concat the 2 arrays into 1 array and sort" sort of solution. It's really that bad. These are people with "15 years of software development experience" failing really basic coding problems.

I really wish I didn't have to ask that sort of question, but at the same time, I don't want to work with anyone that can't solve it (even "under pressure").

The fact is, a lot of programmers will go off the deep end with simple problems. This joke[1] still relatively accurately describes the mentality of a bunch of programmers in the industry.

[1] http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hk1mt-RKYLc/UOkxShm6NrI/AAAAAAAACq...
That page is exactly the marketing speak I'm talking about, too. Watch the technical explanation instead.

https://youtu.be/d5knHzv0IQE?t=1240
People who are in it for the long run are planning to cash in on the next bubble, not real-world usage. There will be no revolution.
It might not be that dangerous right now, but it sets a bad precedent. It gets users accustomed to that, and gives bad actors a cover for their activities: Look, Google does it!