skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One wild aspect for me is how parochial people been with COVID. At least in the US, they rarely know how other states are dealing with COVID and what restrictions are or are not in place, let alone other countries.

Consider NYC, which had mask mandates through till about mid
June. Talking with people back in April, I remarked how almost
everywhere had dropped their mask mandates to people. All -- and I mean _all_ -- were
shocked: here in the city, you still had to wear them in the office, in businesses, bars & restaurants, all complete with occupancy requirements. The occupancy
requirement of 50% were not dropped until the mask mandate was
dropped. Hell, even across the Hudson River in New Jersey they didn't have those occupancy requirements for as long as we did.

And that's just local to the United States.

Consider how Colombians rioted in Medellin when the government
attempted to impose another lockdown. The government gave up. Was this ever reported on?

Or consider how the Philipinnes are pushing for another lockdown atm. Is this common knowledge?

Or consider how Canada still has major restrictions. Cities like
Toronto had police knocking on the doors of businesses as late as June
(may be still on?) ensuring that people weren't gathering "illegally." Is this common knowledge?

Or consider how Australia is on a fifth lockdown where their prime
minister said "vaccines alone will not end Australia's lockdown." [1]

Or consider how India's delta variant case explosion came down
approximately two weeks after it peaked. Sharply and with very low
vaccination rates. Is this common knowledge?

In somewhat lighter news, consider how other countries tackled issues
relating to masks. Lithuania never required them for school children as one example.

The world is incredibly polarized but also increasingly parochial, at least anecdotally. People are extrapolating their local circumstances and assuming elsewhere must be similar or in worse shape, that these restrictions must be meaningful.

[1] Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/australia-pm-says-vaccinatio...
There is a vibrant 2nd hand resale market in the US, mostly fueled by Facebook marketplace and a handful of specialized apps.

However, Americans in general just don't take good care of stuff. Combined with products being designed from the cheapest possible materials, the quality of second hand goods isn't great. People avoid it if they can afford to buy new.
That is exactly why I chose that example. It was the last one I remembered.

Pantone sells color chips. They are not designers, and they do not make or sell fashion.

The color of the year is just a marketing stunt which the media laps up, but the fashion industry completely ignores.
Why can’t “test prep” then just be fully simulated (as in you come in, same time limits, same setting, etc) practice tests?

Or is it more that when you take a test, your results will naturally fall in x +- y, so the more you take it the higher the chance for a score in the high range?
Auth0 nailed Demand Generation before Product-led Growth became a buzzword
Each of those has a native app. Why would anyone be forced to switch browsers? Just install the app.
FYI this article is from a random local tv station, so that there’s national traffic is probably rare let alone international.
I think this article was very good. It captured the same though process I went through: from trying different apps, to trying to build my own, to realizing it’s all about human condition after all.

I do think, however, that software for TODO lists sucks, and should support humans better https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-apps-are-meant-for-robots/
Nice copium. Who should I trust, my family and friends in China who never heard of anyone getting COVID? or the western press who can't cope with their own failure?
Does any site list how various companies interview? I personally find take home projects very interesting, as I usually get to play with a new technology.
curious how the Unlicense is viewed by legal? I've been throwing that on all my projects since I learned about it before CC0 and it's now a habit.
I’m also not worried about it in CA. Bacon sells itself.
Don’t use Glassdoor for tech. They are almost always incorrect since they are salary focused. Use levels.fyi which understands total compensation
Are you a student at a US college?

What does the law say Spotify has to do wrt service supplied to students? Do they have to charge tax as if the student is permanently living at their college address? Or at their out-of-term-time address? Do they have to pro rata it depending on how much time the student spends at each address? Or just charge the higher tax rate?
For something like that, definitely not common.
they said C11 tho
The financial instruments (and the underlying rules of the economic system) are the enablers here. You're probably right that it's probably better than what came before, but that doesn't mean we can improve on the system we have.
> A blind person has lost a job over this.

IANAL, but in at least the US and Europe that sounds like the easiest lawsuit of their life
Canvas rendering is not server side computation and streaming video, it's turning the web browser into even more of a desktop application platform. After a certain point, html breaks down.
AWS Certification exam to allow candidates to demonstrate skills with exam labs
The biggest issue for me is I can't really buy anything without buying a ton of plastic with it. Want to buy anything on the Internet? It is most likely going to be wrapped in a ton of foil, bubble wrap and that additional to its own packaging.
... so? The current incarnation of TC-39 has produced something that's a mess in more ways than one. The spec somehow managed to make it all the way to 5.1 and with that term nowhere to be found. With all the people who've got their hands in the spec nowadays, that someone playing it fast and loose with language also used the wrong terminology is not particularly surprising, nor does it make it any less grating to hear.

(Does the standard provide for a way not to run with the "standard library"? To opt for a different library of your choosing, for example, or no library at all? No? So it's a set of built-ins that are just an inescapable part of the language, then.)
In the middle class and upward, it's not common, outside of folks who are particularly frugal. The post-WWII American culture is extremely consumerist / materialistic.
Yes, brokerages have all been doing this for a while, but while TD Ameritrade pays more overall than Robinhood, does it also do more trades (not in terms of number of trades, but dollar value)? Without that info, it's hard to tell who's worse.
Is turning plastic into CO2 in an incinerator really the best solution for the planet this century?

I'm down for recycling or burial in landfills, but CO2 seems like something we need to minimize this century.
Canada. Am regularly bombarded with recruiters, although mostly for the US market.
What about paper bags?
FTC Sues Owner of Online Dating Service Match.com for Using Fake Love Interest Ads To Trick Consumers into Paying for a Match.com Subscription

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2019/09/ftc-s...
Give Positive Feedback to Colleagues, with Examples
Same, 2010 in a CS course. Never after that.
It's "just" carbohydrates - in theory it's no worse than burning oil or gas for heating/electricity, if you make sure everything burns at high enough temperature to burn cleanly and have filters at the exhaust to catch anything that survived the processes.

I'd say it's a positive, we use oil to produce plastics, if that oil is used to produce energy after its plastic form is no longer needed....that's a plus in my book. But maybe on the other hand it's better if it stays in the landfill instead of being burnt and releasing the bound carbon into the atmosphere.
Before there was Climate Change, there was Global Warming.

Why was there a name change, a rebranding if you will? In some cases, there is conflation, but they mean very different things.

When it comes to Climate, scientists say that climate is in 30 year intervals. Day to day that is just weather.

> The problem is the ruling class

I would be much more inclined to believe that there was an actual problem if the ruling class was not gallivanting around on private jets to nonstop events to preach to us plebes about the evils of our fairly tame lifestyles in comparison.

Strangely, COVID has been great for driving down wanton energy use

> that would endanger their investments, and rapid change away from fossil fuels and other climate-change causing investments is a danger to their interests.

That sounds like one of the prevailing narratives in the media.

However, I think the truth may be complex than that. After all, it is Exxon that did invent the ubiquitous Lithium-ion battery.

https://energyfactor.exxonmobil.com/energy-innovation/rd/the...

If we are going to replace our oil-based economy I have little doubt that the innovation behind it will come from either Academia or BigEnergy, and market reasons will drive this change.
> They want to be taken up by anyone trying to verify facts so it's not in their interest to integrate bias.
Yes, there are revisions and the fact

This isn’t true. It’s easier to get business if you’re a “fact checking” organization that always fact checks in a favorable direction to a major political view.

The people who want truth is a much smaller group than the people who want their views reinforced.
I suppose the workaround would be to disable the plugin for this page...
It's interesting to me. When the carrot is TC of $350K+++, sure, anyone is willing to jump through that grinder. But for ordinary run-of-the-mill companies, there are so many that _don't_ have a hazing-like hiring process, I don't know how the ones that do make it.
TBH it only becomes an issue when its required for the blind people to use this browser. If I was running a company and ran into this, I would just say the blind people and other unserved edge cases should just use normal chrome until cloudflare delivers the full version.

Security is a probability spectrum, not a binary as many are fond to think of it.
From a C02 perspective, if it's burned cleanly and the energy released is used to generate electricity or heat homes, it's really not much different than a natural gas plant. But I agree with your point.
> The foundations of the technology world were built by makers, not takers. The Internet, the Mach kernel, the Linux kernel, the web. The other guys showed up later and used them to build paywalls around other peoples’ work. Their day of reckoning is coming.

Like Apple built the iOS ecosystem, the App Store, and all the tooling around those that allow you to market a game to millions of new customers?

The same Apple you’re suing because you don’t like having to pay them for their effort? When Epic literally requires a fee for developers who want to host their games on their store?

For fuck sake, I’m sorry but this guy nauseates me.
“One of the major causes for malnutrition in India is economic inequality. Due to the low social status of majority of the population, their diet often lacks in both quality and quantity.”

Correlation isn’t causation.

Much of India is very poor. There’s quite a lot of the US who is also poor and malnourished, but they’re often fat due to highly processed carbs and fatty meats with almost no fresh veggies.
Israel is pretty hot as well now. Lots of approaches landing in my inbox, and they're good ones too. And as in the article - some haven't embraced remote, and I feel like they're losing out.
> the Federal government doesn’t have the power to make marijuana illegal

It does and it has, under the Controlled Substances Act (or, at least manufacturing, distribution, moving across state lines, selling, etc., or possession for any of those purposes.)

> so instead the federal government taxes it

It used to under the Marijuana Tax Act, which the Controlled Substances Act replaced. But that was motivated more by leveraging propaganda about marijuana as an excuse to destroy the hemp industry than as a backdoor ban on marijuana (though it was also that.)
How do you know you had to? Companies send such data out of fear. Many jurisdiction require prosecutor or judge to sign request. Giving police data just like that may be against the law. One of reasons small websites die, because they have no money for legal advice.
Yeah, "will 'win' if a crash occurs" is very different from "likelihood of death or serious injury while driving this vehicle", though the former is (AFAIK) a lot easier to get stats on. I definitely feel safer, as in less likely to get into a wreck, in a smaller, more nimble car, personally.

Desire to be the crusher rather than the crushee is definitely a reason I've been repeatedly given by people—men and women alike—for why they prefer huge vehicles, though. Enough times that I'd stand by that being a significant motivation for people actually buying them, as far as (partially, but significantly) explaining the level of huge-vehicle sales, whether or not it's rational (I really don't know for sure).
* Search

* Open source

* Encryption

* Biometric/password authentication

* Import/Export

* Backup/Sync
What do you do when you're at 16 units and basic strategy calls for a split or double down? This is where these "simple" ones always get me.

I know that splitting and doubling have +EV which is why you do them, but if you're at $maxbet, it can really wipe you out if it goes sideways.
What makes you assume that they didn't, out of interest?
A fine piece of the Hungarian web written by a very cultured polyglot. Travels, culture, history, fine arts, old books, food, fine music.
This is a thing that only legislation can change.
You can do ad block with text in tag types I've found out. I use it to block the email nag from reddit.
I use it fairly often for processing documentation (think DocBook) and XHTML.
There is absolutely undefined behaviour there.
Undefined behaviour is defined not as nasal daemons but as:
The compiler implementer does not guarantee that this behaviour will be hardware, circumstance, compiler version, or os consistent, nor that we will warn if we change this.

Packed is technically not a undefined behaviour, but it is certainly a trap. Especially because the compiler macros leads people to make defines which select packed by compiler automatically. Then the special case of didn't recognize compiler is just left empty, meaning compiles but no longer does what you think.
I double-checked and it looks like you're right, that the Theory papers where I thought the proof took first-author are actually alphabetical.
It’s laughable that the default photos app in Windows 10 is not color managed, yet the previous Windows Photo Viewer from Windows 7 is…
The First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Big Tech’s Censorship
Sorry, but given the “half life” of a single use plastic item with respect to its usability, isn’t it’s environment cost essentially infinite?
ungated: https://archive.is/noUSC
There are a few AMD motherboards with Thunderbolt, have been since 500 series launch. AnandTech does X570 / B550 overviews that list them.
This really resonated with me, thank you.

"Some amount of madness is crucial to hold onto"

I think I would like this as my epitaph.
I want to be clear about your meaning, because I don’t know if I’m reading your comment correctly. Are you referring explicitly to syntax based, preprocessor macros? Or does your comment extend to other metaprogramming techniques? I am inclined to think you mean the first considering the amount of emphasis on generic programming in D? Just curious.
I’d love to learn more about your setup, especially how you attach images. Still tuning my own org mode config!
Same, for both my current and previous. The two before that were via a recruiter relationship. Before that was through a friend who works there, and before that was a de facto apprenticeship, also via a friend already there. I have never gotten a job in this industry by submitting a resume cold. From this I conclude that the point is not to need to.

You need the LinkedIn profile to look good both to humans and to robots, and a worthwhile recruiter will give you substantial help tuning both that and your resume because these will both help them place you, which is how they get paid. Make sure a new recruiter clearly understands this and is happy that you clearly understand it, too. Those who fail this test are not the ones you want to work with.

It will be harder to work with top-tier recruiters if you're working your way up and not yet established. That's not fair, but it's the way of the world, and as always you mistake the ought for the is at your peril. If you're smart and capable, just not yet tested and proven, the ideal is to find a recruiter who will invest in helping you develop. This is tricky and I lucked into it. The best advice I can offer there is, bigger firms with deeper pockets are more likely able to support that.

The unequivocally good news is that there is a lot of interest, money, and good roles sloshing around the market right now. While that's less good for a newer junior than for a proven senior, it is still good for us all.

Don't wait. The article compares the tech industry labor market to the housing market, which I think is accurate. It also compares now with the boom before the 2000-2001 crash, and I think that is accurate too. We can reasonably predict another crash. We cannot reasonably predict when. So get while the getting is good.
Google researchers may have created time crystals
It's not ongoing. Firearm and ammo stocks are up and prices are starting to recede. It was a spike... a long spike.
Correct. And assume levels is old data at this point. And don’t be shocked, people really make that much.
A modern plant turns plastic into CO_2, electricity, and, often, residential heat. So, yes, that's preferable. Among the sheer ugliness and wastefulness of landfills, burning at high temperature avoids the toxic intermediates plastics give off when degrading in nature, which landfills struggle to contain.

Ash is, by definition, inert. It is the remaining mass that does not chemically react even under extreme heat. It therefore also does not interact with, for example, the human body. Plastics are all carbon/hydrogen/nitrogen/oxygen, and, to a first approximation, do not leave any ash. In reality they do, but it's extremely little and harmless.

(Physical harms can survive an incinerator, such as material giving off radiation, but those should never be in the trash)
>how those practices contribute to rising inequality

My feedback is that issue has such an incredibly small bearing on inequality. The vast majority of wall street banks/hedge funds make their money in other ways. You could fix this entirely and practically see no difference in the size of wall street.

Its fractions of a cent per order which is very small. Compare that to money that mutual funds take in expense ratios on a yearly basis. I'm not even saying that these expense ratios are always unjustified - but a small percentage of tens of billions of money in pension funds is going to end up sending a lot of money out. Much more so than this.
My experience is that this is wildly inconsistent between companies. I've worked for crappy companies for low pay that had ridiculous long multi-week interview processes, and good companies for much better pay where the interview was a single 30 minute phone call where they offered me the job.
Consumers don’t demand oil, they just need to get their kids to school. Capital has decided the most profitable way is with oil.
You're the third person on this thread to say that. Please check out the responses to the other two:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28027986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28028116
Just curious, but where do you draw the line? To use a silly example: we don't legally require every that everyone who posts an image on social media include a written description. There must be some ratio of cost to benefit at which accommodations stop being reasonable.

If we required that screen sharing tools were compatible with screen readers, we'd have to revamp many layers of abstractions. It would require changes to every operating system, every UI framework, every browser, and every screen sharing application. An alternative would be to throw a bunch of machine learning at the problem (to try to turn pixels back into meaning), but that would have a lot of broken corner cases. The issues would likely be as bad as auto-generated subtitles, which are generally not good enough to be considered ADA compliant.[1]

My guess is that if the law changed tomorrow and mandated that screen sharing tools accommodate the blind, we'd end up with no cross-platform screen sharing tools. Microsoft would make their Windows screen sharing. Apple would make their MacOS screen sharing. Google would make their ChromeOS screen sharing, and none of them would be interoperable. Also desktop Linux would be SOL.

1. UC Berkeley was forced to delete over 20,000 videos of lectures because their auto-generated subtitles weren't accurate enough: https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-08...
The US also has a higher GDP than any other nation. I don't think this is a coincidence.
Well sure every company is trying to convince customers their thing is best. That's just marketing.

But different companies can be trying to convince things that are totally opposed to each other too. It's still not monolithic. (Regardless of whether it's "one person" or not, it was just an illustration.)

At the end of the day it's still customers buying what they like from a range of companies that are all competing with each other, some succeeding and some failing.
I found an arbitrage opportunity with cryptocurrency a few years back, but it took two months to convince my friend to let me run the trading bot I cobbled together to exploit it on his account (and that whole time I was waiting for my accounts to get approved..)

It magically generated about $8000 in a couple of days, and then the market came crashing down and the inefficiency it was exploiting disappeared forever

Pretty **ing frustrating, and it's all the Efficient Market Hypothesis' fault

You should look up the debates that Warren Buffett has had with people about the EMH, it's insane
I seem to remember that paper bags are close to single-use plastic bags, but still use more energy to produce and also require wood pulp. Paper bags can easily be recycled, but "single-use" plastic bags can easily be re-used as household trash bags, or otherwise. So it's a toss-up.
If anyone is wondering, this is not a Go project. It's built with C.

Awesome work nonetheless.
Or the Chinese press who never reports anyone getting covid
> it's also completely existentially debasing to the people involved.

Wow, the privilege wrapped up in that statement. Do you think it’s existentially fulfilling to clean public toilets? To drive a bus? To bottle alcohol?
In my entire decade+ career in bigtech, I've never used or looked at a single cover letter.

Cover letters are a waste, and rightfully ignored.
There's definitely some ripple effects happening, even in Canada there's a shortage of software engineers in my province*. I just accepted an offer that the HR minion described as "competitive" that is a 20% bump in salary. Many large companies here have tons of openings. I feel like the market here has detached itself from reality.

* https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/the-good-the-bad...
It's less useful when you realize that almost every other widely used programming language is better than JavaScript.