skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh boy, welcome to the grind

The most effective way to get a foot in the door, and the thing I wish I did when I was in college was go to all those different career fairs that your college likely hosts.

Talk to the different representatives of each company, tell them what you like, what you're interested in and _ask them questions_. What interests you about their company? If you seem excited about it, they are more likely to be excited about you.

If you have any kind of CS Alumni group, talk to them. Network. It is 1000x easier to get a job knowing someone already at the company vs applying blindly.

Some bigger tech companies FAANG, S&P500, etc have recent grad positions and programs. Those are like rocketships to get you ahead at the company. They might sound too junior, but in practice, you will be working with a different team every 6 months, making connections, and working on tons of different real world problems you can add to your resume. At the end of it, typically you get to pick which team you liked the best, and if they like you back, that relationship is worth its weight in gold for things like promotions etc.

If none of that is on the table then first step is to create a LinkedIn. List all your skills that you know, even if you dont feel that you know them the best.

Have any side projects? Anything you can show in Github? List that as well. No recruiter will look at this, but it will still make you look good.

Lastly, and what I had to do, was literally sit in a cafe, your bedroom, wherever you are, and just apply to every vaguely relevant job that pops up in the area you want to work.

When I graduated I didn't live in a major tech city, so I very literally applied to every jog that popped up with my skill-set (in my case iOS). I swear I applied to over 500 positions. Got maybe 8 interviews. Made it to the finals in 5 and took one job.

If you end up doing this, work smarter, not harder. Make a generic cover letter, and add a paragraph you can change to look specific to that company. Leave the rest the same.

You'll see the same 5-6 job application software tools pop up when applying to different companies. Make a text file that has the info they ask for and just copy and paste. Writing it out each time is exhausting, and soul crushing.

It's normal for it to take a while to get your first job. It doesnt feel great, but we've all been there, and there's nothing wrong with you if it doesnt happen right away. You will get there, I promise.
If you can, do a coop term or internship while still in school, invaluable.
A protest that inconveniences no one is a protest that's easily ignored. You have to bring attention to the issue, otherwise everyone else will just go on with their day.

Civil disobedience is not a bad thing.
reminds me more than little of facebook blocking mentions of alternative social networks.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28493823

generally i am very very very in favor of networks getting to pick their own moderation guidelines & what not. it's not our network, it's theirs; that's really the ground truth. if we want otherwise we have all the power in the world to do otherwise, pick otherwise, nake & become otherwise (imo we should).

still, just seems like a very baseline shithead low life behavior that radically reduces my respect for a comlany, walling off themselves on the on the internet, actively denying any possible threat to ever even show up on the network. i'm a little sympathetic to not carrying any water for your competition but it still seems against the spirit of things, especially on facebook, if not so much an actual marketplace site.

i still dont want to force companies to behave, but it is a bit weird to me that chinese authoritarianism is being put to purpose to demand anti inter-networking behaviors be stopped.
>The problem with statements like "there's a good chance" is that it's likely based on your understanding of things and not actual statistics or hard data

That's a fair comment. I'd be interested to hear directly from someone who does have hard data, or at least a teacher who's actually done this multiple times.
People needing abortion services can come from all walks of life, for many reasons. Don't fall into the trap that only one "type" of person has abortions.

Remember, this awful law offers no exceptions for rape victims.
Agreed. Why is this on HN?
How many trillions per decade is that?
Have a similar situation at the moment. My grandmother has dementia and pretty much doesn't know where to go or what to do anymore. Is on meds almost all the time. Today she went like 6 times to the bathroom in an hour and this happened like for 3 - 4 hrs. I don't know if this is psychological / or from the brain or an actual urinary infection. I guess it's hard to find out this kind of stuff when she's on meds all the time. Interestingly, my grandfather is perfectly fine (she's like 79, he's 90 !). He's starting to have a bad eye but apart from that still goes out and about. Of course, his heart is sort of more tired now but he can still drive, walk around, go buy stuff. But my grandma can't, I can see in her eyes that she can't really recognize me or usually only recognizes her husband, unfortunately. Also, I had a grandfather who lost his life due to alzheimers, although I didn't really spend much time with him, or at least do not remember it but he was a veterinarian and died of relatively young age ( ~ 66 y).
My theory for the cause of dementia for my grandma is that she stopped doing and having interactions with her friends and family. As we grew older, we stopped coming to their house, having dinner, having birthdays, family got more dispersed and she hasn't done much about it; the fact is, it's been only about a year and a half since the dementia first started (she was very functional like 2 years ago), probably the pandemic blew the fuse... She used to do all kinds of things back in the day. She coordinated exchange programs between my city and a sister city in the U.S. for students to learn the culture, language and study there. Also, she doesn't really have any friends afaik, just sometimes talks to her family but otherwise, has lost connections; while my grandfather, still looks for real estate to buy, things to do, art to buy/sell, etc. Still talks to some friends out and about.
There's over 2,000 Egyptian Deities, that list has 246 lol
Getting Strapi/GraphQL working on it for a sample comonent was so difficult, it took us longer than the actual Stapi/GraphQL setup and we gave up.
Man that portfolio website is amazing.

Makes me want to check out each of his individual projects.
School job boards are notoriously bad. Schools like to advertise the value of their networks, but the value is usually overstated and only in specific channels.

Job fairs are usually the best way to be recruited through your school. Companies have to commit resources to attending job fairs, so they have an incentive to actually hire some of the people they talk to.

New grad resumes are basically all the same with few exceptions. Companies have little ability to screen new grads without actually interacting with them (e.g. interviews, phone screens, take-home tests). Your best bets are referrals, which will fast-track you into the hiring process. Referrals can be through distant connections, so don't be afraid to ask acquaintances.

Otherwise, you can try applying to companies directly. There are more opportunities than your school's job board, and even if they are the same companies, they probably pay more attention to their own application channels than the various crappy school job boards they forgot they posted to.
Yes. How on the earth should I recommend Firefox to other?
By saying firefox will `constantly remove functions you use and change the UI in random way that make it less useful`? I am a firefox user since firefox 3. But If a non tech user ask me about it today, I will probably recommend `edge` instead. At least it don't do so many offending changes and cause so many frustrations.
I just use good old bookmarks for specific accounts on youtube and twitter.
True, but telling people a program is alive or sentient when it's not is spreading a false hood.

Nice, and I hadn't used the VIX before. We both learned something today. :)
The Road to Self-Reproducing Machines
Similar to the library of functions, accessible through a collection of operators us the Q'Nial language. It doesn't always get the visibility it's cousins (J and K) enjoy
SF enters the chat ...
Good luck actually doing it.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/09/how-to-get-...
Yeah, I'm conceptually familiar with the action, but I can't think of a particular word for it. I don't use saunas a lot, though, so it's possible there is one.
Be careful about applying for internships. Many of them stipulate that the intern must be a current student for the entire length of the internship and they are not for recent graduates. These internships are explicitly a hiring funnel to try and get the brightest students to commit early to the company where they had their internship. If you're going to have already graduated by the time the internship would happen, it simply isn't relevant to you in most companies.

Cram leetcode (aka interview skills) and keep applying to large companies through their websites. Your university's job board will help mostly with finding local companies near the university, but they are not the sum total of your opportunities, not by far. Furthermore, companies that post on university job boards get flooded with applications from that school, so they'll stick with the school's cream of the crop. Start with FAANG and then work your way down the Fortune 500. Small companies / startups need people with established track records because they need to produce results quickly; large companies have built the internal processes over time that protect the company from the inexperience of junior engineers and will therefore prefer to hire junior engineers in order to save money.

The industry is in dire need of labor so it shouldn't really matter what you put on your resume, as long as you put down that you have a CS degree and you're applying for junior engineering positions at large-enough companies, quite frankly that should be enough to at least get you a phone call for initial HR screening. If you're not progressing to other interviews or offers, that's a different question, and barring any personality complications that could come up ("interview skills") it probably goes back to you needing to cram leetcode ("technical skills").

If your resume isn't getting you phone calls, find someone in your career center and ask them to help you with your résumé. You don't need it to stand out - not in this jobs climate. You just need to make sure you're not making stupid mistakes with it.
I find the whole idea like a bad collection of Verhoeven film tropes gone unironically amok (but apathetically so).
I think most people are missing the even greater impact of this bill. If it's allowed to stand, it sets a precedent of "I didn't make xyz illegal, that's unconstitutional -- I just set up a system to reward vigilante anti-xyz enforcement."

Vigilante enforcement of power structures has a long history in Texas. The Klan was really big there, esp. in East Texas. (Source: I have a lot of Texas ancestry, and we have bad stories about run-in's with the Klan, even though we are white.)

Today it's vigilantism against abortion. But the laws signed in a few weeks ago also allow sketchy intimidation tactics at the voting polls. And who knows what else they'll decide to nudge-nudge-wink-wink turn a blind eye to? Maybe you can get a reward if you report your neighbor for renting out his house to the wrong sort of person, doing an end run around fair housing laws? It's really endless.
I’m not sure I understand what this is?
First of all its not about standing out. In the vast majority of orgs, no one experienced expects some one fresh out of college to be a MASTER at anything. Most of them arent masters of anything either.

So dont worry about that.

Worry about location. If you AND all your friends in town arent getting responses - move. If you are sitting in the boondocks move closer to larger cities. Best case would be to move to the most buzzing active cities where you have friends who have access to school job boards and/or have landed jobs/know the process enough to help.

I spent 6 months in a smaller town getting no calls. Moved to NYC and the whole story changed. This ofcourse was because I had friends going to multiple schools there. Thanks to which I would keep getting info on which company was on campus, which team within the company, what they were looking for, what type ot questions etc. So even if I missed them on campus I would apply via the site knowing which positions to target.

Also keep brushing up every single day on a list of fundamentals, known interview questions etc. Dont let the activity over time rot the brain away. So when a call does come certains basics are on your finger tips.
If you cared about this change a lot, to the point where if you didn't have it then it was going to lose you a lot of money, then yes, I would expect you to do all that. Am I wrong? It just seems in a lot of ways to be a sad case where no one wants to shelter the cost for this, it's either a money losing proposition for Mozilla, or it's a money losing proposition for the users, and nobody wants to be the first to pay it.

I'll also mention that only one person needs to create the build, once you do that then anyone else can run that build. That's usually how development works, and in fact this is already the gist of how Mozilla tests their unstable builds.

>the customisability is decreasing, more features are being removed than added

I can't agree with this, maybe the amount of visible settings in the preferences has been reduced, but currently there are a few thousand about:config options, and the number seems to keep growing.

>But they are also bleeding users, so something is clearly not working for them. And maybe, as the OP suggests it is because of changes that anger a minority of their users.

For many years I asked people why they were switching to Chrome and I got various answers, very few of them were because of something negative about another browser, and most of them were about what they liked about Chrome. That's just my personal anecdote. It also just seems to me that Mozilla is in a bad place where people say they drop Firefox because they like Chrome, so Mozilla switches gears to make it more like Chrome, and then people complain it's not unique enough anymore and it's missing some old non-Chrome feature. How could they possibly win here?
This is nothing new, and a worldwide phenomenon. If you have to read about this in nytimes for the first time, please get a life and talk to your fellow humans. Its a mixture of personell being overworked and sometimes being plain mean. This is the price we pay for not investing enough into the system that cares for the elderly, or, in other words, this is the price for having outsourced caretaking. And dont fool yourself. If you put a relative into a nursing home, you have absolutely no idea how they are treated after you close the door behind you.
Go is a bit different from Chess, there are so many options that you can't really have a "disgusting engine line", because either sequences are forced and humans can find them too eventually or the number of lines the move effects is so vast that we would never realise how clever it is.

Computer Go is obviously making calculations that a human couldn't, but as an observer it just looks like not making any mistakes. There is the occasional spectacular attack or defence, but humans do that too from time to time - human players often see or try moves that others wouldn't. In complicated situations computers will do a better job at assessing what the impacts are.

In Go, to win a player needs to consistently make moves that are on average 0.0025 points better than their opponent for 300 moves. It is hard to detect the genius if a neural net decides it is going to win the game that way.

The games are interesting to study, they are all masterworks. But the strength of a Go player is in the consistency rather than individual flashes of insight.
Al-Qaeda actually gamed out this aspect of the American response and concluded (apparently correctly) that the US was ill-prepared for a multi-hijacking scenario. This wasn't rocket science... They basically looked at all available information on threat modeling the US had done, and noticed that we had constrained ourselves to a single hijacking event. They correctly surmised that intelligence infrastructure (including NORAD) would be off of their playbook if they hijacked multiple planes at once.

This led to disruption of the response. When flight 77 (Pentagon plane) was reported as having dropped off of the transponder radios, by the time NORAD was notified the information had become garbled in a game of telephone and they thought they were receiving reports on flight 11, which is one of the two that struck the Trade Center towers. They scrambled jets to New Jersey instead of onto any predicted flight path for flight 77.
Seems somewhat similar to how Inform 7 handles rooms.
the BBC feed is definitely not synced.
Sexual promiscuity imposes massive costs on the healthcare system. HIV treatment costs $1,800 to $4,500 per month, for life. The resources expended on treating those who contract HIV through high-risk sexual activity could have instead been used for medical research to cure other non-preventable diseases, if they hadn't engaged in that behavior.

But of course, it goes without saying that the vast majority of vaccine mandate supporters have never considered supporting laws restricting high risk sexual behavior. They would never have even entertained the thought, no matter what the facts. Their hypocrisy is staggering.
The term AGI seems a useful one for being clear about what one is talking about.
That doesn't address my point.
Agree on the jobs board, disagree on the network.

The network consists of the actual alumni of the school, not the career counselor who probably didn't go there. Get a LinkedIn premium subscription and go ask people who attended your school to put your resume in the referrals pile. Just random alumni.

Many will do it. I have done it for people. Many have done it for me. Random people, because you share a school, will refer you.
The "hide" part from the title:

> But there is an important caveat: The government doesn’t publicly divulge the use of antipsychotics given to residents with schizophrenia or two other conditions.
Because you're engaging in bad faith. My argument is clear:

>>We have never used this justification to institute invasive laws to prohibit habits that lead to obesity, or to prohibit drug-use or alcohol consumption for that matter

The question is when we have a right to infringe upon another party's bodily autonomy. None of these vaccine mandate advocates would be calling for any type of infringement if it related to refraining from irresponsible behavior like over-eating, alcohol consumption, drug use, or high-risk sexual activity.
I spent two years with threejs then the last 2 years with Babylon.js

Three.js has a huge community, learning 3D programming by learning three.js from the community is very feasible, lots of nice exemples around.

Babylon.js is maintained by a team of Microsoft employees. It is a cohesive piece of software with tons of integrated utilities (controls, GUI, good debugging tools, an excellent jsfiddle equivalent called playground etc).
It is the perfect balance between a rendering and a game engine.
Also it has a well engineered Typescript codebase that in my humble experience has been more stable than Three.
The docs are great, the community is nice and super active, contributing is easy but you have much less online exemples than with Three.

So my advice for a 3D novice would be to play with Three.js and see where it goes. If you are in it for art and making things look good, the amount of examples with Three will also help a lot.

Now if you value engineering, and you already have even a very modest experience with 3D programming I really recommend Babylon.js

Also you will see Aframe, react-fiber or react-babylon thrown around: don't bother if you don't already know Three or Babylon. You will outgrow them and still have to learn Three/Babylon "the correct way". I think that most people decent with Three or Babylon can make their own specific abstraction with less overhead anyway.
> And I don't think you can hold it just long enough to reverse entropy..

Sounds like a good quantum analogue of Maxwell’s demon!
I don't know why we'd want that news coverage. It was just nonstop repeats of the same damned info. I think MTV would have done better at not turning my brain to mush than the news.
Well, I am "outside of Germany" and I know the site since at least 15 years. May I remind you that europe consists of more countries then just Germany?
It's a remarkably beautiful axe, as well. I bet it's wonderful to use.
> MS Teams is probably the worst tool of its class in this area yet it is, evidently, chosen by people in higher positions who make decisions based solely on their opinion and for the sake of complying with corporate standards, once again, not based on evidence, but, by some MS white paper saying it is.

Could you expand more about why you think it's the worst tool in its class for collaboration?

My experiences with it seem to be at variance with this observation.
I think the author is basically describing the Naked Objects pattern, i.e. deriving the full stack of your application, from storage layer, to internal logic layer, to presentation layer, from one single domain layer.

The problem with this pattern is that it makes the application brittle and difficult to change. If you need to change something in the UI layer, it will likely ripple down through business logic layer into the storage layer. If you make a change in the storage layer, you could inadvertently end up changing your user-facing API and breaking something for them.

The point of all the boilerplate we have today is to make the systems modular and able to be evolved independently of each other. Sure, if you don't need that much modularity, then by all means simplify. But I hope you're at least using a statically-typed language, because chances are you will need to refactor in future and it would really suck to rely on only unit test coverage while making wide-ranging architectural changes across the codebase.
Any mountainous or northern country in europe that has spa hotels will do.
A huge proportion of ICU cases have obesity as the dominant risk factor, INCLUDING COVID.

And the costs of treating obesity related illnesses, like many heart disease, cancer and diabetes cases, are enormous, and dwarf the costs relating to COVID.

Even in COVID's first year in the human population, when it spread like wildfire, heart disease and cancer killed far more people, and obesity is a contributing factor in a significant fraction of cases of these illnesses, particularly heart disease.

>>as herd immunity is not required to make a nonzero positive impact

Without herd immunity, the virus continues to circulate, until every one has contracted it. After they have contracted a COVID infection, they acquire far stronger immunity than provided by vaccination.
I often joke (well, mostly to myself) that Horus was actually the First Avenger.
stupendously great how much mileage & intercompatibility we've got over making container runtime-spec. crun, runc, kata containers, i think lxc has something, more, now this.
https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/blob/master/i...

specs & standards are such great fulcrum points for ongoing innovation.
You seem to be suffering from a misconception. Redistributive policies are not inherently socialist. If you believe they are, then the US has had socialist policies for over 100 years, because progressive taxation is redistributive.
Example here: https://honk.tedunangst.com/