skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you're right, I did get a bit dramatic there. This was helpful, I understand your comment now, thanks!

I want to note that like you I did say that the majority at FB don't care. I also didn't care when I started and that's why it was such a surprise that people actually did care and that it wasn't shut down by leadership. I think that is compounded by the fact that certain teams are more like that than others and I was at a stage in my life where I was ready to be influenced by that, and so I agree that I have a rosier view than is probably accurate.
The irony to me is it seems the current interview process stands to filter out the people who are genuinely interested in tech and learning and caters to people who google "tech interview questions for X."

FWIW I would never sit for any interview that was multi-tier over several hours. I'm fortunate in that I have a pretty good network and everyone in my network would hire me if they had a spot open. I haven't cold-interviewed since probably 2012 and that was on a whim for iPhone dev work (I had released 3 fairly successful but not life changing apps already). I ended the process when they wanted me to write code over Thanksgiving because I hadn't already written enough code to their satisfaction. That company is now out of business.
That's what I would love to avoid.
It's a fantastic math education tool. Manipulate[] itself is worth the fee for the home/hobby price. The student price is half of that.

But sure! Take the limited motivation and effort the student's got and make them go through 16th century tech to learn it all.
How is that is trending, compared to X Æ A-12 ?
Brainless sponges contain early echoes of a nervous system
You just gave two reasons why it wouldn’t work as a static site
Yes, by sheer volume. It’s not trivial. Monoclonal antibodies are thousands of dollars per treatment for instance and the idea of business loans or small business aid is that it’s going to investment. Of course none of this matters in 2019 a repo crisis was triggered: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2019_events_in_the_...

They needed to inject liquidity into the economy and justified it with COVID.
CoinMarketCap prices scraper
I worked at a remittance firm with a Money Services Business license back in 2008. I remember during the AML (anti money laundering) training that we had to report any transactions >= $10k to FINCEN within 15 days.

We were also trained to look out for 'structuring', where the same individual makes multiple transactions under $10k each, in order to evade those reporting requirements.
I spoke up about Rivian’s toxic bro culture and got fired
You can get Mathematica for free on any Raspberry Pi (~$35), so that more or less renders the point about expense moot: https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/

There is also a pretty nice introductory book that is aimed at students: https://www.wolfram.com/language/elementary-introduction/2nd...
One of Pfizer's trial vendors falsified information.

https://www.cbs17.com/news/north-carolina-news/fact-check-re...

> The Pfizer Phase III trial involved 44,000 people and 153 locations. From August 2020 through Sept. 17, 2020 — when she was fired — Jackson told CBS 17 that Ventavia accounted for at least 1,200 of those people and accounted for three sites.

The author of the BMJ piece is quoted as saying “people are going to use this to push a political position because that’s what they’re interested in”, so congrats on demonstrating that.
I've had good luck with Neewer stuff, to the point that I'd treat it like a trusted brand and expect things that I got under that name to be decent solid pieces of kit. Lights, backdrops, even a 'portable vocal booth'.
I work in a Technical PM role at a large North American Insurance company and used to work at one of the largest Banks as a Sr. Business Analyst (or Sr.Systems Analyst depending where you are).

>lots of our software devs write bad code

Ultimately, you get what you pay for, all our full stack devs are making 6 figures... While it might not be FAANG money they also almost never work overtime and the stress levels are relatively low.

>Are these folks embedded in the business?
No, thats my job. As a Tech PM I'm supposed to know exactly the business requirements, what my guys can do (to manage expectations) and any limitations of the software/business. I find the best PM's are the ones that have some Dev experience but also have extensive people skills and understand how to manage stakeholders.

>are there folks using the more technical bits of the systems that are business-oriented?
It varies, I started off as that business-oriented person (corporate finance) and eventually made my way over to the Data side of things and finally some programming work and now I'm running projects. While you won't get many analysts/portfolio managers doing dev work I do try and get them to have a hands on approach especially when doing QA and UAT work.
Children aren't at risk from Covid at all.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w
In the US, 340 children under 17 have died from Covid. Total. During the same period, 187 have died from the flu, and over 51,000 children have died from all causes:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...

They are more likely to be injured by these vaccines and neurotic parents stuffing them into masks for hours at a time.

Sweden halts Moderna:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-moderna-sweden-ha...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-08/iceland-j...

117 children murdered for profit.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/we-will-kill-117-kids-to-...
> Pfizer’s phase 2/3 trial randomized non-hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients who were at high risk of progressing to severe illness to receive placebo or Paxlovid, a combination of the protease inhibitors PF-07321332 and ritonavir. The efficacy analysis is based on 1,219 patients.

One noteworthy feature is the newness of this drug:

> PF-07321332 was developed from scratch during the current pandemic. It’s a reversible covalent inhibitor that reacts with one of the main protease’s cysteine residues. Owen [director of medicinal chemistry at Pfizer] also discussed the chemistry involved in scaling up the compound. The first 7 mg of the compound were synthesized in late July 2020. Encouraged by the early biological data, the Pfizer team aimed to scale up the synthesis. By late October, they’d made 100 g of the compound. Just two weeks later, the chemists had scaled up the synthesis to more than 1 kg. Owen said 210 researchers had worked on the project.

https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs-meeting-news/Pfizer-unveils...

Less than two years from lab to clinic is highly unusual. If approved, I believe this would be the fastest lab-to-approval for a small molecule drug in the history of the FDA.
Have you watched The Imitation Game? This is exactly the same question that the antagonist had about Turing's computer. "The human computers can do 10 things a day and your machine does 0 things a day". Well, yeah, until you get it working it's useless. But once it works it does all the things.

Getting a fusion reactor to work is trivial; at least one 12 year old has done it [1]. Getting net energy out of the reactor is much more difficult. The point of the funding is to figure out how to increase the gain factor. Once that's figured out, the rest (manufacturing and deploying reactors) is comparatively trivial.

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a34312754/12...
Security, ability to outsource pretty much everything ops-related besides cloud resource provisioning and deployments to the cloud provider and developer focus on business logic.

I don't know a better dev environment than a (possibly scaled down) personal replica of production environment in the cloud. With proper tooling (e.g. Serverless Stack or SAM) you can achieve very fast code updates so the old argument of slow feedback due to having to deploy changes to the cloud on each iteration is getting less and less true as well.

With more traditional models already keeping your OS, possible container images, web server and any other middleware secure and up-to-date is pretty expensive if you want to do it properly.

Going all-in on serverless might not make much sense for a large software product company but when building bespoke business software it allows small teams to do wonderful things very cost-effectively.
The medical cartel has had 2 years to adapt at this point. How have they failed to scale capacity despite charging record prices?
Does anyone expect async anything to be faster?

AFAIU async enables greater scalability by allowing computation to continue in other contexts while awaiting read/write operations - at the cost of slightly lower single context performance.
> Like with programming, if you learn one language, you can usually learn another in a jiffy.

I actually agree with you in general but, this isn't a guarantee.

I've known plenty of people who "only" know how to "program" in Visual Studio. They don't understand how to use git outside of a helper GUI, they didn't understand the distinction between a compiler and a linker, or build options, or pathing issues--at least not down to the bare wires of what's actually going on.

I'm not saying "everyone" is like that, but when you give exhaustive encapsulating tools, oftentimes people will only learn what they have to, to get running and never delve deeper. Of course, never delving deeper is the key issue but some frameworks/systems make delving deeper much easier than others, and better yet, encourage it.

For an example, it was way easier for me to learn deep aspects of "what is really going on" when I started learning Linux--even immediately when I had to decide how to partition my hard drive correctly just to install it. I "could" just hit auto format but... what are all these buttons? Why is there different types of partitions? Is there a benefit? Not hiding me the inherent complexity allowed me information to better my understanding.

Perhaps this applies more to programming than math, as, the core is to do math... right? The rest is just implementation details of "how do I tell this [math thing] to do [thing I want]". So as long as you know what you're asking "I need a line integral" that's a general enough term. You're learning the _techniques_ not only the framework itself.
How do you feel about cowboy movies?
That’s a misreading, because GP explicitly calls out OPs behavior as bad.
> Also, the “video games make people violent” argument rears its ugly head.

Can't stand this kind of rhetoric. Arguments aren't scary monsters.
Daily/weekly read list is The Economist, FT, BBC, New Scientist and sometimes Le Monde or Suddeutsche Zeitung if there are events across the channel I need to care about; I will scan articles from the Times and Guardian but mostly for laughs.

The WSJ used to not suck. I had a subscription through college up into the early 2000s and my college roommate interned for them prior to joining as a copy editor in the early 90s so I have a bit of a soft spot for what the WSJ used to be. The opinion/editorial section was always hot garbage, but it used to be the case that the articles were high quality; ever since Murdoch bought them the quality of journalism has gone to shit and now the journal is only useful to wrap fish or as the punchline to a bad joke.
Forbidden fruit: they used a special ADS-B setting to hide their identity. This makes everyone interested in finding out who they are and what they have to hide.

If they had just flown with normal identifiers, no one would have paid attention.
I don't actually believe you can patent game mechanics. Specifically for D&D, there's nothing novel about rolling a polyhedron and adding the resulting value with some other static value on a piece of paper.
To you as well :)

That's impressive! Around that time my brother was desperately trying to get me to build his app ideas so we could partner together. I dismissed him as I was busy focussing on school and thought there was no real money in mobile apps. I still regret it today..
> Garmin, Polar, Suunto, Apple - you name it.

I'm not a web health app developer, I'm a wearable developer: I name "Open Smartwatch GPS" [1] (currently in development).

There's not a lot of data yet, but how could I (or, more importantly, future users of Open Smartwatch, or future users of phone and apps that would want to serve health and movement data) connect to your service? Can an end user upload/push raw data as JSON, CSV, or as MQTT messages, and access it from an arbitrary health app that uses your service?

> On our end, we deal with the providers' standards.

Ha! Wearable hardware "standards". Good joke! Do you integrate with GPSBabel [2] on the backend? But a commendable effort; there's a lot of wonky hardware out there, so thanks for unifying the multitude of providers.

Also, how does your service compare to Tapirik?

[1]: https://open-smartwatch.github.io/

[2]: http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.7.0/The_Formats.html

[3]: https://tapiriik.com/
I think LA has some other advantages, like being a movie cultural center.
Everything is still either magnetic- or inertial confinement-based, right?

And within those there are the variety of designs.

I hate to say it, but a tiny part of me doesn't discount the possibility of energy majors subtley killing small-scale fusion approaches and pushing internation-scale huge projects (i.e. ones unlikely to be delivered quickly).
This is meaningless without context. What percentage of the population is vaccinated? How old are the patients? What percentage of the hospitalized are extremely old/frail/comprosmised?

Remember: if 100% of your population is vaccinated, then 100% of your hospitalizations and deaths will be in vaccinated people.

https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
Ask HN: Measuring the long-term benefit of interview code tests?
If your company does coding tests during the engineering interview process, (how) do you measure the long term effectiveness of the tests? Do you keep internal metrics comparing candidates' score to their long term impact/success at the company? If yes, what have you learned from the results and how have those learnings impacted your hiring process?
I'm not an expert in D&D per se, but looking at my shelf I have bought and read a ton of different P&P systems.

So I can't say you're right or wrong about the money grab, but I think you're missing the point that some people like world building (maybe more than the stories) and some people like storytelling (and couldn't care less for the world).

Some quick examples, a lot of the World of Darkness systems like Vampire, Hunter, Werewolf: You don't need to describe the world like in D&D because it's Earth, with a few differences. All background material is mostly social, political, some tech and "made up" stuff. Contrast this to D&D where you can sell books for every region: the geography, the lifeforms, the history, etc.pp

And I think you can't simply say one is better than the other. Some people want to play in a completely made up world and some people like the setting of Earth (with or without extras, there are also systems who don't have any magic or monsters). And this is a huge part of how many source material there is.
Your children do not need it - perhaps you should evaluate whether they are in an 'at risk' category like the Nordics

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01897-w
In the US, 340 children under 17 have died from Covid. Total. During the same period, 187 have died from the flu, and over 51,000 children have died from all causes:

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Se...

Sweden halts Moderna:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-moderna-sweden-ha...
The reason the vaccines aren't being approved for children is that there is compelling evidence that children are at greater risk from the vaccines than the virus. This is why (for example) approval for vaccination of children and teenagers is split across Europe, and the UK has restricted access to only children with known vulnerabilities:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-19/u-k-to-gi...
Actually the long term risk of the covid-19 vaccines is well understood. You will not get a side effect from the vaccines in a year from now. For all of the vaccines created for any disease, the longest recorded period between taking the vaccine and side effects presenting is 6 weeks. 3.1 billion people are fully vaccinated for covid-19, many of them have been for longer than 6 weeks.
You cannot under Part 107. Any sUAS that requires registration under Part 48 also requires Remote ID once Part 89 takes effect in September 2023. The only escape for Remote ID for Part 107 flights will be to fly in a FRIA (FAA Recognized Identification Area). However, sub 250g drones with prop guards can qualify as Category 1 drones (subpart D) allowing you to fly over open-air assemblies of people (e.g. concerts) once equipped with Remote ID.
Bay area (note that there are additional criteria): https://www.sfgate.com/coronavirus/article/Bay-Area-mask-man...
Steve Yegge: Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus (2012)
> but in those cases i dont think its entirely fair to expect schools to fully accommodate such outliers

This sentiment would equally support removing special education programs for students with learning disabilities, yet those are not being called into question.
how can you move to a different country with a newborn child without having any papers for that child?
Thanks for this - there is indeed a serious complexity in this space.

a) there is no standard in data structure, and hence every wearable company uses their own.

b) The documentation quality is really lacking.

c) most of those companies are updating very often, with little communication. hence if you are a developer in this space, you really struggle.

d) more and more wearables are coming to the market

Hence we solve the above with robust docs, a standard data model, and a widget, to make it super easy. We of course are constantly learning, and improve the fastest way possible
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You're just robotically repeating fact-check talking points. Lots of young healthy people have been killed by the Covid vaccine and, for all its problems, the reason they're waving gigantic "DO NOT LOOK HERE" signs around VAERS is to give people like you an excuse to keep your heads firmly planted in the sand.
Sure, but the original point wasn't about whether bottom line is red, it was about whether it's an investing ponzi scheme or an actual attempt at operating like a proper business. It may not be profitable on an absolute basis (many unicorns aren't), but that's very different from having your entire business plan centered around never ending VC rounds.

Generally speaking, once a company goes public, it must start showing results.
And what were those tools in the good ole days that had the features enumerated by the parent? Primarily free, open source, hosted, instant open, local storage along with the usability?

Excalidraw feels like a product of this time, and demonstrates some of the things we all enjoy about the web as an ecosystem. People compare it to some yesteryear product because of its purposeful feature set and look / feel, but name something from back then.
To the user who keeps getting comments deleted for bringing up this guy's funding: please look up "ad hominem fallacy". Attacking someone making a statement says nothing about the truth of their statement
> I didn't get why prominent artists I follow are getting into it in the first place.

Power law. Prominent artists will move to cash in now, as they can hoover up 90% of whatever legitimate business there is. The remaining 10% will be fought over by no-name artists who enter the scene too late.
If we made policy decisions based on a single paper, we'd all be taking HCQ and Ivermectin. And that study's confidence intervals are large. The upper bound looks like it could be in the same range for unvaccinated people.
Use of Language Embedding Models in Financial Services
Why should I need to though?
That makes some sense. Thank you.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365255
Huh. I've never been in the industry, but noticed "SERP" at least 15, maybe 20, years ago and have remembered it since.

(If I were writing something to be published, though, I would write "search-engine results page" instead of "SERP".)
How else? Soundwaves or Lightpressure confinement? Diamond Anvil hammered?
I had the chance to stay for a couple of days in Leipzig, in 1990 just a few month after reunification :

1) The city was 100% Steampunk !

There where steam heat pipes everywhere along and over the streets. Those pipes where the main source of heating for the city houses and facilities.

Things like this one, but everywhere in the city :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haltepunkt_Leipzig_A...

The steam was produced by dedicated factories near the city, and the main energy to produce this steam was lignite (brown coal) excavated near the city at Bergbaurevier Südraum Leipzig.

There was gigantic and very impressive bucket-wheel excavators south of the city (some of the biggest of the world at the time) :

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bucket-wheel_exc...

But the pipes where in bad state, so you could see steam escape from every tubes at every street. At the time it was estimated than 50% of the energy produced by the factories was lost during transport...

2) The houses where all greys and dusty because of said lignite factories around the city. There was steam from the pipes, but also smoke from the factories... That said you coul still imagine the former glory of the houses
under the grey.

3) There was still many "bomb holes" here and here along the streets since World War Two. The GDR did try to patch the city centre with impressive (and ugly) buildings and but i did see plenty of missing houses in the main streets.
Exactly.

Facebook literally maintains a python fork: https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder

Google invented "NoSQL" before anyone else knew what it was, and all those "cloud" tools they used internally were obviously proprietary (except the ones they open sourced). Ex-Googlers I work with typically had to spend quite a bit of time re-adjusting to the "inferior" tools and processes in other companies.

Microsoft invented their own development ecosystem, and the only reason it's "common" or "standard" in the tech community is because they sell it as a product. This is the same for Apple at least for iOS development, and Amazon for their cloud service offerings.

When companies have millions of dollars to spend on maintaining a custom development environment that they think will give them a competitive edge, they will do it. It's the smaller shops that can't afford not to go with the flow, so to speak.
I was in Leipzig for a few days for my brother-in-law's first wedding in the early 2000s. Driving around we saw quite a few abandoned villas with pockmarks from bullets from WW2. We also saw one street with apartments that were still occupied by some hard-core communists that the government seemed to leave alone as they were contained.

It kind of felt like time had slowed in Leipzig after the war. It reminded me of a quote I heard from a guide when we toured a home near the harbor (now government owned) in Gloucester, MA that a family had lived in for generations and never updated: "Nothing preserves like poverty".
Congratulations! The app looks neat too.

I worked on https://madaan.github.io/names/ a few years ago when my friends had a baby.

The idea is slightly different (transferring Indian names to American names etc.), but the motivation was similar.