skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reputation is a fragile thing. I've got no horse in this, it's not my industry and I'm just a spectator. But two days ago I thought of Stripe as a top notch company, with top notch leadership. Since I'm well aware that PR is a thing, that reputation also tends to be brittle, but while nobody had said anything bad about Stripe, I thought they were tops. This is not so much about Stripe as about the PR world we've created: we know that everything we're told is polished to make it look as nice as possible, so when the facade cracks, we should adjust heavily.

So now I'm going to have to shift my priors, and it may well be unfair to the firm. For one, I don't know if the allegations are true. I also don't know whether this is a one-off, or whether this happens all the time and this is the tip of the iceberg. I do know that whatever I hear is going to be deeply invested one way or the other.

Specifically about the rescinded offers, the only acceptable reason to do that is when the person has gotten the offer in bad faith, eg they lied about their CV or claimed to have done something they provably hadn't. Other than that, someone who's gotten an offer may well have started moving house, taking their kids out of school, gotten their spouse to quit their job, and all sorts of hard-to-reverse decisions. It's an utterly crappy thing to have happen, and any company that does it should be outed for it.
Majority of mumps cases are among the vaccinated, CDC finds
I misread the article at night and thought it was 1900s not 19th century. They sent students abroad. Aside from being less accepting of immigrants how is the effects of their policy different from a European country?
What's telling is the contrast in covid vaccination rates between nurses vs doctors.

The vast majority of doctors get themselves vaccinated, whereas a large portion of nurses only get vaccinated as needed legally.
There is a renaissance of such laws regarding causing offense. That would basically be anybody whose face you don't like? I wonder how much considerations go into suggestions like this. Side effects should normally hit your face like a truck.
I often find it useful to relate the Web3 movement to the introduction of the internet. What problem was did that attempt to solve?
The internet solved problems that were only apparent in hindsight. The same could be true of Web3. It could also be nonsense, but I don’t think so. The absence of a particular problem to solve doesn’t necessarily render it useless.
Interesting, according to Oskar it’s straight up exported from Unity for web:

https://twitter.com/OskSta/status/1466063657582931974
I haven't had experience with well isolated modules in a monolith so I'm likely not giving monolith enough credit here. It's possible a microservice organization may still have an advantage by having more of this isolation by default, instead of an uphill battle to get things set up properly.
It actually was on day 19, it's just that puzzle #13 was the 19th puzzle given out [1]. I'm not sure why the numbers didn't come in order last year.

[1]: https://adventofcode.com/2020 shows the number order
> (half the people in ER due to Covid are fully vaccinated)

I'm sorry to derail, but [citation needed]
It's great to have AoC back again. Last year was my best yet, where I managed to get up to day 23. This year, I'm focusing on keeping the solution to as few lines of code as possible.
I Wrote a Christmas Song
I used to know someone that worked there and it always seemed like the engineers had a lot of latitude and enjoyed their jobs, so I'm guessing it bubbled up from the bottom.
I used to leave myself messages or short text snippets by requesting a nonexistent page on my website and adding the text as a GET query in the URL. I had my log autorotation set to email me logs after a day or two. So later in the week, when I wanted to retrieve the information, I could just search my email for the name of the nonexistent page, and the text would show up in the relevant access.log. It worked okay for what I needed and aside from the log setup (or grep'ing the apache logs) required no code.
Many substances have been in our environment for millions of years. Lead has been around for ages. A substance being "natural" or having been around for 100,000+ years does not necessarily correlate to safe.

I would far more trust a new substance that has been tested thoughtfully.
Spreadsheet-based data collaboration gets supercharged with Observable
I would say that the notability or non-notability of a subject is independent of storage costs. Not every topic deserves an article. People can disagree about what needs an article.
Quoting: "While Google does not use these reports to take direct action against violations"

Given e.g. pinterest in the google results, I find it difficult to imagine as sure way to waste your time uselessly than to report SEO spam sites to google. It is obvious they do not care the slightest bit.
Yes, I worked it out similarly and I saw comments on the twitters recently from others who did. Also usually the tough stuff is in the second part of each day, which I feel is pretty fair and provides a way to feel reasonably good about your result if you're not completely successful.
If you enjoy Advent of Code, be sure to check out their sponsors. Not only because their support helps make AoC possible but also because they often have their own coding challenges that can be a fun compliment to AoC itself.
That's really strange, I'm curious what you have seen in the last 30 years that makes you feel catastrophe is more imminent (climate wise, not social or geopolitical, we probably agree that is off the rails lol).

The polar ice caps were predicted to be gone. Still there. Coral reef collapse. They are flourishing. Massive rapid sea level rise. Very small, unnoticeable without measuring equipment. Increase in extreme weather events. Hasn't happened.

In short, things aren't a whole lot different then they were 30 years ago. I realize 30 years isn't that long but still, there were some really extreme predictions (and I was worried) but they don't look to be coming to pass and I don't think they will for the next 30 either.
This is about maintaining quality. At a large company it’s easy for one manager to lower the bar, or have the bar fall out of entropy.

Several companies fight this with a standard interviewing pipeline, of course most candidates will be displeased if they spend 1 month interviewing and then get dropped into a random team.
In Japan, a written job offer is almost as good as a job contract, so if the company decides to rescind it, you’ve got legal grounds to sue them. I assumed that something similar should exist in the US and I am relieved to hear that might actually be the case.
Seems like the company is growing faster than the talent acquisition processes can handle.....
I like hugging but if you don’t like it, it’s ok to tell people that. The intention behind a hug is to make someone feel more comfortable, but if that doesn’t work for someone, I’d rather them tell me.

It might be easier to tell people you are more comfortable with but those are probably people you see more regularly so it’ll still be helpful.
I think they do so to avoid culture split - giving individual team hiring decision from the get go can create culture bias, people would only give opportunity to people they "like" or that match the current culture, leading to inbreeding of sort.

Just look at what was happening at Cisco with caste based hiring.
Yes, it does correlate, though not perfectly. In any event, I'm not talking about overall language quality, but rather open source ecosystem support, and whatever its other shortcomings, PHP actually does really well on that metric. Lots of people use it and there are libraries for pretty much whatever you want.

(I wouldn't recommend CoffeeScript for a new project, but these tend to be lagging indicators, and for a long time it was one of the better options for dealing with JavaScript's shortcomings. DM isn't relevant to this analysis because it's not a general-purpose programming language at all; it appears to be a domain-specific language for making multiplayer role-playing games, and for all I know it works perfectly well for that purpose.)

Alire is part of an attempt by the Ada community to make their language suitable for general-purpose open-source-adjacent development of the kind that, e.g., a solo developer or startup building an app might engage in. This attempt appears to be in its infancy, which is why Alire only has 195 packages; it's not because the Ada community looked at the state of their ecosystem and decided that 195 packages plus the standard library covered everything that was needed and so people shouldn't write any more packages. This is orthogonal to the wisdom, or lack thereof, of npm's culture of many small packages; even if you concentrate on a smaller number of well-maintained packages, you need more than 195, because there are more than 195 broadly relevant domains of application development. Alire just isn't ready yet for more than the most basic real-world usage.

Again, lots of people do write Ada code for important applications, but they're not using Alire, but rather alternative, better-established resources that work well enough in huge organizations but aren't really accessible to a solo developer.
That’s neat, thank you for sharing. Was it a lot of work to do?
As an Italian who has been living in Germany for two years, I can confirm what you wrote about the good quality level of e-government our public services have achieved in the last few years.

I report two examples here. When I moved to Germany two years ago, I was able to register in the official list of Italians living abroad ("AIRE") and to cancel my previous residence in Italy just by using "SPID" SSO on the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website. Moreover, last week I was able to pay my parents' Italian car tax through an app on my smartphone.

On the contrary, last month I had to extend my driving license and I decided to get a German one. I've been told at the Driving Licence Department that I need to provide a document to show what country I come from ("Initial entry registration in the Federal Republic of Germany"). There was no way to provide such document other than going to the town hall of the first place where I lived after arriving in Germany two years ago, asking for such document, getting the paper copy after paying, and bringing it to the town hall of the city where I currently live. The trip only took about an hour, but I wonder how I could have done if I lived on the other side of Germany.

The funny thing is that my friends in Italy think that I moved to a super efficient country where everything is the top of innovation and digital technology (classic German stereotype among Italians) while none of this is possible in Italy and queuing at some public office is the only way to get these services done.
Exactly. A person today could eat honey and use beeswax in food every day if they wanted to. This would not have been available to anyone 10k years ago.
This is absolute horseshit. Government regulation of public health during a pandemic is absolutely its role.

We have required a great number of vaccines for the last 100 years. The coronavirus vaccines are some of the most-tested out there. Anti-vaxxing was a fringe position that nobody took seriously before Covid.

The only reason this virus is remotely political is because we had a demagogue in the president’s office who likes to force people into contrarian positions because it strokes his ego. So if people want to stay home from work because their politics don’t allow them to do the job, that’s not my problem.
I/O is used frequently in tech as an acronym for Input/Output. I suppose that's why it's popular for techy stuff like SaaS providers and such. It's also a moon of Jupiter which adds to the nerdgasm.
Linking TODOs with Jira Tickets via GitHub Actions
The biggest problem is that they waste your time even when the content is ostensibly helpful, since the search result is usually listed after the Stack Overflow page it crawled from anyway. Each click steals a few seconds of developers’ time, which adds up, given how frequently these types of results pop up on Google search lately. That makes them worse than useless, they actively subtract value.
On one side, we have people who want decentralization and unrestricted markets in the metaverse, protected by distributed consensus protocols. On the other side, we have corporations like Meta, who want centralization and regulated transactions in the metaverse, protected by winner-take-all economies of scale. Quoting from the OP:

> "What Facebook is doing with meta...is a 'fake metaverse,' unless they actually have a real description as to how we can truly own it," ... "Until then, it's just Disneyland. It's a beautiful place to be, but we probably don't want to really live there. It's not the kind of place that we can actually build a business."

IMHO, this is just a new chapter in an age-old battle between dominant players building "Disneylands" and those who want "The Wild West" to remain, well, wild. This battle been ongoing since the emergence of the earliest information/communication networks. Tim Wu, who has studied the subject extensively, has written a good book about it: "The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires."[a]

[a] https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire...
Everything is subject to market forces. The extra price for luxury goods is justified by the social status it implies and by the extra quality
Russian and Chinese Ambassadors: Respecting People’s Democratic Rights
Using a VM to benchmark disk IO is a whole other can of worms.
Have you looked at the reccomended routine in the /r/bodyweightfitness subreddit? I'm still using the old one (pre-2018 I think) because the newer one requires some equipment.
Tackling it in TypeScript this year, which is interesting because I haven't used TypeScript before (I'm experienced with JavaScript). This is a good way to really drill it into my fingertips.

If you care to follow along:

https://github.com/boutell/advent-of-code-2021
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I like that the data clearly shows the server issues on day 1.
>> It seems to me like you just don't think medicare or medicaid should be a thing to begin with.

Please don't ascribe beliefs or intentions to me that I didn't explicitly state.

> Why should my tax dollars to go a healthcare provider who doesn't want to get the vaccine when that money can go to one who will?

Medicare and Medicaid should be fee for treatment. Why shouldn't I be allowed to choose what provider I want to visit for the same treatment? They can have different covid policies, much like schools do. I don't think it should be a federal issue.

> The medicare/medicaid patients that we're paying for will get better treatment from those healthcare providers who require vaccination, and if better care is not the goal than what is?

You're mistaking treatment for safety protocols. A health care provider can have a certain doctor to nurse ratio or a million other things and they may not all be "optimal" as defined by the powers that be. We should allow people to choose what health care provider is right for them based on their constraints and not restrict options.
I got one for you, we can prevent 80% of covid deaths and hospitalizations and reduce other diseases and get universal healthcare because the cost would be much less...Just ban fast foods. Make everyone exercise and that would be mandated by government. It would much less intrusive than requiring someone to inject something into their body.
Great to see more effort in the PWA space if we ever hope to break the stranglehold of the app stores.
Gro Intelligence | Senior Software Engineer | NYC, or Remote for strong candidates (US/Canada) | Full-time | $150k-$225k base + equity |
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The two biggest challenges facing humanity today are climate change and food security, and Gro Intelligence is tackling both. Our platform fuses human expertise with machine learning at scale to illuminate the interrelationships between the earth's ecology and our human economy. This allows every Gro user to see the big picture and act on the small details.

Gro Intelligence is a rapidly growing Series B ($85M Jan 2021) company and we are hiring across the board for engineering: if you love a good challenge, have deep expertise, and a desire to help the world, here's your chance to work for a truly innovative company. As a Gro engineer, you will be challenged with building out systems at scale to serve our broader mission of providing essential information products to the world. While deep domain knowledge and machine learning are powering the application and underlying analytical engines, our current hiring focus is on infrastructure, platforms, and frameworks at scale - we are fundamentally a big data platform, with all of the challenges that come with that.

The first link is for our technical infrastructure group (think decomposing monoliths, CI/CD, scaling data pipelines from petabytes to exabytes). Most importantly - engineers for this role should have at least one area of deep understanding in an area of software engineering fundamentals and be passionate about building & scaling systems. These roles will be a rewarding challenge and are sorely needed here at Gro as we scale out and up.

Second link - application framework team - is for a new team that we are creating to build a framework to allow our internal and external users to rapidly build and deploy new solutions/visualizations with our data. Here, we're looking for people with strong frontend experience combined with API design knowledge.

Happy to answer any questions - you can reach out to me here or at leo.green@gro-intelligence.com - I'm a recruiter with Gro, but if I don't know the answer I'll ping our engineering folks and come back to you fast.
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Hi, we're a hands-free cloud service that makes it easy to purchase the most in-demand items from retail sites when they restock. At the click of a button, users can choose to purchase consoles (PS5/XBOX), graphics cards, and 400+ more items from our ever-expanding selection. Once a user selects what they want, our automation will try to purchase the item on their behalf the next time it restocks at a retailer.

Our mission is to level the playing field in what inevitably has become the new era of online shopping - one where only bots have a chance at purchasing popular products. Whereas most bots are only accessible to tech-savvy individuals who buy and sell items for profit, SnailBot gives the common man or woman a fighting chance at purchasing their favorite products without paying scalper prices.

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The goal of Shortform is to make the world's best ideas more accessible. Right now we create the world's best book guides, with in-depth chapter-by-chapter summaries, original insights building on the book's ideas, and distillation of the book into actionables. They're like superpowered book summaries.

Eventually, we want to summarize and contextualize every meaningful idea published each day, in every form of media (books, articles, podcasts, videos). Imagine you had a magical Chrome extension that takes any page you're viewing (like a top HN article) and gives you a high-quality summary, along with summaries of alternative viewpoints. That's a vision of what we're building.

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Technology: Vue.js on frontend, Flask / Python on backend. (Keywords for searchers with tech flexibility: Angular, React, Django)

About the role: Ideally you're fullstack on the web, and comfortable on both front-end and back-end. Position is remote (current team is worldwide). Fulltime / parttime roles available. We're able to pay competitive market salaries (i.e. not decreased by equity).

Email jobs+engineerhn@shortform.com to get more details about the company, what we're building, and the application process. In your email, please discuss your experience for our stack, and also your favorite non-fiction book (to help us screen out spam emails).
you can indeed yell fire in a crowded theater.
In most companies with apparently functioning HR, you don't get a written offer until after the reference/bg check clears. Your verbal is what gets you to provide those reference/bg check authorizations.

This is like HR 101
With land, not using it is the equivalent to a privately funded conservation site. Its not necessarily a bad thing.

Many capitalistic countries also have adverse possession laws, where if someone uses the land for X number of years, it becomes theirs.