skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hospitals can be unavoidable if you're unlucky and get hurt. Grocery stores, too, but you can minimize your trips. But the other ones? Totally voluntary and avoidable. The public health guidance around COVID has been atrocious, even as scientists learn more about how the disease spreads indoors. We're going to probably need to change our "indoor event" focused culture if we want to have any hope of getting this behind us, but it's unlikely to happen because it's inconvenient to people and there's seemingly no way to enforce a mandate. And heaven forbid people temporarily inconvenience themselves to stop a deadly pandemic!
You might like this book:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreams_Our_Stuff_Is_Made...
Remembering ip addresses is like remembering passwords.

Why would you do that, when there are so many good tools you can use to do it for you way better than your feeble grey meat sack can?

I mean sure, I remember 127.0.0.1 and 8.8.8.8 and 9.9.9.9, but decent passwords these days are no more memorable than ipv6 addresses.
Pattern recognition is critical thinking.
The lyrics site Genius also attempted this[1][2]

1. https://genius.com/web-annotator

2. https://www.theverge.com/2016/5/25/11505454/news-genius-anno...
My friends without the vaccine that got Covid are dead, and the one that did get the vaccine are alive.
I find that odd. Here they do track covid ICU nationally and covid even have them separated (they don't mix covid patients with car crashes). The lockdown was because capacities were getting full.

And they also know who is vaccinated, so the general claim doctors were saying was that vaccinated seldom end up in ICU and very rarely die. Most in serious condition are unvaccinated.

Causes of death tend to be tracked on national level too. It might be that hospital does not care, but death certificates for all kinda of stuff should be written somewhere.
> Most people in the US are not remote workers that get to work 7 hours a day. They are expected to be physically present doing things like retail service work, manufacturing, healthcare, construction, etc.

This is not entirely accurate — as much as 69% of all full-time employees worked remotely during the pandemic: https://news.gallup.com/poll/355907/remote-work-persisting-t...

While we certainly do have professions that require in-person presence, it’s not every role in those professions and certainly many more people can enjoy the benefits of remote work. Those who cannot should be rewarded for that and added enjoy benefits/guarantees to compensate.
> This makes no sense, no one is alleging Mexico is under Russia’s thumb so this makes no sense.

This makes no sense, because no strong independent sovereign country (there're very few of them in the world, about 5-6) will allow foreign troops to land in the neighboring country.

If Russia would send troops under any pretext in any situation to Mexico, USA would start a World War III.
Echoing the commenters pointing out that you leaned into the irrationally.

Separately:

> If you want normal people to use Linux you should never, ever, ever ask them to even use a terminal

What about Alexa or Siri? Would it be acceptable to ask them to use a voice-activated digital assistant to accomplish what people use the command-line for? What about a text-activated one, without the voice recognition problems?
You are complaining that the allergens information takes room on your restaurant menu.

We the people, through our democratic processes, have asked companies for transparency of their tracking process, the industry have decided as a whole to say fuck off and made the process as painful as possible.

Yes, the companies are evil/stupid villains on this case.
Not everything needs bloody philosophy.
Let me amend that and say advanced music theory and composition. There is a definite thought out there that knowing too much impedes creativity.
At my prior company, I wouldn't have passed the intern interview as an intermediate developer. But I would have passed the current intermediate interview.

They leetcoded and had interns do system design diagrams. Intermediate and higher had paired code writing and a design discussion.
>> Hiring a bad candidate is much more costly than rejecting a good one.

Sure, but the really bad hires usually aren't bad because they lack technical skills. They're bad for reasons that end up in HR. You can always reassign someone with people skills but short on algorithms.
> If you had to take a technical interview for your current position would you be able to pass it and get the job?

Yup. I didn't get blasted by algorithms problems and data-structure trivia for my current job. The interview I got was to answer a handful of questions by querying some data from a CSV file. I was supposed to use the programming language of choice by the company but I just loaded the data into a SQL table and did the queries in SQL... which was fine because the application I'd be working on is a web application and the majority if our work is querying databases.

Could I get through the usual interview process at other companies? Sure. I'm used to it by now and came up with a training regimen to keep my skills sharp. It really comes down to being able to categorize word problems into a handful of common data structures and algorithms: breadth-first search, depth-first search, two-pointer, binary search, dynamic programming... linked list, vector, hash map, or tree. Once you can match the description to the data structure and algorithm the solution is usually within reach with practice.

It's not my favourite skill and I don't find competitive programming entertaining. But that's the way the world works right now.
Very serious. Check out this article. Title not representative
. Can skip first 10-20% if wanted.

https://www.newsweek.com/how-dr-fauci-other-officials-withhe...
The OP I responded to said income and sales tax. You're just copping out by saying that I've fulfilled the criteria laid out was somehow wrong. But even without taxes, a charity can exist.

I guess you think all dead men were failures, if survival to present day is your criteria.

The "frees-rider" problem applies to government programs, too.
But you're right, we can't just depend on charity. We need for profit enterprise too.
Ugh, the 256 color VGA Lenna has horrible palette selection, most probably none at all (using the default palette). That picture could look so much better!

It seems like one of these things, where what used to be reasonably common technical knowledge has now largely been lost.
This. I interviewed with a company that I really wanted to work with, was overqualified for the job, and would have thrived in it...

The HR person was a complete dolt though, and didnt even understand how to interview me properly...

Sucks - I still respect the company, but their recruiting method was piss-poor..
Both AWS and Azure provides this as a service with either Windows or Linux.

There's also a relatively new service called Mighty App, which streams just a browser with the idea that you can manage 100's of tabs with all the browser processing being done on the remote server.
> Since there is a single GUI thread where everything that touches the GUI must live, but you do want your application to have multiple other threads, you need to give the programmer this kind of control and can't rely on a more simplistic Go-style green threads runtime.

Isn't that just a limitation of Go since its goroutines all run in the same pool? As far as I know, in the Java implementation you'll be able to create virtual thread pools from regular threads (i.e. the gui thread) and then have another virtual executor for the rest of your program. You'll still have the backend vs gui split but you won't have the entire async await split for the rest of your application.
The time around the industrial revolution was particularly bad for work. I wonder what working hours looked like pre-industry?
Man feel you. A few years ago I got out of the Spring swamp, and worked at a shop using a different framework, but still in Java. It got rid of almost all the bad things about the Java ecosystem, and it was so liberating! Last year I was back in the spring swamp again and I couldn't stand it! Glad to hear it's not just me
The S&P 500 paid out something like $0.8T in dividends last year, profits from the economically productive activities of the companies to which shareholders had a claim.
Where on the planet are you and can you send the dropouts my way?
This feels like alternative reality - we have jobs available but no takers.
Can you elaborate on your reasons why it would be a bad thing?

I think the argument for this is mainly that this would be funded by taxes, so it would not need to rely on advertisements and exhibit the predatory behaviours that Facebook and other social media do.
Right, but that's a very different aspect of the argument. People don't buy games on steam because they want to own them, they buy them because they want to play them. The actual usage is the utility.
GDPR explicitly gives extraterritorial jurisdiction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regu...
If they put together most of the team another way, then it would be fine.

My prior company would have interns do leetcode and system design. Intermediates and up had some paired code writing and a far less formal system design discussion.

Most of the team might have been hired through a network and you only get leetcoded as an external unknown.
That ain't ideological. The first waves of crypto were driven by ideology now it's driven by market. Getting rich quick is a cult but I wouldn't put it in the same lot as the cypherpunk/libertarian early adopters.
That's not how viruses work.

Early in the pandemic researchers swabbed lots of surfaces and while they were able to amplify COVID DNA from a bunch of the swabs, they were not able to successfully culture a single sample from any surface, which included the hospital room of a patient on a respirator where the virus would have been beyond abundant.
You are borrowing joy. It sure is hard not to do it though.
> The job I'm at currently, gave me a practical task(similar to the ones I would be doing on the job) and a few days to submit the results/notes of.

Take-homes get a lot of criticism on HN, but in my experience they're superior for all the reasons you mentioned.

I don't actually see pushback against take-home problems in the real world, mostly just online. When given the choice, most people would prefer a practical take-home over a whiteboard style interview.
The problem I see with the approach of existing devs taking the challenge is that they do not have the same level of nervousness or pressure. Presumably if they fail they still get to keep their job, right?

IMO, being under pressure in an interview stunts a person's cognitive ability somewhat, between the pressure, the unfamiliar environment, lack of working relationships with the team, etc. I think that would need to be factored in somehow.
Didnt click the link because I don't care about someone saying Hello ! Not that I'm important or anything but you didn't clickbait right I think ! Your title is void of meaning as all clickbait, but also void of burning incentive to click !
That might be true in the US, but in other jurisdictions a sole-trader or partnership can also attract lower tax rates on the disposal of assets or the whole business including 'good will'. In the UK this could probably get entrepreneurs relief as well, taking it down to 10%. Speak to a tax accountant of course.
I loved the blackberry keyboard. The bad part was that I could so easily text and drive while maintaining my eyes 100 percent on driving
It is indeed, it's part of the compression scheme for the keyword lexicon for my search engine. It's a domain-specific compression that uses the fact that the keyword dictionary is a dictionary of keywords to compress N-grams into dense blobs using this function. Overall it achieves about 70% compression.

The lexicon supports several billion entries entirely in memory, which requires a lot these eldritch coding tricks (since Java certainly wasn't built for that many objects, GC and header overhead extremely prohibitive so objects are entirely out of the question).

Most of the data is kept in contiguous memory mapped byte arrays.
It does tell you that the people working there practiced leetcode and puzzles in their free time (assuming they went through the same filter)
> In reality, there's a race in terms of productivity: "now they can do 2x the work they did before!"

I think the reality is more depressing. It’s not companies deciding this, it’s each other. “Now I can do 2x the work I did before.”

As a system there’s a feedback loop involved. You only need very few people to decide to undercut each other, but for each person who does, that’s more pressure for the next person to keep up, causing even more pressure on the next people, etc.

This is why the 40 hour work week had to come from the top. I doubt we’ll see real leisure time improvements until we see overtime pay starting at 32hr/week or something else top down like that.
Surely this is the end of the pandemic? With an estimated 300k+ cases per day here in the UK, that is 10 million this month on top of everyone who has already had it. It’s as though nobody is ready to acknowledge the elephant in the room that Covid is nearly finished.

Or am I missing something?
The number of applicants is ENORMOUS but the number that are hirable engineers is not. I think the stupid trivia is just filtering by necessity.

The take-home project followed by discussion is great, but can it scale up to Facebook and Google? Are you going to have engineers doing several of those per week? It's already difficult to come up with algorithm questions that are novel enough that candidates haven't already practiced the exact question, as found in some aggregation site. How do you avoid that with project work?

I agree the system is terrible, but I see how we ended up here too.
Most of us probably have normal jobs. Side projects which make money are rare.

I taught myself how to program via side projects and it's still where I do 99% of my learning.
I bet it's powered by wordpress.
I don't think it matters if omicron is ultimately worse or not, nobody cares anymore. I was out visiting a gym yesterday, in an area with sky rocketing cases, and no one was wearing masks. They talked multiple times about how much they cared about health, without even a hint of irony. I was initially put off, but realized that this is just the world we're in.

In two weeks we'll find out if the calculus of lower death rate x higher case count means anything, but even if it turns out to be a complete disaster with record deaths, I just don't see anyone caring.

Pandemic is done after omicron no matter what. We already largely ignore deaths from climate change (which depending on your calculations can easily be as high globally as covid), we don't even speculate on deaths from environmental pollution. Covid is just another environmental hazard that we will accept like any other.
The CDC has estimated the overall hospitalization rate since the start of the pandemic at about 5%. Now with vaccines and other improved outpatient therapies the hospitalization rate is dropping.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

The Omicron variant R0 value appears to be somewhere in the 7 - 10 range.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...
What's the goal here? It seems like they want to make elixir the new AI language, but why should I go from python to Elixir? I know it seems a dumb question but I can't find in the link any reason why. I really like python but at the same time I would like to have something faster but also with pandas, numpy, statsmodel and so on
Fedora 36 Looking to Move Users Away from Legacy “Ifcfg” Network Scripts
The quote from Jony Ive

> In the words of Apple’s celebrated designer Jony Ive: “When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.”

This really gets it wrong. It becomes your master. Perhaps a benevolent master, but a master nonetheless.
I’m a 33 year old man and for me I can’t relax without marijuana. Same thing sorta
In their quest to be more objective and critical, a lot of people fall into a simple, reflexive anti-American stance. There's a decades old term for these folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

HUNGARY 56, and Czechoslovakia 67, Ukraine 2014, Kazakhstan 22, it's the same playbook.
Where can I get an exemption from demonizing propaganda?
I will go a bit off topic here: As the interview processes are quite different than the actual day to day job for 90% of companies, what would be your recipe of success to train for those interviews? I find myself quite capable in by day to day job, but, in the interviews, I am not doing as well as I am expecting.
Goodwill. It looks like you sold that too. I think you sold the company.
> It's not like C++, where the template language is both Turing complete and the fastest way to summon Beelzebub from the depths of his infernal pit, and where you need a team of PhDs to decide which version of `auto_pointer` actually works the way you think it does.

Value types on the JVM have been described as "6 PhDs, knitted together". In C and C++, this is just struct.

> It's not Javascript, where the framework your front-end lead sold you on last week has already been superseded by the hot new thing.

You should stop spreading stuff like that, it's false. React has been the most popular frontend framework for 6 years at this point, and Express the most popular backend framework in JS for at least 8 years. The backwards compatibility of JS is at least as good as Java, ES5 and ES6 were great upgrades (a bit like Java 5 and 8 in a way).

I like Java and I think it's very important. I can say that without feeling the need to dismiss other languages that are as important as Java to the modern world.
this is horribly misguided to say "disguised as saving the environment" .. it is conflating real environmental crisis with political posturing.. It is intellectually lazy to blur two big topics like this..
They have a 30-day guarantee. If OP is having such severe problems, then they should return it and get a refund.
Chomsky was an exemplary linguist, but his political writings are one dimensional.

Manufacturing consent correct points out malicious sounding actions by the US, but it never delves into how literally major or minor power in history has done exactly the same. He loves to shut on the US, while turning a blind eye to every other authoritarian nation and having his life's work be funded by Darpa.
> demanding the million dollar clinical trials and studies controlled by gatekeepers

Studies, including by friendly investigators have been done, fairly extensively. Not only is it clear why homeopathy shouldn't be able to work, it's also clear that it doesn't beyond placebo effect; not only do most studies show this, but meta-analysis shows that contrary findings and their apparent strength are directly tied to weaknesses of the studies involved.

> millions continue to benefit from pennies worth of healing medicine.

Just saying this repeatedly doesn't make it true.
There were blm protests in nearly every city, a handful of cities had opportunistic looters. There are documented cases of white nationalists pretending to be blm and trying to cause trouble[1].

Some cops do bad things, do you think all cops are bad? Or is there a double standard? If anything cops should be held to a higher standard not a lesser because it’s their purpose to protect people.

[1] just one example to show they do this https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-was...
Could you list these features? I was under the impression that apart from some things that can be easily done in C# but are pretty much impossible to do in Java (like value types* and pointers) the languages were pretty similar.

Some C# things seemed rather strange (like delegates), some purely cosmetic (like indexers) and there were also things that Java had but C# did not like covariant return types (available from C# 9.0)

*Project Valhalla is supposed to bring it to Java but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it.
Are there lessons of such that one can follow?
A person who refers to themselves in the third-person is called, in English, an illeist.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/illeist

Elmo, Julius Caesar, and Salvador Dali have been identified as illeists.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27322/11-famous-illeists
Chrome OS Could Become the Future Leader of Personal Computing
Doesn't the sentence from the article mean "even from the same place, you can get different results" though? As in you're looking in (ostensibly) the same phone book but getting different numbers - not that you're looking in different phone books.

I can look up www.google.com from 3 different machines here on my local network (behind a single ipv4 nat'd address) and get 3 different IPs as a result.
I understand that full access to every page is a bit of a turn off; we don't store any data unless the user is explicitly posting a comment. Furthermore, we've built in an option to disable network requests unless you manually click on the extension icon. On top of that, Chrome allows you to manually disable/enable extensions for certain sites.

API + bookmarklet is an interesting idea though, kind of more like hypothes.is/Disqus/Relay Chat (discontinued). Perhaps we can add it in the future!

Also, the Firefox extension is in the works! You can sign up for the waitlist here if you'd like: https://forms.gle/Ksq3LuEBNSvNT5Br6
JVM can be tuned via the command line during startup. Eclipse comes with 512MB as the heap size, and you can enable a small gauge to see how it's doing. I've never seen "This heap is small, please give me more space" error from Eclipse. Also, latest versions of Java (starting with 16 IIRC) doesn't grind to halt during large GC passes.

I've developed enough applications in Eclipse during past 20 years, and it has become from being an absolute lead ball to something agile for its size, both in macOS and Linux. I've found an infinite loop bug in CDT, and only with that I was able to make JVM throw the towel, and call it quits.

JVM is very smart and resilient in memory management, I've seen some stuff during my life.