skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This phenomenon is a major reason that good startups win vs Big Tech companies.

The Big Tech companies have standardized their interview process around hiring new grads. They fight with each other to hire them. These noobs get hired en masse and perpetuate the process, ultimately creating a monoculture of noobs hiring and mentoring noobs. It is the blind leading the blind.

So Big Tech companies end up consisting of armies of highly uniform noobs that throw massive amounts of code/money/people/time at every problem. And not because they're stupid, but just because they never had the benefit of real mentorship and training from a diverse pool of experienced experts. And because they've never learned to build without the resources of a Big Tech company.

On the other hand, good startups seek out experienced experts with diverse technical skills because they really need the most effective people possible. They're not just trying to meet recruiting quotas. They have to do great work and have to do it efficiently or they fail. This is why good startups can very often do much better work than even much larger Big Tech teams.

If you're an experienced expert, and actually enjoy your work, you probably want to work for company with less than ~300 people. And you probably want to quit when it gets to ~1000 people.
Also:

- how much/long the media keeps the fear drum pounding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI5E8z89c9U
Are you from US? In Europe you see wires only outside of big cities.

I was surprised on my recent road trip across US that you've got wires in urban/suburban neighborhoods - even the richer ones like Palo Alto.
What if there is unrest in Mexico, will US send troops to Mexico to bring order? There are plausible situations in which this may happen.
It is tremendously difficult to eat a balanced, healthy diet for people who lack the motivation or desire to cook and eat subjectively boring foods. I know this will probably strike a nerve in some people that perfectly enjoy salads, chicken, and brown rice. But not every feels the same about those foods.
> Focus on good conversations and not drinks

Where do you find this. Bars provide me with a building full of people who are likely more sociable and open to talking with randos at the time, though the conversations tend to be dumbed down a bit. The disinhibition is powerful.

The only other places I have “good conversations” these days are in niche online spaces, with people I won’t find irl.
Is it just me or are we getting a lot of new(ish) accounts posting blatant COVID misinformation and/or flamebait lately?
Yeah, they're really not. I was a paramedic about 10 years ago. Every winter I'd see colds or influenza kill people. (Or at least, initiate convalescence and subsequent rapid death from related issues within a few weeks.) Always though, those were people who were either very old or had COPD (a lung disease). It's a common way that people go out actually. A cold leads to weakness/stress leads to pneuomonia/UTI's/sepsis and then death.
Is there even a single confirmed death from Omicron yet? I've heard of a couple but they turned out to be fake.

This is a highly dynamic situation. Omicron is not alpha or even delta.
> No optimism for you!

This is a weird observation to make. Optimism is by far the dominant ideology in our society and has been for well over 300 or so years.

Even currently when you browse mainstream media news postings the vast majority of the articles focus on how mild omicron is and how people should get to back to work.

I'll agree that the media makes plenty of money pedaling anxiety but real pessimism is nearly forbidden in everything from mainstream media to academic philosophy (seriously, Schopenhauer is basically it and he's much more of a buddhist than a true pessimist, the majority of German pessimist thinker remain untranslated in English).

Reacting to any observation of concerning data as "against optimism!" speaks more to a prevalence of hard denial than the rise of true pessimism.
I don’t know if it could help in your case (java) but there’s a machine instruction for count leading zeros on x86 platform - LZCNT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_Bit_manipulation_instruc... - i found out about this randomly years ago when i was doing some interfacing with a microcontroller from python and my solution was horrifically slow.

To exploit this i had to use cython from python to define a c function which used a gcc compiler intrinsic to allow me to write the asm instruction inline. It turned out about 7 lines of code so it wasn’t as bad as it sounds.

In your case, you’d need to use JNI i suppose so it might not be any less code but it should at least be a lot faster if that matters.
You're right about that but in this case I think they have that covered. Bandwidth is not really that expensivea and they already have the network and scale effects on their favor; so, if anything, I believe their opex (per customer or w/e) will continue to go down.
Normal flu for my dad, a bit worse than that from mom. She basically hasn't gotten out of bed for about 8 days except to use the bathroom.
> At some point you realize that you won't be having as much fun as getting drunk.

Did you move away or you stayed in the same place? I notice that changing things radically helps a lot; I moved 1000s of kms which allows to reboot. If I would've stayed, well, all people from my previous life live there still and the same bars and other 'fun' is there still. When I go back for a visit, even a week, it is party time then first night and all nights after that until groggy and nauseated on the plane home. I don't enjoy that anymore as I like my work and my hobbies and most of them need a clear and responsive mind, not a cotton ball and depression. My current group of friends mostly drink socially but don't mind to have people to do fun stuff with that do not. So for me a Friday of not drinking at all(which are most Friday nights of the year), I cook pizza in my woodoven, cook food, make snacks and have a movie or game night etc. My mates get slightly legless but we all have a lot of fun and I am mostly busy with preparing things so time flies with something I enjoy.
Unfortunately you continue to conveniently ignore the most important understanding about the human race: "Hatred and the ability to subjugate others is often a bigger motivating factor to people than money."

It's not just about segregation per se, it's about the bigger problem of oppression. Segregation is just a tool to implement it.

And people's ability to distinguish one another for the purposes of oppression is not even limited to skin color. If you travel around the world, you'll even observe people who look totally alike hating and trying to oppress each other. (Go visit the Balkans sometime.) Persecution of minorities -- racial, ethnic, religious -- has been a thing for at least as long as recorded history. This problem simply does not fix itself through free-market solutions.
There’s only one answer and that’s get new friends tbh. Find people whose identity revolves around something more meaningful than partying.
But are most of those issues with naive subjects? Once everybody is vaccinated or has had it once, the extreme reactions should drop way off.
Going to be "that guy" and say that almost everything he accurately predicted was already commonplace or on the rise in the 1920s.

- Commercial flights had started a decade earlier. There were even successful transatlantic flights.

- The women empowerment and feminism movement was in full swing. Women had just got the right to vote. A large percentage had careers and even unions.

- Wireless radio and telegraph were established in most parts of the world.

- Cinema, with sound and color, was already a thing.

In fact he missed the mark on his actual predictions – food pills, paper mache furniture, no private dwellings, glass domed cities, nationalized industries in the US, no more opportunity in the US (funny since we are on a SV entrepreneurs forum right now).
There is no need to. Society has a contract. We accept those that fit in and reject those that don’t. And that’s a good thing. Just like birds reject sick birds to preserve the health of the group. It’s the best thing from an evolutionary perspective. There is an envelope within which which diversity is accepted. Outside of the envelope you get rejected. It sounds like this particular individual was outside the envelope. So he goes.
Then it should be easy to say what's wrong with it.
You're not supposed to be remembering addresses, that's what DNS and LLNMR et al are for. IPv4 let people depend on bad habits and hard-coded fixups, V6 makes that slightly less practical.

Although frankly the functional part of most V6 addresses isn't that much more. Using ULA, of which there are enough of that organizations need not fear constant overlap like 10/8, the network side of our private internet space is only 6 characters and fixed host addresses are often 2. eg, fde3af::1.

We get cute with 6to4 mappings and some routing games and so they may look more like fde3:af00:12:34::1 but the local subnet is handed out via prefix delegation so end users rarely, if ever, need to care.
perfect, this is exactly what I wanted to know. The IoT part is very interesting
“Inflationary monetary policy” is wealth transfer to the government (which they're then supposed to spend on common infrastructure, and other collaborative projects that everybody agrees on but nobody wants to shell out for unless everyone else is too). If the government is supporting the upper class and leaving everyone else to rot, no monetary policy will fix the issue.
I'm currently unemployed, so I'd pass with flying colors .

Joking aside, I would definitely pass the interviews for my previous job (I left 4 weeks ago). They were very JS and React focused, and they were pretty easy. I know that domain well, so I tend to interview well in it.
It's not a crypto browser. It's a privacy focused browser which is experimenting with crypto among many other things.
It's like calling Venmo a crypto platform
That type of naming drives me crazy. A server name should be descriptive and easily understood without context or documentation. For example, "api_1" makes a lot more sense than "proteus".
I actually enjoy those puzzles, but agree that they are irrelevant to the work. In fact, the very few times they are relevant is something of a special occasion! "Hey look, I have to design a slightly novel algorithm!" Most of the job is, of course, figuring out why things went wrong, based on imperfect evidence, which requires a good mental model of the entire system plus the ability to make changes to test and eliminate hypotheses. Very few, if any, technical interviews capture the essence of this act.
I want them all! thanks fo the work.

Does the list include pollen allergy vaccine?
What do you think of this pre print from December?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357313430_Ivermecti...
> It lets a lot of innovation happen in other languages

Only if you're defining innovation as syntax and semantics to the language. Java has been the pinnacle and cutting edge of language implementation innovation decades - Sun/Oracle is/was the Bell Labs of VM and JIT research.
I'm in. RSS is a core part of some stuff I've been working on, and I am definitely all about advocating it more broadly.
Very neat! I had not looked into Bel before, but I feel like I need to now. Some aspects of it look pretty close to John Shutt's Kernel language, where the core construct is Vau instead of Lambda, and creates something quite like the mac macro construct described for Bel, receiving its arguments unevaluated along with an optional parameter which is the calling environment, I think like the described "scope" variable. It also provides wrap/unwrap functions which wrap a Vau in a layer of parameter-evaluation, so a normal lambda would look like (wrap (vau #unused_env (parameters..) body...) and macros and functions (and builtins like if, lambda, etc!) all unify into one concept which he calls combiners.

It's cool to see some convergent evolution vaguely towards this direction, I think it's very beautiful. I also agree, I think a language like this that's purely functional would be a great boon and make these advanced features easier to reason about! I've been working on something similar I'll share when it actually works - looks like there are dozens of us!
I think the issue might be that ATOM is the less ambiguous feed specification and RSS should be just left to languish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(Web_standard)#Atom_compa...
The problem is Thomas Jefferson lived most of his life more than a hundred years prior to when this was written. Although still alive in 1822, he would have already seen much of the progress that would be foreign to his younger self. Such as the first steam engines. The author compares the perspective of a young girl looking 100 years into the future with that of an old man.
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Thanks for the straightforward answer.
> I don't see how crypto has proven itself to be inherently and fundamentally worse

I can't help you if you intentionally choose not to pay attention.
>A house has intrinsic value. People can live in a house, store things there, or rent it out. Its value was not put into the system, it simply exists, period. Even if the market crashes, a house is still useful and can appreciate again. Its market-value is dependent on both demand and usefulness. The second variable doesn't change.

Let me answer that by showing you a mirror perspective of your point;

Crypto has intrinsic value. People can use Crypto to exchange or store value bypassing dangerous intermediaries and structures of control. Its value was not put into the system, it simply exists, period. even if the housing market crashes, a crypto currency will still be useful and can appreciate. Cryptos market-value is dependent on both demand and usefulness. The second variable doesn't change.

Now the point here is that the mirror argument is about as right as yours. You can imagine ways crypto will devalue, i can imagine ways your house will devalue. You can imagine using your devalued house for things that are useful to you, i can imagine using a devalued crypto currency for things that are useful to me.
> built-in network request disabling option

It is nice, but if I am not getting a comment indicator anyways I would rather just not trust your extension at all.

> Chrome's option to disable unless clicked?

This is pretty good. But I would still prefer a 1-line auditable bookmarklet rather than a large extension.

> I also think the badge could be dropped, but in initial stages when traffic is low I think it would really help with engagement.

Yeah, I can see that. It would be interesting if you could get it just with URL access. You could still check for comments and open the discussion page but you wouldn't need full site access permission. Due to how the permission model works this would probably need to be a separate extension but it would be interesting to have a "Netvyne Lite" version with much less permissions.

...that being said logging every visited site is still a lot of access. But I can see how the comment count is a valuable feature for some users even if it isn't worth the cost for me.

Also for comment count checks are you protecting the URL in any way? For example checking for `sha3("netvyne-" + url)` instead of the raw URL. This way you aren't sending the URL of my URL-accessible Google Docs (for example) to your server.
Granted this still needs peer review...but you may want to look into this:

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1139035/v1

I hope your recovery goes well and you truly have zero issues.
Qubits Can Be as Safe as Bits, Researchers Show
This has also been my experience, but to me the detriment of verboseness is not only a matter of writing code, it also means there is a lot of noise when I try to read the code. I guess it might just be a personal preference whether we prefer explicit and typically more verbose or terseness at the cost of more implicit behaviour / magic? At least I am unfamiliar with a language which is both explicit and has no boilerplate.
Numbers are still changing but the current stat is one percent hospitalization rate for Omicron. This year's flu has a hospitalization rate almost twice as high as last year's, at 1.4 in 100,000 or 0.0014%.
>There are a countless other ways a country

A country? The federal reserve is run by private individuals. It is a private bank. Don't let the name fool you.
I'm OK with people keeping the fruits of their labour. Up to a point. When you get people using money to get more money, exponentially, until they've got so much they can't think of ways to spend it and start buying NFTs and building space rockets, it's gone way too far. So I'm good with keeping "fruits of labour" if that's what you need to live, subject to the constraints of tax policy.

My own political views are neither here nor there. I live in the UK, but I don't support Labour; I don't think Labour is socialist, and I do think they're authoritarian and militarist. I don't know how you can scale up anarchism from a collective to a nation; I do know when things are going in the wrong direction.

> I'm ok with socialism when it's done consensually.

You mean, when you can opt out, apparently.
While you see plenty of press decrying the shrinking middle class ... it still is the majority of the US! Even things like living in a detached single family home, still is something that 70% of Americans do, even if homeownership is down and rents are up. All economic trends happen at the margin, 2% here, 5% there. Big shifts, even over decades, are rarer.
You say "over and over" but Omicron is the first variant that actually evades immunity (both natural and vaccine-induced) in a meaningful way. What we don't know is the level of immunity that an Omicron infection will provide. It could actually confer immunity to both itself and previous variants, which would effectively end the pandemic.
C++ has been used by lots of people without PhDs to great success. The language is not perfect, but for most people it's far from the hell that's described in the comment I replied to. Some people will complain about the AbstractFactoryBeanInterface in Java and say that it's hell, they are the minority. Same with C++.
> St-Pierre said she won the free trip in a contest on Instagram and had never previously heard of the organizer, who identifies himself on social media as James William Awad. “I was expecting a relaxing week, where I was going to be careful,” she said. “But this turns out to be an expensive trip for something that was supposed to be free.”

I don't like the idea of an airline stranding people in a foreign country, and I really don't like that the prime minister directly mocked those people, but going on a "free" trip you "won" on instagram organized by someone you have never even heard of is pretty idiotic.
Whenever there are many ways to encode something, there's wasted room in the encoding space :) Not usually a big deal, but when the goal is compression, I think it's nice if it can be avoided.
They have been around a while, and likely do have some gaps or issues in their methodology, but they did invent the industry they operate in.

As for the dead link, I found it on Internet Archive; it redirects to this, which does work.

https://global.nielsen.com/global/en/solutions/audience-meas...
> Kind of sad that he was let go for the one thing he likely had the least ability to control: Other people's feelings

> how do you coach someone to change someone else's impression of him?

Assuming he was standing behind women in the office watching them he's an outright creep. This reads like you're blaming other people for a creep's behavior.

Many places are at-will employment and that can be terminated on either side of the relationship as long as it doesn't fall in the realm of discrimination. As far as I'm concerned, the employer and management operated 100% responsibly to ensure a safe and comfortable working environment for everyone.
If the city wants to recognize "parking in a free spot in front of someone's house when there is a free spot, covered in snow, in front of the car owner's house" as a legitimate problem then the city should codify it into law and enforce it. Otherwise, it's totally legal for someone in the government, say the police chief, to clear his street of cars right before his holiday party so that his guests have parking. Or for a person to harass neighbors they don't like. Why you want to have a legal system that allows for such abuse is beyond me.
Colds kill thousands of people every year and some may have lifelong effects, such as neurological impairment or heart damage.
Yes, that's the DSL concept I was talking about.
What a brilliant use for a drone! (And I'm using "brilliant" in the American sense, not the British one.)
I hope everyone on this planet dies. No one should live forever.
>Yet another Next Big Thing that I was right about predicting would fail.

I was hired at my current company 4 years ago to work on our chatbot client. Despite years of engineering effort put into an NLP based decision tree system, over 90% of chats were still falling back to a live agent. They just recently sunsetted the product for lack of interest. Thank god that fad is over. Web design trends come and go, but that was by far the most obnoxious one yet.
Java has Integer.numberOfLeadingZeros(), which I suspect exposes LZCNT where available.
4-day work week gaining some attention with labor issues, traction in EU
Ah, the discovery angle. I didn't think of that. Looks like a nice project, and it shows what RSS can help build. Fits well I think.
That is the issue. Normally war is among forces wanting to fight. Others are causalities or enemy collaborators even.

I think if we (the world) had taken this as what it really is - a war, we would have been done with it by now. Even by now the production of vaccines is not sufficient to vaccinate the whole world at once. The introduction of vaccines was stupidly delayed because of non-sense ethical issues not allowing to conduct challenge studies regardless of availability of tens of thousands of healthy volunteers.

Now the enemy has made allies with the most stupid ones among us and the war is much harder to win. In principle we have lost it already as the virus has found a way to enter into other species. It will never end.
I really hate when companies hide behind chatbots.
Like, NOOOO, your "AI" chatbot didn't help me - get me an actual person.
Beyond the technical aspect, the thing that has helped me the most to not be as anxious before interviews is preparation. Read the job description a few times, and even if you don't have experience with all of the requirements listed (I mean who does) at least familiarize yourself with the technologies so you can talk about them a bit. Check out the company's website so you know what/how they do and why.

Also, this list[0] of common interview questions is a great help. If you have already figured out and practiced your answers to most of these then the interviewer will have less of a chance to catch you off guard with them.

Lastly, write and practice an "elevator pitch"[1] that way "tell me about yourself" or questions like it won't catch you off guard either.

Best of luck getting the job you want! Job hunting and interviewing is very difficult for anyone who is new to it, regardless of their technical skills. I definitely agree with blingojames that interviewing is kind of a subject all its own.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/common-interview-questions/

[1] https://www.thebalancecareers.com/elevator-speech-examples-a...