skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true so far, but remember that pathogens do not intrinsically have fixed disease characteristics.

The nature of disease is a contextual matter of both the pathogen and host populations. You have to put on your Hegel hat and really think long and hard about the ramifications of that.

Examples:

- mRNA vaccinated population + Omicron is not as bad

- Without being surrounded by lots of ongoing chicken pox to keep the immune system vigilant, one is more likely to get shingles as a non-old person

- Chicken pox and other childhood diseases are much worse if one gets them as an adult. (Shingles is not like getting chicken pox, i.e. the virus for the first time vs reactivated latent virus as an adult.)

- Smallpox and other old world diseases were far worse for new world peoples.

The point here is, what is COVID-19? and what is SARS-CoV-2? are two distinct questions, and both varying greatly over time. Any fixed atomistic characterization is one hell of a leaky abstraction, and will just lead you astray.
some of the interviews I've been through started like that. Which is great. Then, it quickly went on to a coding test where I was asked to implement the optimal solution to a problem, which a certain woman, who wrote a book on coding interviews, and who will remain unnamed, needed almost 2 hours, to arrive at the optimal solution. I was expected to produce said optimal solution in less than 5 minutes. Needless to say, I moved on.
“Ideological bias” doesn’t require some coherent master plan, just like minded people acting according to their incentives. Everyone really needs to read Manufacturing Consent: https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Econo...
This whole debacle has illustrated how distracting social media can be. Elon is taking time away from worthwhile things to pursue a fool's errand
Candidate answers to this also tell me if they understand anything about malloc implementations, which is a very useful skill to have as a C coder.
Lol what.

Now everybody from small businesses to hospitals has to defend themselves against untouchable criminals armed by by military technology exploiting zero days in code they can't patch (let alone understand).

What we're seeing is that even the supposedly best equiped and most interested parties: chip companies, crypto markets, hospitals are getting pwned.
And there aren’t any White Supremacist or Nazi groups in Russia that have influence? Or the US? Or Poland, France? Should they all get invaded? It’s a smokescreen, dude.
Heroku Security Notification
Why isn't this under the Stripe domain or Stripe site? I mean if you haven't commented on it I would have thought this is some sort of a scam.

And if it was postponed as a different product ( which seems to be the case ), the information, layout etc seems to be sparse that left me questioning if Stripe is really intended to do this in the long run.

Basically the "message" or signal that is sent here isn't very convincing.
well, sure. but unless you're hyper obsessed with far-right circles you're likely either in my boat, or just dont use twitter altogether.
so yes to unnattended smart contracts but no to unattended text generators?
I am curious, what kind of qualifications the foreign hires had? and what kind of salaries they got?

I always get sponsored visa job offers from Europe but never from US so I am wondering what's the difference.
Depends on how you back up.

If you copy the raw database files that you also run queries on (e.g. take a zfs snapshot), then you'd need some very special encryption to be able to query across differently-encrypted data.

But if your database is just on an encrypted disk but otherwise readable, and you only encrypt the records on an individual level when exporting them to the backup system... that can work. Generating a secure random encryption key after seeding can be as fast as a single AES function call, and symmetric encryption isn't particularly expensive either. Still extra work compared to just copying bytes between memory regions (now everything has to be operated on by the CPU), I'm not saying it's going to be trivial, but it doesn't seem infeasible.

Also at 2B users as you mention, which is an extreme example considering we have only a few billion internet users (multiply by one or two bots for every person, but even then), you need huge storage and compute clusters anyway. Storing 16 bytes of key material extra isn't going to be the difference between feasible and infeasible. It doesn't really matter if you're talking 2e2 or 2e9 users in terms of computational or storage overhead.
I haven't looked into it I'm afraid. However, if any of what you're looking at is tree planting, remember:

* "Planting a tree" implies a mature tree in 20 years time. Actually, it means someone dug a hole and put a seedling in it, that may well die in 3 months time if not cared for or planted in a place where it will survive.

* Some carbon capture are basically tree plantations, which after n years, will cease to be carbon storage and suddenly become newspulp and then landfill.

* Tree plantations are not habitat or an ecosystem - they are monocultures where very little else lives or grows.

Do your research is all I can offer here.
Or they could have just not bailed them out. Just because the finance guys way they are the most important thing in the world doesn’t mean we have to believe them.
> I'm not getting the impression that his actions are the result of a highly polished corporate public persona.

This has been my thought for a while. Dudes is a character, playing a part.
I’ve muted him, and I’m sure many other people have. Honestly if he leaves and that makes some of his fans leave too, I don’t see how that would do that much except for slightly raise the quality of conversations across the board!
I mean even Google did not go this far though. So it sounds like DDG is doing more than the strict minimum required by law.
The worst interpretation of you request would be “he’s talking too much and should shut up for 2 hours”

It seems to me the more direct request would be an option to glue tweets together or have a max number of notifications per account per hour if that’s what’s hitting you the most.
Why no PRs?
Facebook (the thing I think people will agree destroyed MySpace) was not started by someone fed up with MySpace saying “I’m going to make the same thing, but I’ll moderate it differently!” It was started before MySpace had reached peak popularity, by an entrepreneur with a totally different product vision and way of looking at the world. Elon’s hypothetical Twitter-clone would probably be more like Gab, Parler or the Trump thing: Twitter, but with less moderation and some sort of weird gimmick, like “starting midnight Tuesday, I’m giving a free Model 3 to the first 1000 people who sign up!” or “I’m hosting a quarter of the load on servers on StarLink satellites!”

Twitter won’t be destroyed by someone making a slightly different Twitter clone, it’ll be destroyed by something that re-imagines entirely in a way that also supplants it, and it’ll probably come from someone we don’t know yet.
So... silencing people is practicing free speech? I thought it was letting people talk.
I recommend you sit down and do the math, assuming you are based on the west coast in LA or the valley, and need to make a living, save for retirement, pay your taxes, put kids through school, account for the possibility you might become ill or disabled, and more. It's clear you have no idea what it costs to be self employed.
The new trend of sticking it to the cons by comparing 2022 to 18th century mobs or early 20th century speech codes is something I didn’t have on my bingo card.
But that's not true, if you didn't have copyright the biggest one would just copy everything and nobody could do anything about it. With copyright you have a way to sue them for ripping you off.
If Musk is sincere, he will turn Twitter into an 8chan racist hellhole. He has said he believes in absolute free speech. Racism, trolling, libel, dick pics, blatant racism are all fair game. He'd reverse Trump's lifetime ban.

Maybe Twitter was always doomed because it was just fad. But the idea Musk alone can save it is absurd.
>But IMO the larger issue of cancel culture, is it makes people less likely to say edgy jokes or borderline politically-incorrect statements for fear they will also get "cancelled".

This comes up all the time that "you can't make edgy jokes anymore", but it isn't true. Just look up someone like Anthony Jessolnik. Here is his most recent joke on Twitter[1]. Mocking both pedophilia and the death of a 4-year-old. This guy has 1.2m followers and plenty of those are liberals. A talented comedian can joke about anything.

I think this narrative comes from the fact that many people don't see a difference between a joke about racism and a racist joke. They see someone "canceled" for a transphobic joke and take it to mean we can't joke about trans people. It isn't the case. I have seen comedians kill with material about trans people in front of young leftist crowds. It is possible.

I see the value in joking about these issues. I don't see the value in making a racist, sexist, transphobic, or overall bigoted joke made at the expense of innocent people simply trying to live their life.

[1] - https://twitter.com/anthonyjeselnik/status/15046838415957196...
I find questions like this lack an on-ramp. Either you know or you don't. If you don't it gives you 0 indication of the skills.

I once flunked a faang interview because the interviewer mispronounced (or used the correct pronunciation I was unfamiliar with) of "arp protocol"

I had no idea of what was being asked and was racking my brain for something I didn't think I had ever used to down every computer in the library of my high school 12 years before.
I’m spend much more time thinking about what I will write than I do thinking about what I’m reading. In any case my reading is far faster than my writing.
It's quite an incredible piece of anti-establishment and anti-religious work considering the time and place of its authorship.

The Koran! well, come put me to the test —
Lovely old book in hideous error drest —
Believe me, I can quote the Koran too,
The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

And do you think that unto such as you,
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,
God gave the Secret, and denied it me? —
Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.

Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;
If only you were half so good as he!
He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,
Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.

But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,
The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,
The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye,
And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.

So I be written in the Book of Love,
I have no care about that book above;
Erase my name, or write it, as you please—
So I be written in the Book of Love.
> if a usable bicycle or in-line skate lane has not been provided, near the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway or upon a usable right-hand shoulder in such a manner as to prevent undue interference with the flow of traffic except when preparing for a left turn or when reasonably necessary to avoid conditions that would make it unsafe to continue along near the right-hand curb or edge.

Cyclists do not have an unlimited right of way in NY and are not allowed to just take-up a lane arbitrarily.
The major, important difference is that LVT only taxes the site-value of a property, not the value of the buildings etc on it. More or less you'd be charged property taxes as if your lot was a blank empty lot. So for instance if you buy some land and redevelop it into an apartment building or a stadium etc your LVT would hardly change (it might a bit because your building might increase the value of properties nearby, but that's generally a pretty weak effect so it would have a small impact on your taxes). On the other hand, say that over the course of a decade your area gets gentrified, lots of new businesses open up, a new metro line gets put in and the area is booming, while you didn't do anything at all to your property but it's now worth 2-3x as much as you bought it for, well your tax bill will go up a lot (technically speaking, the LVT would go up to such a point that your property should be only worth about as much, accounting for inflation, as it was when you bought the property, since your building isn't worth any more innately).
How is that different from Qatar's so called slave work?

I have friends who worked in the middle east and others who are working in France (in farms), and the living conditions are similar, probably worse in France, why when the West does it it is okay?
> they didn’t push the button

I absolutely can't stand beg buttons for pedestrians. Nothing indicates more to pedestrian that they are second class road users than having to push a button to ask permission for the gods of traffics to be able to cross. When driving, I always make it a point to slow down for flashing yellow signs; any small thing I can do to make the streets feel less dangerous for pedestrians. Same as crossing right on red, I'll never do it, out of principle, it's so trashy, everybody who's walked anywhere has almost been killed by a driver turning in a little too cavalier.

> but that will really be your fault deep down

Not true, it is definitely most certainly the fault of the cars behind you. It's because of the driver behind you is too aggressive or careless, and not keeping proper distance. If they can't slow down for a car in front of them, they certainly can't either when there's a true emergency, like a dog or child sprinting across the street. There's a million reasons why the car in front of you may have to slow down or come to an emergency stop, and that's why you keep proper distance from cars in front of you.

> if a pedestrian is threatening

It's just a turn of phrase, I get it, but pedestrians can never threaten a driver. They get maimed or killed if they do. It's such an insidious mindset that somehow pedestrians and drivers have equal responsibilities, when the power to inflict harm is so enormously lopsided.
The guy has launched more than 2 companies. Last I checked there aren't any super tunnel sleds under LA fixing traffic there yet, and my car was supposed to be able to autonomously drive itself a solid 4 years before I got it. It's very easy to be in the mindset that elon never fails if you think all his failures are just very long delays
https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1418091&owner=exclude
The "best" part of the toxic Twitter cancel culture is the "if you're not actively fighting for our cause, you're the devil and need to be cancelled". There can be no neutral ground, you're either fervently for them, or the enemy to be destroyed.
>this is not a valid test, for a whole lot of reasons. especially not in terms of internet search engines.

Then come up with a better test. I'm sure you can think of something that answers those questions to a reasonable level of confidence and can be targeted at any data broker. This is literally what a lot of independent auditing actually is. The reality is, you can't go and work on the inside at every data broker and that defeats the purpose of an independent audit anyways. So you have to come up with something else.
You have good one-sentence summaries of things that are reasonable exceptions/limitations to free speech. I’m struggling to come up with one that would prevent cancel culture without sounding like an unreasonable exception. For example, “saying someone should be fired based on a bad joke they made on the internet” doesn’t sound like it should be illegal, even though that being spoken en masse is tantamount to cancel culture.
I still don't totally understand, can anyone read between the lines to explain what's going on here? The attackers stole what sort of OAuth tokens with what sort of access?
This implies American culture is pro-fascism, and while there are elements of that I don't believe that encapsulates American ideas - the gamut of ideologies have been part of the nation since its founding, though the ideas and what that means have shifted over time
Looks like it causes memory ordering issues [1] on the affected processors. You can turn the capability back on with a flag, but Intel warns this is "not for production use"

[1]: https://cdrdv2.intel.com/v1/dl/getContent/604224
This already existed, it was called Freenet[0], and it was just as much of a trash dumpster as one might imagine. I have no idea if it still works.

The fact of the matter is that such a system absolutely would not scale. USENET crumbled under the weight of early 90s AOL subscribers; imagine even a fraction of today's Facebook or Twitter users moving to a similarly open system. It would be absolutely unusable chaos.

The thing is, these systems are not "the whole psyche of humankind projected into public view". That's far, far too generous for it. What usually happens is that the loudest extremists scream over everyone else, sock-puppet support for each other, create an echo chamber, and then proclaim that everyone who doesn't think like them isn't a real human being. The vast majority of people do not actually interact with the system.

[0] Technically speaking it was some extra overlay software on top of Freenet. I don't remember the name.
No bailout weren’t required. We shouldn’t have support their risky behavior by bailing them out. They and their counterparties deserved to lose their shirts. Instead the consumers who took did imprudent cash out refinances lost their shirts. Wall Street firms deserved the same fate for their bad choices, but instead Wall Street got nailed out.
> The risk portfolio of Vanguard just went up considerably because in the case that they fully lose faith in the board, they no longer have the option of installing a friendly board, they must simply liquidate their holdings. This, in turn, makes them more skeptical of further smaller (non-takeover) investment because it’s more to liquidate and more risk.

It sounds like your interpretation Vanguard's risk profile / likelihood and their interpretation differ. And given that I trust Vanguard's assessment.

Frankly, if I were an institutional investor, I'd probably prefer the poison pill than have Twitter become a toy subject to Elon Musk's random political fight.

Wasn't he all in on Doge coin, except he wasn't, and all in on bitcoin but then not fully, then some other random alt coin, oh and then he's back in on Doge again and how to improve it.

It sounds like sound fiduciary duty to not let your company be subject to those whims.
> but from everyone ( soccer moms, woke leftist, europeans, ADL, canadians, etc ).

You literally mean _everyone_ I guess? You're talking about a few million people who were online early on. Now it's 100x that, your group owns a lot of the biggest social websites. YOU are the tiny minority having the most influence.
If youre interested in the organization and operations aspect, especially of russia and other warsaw pact countries, check out lester grau. I recently read over https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/Hot%20Spots/Docume... as a refresher. His translations of USSR after actions in afghanistan were also worthwhile in the past.
Evolving language “What's your take?”
In the past year or two I have noticed the astonishing proliferation of the word "take" in online comments to mean opinion / interpretation / understanding / point of view on a topic.

To me gratuitous linguistic mimicry is some times a sign of a weak independent thinking capability.

we were able to converse before using the verb "take" in a weird idiomatic way.

What's your take on how this happened?
Would you say the median fact checker has the ideological inclinations of the median American?
A lot of really good points being made. What the thread didn't explain - how do platforms get destroyed if they don't moderate enough?

For example, what stopped reddit from letting the more extreme subs stand, letting the people screaming about it scream until enough people got tired of hearing it? Reddit in particular has the advantage of having separate subreddits, which can have different tolerances for different behaviors.
Close; it is a deli.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/magazine/your-hometown-de...

And recently the company announced they will be merging with a bioplastics firm:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-04/elon-m...
According to GNU libc, malloc(0) can return either NULL or a valid unique pointer value which can later be passed to free(). You seem to imply that one or the other is definitely true.
The standard coding challenge is still most of the interview, so that provides some consistency. I just want to give candidates an additional opportunity to flex, in case they feel there's an important thing that most interviews neglect. Most candidates never really thought about it, and that's totally fine, for them I just do the standard course.

As for avoiding unconscious bias, was that ever an option?
Did you mean uBlock?
Shareholders would benefit from the poison pill because they could buy stock at a nice discount.

Or they could benefit because they believe the new owners would be bad for the business.
> There are different categories of H-1B including for academics, you can't just abolish things like.

Yes, you can. Someone might want to make the case that preserving H-1B for just academics in the case of general elimination is a good idea, but it's not the simple solution.

> It is also a good way for people with unique skills (usually not in software) to wait for their green card availability.

If you increase the number of, and properly allocate, visas in employment-based immigrant categories, you don't need a dual-intent non-immigrant visa category for people to “wait out” in. (You could further fix the waiting-out problem by eliminating per-country limits, and applying only the global limits in visa categories; it's the per-country limits that create the really absurd wait times.)

Simple: if you want to accommodate more employment-based immigrants, increase employment-based immigrant visas rather than keeping an employment-based, mobility-limiting non-immigrant visa category around, but make it a possible immigration funnel because it allows dual intent.
The tricky part of attempting sarcasm is to not end up in self-parody.
Bing is (a) sound of having an idea.
Perhaps that idea was DDG.
bing.
He didn’t support a single payer system or a public option, he just made mouth noises to that effect. Look at the recent failure in California to bring a single payer bill to a vote, despite the Governor’s ostensible support and Democrats’ 75% super majority in the Senate. Perennial incompetence isn’t a plausible explanation; rank corruption is.

Edit: to add a bit of evidence that Obama specifically is corrupt, here is an article titled ‘Barack Obama Got Paid $400,000 for a Speech to Health Care Execs. Here's What He Told Them’:

https://money.com/barack-obama-speech-400000-health-care-con...

How is that anything but a payoff?
How about the Hunter Biden information which were labeled as misinformation but are now acknowledged to be real?
> It's helpful if they want to talk about side projects or war stories, but doesn't pressure them to.

I like leading with that, and am a big fan of the initial "what's an interesting problem you had to solve?" question, but I made the unfortunate experience that even people with good war stories are sometimes very shaky in the basics of the particular subfield I'm interviewing for. To the point of deeming someone not a good match for our team, but encouraging them and internal recruiters to interview with other teams.

There is ultimately no full substitute for getting down to brass tacks and actually do some "sample work" together. Whiteboard coding is the usual (and, I guess, often poorly implemented) approach, but I've used reading existing code, with added intentional mistakes, to great success so far.

EDIT: Just read your new reply in a sibling thread that you're doing that anyway, and project and war stories are supplemental. It seems like we're in agreement, then!