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Oh, woah, it's not about confirming what's provided or believing everything on the internet. I'm actually giving you the benefit of the doubt that the raw data is correct, and that the statistic you've provided is correct. I'm questioning why you would give that statistic given the misleading nature of it -- and no, other people doing misleading things is not a good reason (as you imply in other comments).

This is a very misleading statistic you're providing, especially to people who may not be as data-oriented as us, and also a very broad assumption that definitely doesn't hold. Case positivity is a real number based on number of tests, it's not making inferences on things like the rates among those who haven't been tested.

I understand this is your site and you built it, and it's hard to let that go. But, I would implore you to rethink it until you get the data needed to add real insights to the conversations, not misleading stats based on what you have now.

First, just because some entity does it, "The Media", doesn't mean it's good.

Second, the number of positive cases is an affirmative result from people that have taken, and failed, covid tests. Your metric takes people who have never taken a test and lumps them into "COVID negative," which is pretty self-evidently extremely misleading.

I didn't, and cannot, downvote. However my BS detector immediately went off when I read the phrase "99.798% of residents in San Francisco County have NOT received a positive COVID-19 test." That percentage doesn't really mean anything in this context. More meaningful might be number of positive test results as compared with total number of tests I suppose.

Build a makeshift Faraday Cage around the car and drive around like that.

This would depend on the model

I was thinking about this one as well. If the process/algorithm/etc. verifiably works on real data for the real use case, even if that's some ripped off the shelf algo or some process combining multiple algos, I think that's fine. Things can be trade secret and not be bad.

I am unaware of any colleges that don't have a career services office that help students get jobs and internships during and post-graduation. Even community colleges have these things. Though, like Lambda School, they can be of questionable quality.

Additionally, Lambda School is specifically to focus on getting a job. Getting a job can be one outcome of college, but it's not necessarily the specific focus. For that, a comparison to a trade school might be more on point, where the specific focus is to learn a trade and then get people a job in that trade afterwards. Perhaps a more apt comparison would be Lambda School to Barbers College.

This is super non sequitur on a post about Mr. Gates’s father passing. It’s even slightly callous.

This is true. I interviewed someone for a senior eng role the other day and when asked a couple basic CS questions that were not simply trivia, the candidate fell apart totally. Like asking basic DB questions to a DBA candidate, or asking basic web/css/html questions to a frontend developer. They immediately went to the back of the line.

This is a really good list, and I don’t think I can add much to the discussion already here. But the article introduces the author as “passionate about architecting and building scalable software systems.“ Is _anyone_ passionate about this, or is this just marketing speak. It’s like introducing someone as “passionate about customer service,” give me a break.

I don’t think it’s an outrage thing, but it’s an interesting anecdote on how some of the fires started. Lightning and campfires seem to be the usual cause, so something totally different is novel.

I find the fact that people should be outraged over this incident ancillary. Hopefully these people owe tens of millions in restitution, as often seems to be the case. But, if the fire had started because of escaped monkeys starting fires, I think it would be equally as reported on because of the novelty, but sans outrage.

The “it’s reported on because it outrages/divides people” speculation is just lazy.

Very well said, the “both sides” stuff cannot stand.

Here’s a link to the letter. I almost joined FB for a ridiculous sum of money/equity and chose not to due to their participation in the proliferation of right wing/white supremicist hate speech. Two years later I am glad to have my position be vindicated by, inter alia, this letter.

https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do...

IGN guides with, sorry if I sound old, auto playing videos on every page. Ugh.

That’s cool. If this were my project, I’d be spending long days seeding comments myself under different usernames with different POVs, and trying to get a handful of legitimate thoughtful users on there. Not an impossible task, good luck!

This seems like reddit except people don't submit the stories themselves? So far the comments are of very poor quality, but to be fair that's a small sample size (6), or maybe a large sample size (100% of the comments on the site).

I loved the descriptions on how the move about the world and how they think about it, with "hard directions" and such. It's been a while since I've read it, but really enjoyed it.

What's going on here with all the new accounts and dead comments?

Very good book, but I would love a version working with modern tooling and software products. I remember going through these maybe 5-7 years ago and thinking at the time that they were using some really old paradigms and software. Would love to see some covering software with modern languages as well, like Rust.

I've been super annoyed by trying to grab the scroll thing on the bar in a super long pdf. It keeps disappearing and on long PDFs where I want to scroll to, say, the middle, it disappears before I can precisely grab it. It's maddening sometimes.

I follow the tech news a bit more than the average person (but perhaps about average for the HN crowd), and my opinion of his leadership really couldn't be lower. Perhaps it's lower than Uber itself though as well because while I have little to no respect for the Uber culture, I generally agree that actions like theirs in the rideshare space, despite being heavy handed and pushy, spur innovation and put regulators on the defensive, which in turn forces regulators to adapt faster than they normally would--like a forest fire can lead to a stronger ecosystem.

This isn't quite right, or at least it's more nuanced than this.

One can in fact work two separate jobs at the same time without it being fraud (the only real "legal" restriction on working two jobs). You can also have two companies pay "you by the hour for the same hour" depending on the circumstances. There isn't a bright line rule that states this or anything, it comes down to whether one is committing fraud (and I agree it could be fraud in many cases, especially if done in secret).

The agent thing falls into the same category, and would depend on fraud and conflict of interest (loyalty, as you mentioned). And you can in fact be an agent of multiple companies or organizations at the same time, but things can get tricky (think of a hypothetical person being the CEO of Twitter and Square at the same time for example).

Your car example is also off the mark, or could be, because it's not a bright line rule. Loyalty to a company in Corporate Law is largely predicated on responsibility to the company via position or duties you've undertaken, and many cases have swung either way, and these can be hard or nuanced questions. Some small facts could change the whole car example, for example perhaps you only sell large vans, but the customer only wants a small convertible. In this case it might be proper for the employee to sell the person their personal Miata. It also doesn't consider higher level employees, executives for instance, and corporate opportunity. RE: "you cannot have two companies paying you by the hour for the same hour", sure you can, depending on the circumstances. Contrived example, but imagine a night security guard being paid to sit at a desk from midnight to eight am whose only responsibility is to have their butt in the seat. It might be okay for them to also be paid for a few hours of handling an online help desk for a third party employer for a couple hours, both being paid by the hour. That person is being paid by the hour by two employers simultaneously and it's not fraud or a breach of loyalty, especially for a hypothetical lower level employee who has permission.

Point is, these are not always easy questions, there is a lot of grey area, and you're really painting the agent and duty of loyalty thing as very black and white concepts when they're definitely not.

I do like fast.ai for a lot of things. Their video production is very, very lacking though. I’ve tried to watch some of their DL courses and really they’re about as good as some stogy old non-tech savvy professor attempting to make an instructional video. Lots of echo, sound coming in an out, basically filmed from the back of an auditorium, etc. I can’t comment as much on the content as it was hard to get through. Some MIT OCW courses are similar. But from the fast ai content I’ve read, it’s very good.

An example of well done video is an Andrew Ng Coursers course. Great sound, great pacing, easy to follow like you’re on a zoom call with him directly, etc.

There was a joke about this in the show The Office, American version. I don’t remember the specifics, but Andy was auditioning for an a role and it required him to put his eyes in the emergency eye wash . He was deathly afraid of this, which was characteristic. So the advice given to him was to play a character auditioning for a role that wasn’t afraid of the eye wash.

Definitely a commitment jump, and not always necessary. We ran our own data centers, off the topic of backups, and it was wild to me that they were so disaster proof. There were different power lines from different power companies coming in in case either of the power companies had an outage, and some giant diesel power generator that could last a long time while fully powering the data center.

To be fair, I typed this quickly on a phone.

Where I worked, weekly point in time backups were required. Those backups were put onto tape drives, those tape drives were set on a pallet and then driven by truck to an offline second location. IMO _that’s_ how it’s done properly.

With inserts you’ll see great results from goosing the transaction array multiplexer. Just make sure you’re aware of piping the commit hash to the properly isolate the down range effects on the memcpy and you’ll avoid corruption issues. This has worked for me anyways.