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by thu2111 6y ago
It's quite common but how common depends a lot on where you get your candidate stream from. In my experience it's never to do with stage fright. The candidates don't seem flustered. They just cannot program. Even if it was st
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why do you think that? Isn't it rather sexist/racist to argue this? The candidate stream is itself not "diverse" (assuming you are using the normal meaning of the word of lots of women+racial minorities). Simply randomly
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yes, because those two things are related. I don't know if it was ever made public, I think I heard this story via backchannels. But Google did a research project at some point to discover why GPA/interview performance in general
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by thu2111 6y ago
I'll add a few more I've noticed over time. Certifications are a strong negative predictor. Someone who turns up with a lot of corporate certifications is unlikely to do well when asked difficult questions. People who have only ev
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by thu2111 6y ago
Universities are terrible at teaching programming/software engineering. Many also suck at teaching computer science. There's no incentives in academia to be good at teaching, and many lecturers only care about their research. Ther
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by thu2111 6y ago
What is header bidding? I also thought Vickery auctions were still in use.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The triaging was so severe that «Only 13% of the elderly residents who died with COVID-19 during the spring received hospital care» You're seeing what you want to see. It is normal for elderly patients in nursing homes to die without
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by thu2111 6y ago
That would be nice, but seems they're plenty influential as their beliefs and value systems keep spilling out out of universities into the corporate world. This dangerous position that it's OK or even virtuous to be racist towards
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's what you'd think. Read some advanced cryptography papers and you'll discover it's not quite that simple. There are the exotic hardness assumptions: are those mathematical problems really hard to solve or not? They
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by thu2111 6y ago
If Signal's security boils down to reputation and community trust, why not just use WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or really any chat product where the makers claim it's secure and private?
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by thu2111 6y ago
"hey it looks like the CFR/IFR is declining because we have better treatment methods" It's a claim not many are making because it's not clear it's really true. Firstly, the bulk of the falling IFR is due to m
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's not quite right either. People in camp (2) don't miss the risk of overwhelmed hospitals. We remember that we were constantly told they were about to be overwhelmed back in April and they never were. Sweden has the lowest IC
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by thu2111 6y ago
But there are two problems here: 1. That isn't the point that was being made. Matthew McCleod argued that "we don't regularly have ICUs stuffed full of people with influenza", and that HN is full of people who reject the
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by thu2111 6y ago
We don’t regularly have hospital ITUs stuffed full of people with influenza, threatening to overwhelm capacity Who/where is we, here? Because that's absolutely not true for many countries, where seasonal flu is routinely reporte
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by thu2111 6y ago
That's not correct. Sweden, which did not restrict healthcare access, and has one of the lowest ICU capacities in Europe, did not see hospital overload or healthcare rationing at any point. Lockdowns have certainly created a death toll
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by thu2111 6y ago
The impracticality of actually "locking down" is one of the key arguments against the concept, so it's not wrong evidence at all. The idea society can be shut down for indefinite, unknown periods is not correct as we don&#x27
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by thu2111 6y ago
a relatively dangerous, highly infectious pandemic Highly infectious yes, but dangerous relative to what? Current best data from CDC and elsewhere says that compared to flu: - COVID is far less deadly if you are healthy and under 70 - COV
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by thu2111 6y ago
Are you saying Utah doesn't have regulations about elevator safety?
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Twitter suspends Scott Atlas, White House Covid advisor, for mask tweets(thefederalist.com)
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by thu2111 6y ago
A dictatorship of politifact? No, tech firms are experimenting with that already. It results in things like tables of public data being classed as "disinformation". The whole idea of fact checking is naive. Nobody is trustworthy e
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by thu2111 6y ago
Problem is that DB schemas are unlikely to be exposed as a real API by any app. It may feel like an API but actually writing software that pokes DB tables directly would just create the kind of support and upgrade headaches that presumabl
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah, but most software updates have so many bug fixes and performance improvements it's unreasonably expensive to give people a justification for each upgrade request, especially when - as noted - customers accept forced upgrades with
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by thu2111 6y ago
I promoted it upthread (though I have no connection to JetBrains), but I'd note that YouTrack and their other team products have extensive Java and REST plugin APIs so they're also very customisable. Actually YouTrack lets you wri
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by thu2111 6y ago
It already exists. JetBrains YouTrack has an on-site version with similar features to Jira, and the latest version comes with a wiki feature called Knowledge Base. [1] There's also an automatic import process from Jira [2]. YouTrack ha
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by thu2111 6y ago
Actually in a lot of schools, it is mandatory to read it! At least I recall being required to read it at high school. Honestly, I never appreciated the irony at the time, I suppose because the people in 1984 weren't really encouraged t
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by thu2111 6y ago
Don't be fooled by the pro-censorship narrative (although that is course the point of censorship). Claiming people believe there are microchips physically inside vaccines is a major distortion of what these people think. In fact even
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by thu2111 6y ago
Ah, "political science". Doesn't get more natural than that. That's not a very clever stance. The overwhelming leftism of academia is a matter that academics have themselves studied. It's not a secret. What this pos
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by thu2111 6y ago
The NY Post states no hacking occurred and this allegation is itself "baseless". It appears Twitter/FB simply assumed it must be hacking so they could use trigger their anti-doxxing policies, as otherwise they'd have had
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by thu2111 6y ago
you know regulators don't get to keep any money right? This is exactly my point. They don't ... in America. In the EU anti-trust fines are both created by and collected by the Commission, specifically, a high ranking Commissione
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by thu2111 6y ago
What was the "disinformation" exactly? YouTube has spent the summer censoring doctors because their views didn't match the WHO. The WHO has changed its own views so much that it's now contradicted itself many times, show

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