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I'm not speaking from personal experience, but a number of connections in tech are telling me that there are plenty of Ads, but no one is hiring. Based in Australia, but I'd love t…

The WebGL graphics background on this site causes my Laptop to chug pretty severely, to the point where I'm not able to read the content.

> The in unit smoke detectors can be triggered to warn occupants This is specifically because the National Construction Code (NCC) requires multiple occupancy buildings to have cer…

Tried a couple of random words - seems to mostly just add short 1-3 letter suffixes like "to", "and" and "he/she". I don't see the value proposition

The test proposed on the website is NOT currently approved for use in Australia, and is unlikely to be approved for self-test use. Quote from TGA: "NOTE: In Australia, the supply o…

Australia has in some states added nCov-19 to the standard testing panel for all respiratory illnesses, and we haven't seen a spike in detection so far. I'd expect to see an increa…

CDC recommends P95 for health care providers. I seriously doubt they are not effective. I’m sure P100 is marginally more effective but on marginally. https://www.cdc.gov/coronaviru…

The pause button make sense, force users to focus on the page briefly every now and then to save bandwidth - Netflix does something similar to prevent long running auto-play. The l…

I listen to youtube playlists in the background fairly regularly and I've noticed some interesting changes in the last couple of weeks. Initially it began with an auto pause, and a…

I'm only guessing, but in the blog posts about the password search feature he said there was a lot of cleanup of badly formatted files it's possible that the whitespace got ignored…

I disagree pretty strongly with both, your undergraduate does not determine what breakthroughs you'll make. There are plenty of examples of businesses built by people that did not …

Based on what you've said here: >"Went through one company which lead me on with first a phone >interview then a hacker rank challenge then a take home >project then a onsite inter…

I know the top tier Universities are offering degrees, but it feels like the content of those courses is not nearly as deep as the content I was taught at an admittedly lower grade…

I enjoy learning new things and expanding my area of expertise outside of the work that I do, usually I try to do this through reading, conference talks, and online courses. Lately…

One more thing. Shoehorning new applications of Blockchain concepts into every new conceivable application, especially where the key advantages, i.e. decentralised trust, distribut…

I think there is a question of terminology here, Blockchain is a concept, Cryptocurrency is an application of that concept. I imagine there are few people on HN who hate blockchain…

I understand the sentiment, but I would absolutely refer you to Nicholas Talebs books and his treatment of volatility if you have not already seen them.

I agree - but looking at the daily graph of the VIX index - it rose slowly from around 18 to top out at 37. I'd expect anyone holding this position is actively trading and would ha…

Take a look at: https://www.aemo.com.au/Electricity/National-Electricity-Mar...

This could be due to the fact that Target et. al. generally use cheap construction methods like steel frame with steel sheet roofing and cladding. If that's the case, you be effect…

Given the quote "influence high risk youth" and the fact that they were critical of ISIS I'd guess these posts are copies of posts created by the company to influence online commun…