jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You have to be incredibly lucky, or very experienced in this to ever get an interview coding exercise you look good in. Its incredibly stressful and usually gives the company a very weak signal of what you will they get as a dev.

There is soooo much setup in a modern dev process, build tools, compilers, transpilers, code formatting configs, let alone editors, languages and frameworks you are comfortable in, its not even funny.

You will be asking a candidate to understand a task completely without any prior knowledge, figure out whats the minimum setup they need to work on it successfully, implement the logic in very few iterations and no coding partners or knowledge repos to help them. Preferably with some testing setup, and to top it off you want them to do it in an hour.

As I mentioned it can be done if you are incredibly lucky and know exactly what to do, or have done this before many times in different interviews.

And what do you get in return?

Can a person work under high stress - e.g. are they ok at working in a shitty environment? If everything this should be a red flag as that person will keep shitty envs around and not go out of his way to fix things.

How good are his coding skills? Well not really, you will know that they can do interview tasks - e.g. a small bite sized problems that have easy solutions. Long term planing, refactoring, perseverance, etc. - no signal there.

And worst of all, it tells the candidate that your company/team enjoys high stress, small problem, and making each other uncomfortable. Remember an interview is both ways, and you just earned yourself a red flag too.

Btw, Adam Grant had some podcast episodes about interviewing last year that were really good and showed some companies that actually solve this in a very nice, humane _and effective_ way.
> Environmental protections are actually enforced here.

From the device you are typing on, to the palm oil in most of your food, to the clothes you wear, I find it hard to believe that deep down people aren't even slightly aware of what that makes their lives "quite liveable in 2021" is built entirely on back of rampant environmental destruction elsewhere.

Would you really argue a bunch of kids dying of cancer from rare earth mining in someone else's backyard to make an iPhone is not the Western end-consumers fault when they know it is happening?

This externalisation and blame-shifting is not something to boast out loud, it's cringeworthy and embarrassing to read, I hope you revisit it in a few decades.

> Conservation is properly funded.

The extinction rate across the developed world is accelerating[1]. In some US states it's doubled in a few decades. A Harvard biologist estimates around 3 species an hour go extinct.[2]

Humans annually absorb 42 percent of the Earth’s terrestrial net primary productivity, 30 percent of its marine net primary productivity and 50 percent of its fresh water[3]

[1] https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/natur...

> The Report finds that around 1 million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction, many within decades, more than ever before in human history.

[2] https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_...

> One constant, however, is human population pressure. A study of 114 nations found that human population density predicted with 88-percent accuracy the number of endangered birds and mammals

[3] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/277/5325/494.full

[3] https://sci-hub.se/https://science.sciencemag.org/content/27...
the relative risk of fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is considered low compared with direct contact, droplet transmission, or airborne transmission 1, 2. However, it is not clear what proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections are acquired through surface transmission.
I think you're missing the point. It is the NYT that is making those absurd links and for you to defend it is indescribable and grim.
Yeah, the paper which lead to war in Iraq vs some blogger with at most 10,000 reach. That's clearly a fair comparison
> But for most newer projects "blockchain" just means an auditable trail of state changes.

you mean, the 1979-model Merkle tree? I concur that in a lot of marketed "blockchains", the closest to a useful bit is the 1979-model Merkle tree.
Yes I try to convince people to have better salaries without the employees demanding them.
Sure, but thats not the only contingent of context. Location, piece, player, specific instrument, time of year etc...

I'm in no way saying that this means a specific instrument is better, but specifically that we can't draw that conclusion from these types of studies.

(I understand that you're not the parent, but it's still an interesting discussion)
The money used to feed Alexander would also be better used as donation to malaria funds, but I don't think he would argue that he should starve to death as I am sure he believes he has a right to self-preservation. He's arguing against BLM's right for self-preservation though, clearly because he perceives them to not have the same rights as himself.

And that's the most charitable point of view that I can possibly have on this incredibly racist point of view. I think what he actually meant was something far more racist.
And 64k memory should be enough for everybody but banks can't share a single MySQL database.

They can try, but they would need an impartial intermediary.

As someone that got shafted by the gme shutdown, I would have loved to be trading over a block chain unimpeded by "regulatory oversight".
There's people keeping OpenVGA alive[1]. With the failure of the open grahics project[2] is there any known promising projects besides libregpu[3]?

[1] https://github.com/elec-otago/openvga

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project

[3] https://libre-soc.org/3d_gpu/
I absolutely disagree, the pool of superstar/senior devs is tiny. The vast majority of devs that are past junior are mid-level, don't let the job title fool you

I'd say superstar is probably 10 years minimum of experience. And even then it doesn't just come to a person. Most will forever be mid and that is ok
It's kind of ironic how condescending you are towards amazon stemming from what seems primarily based upon them not being a "tech company". In school, you probably had the jock type people looking down on you, and now that you are in your own subculture of tech oriented people, you've taken their place at the top of the arrogance pyramid.

I think you need to reevaluate your outlook on giving advice. You seem to have a preference for more tech oriented companies which is perfectly fine, but their are a lot of other people on HN that aren't as techie as you. Don't trash a company and shout advice to everyone based on your own personal preferences for work.
Most of the services aren't available in my area so I didn't look too deeply, but the costs as a whole look pretty high. All of the assemble-something types of tasks look to be in the $200 range. While none of these fall into the "what fun!" category for me, they also don't fall into the "pay as much as the thing cost for a 2 or 3 hours of uninteresting but not difficult work" category either.

Frankly, I mostly know how to get hold of somewhat expensive professionals to do tasks that I can't easily do myself. What I want is cheap labor to do things I don't want to spend the weekend doing.
> A 1,000-year-old treatment for eye infections could hold the key to killing antibiotic-resistant superbugs, experts have said.

The problem is that when this is used frequently, the superbugs will evolve to survive to this treatment. If this result is confirmed, it will be good to have another alternative, but the new alternative will not last forever. (Perhaps 1000 years ago, there was a garlic-and-onion-resistant-superbug, and with the years they lost the mutation to survive this treatment.)

> They found the remedy killed up to 90% of MRSA bacteria and believe it is the effect of the recipe rather than one single ingredient.

Perhaps it a combination of a few drugs present in the ingredients, that can be produced artificially
Years (eons?) ago I bought something similar. Two book guide through math which I still find useful to this day:

this: http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Physical-Sciences-Robert-L...

and this: http://www.amazon.com/Further-Mathematics-Physical-Sciences-...
so how long before

a) buying one puts you on a list

b) you are required a license to fly one, anywhere

c) you are required a license to buy, let alone fly one
Yeah, expecting accolades (especially for things like code Quality and documentation) is invitation to disappointment.

In fact, it has been my experience, that high Quality actually makes the repo "radioactive."

Go figure.
If he's a developer for a company that still has apps that require IE7, then he needs to support IE7. It doesn't need to be on the public Internet at all.
We do keep them. The main times we look at them are when someone reapplies, and when a startup we rejected succeeds (to try to figure out how we missed them). In the future we might try doing some text classification to predict which applications will be good.
This is tangential, but I only appreciated Greek airtravel when I had a TSA agent grope me when entering the US. In my case, I actually experienced your lack of constitutional protections (or constitution in general, in airports), and I have another such experience to look forward to when leaving.
Yes, it's possible to extend the method in the linked post to parse trees. Check out monoidal parsing:

http://comonad.com/reader/2009/iteratees-parsec-and-monoid/

This guy figured out how to turn parsers written with Parsec (an excellent collection of parser combinators; truly a pleasure to use) into monoidal parsers that you can use for incremental and/or parallel parsing.
Not to mention the impending ISO standard.
From the "What's next" section:

The next bugfix version (1.7.0.1) will feature a rewrite of the DOM code to be easier to read and faster at the same time.

That sounds like a lot of impact for a bugfix release.
The https problem is now fixed. For example, the https version of this article:

http://viewtext.org/article?url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010...
Do you really believe that the Iranian government didn't already know what various other middle eastern governments thought of it?

Ah, but diplomacy is so often less about who knows what and so often about who has plausible deniability.

Iran knows that the Saudis hate them. And the Saudis know that the Iranians know that they hate them and so forth. But to have it publicly acknowledged and on the record that they hate each other makes things more difficult if they ever need to cooperate.

For instance, now that the Saudis are officially on the record as saying the US should bomb Iran, we can rule out the possibility of using the Saudis as a go-between or an "honest broker" for some kind of negotiated settlement with the Iranians. Not that it was necessarily going to happen, but the possibility is pretty much ruled out due to the embarrassment it would cause all round.

It's not that Iran is going to attack Saudi Arabia because the King said mean things; it's just that the Saudis and the Iranians can no longer pretend publicly that they don't hate each other.

That's just one example, there's any number of other ways that bringing unpleasant truths to the surface can spoil already-weak relationships, as anyone who has ever been in a weak relationship can tell you.
If their about page isn't lying, about 90% of their results are original.
I observed this as a kid and still experience it these days.

Never even questioned whether it was true because it felt so incredibly obvious that the ISP was dethrottling whenever they detected a speed test.
The idea is to have a legal basis to take your money (or part thereof) away should you be convicted of said illegal activity.
Sounds like there's a bit of overlap between this and the exploitation of K-pop girl bands.
Why is the deal breaker a cost that you don't have to pay? Slack works fine for free.
It's funny to me from a mathematical POV. Dependency injection is clearly "just" function abstraction. It could not be simpler.

Yet here we are belabored by whole frameworks to achieve it.
He basically just described what a container does. You put objects in the container in main, then it resolves everything else.
"A job exists so that surplus value can be extracted from labor."

As the first rule of sociology tells us: "Some do, some don't."

I think one reason that taxes & government jobs exist is because this doesn't hold true for some things that need to get done.

Anyhow, (I'm sure it's been beaten to death), who decides what a fair wage is? If it's the consumer, then yes, he/she should take their business elsewhere.
That goodness is also relative, and good ideas will often expire if you give them time. Conflating importance with goodness makes it hard to move into the future, (but it also means you'll have to make your case much more clearly.)
So if I'm reading you right, if the founders have split things with 40% each, and an option pool of 20%, significant would be > 4%?
> If the interest drops to along with your salary

With deflation, interest rates might be low [0], but they aren't likely to decline over time (unless the rate of deflation is increasing), whereas salaries will decline over time. So the interest rate won't drop along with your salary. Your salary will drop, and while the interest rate might (with the caveat noted previously) be low, its not likely to go down over time (if it does do so constantly due directly to deflation, that means your salary is likely not only declining, but doing so at an accelerating rate), your salary will be dropping both in nominal terms and proportional to the interest payments on your debt.

[0] but probably not; availability of credit will be low because risk-free instruments -- cash -- with a positive expected real rate of return exist, so there is little incentive to lend. Low credit availability doesn't make low interest particularly likely (it does make high interest rate volatility more likely, though.)
Wait, is that really deliberate for the DisplayPort-to-DVI adapter? I've always assumed that was some sort of serious hardware/software bug causing the coloured random noise.
I suspect it is less valuable than call logs. I have never deleted contacts so I have over twenty years of entries with pretty low value (e.g. call this number to find out about this real estate offering; my old mechanics for on 2003 old phone number) or accuracy. I only call about seven people but those are significant links.
I agree. Americans have always had it but the 'We are better than everyone else' seems to be getting worse. He brings up 'Women not being able to drive' and other reasons for not accepting their capital.

Certain groups in the middle east don't seem to have the same opinions about accepting American money. So instead of saying "Saudi bad, American good" people need to do alittle bit more research into where the US spends it's money. It's not as pretty as slack and Uber I can tell you that :)
Are Mysql 8 DDL changes transactional across tables? If not then in what sense are they transactional?

Because to this day I still have to deal with locking problems unless my changes are within a narrow window: last column, no on-update or on-delete, not changing type, etc.
So I've been using vim for nearly twenty years and didn't know this. I also never touch visual mode make any advanced use of buffers or marks. I feel like some kind of caveman now.
The deal is that when you arrive you have to wait for your bag and sometimes that's a lot of time.
I infer you didn't experience the hot war that would have been, if the US had a nuclear monopoly! Curtis LeMay was seriously pushing for using the US nuclear arsenal on multiple occasions, including against Moscow and in Vietnam. He pushed for this even knowing that there was a near certainty of nuclear retaliation. How influential do you think his voice would have been without MAD?
And that's a problem - my opinion remain that individual sql queries are better left for analyst and data engineers to craft so they can discover whatever correlation they might be interested in. But for a full scale app it shouldn't be in the forefront, at least not in the same package as other logic.

The entire idea of programming is the one where you abstract away things and then abstract away the thing you're currently writing. I agree that it has gone too far in some of the places, but abstracting SQL away is the first and almost one of the best abstraction you can make.
> Is it still possible to circumwent KYC by mining?

Not really. You can't earn much at all mining any coins without significant and reoccurring capital investment.

There are de-centralized exchanges like Bisq that you can use without KYC.

Also Monero has true anonymity so while you might need a KYC onramp to get into crypto, once your value is on the Monero chain it's anonymous, transactions cannot be followed, balances can't be seen (without permission).
This is insane -- how do these people pass through an interview?
Depends on the enterprise.

I pretty much keep using Java and .NET alongside each other, because all the customers have mixed systems.
Seems to work for me https://www.onelife.eu/en/news/corporate-announcement
> Corrupting data for a sale already made is far worse than losing a sale because of an outage.

I mean, this is still arbitrary. There are millions of small businesses worldwide that do fine with terrible records, but making on-going sales.

If you don't make any sales because of constant outages, you could argue that's worse than trying to deal with corrupted data, especially if you have log files or some other method to recover corrupted data anyways.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus#Adaptation_to_fire:

"Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable; ignited trees have been known to explode. Bushfires can travel easily through the oil-rich air of the tree crowns...

...In seasonally dry climates oaks are often fire-resistant, particularly in open grasslands, as a grass fire is insufficient to ignite the scattered trees. In contrast, a eucalyptus forest tends to promote fire because of the volatile and highly combustible oils produced by the leaves, as well as the production of large amounts of litter high in phenolics, preventing its breakdown by fungi and thus accumulating as large amounts of dry, combustible fuel."

So yes, part of it is that it secretes oils that are highly flammable. Another part is that it tends to accumulate dead leaves etc at the base, which aren't broken down as fast as that of most trees.

The Eucalyptus has evolved to expect periodic fires - it's flammable because stoking fires is adventageous to it. The problem is that now, due to climate change, the fires are more frequent and more intense, and because habitats are so small, there's nowhere else for the koalas to go when one part of the forest burns.
Oh it is much easier than that- just check sex and age and strain and ask yourself if these three variables in any rodent study are handled well in human-readable form.
Myself personally? Parents immigrated on H1B a long time ago. Some of my teammates got their citizenship through their own H1B much more recently (with about an even split of having graduated from a US college vs abroad). Others, typically older ones, got to the US as refugees from the late days of soviet union. Another common story I frequently encounter is a TN visa from Canada or the Australian equivalent (forgot the visa name, but it works similarly to TN). Or families where one parent is american and another one is foreign, they live in the other parent's country during childhood, and then move to the US later in life.
The...16th(?!) founder is the current CEO.
I remember in one of H Beam Piper's novels, I think it was Little Fuzzy, a character mentions that he had heard, "If you were innocent you are better off being tried by a military court, and if guilty by a civilian one." (not an accurate quote, but close).
Since the real crime he committed was obviously "contempt of cop", the incentive for the cop is to encourage people to kowtow properly, by showing them what happens when you don't.
results look promising. has anyone tried WSGI on mongrel2?
Well, let's consider (a) and (c). We're comparing statistics to other Western countries, and other Western countries have largely the same criminal laws the US does. Some of them legalize prostitution more than the US does, but everything else (violent crimes, property crimes, drug crimes) that's illegal in the US is illegal in the countries we're comparing the US with. So that rules out (a) for the purpose of this discussion.

(c) doesn't create criminals so much as it creates prisoners. (c) is bounded by (b) in one respect, but in another respect, you can unjustly change aspects of (c) through longer sentences. There is evidence of this, if you look at some of the differences in sentencing between crack and powder cocaine.

The social issues you cite are probably a big part of (b), though. It's easier for these disadvantaged subgroups to arise when you have cultural heterogeneity (since the society has to have some way of distinguishing a subgroup in order to disadvantage it) but there's definitely room to say the US has answered those challenges poorly throughout history.
>>All communities have some means to keep track of pecking order. I really have no idea if karma is better or worse than other methodologies. <shrug>

It's definitely better than simply listing the user's post count next to their name, which a lot of fora still do.

Now if you'll excuse me, there's a particular lever that I need to go and push...
I'm more than willing to let that factor of 2 come down to a fubared justice system--or possibly to longer prison sentences, which is possibly a "works as designed" type of bug.

Big complex problems have big and complex sets of causes. Higher actual crime is not an outlandish partial cause of a higher prison population, even if it isn't a complete explanation.
For real fun, try this one: http://twitter.com/#!/apag/status/1260699996
Windows RT is deader than dead; they're the only thing Microsoft makes that isn't getting Windows 10. Lumias that AT&T sell for $50 off contract? Windows 10. Xbox One? Windows 10. Okay, I guess they still sell the 360 and it's not getting Windows 10. Everything else? Windows 10. But not Windows RT. (Windows 10 Mobile will be allowed onto tablets, but not ones above a certain screen size, so RT isn't able to get that, either.)
Don't forget basecamp.com, the guys who started it all
If you're talking to front line support, you are talking to a finite state machine. Getting mad at the finite state machine because a transition was not written in it will not get you better customer service. Just inspect the finite state machine looking for the transition to escalation, and provide it exactly the input needed to achieve escalation. (Edited to add: plus such pleasantries as are necessary and proper to polite society.)

(I only know what a FSM is because I was one for two years.)
Apple have several core user bases, "creatives" have always been one of them - i'm not implying it's the main one in this age of plenty they're enjoying at the moment but it's seriously influential. The old cliche of hipster Mac users came about for a reason. Adobe makes many of the products these people rely on to make a living, so seeing Mum & Dad fighting is always going to be hard.

My main point is that Apple are pissing off large chunks of previously loyal customers and betting the farm on the mass market - definitely a good move if they remain king of the hill but also an opportunity for shrewd businesses to service those disillusioned communities. Ditto Gruber's blog.