skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, those wins are great. It's really about the level of detail that you assume they want. "I improved the deployment time" is an effect of a technical change, not a technical change in itself. There are a lot of people who could improve the deployment time just by switching to a faster build backend or doing some other small change that has big dividends. Is that a "technical accomplishment"? Sure, and it has big wins, but if the answer is just "I installed Jenkins" then it kind of takes the oomph out.

And big wins like that are usually compacted pretty early on. If you can get orders of magnitude improvements left and right, it means that something about the company's management is off.

It's also not a good question for an interview because it's a hard basis for comparisons. Perhaps another candidate knew how to improve the build/deployment pipeline, but he was blocked by political interference. He wouldn't be able to say "I sped up the pipeline 6x.", but he could talk about his plans to do so with a question more oriented to the task, e.g., "How would you build your dream deployment pipeline?"

That's what I mean when I say they're looking for something spectacular. Some people can say they saved their company or made a change with massive ripple effects, which is not necessarily aligned with the technical difficulty of that change and may cause some candidates to elide mention of it entirely, and some people can't make such big assertions, not because they're not skilled enough, but because the opportunity and/or priority wasn't there.

If you want to know about business gains and side effects of technical work, ask "How did your work help your employer?" If you want to know about technical work itself, ask relevant lines of questioning.

Anyway, I think we're basically splitting hairs here. It's just about what level you're choosing to process the question on, and it seems everyone agrees that it's best to take a very superficial interpretation and allow them to inquire further as necessary. I just don't think it's a good interview question.
I don't think the collapse of advertising is necessarily a collapse of Google. Google (Alphabet, really) has so much IP and many other possible ways to grow that if crap hits the fan they can change course. Not to mention they do seem to be generating plenty of revenue to keep people interested in buying their stock. So long as Wall Street is willing to bear the weight of their ventures then I don't see Google going away any time soon. More likely is that Google eventually leaves the advertising business as it becomes less relevant to their bottom line just like how Amazon isn't about books as much anymore (they still sell them, but they got so many other revenue streams that if books as a market cratered they wouldn't go bankrupt from it). When that "eventually" will happen I can't say but I'll say I'd be surprised advertising would be relevant to them in twenty years beyond a marginal line of business.
Apple Asks California DMV to Make Changes to Autonomous Vehicle Testing Policies
Everyone has had incidents like thsi. I had a semi cross three lanes of traffic at once and almost kill my son and I on the interstate. He was on his phone. Held it up and waved apologetically as I passed him. Still not a valid reason to let law enforcement have trivial access to people's most personal information.
Isn't ultimate profit the same as moral reasons?
very oppressive religious environments

Arguably the definition of "oppressed" has shifted these days. The vast majority of these "oppressive religious" upbringings that supposedly turned someone atheist rarely sound like Frederick Douglass' autobiography and sound more like a lot of angsty venting over some over-protective parents.

At least for Christian households, Paul writes about this to parents in Colossians -- "Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged." -- but the blame for creating a strident atheist is generally on both sides of the relationship. It's firstly on parents for being overbearing, but also on the adult children who fail to forgive and honor their parents as they mature...

The ironic thing is that the atheists who are unable to forgive and are still deeply resentful/angry about their oppressive religious upbringing are the ones who are still chained to the very thing from which they wanted to be free. Not that I wish anyone would be free from truly understanding the gospel of grace, but simply a matter of fact.
If you have >100K emails, how do you know that nothing is missing?
BMW i3 Long Term Battery Capacity Report: Better Than Expected
"The aircraft you're being told to leave isn't the proper forum for legal and contractual disputes."

That's the only time they really count. It's exactly the place for it. If you can't assert your rights when you need them, they're worthless.
I've never hired someone who's been fired, and I've had to fire other people's hires, so I think my process works okay on some empirical level. I do not defend my approach as scientific or perfect; it's not, and I never claimed it was. But I have verified my approach by asking follow up questions with people who seem to signal they're inflating the importance of items on their resume, and found that my detector was working.

> Relaying too many specific details can actually be an indicator that someone is not telling the truth.

This is actually not true and has been scientifically demonstrated. I listened to a podcast about this, and lies come out with a measurably, detectably reduced vocabulary versus true stories. Let me see if I can find a link to it...

But I also don't care whether it's true because your base assumption is that you shouldn't trust anything anyone says. My experience is the polar opposite: most people interviewing for jobs aren't primarily bullshitting, they are by and large telling the truth, and all I need to do is determine which candidates are better than other candidates, not which ones are lying.

Most of the resume inflation I've seen isn't a case of intentional BSing, it's a case of inexperienced people not knowing how little they know, and assuming that a month of JS or SQL during a summer internship puts them in roughly the same camp as someone who's done it for 5-10 years.

Talking that out with people has and continues to give me a pretty good idea of what they know and don't know.

BTW, I don't see anywhere that @tptacek is countering what I've said. If you read what he said, he mentions using conversation to filter people multiples times. Here, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9159959

No interview process is scientific and perfect, and you shouldn't expect them to be, that is unrealistic. There's nothing wrong with realizing it's a social activity and not an algorithm, that it's an art and not a science. Learning how to be good in interviews by understanding what interviewers are looking for is part of your job, not a way to gamify the system and trick people into hiring you. Another part is being a good coder. Both are important.
It also kinda reminds me these two articles, previously discussed on HN:

http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp
http://degoes.net/articles/modern-fp-part-2
Even then - the data of rest of the world is still sucked up wherever possible.

Signed,
A non-US citizen of this world
It's causation when the gun used to harm you is your own gun.
This is one of the best blogs on the topic and as someone who has easily cracked all big tech company interviews I can say this is a good piece of advice.

I will make following broad points:

1. Never walk into that room without practicing. Practice before a mirror, practice before a friend, practice in a car. Have a written script and optimise it to remove redundancy, highlight achievements etc.

It is not about repeating what you have practiced but having a free flowing conversation where you don't have to struggle for words, sentences all while maintaining a confident posture.

2. Converse not interview

A lot of people fail to keep the conversation going. It is not like a FBI investigation. It is more like a friendly banter. Think of a scenario where you are talking to a potential roomie. It is okay to walk out of that interview without an offer but then you should feel good about having conversed with another geek just like you.

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Maintain the mindset outside of interview preparation. Most people fail at this.

Good interview preparation begins months ahead. You need to look at your co-worker's code, give them feedback, learn to make needless improvements in your existing code, solve algorithms and discuss technical problems on stack overflow and else where. Built a mindset where you are able to talk about technical work to other people. Speak more, listen more and advice more at least 3 months ahead.
No, that's not even remotely close to what I'm saying or believe, you've constructed a strawman.

But your comment is shockingly similar to what I've heard from people who still support Trump irl. Do you personally ever talk about what's actually happening in washington, or just stick to this he-said she-said crap?
Obama's non-academic legal work was fairly brief and secondary to (and overtly a stepping stone for) his public advocacy and political work, but AFAICT he was plenty successful at it.
Admitted clickbait BS, could use a downvote for this one.
I avoid amazon search like the plague. All that ever pops up when I search for a product is cheap chinese knockoffs with round numbers of mysterious, broken english, 5 star reviews and one pixelated photo. Google, specialist sites or local places are where I'll always go for product search.
https://www.twitch.tv/sscait

A 24/7 stream of AI matchups. Games are played at double speed. Some of the strategies are very interesting, but many of the strategies are either brute forced or designed specifically to beat other strategies.
Imagine if everyone who used the NY subway brought along with them 4600 pounds of dead weight. Who ever said anything about sustainable transport?

Yo dawg, I heard you like cars so we built a car for your car so America can spend billions creating traffic jams below ground just like we have on the surface!
Binaries it seems (for mac/win)
I ran a topsite for a while, as you say probably a stupid thing to do, but it was fun and a good learning experience.
people who depend on salary have to pretend to get the salary. if you can afford not to have job, then you can take more idealistic approach

imagine you have low savings and you support your wife and small child at home, can you afford to sit at home for months until you find good match without pretending and cramming when it obviously work for some companies?
They could always try to more dirctly monetize gmail.
It's interesting - if I look at the pro-EU crowd here in the UK (people like Gina Miller, Nick Clegg and his wife) I see a mixture of ideology and careerist reasons for attaching themselves to the project, and I suspect that's the main driver in Brussels too - ambitious types that, having inserted themselves into positions where they stand to benefit, now agitate with wild-eyed zeal for ever closer union, when the benefits of this for those whose interests they claim to represent are debatable.
He's dead. His son is also dead (shot by one of his buddies as a result of a disagreement over the division of the loot from a very large robbery). But his wife and daughter are still alive so I wrote the article in such a way that it is not easy to pinpoint who this is about.
"It's a victimless crime, like punching someone in the dark" - Nelson
So far, it's an ad agency with hobbies. The inspirational quotes they feed their employees and shareholders shouldn't distract you from their actual business.
I've seen plenty of people fall into shady karma, especially my (ahem) peers in the early peer-to-peer space. Other than Zooko and Roger Dingeldine it seems most of the guys had to make a bunch of bullshit philosophical contortions about how associating with lowlifes and mobsters was OK. Some of those guys made money, a lot didn't, but their karma will forever be sullied.
Yeah. I've been using their 14 days free trial. So far so good. Work like a charm.
Ask HN: Data Grid as a Service?
I've been working on a Backend as a Service with a friend of mine but I've noticed that people would rather build their base application and then leverage other services for pieces they don't want to build. Search as a Service, Queue as a Service, Log-aggregation as a Service, etc... are very popular. I was wondering if a Data Grid as a service would be an interesting product to anyone. A data grid is an in memory data store that scales fairly well horizontally (there are a few open source solutions) and lets you join multiple "tables" to query seamlessly. The idea is that as you build out your application and system, you have more and more services and data sources. Exposing all of these to the clients quickly is complicated, you can build services that aggregate other services but that can be slow / hard to manage. You can shove everything into Redshift, Athena, or bigtable, but those are mostly for data warehouse uses and the querying isn't that fast. With a data grid as a service, you pipe your various datas into it via some queue (SQS, Kafka, etc..) or REST calls and then make queries to the data grid directly to retrieve data. It's kind of a cacheing layer on top of whatever infrastructure you currently have but allows multiple sources to be merged.

Is this a useful product?
This article is really doesn't tell me much about the bread-making process, the people who make it, or what the author actually did while on-site besides touch a hunk of dough. Was expecting more, especially from Saveur.
In your view is synecdoche every justified or useful? If so, can you provide an example?
Definitely a shocker. Visual Studio is by far the most comprehensive IDE. How will this play out for all the features that available on Windows that may not work on a Mac? What does this mean for Java? Lots of things still need to happen but the difference is getting slimmer.
Archival as in has to support decades of old images. It's not a format that's being heavily modified or is going to see any hard transitions in coding/decoding.

FLIF and BPG are development formats and where you look towards the future, not the past.
What percentage of their revenue is from advertising right now? Over 99%, right?
I think behavioral and "tell me a time when" questions can easily be gamed, so I question the effectiveness of asking them. Sometimes I forget specific domain knowledge around a project I worked on 1+ companies ago. But I still have to list it on my resume and thus be able to speak to it...... so I just approximate the details. I imagine you could just full on lie as long as you can detail a technical problem and provide a solution to it.
Kleck's science is terrible. There's an entertaining overview of it on the Science Vs. podcast[1]. His rebuttal is basically debunked at the bottom of the rebuttal itself.

1. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/guns/
The poster asserted that "100% of developers have an answer" to this question. We're discussing why some developers may not have a good or immediate answer, and why the question is not as good as he asserts.
He was an employee
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https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

Plugging those words into google search, and it's not able to make any sense of it, besides linking to that one article. Wouldn't this be sufficient?
Appreciate your reply mate. Looking forward to start using it soon
Heh. While still a student, I was working in Fortran (all upper case). I was trying to type COS (the cosine function), and I overshot the Oh character, and typed a zero: C0S. Not very visually different! It took me two days to figure out why Fortran suddenly didn't know what cosine was...
Speed Reading
Many Christians would say they are part of spiritual Israel (or spiritual Jews). I don't think its unfair to pair them together like that. Christians just believe in the New Testament and that Jesus Christ is/was the prophesied Messiah from the old Testament.
We had a good system in place in the Bill of Rights. Unfortunately, broad construction of this document in secret courts without an adversarial process has diminished it substantially. Your proposed system requires trust and goodwill, and that's in short supply.
"No really, I've seen some very stupid security stuff out there the likes of which make the above example not just believable, but likely. Don't believe me? Here, hold my beer..."

The "Here, hold my beer..." line is totally played out at this point, anyway, but the usage here doesn't even make sense. The implication is that you're about to do something stupid, not that you're about to tell us about some stupid things other people have done.

Why would I need to hold your beer while you tell me a story?
Sure, I wasn't speaking to that issue, only to the parent's attempt to justify it as a good question.
Or: If your point is to avoid accidents and not to disarm people you can recommend they get a gun safe.

Around here gun safes are mandatory. And local hunters and sports shooters work together with the police to keep guns out of the hands of people who cannot be trusted.
At least in Western Europe architects have to follow an industry standard that governs fonts and stroke width (afaik 2 different widths, depending on context). 40 years ago, learning to write in this style was even part of the curriculum in the GDR.
Everything is relative. You might say "But murder is not allowed in any society!" but definitions of murder may vary. So in one society euthanasia might be allowed, but not in another. In one society abortion is murder, and allowed in another.

What is truly ethically absolute?
So kafka with a cassandra consumer? Stream everything to kafka brokers and query cassandra?
It's no joke. The pit for a TBM in the SpaceX parking lot is real.

Whether it will be successful is another question.
It shows standalone subway type cars as well. The glass enclosed "skates".
> But how much of that G > 1 energy has ever been harvested?

None, because we haven't achieved G > 1 yet. :)

Per https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/70209/how-is-ene..., hydrogen fusion produces helium and neutrons; neutrons are unaffected by magnetic fields, so they escape confinement and impact the reactor walls, heating them. The heat is simply vented in current test rigs, but in a working model it can be used to produce steam to power generators. That's specifically for tokamaks, but I would guess the process is similar for stellarators.
For the most part, the non-STEM people are "smart" and "intelligent" only regarding stuff like social skills. The high-paying jobs for them are management, law, and commissioned sales. I suspect you can do very well for yourself selling jets, mining rights, container ships, and corporations.

Non-STEM is out of luck aside from the above and some 1-in-a-million entertainment things. I guess there is also crime and gambling, but you can't keep that going for long.
No one disagrees with you. But for that very reason it's locked in supporting those old files. I.e. archival.

JPEG isn't going to morph into some brand new format that supports arithmetic coding. New formats will adopt those, specifically because they don't have to support decades and petabytes of files.

Not to mention, if you've ever actual written a JPEG decoder/encoder; the format is not conducive to coding outside of it's HUFFMAN/quantization format. PNG can add those things since it's actually an extensible format, but even then...why? It's not like the libpng everyone has installed will magically support them.
I gave sources. You're making an argument that isn't supported by data. There's an excellent overview of the data on the Science Vs. podcast[1], which you'd probably find interesting. It explains why arguments like yours may apply to a few people, but not to the vast majority.

While it's true that training makes you less likely to be killed by a firearm, it has no effect on suicides of family members, someone stealing the gun and using it, someone in the family using it improperly, etc.

> you've only perpetuated the cycle of fear by trying to instill more fear

That was exactly my intention. Guns are dangerous. People should be afraid of them.

1. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/guns/
I'm not sure what country you're in, but in the U.S. I've virtually never had that experience on Amazon. Sure, there are some lower quality products mixed in with the good stuff, but I always find it pretty easy to tell which is which. And, that being the case, I find that added degree of price/quality diversity to be a benefit in itself.

Edit: By the way, are we still talking about "cheap Chinese knockoffs"? Seems odd to include "Chinese" in that phrase when much of the high quality stuff is made there as well!
Sure.

Prior to World War II, the FBI began keeping a list of people to be rounded up "in the event of a national emergency" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Index ). Some people on this index were put in concentration camps during World War II, notably people of Japanese heritage (and as Cygnus co-founder John Gilmore notes, some of these people were identified, via a legal fiction, by them filling out that they were of Japanese heritage on census forms http://www.toad.com/gnu/census.html)

World War II did not end the list, it grew. Finally, Watergate, the death of Hoover and exposure of programs like COINTELPRO led to the Church Committee and the supposed disabling of the list.

Since then, all information has been that the only thing that has changed is that the list is not officially for the detention of American citizens. Some of the people involved in Iran-Contra in the 1980s were also maneuvering for a US military invasion of Nicaragua, which they thought might necessitate putting anti-war protesters into concentration camps( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84 ). Of course, that plan was so far out that the plan might be more nutty than scary, but then again, these are people who secretly broke the US's own arms embargo against Iran to sell Iran weapons, the money from which they used to fund a war against Nicaragua which Congress had banned.

It's kind of like that Utah Data Center ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center ) they're building to store what is probably permanent recordings of our phone calls, SMS messages, e-mails, web browsing history etc. They didn't spend $1.5 billion on it so far to not use it.
How reliable is their service? Anyone?
Sure, but it is a little unusual.
hmm, it sort of make sense, not so young anymore, but not that old with helpful young children (usually) plus also as other user mentioned in combination with work computers it makes sense, but I would still think that 65+ group will get less tech support or they just don't care that much about ads, but who knows...
Imagine they auto-play and take 10x the bandwidth that the page you're visiting does. Sucks on bobile.

(I avoid trailers these days since in the past they have ruined movies for me either by setting expectations too high or simply showing too much of the movie.)
Ah so that lends credence to my rationale for scraping websites. Until I actually look at the scraped data no scraping has taken place so no terms of use have been violated. When I look at the scraped data the terms of use come into effect but now I'm personally present so no robotic scraping has taken place.
Do young people use gmail?
defending hype-building like this is why we keep having AI winters