skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on how much effort we want to put into training entry level programmers. Different companies have different requirements. If we intend to train the programmer from the ground up, then we can probably look for programmers who are smart, resourceful and self-sufficient. We can train the rest, like good coding, etc.

If our expectations are higher, then what I look for is code sensibility. Do they cut and paste the code without thinking "hey, this is kind of dumb to do"? Do they see repeated code and think "this can be collapsed into something more succinct"? This is the hardest thing to train for, and the most time consuming from a mentor point of view, so if we have a high bar for entry level programmers, then code sensibility is one of the factors on top of the 3 above that I look for.

I've rejected interns that worked for me from a permanent position because after 4 months, they still had terrible code sensibility. I had to pour through their code with a fine tooth comb because it was riddled with tiny bugs, and it needed constant rewrites because they just didn't improve over the course of the internship. I've had other interns that just "got it" and wrote great code from the start, or only needed a few reviews and then "got it". Those are the ones that will be productive quickly and won't hamper the rest of the team with lengthy reviews.
> This is why “free” and open source software (FOSS) will not help us. A software license touches on the software, not on the human relationships which the software mediates. It is those relationships that lock us into positions where Zuckerberg's foot is on our necks.

I have never heard such a succinct reason why Stallman's crusade against proprietary software will not work. I will remember this.
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How do you check whether they've done it themselves? Rely on the discussion?
We give homework and it has been a successful approach. Even if it's a trivial assignment one can gain a lot of insight on the candidate based on the overall professionalism of their submission.
The Japanese envoys came directly to Xi'an, then capitol of China, and also part of the Silk Road, so they still use the "land" word.
Will this argument apply in mid-century when we top off around 10 billion (hopefully), and the full effects of climate change, pollution, and degradation of the biosphere the past century start to really hit us?

Right now we're doing okay, but we haven't seen whether the planet can support us long term like this (or more accurately, whether 10 billion people can adapt successfully to a world we've changed).

Already, we're worried about the decline in pollinators, frogs, insect splatter, coral reef loss, and tropical forest deforestation. What do you think just that looks like in a few decades with 2-3 more billion people?
Ugh, between the pop music of the time (e-NUFF with the fewkin' synths already) and the height of the Garfield era, the '80s were a dark time. I always suspected that Garfield was just a marketing company in disguise, a natural outgrowth of what Peanuts had become, without the benefit of the pop psychology. I mean, The Family Circus shows more long-term originality.
See sibling post for links, but the short answer: you can use 12 pentagons, strategically interspersed. Like a (soccer) football.

edit: Oops, that only explains the tiling. For explanations of how the hierarchy descends, Dr. Sahr produced some GIFs that give a little bit of an overview of how the resolutions overlay: http://webpages.sou.edu/~sahrk/dgg/images/topogif/topogif.ht...
Thanks! Some great advice in there.
Bookface, very clever ;)
The right exists without a court order (and I'd wager it is more often granted than not by established outfits, with notable exceptions like tabloids - like Germany's largest newspaper Bild - and the yellow press). However, some will have to resort to go to the courts if the publishing entity does not comply. Which will take some effort, it being a civil rights matter - e.g. paying court fees up front (and claiming the money back in the same suit, leaving the applicant with the risk of an opposing party with no money).
LinkedIn hates it when people crawl their site, lost a lawsuit that prevented them from using the law to stop crawling their site, so now they use technical measures to make it harder.
Couldn't this be bypassed by regulating a drone's bitrate to a constant steady flow? The sacrifice will be either video quality or freshness of data, but it would be a straightforward way get past that protection.
It's not new, but USA policies with Trump in front.
Is SB going to remain unpatched? Those systems are still perfectly fine for consumer use. I hope business starts selling them off cheap.
If you're an industry cryptography engineer, not only is it for you, but it's probably at this point the most important event of the year.
Preserving biosphere is precious. "Cost to earth" is meaningless by itself - the planet isn't going anywhere. The only fragile thing here is biosphere.

I can see that you don't actually value Earth, just pity that it's so small you have to ration it.
Also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16124165
The story those numbers tell me is that Dogecoin is already working well enough that it didn't need updating. Whereas Bitcoin developers are scrabbling hard to fix the sinking ship.
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Yes, that example looks fair enough. One is "HTML", the other is a JS expression. In fact, having single vs double here might help people remember those are different contexts.

But realize you're just bikeshedding a trivial matter. All that really matters is that everyone on the team uses the same linting rules and there is no problem except some offended opinions about aesthetics.

It's fun to argue aesthetics but it's a waste of time.
> He could have written a quite similar article without any mentioning of kotlin

Almost. The point about the language itself respecting the Java nullability annotations is apt.
Although some products are being phased out, they are still available despite widespread pressure from federal regulators, wildlife officials and environmentalists to remove them from store shelves.

So isn't this more of a regulatory issue than an issue with pot farms in particular? Don't farmers of other crops do the same, or is marijuana particularly susceptible to rats?
Well, It assumes that the amount of delta you can create in the transmitted image is sufficiently large that you can discern it from other sources of random variation in the image.
So if the drone is moving around dramatically and there are huge deltas in the image, making your windows opaque / translucent repeatedly may not be sufficient signal. But if the drone is observing a dark compound and you flash lights everywhere repeatedly, it might not matter that the drone is moving around a lot - there might still be a dramatic change in the data transmitted by the drone.

Ultimately you're putting some signal into a potentially noisy channel and trying to reconstruct whether or not your observations contain that signal. The example is simple enough that normal human eyeballs looking at the output can detect it. Using more sophisticated techniques might be able to tease out smaller signals from noisier channels.
I somehow missed that part of the article, but that's not true. Tea is cha in Korean and Japanese, and that pronunciation post-dates Old Chinese. (which is why Min Nan is different, as it preserves numerous features from Old Chinese)
the only problem with LoRa is that it is proprietary... but I just did a quick search and there appear to be open source alternatives now, like this: https://www.cablelabs.com/cablelabs-announces-open-source-lo...
Over the past year, I've become a bit wiser with some professional experience under my belt and thought of implementing the same idea with different technologies and using best practices, example: the previous version hosted on AWS had security policies set to everything open from everywhere and no SSL certificates. Yes, I've wised up now.

Would love any feedback, especially if you could do a quick code review on my Go and React code!
React: https://github.com/SalmaanP/FastNews-Frontend-React
Go: https://github.com/SalmaanP/FastNews-Backend-Go

For Comparison the previous layout: http://52.34.237.199/
Exactly :)

Of course, I wasn't dismissing anyone! Read more carefully. And, they were kind enough to actually clarify, and I appreciated their comment.

Not every discussion about political words must be political itself.
Haha. Kind of,but not nearly as heavily regulated.. just like older banking systems were banks backed by gold,this would be a bank,but backed by Bitcoin. And not subject to regulations that banks are subject to (such as restrictions on cross border money movement,govt monitoring and ability of the govt to put a lien on your account, any insurance and pro consumer regulations applied to the traditional banking system such as their inability to shut shop one day and keep your money,etc).
> There are so many nooks and crannies

I recommend seeing the protestant cemetery - small courtyard attached to a chapel, and the tombstones tell poignant little stories, allowing a glimpse into a sliver of life (and death) at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Protestant_Cemetery_(Macau...
Every few days an article of this type is written and posted on HN. And all the comments are people either proposing another (same old) approach to hiring or people replying to those comments explaining why they'd hate that approach.

This is then done for every possible combination of approaches (homework questions, whiteboard interview, pair programming, fizzbuzz questions, algorithmic questions, work-history questions, career-progression questions, mini-project, magical incantations, and so on...)

It may sound cynical but at this point it feels like no one has any new ideas about it and the same content keeps getting recycled in the form of yet another article and yet another comments section.

Half of these articles are from company blogs which exist largely as just a marketing tool.

Since there is no actual new thought, everyone just cargo-cults the Google approach.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

HN strips out a bunch of emoji unicode, but some unicode is allowed to get through.
> Attributing boredom (or rather distraction) to an external malevolent force helps better combat it.

You could think of the entire concept of "spirits", either benevolent (angels) or malevolent (demons) as an extension of this idea. Mental processes could be thought of as chatter that takes place in a network of neurons - if you have any notion about modern biology.

But what do you do if you don't have that information? You create metaphors for these things and simply ignore the root cause explanation because it's beyond the boundaries of your knowledge anyway. You represent them as "beings" inhabiting a special "spiritual world" - which is not that far off the mark given the relative independence (to some extent) of many of our mental processes.

Beyond the explanatory power, this also serves a more practical goal. When undesirable mental processes are thought of as being "separate" entities, it does become a bit easier to fight them. Just don't fall into the error of taking these images at face value (literal beings inhabiting a literal other world).

All in all, as long as you keep in mind that these are metaphors for stuff that happens in your consciousness, a good chunk of the mythology that these monks subscribed to actually does make sense.
But doesn't their VOD service use a DOCSIS packet connection?
Someone made a pseudo-parser-thing of Perl in Latin: http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Lingua-Romana-Perligata-0.50...
English is THE candidate. Lingua franca is not decided by merits, but by adoption rate, which makes English is only choice on the table. It is the British empire+US hegemony, since WWII/Cold War that makes English lingua franca as it is today.
As long as this system is run online,it would be free of regulations,so the govt would not be able to impose it's will on your assets...
Far older than just 1k.
Kudos to FiveThirtyEight on being transparent and analyzing what happened. But also...this was a series of mistakes, some of them pretty scary.

FiveThirtyEight's biggest mistake seems to be trusting an academic dataset when they had no idea how it was collected. This is understandable, especially when the data was published on the Arizona State University's Center for Policy Informatics data portal. (You can go there right now and download the bad data - scroll to CATALIST DATA here https://policyinformatics.asu.edu/broadband-data-portal/data...) A university should be a trusted source. But FiveThirtyEight took an unbelievable outlier from this dataset and wrote an entire post about it (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/lots-of-people-in-citie...). The dataset claims that only 29% of Washington D.C.'s adults have broadband. (The real number according to the other datasets FiveThirtyEight looked at in the new post is closer to 70%.) They even make a point of how extreme the Washington D.C. datapoint is on the histogram in the article as the only large county with such a low percent. That should be a clue to question your data.

What I find worse is that the academic researchers published this dataset. They bought behavioral marketing data and trusted a salesperson that the variable HTIA (“Denotes interest in ‘high tech’ products and/or services as reported via Share Force. This would include personal computers and internet service providers. Blended with modeled data.”) was a good proxy for broadband access. To be clear, HTIA includes modeled data, which means they took demographics, voting records, and whatever other individual data they could grab (maybe they have records of your purchases, I'm just guessing), and predicted whether each adult in the US was interested in tech. This is the kind of data companies buy for ad campaigns, figuring that if they advertise to these adults, it might be better than random. There's no reason to think the aggregates of these numbers would be accurate or calibrated correctly, especially for an entirely different purpose (broadband vs high tech).

It's disturbing that these sort of datasets are floating out there in academia and really makes you wonder what other bad data is being blindly trusted to write blog posts, research papers, and news articles.
The FCC did a terrible job at rate setting and ended up killing DSL technology in America. That's why cable companies are typically the biggest ISP in any given location instead of the telecoms.
As someone who worked on Plan 9 for over a decade, it would be incredibly difficult. The first question out of everyone's mouth, even back in the early 2000s: "So can you run [Mozilla/Firefox] on it?" No, we couldn't and that was with a very POSIX-like system; the browser is the killer app today and it's also an operating system all its own, meaning it's one of the hardest things to port. We had enough of a basic browser that you could read HTML pages, but otherwise you're stuck with 'linuxemu' which only worked up to a certain (old) version of Debian because the Linux kernel changed shit. If you decide POSIX is a bad paradigm, you're going to have an even harder time getting a browser running.

Of course, most of the shit we do with junky web apps today could just be presented as a 9P service with maybe a couple shell scripts in front of it, but the junky web apps already exist and are in use.
"Why do we look so far for solutions if we have some in our own history?"

I believe we had even much more solutions, but most have simply been wiped out. The celtic druids for example seemed to had a very interesting philosophy, but they were destroyed by the romans and the christians finished off, what was left, just like the germanic and slavic religions/philosophy systems. And since they had a tradition of vocal teaching and not writing down, we know allmost nothing for sure about them as most of it comes from christian chronists.

But the bits you still can find, are very interesting, I think.
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If it were any company other than Uber, you would not even have heard about it. Think what one will about Uber (and my thoughts are admittedly not positive), it's not like the gummint has a stellar track record on raiding only guilty parties. IOW, I find this no more unusual than, say, keeping your servers patched.

Maybe Uber's hiding stuff? Yeah, maybe they are. But when the government comes in and grabs all your shit, they get the upper hand while it's all sorted out. Violated the 4th Amendment? Yeah, that's too bad, we're really sorry about that, we promise to unsift what we've already sifted through. It's easier if the stuff is just locked down to begin with, then after the raid we can make sure our warrants are in order, you actually have the right company, and you're just generally allowed to do this, then we can unlock the machines with smiles on our faces.
For doubles you don't even need to take over NaN. There is a huge range of unused bit patterns in IEEE floats that could be used instead.
Can anyone compare/contrast this with geohex.org? I've used geohex in a past life, just curious what, if anything, H3 might offer over it.
I just spent the last couple of days working extremely hard on getting a major version of my project released and now I don't really feel motivated to work on code. It happens every so often.
I'm glad they transitioned into Rust. OS classes I've taken before were nowhere this cool.
Which is what I do.
FYI re: PoC

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Somebody seems to ask a question about this every two or three days on "Ask HN", I know that because I read them all.
Of course.. if it's "clean-clean"

> You basically need to fabricate a whole new persona on social media.

o-k-a-y. not rocket science. you're not james bond.. it doesn't have to be super crazy.

1) create a new gmail account, sign up for some tech newsletters.
2) create a twitter accounts, sign up for recommended people.
3) do a google search for 'cats and dogs' and download some pics

done.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone's hasn't created a bash script to do something like this.
Yes, bring the robots. Especially the maid one. And then the gardener one.
Sweet! I have been looking for a good opportunity to build something with Rust in a domain I already know, and this looks like a right mix of everything!
I found the ubiquitous "BABY ON BOARD" signs far more annoying. As though everyone around the minivan in question would quietly, meekly scuttle past at 5 MPH above the speed limit lest they disturb baby and then go right back to their Road-Warrioresque shenanigans.
I cannot count how many interviews I've done where I've shown up with 10+ years of industry experience and been given an interview catered toward juniors. If anything there is too much emphasis on interviewing entry level software engineers. There are others out there with a proven track record.

I'm just underselling myself, shooting too low. At this point do I need to be applying for management?
Yes, just like anything...but it comes with a trade off.
Sure, that's probably fair. But to be precise, what I'm complaining about is my perception that the tenor of some of these HN conversation is so hysterical that they don't even recognize the _possibility_ of having control over your usage. The idea that Facebook et al are _nothing_ more than a 21st century poison, and that they're impossible to use responsibly, is something I've seen far too often for far too long on this board.

I use drugs (caffeine, alcohol, weed, and a couple others), and do so responsibly, and think that they add some measure of richness to my life. I enjoy well-made desserts, and do so responsibly, mostly avoiding sugar and processed carbs in the rest of my diet, and I'm in great physical health. Both of these have a huge potential for abuse, but the idea that they're 100% terrible and the only possible way to handle them is complete abstinence is absurd.

I use Facebook, but I do so in moderation, I generally don't spend much/any time in the feed, and it adds a dimension of convenience of communication to my life which has helped _enrich_ many friendships instead of damaged them[1]. And yet out of the three examples I've given here, Facebook is the only one for which I frequently see top comments and entire threads with people claiming they can't believe that everyone hasn't figured out that any FB usage is toxic and the only solution is complete abstinence. I just don't get it.

[1] A friend of mine had a traumatic brain injury last year and has been recovering with family in a different city. Since he's not able to have the big bday party up here that he usually has, a couple of weekends from now, 10 of us are flying from three separate parts of the country to celebrate his birthday for a weekend. _All_ of the planning, from convincing his family, to figuring out lodgings, to figuring out the guest list, to figuring out transportation and scheduling for everyone, was done over Facebook Events and Messenger (and Google Sheets).
> Sure you can. It's code, why wouldn't you be able to change it?

Fair enough. I'd expand that to say "code + consensus", which is what the rest of your post expands on. If the Bitcoin (for example) community really buys into the idea that we need to bail out some set of organizations, it's possible to execute a fork to do that. And the number of validating bitcoin clients out there is pretty large, so it would require a lot of buy-in.

It would have to be a hard fork (it would be possible as a soft fork, segwith-style, but the new coins issued would not be able to mix with pre-bailout coins unless clients updated).

To be honest, though, you're probably right. In my mind, depressingly so. The biggest takeaway from "too big to fail", even amongst progressives, seems to be that we have to shrink or break up the organizations that are too big to fail, rather than letting them fail -- only diehard libertarians and outcast Austrian economists believe that. The next time we hit this, we'll give the money to AIG to give to Goldman and buy Chris Dodd another house and move on with our lives while we get busy creating the next bubble (I think retail this time; that seems to be where the easy credit has relocated).
This is very neat as well. Still trying to understand it.

I have tested various use cases for Iodine, which works great, unless you are blocking all outbound dns traffic.
First line treatment is "take a vacation"
One of my favorite quotes from James Nicoll:

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
Building an OS that doesn't rely heavily on some existing userspace and windowing paradigm is like building a new land vehicle that can't use roads.

In isolation it might be superior and have laudable attributes, but you're maybe a millionth the way towards competing with current automobiles for a general purpose solution in any fairly densely populated country.
There is no such thing.

Nobody "owns" the bitcoin trademark.

Bitcoin is what people call it. If you want the government to get involved, you should go back to fiat.
is this for real? does anyone have any info that proves this right/wrong?