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There seem to be better-performing x86 Windows Mini PCs available for less. Come in a proper case and with a power supply.
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Having been quoted in a newspaper article once, I can attest that journalists don't always care about precision when reproducing utterances.
GDPR applies to (i) people in the EU regardless of where the the company is or (ii) companies in the EU irrespective if the data comes from someone outside the EU
I have to say, having tried both the RPi and Tinker Board, the Tinker Board's GPU driver is far better. Yes, it's proprietary, but unfortunately the RPi driver is simply not reliable enough to run something like WebGL in Chromium. It's slow and glitchy. The Tinker Board runs WebGL like a dream by comparison.
If you pick a random number the chances are really good that it has many small factors and hence is a lot easier to factorize than its number of bits might suggest. Half of all numbers are divisible by two, two thirds of all numbers are divisible by two or three.

Regarding Sudoku, my hunch is that there is a critical density of numbers where random problems are harder than average. That's the case for SAT, there is a phase transition on the number of variables per clause where above a critical value almost all instances are not satisfiable and below the threshold almost all instances are. Instances right at the threshold tend to be hard for our current solvers.
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In Facebook's case, it's quite easy. There is an Irish/EU company. ~25% of Facebook revenue comes from EU. They have EU employees.
But you're dreaming of technology that may never happen. There is no way at the moment that we can sustain our current lifestyles without fossil fuels. In addition, if we remain unsustainable then we'll just grow to fill the next level unsustainability if a new technology did come along.
Indeed. If you care about getting Facebook to fix its issues without deleting your account, then donating to NOYB is probably an effective way to do that.

Schrems has basically single-handedly proven that Safe Harbor, and I think the Privacy Shield, too (soon to be decided) have been violating the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the right to privacy under the European Convention of Human Rights.
So they are going to design their own chips for the consumer devices (Oculus Go and the speakers)? Those are two very different use cases, heavy 3D and speakers generally are simple. I am not sure Facebook will have sufficient volume of either of those to justify making its own chips. Apple sold 250M iPhones in 2017. Facebook sold less than 1M Oculus Rifts in 2018.

The other place that Facebook could use its own chips is in its datacenter. This would make a little more sense as it is easier to deploy custom chips into a datacenter you fully control. There are theoretically cost and energy savings possible from switching from Xeon D to ARM in the datacenter at Facebook's scale.
> A new technology

This attitude in the general public is our death knell. The only, and I do mean ONLY, solution to not fucking up the environment beyond repair is the concept of less.

Less SUVs, less air travel, less fast fashion, less computer monitors, less phones replaced less quickly, less heating and cooling of our homes and more getting acclimated to the climate, less fucking juiceros and interent connected butt-plugs, less non-seasonal vegetables and meat, less eating of beef and pork and chicken and more plants. Reduce.

I love to quote idlewords on this all the time, but we as a species can't even handle male pattern baldness. To somehow expect that we can engineer our way out of the complexities of nature with time to spare and without any impacts on how we live life in the wes is a completely misguided belief. The technological breakthrough that will be our saviour is not just around the corner. Musk and Tesla aren't our saviours. 'Less' is.
This is nuts and doesn't make sense.

Testing coding abilities should only be done in the context of finding out if I can trust the resume (which should be relatively minimal), or if the candidate is looking for their first job (again, minimal as they won't have experience).

The rest should be possible to analyse TALKING to the candidate or doing some join design session...

Good luck making people spending more than 4 hours in a selection process if you're not Google (and even so)... Seems like a great way of massively discarding anyone that's busy...
It’s worth noting that, elsewhere in this thread, user smortaz wrote:

Yep, tried that too... but admittedly the sound very similar. I keep getting "I'll of dogs" and "I love dogs".
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"In Germany, we've basically got full employment in the IT sector."

I can only confirm this. I used to be a freelancer and I got almost daily offers per email and phone. In order to stop I ask them a very hi price per hour ( 90-100 euros ) and to my very surprise yesterday the guy said, "that's fine, when do we start?". I backed up a bit and after some discussion he told me that they really could not find anyone. There is really no IT people in Germany without job, so the only way to get work do is to turn to freelancers and offer a good rate.
> Is this news? Facebook had already stated that it wasn’t applying GDPR to non-Europeans.

Yes. Previously anyone not in the USA or Canada had a legal agreement with Facebook Ireland Ltd. So there was an Irish/EU company which was processing personal data for lots of people (inside & outside the EU). The GDPR says it applies to (i) people in the EU or (ii) companies in the EU who process any personal data. So if Facebook Ireland Ltd did something against EU law with the personal data of (say) someone from South Africa, then EU law could take that up.

BTW The GDPR never mentions citizenship, merely presence in the EU. non-Europeans in the EU are covered too.
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The miner's identity (more or less) has to be one of the inputs to the problem, so that everyone is actually working on a different problem and you can't "steal" a block just by broadcasting another person's solution faster and wider.

Maybe there could be useful problems with this property, but it's not trivial to find them.
That’s not exactly correct GDPR is a mess.

If you are a non-EU company and you don’t have any legal entities in the EU even if you deal with EU customers (retail) the application of GDPR isn’t going to be relevant at least initially.

(The fear for example is that PayPal etc. will force you to comply in the usually blind and deaf PayPal manner for fear of EU retaliation)

If you are a non-EU company with no legal entities in the EU but you are dealing with EU companies and process data for them those companies would have to ensure you are compliant this is a purely B2B route.

If you are a non-EU company with EU legal entities this is the vector the DPAs will use to go after you.

The GDPR is currently in a retarded state with near zero official guidance and definition for things that matter.
And as far as non-EU companies go GDPR is well in a though spot. GDPR does not trump lawful data retention and data access requirements in the EU those fall under then final jurisdiction of the high court but there is no way for them to influence non-EU law.

And SOX is a terrible example SOX affects a tiny portion of companies and those who need to comply are huge and there are clear definitions, requirements and arbitration channels which the GDPR lacks.

P.S. we’re talking so far about the periphery of the EU, Canada, Australia The US etc... when you’ll find a way to make Alibaba and China at al comply let me know please.
> The really, really, really awesome thing about GDPR is that you can't deny service because someone wants to opt out of sharing their data.

That's actually pretty horrible. How about freedom of association and freedom to contract? These two are basic human rights. If one thinks their privacy rights are not respected they are free not to associate or contract and same thing for the entity on the other side of the contract, why should one party be forced to contract anyway? This is authoritarian. The basis of a free society is the freedom to contract and associate between individuals. If the GDPR makes that impossible and it's highly liberticidal.
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That makes much more sense, I was a bit confused by that section.
Right. "You can ask them their name yourself"

That doesn't mean they are going to give you their name.

And if they choose to give you their name, it's their right and responsibility.
They could. But they get ~25% of their revenue from the EU, so they'd have to give that up. They'd have to risk losing their social network monopoly, and risk an upstart getting millions of users (in the EU) and then posing a serious risk to Facebook globally.
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> That would be a massive dystopia if companies had more power than an entire continents democratic governments.

Governance is balancing individuals' and corporate interests. Companies like Google and Facebook have a tremendous amount of power because they're the gateways to information. Those two companies alone are the internet for many people. Far fewer people would push for the over-reaching GDPR legislation if they knew it would impact their ability to use the internet as they know it (which it does, ultimately, one way or the other.)
The ability to build a top tier career from self-teaching is remarkable. It would be such a tragedy if this was stripped and replaced with a signalling based equilibrium run and/or structured by the government :(
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That is fine, just be upfront about it. Still require a contract for it is reeking of trying to get work for "free". If you have it running in production, and use it because you understand it thoroughly, it shouldn't matter what the candidate comes up with. Any new insight he might bring you can always incorporate with your own code. In any case none of the code is expected to be used in production, and if it turns out you want to, it's probably the candidate you want to hire anyway.
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FB's HQ isn't in Ireland. I think it's in the USA.
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> How about freedom of association and freedom to contract

How free are you when one of the parties is naive (in the context of the contract) and has little power, and the other party has the interest, the means and the power to force an unfair contract?

Freedom of association implies the freedom to NOT associate. Yet non-Facebook users are tracked by Facebook, without their consent.

Laws like GDPR are needed to help protect individuals from powerful interests.
You are totally right. He is incorrect.
Should non-EU websites ban EU visitors under the GDPR?
For my previous job I spent around a week to build a simple microservice from scratch, with login, jwt, email notification etc. - it's still not a full app of course, but it was very very time consuming (it was a bit out of my field), considering that I did not spend that time with family, hobby et cetera.

I know noone forces me to do it, but back then I really had high hopes for that job. Nowdays the maximum I'm willing to spend with an entry app is two to four days but deep in my heart I still find it a bit too much, but I still prefer this over live coding sessions in front of a bunch of random devs.
> Again, this applies to US companies even if it's a single record of EU personal data.

This is part of why I think GDPR is a disaster for startups. It's a massive regulatory burden which big companies will be able to comply with but small startups don't have the legal horsepower to handle.

Typical EU regulatory overreach.
I'd also mention what was supposed to change.
Yeah, I find that fascinating, too.

I was around in the 70s and the smog was truly horrible. We'de still have that if Republicans controlled CA for The last 3 decades.
> freedom to contract

I think you'll find this libertarian "right to enter into any contract for anything" doesn't exist in EU law.

The Charter of Fundamental Rights doesn't list it. It does list the right to protection of personal data.
Somewhat OT, but I can totally relate to the handstand anecdote. I've recently been learning to do handstands, and while I knew it was something I'd have to practice, I completely underestimated how hard they are. I mean, kids do them all the time, right? I'd say 6 months of daily practice is probably about right.

I've always been impressed by handbalancers, but now that I have some inkling of how hard it actually is, I'm totally blown away by it. Next time you see someone balancing their whole freaking body on one hand (something like 4-10x harder than a two-handed one according to estimates I've seen), stop and marvel for a while, for it is truly incredible.
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Firing someone is always hard, no doubt about it. But I disagree that it's bad for team morale to fire a nice underperformer. In fact, I've seen the opposite happen, where having to drag along a team member was a reason for people leaving.

IMHO, hiring based on homework is no guarantee that you won't end up with a bad hire anyway. It is just another imperfect data point to base your decision on, but one that comes at the cost of massively reducing your number of candidates.
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oh !!! That's what those ads were for !!!

Today I learnt ... :-)
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It's not new - I did my first assignment around 18 years ago - and it's not necessarily a bad thing if done right.

One problem is that assignments take too long and have over-optimistic estimates, which apart from taking up time can lead to feelings of self-doubt. Feedback on the assignments is lacking to no-existent, and this is an unforgivable sin in my book. Also, anything that looks more like a contribution to their own software than an academic test is a red flag.

The other options noted in the article are also pretty bad. Whiteboards and fibonacci numbers, forget it. "Pair programming" in an interview is deceptive, nothing like normal pairing; it's a test (fair enough, but don't call it pairing). It's also problematic for me because I have a problem with my eyesight and any "accommodation" requested up front tends to be inadequate, leaving me at a disadvantage.

For people with busy lives or family commitments, a short "interview prep homework" of 30-90 minutes would help the person to prepare, in their own time, in a relatively less pressured environment. The interviewer could then expand on this during the interview.

I've done assignments like this where it proved a useful opportunity to brush up on a particular language (if cross-training or coming back from management), sometimes
even enjoyed it. Also, it means recruiting is less of a numbers game - you might interview with a handful of companies instead of a dozen, choosing the ones you really care about.

IMHO what we're seeing is a terrible implementation of a reasonable idea.
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That was clearly the joke.
They blog (intermittently) at Sapiens Anonym.[1] They went dark for a bit due to what I gather were various medical, educational and relationship issues, but things have been picking up again lately.[2]

[1]https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/

[2]https://sapiensanonym.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/upcoming.html
They do have more info but they're really bad at processing it.
There is no doubt both parties are influenced by the money given to them, but maybe Democrats got more money because they needed to be moved farther from their natural position (toward that which the telecoms wanted).
Not a very transparent update, and the sentence "anyone who uses their TaskRabbit password on other websites and apps should change them" doesn't inspire much confidence that the passwords were stored very securely.
Yeah, you can see finite automata explicitly used in the PDF that's linked in the article itself: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~ginsparg/physics/INFO295/mh.pdf
Yes exactly that. The problem is that anyone can stitch a leg back on. We need people who can stitch the leg back on and the patient not die 3 months later or the leg fall off again.

If you look at other engineering disciplines there are formal structured approaches to education and testing leading to chartered engineers etc. We could really do with the same.

At the moment we have certifications which merely prove that the individual can pass an exam. I can routinely get near 100% on these sorts of test without knowing the subject or having any experience.
You’re giving the range for a 50% to 100% chance of non-transmission.

But in the spirit of the original question, I’d suppose we want to find n such that the probability of non-transmission is 2^-n, and the expected number of such transmissions is 1? Is that number similarly close?
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Some benchmarks I saw on Twitter.

https://gist.github.com/havenwood/6fed7dd17131330ae4fd36a06f...

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Personally, I just feel more socially intimidated when sending email than opening a GitHub pull request. In an email I feel like there's more of an expectation of at least basic pleasantries, whereas on GitHub I feel like I can get away with writing a good, matter-of-fact commit message and just leaving that as the PR message. Of course, most people are not as inhibited as I am…
I imagine it's hard to hire programmers.

When I was younger, I felt a written test should be the only factor in hiring.

If you can pass a very hard test in your speciality(almost any field); you get the job. It's bypasses all the nepotism, and subpar people with seemingly spectacular resumes. It's a fair way of hiring. Plus--there's a lot of diamonds in the mix, who didn't go to fancy schools, but are hungry, and get any job done.

I've given up on that because I have never seen just a test used extensively anywhere, except maybe the armed forces. Then again, George Bush jumped past a few hundred pilots because of his connections.

I'm now down to hire a local applicant for a few weeks. (A local applicant!)

See how they work out. And no--you don't want to drag a guy/woman across the country for a temp job, but hiring someone near the job site seems fair?

If the local does well in a few weeks--they get the job.

I've seen so many companies/entities feel they to hire nationally, and that new exotic employee is just an average dude with a fancy resume. The company stooges are happy because no one got their ego bruised, but the company just hired a foxey resume.

Now I'm thinking about it--there's probally a reason progressive companies make people jump through hoops. I imagine the industry hired too many subpar employees by just looking at the carefully crafted resume.

So, if I was hiring for a large company, I would make them jump through hoops too? Or, try to talk the owner into hiring just on test performance?

After all my rambling, guess spending a weekend, at the library, reading the Cracking the Coding Interview, by Iforgothername is not bad advice?
You are right, the business could fail but they have the option to pivot and sell rat hide, regulation would harm the possibilities of making money on the back of society.
There's nothing mysterious about the Allwinner boot process at least. While there's an on-chip boot ROM that can't be modified, it just loads a chunk of code into SRAM from the boot device and jumps to it at the highest privilege level supported by the hardware. It's not uncommon for everything after the boot ROM to be 100% open source code. That simply isn't possible on the Pi, which is why Debian doesn't support it out the box.

Also, the lack of power management on the Pi is mostly a hardware limitation. The hardware simply doesn't support any kind of software-controlled shutdown or suspend.
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> Also wired Ethernet.

This got me curious: I tried to plug ethernet cable to a phone via USB adapter, and to my surprise, it worked!

Simply got a prompt to configure ethernet IP settings.

Disabled wifi and mobile data, web browsing via ethernet connection worked fine.
are you willing to pay for it? Would you pay the candidate a reasonable sum

This would be additional income complicating tax, and many companies restrict employees from taking on outside paid work without approval.

No matter how you slice it, these multi-hour homeworks are a stupid idea. And the real reason for them is to discourage candidates to justify getting indentured labour instead. Or to discriminate against older workers with more existing time commitments.
> Musk and Tesla aren't our saviours. 'Less' is.

Agree on the first, but the second is hardly likely. We would have to devise some miraculous means of global collective decision-making, with an eye to long-term consequences. Not even the most Panglossian UN weeny could imagine we're within decades of this (millennia is more likely).

The moment evolution tossed up a creature with the cognitive flexibility to invade all niches, and evade population-scale threats to fitness, universal overrun was a biological inevitability. Next time perhaps.
How do you propose enforcing that? Telling society 'use less' doesn't work, just like saying 'smoking kills, stop it' doesn't work: you have to either enforce some policy like tax hikes or graphic images on packs, or introduce a new technology like vaping or nicotine patches.

There's a huge boom of solar at the moment not because people give a shit about the environment, but because the technology has made it a viable alternative, and tax incentives have reduced the barrier to entry.