skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ray Dalio's Principles is such an amazing book. I use his 5-step process every single day. Here's a great summary for anyone interested. https://inside.bwater.com/publications/principles_excerpt
That is why I said "at the moment". It also depends heavily on what extensions are contributed and how and whether they are standardized, etc.

Certainly missing LSP functionality helps everyone, but the rest depends quite a lot on approach and details.
I always wondered how Quanta put such high quality material out in a traditionally low-profit industry. Now I know!
Allegiant Air: The budget airline flying under the radar
> good, they’ll look random again

They might look random, but they contain the same amount of entropy as the original data and are longer. Also, the encoding is deterministic.
Isn't 3D rendering a scene like this something everyone would just use a GPU for?
This really triggered you.
I mean we can't have it both ways. You either hire with heavy credentialism or cronyism or you hire based on whatever trivial markers you can come up with for instant validation. Companies are trying tons of different validation markers, from white boarding, take home, stuff like triplebyte.

The bottom line is you can't instantly validate how someone will perform over the course of a year or more. It takes time. But nobody wants to spend time so...
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'dang: Suggestion in light of this comment: Maybe users should be autobanned if they have N flags within M minutes of account creation. This is an obvious troll account, but as of now it'll take way too long (IMO) for them to be banned. Something to think about!
I really enjoyed Seven Men, by Metaxas. It profiles the substantial legend and actual known history behind one of the most amazing men in U.S. history (along with six others).

It explains the roots of Washington's incredible ambition and some of his worst decisions, and contrasts them against his amazing decision to not assume the throne in the immediate post-war period, even at a crucial point: when his army needed him to and actually painted him into a corner to force him to do so, and when the nascent Republic was crumbling and he could have taken the reins with the best of intentions and restored order after a bitter and divisive war. That he didn't assume power, even for a 'short' period, is simply astounding.

I also enjoyed Washington's Secret Six, about his (even today) little-known spy ring and how they communicated, even in the midst of fashionable (Tory/loyalist/pro-British) New York society at the time. Capture would mean torture, imprisonment, and likely execution as a spy, even in the civilized world of the eighteenth century. The opsec and infosec that they practiced was, well, revolutionary. (ahem)

It's also amazing that Washington, after serving as a Colonel in His Majesty's army, was effectively a traitor against the King and so would have probably been executed had the Revolutionary War been lost, and yet it's obvious that he was never fighting for his own life: he was fearless. He was fighting for something greater.
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I've had this happen once. I applied for a standard Rails dev position. After the first interview they wanted me build some sort of standard CRUD app in Rails on my own time at home with specific requirements. I already had a full time job, as well as a family, so even though there was nothing difficult about it, I told them I probably wouldn't have time. They gave me extra time, I said okay. A few days before it was "due" I told them I wouldn't have time. They said they understood, and asked when I could come in for the next interview. I guess it was just optional homework?
> Tree-style or vertical tabs are perfect for this. But for some reason, all browser vendors follow each other, don't build alternative options (or count on the community to do it if they even allow that)

Vivaldi has in the options (without any 3rd party add-on) a possibility to put your tab bar either on top, left, right, or bottom.
Yes, another option. I guess my primary concern is sharing client IP with a non-employee.

My tests took about 10min to write and 1-2hrs to complete and then we could do an apples to apples comparison across candidates.

My concern about client work would be the time it would take to bring someone up to speed as well.
you're not even close to correct

searching whoishiring for java with a filter of contract returns exactly 1 result in the usa. the same search on just upwork gives 120 results, and there are 80 other sites listed

the list is very much needed
when you don't know what your schema is going to look like, why not use a Nosql solution

Because one day soon, you will know what your schema is going to look like. And the next 10 years of your business will be a lot more pleasant had you optimized for them rather than the first week of greenfield development.
"start to think" ?

Microsoft went from Windows 2000 to Windows XP then to Vista and then to 7. If people haven't already been thinking that, this isn't what's going to start it, IMHO.
>> It's not more space. My 4:3 monitor has a resolution of 1600x1200. That's 180 lines of pixels more than a 1080p screen which is about 13 lines of text.

And it's 320 less lines horizontally.

What matters to you may not matter to the next person, because their use case is different from yours.

No matter what laptop (and monitor) manufacturers do with respect to aspect ratio, they're never going to please everyone with their design decision.
A permanent function that tries to break into my systems in order to create structural pressure to think about security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team
Yeah, but I have a million monkeys^Wdevelopers at my back for Javascript/Typescript. How many divisions does Lisp have?
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Lend Lease was critical before then. USSR lost ~20500 tanks late 41, that's the kind of production scale they needed to stay in the war.

It's true England provided a significant material directly at the end of 41, but IMO a larger role was covering critical shortages. The Soviet Union could cover gaps in their supply chain with foreign assistance vastly increasing the value of that aid independent from the total quantities of aid. A factory without a few critical pieces of equipment can be crippled.

On top of that, 30 to 40 percent of the entire heavy and medium tank strength of Soviet forces at Moscow was from lend lease but that's not just useful there it also means they could spread forces around more of the front. Under a minimum number and tanks are far less useful and fairly easy to take out.

Longer term all those trucks and other equipment allowed the soviets to focus more production on the war effort. They had finite steel production for example and needed to make the best use of it possible.

So, assuming Germany a one front war where Germany would have advanced further and forced the USSR to deal with even more decimated supply chains. AKA, a pure 1v1 situation I suspect the USSR would have folded fairly quickly abet still inflicting heavy casualties.

Again though, this is an alternate history without a England or USA being involved so no resistance in Africa etc.
Somewhat lower because of transaction costs associated with barter and black markets but it still has value.
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Fun fact - Americans invented this concept. If you're doing anything fintech with a citizen of U.S., you have to uphold to certain regulations invented by the U.S.A. Even if you're doing it on European grounds.
>You can implement a cloudflare dns so that people(or bots) are not able to scrape your content. even you can have robot authentication checking methods like google recaptcha to prevent scraping of content.

There are entire captcha farm industries dedicated to 'automating' the filling out of captchas using mTurk and similar crowdsourcing services for nearly nothing,to say nothing of exploits for the captchas themselves.

Nothing can be done to prevent the scraping of web content, at all. If a site can be loaded into a browser, it can be scraped. It's just a matter of the result being worth the effort.
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Frightening to think of how FB will manage a chip platform given their reckless behavior with our data. I hope it never leaves the whiteboard.
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[I'm the Cloud SQL TL] We do recommend connection pooling whenever possible. You save server resources, but you also save connection latency.
I agree it's the best way to tell if the candidate is a fit. But, I think resume + phone screen (or 2) + an on-site can be almost as good, and not limit your talent pool. The on-site could even include working with the team. What you describe would require me to take PTO from work... to work. Sure I'm getting paid, but I'd tell you no thanks. Others without decent PTO and full-time jobs wouldn't even have that choice
The FAIRtax eliminates the most regressive tax for low earners--the Social Security/Medicare tax. The FAIRtax also provides an exemption up to the poverty level for all households with valid SS cards. It also eliminates the IRS and filing. If more money is needed for lower income then pay directly not through tax code.
Rando from the internet thinks OP is right on target.
I feel like "souls" is not at all clear about the dogs :)
Isn't the obvious answer to simply pay candidates $50 hr?

This is still far cheaper than the costs of hiring the wrong candidate.
Heartbleed? Get ready for Facegash!
Ah, misremembered exactly what the issue was -- you're right, individual endpoints can be whitelisted. Internal networks cannot, which is what I (or anyone else using GKE) would need, since node IPs are ephemeral.

I believe the same issue would apply to VM instances that are not pets, (in auto-scaling groups for example), since I'm not aware of being able to auto-assign static IPs there either.
Sure, it's nice, but again, being pragmatic, nobody else has desired such a thing that much.

Ie so far the "lots of people" have not materialized, even outside clangd.

I can certainly think of use cases for such a thing, but most people seem happy enough with json-rpc at the moment.

Part of that is likely that trying to speak LSP over a non local connection may be a fools errand anyway. It's a chatty protocol no matter what the transport.
Whiteboard is cruel for actual coding. It's too far removed from your normal tools. Whiteboarding can be good for architectural design or stepping through something.

A sixty minute screen share is the sweet spot for me. They get to use whatever environment they are familiar with. Seeing someone work in their environment also tells you potentially a lot about the candidate.

Staff engineer that can't navigate their debugger?

Senior engineer that codes by copying every line off of stack overflow and mashing the keyboard until the lines somehow work?

Bootcamp graduate that builds test cases in Excel?

Junior engineer that writes code in notepad.txt and pastes it into a Python shell?

All things that I've seen happen that tell a different story than a whiteboard or a 3 hour submitted homework test.
Canning the can’t – fun with homonyms and word vectors
That's creepy good. It somehow usually sends me biases that have affected me that same day.
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When reading text, I believe the opposite to be true. It's why newspapers use relatively narrow columns of text despite having a lot of width to work with. It's much easier to keep my place and process information if I don't have to move my eyes much horizontally.

When it comes to scanning for unexpected information, you may be right. A high aspect ratio might be better suited for gaming, at least with games where a significant element is scanning the screen for information and responding to it quickly.

One more data point to throw in is that according to Wikipedia, the human field of view is approximately 1.5:1. That suggests to me that 1.5:1 is a good aspect ratio for a general-purpose display. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye#Field_of_view
> TSA makes me drive exponentially more than I would otherwise.

So you're saying that the rate of increased driving due to the TSA is proportional to the total miles you've driven?

That is a problem.
That is why a huge number of people in Hill Country have helicopter insurance. It they have a medical emergency a helicopter will land on their hill and fly them to a medical center.
No, you can't always do this (e.g. Blender Cycles does support CUDA and OpenCL, but only if you don't use their shading language thing), and it's not always better (e.g. according to Gamers Nexus, a Threadripper 1950X beats a GTX 1080 Ti significantly on their test scene)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TE3WYUVj4U
What kind of databases were used in your case for the analysis?
Was it only the databases you provided them? Or are there also some generic sources Palantir provides by default? Or do they even cross-reference data from different clients?
> Since the Ireland office is in the EU, it is subject to the GDPR. So that means that everybody outside of the US will be covered by the GDPR

Can someone explain this as my understanding is that only EU residents are covered by GDPR. So EU based companies do not have to comply with GDPR for non EU residents.

So this change to the user terms seems to me to have nothing to do with GDPR. The EU privacy law cannot be applied to non EU residents.
Uh, yes that was indeed the point of my comment, thank you for restating that. If video was the only important thing, 16:9 across the board would be important. But going the other way to 4:3 is a vast over correction as it would make the screen nearly useless for video.
No, you have it right. They charge me in USD and I pay in USD but, as nmjenkins says, the payment is processed in AUS-the-country, though not AUS-the-currency. Sorry for the confusion.

For what it is worth, Fastmail has been as good as they can be with this issue, but they're at the mercy of my bank as much as I am.
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[I'm the Cloud SQL TL] Confirmed. We know it's a problem that we need to fix. HA reduces downtime in unexpected failure cases (live migration for your primary only helps in planned shutdown cases, not if the physical machine fails), but doesn't currently help with maintenance-related downtime.
Time to shine. :-)

I have a Rasperry Pi sitting at home, which is running Chrome headless to scrap some webpages on a 2/3 hours interval between 8am and 11pm, stores the data scraped on a Redis instance on the same machine, then with a PHP script I push these data in another interval straight on a FB page via IFTTT because I'm to lazy to implement the FB auth myself or use more than a POST request.
One big issue that a take home assignment is that it removes the ability for the candidate to ask questions. Interviews are two-way streets.

Nowadays, I reject more companies than I interview for based on an initial phone conversation. I have requirements in what I look for in a company and position, and some simple questions help me resolve many of the primary requirements. Given a take home exam, I will have invested hours of my time, before given a chance to screen the company.

Just say no. End the madness.

EDIT: I should add that when I mention a phone conversation, I meant with someone on the dev team, not HR. A take home exam after only an HR phone screen is not acceptable.
Toshiba released a real widescreen laptop a few years back. The 845W. 21:9, 1792x768 pixels. It was neat, Staples or OfficeMax (I can't remember) blew them out for $499, but I ended up returning it because 768 pixels is just not enough room to get anything done. Besides, it had all the issues of a typical Windows laptop of the time, battery life wasn't very good, touchpad was terrible, etc.

Sony also tried this with the VAIO P, in a smaller format with a 1600x768 screen.
> Holy shit fuck mailing lists. They're terrible.

What do you find terrible about them? When browsing email lists like the one used for developing git itself, I find it very easy to go through various patch sets and follow the discussion they have on each commit. My client makes it easy to search for subjects, expand or collapse threads, search for authors, etc.

The emails themselves are easy to read and don't require an excessive amount of scrolling to go through even if the patch set has multiple commits. It's quite easy to see comments on a patch set inline with the patch itself.
You've only got 2 years, get started now! If you need to do it gradually (as would be wise for a gigantic codebase), start using `six` to make your codebase forwards-compatible. Then when all your tests pass on python3, cut over, and remove `six`.

(Or take a gamble on Google taking over support for Python2 when it officially goes EOL, I suppose).
Samsung's Chromebook Plus has a 3:2 2400x1600 display, and it scales flawlessly.
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This is a very reasonable task, but most of the take-home projects I've gotten (for both frontend and backend) have been significantly larger.

The worst one was for Optimizely, who asked me to write an entire website (front-end using React, backend in Python) which will display a list of products from a database, including full tests. I determined that boilerplate and configuration would take me about 5 hours, with maybe another 5-6 hours of actual coding. They even offered to pay me something like $15/hour (literally nothing) to do this. I said no.
Something along the lines of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil"? ;) https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license
Yeah that’s been on the back burner for a while. It’s using an extremely old version and frankly I forgot about it until you mentioned. :/

We’re using the latest version on http://leanin.org
Name is, email is, IP combined with either (or both) is.
Agreed. I guess you could make the contract route optional. I mean have the standard interview route or the contract route - ask the candidates to pick what they want.
Adobe does a terrible job with multithreaded chips in general, it seems. Instead of investing in faster chips, is there faster software you can get for a couple hundred? Ex-Lightroom user here; got way more performance by changing tools than I ever could have with better hardware.
Not paying for the work doesn’t circumvent most moonlighting policies. The first company still likely claims ownership of your work. Enforcement of that can be tricky, but I doubt that’s a battle most people want to have.
Well, wow. And it’s not even missing JS or anything.
would it be worth it starting on $99 and upgrading to Ryzen 7 later on.

I was going to do that with AM3 but then they dropped the socket. and the upgrade path is quite big here if it's all on the same socket.
"This matched my intuition nicely!"

His intuition was that it would be between 48 and 128, and he's patting himself on the back that his calculation resulted in a number between those? Those goalposts are super far apart!
But the sequence is irrelevant.

HT is equal to TH, because in this situation we only care whether the two coins are equal to each other or different from each other.
When a company is named after the crystal ball an evil wizard uses to spy on his enemies in The Lord of The Rings, and that company's founder was the first large investor in Facebook, and that same founder is able to fund company ending lawsuits against media outlets, headlines like this are akin to "water is wet"
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> actively compromising the privacy of hundreds of millions of people

What sensationalist falsehood is this?!
Right, several non-major browsers do this with major browser's rendering engines (I wrote one: https://cretz.github.io/doogie/). I am criticizing the big four browser vendors specifically as opposed to the community.
A random lottery for high demand low supply places.

So a bunch of people with no ties to SF will get a place for free that they'll sublet (and then live somewhere else). How does this not distort the market?

When you’re giving stuff away you always have to accept people wasting it.

So much for saving money with those economics of scale.

Considering it’s the only basic car people can get I doubt they will just sell it off so easily.

There's always a buyer if it's cheap enough. The State buys for $10000, the person sells for $500, then the distributor sells it Latin America or Africa for $2000.

Plus regulation can easily block export of basic cars.

Legal export, sure. Illegal, not really. And especially if the owner is complicit.
React too - 0.14.9 -> 15.0.0
It was a Windowsism, but I guess these days it's a smartphone/tabletism
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And there are all sorts of well known solutions that let you create separate solutions for OLTP and OLAP. You don't have to have one type of data store to rule them all.
The article didn't mention why 16:9 screens are chosen over 16:10 screens. You have to make 5% less pixels (screen area) which is a direct cost saving. You can still market your screen at 13" but make it for less money. The more vendors that go for this cost saving approach, the more you gain from economies of scale which drives down the cost further (or drives up the cost of 16:10). Since people look at screen diagonal over screen area, they are usually none the wiser.
The Facebook of Things, delightful.
> Also, if one wants to ensure that the whole lineage will be with us 20 years from now, a mailing list is a better bet than all the Gerrits and Githubs of the world.

Unfortunately, email lists are not easy to browse if you're not subscribed and browsing past messages from before you described isn't that easy. The easiest way I've found around that problem is to use an email to NNTP gateway like gmane. Though that makes me wonder why project discussion isn't managed via a newsgroup as opposed to an email list.
Ah. To me it sounded like you were saying their benchmarks were more "honest" and didn't contain some bias the others did because they bypassed the NDAs. Thanks for clarifying!
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>> Aspect ratios are one thing but a number of tasks are just better in portrait.

Aspect ratios and orientation are moot if you have more real estate and pixels.

If you were to have something like a 55" curved 8K monitor and good eyesight (or glasses), aspect ratio would be less important to you, since that screen would cover most of your field of view while still providing you with high pixel density.
Have you tried developing your junior talent instead of driving them away so you need to fill a gap at mid-level?
You must abide by GDPR if your organisation is based in the EEA [1].

Edit: Is further backed up by Recital 22 [2].

[1] https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/who-must-comply/
[2] https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-22/
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A widely propagated myth.

GPUs were largely programmable parallel processors by the time they became in vogue for deep learning.

Bill Dally (nVidia chief scientist) has said that the hard wired graphics takes up so little die area that it is essentially negligible in terms of cost for them.

Plus, the latest Volta chips have "tensor cores" the equivalent of little TPUs.
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> I am not sure which feature you refer to here

The same complaint that every single person brings up about MySQL when being compared to Postgres, including in this thread: DDL changes made during transactions cannot be rolled back.