skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also weeds out, disproportionately, those who have major obligations to family and other things outside of work I have no business asking about, regardless of marital status or children.

Guess which socioeconomic groups it tends to disadvantage most?

As a hiring manager (Director), I've long maintained the entire hiring process in tech is broken, and this movement toward requiring an arduous amount of unpaid personal time on "homework" is tantamount to abuse. Respect is a two-way street in the hiring process, and it starts with me showing them that respect for their time and obligations.
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Vs. Carbon Fiber, it depends on the application and intended use case

Re: aerospace, from a recent report, "Graphene can give multifunctional benefits to composites, including increased mechanical properties and conductivity. To protect against lightning strikes, the composite structures of aircraft contain metal meshes or have embedded conduc- tive wires. Graphene-containing composites could provide lightning-strike protection with the advantage of a simplified production process and weight reduction.

This year, a team comprising engineers and scientists from Airbus, Aernnova and Grupo Antolin have developed a prototype aircraft component using a graphene- based composite material. A section of the horizontal tail plane leading edge (HTPLE) of the Airbus A350 XWB was manufactured using industry standard resin transfer moulding of a graphene-based composite. The performance of this prototype compo- nent will be validated through electrical, mechanical and impact testing during the Core 2 phase."
I have a 27" Apple monitor at work and it comfortably supports 3-4 columns of text in Sublime. I'd much rather be able to have an extra column available rather than an extra 100 lines in a 1-2 column layout.
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I never see a shortage of people applying. I usually see a great shortage of people I want to hire.

Mid-level position, asking for 5 years of related experience? 85% of the resumes have no related experience. Fresh out of school, that is. The virtual pile gets much shorter when minimal criteria are applied.
Anecdote warning: As the happy owner of quite a few RPi, I had a really poor experience with the Rock64 (I know, it's not technically a Pine64). Multiple SD cards, mulitple power supplies and I can't get it to run for more than 5 minutes at a time without locking up. Doesn't appear to be a thermal issue as far as I can tell. Of course I probably just got a bad board, unfortunately after multiple emails I can't get a response from their customer service. I'm ready to just throw it in the trash. Really disppointed because I really just wanted an RPi with usb 3.0 and gigaibit ethernet, it seemed perfect.

edit: tried both armbian and android
I held off upgrading my personal desktop last year (and built Ryzen 1700 for work) then meltdown/spectre hit and I decided to wait for the 2700X, I'm glad I did more performance at less money and without the hit that Intel took, I'll likely build an R2700X in a month or two when any teething troubles have had time to hit the wire.
Why is this being down-voted? It's the truth.
What? Google has their TPUs to do their AI work. On the device they now have their PVC.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/building-ai-chip-saved-google-...
Google's TPU Chip Helped It Avoid Building Dozens of New Data ...
Thank you for summarizing this. I think you saved the global economy about 50 collective high paying IT hours :-)
The original Surface RT had a horrible aspect ratio. The actual screen is about 9.5" x 5.25", so it is almost double as wide as it is tall, in the normal orientation. It's really too narrow to be comfortable for reading in the portrait orientation. As a tablet, it just doesn't really work.

If you grew up in North America, the 4:3 ratio probably feels the most natural because it's closest to the standard 8.5"x11" Letter paper size that almost every sheet of paper you've dealt with in school is.
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I'm a student interested in building a task management application for a niche audience and not really sure how to begin marketing/building a customer base. Any advice would be helpful!
Another problem is the default styles for Bootstrap (which is very convenient for those of us who aren't graphic designers). If you resize or snap your windows to be half-width, they'll be relegated to the mobile styles. Bootstrap does this when the view width is at 960px or less which is exactly half of a 1080 screen (1920px). So even if your windows had no borders, you'll still end up with the mobile styles.
I am not sure many still argue core compute is not gf's core competency. If there are still many, I'd say they did a good job of hiding core competency.
Any interaction with the police is a potentially violent interaction with the State. Even if that were not the case, limiting infringement on your rights as much as possible is a good thing, and the government has limitations placed on it for this reason. Stopping people for 'random' checks may violate those limitations.
Yes, the ability to "tweet" and "share". Neither of which I ever do so it's just a bunch of wasted space.

My favorite is the headers that mess up scrolling with the space key -- scroll down then immediately scroll up because the header is covering part of the content.

And don't even get me started on sites (looking at you Medium) that have both headers and footers...
As far as I am aware there is no good reason to not use MariaDB instead of MySQL. The creator of MariaDB, Monty Widenius, was on a episode of the changelog podcast if you want to hear some background as to why.
But money is fungible, even among different currencies; think exchange rates.
Oh wow that is a 'slow' website. After initial site loading it used up 100% of one CPU core for all the animations. When scrolling up and down the hiding / changing side menus and ads make it even slower. That is an incredible piece of work on how not to do frontend.

EDIT: typo
Interactive Go Programming with Jupyter – Yu Watanabe – Medium
FWIW, SDRAM transfer rate isn't really a big performance driver. The bus is idle almost all the time on modern parts, which are dominated by the precharge/read-write cycle and not transfer. When the 512 bits of data actually arrives, it gets blasted out very fast. Shrinking that transfer time has a measurable effect, but it's not remotely linear in the clock frequency.
Exactly - a take-home test that will take more than ~2 (maybe 3) hours to complete is unreasonable. And it should be administered only after a preliminary phone screen.

I'm willing to give up an evening for a job that appeals to me and that I have a decent chance at landing. I'm not willing to give up all my weekday free time for a week or stay up until 3am. And I won't do either if you're not willing to first invest 15 minutes to make sure there's sufficient mutual interest to be worth my investment of hours.

If you don't respect my time before hiring, I assume you won't respect it after either.
That's the same in America. You see job posting like:

Developer position, independent contractor, 5+ years experience Erlang, COBOL, Salesforce, Active Directory, IBM Mainframe, and Java required. Starting salary: $40,000.

And they're whining that there is a great developer shortage in America but they did get some offers from overseas that claim to have those skills, if they could only get a H1B...
I hear writers with this complaint alot, too. But I've never understood it. Sure, if you've only got the one file, there's black/white space on either side of the column (if you're fullscreened and in full-on anti-distraction mode), but it's just never bothered me like it does everyone else. However, I find it's great to be able to split emacs vertically and have notes/documentation/outlines on the left and the actual document on the right and both hold an 80+ character line with my preferred font. And I wouldn't go back unless I had to.
I've thought about this before too, especially with forums. Here, for example, there are lots of non-native speakers who make little mistakes that I would like to correct. But some people see that as rude or as being overly picky. But when I'm learning a foreign language I want people to point out my mistakes.

I like the way that StackOverflow does it where you can request edits. That way it doesn't waste other people's time or interfere with the conversation.
> Lateral space is simply not as valuable as vertical space in desktop apps or on the web.

This easily boils down to the fact that our language is horizontal, and we don't read rotated text very well.

It informs design decisions, creating horizontal tab bars, menu bars, navigations, etc.
It is obviously not the same.
No one is going to learn to be an effective programmer using a smartphone.

I do expect a lot of people to install it, use it for 5 minutes, and never bother with it again. It's a perfectly suitable way to push people out of programming because there's no way you can get a real feel for it with a smartphone. All of the 'learn to "code"' applications that don't involve writing actual software seem like a giant waste of time and effort to me.
This would be fine if Facebook did not claim, essentially, to be an Irish company for all purposes that suit them. They're having their cake and eating it.
I've ended up having a bit of a row in an interview over this kind of thing because people just bias their tests to expectations they don't even have of their current staff. 1000 lines of decent code in 3 days is a rare thing at the best of times.

"we'd like you to just whiteboard some pseudo code for this problem that one of our senior engineers solved recently"

"was he stood in front of multiple people, timed and drawing on a whiteboard when he solved it?"

"no, but we're just wanting to see how you'd approach the problem"

"well, I'd probably do what he did which is Google some stuff, read some stuff, have time to process it, then write some code and then probably restart as I figure out the direction I want, probably bounce an idea off a colleague or two to make sure I'm not just in crazy tunnel vision land and then I might have the makings of a solution. Shall I whiteboard that flow diagram for you?"

interview ended abruptly at that point
It didn't seem to work out that way at the time; plenty of older people with kids were there.

Probably it helped that we were in a smallish college town w/o a ton of other tech, & this was a while ago when the tech job market wasn't as crazy hot as it is right now.

(Also, I want to emphasize, it was a challenging problem, but it wasn't a lot of code at the end of the day. If you knew what you wanted to do, you could knock it out in a couple of hours. But you had 3 days to mull it over or try different approaches. We were not asking you to build an app or something similar involving a ton of work.)

I'm sympathetic to the fact that it's a big ask, but I really truly feel like it gave me a much better sense of candidates than just an interview & a resume (what we do at the company I work at now).

It was also a fun problem to solve, and people would tend to continue to refine their solutions (to be better and faster) competitively even after they'd joined.

FWIW.
Because the probability of random collision for hash function is same as probability of generating two colliding random bit strings of same length as the hash.
There are some nice features that MySQL lacks. Personally, the thing I like best in Postgres is transactional DDL. In MySQL, if halfway through a database transformation your migration script fails, you are in a broken state and you are on your own. Postgres rolls the whole transaction back. Ofcourse there are some other features MySQL lacks, such as variable length character columns (varchar) where you don't need to specify a maximum length.

The transactional DDL seems to be introduced in MySQL per 8.0 though
It’s just a doc that I printed out. The hardest part was actually coming up with it, and then narrowing it down to just the most important things so that the whole thing fits on one page. It’s partially inspired by Ray Dalio’s “Principles” book.

Examples:

- If not "hell yes" then "no."

- Everything can survive one hour.

- If it's <$100 and benefits well being, productivity, or revenue: Buy it. If >$100 decide by Friday.

- No calls on Fridays.
Axis of evil (cosmology)
Flying does make me nervous. When the driving time to a destination is less than about 6 hours or so, I seriously consider going by car, even though I know it's more dangerous. At least in a car, I'm in control of the vehicle, and will have something to do in an emergency (try to swerve, pull over, etc.). As a passenger on a plane all I can do is sit and wait for my doom.
Both instances used the CFM-56[0] engine, and I was reading on /r/aviation about how this engine has had prior problems. I don't know too much about aircraft engineering so I can't comment.

Also apparently there is a disturbing trend of outsourcing maintenance to other countries which makes it harder for the FAA to enforce regulations[1]. Southwest for example sends their planes to El Salvador.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFM_International_CFM56

[1]https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...
If they make CUDA the industry standard by porting it to AMD, and then Nvidia is still able to control the standard, over the long term AMD will always be in the position of having to catch up.
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A lot of modern RAM can hit 3200 MT/s within the specified voltage settings. RAM literally has gotten better over the past few years, but "official" JEDEC timings lag behind.

Its why Intel has XMP: so that your sticks of RAM will talk to the motherborad and automatically overclock themselves to factory-tested values these days.

These "easy overclocks" I'm talking about are very simple! The factory gives you an XMP profile of the RAM under specified conditions, and then the motherboard enables a checkbox for XMP-profiles in the BIOS.

No need to tweak timings or anything. These days, overclocking RAM is a question of "Do you want to run your RAM at the speed tested at the factory" ?? Or would you rather run RAM at speeds specified by JEDEC from 2014?

Every RAM manufacturer worth a darn has an XMP setting, where they've thoroughly tested the RAM at these higher speeds. You might as well spend a minute, click the button in the BIOS/UEFI prompt and accept the free performance benefit.
True, but those people who moved out found that the externalities of their driving made driving itself less pleasant. It's great to live in the suburbs and drive in to the city when you're the only one doing it. When parking gets scarce or the roads are too narrow or congestion is bad, though, it gets annoying. For the US, the response was to mandate large amounts of parking and large roads that are built so they can move a certain number of cars a certain distance per hour. However, little thought was given to the fact that by doing so, you end up making the distances larger, because everything's farther apart, because it's surrounded by parking (among other reasons), wider streets, larger interchanges, etc.

Those things that make driving more pleasant also make walking less pleasant (walking next to Wilshire blvd in LA isn't exactly pleasant, for instance), so more people drive, so more people demand auto-oriented infrastructure, and so on.
I don't think you understand how browsers on mobile report resolutions. Those HiDPI devices report widths and heights as the actual widths and heights divided by the device pixel ratio.
Not the op but I use Butler Bot (which is different from their powerup). It's been awesome--I use it automate moving tasks around on my lists based on conditions (like cards due today are pushed to the top), for creating recurring tasks or posting reminder comments. It can basically be programmed to do almost anything for you.
Why not yell at both? Perhaps my senator hasn't/isn't doing enough to protect my privacy but Facebook is actively undermining it.

I really hate to tie it to this term because of the political implications but it really is this weird victim-blaming. A corporation is actively compromising the privacy of hundreds of millions of people and somehow it's our fault for not stopping them. That logic just doesn't fly with me.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t asking for the number of souls is basically asking how many people are (still) alive, as opposed to asking about the number of persons, which would also include deceased people? If someone died during the incident, given that the pilot is not a doctor with the medical authority to decide who’s alive and who isn’t, would that person still be reported as a soul?
Of course not. He's just invoking all of those elements in a provocative sounding statement for no particular reason.
Been playing another game from Google this week with the wife and a lot of fun.

https://kotaku.com/google-s-new-word-game-is-fun-but-weirdly...
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Where? It's just a way to check single domain/ip/page if it's blacklisted or not. They don't give access to entire blacklist.
One of the most interesting new features to me is full support of MySQL 8.0 as a JSON based document store using the new DevAPI[1].

There is a separate blog post highlighting it: https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-announcing-ga-of-the-m...

1. https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/devapi-users...
I had to choose on starting "homework" and accepting another job offer. I chose the job.
ASICs are great
would you be willing to pay for a proxy service that took a url that used non-free JS and rendered it to pure dom that you could then view without JS ?

any sense of whether other people that care about such things would be willing to pay ?
Also discussed here in great detail:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/12/bruce_bueno_de_1.ht...

> Political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of NYU and co-author of The Spoils of War talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how presidents go to war. Bueno de Mesquita argues that the decision of how and when to go to war is made in self-interested ways rather than in consideration of what is best for the nation. The discussion includes a revisionist perspective on the presidencies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and others as Bueno de Mesquita tries to make the case that the reputations of these men are over-inflated.
> I certainly wouldn't be able to live with myself if I knew I was writing software with the explicit purpose of being able to track down rebels in Yemen, catch illegal immigrants, and violate the constitutional rights of millions of Americans.

Perhaps open-source licenses should explicitly exclude use in certain applications. Even if not legally enforceable, it would serve as a constant reminder to developers who DO work in these fields of what they are doing.
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"Ultimately trust in the government and that law enforcement ... is a force for good and prevents many bad things from happening every single day, is at the heart of the palantir philosophy."

Trust is built on transparency, accountability, responsibility.

Can I make FOIA requests to Palantir?
I’m curious about the financial modeling bit - would you mind expanding on that?
Mmm tried to fill as a dating site, but it doesn't seem to fit the available options
Redshift is forked off an ancient Postgres version, consider using a more recent (10 or 11 beta) real Postgres version.
I agree with this sentiment. We offer candidates a choice of initial step before an onsite interview:

- A short phone interview using a collaborative editing tool like CoderPad.

- An example project they can complete independently and turn in. We've designed this project to take about 2 hours to complete.

Almost universally, candidates choose the "take home" project option.
I work for a fortune 500 company.

We want to automate everything but we fight against the odds.
In fact, I work with people that "don't believe in automation". I don't even understand the sentence.

BTW:
Docker, Ansible, an in-house tool somewhat similar to OpenStack, Go and Python.
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Nobody is asking for rotated text. There are many applications that have mini dockable assistant windows on either side of the main document window. Our file system browsers list items vertically, so can our browsers. Hell, most do with bookmarks, just not active tabs. It's more a problem of group think and the trend towards reduced customization that causes this, not language direction.
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> A free house though is a free house. It does not become any less of a houses just because more people have houses.

What about houses that are damaged or destroyed? Will your "trivial" system repair or replace them? What if the occupant is responsible for the damage or destruction? What if this is the second or third such free home they've destroyed?

And how will people move? Can they move? Can people trade homes? Can they still buy and sell them? If a person sells their home will your system give them another one for free?
I love mailing lists. They're a natural filter and get rid of a lot of the demographic you don't want in the first place.
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Here's a different benchmark (video rendering) that still places all the 8th gen Intel chips above Ryzen 2:

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/After-Effects-CC-...

I assume these tests are unpatched Intels though. Since my use case for CPU is video rendering and not gaming, I still don't have a reason to switch to Ryzen, as much as I want one. Threadrippers are still way out of my price range (~$1K) and are about the same performance as top tier i7 8th gen.
Similar to that is that a lot of desktop sites often don’t look right if the window is taller than it is wide.
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This kind of debate has been going on forever and it will continue as formats for random purposes are invented at random times in history. There is no next better aspect ratio or pixel density that we should move to so we do our best. If we suddenly switch who is to say the next big unknown thing suddenly makes 14:10 the best ratio for the next 10 years?
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PHP. No framework is needed. Just use "system" and flush the output.
Yeah, if you don't have a custom PCB otherwise it's probably not the best fit.
Isn't LA famously 40% car-related (road, parking, service) by area? A prime example of the cost of externalities.
One thing that this shows is that many accepted cryptographicaly secure RNGs are in fact insufficient for shuffling decks of cards. I'm not sure how one would go about exploiting the resulting bias, but it is probably somehow exploitable.
For those interested, I built small project https://dailycognitivebias.com which basically send you every day a random cognitive bias to your inbox.
That's not it. It's just garbled. "availability heuristic" means that recent or related-to-current-situation events are easier to remember than other, so they bias your mental estimate of "average" or "sum".
I'm sympathetic to the merits of tough love; I've often been the most willing to step forward and impart it. But I've spent enough time in the company of people in desperate need that I know when it can do more harm than good. I can accept that you were trying to help, but if I might direct some tough love at you, the best of intentions can lead to very bad outcomes if they're not accompanied by a sincere effort to understand the entire circumstances of the person you're trying to help.