skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have to go through exams and other assessment before they can put the title on their CV. They've been tested multiple times on their ability to 'take vitals' and other basic parts of their job.

Anyone can call themselves a software engineer, even if no one has ever tested their ability to reverse a linked list, or solve fizz buzz, or even write 'hello world' in a language of their choice.
Cool idea! It'd be nice if there was a feature to have your updates automatically publish to Twitter or Facebook.
Right, but it is useful for "how many EMS personnel might we require".
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Check your premise.

It sounds to me that an assumption is being made because they didnt meet the expectations within a fixed time period. The danger with this is that this is not a real world scenerio of how two people would approach a task or problem. It’s also important to recognize that everyone is different with regards to how they process information. Stress has a real biological effect on how the brain processes information, and who doesnt feel stressed during an interview.

I’m somewhat autistic and struggle to process verbal information. But I try not to share that with people because I choose not to be labeled by it. It’s unfortunate that in our society that we have to conceal things like that.

All of us could be better at trying to understand people around us and accepting them for who they are instead of scrutinizing them for what they are not.
Broken documentation: Architecture image is missing. https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/architecture.html

Hope someone from the team reads this.
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RYZEN seems to like fast memory more than Itel one review I just looked at said that the new RYZENS are targeting 3400
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> If you just give people money, its easier to administer, everyone in the program gets the same cash, theres no inventory to administer, theres nothing to check.

You'll also get rid of all the public sector workers which represent a significant population cohort that is directly and personally invested preserving the rulling regime and also the status quo. Once you lose that, you destabilize a whole society.
I like the idea! Very much actually. It's a real problem - the discrepancy between actual skills and how your CV looks.

In that it reminded me of the way that Basecamp hires - which is that in the "final rounds" they actually hire the candidates to do some small project that is actually needed at Basecamp - just another way of getting at the bottom of what a person can actually do rather than how they look on paper.
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Any documents on the core algorithms?
I always felt it was the other way around - using MOOCs or online tutorials makes applying machine learning to business problems in practice a whole lot easier. But in terms of inventing new algorithms, deeply understanding the theory and origin of things, and doing active ML/AI research, that still seems to be in the realm of requiring a PhD (i.e. the difference between a "data scientist" and an ML/AI researcher).
I always use https://i.reddit.com. It's their years-old mobile site and it's super fast and reliable.
See this excellent post: Neutral vs. Conservative - The Eternal Struggle http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservative...
Lucky for you but that doesn’t help anyone who is targeted for some reason – remember all of the city subreddits getting “helpful” contributions from racists highlighting crimes committed by black people? The Internet shouldn’t just be for white guys even if we’ve gotten used to thinking of ourselves as the default.
You are 100% right. In design work roles, people like to look at and review people's portfolios. They do it all the time. I suppose that maybe at least in that case, it's easier to verify that their work is their own? I don't know. I definitely do not think that programmers are any more or any less dishonest than most other professions.
The only thing I can think of is maybe the 8700 has better binning and is able to hit its turbo speed while putting out less heat and so is able to maintain its turbo speeds for longer than the 8700k.

I think it is more likely to just be testing margin of error
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Can it read the assembly manual too ?
That's a bunch of hooey used to justify crappy interviewing practices. Now there are people who say that have those degrees that don't, but that's verified by a simple phone call to the school.
That's what the upvote button is for.
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Then he should say "virulent ur-fascists."
> I can't imagine Reddit without subs.

Reddit didn't even have comments at first!

https://web.archive.org/web/20050804002153/http://www.reddit...
Nordic?
I'm implementing an LSP server using IDEA as a backend, so hopefully VS Code will be able to match the functionality sometime.

https://github.com/Ruin0x11/intellij-lsp-server

That being said, as an implementor I'm finding cases where LSP's feature set is underdeveloped. For example, there is nothing in the spec to account for renaming files, so I can't put in my rename action without the behavior being incorrect (because if you rename a class in Java you have to rename the corresponding file, which IDEA handles). Also some things require custom LSP requests, like getting the list of build configurations to run. I think this is a product of the Java support in IDEA being so much more comprehensive than anything in LSP so far. But hopefully as the spec is improved these issues will be worked out.
There is "right wing" and there is "far right nationalism." Reddit has an issue with the latter. I have talked with many conservatives lamenting the loss of their given subreddits to trolls and /r/t_d devotees.

Furthermore, it is the internet - I've never been convinced by any argument that HN or reddit or even facebook has any obligation to give "fair time" to far-right nationalism. For as long as Fox News exists and promotes itself as an actual news agency (HAH!), I don't think community-generated content websites need to bother.

Why doesn't the far-right just "pull itself up by its boostraps" and make a reddit for the far-right? (sidenote, sometimes this does happen, and it almost always is full of the most comically hateful people: see voat)
Using a tool like diskplorer (mentioned in article 1) to gather the concurrency and IOPS relations at various read sizes (mentioned in article 2) seems like it a good datapoint for use in tuning a database filesystem. https://github.com/avikivity/diskplorer
yes, we should shut down the entire graph if it is leaking like a sieve, I don't understand why that is a question.
I'll try to give you a quick introduction. The architecture talk I recorded for new engineers working on the product ran to four or five hours, I think :-). In short, it is serializable optimistic MVCC concurrency.

A FDB transaction roughly works like this, from the client's perspective:

1. Ask the distributed database for an appropriate (externally consistent) read version for the transaction

2. Do reads from a consistent MVCC snapshot at that read version. No matter what other activity is happening you see an unchanging snapshot of the database. Keep track of what (ranges of) data you have read

3. Keep track of the writes you would like to do locally.

4. If you read something that you have written in the same transaction, use the write to satisfy the read, providing the illusion of ordering within the transaction

5. When and if you decide to commit the transaction, send the read version, a list of ranges read and writes that you would like to do to the distributed database.

6. The distributed database assigns a write version to the transaction and determines if, between the read and write versions, any other transaction wrote anything that this transaction read. If so there is a conflict and this transaction is aborted (the writes are simply not performed). If not then all the writes happen atomically.

7. When the transaction is sufficiently durable the database tells the client and the client can consider the transaction committed (from an external consistency standpoint)

The implementations of 1 and 6 are not trivial, of course :-)

So a sufficiently "slow client" doing a read write transaction in a database with lots of contention might wind up retrying its own transaction indefinitely, but it can't stop other readers or writers from making progress.

It's still the case that if you want great performance overall you want to minimize conflicts between transactions!
The best option I've seen were recently-solved small problems. We would roll back a few commits, take that code into the room with the candidate, and pair-program a solution or partial solution in a fairly tightly-scoped time period, and then review the solution with another interviewer. That way, we've got an idea of what to work towards, usually still a pretty solid sense of where the problem exists in the context of the overall app, and we hit a couple of crucial skillsets - collaborating on a project, reviewing code. It wasn't perfect, but it worked reasonably well.
> It apparently doesn't present a threaded view like a mail/news client would

Not the same as a mail client, but once you opened an individual email there's threaded structure.

> and downloading the mbox file requires one to authenticate with the server.

It does, but also says “Please authenticate with user archives and password antispam” - it's just to make automated extraction of email addresses a bit more work.
I think it's very dangerous to conceive of social subreddits as any sort of "safe space" due to competing access needs.
> I definitely think that dumb content makes the consumer dumber with repeated exposure

Sure, but even if that turns out to be the case what concerns me is how often people automatically take the next step and assume that it should or CAN be controlled top-down, and that doing so will surely result in the average/lowest common denominator consumer suddenly becoming smarter and less ignorant.

Basically the assumption that it is such a significant problem, that people would be far better informed/smarter if we just banned/regulated what some central organization or individual mega-corporations deem as not good content.

That's a significant leap - and one that I feel is very often disconnected in these discussions. Just because problem X exists, doesn't mean solution Y will solve it. Or that problem X is a significant enough problem that the rewards will warrant the costs/risks of attempting to fix it.
IANAL but my TLDR is Swarm applied for US licencing to launch, got told no, because there devices are too small for some ground based tracking systems, but launched anyways because they already had bought space on an Indian launch and they didn't have time to move ownership to a better regulatory body. On the plus side it's time to look at who owns the support & development contract for the air-forces satellite radar, probably LockMart, because they will probably get a contract to improve to a 5cm or less resolution.
Hello HN!

We have been seeing quite a lot of conversations in customer support teams around tagging tickets (used as part of triggers, macros, analytics, etc). And we know how its hard and time consuming process.

This is why we built a MonkeyLearn extension for Zendesk (that we are releasing today) to help this tagging process with machine learning.

With this integration, MonkeyLearn will automatically tag and categorize incoming tickets into Zendesk. It will predict the value of a given field based on the subject and content of a ticket (it uses your historical data to train the machine learning model).

You can find it in the marketplace here: https://www.zendesk.com/apps/support/monkeylearn-ticket-clas...

This is an initial version and it’s free to use (at least for most cs teams).

We are trying to understand the value and if it helps support teams in this process, so any type of feedback is greatly appreciated. Also, if you need any kind of help to fine tune the model, more than happy to help.
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Why does reading this sound like a prequel to 1984? I wonder how the first pioneers of aircraft would have ever gotten off the ground had they lived in a similar stringent ‘regulatory environment’
Although I disagree with the subreddit, nothing really wrong with it being on front page of reddit. It just shows how pro-left reddit is, but despite this the mainstream media only reports on minority of people practicing their free speech. This willing blindness to the truth of the situation is to me a form of misinformation. I think NYT would gladly welcome a violent Maoist style revolution if it increased its subscription numbers. Hence articles like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/style/black-bloc-fashion..... Extreme content like this free to parade around but god forbid some people are making pepe memes somewhere and garnering 12 views. The state (increasingly communist) must fight to protect those poor minority leftists from the evil empire.
> Swarm applied for an FCC license, but was denied on concerns that its spacecraft, being "smaller than 10 cm in one of their three dimensions," couldn't be reliably tracked by the Air Force's Space Surveillance Network.

And what is the concern around tracking them, inability to divert a spacecraft or satellite that might collide with a swarm of small objects?
https://www.foundationdb.org/download/
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Sorry for not replying timely, but in all honesty, those are pretty much exactly the ones that I though of (except the miniature construction thing actually)...
Best,
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I’m sure one will be shortly forthcoming. They did a good job up actually putting up the code quickly following (in parallel) with the announcement.
HAHAHA! We'll see how long this lasts. Looks like Facebook is at least temporarily responding to the Senate hearing. You all should have seen this coming a mile away. I'm sure they'll try to weasel their way around it or somehow still milk users for their data.
So hire everyone who can't function during the interview?
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> As soon as they get popular since there's effectively no barrier of entry for the general Reddit population you effectively get the same community everywhere.

Strict moderation can still be effective once obscurity is lost. /r/SpaceX is an example of an excellent subreddit that has survived an explosion in popularity.

> So your post sounds a bit to me like "Twitter is great if you know the hashtags to follow" and it's probably true but at this point is it really representative of the website? If you need to filter 99% of the content to make it usable, maybe there's a bit of a problem still?

You're just making the observation that the majority of internet users aren't sophisticated intellectuals. Demanding that the website you visit are sophisticated everywhere is just a demand that they are hidden or ignored by most people. I don't see how this is different than having hidden/ignored hashtags, subreddits, or filters.
Ignore them and Thank you.
Check out my profile. I work at the company on the team in question. They are utterly unrelated.
And there we go...
to trowawee: if it works for you, by all means! my only objection would be if the company is benefiting from your work in some way.
By that same logic, reddit is allowed to outright ban all right-positive content, correct? It's not the right's safe space, after all.
It's an open source alternative to FB, which makes this a more efficient FB. You are very correct on all points.

Google and others operating a crawler would have the same data as FB has today.
Rental car companies actually do utilize public parking: when cars are rented out, customers are free to park them in any public parking spot. These are businesses that are freely using public space.
It's a pdf: https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/_images/Architecture.pd...
Yes but being a FTE doesn't shield you from that sort of thing either.
Many of the comments here are picking apart pieces of subreddit drama or are discussing specific Reddit positions, but I think that's missing the forest for the trees. The VC grow-at-all-costs model seems to be resulting in monopolistic business practices and more negative externalities than positive ones.

Msatodon/GNU Social/Qvitter right now is a thriving social network run by instance owners that federate their instances. Or you can run your own instance if you want total control of everything. Secure Scuttlebutt is a growing social network run in a fully distributed (as opposed to federated) model.

The cat is out of the bag, and if you're complaining about social media today I see no reason not to embrace modern social networks.
A lot of the banned subs were downright abusive if not criminal. Shaming, harassing, threatening. Reddit is not obligated to provide them a platform and that's not a free speech issue.
It is scary. This is what convinced me that maybe "hey, freedom of speech, even for stuff I dislike" could actually leave us too vulnerable:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/08/25/546127444/epis...

But I have no real solutions. Maybe even if we censor things, we work as hard as possible to keep the censorship records transparent and to make the censored stuff accessible and have some complex accountability system?? I dunno. maybe it's all hopeless.
> It is an excellent idea to give money to people who don't need it.

How do you conclude that taking money away from those who worked for it and need it and giving it away to those who don't want it is a good idea?
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I went to the same high school as the founders[1]. They were about the 2 best software engineers in a school with a LOT of very smart software engineers. Another pair founded Yext, which went public last year. I still consider that school the group with the highest concentration of raw brain power I've ever been a part of.

I'm probably a 1% engineer, been hired by M$, FB, and Google. These guys were light years ahead of me. I'm not sure I'm as good now as they were at like 17 years old. In fact I'm probably only a decent engineer from having observed the stuff they were doing back then and finding inspiration.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson_High_School_f...
I think it was speed boost2 that was / is the main change and also its a process shrink to 12nm
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IKEA furniture! Why didn't I think of that!? I had been thinking of a task like PC building as a test target for teleoperation.

Why isn't teleoperation a more heavily researched area? I suspect that it could be efficiently accomplished with manipulators that are much simpler than human beings or human hands, so long as you add two powerful ingredients:

1) Movable point of view. Basically this could be slaved to the position of a high resolution VR headset. It could even be provided by a tethered drone.

We've had teleoperation for a long time, but it has generally been hampered by a static point of view. What if you could crane your neck and look around what you are doing? This greatly improves the intuitiveness and effective bandwidth of the interface.

2) Haptic feedback.

If you can feel what's happening, even indirectly, it also greatly improves the quality of the interface. Think of the dexterity you have with a pair of forceps or needle nose pliers, versus the dexterity you'd have with those while your hands are numbed by novacaine. Since such mechanisms would be much simpler than a mimic human arm, they'd be much cheaper. Also, human beings are very adaptable to control tasks and don't really require a precise mimic of human limbs. (Witness the amazing feats of backhoe control you can find on YouTube.)
One reason might be that manufacturer can sell chips that would qualify as 8700k as 8700 simply to meet the 8700 demand if they have more good chips than they can sell at the higher price point.
Comparing the popularity of a default sub to a NSFW sub using subscriber counts is a horrible argument.

New accounts get subscribed to the defaults automatically -- hence the top ~50 subreddits by sub count are or were defaults.

"User Activity" is probably more accurate. Even then, how are they determining activity? Views? Comments? Up/downvotes?
Well for one, Spanner is not available except as a service.
What kinds of features would you want?
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It's an ethical question as well as a financial and technical one. The answer probably depends on if you make money using peoples information or not.
I mean imagine that you had a job where you were constantly having short conversations with people from all over your company.

I'm your boss, and I call you into a meeting to let you know that you are on the edge of being fired because of your toxic comments. Some of your conversations have resulted in coworkers crying and going home early. But I'm willing to give you one more chance.

In the meeting you tell me, "Hey, relax. It's not true that 10% of my conversations have resulted in coworkers going home early. I can prove that it only happens in 1% of my conversations. And 1% is fine, so get off my back."

I would tell you to just pack your desk right now.
Yes, you can't muster up sympathy because you can afford to live where you want to.

Take away most of your income, put your family and friends in an expensive place, and then see if you can find at least a little inkling of sympathy when society tells you "Too bad you're disabled, you should be more rich if you want to live close to your family"
I'm not familiar with FDB but what you say sounds almost too good to be true. Can I use it to implement the Google Datastore api? I'm trying for years to find a suitable backend so that I can leave the Google land. Everything I tried either required a schema or lacked transactions or key namespaces.
> is a walled garden better than an API that lets users share their data? should we shut down the entire graph because of a few bad actors?

What is the social cost of those bad actors? What is the social benefit of "good" actors? How many integrations were simply neutral?

I'm legitimately curious about who was using the API for the benefit of society, versus engagement/advertising (which is "neutral" at best).
Industry for what type of databases? 100+ TB DBs are very common thing in the RDBMS world. Doesn't have to be TPC-C just some benchmark with reasonable dataset size. 2010 was 8 years ago in modern world an x86 box can have 8 CPUs with close to 200 physical cores 6TB RAM and even consumer grade SSDs can store 800 GB multiple times on a singe drive. Outside of very niche scenario why would I use distributed database if I am not sure it can handle scale that plain old RDBMs can handle? The interesting use case is dataset size that a plain RDBMs would not be able to handle.
/r/askhistorians is regarded as pretty much the "perfectly moderated" subreddit others strive for

/r/science and /r/programming aren't bad

After that you should just check out niche communities and see if they've been taken over by trolls. So far /r/motorcycles, /r/ultralight, /r/camping etc have been fine, as opposed to the many iterations of /r/onebag which generally suffer from power-grabbing moderation.
You're right, this approach grew out of how we hire people ourselves. Give them a chance to prove themselves on a real project.

Wasn't aware that Basecamp did this too. Thanks for sharing!
I thought this was being done by Diaspora? https://diasporafoundation.org/

What's new/different here over this and other efforts?