skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I discovered about the lock screen that's mentioned as a problem here is that you can just type your password and enter to login after a suspend and it will work.... No need to swipe or whatever.
"Google is still not having any trouble attracting engineering talent."

Is this really true, though? Are they losing out on more top end candidates?

There are other places with interesting work and big paychecks. Some of them aren't building reputations for annoying interview processes.
> What these questions are are the standard set of pre-screening questions asked of a potential SRE IC or maybe TLM candidate. A SWE wouldn't be asked these questions, because they aren't related to the role. A SWE candidate still might get screened, but not with these questions.

A question on Glassdoor (for a Director position) is in the same vein: "How do you tell if a calculator is 8 bit or 16 bit."[1]

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Google-Director-Intervie...
It's certainly misleading, but only to this audience, which is full of people who have opinions about Google versus other search engines.

It's not that misleading to the Economist's broader audience, which doesn't know of any reasons anyone would not use Google.
Definitely not nil for me. DDG still seems to struggle at looking up basic programing related information. Is that not the case for you?
>This makes almost no sense for most roles, including any type of specialist as well as middle/senior management, and you end up with situations like you faced.

Worth noting that for specialist roles and middle/senior management, there are special pipelines. The problems seems to be a mismatch in what the average person thinks is "specialist" and what Google thinks is specialist. Lots of people think they're specialists, maybe they are, maybe they aren't, but more often than not it doesn't matter anyway. "I built an app" or "I built a tool used by many of your engineers" or whatever doesn't make you a specialist. It might be a reason to stick you into the generalist SWE pipeline, and it might be a 20% project for you

There's a surprisingly high hit rate for "checking random notable person in the OSS community in the company directory". They almost never work on things related to their public notoriety.

The one exception to this is research staff. Someone notable for their research is probably hired for their research. But this doesn't mean that any PhD will be hired for their research, much as you won't be extending your thesis if you get hired by a quant trading firm.

>If it makes you feel better, it's equally frustrating for hiring managers, who just get input from recruiters that so-and-so failed the phone screen.

This is perhaps the single most important aspect of the hiring process at the bigCos. The hiring process is built from the ground up to prevent you from doing this. The companies have a level of technical competency they expect from employees. Your first priority as a manager isn't to maintain that level of technical competency, its to have someone fill your headcount.

If they let you screen people, then either they let you waste other people's time on candidates who should have been screened out, or they let you make the final hiring decision, and you potentially hire someone who doesn't meet the global competency level. This ends up getting silos and requiring interviews to switch teams and having "weak" and "strong" teams and such, which is still sometimes a problem at Google, and Amazon, but no where near like it was apparently an issue in the Microsoft of old.
>Also, a ton of this conversation makes a lot more sense if you make the assumption that the interviewee is misremembering the questions. Which is a very gentle assumption.

No, that's a pretty insulting and disturbingly koolaid flavored presumption.

This conversation makes sense to me because of the number of people who have commented that they ended up being unwittingly considered for position that they did not apply for and did not actually even necessarily want. There's at least two in the comments section here and I know two more personally (one of whom is a very talented director of HR, ironically enough).

I actually even said this to that director of engineering's comment you mentioned two years ago.

He neglected to respond.
Aviation industry takes steps to mitigate insider threats
Not entirely: the answers written down by the recuiters can be reviewed in batch, while the phone screen has a lot more overhead.
Why are spectacles not it?
Locking Down Kubernetes Workers: Hardening Kubernetes Security
Tech companies report crazy serverless stats: delivery speed up 77%
The article isn't directly about privacy, but there is an implication about the value of your personal data. I'm not convinced that they'd stop abusing private information even if it were a paid for service. There are plenty of examples of privacy issues with subscription based services.
For me it was teaching African refugees how to program Java Script.
Not for me any more. If i don't find a result i want the first time, i just add a !so and then it searches only stackoverflow.
What's wrong with Google trying to crowdsource its funding? Rather than show an ad to everyone for a fraction of a cent, maybe a fraction of users would be willing to pay a cent for each search, on average? I'd pay 500 cents a month to cover the nearly 10 daily searches I perform, if it meant that no one's data was being gathered and mined.
I already pay monthly for extra drive storage and I buy tons of media from Google Play. I donate to a few sites including wikipedia and khan academy. I wouldn't really mind paying a small fee for other google services such as gmail.
Attach to every input nerve a wire.. Add a neural net that takes the general activity and pleasure as weight and voila a flight dream orgasm.
I’m of the same opinion. I thought Unity was alright and this new desktop is a great improvement.
DDG is almost as bad as cuil at least for German results. Endless spam and irrelevant things.
> Snowden's a bad example of what you're talking about

Actually, I think Snowden is a great example. Because apart from being in line with first principles (what would the NSA be doing if they weren't tapping communications cables?), the public was repeatedly exposed to the idea before Snowden. But yet they refused to listen until the topic happened to be presented in a way that caught on, which really illustrates the social-proof-power that mass media holds. And given this power, especially in a democracy, mass media can't help but be captured by entrenched interests.
This could be fixed if SF voted to build more bike lanes to replace existing regular lanes. Removing a small number of regular lanes would nip the induced demand issue fairly quickly.
> because why the hell would I ever give someone money to spy on my personal life?

I think the idea is that if you were paying them, they wouldn't be spying on you because you've become the customer and not the product.
UK: 'industrial' ruggedised filament lamps are still available in 40w and 60w ratings in UK. Halogen lamps are available as well and look to have a warm spectrum.
"Along the way, Clojure got subs(tring), slurp (a file), max-key and min-key..." at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/YDQdmAsUaFU
You (and others with similar habits) may be interested in Vanessa's "chart": http://www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com/the-chart-version-...

Reuters is my only regular source of news, and it was before I first saw that chart, and I was happy to see their position there. Although even they've been subtly sharp when reporting on the latest Trump news recently.

Following this stuff is a guilty habit for me. I agree with some of what Aaron Swartz had to say about news (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews), but skimming it makes for as good a social lubricant as alcohol.
check the video, it does.
>>And 8 interviews?

Pretty standard across these AmaGoogFaceSoft like companies. They basically have too much money and time to spend on these things, and they inevitable hire people like them who have lot of free time on their hands to prepare for their textbook puzzle questions.

In other words they wish to hire candidates who do bare minimum work but spend hours preparing for interviews to move to next jobs.
Ask HN: How have you done internationalization (i18n)?
We've got a i18n project coming up at my day job. I'm curious to hear other's experiences with completing i18n projects. What worked well, what didn't work so well, what would you do differently? Were there any 3rd party tools or services you used?
A lot of people are on previous LTS versions. Both 14.04 and 16.04 still have support: https://www.ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life

edit: grammar
I kind of like the status quo. I block all ads on all my devices and networks. So I get free services that are great.

So as far as I know, they don't really make any money off of me (probably some edge cases where they do), and while they are collecting data on me, I don't get served any ads based on that data.

This is of course not sustainable for Google, so I rely on the willingness of others to consume ads.
I love this statement (maybe I shouldn't). Being an Army vet transitioning to software, it was difficult for me to understand why people come in late and complain about having to work too early (9:30 being early is quite laughable).

I also understand that you need to be in the right frame of mind to preform optimally, however if the people signing the check want you to come in at 9am then you adapt and overcome (your body will adjust), or find someone else to sign the check. If coming in early to code is the hardest thing you had to do today you're pretty lucky in life.
The TPU is not really just the chip. It has an actual machine that is provisioned behind the scenes and accepts RPC calls. Good luck finding out its specs. All you're supposed to care about are the address and port it answers at.
Whenever I use a search engine other than Google and I don’t get the results I want my thought is “I bet Google would have found it”. When I use Google and I don’t get the results I want my thought is “I probably didn’t type the right query for this”. For me this is the biggest challenge any time I’ve tried something else.
> He might be making only 25k but he is also making a difference. Do you?

Everyone makes a difference. Is the difference positive or negative? His impact on the world is negative.

Since you asked, mine is positive. I volunteer to charities and I provide business class high tech services at fractions of the prices of the competition because they're ripping small businesses off and I am attacking them directly.

I would be willing to bet my contributions to the world are more positive and far reaching than any cop anywhere in the world, no matter how great they are (and most are not), in fact. So I feel completely justified and within my rights to judge his behavior in the execution of his duties as a public servant.
It’s not the same thing as “human” access, but, for bot acces, pricing is around $0.01 per request for a JSON access to search results. Ref: https://serpapi.com/#pricing
Turning Cypress SuperSpeed Explorer Kit into a Continuous 200MS/s Logic Analyzer
We experienced the same type of issue with my company, and decided to try to address it.

First, our problem statement: filtering phone-screens by recruiters is resulting in poor experience, false positives, etc.

We thought about potential causes, but instead opted to look at the logistics of the call: recruiter runs process, gets responses, and then returns to engineering with feedback.

It was a vacuum filled with innuendo, unspoken assumptions, you name it. Collectively, our recruiting operation was an echo chamber.

So we asked if we could have recruiting calls recorded and/or transcribed. Candidates had no problem agreeing to it -- the recruiters were reluctant at first. (You can probably guess where this going...)

We recorded/transcribed maybe five calls, and that's all that was necessary. We saw dramatic improvement, and we owe most of that to the Observer Effect. We maintained the same throughput of candidates, but we saw more ideally-suited candidates pass through as well as heard better experiences from candidates.

I'd suggest most any operation try this.
my info on cop salaries is heresay and like 20 years old, sorry I did not adjust for inflation.

The point I was making is that police are underpaid, which accurately represents the investment the public is willing to make toward their service. It's shows how much value the public thinks there is in the work that police do.

Which means people don't think cops are serving them properly, if that wasn't obvious. As full time salaries go they are on the lower end of the scale.

The actual number is sort of irrelevant.
A designer’s take on the history of art
The Gnome file manager (Nautilus) works just fine with the Xfce desktop as well. I use the Xubuntu desktop, but I use the Gnome apps instead of the Xfce apps.
Are you sure you loaded the README.md fine? It contains descriptions and screenshots as well.
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Ah, I guess I could have used a Gist for that. Thanks for the suggestion, let me see if I can update the article.
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/bangladesh-pop...

It looks like at least part of Bangla Desh's small reduction in absolute growth in population in recent years is due to emigration. Numbers leaving are about 1/3 the size of the total growth. So actual growth has been consistently over +2m/yr since 1975. Like a lot of other places round the world that looks like 4 to 5 decades of linear growth.
I too love fixing things where I can see the person's reaction. It is so satisfying. We are so often removed from the user and don't get that joy. I think as a dev it's a good exercise too, to stay grounded and avoid feature creep or working on things that don't matter too much. I always to try -think- about how my user will be reacting, but that's different than actually -seeing- it.

I think it's part of why I like UX(though I do full stack), at the end of the day I like solving problems for people and making software that's pleasant to use. I've seen so many people struggle with an unnecessarily complex interface and it hurts my soul. The relief on people's faces when they can fix their issue quickly is so satisfying.
Ironically Google Search is probably the one product that could sustain itself on ads based only on what you put in that search field without any kind of tracking. I'm fine with Google Search ads like that.
Some random remarks:

1. Working as a software engineer in healthcare and improving the state of patient data are two different goals. One is technical and vocational and the other is largely a matter of policy and economics and outside the scope of working as a software engineer in healthcare.

2. Engineering is usually a matter of combining existing systems. Detailed academic knowledge of databases is very interesting and mostly irrelevant to engineering an information system that contains databases because there are lots of good databases and because what makes one or the other better is nature of the problem to which they are applied.

3. The same is true for encryption and security. It's a matter of picking tools and/or hiring experts. It's not robustly implementing one's own elliptic curves.

4. There's nothing wrong with pursuing a CS degree for the sake of learning. Just realize that successful engineering is a matter of collaboration and "knowing which table to look at."
This is truly nightmare material. I shudder to think how this could be used to extract information from someone once the tech progresses to where it's possible to communicate with these brains.
The title doesn't match the article ("Google" is not the same as "internet search engines").

If we're talking about Google specifically, zero, because I've been trying to un-googlify my life for a few years now and I'm comfortable enough with my alternatives. If all of Google shut down today, the only thing I'd really miss is Google Maps -- both for navigation and the ratings/review system.
The sidewalk should be at least another car's width larger. That would help a tad bit with the issue, though the general societal problem of caring for your neighbor wouldn't be solved.
- waterproof

- different colors
I'll give you that The Bay Area is actually significantly behind Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas.

But I would try Lolinda if you are craving different.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/lolinda-san-francisco?osq=meixican+...
My understanding is that PDFs are not layed out semantically, so the conversion experience is never going to get much better.

I have nothing against people who rely on PDFs for layouts, but I kind of wish in general we would stop using the format, specifically for that reason. I consider most PDFs to be a downgrade from a pure text format.

There's been a trend lately of technical authors publishing books as CSS/HTML, and I think that's a really good idea.

But I get it - if someone isn't into the whole responsive design thing, or they're not worried about readers being able to change contrast/size/fonts, it's going to be a really hard sell to convince that person to use a format that makes it more difficult to do pixel-perfect layout.
The Anatomy of a Productized Service
The first part of your sentence is true, the second isn't.

Intel couldn't make Skylake Xeons fast enough it became their fastest ramp up of any Xeon release to date.

https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/12/01/booming-server-marke...

The problem is that AMD has lost the trust of the enterprise market because they gave up and stopped making Opterons without even a good reason to do so.

That screwed up their entire customer base because they had no option to expand or upgrade other than just replace all of their servers with Intel.

Opteron was the king and yeah they were losing the pure performance crown but in 2012 it wasn't that bad, server software could be optimized and an acceptable performance per dollar ratio could've been maintained.

Before Epyc the last enterprise Opteron that AMD was released was in December of 2012 on 32nm SOI process 16 core CPU (technically 8 since it's bulldozer but who cares) that's 5 years without an upgrade option.

If I would be a bet on the number 1 question AMD receives today about Epyc is what happens when you stop making CPUs again to which they would probably reply "we won't cuz we can't afford too" and then the cheeky retort "you couldn't afford it last time either".

Epyc ramp up was expected to be slow but I don't think this slow the amount of resistance I think it experience is above even AMDs internal pessimistic predictions.
$10/month with zero tracking & ads, and end-to-end encryption.
this is what i've heard from various ride share drivers too. Waze just keeps you moving. doesn't necessarily get you there any sooner.
>Then it should be the parents' responsibility to educate their children, and not give them a device with a credit/debit card attached to the logged account.

That won't be enough for many, including the Belgian government, apparently. Even adults are not responsible enough, it would seem, to handle credit or debit cards.
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I know that they require 1" (or 2.54cm) of space between hood and engine, to create a little crush zone before people hit parts that won't deform.

That's the only thing I know about it, and my source is a review of a C7 Corvette ZR1 (which Chevy cannot sell in the EU to my knowledge - due to the fact that the engine forms part of the hood)
They announced in 2016 they had TPUs. So no, I would not expect that 2 full years later they're just now being available in the public cloud. These are not new products to them; they likely just don't want to deal with supporting them in different configurations.
No, your first instinct was right, as I have other options, greener options, that include mass transit as well as, I suppose, video conferencing, but opting instead to drive, that makes me part of the problem.

I don't know why but that never occurred to me until now. So surely this isn't the only related area in which I have room for improvement.
Whether it is a "bug" or not, people do experience it, and there is probably nothing we can do to change the way things are.

However, accepting that it is a possible and common experience we can have it is more fruitful to examine if suffering and pain have a cause, if they have an end and if there are methods to overcome them.

In other words, are pain and suffering hackable? And how?
Yes I've heard this line of reasoning before.

It's the crabs in a bucket mentality. A child starving in Africa must mean you aren't hungry.

The truth is the difference is that I'm an engineer. If I was a machine shop worker I'd be on /r/machineshopworkers saying the same thing likely.
"As shown above, the top-1 accuracy after 90 epochs for the TPU implementation is 0.7% better. This may seem minor, but making improvements at this already very high level is extremely difficult and, depending on the application, such small improvements may make a big difference in the end."

Any idea of how much variation in accuracy you get on different training runs of the same model on the same hardware? My understanding is that model quality can and does vary from one run to the next on these kinds of large datasets - from a single observation, it's hard to know if the difference is real or noise.
Yes, even in that day and time I am sure he would not have made this claim about himself. There were tens of thousands of specialty fields for everything from glass blowing to animal husbandry to machine design and explosives.

He was amazing, but the amount of knowledge at this time is far greater than this article makes it out to be.
For me personally it's about double dipping.

I'll play a free game that is monetized via loot boxes. But I won't buy a game that then requires me to buy loot boxes to do better in the game because in my mind I already paid for the game and shouldn't have to pay any more.
I find your post very rude. Russia essentially destroyed Kazakh identity and you have guts to say, "well since we already did it let's keep it that way". Really Russian influence is like a cancer. I feel happy for Kazakh for trying to cut it off.
It's probably different for leadership candidates simply because there are far fewer available roles.
Probably not. Unless LendEDU reached out the website personally. And it's unlikely rich investors will face consequences any way.
Having tutored my 13-year-old daughter through algebra this school year, a common mistake is flipping this into a square-root problem.

As asked, the question is about mappings ℝ+ → ℝ ⨯ ℝ ∪ {0}. Square root is different, mapping ℝ+ → ℝ+ ∪ {0}. The question could have been sloppily worded or someone trying to make it look more “mathy.”

When I tell my daughter that negative numbers have square roots too and are imaginary, she rolls her eyes and sighs.
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Right.

Facebook and Google? Yes. Amazon and Alibaba? You could make an argument for that. Facebook and Alibaba? Probably not.
> There's still the idiotic, screen-taking-over activities menu (because, yknow, it should take 3840x2160 pixels to show a fucking app launcher. Did nobody learn from Windows 8?

Launchpad on the Mac takes over the full screen too and I never hear anyone gripe about that.
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I think this will be the perfect gift for my dad who “has everything”. He uses standard mechanical pencils all the time at his job.
​How to make the most of the new Gmail
Why can't you divide by zero?
Sometimes even consent doesn't work very well. Roald Dahl described just this situation (for a human) back in 1959 in this story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_and_Mary_(short_story)
Ok, but that doesn't really demonstrate that Tesla have better engineers.
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