skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No chance of Apple buying all of TSMC - that would make them a huge target for regulators and place them on a precarious position with competitors in regards to IP protection (IP Chinese walls etc). If Apple buys something, it keeps it to itself and honestly it really doesn't need all of TSMC (not to mention it's a bit of a big fish at $216bn market cap).

If I were Apple, I'd start my own joint venture with someone, developing exclusive fabs/nodes for future Apple processors - if only to exert pressure on their fab manufacturing partners like Samsung.
This. I've been using the webapps for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and a few other sites too. They're functional, and takes 0 space of my crowded launcher.
It's funny because you conveniently left out the fact that the single paper you quote finds no correlation.

The point here, as stated before, is not uncritically accept nonsense about board size because it validates your ideology and to look at actual research and evidence on the topic. At some point if you want to be taken seriously (at least outside of the US) you need to do more than appeal to your ideology du jour.
Yeah, I think that's a big part of the difference.

Also, if somebody posts online complaining about their Facebook interview and the feedback they got, it's essentially going to be lost in the noise of other discussion of Facebook. If somebody posts their feedback from RandomStartup and says the interview was biased or otherwise bad, it could end up being in the first page of Google hits for the company, which would be a mess.
dirty bombs can function as a denial of access ordinance...
when isotopes or persistent toxin are scattered spattered over an area the cleanup is prohibitively expensive , we than have a kiev/chornobl scenario...were this to happen on wall street or silicon valley, it would be a major setback, or we would have to requantify the acceptable titre of radionucliides in a "occupiable" region
Leveraging Elastic Demand for Forecasting
There’s so much wtf in this. Raid5? No. Also, you have to be sure not to fill the drives up. Creates a pathological wear situation.
> Note that "junior interviewers" are not necessarily junior, just junior as interviewers.

Sure, but these are highly correlated. If you've been working in startups for a few years, you will have some experience in both coding and interviewing coders.

Even most of the successful large companies are pretty good at cultivating interviewing skills among their employees.

> Furthermore coding questions stop being quantifiable and objective as soon as you add in, "What feedback do you give, when, and how?"

I would moderate that statement as "become less quantifiable and objective". They're still more objective than "tell me about the project you are most proud of" or (worst) "what is your biggest weakness?" (perfectionism, duh!).

You can also control many of these factors by standardizing interviewer behavior. For example, "no feedback of any kind until the candidate writes a working solution", or working off a predefined set of hints.
Well the movie actually iterates on a series of the ideas from Asimov's stories so I wouldn't call it bad. Basically it's about VIKI coming up with the Zero Law.
For that matter, the parts of the US that aren't the bay area, Seattle, NYC ... pay a lot less than the parts that are. The tech scene in Canada is much smaller, but pay seems similar to "the rest of US", for the most part. Perhaps a little better if you adjust for health care,etc. but I suspect it's a wash.

So is this really a Canada [or wherever] vs. US comparison, or large US tech-hub vs. everywhere else comparison?
My experience is across several years writing high performance http clients, writing in pure C.
I have a friend getting out of jail soon, how do I sign him up? (serious question)
I've heard this was a problem since the spice level was optimized in an office where they make the cookie dough the day of service, but deployed in an office where they make the dough the night before and cook on demand. The spices in the dough longer made the flavor stronger than it was optimized for.

A good example of training/serving skew.
Well, I met a number of TSMC oldtimers in Singapore when I was there on an exchange program.

And I had a talk with them once on this exact topic. Among them, "the black safe" is an euphemism for the worst case scenario for the company. Nobody they asked exactly knew what is inside, but some people were instructed decades ago that in "worst case scenario," men with military training should open them with code that will be provided, without anything specific said on what will happen next. They said that judging by construction, they look exactly like a something for explosives storage.

I once had my dream of working in semi industry after being fascinated with electronics from early years. I studied physics and electronics engineering by myself like hell through my late teens, and had mentor who connected me with companies in Taiwan, and I almost got my leg in a Taiwanese fabless, though only in an "office bellboy" position.

Despite all of that, and me having a letter of recommendation for NTU and preliminary approval in Nanyang, parents sent me "to study businessy things rich people do"
I agree with this but with a strong caveat. I believe product designers excel in B2C applications but aren't often as successful in B2B and Enterprise focused applications.
Is Martin Shkreli blogging from prison?
Apple doesn't have the rights to design x86, and it will never* get them. Only Intel, AMD and Via can do that. Intel and AMD cross-license each other's patents. Not sure how Via got the rights, but I think a successful blind reverse engineering effort and a court was involved at some point. So Apple would either have to get licenses from Intel _and_ AMD or it would have to go the same route Via did. Both sound unlikely. At the same time, Apple has an excellent ARM architecture going.

*Never is a dangerous word
Geese and ducks will do that to walkways in suburban areas.
Interesting to me that the downvoted comments on this story are the ones discussing how the NSA is violating its charter and the constitution.

Used to be cryptotechs in the navy listening to foreign countries had to destroy media if they accidentally recored a US citizen

Also used to be the majority of nerds were really against this sort of invasive illegal intrusions

Now the NSA intentionally spies on citizens and the nerds are supporting them.

How far the NSA and the nerd herd have fallen... its really disappointing
Fair point, but isn’t it cause for skepticism? It seems that science-minded folks are skeptical of the research done by various politically-oriented think-tanks; isn’t a politically oriented field or department similar?
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Also, if you encrypt it using GPG with multiple keys, it will allow only a few people to work with it. Probably best to write a script that does it because not everybody understands how GPG works ;-)
"conveniently"? You claim there is a positive correlation. A study finding no correlation goes against your position.

The point here, as stated before, is not uncritically accept nonsense about board size because it validates your ideology and to look at actual research and evidence on the topic.

Physician, heal thyself.
How My Plastic Gets in the Ocean (7,000 Miles Away)
are you invoking the efficient market hypothesis?
Journalism is in an on going funding crisis. I hear what you are saying, but there are plenty of publications that have gone belly-up after putting up a pay wall - there are just too many alternatives with near identical content. This is probably "their own fault" for training the public to expect free online content, but at this point every possible business model is on the table, including asking for donations in association with articles on highly charged issues.
Tell HN: Bug found in Ubuntu “primes” utility
$ primes 1154487209300 | head -1

> 1154487209303

$ factor 1154487209303

> 1154487209303: 89669 12874987

Is this known? Where should I report it?
"as intended" -- intended by whom, and for what purpose? It's their money, not yours, not mine, and they can do whatever they please with it.

Let people be people, the world has more than enough to take care of everyone even when they're doing whatever they want.
The Huawei MateBook Rollout
HR departments say so because if no one ever gives interview feedback, no one will ever get sued for giving the "wrong" feedback. They are like the legal department in that they will never look to help a company actively gain a competitive advantage, and certainly never to do the decent thing by people outside the company's management.
Yeah, most interesting rumor I've heard today.
There were a few ways I could have gone with this post; I opted to go after multi-cloud being a largely terrible idea.
Never speculatively executing AVX instructions will, for bad but not uncommon cases, drop your performance by something like a factor of 10 in cases such as when you perform some AVX operation until a flag is set. I don't think there's any chance of that happening.
I suspect people that are on basic income for longer periods might have a different view of what “good” land is. But, more to the point we already do what your talking about via affordable housing. It’s a large waste of resources, but hardly casusing the kind of inflation spiral your talking about due to how it’s implemented.
Οι πρώτες τρεις ρεβάνς στο Champions League
New iPhone X Leak Reveals a Trapped and Scared Apple
It's not racist, because language does not arise from race. Many races can speak one language, and one race can speak many languages. Someone who is racist will be so no matter the accent or language. Language arises from culture. So it might be said that the person is being culturist, if that's a word.

However, I don't see what proof you have that the person is motivated by culturism, when there is a more likely reason, that it's too much work, and he doesn't believe it's his job. It's not my job to teach you English any more that it is to teach you Python. If you don't show up to work knowing both English and Python, it's not my job to train you. I'm talking about severe accents. I have worked with people from another country and had no trouble understanding what they said, and yet another person from the same country, I have no idea what he just said! If you are working on a project with that person, that's bad! If the project involves banking, medicine, or rocket ships, it can be dangerous.

And I'm not being hypocritical. I would not expect to land a job in Spain, even though I can speak Spanish somewhat, because I cannot speak it well enough to work together with Spaniards full time.
For those of you deploying lots of SSDs for work, how often are you having to replace them due to wear out? Many have 5 years warranties with multiple PB written (or drive writes per day), so I wonder how things are in practice.
There are different approaches, but you can come up with any simple programming task. Doubts are fine, so just run them through some of your existing engineers, especially those you think are really good. If people you consider excellent engineers fail them, then it's back to the drawing board.

That's an exercise I do for hiring in general. For example, every time a hiring process change is proposed, I run it through my existing engineers, and make sure I would have hired them by this process.

For example, in a place that was starting to get a lot of great candidates, someone proposed tightening the education requirements of the preliminary screen. I quickly observed that would have disqualified one of my best performers, who didn't have a CS degree at all. The proposition was therefore struck down.
> Many totally rational worker ideals (keep comfy job) are often very opposed to a company's ideals (upgrade technology, take new risks, automate)

The premise trivializes worker's priorities and idealizes management's priorities. People's need for safety, money, job security, benefits, non-toxic environments, opportunity for advancement, reasonable hours and no off-the-clock work are not about 'comfy' - it's not a nicer office chair; these are their lives and careers; it's their kid's college tuition, their homes, and their health; it's their mental health and quality of life. Management also has plenty of self-interest and I don't find them so focused on efficiency.

> Thiel

He says plenty of outlandish things, and that quote fits his authoritarian bent. I don't take it at face value. Taking other people's ideas and priorities into account can be frustrating and it feels inefficient if you think you know everything. Too bad; that's your job as a leader.
Ukraine doesn't buy Russian gas for years. :-/
Free speech is of course not something fascists want, but they will weaponise it to their own ends while it exists in law or in concept.
Why ask any questions? Sit them down to a simplified version of a real world class your company is working on with corresponding unit tests and tell them to make the tests pass. That was one of my favorite type of interviews and I've used it before.
The modern version being, "Intel giveth, javascript and python taketh away".
Interesting! can you execute a file directly from the file descriptor though?
I would really rate a company that provides honest and truthful feedback a notch on top of the others as this shows some form of the culture that they have in their organization.

You can do an automated response to 95% of the rejected ones, and for the rest which made the cut past the initial stage of applying, having a more human-centric approach on providing response is the way to go.

The good words that would come out vouching for the company I think is enough reason that hiring organizations should take the effort to provide a meaningful response to some applicants.
I wonder if the culture has changed since riot did its whole "People who are toxic in game are toxic in the workplace" and axed 25% of its OG staff.

Edit: https://rework.withgoogle.com/case-studies/riot-games-assess...
> Also, you have to be sure not to fill the drives up. Creates a pathological wear situation.

It's a sliding scale. SSDs intended for use in servers usually have more spare area than client/consumer SSDs, and most of their specifications assume they're full. A lot of enterprise SSDs also include features to allow the user to adjust the usable capacity, and the write endurance rating and warranty will scale to match.
It is too bad that society does not support a robust system of prediction markets on everything that would be interested in knowing the truth about. I think the excuse is that it is too much like gambling. I would say there would definitely be some gambling going on in such markets, but we already allow them for much the more mundane reason of predicting the future time-discounted profits of a business. The whole country participates and has a good deal of its wealth tied up in them (ie. stock markets).
Peter Thiel Praises Trump Honesty
AMD's first-gen Ryzen Threadripper CPUs get deep price cuts
Yes, if I am mixing a series of my favorite songs... also I may want it to mix from A B C B A B C A to see how that sounds...
Repeating a study if, and only if, the study failed to provide the desired result is the most basic p-hacking technique there is. If this isn't p-hacking, I don't know what is!

To give a simple model, suppose you decide an effect is significant if there's only a 5% chance that you'd see this data if the effect didn't exist. If you run the experiment again with the same threshold for significance when don't get the desired result, then the probability of seeing an effect that doesn't exist rises to 9.75% (= 0.05 + 0.95 * 0.05).

The effect isn't merely "not 100% unproblematic" it's a serious problem! You've gone from what looks like a p-value of 5% to a p-value of 9.75%.

The fact that the second study is done with a larger sample is pretty much irrelevant unless it also comes with a higher p-value threshold for you to accept the result.
If it's any comfort: everyone performs worse under the stress of an interview. This is widely recognized by hiring employers, and accounted for in the interview evaluation.

For example, if I test-run a new question, and it takes my engineers 20 minutes to solve it, I will add 30-50% handicap for stress. I.E. if a candidate manages to solve it within 30 minutes, that's roughly equivalent.

Unfortunately, there's no way to account for someone having a complete blackout such as you describe.
China is bolstering their marine and amphibious technology. If they do not already possess the ships necessary for large scale sea-to-land assaults, they will in short order. On top of this, China is also militarizing their coast guard assets.

I hope the "peaceful rise" claims holds true into the future, but a lot of the military technology they're developing are not for defensive purposes.
Contrast this with their excellent identity refresh for American Express: https://www.pentagram.com/work/american-express-1

The difference is night and day. Imagine how fantastic that kind of modernizing light touch could have looked for this client, too.
To put that into perspective, that's enough to feed about 700 people.
Choosing an English name? Why I decided to use my Chinese name
One thing that article doesn't touch on, if we returned ceo pay to 1978 average of 30:1, how much of a raise would that give each employee?
I do like practical exercises.
After reading the horror stories related to Paypal, I personally do understand why anyone would use them other than for VERY casual/inconsequential transactions. Sorry to see this spread, but it seems reasonable to assume it would following the purchase.
China is not going to invade Taiwan militarily and they don’t need to. They can gradually encircle them with alliances with their neighbors and dominate them economically until they’re forced to unify with them.
The second ref was as support that the "filter"s are also bad for you in their own right but provide a "benefit halo" that helps support smoking, just as the tobacco companies intended.
Yep. I could play, raid, etc. in a fully functional way on an okay-ish laptop. This was a pretty big deal for me.
You'd be surprised how many developers got started in the 90s and early 2000s with a pirated copy of MSVC6...

...and if you've been around and done enough, you would know that "unsupported" doesn't always mean "can't be done". The ones who know it can will hack around, play and investigate, explore the limits, and ultimately become better developers by developing these skills of critical thinking and problem solving. Contrast this with the cookie-cutter developers who won't think beyond what they're told and give up at the slightest difficulty.

I ain't no Apple fan myself but I can sure test something in macOS if I really need to. Give this a read...

https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/329828-making-a-boot...
Not for everybody, apparently. They didn't respond when I asked for feedback after my interview.
Why the Soviet space shuttle was left to rot (2015)
This resonates with me. For my long-running Python projects I usually have a file called small.py which has these, as you put it, micro-abstractions. Over time some stuff from the file gets into the larger projects ... and some stuff doesn't. But I like the comfort of "cognitive offloading" this file affords me: I don't have to keep worrying about increasing the scope of my abstractions.
> the French Revolution decimal time

The French were 99% successful with their decimals everywhere (everything except time) in 99% of all countries (everywhere except the US and some freak dictatorships).

> The same kinds of "grand plans" are repeated in today's ambitious software engineering abstractions, which almost never survive contact with reality.

Unless these "grand plans" just standardize and compromise the right things. Then they conquer the world (PC, USB, TCP, HTML, ...)
I love pandoc. I've been using it intermittently for years to turn my Markdown and org-mode documents into other formats. Just wish it would take Asciidoc as an input format.
Especially navigation. Google can plan my trip from start to end, perfectly. There's not a single OSM-based thing that comes even close.
I have exactly this.
PayPal is horrible. They acquired Braintree and now Braintree has become horrible. They are now acting like established banks, and that is why startups like Stripe kicked them in the proverbial behind. PayPal nor Braintree is is startup friendly. Stay away from both.
This utility in bsdgames was originally written by Landon Curt Noll, who is still active on the Internet (I just received an e-mail message from him today) and still quite interested in prime numbers (though perhaps not in maintaining the utility, which he apparently wrote back in 1993). Maybe you could drop him a note and ask about this?
Can you download Safari from the Safari page?
How about Apple buying Via?
Thanks! I'm one of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15).

You hit the nail on the head. We've been trying to promote more sophisticated optimization approaches since the company formed 4 years ago and are happy to see firms like Google, Amazon, IBM, and SAS enter the space. We definitely feel like the tide of education lifts all boats. Literally everyone doing advanced modeling (ML, AI, simulation, etc) has this problem and we're happy to be the enterprise solution to firms around the world like you mentioned. We provide differentiated support and products from some of these methods via our hosted ensemble of techniques behind a standardized, robust API.

We're active contributors to the field as well via our peer reviewed research [1], sponsorships of academic conferences like NIPS, ICML, AISTATS, and free academic programs [2]. We're super happy to see more people interested in the field and are excited to see where it goes!

[1]: https://sigopt.com/research

[2]: https://sigopt.com/edu
GitHub told me to update Safari and sent me to this page... but Apple didn't seem to bother with a download link. Or am I missing a UI element because Safari 9.1.2 is that outdated?
it's not about spite, it's about noblesse oblige.

Corporations are essentially feudal, and one of the biggest unstated goals is to maintain and signal class power differentials.

You don't do that by including social inferiors in board-level deliberations - no matter how inane, misguided, and ultimately self-destructive those deliberations turn out to be.

Here is one example of a board-level decision that a majority of workers would have said was a very bad idea, but which executives decided to complete anyway.

It's really ridiculously easy to list other examples from corporate history:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/30/homebas...
Pandoc is great software for converting among file formats, such as text, markdown, HTML, PDF, etc.

Example:

pandoc in.md -o out.html -V pagetitle="My Title" --to=html5 --template="my.html" --css "my.css"

The example converts a markdown file to HTML, using a given title, a template file, and a stylesheet file.

The pipeline is also well implemented with Haskell, which is good for writing your own fast functional transformations.
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In the real world, heroes get handcuffed - see the excellent documentary about US government whistleblowers Silenced (2014)
TypeScript and Babel 7