skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what I experienced is writing
code that generates a sql query
to the parameters that's taken
from the frontend which had
NOTHING to do with interview
questions

Oh, this, this, this. So very much this.

The fucking snobbery, and nerd signaling that goes on during a coding interview gets so thick, that sometimes I'll just laugh in someone's face and throw the interview.

Hey, hey, buddy, are you cool enough
to merge this array, AND sort it? Okay
Now implement a linked list and then
detect a circular reference. Okay, now
reconstruct it as a directed acyclic graph.

Okay, but can you do it...

...all in one line????

Solve the travelling salesman problem
in 10 seconds or less. Whatsa matter?
Never HEARD of it? You call yourself a
programmer?

Okay, well your ad-hoc pseudocode in this
code pen isn't even O(log N) so we can't
hire you. I know this because the code pen
raised a compiler warning about your include.
...and also suggested this coding challenge to
me via auto complete. But yeah, we'll keep
your resume on file. Thanks!

GTFO of my face. Why even tie my shoes for these interviews. I swear I'm not even bathing or wearing clean clothes to the next one.

Oh, but the best is, they want to hire you, but they can't tell you anything about the job until you sign an NDA. Big secrets. Watch out!

Then, you look at their stack, and it's all canned open source bullshit, used off the shelf. Like, hello? What are you smoking. Every other shop is using this shit. It's fucking LAMP. It's GPL'd. Okay, fucking sue me with mutant nuclear apocalypse lawyers. You will get: ZERO DOLLARS BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE FIRED ME FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, AND THIS WAS MY ONLY SOURCE OF FUCKING INCOME. WHAT DOES THIS NDA EVEN ACCOMPLISH? SHALL I SIGN IT IN BLOOD?
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Is It Possible to Be a Leader and Work from Home?
While ignoring whether it's a positive or negative impact?
I think your view doesn't make sense to me because of that old question: How can there be anything "beautiful" or harmonious" without humans being around and observing those beautiful or harmonious structures in nature?

In a cold vast universe without sentient life, is there really a difference between a tree and a rock on mars if there is nobody to judge?

Edit: To add to that: Starting from the aforementioned viewpoint I think that saving the planet and preserving the environment is really important.. for us humans! There is no inherent value in having 100 species or 1000 species in a forest, it's simply important because if 900 species die, there might be changes in the ecosystem that affect us in the long run. Or the forest might be less beautiful/harmonious. I have a hard time to see any inherent value in nature, because again: what difference is there between a rose and some dark asteroid?
If you don't need full SQL then you can use embedded key-value stores:
- RocksDB
- MapDB
The work for an math or physical education teacher is a lot less than for an English teacher. Grading long essays take a lot of time.
Grammar School is also less time demanding than high school for time used to prepare and grading papers.
Depends on the goal. I don't think you can assume it was just to get rid of the person.
> Is it possible to configure "all commits gpg signed" on Github? I haven't seen this option.

Settings > Branches > [Add Rule] > <Apply Rule To> "*" > check "require signed commits".

At least according to the help text:

> Commits pushed to matching branches must have verified signatures.
> I trust Alpine Linux, not Alpine Linux's certificate authority.

Did you check and sign Alpine's maintainers key yourself or do you rely on the Web of Trust to create a path between you two? In the latter case every person in between of you two is acting like a certification authority.
Could barely see the title before being begged for money.
Can you name a safe language?
TLDR: limiting caffeine and other stimulants and "sleep efficiency training" is successful for 80% of patients.

The description of sleep efficiency training starts at the picture labelled "A patient at the sleep clinic". That section appears to contain highly actionable advice.
A lot of people on reddit seemed to ignore the part where it was clearly stated the activation was done by mistake and corrected.
The fermi paradox works on a different timescale than the points you bring up, which is exactly why it keeps being brought up.

Our civilization has existed for only several thousand years. That is nothing on the cosmological scale. The fermi paradox asks why, when looking at the age of the universe, there is no visible (to our level of technology) trace of other civilizations. Even when expanding at a crawl, a civilization having had a million of years to do so should have reached every corner of our galaxy.

The fermi paradox is simply a question: why? Suggestions, like a civilization uploading itself to some sort super computer to experience eternal life, are answers to the fermi paradox. But they do not invalidate it.
Google takes HN extremely seriously. They frequently respond quickly respond to complaints that make the front page. Given that it's not unreasonable to think that there are loads of Google employees on here looking to defend the company
Where is your proof that the gov't is taking money away from education to fund the national defense? The US spending per pupil is second highest according OECD study (see https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/education-spending.htm), after a wealth city-state Luxembourg whose GDP per capita is $110K.

Countries like Finland, South Korea which routinely rank top in various international tests and studies spend far less and achieve much better results than the US, so the problem here isn't just about funding.
Are they also the first author? that is the relevant question. Letting a PhD do all the work and just slapping your name at the end of the 'author'-list hardly seems authorship.

By this definition a CEO of a building company builds a flat in whole year just by himself.
I love how things can be labeled as unprovable in a snap by people who doesn't suffer from such quirks.

Personally I can't stand people who are eating stuff or chewing gum while they are on the phone with me. Same with noisy eating in a silent place. I sometimes silently leave the place if I can, or warn the eater as politely as I can, if he/she's my friend.

Heck, if I'm extremely tired or weary I can not even stand myself sometimes.
"Guilty of losing patience" is nonsense. If you look at the process by which web standards advance, it requires that two or more vendors have created proof-of-concept implementations, before the standard can be standardized. That, in fact, how standards have always worked.

As a Firefox user, I don't like the results either. But I don't think any of the actors in question are acting in bad faith. Not even the lazy web developers who build Chrome-only games; why should they build shit for me, if they don't want to?
Atleast i have never written or seen anything greater than 24:00 or 00:00 in time related information here in Asia; India & Middle East, working with British & Asian teammates. I am an Indian, by birth, age in 30-35 year range.

Theo only time I have come across is when I had to count the hours between two times in an excel sheet & found that by default MS Excel formats 25:00 hours to 01:00 & I need to use [hh]:mm to bring it to 25:00
Status has always been a big deal. It's how mating works. Luckily, most human societies moved past the "physically fight each time you want to claim territory and/or women" phase, which has allowed humans to work together some of the time and build things. But at the end of the day, it's still all for the mating game.

Humans are a little bit smarter and can see the future a few years past copulation, but it’s still instinctual to show off when you see a mate you like, and make sure your neighborhood/family/tribe/class knows it. And to make sure you can attract whoever you desire (along with feeding and securing yourself), we try to gather as many resources for ourselves and our family/tribe/class as we can.
That is a combination of different problems. Updates are hard in general, to which there aren't too many mainstream solutions. Emerging ones seem to be in nixos, rpmostree etc. However, ubuntu/debian has a more pedestrian problem, which is that they do a bunch of junk in the post install scripts (like automatically starting and enabling the systemd service for the package). Systemd being a fragile flake will break. That's not the worst that can happen. More likely is that some poor sap will pull in some random server (mail server, database server, http server etc.) as a dependency, and it will get enabled. And ubuntu in their wisdom, don't enable the firewall in desktop variants. So you may be running an open server unknowingly.
Once upon a time, your bank probably didn't have an app either -- that isn't a strike against mobile platforms. In that same vein, having a bad web portal isn't a strike against the web as a platform, it just means your bank isn't taking full advantage (yet).

The only strike against FFOS as a platform that you mentioned was speed, and I acknowledge that web-based apps do render slower than native ones 99% of the time. The parser/execution system that handles HTML/CSS/JS is almost guaranteed to be slower than one that can handle a more limited subset (there's just less to do).

That said, speed seems like a red herring though -- just how fast do you need your banking application to be? Is the half-second you had to wait longer to see your balance really the mission-critical feature? I get that rendering speed is important, but there are lots of bloated native apps that don't render as fast as possible either.
You might want to read this blog post as it walks through setting up a dev environment for Python with and without Docker:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/setting-up-a-python-developme...

The TL;DR is a typical web app is often a lot more than just running Python, and there's a huge amount of value in being able to run the same code across different operating systems without any installation changes.
Safety measures ordered at sinking San Francisco tower
> Original comment was from Britain, so yes.

LOL! Have my upvote!
While this is pretty cool, it's also not all that much of an effort to setup https using certbot and have it automatically configure nginx: https://smalldata.tech/blog/2015/12/29/nginx-nodejs-and-http...

Setting up the renew job is also a very simple cron job.

Moreover, something that one forgets is that once you have your posts, comments and any sort of data, you need to have backups and other sysadminy stuff.

Personally, I enjoyed learning about this while setting up my blog :)
There's this new cure for insomnia and everybody is saying the same thing about it!
Apparently it uses a format called Mobiledoc¹, not Markdown.

¹ https://github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit/blob/master/MOBILEDO...
Once, I worked on a Rails app that was setup in a docker compose environment. I won't talk about prod, but was very surprised to see how much more complex it made developing locally, having to deal with docker instances and such, compared to just run `rails s` if we weren't using Docker.

Was the app setup improperly, or is that expected that using Docker will make local development more complex?
Efficient DSP & Circuit Arch for Massive MIMO: State-Of-the-Art & Future Di
Because they're used to terminate SSL and do load balancing. More recently they do HTTP/2, Brotli and other newer tech that non-specialist HTTP servers don't yet do.
"I decided a long time ago it was better to keep them shielded from my craziness."

Did your kid had a say in that decision? I know you're trying to protect him, but he might want to be with you regardless.
But that's the thing.

There's no clear reason for Russians to so publicly go after this guy. They gain absolutely nothing from it. Whatever the "message" this was supposed to send, it's unclear.
Wait what? You can invoke lambda functions directly via the invoke api. No need to use the s3 api. Am I missing something?
Note for those who don't get the sarcasm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/13/russian-explanat...
Geology Makes You Time-Literate
Sorry to tell you that, but that won't do. This is meat to replace split screen playing, not some online multiplayer videogame. You could do it by sharing your screen, but the latency would be terrible, and it's usually not so great to start with.
Even if that were true, that there is no sentient/intelligent life other than us to recognise beauty and harmony, it still wouldn't give us the right to destroy it. At least until we have the knowledge and ability to recreate all of what we have destroyed. Maybe not even then.
And my point, which you cutoff early, is that with Python you can have both.
The election process can be summed up roughly as "Heads, I win; Tales, you lose."

You win the game by controlling who gets to run as a candidate. That way, no matter who wins individually, you still end up with a majority in the legislature who will support policies friendly to you. And you don't need 100% control; some dissenting candidates need to be allowed, to provide an veneer of legitimacy to the process, but not enough to actually sway the votes in Congress.
Isn't that one of the main points of sci fi?
I reckon quite a while.
IP Was Middle School, Named Data Networking Is College
> Russia is gaining power

China is a rising power. Russia is a moderately-sized (between New York and Florida in GDP [1]) regional power and petrostate with shaky finances.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._stat...
Development continues on

https://named-data.net/project/archoverview/
Geologists reveal ancient connection between England and France
Many populations fear big job loss from automation
If the keys are referenced by the key fingerprint they don't strictly need to be fetched over HTTPS.

But the page that says "here's our fingerprint: xyz" would better be served over secure connection (assuming someone is not using WoT).
> Nevertheless, the ecology you describe has sense of harmony in the way it is self balancing; humans are quite anomalous in that respect.

I don't think so, on any long time scale. We just think it's in perfect harmonious balance because we've only been observing it for a the blink of a gnat's eye. Longer time scales are an endless succession boom and bust as some creatures fail and dying, others succeed and breed out of control until they wipe others out (and eventually themselves).

The view that nature is somehow wise and benevolent is only possible for us at all because we've won the game so thoroughly that nature, almost never happens /to/ us.
ok so maybe I misunderstood. I thought the version of the host linux had to match exactly the version of the docker linux image.
I think gitlab pages is a great way to introduce people to the philosophy of gitlab.

I could imagine a pipeline setup in the future (with the help of web IDE) that will allow authors to write and commit new articles, for editors to edit them and sign them off to the publisher, and the publisher to publish articles to a static site without leaving the browser. Thoughts?
So you're saying we should shut down all of the large and Radio and space telescopes, because it's pointless to look at things you can't visit?
I had an advisor who wanted his own name and 2 of his students names on a paper where his only contribution was giving some reagent.
This is enough money that meeting with an accountant (who can advise you on how to minimize taxes, among other things) and a financial planner (who can help you think through long- and short-term investment options) is probably worth your while.
They work at home on non-contact tasks including planning coherent sequences of lessons, and 'differentiating' the approach within each lesson for lower quartile, median and upper quartile students. There may also be discrete special learning needs (e.g a deaf student who communicates exclusively by sign language and who will have an interpreter and a note taker present, a student with Asperger's, a student with type 1 diabetes and significant eyesight impairment, a student with pronounced dyslexia).

Within the planning process, you often have to allow for significant changes in the syllabus content and mode of assessment.

There is usually staff training provided by school management, and career progression in teaching is linked to taking on extra responsibility.

Now, a very interesting question is why do we have the long summer holidays still? Lets face it, a very small proportion of the population work on farms these days. Changing that would have to be a big bang change of course. The whole system would need to move over to a new school year in one go, which is probably why no government has done it yet.

I'm also, looking back on a 30 year career, beginning to wonder if a more 'industrial' approach to curriculum design might be useful. Why not simply devise a national curriculum and produce standardised lesson plans and schemes to go with it? In the UK we have the national curriculum bit but teachers are still scrabbling around for resources and activities.
How did the spys manage to avoid poisening themselve with the nerve agent in the process? Did they walk around in a protective suite? That might have raised some suspicions...
Adventure Time and the Myth of Sisyphus
What hardware did you use as an inferface? How many different commands where you able to call and how long did it take to execute them?

> It is the most frustrating feeling seeing someone else invent the thing you imagined a couple years ago

Don't be. Even in much less connected world it was already obvious that inventions are based on what's already out there and are usually not all that unique. This one has documented research from before 1975.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Remote-control-dragoN-birds-...
For anyone with a clock app out there, this would be a nice april-fools prank you could push to your users.
Why Edinburgh's clock is almost never on time
One political factor in the US is the belief, which I have heard expressed out loud any number of times, is that if you are good you then become an entrepeneur. So if you are instead a teacher then you must not have real skills, and should not get real pay.

(Not my attitude, very much not, but the reality that there are many who think that way needs to be noted.)
> Citation very much needed for this claim that (publicly trusted) Certificate Authorities are "regularly compromised" while some random guy's PGP keys on his laptop are "much more secure".

Actually X.509 keys evolved under enterprise pressure and some devices have nice additional security measures. For example it's possible to attest that a given X.509 key was generated on a Yubikey (so it's only in hardware, no copies exist) [0]. Microsoft EV code signing certs require hardware keys. OpenPGP doesn't have this.

[0]: https://developers.yubico.com/yubico-piv-tool/Attestation.ht...
1. Wasn't remotely initiated.

2. Was announced beforehand, not snuck in.

3. Is open-source.
One-line node modules
> One of Holland's largest companies, Royal Dutch Shell, bought exclusive concession rights (for several decades to come) to natural resources in the Ukraine, most of which became inaccessible to them after the regime change in Kiev

Royal Dutch Shell’s 20% interest in Rosneft [1], a Russian oil company, eclipses the its exposure to Ukraine. This has been a sticking point at every sanctions crossroads, with the Dutch requiring extraordinary evidence before proceeding.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fool.com/amp/investing/gene...
Exactly. Duty cycle is something we had to be very aggressive about even on the BLE side.
I've been using it at parties for a while, always showing it to new people. I had the same idea and at some point that airconsole already existed. It's fun and the setup is easy, but many games are buggy (the hockey one for exemple has terrible controls and i never managed to play with 4+ people).
Good concept, but probably hard to make reliable enough. Their SDK is easy to use, but i couldn't find a proper workflow to develop with it, i ended up having to re-type a game code all the time, so i gave up.
All of those are HTTP :-)
> I would be surprised if Google was not doing A/B testing

On live (not beta), unsuspecting users, without their consent?
"...if you're trying to get better at technical interviews, the best way to do that is to actually do it."

No dammit, I don't want to get better at technical interviews - I want to live in a world where we don't need them. Why not fix the root problem instead of amplifying it?
>which is like droping a nuclear bomb to kill a single person

check that. Litvinenko. Basically minimal possible weapon of nuclear kind. Leaving no doubts who did it.

That is the point. An unmistakable publicly visible signature so nobody would have any doubts who did it, and all that without need to publicly take responsibility. Like with Nemtsov - killed right in the view from Putin's office. No need to claim responsibility while everybody clearly understands who did it.

>There is a information war happening to desecrate Russian Federation in the eyes of the world and nothing more.

The "information war" goes non-stop in the world, and Russia is far from being the only target or participant. The only thing we hear from Russia is that non-stop whining.
I have had some files deleted due to this, to my despair

My whole /tmp/ directory was silently deleted by some "cleanup" systemd shit, hours after an update that changed my configuration.
> Whatever the "message" this was supposed to send, it's unclear

Large numbers of former KGB and FSB agents live outside Russia. These well-publicised killings send a clear message to them about the consequences of spilling—or threatening to spill—Putin’s beans.
Perhaps a bit off-topic, but if you run a lighter blog and specifically want to do it on a machine you control the I can recommend using the nginx:alpine docker image to host your site. All you need to build it is a COPY command:

COPY ./my_static_files /usr/share/nginx/html

This alone wont get you HTTPS, but I wouldn't be surprised if you can get that working with little effort using docker volumes and certbot
So many of these scroll animation fuckery sites are made so that they only work with a trackpad, and even then probably only a mac trackpad (where flicking etc. work well).

Using a site like this with a mousewheel is near impossible.
We are using it on production. Rules get configured from container tags.
One (or a few) crappily implemented products doesn’t prove a point to me. As I’m bound by NDA on my prototypes, but I’ll do a little digging for public info I can share.
Some? Probably most. A project I worked on produced a "here is what we have just started doing" paper in year 1, then a "we have some more results" paper in year 2, and two slightly different "here is what we ended up with" papers in year 3.

But what do you expect? The system rewards publication above everything. And these are intelligent people. Of course they are going to maximise the numbers. Because if they don't, they get fired and replaced by people who will.

After 10 years in industry (publishing patents, not papers) I contacted my PhD adviser and asked what chance he thought I had of getting an academic job. His answer was equivocal, "none".
By keeping it in a sealed container. A nerve agent that could only be handled by someone wearing a protective suit wouldn't be very practical.
First, I did not say we are on top, but we do gain.
Second, power is not only econimics, but politics and power to stand against external threats and protect our people.
React Native – Is It Really the Future of Mobile App Development?