skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Forget any of the rest of your skills, because we all know the only thing that matters when interviewing is an ability to recite CS algorithms out of memory and solve obtuse puzzles while pretending you've never seen them

This attitude only seems to exist in companies that are seen as 'top n'. Want to stop interview in this manner? Stop applying to these companies.

Unfortunately if you want to get the paycheck that comes from these types of companies, you have to play their games. You can't complain the interview system is broken and then only apply to jobs that offer 150k total comp and have brand name recognition.

For every FAANG with a broken interview system, there are 5 other decent companies with intelligent people that don't do this crap.
A very recent example is how the NBA changed how shooting fouls work to directly combat a technique that James Harden mastered/exploited to get fouled while shooting to the point that he (the individual) had more three point three throws than any other team in the league.

[1]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/james-harden-gets-foule...

[2] https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/59wyb8/the-harden-rule...
Somehow my email address became associated with someone else's resume on Monster.com (which I haven't been to in more than fifteen years, but apparently it still exists) and now I regularly get email inquiries for process engineering jobs in factories in small towns in the midwest.
DHH on Why Air Quality Matters [video]
I don’t use FB myself anymore but my wife still does and this morning she showed me some posts by a friend of ours. He’s... troubled anyway, but recently he seems to have become addicted to self-harming and posting the photos on FB for the reactions and comments. Congratulations, FB scientists, this is your contribution to the world.
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I get a lot of poor recruitment pitches, I could go on for hours about this.

Best ones are "looking for a $TECH ninja/pirate/spaceman", yada yada, they have a ping-pong table, lunch etc.

No mention of salary range. Not one. Like I'm doing this purely because I enjoy it (I do, but that's beside the point)!

Why the heck would I apply for a job that doesn't pay?
Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and into Fire Zones
How would you solve a task like creating an user group or things that are more complicated then dropping some files on the disk?
I also interpreted it the 'wrong' way.
Well, people pay for Lotus Notes so a user-centrix UX helps customer retention and reduces the burden on customer support.

The modern crop of "addictive" apps are usually free so having "time spent" as a KPI helps bring in ad revenue, which is good for business.
There are loads of great resources but they are all easy to find if you look. The secret to being self taught is having the desire to learn rather than the desire for some one to teach you.
Yeah, I think people are just squeamish and judgemental sometimes. I'd kinda like to know what they're doing this for etc. There is an expense crisis in people's lives right now; they aren't even considering obvious ways they could spend less money because the norm is to spend outside your means. I'm down for any incentive that encourages people to spend less money for similar opportunity for a quality life, and invest the difference.

P.S. For what it's worth, it's hard to tell that this is being offered by a private individual, the site doesn't have an about page or anything.

P.P.S. For anyone who wants/needs to keep their guns, Oklahoma is pretty good. Governor Mary Fallin & Co. opposed the constitutional carry provision proposed earlier this year, but I suspect Governor-elect Kevin Stitt will be more open to it following these recent midterm elections. Downshot for me with this Governor-elect is that he seems to have promised to be distinctly pro-life, something I suspect will be more of a polarizing political trial and less of a successful policy direction. I think this could cause a considerable amount of time wasting in state government, taking away from more hopeful causes.
> Paying teachers more is not likely to improve the situation. As research by Justin Sandefur of the Centre for Global Development shows, poor-country teachers tend to be remarkably well-paid, by local standards (see chart). And evidence from countries as diverse as Indonesia and Pakistan suggests that teachers’ pay levels have little impact on learning.

Is it at all reasonable to use units of GDP to compare salaries? That doesn’t seem right to me. The US GDP per capita in USD is about $60k. The Ethiopia GDP per capita in USD is less than $800. The only way to claim that teachers are “remarkably well-paid” by using units of GDP, while in reality 7 * GDP / person in Ethiopia (about $5,400 per year) is not enough to buy food or pay rent.

If the cost of living in Ethiopia were 1% of the cost of living in the US, then teachers would be better off. But the cost of living there is only slightly lower, so teachers’ buying power there is a tiny fraction of what it is here. They’re getting a lot less than our minimum wage in relative dollars.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...
Not directly. Since I didn't buy IPO shares, Facebook never got my money, though other investors did when they sold.
I've had recruiters copy and paste the text from my nicely-formatted PDF into a Word document after I refused to give them an editable copy.

I no longer deal with recruiters if I can help it, but if I find myself using them again I'd consider offering to add their logo onto my CV myself to avoid them butchering it.
> I remember reading once that students who excel in high school (valedictorians and salutatorians) are underrepresented as successful company founders, meaning that they occur at a lower rate than one would expect from chance alone

I've tended to notice that as well. Perhaps it's because being a startup founder is a financially irrational choice. If you're extremely smart, you can go into medicine/finance/law/comp-sci and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, potentially over a million. You don't ever have to shoulder significant risk or periods of "poverty". You would spend your entire post-college life enjoying the social status and perks associated with having a high-prestige job and boatloads of money. Why would you give that up to be a founder?

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
Just a quick setting to flip:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

And the relevant HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18209082
Full report [PDF]: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/binaries/rijksoverheid/document...
Chatbots, Echoborgs and the future of conversational AI
What do you mean? You can't pay your mortgage with "great company ethos" or "free beers on Friday"?
Can't really fault Amazon or the Django library for you not reading the docs.
The way you describe it would not be feasible for a novice either. Almost every piece of software you use today needs internet access. That‘s why Microsoft delivers Windows with sane Firewall rules and just asks if you‘re in a trusted network and adjusts the firewall rules based on that. Also most software developers configure firewall rules during setup. If a unknown executable will try to access the internet there is a pop-up like you described that asks you if you want to allow access.

Anyways the OP was asking if there are any tools available to the basic user to deny internet access for these telemtry services and there is the inbuilt Windows Firewall. I even found a script [0] that does what the OP is looking for. I‘m not sure if it‘s up to date though. All the information needed to update the script is published in the public documentation provided by Microsoft though. Thanks to GDPR you have extensive documentation on all things telemtry related to Windows 10 and Microsoft Office. For most users setting their telemetry settings to basic should suffice.

[0] https://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using...
I think you may be right. I also found this when googling "chromosomes gluten", which recurringly refers to the 14 chromosomes and gluten content but doesn't give any reason why:

https://www.einkorn.com/3-reasons-einkorn-may-be-easier-to-d...

"This study, shows that Einkorn has 10% less amylose than it’s closest cousin, Emmer and 20% less than Rye. It makes me wonder what it would be compared to modern wheat! In addition, the chromosomal count of Einkorn is a simple 14 compared to modern wheat of 42. As the chromosomes of modern wheat has increased, so has the modern wheat berry’s physical size. In ratio to that Amylose and Amylopectin has increased also. Modern wheat has been found to contain 75% Amylopectin."

I have a feeling they are correlated due to seed size but the number of chromosomes isn't causative.
Alternative sources of lights (candles, kerosene lantern and backup batteries who can afford it) are used when there are power outages.

But you're right we do take power for granted but I think what I found most lacking during power outages were not the light source but access to Internet. Just being able to lookup something really quick while you're learning is much more efficient than waiting the next day to ask your teacher to answer it, which is hit/miss sometimes.
The Rise of the Micro-Network
Sure, but those things require “lots” of access. Just grabbing a disk or decommissioning half of an HA pair etc requires only “little” access.

Just because there are complex vectors doesn’t mean you give up on the basic ones.

This is a valuable thing, and for now, a differentiator.
Looks like it happens every December, going to have to make it to one of these!
>let anyone who feels it is worth pay for it.

Don't rely on altruism to be a good indication of real demand. People like to get good deals. When you get for free something that is of good value -- it's a good deal and most people will go for it.

The freemium model would work better to estimate demand.
NASA, Raytheon, etc did employ these same engineers, and had access to much thicker wads of cash. They did not produce a returnable, reusable rocket, though. They've produced the Space Shuttle.
I guess you can hide temporal artifacts with camera work and editing, but poor lighting and color are harder to fix.
>This kind of post-facto justification for poor working conditions or wages needs a name, so it can be dismissed out of hand. It seems to assume that the market is “fair” and getting poor pay must be justified by some other factor about the job.

Maybe this is true when you consider not just the job itself, but acquiring the job. How many minimum wage jobs offer minimum entry requirements? How many offer secondary benefits that are worth a lot, but only to a very small percent of the population (such as internships offering access to important people).

Of courses, none of this means fair. Some people are unfairly born with advantages or disadvantages, many of which have no solution that I've ever seen.
Because it's irrelevant what the person currently makes. It only matters what the company is willing to pay for the work they are hiring for. Requiring the applicant to tell their current salary is only useful as a means of salary deflation.
I am 100% willing to fault software for bad defaults regardless of how they document those defaults.
> What seems to make a difference is a prepared and motivated school principal.

I work in EdTech in Mexico and I totally agree.

What makes a difference are prepared and motivated principals but also teachers, even in expensive private schools which are usually our customers.

Technology in the classroom is even negative for younger kids, and for teenagers it generally doesn't make much of a difference over pen and paper unless the teacher understands the benefits of the medium.

As someone who has been working in EdTech for a couple of years and was motivated to make learning better, this revelation has been quite demotivating.
Phil Resnik's dissertation ("A Class-Based Approach to Lexical Relationships ", https://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/10010143379/) uses information theory to investigate why some direct objects are optional (e.g., "I ate [food]") while others are not (e.g., *"I brought [food]").

I extended his information theory to look at how Grice's Maxims would play in to modification of these direct objects ("The Semantics of Optionality", https://pqdtopen.proquest.com/doc/1658214586.html?FMT=ABS). In terms of Grice's Maxims + information theory, does modifying a required direct object ("marking it", as noted in a comment below) informationaly/entropically different from modifying an optional direct object? (This is further clouded by the concept of syntactic optionality being separable from semantic optionality.
- Recuiters aren't your friends, they're salespeople, selling you.

- Don't stick your CV on a job board, there's no expiry and recuiters will call up wondering if you're still unemployed three years later.

- Never answer "how much are you currently on?". You should always say "I'm looking for $X" - feel free to give a range, but keep the ball in your court. Check glassdoor/linkedin to make sure you're not blagging for an unreasonable figure.
I agree with you, but I would like to qualify that. The low hanging fruit analogy is apt in more ways than one; there are likely to be deeper truths out there that we don't know enough to model; take dark matter and dark energy and the expanding universe for one. In that respect I disagree that "the big fundamental structures ... are more or less known"

However, these fruits of science are so far out of reach of humanity's experience that they will be very difficult to exploit.

Personally, I think that the social sciences have yet to see their renaissance. The social sciences involve complex systems that are difficult to model, so there simply aren't comprehensive quantitative theories in these fields on the order of physics. If we develop efficient, cheap computation, orders of magnitude greater than what we currently have,[1] perhaps the social sciences may see its heyday.
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I've had a recruiter literally call up the office of my (at-the-time) current job to ask if I was looking for a new job. After politely rejecting them, they continue by asking if any of my colleagues were looking for a new job. These recruiters are aggressive!
One is known for it's cold, the other not-so-much.

My insinuations about testing flush manual handles in the cold thus applies to the (desert) California end of things.

This isn't a problem unique to Tesla though, unfortunately. They don't make things the way they used to be. My Chevy's exterior-sitting plastic pull-handles also snap from frozen parts, too. I'd just hope that a $50,000 small sedan which is a peek into the future also takes in to account common weather-related-issues in their preferred markets.
why not ? What's to say that mental computations can't come in discrete units ?

Maybe communication about the past is a self-contained computation that can evolve independently in brain networks as diverse as those of bees, orangutans and humans
Social insects have a way of spoiling intelligence tests.

The mirror test is a good example. To recognize yourself in mirror, you need to understand that you are a person. Not many animals recognize themselves: apes, some ravens, elephants dolphins... all usual suspects known to be intellegnt.

Give them a mirror and once they figure it out they spend the next hour making faces and checking out their own ass. Mark their face and they'll try to clean it in the mirror.

Then ants.

Ants seem to get mirrors too. So either ants are self conscious or the test is no good.
The elevators still have some authority, you don't have to wind it from end to end to regain control. Also, the full range of mechanical motion is only available via the trim wheel, the electronic trim doesn't drive it to either extreme (although it can move it back to the centre from an extreme).
did the early employees at facebook believe in anything more than making money?
It extends to military too. The Mitsubishi F-2 was the F-35 of it’s day, which was great for everyone (except the taxpayer)
>> Seriously, it's the only decision that makes sense if one has the chops to get into one of those places.

I don't apparently

> I conclude those engineers have less prestige until they stay with those employers

Well, I appreciate your honesty - when I tell most people about how I make ~$150k at one of those companies they usually claim they don't look down on me when I've always maintained they secretly do. Thanks for clearing it up.

I hope my life isn't forever ruined by my inability to get into FB/G/top startups out of undergrad. I prepared for years but never got past the onsites. Hopefully someday I'll be able to gain the respect of people like you.
threads.h*

Just for any casual readers unaware
Half the article is a "but..." of its subtitle. The title even has "can" in it which makes it non-absolute.
Validate the licenses associated with your software dependencies
> I think attempts from e.g. Google to develop their own chips will fail

I'm curious what you think failure will look like. In a lot of ways, Google's TPU program has already been extremely successful.
You're looking for this repo: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

These people make a VSCode build without M$ telemetry/tracking enabled.
You can Firewall Windows services. There is a inbuilt firewall and there may be default rules but you can customize it the way you want. It would be a pretty big security flaw if they let their services bypass the firewall. They may be profit oriented but not stupid.
I completely agree. Public shaming lists aren't advisable.
Would you think less of me as an employee of Apple instead of an employee of Facebook?
Thank you. I’m amazed so many here don’t get it. How are you guys building robust things? Maybe I’m too far along to see from the eyes of a novice, but why would anyone poo-poo default encryption at rest?! And as-a-service to boot!
Not encrypted in memory, just on disk.
What's your definition of basic science?

The requirement for Science to produce real, tangible benefits to mankind for it to get funded makes a lot of it unfeasible, because a good bit of it is useless on it's own, but is good to figure out because of potential uses in the future.
Thanks. I am actually using this inside a kernel module whose job is to inspect Intel's virtualisation state: https://github.com/bytefire/vmtool
Most people risked their jobs or their lives and freedom to secretly transport stolen docs to Wikileaks. I won’t expect a review complaining about the lack of release.

Whether the material released is selective or the material feed to WL is selective the result is Wikileaks release clearly favored one side.

Assange is also known to have a proclivity for Russia
A software firewall needs to fully trust the underlying system to be effective. What if, for example, Windows telemetry had a way to circumvent their own official network stack so that the firewall doesn't even see those packets?
Pure speculation of course, but they have the sources so they could do that.
To expand on that last bit -

The reason they might want to just collect all data without asking is that there's a chance that making it opt-in could cause bigger bias problems in the data you collect. For example, what if "power users" are significantly more or less likely to opt-in? You could end up with a very distorted view of what features are most popular, or are giving people the most trouble.

Not saying that this concern is well-founded (I really don't know), or that this choice makes sense from a business perspective (I'm skeptical). Definitely not saying that this is the ethical choice to make (it isn't). Just trying to shed light on a possible thought process.
iOS is also based on NeXTSTEP(which itself is a derivative of BSD Unix). Also previous jailbreaks could gain root access along with some kind of shell. iOS, in its current form, seems to be a very locked down, sandboxed version of Unix.
So I think iOS might prove as good as macOS.
On one hand, I love that people can research things without worrying about generating a profit. However, when I read about someone who has been funded to spend years studying the sports history of central-asian mongols and I look how much I'm struggling, working in an underfunded public-sector school, I feel... well, jealous and hard-done-by.
Built on top of Bokeh, so if you do need more control you can always fall back on Bokeh's API.

https://github.com/spotify/chartify/

APL2 licensed.

no relation with https://chartify.github.io/chartify/
Crazy. Not the first time I hear about this. Friend of mine told me about someone's emergency C-section where they used ketamine to put her under, sent her in to some kind of psychosis that required quite a lot of psychological help to get over.
We actually asked ourselves the same questions. The natural evolution of this tool would be to allow for reviews of recruiters/agencies.

Regarding point 1) there are ways to fight unjustified negative reviews (e.g. "I didn't get a job, this agency sucks!"), similarly to how they do on websites like Yelp. This is more of a community guided effort (unless we start actively moderating reviews, which is an option).

For now we're focusing more on building a sort of index of "horror stories" involving recruiters but before releasing the data we'll make a big effort not to publish biased content or blatant lies.

For point 2) We absolutely agree and we are still discussing how to release the data so that "nobody gets hurt", at least individually. You can keep in touch with us by adding your email address to the form (even if you don't want to share any story, although it would be much appreciated). Feel free to use a temporary email address or an alias.
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I was looking at the Advanced Protection Program and apparently activated it but I didn't have the required security keys, so it wasn't fully active. However, this deactivated my existing 2FA on the account which seems like it really shouldn't happen until my APP enrollment was completed.
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They must have reasoned that entering them in octal or binary means more digits which means more space.
we call that in-transit.

at-rest, in-transit, in-use
The article didn't necessarily clarify what type of data was being reported back, which I think is key. It mentions diagnostic data (I'm assuming crash logs and such), but it says "personal data" without specifying.

I think that would be a very helpful bit to surface before a solid judgement call can be made. Anyone with more info?
This whole proposal sounds just like one that a spoiled teenager would make.

Instead of feeling lucky to have a skill highly sought after, and to live in an economy that can afford to not only pay good money, but that will even send people out to throw that money after you, you still find reason to complain.

Set aside, I am aware, that there are crappy jobs, companies and people around, that want to scam and screw you.

But overall, that situation is quite a luxury, ... complaining about that is even beyond the proverbial first world problems.
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We had a bunch of code at work that everyone sort of begrudgingly used that I wrote almost 20 years ago, not knowing too much about what I was doing. I have recently rewritten it – about 100kLOC of messy C++ turned into 25kLOC of bliss. The test coverage we had ensured that we didn’t have to worry about anything breaking. I hate myself a bit less :)
@chprmc good idea to have an anon way of collecting the data.

In the UK we have a list of "spammy recruiters" who consistently disrespect "unsubscribe" requests and send useless/unrelated emails see: https://github.com/drcongo/spammy-recruiters