skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not super helpful, for example 25 just says "wrong exception". The original commenter seemed to know exactly why these 3 specific tests were failing, I'm also curious what specific specs changed that are no longer true.
So the sugarbusters people were right after all?
I think the “tax the rich to pay for services for the middle class” trend in our politics is not conducive to unity and stability. A flat tax would lessen the desire to increase taxes since everyone would have to bear an increase.
It literally is quoted in the article from Facebook's head of VR/AR:

> neither coordinated nor directed from the company. From an internal post at the launch: “We, unequivocally, DO NOT want Facebook employees to engage in leaving reviews for the products that we sell to Amazon.” We will ask them to take down.

https://twitter.com/boztank/status/1085966442820886528
Mac's third party app lineup is just so much better than Windows in my opinion, I don't care what OS to use but not going to leave Mac because of them.

Windows culture of free but mediocre or good but bloated and expensive never really hits the right spot.
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You're not wrong, but that one time you see a place for a new algorithm for a specialized problem can make a big enough difference to be worth it. If nobody in your group has the range, it's not likely you'll know when it'll pay to call in the research department with the PhDs exactly when they're needed, either. There's no bright line between coding and invention.

More mundanely, when I was starting out at a small shop (I'm around your age) my coworkers hadn't mastered undergrad algorithms, and it made a significant difference in what we could do.

It's unfortunate that attempting to test for this seems to have encouraged too much memorizing of known tricks relative to better mastery of principles.
I work for Google, opinions are my own.

First of all it sounds like your interview experience was unpleasant so if this was at Google I apologize.

Secondly, I can totally relate to feeling like I don't belong having also come from a nontraditional background (No college degree).

> At each place it was people from other teams completely unrelated to that team who interviewed (or would interview) me and eventually turned into a decision panel where everything about me would be considered by these people who really knew nothing of my character/skills aside from the resume and white boarding.

This sounds similar to what we do at Google; people who know you actually aren't allowed to interview you because they will be biased. We try to make the interview as objective as possible. Note that information from anyone who knows you or referred you will be shown to the hiring committee though so it's not as though that feedback is not used.

> Between that and the amount of times I heard "Stanford" tossed around in a way that put down other schools (while not having a degree at all myself) I decided to give up on ever working at any of these places without being an acquihire. It just seems like a far fetched pipe-dream and I'd never check the required boxes that they expect for someone to sit in the same building with them. And honestly, none of that sat well with me.

I understand why you feel this way but that's definitely not true! I don't think you necessarily should want to work in FAANG but I strongly think you should believe you are capable.
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2600 says to forward them to voicemail and have your greeting start with the three-toned telecom information sound (bee baaaugh eeeeeep... at least in the US). Then they will likely take you out of their system as they identify that the number is not in service.
Why? What makes you think your DNA is identical everywhere or that the test is perfectly accurate every time, or that even the concept of DNA-by-region is all that precise?
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Unclutter is also good for clipboard manager as well as taking a quick memo that doesn't get in the way.
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To refine your analogy, Facebook is like someone whose business plan is "Hey, there's this nutrient called sugar that everyone eats. Great! Let's put heroin in it and give it to kids."
> No one makes a neuro-surgeon perform a surgery before hiring them.

True, but I also know that a neurosurgeon graduated from an accredited school, did an internship at an accredited hospital, and then passed a standardized licensing exam.

If we had that for engineers we wouldn't need to test their skills either.

When I was doing hiring, I would see resumes of people with 10+ years of experience who couldn't write a simple loop in their favorite language. If you've been coding for 10 years, you should be able to write a simple loop. That's the problem we're solving for here.
This all comes down to what the company is optimizing for.

Everybody here seems to assume they are trying to filter for the good candidates...but what they are actually trying to do with these kind of interviews is filter out the bad ones!

Because the damage when hiring a bad candidate is much higher than the damage from missing out on a good one!
Antibiotics don't cause animals to grow faster.... Please stop stating fake information as fact.
Most people I know have not bothered to learn any math beyond algebra, and try to forget what algebra they did learn, they still seem to be doing pretty well. You can always limit yourself and pretend that's "enough" but it can very well be self-limiting. You simply don't know what you don't know, and that includes not knowing all of the things you might miss out on by not studying. Set theory and abstract algebra has a huge range of applications, simply being able to earn a living without studying those things is an insufficient reason to avoid studying them.
> Has anyone actually studied the best way to hire devs? Like a real, independent study that measured and compared results across, perhaps, a wide array of metrics?

I don't know how you would ever strive to do such a thing when people can't even agree how to measure productivity.

> Of course maybe this explains why most of the big tech companies have seemed pretty stagnant for the last decade, largely failing with products and decisions that have poor execution and market fit outside of the products that made them big in the first place.

In most large companies these things have nothing to do with programmers; the decisions are made by management and products are designed by PMs. Hell, you can't even necessarily blame buggy products on programmers: I've been on projects where everyone realizes things suck but if you don't get funding or agreement to work on infrastructure projects what can you do?
Good point about the ambiguous language. Reminds me of: https://www.reddit.com/r/dontdeadopeninside/

Though in this case people had tried to convince the victim not to swim, so it wasn't like he misread the sign.
>>The average professional government worker makes $50k, and is terrified more than anything in the world of doing something bad that gets surfaced to congress.

The average federal worker makes over $100K a year, and have very secure employment, with formidable protections against being fired, thanks to their collective bargaining agreement.

I don't know where you work, but considering the average compensation of federal workers, and the kind of collective bargaining agreements they have in place, I can't imagine your experience being typical.

Moreover, even well-meaning individuals, who only live to serve, are sometimes not effective at what they do. Consumers being required to pay for the products and services they consume leads to them choosing those providers who provide products and services in the most cost-effective manner, and those who work less efficiently being pushed out of the market and hopefully into a role in the economy they're better suited at.

This evolutionary process of the most efficient producers being allocated capital with which to grow is what is responsible for the massive increases in capital we see in the economy over a longer time-scales, as profit-motivated individuals invest in new manufacturing facilities, software platforms and service models to better compete, which results in the steadily improving quality and value of products offered in the market.

>>The only difference is that at the end of the day:

There is massively more accountability when consumers pay for what they consume, and when they have multiple options in the market.

>>the fact that the government isn't targeting how much it can sell stuff for means it's pretty uniquely well suited for items which shouldn't be charged for in the first place (e.g safety, health, defense, security, etc)

People should pay for the cost of the services that they consume no matter what it is. The only reason something should be provided by government is that competitive markets don't emerge in certain industries, like basic research, crime-fighting, backbone infrastructure and national defense.
I bet a contributing factor in this is that you think other people are "faster". They're not, we're not. The only difference between you and someone who's good at these interviews is that the good ones accept that uncertainty and are willing to work through it and you aren't.

Nobody aces those interviews in the way you probably think; by just magically knowing every detail.
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I read that charitably as "give newbies a chance"
Right. But public policy does not correlate strongly with what the public wants. I’m making the distinction between laws and culture.
A DFS would be you check your living room, you check under the cushions of the sofa, you tear open the cushions and comb through the insides... all before glancing at your bedroom when you didn't quickly see the keys in the living room.
> There certainly are those who have developed a significant open source project but who get rejected by the FAANG companies, the author of Homebrew being a recent infamous example.

It’s always possible that Google felt he wasn’t what they needed. And keep in mind that Howell ended up being hired by Apple and working there for a while.
Wouldn't it be better to hire somebody who thought that was lame and who spent 100s of hours learning performance testing, new libraries, design patterns, or just working on projects?

Personally, I'd rather not work somewhere that hired based on drilling fringe information - what will the job be like? Maybe I'll feel differently in 10 or 20 years
I wrote stateless servers, if you missed that bit.

Anything requiring large semi-long-lived intermediate buffers would need a different approach, I agree. Similar to caches; you don't want a mid-life crisis in a generational GC.
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>I've never had a panic attack at the airport because I couldn't have sugar for a couple of hours, but I have had one because I couldn't vape.

Maybe you haven’t, but low blood sugar diabetic emergencies are a thing.
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Yes, this is true - and if you think about it, can't be any different way, really. I mean, where else would it go? No chemical reaction can destroy any noticeable amount of mass. Excretions - like peeing and pooping - don't carry out too much mass too. So how else you'd get rid of some mass?
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> After about a month of consistently drinking kool-aid each day (maybe 2–3 litres/day, more on weekends)

FTFY
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30 days beforehand is too easy to forget that another charge is coming I think, at that point your previous invoice is basically that notification
I'm afraid SequelPro may be coming to a dead end without a real active development (night lies occur but no stable release in years without latest MySQL support.)

https://github.com/sequelpro/sequelpro/issues/3037#issuecomm...
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Yes. I’m making the distinction between the laws and what the people actually believe.
Eh, the many years of unprecedented (in modern history) drought, higher temperatures, and higher winds most had an impact on how intense these fires burned and how far/fast they spread.
Right, but you used libraries to do it, right? You didn't actually need to know how BFS works, did you?

10 million lines of code fits in RAM pretty easily. You could use the worst algorithm in the world and still complete that whole task with just a few seconds of compute time.

I think that's the point. You don't really need to know about BFS in most cases, because in most cases you can solve the problem with any old search in just a few seconds.
The degree of harm is correlated with the degree of use, just like cigarettes. If you smoke a handful of cigarettes a year, it probably won't affect you much at all. But if you use cigarettes multiple times a day for years, you'll do real harm to yourself. That's exactly true of Facebook. Yes, if you occasionally check in and are diligent about how you use facebook, you might escape harm. But unlike sugar, this slight-of-hand language they use of "human connection" doesn't prove that any facebook use is beneficial.

Sure, candy technically has calories. But the fact that human beings need calories isn't a good argument for eating candy. You can also get calories from healthy foods, and you can get "human connection" from, you know, talking to people, or sending text messages, or reading reputable news sources. Not coincidentally, the idea of a "social connection" was and is also a big part of apologizing for smoking as a habit.
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Honestly, it sounds like you may be geared more towards software architecture rather than software development. If you like the sound of the bigger picture more than the details, it might be something you could look into.
It's actually anger-inducing. Blockchain and even BFT topics are a tiny tiny corner of the distributed systems landscape, neither broad nor important enough to co-opt the terminology.
Then they couldn't have their cake and eat it too.
It's far from knowledge acquisition; I'll have forgotten this by next week. But your evidence didn't support your position. I told you why I think it supported mine.
Yglesias, a very smart writer focused on public policy

Agree to disagree.
After a few months I couldn't stand the cluttered interface and generally I need to click twice more to achieve anything, I went back to SequelPro.
> Unless the poison is immediately making you sick, and you can't afford to drink clean water, people don't get mad enough to riot.

Flint still has lead in the water. In Western societies riots have become really rare except France (which except for the Nordic states properly investing their oil money)... which coincides that they're the only remaining Western world with a halfway decent social security network. Macron tried to dismantle it and follow Germany and UK neoliberalism... had to roll back quite a bunch and people still want his head (some literally brought guillotines!).

French people actually can and dare to stand up for themselves. Their methods aren't exactly conventional, but they are effective.
>Democracies have mature intel capabilities because their public services are so large that they can mobilize the resources for things like custom malware, electronics, and a kind of parallel tech industry.

This still comes across as an unsupported assertion. To use the US as an example, the NSA isn't particularly synergistic with the NHS or any other non-clandestine government agency. They have their own budget and an independent asset sheet. The NSA actually competes for resources with the NHS, as the tax burden can only be so high. In an alternate universe where heart disease killed more people every every year than domestic terrorism (cough), Congress could make the NHS bigger without raising taxes by reducing funding for the domestic surveillance system.

With the same economy, a country with no civil service would be able to afford more internal security than one with a large, expensive civil service. Taken to the ultimate extreme you get a government that provides no services but levies a high tax/bribery burden, so that it can use it to fund a domestic security apparatus (which is badly needed because military kleptocracies are not popular!).
I said "economic benefit". Not "cash".
They probably already have it anyways. From the extensive apt campaigns.
Yeah absolutely, it was in the context of the OP.
And that person is 100% right.

Those companies do not provide the data as a downloadable file because if they do, makes incredibly easy to jump services (for those who aren't familiar, it's impossible to download a list with our library of added songs)
Camotics is wonderful, thanks! I did have some problems testing some super complicated toolpaths (millions of lines long) though...
If the interviewer is willing to talk it out with you, then it is totally a different situation. But, it came up in a recent other HN discussion on tech interviews, and it is an example of something that, if you memorized it, would have a vanishingly small improvement in your ability to get the job done.

But, if you explain what it is in words, and have them whiteboard how to turn those words into pseudocode or somesuch, then it could be a appropriate, sure.
Livestock feces runoff into irrigation water is also responsible for most cases of fruit and vegetable E. Coli contamination (such as the recent one of lettuce: https://www.independent.com/news/2018/dec/14/adam-brothers-f...)

E. Coli is not a normal plant pathogen (it does not infect a plant even if it comes in contact with the roots), and is only able to survive in soil for a couple of weeks. There are claims that E. Coli outbreaks have been caused by wild animals such as deer (https://www.ecoliblog.com/e-coli-outbreaks/deer-poop-conclus...), however, no mention is ever made of alternative hypotheses. What do you think is more likely: dozens/hundreds of acres of crop being infected by a handful of deer strolling through and leaving some droppings, or the deer drinking the infected irrigation water and contracting the E. Coli, which shows up in their droppings? How much do you think the likelihood changes if you know that the E. Coli is antibiotic resistant (cows are continually fed antibiotics, primarily because it makes them grow faster)? There are even more outlandish claims about birds (apparently geese are now supposed to be tactical precision bombers targeting our food supply with biological weapons). This wild-animals theory also fails to explain why every single crop field is not continuously infected with E. Coli from rodent droppings from the hundreds or even thousands of mice, rats, and other rodents that live in and around the fields.
> there is a serious danger in interpreting the inevitable twists and turns of research and policy as the product of malevolent playbooks and historical derailments.

Neither malevolence nor conspiracy need be invoked to fear sugar lobby influence. A simple confluence of strong incentives and ambiguity in nutrition science is sufficient. It's entirely possible for sugar lobbyists to believe their products are safe and wholesome and channel funding to scientists and institutions that believe the same.

All we need to be concerned is

1. A finding that a powerful and concentrated industry is providing massive funding to research and regulatory bodies at all levels.

2. A recognition that their motivated reasoning is at least as powerful as our own.

No mustache twirling villains need apply.
You guys should listen to this segment on NPR from Science Friday today - regarding how to age the craters on the moon, and turning the impact data from the moon craters to music:

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/learning-earths-impac...
They physics communinity does not seem to have the issue of being able to judge merit from resumes. When you see a physics PhD with a list of academic references, chances are that the person knows what they are doing; with computer science it’s somehow likely that the person might not know their way around the command line or when using an array might be a bad idea…
Can't blame you. It's as ridiculous in 2019 as it was in 1993.
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