skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"intuition of subjective evaluators of the candidates"

This is inherently biased and proven to be the worst way to hire people.
Sure. Build about 10 classes of clusters of varying sizes, each with a dataset ranging from 100GB to a petabyte or more. Run them on shitty oversubscribed openstack clusters with a combination of ephemeral, Ceph, and SAN disks. Do replication to similar-ish clusters in different regions. Handle data for about 100 different applications that process so much data at such low latency that cloud-based databases aren't even an option. Keep adding nodes and storage to existing clusters over time.

It turns out that really unstable hardware/networks like to expose bugs. It also wasn't discussed in public forums. We paid for support and even employed Riak developers, and still we hobbled on putting out fires. I'll bet other DBs go through the same crap and keep it quiet.

Also, read the Riak documentation and you'll find the corruption recovery documentation among other hints at common failures and limitations.
Don't know about books but you might check out thegreatcourses.com that has many videos that try to explain math concepts in a simplified manner by lectures from college professors
Ask HN: Ebay Threatens to sue me. What should I do?
Recently I received an email from a law firm that says they represent eBay. The first part of the email talks about how famous eBay is. Then they went on to saying I am free riding on eBay's fame by combining "barter" with "bay".

I think they found me because I applied for a trademark for the name "barterbay". Nevertheless they say they will take legal actions if I don't do the following:

"* 1) expressly abandon your pending application for trademark.
* 2) cease use of BARTER BAY or similar names, including as a business name, trademark, trade name, domain name, on any website, and in any marketing materials;
* 3) cease use of the BARTERBAY.CA domain name and transfer your registration for that domain name to eBay;
* 4) cease use of BARTER BAY or similar names on any social media accounts and cancel all related social media accounts ;
* 5) remove your mobile applications from the Google Play and iTunes stores;
* 6) refrain from using or seeking to register any other name or trademark combining a generic or descriptive term with the term BAY;
* 7) provide written acknowledgement of, and agreement to comply with, these demands "

I never intended to free-ride on eBay's fame. Barter Bay is an online platform for locals to buy, sell, and most importantly barter goods and services. The idea of connecting bartering communities and our trading deck feature came to me during my last year of university, and the name was thought out together with fellow classmates. The reason we use "bay" is because our website and app uses a pirate/sailor theme, illustrating the old times when ships travel from island to island bartering goods. Our logo is a whale with a leaf-like tail symbolizing the importance of waste conscious for our environment.

My team and I spend a lot of time and money in our app. I am not sure if I should reply this email. Should I comply? =/
Don't forget the MAOI's that also contribute to the addiction.
Many people on HN also complain about "I don't have time for pair programming, take home". They don't like interviews. People just expect to be paid top dollar on their word.
It’s probably not necessary to print it out, but it’s a great way to establish the discipline for doing it in an IDE/editor.

A company I used to work at did code reviews this way, we printing out pages of code and go through it in a meeting room with multiple reviewers. It could be overkill for binary deliverables, but when the deliverables included source code it really forced you to focus on it, having no other distractions.

In an IDE you’d go-to-definition on a symbol, maybe get distracted, start reviewing some other file, a refactor here or there, and before you know it you’re down a rabbit hole and have lost context on what you were initially reviewing. On paper you have to mark it to come back to later, and continue the rest of the review.
Those holding companies encourage artistry, mechanical excellence and beauty; they also sponsor some interesting sports. Apple doesn't do any of these things, and while I admire their apparent devotion to customer privacy -no comparison.

Re: your lack of understanding -at least you admit it! I mean why would anyone buy a sailboat or hand crafted knife? You can always buy some mass produced thing which is "better." Why buy a sports car when you can have a reliable honda? Why buy a pair of $600 Aldens when you can wear crocs? Heck, why buy a meal made by a human when you can drink soylent and live in your cube at work for more hours?

FWIIW I wouldn't buy any watches from those companies more or less because they're run by holding companies (maybe Jaeger), but they're a world cultural treasure for preserving this kind of artistry for middle class to upper middle class people to enjoy. Mostly subsidized by the Chinese trade, but whatever.
I think what you're after is:

https://docs.rs/miscreant/0.4.2/miscreant/aead/trait.Aead.ht...

These take a byte slice, and return an (allocated) byte vector.

The APIs you're talking about are special in-place ones for Miscreant's #![no_std] support, i.e. for embedded use or other usages which want to avoid heap allocations.

It's nice to support both of these usage patterns, because the allocating version has nicer ergonomics, but not everyone in the world has a heap.
anyone who changes their lifestyle as the result of a faulty, voluntary DNA test deserves whatever consequences that happen
I use this extension everyday. Its been a life saver. Stopped bookmarking stuff since the extension takes care of saving stuff.
It would be interesting to have a section how this approach compares to classic, non NN, algorithms.
China and the US have a bilateral agreement about this I believe. It's to make sure Chinese citizens aren't storing money in the US and vice-versa. I imagine a US bank would do something similar to a Chinese national.
To fight climate misinformation, point to the man behind the curtain
Russian startup wants to put billboards in space
Sorry, I was referring to your curated music library, not searching.

For example, in Spotify they just list all the tracks

https://i.imgur.com/Bse9J7z.jpg

In Apple Music, they list the albums, year, artwork, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/jyktt7R.jpg

I definitely prefer Apple's for browsing my current music.
This is the correct explanation; false positives are so much more expensive than the opportunity cost of a false negative.
Good points - provided references are shit, simply because they can be gamed. If you work for me and I dislike you but don't have the courage to pull out the fire hammer, I can give you a great reference. If I really like you because you're extremely good (and make me look good), I can give you a horrible reference and hold onto you.

However, OP was talking about internal references. This would be a situation where I work at Company A, but I know you and trust your work. Therefore, I refer you to Company A, big up you a little and suggest that they pursue hiring you.

The difference is that if you suck, it reflects poorly on me (and quite likely kills my dreams of upward mobility). Normal provides references don't have the same motive to be truthful!
You need to speak to a lawyer, not people in the internet. You’ve already invested time and money into this, so consider the fee for a consultation with a qualified attorney to be a further investment in that. I suspect that their attempts to own everything with “Bay” in it is a legal non-starter, but you need a lawyer to tell you for sure.
> Although every company loved telling me that “it really feels like a startup!”, it rang the truest at Amazon.

That made me laugh. I have to wonder if the author is somehow so naive that they don't understand what they observe or what to ask. It's also possible that the sentiment is the only lip service they could pay that hellhole, with a straight face.
eBay could probably make a vague case of infringement, BUT:

Talk to a lawyer, not randos on HN ;)
If you're asking specifically why the test isn't being maintained, I can somewhat speak to that.

The first Acid test was a relatively simple test that could visually demonstrate if browsers implemented CSS. When IE became the dominant browser, Microsoft essentially stopped all development on IE. At the time, IE had a very broken implementation of CSS (although, it should be noted, IE6 was the best implementation of CSS when it came out, as everybody else was just as bad). The Acid2 test was created in large measure specifically to goad IE into improving its standard compliance (mostly on CSS). As a result of the publicity of the Acid2 test, the other browsers fixed their engines to pass Acid2, which put pressure on IE to fix their engine.

Since it had been effective in pushing browsers to implement the CSS2 standard correctly, the author turned to creating Acid3 to push browsers to implement more technologies. Whereas Acid1 and Acid2 were largely about CSS layout, Acid3 focuses more on testing JS API implementations. Acid3 was heavily criticized for letting browsers score well just by having a very thin, minimal surface implementation of the feature instead of testing thorough correctness, as well as for being very opinionated in pushing browsers to implement specific technologies (SVG fonts being the big one).

By the time Acid3 came out, there was already a change in the development of web browsers. Microsoft was once again participating in the standards compliance process and trying to drive their browser to modern compliance, so all of the major browser vendors were very active in discussion about implementation. Also, the W3C changed its specification process to rely more heavily on having a thorough compliance testsuite that had two passing independent implementations before a standard could be considered finalized. The CSS2.1 testsuite wasn't complete at the time these tests were developed, but has now come out, with almost 10,000 individual tests in them, far more thorough than any of the Acid tests could claim to be.

Since the Acid tests no longer had value in being the most comprehensive tests of their underlying functionality, nor in compelling browser developers to be competitive in standards support, their developer stopped working on the project. Indeed, since Acid3 fails at even being a comprehensive test for what it tests, its author publicly stated that he isn't interested in updating it when specifications update.
>not all roles have algorithm-centric interviews

But the company you interviewed for and got into.. does..right?

Uber whiteboarded you.
"Not perfect" is when it fails a small number of times.

Not getting the same result twice is pretty much 100% failure :-)
I think I wasn't clear enough. By making transport and movement accessible you can get that mix. I went to high school in a low socio-economic area and most of my school friends (myself included) were parents by 21 or younger. Most still live on the fringes of Sydney and don't get to mix with opportunities. Last night was a mix like that, people like me who were lucky enough to get the opportunities to move up (and driven enough to take them when they appeared) and many who didn't. I was able to offer two people last night referrals to opportunities they wouldn't have otherwise had.

All because transport became easier.

I'm pretty far left, I think public transport should be free for anyone earning less than lets say $50,000pa, I think that entry to cultural institutions should likewise be free for the same demographic. The idea that some of my high school peers have never seen a play or gone to the museum because the cost is too high upsets me.

I have very vivid memories of the anger & shame I felt when my power was cut off because I couldn't pay the bill with a child under 6 months in the house. I couldn't pay the bill because I hadn't received my unemployment benefit that fortnight, because I couldn't afford the $2.50 for a bus into town to hand in my compulsory forms. I didn't have a job because I was still very much in the youthful stage of my life when I thought everyone should accept me for the way I am, instead of to paraphrase George Thorogood, getting a hair cut and getting any job.

In the last month I've been binge reading books on closing the gaps such as Richard Florida's new book "The New Urban Crisis", "How Children Succeed" by Paul Tough, "Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it" by Ian Leslie and more. I acknowledge there is no silver bullet that makes everything better. But there are a lot of things that could be changed to make things easier. There are also a lot of things we just don't know, and to be sure a lot of unintended consequences for the changes we are trying to make now.
Understanding Comics (free Sample) by Scott McCloud. Must Read for UI Designers
I actually thought this through a bit :-) Neither is it a DFS, unlike in DFS I'm expanding nodes at different depths. E.g., I'm shallow expanding bathroom/kitchen compared to living room. Only when I've exhausted living do I return to kitchen again to do a deeper search. I wonder if this kind of search has any other use. Debugging seems like a similar activity. Go deeper into logs, if nothing turns up then examine metrics, read code, return to logs again etc.,?

Sorry, past midnight here after a busy day at work :-P
Translating into IT / tech terms, people are VERY used to the concept of two .wav files sampled from the same CDrom being bit identical and useful in a court of law to prove both .wav files came from exactly the same music cd.

However people are really worked up about a new online service that encodes multiple analog music sources into lossy mp3 samples using different analog encoders each time, and the service sells an "identify matches similar to this song" as a service that people think is the same level of exactness as the old fashioned court-of-law .wav file bit by bit comparisons, but its actually more of a lossy best guess pattern matching service instead. Yes they DO use the same general technology, mostly, but its quite different in purpose and outcome.

An even better analogy is we are VERY used to an online service that OCRs a scan of a music CD and outputs the musician name every time based on OCR of the disc itself, and now people familiar with that technology are VERY confused by an app that listens to your cell phone mic and often squirts out the musician name based on that raw analog sound sample.

Its more a miracle the new tech works at all, than a scandal that both business models aren't identical in accuracy.
Essentially this. But I _highly_ recommend finding a dual national wherever you are and transferring money before you get over there. This will ensure that you can pay for things right when you land, and is also less likely to result in some kind of fee that a local will want to charge you.

I mostly only ever go to China For work (Way better parties to be had in Hong Kong imo), and luckily I have some cool Chinese coworkers who will transfer me straight dollars to yuan. I usually send them 2K USD, they send me an equivalent amount of yuan in a red envelope, I use whatever i use while there, and then I'll send them whatever i don't use back and they'll venmo me back USD.

Then it's just a matter of getting finance to reimburse me for purchases whos receipts are screen shots of QR codes.

I've debated spinning up a startup around this, charging some really low fee, but I seems like I'll get into trouble with KYC laws pretty quick.
"They don't want creative thinkers with experience in multiple fields"

You have no idea how diverse people are in terms of talent at big companies. This is a myth peddled here at HN that FAANG employees write CRUD apps and are one dimensional. The best perk of my job is the random lunch scheduler where I've met a former Olympian, someone who is on the Rust core API team and a professional ballerina + software person.
Or maybe one for each, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades.
Animal agriculture has a lot of externalized costs, so that is one thing to think about when considering what type of diet would be optimal for society.

As for the present time, I agree that the retail price of meat and the nutrients offered makes it a pretty good deal.
There's a difference between a physiological need, like consuming water and air, and a chemical dependence.

> I have to constantly eat to stay alive? Manageable. I have to consume water and breathe air? Manageable.

No matter where you go, the entirety of society is structured around the fact that all people need to eat, drink and breathe.

> I have to inject 50 cents of insulin? Manageable. I have to absorb 50 cents of nicotine? Manageable.

This is where the disconnect is. The cost of insulin dependence is not merely the cost of insulin itself. An insulin dependent person must always be aware of their blood sugar levels and diet. They must always be prepared for a situation in which they're away from their insulin supply. They must be prepared for an emergency or incapacitation due to complications with their condition and its treatment. There's a significant cognitive load that isn't accounted for by the fabric of society like the need for food is.

Likewise, there's a psychological, social and occupational cost to nicotine addiction that isn't reflected in nicotine's price alone.

This is why people are saying that chemical dependence is inherently bad: it's an inconvenience at best, a costly burden to most and a killer at worst.
It can't be true because you can't fathom it or because you have evidence of other widely supported organic techniques that I'm unfamiliar with? I mean sure, there is a ton of innovation in the food production supply chain, but nothing quite like what GM has done for agriculture production.

Why do you think GMO was established in the first place? If purely organic food is both superior quality and more economically sustainable, then historically speaking why didn't farmers just continue on that path to meet consumer demand?
My workflow is just too used to the easiness of using SequelPro, I can't live using any of "heavy" clients, not even DataGrip which is unfortunate as I cannot leave using MySQL.

Closest thing that works for me is TablePlus but the UI smoothness is still rough around the edges.
Not really, it cant do helical cuts.
I get messages from recruiters from some of these companies time to time and I always decline it. Because I know I can't get through the technical interviews without spending at least a month preparing for them.
Similarly: People have died of cardiac events and lung cancer. Some people have chewed gum while walking. Some have not. Is there evidence that connects chewing gum while walking? That's for science to decide. As it is, we have none. But until then, I'd rather not have it outlawed or be forced to pay for research without some reasonable reasoning that there may be some significant risk involved.
I don't really feel strongly about it, though sometimes Flow takes 10+ seconds to re-check a large project I work on after changes, and I wouldn't want building to have to wait on that. (I've never worked on a similarly-sized project in TypeScript, but I expect it's about the same situation.) I usually use a CI system (CircleCI) which sends me an email if any of my commits don't pass type checking or unit tests, and it flags any PRs on Github that fail too.
You're obviously completely blinded by ideologies so think whatever you want, it doesn't change, at all, the academic and historical definitions of the terms you use as if you knew what they meant. Taxation, state-owned companies, inflation, protectionism, famine, none of these are alien to any other liberal democracy in the entire world, nor of modern history, not even to ancient history, or whatever, in fact they are or have been present in almost every country in the world.

As this is just closed-loop thought(e.g.: thing = bad, I label anything I don't like as thing, therefore thing bad, thus I right) and not actually knowledge, or philosophy, or a proper tool to make sense of the world, to me it's worthless, but have fun with it!

A friendly warning: you sound like a crazy person.

Also recommended: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
For Siri at least it’s opt in, and often case by case.
There's a reason such tweets resonate so well:

1. Creator of top software project can't pass whiteboard interviews.

2. I can't pass whiteboard interviews.

Therefore, they are stupid for not hiring me.

It strokes everyone's inner narcissist--why spend the hours on leetcode, they are stupid anyway.
Sorry yes
If you happen to be on MacOS, keychain works great for me.
That's because you don't work at FANG where most engineers are expected to ask these types of questions.
I guess I'm just not seeing the huge waste, or the fact that this is "a lot of money." Is government perfect? Of course not! But I've worked at almost all of FAANG and the amount of waste there is PHENOMENAL. And those are "some of the best" run companies in the world.

Would any of this be a large percentage of people's income? Sure! But that doesn't have a relevance. E.g. you could give 10 people the entire budget of the CDC ($5.6B) and they have generational wealth. Would I expect them to do as much good as the CDC does? No.
Infinite Scroll Google, Amazon and YouTube
Whatever will have the next golden age will come through a screen.
The "Facebook -- Head Of Supply-Chain & Strategic Sourcing AR/VR Products" prefixed his review with "I have historically not been a big Facebook or other social media user". Does anyone believe that? I would describe this situation as more than merely an omission.

It's also against Amazon's rules for customer reviews, disclosure or not. It's no gray area. It's the first example of a prohibited activity, under "Promotions and Commercial Solicitations".
I had a one off blood pressure tests a few years ago that was outrageous 140 over something and completely unusual for me (which previously were like 110). The nurse was like, lets see what happens with a bigger cuff, and the reading from the automated machine was suddenly like 120 over something, and she was like, shrug you should watch it.

So I picked up a mid-range automatic bp cuff, and started to measure it more regularly. The numbers were all over the place and completely unrepeatable unless I maintained exactly the same position/breathing/etc. I can literally swing my BP by 30+ mmHg, by re-positioning my body, drinking a cup of coffee, etc, all while officially still maintaining proper technique for measuring it. And yes, moving up a cuff size also tends to remove a ~5mmHg from my measurement.

I could write a book about how to get any BP you want out of the machine. Its the same with weight, I can shift my weight +-10% by eating a bowl of salty popcorn drinking a few 64oz cups of ice tea, then eating a large meal. Then I can go for a 3 hour bike ride, use the toilet and drop it all back off.

So, its sort of surprises me the fine grained aspect of DR's always measuring your BP/Weight, neither of which really mean anything until they get into the extreem ranges, and in the weight case you can get a better feel for it just by looking at someone...
Btw why are the points about asking for votes or comments not part of the guidelines but only part of the FAQ?

The usual understanding for me is that guidelines should be read and followed, while FAQ provide additional information on topics that are asked a lot (password reset, what does XYZ mean, etc).
>How hard do these places work you?

FANG companies? Standard 8 hours a day.

But not every company is the same, and not every team in the company is the same and not every project is the same. I don't think you can generalize the working hours of an entire company filled with 100k employees.*

*With the exception of Apple. I hear most employees there do work long hours and sometimes even weekends.. but again, depends on the team.