skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get some peoples fascination with working for FAANG anyway. As you said yourself, you've had some amazing jobs outside of FAANG. People seem to hold such prestige for working at a household named software house but that doesn't mean the work is going to be any more interesting than at any of the countless other technology companies out there that are on the bleeding edge.
Guanxi is most akin to karma. Good karma for treating other people well, bad karma for treating them poorly.
As I recall, the Firefox of the time didn't pass Acid3, either, and there was a minor controversy over the fact they changed the test in a way that made it friendlier to Firefox:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

> Initially, Firefox 4 scored 97/100, because it did not support SVG fonts. Later, Firefox 4 scored 100/100, because the SVG font tests were removed from Acid3.

> According to Mozilla employee Robert O'Callahan, Firefox did not support SVG fonts because Mozilla considered WOFF a superior alternative to SVG fonts.[29] Another Mozilla engineer, Boris Zbarsky, claimed that the subset of the specification implemented in Webkit and Opera gives no benefits to web authors or users over WOFF, and he asserted that implementing SVG Fonts fully in a web browser is hard because it was "not designed with integration with HTML in mind".[30]
Cryptocurrency sentiments and data APIs – feedback welcome
Pretty tired also of deliberately provocatory trolls with no reading-comprehension skills. Please point out where I said brexit will be a failure, or GTFO.
We're down derp. And deep. Marie Kondo is the compelling evidence, that and "the little book of calm" and Reddit pages dedicated to memes and recursive humour
This technique is just more IO parallelism at the physical layer due to higher concurrency while submitting IO, correct? Since NVMe and new SSDs don't hit peak throughput until very high queue depths this doesn't surprise me.
Probably because the compliance changes. The farther you go from the origin, the easier it is to push the tool away from its intended cutting path.

A gantry-style machine, on the other hand, has the same rigidity anywhere in the X-Y plane. Rigidity is a bit less as Z changes (due to a longer moment arm), but it typically doesn't travel as far.
Maybe so but the kind of genotyping test that we are talking about is vastly more accurate than an over-the-counter pregnancy test, both in the mind of the public and in actual fact.
Depends what you're getting and how much you're spending on it.

You're not going to get a very high degree of accuracy from a ~$100 test. They're not sequencing your entire genome for that amount of money. It is still good enough to determine the broad strokes of someone's ancestry, to within a few percentage points as you see in the linked article.

If you're willing to pay for full sequencing then you're going to get a lot more accuracy and repeatability. You're also going to pay a lot more for it than would be warranted just to satisfy your curiosity as to where your ancestors came from. These kinds of tests would really only be warranted if you have some rare, difficult-to-treat genetic disease. That might not even help you directly, but rather, be done to contribute to the body of scientific knowledge of the disease.
In this case, it's about vaping, which has nothing to do with lung cancer or your fear that you will smell a cigarette while walking next to a street filled with burning gasoline.
Probably means a single on-site day (with 5 interviews). The hiring process can be slow for factors outside the candidate's control, due both to general coordination delays and the need to have a hiring committee evaluate the candidate after receiving interview scores.
I remember encountering this in an app I was working on, and found an explanation here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9275677/platform-depende...

Ended up having to use an old style file chooser widget (as described in the SO answer) to avoid the problem. I don't know if the issue still exists in GTK3 (which could mean it'll be resolved in inkscape with the port to GTK3), but I ported my app to Qt since so I don't have that issue any more. Made my app totally unusable.
You can see through frosted glass by using clear tape
My dad's dad smoked a lot when my dad was young, but managed to quit by chewing cigars.
He died of mouth cancer.

My dad swore off of drugs and alcohol, and always said he wanted to work until the day he dies. He's instead spent the last 10 years dying of Alzheimer's.

For what it's worth, I'm inclined to follow my dad's approach. Perhaps with a different interpretation of retiring when I die.
But there are some games you just can't win.
> I'd think progressive capital gains tax at a comparable rate would also be needed or directory compensation will be switched to stock instead.

Well, lots of stuff is stock-based now because even at current tax rates dividends and long-term capital gains are favored, so the capital income vs. normal income problem is out there with or without a 70% bracket at $10M on normal income.

I would agree that LTCG should be taxed as normal income (though only on real—inflation adjusted—gains, and, with an option to recognize in advance and/or to defer much higher than prior-year income for a limited period to avoid middle class people with modest investments getting taxed like really rich people the year they happen to liquidate a major asset after holding for many years.)
most of these companies will give you a response relatively quickly if you tell them you are interviewing at other places or have other offers
I just came back from visiting SF and didn’t have to use cash at all; I had food, drink, I went to the grocery store....even Caltrain took credit cards (but it did 12 years ago). What did I do wrong?

Living in Seattle, I haven’t been to an ATM in 6 months. The last time I had to use cash was ironically in Boston China town (a cheap Banh Mi place wouldn’t take credit cards).
"If hiring programmers who aren't good at programming puzzles is a competitive edge, I would expect to see other companies hiring these programmers and succeeding."

You're begging the question. Other companies do hire people who are excluded by a certain class of employer, and that's exactly why some get outraged by the types of quizzes that are used. The difference between the standards creates cognitive dissonance over one's ability and status. It's effectively a caste system, and it involves persistent blind spots about discrimination, whether towards protected classes or not.

I can't pass an Amazon or Google phone screen - both of them invited me to try, and they then made me feel very out of place. I'm not a software engineer per se and I didn't get my CS degree from a top school. Yet I have worked for a company that Google outsources important work to, proving I can do useful things that Google needs done and maybe isn't even able to do in house.

I don't go around raging against Google hiring who they want, partly because I'm probably better off not working there anyway. But I understand where people are coming from when they do get angry, even if it is the sign of an imperfect character.

From an employers point of view, they just want to grab the employees that are suitable for their goals and jettison the others. But from a potential employee's perspective, it seems like if I'm not good for one job at a company, I should be good for another. Rejection seems unreasonably total. If, by analogy, you deal in second hand cars, it's a reasonable business model to buy virtually any car so long as the price is right and you know who to sell it to. But not all businesses are run like that of course. It aggravates people that there is a narrow vision for who is useful.
But doesn't this article specifically disprove that point? The author came from a non-fancy university and non-fancy internships. He prepared only using free or low cost materials (leetcode and books) and was able to meet the hiring bar.

To me this reads that the questions are intended to narrow the candidate pool down to people with an abundance of time to devote to studying, which is certainly one type of privilege, but is not necessarily the same as a wealthy background.
I installed AT&T's Call Protect app over the holidays. It says it is powered by Hiya. It has yet to block or even flag a spam call for me.
> but they are not inherently that.

I am fairly certain I have had error messages and disassemblies that suggest otherwise. This may however be an implementation detail.

> You can use them as just function pointers, too.

Yes, I know this. It only works when there are no captures. And AFAIK once there are captures you start getting object code that looks a lot like you put those captures into an anonymous class. (When not inlined.)
Is he a chicken?
Can anyone share some insight on if there has been any improvements on this since the last time it was posted here [1]? From that thread it appears that it has few misinformation there.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4994367
4K daily average? What do you do, pull sleds all day when you're not working?
*could possibly affect an edge case of utc leap second distribution if Another shutdown happens during a leap second year (this is not one), AND lasts over 6 months. I get that it acks the clickbaity title at the beginning, but that coy bs doesnt help.
You seem to very creative in coming up with flimsy excuses for facebook :)

Which other fault-free organizations can claim to have settled with the FTC for privacy abuses, had their CEO forced to testify in front of the US congress and be questioned in a case of election manipulation, facilitated genocide, purposefully manipulated people into feeling depressed and many others?

There's an entire book written about the tremendous negative effects of companies like facebook on society - surveilance capitalism.

When comparing all of the above with the benefit of allowing various average joes to stay in touch with their family, which can very well be done over e-mail, phone, or any of the gazillion other social networks, it makes the latter mean precisely nothing.

At this point facebook would have to literally cure cancer for them to make up for their negative effects.
For what it’s worth, the last point in the commenting guidelines is this:

Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
> How is 100% cloning another site's design acceptable at all?

1. The design is open source under a CPAL license which notabug abides by

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/tree/753b17407e9a9d...

2. a goal of notabug is to support existing reddit stylesheets with minimal/no modifications; this requires dom compatibility and minimal CSS changes in the base design.

3. reddit is abandoning this formerly open source design in favor of their new design by default.
It absolutely was a thing in the 1970’s. I saw neighbor’s farms destroyed by the inheritance tax. The law was changed, so now the inheritance tax kicks in at a much higher level. Most farmers set up trusts now anyway.

It wasn’t only farmers that got clobbered by the inheritance tax. The children of the local shoe store owner were in the same inheritance tax hell.
I agree completely. The UI is kinda hokey but I still love it because I've seen so much worse. Try giving it a few weeks, as you need the more advanced stuff you'll learn where the bodies are buried and it becomes semi pleasant to use
It's a strange assumption that a "balanced view" can't possibly be critical.
Dantelabs does. Note: I am not endorsing their service, I have no experience with them.
You're unlikely to hit $300-400k+ TC at those though.

Pay is a huge reason why people join them. The pay scale is completely different and (practically) necessary to compete in the bay area housing market. Checkout levels.fyi.
On the one hand I totally agree, but on the other hand I also really enjoy reading what fellow HN-users think about the more diverse topics.
> As to your question, fake news is news that is fake.

I believe that is called a tautology?

The examples you give are examples of "a" form of fake news, but as far as I know there is no formal definition of it. My understanding is that a democrat coined the phrase to describe the type of fake news spouted by Republicans (your examples), it was then co-opted by Trump to describe news that implies something that is not based on actual facts, but rather uses clever narrative and specific word choices not to inform, but to persuade without technically lying. That's what this article is and once you learn the techniques and start reading with an eye out for them, you'll see how common this tactic is in today's media. If not read with a skeptical eye, this kind of article leaves the reader with a false impression of risk, and the article is based on statements from FDA officials that also communicate a false impression of risk.

Perhaps I'll forgive a CNN reporter for stretching the truth a little (their livelihood is based on attracting attention, desperate times call for desperate measures and all that), but I think it's fair to hold an FDA commissioner to a higher standard, don't you think?
Somewhat related: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/os-rust
SLOW DOWN ANY SONG ON SPOTIFY
I let my wife manage all our wechat posting, I’m responsible for all the Facebook posts. Sometimes it is hard to synchronize baby pics between the two.
I know of WFL millturns with crashguard.

AFAIK the crash guard is a separate component that relies on 3d models of the machine and the tools, it doesn't see anything.

If you workholding is weak and a piece comes loose the crash guard probably won't make a difference.
Thanks for the clarification. I read the "just" as "only" instead of "this week" and also thought it referred to WeChat instead of Bytedance's new Duoshan, which I totally hadn't heard of before.
Provided references are at the core the worst way to judge if someone can do the job and the laziest way. If you want to rely on references you have to get them yourself through background check or the risk of gamification is huge.

Get a sense of the projects they have worked on if those skills relate to the position. Make a decision based on that.

Random coding tests, whiteboarding, buzzword dropping are only helpful to a point.
this person is clearly very smart and capable, but i think the role of iOS developer contributed to the take rate. super high demand.
Wean. Ween is a kickass band.
Thanks for sharing your story - I'm very sorry for your loss.
> that doesn't seem to adopt any critical perspective on what it is reporting.

The article as well as the statements of the FDA employees are not just non-critical, they are one-sided and misleading, implying serious risk where none has been detected.

> that's his opinion, and the news that he made this statement isn't fake.

It's not false, but whether it is fake is a different question (see my sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943914).
DBeaver has some basic autocomplete that's frequently useful. Nothing super powerful but hitting shift enter(shortcut may be different off Mac) when on text pane at top of data tab will help you select cold easier
The machines do some sanity checking. Most of the issues come from the machine being improperly informed about what is on the table(height or shape) or the length of the tool in the spindle. The tool length can be tested if you have the hardware, but it's more difficult to scan the whole table for stuff that might get in the way.
That seems likely to be more related to specifics of law of the controlling jurisdiction than to anything else. I don't blame the Panamanians or their insurance company for wanting to just put this all behind them. Collisions with USN are sort of like "Acts of God" anyway...
Your comment gives the impression that all DNA sequencing is a multi-million dollar effort. So, just to clarify: a modern, accurate (= 30x coverage) whole-genome DNA sequence costs less than 1000 USD. Adding long range information from single-molecule sequencing makes it only slightly more expensive.
He said tables with a parent child relationship that is one to one meaning if I understand that right one parent ID mapping to one child ID. Its entirely possible either I’m misinterpreting him or he’s wrong but that’s what he said.
When the Weather Service Spied on Americans
Even among textbook questions from the infamous leetcode and the likes, there are a few good ones. For instance I was once asked this one: https://leetcode.com/problems/flatten-nested-list-iterator/

- it's not too short or too long

- there's no trick, it's just a matter of being thorough

- it's pretty concrete (modern languages have that in their standard lib) and/or might actually come up someday in your day-to-day job

And in my opinion, what matters even more is that your full round of interviews shouldn't be just 5 slots of algo questions. One or two should be enough. I like combinations of a take-home challenge (keep it short!), pair programming sessions and architecture / systems design discussions.
I interview at Google and I never look at resumes - to avoid bias. I don't want to be biased by whether you went to Yale or UT Austin. My question is always a standard algo/DS question anyway.
Adnauseam
This particular sub-thread is about smoking, not vaping. My parent comment was complaining that most of the anti-smoking treatments still contained nicotine. Thus demonstrating that they missed the whole point of anti-smoking treatments.
There are two types of dremels in the world, those about to overheat and those that are burned out.
FB is the censored Internet.

Covert user activity tracking, links to outfits like Cambridge Analytica, troll farms, "disappeared" groups, and all under the pretext of targeted ads - in what sense is any of that a clean, free-range Internet?
> If you're stubborn enough to not spend 10 mins on this the best of luck

I know. These people are expecting to be paid way above the average salary - I'd expect them to know the fundamentals, or (more importantly) be able to figure it out.

"BFS?? I'd use a library for that" - well, thanks for that... instead of hiring you I'll just download some libraries instead.
I did kinda that same thing for soundcloud a few years ago with meteor <3. It's been awhile since this code was touched.

I stopped developing it because soundcloud's UI started to really match my design and feature set.

but:

- my search is faster (just a long startup time)
- it will actually shuffle all your songs and not just the last 20-ish

https://sctunes.herokuapp.com/
https://github.com/hipstersmoothie/sctunes.meteor
I work at a medium sized public sv company that’s competitive with the ones discussed here and work life balance is amazing, things are very relaxed and definitely don’t feel burnt out at all.

People very regularly wfh for all sorts of reasons, time off whenever you want that people actually take, probably a little bit less then a 40 hour work week and every sprint my manager is usually making the case for how we don’t want to take on too much or over commit ourselves.

I’m thinking about leaving because frankly it’s maybe a little too slow and relaxed, I sort of think I work well in a more intense environment, but if that’s what you’re looking for I can pass your resume on to recruiting haha
But that's the thing: it's the premier project, and doesn't expose the simple interface that the Go library did.

Looking throw my code for cryptopals, I had to do these extra steps that aren't relevant to my problem (encrypting the plaintext with a key and cipher):

1) Create a mutable Vec<u8> vector from the plaintext.

2) Use that vector to create a mutable buffer of a type in the crypto library.

3) Create a second mutable Vec<u8> vector for the output.

4) Do step 2) for it also.

5) Call the encryption function with those two buffers as arguments. (This step's fine because calling an encryption function is unavoidable.)

6) Convert one of them back to Vec<u8> via `take_read_buffer().take_remaining().to_vec()`

(I'm ignoring the steps where you declare the key and cipher parameters since those are necessary)

And getting those to work required looking up the types of their library buffers.

But I don't care about the buffers where the library writes to when encrypting. I just want to be able to pass in a Vec<u8> and get a new one back out. At most, I should have to convert to and from the library's internal representation. Instead, I have to learn about and manage mutable variables and their ownership.
it really is a different skill that you need to invest time in and practice. it sucks, but there are also plenty of high paying positions that have more practical interviews
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject.

I remember watching PBS DNA documentaries[1] where it's mentioned in one of the episodes that DNA-wise there's only 1% difference between any two humans.

I looked for the same details today on genomenewsnetwork[2], it has following line

> we are all 99.9 percent the same, DNA-wise. (By contrast, we are only about 99 percent the same as our closest relatives, chimpanzees.)

It seems like even an error of 1% would be actually be same as missing the whole difference between two people.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOP8MMedqE
[2] http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/resources/whats_a_genome/Chp4_1.shtml
Netflix, Spotify and YouTube: 8 Strategic Complaints Filed on “Right to Access”
My understanding is this is true for their frontend group, not fullstack.
Good question. I took too firm a stance on it for something I don't know enough about.

From what I can gather, the reported issues are mostly with their early advertising, showing a lot of vaguely 20ish people looking cool and having fun. They also did a lot of social media marketing and some music events.

I can see the argument that, hey, say your goal is purely to help people transition from cigarettes to a less harmful nicotine vehicle. Won't using the marketing techniques of other successful startups be the best way to accomplish that goal? People aren't going to want to switch from cigarettes to something that has the social image of "desperate addict trying to quit". It helps if it looks like something normal people enjoy socially, and hey, maybe makes them feel a bit more youthful.

That makes perfect sense. But is it possible to succeed in that, without also appealing to teenagers? If not, is it worth it?

Those aren't rhetorical questions, I genuinely don't know the answers to them. It's a complex area to think about.
Why would anyone with an existing job ever take another job with a "trial period"? You are basically excluding your most desirable hires with this system.
MIDI 2.0
What we're probably seeing is that the FAANG's have acquired so much fame and wealth that they can afford an enormous false negative rate in hiring that would sink a smaller company.

Its the difference between fracking the shale for every precious drop because that's all you've got where you are vs. being able to just sink a short pipe in the ground and stick the sweet crude that gushes out into barrels.
I have a friend who farms some dairy plus corn & beans. He says that the big operations can get better prices on supplies and equipment, while getting paid more for their crop. He doesn't know how to crack that puzzle. Collusion is certainly a possibility.
I was in China, in the moment of activating WeChat when I put my phone down on my RFID passport. WeChat was the app which asked for Android permission to read the RFID tag.

I ceased installation and removed the app.
Water for human consumption costs are mostly in purifying and distribution, and are already charged. Water for agriculture is often subsidized and not limited from preventing environmental destruction (aquifer over-drawing, f.ex.)
Yeah, Witcher 3 is pretty heavy, I haven't really played it much yet, but it was okay with tweaked settings and 3200x1800.

> max settings

I don't remember presets in TW3, but I bet there's MSAA and various heavy shader effects enabled.