skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I didn’t know programming was a career I could pursue. I did know I could become a basketball player, though.

I know that my existence continues to influence my younger siblings, and the children of family-friends. I’m known as “the one who worked at google”. Without me as an example, tech wouldn’t be in the perceptual sphere of attainability within much of my family and community.
> The ROI on spending a couple of weeks preparing is definitely worth the possibility of a substantial raise at a big technology company.

If you're a junior that makes perfect sense. As a senior developer, you can spend as much time as a junior preparing for these entry-level coding tests and perform just as well. And that's the problem.

I'm a significantly better developer in all ways now than I was when I was a student and could rattle off answers to these questions without breaking a sweat.
I find it interesting that they are able to sell them cheaper than new mattresses, which I assume are built in a high-throughput factory.
Fossil out-teched Google?
Really interesting bug in TurboFan's optimizer; getting Math.expm1 handling -0 incorrectly to removing bounds checks by dancing around multiple optimization passes was quite illuminating. Although, later in the exploit, it seems like using WebAssembly creates a RWX page? Why is Chrome doing this for WebAssembly when it stopped doing this for JavaScript, for obvious reasons?
Give mutual fund investors a voice in shareholder proxy voting (2017)
You may be heavily discounting the aversion some of us have to change. If I've been using one thing for several years, and have become accustomed to it's quirks, I may be very willing to pay a high premium to get the same thing again when it craps out. This is doubly true, if I found it difficult to settle on the thing originally.

Take this blue tooth headset as an example. If I spent $300 buying various headsets 5 years ago before finally settling on it, I might expect to spend a similar amount of money (or time) to find a new headset today, and may well be willing to pay $300 just to get the same headset. It's not necessarily a great example, since I expect the quality of headsets to be much improved today, but I was super tempted to scour ebay for an old microsoft itellimouse when my last one finally became unusable. I'd used this model for 2 decades, and no other mouse I've used feels the same. I'm likely to give this new mouse I found another few months, but I may end up deciding that it's worth it for me to pay whatever premium it's currently going for.
“Yes, my plus-one is all of Microsoft. If corporations are people, corporation is person, my friend”
She said her fellow officers are “out there working, they’re putting their lives on the line. We took that oath when we got hired here, and we’re not even getting what we deserve.”

All budgeting problems aside, how do TSA officers put their lives on the line?
Walmart abandons plans for video-streaming service will focus instead on Vudu
Create a Kubernetes cron job in OKD
Methinks the title is a bit too strongly worded. At that price point Radeon VII is unlikely to win many customers over. If some of the recent leaks[1] turn out to be true, then we can talk about "edging closer to breaking Nvidia's graphic dominance."

[1] https://youtu.be/PCdsTBsH-rI?t=1247

Edit: added timestamp to video
> everyone thought it would make children stupid.

I don't think that's a great analogy. Today I think most parents worry about screen time quantity and not necessarily quality. Using a phone or tablet is often replacing other activities like sports, music, and just general physical play.
I think 4K gaming is a red herring really. At least at present. Here is a nice video on the topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehvz3iN8pp4

Nice optimum today are monitors with something like 2560x1440 and up to 144Hz adaptive sync. And you don't need Vega 20 with crazy expensive 16GB VRAM for that. Hopefully Navi will fit that use case well and will have less availability issues than Vega 10 (56/64) cards.
How to Connect Your MongoDB Deployments to Robo 3T GUI at ScaleGrid
I think part of the reason that China seems so scary is that they're way less developed than Japan was comparatively to the US in the 1980s. So if China's already threatening at 13% per capita American GDP, imagine what they'll be at 25%.
> Hmm it's not a democracy in the traditional sense. A single party has been in power for 40+ years.

Thats not true. One party has been dominant over the past 40+ years because it won most of the elections, which are free and fair elections according to international standards.

Plenty of opposition parties have been active the entire time, they just weren't popular enough to win. They are not suppressed or restricted or thrown in jail -- they just aren't able to convince the voters.

There have been periods, including quite recently, when opposition parties held power. Their performance while in power caused the voters to vote for the dominant party next time.
Currently it doesn't work at all, and AFAIK only this one guy is trying it. If he gets an infection in an area covered by my insurance, I won't be too stressed about it.

If, in the future it is as easy as a $20 modification, I'd wager two things. One is that most people would use it for mundane things like resistance to the flu, stronger bones, and other things that would ultimately lower the cost of medical insurance on average. The other is that the mechanism will be so well known that changes will be rewritable.
There is a hiring infrastructure which is sort of like those dating apps that say they want you to find true love but really they want you to keep dating. I am thinking of a lot of HR at companies, recruiters, and people that enjoy interviewing. I have worked at startups that weren't really growing that fast but we're always interviewing to fill in the churn. Interviewing feels productive, feels like a company is growing. They say: We only accept the best so any test is reasonable. This tends to discount people's accomplishments and the idea that smart people can learn.

The internet makes it possible screen a zillion candidates, so like dating it feels like there are a million fish in the sea. Why value anyone's time when there is so many to consider? I was thinking about putting my CV for a very senior role and before you could put it in they made you take this like web IQ test. Seriously? I would worry about anyone who go through that for a job that expected more than ten years high level experience. Pass.
At least then it wouldn't be purely artificial. I'm not surprised at all that there are so many people "bad" at technical interviews when they are fundamentally designed to leave you a fish out of water. Nobody likes to flounder, but some people it shakes much more than others.

But I wouldn't think for a second those people would be incapable of being good team members or productive coders. You just let them stay in their comfort zone and approach uncertainty in the ways they are comfortable with. They will know the best way they can approach solving a problem, and if you were testing for that instead in these interviews, they wouldn't be so harmful to participation in tech by "minorities" such as women or people of color.
At the height of baseball card collecting in the 90's, my best friend's dad went out and bought a closet full of baseball card sets (not classic sets, but sets from the time period). He told my parents he was doing it to save for his son's college education.
For others: An excellent picture of Bogle standing in front of his own statue is half way down this article from 2017:

https://www.phillymag.com/business/2017/12/27/jack-bogle-van...
You don't think screening for bombs has any potential to be dangerous?
Hi, what else is on the roadmap?
All the things you say is true... but not really useful showstoppers. For the majority i think... sort of like how a tomato is a fruit - ja it is true but so what ?
With transient server which cache all the dependencies (e.g. Nexus, private Docker Registry, Debian APT mirror)
Whatever data Apple has on me evidently tells them that I have giant hands and inexhaustible disposable income.
More meetings seems like a bad cliché, but it's really the most impactful activity.

Meetings with customers (internal and external). They need to trust that you:
a) understand their problems
b) will commit to a service level agreement
c) will convey the needs to your team

Meetings with team.
1:1 with each member at least once every 2 weeks.

Make sure to understand their personal situation. SO's name, kids, anything going on that might risk churn.

Make sure they are aligned with customers needs.
Empower them to meet with customers directly and form their own solutions.

Follow-up on their concerns and "surprise" them with actions that show you were really listening.

Pipeline
Always be recruiting, refining job descriptions, interviewing, and hiring.

Technical Strategy
It's the thing technologists love most. But at Sr Management level you're empowering teams to choose frameworks/languages, building alignment, and helping them make decisions to move forward.

Note that I don't mention politics in any of the above. If you gain the trust of customers and employees in 1:1 meetings above, this should preemptively mitigate politics.
I'm genuinely curious, myself. In the US, how many deaths in the line of duty are there (per thousand) for police officers, firefighters, and TSA agents, to juxtapose?
Money Stuff: The Companies Are in Charge Now
People need to realize that men and women are biologically different, are interested in different things, and that there's nothing wrong with that. It's happening, but slowly. The Atlantic had an article not too long ago covering a study showing this (unfortunately they didn't draw any bigconclusions). Norway, one of the most gender-diverse countries in the world, (most likely) pulled funding from their Norwegian Gender Institute when a TV documentary about the differences between the sexes aired. This friction between sexes is ruining the workplace all because certain groups have political axes to grind.

Men dominating e.g. construction/technical fields and women dominating nursing/education fields isn't some grand cultural conspiracy to keep the sexes on certain tracks for life; that's just what we each are good at.
Unlike most other forms of law enforcement, TSA agents lives are most at risk when off-duty and someone learns they are an agent in a social setting. As a result, the government shutdown is putting TSA lives in jeopardy.
Everyone hates open-plan offices. why they still exist
Ok. While idealistic, this isn't what businesses do.

Businesses are required to sell, to pay salaries. Prices come down over time. Competition mounts, it gets bloody. Consolidation and then suppression of margins.

Humans ARE machines, just a different type; it doesn't "Feel right" to call us that, but we are meat machines.

There is no way to expect the trend of automation, removal of human tasks for a "better, faster, cheaper" environment. it won't happen.
what about it upset you?
Well, I'll admit the story is very confusing. The EU decision another poster linked does mention Big Mac and it also cites many examples where they used it in commerce but it says those aren't sufficient. Seems pretty strange to me.

I don't think they have any chance of keeping Supermac, which they registered and didn't use, but I'll bet they fight to the teeth to keep Big Mac.
At what scale? I would argue a taxi driver has a more dangerous job (in terms of probability of injury).
No one who would consider paying 5x retail for a LEGO set would be happy with a junky knock-off.
> Why is your account only 30 minutes old? You're clearly an old user. Why the throwaway account?

Why the combative tone, and how are you so certain that Legical is an 'old user' with a throwaway?
A tale of private key reuse
I'm using already Checkstyle, but some stuff like Copyright header and live templates are hard to sync and each dev has its own editor style (theme, Font), so the repository setting is not a viable option
Michael: Would love to speak with you about this very point. Ping me via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petercorless/
It is very easy to reach people in b2b with Linkedin, also for hiring just in my case it's been 2 jobs i've gotten by connecting on linkedin.
How did you become a programmer, and not a basketball player?

Obviously people in the lives of children impact them. Does seeing, possibly, a black engineer on TV count as being in the life of a child?
Is it feasible to create a corporate structure that would encourage it to act with the public interest in mind? Are there any known patterns, research, or tries? My very ill-informed mind is thinking of a parent-child structure where the parent gets to veto and only veto decisions made by its children that may be harmful for the general public.
>Bionicle flopped hard and only has a small die-hard fan base not unlike the Dreamcast.

This is a very poor example; Bionicle sets have skyrocketed in value.

Plenty of things may go on clearance now but become worth a lot of money years later.
You ask about things you know will be necessary as well. In an interview the time shouldn't be spent entirely on academic programming questions. They're there only to gauge problem solving skills in real time in a stressful environment, which work sometimes is. Who says you can't fit any of the above mentioned programming problems in 10 to 15 minutes?
I think it's possible to still be very critical of MongoDB's licensing, and not have issues with Scylla.
Is it that hard to enjoy the toy (or give it to someone who will) and spend some time in the next few years to do something productive to earn $100?
MS also invested a ton into Windows Mobile, I imagine, but market share only went down according to Wikipedia.

If DDG is simply a skin for MS Bing along with anonymous/little tracking, maybe that's what the people want?
>A lot of people in engineering went down that path because they were inspired by someone when they were younger. If there were more women and minorities in engineering, then other (young) women and minorities would be able to see them as role models and follow suit.

This is really interesting claim and perhaps somewhat biased. Some preliminary testing of VR teachers suggests that young women prefer to be taught by women, and boys have a preference for robots/drones.

My own personal experience is that mecha anime got me inspired to work in STEM, I can see why that might not have universal appeal, but the claim that people need role models who look like them isn't universal.

source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190108095108.h...
https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2018/01/29/tsa-year-review-record-a...
This is an important issue to me, got any sources? Thank you.
Balloon Hashing
Rust 1.32 released
This is cool scientifically, and also a cool example of how amazing things can happen with interdisciplinary collaboration in biotech.

When you have a new technology with so many potential applications (adding 152 extra codons on top of the normal 64), it can be overwhelming to figure out where to start. Getting from "we can add letters to the DNA alphabet" to "we can build new amino acids into IL-2 to facilitate PEG binding to stop IL-2 binding to the alpha unit of the IL-2 receptor while still binding the beta and gamma units, which will preserve anti-cancer effects while sparing vascular damage" seems like a leap that would require a cross-disciplinary team to make

IL-2 is a molecule that is effective at treating a variety of diseases but has nasty side effects that make it a poor drug. The article discusses sometimes fatal side effects of high dose IL-2 in treating cancer; low-dose IL-2 is actually an effective treatment for autoimmune disease, although it is difficult to titrate the dose in such a way that you don't accidentally dose too high and make the autoimmunity worse.

Another startup, Delinia, engineered an agonist selective for the alpha-beta-gamma subtype of the IL-2 receptor to treat autoimmune disease [0] (where Synthorx is hitting only the beta-gamma part of the IL-2 receptor to treat cancer). Delinia was acquired by Celgene last year for $775M, 3 months after its Series A. Synthorx went public this year and has a $450M market cap. All of that from making different versions of a single protein

[0] https://lifescivc.com/2016/09/re-balancing-immunity-via-regu...
Better yet, stop checking for "real" names. If I use something as a name of Facebook, it's because that's what I want to go by. What does it matter what's on my birth certificate?
Apparently wirecutter will demote a product if the company won't offer affiliated sales or something. There was a big story about a standing desk company thst had to deal with that iirc
I think the real reason programming interviews have become torturous is to discourage people from changing jobs. It's a kind of unspoken anti-poaching agreement.
DBeaver has built-in support for diagrams based on an existing database schema:

https://dbeaver.io/
The other thing you got in the 80s was a lot of cargo-culting of Japanese industrial planning practices. People like Lester Thurow (Nobel Prize in Economics) went around telling anyone who would listen that we needed large-scale government/industry partnerships like MITI if we weren't going to fall even further behind. Sematech was one outcome in the US around semiconductors. (It's still around but never had much impact.
Nope. Reader mode also doesn’t work, which is rather uncommon.
YouTube, Blogs, Twitter and RSS Feeds, All in One Place
Potential suspension of Django Channels development
Here's a simple way to quantify the argument: go find the most popular Node or React front-end projects on Github, and then find out how many of them --- in their own source code, not in the vast, unending dependency tree NPM generates --- contain a breadth-first search.

My guess is: not very many.
On the other hand, Japan had half the population of the US while China has four times the population. The tendency of countries to converge on similar productivity was working against Japan but is very much working for China.
Related, AMD's stock has been heavily manipulated for years: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4153502-institutional-short...
It's a little surprising Dune isn't mentioned in the article, seeing as the spice is basically a proxy for LSD
Exactly! We're working on LWT & the consensus protocol behind it, Raft. Anyone heading to FOSDEM '19 in Brussels can hear this talk by Duarte Nunes: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/raft_in_scylla/
Because there's no vision for our future that's really good and people really believe in it.
Tiny Bluetooth chip doesn’t need a battery; harvests energy from the air
And even when you can encourage your child (or yourself -- adults also still need to have well-rounded experiences in the physical world, and outside their comfort zones) to go do something off the screen everyone else is still stuck on it. That's the issue I've been running into lately. Try to go do something, meet new people, etc. and a lot of them are just on their phones, if they're there at all.
I only know from what I've heard from people who have worked in jails/prisons in the US (and maybe things are different in the UK although I doubt it) but the one thing anyone can expect which is not mentioned here, if they are reasonably young/physically acceptable appearance, is to get raped.

From what I understand, there's really no getting away from it either. There's the myth that you just have to stand up and fight and they'll leave you alone but it's not really true. You might fight off the one guy today, tomorrow there will be four of them.

Even the young kids coming in who might be gang members and think they are 'tough' or connected end up getting it, their outside status really ends up meaning very little.

Not to seem like I'm derailing what the author of the article is talking about, but the fact that he doesn't mention what will likely be the most brutal part of anyone's experience in prison makes the other advice seem almost trivial and irrelevant by comparison.
> By 1992, they could be hilariously parodied by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash (a novel often mistaken as an example of the subgenre it meant to mock).

Citation needed. While this is under open debate amongst fans of the genre, I don't think Stephenson has stated it's a parody? And deliberate parody or not, I feel it brings a lot of ideas into the fold and observes the spirit of the genre. It's not a mistake to cite it as an example of the genre.
A benefit corporation perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation
Yeah, next time we're drinking.
Interestingly, OmniDB is built with Django.

DBeaver has support for many databases through JDBC.
Also have wished for Eyedea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyedea

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

Myka 9 (and the whole Freestyle Fellowship): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myka_9
Our New Plan for Repairing the L-Train Tunnel Is Best
This complete speculation from my side, but I would think that playing video games themselves to be better (or less harmful) than just watching other players. If I had kids, I would be more likely to limit how much they can watch others play and let them play themselves more.

This is however hugely biased from having played a lot of video games as a kid and I felt it to be much more dynamic experience that may even help developing some mental faculties than passively watching anything.
TSA takes people's guns away on a daily basis. Eventually a passenger may not want to cooperate. I dislike airport security as much as anyone else (and because I opt out of the body scanners I've had plenty of undesirable intimate experiences with TSA agents), but their Instagram page is really enlightening. Sadly the guy who ran it passed away last year, but it's interesting to see the volume of contraband that people try to bring on planes. I think only 1 TSA agent has been killed while on duty, but a few more have been shot and and survived
That's not how you should buy tools, though. Unless you're a professional who is making a living with these tools, you don't walk straight up to the Snap-On truck and drop several grand on all the highest quality stuff. You go to Hazard Fraught and get the cheap ones, then you replace the ones that actually wear out or don't cut the mustard with something a few tiers up. Most of it will work just fine for a decade at a twentieth of the price.

The crowd here could probably build one of these out of whatever's in the junk drawer. Looks like it's the RX half of a cheap analogue walkie-talkie and some flashing lights. That's it. Two hundred bucks is egregious. Maybe if you were an actual LEO or a private eye, but for most people it makes absolutely no sense to buy the $200 version without first seeing if the $10 version does the job.
Also, for those looking for the side-by-side comparison with Cassandra, there's this page:

https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/cassandra-compatibili...
Federal HTTPS domains that'll expire soon because of US government shutdown
You're not getting a 100x better agent, and most of the best i.e. most successful agents I've seen weren't necessarily better negotiators, better at contracts, or more responsive. They were specifically better @ marketing and selling themselves.

The most successful agents I know close houses twice as fast as other agents. But they close them twice as fast as other agents because they're listing them under market value.

My wife was a real estate agent for 5 years but she got out of it because all of the most successful agents she met were more successful in ways that hurt the client not helped them.

Examples - convincing their clients to settle for homes quickly, convincing clients to list their house less than market value, weeding out easy clients.
As discovered in Belgium’s airport, those long queues waiting for security can be very risky places.