skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a total failure of industry to ask people who are productively writing software one day to waste dozens of hours learning to dance an artificial interview game to get hired somewhere to start writing productive software again weeks later.

If the candidate has no resume and nothing to prove they have any skill then yes, give them a rigamarole. But for don't ask a staff artist to speedpaint you the view out the window with crayons in a lined paper binder in half an hour. They give you their porfolio, you inspect it, and if they are accredited and recognized you don't waste their time on quizbowl.

Arguing about it though is mostly pointless. The awareness is out there that these companies are throwing away not just the on hand candidates they turn down for failing their charade game but also the legions of potential employees turned off by the theatrics and immaturity of software hiring. The OP is absolutely right to say interviewing in tech is draining because you go from thinking yourself competent on the outside to interviewers trying to beat you into a sobbing mess on the inside. Its adversarial from the start at almost every company, it certainly contributes in large part to the lack of women participating in development, and businesses seem to be just fine with the outcomes since they know what they are doing is awful but so long as they are "hip" and popular they can get away with it, with an endless list of potential hires to give the rigamarole to.
Honestly seems like these guys weren't aware of Amazon's rule about not reviewing your employer's products. Three reviews out of a 100 (granted, could be more) doesn't seem like a concerted shady marketing push.
Asians get the same treatment, though. They're the minority that gets forgotten about, because it doesn't fit some convenient narrative of e.g. "White males are dominating STEM fields", or "Minorities are discriminated against and thus fail to achieve success and affirmation".
Since 1973 climate models have proven to be quite accurate: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...
Although i think this is normal behavior, it seems like a double standard. Wouldn't a white euorpean be inclined to do same thing (hire people similar to themselves)?

I hope that as tech expands to all continents and becomes a truly globally distributed sector, we'll stop caring about race at a specific company since tech will competitive and diverse on a global scale. (e.g. a firm in India competing with a firm in Germany competing with a firm in Brazil)
"they’re putting their lives on the line"

Yeah right, my heros.
>The utopianist ideas of "If everyone just tried this, there would be no war, we could get rid of government and all look after each other, and the world would be as one!" are wishful thinking.

I agree that people significantly overstate this point, but I think there is some kernel of truth to it. The government experimented with psychedelics, and decided to ban them. I think that's because they perceived them as a threat to the established order in some way (I know I could be wrong). But yeah, dropping acid won't make you into a wonderful human being overnight. Honestly I think MDMA would go further if the goal is making everyone love each other, but the neurotoxicity of it seems sketchy, and it doesn't make your thoughts and perceptions as... interesting. I think the main utility of acid to society will be in microdoses, though real trips have their place as well.
Awesome work. Of all the Blizzard titles, Brood War has a special place in me. The LAN party spring/summer of '99. We even had our ritual of getting our 'StarCraft water' and going to the bathroom beforehand so there were no interruptions during the series of matches.

Edit: Also, will this work with StarCraft: Remastered?
Do you maybe mean this "debunking" (closest HN search found?)?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/not-even-the-eu-i...
The resistance of other parents to data and logic is shocking to me, and one of the things I hate the most about being a parent.
We don't keep logs in Brazil, and as we have no operations in Brazil, so this is not a point that particularly concerns us.

We have something known as Secure Core VPN that offers additional protection if our Brazilian ISP starts monitoring our connection: https://protonvpn.com/support/secure-core-vpn/
Works very well with Wine (but only with non Hi-DPI displays when and the Windows Version is set to 2003). It's my favourite client on desktop Linux / Windows.
Can Student Loan Debt Explain Low Homeownership Rates for Young Adults? [pdf]
Mary Oliver Dies at 83
I'm no graphics programmer. I'm mostly interested in the compute (OpenCL, CUDA) side of things. I don't own an NVidia GPU, so my experience mostly relates to AMD.

I'm certainly interested in AMD's Linux "ROCm" push. I really think the programming model there is relatively easy to understand, but there are major flaws in the documentation and implementation.

For example, OpenCL 1.2 on ROCm 2.0 isn't stable enough to run Blender Cycles. Yes, you can render the default cube, but very slowly. On a real scene, Blender Cycles on OpenCL ROCm can take 500+ seconds to compile, and the actual execution seems to hang (infinite loop and/or memory segfault, depending on the scene) on anything close to a typical geometry.

Note that Blender's OpenCL code is explicitly written for AMD's older OpenCL (AMDGPU-Pro OpenCL implementation). Blender has a separate CUDA branch for NVidia cards. So OpenCL ROCm is at very least performance-incompatible with OpenCL AMDGPU-Pro. The Blender OpenCL code probably has to be rewritten to work (ie: not infinite loop), and maybe even become efficient on OpenCL ROCm again.

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AMD's hardware is fine (not as power-efficient as NVidia, but performance is fine, in theory). But the drivers / software stack is clearly immature. Even as ROCm has hit a 2.0 release, these sorts of issues still exist.

AMDGPU-PRO with OpenCL1.2 is workable, but feels old and cranky. (OpenCL 1.2 was specified in 2011, and is missing key features. Its atomics model is incompatible with C/C++11, its missing SVM and kernel-side enqueue... etc. etc.)

AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL2.0 is theoretically supported, but is still unstable in my experience. ROCm OpenCL (both 1.2 and 2.0) is still under development, but doesn't seem to be ready for prime-time yet. (At least, with Blender 2.79 or 2.80 Cycles is any indication).

AMD HCC seems usable, but there aren't many programs using it. AMD HIP is an interesting idea but I haven't used it.

I know NVidia has driver issues / software issues. But CUDA Code written 5 years ago will still have similar performance / implementation if run on today's cards, on today's software stack. I'm not sure if the same is true for AMD's OpenCL code (between AMDGPU-PRO OpenCL1.2 and ROCm 1.2).

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Long story short: the only mature AMD OpenCL compute platform seems to be OpenCL 1.2 on AMDGPU-PRO. Fortunately, it also seems like AMDGPU-PRO will work for the foreseeable future, but AMD really needs to clarify its platform to attract developers. (Ex: prioritize testing of ROCm OpenCL to ensure performance-compatibility with existing OpenCL 1.2 code written for AMDGPU-PRO)
You addressed zero of the concerns I mentioned. You seem to believe that any problem which occurs will be easily reversible and have no side effects. I can't imagine that would ever be the case. You did not address death (possible) or passing on genetics which have negative, perhaps unforseen consequences.

Alerting the human genome is not as simple as pushing a patch to a website.
You know how in Back to the Future 2 at the beginning Marty of 2015 works for a Japanese company? That's because in 1990, when the movie came out, everyone assumed that you'd work for a Japanese company in 2015.
Is there a gui client that can do both "normal" databases (like postgres and oracle) and Hive or Presto?
Radeon 7 (Vega 20) is a major overkill for gaming though. It looks more like a 3D rendering targeted card. Upcoming Navi cards supposedly should be more gaming oriented and more affordable.
Ogłoszenia parafialne – 13 stycznia 2018
I want to ask a serious question about the ML, but your answer is great! My experience of anomaly detection, even with deep networks, is that recognition of the important anomalies can be done for some of them which means that you can raise a big flag for those - but someone still needs to sift through everything else.
Recently I was at a tech meetup event at a bar with about 30 people, and two elderly ladies were leaving. They came over to our tables and asked, "What kind of group is this that there's all these men and only one woman?" "It's a, uh... a technology meet-up." "Ah, I see!"
Useful open source packages for React Native
It can test many things, especially if you physically sit together. I used to have a coworker with an unusually severe fart problem.
This has great potential! Cant wait to see what you do with this
This release has my gears spinning! All these new features leave little time for sleep! Thanks HAProxy team!
> I would not mind at all doing a two-three hour on-site assignment. If you're there, they will at least have to make a similar effort as you are. I find this much more fair both as a candidate and as an employer.

I've had this exact thought. I got interview homework last year, was told to spend "no more than 4 hours" on it, etc, was mildly interesting. The next interview we'd have a discussion about the code and I'd present my rationale for various design decisions etc. But then I got the email that the interviewer had reviewed the code with an engineer and they decided not to move forward because there was a mistake and they "thought there would be more testing"! I felt that it was quite imbalanced to have spent 4 hours on this task, only to have it rejected without discussion after a short review.

So in the future I'm going to suggest that I'll be happy to do whatever homework assignment as part of a pairing exercise. That way I can see what it's like to work with them too.
reace-create-app has predefined configs in packages which you can't edit unless you eject them (copy to your own project and update the links) but you won't get updates anymore.
What is it about biology that attracts crazy people? As a profession genetic engineer (I've worked on successful engineered CAR-T cell therapy startups, etc.) the most appalling thing about this isn't the hubris or defiance of norms. It's how sloppy and technically laughable all of these preparations and experiments are from a biological point of view - both in terms of what I know about the viral/crispr vector design as well as the biological targets chosen (you're not going to do much by sparsely manipulating myostatin that way as an adult!). This is technical incompetence attempting to masquerade itself as maverick, edgy research for press attention. If you want to be a "biohacker": make a high-penetrance GFP/mCherry tattoo visible to the eye on a patch of your skin that doesn't get rejected by the immune system. i.e. Why take seriously claims about building a supercomputer from people that can't even wire up an 8-bit toy?
As a reddit user, this is very useful. Great idea
You have heard of the monkey - ladder - banana experiments?

Just because the interview culture has evolved to this awkward unrepresentative generally unhelpful filtering method, is no justification for "well just do it that way and you'll be fine".

If I'm the new monkey, and someone smacks me for touching the ladder, I'm going to ask why and push back if there's no good answer.
A lunar eclipse and a ‘super blood wolf moon’: how to watch this cosmic event
It was surprising to see the fluff listicle format popularized by Buzzfeed employed in a thoughtful tour of primary sources like this. As an easily-digestible exploration of the cultural-economic axis of the peak of the Japanese Miracle, it really worked, even if I kept expecting to see an animated gif captioned “TFW…”
Grocery Store Robot Marty Patrols Aisles for Spills
I assume that the decoy router is the active router. So you'll know you've turned it off by e.g. the absence of the Netflix service you were planning to enjoy while staying in the AirBnB apartment.

How do you know that one of the remaining WiFi networks that you can detect (after unplugging the visible one) isn't providing connectivity for surveillance devices? I can't think of any easy way to do this. There could be a surveillance server+router in a crawl space or an attic, but you have to find it.

Better to treat whatever you say and do in the AirBnB apartment as compromised, if you are inclined to worry about this.

I'm not actually that curious to hear what 'compromised' implies in the typical AirBnB surveillance scenario. Is it just the possibility of creepy observation, or identity theft, blackmail, worse?

It's easy to come up with potential horror stories. The higher the stakes, the more incentive for the surveillance to be undetectable (where detectability would impair the attack).
the picture about North/South Korea was useless.
Hmm it's not a democracy in the traditional sense. A single party has been in power for 40+ years.
It will be interesting to see what kind of scandalous language/tactics merchants will use to trick you into offering approval.
That's plain disingenuous. Maybe you don't need as much as for the initial one, but iterative process exists outside software. There's a myriad of systems to improve, from targeting, radar, communications, to materials and weapons. And you need new technologies that can benefit everyone, e.g. better AI to target incoming missiles, better software to control the turrets to destroy them.

And if that's not bleeding edge enough, railguns and, specific to aircraft carriers, catapults.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun#Naval_Surface_Warfare_...

Plus the development on energy generation to feed these electricity-hungry systems.
This seems like it has potential...
paywalled ... is there a free version available somewhere?
Webinar “A Perfect Crime: The Tech and Psych of Effective Phishing”
There is also the yellow-ish overlay for busy areas (binary).

Facebook pages for real-world locations also gives hourly foot traffic, segmented by age, local/tourist, and gender.
Given Google's attention span, I'd bet on the former.
>I'd wager that more people would end up relieving conditions with gene editing than doing wackier shit as mentioned before. If you genetically cure a bunch of diseases and unhealthy susceptibilities across the population, the marginal cost of the handful of people who make themselves ten feet tall will be trivial.

Ignoring the fact that you cannot make yourself taller, you're arguing for a completely unregulated ecosystem around gene editing. What you 'wager' is irrelevant; we protected people from themselves in numerous ways because people do dumb things. Are you now arguing that CRISPR and the like should be heavily regulated as to only be used for legitimate medical purposes?
Good idea, would like to see next version
I'm not entirely sure "Kodak moment" was ever more than advertising, but do people still use that phrase? I know it, as a thirty-something, but I'm not sure I've ever used it.
In any case you'd need longitudinal studies to properly evaluate any detrimental effects, given they are likely to be developmental in nature.

> I think you have to possess a highly etiolated idea of what the human 'good' is ...

Quite. Well being is contested & value-laden terrain. One would really need to read a paper & the theoretical background it emerges from before affirming the concept of well being its measures purport to operationalise.

Having said that, contemporary wealthy societies specialise in etiolated concepts of the good life, so this would hardly be an exception. A consumer-subject plugged-in more or less permanently to corporate product is the dream.
Then drive around America more often. Pretty much wherever you go, whatever the highway sign posts, people go 75-85. That includes places where the speed limit is 55 and where it is 80.
Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha
No. Wifi router needs the MAC address in order to provide a service to the user, thus it is allowed to collect the MAC. GDPR allows collecting personally identifying information if it is necessary for providing the service.
Is OpenCL implementation open source in the PRO package?
https://docs.scylladb.com/using-scylla/cassandra-compatibili...

The big remaining item is lightweight transactions.
I didn't claim it's an asteroid. What I said, actually, is that any hypothesis asserted without evidence, and the autor of the post affirms that we have no evidence for the claim that it is an alien probe, can be dismissed without evidence.But to be fair, anyone claiming it's an asteroid must provide evidence supporting his/her claim. Otherwise it can also be dismissed without evidence.

The one making ANY claim has the burden of proof. The null hypothesis is the default whenever there's no evidence supporting any claim. It is basically a fancy way of saying we don't know what it is.
This belief also manifested itself in the way 2019 Los Angeles is portrayed in Blade Runner.
Is zuckerberg white or jewish?
The collector's market is far smaller than the consumption market. If LEGO sells a million rocket models to kids and AFOLs, but 10K people are messing around in the collector's market, they aren't going to reissue the rocket. They are going to issue a new model for a current fad and sell a million more.

Harry Potter LEGO sets have a long life because Harry Potter has sustained popularity -- but even so, LEGO would rather issue N different sets, so LEGO fans buy multiples, than try to see N times as many copies of one set, since most consumers won't buy duplicates.
Understanding Ethereum Constantinople: A Hard Fork
No. AMDGPU-PRO is closed-source.

Which is partially why ROCm exists. Its the OpenSource implementation of AMD's driver stack. AMD seems to have indicated that the Open Source ROCm drivers are the way of the future. Its a sentiment I can certainly get behind (and AMD has even pushed the ROCm driver stack to the Linux Kernel proper).

But ROCm isn't ready quite yet. So I think in practice, people will still be relying upon the older AMDGPU-Pro drivers. At least for the next year.
> Better to compare him to Larry Fink of Blackrock

I thought this was a great point, and makes the comparisons to Gates and Buffett look really lazy. (The connection is...they are famous wealthy dudes.) For others wondering, Larry Fink has a net worth of about ~$1B versus Bogle's ~$80M. Vanguard is a bit older than Blackrock (1974 vs 1988), but I also think Vanguard would have been less successful, counterfactually, if it had charged higher fees that would have enriched Bogle. The low fees were part of what made it possible. So it's almost certainly true that Bogle left money on the table in order to make the world a better, but he probably left a factor of ~5x rather than 50x or something.
I'll try to rephrase it:

100x the comission might have 100x the competition. As a seller of the house, you pay more but you also get better agents.
Ha ha. Joke's on me. I just inherited at 3.x site. Getting it upgraded to 5.5 looks like it will be a half-total rewrite.
Scooter Lessons: Success, but a stark double standard
I enjoy Sqlectron. Good cross-platform support, and a terminal option if you'd prefer.
Is there any evidence that kids need aspirational figures that match their specific gender/racial identity? If so, what(if any) other factors are in play? Sexual orientation? Hair/eye color? Height?
Dangggg. I've just started getting back into Starcraft hard with the remastered release. Such a great game, so many great memories!
If IT were going to become obsolete, technology wouldn't suck. But it does. Virtually all technology that either has or uses a microprocessor sucks. And it probably always will, as long as humans are creating technology.

In fact, the steady increase in both the use and the diversity of technology means we'll need more people than ever in IT. The job title might change, but there will always be a department dedicated to fixing shitty technology and help users use it.
I'm personally glad the story made to the front page again as I find it very relevant today and I've never read it before.
That sounds like it would prevent deep work and make it difficult to get good at anything.
FTA:

>> But they’re less expensive than a bunch of humans with health benefits

Whenever someone opposes health, fatigue of human against robots, he basically makes human less human and more robot. Hence, justifying the superiority of robots. It also makes it almost logical that human are PITA to work with and therefore, are overrated, that is too expensive.

The only way out is to reaffirm the value of human, instead of underlying their weakness.
Google Translate how a surprising way of translating emoji
This is really just a tutorial on using an FFI to call out to BWAPI. You would need to have an equivalent API to BWAPI, or write it yourself, if you wanted to interface with other games.
My mum's something of a hoarder. It's never been a DSM issue though.
Not overkill in 4K gaming or high refresh rate gaming.
Ask HN: How to stop being a worrier?
I'm the kind of person who for every single situation runs all scenarios through his head and thinks about all of the 27 possible outcomes, and has thought extensively about each of them in an "if this happens then I'll do that" manner.

In most of the cases, things turn out fine and all the worrying was unnecessary.

I feel this affects my quality of life negatively and would love to not do this as often. Unfortunately, simply saying "stop doing that" doesn't work too well.

Any tips on how to stop being a worrier, or how to approach life in a more positive manner ?
The pervasiveness of Android would mitigate random errors. It alone can not, however, mitigate systematic errors. Apple Stores (and, employing stereotypes for maximum effect, art galleries and organic food stores) would be undercounted.

But, wait: Google only gives you relative data over time, where that error is irrelevant. Never mind.
I like Python but for some reason the term "pythonista" sounds so cringey.
I would say that one is an accident (snapping someone in the background), or rather there was no real intent. The latter is stalking.
I use Valentina:

https://www.valentina-db.com/en/

it work well. Even work with Sql Server on osx!
Oh, we tried. Believe me, we tried many times. Original pgb creator didn't bother to respond to any of my emails.
Async programming was there for a long time in the form of ReactPHP. With the caveat, of course, that comparatively few people know of it because of peculiarities of PHP's target audience. It's hard for something non-standard to gain traction in PHP.
Looks like people have instructions for using BWAPI with remastered, so probably. https://github.com/suegy/bwapi-mono-bridge2/wiki/StarCraft-R...
I did exactly what you just suggested. I never heard back from that particular recruiter. Bummed me out at the time, but now I just laugh at it.
Sophie was the best thing to happen to React. She lead React’s adoption at the first company outside of Facebook, and single-handedly answered almost every question about React on stackoverflow for the first two years of its existence. She was the number one github contributor to and bug-fixer for React before she joined Facebook.

React as we think of it today simply would not exist without Sophie. The entire front-end ecosystem would be drastically worse.

It’s really sad to hear she won’t be leading the react team anymore, and worse to hear how some employees of Facebook treated her.

She’s hands down the best engineer I’ve ever worked with, and also a wonderfully kind and caring person.

Her leaving Facebook is a loss for the entire tech community. I hope her next endeavours treat her with the respect she deserves.