skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great post! I can relate to that a lot.

One of my experiences was a recruiter for a startup (which plans to be leader in XYZ) reaching out for me on LinkedIn. Since I found the general domain quite interesting, I responded. From there on we have a short chat, but instead of getting really insightful information on the job I get forwarded to a bunch of URLs which aim to describe things. I get that it's convenient for the company to save time - but I don't want to spend hours reading through things.

Then there is an interview loop. 2 of the interviewers are apparently fairly junior, and spend the whole interview asking the typical graduate coding problems. One of them even wasn't sophisticated with having things 80% solved - it needed to be 100% - even though that meant the whole timeslot was used up. In the end of those in-person interviews I learned nothing about the job because there was no time left.

The main thing I learned was that there are people there who can be pedantic on interviews and can solve basic coding problems. If anything that gives me a negative impression. I want to work together with people who know interesting technologies, know how to write well-structured code, etc. The interview might give the impression that they don't know these things, because all they ask for is how to solve a leetcode problem.

After that the company asks for another interview loop at a different place - which obviously would mean spending even more time on this. At that point I'm giving up.
> The part I'm battling on it is if the current coding part selects against Java developers.

Yes, it does. And let me put it this way: I've used C# and Java at most of my jobs, those theoretically would be my comfort languages, yes?

I do not use those languages on interviews. I often just use C++ (!), or Rust (free unit tests!) if the company tools allow for it, or worst case I'd learn some Python basics. C#/Java are very awkward and boilerplatey in such a small time frame as 45 minutes.
imperfection, inability, incorrectness
Running out of ideas
hands down best (and most painful) joke today.
When you look at neurological studies, emotion is tied to ability to make snap judgements. People with low affect can't make snap judgements. They lack that file that says either "I have a good feeling about this!" or "Nope!"

Emotion is basically a summary of past experience. Relying on "your gut reaction" is a bit more error prone than actually analysing it, in part because it is rooted in personal prejudice, in essence. But in a survival situation, being able to quickly go "Nope! I'm out of here!" can be the difference between life and death.

So emotion based judgements tend to be fairly strong ones. They tend to be of the "Don't confuse me with the facts, my mind is made up" variety.
This a big problem I've seen as a senior dev. Interviewers almost always default to "why do you want to work here, prove yourself, etc", and question accordingly. This is hugely off-putting to passive candidates who are busy with their current roles, etc.
Do you have eligibility to work in the USA already?
That he was said or he said or someone said that because he could be Hindu(!) It has surely nothing to do with not being an Atheist. You speak like you were his good friend. Have you read all ""his"" writings?

: (!) "Definitely not an atheist. He merely..." Again, too confident when saying something about someone who lived 2000 years ago...If it was about someone you knew personally, I would take it. Now I was confident too, and confidence is a two-edged sword(again!) , but your confidence, not adhominen, mind you, I say AdCommentum that, by how your Tone sounds, your confidence is bigger than mine.

:And to conclude: What you call Hindu here? please clarify, because if you say that this is a Religion, I mean, If you are talking about hinduism, mind, ( off course when you said Hindu there you are not talking about he being born in India) So.There is a thing called Buddhism, and this thing is Not called Hinduism for some reason, so if buddha was something, he was Buddhist, So saying that he was Hindu to prove this point is unreasonable reasoning. Now forget about Hindu or Hinduism, If you are saying that the Buddhism Buddha Thinked(not the one people transformed in fairy tales) is not an Atheist, serious, Serious, philosophycal thinking, that thats what you are saying, because there is no Rigorous Scientifically proof of what you say, And to conclude the conclusion: We Cannot Read His Mind, even if he was alive.
That is advanced one. I thought current state of the at is a fine skill of throwing things against a wall and seeing if they stick
Catatumbo Lightning
also, doctors in recent decades have been horrendously overworked, particularly with regard to pressure to see many more patients daily than was the norm a generation ago. Less time with patients = less chance for listening to background and contextual information that may be useful in evaluation.
It stands for One Regional Card for All and it ties into an area wildlife. Orcas are commonly seen in local Native American art, mythology, etc. and are generally well-regarded. Local news often runs stories about certain whales in area pods. It’s not as weird as you’d think if you don’t live here.
I doubt they paid for the interview work.
Nope. Python 2.7 is and will continue to be used in scientific labs. Nobody will upgrade their working scripts.
Spec work?
> ”Source Code Pro was a step down from Inconsolata that preceded it.”

I’m not aware of any shared history between Inconsolata and Source Code Pro. Do you know of any? On the on there hand, Inconsolata is heavily influenced by Lucas De Groot’s Consolas.
Related aside, what's the best way to run Microsoft Office on a Linux box? My ideal setup would be Linux for everything but Office programs, which I'd prefer to run in a Windows environment.
Term life insurance helped me deal with this fear. Take care of yourself and know that there is no guarantee on tomorrow.
Power trace simulator using Unicorn for side channel analysis attack testing
What ruins most media after 2010 in my view:-

* Forced blue tint

* Forced dark filter

* Vocals low

* music too loud

* no normalised sound track

* watered down/causalised/dumbed down for the mass's
(huge issue with scifi in mainsteam media)

----------------

Around 2015-2020

* Global Socialist LEFT infecting "progressive" , "diversity" and "woke" themes into everything

Besides Orville I cant relate or enjoy any scifi anymore
The RER was created in the 60s for this purpose and continually expanded since, no?
I think Google used to be "cool", but it is more prestige now. There is definitely still cool areas which Google works on(AI, self-driving), but overall, if you are working on Gmail, there is nothing cool about it and the main motivation is not to make Gmail more awesome, but to get paid and beef your resume for future work opportunities.

Unicorns vary, but mostly they are B2B enterprise companies, which do very boring stuff day to day. But something like Discord will be exciting for many people to work at.
In the general sense I don't think frontend or backend web development is more difficult than the other. It has more to do with the problem being solved and the expertise of the individuals involved.

For example, your comment made me wonder what I would point out as example of maximum complexity in either field -- distributed systems, tight performance constraints, exceptionally magical functionality, and so on. Everything I thought of is something that's done in both backend and frontend systems.

I do feel that the industry perception is that backend development is more technical. But I don't believe that is true anymore personally, and I think that perception is rapidly changing.

For what it's worth, I'm much more of a backend developer myself.
I generally try to leave the system python alone. Use pyenv or conda to get the python interpreters for your own code and apps.
This is a great example of why the way in which politicians raise money and how they are lobbied is corruptive.

This is a case where quite easily 80% of their constituency would applaud the change. But a minor set of companies with an ability to contribute large sums of money (for or against) is able to influence something like this passing.

Citizens United and similar SCOTUS cases have made it even that much more unlikely that the situation will be improved any time soon.
Can whoever downvoted tell me what the caveat is? It looks good to me, can't wait to try it out.
There are multiple different application launcher's provided in KDE by default.
> But then how is the problem not already being solved through contract law without needing anything separate?

Contract law only really works for two people in similar bargaining positions. Good luck to you if you have poor credit history or are barely making ends meet and have to rent from whoever will take you.

If that's the only protection, then it's precisely the people who can't afford to be kicked out suddenly who won't have protection against it.
Ask HN: Does the University really matters?
Does it matter if you got your education from UK or Germany or France for tech degrees specially.

I wonder if it's worth spending more money to graduate from a UK university?

Does it results in higher wage straight out of the college?

Does it provide more employment opportunities?
Disclaimer: I'm a doctor

You say this because you are unaware of the risks of overscreening, overtesting and overdiagnosis. Pre-test probability is important to take into consideration. Getting patients worked up over a 0.00001% chance event causes undue stress.
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> having severe lag on the search, and having the top result vary as a function of time (as more search results are found), is horrendous.

There's no reason search has to do this, though. Spotlight (the macOS version of this) is able to find results pretty much instantly, and it doesn't show any results until it's searched everything, so the top result never changes. I really don't understand why Windows hasn't been able to do the same thing (and if anything, the win10 search is worse).
Really I think it has basically always been like that if you care about performance. Sledgehammers aren't light even though that would make them easier to carry and swing - they need to be heavy to work and the wielders need to build their strength accordingly. Crafts, even hunting are adapting to the world even if you are reshaping it.
My area almost qualifies. Right now there is a home on 1.16 acres going for $275,000 that is 7 minutes away from my employer and 10 minutes away from a rather large employer.

We have sort of a specialist tech hub here, featuring stuff like radar and cyberwar. Lots of these companies are hiring. (mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18819736)

You can get more than ten acres if you are willing to commute a bit. I think 2.5 acres is the minimum lot size if you go south about 14 minutes from one of my workplace's buildings, or 22 minutes from the one I'm in.

It is a small farm. Senior engineers can afford to live on hobby farms. Some of them expect to do so. It's not just here either; I've known people who did that in relatively rural parts of Massachusetts and Virginia too.

I recall somebody on HackerNews proposing an interesting explanation for how people react. The available jobs get dismissed because you'd have to seriously consider moving (which is annoying) if you admitted that employment in these locations is viable.
> I am not sure how to explain this POV. I think it's good for society as a whole and good for people, and that's what I'm looking for in laws and government. What do you look for in laws?

In laws and in government I look for measures to maximize my liberty. I think the purpose of government is to defend me from you and you from me.

I am ultimately responsible for my happiness. I don't think governments can make people happy and I don't think they should try

> I believe, similarly, that landlords should be obligated to rent out properties that they thought they wanted to rent out and then changed their minds on, just because it'd be inconvenient for the renter, for some generous period in which the renter can look for new housing. I don't believe that a landlord should be legally able to say "Good morning, I'm tired of renting, move out."

If landlords are in the business of doing things like this, I would like to start a company that doesn't treat it's customers like garbage and take money out of the pockets of such landlords
Not only that, the entire organism is only about 1000 cells. (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans)
This is not just tech, it's life. Ever wonder why your plumber takes 2 weeks and $150/hr to summon, but aspiring actors are on every corner parsing your 12-word coffee order for a thin fiver?

Macroeconomics is all around. :)
I also read that breathing assistant using warmed / humidified air were seeing good results.

Next pneumologist appointment I'll ask about this and inhalation too.
And Why You Should Create a Business Continuity Plan
This is a bit of a tangent but what is with people posting long-form stories on Twitter, a platform whose defining feature is you say what you have to say in 140 characters? Just blog it somewhere and post a link!
Sounds like you may also be from a country with a decent social net along with it?
Just to note: in Arch we almost only have individual package maintainers.
> I think it's good for society as a whole

people thought communism was good for society as a whole.. turns out it isn't

Key insight is that you have to consider the bigger picture and the incentives that your proposed rule creates.

> good for companies and good for investors for companies to be careful and intentional about hiring

how careful though? So careful that you rarely hire or fire anyone at all? So careful that it's impossible to disrupt an industry like Tesla is doing? Who should decide these things? Ever wonder why innovation mostly happens in the US rather then Western Europe?

I think there are sensible rules to regulate corps BUT I don't think these rules should be of the form of giving out freebies (which is what you want here). Regs for corps in dealing with individuals should be focused on creating a level playing field, such as laws against companies having too large a market share (because a person can almost never have a large market share), laws penalising unclear or confusing contracts, etc.
To think that anyone on the wire could manipulate the stream so that Greedo shoots first... horrifying.
Yes, wikipedia "Death march (project management)". But don't feel too bad, there are "levels" of this thing. I've been in teams for 20 years and you have to estimate the level of "Death march" you're facing: is not always going to be a complete disaster, you'll learn from it, you (and/or some co-workers) may become the ones that save the project, you'll anticipate code refactors that will be needed later, learn for future projects, etc.
Warsaw made public transportation free for school-age kids (must show valid school id if prompted) about two years ago, which I think was a great move.

It's not really about the cost: this move makes it easier (in many ways) to use public transportation to get your kid to school. It means you don't have to think or worry about your child's tickets, buying or validating them. You just hop on and ride, only remembering about your fare (presumably you already have a way of paying, I use my phone to pay).
You have no idea about what it is to be a doctor and you are just reacting to one sided story
You Don't Need to Exercise for Hours a Week to Look and Feel Better
The article claims that the steel rusting is actually an integral part of the process. The iron in the steel reacts with CO2 to rust, which sets the material.
What? You means ads aren't news? </sarcasm>
You're unaware that chimpanzees eat meat?
What I find hilarious is how every VC podcast about bootstrapping your startup has both of these statements 30 seconds apart:

1. ALWAYS hire the best you can. Hire people smarter than you. Hire the smartest people in the world!

2. It's always impossible to hire! We can never hire anyone!

Yeah. Ya think?

What I try to do is actually the opposite of their advice.

I don't look for the perfect hire. I look for people who are often overlooked but COULD become the perfect hire.

Just get them in at an affordable salary and build them into your best engineers.

They will be amazingly loyal (since you gave them chance when they needed it) and you can train them to become PART of the team.

You DO need senior people for this strategy though. They need mentors.
Design of APRS Modem Using IC TCM3105 and ATMega2560 Microcontroller
Please elaborate. I understand that some test procedures (coronarography etc) are too heavy to be used randomly. What else ?
World’s Oldest Periodic Table Poster Turns Up in Scottish Storeroom
Theres a very good chance Tesla got a large tax break for hiring vets. This has been true for a while. They could be trying to abuse this be having a rolling hiring of vets. But anybody saying that Tesla owes nothing doesn't realize that there are employee protections out there.
Contract law works for everybody. People in a better bargaining position get a better deal, but the contract didn't create their bargaining position.

There are two lease contracts the landlord can offer you. One has a lower rent but allows them to evict you at any time without notice, the other has a higher rent and gives you two months notice. You can pass a law against the first one, but then you're left with the second one. And then the person barely making ends meat has to pay more in rent.
Hand signals are common for many blue-collar team jobs. Cranes, aircraft ramp operations, marine work, military - where getting it wrong is deadly or at least expensive. It's only rare to white-collar types.

It's the opposite of "move fast and break things". Heavy-lift companies and marine salvage companies (there's overlap) are in the business of "move slowly and don't break things". Mammoet, Titan, and Smit all have videos on line of some of their jobs. They are way into overpreparing. They have more gear on site than you'd think was needed, they prepare for as much as a year for some operations, there are detailed, written plans and backup plans which have been rehearsed and talked through by the people involved, and then on the big day, everything goes so smoothly it's dull. Watch some of those videos and you'll see some explicit hand signals.
and don't forget to sterlize the device and liquids
https://www.slashgear.com/bmw-i8-will-force-fake-engine-nois...
You're looking at unintended consequences, the result of outrage and action to prevent keeping prisoners physically separated from each other at all times.

Well, if they aren't separated, they do things to each other. This should be unsurprising. It is unavoidable.

They are also a bad influence on each other.
That's an extreme example of long distance travel, not normal commuting distance.
The IRS is already doing your taxes in the first place. That is how they know when you didn't include a job etc. They run the numbers to check against. There is no reason that this can't be the default for 95% of citizens. Want to amend the numbers the IRS came up with? Just file your own taxes that year.
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China's Slowdown Looms Just as the World Looks for Growth
They listed exactly what they are doing. The artifacts they are picking out should already be tagged with the release. The script to push those to production can use those tags to know what to push and what git commit hashes to check.

ETA: I'll add that when pushing production, the amount not just you can waste, but everyone down the line from users, developers, testers, etc, etc, can be huge. Calculating how much time you would save isn't useful.
We just started hiring remotely. We've 1:4 ratio of local:remote.
No, but in the case of fixing up an old car, it is not just a poorly chosen example. Fixing up older equipment when the industry of parts has moved on, is fundamentally more expensive than going with what the industry is currently manufacturing. It's easy to see a product in isolation and see that it needs a "$3 part" to be "as good as new", without taking into account that products are part of an elaborate, dynamic, evolving ecosystem that no longer makes said part for any price.

It makes me wonder, if we were to go full on Jurassic Park and clone some creature from 100mya, would it be able to thrive in today's environment? Would it have sufficient immunity, and be able to digest meat/plants from the present day? Even the alligators have evolved a bit since then.
Given Google is already doing that (collecting anonymized data), wouldn't it be overall better if it also puts that to some good use?
If you use assertions you can combine the expression with & & "this error shouldn't happen because..." to get more context.
Exactly. And what might also influence the results is the "scent" of solvents and other chemicals, that might differ from color to color.
Here a couple examples I came across recently of games which have multiple recent reviews, on the first page of reviews, that either outright state they received a counterfeit or describe quality control issues that almost certainly describe a counterfeit:

Catan https://smile.amazon.com/Catan-Studios-cantan2017/dp/B00U26V...

Splendor https://smile.amazon.com/Asmodee-SPL01-Splendor/dp/B00IZEUFI...

Ticket to Ride https://smile.amazon.com/Days-Wonder-DO7201-Ticket-Ride/dp/0...

Ticket to Ride: Europe https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B000809OAO/

7 Wonders https://smile.amazon.com/Asmodee-5511788-7-Wonders/dp/B0043K...

Azul https://smile.amazon.com/Plan-Games-Azul-Board-Game/dp/B077M...

They're not hard to find -- popular games from smaller publishers with high prices but relatively simple (cardboard/plastic) components seem to be what counterfeiters target.
at the risk of a useless comment, +1.

windows 98 may have been the height of desktop UI.

the windows file dialog is still, puzzlingly, the very best out there. no idea why other platforms are so resistant to copying it.
I had a similar problem. When I was younger, I suffered an accident (I fell, and a metal piece entered my left nostril) which caused an abnormal formation on the inside after it healed. I lived many years having trouble to breathe correctly because of that blockage. Eventually, a doctor discovered the problem, and I had surgery. The difference it makes, being able to breathe correctly, is incredible.
Ugh, what's the point of making rich kids pay? Just to make it awkward for rich kids and normal kids traveling together?
I'm curious if you eat dairy, soy, and/or bananas? They're all very high mucous producing foods and can impact breathing significantly. I suppose after surgery removing such foods may or may not show improvement/alleviate things more.
Ive hired 50+ engineers in my day and never looked at their degrees when deciding who to interview or hire. I've always been more interested in who you are and what you've done and can do over what pieces of paper you earned. My $0.02.
The only thing keeping me on Python 2.7 is Apache Beam, but it's becoming increasingly painful and I'm close to just using a different technology rather than deal with making all my code py2 compatible in 2019...