skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think both algorithmic questions and work samples have an important role.

I'm a senior engineer at one of the top tech companies. I hold the opinion the interview processed is heavily biased towards college grads or kids who are fresh on algorithms.

I think this helps us hire mostly kids who are book smart but aren't necessarily great (or even "good") employees... I'll do some hand waving here and define good as some combination of being driven and motivated, being able to work independently, and actually caring about what they're doing.

The question is then - well, how do we do this better? Honestly, I'm not sure. Hiring quality workers is a difficult problem. Technical interviews allow you to somewhat measure one of the key aspects of your hire. That being said, some people aren't made to stand in front of a white board and get judged. They don't handle that situation really well, and just because of that, they'll make mistakes that they might not otherwise make.
hm, i guess I wasn't differentiating between prestige and coolness as they both lead to high demand for the position. I wonder why coolness leads to worse conditions but prestige doesn't.
Do you eat dairy, soy, and/or bananas? They're all very high mucous producing foods and can impact breathing significantly.
If your elected officials refuse to accept corporate PAC money, thank them.

If your elected officials accept corporate PAC money, tell them to cut it out because you'll be supporting a primary challenger who refuses all corporate PAC donations...and then support a primary challenger who refuses all corporate PAC donations.

Having elected officials who reject all corporate PAC money isn't a panacea all on its own, but it's a great start.
The value of that land is its adjacency to public transportation, I don’t see this statement as the slam-dunk you seem to think it is.

When Google ‘loses money’ on search to make it up with ads, everyone thinks this is very clever. What Hong Kong is doing is no different.
That where legibility matters, a sans font is the wrong place to start, or stop.

Sans faces appeal to graphic designers for graphic-design reasons that have no connection to merit as a means to convey useful information clearly and quickly. Graphic designers prefer details that make text less legible for the actual people obliged to read it, who get no say in what is used.
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.

Historically, the atmosphere was thicker and had a higher percentage of oxygen. Those dragonflies with two foot wingspans could not survive in the current atmosphere. Insects don't have lungs per se and the current lower atmospheric pressure and lower oxygen levels means you would need to basically give them their own pressure suit.

My general understanding is the same would be true for dinosaurs: Their lung design and large size would mean they would need life support to survive at all.
are generally well-regarded

I didn't say they are evil, just that they are ruthless predators. They're a natural element of their ecosystem, playing a longstanding role in it.

But I still feel for the humpback calves.
You have it stored on a high-capacity server, not your phone.
Good effort;

It's not just enough to have fast logging, it is also required to not abuse logging by having long, too many or useless messages.

Most people need a guide for 'The art of the log'. They should also know 'The art of the counters.'
It is mostly correct. Unless you sign very carefully worded IP assignment agreement to that effect, even work you get paid for remains under your own copyright. And frankly anyone who would sign that kind of thing on a employment test exercise is... Naive.
Correct. The 1040 has been redesigned to be as easy to fill out as the prior 1040EZ, IMHO.
That's an academic distinction, honestly nearing the point of bad faith. What's that line - the law in its majestic equality forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges?

I would rather a situation where people actually can't afford housing, which forces a solution, to one where we can pretend people are fine until they aren't. A similar argument is used against minimum wages, and yet the poor are almost universally better off in countries where minimum wages are high.
"You sit down, review a prefilled filing from the government. If it’s accurate, you sign it. If it’s not, you fix it or ignore it altogether and prepare your return yourself. It’s your choice. You might not have to pay for an accountant, or fiddle for hours with complex software. It could all be over in minutes."

This is exactly how it works in Chile...since 2005!
Partly true, I just saw too many errors. I don't blame people much. They're already doing a lot. That said I want a tad more, forgive me for that.
Looks like it's all caps, so it doesn't matter: https://blog.epicpxls.com/the-font-that-landed-on-the-moon-a...
Excerpted from their principles[1]:

[...] we will not design or deploy AI in the following application areas:

1. that cause or are likely to cause overall harm [...]
2. [...] Weapons [...]
3. [...] that gather or use information for surveillance [...]
4. [...] whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights [...]

[...] As our experience in this space deepens, this list may evolve. [...]

The last sentence gave me a crack, it was definitely generated by some DeepMind-AI called DeepSarcasm.

[1] https://ai.google/principles/
> There are no protections in place as proved by multiple data leeks stories.

Are you referring to data breaches? Not sure what protections you think will prevent them.

> There are no settings provided by tech companies that let use use there services in total anonymous way.

Again, these aren't essential services that you have to use. You can use Google via Duck Duck Go if you like.

You can't use Facebook but you can use What's App if you want end to end encryption.

> Do you think gmail will ever implement end-to-end encrypted email service ever?

I believe they already provide a browser plugin for pgp encryption.

Full end to end encryption would probably require changes to existing email protocols.

> We need such articles to remind people of what they are getting them-self into.

This is a valid point, however the hyperbolic tone of these articles is off putting to me.

I think these companies are handling data in a responsible way.

A more rational conversation around the real risks of these data collection practices, the value of the data,and the exchange of this data for services would be more enlightening, IMO.

Too often these articles and the comments degenerate into X is bad and this bad without any nuance.

Also, as I have stated, it is very easy to not use these services.

> encourage communities to build alternative solutions

I'm all for this. What I am not in favor is asking the government to force these private companies to make these.

> Data that was collected before on an average citizen is puny as compared to what they collect now.

I worked at Credit Card companies a long time ago, and I wouldn't call the data they collected on people puny. In many cases these companies had access to every purchase a person made, every place they lived, their income, etc.

To me that is very sensitive information.

Again, I would like a rational conversation around how is the information that is being collective sensitive.

That might actually be more useful to people.
Perhaps so, but do we have any evidence that the frequency of diagnostic errors has increased?
(1) Its not homicide vs. housing. Both are fundable without impacting the other, that's a straw man.

(2) You live in a society and pretending that you don't and funding nothing isn't going to make the problem go away, it's going to be there getting worse. This is the dark side to America's individualism. Everyone looks out for themselves and pretends nobody else's problems should matter to them, then look around at the crap pile that leaves behind and wonders whose responsibility it should be -- not theirs to be sure.
Yes. Beware of using unsterilized liquids. Recently, there was a case of a woman who died of a brain-eating amoeba because of this [0]. I would prefer to use something akin to Stérimar [1].

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/07/health/seattle-brain-amoe...
[1] http://www.sterimarnasal.co.uk/about-sterimar
yes - it's relatively cheap when you're youngish (i.e. kids < 20) which is when your family would need it the most. Treat the premiums as a sunk cost (you know, actual insurance) instead of some sort of investment or convertible policy.
Thoughts and Takeaways on My Early Months of Working Remotely
Something Else Instead of Planet Nine Could Be Hiding in the Outer Solar System
Programming Fonts – Test Drive
Posts like this come around every year. There is a belief held by some that we should avoid making taxes easier to file. We shouldn't just take the number given to us by our government. Some believe filing a tax return should be an explicit process so we are conscious of government burden.

Also, a more practical reason. The government can't tell you all of the deductions you are entitled to.
How? You can't build too densely in an earthquake zone. And you can't move because the thing that makes Silicon Valley special is that CA's constitution makes non compete clauses null and void so that venture capitalists and startups can form with little worry of being sued by the companies that they are trying to disrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#California
> Just to play Devil's Advocate for a minute, what if companies were prevented from firing or laying off employees because of the financial situation of the employee?

That forms part of an unfair dismissal case in Australia, yes. It is considered when evaluating how "harsh" a dismissal is.
same with pushups, I didn't expect workout to have such health benefits (and even morale)
Yes, this is a failing of Democracy as it currently works in the United States, because the money of large corporations has more say that the will of the people.

Unfortunately, it's true of so many aspects of American society right now that are in desperate need of reform or rebuild - education, health, roads, public transport, safety, just to name a few.

There are so many hundreds of billions of private profits tied up in these things they will never be allowed to improve.
Solution for the $1.5T student debt crisis
Of course they are. It’s just not a buzzword anymore but considered normal.
Great points. One of the easiest solutions - Everify (https://www.e-verify.gov/) is voluntary. How is a system that is supposed to check eligibility voluntary? That's because employers and the Chamber of Commerce fought to keep it that way.

Also, it is true, contrary to a common myth, you cannot get food stamps if you are an undocumented immigrant. See this article for more on this - https://foodstampsnow.com/can-permanent-residents-and-non-ci....

It's very hard to use fraudulent SSN to get food stamps because all the welfare programs share information check their data against other state and government database. It's not worth the risk and most undocumented immigrants know this. It's one sure way to have ICE at your door.
I would like law to fix their bargaining positions, because I think that's a place that law is capable of working effectively and that it would be good for society for it to do so. I am not personally a believer that the law should treat the status quo as something sacred / "fair" and avoid interfering unless necessary.
> but with the amount of data that google or facebook has now oit is so easy to smear anyone

I think this problem won't go away even if google or facebook didn't exist. This is a fundamental problem of the internet.
Sometimes there is something serious that needs further investigation. But others times it's nothing and following your advice would be feeding hypochondria. Additional testing and diagnosis is expensive, and often carries risks of its own. It's hard to know where to draw the line.
I don't understand your comment. Version 1.5.6 of what?

The NumPy 1.16.0 notes say

> Support for Python 3.4 been dropped, the supported Python versions are 2.7 and 3.5-3.7.

That definitely sounds like NumPy 1.16.0 doesn't support python 3.4.
JavaScript iterator patterns
tonnes of cancer screening; many biopsies.

It hurts to quantify it this way, but the pot to fund health care is not bottomless in either a pure public or privately insured system. It needs to be spread across the entire population, and across all of the potential issues an individual may face.
I don't know who these "distros" people are. Humans care. But no humans cared-enough to update this earlier. If you want to contribute to the Debian project specifically, talk to me.
> What this theory doesn't take into account are the non-hunters. A single farmer is at risk in a world full of hunters - see Robinson Crusoe. However, a village full of farmers who can store heavy weapons in their houses has almost nothing to fear from a small group of hunters.

Is it perhaps possible that it might actually account for exactly these points? A single farmer is like a hunter, except unarmed and not stealthy. They cannot be expected to live long as they will be treated only as another hunter.

You're absolutely right about the hypothetical power of an organized village! Yet, in this scenario such a thing never comes about and can never come about. A village requires collaboration and trust, things the hunters do not posses.

As a result, there are no farmers to speak of. They don't last long enough to matter. The only survivors are the hunters.

Are you familiar with the prisoner's dilemma? This is one where trust is impossible, betrayal is cheap, and cooperation risks your entire civilization on someone else's cheap betrayal.
Sorry, but please don't follow the advice in that book, it's terrible.

A far, far better book is "The New Rules of Posture". [1] See my review at [2] which also briefly explains why "8 Steps" is bad.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/New-Rules-Posture-Stand-Modern/dp/159...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2CVZCSXVLQ1EM
>> We need a musk like character to shake the medical diagnosis status quo.

You first to trust your life and your loved ones to the SpaceX or Tesla of the medical world.

But - disruption! Fake it till you make it!
By cost, I don't mean money.
It's pretty crazy to see rationalizations here for reversing the signing bonus and annual bonus.

I can't in good faith ever do that to a high-performing employee I'm making redundant.
The whole reasoning behind not prefilling makes no sense. The government tells you what it knows and you can then amned the return in whatever way you wish, e.g. deductions. There really is nothing negative for the tax payer as far as I can tell.
People get laid off all the time. Business is not hostage to your performance.

In the end we all are just numbers of the XL sheet. Treat your company just like one.

All the talk about mission reeks of naivety. Seriously, I can understand the emotional outburst but it is unnecessary.
IMO, Laizzes-Faire capitalism is the sort that, as of today, favors the larger players over the smaller fish in the sea.

Practically, that system is going to become worse than ever.
Eventually such packages get removed (usually when they stop building for whatever reason). But if the package still works, having an old version of it is still better than not having anything.
Piccolo is very similar to Pystachio.
Then they shouldn't have agreed to it.
Can you dilate your nostrils? I just did a test in front of the mirror, if I breathe in hard my nostrils collapse slightly, I can feel the breath in getting more difficult. But if I dilate my nostrils at the same time, the effect is almost completely negated.

It looks like the nostril dilation muscles evolved for this purpose (keep the airways open) but they don't always get triggered automatically.
That would dramatically increase prices to the end user; some of the lowest firebox recovery rates in the world are here in the Bay Area. The VTA only takes in 10% of it's operating expenses from ridership, so we'd have to raise a one-way adult fare on the VTA to $22.50 (neglecting the demand curve). bart, though, would go up "only" 30% -- while Muni rides would go up to $6.50 [1]

Like highways, these are infrastructure. The goal isn't to recover 100% of revenue from the farebox because it generates revenue indirectly. Without roads you wouldn't have trucks. With a $6.50 Muni ride you wouldn't have much of a downtown core.

There are some notable examples like Hong Kong MTR which generates 125% of operating expenses from the farebox, though their density helps and their creative business model (allowing MTR to own surface rights above stations it constructs [2]) help that out an awful lot. I'm sure if Muni/Bart/Caltrain were gifted the land on top of each station we'd see fares come down real quick.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio

[2] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2154424...
> Apply the “pick one to sound smart” rule. :)

Confirmation bias! :p
Whereas at the automotive shop I used to work at, everyone else picked that habit up from me. I'd picked it up from experience in aviation line service during high school. My coworkers acted annoyed for the first week, but they quickly realized I didn't expect a response and it made communication in a noisy shop clearer.

Especially after the day that a coworker got confused about which truck was which, and drilled a 3.5" hole in the bed of a brand new truck (thinking it was getting a gooseneck hitch). After that, everyone else started repeating verbal instructions as well.
For those interested, you can track Beam Python 3 support progress here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-1251
Ex-Tesla employee here. I'm not going to comment on any of the statements because I know nothing of it, but I wanted to give one angle to the "performance bonus not paid out":

Like most employers, Tesla gives out a mix of raises, bonuses and equity renewals at times based on reviews/merit/etc. Some of them, like equity, vest over 4 years.

That's normal, etc. But, Tesla is the only employer I know of where you had an option to pick stock, options, or cash, as the vesting entity. Cash wasn't always offered, but I know it to have been an option at least once.

I don't know if that's what happened here, but it might be part of why someone thought of it as "earned bonus with delayed payout" when in reality it might not have been. I can't tell, but I wanted to mention the possibility.
Would you do a 4-hr take-home assignment? What if I gave you a $100 amazon gift card?

There's a big difference between making someone jump through countless, one-sided hoops and asking for a little effort. The challenge IME is finding the balance.
I don't know what to tell you. We switched to pure work-sample hiring and hired several dozen people that way. We retained all of them. I can't say that about our interview process prior to that: not only were we not picking up the "moneyball" candidates I'm talking about here, but we were also hiring people we (painfully) ended up having to let go.
While I still use notebooks, I increasingly configure matplotlib to render plots right in my shell window (requires iTerm2 on a Mac) so code from a Jupyter notebook can be run in a bash shell and I still get to see plots display inline.
Money is not all but FAANG have benefits and work that are comparable or better than most startups/companies. The overall package is just better... It's obvious to the market at large. Only niche audiences are willingly going to choose startups/companies with certain perks. (fully remote work, for instance - it is a niche thing regardless of what people here say)
if you show a modicum of good sense and avoid max lifting.

Isn't that why they said it's easy to do if done improperly?
Synthetic Monitoring Tools
That's exactly what I have been telling my friends for so long! They already have all of my income and expenditure details. Why don't they just fill it themselves and let me one click approve?
SF has decent public transit. Disliking public transit is fine, but ignoring it is something else entirely. Muni and Bart do make it possible to get around most of SF without walking or using uber/lyft.

And, given where I live, my medical, grocery, and a significant chunk of my social needs are truly within walking distance. The only one that isn't is work, and that would be accessible via public transit if I was willing to compromise on commute times a bit (or if I changed employers/offices).

Carson City has 4 bus routes serving 150 square miles, San Francisco has close to 100 serving less than 50. Those aren't remotely comparable.
As I noted, Inconsolata existed before they began work on SCP. It is an objective improvement on Consolas, and thus worthy of attention and
change.

Normally, when putting in the effort to make something new, one tries to make it better than what came before, on some axis. Introducing a new thing less good than what came before is a waste of our time and a distraction from the better things. I don't doubt that designing SCP or B612 was educational for its designers, but that is not a good enough reason to adopt it, or even to study whether to adopt it.

The new thing should be better. Why is that hard to process?
> What's that line - the law in its majestic equality forbids rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges?

Which is why passing laws against things generally hurts the poor. The rich don't need to sleep under a bridge, so who does a law against it affect?

> I would rather a situation where people actually can't afford housing, which forces a solution, to one where we can pretend people are fine until they aren't.

Only it hasn't actually forced a solution. But rents sure are high now.

> A similar argument is used against minimum wages, and yet the poor are almost universally better off in countries where minimum wages are high.

The unemployed youth in France are not having a good time.

But more to the point, these kinds of laws tend to follow prosperity rather than the other way around.
Unacceptable how? They had no responsibility to do otherwise. They no longer wanted the employee so he was removed immediately. Are they supposed to give him notice even when he has no value to them?
The article doesn't show evidence that the lobbying was effective. The tax prep industry wanted the Free File Act passed to prohibit the IRS from implementing automatic tax filing. Senator Warren introduced a bill to require the IRS to make automatic tax filing available.

"Neither Warren’s bill [the good act] nor the Free File Act [the evil act] made it out of committee."

Sounds more like the do-nothing Congress at work.
Not sure the science is conclusive on this. Also, breathing well probably helps your body to eliminate mucous. Speaking from a yogi's perspective.
Some things I might try...

1. Hadoop / HDFS / Spark on an ephemeral cluster with disk snapshots
2. Group 1M ID's into a single file
3. If analysis is once a month, save daily then prep data right before analysis.
4. Consider using Cassandra database
5. Rent a big machine where the data can fit into memory