skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, it's getting better and better. For example, we can now change default sound devices - and apply monitor colour profiles - using the new settings.

Lots of work remains, but they're getting there step by step. E.g, there's no link to modify the colour profiles yet, but at least being able to quickly check and change from previously defined ones is a good little addition.
> it’s not even something I can open source if they don’t like it

What? Of course you should... make sure you create a repo with the company name and people can create issues to collaborate on a better ToDo sample code.
I didn't say the UI would be different for paid accounts. That's a bizarre idea. The difference is with a paid account you can skip as many songs you don't like and face no problems. When I do the same, I quickly run into 3+ consecutive ads, without having barely heard any actual music. You don't have to deal with obnoxious ads. Of course you think it's silly.
I'm similar. I store FLAC on my desktop and then transcode it to opus before putting it on my music streaming server. MP3 doesn't really seem to have much relevance in the modern world other than legacy.
>Of the 198 patients with CVD, 177 (89%) were adherent. Major cardiac events judged to be recurrent disease totaled one stroke in the adherent cardiovascular participants—a recurrent event rate of .6%, significantly less than reported by other studies of plant-based nutrition therapy. Thirteen of 21 (62%) nonadherent participants experienced adverse events.

So... heart disease can be attributed almost entirely to eating meat? That result seems too good to be true.
Why do you say abnormal pelvic tilt? Is that common?

(I literally just got a massage where the bodyworker told me my hip was tilted majority, so it’s a stricking thing to read here...)
I don’t really understand why an egg shape does not satisfy the requirements.
"Standard" work life balance is relative though. I know lots of people who don't want to work full time. This is especially true for people with family/kids (who incidentally are usually older/more experienced).
> The shape of those bodies is very sensitive to small variation, outside which it is no longer mono-monostatic. For example, the first solution of Domokos and Várkonyi closely resembled a sphere, with a shape deviation of only 10−5. It was dismissed, as it was extremely hard to test experimentally. Their published solution was less sensitive; yet it has a shape tolerance of 10−3, that is 0.1 mm for a 10 cm size.
That “mouse” is what we called a trackball in the olden days. I still kinda miss running one, but I ran out of spares for the model I loved and nothing else makes me want to switch lately. Maybe it’s time to try again.
Microsoft and Google do not collectively hire that many people and are not who I am talking about. “Brain-teaser” type questions are explicitly not work-sample tests and, yes, have no correlation with job performance.
This is pretty interesting and exciting. Salt Lake City is a great and affordable city and it will be interesting what result this has on the number of startups and tech companies of the future.
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Do you have a quick low mess way to steam them somehow?

I lucked out and my local grocery had Japanese sweet potatoes today.
I've noted that in my playlists not only are the videos deleted, but title of the video in your playlist is also deleted. So, say, if you had playlist full of music videos you like and want to remember, gone! Good luck finding out what you thought you were saving years ago.
I'll have to check it out!
Religions distill generations of solutions to psychological problems we all face.

Job: what do you do when tragedy strikes, when it feels like God and Satan have plotted against you? Don't destroy your own foundation; the tragedy wasn't your fault.

Abraham and Isaac: if sacrifice makes a better future, what if we sacrifice the thing we cherish most in hope of the best possible future? God will never expect you to sacrifice your child; there is a limit to the efficacy of sacrifice. Sadly a lesson the brutally immoral Aztecs never learned.

Christ as Redeemer: it is possible that even the worst among us can be saved from the hell they choose to create. There is divinity in each and every person that must be respected. It's tempting to prescribe the worst punishment and exile for those that make bad or antisocial choices. But more often than not, what they need most in order to rehabilitate is love. They can be resurrected from the death of nihilism.

These small examples are lessons that were learned by countless generations before them. Codifying them and passing them on was critical to the thriving of the societies that respected them.

We reject them at our peril.
Reading https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06/the-hiring-post/#work..., it looks like your process is better than most!

However, I've walked away from interview processes that require a work sample that'll take more than a few hours or require lots of domain knowledge to get started. It just isn't worth my time, especially as a barrier to entry before talking to anyone.

Things I am happy to do to see if I'm a good fit:

- Pair with a developer on the team. I learn just as much about the team I'd be joining as the hiring company does about me.
- Talking through code that I've written, talking through how I came to the implementation and how I might refactor/enhance further. You can't really bullshit this without the interviewer being a nit.

Things I'll do as a 1099:
- Fix a real bug
- Refactor real code
- Do a project that isn't trivial, start to finish
Most low temp freezers used in science are -80 deg C freezers, that part should be reasonably easy to find.
imo not really.
Why would they even bother with this when they already have much better data though.
Yes. Don't know why so many philosophers are either unaware of it or choose to ignore it, it's a well known idea. It was even referenced in an X-Men movie, I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
Yes, it's ubiquitous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelvic_tilt. Exercises that strengthen stabilizer muscles (squats, or yoga or something) help a lot with it.
Why wouldn’t you just keep it as FLAC?
> I'll pay if you let me pay per article!

Future you:

"I'll pay once you stop ripping me off for individual articles!"

----

When I was a teenager, somebody told me that thieves always criticize the person they're stealing from.

Still seems true.
Unpopular opinion, but I'm not sure there is such thing as "mindlessly browsing. I think that no matter what I'm reading on the internet, I am gaining knowledge and that knowledge is valuable even if it doesn't enhance my professional career directly. For example, reading about the latest entertainment gossip helps me talk about that with friends. Or, leading about the latest news, whether local, national,or global, helps me debate with people I know. The list goes on and on, but I think every piece of knowledge can be important for some part of your life.

As far as "addiction" goes, I wouldn't call it that unless it gets in the way of other parts of your life. Is you browsing the internet making you not spend time with loved ones? Is it making you LESS productive than you already were before it started? Is it making you less physically active? If that's true, then yes, it is an addiction. In that case, I would recommend setting up constant, but annoying, reminders for you to do anything that you feel like you're missing out on. You can even write software that locks down your browser for sometime.
It does have the advantage of being patent free, since they have all expired.
> Do you remember when games like Leisure Suit Larry went from text input to "click the right pixel"? All sorts of exploration and hilarity was lost.

Perhaps so but it also got rid of the tiresome "Guess which exact words or phrasing the developer wanted" aspect of the early Sierra games as well so that you could focus on the actual puzzles. (King's Quest, I'm looking at you.) Not entirely a bad thing.
In a very poor way which still leaves the question open.
Wow, I feel very organized, I've always had a spot for my keys and wallet near the front doors of the different places I've lived.

But I also hooked a USB drive to my wallet, and one time I needed a file from it, so I plugged it into my PC with the rest of the wallet attached to it, placing the wallet on top of the tower, behind the monitor. 20 minutes later I was on the phone with the local supermarket because I couldn't find my wallet at its usual spot, and I knew I had it with me while paying at the supermarket.
I don’t know about google or Facebook but I imagine I could argue the secret sauce is configuration which (I anal) I imagine is not something you’d have to release under any GPL. The threat isn’t so much that someone will build a competing google as much as I think it is someone will game our system. Just my guess.
> As she also mentions, it sounds like a large part of his total compensation was tied up in bonuses, which can be great when they work out well, but are much more discretionary than salary, as the story indicates.

Sounds like they took a gamble and didn't work out.

also is this a scam? https://www.gofundme.com/help-kari-pollock039s-family
Before kids nothing scared me. Not because I felt invincible but because I felt like uncalled code. If I were culled, there'd be sad family but everyone would move on. Nobody depended on me.

But now I have kids and they need me in a way I've never felt from anyone before. It's F@#$_ing terrifying because of just how vulnerable I realise I am.
So is opus and flac. Pretty much all modern audio codecs are patent free.
I don't think it's fair to rationalize poor labor practices. If they had paid out this worker's remaining sign up bonus and his 2018 performance bonus, we would've likely never heard of this. I know I won't recommend Tesla vehicles to anyone anymore (this is the final publicized labor issue "straw" as a customer).

And if Tesla is so cash strapped they couldn't pay that comp out for folks to move on mostly whole (60 days severance, remaining bonuses due, COBRA), management needs to be replaced with someone who can properly forecast cashflow, and more to the point, manage a business of this scale appropriately.

EDIT: I have reported the GoFundMe campaign you mention to have the organizer verified.
You can also Google for prostitution services in places in the US where they are illegal.

Pretty sure I don't need to link to the California Republican Party website.
> How many apps require web storage? Are there sufficient requirements to implement web workers or service workers?

Most B2B apps and apps with monthly subscriptions.
I started learning web development last year and have been completely overwhelmed by all of the tools, frameworks, etc. that are out there. I found the back-end to be a lot easier to pick up than the front-end.

Granted, I’ve been using Python for a long time and chose it (Django) for my back-end. It helped to not have to learn both the language, the framework, and concepts at the same time.

I was so frustrated with Vue that I ended up going with Elm. I did not have a background in functional programming, but I found it so much simpler than trying to learn Vue or React.
nom nom pringles and tetra juice, and warcraft a la nieghbor.

The one tweak i would make is the antenna element AKA "toothpick" is depicted as a blunt end cut. It may be non essential however its called toothpick because the terminus is pointy. The gain in transmitted energy may put you in FCC fine territory, and if you couple this with a WRT upgrade to your router, its possible to produce hazardous energy levels.
The papers going back that far are to determine which synthetic steps are experimentally viable. You can look at a molecule and think how could I make this? Well if I broke this particular bond it would make A and B, which I can order from a supplier. So let's search the literature to see if anybody has successfully carried out a reaction that connects an A-like molecule and a B-like molecule in a way that would yield the kind of bond(s) that connect them in our target. That's a lot of searching because for a typical drug, there are 10s to 100s of bonds and a total synthesis can take upwards of 20-30 steps. Thankfully, making and breaking most of the bonds is just not possible given the fundamental nature of the compounds (more specifically, it would take a ton of energy to put the molecule together this way, and if that much energy was applied, it would react at more reactive sites long before the desired reactivity occured). For others it is less clear, which is why having a comprehensive literature sure is useful. If your database goes all the way back to the 1800s you can say with some confidence that a certain step has never been done before and therefore assume its not possible (perhaps an incorrect assumption, but pharma isn't interested in developing novel types of reaction methodology for a target screen because if it hasn't been done already, it would probably take several years and the chance of success is low. And besides, that's what graduate students are for ;)

So the literature search is to find out what's possible. Among the possibilités, the only ones of interest are those that are not covered in patents, hence the second screen.
We subscribe to the work sample test as your best option for technical validation, but we also limit ourselves to a small window of time, on site. We pick something we recently worked on, distill it down to something we can knock out in 15 minutes, and give the candidate about 45 minutes to work through the distilled problem and then we explore for about 15 minutes their solution and how they would make it production ready (as a conversation). We then have another 45 minutes of designing a solution to something more complex we recently had to work on, again distilled down. It involves a white board and boxes and arrows. The last 15 minutes is time for them to ask whatever they want of us. We have two interviewers on this technical portion to level out false reads by the other interviewer (I thought this part was a poor answer, but the other interviewer has a different view of it).

I really like it so far. The part I'm battling on it is if the current coding part selects against Java developers. Part of the code we want right now requires a unit test with dependency injection to match an interface. So many of our Java candidates simply can't set up a running unit test. They are used to layers of framework already set up in the IDE and just clicking on stuff. They have full access to Google. Maybe it is good we are filtering out these candidates, but I'm not sure. Still thinking on it.
The (new) American dream is a rnd() function
Ask HN: What are some new technologies to learn for Mobile Engineering in 2019?
Agnostic of Android or iOS, what are some important technologies that you would recommend learning from a pure mobile standpoint? To be clear, I'm not looking for "you should learn backend development"..I'm specifically looking for areas of improvement in Mobile Engineering.

Some examples I can think of are frameworks like Flutter, Progressive Web Apps, and Augmented Reality.
Economic, Political and Social Origins of Fascism (1933)
Brilliant glow of paint-on semiconductors comes from ornate quantum physics
When microservices were new, ~8 years ago, everyone talked about their benefits and the thing left unsaid was that the complexity moves into your infrastructure and deployment operations.

Microservices have many positives, and I've used them in the past with a lot of success, specifically when horizontal scalability was the most important concern. But the costs can be huge for the team that handles infrastructure and deployments.
A lot of people are not having a good time in the US. Every once in a while that shines through. Like in this article where Ford (the company) is commenting on hiring:

“The company said it takes about two weeks to collect enough résumés from state employment agencies, minority and veterans groups and employee referrals. Then each job candidate must pass a basic reading comprehension and problem-solving test. That preliminary screening takes at least a week, likely longer, Ford said. Those who pass the written test must then be cleared by a doctor for physical activity and pass a drug test. To get 400 drug-free employees, Ford said it probably has to test 600 or 700 job candidates, a process that takes another two weeks.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2018/05/01/no-way-t...
Korean Chôngganbo and Far Eastern music notation systems
Padding and pointless busywork are a common complaint in video games. Personally I'd rather they cut the fat and leave the experience shorter but more striking and memorable.

A lot of TV shows have the same issue, Netflix originals (I'm mostly talking about the Marvel ones here) seem to meander a lot and could use some ruthless editing.
What massage was this?
Even as I read this, I am aware that I’m desperately trying to rationalize Tesla’s actions. I’m pretty sure I will be able to do it shortly. My guess is Tesla’s goodwill is safe for now.
I'm glad you've point the OP to themeforest, I've purchased a few themes in the past. One thing I will say is that sometimes it's worth re-implementing the code as the code can be quite bad, YMMV.
I think op is talking about if or when Ebola reaches US.
Just rip the band-aid off. Some of the async stuff in Python 3 is awesome.

A bit curious that 3.4 has been dropped, as that's the stock Python 3 shipped for CentOS 7.
Do you have contact details for sensitive bug reports?
I have recently gone through interviews in few companies, and in almost all of them I've been skipped the first small technical test. I have a strong online profile [0][1][2] so I was very glad not to have to spend several hours doing some simple fizzbuzz. Don't get me wrong, you could say that I even enjoy doing these small puzzles, but with a fulltime job and trying to select several companies I just didn't want to spend a lot of time on that now and I'm glad they all skipped it.

However, later in the process they all had a more technical test with people. If there was no technical test at all I'd feel the companies didn't know what they were doing and hiring people who didn't know how to code, but if there was too much BS initially I'd feel that they also didn't know that they were doing in the way that they were missing senior devs with many options because they were making it difficult. This just seemed the perfect balance.

[0] https://francisco.io/

[1] https://github.com/franciscop/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/users/938236
Seems like technology for espionage applications.
That's interesting because the contrast is around 12:1 - which is well above the AAA accessibility guidelines for small text.

Perhaps the font and weight are contributing factors?
Interesting. Any idea what the experience is like working at T-Mobile in the US?
i thought it was a joke/satire on AI and facial recognition tech. Now i can't tell either!
So where is it?

Where can you live outside of SF that you don't need a car and can live a normal adult lifestyle?
> Alternately, make it 1 acre, but within a 5-minute commute.

Wait what? What city are you talking about that has a tech hub or commercial center within a 5 minute commute of 1 acre homes?
Google began allowing part time for sr engineers a few years ago. Dunno if they kept the program.
Most places I've worked at in the US have a 90-day probationary period. There's still red tape, but not as much. More common now, however, is to hire people on as contractors for 3 to 6 months. If you work out well, they'll fast-track you to becoming full-time without a second thought. Otherwise, your contract is up and they choose not to renew it. Which makes things less dramatic if there are issues.
I read it as someone already with the company has prior work with the candidate and wants to work with them again.
Confirmationist and falsificationist paradigms of science (2014)
This post was right on the money about a lot of things. Great Post!
Well thats convinced me to switch my lunch plans for today.
There is a setting in the account to be able to turn off auto-play, after doing that I noticed I drastically reduced the time spent watching videos. That little bit of effort just to hit the play button made a huge difference to me.
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Touch screens installed in the instrument panel are very hard to use in even light-to-moderate turbulence. Have someone shake your phone around while you try to dial a number and you’ll have some idea of the difficulty. Knobs, and to a lesser extent physical buttons, give you something to hold onto. It may not sound like much of a difference but in my experience it’s much, much less error-prone to have hardware inputs when the aircraft is getting bounced around.
This is not the first time tesla has been accused of the poor labor practices( like you pointed out). They voluntarily made the deal with the devil, had no qualms about working for such a company. Why would a known shitty company treat this particular person any differently.
A more charitable interpretation is that they absolutely hated "constant internship interviews".

In my experience, algorithm interviews aren't even very good at measuring aptitude for algorithms. Recent study and aptitude for the format have too much influence. Asking candidates about architecture has been much better at predicting their aptitude for architecture.
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> Never sign anything when you’re being fired unless they offer you money and in that case ask for much more than they open with.

+1

I'm not even having a conversation unless the topic is how much they're going to pay for further interaction upon being fired without notice, let alone signing anything. Pants are immediately coming off, and plans are made to head to the beach.
For all the Netflix bashing going on here. Netflix has no ads in the middle when I watch a series. NO ADS. I’ll happily pay for HD content without ads.

Have you tried amazon prime videos. Their app crashes my TV. Their streaming is garbage even though I pay for HD. HBO is the same. Netflix delivers for what you pay.
Amusingly, the question of "where to set the threshold" is actually a problem for pulsed lidar in general. What constitutes the pulse returning, and how do you know which pulse is dominant? In any case, my point was that I don't think they are implying that 20% is "the one true threshold" that determines if a LIDAR is sensitive enough. Indeed, many OEMs specify the bottom bracket at 10% already, and there will always be other variables such as weather and texture that will ruin your day no matter what threshold you chose.

As with software performance, it's all about reasonable benchmarking. If you're in some lidar application, for example building a self driving car, and you currently use velodyne HDL-64 sensors that can register returns from 10% targets at 80m, then Livox's specifications give you a clue as to how their unit might compare in a similar circumstance. That's all. Past that, you have to rig up a test with the unit yourself and profile, it's the only way. I'd also add that many objects would appear different in brightness if you looked at them under a pure wavelength like 905nm, rather than the while light your eye sees.

All that said, your concerns aren't misplaced. One of the leaders in the 'new wave' lidar OEMs is Luminar, and one of their original value propositions was that they went to a different wavelength (1550nm) which has a higher eye-safe power limit. This means that they could pump out higher energy pulses, and thus get more photons back from low reflectivity targets such as tires and dark cars. The jury is still out on what works best to cover the real world range of reflectivities, largely because there are just a lot more variables at play that a simple thresholding would imply.