skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, you probably would have failed, since you need to hit the endpoint to get the HR email address as a response.

Literally, the only point of the exercise is to get that email address. It says that much in the description of the task, alongside raising a GitHub issue if the server is down. It was hosted on Azure, and had our uptime tool checking it anyway. If it was down, there'd be a badge on the repo homepage saying it was down. It happened once, and I invited the person to the interview regardless regardless.

I say this much when we send over the technical test. It's like the weigh-in for a boxing match. If they want to showboat, it's on them, but all I care about is whether they can follow a simple instruction with minimal code in the time we said it'd take. I couldn't give a shit what fancy tricks you do in your code, because it's code you've written without time constraints in your own time. The whole reason for chatting about past experience is to see what you do in a REAL development situation.
yo can I get a link to that gql random parameter generator library?
Great article, love the design!
You know what would be fun and really engaging? Watching a subject-matter-expert and a skilled lawyer pair-program on writing the outline of some legislation.
The thread started out by saying slicing, specifically.

Regardless, no worries, I was just trying to add clarity around details, just in case.
LGR just released a video retrospective on the subject, 30 years later.
You can find it here :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrScy1icWjI
Wow.

That's another bold claim as support for the the thesis that STEM is "natural" for kids.

Remember: natural

First, China in general is not a free society, the state enforces what it wants its citizens to do, sometimes quite brutally.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/china

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

"Xi Jinping wields a level of social control not seen since Mao, posing a direct threat to democratic values worldwide"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/23/chines...

So using China as an example of "naturalness" of human behaviour seems at the very least wilfully ignorant.

So let's look at children and schools.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20150611-chinas-parent-army

"For the past year, 18-year-old Zhang Hao has been studying for 12 hours a day. He spends a minimum of nine hours in class taking practice papers, then continues to study at home. His parents worry that he sometimes crams up to 17 hours work in to a single day. "

https://www.economist.com/china/2018/08/18/china-sounds-the-...

"LIN MING, a ten-year-old who has two years left at his primary school in Beijing, does not remember the last time he returned home before 6pm on a weekday during term. As soon as school is out, his mother, Yang Mei, shuttles him around the city, dropping him off at tutoring agencies where he studies advanced maths and English grammar. Ms Yang accepts that she is “maybe putting a bit too much stress” on her son. But she has no choice. “Around 90% of my son’s classmates attend after-school lessons. It’s a competition I can’t lose.” "

"Chinese officials worry that pupils’ achievements may exact too heavy a mental and physical price"

"As long as admission to senior-high schools is based on results from the gruelling zhongkao exam, parents are likely to exploit every loophole to give their children an edge."

So, if you think that pushing kids beyond their limits with something like 16h work days in ways that negatively impacts their mental and physical health is a demonstration of "naturalness", then I just have to concede the point that this is all natural.

But then you have to also claim that schoolchildren killing themselves is also somehow "natural"

https://www.theglobalist.com/will-china-be-able-to-curb-adol...

"In the last few years, several studies have shown that adolescents and young people in China, Japan and other Asian countries have a large number of psychological problems that may lead them to commit to suicide."

"There are several causes for adolescent suicides. In many cases, suicides relate to fear of performing badly in exams."
I also propose all end-of-life software should be open sourced
That's like saying JavaScript is enough over TypeScript because of syntax highlighting.
It's a test of the candidate's willingness to repeat something they have done in order to accommodate either a system glitch or colleague's mistake/oversight.

I have worked with people who would sincerely reply that they already submitted the resume, and others that might take it as a personal insult that their resume was 'lost'.

This filters out those types of people, as well as those that aren't very interested in getting hired for the position.
What+is+“the+Way”+in+the+Bible?
Yeah, that's sad. Luckily the "communism-like" countries over here in Europe do not have problems like this. Always happy to not worry about the costs, when I really have to go and see a doctor.
Defining the Term “Smart Home”
Perhaps, it's hard to disentangle all that from increasing wealth, industrialisation and globalisation though.

My house and garden are in what were fields until the 1950s. I'm digging up huge amounts of pipe remains. I don't make any claims to the size of the industry from that, but it certainly wasn't niche.
Merging wired installations for lighting, heating, ventilation and shutters with the world of IoT for entertainment, multimedia, kitchen and chores. Centralized control over all this is a SMART HOME.
This is correct. I work in this field and the grid model is always treated as highly confidential. You can find some models online for some power systems, but often these are simplified or slightly altered to make it no longer representative actual system.

At most with the approach used in the article, you would be able to identify some radially connected regions, or poorly connected areas, but nothing that is a national security risk. To be able to maliciously attack such a system efficiently you'd need an idea of instantaneous flow, component limits, substation topologies and any available mitigating actions.

I don't mean to create the illusion that power systems are impervious to attack. They aren't, and can actually be quite fragile if attacked at the right place and right time. Thankfully the 'arms race' is cyber and not physical. It is easy for grid companies to share best practice on cyber defense, but physical defense and mitigation is very system specific. It is also hard/expensive to defend infrastructure that spans your country or even beyond your border. The Metcalf Sniper Attack is a good example of such a 'difficult to defend against' problem. To perform such an attack you'd need more than a connectivity model.
15 years for 1B/tx/s, 35 years for 1M/tx/s.

Or more generally:

t_years = doubling_time*(txid_bits - log( initial_tx_rate_per_year * doubling_time / log(2)) / log(2))
One approach is to define a set of values and communication habits that you believe you need people to be aligned on. That way, you allow for natural variation outside of that and you avoid giving your culture-fit interviewers a vague task.
If you’re confused, welcome to how everyone felt. The nuances and abstract definitions made for confusion for the staff. I’ve forgotten what I knew about it, you may well be right in your definitions, however what was clear was that we needed to implement asynchronous pub/sub comms on the Kafka queue to get this work. What might have been simple with an RPC (e.g. a POST/PUT) was turned into a system which needed to track the state of its asynchronous RPCs, and listen to the queue for responses.

All of this was for no real purpose, and as I said the proof was in the pudding - tens of millions of dollars wasted, hundreds of staff hired and then fired. The domain itself was not complex (e-commerce) but the implementation was ludicrous.

There were basic delivery problems in the project as there was a complete lack of keeping things simple, and massive overengineering.
No. They were surprised that the exact same light/dark blue discrimination was faster for Russian speakers.
> Pamela Mallory, Dan’s mother, does seem to be a private person: her Instagram account is locked.

I found this hilarious. I'd have guessed "a private person" wouldn't have an Instagram account at all! What a time to be alive.
Re: unconventional gender depiction in media, and how language and media affects thinking

By coincidence, I spent a long time reading various sci-fi books consecutively which each had nonstandard approaches to gender. One book series (Ancillary Justice) used she/her pronouns for all characters because the protagonist's culture did not have the social concept of gender, and in-story the protagonist mentions the choice of using female pronouns when translating the story into English. In many Greg Egan books, most of the characters are uploaded human minds or AIs which exist independently of any specific body or avatar, so traditional gender norms don't necessarily apply. In some Greg Egan books, the protagonist and some characters were agendered and used unconventional pronouns such as ve/ver/vis. In another Greg Egan book, none of the characters had gender, and male and female pronouns were used seemingly randomly and often changed for individual characters in text and dialog (I assume there may have been some grammatical, social, or situational pattern or intention to it).

These books each had interesting worlds that captivated me (for non-gender-related reasons). I often visualized scenes in my head and day-dreamed about the possibilities with the stories' technologies and characters. I quickly noticed that my mind usually wanted to use the characters' genders as the first step in picturing how a scene would look and play out. These books rarely answered the question of characters' genders (at least not in a way that matched up to my cultural expectations), so I had to break that habit in order to really get into the stories. I had to really think about the dynamics between the characters in order to imagine the books' scenes instead of doing my usual pattern-matching of scenes against preconceptions of how male and female characters interacted.

I think this shift in thinking stuck with me. The "male" and "female" buckets in my mind became much less defined. I think I truly internalized that those mental buckets are just shortcuts that we over-rely on. It became increasingly obvious to me that neither gender had an exclusive claim to any quality that I previously considered gendered, including qualities that I was attracted to. Long story short, I'm now in a same-sex relationship and identify as bisexual. It didn't occur to me as a possibility before these books. I know some people will read this and decide this all must mean that I was always wired up to be bisexual and in denial until now, but I don't think it's that. I believe the mind is much more plastic and malleable than most people think, but our culture rarely gives the opportunities to put this plasticity to use.
Part of the problem is that an IPO is not really a fundraising event, often, in practice. Selling shares is just a necessary part of listing. They may not be interested in funds at all.

Instead, the company wants liquidity for existing shareholders or sometimes liquid shares to use as m&a currency.

That tilts the balance in favour of paying a "brokerage fee" in exchange for de-risking and simplification. Occasionally IPOs go badly, and the potential disruption is worrying.

Like with a lot of high finance, competition is weak. So, the "price" of these services is (perhaps, idk personally) high. Also, CEOs run companies, not IPOs. Its just not really a cost you optimize and the market isn't there to optimize it by default.
We had covered all of these eventualities. We had an uptime badge on the repo to say whether it worked or not, and we encouraged developers to tag us on a GitHub issue or email us directly if something seemed wrong.

We were also keen to stress that this should take far less than an hour of their time. We didn't want to see dependency injection, metaprogramming, or anything overboard that showcased a developers knowledge - this is purely just to see if they can deliver code that matches a requirement in the time provided.

In the case where we had downtime (once in 18 months), I just forwarded their email to HR and we spent some extra time going over code in the sit-down interview.
MakerLisp Machine: An EZ80 CPU Card Running Bare-Metal Lisp
Kudos on your work. I'm looking forward to trying pijul - I used darcs in the past and I miss some of its capabilities in the current git monoculture. Please ignore the negativity if you can - it's not like anyone was taking git away from people by suggesting that they might try a new thing.
> And with that any chances an easier way of having an ID/username? @<user>:matrix.org seems extremely easy and convenient for me but may not be the same for my friends and family without whom any messaging platform is useless.

Matrix emphasizes the use of third-party IDs (3PIDs) via dedicated identity servers. The idea is to link your Matrix ID (@user:server) to other identifiers like your email or phone number. Then you can use those to log in and other users can find you using them too.
Mastodon for Metalheads
Those poor Electron devs, they will be pushing that Sisyphean boulder up the hill forever. It reminds me of the thesis of Joel Spolsky's essay Fire and Motion.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/
They're not set up for a revshare.
I'm Aussie, we call them "utes". Our taxation systems don't reward large vehicles. We have taxes on purchasing them, yearly tax on registration and compulsory insurance, high fuel taxes, etc. Even the "smaller" pickups are quite expensive to own and operate. The large ones wouldn't sell well here due to the cost.
With the money one must spend to study in Harvard, they can possibly live forever in a third world country without ever needing to work.

Not to mention that people frequently have parents and build very powerful networks in a institution that all the rich people send their kids to study. I would be actually impressed if they would take any time at all to build their careers.

Instead of focusing on those unicorn people, go get good examples of people for YOU. The ones that perhaps work as hard as you do and have similar outcomes and upbringings, they are the ones that together, you can possibly send your kids to study at Harvard.

The most important lesson I've learned in life is that what matters is how you are viewed and compared to your PEERS, not to how you are compared to someone from a different background than you. It takes a lot of time to build ones career, you will need to fluctuate in many social circles until you finally make it, don't make the mistake that there is a corner to cut.
I guess we have different philosophies then. My take is that software in production should not require maintenance to remain in production.

Imagine a world where you didn't need to spend a whole week every year, per project, just keeping your existing software alive. Imagine not having to put off development of the stuff you want to build to accommodate technical debt introduced by 3rd parties.

That's the reality in Windows-land, at least. And I seem to remember it being like that in the past on the Unix side too.
To be fair, there have been >some< replications. My favourite is Gilbert et al, PNAS, 2006 where they more or less replicate the same effect with a different colour set in English speakers >AND< show that it is stronger in the left hemisphere (consistent with it being linked to language). http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/ai/whorfhypothesis06.pdf
i think you hit the nail with the service. good job, i like it.
There is no purple in the spectrum. Purple is the color you get when you take white light and put it through a filter which blocks the middle part of the spectrum, or when you combine a red and a blue light source.

Really the named rainbow colors should just end at “blue”, or if you like can include one more color name for very dark and intense “indigo” or “violet” or “purplish blue” (pick your favorite one extra name) but Newton wanted to have 7 color names for aesthetic/numerological reasons.

The best we can do at rendering a spectrum on a computer display is something like https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/Jacobolus_spe... but the far ends of the spectrum are not possible to render very accurately.
Those other "random clients" (as you call them) exist because your desktop client is bad. And I am being nice by just calling it "bad", it is the least performant client I have ever come across, even counting other electron-based software.
Perhaps you're thinking of "mortmain", a nice English/French word:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortmain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities

There's also the expression "dead hand", but that may also refer to a Soviet strategic defence system, which has also been referred to as "hand from coffin", which is certainly more fun than the official name.
Interesting also when words stay the same between languages, but actual colour differ. Yellow / yelbrim (yellow/green)
The peanut gallery has spoken!
I actually tried that - scanning and printing money on a normal office scanner/printer combo from HP. Euros worked fine, as did Scottish pounds. So unless the ATM I used to withdraw cash was loaded with fake notes, it doesn't seem to be true in general. Maybe it's only done on devices with really high DPI? I mean nobody would get deceived by a grainy 600DPI simple image of a banknote printed on standard office paper.
said 0.001% of internet users (read techies)
First thing we'd have to serve then is some place where stuff like that can be discussed though, maybe some sort of "forum" with "comments" and stuff?
Yep. Reduce wealth and increase economic pressure enough so that survival is dependent on a finding a good job, and suddenly, magically, "bias" disappears.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39579321

"Most of the girls we talked to from other countries had a slightly playful approach to Stem, whereas in Russia, even the very youngest were extremely focused on the fact that their future employment opportunities were more likely to be rooted in Stem subjects."

Then, when wealth (and all other measures of gender equality) dramatically increase and people become free to choose to do whatever they want, largely free from economic survival pressure, suddenly, magically and inexplicably, "bias" pops up again.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
This is tangential, but a couple of years ago I market tested the idea of a slack competitor that limits interruptions. I could not find demand and ditched the project.
First point, in my experience Physicians in the UK welcome input from patients about their conditions. They are often insightful, expedite management, and enrich the expereince for all.
Now, I'm singing to the choir here I know... but it's normal to repeat scans if someone isn't diagnosed and is deteriorating. The article implies previous PET scan was done, but lesion not yet visible. Follow up scan was performed because diagnosis not resolved +/- insurance issues +/- spouse pressure. Lesion found, diagnosis made.
Nice find! I thought I had done a blog post with the reference to "snow down" (the same phenomenon later named yukimarimo) in Paul Siple's account of the first South Pole winter over in 1957, but apparently wrote that up for something else... Perhaps a bit of wikipedia editing is on the menu for this weekend!
Speaking as an officially-diagnosed zebra (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome), it took a year of doctor searching until I found a specialist who knew what to look for.. and it started with someone in a powerchair I met at a party remarking that my skin felt velvety like his.

Many doctors are bad at conditional probability. [0] 2% of the healthy population is hypermobile, and hEDS is ~1:5000. But P(hEDS|atrophic scars, spontaneous dislocations, 7/9 Beighton score, paralysis attacks) is much higher. There's a weird stigma against zebras seeking diagnoses because you almost have to do your own research to be diagnosed properly.

0. https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/chances-are...
My claim to fame throughout my teens were that my house number was 1337.
Did you get around if this works?

https://github.com/exul/matrix-rocketchat
So you're proposing a solution which works on only Windows and ChromeOS (considering desktop OS only), and has to be distributed via a proprietary store (which in all likelihood might take a cut of my revenues), as a replacement for something that works on Win, Linux, and MacOS, and does not require that I lock myself into an unfavorable distribution method?
Fully agree. I've thought about that and the only solution I came up was to only update all your electrons apps at the same time and they would share the minimal electron runtime's version possible. Would also require electron-apps developers to provide all versions of their app (with the runtime version information)
Casey Neistat's Beme app did this but for video. It wasn't a success.

It is intrinsic to who we are as humans to want others to see a version of ourselves that we want them to see. It is the reason that fashion and beauty are such large and enduring industries. And so trying to build an app that fights that is never going to work.
Facebook ‘Acqui-Hires’ Chainspace’s Research Team, Reports Suggest
In the late 1990s I was part of a group that was thinking about how cameras might be able to sign images so that later editing could be detected. The motive then was connected to using images as evidence. But I guess you could also use it to mark edited images in some way.

Would apps like Instagram be "improved" if retouched images displayed a prominent "FAKE" icon of some sort?
Top why your business needs a virtual reality experience
Easy to get around. Just use "innerText" and it'll generate whatever text is inside. They do have plenty of other tactics, though.
International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service
In the UK it seems like a pain to get anything open sourced.

AIUI, by default everything is Crown Copyright.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#United_Kingdom
Which 3rd party library ? :)
The primary novelty of Pijul is its sound patch theory, not any kind of technical achievement like smaller repository size. I do think it's premature calling it unreasonable without understanding this aspect.
Security wise you should of course be taking patches, however those patches should not be breaking functionality.
When you learn about kerning you notice it everywhere. Was it not there before? Of course it was you just never noticed because you didn't know it's a "thing" that has a word for it.

Can we agree that you only notice what you can put into concepts? and concepts are words that we made up so it follows that a lack of words to describe something will generally make it go unnoticed.
Can someone give me a benefit of matrix over telegram? I not 'shilling' for tg but I hear a lot about their weakness being "rolling out their own crypto" and I don't buy that argument. One downside to tg as I see is that if their key can be compromised by comprising the server then chats can be read. They have secret chat for that.

Is there anything matrix/signal etc do better?
It's journalists' job to highlight what's noteworthy, and in an acquisition it's not always the valuation of a company. In this case, the price per share is headlined to highlight the premium (55%) Tesla is paying for Maxwell Tech's shares.
This is "stolen" from r/rust. But there's also a `scan!` macro in serde_scan[1]

let line = "#1 @ 555,891: 18x12";
let parsed = scan!("#{} @ {},{}: {}x{}" <- line)?;

[1] https://docs.rs/serde_scan/0.3.2/serde_scan/macro.scan.html
Do you think translating poetry (vs technical documentation) is easy?
Agree. I think the solution is to make the runtime a lot smaller to the point where download each time becomes a non-issues.

Which isn't really PWA because Electron do offer slightly more capabilities.