skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do occasionally give take homes that could take this long but it is only when the candidate is purely junior and doesn't have much/any work to review and show for themselves, but shows a lot of promise from a general employee perspective. I always let them know that they are welcome to use this work in their portfolio. I also let them know that we have senior level staff available to answer any questions they may have as they are working through it. We want to know how they approach problems, how able they are to figure things out, and if they know when its appropriate to reach out for help. I would never use this work for anything outside of this testing environment. If you are wanting to make a major career jump and haven't spent a whole lot of time building up your Github or filling out your portfolio, be ready to jump through some serious hoops.
As usual in reporting and PR around brain/mind science, the "why" question posed in the title is not even remotely addressed or even approached by the study. That would, of course, require a theory about why people feel things at all, and why the feelings feel like they do and not some other way, which we are still woefully ignorant about.

The greater (and more general) question here is: why do humans seek out things that make them feel negative emotions? People watch horror movies wanting to be scared. They watch romantic comedies knowing that they will cry sad tears at some point. They read stories containing evil villains who kill and cause great suffering.
First a plane, then he moves up to Mir: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/124894/in-movie-co...
As a generally-happy person, I quite like happy songs. I tend to like them more than sad or angry songs.

I'm guessing this is because I identify with them so much more. And I'm guessing that sad people identify with sad things strongly as well.

Perhaps "like" is the wrong word in the title. Perhaps "prefer" is better.
Apple has a lot of hardware design employees who need something to do.
Thanks for saying as much!
I don't get this.

A few lines of code by some random person are not going to help your company, unless there is 'deep insight' i.e. maybe some high end AI thing, etc..

Code needs to be owned, maintained, up to spec, documented, integrated.

There's nary some random person can do remotely with little guidance that's going to help.

The 'coding' part isn't that hard, it's all the details etc. that matter.

You'd waste far more time and energy trying to get the right person, the right bit of code, changing it to suit the common architecture etc..

Obviously there are ethical questions, but they're moot if it's a stupid exercise to begin with.
I would have subscribed to the times by now if they practiced what they preached. Why can't paykng subs be free of the tracking ads?
Electric Light Orchestra. Music with a futuristic, but mixed pessimistic and bright outlook. And the orchestral contribution makes the backbone of it.

If you like Science Fiction (especially reading it) you might like this too.
At least with indies the staff are more likely to share the windfall. While they crunch, it's their own choice and they profit directly.
I think music has appeal because it's information, albeit processed at a low level, not because it's a mood-altering drug. As with all media, consumers want to feel it's "true". When consuming new information, we need to find something that resonates with our existing understanding to believe its meaningful, and not noise. Somber music feels more like it contains meaning to a person with a somber outlook. Joyful music in that case feels meaningless to the listener, because it fails to connect with what they already understand.
https://www.promethease.com/
I suspect doing it for free might be as well - especially if its a sneaky sole a production problem for us.
The take-home-task and white-boarding culture around interviews is horrendous, and unfortunately pervasive. I've worked at startups for the last 10 years of my career and I can emphatically say that there are a lot of them out there don't participate in either practice.

(General statements with lots of holes based on personal experience and general subjectivity ahead)

White-boarding is for recruiters, hiring managers, and the devs who volunteer to step into interviews, so that they don't have to properly vet a candidate. It's lazy, and very often unrealistic.

Take-home assignments display a general lack of respect for the candidate's time, are often nothing like the work actually being done at the company. And are a lazy, passive means to gatekeep the hiring process.

Interviews that cover/ask about basic algorithms without acknowledging modern development practices and critical thinking (e.g. where and how to find the answer) aren't indicative of creativity or flexibility of the the teams you'll eventually land in, nor the company on the whole.

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The best advice I give newer, less experienced developers is: Build a public body of work in one way, shape, or form. Build relationships with people who can be good references. And lean on both as points of confidence when looking for work or being recruited. Look for companies with which the first person you speak with has a technical background, and actually understands what the role is for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9810342

John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language
Can you provide a link to it? Google found http://bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/temu.html which seems like the wrong thing (it's stuff added to qemu, and it's from 2008).

Maybe https://bellard.org/tinyemu/ ? Seems like the right thing but it's not based on qemu I think. Anyone tried it with production workloads? It does seem like it should work - it does KVM and has virtio devices. Although at first glance I don't see either multiple CPU support or live migration support - not having multiple CPU support would basically rule it out for real workloads.
Literally to reduce thickness by 0.5mm.

It's said that design is the art of compromise and that perfection is the enemy of the good. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have largely forgotten this. The 12" Macbook was a perfect example of this: in the quest for thinness, it was simply too much compromise.

The 13" Macbook Air (2011+) was, to me, basically a perfect laptop. Powerful enough for most needs, light enough for most needs and not too expensive. I feel completely differently if a $1000 laptop dies or is lost or stolen vs a $4000 laptop.

The USB-C debacle is another example of this. Instead of a laptop that does basically everything you now need to carry a dock or dongle or set of cables instead. How does this make sense? And let's not forget that we lost MagSafe with this too.

Sometimes I just want to throw my Macbook out the window.
Thanks for trying to fix the problem and for sharing your experience. Are you convinced that it just couldn’t work?
Charismatic Facts
"Modernity", "network transparency is irrelevant in $CURRENT_YEAR" and "nobody uses those features anymore" are among the most commonly cited reasons why you must abandon X NOW and switch to Wayland. Those and "muh security". (The very real security issues with Xorg could be mitigated or eliminated completely with a more sophisticated X server design.)

Like it or not, you will have to come to grips with the fact that the Linux desktop and graphics-stack discussion is dominated by developers from the age of GNOME, who haven't put much thought in beyond how they personally use their own MacBooks. These are the ones calling the shots, and they've decided that X is obsolete, that network transparency is cruft that should be eliminated, and that Wayland is suited to task. So Wayland will be the supported solution going forward.

> Are you going to say that accessibility features should also be discarded? Being deaf or blind are not the common case.

Given the shit state of accessibility under Linux, I'd say yes, it is fringe to the people building the Linux desktop. If you're disabled, it makes much more sense to get a Mac or Windows machine.
Define "the market". They are diversified across the "new tech" sphere, which on average produces mostly losers and a few big winners.

Diversified tech funds or VC funds as a category, which mostly ignore the large cap and mega cap sphere, have historically underperformed the market except for a group of elite VCs.

What this means for Softbank remains to be seen, but the very act of dumping this much money indiscriminately into new tech cos may have juiced valuations to the point of hindering future returns on the basket.
Saudi Arabia beheadings: Western Michigan-student-to-be executed
The opposite was true with the initial success of the Prius, the ugliness was a feature.
> The holy grail of code reloading is to upgrade the code of a HTTP server while it is running and without disturbing any requests being processed. Very few languages except for Erlang are able to do that correctly. Some languages claim to support that, but when you experiment with them you discover "quirks" making it impossible in practice.

You can kind of do it with node.js, but man do things get ugly fast when you manage state/connections in modules on reload.
Ask HN: Any one using telegram for work?
We are small team and we tried to use slack at work and it seems heavy for us. We started using Telegram groups and telegram bots. I'm curious to know anyone else using Telegram groups and bots at work?
Where do you get "$100B in debt"? They have over $30BB in net assets.
Minimum wage law maybe :-)
The installer is not a live CD. It's only enough tooling to install openbsd.
How many people in this thread advocating for surveillance are doing so because they, as information workers, would personally have an advantage under such a system?
What I worry about is that an increasing population also means an increasing "surface area" where diseases can occur in the first place, not just that they spread faster.
> Stripe wants to fetch a premium with this feature. As such, they should bite the bullet and allow merchants to integrate PayPal as a secondary option (similar to how Apple Pay is displayed).

I expect this is not Stripe's decision. PayPal own Braintree, a Stripe competitor, whos unique selling point is that they also support PayPal through one API. I suspect PayPal want to keep this distinction.

Without support from PayPal, I'd expect the most that Stripe could do is implement a way for you to provide extra non-Stripe payment option buttons, which would just redirect to some URL provided up front. Not a great developer experience, and not much of a UX improvement.
HN is not a job board, please read the FAQ on job postings
Ask HN: What is the origin of the term “post” (e.g. blog post)?
I have a few theories on this but was unable to find any evidence to back any of them up

1) It could be a reference to snail mail. However I think this is the least likely to be true

2) It's a reference advert postings. Which originate from when literal posts were nailed in front of shops.

3) It was used because HTTP POST requests were modifying data rather than reading it. So it was a term used by nerds that slowly became common slang. This used to be my assumption but thinking about it now, I think we used to post stuff to bulletin boards in the pre-web Internet.

4) Something else I hadn't considered.

I know this might seem an odd question but it's something that has puzzled me for sometime as it's a weird term to use when you look at the literal meaning of "post" in the pre-web era of publishing (or maybe it was commonly used then as well but I'd just never encountered it used for whatever reason?)
My bad. It was Ford that just swooped in!
> The second part of the study used new music samples: 84 pairs of 10-second clips of instrumental film music, contrasting happy, sad, fear-inducing, neutral, and also high and low energy tracks. In each case the same participants as before indicated which music they’d prefer to listen to again later. They also heard all the samples again at the end and stated what effect they had on their emotions. The researchers found again that people with depression had a far greater preference than controls for sad, low-energy music (but not fear-inducing music). Critically, though, when they heard these clips again, they reported that they made them feel more happiness and less sadness, contradicting the provocative idea that depressed people are seeking to perpetuate their low mood.

Could we control for the musical complexity structure of the samples ? Something along the lines of "complex musical structures pleases depressed people because it requires concentration and cognitive skills that aren't available for negative thoughts pattern" ?
I reported my boss to HR based on his inappropriate behavior (with other employees at the company). I was put into the next round of layoffs. Needless to say I don't trust HR anymore.
Adam Curry came up with the name but people were embedding media in RSS feeds before that.
When can we finally get rid of passwords?
Yeah, I definitely think you’d need to bundle niche publications first (Consumer Reports, The Economist) and build from there.
Delta Lake
>The dynamics of open markets with open trade data

Well the mortgage data was available, but no one looked into it until they did, and even then the smart money bet against the market...yet everything remained AAA rated for years despite the known toxicity, turns out the ratings were rigged also.

It’s pump and dump schemes all the way down, public markets/crypto markets it make no difference. There isn’t an economist alive who doesn’t say the stock market is significantly overvalued at this time and yet...historic highs remain, until they don’t.
The 2 hour timeframe makes sense for everyone.
> but it is only when

I hope you're compensating them for the time. Junior, or otherwise, that's disrespectful of the candidate's time.

> be ready to jump through some serious hoops

Eesh. This is just an abject example on just how bad the hiring process has become.
The "can you build and endpoint" stuff can be learnt on the job in a matter of days. Problem solving is harder to teach.

Also, an hour is ridiculously optimistic for this.
It looks like you're right about the history. According to the git repo, libgit's first commit was in October of 2008 while Github was incorporated in early 2008 (according to Wikipedia).

Github's popularity was probably due to Git's popularity in the Ruby community which may have been due to the official support of the physical model and simple protocols.

That said, an "officially supported physical model" is an API even if I originally had libgit in mind. Also, none of this invalidates the broader point, which is that Git won because of Github, not because of user experience.
You are very wise. The last company I worked for started as a SaaS product but in an industry that was on-prem. They were unable to resist customer demands for on-prem, so now have mostly hybrid solutions that are very costly and terrible to support.
maybe, but this might also just be someone unwilling to commit to the sunk cost fallacy. You can spend time and money fixing it, or you can cut your losses and just stop trying to automate something that probably didn't need full automation to begin with.
We don't have Apple Stores in Ireland -- just CompuB which is an authorized seller of Apple products. Does this apply to authorized merchants such as them who can represent Apple?
Yes, I'm sure they were all just sitting around drumming their fingers on a table until Tim Cook walked in and told them to make keyboards that break super easily.
No, it really doesn't. Experience != speed.
Go here : https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/docs/file-downloads

Agree to the EuroBS cookie thing then Download the tsv file and load into a spreadsheet.

Then search for your "rs*" ids. (rsid is the canonical SNP, single nucleotide polymorphism, identification number ) Example "rs id" looks like rs2179129. Duckduck the rs id if you want more info.

If you know a programming language, you can automate processing of the file you got from dna info provider and the the gwas catalog file from NHGRI.
>Ask yourself why nVidia would feel the need to put out anything given that they and Tesla are no longer collaborators.

nVidia must be short-selling Tesla stock. If Hacker News has taught me anything, it's that we can rest assured about our TSLA investments because the only reason anyone ever says something negative about - or disagrees with - Musk or Tesla is that they're short sellers and we've just gotta ride it out.
More evidence the hard way instructions should simply be deleted.
How is this on the front page? Am I missing something? This is just an ad for Creloabs?
Maybe? I’ve never had the least interest in using their offering, but they certainly have the scale/resources/clout to make a decent push for it.
Man... love this!!! Thanks... very very constructive criticism and I appreciate it!
The Apple Pay button will only show up to customers who have Apple Pay onboarded and enabled. Customers who don't care about Apple Pay won't ever see the button.

(I work on Checkout)
I am not sure what is related to hacker news here? pig flu or china?
See https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post and https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/post
Now if only a genius bar appointment was available next day. . . .
What's the correct word for "something local that talks to 8.8.8.8/whatever and caches responses" if not recursive? Forwarding?
> No one should be helping creating life if they are not open to at least basic contact with the human beings they have created.

The system is anonymous exactly because people like the one you're replying to are willing to help provide the biological material and nothing more. Requiring communication with a person that, beyond DNA, is a complete wildcard seems like a steep barrier to donation that would significantly decline overall donations.
I have been paid a fair hourly rate for two of the take home assignments I've completed.
Usually with a project of this scale, you'd also get a copy of the source code for the interpreter or a provision in the contract for a copy of the source in the case that the company that wrote the interpreter goes out of business.
Their cars are so good that there is no need to replace them!
What about emails/conversations that span several months?
At least with USB-C in the future, ideally all cables will become USB-C and the adapter will no longer be needed.

I don’t know if this future will actually happen but would be nice.

Losing MagSafe is a bummer though.
I'm honestly surprised that Google Cloud doesn't offer a "CloudBazel" product!
The very first link you've posted says

"The views here are those of Division 46 (Society for Media Psychology and Technology) of the American Psychological Association and do not represent an official position of APA".

It also links to the official position of APA, which is:

Scientists have investigated the effects of violent video
game use for more than two decades. Multiple meta-analyses
of the research have been conducted. Quantitative reviews
since APA's 2005 Resolution that have focused on the
effects of violent video game use have found a direct
association between violent video game use and aggressive
outcomes (Anderson et al. 2010, Ferguson 2007a, Ferguson
2007b, Ferguson & Kilburn 2009). Although the effect sizes
reported are all similar (0.19, 0.15, 0.08, and 0.16,
respectively), the interpretations of these effects have
varied dramatically, contributing to the public debate
about the effects of violent video games.

The link between violent video game exposure and
aggressive behavior is one of the most studied and best
established.

Similarly, the research conducted since the 2005 APA
Resolution using aggressive cognitions and aggressive
affect as outcomes also shows a direct effect of violent
video game use (e. g., Hasan, Begue, Scharkow & Bushman,
2013; Shafer, 2012). Researchers have also continued to
find that violent video game use is associated with
decreases in socially desirable behavior such as prosocial
behavior, empathy, and moral engagement (e.g., Arriaga, M
onteiro & Esteves, 2011; Happ, Melzer & Steffgen, 2013).

So, the established position agrees with the point I was making.

How much weight should be placed on the individual papers you've linked compared to the official position?

I don't know. But my larger point wasn't even that the causation is true: it was that it's not "absurd" to consider it, as the parent claimed. Which I why a posted a few studies that do consider it (to show it's not just "worried parents" and the like).

And not only is not absurd to consider that it might be true, but that it is true (and "well established") also happens to be the official position of the APA.
>>Meanwhile, China's hierarchical system remains fragmented and autonomous below the top levels of power.

exponential decay wrt distance to Beijing
A proof of concept launcher for Electron apps that uses shared runtimes
China’s Pig Pandemic Should Worry Everyone

What's up with the title? I could understand for something like SARS, but African swine fever only affects pigs.
thanks for this set of replies. i now agree, the headline could be interpreted as misleading. were it in business insider, i'd say intentionally. in a science mag (that isn't _Popular Science_), i still give the editors the benefit of the doubt.
Cadence is above :).

It allows:

Integrate any DSL without modiying the core service. Internally at Uber there are at least half dozen DSLs running on top of it.

It allows to write code that hides all the complexity that leads to the mess of queue + db implementations. The beginning of this talk explains the idea: https://youtu.be/BJwFxqdSx4Y

The gist of it is that you write just your business logic without thinking about callbacks and storage.

I recommend looking at the Cadence samples to get the taste of it. Join the Cadence Slack channel if you have any specific questions: https://join.slack.com/t/uber-cadence/shared_invite/enQtNDcz...
The weird thing, though, is that 90s Linux felt a little more like the BSDs than Linux usually does today. I mean, the BSDs were always a bit more coherent, but the default install of a typical Linux distro felt a lot less "heavy" in the past. You can switch from Linux to one of the *BSDs and feel like you are bringing back the glory days.

Maybe this is a complaint about Ubuntu, or gnome, or systemd.
One solution to this problem is to post a PGP key on your security response web page. Then, whoever reports problems will encrypt the message such that it is only readable by the proper people inside your organization (because they control that PGP key and regular support, suits etc don't)
Yup, that has been the Achille's heel of these types of vehicles. One work around is to have a bunch of vehicles and have them move to altitude, stay over the area of interest as long as possible and then change to a lower altitude without the winds to move back to the head of the line.
It tells you if you have the SNP it tests for in those genes. It doesn't tell you anything else.

Gilbert's syndrome is pretty common. The vast majority of people that have it are not bothered at all. There is also no proof that lifestyle interventions are in any way helpful. This is the case for basically everything that 23andMe tests for.

If you want to raise a proper counterexample, you would choose the BRCA1 gene. But again 23andMe's test doesn't tell you whether or not you have a BRCA1 mutation, it only tells you if have one of the SNPs they test for. If you don't get a positive result, and that is the vast majority of people, you aren't any better off. That's why in the clinic when someone needs a BRCA1 test, we sequence the whole gene using next generation sequencing technologies.