skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I disagree with your use of the word “anonymous.” Gender, national origin, and ethnicity are frequently easy to guess (at least at the level of “is not a white, American-born male”) via voice. I know you tried voice masking and it didn’t help equalize the results wrt gender, and I don’t have a better suggestion, so I’m not blaming the process, for not attempting to remove bias. This criticism applies to both the mock interviews and the real interviews.

Bias creeps in in other ways, too. I have done both on interviewing.io as a candidate. You probably remember how Instacart has interviews on your platform under the terms that it was just an informational chat, and anyone who met the criteria to interview would then get a real technical interview. I did the informational chat and was then not interviewed after deanonymizing. And, BTW, after I emailed support I never got my technical interview, nor was I given any sort of resolution or information about what happened.

It’s a good experiment, but it falls short of what I’d call “anonymous” and doesn’t really remove very much bias in the overall process.
With anti access area denial weapons like ballistic missiles and submarines, it is increasingly difficult to offensively project naval forces into a region. While this means America will have trouble navigating within China's vicinity, it also means that even relatively small countries like Vietnam and Taiwan can buy equipment to deter China.
Nice.

We played a little with transformers inside a browser using tensorflow.js a few month ago, for real-time music transcription.

For those interested :
Website : https://gistnoesis.github.io/
Project : https://github.com/GistNoesis/Wisteria/

My project is currently on hold, but will definitely receive update in the future. As it's kind of project for fun with no hope of monetization given that the space is already crowded with Google's Magenta, and now OpenAI is joining the dance with museNet.
Emphasis on poor, as in "poor enough not to stand a chance in court".
Facebook is probably experimenting with that... except for humans. Explains why Zuckerberg would put tape over his own computers' cameras.
> He states that he is intent on not leaving office peacefully in the future

Source?

> Every single person I've spoken to IRL about the Trump-related-stress-and-depression concept eagerly agrees that this is weighing heavily on people in a very constant, deep and personal way.

Is it possible that that's the goal of the media right now? To make things seem so bad that they can swing political opinion?
I mean look at this article. They focus on the negative but fail to mention in the headline that we also have the most positive experiences. That's framing and is very dangerous when done at scale.
I sell forced rhubarb on the internet.
Actually, Ed25519 is the Edwards curve isomorphic to Curve25519 (which IIRC is a Montgomery curve).
Edwards is faster than Montgomery for signature, but not significantly slower for key agreement.

You can use it for ECDH, and unless I've missed some non-obvious attack (which is of course, entirely possible) you probably should, since that allows you to use (mostly) the same elliptic curve math primitives for key agreement as for signature.

(That is, you should use Edwards form points as shared-secret output. It's possible to implement Curve25519 using Ed25519 internally, but probably not a good idea.)
My guess is that teaching users a different way to install a desktop app limits adoption.

The dependency on Chrome is a turnoff for people who don't already use Chrome. An Electron app just depends on the operating system (apparently), so the install is much like other desktop apps.
Number 2 doesn't get to control what the numbers 3 - X do, number 1 does. US wealth depends on being the primary global power.
When you are sitting at your computer, everything you do is voluntary unless it's some kind of clockwork orange situation.

If we ban globally eyelids being held open by mechanical means to force people to watch something, THEN no one will see something that they don't want to.

It should be illegal maybe to let children under a certain age unsupervised on The Whole Internet, to stumble upon scary things.

I am way more disturbed that the Elsagate videos were on blahtube than that events of life and death are posted.

Why are the 9/11 towers falling not censored then, a lot more people were dying in that moment, but for some reason this is a spectacle(key word) no one can turn away from.

And if we have the global means to censor a single file(which is what a video is) then how come these maniacs are setting up huge violent crimes with major hardware right under the noses of the same authorities?

Consistent application of principle, so difficult to find in this world.

When you hear them explain it on TV, the authoritarian solution just sounds so dang sensible, doesn't it?
It was down earlier, but it appears to be back up on the West coast.
What is the correlation between IQ tests and algorithm interviews? Do people with better IQ scores do better on algorithm interviews?
Let's define "bad" as the second worst to forth worst engineer in your class of 30 engineering students that made it through.

I would say bad engineers tend to know they are bad and either tend to go into managing, coordination roles or grab a subset of tasks they get good at, like being the only one on the company working with eg. a specific third party system and doing support and integration for that.

Bad engineers that have worked with the same system for three years are way better with it than super-engineers that have never touched it for at-least a couple of months.

As you said, I have never really had problems with bad engineers messing things up.

EDIT:
Reluctance to hire engineers and saving pennies for a dollar on the other hand have messed up some projects.
One could guess because "among the most" is more newsworthy than "above average". But a more cynical guess is self-fulfilling, i.e. media reporting encourages negativity/stress which begets the results and the focus choice.
How does it sound fake? It sounds lovely to me, especially much of the Chopin+pop piece sampled in the article.
That isn't a working link.

Is it somewhere online?
Ask HN: How does your organization structure developer levels and career growth?
specifically how do you consider years of experience and your definition of "talent"
It’s also an unwise business plan. Ford cancelled all of their sedans in the US except the mustang, which is clearly a cheap fuel bet. I personally call this plan “bonuses today, bankruptcy tomorrow”.

In a sign that the universe has a sense of irony, the F-150 factory promptly caught on fire when they announced this.
The US no longer has any coherent national psyche. It's just a variety of different identity groups scrabbling over who gets how much of the pie.

China isn't so much rising, as they are preparing for the inevitable collapse of the US Empire.
I lost my Engineering job when GM was no longer making 5B/yr due to Trump Tariffs.

I was not stressed until that happened.
Bullshitters are good at presenting the work they're doing as very challenging even when it's trivial, so they can also just ride simple a task for a long time.
> The thing is, if it is using traditional selection processes, then all the researcher is doing is discovering a naturally occuring set of genes that have a desired effect.

OK. What if the researcher instead engages in genetic engineering and produces an onion that is gene-for-gene identitcal and indeed exhibits the behavior? Should that result be protectable?
When you get paid $200k/yr right out of college, who's complaining?
NATO countries have a comparable population to China, 938 million, according to this: http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/nato-countries/
I find the less news and social media I consume, the less stressed I am.
It's always interesting to see the opening scene, but of course that is too simple to explain what is happening over the world:

https://youtu.be/YwZ0ZUy7P3E
Why start with consumers?

Surely there are narrower goals to go for first (eg retail), nail them and then expand into consumer (super wealthy luxury first and work down)

Retail would be much easier to make a case for this: it could be shared across a whole store, the items would be known and someone could configure it company wide. Pricing the savings would also be simpler than for consumers, who either have to want it for their own convenience or have this service offered by existing on-site competitors mentioned by others already (cleaners, housekeepers etc)
Maybe you should provide concrete examples instead of suggesting I talk to more poor people.
"Comprehensive and up to date overview on the access information" by pulling data from the services I use and (optionally) managing the permissions for me.

Rippling [1] calls it "provisioning/de-provisioning" and that's exactly what I am looking for (maybe with periodical checks to make sure we remove contractors permissions once their job is done) with the exception that I don't want to set up a new HR system just to get this feature.

[1] - https://www.rippling.com/provisioning-de-provisioning/
Dart was actually really opinionated right from the start. Type annotations that has no bearing on execution; reified generics and dynamic typing at the same time; mirrors and noSuchMethod... even having semicolon - as opposed to not having it. These are all strong opinions about language design. They might not align with what is considered "modern" these days, but they are all opinions nevertheless.
Duh. All you have to do is fly from New York to Copenhagen and back to understand how angry and stressed we are, as well as what kind of life would be possible if our nation put caring about everybody's quality of life above power and greed.
According to the third paragraph the trend in negative experiences is what specifically stands out, not the degree.
11 yr old girl. PS4, 1 hr Saturday and Sunday (parent control). Everyday aprox 30 minutes of TV (Disney crap series for teenagers) before bedtime. Tab or PC for homework (if needed) and of course a mobile phone, but only for homework and/or study...SIGNAL APP. In the morning a Ladybug cartoon with younger doughter when they eating before school. I think she don't need more...
I'm probably not the friend of a friend you're talking about but I've asked confident, articulate people to solve fizzbuzz and similar toy problems many times, only for them to fail hard.

Nowadays I tend to use such problems as pre-screeners in a short telephone interview[1] before inviting candidates to attend a full face to face interview because it saves wasting everybody's time, including the candidate's.

Sad but true.

[1] We use codeshare.io or, if it's oversubscribed, Google Docs. Massively prefer the former because it includes syntax highlighting and support for many different languages, so it feels much more like a decent code editor. With Google Docs you're using a word processor which is far from ideal for many reasons, including that you feel like you're fighting autocorrect the whole time.
I don't think the fact that some companies have abandoned it means much.

GE's peak days as a company were when they enforced a high bar using a curve. The same is true for Microsoft, whose better days ended around 2005. Although their stock performance in recent times has been strong, it is largely riding on the refresh of contracts relating to Office and the transition of clients from on-premise to cloud. There has been little actual innovation from the company, and although the culture has improved under Satya Nadella, employees regularly talk about workplace politics, low-quality hires, etc.
Here's the sports official site: https://playspeedgate.org/
This is a great example of use of `unsafe` in Rust.

The memory access pattern they wanted is technically safe, but can't be expressed directly in the safe Rust. But that wasn't a blocker, and the Rust language didn't need to be made more complex to handle such case. Instead, the "missing feature" could be added to Rust with a bit of `unsafe`.

The big thing here is that instead of implementing actual encoding using unsafe code, and spreading the risk of unsafety all over the complex parts of the codebase, all of the dangerous parts were contained in a minimal, easy-to-verify abstraction layer. And all other code on top of that remained being safe Rust with the same safety guarantees.
> Is that what the presentation emphasizes most?

Yes, because that's what the site shows most prominently: comparisons between languages.

The fact that the explanations to the benchmarks basically say that these comparisons mean nothing doesn't make the comparisons mean much more than nothing, especially as there's no explanation to what the comparisons do (or are supposed to) mean. So in addition to having no hypothesis, no analysis and no exposition, there's a notice saying, don't use these comparisons for so and so. Then what are those comparisons for?

Again, I don't think the game's comparisons are worse than many other benchmark comparisons out there, but that doesn't make it good. What's unfortunate is that unlike those other benchmarks, they have a lot of data that could be used for some really cool stuff (not to compare languages).

It's possible that the language competition is meant to encourage more people to submit and show how their favorite language wins, but there's no information about the market aspects.

> See, for programs with runtimes of 4s and 20s, 1/10ths of a second… !

I run a toy benchmark that's the same size as the game's, and HotSpot's C2 gives me a 30-50% boost after ~10s. It really varies by program (not by problem). This tends to be worse for programs that use a lot of parallelism and aren't configured to run compilation in blocking mode, because then the application threads compete with the compilation threads, but again, there isn't really a good rule of thumb here. In any event, it is simply wrong that C2 would never yield significant performance boosts after a few tenths of a second, even on small programs (it may be true for some specific benchmark entries and maybe even all current ones, it may vary by JDK version, and it definitely varies on whether HotSpot uses Graal or C2). Although, given all the other serious problems that render the comparisons mostly meaningless (different algorithms), my guess would be that this effect is smaller by comparison.

Still, there's a lot of cool stuff the game could do with the current programs (and historical ones), but comparing languages is not really one of them.
I have no problem with seeing myself 'part of nature' - in fact, I have for the longest time believed that consciousness can be explained in terms of the material universe revealed by science alone. But I see no way in which this gap can be bridged in terms of what we currently know about the physical universe.

As for your questions:
- There seems to be aspects of the universe that are related to 'meaning' rather than to 'mechanics'. How that is related to the physical universe I certainly have no theory that hasn't been thought of before. Perhaps the physical world is the 'shadow' of the world of 'meaning'/spirit? I don't really know.

- We can certainly simulate all laws of physics as detectable by science. Whether that's all there is, however, is something I don't believe.

- Leaving the debate of free will aside, I certainly don't think we'll be able to simulate the life of a human in its completeness (unless we're somehow given some insight into how subjectiveness can exist in this universe) - i.e. including the subjective dimension of that human's life.

- Thus, I wouldn't call that human conscious, no.

- We can't :) Our own conscious experience is all we can be completely sure of (which is why I also find it so extremely odd to prefer the 'mechanistic worldview' when that involves disregarding our own conscious experience, which is the only thing we really have to start from!)

- In principle, I think so, yes, but only by somehow pre-programming that unconscious being to act in exactly the same way (this relates to the concept of free will).

As you can see, I don't have a clear theory of consciousness - mine is mostly a negative position in the sense that I don't believe matter, as described by the laws of physics, can give a coherent explanation of the phenomenon of consciousness. Where to go from there is not clear, but there are a lot of philosophers of mind thinking about the issue :)

(Also, again, I don't consider this position more 'magical' than believing that arranging atoms in a given configuration will 'somehow' give rise to subjective experience).
Simply put, no one has the right to simply take your onions. They must pay you a fair price.

But what they do with it afterwards is not your business.
With or without months of preparation on some of the exact problems interviewers use “grinding LeetCode”?
Though it seems to have been phased out as of now, Uber exploited some drivers via 'Uber Financing'.

"58-year-old Richard Brunelle was struggling to cover the $1,000 monthly payment for his Kia Optima. The loan’s interest rate? An astonishing 22.75% APR."[0]

Though that particular program had other firms exploiting Richard via usury, Uber was front and center in that deal and set the rates at which Richard could make that money back. That bears repeating, Uber lead Richard down a path they knew was bad for him but was good for Uber. That is the literal definition of exploitation[1].

Normally, you'd give companies the benefit of the doubt with such things, wait for more data to come in, etc. But Uber has such a long history of outright illegal programs, shady practices, and callous abuse that it would be foolish to give them any benefit of the doubt now.

[0] https://www.marketplace.org/2015/05/13/tech/uber-drivers-str...

[1] https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/exploitation
I remember reading that Londoners got rather blasé about the bombing during the blitz, by the end many didn't even bother going to the shelters. It seems seeing houses across the road turned to ruble but not being affected yourself blunts the anguish.
Pretty cool. Ludum Dare is coming up and this would actually be a pretty nice way to generate some music.
A common cause of stress for people I know is getting and paying for healthcare.
> If you retry the SendMessage action within the 5-minute deduplication interval, Amazon SQS doesn't introduce any duplicates into the queue.

But what if you try to send and at just about the same time the network fails for 6 minutes? The producer then has the option to try to send again, which may produce a duplicate, or, to assume the first send worked, which may mean the message is lost.

In a system that supported true "exactly once" guarantees, the producer wouldn't have to pick between a duplicate message or a lost message, regardless of the length of network outage.
I don't think the C# time is representative. I suspect Mono is really slow here. I just ran it with VS 2015 in 1 min 24 sec.
I can tell that this expression is heartfelt and well-meant and that you're making honest points, but when we post comments in combat style this is easily lost in the fog of war.

Could you please take this into account when posting in the future?
Do you believe a Phd student should risk questioning his supervisor? Which could likely end a planned career in science right there?
Something I'm curious about: If I make some music I really like through this tool, do I own the copyright to that? Can I turn generated music into an album and sell it? I'm not sure if the site does caching but if it does and me and another person generate the same music, do we both own rights to that?
I have a test suite doing this. If you can't reach the server by name then try adding an 'alias' to the service definition and then try to connect to that hostname. Good luck!
The popularity of being stressed by work/busyness is just Puritan work ethic continuing into the 21st century. When work is seen as inherently moral by a society, then being busy makes you a more worthwhile member of that society. It might’ve been a good idea back when we were subsistence farmers, but it doesn’t seem to be super effective nowadays.

Outrage culture, which I don’t think has gone away, appears to be new.
Because with Electron the "app builder" decides which extensions are ran. With a PWA, the user. Like 33% of all users use ad blockers, so its all about $$$. That (no incentive), and Electron was first...
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Negative things always get the clicks. As the old saying goes: "If it bleeds, it leads".
The President thinks that using "machine guns at the border" would be a "very effective" thing to do to accomplish his goals. He is beginning a genocide. He also is angered that "not enough" children were separated from their parents at the border, intent on being as cruel as possible.

This is not a distraction, this is a very real problem. This is not made up by the media. The US, led by Trump, is accelerating towards a full genocide. It's not some distraction, it IS the "larger issue".
I've noticed many of my peers claim to be Busy.

I know it's impossible to be productive all day... But I'm curious if these are Americans who claim Stress.

They might be stressed and busy, but these are also my peers with awful time management and make bad Decisions.

I believe the stress is self imposed and optional.
Lack of narrative. It's less disturbing if you're in the mode of listening to background music, but for active listening, classical music is so much richer.
Generally speaking the poor report better mental health than the wealth. Anecdotally I also have to say my neighbors are much more jovial and optimistic than the wealthy people I interact with (I live in a very low income area). Should be noted my experiences are probably skewed towards optimistic as I live in a very religious area and generally speaking religious folk are more optimistic than secular folk.
Have anyone attempted to make a code autocomplete or snippet/boilerplate generator using this !? Would be nice when coding on mobile where its hard to navigate between code and navigation due to the small screen.
I haven't found any academic research about this specific area, although there is of course a wealth of research into interviewing in general. The closest analog to a technical exam is probably in the finance industry.

My suspicion, however, is that these kinds of problems have limited predictive success and yield a lot of false negatives.
considering that it spells leet 69 42 boobies 2006 foo, I doubt it
Clicks I imagine.
At the risk of being flippant: they needed a poll for this?

Reader, reflect on the society in which you live, and ask yourself: if something really crappy happened to your family out of the blue, would someone catch you when you fall?
I always think, to be a better programmer requires a better understanding of art and science.

From literature, music, physics,... everything unrelated to the computer itself.

That's why every IT book needs more knowledge to teach users how to really understand art and science behind everything we experience.
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His push to project power abroad was accompanied by a power play at home. Xi has purged more than 100 generals accused of corruption or disloyalty, according to the official state-controlled media.
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For me this is a resounding signal the PLA is predominantly a domestic force. American Presidents do not sack Admirals that easily, because the American admirals are more powerful on the seas than domestic policy or DC.

I am not discounting the improvements in Chinese firepower, esp. their missiles targeting carriers. This article does not have anything substantial to say, China is a military Titan.

China may escalate certain issues to divert the attention of people especially if their economy has a hard landing. Its a risk, but we all know it.