skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you didn't "get away with" anything. you charge for your time. what they do with your time is on them.
Thanks for providing this insight. I was wondering why the resulting organisms were different. Your comment offers some solid suggestions as to why.
This is why I only do these for exceptional offers. Like a studio I wanted to work at and a problem that seemed challenging. Otherwise it's a strict decline.
Live video just got more live: Introducing Concurrent Streaming Acceleration
Interesting! Does sound like a spectrum.
Very interested to understand what sort of metadata is being stored from these cameras. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the cameras are being used to build a database of individual’s movements, whether deliberate or as a side effect of logging.

Any more information on this from a better source than the DM?
I honestly don't know how we've been in a bull market this long. Trump's been turning a lot of economic knobs and the market hasn't really responded drastically like it has in the past. When it does crash, it's going to crash hard. Just my opinion.
China's vast fleet is tipping the balance of power in the Pacific
Yes, I pretty much agree with you. I was disagreeing with the blanket "lock'em all up forever" opinion expressed above. Emotional reactions I can understand to crimes like these but some sense needs to be exercised or we end up in another situation like Nazi Germany.
That's so enraging. Honestly if I caught that on video, I would absolutely go to war to get that cop disciplined or fired, along with anyone else in uniformed who tried to defend them or pat me on the head with the usual "Hey man, relax— at least no one was hurt. Can't you let this go?"
Ah thanks, that makes sense!
Misaligned incentives: the people doing interviews have such indirect financial incentive to hire the right people (only that a good/bad hire affects the company's profit, which affects their own salary/stock), almost no way of telling if they made a bad hire decision, and definitely no way of telling if they made a bad no-hire decision. Remember Alan Greenspan's story of finding a competitive advantage because everyone else was happy to ignore half the population in hiring. If you have no direct incentive aligned with the business's needs, then the incentive of "I will derive pleasure from the interview process" (whether it's having a fun conversation, or having a conversation that makes you feel powerful / more confident about yourself, or hiring in a way that reinforces your existing biases) is all that remains.
> Can you illustrate that in practice?

I have walked out of interviews as well. Sometimes the interviewer and I discover together that the recruiter we worked with didn't know their job, at all!

More often, though, it sort of was clear from the start of the interview that the company would not be a good fit for me. I would tell them so, and my reasons why I thought so, and leave after thanking them for their time.

If they ask me to do some simple programming task, I ask them if they have looked at my Github repository and what they think they will learn during the simple task they could not from my repository. If they do would have a good answer for that, for example they want to get to know my thought processes while coding, I am happy to oblige. But if they clearly have not looked at my Github repositories, nor have any inclination to customize the interview process, I tell that I do not believe in the validity of the process.

I have also walked away twice during the one-month trial period. Once the company was unable to find a project for me, even though they kept on promising there would be one for me soon. The other time I discovered I was unable to combine working full-time with finishing writing my PhD thesis.

Anyway, I also found that in half of the cases I walked out,
the other party did understand and accepted why.

Of course, it is easy to walk away when you know you will find a job soon anyway and even if you would not you will get some support from the government anyway.
surely it's intra-city not inter-city?
I think most Americans have phones that are used, and not Apple, and not flagship. Europe is pretty divers so I don't know if you mean Greece ~€1000 or Norway ~€4000 but it still seems like a stretch

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

When I lived in the US I thought more Europeans lived in gorgeous architecture and had excellent public transport. Living in Europe, I find a lot of people think Americans are wealthier than reality (though if they're thinking of tech salaries, they're probably right - that EU/US disparity is enormous).
Right. Someone asked me to make a small Javascript backend API. I spent a day installing a dev environment on my personal machine since I haven't worked not-at-work since I last upgraded. I didn't mind doing it because it was interesting, but taking that time would be a dumb reason to no-hire me over someone else.
So teams should just not vet candidates? An in person interview is also going to be 2-4 hours, plus travel time. Should we stop doing those, too? How exactly do you suggest teams screen candidates?
This. Even a 15 minute meeting can have very a disruptive effect on my thinking process if it comes at the wrong moment.
This is what I expect for the first set of automated for freight. There will be designated on/off ramps for automated trucks. Some human will drive them there and park them. The trucks will drive across interstates and get off at another designated on/off ramp and a human will drive them to the warehouse.
This removes a lot of the risks associated with automation and reduces the biggest expense of having long haul driver teams.
In the AvE comments there's a lot of people claiming that this is NOT a common practice--because its incredibly dangerous. It just takes a gust of wind when those pins are out to cause massive damage.
> The timing of the IPOs only serves to further stoke the suspicions of those Wall Street observers who see a plot to transfer a private-market bubble into public hands.
As the original poster, I am continually amazed at the capabilities of PostgreSQL. I have some ideas for how one could improve present-day database technologies (see for instance https://edgedb.com for inspiration), but the thought of having to support just a fraction of the features PostgreSQL does (and probably other similarly mature database technologies do) is incredibly daunting.
I kinda thought my story of Jeff gave away my status.
I was watching a sitcom called Superstore a little while ago, features the employees in a Wal-Mart like store, and the protagonist got a promotion to the head of the store. There was a whole plot line about how her wage was now in the 6 figures, and I was incredulous until I did a bit of research - Wal-Mart store managers can absolutely make that much money while their employees live in poverty.

How you could make that much and expect loyalty and sacrifice from your staff who make a fraction of that, I won't ever know.
> ...but socio-ethical problems are way outside of my wheelhouse.

Ever more reason to go outside ones comfort zone.
Have you heard of Giving What We Can - an international community of people who pledged to give at least 10% of their income to charities they think are most effective at helping others?

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org

I really recommend focusing on cost-effectiveness when you give, however much or however little you give. See GiveWell for amazing research!
Facebook requires your number and then links your data
I don't use Facebook anymore, but I had to just sign up so I could test the new Facebook authentication within an app I'm working on. I naturally used an alias email address and a fake name (Boberius Kingslayer). Upon registering I needed to enter my phone number due to 'suspicious activity'. Okay, fair enough - I need to test this so I enter my real number which I've had for a few weeks under the assumption it just required an activation code and wouldn't link to my account.

I'm then shown a list of suggested friends. This included my sister, neighbor, friends from school... essentially the top 50 people suggested were spot on. The only app linked to my phone that this could be related to is Whatsapp, however I just read the T&Cs of Whatsapp/Facebook integration and they specifically say they don't share contact details: "Importantly, WhatsApp does not share your WhatsApp contacts with Facebook or any other members of the Facebook Companies, and there are no plans to do so."

I can't even remove my mobile number from Facebook without it threatening to delete my account.

I signed up via a desktop browser and didn't share my contacts.

I'd be interested if someone could explain how this can happen without breaking their own T&Cs somewhere?
They are asking the interviewee to complete the same task as done by an existing staff member, and compare the results, how is that "free labour"?

I'm not sure where I stand on this sort of thing to be honest, my only experience of anything similar was a pre-interview task to implement a simple 10 entry LRU cache, and after getting the job I was told the only reason it was there was to weed out time wasters with next to zero skill being sent by the recruitment company.
While I agree with the absurdity of rich people being "better" than the less wealthy, what makes someone "deserve" to be rich? I would argue that no one deserves to be poor, but whether or not it is morally correct to buy nice things doesn't sound to me like a debate worth having.

At what point does someone need to be ashamed of the money they make? Is anything over the $50k figure that is quoted as the maximum happiness per dollar figure considered shameful?
Core raises $4M seed round led by Spero Ventures
Maybe I should try to get an interview with Google so they can feed me startup ideas.

"Wow, great interview task! Oh, I'm no longer interested in pursuing a job with you, but thanks."
Y Combinator or how to implement recursion in a language that doesn't support it
It's all about keeping you on the platform for as long as possible. Are twitter threads difficult to follow, is the facebook feed tough to get through now that its algorithmic? Absolutely, and that's by design. An advertiser would hate this site. Look how quickly you can skim a thread. You can get away with checking this site once a day and stay current with it. The longer you are on a site, the more ads can be served your way, the more money the site makes from advertisers. Platforms are concerned about maximizing friction to the point just before they loose you and your valuable eyes as a frustrated user.
Exactly. It's GNU hosting for non-GNU projects.
Yep.

They made it as real as reality TV, with the same directional steering behind the scenes.

Sadly it still has much of the popular and media reputation from the careful efforts of the McWhirter's, and the Guinness years.

I hope to see their failure soon.
Having been vegetarian since the early 90s, I can happily say the last few years has gotten amazing for eating out. 20 years ago I was in Hungary for a week and lived on salad and deep-fried camembert from the regular restaurants while my friends gorged on meat. The day before I left, I stumbled across a hidden buddhist restaurant in a basement - I believe I cried with relief. These days I can travel almost anywhere and be assured of filling my stomach with more than salad greens and cheese.
Jeff never had the benefit of treatment and was returned to society unchanged. That, imho, was a crime perpetrated by society.
Executives who think the best way to measure business control is by how much your employees are sat at their desks are succeeding.
What a "culture fit" filter that looks like
Packem: a super fast experimental bundler written in Rust
but do all applications need multi-core threading? Languages like Python get around this using multiprocess module, which is not the same as "multi-core" threading, but it is probably good enough for a majority of applications.

REPL based development, Interactive development are also features. Multi-core isn't probably the top most thing on everybody's list of things.
I've just completed an interview process (waiting for the decision) that was explicitly "this is a real problem we have", but also stating that I'll be paid for 8 hours work. I have no problem with that. It took about that long as well.

So I suppose if you're honest about it, and you give a fair estimate of the time required, then what's the problem?
I've now tried to sign into something with Facebook and it's locked me out until I upload a photo of myself due to 'suspicious activity'.
For the macros, I prefer to recommend to start with very straightforward macros that use `define-syntax-rule`. For example

#lang racket

(define-syntax-rule (run3times code ...)
(begin
(begin code ...)
(begin code ...)
(begin code ...)))

(define x 0)

(run3times
(set! x (add1 x))
(display x)) ; shows ==> 123

As other comment said, you have to find some good opportunity to use a simple macro.

(In this case, it is better to use the build-in `for`. Actually, `for` is defined in a macro, it is not part of the internal "secret" low level language.)

Once you are confident and you grok the difference between a macro and a function, you can try the other ways to define macros. These other ways are more flexible and can make weirder macros, and have better support when the macro is used wrongly. There are good links in the sibling comments.
I would think that's completely relevant for a hedge fund. They probably need to debate investments like this all the time.
A better way to track changes in Excel
There's a telltale discontinuity in the rise of the voice on the word "chimps" in the sentence "and these chimps have been working out hard". I wonder if future generations of kids will have to be trained to spot such things.
Yeah, I hate hiring people who are interested in what we are doing and are excited to work on it.

It's one thing to accept that some people are busy and shouldn't be punished, a bout
are we supposed to only hire people who have zero excitement for the industry and job?
ITAR violations wouldn't be against Huawei though, they would be against the companies selling controlled items without a valid license. However, I think this just reinforces the idea that they're doing anything they can to justify the ban on Huawei's products.

I'm not at all surprised that suspected violations wouldn't result in a public war against US-based companies. What would be the point in that? The violations would be addressed quietly I think.
I'm happy to see this is finally entering the RFC phase. I've already seen this used in the wild for an API (imgur [0]), and I was surprised when they linked to the proposal from 2017 [1]

[0] https://apidocs.imgur.com/?version=latest#api-deprecation

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-wilde-sunset-header-03.html
> It's usually easy to tell if the applicant is a quack or if they are skilled by how they talk about different technology: commiserating about familiar pain points, how they solved common problems. I almost feel at this point that it's unprofessional to hand out tests to people.

The problem with what you're describing is that it's using a proxy (discussion) to vet a particular skill (ability to program).

It's very easy to vet someone's programming skill by having them program, and it doesn't take much longer than a wide ranging discussion, so why not skip the proxy and test what we're actually hiring for?

Should a programming test be several hours (or several days) long? No. But an hour or two, I can't see how that's a terrible imposition.
Of every person wearing a headscarf or veil? And every cyclist wearing a filter mask?
I am guessing they don’t expect loyalty but rather desperation and the need to pay bills. Use the person until they move on and get a new one. I make about 9$ an hour above minimum wage and I can not even fathom how a person on minimum wage survives.
When I got something like that, I just ghosted. It's one of the very few times I ghosted an interview.
Hacksaws & kids' glue guns are good choices. Kid's glue guns can still burn but not nearly as bad as a commercial gun, and hacksaws can still cut skin but nothing like a sharp ripsaw. If the kid gets a burn or a cut they can learn & aren't losing a limb in the process.
To me the "be your own bank" sales pitch there just implies a lot of security issues....
Stop spreading your lies and propaganda. People living under communism hated it. Even today Romania is the largest emigration source in Europe, in large due to its communist past and corrupt socialist present.

Rather than desperately trying to rewrite history, why don't you take a stroll through Cuba or Venezuela, the current and latest communism victims? Ask those people how much they like it.
Another project the "BYE" electric trainer is getting FAA certification right now, with 260Wh/kg Li-Ion
What Will This Animal Be Like as an Adult? Science Does Not Know Yet
I'm not a big fan of extended take home assignments but I can definitely see the logic of wanting to have some evidence that a candidate can do what the job requires.

I do a lot more writing than programming and, for someone for which that's one of their primary jobs, I would absolutely want to see writing samples--and, if they didn't have one they could share, they're going to need to write something custom.

I honestly don't get the max 1 hour interview process. You're probably not that special. I guess I did just have an interview over lunch once but I had known (and worked with in various capacities) the person making the hiring decision for years. Other than that, I've always had multiple interviews, if only so that multiple people could talk to me. As an interviewer, I really like having the perspective of multiple people precisely because it is a very imperfect process and people miss things.
So I should spend a few more hours going back to add flaws to make it look like I spent less time?
I'm not sure that's true. I doubt most people can't maintain productive focus for 12 hours of a work day.
It is probably on the edge of too fast. That's why it's a speed LIMIT. We've grown accustomed to assuming that the speed limit the speed we should drive at, and going faster is no big deal. I think it contributes to a general disdain for rules. Setting it high enough that there should be no reasonable excuse to break it, should change this.
https://www.byeaerospace.com/bye-aerospace-announces-first-f...
I don't. And?
> "Optics" do not take precedence when there is a risk of people are being kicked out

The duty of care should follow clear priorities: health first, property second. If your priority is really to care for people's health, it's better to be on the safer side, and follow the stricter approach you have on the table. By all means raise thresholds 10 years later "because studies", but not shortly after the accident - regardless of scientific truth, it smacks of interested carelessness while handling people's health. IIRC, people had already been mostly evacuated by that point anyway, it just felt like an attempt to save money and troubles by pushing them back in their homes.

Besides, by ignoring optics, they achieved the opposite effect: people distrusted the advice and are still not going back, years after. The government likely lost their trust for ever.
At that point people don't value money for what it can buy them, they value it for what it looks like in their accounts. That's the problem.

I'm not rich per se, but I make enough that I can give away 10% of my pre-tax income to nonprofits without it materially impacting my quality of life, so that's what I do. If my society won't distribute wealth in a sane way, then I'll do it for them. If anyone else has similar feelings, consider taking a percentage off the top of your own salary and allocating it to charities that will help the less fortunate.
It's used as a proxy for American opinion by journalists, and it's probably the worst possible proxy you could use. Only 22% of Americans use the site, and of those users 10% are responsible for 80% of tweets. Why do we care about the opinions of the loudest 2% of the population? Twitter could be blowing up according to active users, but you step outside and none of that affects you or the world at all. Everything keeps on ticking like nothings happened.

https://www.pewinternet.org/2019/04/24/sizing-up-twitter-use...
https://patentpandas.org/stories/company-patented-my-idea

Company Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview
Should Alexa read “2/3” as “two-thirds” or “February 3”?: How to normalize text
no it turns out it's "A distributed approximate nearest neighborhood search (ANN) library which provides a high quality vector index build, search and distributed online serving toolkits for large scale vector search scenario."

But Math.random() is a really good guess.
I think truck drivers (especially long haulers) are safe for at least 10-20 years. But yeah, truck are probably the first road vehicles to be reliably automated.
Never assume that a company with a bad interview process has more candidates than they can handle.

A company like that is probably wondering why they can't find the people they're looking for.
Public Holidays and Observances JSON API
Ah yes, non-religious tithing.
It's a limit, my point is most people should be going slower then the speed limit and we should let drivers decide up to a point where it becomes unsafe. That's the point where we should enforce with draconian zeal.

Make roads safer, make rules less arbitrary and more respected.
Alternate + 45 minutes is a rule designed for airplanes that need a runway to land. Helicopters typically have 10m fuel reserve rules because they can land just about anywhere.
I'd expect VTOL electric rules to be similar.
I suspect that the primary purpose here is not to uncover bias or censorship on social media platforms - it's to get people to identify more strongly as Trump supporters.

This is the classic psychological 'consistency' principle at work. When someone takes the small step of "sharing their story with President Trump" it strengthens their self-image as a Trump supporter. This is then reinforced by receiving frequent emails "from President Trump" thanking them for their support to eliminate censorship. This makes the person more likely to get off the couch and vote for Trump in November 2020.
China’s Tesla wannabe Xpeng starts ride-hailing service
I don't care what tax they pay, that's nothing to do with the service I get as a customer.

Regarding VAT, this is perfectly legitimate under EU, Dutch, and UK law. The VAT rate they pay by processing in the Netherlands (which is 0, I believe) is legal and a measure by the Dutch to attract business into the country.

I note that they claim that they are and will remain cheaper than the competition (Uber, etc). That is good for me as customer. But since they play the ethical card perhaps they should explain how they intend to turn a profit for them and a good income for their drivers when others are bleeding money...
Two Different Perspectives of Decentralized Identity in Blockchain Applications
React Native Workshops
Russian Seymour Cray Faces 10 Years in Prison
Depends. Maybe not all "poor" are the same. Some choose not to stay in school, what do you do then? Guarantee food and shelter anyway? Why work my way up through the humiliation of McJob when I can stay home and prove my worth in Xbox?
While planet is warming, global fossil investment is rising
If perfect imitations are outlawed, only outlaws will have perfect imitations.

I’m not sure how useful that question is. If it can be done then it will be, and we’ll have to deal with it whether we want it or not.