skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a take home software engineering interview I was once given via email. Same deal, I was told about 5 hours. I’m an iOS developer, so I was expecting a pretty simple app.

I opened the PDF to find not one, but three separate tasks. Completion of all three was expected, with an estimate of about two hours each. One of the tasks was to replicate Apple’s ‘Reminders’ app in its entirety, backend sync functionality included. Another, a task requesting Visual Studio (iOS devs have no need for any experience with this).

I promptly replied declining to continue the interview process. If you’re ever in a similar situation, interviews can sometimes tell you more about the company than they can learn about you. Good chance I dodged a bullet, and could have been working for someone setting highly unrealistic client deadlines, with the expectation that I can build something in any technology proficiently.
Implicitly, when you print your visitor badge you consent to the NDA. Though that may be a generic site NDA, not an interview one.

I never had to provide an actual signature, aside from a verbal agreement with the recruiter to not share interview questions.
I would also imagine that the compiler is performing a couple of optimizations that would significantly reduce the resulting binary’s size: the call to printf would likely resolve to puts, which might be further optimized to a raw write call by a smart enough compiler.
Apple's Reminders app is so glitchy that your interview task probably would've been vastly superior to the actual consumer product.
I agree on the seat width being important (I'm both overweight and tall) - this is why I avoid exit seats on the "nicer" airlines (since that usually means the tables/screens are stored/flipped-out from the armrest --> narrower seats) - but on budget airlines this is usually not the case. (at least in the EU/Middle East region)

But the nicer airlines offer general legroom's that's survivable - some budget airlines my knee is basically in somebody else's back (thinner seats help here).
Yay AMD not affected by the intel-architecture vulnerabilities!

The way out of this mess for Intel is surely lots of cores on chiplets without sharing of resources.

In the meantime, cloud providers should offer intel instances which are dedicated to a single customer trust regime.
I share your curiosity: Who on earth would downvote this?
Quirky, interesting new titbit for our collection of trivia and learned matter, thank you.
A nuclear meltdown in China would call into question the government’s competence. “If an event like Fukushima punctures that image of competence, that’s very, very consequential,” says William Overholt, a China expert at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. “That would delegitimize the regime.”
This is so cool. This is the one company I was really trying to get into as an electronics engineer. Must be fucking fantastic for everybody who worked on it.
In the current market there’s abundance of junior or mid-level developers from body shops applying to senior level positions. If you cannot stand from this crowd and shine by balancing the tree right, why someone would care hiring you? I can tell you plenty of stories about people who had impressive background and great soft skills, but in the end barely can do their job.
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The only European country where I'm somewhat familiar with research funding is Sweden and at least there direct corporate funding is a tiny sliver of the overall university research budget. And even when companies do fund research projects much of the funding is things like letting their researchers work 'for free' on the project or giving free access to data, equipment and licenses rather than cash
Personally, I love interview questions with some real life practicality to it. Tell me a problem your company is facing now and I will be energized to give you a solution. Typical abstract questions like design a binary tree or solve an arbitrary puzzle don’t interest me.

And sometimes its easy to memorize such solutions. Translating a real life problem into a computer science one requires some skill.
Pud roams around HN, maybe he kept a copy he could gift to the Internet Archive.
> it somehow aborted. Probably a libbacktrace issue, I don’t know, but that doesn’t harm much anyway.

Are you talking about the SIGILL? That’s probably a ud2 inside of panic, which presumably tells LLVM it will not return and causes this instruction to be placed there.
I am saying having the US do it is less frightening than China doing it. The Chinese government is still, after all, a communist dictatorship censoring everything. Their internet is more censored than Iran’s. This same Chinese government killed 30 million people during the revolution.
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Yes. It leaks radioactive tritium, like the vast majority of nuclear plants.
Sorry about the paywall
Sure shipping diesel is bad, but have you made that calculation? Where does the idea come from? You believe the IPCC ignore/hide transportation and other factors from the EROI calculcations to the degree they are essentially fictitious?

Here[1] someone answers a question says their container ship, the "M V Dubai Crown" consumed 45 metric tonnes of fuel a day sailing:

It can carry about 50 thousand tonnes of cargo (thats its "deadweight tonnage" figure [2]).

Container ship travel time from Huagzu to New york: 30 days [3]

So, 45 * 30 = 1350 metric tonnes of oil - for the shipping of say 30,000 tonnes of solar panels from China to US.

Thats 30k/1.35k = 22 tonnes of panels per tonne of oil.

Or 22 kilos of panels per kilo of oil.

A spend of _1 kilo_ of oil, at legacy shipping efficiency (see also [4]) to ship _22 kilos_ of panels.

So... a residential solar panel weights about 40 pounds -
say 20 kilos [5]

That's about 1 kilo of shipping oil per PANEL.

_You_ are professing the argument of cult - something sounds wise so say it, no workings, no references. _You_ are led a merry dance on a wisecrack. But its even not merry, its nihilistic - you've got your panels anyway right, ready for the inevitable doom. Pull your socks up brother.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-fuel-does-a-medium-sized-bulk...

[2] https://www.gjenvick.com/OceanTravel/ShipTonnage/1932-06-28-...

[3] https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-a-cargo-ship...

[4] https://www.oilandgaspeople.com/news/18194/maersk-takes-tang...

[5] https://news.energysage.com/average-solar-panel-size-weight/
Do you take this approach for jobs to which you actively applied in the first place, or only jobs for which they reached out to you first?

I'm with your comment's parent: I don't think I'd have the guts to walk out of an interview either, especially for a job I applied to first.
It is also a real city with permanent residents, nearly all of whom are Disney employees. The city portion is called Celebration. More recently, Disney began offering on-property fancy housing (ie: mansions) with access to the park, Disney topiary and landscaping,etc.
I am sorry for not explaining a bit more in the title. I wanted to ask about finding ways of funding for a bootstrapped startup. Without savings, bootstrapping seems pretty terrifying
The way this is going what we really need is a new card format with some kind of a controller inside that can do error correction and other basic stuff. Really just turn the card into a mini SSD.
It's not a marriage, it's a job, and if you can't screen someone in a hour interview then you're doing it wrong. Have two rounds of interviews, whatever, if a company wants me to learn some skill they need then they can offer training as one of the benefits of the job.
Why would companies pay a bug bounty and then expect nothing in return?
What if its in the consumer market?
From my experience, you're in the minority.
That's the thing, once you reach a certain level of net worth it's actually relatively hard to become poor again. You have to actively make really poor financial decisions over a long period of time.

Buy a boat for $100,000 and it'll cost you money to maintain and run.

Buy a boat for $100 million and it'll earn you money if you lease it out or take passengers during the 11 months of the year that you're not using it.
I once completed the task sent to me by a prospective employer, and then thanked them and said I wouldn't be submitting it, as it told me enough about the way they worked to know I wouldn't enjoy it.

Never forget that the interview process is two way ...
Actual Google app:

https://www.wareable.com/media/images/2017/03/google-fit-app...

WTF Google?
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These photos are stolen and uncredited from James Galbraith who took them in early 2018, if not earlier.

Did you write this on the photographer's web site?
In the West over-regulation destroyed nuclear as a viable option a long time ago. However even where there is no over-regulation there are still economic problems - China hasn't broken ground on a new reactor since 2016. Nuclear is too expensive.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-...
Millions of people take the same photos from the same location, ie: spots in Disneyland or the Southernmost Point in Key West.
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This makes no sense for "product design". Just thinking about it, looking at existing similar products, before you even grab your napkin, takes 4 hours.
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When I was a kid, the Leonardo painting was called "Lady with a Weasel". Now they claim it is "Lady with an Ermine". Most probably, though, it is "Lady with a Polecat-Ferret Hybrid".
Not the OP but the straw that broke the back of my PhD's camel was an exchange with my supervisor that went something like this:

Supervisor: I need to improve my metrics and you only published a paper last year. You owe me 3 papers in the next 6 months.

Me: How am I going to write 3 papers?

Supervisor: You figure it out.

Me: What topic should I write about?

Supervisor: That's your job.
> Thewes said the rollout of 5G technology, vital for electrification, was lagging.

Why is a cellular network standard needed for electrification?
If anyone is thinking investing, I'd be mindful of what they themselves call "substantial debt obligations" ($8.5B). They were bought by Hellman & Friedman, a PE firm, in 2014, who will retain controlling shares. PE firms tend to buy companies with a load of debt that the purchased company then has to pay off. See Toys R Us for the potential pitfalls of that arrangement.
Can you explain the difference some more? I think of a bolt as a pin with threads, that gets secured with a nut on the other end. A pin has no thread and gets secured by putting another piece through a hole in the end of it.

So they have different failure modes (a bolt can get its thread stripped, or vibrate the nut off) but otherwise can be used interchangeably. What's the structural difference you are referring to?
You have, indeed, discovered the reason why companies pay bribes.

In the case of bug bounties, one self-interested reason for them is to provide an alternative to the black market in vulnerabilities.
It's marketing... "electric jet" sounds cool.
I wonder what would cost the Transport firm more: the time impact due to the low 5km/h speed or the costs of a human driver per truck?

At was speed does the automated system pay for itself if speed vs human is a reasonable trade off to consider?

* Not considering the cost of doing the research and the cost of the self-driving truck.
Great comments in this thread. Let's also not forget Fukushima is still pouring radiation into the ocean, and that the melted core is unreachable for cleanup.
18 USC 71 is about 'obscenity', which doesn't just include pornography. These days it includes a bunch of clauses about child porn, but that's mostly about politicians wanting to get their names on the board. The original, base law is more general and its definition comes from common law modulated by many supreme court decisions
Are they though? Playing Devil's Advocate, I have a pretty good idea of what I can do in 3-5 hours of solid work. If I was hiring for someone to replace me and asked the same question, I'm fairly sure I could tell whether it had been 3-5 hours or 3-5 days.

It'd be more useful to know they could execute roughly what I'd expect in 3-5 hours. As in they think quickly, come up with something, get the basics down and are ready to progress or not.

...Of course, if they're doing it at home they could spend 3-5 days on something I'd spend 3-5 hours on and I'd never know...
This RFC is really indicative of what I hate about certain standards.

This is all very abstract. No user agent will use this in the same way. You'll end up writing code per application anyway. All this is is a convention that people will interpret a bunch into. This is not going to be interoperable.

The epitome of this is ActivityPub.
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I wonder how doctors would feel about reducing their hours/pay by a third. To be honest, I'd prefer that.
No, the disaster was caused by people who had ample evidence of tsunami activity in the area and didn't design the plant to cover that eventuality. Turkey Point near Miami is prone to hurricanes and has several of the same design problems.
In many countries, it is illegal to land outside designated airfields without getting a permission first.
There are efficiency issues, and it is not often done. It is hard to tell, but it does not seem to have been done here.
Not often, but I don't enjoy it when it happens; they're very loud. "Less loud than a helicopter" isn't much consolation. Noise pollution will definitely need to be taken into consideration before people start taking mini-choppers in place of Uber/Lyft.

It doesn't really make sense to call it a case of NIMBY because noise pollution is a real issue. This isn't a matter of them looking ugly; we do have to be able to sleep. If it's significantly louder than a train, that might be a bit too much.
The why is because of relative advantage. Complaining about the 50 cent wage in a far lower cost of living country is like complaining that you cannot compete with a farmer's fields for corn with your urban rooftop gardens in plant pots. Well of course! That is where their advantages are - if you can trade without issues that is your cue to do something else more productive with your time.
It’s entirely possible that you spend more of your life with the person you’ve just hired than your spouse.
A lumen is already a measure of perceived brightness.

You can have a 10 watt UV light, but you can't have a 10 lumen UV light for example.
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Well the HTML version has contents. 600 pages of documentation and with the information density I see in a quick skim would not imply a “you are on your own” mentality to me.
Are you complaining about the design of this app?
That original video looked phony to me two years ago, and in comparison to the latest, it looks even worse. Am I completely alone in this?
Yeah, and we were told the Chernobyl cloud never crossed the French border.

Until years later, oh wait, it did.

Governments everywhere have a long track record at taking action to mitigate their responsibility, not to actually take care of the population. When your life is on the line, it's sane to doubt.
(Usual disclaimer: IANAL, just a person who's worked / consulted several places and signed several NDAs in his life.)

Here's the thing: the NDA you sign when you go onsite covers the company's intellectual property. It might cover the interview questions they ask you, but if they're not paying you for the work you do as part of a take-home interview question, and if you're doing it on your own hardware - it's not theirs, it's yours, and they have absolutely no say in what you do with that work afterwards.

Moreover: if you are subsequently hired by the company, they still don't own the work you did on your own time and hardware. (However: if you continue to work on it while employed by them, they might then own that follow-up work. Check your employment contract carefully, and if you're in a position to insist that employers do not own your off-hours work, insist away.)

Now, if you're currently at another company, and you complete the interview task on their hardware, and especially if you make the mistake of doing that work during company work hours...well, your current employer might then own your interview work. This is a matter usually covered by your employment contract (and another excellent reason to read those carefully).
My lay person take is they're using what is basically an EDF, you spin the impeller at high speeds sucking air in and ramming it out the back that is a lower diameter than the front. Surely many smaller engines would be safer than a couple of larger ones at those speeds. Also, maybe they found out it was more efficient to use many smaller ones.
Notably, while green LED's exist, we haven't yet managed to make an efficient green LED.

If we had, then illuminating streets etc. with green LED's would save a lot of electricity for the same perceived brightness.
That’s the argument for buybacks and dividends. If companies don’t have any NPV positive projects to take then the cash must go out to shareholders who do.
The government goes to war\implements policy 1. People criticize.

The government continues war\policy 1. People continue criticizing.

The government starts war\implements policy 2. People criticize.

The government continues war\policy 1 and war\policy 2. People continue criticizing.

...
>That being said, what's your take on China's behavior specifically, do you believe they are acting in a "fair" manner?

Regarding trade: I think China (and any country) should have absolute say in how they do business, and who they want to do business with, who to allow in their internal market, etc.

And of course other countries should be free to reciprocate. That would be actually free trade in my book: with any nation being free to do business as it pleases (trade this, impose tariffs on that, etc).

The current "free trade" is mere lip service in the sense: "we promote free trade to force others to open their markets to us, but we ourselves use tariffs, wars, and whenever we like to further our interests". So, I don't like it, and I also don't like the "totally free" trade (which I find a pipe dream, as big players wil always work their way around it).

>Do you believe the advantages they enjoy are all justified? (Note: for the sake of this argument only, karmic payback for US historic behavior is not considered a valid justification.)

I think "fair" can only be considered in context. Something is fair or not according to how the actual players play the game, not according to some abstract rules. If everybody cheats, China is fair to cheat too. In that case, I don't think the "karmic payback" is irrelevant to answer the question, nor I believe it's mere US "historic behavior" (if the latter implies something that happened only in the distant past and is not active behavior it's benefiting from at the moment).

Regarding human rights: China is authoritarian (and on the fore-front of authoritarian abuse of technology). That said, the situation is accepted well by the vast majority of its population, who doesn't have much tradition of free elections in the first place, and who probably worries of the impact of a breakdown of the regime.

Naive pundits might call for the immediate dissolution of the CCP for example, but in 1.6 billion people state a power vacuum could lead to chaos, schism, and civil war than makes India/Pakistan, or modern day Iraq/Libya etc look like Disney movies. In any case, it's up to them, not to outsiders to call their shots (or to take sides in their internal power struggles). All kinds of countries had their popular revolutions, reforms, etc, if China (as a nation) doesn't like its regime, they're welcome to change it.
I only really know two northwestern (European) countries and they are both not Sweden. Corporate funding there is "strings attached" money, both for direction and scope of the research (and in at least one case a final say on whether or not research gets published). Corporate funding is also somewhat expected, as working from just government money is a huge outlier (it is not enough).

It's interesting to see that policies differ so much even inside of the relatively wealthy parts of Europe :)
Counterpoint: AirPods are pretty “cool” and can serve as assistive hearing aids through Live Listen.
A few non-paywalled articles on the same topic:

https://www.businessinsider.com/couple-buys-boat-to-avoid-sa...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/As-more-anchor-o...

https://thebolditalic.com/what-its-like-living-on-a-sailboat...
Locally yes, except you move, and you may not want to live your life carrying a Geiger counter, fearing for you life, for the next 10 years. Plus there is food, and water, and those are in flux. And then there are the things we don't know.
EDF - Electric Ducted Fan is probably the more accurate term for what they're using.
The why is obvious if you watch the movie. Since childhood, Holmes was motivated to get rich and she's an entirely amoral person.
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You seem confused. It is much, much better for the world if the money is invested than if it is spent on frivolous personal consumption.
It’s not going on the as currently licensed, no.
Well gVisor doesn't use the control plane. It is free, but I wouldn't think it has a high cpu or memory load, and Google would make a lot of profit on the nodes.
Yes. And I would add Korea and Japan.

Before "Made in Japan" became a sign of pride, Japanese products (including cars) were ridiculed as cheap imitations and rip-offs of western inventions. This changed in the 70s.
The international date line isn't straight in order to avoid land. Moving it would be problematic.
I think you should look into the accounting of those sources. So much of what you posted is totally irrelevant to cattle ranching, particularly in the United States. You’re just throwing a bunch of spaghetti at the wall, “look, muh data”
"TXR Lisp programs are shorter and clearer than those written in some mainstream languages "du jour" like Python, Ruby, Clojure, Javascript or Racket. If you find that this isn't the case, the TXR project wants to hear from you; give a shout to the mailing list. If a program is significantly clearer and shorter in another language, that is considered a bug in TXR."

That section made me chuckle. Admirable if true.
Those rules will be changed for electric VTOLs. There are already proposals in the working at the FAA as well at EASA.
As a general rule when I'm given a programming task that takes 4 hours to do then - IF everything I will need for the task is already installed on my computer and all dependencies bugs and so forth have already been taken care of in these things - it will take 4 hours.

Maybe the same situation applies in Design somehow? I mean yeah it takes 4 hours to make the product if you happen to have all the graphical elements you will be using already downloaded and organized.

on edit: although I have noticed a disappointment in some places that I have not done a lot of time cleaning up the code after writing it and making everything beautiful and writing a good readme to tell them everything to do and so on and so forth and normally I don't do those things because I spent more than 4 hours because there was stuff that needed fixing and anyway if they wanted all that 4 hours would not be enough.