skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that interviews are so standardized in this industry is such a rarity and the pros outweigh the cons for me as someone interviewing. It means you should basically know exactly what to expect, and you have every resource, most free, to study for them. I find that a much more meritocratic process than the way hiring is done in many other industries/professions.

The alternative is widely varying interviews from one company to the next with no idea what to expect, which leads to a mismatch in expectations and mostly wasted time. Take home coding assignments is one alternative I see as well but as someone interviewing that is a much bigger time commitment and something I would not want to do especially if I’m interviewing at a few places.
It's protective of the regime, not of the people.
The plantation owners in the South were more akin to medieval landowners than capitalists. An economy based on land ownership and inefficient agriculture doesn’t have much in common with capitalism - where the interchange of money and its investment and use are the drivers of wealth creation. The industrialised and capitalistic North, which rejected slavery, prospered far more than, and ultimately defeated, the South.
After Chrome API changes announcement uBlock Origin news at HN became more popular than before. I like it.
Right now Marijuana destroys your life in the US if you get caught with it. So worry about decriminalization/legalization and then worry about why poor Timmy isn't very swift.
Cigarettes and alcohol damage most organs in the body, so educate people as best you can, but people a lot younger than 18 are going to use pot no matter what age it is legalized for so I am not sure what good this policy advice is from NYT.
I'm in the same boat. It makes me unbearably anxious and will ruin any evening out. I've tried multiple kinds, and even the varieties richer in CBD cause me anxiety. It's just not a substance I can enjoy.
The only thing in my life I've ever felt compelled to report to the CPSC was a top rated "no name" product on Amazon that caught itself on fire for no good reason (it was even plugged into an AFCI, etc). The CPSC collected it from me and is working on a recall.
I don't understand this mentality at all. If I'm hiring you to do X, I want some sort of confirmation that you can actually perform X. What's the alternative? Hiring the first person who applies?
It’s not that crazy. Mimosa for breakfast, martini for lunch, tipple during the work day, and wine with dinner. That plus going out to restaurant/country club/church on the weekend and it starts to add up. Most people in such social circles have to be at 30-35 drinks a week and that’s not even including any sort of special celebrations.
Not nearly the same risk. But not safe for developing minds, for sure.
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>>other systems lead to abuse

All systems lead to abuse, including the existing system that artificially selects one age for a variety of rights/obligations with the notable exception being alcohol consumption. The rational approach would be to find a system that creates the minimal level of abuse. If that's the current system then so be it, but an effort should be made.
That'd be Amazon, their parent company, one of (along with the other FAANG companies) the savviest consumers of legal services in the world.
The great thing about Juries is that Jury nullification necessarily exists as well.

Juries are one of the most powerful institutions in the country, but they also have an extremely narrowly defined scope. Whatever the law, and whatever the facts of the case, a Jury has absolute power to find the defendant guilty or not guilty.
How long would NYC be out in the case of a massive solar flare that blows out all transformers in the city?
This debate is just starting in NZ where we will be voting next year in a referendum on legalising personal use of cannabis. The draft legislation has set the legal age to be 20, though this has drawn criticism from those that say the age should be 25 based on the same arguments put forward in the linked article.

I share the same opinion as others in this thread that say there is a certain age where you should be considered an adult and therefore old enough to determine whether or not you should do something that is bad for you.
IQ is mostly invariant of behavior, and absent gross brain injury, is largely fixed over one's lifetime.
Unless they eliminate the expectation to tip, there's still a significant per-delivery fee.
I'm not surprised and I don't think it's the fault of browsers or the implementation. Delivery codecs have a lot of optimizations around playing forward. There are a whole other class of video codecs designed around the needs of video production; scrubbing, frame-by-frame, playing backwards, etc.
What do you hope to accomplish by this?

History says again and again that banning something doesn't make it happen less, it just lets criminal elements profit from it.
if nothing else: legal fees. If a streamer violates the ToS, and hides their identity then serving them a restraining order can cost quite a lot.

I’m sure there are other things - eg punitive damages exist for the purpose of ensuring that the cost of violation is more than just the direct harn
Intermittent fasting is a pretty clear course of action, limiting your eating to a small time window over a 24 or 48 hour period. I certainly don't do that. What I'm doing now is very different than what I did before. When I get hungry, I eat. With IF, you have to wait for your feeding window.
Just if it slips past anyone, this is (wonderfully) written by Melinda Gates.
>In Switzerland, your neighborhood votes on whether you should become a citizen.

I didn't know that. That's very cool.

You're also the only person who's right about the point of the article. It seems like most people here didn't read it yet responded with half-cocked tribalism.

That said implementation would be difficult. The youngest voting block would need to be inspired en masse to participate in local government. Municipal and County first, then State.

That would be a realistic source of change. The current status quo has no incentive to implement changes like this.

The other hurdle is that even at a local level America has a brand of corruption that blocks this sort of progress if it doesn't have enough popular momentum. It's not just political. It's related to taxes and how money is moved around and handled that the article hints at. For example, America has a lot of small businesses that sell many different things but their one real job is cleaning money.

There's also the fact that historically American culture is more competitive and exclusive socially than places like Switzerland. Getting people here to work together and look beyond their differences for something that's just practical problem solving is easier said than done.
Additional reading on the Carrington event:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
I think you misunderstand. You can get positive things from something and still not trust it. A chainsaw is very helpful, I will use a chainsaw, but I will never trust a chainsaw. I am exceedingly careful in my interactions with a chainsaw. That thing could turn on me at any moment.

This is society.
Technically there is a last step you didn't mention. At some point after your island is ready, you'll want to reconnect with other islands. I've never done it in real life, but have done so in many simulations.

I forget the exact calculations involved (it's been years and I'm no longer involved with that area of operations), but you want to make sure your frequency matches the grid you're connecting with to within a certain amount. I think the stations which connect neighboring areas usually have extra monitoring equipment for a variety of energy accounting reasons, but also to measure the frequency on each side to see if it's a go or no go. I believe they use synchroscopes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope) to do this.

Edit: it looks like y'all started talking about this below and I missed it, but the information is good, so I'm leaving it up.
That's called being an alcoholic
Which makes sense too in many ways. The only people who've had to bet their money on making a decision on what age to consider people as adults at, is the rental car industry. Incidentally they came up with the 25 number too, I guess purely actuarially.
I spend most of my time now in Chicken Scheme http://call-cc.org/ and it's very productive, has a ton of libraries ("eggs"), and makes nice, fast native binaries. Scheme's right on the edge of ascetic discipline and productive tooling, where so many languages are much too far either way.

Racket's weird, not quite a Scheme anymore, tons of libraries but they're often hard to use, and the object system infected too much of it. And performance is poor even with Chez underneath, there's just too much stuff on top. It's a better teaching tool with the tutorial sub-languages than a production language.

I can't work in CLISP, it's like scavenging a junkyard for parts where some work, some haven't for 30 years. Some people love that experience.

Strong typing (also in Typed Racket) isn't going to improve anything, but it's good for marketing to enterprise people.
I mean I’m not accomplishing anything. And honestly I don’t even hope for anything either!

I’m just saying that some state setting marijuana age limit at 25 isn’t going to make people question drinking age, voting age, military age, etc.
Thank you gorhill.

>> Free. Open source. For users by users. No donations sought.
You can also try Caddy: https://caddyserver.com/
Didn’t know you had an HN account, Dad.
I like Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson (the founder of Factory Records) in _24 Hour Party People_ (one of The Great Startup Movies) saying something like "jazz musicians are having way more fun than their audiences". I like jazz! (Or: I like Miles Davis). It's just a great line.
The prohibition movement is the usual example provided to support that theory, but historians and experts in the domain do acknowledge there was still an overall decrease in consumption of alcohol during prohibition.

'Courtwright’s The Age of Addiction has the statistics: “Per capita consumption initially fell to 30 percent of pre-Prohibition levels, before gradually increasing to 60 or 70 percent by 1933.” That suggests a 30 percent reduction, at a minimum, in consumption — although that was less than the initial effect, as people figured some ways around the law.'

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibit...
It is subtle that he didn't just dismiss others, per se. He specifically disregarded what they were working on. If he was brought in to consult or help, he was now working on it so would help.

That is, he did not dismiss people. Or problems brought to him. He just did not worry about reinventing wheels. Odds are, other people are working on something and have made really smart contributions. Don't worry about that. Take advantage of it when you can, but largely don't worry about it.
Please explain how an absolute system based on age to adulthood leads to abuse, because I'm not seeing it.

Edit: it's a binary system. You either are or are not.
I'm having trouble reconciling your statement with what I've heard of a variety of behaviours. Having a bad night sleep has a very measurable effect on IQ, and I'm sure there's many others (stress included).

Do you have any sources for that bold claim?
This feels like the sort of advice that increases the variance of outcomes more than the mean, if that makes any sense. It'll help some people, but also really won't help others. It's like... You'd need some serious disregard for the rest of the physics community to think you can figure out a reactionless drive. This is great if you actually can, but otherwise it's going to lead you to failure.

In a lot of ways, getting advice from the outliers on the very edge of a field is like getting advice from lottery winners. That's not to say you shouldn't - but at the same time a lot of effort has to be made to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Actually it's even less than that, as the "standard" drink is a rather conservative measure - 14g of 100% alcohol, or roughly on can of 5% beer, or 1.5oz of 40% liquor.

Many cocktails could easily be 3 or 4 "drinks".

Which still isn't saying 21 "standard" drinks a week isn't a fair amount, but it's not that crazy.

For instance, say you go out on a Friday and have 5 pints of an 8% IPA over the course of the evening.

That's 10.4 standard drinks.
What does it matter?

Are we going to risk the lives of our children based upon a thesis which might or might not be correct?

All I know, is that my cousin got high once and you know, he started eating like really weird foods. And then he just felt like he didn't belong anywhere. You know kinda like "Twilight Zone".
Can confirm. This is one of THE best references out there for explaining a lot of key power systems topics. I didn't think it was publically available though?
Got a source for caffeine damaging the brain?
Hanlon's razor indeed, especially since we're talking about a South American country. I'm currently living here and I have direct experience with how things are done here. Cutting corners is the rule.
Are all drugs tested to see if they affect IQ tests over extended periods?
See it's what you do after taking it! Marijuana will just help you with it! Just like you eat lot of junk food and sit at one place every day that's not going to make you fit and you can't blame the food it's you! If you learn to focus after taking marijuana it's the best thing and if you try to distract it's the worst thing too!
Being a heavy stoner through 25 is highly correlated with at least alcohol consumption, pre-existing mental health problems, and polysubstance abuse.

That said intuitively that weed makes you stupid and crazy doesn't surprise me in the slightest. Unfortunately smoking weed is the most fun before things get serious with work and family in late 20s.

Another thing that came to mind, in the creativity enhanced altered state I'm currently in and have been in since age 12, is the exact mechanism is still up for debate regardless of established causality. I'm hoping the IQ decline comes from sitting stoned playing video games over engagement in school and work, as opposed to THC itself directly causing neurological learning deficits that are not reversible
Should the company beer fridge be in the interview room?
Not that the PR grid was a an example of reliability before the hurricane. I had to endure hours and sometimes days with no power rather consistently.

Maria wasnt the only hurricane that left us in the dark. George and Hortense were a 2 month ordeal with no power (aside from small gasoline generators) in the town I grew up.
The message is clear - report on our secret child murdering and we will send our goons to get you.

Are we still the good guys?
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So that they can bid on whether they're going to be providing power, among other things. Or at least that's the reason I remember for the US.
Sadly, some people believe that the polygraph and other 'lie-detector' tests are infallible. Here's a recent article about the British "Jeremy Kyle Show" (a reality show, I believe) being axed after one of its guest committed suicide after 'failing' a lie-detector test. [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48279613
Ask HN: What's the most efficient way to reach out to VC/angels?
What's the best way (highest response rate) when reaching out to VC/angels? I've tried sending cold emails, cold calling, or just going to their offices, but the response rate is quite low.
When will the planned changes to the Chrome API actually roll out to the public?
If you already have it do you need to manually install the new version?
There’s also Coalton — a typed implementation within Common Lisp https://github.com/stylewarning/coalton/
Well said. I agree.
> The penalty is paid by the candidate, and the company will usually go along just fine, but it is a sad broken system for a lot of qualified people.

i don't understand how people don't get it: if this were a malfunctioning system companies' margins/bottom lines would be affected and they would correct course. the fact that not only does this trend persist but grows signals that it's actually effective.
I was amazed to learn that even native Chinese readers forget the written language if they don't use it for a few years.

The one major thing English has going for it is that native English speakers are pretty tolerant of non-native speakers getting the grammar wrong. With just a little effort you can get people to understand you which is not the case for many languages.
This is scammy. Walmart allows delivery drivers to collect tips, which means that $98/year is only an arbitrary portion of the cost of this service. Eliminate the tip to give me transparent pricing, and you may win me over.
Just read Microsoft will allow ad blocker extensions (May build one in) in their new Chromium browser. Looks like I’m going to rewind 13 years and use IE again(IE of today).

Such a stupid move by the do no evil company! Now they do no stupid too.

EDIT: Here is link... https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/06/16/micr...
Newly recovered Ground Zero photos show why you should back up your CD-Rs now
people experiencing hardship having phones is an incredible thing. it allows people to help themselves, and is the reason services like https://askizzy.org.au/ exist
They could be a "long term winner" 50 weeks out of the year, and have a more mild climate than before, but have hurricanes or flash floods much worse than anything before the other two weeks and not really be better off.
That is crazy. It’s the textbook definition of alcoholism.
Keep in mind that a drink is defined as 14g of alcohol. A drink of wine is four to five fluid ounces, but most people pour much more than that when they have a glass at home. It's similar with beer. A 12oz bottle of 5% ABV beer is a drink, but many craft beers are 7-10%. It's easy to have a couple of beers or glasses of wine and have 3-4 drinks in the process.
1. The legislative council is controlled by the CCP for a number of reasons.

2. Last time the people tried to do organize a vote, China performed the largest DDoS attack at the time, trying to bring down the vote system backend.

3. Also most Hong Kong people don't want independence. Most just want CCP to keep hands off.
It was updated automatically for me, both on Firefox desktop and Firefox for Android.
Google are stating that the lyrics to the Star Spangled Banner are owned by Concord Music Publishing and are somehow derivative of the Super Bowl. That's just plain false, absolute misinformation.

It is obvious in this case that the information is wrong, but what of the many songs that Google misleads people into thinking are likewise locked up in rights? It's simply ridiculous on the face of it.
Is there not some sort of democratic structure that allows people to have a say in their government? If you took a survey of random Chinese people would they say Xi Xinping is some dictator that they don't want there?
The problem isn't you. The problem is that your competition is better than you.

There are just too many junior devs in the world looking for a job. 1 graduate/junior position yields 400 CVs these days.
See this is why people call out "not a lawyer" on message board threads; you're right, "actual malice" is apparently knowledge of falsehood or reckless disregard for the truth.
They're not wrong, the blue light is effectively a stimulant that will help keep you alert and awake.
Yes, I can easily hit 1 maybe 2 a day without noticing but 3 is significant. For example most restaurants try to sell you two drinks per meal I’ve noticed. And I don’t drink every day, so miss a day and you have to drink 6, thats a binge/hangover for me.
Thanks for the citation, but not sure how that's less scary. Sure they see the most effect statistically in long-term heavy users, but there's no evidence to indicate that such amount of usage is the threshold. Even occasional users show a slight negative Delta IQ in the tables.

Perhaps you're okay with taking something that makes you even the slightest bit dumber, but I am not. Importantly? Do you think kids should be allowed to make this mistake when they don't understand this difference?
Do you use Sass with CSS Modules? I've found it to be an excellent pairing. I put shared styles/variables (like colours) in top-level Sass partials that individual component styles can import if they need them.

The only part I dislike about CSS Modules is having to use camelCased class names, or string references (styles['class-name']), which always feel awkward. I prefer kebab-case for CSS because it's a lot more flexible (more word separators: "-", "--", "_", "__", etc.), but I'm sure I'll adapt.
Google has every incentive to believe ads and user surveillance is not evil
The main discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20195164. Since the current submission doesn't appear to contain significant new information, just that they're investigating, we'll leave the other thread up.
> The risk that marijuana use poses to adolescents today is far greater than it was 20 or 30 years ago, because the marijuana grown now is much more potent.

For any substance that is consumed repeatedly, it is useful to "binary search" for the minimum effective dose. This tends to cancel out potency as a variable, while reducing the effects of tolerance.
It is a lot, but also a relatively easy number for e.g. a college student to exceed.

While looking back I can see it wasn’t healthy... nachos and a couple beer on Tuesday night after our long engineering lab, and 3 or 4 mini-pitchers (3oz) at the bar on Friday and Saturday night pretty quickly adds up to, say, 27 drinks in a week. I was perfectly functional (minus Saturday and Sunday mornings where I’d sleep in until 11 or noon), passed all my classes, even made the Dean’s list.

Definitely not recommended, but not unheard of. I have a much healthier relationship with booze now, and I’d be broke if I drank that much of the good stuff :)