skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(disclamer: I'm a noogler, and I failed google on-site once).

I think that citing this example every time "hiring at Google/Big tech" is discussed on HN is useless.

We know that there are a lot of false negative and and lot of chance in the hiring process (so many things can fail in a process involving so many steps and people).

There are also legitimate rejections, like hm, bold statements ("90% of your engineers use my software"), fingerpointing or not being able to seek for assistance when you don't know something.

I discussed interviews with many people, and I'm convinced that solving the problem with the theoretically-optimal solution is not the only way to get a positive review. Being open about things I didn't know helped me: for instance "Hm, I'm not sure about how to do this exact thing, I'll use the function do_this_thing() and implement it later if I still have time, if that's OK for you" buys you time and allows to keep the discussion focused on the main problem.
I think often you can be fooled into thinking you aren't interested in something because it isn't presented to you in the right way. I still feel this way about math... I am not a "math person" and I find the way mathematicians talk to each other very confusing. Hopefully the move towards digital pedagogy will also be a move to teach the same subjects multiple ways, depending on the individual learner's biases.
This is really only true in combinatorial auctions when the set of items is small. In the divorce example (split n items between the two) from the other comment, VCG would require both partners to list their truthful valuation for all 2^n bundles of items.

Since this isn't really feasible in practice, VCG isn't used even in settings, where the complexity of the mechanism would be warranted. (Think cellular frequency auctions, where CCAs or SMRAs are used.)
I have been using OmniDiskSweeper for this: https://www.omnigroup.com/more

It's not a graphical presentation, but as I am usually looking at the biggest directories first for pruning it's layout is good.
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Yes because of agriculture and because it’s a desert!
You're talking about a "Periodic Auction" market, Cboe have one[1]. Another alternative is "Auction on Demand"[1].

MiFID 2 regulation was a real push to move people away from using dark pools.

0 - https://markets.cboe.com/europe/equities/trading/periodic_au...
1 - https://business.nasdaq.com/auction-on-demand/index.html
It doesn't seem reasonable to me to evaluate if a law is necessary by checking how enforceable it is. Even if a crime is hard to fight, I think that's a problem but not an excuse.

And if the problem is the police singling out some people like you said, then in my opinion there are other, more straight forward ways to tackle it. There are too many cases where a crime should be prosecuted even if it's difficult to do so.

(As an example, I consider rape a difficult crime to deal with, but I wouldn't understand not prosecuting it because of that)
I’ve never had a job interview before. What kind of things should be focused on when preparing for one? (I’ve still got a few years yet until I need to start thinking about jobs though.) I personally feel my confidence is a big weakness, but I guess that’s different to technical ability. Should I start with learning different algorithms, data structures, etc? Thanks
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Exactly, but from what I remember reading somewhere - but can’t of course now find a source for - it wasn’t so much that he invented the word but that he decided to use it for his comic characters. The word was in common use at the time - and, in fact, it was Franquin that used it on that occasion, not Peyo.
Hey it's all legible. Thanks.
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oh great. the methodology which might not work because of copper erosion.
also kbs-3 is not in use. it might be next year, but nothing is proven yet, especially since it already had some critism.

in 100 years we will see if it was a good idea. and basically thats the problem of waste disposal.
I'm sorry, I was attempting humor! You're absolutely right though - use if for if-then-else type logic, use cond for testing multiple conditions. cond corresponds more to switch from the c family of languages.
Before it ever comes to that I want to be taken behind the barn and told about the rabbits.
You know how academia works, right? It and the trades are the only apprentice systems going…
I live in a hi-tech city outside SF/NYC and I can confirm that many companies in my area filter candidates using questions straight from leetcode.

This was not the case 5-6 years ago.
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Well I can definitely tear down this definition. “Advancement” doesn’t mean anything. What does it mean to advance culturally or organizationally without already having morality defined?

Also raising standards of living? Is that all we’re after? Slaves in slave societies had rising standards of living, did that make slavery okay?

The scary thing about an article like this is the sheer ignorance and hubris behind it. No credible philosopher will tell you that we can objectify morality, it is a provable logical fallacy. That doesn’t seem to stop people form thinking they can do it. The folks in history who thought they could do it are some of the most reprehensible people in all of human history.
Sounds like one of those "do you want to talk about absolutes, or practical solutions" cases. Sometimes the only options you get are "terrible" or "slightly less terrible". Unless you're up for taking part in a violent revolution, that is.
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Multiple Gitlab Projects on the Same Kubernetes Cluster (Gitlab CI/CD)
If you have use of your fingers?

Didn’t Stephen Hawking use Windows because it had the best accessibility?
That's an awful lot of explaining for a pretty simple concept. Fed funds rate is a benchmark interest rate that Wealthfront, like many products, is tied to.

Rate goes down, and your interest payment goes down.

I suspect this has to do with fact that there has never been a rate decrease in the lifetime of the product:

> Wealthfront Inc. is an automated investment service firm based in Redwood City, California,[2][3][4][5] founded by Andy Rachleff and Dan Carroll in 2008

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

The decrease came only as a surprise to those who weren't paying attention.

The rate is in all likelihood headed to zero and below, just like so many other industrialized economies have already done.

If that comes as a surprise then once again, you haven't been paying attention.
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The audio to text translation does happen on the iPhone. Siri is a service, yes a network is required to access the service.
That's true, and probably depends on the code base.

I don't know how these patterns develop - it's very common in JS, but somewhat rare in PHP. Maybe it has to do with the average level of the programmer in each? Or jQuery's noConflict() helped it along with everybody starting with (function($) {})(jQuery), thus integrating IIFE into their active repertoire.

I don't remember (and haven't found in quickly searching) PSR saying anything about that, but that could explain a difference in usage, too.
That's a good specific question for an Android developer forum (not HN).
If this guy's employees work 365 days a year, he benefits. I wonder, does he believe in extra compensation for those who go "above and beyond"? Or is he deluded into thinking his business is the most important thing for everyone?

Every "Go go go!" CEO I have worked for that expects >100% input for absolutely no more than 100% compensation. I have had the good fortune to have alternatives and not work for that executive mindset for very long.

PS: Bonuses don't count. They are not direct compensation, and in my experience, more of a gamble.
For what it's worth, I used to work for GS and was in the algorithmic brokerage business for 2009-2010. One thing a lot of commenters on this thread are missing here is this isn't the same as an HFT or hedge fund, this is the brokerage business - executing orders on behalf of GSs clients, who are largely institutional investors, hedge and pension funds etc.

The real-world impact of increased speed of execution by brokers is less money left on the table for HFTs to snap up and less slippage to the actual economic beneficiary (ie the actual retail investor or pension fund investing people's money gets a better trade).
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I don't disagree but it seems to me that these things require, more than young age, a certain "naivete".

The more expertise you get the more nuanced view of things you get, and it really complicates the problem analysis and the decision of how should you proceed. Basically, as you learn, you become overfitted to the current solution - you see so many problems with other approaches that they seem unfeasible. But people with less experience do not have this "problem". They will happily proceed and experiment. This would by itself end in a disaster, but with the proper guidance of expert, worst ideas can be avoided and the result is often beneficial.
Next someone calls the police on a customer after overhearing child/spousal abuse. "I can't believe you think that's a bad thing"

Then the cops are called after drug deals are overheard, and the response is "Of course {large company} would call the police on criminals"

How long after that will "not having a smart home assistant" be viewed suspicious?
These types of auctions are very common when dealing with spectrum auctions (5G for example). As an example, there are 60 MHz of spectrum for sale, and they are broken down into 4 15 MHz blocks. The first stage of the auction will determine which bidders win how many blocks using a clock auction. After the market price per block is established, a 2nd phase of the auction will take place, using the VCG, that allows the winners to price which specific block(s) they want. (Some blocks are better than others...for example if you win 2 blocks, you very much want those to be contiguous, also edge of spectrum blocks are less desirable because they may get interference). The auction ends after this phase, with the winners paying their sum from stage 1 and stage 2.

In fact, I would say this is one of the most common spectrum auction format right now, used throughout the world, the other swapping in a combinatorial for step 2. (The FCC doesn't run this style due to the size of the US, among other factors).
This used to be a problem with legacy extensions because their APIs pre-dated the multi-process effort and forced Firefox into single-process mode.

In over a year of using Firefox every day I haven't noticed any slowdowns after Firefox made the move to drop compatibility for those extensions.
You should not forgive dependency bloat just because Linux makes it a bit easier to handle.
How do minimax criteria not follow the"proper rules of probability"?
>Europe is behind in AC installations

I do not like this wording. It implies that progress entails an inevitable march of more and more air conditioning, and that this is a good and desirable thing, and that Europe needs to get with the program and start installing more AC.

I see AC installation as a net bad: it indicates that temperatures are exceeding comfortable levels, it burns energy (which will exacerbate the temperature problem in the long run), and it relieves the need to design buildings so that they maintain a comfortable temperature without AC.

The fact that demand for AC is rising is extremely alarming.
I would argue that we are going toward that direction with slightly different variation/format.

Faang and multiple SV companies will ask 3-5 LeetCodes with 1-2 System Design. Some started to incorporate behavior question (like Amazon with 14 LPs)
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Why don't we install a knob that we can turn that effectively limits trading to X seconds precision?

One day we may decide to turn that knob from the millisecond range to 1 second and see what happens. If it's bad, we can always turn the knob back.
I don’t know what that graph is showing but it’s not the sales tax I pay at the register. In Illinois it’s usually 9-11% if I recall correctly. I’m in Chicago, so maybe the local sales tax is much higher than the state average?
It's always funny for me to see articles like this, the last one I remember was about women being able to drive. What does Saudi Arabia have that prevents the world from interfering in its politics? Don't say oil, if it was just that the US would have been in there long ago.
>We repeat, do not ever say “velcro shoes” (or “velcro wallet” or “velcro gloves”). Ever.

This whole thing is... I can't help but laugh. It almost seems like the company is really insecure. Do they really think that their brand is going to be harmed if some kid is excited about their "Veclro shoes"? I somehow doubt it, but obviously I could be wrong.

I wonder where Velcro would be, if not for the free marketing of being a household name.
Funny, I was just reading that yesterday.
Any good recommendations for beginners to digital marketing/SEO?
(Yes, that's my point.)
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The comparison to solitary is an interesting one I hadn’t considered.
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I’m not a fan of the acronym either, but it’s what people know, so I use it. Big N is much better, I’m onboard.
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Is there any evidence defining where the speed of information reaches a diminishing return?

To dilate on your feedback loop comment, physical systems may benefit from a higher sampling rate but usually only to a point. This point is often related to the physical dynamics of the system (e.g., natural frequencies). For example, a small thruster may benefit much more from increasing sampling rates from 1000Hz to 10kHz than a large rocket engine. I assume/wonder if there's a similar analogy to diminished returns in stock information systems, like more volatile markets benefiting more from higher frequency of data. It would be interesting to see where the diminishing returns are.
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Firefox on desktop; same on on mobile along with Firefox Focus (although recently I started using Firefox Preview a bit more instead of regular FF)
The UA system does a lot of unique research.

Similar cuts hit (say) UNC or Berkely would be a tragedy too, but a lot of the people and projects could move to Duke or Stanford pretty easily.

Not many places have icebreaker research vessels like the RV Sikuliaq, herds of reindeer and muskoxen (UAF's large animal research station), or giant RF transmitters for studying the ionosphere (HAARP--and no, it doesn't control the weather).
But CS is not only about algorithms and data structures. Even schools are missing the point mostly. Things like general PLT and formal methods, namely how to deal with abstractions in a large project, and how to know if your program is correct, are mostly ignored because they're not favored by the market.
One possible answer is that any algorithm can be sped up linearly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_speedup_theorem . (At least theoretically, for runtimes bigger than linear.)

Another answer could be Moore's law: machines do get faster over time. (And also memory gets cheaper.) And so we wish to define efficiency (time or space) in a way which does not depend on the current technological state.
Change that is successful and actually changes behaviour is preferable. It is surprisingly easy to look at cultural behaviour, find something that should be changed and pick a method of change that has no hope of success. "But they should just <insert whatever you want here>" does not work if they just won't <whatever>. From one perspective things seem clear, but from the perspective of the people involved it may be far from clear.

I've seen well meaning foreign expats set back improvements in their work place by galvanising the opinion of all the locals against them -- even the people who were meant to be helped by the change. You need to tread exceptionally carefully, take your wins where you can take them and wait for another day when you can not win. It's incredibly frustrating when people ignore this truth and destroy huge amounts of work progressing forward.

Edit: missing "not"
If they do, Linus will probably scream at them for breaking compatibility.
(Even if this isn't the kernel)
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Wow... is this authoritative? If true, this is worthy of an article in major news publications, no?

And if legally sound, then should we expect Google Books to make these 80% of books fully available, as all books from 1923 and prior already are?

Also... how are we only figuring this out now?
The US military has been in Saudi Arabia for decades.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhahran_Air_Base
I like this list. I’ll add advertising and porn to it for myself. Porn because of the social stigma (I actually think porn has provided some value to society), and advertising because on scales worth automating it is mostly lying.
found this one that works: https://github.com/kern/filepizza
Aand my Mistape is refreshed for this week now.
Molten salt designs have somewhat unsolved waste and proliferation issues, but you are correct in general.
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I'm not completely sure it's what you're looking, but I read this Gamasutra article: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/293928/How_Episode_becam.... I think it was linked somewhere on dampfkraft.com. There are also all the Interactive Fiction type games, they have been discussed here before (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19643668) and there are some on Steam.
What's really crazy to think about is how much flak Java took for YEARS upon YEARS from a rather non-trivial number of developers, managers, and media. It was ruthless at times. Looking back, it was pathetic. Now, all of a sudden, look at where we are. We're seeing all these not-Java languages looking more and more like Java, and conversely Java starting to impersonate the not-Javas. Weird. You have to give the team behind Java credit for pushing forward in spite of this. There's a real lesson to be learned here.
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Not a hostile question, I'm genuinely trying to understand this: How is liquidity provided by, for example, someone interjecting themselves into a trade that was already going to happen?
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+1, I did the same thing 5 years ago (https://marti.us/w/2014-07-19-Mozilla-BSP.html).

It indirectly helped my carreer: It gave me confidence that I could be an occasional contributor to OSS. I learned valuable things when doing each contribution.
I've developed apps for Chromeos which share a lot of the same docs as extensions and these are some of the worst docs I've ever used. Incomplete, outdated, confusing, etc.

It feels as if Google doesn't want you to actually make Chromeos apps.
Yeah, I would think most companies would kill for that kind of brand recognition. So will we see "Don't call it Coke" or "Don't call it Bandaid" campaigns next?