skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never been asked to "invert a binary tree" while interviewing at Google, or anything of the sort; later, as an interviewer myself, these kind of questions were forbidden. Everyone knows they're stupid, and they've been forbidden for a long time. I'm starting to believe this is either a persistent myth, or something the other companies, but not Google, does.

In my experience, all the questions I was asked were fair game - all of them were about implementing a toy version of a real-life feature (simplified for the time constraints of the interview). All of them felt like "yeah, a competent engineer should be able to do this".
Is this only happening in the United States?

How frequently is this happening in other countries?
Lisp with the most amount of libraries.
Dog saliva infection leaves Ohio woman without arms, legs
SIL-4 doesn't generally follow the same rules as consumer computing, as I'm sure you are aware.

There are track-side systems still running on 80386's, and a maintenance infrastructure in place to keep these systems running for at least a few more years, before they are replaced with the newer, Pentium-based systems.

Design obsolescence is not built-in for these systems. Long-term ability to support is more important. Also, burn-in period. Many bullets (SPECTRE, etc.) have been dodged by relying on older, more proven, more tested technologies ..
why not support Vim in console mode?
Hearing aid processing chips are incredibly sophisticated and specialised - just check out the block diagram in this datasheet:

https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/SA3291-D.PDF

That chip is doing graphic equalisation, multi-band dynamic range compression, noise cancellation, feedback cancellation, data logging and wireless communication with an absolute maximum power dissipation of 50mW. It's a $100 chip for good reason.
Not in the same scale. Amazon had accumulated $0.9bn in losses by the end of 1999. Uber lost that much last quarter alone.
I like `syntax-rules` and have done some crazy things with it. If I were going to teach someone syntax extension in Scheme or Racket, however, I'd just use `syntax-case` or `syntax-parse` for everything. That avoids confusing people with two different languages.
In Afgahnistan, AK-47s are so common that the US has air-striked weddings due to celebratory gunfire.

Which should probably tell you something about the assumption about the accessibility of the guns, and the likely outcome of your fantasy there...
..."relatively stable compared to many other things that fly"...

Balloons, paper jets...
I'm a big fan of the Wirthian language family, and while I think FP is eminently usable, I still think Modula-3 would be a better fit for Gophers. A M3 frontend for FPC would be a great combination...
Statistics is borderline pseudoscience. Various techniques and methodologies are rigorous, but when applying them to complex real world problems, there is a necessary element of human interpretation. With that interpretation it's trivial to twist most scenarios towards either outcome.

I spent several years doing stats/BI in the medical manufacturing industry and have on many occasions done analyses that showed what my employer wanted and would stand up to scrutiny, but if my employer wanted the opposite outcome of that analysis, that would also be possible and also stand up to scrutiny.

The best way to address this is to remove any financial/business incentives form the analysis, but that's not really feasible most of the time and also requires larger/more expensive teams that are capable of internally challenging their own work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...
I doubt this. Reason clickbait works is because it's more attention grabbing. It's more attention grabbing because it appeals to human innate fears.

And even if clickbait is banned and subscription mandatory, media would be in a race to the bottom. Just a slightly different one.
There are comments on the thread that suggest that it is an intentional delay to prevent Google itself from being weaponized. Essentially, "powered by" is special because of automatic inclusions like "powered by wordpress" or "powered by nginx."
This is not like the clojure is to java, it's only a syntax transformation, superficial.

Usually lisp and FP means that you get immutable data structures and a good concurrency system, both of which you get in clojure.

I looked at this a while ago and figured it's not useful for production, but an interesting project none the less.
Prolog isn't a total language, as a total language can't be Turing-complete.
“Then I think it os inevitable that people in power will purchase young humans and transfer to those at the end of their life. Maybe this will be some dystopian nightmare”

Depending on how you see it, that already happens by having “a son who will continue my deed”. People give a birth to people, pass down genes, knowledge, viewpoints, behavioral patterns.

What you mean is probably that ‘self-aware thing’ that could teleport to a new body. But in fact there is no teleportation, since there is no evidence of such ‘thing’. You could make a fresh copy of your body (or a machine) and maybe copy your brain contents to it, but you will not see from these new eyes. Someone completely un-different will do. Because no soul; sensory gaps define borders between us, your original eyes are still in place and your sad brain is still there. Your copy will be happy that they are alive for yet another century, but it is no different than when someone very similar is already young and happy while you’re slowly decaying. Why not just tell them all your stories and fade out then?

That brings us into the situation where dystopian nightmare already exists (it ain’t me, it ain’t meee) and you’re doomed to live in your body no matter what till the death.
Book Review: The Little Typer
How much is it in comparison to the subsidies for drilling oil?
Part of it is how you phrase searches.

I mainly use DDG, but whenever I have to go to !g, I find I get better results if I phrase it like a brain damaged lunatic who can't spell and didn't start thinking about the query until two words in. I believe it keeps Google happy, if you throw it a little bone by letting it second-guess your query. Make it feel all smart and artificially intelligent, so it gives you the good results.

In DDG I usually just enter some keywords.
More like 2003-2005 for me. By 2007, the quality was sliding due to them targeting mainstream folks, and deprioriting the tech fridge stuff that I care about.
I assume he means he is from NZ and the government has made downloading/sharing the shooter's manifesto illegal.[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/new-zea...
As the US allows private guns to prevent government tyranny, in people's views wouldn't it also be right to allow privately owned cannons, assorted artillery, explosives and the entire military toolkit (so long as they could pay for it)? After all it would greatly help civilians throw off oppression, and that's what it's all about.

This isn't sark, just pointing out a reasonable logical destination for the reasoning.
In Pentagon Contract Fight, Amazon Has Foes in High Places
Interesting. It starts to make sense of why so much US tv was entirely stand alone episodes, which did exist in the UK, but fairly uncommon except in sit-coms. The UK had the broadcasters, even the commercial ones, making the programmes, so they were wedded to scheduling in the programme making. External production companies and studios came much later, 80s or 90s I think. Presumably they stuck to fairly rigid contracts about order, or broadcast after all x episodes of the series were made, after those changes came in, they certainly had a long history of managing in order.

The UK experience was more how you describe Babylon 5 etc - a show plot that concluded with the episode, but theme and character development across the series. Even the classics from the 70s and 80s. Some were so smooth a transition it actually did seem like getting a glimpse a week later, rather than an artificially exciting episode. To modern eyes that looks pretty dull, though that's partly camera and production techniques too, yet did seem to allow smoother development.
Making define-syntax bind to a name that appears in the body would be confusing. You can omit the macro name in the pattern and use an underscore instead.
5) Media policy.

Terrorism and lone wolf massacres feed trough 24/7 catastropheporn in the news.

Let's face it. Our society is entertained by news reporting. Discussing it with others is fun. May be a taboo to say it aloud.
IMO the solution needs to be a political one. Regulating flight, regulating car usage, regulating energy consumption and production, regulating companies like Bayer, countries like Brasil or USA or Australia. Of course if the number and length of flights will be regulated a software will be handling part of the process... but it will be a crud.

An IT professional could make a nice robot bee to pollinate the flowers but that's not a solution. The solution would be to violently kill off the companies enabling the killing of every insect because money.
> magazine limits are political theater imho

Wow. Seriously?

The best chance of subduing (by any means) an attacker is when they aren’t actively shooting at you. That only happens when they need to stop to reload or change weapons.
The phrase “well-regulated” is part of “well-regulated militia,” and means orderly or disciplined, in the same manner a regulator in electronics keeps current managed or a regulator in mechanics keeps spin precise. It does not mean government regulation, and does not apply to the individual portion of the Amendment.

It’s only recently that people claim regulated means government regulated instead of how the term was used when written, as clearly explained in writings of the times.

Note that 45 or so states, modeling their constitutions after the Federal one, and not misrepresenting this phrase as you do, also include personal right to bear arms. This is further evidence of how the term you misrepresent and selectively misquote is meant.

That you have to spin it against the original meaning as written by Founding Fathers in the Federalist papers, as detailed in Congressional Research Reports, as evidenced in numerous State, Federal, and recent Supreme Court cases, shows the absurdity of this misrepresentation.

If you're honestly interested, here [1] is the text of a study commissioned from the 97th Congress on the topic, with plenty of historical citations on the meaning of the terms you selectively misquoted. It gives the history of how the term came to be in the constitution from common law, clearly showing they did not use it as you claim.

[1] https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2015R1/Downloads/CommitteeM...
Ecofacism is not a joke. It is joked about however.
Explain to me the important differences between /pol/ and Al Queda, that would make the US military choose not to order drone strikes on /pol/ operatives
The hybrid brain approach sounds interesting.
The US isn't even in the top 100 when it comes to homicides. I haven't been able to find statistics on "mass murders" which include firearm, arson, bombs, knife, etc attacks. All the media and sensationalist headlines have drowned out any hope I had of quickly researching this issue.

Here's what I've found so far:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-06-27/map-here-are-countrie...
Cellular Cosmogony
The point is not that the populace can win. It's that the populace can make it difficult enough for them to give up.

And just FYI, most government murder of their own citizens has been done by left wing governments in the last century.

Want to guess what Nazi was short for? National Socialist Party.

Want to guess the first step of murderous left wing governments? Gun confiscation.

Am I saying that the US government is going to murder citizens (lol, already does it)? No. But don't make it easier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution
Maybe HN needs a way to flag comments as factually inaccurate. This meme about the airframe being 'fundamentally flawed' or 'engines are too big(????)' or inherently unstable has been disproved by everyone in the industry including people invested in Airbus.

Please stop perpetuating evening time TV show fearmongering bullshit.

The eli5 explanation of the MAX 8 MCAS incident is as follows:

* Boeing wanted MAX 8 to have the 737 type rating. This means it must handle and fly just like other 737. This would allow existing 737 pilots to fly the MAX 8 with no additional training. This was part of Boeing's financial advantage.

* To achieve the efficiency it has, the MAX 8 has pretty large engines. Because they wanted to keep the airframe like other 737, they couldn't lift the wings to accommodate. Instead they moved the engines closer to the body.

* Moving the engines closer to the body increased the pitch-up characteristic at high AOA. Not so much as to make the plane unsafe (the 757 has a more aggressive pitch-up characteristic). But enough to make it sufficiently different from other 737 to invalidate the type rating.

* Boeing adds MCAS to augment the pitch-up and make it handle like other 737. They get their type rating.

* MCAS software validation happens with the assumptions that it's not a flight critical system, so constraints are relaxed. It passes.

* Flight testing reveals that MCAS needs significantly more pitch authority to do its job. It's updated to get that pitch authority. MCAS now becomes a flight critical system after these changes, but is not re-evaluated as one.

The airframe is fine. If Boeing gives up the 737 type rating and drops MCAS, they could have the fleet back in the air within a few weeks after pilots train for it. It just would cost their clients a lot more than originally promised and be a financial disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD0JabYjF3A&t=

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-737-Max-supercritical-that-is-i...
Even brazilian breath oxygen.

What "suffering" has the rest of the world done to brazil ?
“well-regulated” refers to the militia, not the right to bear arms, and means “in proper working order” (in the sense of a breathing regulator), not “controlled via legal regulations”
On Building My Own Artificial Pancreas
Does the name have any significance at all? The apparent lack of it is far more confusing...
Nope, free speech is free.
then it's a maximum of 8192 time zones
I agree, though I think that "not giving them the idea" trivializes a bit the concept. The idea of sex, or of criticizing those in power, or even of murdering innocents, are not discoveries that need to be transmitted, they are naturally available to each of us. But constant availability certainly normalizes them, makes people more receptive to the possibility of enacting them.
The USA is also the worlds worst murderer of innocent people, in terms of illegal acts of war. It has been bombing innocent people at the rate of one bomb dropped every twenty minutes for the last 20 years.

So? The world knows that American's are okay with violence. We haven't been hiding ourselves from its victims, or at least .. a big portion of the world sees and knows all too well, what most American's don't or won't: a principle product of the USA is violence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/afghan-government-shut-...

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/pakistan/pakistan-to-joi...

https://apnews.com/c77e9e7ec5b1490ab7394f0dcc64588b

Whether you like it or not, the US lost in Vietnam, they lost in Afghanistan though I haven't kept up on Iraq, reading a few books about the topic showed me that the main impetus for leaving is that it is hopeless for the US to "win".

Edit: IF memory serves, this was the plan laid out by Bin Laden. The guy even put it on video and the stupid US government followed through. Unfortunately, web bitrot has made it difficult to find the relevant articles.
One problem I had with Hy is that some codebases really depend a lot on annotations, which gets a bit messier in Lisp syntax.
The article mentions Lyft included similar costs last quarter and this is what they said: "Net loss for Q1 includes $894 million of stock-based compensation and related payroll tax expenses, primarily due to RSU expense recognition in connection with our initial public offering."
Yeah, I agree, although probably even a few years ago I wouldn't have to be honest.

I think there's just a lot of black and white thinking going on around this stuff, I.e. you're either this or that (I.e. cutting edge rock star or old crusty dinosaur...) and I just don't believe that's how it is. It's multidimensional and we're all on the various spectrums somewhere and we should stop putting value judgements on which side of the spectrum is better or worse. We all do very different things with very different requirements, so stop prescribing what's best for everyone.

Chris Coyier's The Great Divide (https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/), although nominally about front end development, does a pretty good job explaining this problem, and I don't think this is unique to FE at all.
Firearms; the support of a large fraction of the population, government, and army; and an occupying force which is trying to avoid excessive casualties. In most cases, an oppressive government looks more like Russia, China, Syria, etc. where the power imbalance is insurmountable. If it ever comes to a civil war in the U.S. it’s going to depend on those factors, not a bunch of 18th century LARPers.
If that's what I want, that's my choice. Don't tell me it's wrong just because it's not yours. (and music is entertainment, not informational).

I can't see what it is I don't know, or am getting defensive about, and implying "insecurity"? That's a childish comeback.
I have a wrong mode paranoia when I sometimes hit the shift lock key and end up triggering something and find myself in a new tab. Then I close the tab and carefully hit escape many times before undoing whatever was done. It's not my default mode but when I misfire the missile instead of hitting the brakes it's nice to throw some escapes over the fire before getting it under control.
Congrats for launching.

I've noticed that the gallery screenshots are hard to read (on a MacBook Air in this case) since they are scaled down too much.

Perhaps consider making screenshots with a smaller browser window size which reflects the area in which the screenshots are shown.
I came across this on Friday: https://medium.com/ssense-tech/building-the-data-science-dre...

Despite the title, it's mostly an essay on why visualization and presentation are critical to any statistical treatment.

I think it's one of those difficult skill combinations. You want someone extremely well-versed in statistics, plus someone capable of giving a damn about accurate presentation, plus someone with the UX intuition to make the correct choices to make something readable without sacrificing accuracy and important nuances. And if that "someone" is actually two people, you run the risk of telephone misunderstandings as work passes between them.

Which is a tall order.

Made taller by the (as you note) different kinds of audiences: simply ignorant, aggressively biased, rushed, etc.
I posted about this a while ago, where queries took even longer with certain calculations. -2 * 2 takes ~10 secs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17470163
Mostly, yes. And it's happening more and more.

Little in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting#North_America > United States

"The United States has had more mass shootings than any other country in the post-WWII era. (five references)"
I wrote https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy on it before they moved let to contrib.

(I later ported it back to pure Python 3, because I couldn’t move forward while Hy was in flux)

If let was “fixed”, I’d probably move back to Hy.
Or rather, it isn't useful in production in any way Python is not, and there's little reason to choose a weird stunted Lisp that offers few advantages over its host, an established language with a huge community.
I’ve never heard of Esc Esc being an in joke amongst Vim users. And I rarely (never?) hit ESC twice, because it’s obvious when I just tapped ESC, and because of VIM’s speed I can immediately see when things changed.

Is this a GVim/MacVim thing maybe? Is that slower? Or do all these people hitting ESC twice somehow have bad keyboards which don’t often transmit the ESC key signal?

Also, the reason you hit C on calculators twice is because there is actually a reason to hit it in many calculators, and has no connection with Vim, and the difference between the 2 modes isn’t obvious. Hitting C once only clears the current result, but doesn’t clear the previous results. So if you type in 45+ the calculator after hitting C once (assuming you had 46 typed in), the calculator will add 45 to whatever you had originally. OTOH if you hit it twice, in many calculators it will also additionally clear out the previous results, so the 45+ only adds to 0.
While I completely agree (and sympathize) with this frustration, there are two things I want to point out.

1. If you can do all these things, then it really won't take that long to freshen up your your white board skills so that you can solve a variety of algorithmic problems easily in code on a whiteboard. If you really want to work for at a FAANG-style place, then just divert your energy for a bit into practicing white boarding. I agree it's stupid and it's probably not worth your time... which leads me to point two.

2. Given your experience and interests, it sounds like working as a cog in a mega-corp is probably not the right career path for you. You're going to do much better in a place where your role is a much bigger part of the company, and your individual skills will have a much bigger impact.

And as far as the "other professions don't have to do this" line. I worked for a while in a career that was not software engineers and to be honest, I wish there was basic, practical proficiency tests as part of interviews in more fields. The number of professionals in my last field of work that could not do the basic requirements of the field correctly was horrifying.
"so long as they could pay for it"

what if they can't pay for it? are gun manufacturers now violating the "equal protection" clause? they're denying people the ability to exercise a constitutional amendment simply based on their ability to pay.
On top of this classic delivery places mainly sell cheap pizza and Chinese food that have high margin for food. This subsidies the delivery and makes it profitable even when people don’t order drinks.

Further, the radius of delivery tends to be smaller allowing a driver to make more deliveries per hour lowering costs.
You should attach a license to your code.
No, I explicitly said so in my previous comment.
Why are you so interested in shutting down discussion on this topic? People are talking about and lobbying their governments on this. It's entirely reasonable that we talk about it here too.