skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their pitch is offsetting travel emissions, not all emissions.
This is such a mind booglingly obvious way to find the skills needed to get a position that I am amazed I have never heard of it before (I wish I had thought of it!)

It also shows what Inthink is the most vital skill of a Data Scientist - to go and find the data to support the question

nice one
We really have no idea what makes a business successful in such a way that we can turn that knowledge into a repeatable process.
The status quo of burning fossil fuels will continue whether we employ CCS or not, so we may as well use every tool available.
Superb. This analysis shows that you are not only able to process data, but that you will creatively find opportunities to make data useful, in ways which other folks in whichever company you end up in may not even think to ask for. If people with data science openings are not attempting to hire you from this thread, they're crazy.
The market can still reach equilibrium even with non optimal conditions, just not the "efficient market" equilibrium.

Additionally, irrational does not mean unpredictable, after all advertising is extremely effective.
Yeah, the content is just the right level of interesting/shallow to be great for a commute or something of that nature, but they get annoying very quickly.
It was an Airbus, so at least it was at less risk from breaking-up on a hard landing and killing passengers.

https://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/2010/12/16/al-jazeera-w...
While not as prevalent as gyms, regus let’s users use all their locations.

Regus is old school from before coworking space was a term. They call themselves an office hotel, if I remember correctly. But they do have an area with coffee and tables where you can plug in a computer and work.
Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)
Because you are acting like this would punish the company. It might to an extent but in reality consumers would hurt the most. That in my opinion is why it doesn't happen.
I think we need to implement world-wide tax on pollution to avoid some crazy externalitiees.

For example, cheap flights used frequently are a ridiculous luxury we cannot afford. I know lots of people that use budget airlines more than once per month to make weekend trips across Europe.

The amount of CO2 they are putting into the atmosphere is simply insane. A bit more than doing the same trip by car, for each passenger.
1248. What else
Hotmail Gmail
Seriously why can’t people change their email and keep the mailbox. It’s not uncommon to pick a cute or funny email when you are a teen and want To change when you’ve all grown up
With a "safety driver" at the wheel, like everyone else.
And the house of cards fell down around me.
Well put, the scalability is a nice insight.
Very much so. There are different synthetic methods that could be used to create these so called “catenanes”, from a slapdash wait-and-see process where the starting material is thrown together and by hope and statistics a product comes out of the reaction with two interlocked rings. Otherwise one could build up a reaction with a starting material in a shape that’s conducive to a ring structure then attempt complexation/liganding etc etc finish and close the rings so they interlock.

For some interesting reading in self-assembling structures see: Hao Li et al. Quantitative self-assembly of a purely organic three-dimensional catenane in water, Nature Chemistry (2015). DOI: 10.1038/nchem.2392
Re claim 2, I claim that it has an effect on my experience: Though I was at one time an atheist, I experienced what I can only describe as the presence of God or the divine spirit. I am far from the only witness.

Does this count as an observable effect on the material world? I am certainly a material being living in the physical universe, but you could not detect that experience with a telescope. Maybe with an MRI? Dunno.

Of course you can claim the experience was probably a delusion. But you'll never convince me of that.
You're making a good point. Bad people putting more time beat good people committing less time. This is definitely a valid point.

But on the other hand, I think good professional like you, don't need to take 4-5 hours for a take home, since you'll be fine without doing it :)
I never understood why the Gulf Stream heats Europe but not the us east coast. It passes by there first. It seems like it would only get colder after that.
Or either 1842. Also known as "one ate for two," pretty gluttonous indeed
nearly every assumption I usually see baked into a user model is eventually invalidated. and adding caching columns like "num of actions" are pretty common too, but that tends to mean your whole (fat) row is frequently invalidated, thrashing a bunch of caches.

break apart your user tables! if you have constraints on pieces of info, put the constraints there, not on the user!
so, the average total carbon emission per person is 4.5 tons, and your flying alone is 13?

Isn't it better that you/we change your/our air spending habits? I don't believe that we can offset our carbon footprint fast enough with carbon sinks while still maintaing the same levels of carbon emission.

Reality of course is that if there is significant upfront economic costs then very few people are going to buy into the scheme, I think innovation is our best bet and if $100 per ton is a price point where people are in then that's probablly the best pragmatic choice.

However, needless transport seems a great target for emission reduction, we still need to get around, but "commuting" while emitting carbon would seem the easiest way to reduce carbon emissions, we have all the tech we need for that (public transport/remote work/online shopping/ride sharing/EVS/reduced work weeks) just no incentive to change.
How does making it impossible to record calls make phone a higher quality experience?
Toolkit for digital abuse could help victims protect themselves
Variable Font Animation with CSS and Splitting JavaScript
People think I'm crazy not to go prostitute myself for a job at Google; I think they're crazy for volunteering to be bridled and ridden around for 20 hours a day for years without having equity or ownership in the profits.
In this case, since all atoms form a ring, everything is symmetric within the plane so forces cancel out. So maybe it’s more stable than one would think, similar to cubane.

But upon further consideration , the potential energy surface may be more like a saddle point, with each atom having a stable local minimum in-plane but unstable local maxima perpendicular to the plane.
(I’m not a chemist).
Many people like me don't have a project to show...
Yeah. The major problem I think comes about with stuff like Ryanair flights for ten quid where the carbon tax might well whack up the cost by orders of magnitude.

I think it's incorrect to categorise limiting flying as 'economy busting' in any sense to be frank - what percentage of flights are things like people visiting relatives?

It might be a bit of a shame, but economy busting is surely hyperbolic, it's primarily a leisure activity.
Ooooh exciting.

I was impressed to see how well hooks worked when attaching Vscode to a chrome instance in debug mode. They just show up in the list of closures at your breakpoint. Maybe I need to try harder but I haven't been needing react dev tools.
Given the choice between a technical or culture interview, I'll take the technical one any day.

For those that complain about them, are you really as good as you say you are?

I support coding challenges, as long as they're reasonable and won't take too long to complete. If you'd spend an hour doing an interview, wouldn't it be reasonable to spend the same amount of time on a coding challenge? The best ones are done during the interview. No more time wasted.
if throwaway346392834 wants to become their normal username, sure. why not.

of course it can be used for abuse - so show the old values next to it / on their user page / etc. allow N changes / limit the frequency. etc.
I hope they’re making way more than $50/hour in NYC.
This is real smart. I think more company should do this
Why Bonobos and ModCloth Failed: The Truth About Vertical Integration
The last time the UK House of Commons used their equivalent power to imprison someone in Big Ben was Charles Bradlaugh in 1880.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bradlaugh
A friend of mine is currently going all the way when it comes to animation. He produced 52 animated shorts in 1 year (one per week). One of them features this exact quote! https://vimeo.com/303537395
What the other kind commenters said. I just found it worked. I like the analogy of the funnel, pointing it 90 degrees from where it usually is. OH&S wasn't such a thing back in my day (and I'm not even that old), smoking inside was still a thing (banned in that Australian state I was in a long time ago now). I'd use the air conditioners as a break to get some fresh air.

But anyway, a big bin full of glass being emptied was damn loud, but all the concerts I went to wouldn't have helped.
Yes. Projection is a terrible thing to waste, but often contrary data points fall on deaf ears and empty bodies.

If society wanted to be more humane and empathetic, it would force all young adults to be homeless and impoverished for some time, and working three jobs to get a taste for how it is for everyone else that isn't sheltered or privileged. The golden rule and empathy isn't practiced as much anymore because there are greater convenient distractions, selfishness, ignorance and lack of community that has the effect of atomizing people from each other... we are mostly divided-and-conquered and enslaved.
I would take a solid salary over equity almost any day, having been burned by failed startups in the past, and/or left before my options vested. It'd be nice to get a solid salary AND equity, but I'm never going to work anywhere again where I take a pay cut in exchange for equity.
The brute force solution that seems most obvious to me is to pick a starting index and an ending index out of all possible indexes such that start < end, and calculate the sum of that sub-array (keeping the biggest result).

This is O(N^3) because iterating over index pairs is O(N^2) and doing the sum is O(N).
Bike mounted synthetic aperture radar
Re getting help. If you can get people to create high quality code for you on short notice you’d actually be a great asset to the company.
The average in the US is about 16.

I agree that the correct solution is to just whack a carbon tax on flights.

It's ideal if people voluntarily reduce - I've committed myself to not flying except in case of family emergency - but ultimately that's not going to solve the problem because it's a tragedy of the commons.
Love in a Wet Climate (1995)
GoPro HERO8 Photos Leaked
That's not the problem that take home assignment is facing right now. As you said, it's the experience issue, people feel shit after doing it, rejected without any reason.

If copying/buying solution is actually a problem, that means take home project is a thing that's happening, and copying is the new problem to solve along the way.

We're far from there.
That’s a really great idea. Only issue is it’s harder to compare between candidates but a little common sense would probably solve
That.
Great links and examples, very good point. Which brings us back to the original point: are humans actually more intelligent than animals? I don't think so. It's a human self-aggrandizing illusion to believe we are somehow "better" in any way to animals.
Or even better, couldn’t you use a single quad and a geometry shader?
Engineers: coding exotic data structures on a whiteboard in a time-crunched interview is high-pressure and unrealistic!

...how about we give you a project that more closely reflects problems we solve here day-to-day that you can solve in the comfort of your home on your own hardware in whatever IDE makes you comfortable?

Engineers: That's absurd! I've drawn a line in the sand!
Accidentally Quadratic Constant Folding
Jake Schreier’s Real-Time Music Video at the Mill LA
It really sucks. I used to work maybe 11-6 5 days a week, so 35 hours a week. I’ve got a new job now. I work 4 days a week about 5 hours a day. I show up around 1pm and finish up around 6. There’s zero time pressure on the project and we’re probably going to open source what we’re doing. Having three day weekends every week is a game changer. I’m hiking, seeing friends, working on projects, doing some major cleaning...

Seriously, the “full time” schedule sucks. I was extremely lucky to be able to get out but if you’re wondering... yes it makes a huge difference. It’s worth every minute saved.
What they do doesn't make sense at all!

The company chose to spend a lot of time evaluating all these take home projects, in the first step, and then reject people for silly reason afterwards? It's a lose-lose situation.

Sounds like their hiring procedure is deeply broken.
Ask HN: Facebook blocks access; I dont want to share my phone
I never had a Facebook account, but recently had to create one to join a group that is supporting my medical condition.

I did not provide my phone when i created this anonymous account about an year ago. All of a sudden today facebook would not let me in without a mobile number.

What options do I have ?
It's not really a question of hard way vs easy way. It's more like the difference between having a balloon filled with helium and making a single helium atom in a collider. One you can buy at the grocery store, the other requires a team of trained scientists and a facility full of equipment.

A milllimole (10^20 moleculess) is considered small scale by many chemists. Working with a single molecule as described in the artice is just short of science fiction, and hardly any chemists have ever done it. It requires one of the most expensive instruments in the world.
Camera vs. Lidar
Apple Is Suing Corellium
GPUs are effectively “magic” and can do particular things hundreds or thousands of times faster than CPUs. Offloading a per-vertex or per-pixel task to the GPU, especially if doing so reduces bandwidth requirements, is almost always a big win.
https://thedailyshitter.com/heres-a-rediculous-interview-que...
Actually it’s going to be underwater in less than a decade probably.
I used to work there and ego / control is definitely a motivator for the CEO. He's the type who would absolutely pursue a law suit like this regardless of the cost/benefit, just to make a point. He said as much to the company when they were having issues with confidential information leaking.
Love this, especially with evaluating not only code but how well they collaborate. Ideally if the candidate had already submitted such a patch they could just explain it.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16064642/apple-inc-v-co...

Some documents here.
Or, less cynically, a public airing of the various arguments and points of view around this issue?
To your sequestration comment.

No one is saying don't plant trees. Fuck yeah, plant all the trees! But that won't wont be enough. Sequestration will get better, but one of the big things it helps with is locality. CO2 isn't homogenously spread across the globe. It also doesn't spread very well. Concentrations vary drastically over the year and so do plants' ability to capture carbon. Carbon can build up in certain regions. Worse, it can pool where we can't grow trees [0]. Places where we can't get enough water to introduce new populations of trees (without significant carbon costs, defeating the purpose. Also the local ecosystem) Cities. The Arctic. The ocean. I'm all for planting trees (even beyond CO2, I just feel better around trees) but people need to stop making the trees vs sequestration argument. It's trees + sequestration (air and ocean) + promoting corral development + more. (This same argument applies to a lot of things, especially in climate. It's not a "this vs that" argument, it's "this PLUS that".

[0] https://youtu.be/x1SgmFa0r04
Did 8chan even have any legal obligations to do what they are asking about?
The tyranny of the majority :/
Thanks for the update; it makes more sense now.

I bombed an interview where I couldn't understand the prompt, literally. Like the interviewer spoke it to me, and I restated the problem, and he said "no it's…" and drew something on the white board, and I listened and restated it, and we went back and forth like that for about 15 minutes. To this day I don't understand what he was asking for, only that involved a rate of bank customers and a Greek lambda.

Getting good jobs means pushing your limits and it's therefore a numbers game. Feeling shame from rejection is natural, but also generally unhelpful these days, so it's worth unlearning.
True, but my model of CO2 is that its damage is proportional to the area under the curve (quanity CO2 * time in atmosphere). So deferring that C02 release by 10 years is strictly a win, b/c you haven't incurred the climate effects of that C02 for those 10 years.
"Amazon's Choice" certainly suggests editorial oversight, but only in the way that "Quality Inn" suggests quality. For anything that isn't an objective, measurable fact, companies are allowed to lie.
Brian has done some _fantastic_ work improving the DevTools! This is going to benefit the whole React community for years to come.

Be sure to check out the complete changelog and the tutorial linked in the announcement.
Even if the trees are burned for fuel, that may offset some amount of burning fossil fuel and so be a net win.
I've seen a lot of tech companies carefully analyzing impact of commute. Essentially re-locating closer/central to employees like using the commutestudy tool.

100% public transit commute is a long term goal, so work/live distance should be as short as possible short term.
They could start by automatically accepting apps they haven't gotten around to after 3 days of being in-queue. After some period of practice and improvements, if the team they prepared still can't handle the workload without the automatic acceptance fallback, then they can increase the team size. I'm just guessing a plan like that is doable.

They could also have been practicing with a simulation of the review process using real-world app submissions for a while before this, and gotten the experience from that.
Troy Hunt took on one of these groups years ago and let them loose in a VM to see what they did.

Their initial contact

https://www.troyhunt.com/anatomy-of-virus-call-centre-scam/

When he called them back

https://www.troyhunt.com/scamming-scammers-catching-virus-ca...
> But on the other hand, I think good professional like you, don't need to take 4-5 hours for a take home, since you'll be fine without doing it :)

Thanks, but I'm a programmer, not a magician. A good programmer might work faster, but he's not able to reduce any amount of work to a constant.

A good programmer may accomplish in 4 hours what an average one will accomplish in 7-8, but he will not be able to do it in 1 hour. Also, he will still seem inferior to an average programmer who took 20-25 hours to perfect this project, especially if those take-home tasks are all that other programmer does.
No one cares about the "worse for the wear" problems of digging holes in the ground in Saudi Arabia. The whole problem is the CO2 that ends up in our air on the other end of the process.
Ask HN: How to stick to a learning plan when you learn online?
I subscribed to many Udemy courses which are really really great, i learned much from them especially courses from Maximilian Schwarzmüller[0] but never finish them.

How do you stay motivated to finish many 30+ hours screencasts?

I'm a frontend developer since 3 years but my skills are still relative low. I know about a lot of things but not profound. I start things / courses but don't finish them. I always wondered why i got my frontend jobs so easily.

I KNOW i would progress very fast to a much more advanced level when i finish such a list of courses/tutorials. But yeah, i find it hard to stick to it and not get distracted.

How do you self-learn?

Thank you!

[0]https://www.udemy.com/courses/search/?q=Maximilian%20Schwarzmüller
At one of the national labs whose jobs listings I’ve looked at, they have people in ML/data science and ML/data engineering. The first is in the research department and the second is in IT.
Training the next generation of ethical techies
He claimed it had been posted to Instagram first, Hotwheels contests this and it would have been unlikely considering it was posted to 8chan in a PDF and the user would have had to go through the trouble of compiling images from Instagram into a PDF
When you are surrounded by people who want to be consumers it's hard for that not to rub off on yourself. I think the trick is to find some like minded people and run away to another country (choose carefully) and live cheaply and without the pressure to buy real estate, cars, gadgets, diamond rings and whatnot.
But at least you can have a “not before” policy, which is something you can work with in your marketing plan.
The point of the app store is to have a centralized distribution point for apps of the OS.
Reminds me of Kite - AI Autocomplete and Docs for Programmers. Just always s/ai/marketing/
Why do you say that? What difference would it make?
I've had very similar experiences like this; the most similar was a supposed '2 to 3 hour' problem that had no time limit and no language restriction. I rushed through it (had an offer for another position with a decision deadline coming up), and it still took 12 hours. I made an error where I didn't capture all cases, which I was fine to be rejected on those grounds, but I got the exact same feedback for more modularity, and when the interviewer pointed out my 'mistake', it was clear they had no idea what the code was doing.
Many years ago, I had a police detective call me about an active investigation. He wanted to come over to visually verify that I had something in my possession. I was suspicious, and he totally understood. He said, "go look up the phone number for <police station in jurisdiction> and ask to speak with detective so and so, badge number ZZZ".
One of them that worked out very well: the hiring manager was highly technical (very strong developer, who later got an applied-mathy PhD), looking for a sort of technical partner on a big new technical system. He knew of me from some open source, had seen my resume with lots of experience. When we met, he said "obviously, you know how to program", and we went immediately to talking about what he was building, asked my ideas about it, etc. We covered working style and values and such, too. That turned into several years of very successful work.

I'd be happy to interview people that way. When you can't talk enough about your project, nor about stuff they've worked on before, you can still engage them in a discussion of a hypothetical but real-world problem (not CS101 problem sets), and go from there.

If you know your own technical stuff, IME, it's pretty easy to tell from talking with someone that they can fizzbuzz, without a hazing gauntlet of whiteboard exercises that give little sense of anything (other than that the company thinks hazing experienced people is a good idea, and that the person will submit to hazing).
I was thinking multiple indicator LEDs, so for example the lightning cable in the original article would light up the 'Hub' and 'Keyboard' lights.
> Ill also never forgive them for making Tor completely unusable for accessing any normal website.

Is the privacy pass extension an invalid fix for the problem?
Deprecate FTP Support in Blink (Chrome)
He's still a citizen of the US and 8chan operates as a US company.
No, you are not. Trees naturally capture carbon in the form of wood. I noticed that distinction too in the post and assume they meant "modern" carbon sequestration engineered by humans.
What's with this obsession with burying it?

You can plant trees and build things with them above ground.

The house I'm sitting in right now is a literal carbon storage unit.

Just don't burn it.