skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that scripted interviews can be boring... but it's not just common wisdom that using structured interviews leads to better assessments, there's plenty of research* that shows that too. Of course, you should always take research in this field with a grain of salt, since things are different from industry to industry and company to company. But I think it's safe to assume that unstructured interviews are more prone to unconscious bias. Research also shows that most people think they are better at assessing candidates in an unstructured environment than they actually are. If you're really experienced, you might be calibrated enough to be immune to that to a large extent, but it's still hard.

But yeah, I agree that it can be boring and a poor experience for both candidate and interviewer if interviews are too scripted. It also has other failures, e.g. it can fail to capture different talents that candidates might have. I personally think the best way to handle this is to mix both structured and unstructured interviews.

There are plenty of other ways to make interviewing rewarding. Think of it not as a burden, but as a way to help both the company and the candidate make a possibly life-changing decision as accurately as possible. Empathy can go a long way towards humanizing the process. Honestly, one of the most rewarding things I felt as an interviewer (and then a manager) was seeing someone I interviewed (or hired) later thriving in a role. Being a part of making that happen is really fulfilling.

* http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.172...
Any more so than the rest of your code?
> If people still want Great-Britain to leave, then they bought themselves some time and otherwise this whole brexit thing has been resolved.

It already has been resolved. People voted for "Leave", so let's do that now as fast as possible. There's no reason in voting until you like the outcome.

I have written it before: I'm totally against the Brexit but people wanted a vote, got a vote and the result is clear. While this might have negative consequences for quite a few people, this vote can't be ignored.

The UK must leave the EU as soon and hard as possible with all the consequences this brings with it, including border controls and no deals whatsoever with the EU.

This will on the one hand be a positive sign for the people: Votes are not useless and the will of the majority is accepted. The outcome might be bad, but that's a common problem with votes at all.

On the other hand this will be a good sign/valuable lesson for lots of other European countries. Quite a few are struggling with the concept of the EU and might ask themselves why they are a member of the EU and what they might get out of it. Let the UK be an example to them.
The "unelected" line is moronic in a country with an unelected head of state and the only unelected legislative chamber in a "democratic" country.
It kind of is answered, at the end:

"Doctors don’t need UV photography for diagnostic purposes. “We are trained to pick up on subtle changes,” said Dr. Rachel Nazarian, a dermatologist with offices in Murray Hill. The pictures, she said, are “meant for dramatic effect."
You can always find an example of something in software. He’s also being facetious. A pedantic reading is not very helpful here.
Google is equally horrible about adwords (and probably most other customer service related issues).

They terminated our adwords account saying that there was something wrong with the site it was advertising and giving a list of 12 extremely general things which might be the problem, none of which seemed to apply.

They also provided no way to respond or get in touch with anyone at all. Their advice was "fix whatever you think may have been the problem and try again".

This wasted a huge amount of time as we tried everything possible to fix the issue to no avail: they never said anything had been fixed and never sent more information.

Finally I got a contact at Google. They looked at our account, said it seemed to be a glitch, and reenabled it.

That's no way to do customer service and is one reason why I think Google should be broken up, if only so that each part is smaller and feels the need to be more accountable.
That is exactly the opposite of the prevailing thought and the guidance given to MPs. They are supposed to be a representative, not a delegate. They are supposed to do what they believe is right.

>'The first duty of a member of Parliament is to do what he thinks in his faithful and disinterested judgement is right and necessary for the honour and safety of Great Britain. His second duty is to his constituents, of whom he is the representative but not the delegate.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmmo...
development must avoid urgency?
You ALWAYS need a CLI framework at least for generating help automatically, otherwise I hate you when I want to use your frugal tool and I have to look into it to find out how it works.
>>Cities can’t overcome national policy that is directed at broadly destroying social safety net programs,

1. Some of these cities spend huge amounts of money per capita on public services. You need to actually look at the statistics and not just make assumptions that fit your preconceived ideological narrative.

2. Social welfare spending as a percentage of GDP has massively grown since the 1950s, which totally contradicts this idea that the social safety net has been dismantled. Before 1967 there wasn't even a Medicare in the US.

3. The most dysfunctional major cities in the US have been strongholds of the Democratic Party for decades. If the problems in Democrat-run cities are attributable to federal policy then Republican-run City should be doing just as poorly but they're not.

For all these reasons, I repeat my charge you're inventing conspiracy theories to blame Republicans instead of accepting facts that condemn the Democratic Party
Why algorithms are called algorithms [video]
> hardware that supports microSDXC slots won’t automatically support every size of card in this format. The Samsung Galaxy S9, for example, officially supports cards up to 400GB. There’s no guarantee that your 512GB card will work.

This part drives me nuts. I wish devices would just follow the spec, and accept up to the maximum capacity. But it seems like device manufacturers end up testing the biggest card when they make the device, and as time marches on, you have to search Amazon reviews to see which cards work and which devices have hardcoded smaller limits on capacity.
I feel like the whole "disrupter selling the imcumbent's people opiates" [1] is a recursive theme in statecraft.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_opium_in_China
I wonder how much of this also might have to do that some bad things weren't noticed because most people were used to them and took them as given. If you always lived next to the giant, smoking chimney, are you going to get up every morning and be upset about the smoke ruining the air? It's different if it gets built after you've lived without it.

Now we have many younger people growing up with decent environment around them and we see on TV how the polar bears are starving, the ice is melting and the coral reefs are being bleeched.
Very valid points, but for what it's worth some people will worry until they've got a negative from someone who knows what they're doing. False positives are stressful, but I like having someone who actually understands dermatology take a look, especially since I grew up getting way too much sun, and since I started balding have had a couple bad head burns (I now understand why hats are a good thing).

Also, if you don't have a partner who sees you naked on a regular basis, there are parts of your body you probably don't see too often. I have a birth mark my wife sees more than I do.
I'm assuming the static and dynamic content don't need to be transactionally integrated. If they do, you could still solve it with two databases, but you'd use one database for the "current" data and another database to store "historical" data.

Also, remember the GP said "small to mid-size."
docopt seems like a good idea at first, but you will hit a limitation sooner or later. Not with Click.
Right, explaining stable orbits will definitely work.

In any case, I think it would make everyone on Earth feel a lot less special if they can look to a place they can never go and see a mirror of themselves... I certainly would expect some manner of incorporation into religion, perhaps as an Eden if the development of religion followed a similar course. A place separate from ours that must be better and therefore the source of all our goods and ills.

Thinking about what it would be like to be the first tourists to the other side...
Tracking DNS Records in Version Control
Thanks, I'll look into it.

Julia for example does have an array library that does compile-time shape inference (StaticArrays), but it cannot scale for large arrays (over 100 elements) exactly because it gets too hard for the compiler to keep track, I'm definitely curious about possible solutions.
> If there are a few moguls controlling the message, they're doing a really crappy job of it.

Are they? These times are so divided, particularly because neither side can agree on anything and the "above the fold" news coverage is farcical. Decide for yourself whether the media companies are driving divisions for page views -> clicks -> ad money, or if there's coordination in dividing us so more of our collective energy is spent caring about tweets about Greenland or to argue the semantics of the phrase concentration camp.

There are things that matter more, like anything surrounding the fact that running concentration camps is outsourced to for-profit corporations, never mind the camps themselves. How about Amazon paying anti-union astroturfers to post on Twitter, or Walmart firing everyone they can who's pro-union. How about serious issues over climate change denial at the highest levels?

The greatest trick the media moguls ever pulled, was convincing the world their propaganda isn't propaganda.
the date is a bit futuristic
It is a bit clunky but haven’t hit a limit since Py 3.4 or so.
I'd agree with this apart from the cost to other people being completely unacceptable.
Also see:

Exploring Zork, Part 2: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/exploring-zork-part-2/

Exploring Zork, Part 3: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/exploring-zork-part-3/

The Roots of Infocom: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/the-roots-of-infocom/

The Birth of Infocom: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/the-birth-of-infocom/

ZIL and the Z-Machine: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/zil-and-the-z-machine/

Selling Zork: https://www.filfre.net/2012/01/selling-zork/
I say just use JSON. Everyone knows it already and it's good enough. Use a parser in your app that allows comments and trailing commas like vscode does.
The article names "making the candidate want to work with you" as the first of the two critical skillsets, and goes on to reinforce that this is important.

I've thought for a while that this might be one reason why some large dotcoms (which reportedly study their interview efficacy) put even very experienced candidates through one-way leetcode whiteboard batteries. It seems similar to "negging"[1]. If there's an attraction intent behind it, that would explain a lot.

If so, then perhaps we have countless other companies mimicing the big dotcoms, or at least being influenced by the practice, without being in on the dark pattern side to it.

[1] https://xkcd.com/1027/
FedEx’s visionary founder is a disrupter at risk of disruption
I'm going to completely ignore anyone claiming to be Satoshi Nakamoto. When an article appears about a transaction coming from the genesis block, or one of his wallets, then I'll pay attention.

As for anyone claiming to be Satoshi, but not being able to sign a transaction... Do you really think the mastermind behind bitcoin would be incompetent enough to lose all his keys?
>Not to be a complete cynic but IMO you should just use any of the pretty well-done NoSQL K/V stores if you don't mind ditching SQL.

My thought process is that the current solution works so I'd only change to a K/V store with the extra complexity if that got me a better API and more of the stack in Rust. Consuming something in Go seems like a pain, while also adding a GC runtime just for this.

>BTW I've heard very good things about the widely used sqlite Rust libraries (sorry, don't remember the names).

I'm using rusqlite, seems to work fine.
R has had namespaces for roughly 15 years now: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/namespace.html
Except China isn't forcing us to buy opium at gun point.

Couple things that would be interesting to find out..

1. What percentage of the company's total fentanyl pre-cursor sales are for legitimate medical purposes?

2. What percentage of total orders are fentanyl pre-cursor orders?

Hard to assess scale without this information.

*The people downvoting don't realize there are legitimate uses for fentanyl or what? It's a prescribed painkiller (fyi).
> So the event handler gets called immediately? No that’s not right. What would be the point of that? The event handler or continuation obviously needs to be scheduled on something that is awaitable. Meanwhile, other concurrent tasks may be able to run.

It's kind of like this: async/await is syntactic sugar for higher-order abstractions around event loops. At the level of event loops and event hadnlers there is no awaiting anymore. And the whole point of event loops is to not run event handlers concurrently, that's why they are even called loops, they invoke handlers one by one in a loop deterministically without concurrent tasks and once there is nothing more to run they just block and wait for new events. Obviously you can run multiple event loops in parallel, but you shouldn't share memory between them, as it defeats the purpose, is always slower and is never really necessary, you can just use asynchronous message passing to communicate between event loops when you have to.

> A single task async/await system isn’t terribly interesting.

And yet this is the whole point of async/await, promises, futures and event loops. All of them exist to avoid mistakes and performance problems of shared memory concurrency. I mean, really, if you have semaphores or mutexes in event handlers, futures, promises or async functions - you are in a broken concurrency model zone.
You have no taste and you don't know what you are talking about. Click is very useful, elegant and flexible, the decorators make developing CLI apps way faster and more readable with it.
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I've been thinking for a while that companies should create their hiring tests from bugs and/or feature requests that came from their actual software in the past. Then they can gauge the quality of the employee for their purposes by comparing the candidate's solution(s) to those the actual employees wrote.
強姦殺人魔、徳仁の「銀婚」の画像について、常識的見地から解説をさせて頂きます（祈）†
I'd say 2 is a good number. They have seen the potential consequences a lot better (if this assumption proves to be false, then 1 is a good number, you can test it by amount of people that feel greatly more knowledgeable about this topic), therefore, they have better knowledge to vote.
Reduce Google App Engine Flex Costs with Scheduler, Functions and GAE Admin API
There will most likely be another Scottish independence vote at some point, especially if Brexit happens. Referendums won by a tiny margin do not settle an issue. They're not final for the same reason that elections aren't final.
I'm holding out for a subscription OS.
This is typical woke-capitalist garbage.

Real juice is just fine to drink - in moderation! Before getting some exercise, it's a great boost, has vitamins, easy energy, and it's an excellent bribe. It's also trivial to get juiceboxes that have extremely simple ingredient lists so you can be reasonably sure you're not going to be feeding your kid anything that kids haven't been consuming for millenia.

Should kids have it every day? No, probably not! They need to be used to drinking water as their fundamental beverage. "Fruity water" as a replacement for normal water simply inculcates them with the idea that plain water is gross and not good enough, and that they should demand some enhanced alternative. It does nothing to stem the habit-based dietary issues people end up with - after all, if you're used to fruity water and the only available options are juiceboxes and water, there's no way you'll be satisfied with the latter.

Increasingly it looks like there's a push to serve our kids things even less organic than we used to. Beyond Meat or maggot burgers, fruity water, it's like there's a war on normal, real products. Why are we assuming these new untested alternatives are somehow better or, at least, not fraught with most of the failure modes of their predecessors?
Something we will have to deal with before the next generation rejoins the EU. Having an unelected chamber would disqualify us from joining!
The powerful dermatology lobby has consistently misled the public about the so-called dangers of sun exposure. We've known for decades that sun exposure has a strong inverse relationship with all-cause mortality.

The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Americans should be getting a lot more sun exposure, not less. The intellectual sleight-of-hand comes from an obsessive focus on skin cancer mortality to the exclusion of all other causes of death. At the end of the day skin cancer is a relatively rare, easily treatable disease, which only makes up 1.2% of all cancer deaths and 0.25% of all deaths.

Another way to think about this is even if sun exposure increased skin cancer mortality by 250% (it doesn't), the documented 3%+ reduction in CVD is more than enough to outweigh it.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28074966

[2] https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/melan.html
Here is a fairly detailed overview in the form of slides what is Click and what it can do: https://slides.com/kissgyorgy/deck-10#/
So you're replacing a single executable Python script with a dependency that requires four additional separate artefacts (Dockerfile, image, container and the shell script) to be executed...
Oh sure, I know they exist, but on the resume side there's no common knowledge of anything besides keyword stuffing. I'm wondering if that's actuallly the best way given how the filters actually work (which I don't know).
My memory from the logic classes I've taken was that after Godel, mathematicians largely abandoned Hilbert's, Russell's and Whitehead's ambition of founding mathematics on logic, and largely grew disinterested in foundational issues as a whole.

As such, mathematics doesn't have a solid foundation, and most contemporary mathematicians seem to be ok with that, as long as it works and they can get interesting results.
> Visual examination of the skin in asymptomatic individuals may lead to cosmetic or functional complications of diagnostic or treatment interventions and the psychological effects of being labeled with a potentially fatal disease, although robust data on the frequency of such events are lacking. Other harmful consequences are overdiagnosis, leading to the detection of biologically benign disease that would otherwise go undetected,[7,8,32] and the possibility of misdiagnosis of a benign lesion as malignant.

The potential harm does not sound too horrible, especially since anomaly detection normally results in removal of a small piece of your skin that heals easily and that's it.

> One case of melanoma was detected per 28 excisions overall (for both men and women), while 52 skin excisions were required to detect one melanoma in men aged 20 to 34 years.

On the other hand, the detection rate is actually quite high in my opinion, since they tend to cut out anything small that is suspicious and only do a thorough check afterwards.

It might be different from an economic point of view for the system paying for these checks, but as an individual I'd say there is little to lose and a lot to gain. (The options usually are: Nope, no cancer and you have a small wound/scar. / Yes, it was cancer, but we already took it out so you're fine now.)
As far as I can make it, JSONs popularity grew from it being JavaScript which is, as we know, the knees bees. There was no big thinking in behind the whole thing and the role it plays today was certainly not the intended role (otherwise I cannot explain the non-standard data-formatting that is handled differently everywhere). JSON is more akin to Java RMI than to XML imho.
it's actually the other way round.

interslavic is deliberately based on osl [0].

it is basically "modernized" osl with simplified grammar and lexicon "averaged" from the existing slavic languages.

and, btw, osl is no way the "common root", it's absolutely not proto-slavic, just old bulgarian (from the 9th century) which happened to be the orthodox church liturgical language and thus had very significant influence on many slavic languages.

[0] http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/
This is written so poorly that I can't even make it to the end. The first paragraph is a barely-comprehensible mess. This wasn't written by the same person who wrote the original Bitcoin whitepaper.
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I cannot find a source for this outside of HN, but I have read here that R&D costs to build the next generations fabrication plants double each iteration which limits the total number of sustainable independent chipmakers. Currently, only 3 are left (TSMC, Samsung and Intel) and they all might give up within a few generations when it gets too expensive to scale down further.
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: we've had to ask you multiple times already not to be a jerk on HN. Would you please review the guidelines and take the spirit of this site more to heart?
Here is an example of nevada giving homeless people with mental problems bus tickets to california instead of treating them.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/10/nevada-settles-...

This is article about bloomberg himself defending his program to send homeless to california:
https://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/mayor-defends-...

The quote you have from the guardian is about cities that attract homeless trying to reverse the process by sending the homeless (willingly) back where they come from. These programs attempt to be more responsible because they will only give a free ticket if they can make sure that the homeless person will not be homeless at the end of their destination. This does not always work out as intended as the guardian article explains but at least conceptually it is the right idea.