skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's think about it for a second: reading code is hard. We all know that. Reading code in "whatever language" that you may not know at all is nigh impossible.

These companies get a ton of candidates and tell them all to submit homework assignments that take at least 5 hours (in your case 12).

Reading 12 hours worth of coding work is intense effort even when you know the language well. If you don't, it can take a multiple of that number of hours.

Some programmer got 10-20+ of these completed tasks dumped in their lap.

I can pretty much guarantee they never really took the time to read and review the code with anything close to sufficient care or attention. Doubly so if it's in a language they didn't know very well.
You're right. I would go so far as to say the assumptions that their model makes are never valid in practice on real world problems.
>At this point, the TuSimple trucks carrying packages for UPS still have an engineer and a safety driver riding along. When UPS reaches Level 4, it won’t need anyone behind the wheel.

Yeah, when that happens, that'll be news...
You are right.
Any investor should be aware that it may lose or gain wealth from this actions.

As customer I will take a lower fee instead of that and then I will choose whatever I will do with a lower fee.
If you add the cost of $100 per ton to the price of the plane ticket, you would see some amount of travel reduction naturally.

What travel reduction we would have would, at that point, pay for the appropriate sequestration.

Honestly, it sounds like we should just require everyone to buy 100% sequestration for their carbon production (priced into the goods and services). Add a phase in over, say 10 years to.
> People can install non reviewed apps by using non-official app stores

Not on iOS
Quite the apposite. Love Amazon and a stock holder. That doesn't mean I'm blind to some of their faults and would like improvements.

> What do you mean by Kindle exclusivity?

I'm talking from authors perspective. To be part of KU you must be exclusive which is anti-competitive.

> Citation needed.

Again, an author thing. Have you noticed that "also bought" have gone away? (https://davidgaughran.com/2018/11/03/amazon-also-boughts-apo...) Authors are forced to advertise using AMS to get their content in front of users when previously discovery was more organic.

Not very VIP.
>I have some friends who I could listen to all day, and they'd happily talk all day.

I have those friends too, but unfortunately I also have some acquaintances that I can only listen to for a minute, yet they happily talk all day.

Sometimes their extrovert nature can override recognition of the audience's engagement level.
I remember doing a take home and adding it to github as requested by the company. Then I realized every one else who applied did the same thing and left up their solution and found all the other candidate answers using a simple search. This was prior to github making private repos free.
Show HN: Websnake) Asynchronous HTTP/HTTPS Requests in Python Easily
Sorry for the typo, HN on Android didn't enable me to fix it :-(
Can’t they just measure which emojis people use?
Look after her. And yourself.

It sounds like you have a very special bond.

Thank you for sharing this.
Even if you could snap your fingers and make perfectly renewable energy, we still have the problem that there's a bunch of carbon in the air that used to be in the ground, and that's not going away unless we do something about it.
Apparently this is a common question.

Here's some discussion on it https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/348510/Googl...
Ah well the hash table wasn't exotic.

But, software engineering interviews are pretty rough. It is a uniquely miserable experience. Since I'm a temp worker I have a lot of them. They don't get easier.

I don't know of anyone who likes high pressure time crunch interrogations except maybe the ones getting to do the interrogating part.

A take home test isn't so bad. But, ya if you asked me today if I'd be willing to do one like that again I'd say probably not unless I was desperate. The reality is, it is a lot of effort to put in for it to all come crashing down with a rejection anyway. When you're applying at dozens of companies if they're all requiring that level of time and mental commitment from you, you can't swing it really and it's stressful. Interviewing and being under financial pressure at the same time is already a stressful position to be in, let alone being mentally and emotionally flogged for it.

All the jobs I was ever hired onto the hiring manager just had a good gut feeling about me and the tests never mattered. And, they were happy with my work.

The ones that never hire me usually rely on all the employees to vote on you, if even one says no you're out. Or, the ones that are very fixated on your GPA or whether you can invert a binary tree on the whiteboard while they yell at you "Wrong!" along the way.
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On macOS the vast majority of users still install apps outside the Mac App Store and this hasn't really been a problem.
It's a fair question, but I'll ask you "what's the alternative?"

We can't plant enough trees. Nor can we always plant them in the most needed places (North, where carbon accumulates). We can't build even public transport (which is still positive emissions). We can't get everyone to go vegan (which still is positive emissions. Even lab meat won't make negative emissions). We can't stop air travel and shipping without significantly affecting people's lives (including their ability to live, as drugs, equipment, and experts aren't all created locally). We can't get everyone to leave their homes and concentrate into cities.

Even if we could do all that, we'd still be positive. Worse, how do we get every country in the world to do the same? It seems infeasible to me. And it doesn't address the problems like that carbon builds up in certain areas that we just can't even plant trees.

But here's the thing. The argument isn't "planting trees vs CC", it is "trees + CC". Actually it's more! It's about using every available method we have at our disposal. There is nothing wrong with burning carbon actually. The issue is burning so much that we are destroying the plant. Destroying the planet is the issue. If we have negative emissions total (and aren't creating carbon hot zones) then who cares how much we emit? As long as it's captured and doesn't damage the planet.

Leaving CC off the table is like telling a bunch of starving children that they can't have hamburgers because some of them might eat too many and get fat. The concern is completely missing the point of the problem.
I actually don't have a huge issue with whiteboarding, but I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Something that "reflects problems we solve here day-to-day" is missing one feature: you're not paid for it. I have a pretty good job right now, but it's not like I'd keep doing it if they decided to stop paying me.

I had an interview a few years ago that I thought did something cool: you spent half a day working with people, and they paid you for your time (around $40/hour, if I recall), and made an offer based on how well you worked with people. I ended up not getting the job, but at least I didn't feel used or like I wasted me time in the process.
Data centers are factories without smoke stacks, they are voracious consumers of energy and since "cloud" everything computing is the name of the game at least for medium term, tech companies would do a favor if they focus on tackling the datacenter related issue.

Also chip fabrication is a dirty dirty dirty business, as the consumers of the computer hardware, we as an industry has responsibility to pollution reduction of this process.

Planting trees is good, giving aid money is good, but cleaning your own shit is better!
After all, why do we only work 5 days/week?

"In 1908, a New England mill became the first American factory to institute the five-day week. It did so to accommodate Jewish workers, whose observance of a Saturday sabbath forced them to make up their work on Sundays, offending some in the Christian majority. The mill granted these Jewish workers a two-day weekend, and other factories followed this example. The Great Depression cemented the two-day weekend into the economy, as shorter hours were considered a remedy to underemployment." - https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/08/where-t...

Then, influentially, Henry Ford dropped it down from six days of 14-16 hours, in 1926. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/09/five-day-wor...
font-weight:400 made this readable for me as well.

The best thing monitor manufacturers even did was see 4k monitors to designers.
Chrome 76 hides “non-trivial” subdomains (like “www”) from address bar
Right.

I tend to bounce around from low to high cost of living locations. My mindset changes a lot without it really being under my control.

In a high CoL area the limits to what you want can be truly absurd because there's so much wealth swimming about. It's normal.

It takes some grounding, but also interaction with a community that accepts you for who you are, to temper that.
> All the jobs I was ever hired onto the hiring manager just had a good gut feeling about me and the tests never mattered.

At one, the resume didn't matter! When through the interviews, got the offer, and then "oh, can you send me your resume, so we have it on file?"
So you wasted all our time with this, and your answer is just "fewer hours"? That's your imagination? I'm unimpressed.

And, for most of us, "less hours" is going to equal "less pay". How do you imagine that we should deal with that? Or do you imagine that the corporations (or the country) are just going to pay us anyway?
Sequestration is also good for catching carbon at potential emission sources; it's easier to grab CO2 out of the atmosphere at the point where you're burning methane than to let it out in the atmosphere and then try to catch it again.

(Or, in some interesting experiments, even before emission; there's work on splitting methane from natural gas into carbon and hydrogen and just burning the hydrogen. Gets you something like 66% of the energy of burning the methane completely, and with no CO2 emissions.)
Is this Trump's Sudetenland?
I guess, but then your commute will become a nightmare.

Either way, let's get real for a second: a software engineer is a highly trained professional working in an high-demand field.

There's no reason for them to be earning $120k/yr, which is a pretty low salary in a very high CoL area like NYC.
The reasons why are complicated, but what we know so far is that the words "happy" and "new" and used excessively on this day, from which we conclude that people's moods are unusually positive.
> don’t complain that they have to put in the work

This isn't about whether people are willing to do the work. It's about whether they have to do the same amount of work and whether their performance is measured the same way. If not, that's discrimination. People who want to run a marathon should have to do the work, but they shouldn't have to wear weights on their ankles while others don't.

As I said, it didn't stop me personally. But I know others who also did the work and got the short end of that effort/reward disparity. That doesn't mean they were wrong for trying. Your choices might be right for you or they might be mere "sour grapes" rationalization. I don't know and I don't care, but they can't and shouldn't be projected onto others. Discrimination is discrimination even when it doesn't affect you.
Without patents, the little guy can actually do innovative stuff with all the technology we're surrounded with. Patents are primarily used by the big players to maintain their power.

Inequities in wealth and power are serious problems. Patents are a horrible method to deal with them though. If you set out to have a goal of supporting little-guy innovators, we'd do best to institute things like UBI and universal health care.

That whole windshield wiper story isn't too far from patent-trolling situations. Big companies get sued all the time by "inventors" who got patents on things that the companies would have come up with on their own anyway. The overall net effect of patents is harm for the public interest.
Zoom is great especially the malware side of it
> There is no basis for Corellium to be selling a product that allows the creation of avowedly perfect replicas of Apple’s devices to anyone willing to pay.

It's hard to be sympathetic when Apple's business model is built around preventing users from using the software they pay for in ways Apple does not approve of—sometimes you can frame this around profit, but the problems hardly stop there (e.g. they exercise political control of their platform, too). If this isn't a legitimate market, I don't see any good that comes from making this market illegal.

That said Corellium doesn't seem to be aimed at anything good, either, so this should be fun to watch.
Why would you not? Surely you would agree there's a point where it starts to matter. What if the platform was 1 GB, 10 GB? Eventually everyone would care. So the point is it's crossed the threshold where I care about it. Maybe it hasn't for you, or maybe you just haven't thought about how big is too big.
Interact with them in person, in private, and you'll change their mind. It can't be done over social media.
European fascists appropriated aesthetics from ancient cultures intentionally.

A mace and an Eagle as a symbol of office goes back thousands of years, which is mentioned in the article itself.
I simply do not pick up unexpected phone calls. If it's actually important, they'll leave a message saying who they are, and I will look up the number for that organisation and call them back.
> digging holes in the ground in Saudi Arabia

are you aware of fracking and tar sands and their environmental impacts? you cannot possibly trivialize those as "digging holes in the ground".
Especially with landlines it’s possible for them to stay on the line and pretend that they have hung up, play the dial tone and ring back noises, then continue the con. This is particularly easy with elderly people who have older phones.
I was trying to be concise and not to make a case, so stated it intentionally weaker than my impression from the details in the article. Are you speaking of this particular case (e.g., that they shouldn't have expected the subsequent funding round), or making a more general point about contracts and "expected"?
>To be considered, Amazon required brands to be able to keep products in stock for a 12-month duration, keep customer review ratings above four stars, and maintain certain technical specifications for their respective subcategories.

i don't see anything wrong with this. Essentially, if multiple products in a category are all good enough to be recommended, amazon was selling the featured slot instead of picking one of the contenders randomly. They weren't selling the featured slot to undeserving products.
I read something different into that Bukowski quote.

Specifically, I read it as a warning against voluntarily putting your destiny and satisfaction in the hands of other humans or organizations; it is a call to independence of thought and action.

Your SO’s situation is an unfortunate roll of the dice. Any of us could get hit by a bus tomorrow. But these seem orthogonal to Bukowski’s point.
What you describe depends greatly on the level of interaction and relationship building that the traveler does with the people they meet in their travels. Obviously at one end of the spectrum there are travelers who remain insulated from locals while traveling, and at the other end of the spectrum there are those who integrate and even become connected romantically or otherwise with locals.

I would venture to guess that some people who travel thrive on the connections and relations they make along the way. Chances are I've only met those types of travelers, because the opposite type was busy in the malls?

Like anything else, if you've done a LOT of one thing (say you've traveled 100+ countries, tasted everything, learned 2-3 extra languages), then maybe you get bored with travel for the sake of travel. Even still, that cannot be as mundane as spending the same period of time at one job in the corporate world.

I'm not a 100+ country taveler; I'm a 10+. And for me, meeting nice people and experiencing new foods is my lure. But once I get someplace, exploring the architecture, sampling the music and local culture, and meeting other travelers to share stories are the attractions. Likely 10 years from now I'll care a lot more about stuff that involves less travel.

So to your point, yes there is probably an asymptote. I bet it's far beyond what most people have experienced. And without being too peace-hippy-ish, I would argue that the more people get out and meet others from distant lands, the less conflict we would have globally. It's much harder to say the Chinese are evil Communist thieves when you've met a number of really great, kind, thoughtful Chinese people. (I just use this as an example.)
OP had I right in the first sentence. Senior Analysts not Senior Software Engineers.
Well said. Really this kind of discussion and debate tends to revolve around whether people assign importance to the destination or the journey.

If you're constantly striving and chasing some personal goal, ie. "once I achieve this, THEN I'll be happy" then there are two major risks. The first is that you'll fail - the fallout from this is obvious since your happiness was a self-imposed condition of achieving said goal. The second risk is that you do not live to see your goal, or, unfortunately as you've described in your personal story, the goal will become worthless for one reason or another - such as a major personal crisis or illness.

That's not to say you shouldn't strive for great things or have lofty goals and plans. I personally don't have the answers on the "key to happiness and success", but I do know that always chasing and never stopping to reflect or enjoy what you actually have can't be healthy either. I suppose that's where a lot of the power of things like meditation and mindfulness come from; because they're about being in the moment.

Personally, I think it's important to take each day as it comes and aim to be the best version of yourself you can be that day. You win some, you lose some, but hopefully, the cumulative effect of more good days outweigh the bad, and you can one day reflect on that without too much regret and with some sense of happiness.

On another note, Bukowski's requested that "Don't Try" is engraved on his tombstone. Some feel it is a comment about being authentic, not pursuing or pushing for something that isn't you, and about letting the work you naturally enjoy flow from you, as opposed to forcing it - or trying too hard.
I should probably just let Gwern post it, but since he hasn't shown up yet, here's a link to his wonderful post on the previous US attempt to buy Greenland:

"After WWII, the Cold War motivated the USA to offer $100m for ownership of Greenland, which was declined. The USA got the benefit of using Greenland anyway. I discuss how the island otherwise remained a drain since, the dim prospect it will ever be useful to Denmark, and the forgone benefits of that offer. I speculate on the real reasons for the refusal."

https://www.gwern.net/Greenland
It does heat the east coast of the U.S, but not nearly as much as Northern Europe.

The main complication is that prevailing weather tends to move west-to-east (because of the Coriolis force at typical U.S. latitudes), which means the east coast gets more continental air masses from Canada and the Plains than oceanic air masses. But compare Boston to Chicago, NYC to Kansas, or Washington D.C. to Colorado. All of the former are at higher latitudes, but tend to have milder temperatures than the latter. (Some of this is due to the moderating effect of water in general, but winters in coastal Boston are generally milder than in Chicago despite the latter also being on water and at a lower latitude.)
Can anyone explain the exact nature of the infringement here? Presumably illegally copying the software from a device to a vm? Is there a logical strategy to counter this claim by Corellium?
Oh if we're going to limit this to programming jobs then I know for a fact that the majority of programming jobs do not pay for relocation or a signing bonus. Especially not in the startup world.

And when they do, it's standard practice to require that relocation and signing bonuses be repaid if the employee resigns or is terminated within a certain time frame after joining the company.

I work pretty regularly with HR. Do you?
I've never heard of a paid take-home interview task. Has anyone here actually done one?
Meta Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs
Meh. In the grand scheme of things, those environmental impacts are nothing compared to the problems of climate change.
Equality maxed out with respect to the United States, and that with respect to white males. However, there was much more global inequality. Western Europe, Soviet Union, China, and Japan had all been devastated by having WWII fought on their land. Their cities had been bombed out, and large percentages of their population killed or maimed. India had just gained independence from Great Britain and trying to get it bearings as well as navigate a bitter rivalry with Pakistan.

In the 50's and 60's, the US was basically the only developed country that hadn't had its homeland destroyed by the war. This meant that there was very little competition for US companies.

In addition, the labor markets were tight. Remember, half of the population (women) were not expected to be in the job market long term, but rather to get married and stay at home. There was outright discrimination against people of color. Thus you had very little outside competition for US companies, with tight labor markets in the US, this resulted in generally good pay and benefits for US workers.
Not very helpful if you need to do collision on the displaced mesh though, I would have thought, since a vertex shader only make it "appear" as if the vertices are not in their original position?

I'm thinking of tracing for foot placement in conjunction with inverse kinematics for walking characters, or vehicle wheels traversing the terrain. I've run into this problem with UE4.
I only run 1440p, though on a very nice monitor. In a couple of GPU revs I'll pick up a nice 4k.
"For the purpose of this title—
(1) the “civil service” consists of all appointive positions in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, except positions in the uniformed services;"

5 U.S. Code § 2101. Civil service; armed forces; uniformed services
Sure but I thought they signed unlisted addons using a quick automatic test? Sorry it's been awhile so I might be behind the time.
My mom only ever uses Thunderbird and Firefox, I've been considering converting her to Linux, which would make all of this impossible. She already knows the IRS isn't going to call her on the phone, much less arrest her.
Not to mention pay someone off to look the other way, etc.
I’ve noticed two questions on twitter:

- Do you use a causal graph? Would it make sense?

- Spark seems over-kill for what you yourself describe as regression: is there something more intensive here that we could be missing?
The article is very unclear on what "fixing the country" means.

Papering over widely differing opinions on what a "fix" and what's "damage", and instead calling some vague offense "criminal" does little to help.