skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my current position for a remote job, one of the interview assignments was reviewing a pull request for a very basic example app using their tech stack, and then implementing my own suggestions during a video call (while sharing my screen), updating/running tests, discussing trade-offs etc.

I think this was a great way to not only verify coding ability, but also testing team work and communication skills.
I fully agree. And it still is like that today in the retro computer scene. Many Amiga utilities and libraries could have been open sourced years ago, which would have benefited the community but the authors rather die with the source code than share them.
Sure, if you're bikeshedding with an outsider's perspective, that could totally work
The review is written by the university that employs him, and the book was published by another university. This sounds like an echo chamber.
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I have a similar experience doing interviews in NYC. We started by asking algo questions, but quickly found out that 95% of the candidates can't answer them. My boss, an ex-programmer, was surprised too, and she asked me to dumb them down, a lot. We ended up with a bunch of really trivial stuff like "write a function to reverse a string" or its slightly harder version - "reverse an integer".

Could you give the exact wording of your "nested for-loop" question?
Right. I focused on the security, but it's a legacy code base with legal entanglements. Also created in another era.
That is the situation for cities, yes. On villages is another dimension. Broadcast is almost non-existent and everybody is relying on mobile. The few that have Digi (that's the actual former Romtelecom) are a drop in a bucket. As corruption is rampart, those on villages that require constant high speed connection usually bribe some city hall workers to let them get a fiber from the city hall to their house. The big majority of people, like I said, rely on cell data by doing hot-spots with them, and that gives them most of the time 3G due to weakness of the signal. Romania has coverage over its territory, but just enough to allow you to call an ambulance or police, but to rely a country side business like a farm that sell its products over internet that's not happening. We all wait to see what happens with 5G, and see wtf is the outcome of the current trade war US/China and most importantly to see from where to get 5G equipment for infrastructure. Huwaei is currently the incontestable leader of 5G tech but with shots fired from US govt. against it, and due to Romania being in NATO and having a US military presence we can't really just say "you know what? we'll get 5G from Huwaei". On the other side we are part of EU and current movement is to kinda ignore Trump and the trade war (see EU stance vis-a-vis Iran issue) and most big telecom companies from France/Germany do have talk with Huwaei. So we, a small fish, are caught between a rock and a hard place...and we wait...and we started to fall behind.

That being said, a WISP for villages would definitely has its place in current situation.
Not all are competent enough to get them there alive.
I'm a sysadmin and worked in education for 13 years. Most of the age group you are referring to don't understand the difference between who provides their broadband and their browser. My advice would be more show and less tell.

For example, setup an actual server in the classroom. Get them browsing/connecting to the server and then pull the plug (ethernet/wifi) on the server. Then they will see the connection.

Have the students deface their school website with developer tools. That will also go down well I'm sure.

I guess I am saying keep it simple. I did a lesson once on how the web connects with the students holding bits of string. The students enjoyed it and some staff passing by even sat in on the lesson.

Try your best to cater for all the students in the class and not just the whizzos and you will do well.

(Also be prepared to have 10/15 minutes of your time lost to students arriving and getting settled in.)
As a vegetarian from the west, I have sometimes encountered similar incredulity from people in developing countries about my dietary choice.

Development is a ratchet, but there's diminishing returns. Eventually costs can seem to outweigh benefits in specific areas.
This is not quite true. There have been required advances in materials science over the last decades that are needed to maintain the size/strength:weight ratios/etc. The larger the wind blade the more efficient.
Pretty impressive. But it would be nice if you could turn-off certain era's to see how an area evolved.
Sure you can, I use z-push [0] integrated with Kopano which works great. You can also use z-push with IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV. The only issue I know of using IMAP is that the z-push server polls your mailbox, so it's not true push, but vastly better than the battery drain of IMAP IDLE.

[0] http://z-push.org
Oh this is good - thanks for the link!
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Well, I don't know but for the sake of argument, yes.

But how does that account for differences in accent and dialect? Some areas of the UK can be close to unintelligible for me without a few hours of acclimatisation and they are all using english!

Heavy glaswegian can be murder for me. Heavy geordie (newcastle) is a struggle. And that's even when they are using the same words (ignoring differences in vocabulary and idiom that have developed, because that isn't an alphabet issue).
Plenty of those app store games use AOT native compiled Flash.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/ios-packaging-comp...
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Like this?

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/ios-packaging-comp...
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Only for the devs that didn't follow up on it.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/ios-packaging-comp...
Cool. I like your approach? Since we’re at it: what about mass extinction of species? Same priority?
A renewable energy system benefits from having stored chemical energy, to help cover variability in wind and solar. Plastic waste can serve as that energy store, if the plastic was originally made from renewable energy and carbon sources. It's like burning biomass, except it's been a bit more processed.
Words that have the same spelling in the English alphabet but different intonations due to accents or dialects would have different spellings in the International Phonetic Alphabet.

The point of the International Phonetic Alphabet is that you can stumble across any new word you haven't heard before, and be able to pronounce it correctly. If you master the International Phonetic Alphabet and, say, stumble across a Mandarin or Russian word spelled using that alphabet, you'll be able to pronounce it.

The International Phonetic Alphabet has a unique "key" (letter) for every sound that the mouth/tongue/throat can produce basically. (Or at least it tried to, it seems extensions to the IPA have been released to account for other "qualities of speech", like tooth gnashing, lisping, sounds make with a left cleft lip and cleft palate... I'm quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe... right now).
"A" is derived from the Phoenician consonant ʾālep, which is the glottal stop represented by ʾ in that transliteration of the letter's name. The Greeks reinterpreted it to mean the vowel sound instead, probably because there was no glottal stop in Greek. So on a very long timescale, it's possible that "a" will end up being pronounced as "t".
Have a look at https://www.topotijdreis.nl/ here they layer old maps going all the way back to 1815.
Are you sure they don't leak any information sufficient to identify you? Let's play this through; 33 bits of information leak your identity (assuming 8 billion humans)

If you set your timezone; that's already leaking 5 bits of information (37 timezones), it lets an observer narrow down your location. The times the VM is active can confirm this (by observing when the VM is more active vs not, your sleep pattern can be derived)

Your language setting can nail down north vs south hemisphere, that leaks another bit of information.

Since you come from a Tor endpoint, we can exclude with high probability old demographics and very young demographics (>65 and <14 years old), those seem to rarely use such tools. That eliminates about 34% of the population, leading to another 8 bits of entropy leaked. The usage pattern of the mouse can be used to confirm (shaky movements could indicate cognitive impairment common among elderly as well as usage habits like only using VMs outside common school times).

We're down to 19 bits; Only 500'000 people share these traits with you.

By profiling which websites you visit and the fact you're using tor, one can take a guess at your gender, likely male. Another bit is gone, 250'000 people left.

Identifying 1 in 250'000 people based on them using a VPN; depending on region between 18 and 30% of people use a VPN atleast once per month (statista), that fact alone leaves you with 13 bits on both ends of the range.

1 in 8000 people.

Are you certain you can hide among 8000 people? Because things like movies being watched or social network usage can further leak entropy and reduce your anonimity set. Your meatspace identity is protected by 13 bits.

And if you visit very specific websites, like LGBT-related content, this can be used to identify you as LGBT, moving you down to 4 bits of entropy. 16 people.
Got tricked into their biz class for EU > Oceania flight. About half price. Don't care about fancy, just want to lay down when flying for such long periods.

Flight is in couple of days, will see...
Halal meat is big export thing.
"Occasionally, red flags marry each other"

I'm glad I read this article.
What!!!

Is this some sort of a joke? Do not troll here.
This is from before Xi.
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> Well, I don't know but for the sake of argument, yes.

> But how does that account for differences in accent and dialect? Some areas of the UK can be close to unintelligible for me without a few hours of acclimatisation and they are all using english!

Do you mean accent like stressing a vowel or accent like the way people sound when they speak the language?

If the latter, which alphabets allow for expressing that? I'm not familiar with any that do.
Charles Moore did that with Color Forth and even though only he was using it, I remember several comments on how that is unfair to the color blind or visually impaired which is an interesting point.
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In my opinion Firefox could take it one step further and build-in Ublock Origin into the browser. Give it extreme speed with native Rust code. Of course configurable but with a few malware lists enabled by default and a few trackers blocked.

That'd make me definitely switch if I'd get faster ad-blocking and only lose HW accelerated video.
ls -l ~/.bashrc and by design.
As someone who dealt professionally with security issues from about 2000 onwards, many involving Flash 0-days, I have about as much fond remembrance of Flash as I do for polio or smallpox. I regard it as an infectious scourge that humanity has finally largely eradicated, and we're healthier for it.
As far as I'm aware, there are no governmental regulatory requirements to use AV software. All such requirements are generated by individual organizations, for example this one by NC State: https://policies.ncsu.edu/regulation/reg-08-00-10/

Nobody told NC State to require anti-virus, and the same company that created the requirements isn't going to accept some "minimal" solution to check their own box. Instead they will maintain a list of approved software, and your solution won't be on it.
The majority of plastic waste in “civilised” countries is shipped elsewhere: out of sight out of mind. There’s a strong likelihood that your plastic waste is ending up somewhere you do not expect it to end up.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-worlds-recycling-is-in-chaos...
The issue is that you must check the external connection, i.e. <-2-> in:

User <-1-> antivirus <-2-> Site

If not a hostile actor can inject themselves in a way which is completely invisible to the user:

User <-1-> antivirus <-2-> Hostile <-3-> Site

Actually checking <-2-> is tricky but many antivirus tools don't even try.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10727431
Terrific stuff. I'd be interested in hearing your opinion about where additional funds would come from. And the areas most in need of allocation. Life sciences research can be a black hole. Infinite funds and data in, with very little usable output. At least that tends to be the perception ;)

An additional trend I've noticed is that many senior researchers tend to veer away from the pure research and discovery that marked early triumphs. And veer into issues of cruft, turf wars, plumbing, and "technical debt" later in their careers. A kind of "low hanging fruit" mentality sets in. In ML research for example, issues of reproducibility and generalizability need to be solved before trust can be placed in the system. And while I recognize the ethical need for theoretical foundations to be rock solid before deployment at scale. I am wondering if that's the class of problems the most brilliant minds should be working on.

It's only now that we are getting hard metrics about the return on research expenditures. And while its currently in vogue for administrators to use these stats competitively and make claims like "UCL published more Neuroscience papers than MIT last year". We should start to see more wise allocations of research dollars into the areas of development most needed.

Thanks!
Someone pointed me to a link where round trip efficiency was analyzed, with the claim that ammonia is better than hydrogen or methanol for energy storage. Apparently hydrogen compression takes a big hit, although I'm not clear if that's still the case if the hydrogen is burned in stationary turbines (that compressional energy could be recovered).
This is really cool. Just imagining all the work involved and the developers seem very knowledgeable and optimistic about it. I think it'd be cool glean some insight from them about runtimes and standards.

I wish them the best of luck on their path to full compatibility with Adobe flash.
Capitalism... they could give some of these cars to workers in their factories or donate them to police/hospitals/NGOs.
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Why not use the phonetic alphabet? Was it not known yet?
Good to use data. What I am referring to are the pre-wellhead prices which can't even be measured because the gas producers will not pay to put it on the pipeline. Ergo the negative pricing.
Yea, this whole discussion feels weird to me. Different use cases. I love Rust (and dislike Py lol), but from everything i hear a highly dynamic frontend (like Py) has little downsides to authors of ML/etc. All of the hotpaths are in other already because Python is so slow.

The only downside i've seen is sometimes the programmer will want more safety. In such a scenario Rust for the "frontend" would be very useful.

So we have two concerns, frontend and backend. For the backend Rust would perfectly acceptable, but i'm not sure it is fixing a safety issue/etc in other (C/etc) languages - aka, perhaps little value in the backend. For the frontend it only has value in some areas.

Regardless, i love Rust and would totally welcome any tooling to keep me in Rust. However i'm not an ML person hah.
I will blow your mind when I will tell you to use a RamDisks for fastest run times wink wink
J has a first-class citizen self tokenizer in the standard lib as a dedicated state machine ( ;: )
https://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/d332.htm

For an example of a very incomplete and largely suboptimal parser that uses the above: https://github.com/Rscho314/J-compiler/blob/master/ast.ijs
This works for non-technical positions too. Generally it requires an experienced interviewer to listen to the candidate, think on their feet, be fully engaged, and basically do the opposite of the one-size-fits-all coding or behavioral interview.

It takes a lot more effort on the part of the interviewer and is "harder to scale", in that you can't just train people to ask canned questions. But since it's open ended, it's a lot better at finding out what the candidate is really good at, and it's very useful to have one of these in every hiring loop, usually by a senior team member or exec.
As I wrote in https://guzey.com/patronage-and-research-labs/ - my hope is that philanthropists and foundations will be deciding to experiment more and to allow scientists to pursue research differently...

Wouldn't want to point to specific areas - rather I think that we need to find brilliant people and back whatever they're working on.
> Why would anyone pay someone to accept a trash shipment? Why wouldn't you just dump it at source?

Because it’s either illegal or expensive to do so at the source.
Comprehensive and Worthy suggestions.

The first one was new to me. Looks quite good.
And even if one can afford Apple hardware, I'd bet on there being significant overlap between the "has keen interest in security" and "likes to fix own hardware" crowds. I could easily afford to have an all-Apple household. I don't, because I don't like Apple's attitude towards individuals fixing something rather than buying new.
Agreed.

My major concern would be rather than this being a last resort, it becomes the first choice.

It should in my view be seen as a failure that we are attempting to make the best of, rather than any kind of success.

Obviously the calculations change once bio plastics start to take over.
Is that base layer something which is standard in OSM and how do I get it?
Yes I totally understand that, and you could literally count with one hand how many people are working in Anandtech.

But sometimes I just want 2 Sentence on their Frontpage. Like

1) Today is the launch of AMD Threadripper, here are the Spec. It is exciting to test ( hype ) and we intend to publish a full review within 2 weeks.

Rather than just stay silent on the issue.

2) Today there is a new Intel threat called X, as published here ( Intel Official Documentation ) and here ( Likely the Bug have its own webpage now ). We may cover it with more details in the future.

I understand they have timing and staff issues. But two sentence will show they knew of the issue / press/ release rather than staying Silent on it.

May be Anandtech wants to be a pure review site, but then it is not has a section called News Pipeline. Staying silent on anything at Intel's disadvantage makes me question if they have slight bias towards Intel.
Suspicious files - if you fully buy into the solution - are uploaded to Azure and “controlled detonation” in a VM assesses if they’re malware. Then a signature is generated and distributed. It’s super slick. MS are serious about rehabilitating their security reputation.
Why the bias against it? I don't understand why you would think that. It's not like recycling of plastic into plastic is superior by definition. That sounds like dogma.
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If you're eating the same meal every day and/or every meal, it's actually pretty easy..
It is interesting how phrase 'community-run ISP' is interpreted in different ways. I would understand it to mean ISP run by independent non-profit organization or consumer co-op, but definitely not ISP run by government/municipal organization. But many posts in this thread (and also in other discussions) use it for municipal ISP.
I mean, of course -- my comment really only applies to very large cities I think.

A historic village of 5,000 people is small and beautiful. Of course advertising would be out of place.

But the endless concrete jungle of São Paulo is obviously nothing like that. My only point was that advertising can give color and vibrancy... when there isn't any to begin with. It most certainly does not apply do Assisi. :)
Brave’s zero market share would suggest to me that if it should be mentioned, it would be more of a side note. For years when dealing with Linux and free software the argument given by these type of publications was that they’re not worth mentioning or considering, because they had no market share. When did Brave (AdBuddy) become the defender of users rights and online safety? And why would a browser with no users be mentioned in every article you read lately about browsers? How can it have such an impact on editors still not on users?
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It was a "good enough" practice until better options came along. It's never been a "good" practice. Take a look at lists of breached passwords and you'll see an overwhelming number of passwords that involve replacing vowels with numbers in common words. Humans are bad at picking complex passwords because they're not easy to remember. We had to adjust the rules over time to deal with that: minimum complexity rules, require a capital letter, require a number, require a "special" (but not too special because we still don't do proper sanitization), no repeating the same password until you've rotated N times, no repeating the same password until you've rotated N times AND there's a minimum age. Those rules all camebinto play because people can't be relied on to be smart about passwords.

Password expirations are insufficient and it has always been a game of cat-and-mouse with people who hate them. Good security is something people willingly use or don't know they're using, so they don't try and work around it.
Intersting. I don't see the need on tariffs though , the British and NZ lamb taste quite different. That is why I said most of the production aren't really good in Sales and Marketing.
Ask HN: How do I pay my escort girl/ drug dealer in sweden if there is no cash?
I came across this IMF working paper, where they describe strategies of communication towards society regarding "de-cashing", meaning the removal of cash from the single countries.

https://www.imf.org/~/media/Files/Publications/WP/2017/wp1771.ashx%20

So, we have already some "de-cashed" countries around the world, one of the most "successfull" ones by far is South Korea - how did they do it? Special trick: They allowed a distinct part of consumtion expenses to be tax deductable, if, and only if it was paid with electronic payments. Nice trick. And the mouse went in the trap next day, applouding for this great "achievement".

So, my question is:
How do i pay my escort girl or my drug dealer (marijuna e.g.) if there is no more cash in a country?

Let's dicuss.
You can chain in a relatively small lithium battery to smooth load.
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Can you elaborate?

What did he do or say that made you think he could do the job even though it looks like he wasn't able to work with other people code?