skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends where you are interviewing. If you are interviewing at startups or pure tech companies you can expect a fairly deep technical interview that most of the time while factually valid is not necessarily true to the daily job requirements. If you are interviewing at most SMB's (outside the tech startup scene) or any Enterprise company then you will get more a skills & experience based interview, not a deep dive technical interview. The skills & experience interview will be what have you done, ask you some questions around your experiences, ask you questions around things you claim expertise in, like a programming language, check you for team fit etc. But then they move forward, there is no long drawn out technical interview about algorithms etc unless the job is specifically hiring that as a primary skill. This IMO is the way startups should be hiring for anyone with more than 3-4 years of experience. I get using pure CS interviews when someone has NO to very little experience because you can only rate them on what they should have learned in school, but once they have experience then their abilities change, and they won't remember every algorithm, especially when they can look it up in 10 minutes because it isn't something needed everyday. Instead, they'll remember all the things to deliver product, issues to avoid, how to architect solutions, how to debug problems, all of which are FAR more critical than remembering how to code out a specific algorithm.

I have never seen anything wrong with probing someones knowledge on their claimed expertise, but I also went through the dotcom days where we did this same tech style interviews and as the implosion was taking place it was obvious doing these interviews was hurting companies not helping. Hurting because companies were full of super book intelligent people that couldn't get a product out the door that worked to save their lives. I saw it daily in my work, so many companies, cool ideas, good product market but they'd spend forever and a day working on technical details versus shipping product, huge waste of money and time. Most companies I know of back then that are still around today in some form moved to more experienced based interviews with technical screens around the specific issues you will be addressing regularly in whatever position you are applying to. And left the CS skills type interviews for new grads, and even then toned that down some. Some places like Amazon and specific tech companies (Microsoft) still use highly CS driven interviews, but they also have the highest number of new grads applying so that mostly makes sense. And when you apply to those companies at the higher levels with more experience the interview styles change generally.

So I don't think your experience is uncommon overall, it just depends where you are interviewing and what your level of experience is, if they are doing it right.
That did not work for me. This should work for others who find the site inaccessible.

http://web.archive.org/web/20190325120315/https://www.seat61...
Why do you think quicksort's worst-case performance occurs when the data is already sorted?
The unfortunate counterpoint is there are an equal number of things that are clunky and unintuitive in Bitwig. It's also not nearly as friendly and intuitive when being used as a live looper.

How many bitwig users here use it in a live performance context?
I'm a government contractor in DC and I'm thankful to you for teaching me the word "omerta."
We were told that because we had a .co.uk domain with 123-reg, we would get a .uk domain for free for two years. I think there was an option to opt-out but we got the domain.

So clearly emails didn't go out to all customers, customer didn't read the emails or forgot about them.

123-Reg would send a 30 days to renewal email and 7 days to renewal email, maybe they were not sent this time?
Which city would that be? Because I suspect you would be surprised by the levels of diversity that are clinging on.
Alberta is always happy to take help from the rest of Canada when they need it, but when they are asked to contribute, they fall back on "let them freeze to death in the dark".

Alberta lucked out by having oil and even with it, managed to spend everything with very little to show for it.

Wait until renewables take off (especially in the auto sector). Then they'll be singing the praises of equalization.
That's valid, but the US might have peaked as well, considering recent internal turmoil.

China is totalitarian/single-party, not very Communist anymore (central planning of economy? Wages and welfare predominantly provided by the State?), and getting less Communist every day. China's CCP is as Communist as the US Greens are "green" or the Democrats are "democrats" vs Republicans being "republican".
At a glance, China is converging with US, with China becoming a single-party-rule corporate oligopoly, and US becoming a libertarian corporate oligopoly.
My preferred source of news is one that is created voluntarily or through the support of (mostly grassroots) donors. It will usually be ideological in some way but of course every news source is inherently biased and, this way, at least you are removing a certain strong source of bias, especially if the outlet is non-profit.

So, while I still have to take everything with a grain of salt, if I read stuff from say Democracy Now or The Intercept (or ideally much smaller outlets with direct connections to the news at hand), I can feel more confident that I am not being intentionally manipulated for ulterior purposes. The fact that such outlets are often directly challenging the narrative being presented by more mainstream media and other power/profit-driven institutions is a testament to this. And since they offer their news mostly free of charge, relying on donations at the cost of potential earnings, they demonstrate a greater commitment to values of transparency over brainwashing (hopefully).

Of course, this category includes the likes of unhinged conspiracy theorists such as say Alex Jones. So one should still do some due diligence of fact-checking wherever possible to ensure they are presenting a narrative consistent with reality.
No sarcasm needed. What do you think will happen when fresh water resources get tight?
It is true, if you decide to go back (looks like you're inclined to do it), you'll need some time to sharpen your skills...

BUT since you have experienced "the other side", probably you'll do well because you understand the manager. And that's worth a bit more than beign current on the latests, greates tech.
I hear you, but I think that if the only thing that VS Code did well was to highlight code, far fewer people would be using it because VS Code is not just a text editor. Far from it.

Once you add panels and toolbars with all sorts of GUI tools, consoles, language servers, remote editing, debugging and built-in commands for common external tools like Git - you've got yourself an IDE in my opinion.

However, aside from all of that, Microsoft's mastery of autocomplete - which they call Intellisense - is really what attracted people to Visual Studio and later VS Code. I know that's the reason I've always used it. Also, VS always had syntax highlighting before TextMate even if it was implemented differently than how TextMate did it.

So, I don't think it's fair at all to say that TextMate is the godfather of VS Code assuming that by saying that, we're saying that it's the reason that we have VS Code or that it's the reason that people are using VS Code... I don't fully understand implication of the phrasing but my guess would be that TextMate is the godfather of the implementation of syntax highlighting that VS Code and many others are using.

(I think if we changed godfather to grandfather, it'd make more sense to me because then you have lineage. A godfather is more there as a backup, to be your father in case your biological dad dies. But perhaps, like in the Godfather movies - you go to him for help and advice. So in that respect it sorta makes sense.)
It's entirely dependant upon volume. According to [0], the average US non-fiction book will sell under 3,000 copies in its lifetime. For the proceeds from that to pay the author, editor, and marketing... Well, that's not a lot of copies to amortize those salaries across.

The numbers are obviously very different for a New York times best seller, where physical goods costs will represent a larger fraction of the cost. But most books aren't NYT bestsellers, (even? Particularly?) When they're by Knuth on advanced topics. :)

you could call paying all of the people involved in the process of creating a book artificial, but if we don't, we don't get more books.

[0] https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_1394159
Euphemism for 'war machines'. I expect bombs will keep most of humanity from ever feeling hunger.
That’s misrepresenting the US position

“The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China.”
I finally shared a preview of a documentary short to a friend of mine who is a feature film director. I’ve been working on this project for a couple years now, and it’s my first project for the big screen.

Their feedback was nice to hear, and I’m glad to have finally shown them my work.
For these reasons and more, an increasing number of people choose not to have kids. It feels unethical to bring them into this rat race.
It doesn't work in Firefox 69.0 :/ Am I the only one? I select one of the images provided in the webpage and it gets stuck on "Loading image...". Sigh...
Here is the text-only version: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=753712449
Ha!

I'm pissed at Sky (UK broadband provider) because they started charging us for a service I never used and cannot use and never agreed to (Free Weekend Talk - I don't even have a non-mobile phone!) - it used to be free then all of a sudden it wasn't and there was an "opt out" and it was charged automatically by direct debit and my bank cannot help because (presumably) they "notified" me. It's a small amount (and thus harder to notice on the monthly bank account balance) but I wonder what would happen if they offered medical insurance (which, again, I don't need), first for free and then they changed it to £500/month and "notified" me (but usually I disregard these kinds of letters because they're not important, just spam).

Well, I'm really angry at my bank. I'm probably switching to one of the new, digital ones, either Monzo or Starling. Old incompetent banks are the best advertisement the newcomers could ever get.
See also: Cal Newport's Deep Work [0]

[0] http://www.calnewport.com/books/deep-work/
For people travelling in Europe: The German railway company Deutsche Bahn has the most complete set of international train schedules in their system. This makes it a great resource to search for international connections. Once I even saw Hungarian railway employees use www.bahn.de to look up their own connections.

https://www.bahn.com/en/view/index.shtml
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> Some countries simply can't exist in the long term, especially when they're right next to a much larger party with designs on them - doubly so if there's some sort of history. Ukraine was/is one.

If we expand the Ukraine/Russia example to other neighbors in the region for whom Russia is a big trade partner and who share linguistic/ethnic roots, do you claim none of those countries can exist long term and a USSR-like territory is about to be reestablished?

In reality, some of those countries (say Kazakhstan) are growing richer and more influential. There are always other trade partners—Ukraine is increasingly trading with Europe, and global trade isn’t going anywhere.

Taiwan has future, even if it requires some strategic thinking and inventiveness.

The situation with Hong Kong is very different, it is not a country in nearly as much sense of the word as Taiwan is. It was in fact officially ceded to PRC—though now that PRC is no longer recognizing the corresponding documents they signed in 1997, maybe there is some hope for Hong Kong independence indeed!
I am thoroughly convinced that the powers that be make lots of money off of the equipment and licensing and enforcement fines related to the manicured lawn stakeholder nexus :/
I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Classical chess games tend to give players a lot of time. The world championship, for example, gives each player 90 minutes plus 30 seconds added after every move and an additional 30 minutes after move 40.

This is such a large amount of time, and the players get rest days with loads of time in between, that preparation becomes a huge factor. Players use top engines as well as databases (of every single move played by their opponent in tournament play) to cover every possible sharp line, leading to a lot of extremely safe (and correct) openings.

All of the above gets thrown out the window in the fast time controls (blitz and bullet). Players fall back on a mix of intuition and calculation and the games become highly dynamic, often with multiple opportunities for both sides (in a close match, rating-wise). Needless to say, it's a lot more fun to watch than a dozen draws in a row.

As an added point, the higher in rating you go, the more draws you see (against evenly matched opponents) at the classical time controls. This is because, while the rules of chess haven't changed with respect to what constitutes a draw, the number of draws by agreement goes way up. At the highest levels, there are many lines which can lead to a situation where neither player is willing to make even a slight concession to their position, thus they agree to a draw or a draw is forced by threefold repetition.
Coincidentally, it costs between $2000 and $4000 to print and market a book. So, what, say $1 per book pays for that. The rest pays the author.

But wait! Authors only get a buck or two royalty per book. So why do they cost so much?

Use your imagination.
Victory forfeited by mixing up copyright and trademarks. I know intellectual property is a mess but at least get your terminology right.
Looking forward to seeing your project!
How about we stay away from nasty mob tactics?
Just to add to this, ICE cars have been though all the experiments about front wheel/ rear wheel drive, front engine, rear engine, air cooled/ water cooled. Those choices are up for reevaluation, plus a few more (how many motors). Its possible that Teslas choice of motor and battery layout will look as outdated as running boards in 30 years time.
Some of this is economies of scale. It's fairly cheap per unit to print 1,000,000 copies of a book. It's much more expensive (again, per unit) to print 1,000 copies.

Books like Lord of the Rings which are guaranteed to sell a large number of copies are much less of a risk to print large numbers of than books like Concrete Mathematics. The publisher rolls that expectation into the retail price.

Additionally, all one-off production costs (like paying an artist for cover art) are rolled into that retail price also, with the expectation that X number of copies will sell over the "initial life" of the book.

That "initial life" is usually the first year of a book's publication.
I follow this site for a while and actually thought about doing the Trans-Siberian road from Moscow to Siberia (Around 9000 KM) and it's by far the longest railway line in the world.

The reasons I didn't went to it was because I couldn't see my self sitting for so many hours a day.

But I guess my destiny was different than I expected.

A few months ago I got an offer to participate in a 22,000KM journey called the 'Mongol Rally' which is basically a race when you need to drive from the Czech Republic to Mongolia in a shitty car.

Joining this race meant sitting in a car for at least 14 hours a day

I agreed to the offer without thinking twice

and after I finish it, doing the Trans-Siberian road looks like a piece of cake
They're probably going "remember that investment product that made you a fuck-ton of money right up until the crash? Please buy version 2.0"
United Front is not a propaganda arm, it was Mao's main weapon againt the then Nationalist Chinese government, by infiltrating deep in, exploiting it's freedom and rights constitution (and it's why he said "we don't do that (constitution)"), Mao was able to subvert it without going to head-on war.

You can call it soft war.

Xi: "Overseas students are United Front work's new foothold."
http://www.zytzb.gov.cn/tzb2010/wxwb/201604/d53a3ab80f1149f7...
It's ironic that the author who introduced a ton of tech people to psychologically manipulative product design with his book "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" is now selling the solution to the problem that he helped create.

Here's how he described his last book:

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How do successful companies create products people can't put down?

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?

Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the "Hook Model" -- a four steps process embedded into the products of many successful companies to subtly encourage customer behavior. Through consecutive “hook cycles,” these products reach their ultimate goal of bringing users back over and over again, without depending on costly advertising or aggressive messaging.

Hooked is based on Eyal’s years of research, consulting, and practical experience. He wrote the book he wished had been available to him as a startup founder – not abstract theory, but a how-to guide for building better products. Hooked is written for product managers, designers, marketers, startup founders, and anyone who seeks to understand how products influence our behavior.

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To top it off he's trying to growth hack his new book by putting a branded red "do not disturb" sign in the book, that he expects you to put up on your desk for all of your stressed out colleagues in your open office to see. (https://youtu.be/XVbH_TkJW9s?t=906)
Hey, thanks for reporting, that's very odd, if you're familiar with web development can you check if your browser is throwing any errors?
It's not a stretch given majority of those companies are economically dependent on China as China is dependent on them, also some of their major customers are in China. That's the reason Taiwan selected KMT to forge closer ties with China during this elections. In Kaohsiung which was an impenetrable constituency for KMT, Han Kuo-yu won by a landslide based on closer economic ties with China to bring jobs as the main issue.

Taiwan and China are politically different but economically both are intertwined be it Foxconn, Asus, Quanta, Winstron, Gigabyte or TSMC etc.

So including those 10 within greater China is correct.

They are political ally of USA and economic ally of China.

It's again a minority opinion against the majority of the HN community so this comment might be downvoted as usual.
I definitely agree - more precisely, I meant that "6-8 years" is the time by which nearly all people have attained "senior" designation, even if they aren't that good. However, it used to be (in the places I worked, at least) that a person wasn't senior until at least 10 years of experience.
> Have any two financial crises happened for the same reasons ?

Yes, all of them for the same reason: FIAT currency instead of real money.
That isn't a characteristic of "capitalism". Sounds more like a characteristic of any power structure.
Time-limited access to e-books isn't that strange, considering we do similar things with movies (e.g., renting a new release on Google Play).
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>It's a fact made up to make their narrative fit because it wouldn't work if it was 119 vs. 121

Agree.

If the author combined a few unrelated stats to create this fact it means that it's not a fact.
Firstly, this isn't exactly news. Hindu texts are full of examples of not just the caste system but all variety of ills and discrimination.

Secondly, this one passage is an obscure reference. Contrast this for example against the story of Eklavya[1].

Thirdly, this should be seen in the context of story-telling (ie: in the context of mythological fantasy rather than 'endorsement' of any sort)

Fouthly, there isn't one authoritative Ramayana, there are more like 300+[2]

Finally, why does it even matter what RMS cites (doesn't even comment on) ...not even from a primary source ?

Is the fact that these examples exist only interesting because RMS cites it ?

What's the motive behind sharing this ? Both by RMS and by the OP ?

[1]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekalavya
* https://velivada.com/2017/04/27/dalit-history-month-eklavya-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Ramayana
Spend some time researching Chinese government espionage. Allocate a bit of that time to reading about corporate espionage, but don't get bogged down there - stories about corporate espionage are usually written by media, not government types.

Do some independent research. If you are surprised by what you learn, don't feel bad. China is a great country with a rich, wonderful history - a few decades of political decisions does not change that. If you're really surprised by what you learn about espionage (and critically, if you and your family are in a safe place), you might want to read about what happened in 89. As you read and do independent research, you'll find lots of things. Some will be good and others will be bad.

There is a lot of truth out there, or at least a lot of strings that you can pull on and unwind to get to the truth. Find some good sources and read as many different points of view as you can. If we share what we know, we can all learn about each other. I'm well aware of the power of spin in western media, so I'm not claiming that my side is right or that any other side is wrong. Just that if we share what we know, we can all learn.

If my reference to 89 confuses you, I would be glad to send you some references in a more private way. If you happen to read things and feel bad, my email address is in my profile. I would be glad to tell you millions of good things about China (or alternately, millions of bad things my own country has done).
You are correct that the ratings system is fundamental to the breakdown of these systems. I don't believe we really fixed those corruption issues. I'm looking forward to seeing some analysts of the ratings from independents vs S&P etc.

We also cannot downplay the significance of speculation systems themselves. There needs to be more burdens put on such financial mechanisms to prevent them from getting out of hand like in 2008.
We have been free. We were free for millennia.

But... if you look at the most free animals in nature: cats, after domesticating humans and getting guaranteed safety, shelter and food. They have independently decided to sleep and murder their lives away. Their contributions to the art world via social media (a task they’ve mostly trained their humans to do) is probably the nost significant and vacuous the world has every seen. Their obsession with small mammal terminating is probably better for the biosphere.
Deutsche Telekom has trademarked the use of the color Maganta (RAL-4010) for telecommunications products.
If you don't extend trust how do you know if someone will betray it?

I always like to grant trust because knowing someone is untrustworthy is always worth more than the loss of betrayal.
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If you want to look at it only in terms of politics, then Hong Kong should also be excluded. I don't think it is.

Taiwan claims all of China as theirs, less so with the current political party, and US policy is also one China. (No surprise if the US is trying to bet on Taiwan to turn China one day into a democratic place.)

So it makes sense to lump all of Chinese power into one big force of influence even if it is politically separated into three or more parts.