skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So - the purpose of the take home task is to weed out the people who are not interested enough in the company?

I mean in the article you say "The strongest candidates take their job search seriously and are willing to devote a fair amount of time to landing the right job." the times when this has been true of me has been times when I do not have a job. If I am being headhunted for a job and I am already in a good job, I have a hard time envisioning a scenario where the job being offered would be so enticing that I would be happy to make a significant investment of my time although I might do it grudgingly if the offer is good enough.

When I took the job at a small agency I'm in now I had stopped a consultant task that had run out of funding. I was in a hiring process with four other companies, the small company in the interview asked me how much I wanted I told them my price they said "that's a lot but we expected it would be something like that so it's ok" and then they said something that really cemented my interest in working there than any of the other places that I was interviewing with - they said "we generally have a coding task to do but in your case I think we can skip that".

thank you for saving 4-6 hours out of my week! My family thanks you too!

In fact now that I think of it this testing is another reason why I give people a significant raise as a requirement for moving from my current job. I am earning pretty high up for my market, the market is like many tech places a sellers market. When recruiters ask me to interview with the companies they're selling I name a 18% increase of my current wage and equivalent perks as a requirement to consider moving. Maybe I would only want 10% if I knew that trying for the job wouldn't require me doing a bunch of unpaid work.
You can send scheduled emails via Google Sheets (Tools -> Macros -> Triggers).

I did so for a "Your random word for today." kind of setup.

It's not quite spaced repetition because the amount of time in-between repetitions doesn't vary but it's close enough.
Yeah, Alexander's Lodge comes up a fair amount when I was researching this. Overall, the trip is like, barely doable, but then you have to consider that from Ohanapecosh (one of the major campgrounds) to Sunrise (where a lot of hikes start) is 30 miles, so in a 2-day trip, that could easily be an extra 60-120 miles of driving. On longer 3 or 4 day trips, I've sometimes needed to drive out of the park to Packwood to fuel up, because the park is so spread out. BTW, when I was looking in A Better Route Planner, it recommended driving up to the supercharger in Centralia, or even driving all the way up around to Enumclaw (IIRC), which is way out of the way.

The ideal (for me anyway) would really be to have a supercharger (or other fast charging) at Sunrise, and ideally one in Packwood as well. Or forgot the whole enterprise altogether and put in a bus service like Zion has.

Of course, Rainier is only one example. Once you get into Eastern Oregon, the charging situation is even worse.

I would hope that if we get a more forward-thinking government in the next few years that we start thinking about this kind of stuff, because thinking about the carbon impact of "enjoying nature" is pretty bleak stuff. I'm actually interested in this problem enough that I've started to look at the economics of building charging stations (demand charges!)
I was torn on this. I don't want to feel like I'm shouting into the void if I'm working on something creative, because I do want other people to see what I make eventually. It seems to be reasonable to say that criticism is helpful if you're trying to get better at something (and take it in good faith). At some point that means releasing something to the public.

But I had been conflating finished work with the work needed to finish things. I'm also very tempted to reach out to people about what I want to get better at since I tend to seek validation externally. But only I can actually put in any effort towards my own goals.

Now my policy is to just shut up about it and put all that effort I could be spending speaking empty promises that haven't been fulfilled into putting my head down and doing things myself. Reaching out to people comes after you have something to show.

At the same time I want to meet people who are creative and that means outing yourself as creative also if you want that connection. It's hard putting in all that effort and being unable to talk to people about it.
For a second, based on the domain, I wondered if Dick Cheney had re-invented himself as a developer.
Instagram is also testing removing like counts. [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697943/instagram-hide-p...
I am dismissive because you make absolute statements as if there were formal proof and dismiss doubt with "you are wrong" and "attend class for weeks", the latter reminding me of climate change skeptic and creationist retorts.

I am also dismissive because I don't see a succinct motivating example, paradox etc.

A similarly speculative, philosophical field is the simulation hypothesis. At first glance it's metaphysical, untestable and indistinguishable from base reality and thus not very informative. But then people throw up questions how simulation fidelity might show up in high energy physics or what it would mean if the simulation had bugs/were hackable. It's still far out there but at least there is a direct aim to get away from metaphysics, instead finding ways to subject it to scientific inquiry. This drive is what I am missing in your replies. Claiming that something is categorically unknowable and yet an important field of study is inconsistent.
>28 year old here.

There is actually quite a bit of reassurance in that comment. I'm a full time developer and part-time student. I read through the articles linked above because I'm trying to decide on continuing my studies in the fall after receiving a promotion at work. The return I get from my work projects far outweighs what I've learned in school and I'm getting paid for it!

That comment shares a feeling I _don't_ want to have. If I have any motivation to learn something, why waste it on forced material that may not be relevant to me. I'm leaning towards not taking classes. Instead I can focus on learning technologies to integrate into systems I've built. I can read more for fun (which I was able to do this summer). I can finish that game I've been working minutes at a time for the last few years. I can build that bookshelf that I desperately need, to replace the particle board one that's falling apart in my room.

No hate here. If you're younger than 28 (or not) and you have regrets after reading it, you can still change that path. It might just take a bit more work or motivation that you were putting elsewhere.
I don't believe it's to fight envy. Don't give them that much credit. I can't speak for Facebook as I'm not familiar with their interface, but I can for Instagram.

Prolific users tend to hit a wall that paralyses them. As their audience grows, they go from comfortably posting whatever takes their fancy to fretting over metrics and all the gaming that goes on. Is this photo good enough? Is it spectacular? Will it struggle to get stats and embarrass me?

I've seen people go from regular users to just seizing up and posting nothing for weeks on end. Longer they pause, the bigger the pressure to resume. One friend of mine was basically full-time on Instagram as an influencer and then just stopped for months and months.

I think if they're hiding likes, it's almost entirely because it's hurting their overall engagement, not because they care about people.
Eh. I admit I have a complex with Taleb. It's not just his narcissism per se, although there's that too: he's just wrong about a lot of stuff, and other times fails to recognize how old his ideas are. He gets over his head sometimes, assuming because it sprung forth in his head there haven't been 100s of other people working on it over the years who addressed whatever idea he had decades ago.

Other times he's spot on. Usually it's not anything actually new, but he deserves some credit for being such a bulldog about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_are_wonderful_effect
I wouldn't be AT ALL surprised if Apple decides to break the kid/teen developers over this. People like the AltStore developer are why we can't have nice things.
Full disclosure: I‘m a Developer Evangelist for Contentful

A “Headless CMS” is one way to achieve what you’re looking to do. Contentful is one, there are others. Gatsby’s has source plugins for all popular ones.

They have a nice getting started guide for Gatsby + Contentful: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/sourcing-from-contentful/
Lots of Companies Are Joining the Universal Stylus Initiative
A nice thing about "everything is an object" languages is that
a.isGreaterThan(b) seems less ambigous than isGreaterThan(a,b). There are natural langauges that are Verb-Subject-Object. It seems less common in natural language to have neither argument be an "agent". Is the copula in the natural language doing the work of the dot?
If you can pull that off without consequences, good for you!
Which is insane.. do people really use the wireless capability of their keyboard or mouse? Especially when you can't use your freaking mouse when it's charging? Serious insanity.

Edit to add: of course I know people use those keyboards... I meant are people actually moving with them in ways that makes the wireless capability useful? Do most users not stay in a pretty close proximity the whole time?
WeWork Paid with Stock for Acquisitions; Investors Aren’t Happy
The author made some interesting arguments, but they lost me with their insistent jabbing at the upper management man cheating on his wife, the racist divorcee dad, the boring date, her friends cheating boyfriends, etc. The not-so-subtle political undertones distract from what I think is an interesting question.
It's more like this "blitzscaling" system is sort of a ponzi scheme. Keep taking money from investor after investor until MAYBE you have a massive payday.

BUT.. you haven't actually proven that it's viable business market.
There is no touchbar included with new Mac Pro.
What are people doing that require such high-powered desktops?
Looks like a company finally listened.
Why Time Off Work Improves Your Work and Life
App Store Review isn't very consistent or thorough.
The value you plugged in was a year of energy consumption. Why not a day, or a century?

If you used the former, it would tell you that wind speed would be reduced by 0.04m/s. If you used the latter, 1.4km/s.

You're not using the equations incorrectly, but they're not telling you what you think they are.

They are telling you - if we store up all the power use of humanity for this length of time, then use it to blow the air, how fast will it go.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that like it's a bad thing. I'd _much_ rather be able to us their api to Ansible-up or point-n-click a MySQL database in RDS than to only have them offer some proprietary "Amazon Enterprise SQL Server". It's a good thing.

(I do, though, have some sympathy for the problems companies/projects like Mongo and Redis have where Amazon makes all the money off their products without contributing to the development of them. )
You've been off the market for 13 years and have no clue how much things have changed.
> do people really use the wireless capability of their keyboard or mouse?

Yes. Why wouldn't you? Why do you think the downsides are?

> Especially when you can't use your freaking mouse when it's charging?

I charge it for about ten minutes every month while I'm out. It doesn't interfere with anything.
Still it seems like quite little. Motherboards used to have 8 to 10 backside USB ports, most now only come with 6 (usually 4x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0), which at least for me means I have to use an external hub already.
A CDN that cannot XSS you (2015)
They're not just socialism and fascism (or something else right-wing), they're revolutionary socialism and fascism. The intent is to destroy the existing system and replace it with their vision of what would be "better".

The difference is in technique. Old-school revolutionaries tried to destroy the current system by fighting it. Accelerationists try to destroy the system by trying to make it more what it is.

If you think of the system (current US democracy plus capitalism, say) in the center of a frame, a leftist would view it as being too far to the right, and a rightist would view it as being too far to the left. An old-school leftist would try to shove the whole country to the left. A left accelerationist would try to shove it to the right, thinking that the further right it gets, the closer it is to destroying itself.

Of course, their perspective is a bit off. The left (or right) accelerationist sees the current system as already being pretty far right (or left), not center. They therefore mis-estimate how much further they would have to move it to bring about destruction. If they fail to move it that far, all they've done is strengthen the side they're trying to fight.
Yes, you can apparently do this via App Store Connect.
How would this differ from the idiomatic "x || y"? Just s/non-zero/truthy
It seems justified though. The person before them was speaking from an overly emotional perspective.
You forgot that, after you've told it to download the update, it pops up another interrupting dialog asking whether you want to install the update. If you just tell it to update and go get a coffee, when you come back, it won't be done.
Do people use Apple Bluetooth keyboards and mice? Yes.
Yes? I love my wireless keyboard and mouse, although they run off of AA batteries so I don't need to recharge them.
Professional film editing.
But people like you are why I'm happy those like the AltStore dev exists and challenge the status quo!
The US has a reputation for ungenerous vacation days.
DoorDash probably forgot to tip the “third-party service provider”
It makes zero sense that lenders, who agreed to take on some risk, are allowed to steal money from customers who paid a product they never received and never decided to take on risk.
Seems like that rule should have been applied BEFORE you took the test, so as not to taunt you.
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I mean, go for it, but you’re still talking about falsifying loan documents. That’s gotta be a good way to gin up trouble, even if it doesn’t come to prosecution.

I just can’t see a scenario where some info is fake and other info is real (necessary bc you’re using and paying the loan) that’s both kosher with the bank and gives you the obscurity you’re looking for. Is this something you can actually speak to from experience, or are we both spitballing? Because I’m happy to be wrong, but if we’re both making this up as we go then the conversation is pretty pointless.
They compare it to Mathematica, which can return a good result, fail to do so, or timeout. Apparently they outperform Mathematica significantly (on the domain tested)

It won't be 100%, but no system (including humans) would be able to deliver a 100% rate of answers on symbolic maths.
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All of the following:

- As malleable as JavaScript when you need it to be

- As typed as your favorite language when you need it to be

- Able to drop to much more arcane levels if you need to for certain performance-intensive places, without requiring some crazy setup (e.g, C/C++ are right there if you need them)

- ARC is IMO one of the best approaches to memory management out there

- The verbosity can be annoying at first, but it forces you to think hard about everything, and when I come back to Objective-C code years later, I've no issue remembering what the hell I was doing there

- People complain about brackets, but they just... don't matter. It's a syntax. You either deal with it or don't - you don't see me writing Lisp because I find the syntax annoying, which is fine.

- Message passing in ObjC is so optimized that it probably can't get much faster, and anyone acting like it's slow has a potentially skewed understanding of this

Swift is nicer for me in only two distinct ways:

- No more header files, because man was that annoying

- The stricter nil handling is overall better, if not a mental shift from some ObjC counterparts
This is sad and embarrassing, but whatever, someone should get a laugh from it:

My very first email was also rocketmail, set up by a friend on a school computer in highschool.

I had no clue what address to pick, so he chose one for me: studhorse69@rocketmail

I wish I was joking.
You'll find luck with more classic styles. Older generations really appreciated things that lasted a while and were repairable when broken. Rancourt, Quoddy, Redwing Heritage, and many other heritage brands can be found for a decent price and are resoleable when the bottoms wear out.

You'll also have a lot of luck with clothes meant for serious outdoors use. The prices can be seriously inflated but are often found 30-60% off on season end clearance. There are too many brands to list but I'm very happy with my Salomon, La Sportiva, and Inov-8 shoes.

Inov-8 has recently pioneered the use of graphene rubber in the outsoles of their running shoes doubling or even tripling their longevity.

Also keep an eye out for Vibram rubber outsoles. They're an Italian rubber brand known for being more durable. They're a bit more common to find.
were you high up in the org? Or an individual contributor on something that had a very strong measurable relationship with the bottom line?
I am not always around my computer. I almost always have my phone around while in my car.
Linux - probably

Apache/Nginx - some web server will be used, though much as likely something more lightweight than Apache. No proxy_pass needed since Gatsby just generates a bunch of files you need to serve

MySQL - probably not unless married with a very complex backend

PHP - yeah that’s out

To understand Gatsby it’s crucial to understand that it’s using a significantly different architecture than traditional LAMP applications and monolithic CMSes
> a group that was referred to internally as the “oval office”

Why would they call it the oval office instead of the cabinet?
8K movie editing
Advanced video, 3d rendering, etc.
I've not once had a woman ask me how much I make or what I do for a living.
Anybody reasonable person reading my comment would know what I'm talking about; the context is directly above it. Using your proposed logic, quoting "Rosetta Code has more content and better content" wouldn't have been enough because it's missing context. There's no need to be fussy about this.

> So write a simpler one and post it. It's a Wiki.

It's my prerogative to criticize other people's content. Simultaneously, I'm under no obligation to write content on someone else's website for free.
You know, it's true, but I'm included. Yesterday, when I tried to tell my wife something about WeWork, she pointed this out to me. I realized that it is basically the same as when Theranos was cratering, and I was way more interested than I should have been.
I had the same dilemma when I wanted to launch a food blog last year. I ended going with Ghost on a digital ocean $5/mo droplet.
but there's never a bad moment to complain about the touch bar.
> Can you suggest a better solution?

Yeah. Mind your docs.

Languages and APIs designed like this and get you crippled tools that simply do not allow you to express about half the shit you're gonna need to do. That generates another layer of indirection, abstractions, and workarounds to break through the "we think for you" for when what "they thought for you" wasn't what you was actually thunking.

There's a place for languages that don't allow you to shoot yourself in the foot or other member of your choice, I'm sure. I don't want to go there.
Slightly off-topic, but who here uses a HEDT (high-end desktop) or workstation computer for software development? Does it make a significant difference in comparison with a standard business laptop?
same goes with python -

def foo(x=None, y=None):
...

foo(x=1, y=2)
foo(1, y=2)
foo(1, 2)
When someone actually says they “worked hard” it’s usually bullshit, because people who actually work hard either don’t realize it or are too humble to admit it. So saying you worked hard is a justification for why you have something or why you have something and someone else doesn’t.

Most people who make a lot of money don’t actually work very hard by virtue of the fact that most individual wealth comes from capital, not labor. Maybe you did work hard at some point to get that capital, but that’s also unlikely. After all, if capital paid out the true value then it wouldn’t exist at all. So somewhere you either exploited people or natural resources to get that capital.

Hard work sucks. It almost by definition doesn’t pay well, with few exceptions.

But we need to justify to ourselves and others why we value different humans different, and hard work sounds really good. So we invoke it to justify to ourselves, mostly, why we are superior to others.
That’s a pretty good one[1] to put on resumes. Some would be amused others might auto pass on it. It’d be interesting to see how HR staff react if at all.

I’d like to think les clay pool would have taken studbullhecat@rocketmail...

[1]in an amusing way, not for reals.
How could you discover and prove that without cooperation from Chinese law enforcement?
You can't judge difficulty simply by the number of people who have obtained something. You need to know how many startups are seeking funding, and the number of people attempting a phd. That's the denominator I was referring to.

The average college freshman is not trying to get a phd. Picking a low starting point like that is just a way of making it appear more difficult than it is. The more appropriate number is the number of phd's attempted.
my bad, I read the title as a new MacBook Pro. Carry on.
I've had the most success doing a remote, one-hour pair programming exercise via screen sharing with the candidate. They're allowed to look at docs, do any google searches, and I don't penalize them if they don't finish. I'm more interested in the process and the way they navigate their environment to solve problems. I continually coach them to speak aloud whatever they're thinking, especially if stuck on something. My last hire was someone who didn't finish the exercise, but I really liked their approach to solving the problem. It's the closest thing to "what would it be like to work with this person" that I've found. This has been super effective for me after many years of making bad hires through "technical interviews" and take home assignments.
In the US they would have filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11[1] and continued to fly while they worked out a restructuring. Most of the major airlines in the US have done this in the recent past: United in 2002, Delta in 2005, and American in 2011. UK bankruptcy law is different and doesn’t give companies this option.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_11,_Title_11,_United_S...
I’m not a Tesla owner but it does seem to me that buying in to the company that has single handedly changed the landscape of electric vehicles is a pretty exciting notion. I’d be happier to have a vehicle built on seemingly better principles and support the company even if they’re not perfect. But then I use Linux even though it’s difficult at times because what I am using is more important than any specific flaws it has.
Alternative, when do we start using proxy services that give minimal, fake information that forwards to our real identity? Apple sign-in was an understated release, but it will be one of the company's flagship products in years to come.
It's not that complicated. Drive one and you will see that they are pretty different from any other car in a number of ways.
In this case, is the freedom of wireless worth the hassle+cost of batteries?
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