skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue there is the problem starts to become unbounded for the candidate; they can't tell what you're looking for, so they don't know how to prioritize their time.

That's a problem even if you have reasonable expectations yourself, because the candidate probably has experienced some tests where the expectations haven't been reasonable. For a (real) example: marking candidates down for not having an analytics integration.

How does your candidate know that's not important to you, even though it was important to the last company?

> testing your experience, not your literal skill in pumping out code

Past a certain point, it gets much more efficient to discuss experience in an interview setting. Good coding tests should be designed to test the skills you care about most to produce a strong hiring signal for the next phase - it's difficult to showcase a full decade's worth of experience in 4-8 hours' worth of coding challenge.

> Anyone can pump out code

I've found that to be depressingly untrue amongst a significant percentage of engineering applicants.
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Good for him. In this day and age I support any fightback against deplatforming. I hate that it has come down to this, where you have to take a stand just on principles. I don't know if Stallman is really a "creepy old man" who hits on his female co-workers but any chance of a fair enquiry in an appropriate manner is near zero.

The mass hysteria and instant justice demands of the twitter outrage mob has killed nuance or shades of grey from public discourse. I really really hate that anything in the center is taboo. I lay the blame squarely on the far-left for this state of affairs. They started this war and this trend. God knows where it will end.
This is why I hate group work.
> Well, it probably isn't when compared to an utopia. But if everyone is united in that we should walk into some abyss, maybe you'll want some divisiveness, no?

We can be united in the wrong thing, true. But we can also head into an abyss because of divisiveness, which is equally dangerous (see Game of Thrones). I get the feeling that far too little attention is paid to this perspective.

I see unity-divisiveness is a spectrum. There's the contemporary divisiveness where people become more and more polarized and people don't listen to each other, nor try to work with each other, but merely try to shutdown the other. There's also a more constructive kind of divisiveness (which is closer to the unity side) where people acknowledge that they have different opinions but try to work with each other nevertheless.

There's no reason why we can't (or shouldn't) move the needle more towards "unified" even though there's no way we can (or should) reach it all the way. I don't see enough effort being put into promoting unity more, and that's worrying me.

> But if everyone is united in that we should walk into some abyss, maybe you'll want some divisiveness, no? Churchill was a divisive figure in the appeasement years, yet would it have been better if he had been silenced?

I have no answer to that. Perhaps people downvote me because they think I'm suggesting that he should be silenced (i.e. that I'm strongly in favor of CCP's way of doing things), but I'm not.

> The Democratic Peace Theory[1], if true

That is a big if, considering that the Wikipedia page lists pre-WW1 and pre-WW2 Germany (which were considered democracies) as examples of criticism on this idea.

I personally do not believe China is interested in war (at least, not in the way WW2 Germany was), but I also admit that I know far too little about geopolitics to back up this opinion.

> Is there any reason to think we can convince the CCP any way or the other?

I don't think this is a productive question to ask, because you can ask it about any other entity too. I'd rather turn it around: is there any reason to think that convincing will fail 100% of the time? If the chance isn't 0%, and we are interested in the wellbeing of the Chinese people, then shouldn't we at least give a try no matter how small the chance is?

Let's look at it another way: what are the alternatives? Can you go war to overthrow the CCP? Can you "enlighten" Chinese tourists so that when they go back home they'll overthrow the CCP? Can you overthrow the CCP with a trade war or economic sanctions? No. Convincing the CCP is literally the only option we get.
That sounds intriguing, although it strikes me that you might have been observing a survivorship bias.

Older papers that are considered notable today would probably be well-written compared to a random paper published last year, even if there weren't any group-level differences.

To be fair, given that the papers-published-per-scientist-per-year metric has been increasing (somewhat unhealthily, so it seems), I wouldn't be surprised if there has been at least some decrease in writing quality, simply to due to less time spent editing and polishing.
Almost every time I didn't get a job offer during the interview process I got ghosted. They probably do this for liability reasons. But why would I afford them the same courtesy?
The company everyone will remember was the company that built the Quest. It's the real stepping stone for VR.
There was a monologue on exact same subject by Tucker Carlson, may be half a year ago or more, and it was somewhat US-centric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7OS2o-mMg0

It has been thoroughly laughed at, though, by hosts of 'the View', for example

https://abcnews.go.com/theview/video/tucker-carlson-suggests...
Do the same hundreds of millions of people that still use Facebook have both the tech affinity and the spare bucks to shell out money for a Oculus headset?
Wouldn't it be better advice to avoid buying synthetic fabric clothes, as much as possible?
We're right in the West to reject Leninist ideas, but it's important to understand the historical context in which Leninism gained traction.

Russia was a backwards pre-capitalist third world monarchy with vast economic inequality under one of the richest men in all of history, Nicholas Romanov II. He rejected attempt after attempt to reform his monarchy into a democratic constitutional monarchy, preferring to cling onto absolute power and repeatedly losing wars. The story of the Russian revolution is one of a transition from authoritarian rule to authoritarian rule.

Initially the revolution was widely praised by genuine revolutionaries, such as Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, & Rosa Luxemburg. The country was ruled democratically by a system of workers' councils (soviets), and workers were encouraged to form committees to self manage the work place democratically.

Within the year, however, the Soviets were dissolved and commissars were sent to the factories to take the place of the boss', effectively ending workers' self management. This was widely condemned by mainstream Marxists, most notably Rosa Luxembourg, who sent a historic admonitory letter to Lenin. This is when the idea of "Marxism-Leninism" as opposed to simple "Marxism" began to distinguish itself.

What Leninism has become now is a sort of paranoid ideology about "holding onto the revolution" against "the forces of reaction." They point to examples of successful workers' self management e.g. The Paris Commune, Anarchist Catalonia (read "Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell), and claim that these revolutions were crushed because of a lack of "party discipline" and organization.
But it wasn't the only comment right?
Thank you! Really appreciate this. There’s currently four of us, so only the original founders. We currently have around 20 narrators.
While it's not a perfect example or solution, this illustrate a fairly common issue with modern code. He also mentions too many parameters.
Other commonly frown upon constructs include unclear names (java "filter" or "compareTo" easily come to mind), boolean parameters (One should use named enums instead). Some add to the list out parameters (passing a to-be-modified list as a parameter), functions returning their modified input parameter, even though they certainly have their usefulness (like being able to handle memory management outside of the callee).
I'd personally like to add String parameters to the list, but modern language make such restrictions often too cumbersome.

I the given example, I'd love to see a language with optional named parameters.
For the function copy(String fromFileName, String toFileName), instead of calling copy (file!, file2), one would have the possibility of calling copy(from:file1, to:file2)
It isn't intentional usually, you just procrastinate the rejection until it has gone so long that it would feel weird to respond.
How?? You can service your own car unless you're looking at something ridiculous like a Bugatti or Mclaren. You can modify them to any legal extent.
not going to destroy my clothes for an infinitesimal amount of plastic in waste water, especially since I have no doubt that any positive environmental impact would be offset by replacing clothes more often.

they do argue that their 1 small study suggested the delicate cycle wears clothes out faster, but I highly doubt that. more evidence is needed.
I assure you, I am rather stupid.
> If the test improves people’s sense of well-being without tanking user engagement, it could expand to more countries

So presumedly Facebook has a metric that models a user’s well being and values engagement more.
TLDR: Be wary of noncommutative algebras!

In particular, if you have a noncommutative operator, do not denote it with a symbol that is symmetric along its vertical axis.
Has that ever stopped an antitrust case?
Frankly, it’s his code. Whatever. It just makes me want to fork his code and make it better
In what sense do you think that his entire life’s work has been negated?
Forbes is not a credible publication, and their 30 under 30 list is a joke - I have two acquaintances who socially engineered their way onto the list with the right narratives. One went as so far to use that status to (presumably) swindle investors as I'm told. It's a platform that appeals to people building a personal brand/narrative, and I would be extremely wary of anyone using Forbes as some sort of validation. Let's not forget how they put Elizabeth Holmes on their pedestal.
I am based in the US...

I know of dozens of companies where one could take 28 days PTO, get paid handsomely, and not have to solve CS trivia during the interview.

Good PTO isn’t the norm, but I feel it should be.

If you’re happy spending more of your life working, good for you.
Yes but it is becoming increasingly difficult to do so. Clothing that was 100% cotton in the past now has a bit of spandex or other synthetic to give it a stretch.
Exactly, and to me it’s a deal breaker.

Anyone privy on what hold Apple back on supporting Nvidia? The only info I read was due to some earlier bad blood, but I wonder why hurt your users just because of some old scuffles...
Not every EU country has such a law. In the UK 1-year long warranties are standard, but some other states mandate 2 years on all electronic devices.

Unless of course you are talking about the EU-wide consumer protection rights which apply for 2-6 years after purchase, but which people very mistakenly call a guarantee. The problem with this protection is that it protects you only against manufacturing defects. And anything that happens after the initial 6 months is up to you to prove that it existed at the time of purchase. So no, if your MacBook suddenly dies 23 months after purchase, apple doesn't have to repair it, unless you can demonstrate to them that it died because of a manufacturing defect. In comparison, apple care would get your laptop replaced under the same circumstance.
You can use the steering wheel and scroll up or down and you changed the temperature. No fooling around with touchscreen in traffic. It’s way better than any analog system I’ve used across Jeep’s and Audi’s.

You can control temperature, fan speed, brightness, and more all from the steering wheel.
Great article. But almost all of B2C software products are self-serving.
Your theory about what people want has already been debunked by the popularity of existing social spaces in VR which have the same type of avatars.
That's nothing like what they said. They are not telling people what to buy. They are trying to understand the willingness of many Tesla owners to brush off being misled and ignored by the manufacturer of their car, and to do things like you just did.

I own a P100D and the magic wore off for me. Apparently it hasn't for you.

Peace.
I have never ghosted anyone or anything, but I can see the appeal if you are not a very confrontational person.

A lot of people get angry if you tell them the truth. If you try to soften the blow then they misunderstand and clearing up the misunderstanding then leads to them getting angry.
> Countless animals don't rely on intelligence for gene propagation

Also true of countless humans
that's neat, but isn't really the same thing. a mptcp socket has multiple subcarrier sockets, potentially routed over different paths, which each have their own loss statistics, so mptcp will dynamically balance over the links that work the best.
I had an S and traded it in for a Model 3. I ended up liking the Model 3 more since it's much more nimble and gets the latest software updates. The S was nice, but felt like I'm driving a boat.
Gatsby does ssr in batch during build time. The pages are rendered in a pool of worker processes. I haven't found a way to tell gatsby to attach my debugger when launching those processes.

Gatsby's docs on debugging HTML builds [1] give you adhoc solutions for specific problems you may have, but 0 info on actually debugging.
This is already here: https://www.forensicmag.com/news/2015/02/dna-evidence-can-be...
Maybe it is just me getting old but when I was watching that part when she was talking about "getting out there, trying new things, making your mark", something really deep in me was screaming NOOOO!, this is not right :-/

I was always into tech but this video makes me want to throw all my devices away, move to some old house in abandoned Spanish village and grow my own tomatoes. And the disturbing part is that I am not even sure why - on its face value it seems great, you get to talk to people from all around the world and that is cool, right? But my intuition tells me that we are not wired for this and if it gains traction, something terrible will come out of this.
Another interpretation is that young people are becoming dumber given their obsession with smartphones and videogames. The skills I needed to master before the "everything online" era where more mentally challenging and strengthening than the current era.

I would call this the 'reverse Flynn effect' after the sociologist who observed average IQ scores were rising a few points each decade for a century. That had been attributed to universal schooling, sophisticated new electronic media, white collar knowledge workers, etc. But now we have reached a turning point perhaps due mental dependence on wired devices.
The thing I like the most about the "as types" approach is that once the thing is wrapped, passing it around has zero boilerplate.

In this program below, the only place that suffers from having created a newtype for the strings is the place where they're created (parseArgs) and where they're used (copyFile). None of the other functions (main, helper1, helper2) ever need to peek inside the type, so there's no boilerplate but still all the type safety.

newtype Source = Source Filename
newtype Dest = Dest Filename

-- Boilerplate at usage
copyFile :: Source -> Dest -> IO ()
copyFile (Source from) (Dest to) = ...

-- Boilerplate at creation
parseArgs :: IO (Source, Dest)
parseArgs = do
[arg1, arg2] <- getArgs
(Source arg1, Dest arg2)

-- Helpers with NO boilerplate
helper1 :: Source -> Dest -> IO ()
helper1 from to = copyFile from to

helper2 :: Source -> Dest -> IO ()
helper2 from to = helper1 from to

main :: IO ()
main = do
(from, to) <- parseArgs
helper2 from to

And by "all the type safety," I mean it's a type error to accidentally swap the args incorrectly to the function call:

(from, to) <- parseArgs
helper2 to from
Probably means Rec Room or Altspaces. With that said, VRChat is certainly not just bare bones chat. There are rooms for everything with all kind of games. Think Roblox.
Having written a lottt of both Rust and Swift there is something about Swift that makes it "flow" far easier than Rust.

I haven't been able to narrow down exactly what it is, but with Swift I can just put pencil to paper. With Rust I feel like I need to plan more, I dunno.

I do think my experience is colored by tooling, though
> How is Horizon any different from SecondLife?

Probably less cybering, from the looks of it.
It literally doesn't make a difference in those cases. Companies of that size have position leveling and paybands for each level. They set those bands based on market reports from companies that collect salary data in part for this exact purpose. They'll target percentiles of the market rate for hiring based on their budgets and the minimum level of skill they need to function (they're not looking to "hire only the best"; that's a polite fiction that everyone sees through).
Just make sure to properly freely distribute any changes you made ;)
> The people of the USSR had complete and absolute freedom of speech... but only once

The version I like is “Soviet citizens have the freedom of speech, but American citizens also have freedom after speech”
I had a pet spider and did happen to witness it's suddenly dying (of old age) and even though it's anthropomorphic, in that moment I really could sense terror and pain so even insects can be capable of some 'emotion'. But not affection (that I know of).
And how do you explain the popularity of Rec Room then?
Great. To me the more interesting question will be how this evidence is handled at trial. DNA matching is a stochastic process. There is no line of logic involved. Therefore, when using it in court it can only be used in the context of probability of a match. Humans are notoriously bad at assessing probability, and there are some great TED talks out there on how bad we really are and how it’s already affected our non-genetically enhanced justice system. My greatest hope is not that DNA searches are banned, but that we treat DNA matches as circumstantial evidence that may help indicate a suspect but is inadmissible as evidence of guilt.
Maybe they know de wae.
You can literally do this with PoseNet(TF.js) in your browser at high FPS on CPU, here's a sample link https://storage.googleapis.com/tfjs-models/demos/body-pix/in...
> One study found that 60% of white Americans can now be tracked down using such searches.

Woah, this is a goldmine for law enforcement.

I'm curious what the false positive rate is currently. We've already seen the police, or more accurately their prosecution teams, overstate the scientific value of touch DNA [1][2]. This type of database, which some agencies are already building themselves [3][4], is only going to keep growing. Even for minor crimes.

Their ability to collect DNA properly as well as in a legitimate fashion connected to a crime should come under heavier scrutiny (if it hasn't already) and no private database should just be handed to them.

For example: can we trust the DNA companies to have an appropriate chain of evidence?

We really need to avoid the beginning arrest scene in Brazil type of stuff... if they are going to do it at all, they better do it properly. Legal constraints are highly welcome.

1. https://www.propublica.org/article/thousands-of-criminal-cas...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/07/us/labs-errors-force-revi...

3. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/nyregion/newyorktoday/nyp...

4. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/15/nyregion/nypd-dna-databas...
Watch "Jour de fête", by Jacques Tati, 1949. There's a stunt film-in-the-film about this kind of super efficient mail delivery methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jour_de_f%C3%AAte
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040497/
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How to fix the this error "Either "name" or "item. name"" should be specified?
What I did belies why
Here's an actual case of an innocent person who faced charges and a high probability of losing their freedom due to DNA transference:

https://www.wired.com/story/dna-transfer-framed-murder/

The take-away is that shed skin cells containing DNA can migrate and a DNA match from that type of evidence shouldn't be relied on as proof of anything.

To my view, the combination of DNA transference, advancing DNA collection / analysis techniques, the mere existence of DNA databases, and familial searches are absolutely terrifying.
Which people specifically are you referring to?
Do you own a Tesla? Do you feel that autopilot has improved?

And the nag / inability to sense the presence of hands on wheel... to put it mildly, I would pay a lot of money to revert my AP software.
Great idea, I would love to see this. Tools for programming are going make some interesting leaps with all the new work going into language modeling. So much of the code we write is tweaks and combinations of a not particularly large set of patterns: loops, functions, merge, reduce, sort, filter, interleave, etc... Generating large blocks that are near your target result would be really useful for saving time, especially on the more repetitive tasks like writing tests or simple CRUD API endpoints.

Microsoft was showing off similar work from their own code datasets this year at ICLR, I couldn't find a link online, but the demos had block suggestions from method signatures for C#. It should be possible to get similar results with natural language queries.
The difference is expectations. I think Purism has far more modest expectations than all other ones, therefore making it more viable in long term.
They are in "early access" mode in India to my knowledge
It's not just Apple working on Swift on Linux. IBM for example has done a ton of work. A Facebook engineer has contributed a HUGE amount of work to bring it up to speed on Windows (without WSL or Cygwin). And Google will end up contributing on all fronts if they continue to push it in the ML space.
I have read that 26 million Americans have taken these genetic tests, now encompassing 8% of the population. Not all of these are generally searchable. But approaching a critical mass for forensic genealogy.
I did that — vouched for comments that I thought were on-topic and dead only because people (sometimes including me) disagreed — and promptly lost the ability to vouch.
The difference is, it's easy to make a long-boned freak or a blithering idiot. But there's no hormone (I know of) that makes you a genius.

(Also, intelligence/aptitude/performance scales like IQ, SAT, or ASVAB scores are arbitrarily numbered, so I'm don't know what a "fat tail" means in that respect. Maybe there's a standard definition that isn't completely arbitrary.)
Since this is a thread where men can talk about their feelings, I'd like to say that I feel angry and frustrated! If I wanted a machine for browsing web and watching youtube videos while always been safely signed into my google account, I'd bought a f@©4!n9 Chromebook.
What Is the Microsoft Help Desk Number?
If you are having any issue related to Microsoft? You need to contact us at Microsoft phone number.

https://getassist.net/contact-microsoft-support-service/
Yep, spot on. And as I said earlier, RMS's crime is that he doesn't condemn unequivocally and totally, (i.e. without judgment), what is perceived as unacceptable by the society.

RMS loves freedom more than many of us, that's why "consent" is so important to him (I guess).
I don't believe you. I own an AP1 Tesla as well as a nominally "FSD computer equipped" AP2 Tesla.

You would be injured or killed if you tried taking an unmonitored trip of any reasonable length - ON THE HIGHWAY - in either, with autopilot on and with the nag disabled using a weight. If you think you don't have to routinely make manual corrections to save yourself from dying I think you are either lying or delusional.