skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I'm biased against people who use 40 year old editors written for a completely different world, when we have modern and far superior tools.

I mean, if you're too conservative to use modern technology, this doesn't seem like the right field to work in.

That said, the vim guys do seem to get good work done somehow...
> There's definitely a sweet spot in terms of stack specificity.

The GP's calculation had a very important weakness that it does not take retention under account.

The sweet spot will be mostly determined by retention. And the very bad places that have impossibly (sometimes literally) specific requirements are probably correct on requiring a narrow set of competences. But of course, they would gain more by improving themselves so the developers don't quit as often.
And the ridiculous of those italics glyphs. Like, who decided that the f and l should have huge decorative slings but not the g?
Why do good programmers fail technical interviews? It’s because people like this are doing the interviewing...
What do you mean by tracking?
Some... https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/11/24/how-your-speaker...
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Yep! If you want to try this, you can plug any speaker with a 3.5 mm output into a mic input and speak into it. It'll probably be faint, but it usually works.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/154343/can-a-sp...
I agree that higher standards for getting (and keeping) driver's licenses is a good thing to discuss. (It's political suicide, which is why it never gets acted upon in spite of the thousands of road deaths every year.)

But I think the solution to the problem describe upthread is more along the lines of "we need higher standards of truth in advertising".

While I agree that "the onus is on the driver to understand how their car works" - I think it's entirely understandable that drivers base that understanding on what the sales guy and marketing team told them when they researched and bought it, and that if they use works like "self driving" and "autonomous" and "autopilot" that it's reasonable for drivers to interpret them in their commonly understood meanings. Disclaimers in legal documentation redefining commonly understood English words are _not_ OK in my opinion.
This is so funny.

"The first advice is nice and simple: read my posts and watch my weekly videos." (Which he started two weeks ago.)

"Do not use the mouse! And use Vim or Emacs. Professional programmers only use keyboards and this kind of editors." (It's not 1980 any more, guys. There's been progress. The only time I use Vim is if I have to SSH into something.)

"Actually, there is less than 10% of changes to pass a technical interview, so don't set high expectations." (Does he mean "chances?")
That's why a lot of breaks are literally un-surfable in bigger swells. What was once a nice sandbar or reef, now only has whitewater and their are waves breaking well past the usual spot--usually in a way that is either two dangerous or not fun.

I remember paddling out at C-Street in Ventura in 14-17ft swell...didn't surf a thing and thought I was going to die. Go on a 4ft day and you will be lucky to find a place in the line-up.
The downvoting on this anecdote is staggering.
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Honesty's great, but breaking the site guidelines is not. Fortunately you can be honest while following the site guidelines in both letter and spirit.

Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21308730 as well.
Those pirate streaming sites are such a nightmare of ads and malware, I find it hard to believe many consumers prefer it to legal streaming. The reason somebody would use that is because they can't afford the legal streaming service, or legal streaming isn't an option at all. This has nothing to do with DRM.

And why do they use those shady pirate streaming sites, instead of pirate torrents of higher quality? It's because many of them struggle to find even 8GB of free space. I know some users who view deleting files to free up space to save new files as part of their daily routine. It doesn't need to be this way, but that's the way it currently seems to be.
See my remark above.
Awesome, thanks for the details. I remembered FF doing something about it and thought it's already official.
One thing not many people realize is that this filters good candidates so they comply better with company culture (follow rules) and how determined they are.

However one down side for the companies is that candidates are more likely to shop around and might have heavily overfit their learning to those LC questions but not solving novel problems.
>The first of the 3 sets of pilots did this, and landed without incident.

Extra pilot in cockpit. Not a CRM situation that's a given.

>The next set overrode MCAS successfully 25 times, inexplicably did not turn off the trim, did not override it the last time, and crashed.

They didn't know why the trim was kicking in in the first place, and the senior pilot was the one countering the trim. He handed it off to the junior pilot to sift through the manual, which ironically, would have been futile anyway as MCAS was dropped from the manual. The behavior did not present as a classic stabilizer runaway. Other pilots interviewed also pointed this out including in the Australian 60 minutes expose on the 737 MAX if I recall correctly, so I'm not sure that the same definition you're fond of is universally shared amongst pilots. Bad priming is also a human factor that is catastrophically lacking among other things not being taken into account.

Furthermore, if pilots were really held to account for knowing the hardware they're operating, they should have known the nature of the trim switch change between the 737 NG and MAX, and the consequences thereof; that wasn't included.

>The last set successfully countered MCAS twice, then turned off the trim. They did not follow the directions on Boeing's Flight Crew Operations Manual Bulletin: "Uncommanded Nose-Down Stabilizer Trim Due to Erroneous Angle Of Attack During Manual Flight Only", which the FAA turned into a mandatory emergency airworthiness directive.

They did follow it actually, but also notice the Note toward the end (see the appendix in the Ethiopian preliminary report. The line reads)

>Note: Initially higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT.

Now. There is something to be said for "Gee, did they read it", but considering the bloody thing includes a disclaimer that the AFM supersedes the bulletin due to not being approved by the FAA, the note being presented outside the main content of the directive, and the notification beeping issued in November, I don't have high hopes for the real effectiveness of the bulletin at clearly communicating the severity of the problem, something which simulator time would have made plain and obvious.

Then again, that's just me.
I was at friend's place, and the TV was on while we were playing dominoes. The friend couldn't find tge remote and tried turning it off via the app.

He had to wait for the ad to finish to do that. SmartTVs are bullshit
Avoiding module side effects and making classes and modules immutable seem like two separate concerns
Most of the interview problems can be solved easily in the allotted time without having seen the problem before. Developers just have a very highly inflated opinion of their own intelligence. If they can’t solve a problem that MUST mean no one else possibly can and the question must be intrinsically unfair.
“twelve different ways to spell the same damn thing”

Sorry, what does that mean?
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I see the following phenomenon repeat itself: someone convinces the world that a particular behavior, described by a particular term, is bad: bigotry, racism, emotional labor, transphobic, sexual assault. Usually this is straightforward because the behaviors are truly monstrous and the offenders deserve to be un-personed. Then a bunch of other people draft behind this term to air out their grievances: this person did something racist, racism is bad, this person is bad. This works for some years, but eventually society just normalizes out the effect of the word: if so many actions are racist, then racism must not be so bad. When this happens, it actually lessens the opprobrium that the hardcore offenders, the people whom the term was designed to denigrate, experience.

It’s effectively trademark dilution.
And despite no training we have what may have been some amazingly good MCAS recoveries within the US during takeoff into things like turbulence triggered MCAS nosedowns - pilots thought their own fault / couldn't understand what was going on but the limited reports in terms of response are great for totally untrained situations. I'm sure pilots were pissed, they should be!

I think you are failing to understand how the chain of safety works. Ideally you have a great design. If you don't then ideally the flaws / weaknesses don't get hit because you have things like good maintenance. If you don't have that then maybe next hope is the pilots. Worst case you then you require instrumentation to help reduce risk of the next tragedy. Etc.

This system has resulted in an incredibly safe mode of transport despite many challenges / crazy tolerances etc.
> It will be better to measure RTT

To measure RTT you need to perform a round trip. Hence the name. But the _whole point_ of this feature is to avoid incurring the cost of an extra round trip if possible.
Where did you read that, I found that hard to believe, more h1bs to reduce inequality. More likely there's a continuing shortage of software engineers and companies follow all paths to hire more from all sources.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That makes this place strictly worse. Crossing into personal attack, which you did here and downthread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21308653) is particularly bad and the sort thing we ban accounts for, even if another comment was provocative.

We're really trying to avoid flamewars here, for the same reason that cities avoid flaming buildings. If you'd respect that in the future we'll be grateful.

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I remember this being in the context of video games, and from some time ago (so things may have changed with Steam sales and the like), but it said that something like 85% of sales occur in the first two weeks. Thus the DRM was there to (hopefully) hold out for as much of that initial time as possible.

Anyway, anecdotal story, take with (many) grains of salt.
Countdown page, https://preview.disneyplus.com/
> not accurately communicating the nature and capabilities of their product to the end user

I think it's becoming clear that at least Boeing have also indulged in "actively deceiving the regulator" as well as the end user.

(It may be that Tesla have also done that, but at least so far nothing like as egregiously as Boeing's recently revealed internal comms...)
Those part-time workers won't magically become full-time workers. Half or more will most likely be let go and less full-time workers will be hired, if at all.

What about people that actually want to work part-time? There are many stay at home moms that just want a few hours to work during the day.
Head-of-Line Blocking
This is nice to hear. I've come to know a lot of ex-cons from minor crimes to life sentences. They're just as varied as any other group of people and you're right that they can either be incredibly solid assets or crazy liabilities. There's something about the crucible of prison life that amplifies personalities (similar to other intense life situations). Many get ground down by the system but there are a few who become better through the challenge.

They've paid their debts but it's unfortunate that society turns it into eternal servitude. Most records other than the truly egregious should be sealed. It's strange how society shuns them continuously and provides no support, but then blames them from not integrating perfectly. It's a vicious cycle.
You can't do personal attacks on HN. Calling for them is an abstract way of doing them. Not cool; please don't.

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Or this: https://edwardtbabinski.us/whales/dolphin_limbs.jpg
Code on a phone!? When I first started it was an orange terminal, DOS3 something. @hyperpalluim is giving me the "Future Shock" I used to hear the old folks talk about...but still using VI?! On the phone!? I'm having some really mixed feeling now
It's not just customers. The same thing happens with internal stakeholders. I've seen products where there is basically zero actual software design because development is driven entirely by short term feature requests.
> it requires running a server in your house, managing storage, etc. etc... there's no way the average user is interested in doing that

Which is why my family, my girlfriend's family, and all our friends just use my Plex server
From the point of view of the kid's parents I'm sure they would have preferred that their son deescalated his involvement. The opposite happened when the FBI shows up and turns what was maybe a passing fad like playing goth dress up or smoking weed and turns it into a thing that pays money during a time when there aren't a ton of jobs available.

If I were the parents that's what I would take issue with. Yes, he was 23, legally an adult. But, plenty of kids are still impressionable and make stupid decisions at that age.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. Nothing good can come of this.

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Count me in this rarified group as well. Never did get the point of 'sportsball' myself.
The probability of no other intelligent life other than ours is near zero. The reason most question it is because we are relatively unintelligent, given we can’t even exit our solar system, and also see anything clearly in the next closest system.
This isn’t something you think about when you think about the USGS or the NOAA. But their monitoring stations, with real-time or short-delay feeds, and sea floor mapping makes the prediction models better.

It’s not an obvious use case for data such as this, which is why it’s important to remember, and it is similarly important that the data be available in open, preferably human-readable formats.
Momentary, in that the actual mute function is software-controlled. However, on the Amazon device it does trigger a physical power-down of the microphones, which is hardware-tied to the LED, so you can be sure that when the LED says the mics are off they really are off. I'm not sure about the Google one.

Edit: at least the physical slide switch on the Home Mini is a hardware cut-off; I assume the same is true of the Home Max.
Why not f#? I would imagine it has good support for discrimated unions which are quite good for representing instruction sets.

He wanted a more modern platform than ocaml, or ml. He didn't want to go too deep down into the functional rabbit hole(haskell), and he didn't want to think about memory management at all(rust).
I know it’s a bit against the spirit of this thread, but at the risk of not being taken seriously.

If you’d like to do that a little faster, you can use `fd` piped into `fzf` as a fuzzy file finder. Once it’s set up properly you’ll never go back! NERDTree might also be helpful.

IME, Vim is mostly nice because of the satisfaction derived from these incremental improvements.
You've been posting flamebait and unsubstantive comments quite a bit to HN lately, and we've already asked you not to. If you keep doing this we will have to ban you. I don't want to do that, so please read the site guidelines and follow them from now on: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Is AT&T hiding a widespread voicemail outage?
I learnt eigen decomposition, Hessians, PCA, backpropagation, CNN, dropout, maxpooling etc.

The page you linked above is the derivation of PCA using linear algebra.

First part derives the encoding matrix from the decoding matrix. 2nd part derives the encoding matrix by minimizing the L2 norm.

If you find the math too heavy, you should take Andrew ngs course at Coursera (not his Stanford lectures, which follow a pattern similar to this book). Or pick up any book targeting programmers, machine learning for hackers etc.
> {"errors":[{"code":"platform-verification-failed","description":"Platform verification status incompatible with security level"}]}

Any information about this "platform verification"? What exactly are they verifying and how?
Note that the study involves exposing the flies for 12h a day, not all day every day.
Best interview is the 3 week probation period, prev job and ask general questions on what you did that only someone who actually did that role would know.
There are some users, such as myself, who find the legal streaming sites intolerable for technical reasons if not ethical reasons. But I think the vast majority of users prefer the legal options when they're available, which is the part the media industry keeps on fucking up.

If they were better at their jobs, better at delivering to consumers what consumers want, they wouldn't have to worry about DRM, piracy, control of consumer behavior or any of this nonsense.
check out the *.pixel.archive.is lookups
Is anyone working on a meta-level a-la-carte subscription system? Pay 3d party, which grants per-article access to journalist websites at a lower price point than full subscription to any or all of them. Bonus if the system shields identity so as not to allow publisher to personalize ads, etc.
Algorithmics took many years to evolve in to the discipline it is now. If every question can be solved by intelligent people in 45m, why did it take this long for the discipline to evolve?
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IIRC from reading Dawkins books, hippos are more closely related to whales than to any land animal.
Doron isn't a troll. He's a green, mean ogre.
Here's a study on pubescent rats in PLOS one. In short, caffeine disrupts sleep which impacts brain development.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
If you're on a Mac could you just use Flux or Night Shift to achieve the same result of removing all blue light from your display?
I know some not very technical people that bought some HDMI network restreamer on ebay, it's basically an HDMI splitter with an ethernet port that will act as a (I think rtmp) server. I didn't check the technicals details, and he uses VLC on his desktop computer to record movies he wants to keep. He does it at night with TV luminosity and volume at near 0.

Of course you have to play the movie/serie in mirror on the TV, but he can record HD (not sure about 4k) movies of whatever plays on the TV. The cherry on top is that he bought 3 IR mirrors (well, it was just aluminum sheets) that he placed strategically to be able to control the IR stuff of the TV from his bedroom.

He was a but uneasy when he showed that to me, but I didn't mock him, I was genuinely fascinated by that setup. For someone who has near zero technical knowledge, this was very good.

I don't really have a point, I just thought of it when you mentioned your girlfriend fear of the pirate bay.
no, I meant the pixel.archive.is stuff
Lots of practice, and katas?

Try writing tests to match requirements. Try writing tests, then refactoring to see if it doesn't break the test(still compiles)
Reposting what TheKnack said [0] as a top level comment, since this is important.

> The Chief Security Architect of FireEye posted this Tweet last week clarifying that there isn't a new compromise of TeamViewer, and the social media posts suggesting there is are misinterpreting a slide from a conference presentation.

> https://twitter.com/cglyer/status/1183210046093758464

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21308518
'guix package --rollback' is what's in my shell history, so it should probably say that.
But many poor people can't buy stock cause they are poor and they have little to pass on to their heirs.
OK, will do, I'm sorry the discussion went off the rails like this. Rest assured that while the form wasn't the most neutral, the intent was definitely the best possible and absolutely no malice was intended, contrary to the forced interpretations that were given in the responses.
What intensity of light, for how long compared to sunlight?

Every time I hear these blue-light crusaders I am reminded of that “iPads are bad for reading” so-called experiment where the iPads were fixed to the desktop set at maximum brightness with a custom font chosen by the experiment lead. Basically attempting to make life as uncomfortable for the subjects as possible, then blaming all the negative effects on blue light emitted by the iPad.

So short version: is this study meaningful in an way or does it shorten lifespan by using extremely bright blue light for many hours longer than a natural day/night cycle?

edit: they maintained similar photon flux density so the blue light would have been extremely bright to compensate for being a single wavelength.

Edit2: the actually useful words in that linked paper are about two paragraphs, the rest is baseless speculation. An effect was observed, with no mechanism described, therefore extrapolation beyond the experimental conditions is entirely in the realm of fan fiction and soap opera (ie: emotive drama).
I'll take a stab at it. What's different here is that an audio-only UI makes it particularly hard for the user to know what program they're interacting with.

Visual UIs generally offer a host of cues to indicate what program is running, and take special efforts to make security-sensitive interactions and dialogs hard to fake. Using these techniques in a voice UI is tricky. There's no good way to tell where the last output came from, or where the next input is going. How can a user be certain that a request for privileged information is coming from a trusted source? In this example, Google clearly tried to create a signature sound (the "Bye earcon") that lets the user know when an app has exited, but an app was able to fake it. The attack leverages the user's trust that was built up by Google.

I think this article provides a useful example that highlights the particular difficulties securing a voice UI system from phishing attacks.
An interview with the woman who coined the phrase, about what she meant when she coined it, is hardly "missing the point". How people have used the term may have moved on, but that's what the article is about.
'Zombie genes' could be why so few elephants die of cancer (2018)
At what intensity compared to sunlight or iPad screens?
A quick glance through their comment history indicates to me that the person you're responding to is not someone who works directly with code, and thus has no first-hand experience with the process under discussion in this thread.
I still use booking.com quite frequently, but the dark patterns are starting to annoy me. I wish there was a better alternative tho, yes, I could book from hotels directly, but I still need to find those hotels, that's why I use something like booking.com. I've had hotels outright tell me to just book through a third-party booking website, since they didn't have their own booking form.
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