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>Candidates will be evaluated using a simple quantitative assessment of core competencies.

I've tried implementing that with a coding take-home task, with "mixed results".

On-paper great candidates often refused.

On-paper good candidates made mistakes because they completed it very quickly, while mediocre candidates invested x10 the time and produced "better objective result".

Comparing code turned out to be much less straightforward or objective than I've anticipated: X handed great consistent well-commented code, but didn't null check inputs, Y covered all cases but left internal class implementation details public, and so on and so forth.
While async is a huge plus of fast api I’ve found the documentation creation to be the most helpful. My 2c.
I only encounter two groups of people in my life:

People with more money than they can sanely spend who nonetheless feel slightly as if they're behind the curve

People who are struggling to make ends meet every day and who are one or two pay checks (or dole payments) from significant hardship.

There hardly seems to be a middle any more. Nothing is more difficult than to be of modest financial ambition. I don't know how well graphs can plot this kind of imbalance.
Good to hear.

I could pay a bit for personal use, and hopefully it'd still be useful without integrations etc; I don't think I could ask anyone else I'm working with (open-source wise) to do that.
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Awesome. Can you add a link to https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news/ ?
I'm thankful that I was lucky enough to be exposed to computers at the very young age of 6. Until I became around 11 or 12 years of age, most people only had routine access to them when working government or highly technical jobs (Eastern Europe in the 2000s), so I am aware it was a very kind gift from my parents.

They actually worried that I spent so much time playing video games afterward, but games taught me English, made me competitive for the first time, gave me a few tips on empathy, and helped me develop a passion for solving problems and understanding systems, which I tried to use to make my own games, which ultimately led me to pursue a career as an engineer (which eventually led me to HN, and eventually to this post. Ha!)
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Guess it depends what you want out of HN. Those publications all have issues with objectivity. For me it's enough to know the source, and see comments spelling out the source when it's non-obvious.
What country do you live in? I'm sure they have sanctions against NK too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_North_Korea
ML is more like alchemy, I'd say: mixing components using intuition and experience, but without understanding what these components really are and why they work. In this analogy, AI is the recipe to make gold and the ML alchemists haven't invented nuclear physics yet.
Here are the main allegations:

1. In or about April 2019, GRIFFITH traveled to the DPRK to attend and present at the “Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference” (the “DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference”).

2. After the DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference, GRIFFITH began formulating plans to facilitate the exchange of cryptocurrency between the DPRK and South Korea, despite knowing that assisting with such an exchange would violate sanctions against the DPRK.

3. GRIFFITH also encouraged other U.S. citizens to travel to North Korea, including to attend the same DPRK Cryptocurrency Conference the following year.

4. Finally, GRIFFITH announced his intention to renounce his U.S. citizenship and began researching how to purchase citizenship from other countries.

I wonder if 1-3 basically just amount to speaking in person about technology that is very well documented on public web sites?

As far as I'm aware, 4 isn't a crime or even immoral in any way.

This seems like it's basically just a real-life scenario of what people were worried about in the 1990's "crypto wars", but with a very unsympathetic defendant and an especially evil foreign power.

Although if he was paid to go there then it would seem to violate whatever commercial sanctions are in place.
The Greens nearly doubled their result in the European elections, coming in second at 20.5% after the CDU at 28.9%.

They were up +4.6 points in Brandenburg and +2.9 points even in Saxony, making them one of the very few parties that didn't massively lose voters to the AfD...
Id want another authentication level like fingerprint in the action so if I drop my phone its not still a key. I like the general plan, but two levels of identification if possible.
1. You could move to a place with decent public transportation.
2. You could use ride-sharing services.
3. You could bicycle.
4. You could walk.

I am not trying to be snarky here, but absent living in rural environs, there are usually options for personal transport that do not require operating a motor vehicle. Again, it is a tradeoff society makes between personal liberties, i.e. the privilege to drive versus public safety. And different jurisdictions may have differing standards on where that line is drawn.
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Funny to see this come up -- I just read this paper by a primary author of LogicBlox:

Next-Paradigm Programming Languages: What Will They Look Like and What Changes Will They Bring?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.00402

(In addition to seeing it cited by the Souffle paper I mentioned in a sibling comment.)

It was an interesting paper that gives a flavor for logic / declarative programming, e.g. how to reason about performance, and the problem of tiny changes causing asymptotic performance differences (a problem that SQL shares).

But I think it is mistitled -- it really is about a particular problem domain and is not about programming languages in general.
You may have seen this blog already, but the author of "Practical TLA+" has a really fascinating blog with some fun toy examples. I'm a fan of this article where they model A Link to the Past with Alloy, to prove that dungeons are "winnable" [0].

The rest of the blog is really interesting too.

[0] https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/alloy-randomizer/
I did that once to a paper that I don't understand. That is, I read and look up stuff until I think I understood things.

I learned a lot by doing that. But it took a lot of work, and I forgotten most of it if it wasn't added to anki. Good thing that I wrote it down in my notes.
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That source looks excellent, thanks.

I know there's a strong tendency for people to hold to their beliefs against evidence, but I think the degree of that effect varies for everyone, and I just think it's unhelpful to write everyone off as completely hopeless.
I agree that there is currently a lack of general discussion/activity related to energy storage during peak hours of renewables (or active production during <antonym of peak> hours of renewables). Maybe it's just not yet time for that... .

I guess/hope that companies will jump into the energy storage sector (related to renewables) once there is demand and it becomes therefore financially interesting => some unorthodox ideas might come up in the future (which could be used as well for flat landscapes like the german one) (e.g. https://qz.com/1355672/stacking-concrete-blocks-is-a-surpris... )
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That is far from unscrapable. Could probably be done within hours with the Android emulator.
I get that people hate US monetary policy so much they tried to bypass it with crypto currency and the like. But this strikes me as another reason for the US government to step in and regulate crypto currencies.
he mentally searched for a word and accidentally took the antonym of what he wanted.
How could anyone be taken in by these kind of shysters and keeping your coins in someone else crypto-exchange kinda defeats the whole concept.
I think this is really the bottom line here. This "Pin soundness" matter really seems analogous to the process that any compiler project would go through to identify and fix obscure compiler bugs. I don't think it's quite so deserving of the amount of attention it's getting.
> Transporters cannot penetrate shield, usually either incoming or outgoing. Usually.

Except when they can, due to frequency matching, "technology generation" mismatch between shields and transporters, and countless of other one-off workarounds that happened. Think of every episode in which the Enterprise/Defiant/Voyager was boarded while in combat.

But even when considering the regular case of shields blocking incoming and outgoing transport, there's plenty of opportunities to use transporters offensively. They could be used as surprise first strike weapon to initiate hostilities by immediately taking enemy ship out. They could be used to finish off an enemy in a one-to-one fight. They could be used in coordinated fashion in fleet battles, where whenever an enemy ship loses shields, one ship drops their own shields and transports some photons over while other ships cover the vulnerable friend from immediate fire. Etc.

All in all, there are plenty of opportunities for offensive transporter use which were never explored in the series.
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This looks interesting (have only glanced at it so far). However, the abstract and introduction are a bit misleading regarding what I did in my 1994 thesis (http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford/thesis.abstract.html). My results about convergence of neural networks to Gaussian processes were not confined to shallow networks. Also, I discussed how to get network priors to converge to non-Gaussian stable processes, by using priors for weights that have infinite variance. Such non-Gaussian priors may well be more interesting than Gaussian processes, for problems where a "really sophisticated smoother" is not going to be adequate.
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Dhamick: Alternative to Facebook?
A friend sent me this site that i find it could be a viable alternative to Facebook and the problems that we are tired of (data breach, etc). I am sharing this to help the site get popular.

He said they got 677 users in its first 2 days. I still have few friends on the site so if you want a friend to interact and etc just post your username below.
Storage.

By building out storage, of which there is a plethora of possibilities, then peak production from renewables can be stored and dispatched later.

Each unit of storage at that point can then displace some amount of baseline generation like coal or nuclear.
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No active workspace

Is that HN's hug of death now?
Absolutely! Which is why I'd love to incorporate actual model checking into my work. I said that I make use of some level of model checking, but what I really meant was that I make use of a poor approximation of it.

Edit: I was convinced later in the thread that this isn't a fair comparison :)
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In this case it’s not a third party API but your own products API. Also while you can use the same endpoints, authentication and authorization don’t have to be the same. You could use your standard basic auth (or other) for your regular API use case and then use cookie based auth or JWTs (or whatever other auth you want) for the SPA. Again this isn’t for third party APIs but for companies creating a web app for their own apps so you can have flexibility.
kevinsundar below is entirely correct, that's how I have mine set up as well. However, instead of network detection, there are multiple GPS-based device tracker methods for proximity.
sulfur and other pollutants. coal is the dirtiest source of energy. Coal would die anyway (modulo anthracite). Gas, solar, wind and nuclear is gonna be cheaper in the future.
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On mobile?
Inflation ensures the status quo is never good enough. This drives technological progress to achieve better efficiencies. Good regulations provide the constraints of the game - maintain clear air / water /power etc...

What you call social justice in reality would cement the status quo and deincentivize technological progress. See the lack of innovation in socialist countries. Great at copying, bad at inventing.
It’s possible but not optimal. The same instructor in a lithe body could do so much more.
From the other side (lead dev) I feel the apathy part pretty acutely.

I go so far as to say I think Hanlon needs a new razor. Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by apathy.
Per your NIH citation, you may be correct. FTA, "Overemphasizing “medical bankruptcies” may distract from understanding the true nature of economic hardship arising from high-cost health problems."

Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation since the 1970s. Health care consumed 4 percent of income in 1960 compared to 6 percent in 2013.

https://www.thebalance.com/causes-of-rising-healthcare-costs...

And are expected to continue doing so into the near term.

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
90 seconds is uncommon for complete novices, but most people can get to 2-3 minutes within a day or two of training. It's almost entirely psychological up to that point; blood oxygen levels barely drop for the first few minutes you hold your breath while at rest. You just need to learn what the sensations are, that they are normal, that you aren't at risk (assuming you've done some basic amount of safety education), and to relax into it.
Let me simplify the accusation further, so we don't need to noodle as much about it:

Griffith asked the State Department if he could attend and present at the Pyongyang Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, because attendance at the Pyongyang Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency almost certainly violates sanctions on North Korea that are enforced by countries around the world very much including the United States.

Unsurprisingly, the State Department told Griffith he could not in fact present or attend the Pyongyang Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

Regardless, Griffith attended and presented at the Pyongyang Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.

Then he (apparently? and despite previously taking some marginal steps to conceal the issuance of his DPRK visa?) tweeted his visa. That's not a crime, so much as an indicator of the level of opsec at play here. Neither, by the way, is his indication that he might want to switch citizenship; the only criminal count he's charged with is the single one at the top of the complaint, Conspiracy To Violate The IEEP, most likely in the enhanced configuration (conspiring with a state involved with nuclear/chemical/biological weapons); guideline base range 5-6 years.
A lot of the LED bulbs out there are poor quality, they have bad CRI and they flicker. I’d be interested to know if you find high CRI LEDs better, especially warmer ones.
>> which no article or neuroscience education has yet demonstrated.

True, but there are some pretty interesting ideas out there. I'm going have to start putting together a list of articles. From the proof that if we have free will, so do particles to some extent. To the notion that quantum computation may happen in the brain. Not saying I believe these things, but the people behind them are pretty smart.
Not sure, I reported it to LogicBOx who's looking into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BpSAT3sMUA

I don't really want to comment.. But here we are.
I believe he's talking about Server Settings > Network > List of IP Address and networks that are allowed without auth
That is the mainstream media narrative, may be AMD are beating Intel in price / performance or even in absolute performance, but the reality is Intel isn't hurt at all. They are still making record revenue and profits.

Intel is doing so well that even with the increased capacity they put in place they are still catching up to demands. And there was rumours about Intel outsourcing their CPU, I think that is unlikely but they are looking to outsource all of their Chipset to either TSMC or Samsung to further free up Capacity.

The press and response are all in flavours of AMD, but I would argue AMD is not doing a good enough job capturing more of it, especially in the Server and HyperScaler Segment. Even the optimistic research estimate AMD (only) to gain 10% Market shipment in the Server market by 2020. I would have expected the Zen 2 EPYC to be at least in the 10s if not 20s.

Most of the current Mobile Laptop shipment went with AMD merely because Intel could not supply them with enough chips. Not entirely sure how well this will play out once their Zen 2 APU arrives and Intel fix ( if they do ) their 10nm.

I just wish AMD could do better, having said that, despite all the dirty tactics used, I must give credit to Intel's marketing and sales people.
So, what is more effective than a talk home task?

I posit it's still the least bad way to evaluate a candidate. If a 'mediocre' candidate is able to complete the task well, they have still completed the task well.

And, IME, 'great' candidates, even with a storied resumes, can simply be good at self-advancement and job application as much as actual competent at their job.
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Thank you for clarifying what you mean!

I was using the same terminlogy as the article, and treating my property tests as informal forms of model checking due to their being unsound, but I can see how that isn't exactly correct.
Who pays you guys to say this?

https://miro.medium.com/max/888/1*WPnv_6sG9k4oG3S1A09MDA.jpe...

Cap-theorem. Blockchain allows for far greater partitions not available to any other database model. In terms of consistency, while I disagree with everything many crypto companies are doing, when it comes to consistency, blockchain allows far larger scabability in terms of consistency over a larger partition than traditional corporate servers running Hadoop or Spark. The availability is surprisingly quick as well. If we're talking maximum scale of big data and their operating methodology, we're going to be talking about blockchain and how to partition the the data between different clusters and how to achieve consensus between nodes. Financial data belongs on the blockchain, outside of corporatocracy control and central bank control.
He's still very lucid, creative, and open-minded. If you have the energy to not get offended by ideas, he's a good read.
CakePHP does the same routing by naming convention, and I can't stand it. Forcing you to name your functions based on the url is horribly inflexible and has bit me in the ass before. There are sloppy ways around it such as modifying .htaccess, but it leads to an inconsistent codebase where either only some routes are done the way the framework intends, or all routes are done an entirely different way.

I've been instructed to add endpoints with a specific URL, but the corresponding naming requirements for routing was already taken by another method that was heavily used throughout the application. So either tell marketing that won't work because of technical reasons (which doesn't go over so well), or re-name a bunch of perfectly good code because the framework is inflexible.
I haven’t updated plex in several years. Is this new-ish behavior?
I really wish Flutter wasn't tied to Dart. Dart feels like a yet-another language with nothing over e.g. Go. Go can compile to JS and WASM now.
I've been eyeballing this problem space for a while now and came to the exact same conclusions as you did, KNX for everything "important" + Home Assistant for nice to haves.

Just waiting for the build a house/completely renovate an apartment to put it to practice.

Can you give some more information about the sensors you use, especially for CO2/VOC measurements?
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The trust issue is far overblown. Blockchain is much more about digital ownership of assets. You own your Facebook, your Google search results, etc, etc. You may not physically host it, but own the data that is generated from it and can decide to co-opt it into a larger tray for money if you wish or to remain private. It's much more about freedom on a conceptual level if we zoom out then about simple immutable ledgers; which are just shared key-value pair databases across many nodes, nothing special.
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Can anyone recommend brands or models for a fun and hackable TV? Something to let me run my own software on it and remove any ads or unwanted features from menus (I don't want any big Netflix or Hulu buttons). Maybe something running Android. Preferably something with an existing community around it, like an equivalent to OpenWRT or LineageOS for TVs.
Is it very narrow minded of me to think that, even for HN, recognising "culture" as "company culture" demonstrates a very blinkered view of the world?
The first chapter does not reflect much empathy for the Japanese.

The authors could have made their point without showing such blatant disrespect.
"What are you thankful for?" is not nationalistic flamebait, or flamebait at all.
As a (Neo)Vim user I find this interesting as I'm regularly editing Markdown and
Org files containing code blocks. Those consistently break Vim's syntax
highlighting. Not a huge deal but irritating now and then.

This might be the best approach without making serious changes to how Vim parses the syntax.
Doesn't Dart have generics and a lot of other language features that Go chose to omit?
On average, you can demonstrate the landauer limit.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/3/e1501492

Even in those experiments, there are scenarios where energy is recovered during the erasure of the bit. Although the number of experiments is large enough to recover the k_b T ln(2) expected value.
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> the cold hard world order came crashing down on this dude.

He asked the state department before leaving, he knew what he was doing.
That is, very obviously, not what the question is asking.
Yes, that is obviously true. But that is not what was claimed in the comment I answered too.
Continuous. I compared power (energy/second, watts) not energy.

Take the helium used in a year, calculate the amount of energy produced by nuclear reactions to make that helium. Compare to the solar intensity at earth's orbital distance (W/m^2) multiply by 1 year, multiply by area of circle with earth's diameter.

The result I got was within a factor of 10 between the two.
That's actually half decent idea.

Components getting completely killed is actually the simple case. In fact, many HA strategies require that malfunctioning components be outright killed.

Components that get temporarily unresponsive, isolated, network partitions, these are much more challenging scenarios.
Please fuck off with this constant bullshit about black holes containing meaningful “data” or the universe being a hologram. It’s flat earther tier insane. Anyone who spreads such ideas should be mercilessly ridiculed, and anyone posting articles sympathetic to such theories should be permanently banned from HN.
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Does the kernel allocate the physical page when it is read, or only when it is written to? My mental model was that the new VA pages are first mapped to the zero page as copy on write.