skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had something similar. I was given an extensive exam to take before the interview, and it consisted of weird things like 200 arithmetic problems in 15 minutes, picking the best synonym for 100 words in 5 minutes, etc. Things not humanly possible without immense preparation for that precise test.

The interviewer comes in and starts berating me for not finishing and how I must’ve gone to a bad school, must not be smart, etc. Then he goes on and on about how I’m clearly not suited for the job and his young assistant is sitting beside him laughing.

It was a crazy interview. I mentally gave up after a few minutes because the guy was clearly fucking with me and didn’t want me, so I started giving smart ass responses since there was no reason to let myself get beat up.

I get a call a few hours later telling me I can start any time. I told the recruiter to tell the company that the interviewer was a dick (in nicer words) and I’d pass.

Worse than no feedback is opposite feedback. Don’t play mental games with people.
That’s why eggs are so often part of breakfast menus. Eggs with cheese on toast is a fairly solid breakfast option. Alternatively, bacon or sausage are also popular.

You can also up the fat content with some creamer in your coffee rather than sugar.
>It's like it was made by the iOS dev team but also the iOS dev team has never used a computer before.

I have had the same thought for at least three years now.

Apple has managed to pull itself back in 2019 with Qualcomm Settlement ( Finally admitting they were dump enough to start the fight in the first place ) iPhone 11, Mac Pro and MacBook Pro 16". Not perfect, late, slow but at least they reacted on the Hardware side. ( And Apple Store is getting some love too )

But Software is taking a beating. And it has been for a few years in a row already, especially on macOS. Swift adoption and future is also not very clear. It seems sticking to Objective-C for another year would be safe bet. Catalyst and Swift UI maybe another blow to macOS as well[1], they may be good, but I have doubt whether they will be great.

[1] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/12/16/catalyst-and-cohesion/
Why is simply letting the bad employee go not mentioned as an option?

We had a new hire that didn't work out at a place I used to work at. Fired after 3 months. No hard feelings, he took it well and found a good job a few weeks later. Everyone is happy.
“Healthy” is a bit questionable but that does sound delicious.
I think that people who like robotics just want to make cool robots, and all of these robotics startups fail because they don't have product-market fit. I remember being very surprised at the $300 price of Anki's Vector robot. These startups should be validating the viability of their products much earlier.
Peanut butter and honey on cinnamon bread is fantastic. I'm not sure how good it would be on rye though.
Highly interesting thought! Based on Psychology's understanding of dreams I would guess that sleep is actually rather a replay of real experience to stabilize our neural network, but most probably augmented with synthetic variations of the experience data.
I think PAC is some protection measures.

Pointer Authentication Code

It’s a form of pointer integrity checking that you can read about in the Platform Security Guide (this used to be called the iOS Security Whitepaper) released today: https://support.apple.com/en-sg/guide/security/seca5759bf02/...

Google’s Project Zero also wrote a post about this mechanism, including a detailed case study of where they were able to bypass it: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/02/examining-poi...
Keybase
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/alhajidmx; my proof: https://keybase.io/alhajidmx/sigs/i9hpidr3lHtkCCDlzcAID-1bAnqVK-MkyjZiZufRysE ]
Most likely, the real solution here is to make a very highly performance tuned Electron for Wayland, and make it possible for multiple Electron apps to share at least some part of the footprint of that runtime.
PAC generally protects against return-oriented and other control-flow hijacking attacks.
Bloom filters absolutely call for linear space if you are using them appropriately: given the hash collision probability you are working with the size of the required filter is linear in the number of elements you want to store. Yes, it is "technically true" (the most useless kind of true) that you can store as much stuff as you want in the filter... but you get increasingly worse false positive rates that eventually just saturate to near 100%. If you actually read any of the math--including this linked work on Xor filters--you will always see them described in terms of "bits per item stored" (where the number of bits is extremely small vs. what you would expect). Hell: Wikipedia even describes the algorithm's storage requirements as "A Bloom filter with 1% error and an optimal value of k, in contrast, requires only about 9.6 bits per element, regardless of the size of the elements.".
Smh. So they can attack the organization and blacklist it as apart of a russian op. Lol
Wouldn't that be counter-productive, by showing them "yes this address is active and someone's reading your spam" as well as potentially allowing them to correlate your mailing address with online identifiers like IP address, browser fingerprint or advertising cookies?
Consumer Reports hiring a 'resident hacker'
Does anyone think AR has the potential to do in the next decade what phones did in this last one?
I don't have hard numbers, but anecdotally, I know two people for whom this is simply not true at all. It took them months to find jobs, and they sincerely wanted to know why they were being rejected. If you are told "we didn't hire you, because you don't have skill X", or "you don't have any experience with Y", then you can focus on getting better at that thing. It was extremely frustrating for them to be told "We found a better candidate", or more commonly, getting no response at all.
I've dealt with insomnia for most of my life (I regularly saw the clock pass midnight when I was 8, just laying in bed) and making sure I ate breakfast early every morning has seemed to be one of the most effective ways to fight it.

After experimenting with various options, breakfast settled on a few handfuls of hazelnuts and coffee with sugar. It turns out to be impossible to overeat hazelnuts because they're chewy and filling^1, it requires literally no preparation, and it keeps me full for a while. I find unsalted nuts go better with coffee; salt clashes somehow.
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That's why I hedged a bit. SVG is certainly less readable, but it can be human readable if not aggressively minimized.

I've both created and modified SVG documents by hand with a text editor, and also view-sourced SVGs to see how they work.

The only thing that is especially unreadable are the long strings of coordinates that make up paths, and even those can be manageable with comments. No one does complex paths by hand, but the rest is colors, shapes, transforms -- all things you can read and may want to modify.
Interesting, when I worked at Bloomberg we had a standard form letter for rejections that was sent every time. (Email)

Funny story about that, I'd set up a macro to fire off said email with one keypress. Finishing up a phone screen that went horribly, I thanked him for his time and all the other niceties, and pressed the key right as I was about to hang up.

"But wait! I have some questions for you, too!"

Cue the longest 5 minutes of my life.
No, they usually watch from a window or the front porch. Typically they are the ones who know everyone's business in the neighborhood.
I was rather commenting on the first part implying that training a neural network with the statistical distribution that comes out of a GAN or VAE does not add value beyond that generative model capabilities.

I do not agree on that because as I explained, with domain knowledge it is very much possible to shape the data generated for augmented learning - beyond the plain statistical variations of GAN and similar, which are obviously of very limited value in training.
Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, and I was quite happy with IRC personally.

The announcement may not mention it, but there were trial instances of a number of messaging apps set up, people could use them and submit feedback, and that feedback was in fact considered as far as I know. Accessibility and safety were not the only criteria at all.

As far as "safety" concerns being overblown... I personally had approximately zero problems with IRC that way, though some of the random spammers who sounded like foul-mouthed 12-year-olds could be annoying at (rare, in my experience) times. But I absolutely have co-workers whose IRC experience was a lot less pleasant. And if moving to a different system lets us get rid of that unpleasantness for them, that is a _very_ strong reason to consider such a move, both on general moral grounds and on purely business-reasons "people who can get their work done sanely get more work done" efficiency grounds.

Note that we're not talking about safety from debate or opposing viewpoints or whatnot. We're talking about people being able to discuss a bugfix with others without being constantly spammed with invective and threats in the process. _That_ is what "safety" means in this context.
Repo hosts are quite vulnerable to storage abuse as well as simply accruing genuine old content.

I can see a deletion heuristic that considers both account activity and repo activity being deployed within the next 10 years.

However I expect another evolution in SCM in the same timeframe.
Piranha Walrus Arson?
There’s a really stupid simple partial fix for this but it seems to be non obvious to a lot of people.

And that’s to watch a coworker who hasn’t used it before try to follow your docs. Try again, and then pick another coworker. By then it should be good enough for the majority to follow, and you take the rest of the questions as they come. Put the first draft out and you’ll be swamped with complaints.
Maybe they should have for jobs that are physically dangerous/have a high incidence of workplace physical or mental harm. Like, say, working on a mine.

The argument goes like this:

Person A is in such a bad situation that A will accept a job that is terrible!

Prohibiting the job has a good chance of making A worse off (usually, A will accept the job if A thinks it is an improvement over the current situation)

However, we can let A accept the job, and then try to offer A even better alternatives!
Why AWS? It'd doubtlessly be cheaper to throw Flickr onto dedicated servers (by a ton). It would also probably help if they freed the source code of Flickr, so others could contribute and make it lighter to run.

A site like Flickr is exactly what you want to keep as far away from AWS as possible.
> Though essentially just a conveyor belt

It does look simple, but I spent many years in the bulk materials handling industry and there are also rail receival stations, electromagnets to remove contaminants, belt weighing equipment (real time volume calculation), samplers, surge bins (with vibratory hoppers under them), stackers, reclaimers, yard machine anti-collision systems, stockpile impact detection systems and a vast array of PLCs, front end processors, and application-level logic to manage it all.

> When it breaks down the pressure to get it going is intense.

Yeah. When you get calls at 2 am as lightning struck a microwave which stopped a network connect which stopped a database replication which stopped a stockpile calculation which caused a yard machine boom collision you really know how much fun it is.

On the bright side this industry is safety obsessed and quality engineering focused, so cutting corners is neither expected nor tolerated.

> It also gives some insight into why as bushfires rage across the country fuelled by the highest ever recorded temperatures, it's somehow controversial to discuss climate change.

Agreed. Although there are plenty of other factors which can improve bushfire outcomes as illustrated by the national Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (of which most national fire agencies are members) research: https://www.bnhcrc.com.au/utilisation/overview.
Unfortunately, for many recent college graduates, it's not.
Yep, Kyrie. :-)
One of the issues highlighted is that the ecosystem moves fast and dependencies tend to break your setup. One thing that at least partially has mitigated this problem for me is using a stack that is mature and very careful about breaking changes. Clojure is a great example of that. My gut feeling tells me that if you had a repo in Clojure that created your static pages 5 years ago (when Java 8 was released) it will still work today.
If minification break your CSS or JS, isn't that the minification tools' problem?
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I agreed. You dont even need crazy SSDs for all the data. You can have spin disks which have gotten cheaper for TB of data for the older images and SSDs for the cached ones (most recently accessed) and voila.
Oh, that's pure evil/genius.
Joplin is open source.
Form letter is perfectly fine IMO.

The biggest problem is the lack of any response whatsoever is that you cannot simply move on with your job search. Frankly it's just rude and unprofessional, I don't care how commonplace it is.

More detailed feedback is a nice to have, I certainly appreciated it when I got it, but it's a different thing from being ghosted altogether.
Does your company then issue 1099 forms (assuming US taxation)?
Haha, I'm having a very similar conversation with my manager, it's hilarious, and fascinating, as I've only really heard about this before and never seen it first-hand. Very unlikely to be let go, which gives me some distance, and now a political battle will ensue as I don't take kindly to shenanigans.

I will share this with you, kindred spirit: there's two things you can do better than anyone else. Work harder, and care less.

The person who cares least in any given situation has the upper hand.
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I feel this way about azure. The UI is terrible yet I can get stuff done in AWS ui rather quickly.
I had a rejection from Facebook a few months ago and I got no feedback like that. The feedback I got was that I did extremely well throughout the interview process and demonstrated that I was qualified for that type of position. It was just a no for some reason. Unfortunately it’s a rare position and they haven’t called me back with other opportunities.
I'm hitting the same problem a lot with a bunch of things.

Concourse CI is the one I'm running up against this today - I'm taking over a partially built installation which has all sorts of hard-coded config environment variables that I'm trying to figure out their purpose.

Their documentation has basic getting-started stuff[1], but doesn't list all the config variables and their use. It's open source, so I cloned the repo, but they don't directly reference the environment variables there, either.

Compare that to, say, Ansible's documentation - it exhaustively lists all the options[2] and what they're used for, with links to other related documentation.

[1] https://concourse-ci.org/concourse-web.html
[2] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices...
I think this argument/comparison warrants including the pricing of purchasing a hands on rack from a data center directly.

A full 1Gbps up/down cost about $200/mo, plus ~$150/mo for the managed fiber run. A full locked rack is around 800-1,200$/month. You can load up 40U worth of Dell R730xd, or R740xd (dell outlet). Throw in a few enterprise HP 10g fiber switches (refurbished).

You will quickly start to crush any cloud pricing. But you need IT/VMWare experience.

Keep in mind that a cpu/core on AWS or GCP is a fraction of an actual cpu/core. It’s a spot representation of an x cpu from some arbitrary time way back when. Even if their specs say differently, try running a job on a 2x cpu machine vs 2x cpu on dedicated hardware.
SmugMug seems to be hosted on AWS (based on doing a DNS lookup and seeing who owns that IP). I wouldn't be surprised if moving it all to AWS was the path of least resistance to an engineering team that understands AWS more than managing a dedicated hardware fleet.
MR and AR are essentially equivalent in the "industry".
MR is Mixed Reality. For "mixing" digital images with the real world.
Right, look at SourceForge. There's a lot of broken links and/or references to no-longer accessible content in some of the older Apache.org projects too.

Also maybe cvs/svn/git repo generally don't contain content worth preserving for 100 years. There are some historically significant or interesting repos, but for the most part you'll have a bunch of unremarkable (and duplicated) code that may not have run then and certainly won't run now.
Is this some sort of OKD/OpenShift alternative?
I can think of several reasons. #1 for us, is that we're a marketing agency serving a lot of the gaming industry, so working with content creators or industry folk who sometimes default to discord is convenient. That said, Discord is a free quick and easy tool that everyone can install, on any os, and be up and running anywhere in the world for comms in less than a minute. In the box, there's video conferencing, screen sharing, chat, and more.

The example I gave above happens regularly, as I use Deepin Linux as my typical daily driver while I'm working. However, if the need to open an adobe suite tool comes up, I can quickly swap over. Discord works fine for me on both platforms and my phone.

All in all, I don't really like discord all that much. It's not the best at anything. But it has the advantage of being both convenient and feature-rich overall. There are better solutions out there, but none are as convenient or free.
Decades ago there was an amazing piece of software from lotus when I worked there called magellan. I remember the first time I saw someone search, and find results in text documents, spreadsheets and many other of the common formats of the day.

That was in 1989 and today I mostly search my computer using find and grep commands, since that's what just keeps working.
Just use Bitlbee and MIRC. Done, Jabber client for Windows 3.1. And Telegram, and whatever Bitlbee and/or Libpurple supports.
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It would be great if web browsers had a way to actually indicate the user's preference of typeface, but what we've actually got is the browser's preference, and the browsers almost all have chosen really terrible default typefaces. It's fine to say "just use the default" for Mac users who get a decent default, but then the poor windows users have to suffer through some terrible serif.

The users who actually know how to change the default font also know how to use stylish.
The other thing with dogs is that they are empathic and attuned to you. Sometimes they are reacting to what you are communicating to them, before you are even conscious of it.
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Or FreePascal/Lazarus with OpenSSL. If you build a Win16 statically linked binary it may work.

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Win16
Nice post, gives clear insights and strategy on how we can adopt in-app app update.
Just ask Elvis. You'll probably see him soon if you eat too many of these ;)
I still don't get why not minify HTML...
When you open your browser's devtool, all the HTML elements is properly formatted and interactive.
If you mean "view-source:", there are tons of HTML beautifier there.
Anti-bot/scraping.
In the same spirit, Kanbun (Japanese annotations for reading Classical Chinese) can be described in a mathematical way: https://researchmap.jp/?action=cv_download_main&upload_id=24...

I personally tried to make a virtual machine for transforming texts (texts are code and data) in kanbun before I found the paper but failed because it's a bit more difficult than I excepted.
I have so many mixed feelings about this. I've always been a big Flickr fan. I absolutely loved the Explore section.

It had a set of really nice photos that I would spend every evening after working, browsing, sipping on a cup of tea and listening to music. I find some fun groups, some people who click some great photos on some really impressive gear which I don't own, but I would love to. The quality of Explore dropped drastically, sometimes showing up weird, creepy things, or something just random photos. It didn’t seem curated at all.

Fast-forward to recent times, I've seen Flickr bought and sold, schemes changed and more. There have been times of instability on the site, the Yahoo! login has been a pain. Performance has been erratic as a whole.

At a time where Instagram, Google Photos (and other cunning) services are the only healthy (in terms of users), ‘social’ photo hosting services, Flickr to my naive mind stands out so I don't want to see it go away. I started paying for a Flickr Pro to support it, even backed up my entire photo base to it. Now, I’m not sure if I need find alternatives

I feel the e-mail sounds more personal, than the usual two-faced PR spiel we see from larger corporations. It's nice that Smugmug appears to have good intentions, but it hasn't treated Flickr too well either. Logins have been broken in the recent past, there have been several outages, terrible migration attempts that almost speak of incompetence. Of late, it says I can't login using Firefox. Once logged in (after setting a different User Agent), it works perfectly fine.

So I really don't know what to feel.
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Flickr
Also of academic interest; Neural Bloom filter:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04304

Achives optimally 36% space saving compared to BL but needs an fp accelerator to achieve the same throughput. Compares to perfect hasing, which also does not suppprt insertions.
What I don't understand here is why SmugMug bought Flickr in the first place. Smugmug is such a great example of how to build a profitable photo storing/sharing-ish business, that to buy a service that is bleeding money without a path to break even seems like such an odd choice.
I won't do 1:1 interviews any more. I want witnesses.
This problem has been solved a long time ago if you use Pinboard.

https://pinboard.in/

Just pay the yearly subscription so pinboard can cache your bookmarks.
How does this compare to WSL 2 on windows?
Launching WSL based linux distros is a breeze and they are lightweight due to lack of full virtualization overhead. Since these use Hyper-V/VBox I'm guessing they would be heavier.
Tin foil hat theory: They purposely don't show you this stuff because their security is garbage and it'd alert too many people of their shortcomings and negligence.
Neither the blog nor the repo contain benchmarks, which is bit weird when the title of a technical article has word "Faster".

Then after digging through the actual paper it turns out that the construction performance of Xor Filter is actually massively slower than Bloom.. May not matter for many uses, but critical for others (like mine).

> Blocked Bloom = 10 ns/key

> Bloom 8 = 40 ns/key

> Xor 8 = 110 ns/key
> I suspect companies don't want you to reapply, regardless of whether you've improved. They already said no.

One small anecdotal counterpoint: I interviewed at Google many years back and didn't get an offer. They were nice enough to call and let me know, which I very much appreciated. Since then I've been getting hit up by their recruiters on a regular schedule, every 6-12 months.

At some point I was short on patience and straight up said "you guys know I already interviewed with you back in 20XX, right?"

Their response was "Well yeah, but so what? That was a while ago."
Would you be willing to share the details?
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