skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A very stupid title, and a very stupid last line.

The rest of the article is quite interesting. The subtitle is much better "Prehistoric egg shells provide clues to dinosaurs' evolution from cold- to warm-blooded creatures"
Re-inventing React component rendering
I used to think that until I heard of people with far less experience than me getting paid $400k total comp at these places because they can ace the interview and get competing options. That's worth putting 6 months of work in.
The best part is they might hire someone that knows the answers by chance when someone with much better technical skills doesn’t know the answers to the particular set of questions and then the new hire might be technically savvy but often have very poor interpersonal skills
> I guess if you're doing some python based data analysis it could make sense.

I think you answered your own question. ;)
Any CPU heavy tasks really. If you can squeeze an extra 20% performance boost over Windows, running Linux would a pragmatic and economical choice.
You could have a balanced data structure and keep inserting into it.
I've seen a lot of people (myself included) going from ruby to elixir
> In California long time landlords get Prop 13 tax cuts. New ones don't. They compete for the same tenants and charge the same rent.

"Long time landlords" and "new landlords" are not inherently different people, they're the same people at different points in time. It's like saying a landlord which has paid off the mortgage on their building makes more money because they don't have to make mortgage payments. The value of the future reduction in property taxes gets priced into the purchase -- but then so does the cost of higher property taxes at the beginning, since the government still needs a given amount of revenue.

The thing Prop 13 really does is to discourage long-time landlords from selling the property at all, because the buyer will have to pay higher property tax than the seller which makes the property "worth more" to the seller, even if it's otherwise worth more to the buyer. For example, this can discourage development because the existing owner doesn't have the inclination or the capital for expansion but would demand enough for the property that it would make it unprofitable to a third party who would have to pay higher taxes.
Not according to https://publications.opengroup.org/standards/soa

There is a lot of context lost in generalities so I admit you have to look at every specific situation, but in general CRUD means pushing business logic down to the client (which is generally some kind of code running in a browser or mobile app), which is the opposite of everything good in the world.
Not exactly. If every employer randomly threw out 80% of the resumes without looking at them, and then perfectly evaluated the remaining 20%, then you would expect that all qualified developers would have a job (they just might have to apply to several jobs to get an offer).
Does it? Because their strong data haven't helped them not screw up their messenger space. Or to have a fast email web client. Indeed, they seem to be going backwards on that chart.

They flopped on wave and Google plus, hard. Those are the kinds of mistakes that kill most companies. Even Google glass still somewhat rankles and has left me with no confidence in any of their consumer things.

And I say this as a happy Google fi user. In that I'm not convinced any alternative is worth moving to. Still can't fathom why Android is wasting fully half of my storage for "system".

I'm not claiming they are crap. But I do have a hard time making all the things they do that are beyond the industry. Other than spend a ton of money.
So either you have private information (that hopefully you wouldn’t be sharing on HN) or you can provide a public link?
This is the best summary I know

https://taxfoundation.org/property-tax-limitation-regimes-pr...
I've multiple colleagues who got offers from all of FAANG. They tell me about solving 500 problems on LeetCode 2 or 3 times before appearing for interviews.
AppEngine is just one product in Google Cloud, and the first they released in 2008. Of course there will be new versions and eventually new products that are recommended like VMs, GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and more.

It's still supported and has plenty of usage so I don't see it as "hanging by a thread" unless you have more data than things that people said but apparently you forgot?
Hmmm. Agreeing with the sentiment of your argument while looking at the flip side of the coin, the fruit borne of the ad-hoc lack of coordination you describe is sadly easily overwhelmed by domain domination exerted from committees and bureaucracies with vested interests in specific fields.

Which kind of information-leaks that either VR is hype noone really cares about, or that none of said committees (with attendant lumbering bureaucracy) have really noticed it yet. Wait, I just described the same thing two different ways.

But yeah, no, it would not do to have The Web℠ Platformᴳ, errrrr, "excel". :P
It's kind of funny how outsider's looked on RPGs. On the one hand in this example law enforcement saw a computer/hacker themed game and thought it was a real pathway to that activity.

Then on the other end of the RPG spectrum, Fantasy based RPGs that dealt with magic, supernatural, demons, etc were similarly taken seriously by some in the religious community as actual guides to such activity.

Are there any RPG topics I'm missing here that had the same type of treatment from their respective antogonists believing the RPG content authentic material?
> If you actually read the linked article...

It seems that you were the one who didn't read the article. He mentions several.
Yeah, but the PhDs they're taking in generally got it from diploma mills. It's just ceremonial idiocy.
From the numbers I've seen, Zurich is the one exception that pays comparably to the Bay Area, NYC, and Seattle.
You can definitely use multiple desktop clients with one account, I have it installed on my home laptop and desktop
You can use them for just about anything once you get used to the idea of dynamic nesting. I'm particularly fond of this implementation:

http://www.dsprobotics.com/applications.html
It's really not a bad problem to have.
Thanks for explaining the background, Sauod.

But don't you need to say that? What policies or strategies are you using to prevent this from happening beyond the shared experience of being burned and avoiding a deep sense of shame if one were to abuse their position?
He didn't ask to use cut, you could use whatever windows function you have used as well. Unless, of course, you've never have had to unmangle a weird text file to get something out of it in your computing history. Then perhaps I don't want you at all?

OP asked a very open ended question, merely made a suggestion that it could also be done with some standard Unix programs (I grew up on windows and even I know about cut and awk because you spend enough time anywhere in tech you will know these). Why it triggered you, not sure, but perhaps the question it's doing its job after all.
Smart is the wrong word - more like savvy googlers usually have an internal network and know what teams are hot. They move on quickly.
I think the best hiring process is the following:

1. Open source your entire codebase

2. Each user story, commit for feature, etc is tagged

3. Pending features are correlated to (2).

Finally, no interview or references. Simply hire people who can complete high level implementations for the features to extent one can given an arbitrary time frame.
If FAANG hired all the best people, then we wouldn’t have anyone good left to hire. Maybe it’s for the best
My team hired a guy like this.

At this point everyone knows he's a fake. He's not involved in anything technical despite being a "senior dev". It was quite uncomfortable when he was programming and we had to review his code but at this point he's just hanging out in the office and sitting in on meetings.

I wonder about his psychological state. He doesn't seem happy.
Curious how they respond, but I like this angle.
For a mundane situation that's surprisingly difficult: toll booths.

The highway goes from N lanes to N5 (or more!) lanes and then back into N lanes, usually with the lane markings being completely absent in the process. You have to pick a lane to get into, with your choice being potentially impacted by such things as "are you a truck?", "exact change only", or "I have an EZ-Pass", not to mention the potential for some lanes to be outright closed. The signage is likely to be somewhat unique and potentially counterintuitive to normal meanings--the lane under the big yellow light is the kind of lane I usually want to take, especially since it's usually higher speed than the lane under the big green light. Drivers are going to be more erratic than usual ("oops, I don't have EZ-pass" SWERVE*). And they usually occur smack-dab in the middle of limited-access highways where people might want to use self-driving cars.
It's good to point it out.

In the third world, if you hire 100 people for a 5-man project, people end up doing nothing but their own things. It's bad but it's obvious that something is going wrong.

In the first world, if you hire 100 people for a 5-man project, people end up to invent and justify 100-man's job. Everyone's role would become their identity, everyone is busy and hardworking. The output is high, they would also have fancy analytics and reports.

It's hard for a person to believe a 100-man busy project actually only needs 5 men.
It's always... interesting... To look at SF on Zillow. There are a few nice-looking options in the ~1.5M range, mostly foreclosures, and it seems mostly in not-so-great areas. I don't know if there are any great areas in SF proper though.
I assume he is interviewing with the other top companies too (e.g. "payment processing company" would be something like Stripe or Square probably).
Economic stability is a necessity for home ownership and is often exhibited by home owners, but home ownership is not a cause nor prerequisite for economic stability. The relationship between the two was muddled in the run up to the last financial crisis- that is, lenders were encouraged to lend to more people to buy houses because it was correlated with economic stability. This is a little like buying someone expensive shoes to make them a better basketball player.
It's only the end of a wave. 50s saw some ideas, 80s a few more, this one was a massive push [0], I honestly don't think the road to SDV is long and windy. It's just a natural bubble bursting backpush for now.

[0] I'm not even a fan of the idea anymore btw, just trying to assess the technical hurdles. Sensors have become numerous and cheaper, compute power is immense. Investment won't be higher to make new steps in 20-30 years.
They are increasing investment and are arguably the first "cloud" computing company to exist and offer a product to the public.

They might not catch up to the others but it'll still be a highly profitable product suite. I don't see what there is to worry about. GCP also includes Google Maps and GSuite by the way, which have lots of customers.
Bad example really. There are many companies where you don't need to know this stuff, Google is not one of them. You want that 350k a year, but you don't know the basics about computer science to find the k-th highest element in a BST, well doh. What can I say...

To be honest, this is really a super simple question and I would be stunned if this was anything but a warmup for you, like the interviewer giving you a simple question to get you into focus. I haven't done anything with BST in years but still I could easily do this with a piece of paper. Back in the days, Google was asking to insert an element in a Red-Black-Tree. Well, this is a clusterfuck and far too specialized. But questions like those were rightfully banned.

Yeah sure, it's not what you do all day, but not being able to answer these questions has implications. There are many code monkey mills where you just write some JS code to hack a webpage together and it would seriously bother me if they would ask you such questions.

Just rethink what you really want. FAANG is not for everyone.
Obviously you don't like them, but flow based programming is pretty great actually.
How do we draw the line between species, exactly?

As others here have noted, it's generally or historically been deemed to be a pairing expected to produce a fertile offspring that can interbreed with others of the same group.

Though, really, DNA is just two RNA. We are made up of the same code that makes bacteria and even viruses. So it's bound to be messy and highly hackable.

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ancient-virus...

I can't readily find a really good article about the (controversial) theory that humans descended from a pig-chimp mating, but you can Google it.
I love these anecdotes, thank you!

The greatest programmer I've had the privilege of working closely with could easily pass most technical screens, but he's an odd fellow, and I don't think could handle the stress and anxiety of these crazy interviews. Lots of diamonds in the rough out there, but I suppose large companies understand that and just consider it acceptable loss.
oh yeah, I was totally naive.
You'd think this would be a massive liability seeing the candidate's race, sex, attractiveness, etc. Unless that was the intention so that they could optimize for specific demographics they want to hire for - even if it is illegal.
I see (on your own repo) an intriguing mention:

"The design of GooSig requires a public RSA modulus whose prime factorization is
unknown."

I see one of the key is http://certificate.fyicenter.com/356_Root_CA_America_Online_...

Did you choose this key because you consider it to have been lost ?
Must be the alcoholics hitting the down arrow :P Here is a great article https://www.nytimes.com./2009/05/05/health/05brod.html ...
The NYT published a mea culpa about its reporting on Iraq. https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...
I find motivation letters to be stressful too and an emotional rape 99% of the time (I just want a job). Hence my question, a video would be just a tiny step lower in happiness compared to a letter.
Barely profitable (assuming that's all it is for the number 1 video destination online) is still profitable.

Also Youtube != Google Cloud.
Western Electric Company – how it worked (video, 1956)
I'm the exact same in the guitar department, play a riff for 5 mins flawlessly, try to record it as a 10 second clip (or even try to put it on a looper), fuck up a couple notes in.

I also interview badly frequently but not due to poor test performance but due to my demeanor in an inherently awkward situation.
For the most part I don't really disagree with you, but there are ways drivers could behave unpredictably out of what might be called an excess of caution. For example, my wife just yesterday told me about something that happened to her that day. She was waiting to turn right from a side street, behind another car also turning right. The first car started their turn, she pulled up, checked that there was ample room, and so started to turn in behind them. Then the car in front slammed on their brakes, stopping partway into the lane. It seems they did this because there was a car approaching in the distance on the main street.

The thing is, that car was far enough away that both cars could have easily turned in front with room to spare. My wife had seen it before starting her turn, and realized there was plenty of time. In fact, after a few seconds, the driver in front of my wife realized just how much time they had, and finally made the turn, still before this other car arrived. Because my wife is an attentive driver this wasn't a problem, but you could certainly see a driver in her position starting to make the turn while looking to the left, and rear-ending the car that suddenly stops for no apparent reason. Of course they would be at fault for doing so, but the first driver's excess of caution, if you want to call it that, would also be a contributing factor.
There's only really one place that can have these big tech companies, and that is the US. What technology companies of note do the UK have?

It's just stupid nonsense like "writing spreadsheets for the local government" and minor web development. In tech, it really is US vs. ROW
https://youtu.be/voVa7Pj2xUg

There’s definitely an effect. It’s in clinical trials right now.
100k then would be 170k today, in line with (if not slightly lower than) entry level comp at FANG companies.
> just replace the roads (save for cargo corridors) with some kind of pod rail network, i.e. self-driving four-seater trolleys.

So Personal Rapid Transit? This idea has been tried before, and has never lived up to expectations.
The heart of the issue is that the interview and even the application process are geared towards finding this mythical coder who lives to churn out code. "URL for website or GitHub repo" is a required field on so many applications now. Sorry... between music, art, exercise, children, and commuting, finding unpaid time to do my job even more is a little tricky!
There are not sharp lines, just fuzzy boundaries.

We do have to discuss and reason about living creatures with other humans though, so it's helpful to name and categorize, just know that the names and categories are a human language construct, nothing more.
If things needs to evolve to separate direction, you can duplicate them.

Unreasonable X is unreasonable, that's true no matter X but that's not very insightful. Unreasonable factorizing is unreasonable. So are unreasonable copy pasts.

Now a good question can be: would I "prefer" one or the other gone too far? That's merely a personal preference question, and on my side I've got a clear answer: I prefer something a little bit too abstract, to something a little bit too copy pasted. Because while abstract I still can understand more of the system more quickly, whereas duplicated I basically have to start by reading a lot more and factorizing (possibly in my head) before getting to a balanced situation...

Your own preference may vary, but I've yet to see a system maintained correctly by people copy pasting too much and not caring about anything but the one example they have to handle (because e.g. of a workflow described in a ticket).

Things can be accidentally similar, but WAY more often in copy pasted code-bases they are accidentally diverging, and that multiply the time I spend on that kind of mess by a factor that is probably near 10.
I don't think the BQX will fuck up traffic. Most of the streets on the alignment are not particularly busy; all of the through traffic takes the nearly-parallel BQE.

The reality is that if this route is such a good idea, it could be a bus route today. I have never been on a tram like this and thought "wow, we're making really good time along these city streets". It's just an overpriced bus.
Count me as one of those who slowly quit playing when Scott quit hosting. He was definitely part of the reason I tuned in to play last year for a few months. And the fact that it was nightly, and not many games seeming to happen all the time.
Google's 2013 study called Project Oxygen says different, "The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing insights into others (including others different values and points of view); having empathy toward and being supportive of one’s colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver; and being able to make connections across complex ideas."

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/12/...
Is that how it works? Did ICANN give you that torch? Got any insight on other torches that might be available for me to take and resell?
This is kind of a minor reason to leave a smug comment.

By what age should a person give deep thought into shows of romantic affection in cultures they've previously not considered?
That was another reason indeed.

For science I tried an blatant lie, and it was the most horrendous experience I ever felt regarding work. I was gutted and never want to do it again. But factually, I don't think it mattered to them, it was just smalltalk to them. Although I'm not 100% sure they didn't see through.

Oh and ironically, some recruiters casted doubt on very factual and true parts of my resume.

I mean what stupid game is this.
Update:

I looked into doing a diy trial but some issues and the docs are on to it:

>A third drug, known as chloroquine, used to treat malaria, is being tested against coronavirus in China, the Times reported. https://nypost.com/2020/02/14/doctors-attempt-to-battle-coro... also 18 trials: http://www.chictr.org.cn/searchprojen.aspx?title=chloroquine...

So I guess I'll leave 'em to it and see how that works out.
Included are:

- manufacturing including transistors and telephone poles

- logistics

- wirewrapping

- maintenance

- celebrating the military-industrial complex side-businesses

- obligatory orchestra music and monotonic narration
Great way to weed out older developers, since there's a good chance that some of the companies they've worked for have gone out of business or been acquired, and some of their references have died.
> Because the cost of hiring the wrong person is a LOT higher than missing out on the right one.

Why can't anyone come up with a good solution for this? A "we'll hire you for a month and see how it goes" kind of deal?
Does anyone else see a certain irony in the raw number of Dry articles in existence? Or the fact that people keep writing them?

I think the deeper problem in the software industry is that we have no collective memory and need to DRY up as a whole.
Wonder if there is a replacement for the intimacy or is there just an unbridged void
those people are abusing disqus across practically every site that uses it which ive visited in recent memory. wish they could get a handle on it, its a pretty useful plugin except for the apparent shitpot security. maybe its up to site moderators and they don't do the work, maybe the disqus audience is particularly vulnerable to soc.eng .. w/e, bummer.
>> They want people who can churn out code when given specific instructions, and that is what their interview process optimizes for.

Somehow I doubt that. Can anyone who actually works at google comment on what it's like? Do people come to you with specific requirement and expect you to crank out code like the interview problems?

I've never worked somewhere where the software folks were actually just coding machines.
But isn't Cloud their biggest growth opportunity ?
Wow! I keep finding these really great Julia packages that implement grad level math / science concepts. It's great! Unfortunately not sure what I'd do with Clifford Algebra myself.
> Don't work for FAANG.

What did Netflix do? And don't we like Apple now? They ship crypto to billions that annoys the government's spyware programs.
That all seems possible, but this honestly just seems like tons of effort for very little benefits compared to a rest api and a nice little data-store.