skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question : is free a progress ? There's a boulimia in a way where people arent satisfied even with 4G and HD 24/7. There's an absurdity here that makes me think it's not important progress.
I don't get one locksmith with a location in the domain on the first page.
Whether you are using pen drives or memory cards (both not suitable for long term backup) or archival disks, it makes sense to compress your files if it can reduce the size by more than 50%.
>Why is it wrong for someone running for elected office to put their message out?

because it undermines the democratic principle of one person having one vote. Money is speech in the US and Bloomberg has more of it than a lot of people combined. He's not even participating in civic discourse or debates, politics is not any more about debating ideas or running on a positive vision, it's two New York oligarchs having a personal feud on twitter with one calling the other short and the other one making gingerbread man memes.

If I'm not mistaken the ideal of American democracy was that ordinary people can take control of their own lives and govern themselves, not that increasingly bizarre celebrities and public figures control media and government because they have more money to spend on influencers on instagram and television ads.

This isn't politics any more where people get together to deliberate how they want to organise their social life, it's a giant circus in which tech companies, the media and a whole array of grifters use for to make money or amuse themselves.
In the past the rules for 'species' was not whether or not they will interbreed, but whether or not their offspring would be fertile.

A horse and a donkey can breed just fine, but a mule cannot.

This makes sense because we know that species eventually differentiate and whether or not they can recombine is a good indication of how far apart that separation is.

But nowadays all that stuff is thrown out of the window. I don't really understand why it is no longer considered a useful distinction.
If it is you can expect it to show here in a few days: https://www.edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WAR...
I once got a Union Find algorithmic problem in an Embedded Systems phone screen.

Seriously.

I've seen that same role unfilled on LinkedIn for more than a year. How do you stop Google engineers from straight out gatekeeping if they are afforded so much freedom?
In my personal experience, having interviewed dozens of candidates (data science), I believe that asking "easy" and "simple" questions is the most effective way to probe the problem-solving skills of a candidate. Fun and interesting solutions to easy questions are hallmarks of great individuals.

The question would go like this:

Suppose I have a column-oriented file and I want to print out a column in a reverse-sorted order. How could I go about it?

This question is among the most effective ever. First it filters out the FizzBuzz failures right away, let's you see immediately how people think (does the candidate want to code it up or understands that they could do: cut | sort| head)? It lets you explore the various aspects of sorting numerical, alphabetical, different locales, in numerical you can have generic numerical sort etc. Then what if the file is really large, now a much better approach could be to split sort then merge sort back into one file.

everyone with real work experience has a story about sorting.

but then you can move on, let's do it in your favorite programming language, then explore of what if the data is "infinite" long, a stream ... and so on

it is a topic that can produce very interesting solutions, nobody is stressed out, and people that "fail" do understand why.

Edit: I will also say I feel that I can learn more about a person based on how they respond to easy questions. Are they cocky, are they showing off, are they rattled etc.
There is a story by patio11 from the seller point of view. It's not exactly what you're asking for, but it may have some interesting parts. "What I Learned Selling A Software Business" https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s... HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11347006 (439 points | Mar 23, 2016 | 84 comments)
A practical example of the du and Awk commands
I have just realized that I have no idea how interviewing is done in other areas - for instance, mechanical engineering.
Hmm, perhaps. But interviewing has become big businesses for prep and passing. There are companies that will ghost interview for a candidate, even through actual onsite interviews. It’s a real problem.

Tangentially, candidates should read “Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job” for prep. It was recommended to me a long time ago and it was enough.
Latest Windows 10 Update doing unexpected things to user profiles and data
yea, I mean there have been large periods in human history in which land was not bought and sold. Many indigenous cultures don't have a strong concept of land ownership. In many modern socialist countries (Singapore, china), you cannot "buy land" you can lease it from the government for a long period of time (usually 99 years). In the united states, "education" is a good/service that transverses a weird line between "marxist commodity"/"non commodity" as we have education as a public good and we also have public schooling.

I want to be clear here that I'm not making any value judgements with my statements about capitalism vs socialism/marxism, and I agree that the "commodification of housing" IMO doesn't explain why its expensive, but to be fair, the people making that argument are generally not making an argument on values (housing aught to be...), and values are kind of a "first principles" type thing that you can't persuade or prove wrong, they just are.

PS, if you're interested in learning more, the wiki article is nice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification
The Global Video Editing Software Market size is expected to reach $1.1B by 2025
Your conclusion is based on?
This sort of formalism is bad for handling multiple returns and thus exceptions. For instance, they become very simple in continuation passing style whereas GOTO is difficult.

Flowcharts feel like a simple and universal way of talking about, well, control flow, but they imply a certain kind of bias toward a kind of reasoning which isn't necessarily all that better than code itself.
Launching Create Eth App – create Ethereum-powered React apps with one command
Re: 'Time limits are detrimental and discriminatory' the short answer is that it's really testing if you already know the answer - some of these original algorithms took decades to discovery the first time. My interview process if a bit different but still very tough. I talk about some of my opinions on that here https://medium.com/@anthony_sarkis/software-engineering-path...
Fair enough. Someone should figure out how to print photoresist directly with an inkjet printer. That would be a neat trick.
False negatives waste far less time (dollars) than false positives. It’s unfair but worth it to not force a team to have to work with an unqualified candidate for a year or maybe more.
> If that's how they interview the company probably is horrible to work for anyways.

If the hiring process seems designed to find the very best people who are willing to put up with being abused, yeah, it seems pretty likely that it's a horrible place to work.
> There is a cottage industry springing up around passing interviews

This, a million times.

I was told to practice solving dynamic programming problems to prepare for the interview[1]. Looking around the web I found out that people spending months solving thousands of dynamic programming problems, just for getting a job. This strongly reminds me of the rote learning I had to do in order to get into university, which includes thousands and thousands of integration, derivatives, series, lense placements etc... A nightmare I thought that ended decades ago.[2]

Now dp is all nice and cool, but I think most jobs don't involve solving dp problems on a daily basis. Just like most mechanics don't need to solve Lagrangian mechanics problems or civil engineer with continuous girder (the interview for those those two don't have those either)[3].

There must be a better way to measure problem solving ability of a candidate, isn't there? Something thay requires more dedication from the company instead of blindly followingbthe practices of Google.

[1] The position is EM at a offshore branch of a medium sized non IT company, way below the likes of Google.

[2] Typical Asian problem.

[3] I started as a mechanics, and then doing some civil engineering job, building bridge and such.
The Kinsey reports of the late 1940s/50s were a major breakthrough in western understanding of sexuality that had a lot of influence on changing attitudes in the 60s. Before studying human mating he'd studied the mating of gall wasps.
Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks UK West Mids Police
So does Weebly
And Love2D, which is free and open-source, also using Lua.
That didn’t work out very well seeing they are still paying Apple a reported $8 - $12 billion a year to be the default search engine and it came out in the Oracle trial that they only made $23 billion in profit off of Android from its inception until the beginning of the trial.

Apple makes more from Google in mobile than Google makes from Android.
For anyone else who was confused like me, ICE here = internal combustion engine, not Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I was wondering what Immigration's connection to electric vehicles was.
if it was extremely profitable it would be a separate line in their financial statements (rather than being aggregated with other things)

it isn't, so draw from that what you will
Just curious what that's disclosing, his browser? Anything else?
Most likey we've done all the low hanging fruit: supersonic flight is categorically more difficult than subsonic yet is a diminishing return given that so much time is just spent preparing for the flight. And, Peter's opinion not withstanding, it is impossible to communicate faster than light which is where we are.

But if we have become decadent, it hardly surprising in a society where opinion is give more weight than facts and people are not even willing to preserve their democracy.
I'd guess they usually have access to better drugs. Addiction affects people from all walks of life, and people who can afford their addiction don't necessarily have it impact their work.
Both those articles state that the behaviour is inconsistent and requires complex coding to support in each and every application.

The second article says that 2 of the 3 'delete-like' keys have wonderfully unique failure modes that are essentially unpredictable to the end-user and not fixable from their perspective much of the time.

Meanwhile these keys "Just Work" for all Windows applications, all of the time.

This is my point. The articles you linked are agreeing with it.
And yet they are laying off people....
The only way something could be wrong with you about that is if it in some way caused you distress. Not sharing a particular kink is perfectly normal - most people don't have most of them.
You say that, but I have read at least one in-depth journalistic piece on the gay underground in Tehran. Ethnography isn't that different from journalism. Ethnographers interview people!
You can't always decide when you have to drive. If you're on the road and conditions worsen then it may be safer to drive until you can get off the road safely. I've been in rain squalls so heavy that you couldn't see anymore and that is when it gets tricky: you know you should stop driving but that risks being rear-ended by someone who disagrees with you. A self driving car would end up being rear ended just the same.

Stopping traffic only works if everybody starts out with the same playbook in mind.

But to start driving in those conditions (or even if those conditions are likely to occur) that's madness, unless you are a first responder.
Ask HN: Not-so-rich not-so-poor folks on HN, how do you spend your money?
I want to know where your money goes every month. Percentage would be more relevant than the actual numbers. I am interested in people who can go a year or two without working and cannot afford to buy a luxury yacht.
My major expenses seem to be almost always without any prior planning. Is there anyone out there who knows what they're going to spend in the next 6 months +-20%?
Or even better, conductive ink! We probably aren't very close to that, but maybe a better etchant isn't too far off, and I'd settle for that.
Excuse me, but that parking lot is a historical landmark and a cornerstone of the community!
I do find the particular behaviour weird, but then I haven't experienced it properly, I've never dated anyone that's been into it!
Sorry, let me rephrase that.

The AUR has a working patch so it clearly isn't impossible. You can probably follow the same procedure. So I just wouldn't say that it is impossible to install it on non-Ubuntu distros, just not trivial. But this seriously doesn't look complex.

Also, wasn't Signal pushed into the main repos recently?
The only thing I will add is that you need to make a goal that will keep you motivated to move forward. Also, you can't stop and hope to return at a future time. You need to work through it until you are done.
People are completing 500+ problems on leetcode before heading into interviews at google. Don't believe me? Go read the teamblind forums. People might spend six months studying, after which they pass a bunch of interviews and get good comp. Getting just one offer from a FAANG company often doesnt pay well enough, you need multiple competing ones.

If you think this has anything to do with incompetent people complaining, then you arent reading into the situation.

I will add that one can pass these interviews without extensive preparation, but it makes it alot harder when those around you are willing to spend ridiculous amounts of time studying.
This my professional opinion since I lack the resources to perform a true analysis, so instead I speculate based on current nation state trends and the US government’s surveillance track record. Signal is a big red flag to me. I choose not to trust it. Signal specifically targets an audience of interest for the NSA—those who are actively trying to encrypt their communication. I have an eking suspicion that Signal could be a surveillance tool similar to the UAE’s ToTok messaging app. I don’t care if it is open source or uses E2E encryption. Unless you’re jailbroken or rooted and can install unsigned binaries, the binary you installed from the Play Store or App Store could contain backdoors. Your decision to trust and use this should be judiciously evaluated based on your threat model.
1/2" (or more) off the tip of his finger. Then, after an overt warning and short delay to let you get ready -- showed it.

At one time I worked with a guy who had lost the index and middle fingers of his left hand. He used to raise it up and say "peace!" Then laugh and put a cigarette in between what remained. Great guy to work with but as you say -- whoa.
The ability to acquire and apply technical knowledge, and ability to demonstrate random technical knowledge under time pressure, in a foreign environment, while other people are watching and judging you, are orthogonal skills and many engineers are great at the former and terrible at the latter.

There's also a ton of opinion and taste involved in software engineering, which can bias the interviewer's view of someone's technical ability. Not to mention all the unconscious biases against people who don't "fit the description" of a typical software engineer demographically.

The Googles of the world limit their own potential by rejecting many talented people who couldn't make it through their hiring filter for reasons that have nothing to do with their actual ability to build software. Then they express angst over how difficult it is to fill positions. It's a self-inflicted problem, and a hard one to solve. It's probably impossible to design a theoretically perfectly fair hiring process without also solving all causes of inequality in society generally. But it can be made better and more fair than it is, and many companies and applicants aren't satisfied with the existing hiring processes, so they are making efforts to change the situation, as they should.
So many people suggest me to lie. So many do. When you don't (anxious, imposter, doubtful or else), recruiter hasn't shiny eyes so you fail.

It's a recipee for fake.
It IS Google... what do you think all their services run on?
Or benzodiazepines and prescription painkillers. People switch to heroin when they run out of money.
To this day I still visit www.scaruffi.com to read his opinions about music - the layout hasn’t changed since the 90s or even the 80s for some pages.
Snapchat was (is?) built on AppEngine and they signed a 5 year 3 billion dollar contract with GCP. I wouldn't be surprised if AppEngine is hanging by a thread outside of a few large users as GCP devs have on multiple occasions signaled new projects with the intention of replacing AppEngine (I forget which ones, feel free to verify that anecdote yourself).
I had heard high functioning is a misnomer. They may have one area of focus they can succeed under some definition, but the overall quality of life and relationships is very poor.
IIRC, WARN announcements are triggered if at least 50 people are being laid off at the same time.
lol but this is literally a leetcode style problem so what's your point?

https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-k-sorted-lists/

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/external-sorting/

and it's literally called "merge sorted files" (page 175 of elements of programming interviews).
Is 2020 the year of the Unicorn M&A Bonanza?
Is it that different from a cover letter ?
What Is Meaningness?
Someone on a "start you own ISP" style post a while back mentioned 10Gbps for Google (almost entirely Youtube).
To be fair keeping around an old runtime of FrontPage isn't much different than keep around an old runtime of PHP.
Is not, is pure biology...I though this is Hackernews not SJW subreddit
A simple way of saying this - companies are optimizing for filtering out bad candidates, at the expense of sometimes filtering out good candidates.

Because the cost of hiring the wrong person is a LOT higher than missing out on the right one.
That was my reaction too. It would never have occurred to me to assume this one particular custom was universal.
Ayn Rand Lexicon
How do you sort an infinite stream?
I believe this is becoming more common.
That's just unbelievable. Digital copy of a decades-old game is worth $50M because of its app store rating.
I interviewed with a start-up mid-acquisition by Indeed and they paid me for my take-home project. Quality move but the rest of their behaviour was utterly reprehensible. I was mad/upset at the time but I'm now grateful.

Also, I had the time available to spend ~8-10 hours on a take-home project (paid or otherwise); most of the time the best candidates already have jobs and will rightfully tell you to pound sand.
RCMP arrest 'money mules' tied to scam calls from India
I think Giant Search and Advertising should make the interview more difficult, then more difficult still, then cease hiring entirely, then atrophy employees until they die and/or are legislated out of existence. You - yes, you, HN reader who already works at one of these companies - are ethically responsible for the actions of your employer. When you're the one on the front lines helping realize their dystopian dreams, then the blame falls on you. Don't work for FAANG.
There is no way I can have a conversation with someone who resorts to childish name calling and making it personal.

I know my backyard. You don’t.
Generally my line is server-side vs client-side.

It is unknowable to me what data you're saving on the server side using information that I willingly sent to the server as part of normal use (eg. my ip, what HTTP calls I'm making).

It's when you start manipulating the client into sending you additional data that things become a problem. This I _can_ see, and it amounts to an attempt to trick my own user-agent into revealing information that should be private. In other words, your client-side code is now officially malware, and I will block it if I can or just leave the malware-infested site if I can't.

I could make an exception for tracking that is a) high value, b) aligned with my goals as a user, and c) as respectful as possible of my privacy (eg. anonymising values, only taking what info you need).

The b) condition there is most nebulous - I'm mainly thinking of things like reporting client-side javascript errors. This is aligned with my goal of your site being bug-free so I can use it better. Another example would be an (opt-in!) recommendation system that I find valuable. What would NOT be an example of this would be tracking of my actions on the page in order to optimize the chances that I'll engage with the content. Engagement is your priority, not mine.
That is reassuring in some ways. But it isn't as simple as that -
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/01/is-jpeg-2000-a-prese... ... even JPEG2000 is a standard and has an open source implementation.
Not "front end" (I assume you mean stuff like React) but many of these are candidates for coding tests in interviews: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks

Though some would take longer than 45 minutes.

archived version from feb 2019 since cloudflare dns seems to be broken atm: https://web.archive.org/web/20190219135427/http://rosettacod...
Man, a dumbed down Jeopardy with trendy questions would be so depressing.

My hope is that they hire Ken Jennings and he carries on the tradition fully in honor of Trebek.
The demand in city is probably inexhaustible practically speaking

The burbs however....
I'd say red yellow and blue is used in elementary school art class, and not much more. And even then, kids almost always have more colors to work with than three.

The subtractive color model isn't really good for paints anyway, it is best with translucent inks/dyes, where the white from the paper comes through.
It objectively makes you weird. Sex itself is literally slimey and gross but also very pleasant.
“We're letting billionaires buy the election“

If anything, I think Bloomberg may prove you can’t literally buy an election.