skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very interesting, thanks for sharing that.

Closest I've gotten was Valium given by my oral surgeon as part of some tooth extraction. Wow, Valium is great. I would eat it every day if I had access to it. As a result, I stay totally away from everything. I have back problems that qualify me for opioids, but based on my Valium experience, there's no way I wouldn't go all in. So I manage the pain other ways, exercises, posture, and just gritting my teeth and dealing with the pain.

I had a friend that made homemade Laudanum for helping with cancer pain. Maybe I would do Laudanum if I had that problem and made it myself.
I do, and Acorn to Arabella! Definitely learn a lot from each. Leo is amazing with volunteers and creating a collaborative atmosphere. Plus beautiful joinery. Doug dispenses the life wisdom and the metalwork side. Steve and Alex show you the whole process, tree to boat, and the day to day of what it takes to make progress. Love all three channels.
Noise, heat or blinking LEDs should be your first suspicions. Maybe transformer whine, with low quality power supplies. EM noise should be very low down your list of plausible causes.
Perhaps agile doesn’t actually work (despite the hype) and your team having this quandry is actually your team starting to be awakened to the truth of why agile tends to cripple any project it touches.

Dump agile, write the backend first, in a thick juicy horizontal slice, create a decent json schema document for it that you show to important people at the mandatory demo, and then hand the schema document to the front-end person with the understand you may have iterate on your API a bit as you incorporate their feedback.
you should definitely check out the server if you haven't
This hasn’t been true since 1982. If anything, the guarantee of free speech in the Canadian constitution is procedurally stronger than that in the United States, since it can only be removed with the support of both houses of Parliament and a supermajority of provinces.
It's a Friday, quality tends to degrade during the weekend. Usually professionals reading the site tend to view and comment more during the work week while things are compiling/deploying. The weekend tends to be more hobbyist/lonely people like me.
Wow... They got THREE people out of the hundreds involved with the scams. Good jorb!!!! I feel so much safer now.
n=1 but I am a Rubyist migrating to Julia, FWIW.
founders could have made money if they accepted that it was a fad.
I'm following along in this thread here and double checking everybody's math.

So... does this mean I will die from radiation or not?
I thought the discussion was around compiler optimizations? That's the point
His statements about PGP are right, though. It's using terrible, outdated cryptography. The odds of finding one who's actually got a setup that isn't full of holes for it is slim, even among programmers. It's barely been used. It's a UX and technical disaster.

Matrix still hasn't gotten E2E encryption rolled out by default, or something like half of the stuff they want to have done before doing it: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6779

Wire keeps track of everyone that every user has contacted for the entirety of the lifespan of their account (not to mention only released it as Free Software after someone found a bunch of glaring holes in their platform, including sending passwords to the server in plain text), and is a U.S. company that goes out of its way to store excessive amounts of metadata.

For that matter, actually, Signal's just as open as Wire. Wire's more or less as centralized, but with way greater risks in the event of Wire's datacenter getting raided.

Tox is the best thing trying to do a similar thing that Signal is doing, and even Tox isn't even very good.
Draw Something was a 9 figure exit (183 million). Also to Zynga.
Well the person was exposed as someone just validating themselves in interviews, so legitimate criticism works be painted as an attack.

All tech interviews start with a need to legitimize and reinforce the interviewers as successful and talented ....

Even if we're basically all terrible
> It is also great at making you aware of the machine. In C, very little is happening behind the scene.

This is not true. It hasn't been true for decades. C is an abstract high level language on modern processors.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
> making reviews easier to give causes the review quality and usefulness to go down

Allow me to generalize

making X easier causes the quality and usefulness to go down
Designing artificial brains can help us learn more about real ones
That's true, guess that shows you which side of the lake I live on :)
If you try driving in Italy like you do in the UK, people will use their horn. Then you will understand.
Can Slavery Reenactments Set Us Free?
Scientists accidentally create universal all-purpose computer vision algorithm
William Gibson – the prophet of cyberspace talks AI and climate collapse
Oii, what the fuck, hahahaha....

From what I've heard, you might as well smash your side mirrors off at the dealer when you buy a car, aha...so, yeah, checks out.
> Google's tech staffers are supposed to be some of the top people in the world

That ended about 7 years ago when Google decided to expand as rapidly as possible. Alphabet employees over 100k people now. It’s just a younger IBM at this point. There will be thousands of people that will suck and should be laid off rather than kept.
Worked at a company that signed a contract with Dyn. Oracle asked to try to sell us additional services so we said sure why not.

Oracle flew 23 people across the entire country, all in expensive suits, to sit in a conference room for a full 10 hour pitch meeting where only 2 people talked.

We didn't buy anything.

Rip Dyn. :(
It's so much faster paced. You feel powerful. Weapons feel real. Horses have real inertia. It's more arcadey, but that's the premise. It's just plain brutal fun.

Give it a whirl, and make sure you choose The Olde Knight or the Steppe Prince. And please reply if you do try - it's a lost masterpiece that the original mount and blade should've been
Not at all. I've been at Google for a bit over two years, and my experience has been at the far other end of the spectrum: a lot of autonomy, gathering requirements, designing & implementing. Also I have a fair amount of agency to see something that would make people's lives better and pitch it as a thing I'd like to work on. If it's less than a day or two of work I can generally just go do it.
A mutable variable causes even more "connections" as every function that touches that variable is tied to it.

If you construct your program via the point free style using function composition, the dependent function can easily be swapped out of the composition and replaced with the modified function that you need while maintaining DRY to the maximum possible effect.

You are talking about a fundamental question of program design that is largely solved by functional programming via the point free style.

It is talked about here:

https://www.quora.com/Is-senior-full-stack-engineer-Ilya-Suz...
Can HitRecord Become the Creative Wellness App?
> An urban light rail requires tracks and more permanent infrastructure, and will generate more investment and value

FTFY:

An urban light rail requires tracks and more permanent infrastructure, and will generate more investment and value for real estate insiders and friends of the admininistration.

See the movie "Chinatown".
Yes and no. My work is often outside of strict engineering/deliverable teams, so we probably have different perspectives. I'll agree with your points within specific department scopes.
For one thing 6 months is definitely the high end of prep time. Even so, spending your evenings studying for one 6 month period in no way precludes you from ever dating or marrying or having children.
Well, cheers, and happy Valentine's regardless
Too quick to generalize from your exp; brother founded a company w product good enough to get noticed, but it was an aquihire situation; FB wanted him and his cofounder, not the product/IP.
The difference is the timescale. Netflix won’t let you cruise doing nothing for 3 months while you troll an internal job board begging people to take you.
Offworld Gym: Openaccess physical robotics environment for realworld RL research
RiotX (the next gen of Riot) is a Matrix client from the core team, designed to go up against WhatsApp/FB Messenger/iMessage by default... and then expand into Slack/Discord style use cases for powerusers who want that. It's currently in the final stages of beta on Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.vector.riot...

Meanwhile there are lots of other promising Matrix clients emerging which are aiming for person-to-person comms - e.g. http://dittochat.org, https://pattle.im, https://fluffy.chat etc.
Consider Controlled Infection (Re: Coronavirus)
I wish I had answers. I don't - I just know that cover letters aren't it.

I've been on both sides of hiring at this point. On the applicant side, I have never seen any indication that anyone has ever read my cover letters. Writing them is a chore. And though my sample size is very limited, I have never had success with bespoke cover letters/cold emails/etc.; the time has always been better spent on reaching more people.

On the hiring side, I've read a few cover letters. Nothing has ever stood out. I read it over once and that's that. Honestly I feel like it can only hurt you. What kind of powerful, moving statement could you possibly write that would persuade someone to give you a chance when you otherwise had none? I'm sure it's happened, but to force people to write these things at the cost of millions of man-hours, just to cover this absurdly rare and mythical case? And on the other side, there are so many things you could do in a cover letter that would give a _negative_ impression. Maybe the tone is inappropriate, or there are inadvertent grammatical errors, or it's written poorly, and on and on and on. Just more exposed surface area for the naturally critical interviewer's mind to attack.
Use the government's math - don't just charge them the cost of the jellybeans, charge them for the jar, the desk, and add in the hours you spent buying them multiplied by your wage.
> The best sources for information in this cycle seem to be youtube podcasts

I'd love to see long form become the dominant format in future cycles. It's so much better, allowing for nuance and depth. It's more real and human.

The format of TV interviews and debates are truly terrible. Largely devoid of substance, they reward/incentivize soundbites, shallow quips and drama. Yang wasn't playing that game and not well suited for it (perhaps part of why he was consistently given the least time), whereas he really shined in long form.
I get 2-3 calls like these every week. It's getting really bad.
We turned on E2E by default on Matrix a few weeks ago at FOSDEM on the develop branches: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/matrix/. The bug you quoted will get updated and closed once it gets released to stable in the coming weeks. See the last comments on the bug for the actual status :/
Sigh. They aren't asking you the question because they expect you to write an in-memory data structure library. They are asking you this question because they want to know that you can reason about systems with subtle behavior, and a binary tree is one such system that most programmers learn about in school.

So if you refuse to engage, they'll have no evidence from you about your ability to write subtle code of any kind. And they'll go with someone less snarky who they know does.
Sad. I hope it works out for the smart hardworking googlers.
In most US cities, privatizing public transit wouldn't work financially.

The Bay Area Caltrain was actually private until fairly recently (1985), when the operator gave up and the state took it over.

However, even the state doesn't want to operate it, and there was a review around 2010. But Stanford University weighed in (over 10,000 riders/day) and the review stopped.

You would have to look at the numbers for NY.

Note that the "MTA" was originally two private entities that ran out of money building the system.
That would be like equating to car as “not much different than the wheel”. Computers are neat but finding applications for them is non-trivial.
I think you meant to say Professional Engineer rather than Public Engineer
I have a rough, reaching hypothesis about the rise of incel, MGTOW, Hikikomori and FDS that hinges on a number of socio-economic, technological and population factors. Attitudes and lifestyle choices are "soft" means of reducing an individual's procreation to reduce over-population, whereas "hard" means such as famines, war, mass shootings, taking away healthcare and genocide are the more painful means to reduce numbers.

The inflection point of global population happened somewhere around 1962-1965 when it went from concave up (growth phase) to concave down (slowing phase). Population still continued to increase in many parts of the world, but it's the rate of change that slowed. In many ways, overall population is best modeled by a different equation, but the carrying capacity is variable including place-to-place, time, technology, food, economic and political concerns.

Even though population slowed, it still kept increasing. With a larger population, resource scarcity plus labor over-supply increased in first-world countries and so the ability to start families decreased. People who are relatively rich have an easier time having children than most people when the average purchasing power and average income is reduced. More inequality + more access to reproductive services -> fewer families -> fewer children.

The sexual revolution and The Pill happened around this time, increasing the number of divorces and reducing the number of formed family units. (Birth control isn't anything new, as Silphium was a cash-crop in the ancient world that was harvested to its extinction.)

Delaying marriage also reduces the number of births. It was the case in the 19th century that girls were having children at 15-16 through their late 20's, so family sizes were on the order of 6-10 children per couple.

One point that goes against the trend is modern divorce (with a prenup and in a non-community property state) allows a high-income earning man to start multiple families serially.

Women gained more access to the means of income earning, removing dependency on men. As such, many women's time and priorities were taken-up by work, and so starting a family was no longer a primary motivation.

Alternative lifestyle became more acceptable as population increased. The previous modality forced some people who were uncomfortable with heterosexuality to have families and children, but who wouldn't have passed on their genes to a new generation in the new modality. Furthermore, individuals in the modern era, not necessarily for sexual or gender reasons, adopted new and various subsets of lifestyles that also reduced and limited their reproductive success.

In conclusion, I think it's important for any wise person to not capriciously lash their identity to a random cult, external attribute or way that contains a lot of negative, judgmental/stereotypes or arbitrary "rules," and to use some common-sense, nuance and love rather that bitterness, scorn or hate.
Given the market’s performance over the last 4 years, it’s most certainly cheaper to fire people who aren’t actively involved in any projects so Google gets the unvested stock back and then hire fresh at current stock price.

Someone who was hired 2 years ago with 500k of stock vesting over 4 years could have enough unvested stock leftover to fund two employees RSU grants...

Hiring google employees is still cheaper than keeping the senior ones.
True, but its a very technically sound product. Authoring it as an intern cannot be anything but a sign of prodigious skill.

As an amusing anecdote, I didn't drill for internship interviews either and I ended up at a successful startup by sheer luck. I did well there, but I never achieved the level of technical brilliance that OP did.

I feel like there were far more opportunities like this 8 years ago when I was doing that, though.
To look at another way, you would immediately be the domain expert and go-to person!
I think OP should use interviewing.io and take the feedback seriously. It's likely to be helpful if they want to actually pass those interviews. But there are other ways for a non-traditional candidate to make it.
That's a TC number that includes vesting RSU right?
Can I just use csvcut?
Reuters Graphics – Number of people affected by some kind of travel ban in China
Writing your own language is more characteristic of the kind of work people do for free -- unfortunately, it creates a high barrier to entry. You can't tap in to Clojure's existing library ecosystem, for example. Does Fennel have instaparse? Leiningen? (And sure, you could use Lua libraries, but they're built to work like Lua libraries, so at that point you might as well be writing Lua.)

https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

Of course this same critique could have been leveled at Clojure from its outset, but Hickey has really stuck with it for the long haul and made Clojure a very good language in itself as well as just being a Lisp on the JVM (and it even has sort of an ecosystem, a rarity among Lisps and what made me interested). I thought a few times about writing my own language when I was younger, but I realized it's a life-consuming task, and not something you can just do. But I do wish the author the best.
That's not how toxic environments work. They typically want your head on a platter for outshining the people already in power.
Until about a month ago, I used to get 2-3 a day on my work phone. I gave up answering, and there's about 200 voicemails in there in a language I don't speak.
This is part of the reason why I've only consulted into big companies, and only briefly. It's not just that I am not that sort of person, it's that I don't like being around that sort of person.

Software engineering is also another field where there's no effective upper limit on difficulty. In other words, no matter how good you are you (should) always feel that you're barely capable of understanding what you're supposed to be doing, let alone doing it.

That's right from "make a single static web page" to "submit binary fix to close-source compiler" or whatever the high end of your particular field is (Win a technical argument with the C++ standards committee? Shave 0.001% off the load time of the google homepage? Discover a new way to monetise users?).
It's a "get hooked with the syntax, stay for the features" situation. Elixir leverages the incredible robustness of the erlang virtual machine. So much so, that for me, anyways, it's hard to imagine using anything else without losing sleep anymore.
Gmail, the client, has gotten noticeably worse as the years have gone on, sadly. It is laughable how long I have to wait for the page to come up just so I can start drafting an email to my wife.
Duplicate accounts were deduped, but you can try both options to see which method was used for your airdrop. https://namebase.io/airdrop has instructions for GitHub. For keybase, follow the instructions from the page but instead of using your ssh key log in to keybase.io, go to your profile and 1) click on your GPG key 2) click to show private key 3) add your keybase passphrase 4) copy the private key into a file called `secret.asc` 4) executed `./bin/hs-airdrop secret.asc GPG_ID ADDRESS` where `GPG_ID` was the id/name of the key
I read the last comment there! "on the develop branches" is way different from "on stable branches." The edits make it more clear, though, good job!

I definitely like what you're trying to do, though! I hope it goes smoothly!
Grr! That's how you should be interviewed, but then they fscked it up at the end. How frustrating.
Given the short to long term treasury bond yield inversion in 2019, I'm preparing for a recession in 2021 by keeping 10% cash and clearing off all debt.

I also implemented a higher risk strategy when I rebalanced my portfolio at beginning of year: hedging a few healthcare stocks with predictions of around 6% returns, but could see a higher payoff if covid-19 hysteria sets in.

Skeptical of crypto performance during a recession, so rebalanced to 3%
There is a form of them which is invariant. You just have to write them correctly. Mathematics isn't as amazing as it sounds, there is a some ambiguity in how symbols are defined. Is your gradient with respect to rectilinear coordinates, or more general? Etc.
MBAs ruining another industry
Exactly. I mean, hiring strategies like this absolutely do have a bunch of false negatives: people who just didn't get lucky about what problem was asked, or had a brain fart at the wrong time. It happens.

But not at this kind of frequency it doesn't. If I got my quick back of the envelope statistics right (exactly the kind of skill that occasionally crops up in these jobs and on this interviews!), this would mean at 95% confidence the employers were incorrectly rejecting 88% of qualified candidates!
They might not even have reached the management team... who knows if the recruiter passed this on or not.
>Bonobos are highly sexual and their sex habits match the full range of human sexual behaviors.

I think not. But matching a basic subset perhaps.

E.g. I don't think you'll find many bonobos jerking off to internet porn.
I think it's kind of a 'secret' that it's possible to become really quite good at something with just a little bit of practice and an internet connection. Most people are still unaware of this, or think that it isn't for them.

In the future, perhaps this realization will become commonplace, and skills will no longer be impressive things to have. Or, conversely, the internet will disappear, and we'll think back to the era when it was possible to learn anything under the sun from the comfort of our bedrooms, and realize that we mostly squandered it.
We are a representative democracy and a republic. And in some ways a direct democracy. The “we’re a republic” “point” is usually made by the least informed among us.
I was given a 2-hour coding challenge once to build a language server for a programming editor. It had to implement 3 functions:

1. show help text (type/doc string) for a word

2. go to definition

3. find all references

My first thought was "this is an absurd request for a two hour coding challenge". My second thought was "boy I hit the jackpot, a few years ago on a whim I built my own language server for Go in sublime text and could probably crank out a new one pretty quick"

Sadly despite my best attempt they rejected me. They never did give me an explanation. (fwiw: https://github.com/calebdoxsey/languageserver-challenge)

I wish I could say it was a fluke, but I've been rejected by lots of companies due to the coding challenge. One day I'd really love to see what the passing code for these challenges looked like. Maybe I could learn where I dropped the ball.
The most interesting Crystal project I've heard of is this x86-64 OS: https://www.reddit.com/r/crystal_programming/comments/djoy8a...

If Crystal can make a case for itself as a systems programming language, I'm very interested.
It's interesting how many of those same early hackers [1] went on to working for those same governments or selling them exploits/offensive tools to make sure this stay true.

Every man’s got a price.
I actually really like Google's process. It's got everything I look for, as a candidate:

* Predictability - I know what it's going to be like clearly from the beginning

* Trainability - I can become better at it

* Memoryless - They don't care that I did terribly a year ago

Of course, in the end, I didn't actually interview even once with them so maybe I'm lying about what I like. I guess I'm one of those guys who goes from job to job not having a whiteboard interview. Lucky me.