skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually rather unconvinced that these interviews are positively good at minimizing risk (false positives). This whole 'whiteboarding' thing has degenerated into 100% pointless trivia, with many elements of a popularity contest - I just don't see any reason why we should trust this to yield 'safe' candidates.

Even sticking to the pure 'trivia' aspect, there's just so much of it that people are missing altogether. (Sure, maybe you can write out a nifty algorithm on the whiteboard, but can you sketch even a very rough proof that the algorithm is correct? I don't think many people can do anything like this. I'm not even sure that the topic of correctness comes up all that much in a CS/SE curriculum - which is surprising, since we are supposed to be doing engineering. And yet, someone who is familiar with what provably-correct code might look like in practice will likely be a lot more productive as a result.)
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This is actually the crux of the problem here. We focused the curriculum on UX research-y fundamentals, and the students who wanted to come out as UI designers were disappointed.

We tried to build in design-heavy curriculum partway through when we realized how misaligned those expectations were, but couldn’t do an effective job in such a short time frame, so those students just got more frustrated.

It’s totally fair, we should have done a better job communicating and shouldn’t have tried to call an audible at the last minute to fix everything.
They’re all Lego pieces. Putting a picture on the box doesn’t make them any less creative.
You picked the easiest strawmen out of his examples to knock down in short funtions and DRY. The other examples were, no QA, no code reviews, which are things that I have seen first hand, combined with the other complains, to code that is always in a half broken state. The code is very difficult to change so you spend all of your time on support cases. Re-writes have their own pitfalls. Ultimately, developer retention and hiring suffer because no one wants to work on these products. The institutional knowledge leaves through attrition and it takes too long for new developers to learn to be productive in the code base. Eventually the quality of the product declines until customers leave. So, even highly profitable products die because of poor engineering practices. There are certainly engineers that get caught up in know-it-all platitudes, but I've personally seen more profitable products fail because of poor engineering practices than good engineering practices fail because of poor business sense. YMMV, but in my experience, good engineering is more rare than good business ideas.
And I believe the reason of having the pseudocode Algol-like instead of writing ASTs (i.e. Lisp) is the same - making more accessible to readers. I wonder if he mentions this somewhere.
I think that "apparently very few people actually know how to program a computer" part is more about how many people have "fake it till you make it" attitude or how large ego they have. Or how much they dont bother how they look like during interview and keep trying until they get lucky scoring position. And that actually is how many get to start programming. As in, one of common advice is to be self-learner and absent reasonable guidelines on when you know enough, you get a lot of these - and few people who learn enough to get junior position and are lucky enough to find company that happen to have junior positions.

We tend to praise people who take the risk, fake it till they make it are go getters etc. And possibly these are trying for that.

And maybe it would be pretty cool to see a sociological study about who these people are. What demographic they belong to, what background they have, what kind of personalities and value they have.
Also:

https://www.serialcables.com/busxpert-micro-ii-pcie-analyzer...

Excerpt:

"The BusXpert supports up to 36GB of capture buffer, pre-indexed and compressed trace data, multiple analysis processors, and instant display of the captured data. The BusXpert also features easy-to-use triggering, pre-/post-capture filtering, textual search and sequence search, and many different displays of captured PCI Express traffic. It is available in a variety of configurations to fit specific requirements for buffer size, protocols, and budget."

Comments:

Sort of like WireShark -- but for the PCIe bus!

I think of a future when every single PC component is open hardware, truly modular (down to the signal level) and proxyable (again, down to the signal level), even with respect to same board chip/IC interconnects -- and thus transparent and auditable...
A little like slapping a gnat on your neck whilst an avalanche crashes down the mountain towards your timber cabin.
[2013]

I was checking out some of the Lego factories in China around this time and they were definitely making more than the “signature series” (what one thinks of as variations on the classic 2x8 bricks with no movie tie-ins).

Lego absolutely is world class but they are not “best in the world”. For plastic things made an Scale one can get better quality with Swatch and more quantity with McDonalds (the largest toy producer in the world.) At this same factory I saw a line where they were making kinder egg toys with not one, not two, but six different overmold shots of different plastic colors. Injection molding tools typically cost about $5,000 - that one cost about $2,000,000. It saved Kinder about $5,000,000 in labor that would have gone to paint and stickers.

What I did like about the Lego line was they were all using Arburg injection molding machines and DuPont ABS. Most factories won’t pay the premium for foreign plastics within China.
I feel like mathematicians should make the same effort for non mathematicians. Why do all these weird terms even matter to anyone else besides a self selected group of mathematicians? If they don't, why should anyone care about such things, just as the author asked why mathematicians should care about formal proof systems? Academia in general is so used to not having to justify their interests to anyone else that many seem to live in their own isolated little worlds. Gone are the days when the 'uni' in university meant a unified realm of knowledge. We should rename 'university' to be 'diversity.'

However, the origin story of academia with Greek philosophy sought to not merely subsist in rapidly fracturing groups of special interest, but to also seek the unifying underlying ideas. Similarly with the scholastics in the medieval era, which actually birthed our university system.

I believe academia has lost its way, which may spell its end. Which is unfortunate for our civilization, as it is so fundamentally tied to the quest for wisdom and knowledge.
Honestly having an interview process that is highly standardized and teachable + learnable is a good thing, so I'm not sure why people complain. You know exactly what sort of questions you will be asked from company to company, and can spend nights and weekends over a couple weeks studying for it.

Most jobs are not like that, and then you get extreme variance in expectation with little communication on how to prepare, which is a waste of time for both the interviewer and interviewee if the interviewee has no clue what will be asked or expected ahead of time.
well .. facebook limited its anti fake news effort because one right wing exec was furious that it would affect right wingers more than other groups.

Sadly, it is indeed definitely a good move to make friends with whoever decides what goes on social networks.
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Thanks! Why does everything look like a multi-dimensional array for you in rust?
Thank you :) Perhaps try to find some early adopters, like teachers or tech bloggers. Do you know of any that would be interested to try it out?
On Instagram influencer wannabees have been known to publish fake ads in order to make themselves look important enough to get high profile sponsers. I would imagine the same will could happen in elections.
Those threats are sometimes an attempt at retaliation by whoever was attacked earlier by those now defending against the counter-attack, who are now free to attack without fear of the consequences thanks to the missile defense system.
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It's 3.86k if you want to own the property after 30 years. You don't have to. You might as well sell the house for 1.2mm after 30 years and just pay 12m per year on interests for 30 years.
You should probably be glad they didn't ask you to center something. From my experiences interviewing at Google, the engineers there usually have one and only one answer they are looking for. Used flex box? Too bad, we were looking for margin 0 auto.
Kevin Buzzard is doing really interesting work here, and I think that it's quite plausible that having fashionable mathematicians formalizing fashionable math in whatever proof assistant they choose will represent a significant step forward both for mathematical research and for the practice of programming, which is unavoidably formal in precisely the way math historically isn't. By formalizing it to that level, we will substantially increase our intellectual powers and make vast new fields tractable for formal reasoning, which also makes them tractable for programming.

I'm not sure whether the beauty-contest winner will be LEAN (as Buzzard is promoting in this blog post), Metamath, or what. It may turn out that, say, Isabelle-HoTT or HoTT/Agda or something to pull ahead of LEAN, for example — certainly HoTT is a lot more fashionable among mathematicians than the CoC, and that might turn out to be either for a good reason (that manifests in technical advances in HoTT resulting in easier proofs) or a sufficiently strong social push to overcome the added friction.

It's sure going to be interesting, though.
From the company's / management's perspective I suspect this is an issue as well. If salaries are transparent then higher and lower salaries need to be justified beyond "they negotiated better". Similar to pay raises. Now if the delta is known, why someone got x% and I got less than x% now requires more delicate conversations.

Netflix directors and above can see all salaries though. I wonder how that's working.
The binary thinking in this thread strikes me as odd. Is it bad to try and plan everything 6 months ahead of time? Yes. Is it also bad to fly by the seat of your pants and only plan 1 week ahead? Also yes. Instead, why don't we plan out by some intermediate time period. Say, 3, 4 weeks ahead of time. Or whatever time horizon ends up being the most efficient.
I've been to the Riveter several times, and at a basic level, their slogan of "built by women for everyone" is a fairly good way to describe it, but it's just like any other coworking space. People come in, work, hang out, and leave.

They do try to build community that emphasizes supporting entrepreneurs who are women, but not exclusively.
Interesting post for sure. Glad it got a second chance.

Speaking of the second chance, from the link you referenced https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

In that comment you said

> I want to turn this system into something that's open to all users who want to take time to review stories. We'll make it a form of community service that will be a new way to earn karma. However, it's still an open question how to pull this off without simply recreating the current upvoting system under another guise.

Have you guys looked or thought about this any more since then? I'd love to see such a community service become reality.
There are a decent number of Lego alternatives, with perfect brick compatibility for way cheaper prices.

I bought one of the Xiaomi sets when it was discounted, almost just to get spare pieces.
That comes down to intent. Did they realise the threats would be seen as being by Lunney, and make them with the intent that he would be falsely accused? Or were they merely exploiting a fake name and not expecting backlash on the real Lunney? We don't know.
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Yeah exactly. If one wants support they can pay for it i.e. SaaS if available. If an open source project has not created a contract with any user then there is no guarantee of support. I don't believe any company creates a contract with users automatically because they made source code available. That is unsustainable.

Chronosphere is the SaaS part for M3DB in this case. The negativity around someone open sourcing code for PR is nuts especially when all of the code is available. I love reading the code and getting ideas about how things work.
> I am completely depressed because I can’t get a job”, “I will never succeed in this industry

I thought there was a shortage of software engineers right now? Although I just got an email from Glassdoor with estimated salary (in the Bay Area) being 5-10k lower than the last email, so who knows.
The granite sarcophagus in the "Kings's Chamber" [1] of the Great Pyramid of Giza has been used as a lithophone too. Paul Horn's record album "Inside The Great Pyramid" [2] starts with the sound of the sarcophagus being rung like a bell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pyramid_of_Giza#King's_C...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZmyGavbgLE&list=PLPtysUSalP...
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The article's point is that Berkshire should follow the ideas of its own vice chairman.
With many of us coming off of a fresh new low after seeing basic addition being mangled in the public caucus showcases, the laymans version of geekspeak (ex. parallel-pathing) at least shows creative expressions.

Though, would it be considered lingo instead of language?
Why open the thread with that, if it's of no relevance to the story? When I see that in the first post, I think the story will be full of racism, sexism and classism. But nope. Nothing.
Strang course is too verbose and one does not need the whole course to do practical work. Linear algebra done right is the book you need if you want to apply in practice rather than just watching mit videos. https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Right-Undergraduate-Ma...
Much of the basis for James Clear’s Atomic Habits is based on and references BJ Fogg’s research at Stanford.

As I see it, James forked Tiny Habits to make it more marketable and has had great success selling books and courses under the Atomic Habits brand.

BJ opted to provide his Tiny Habits materials and 5 day course for free as it generated more data points to support his research.

Having now read both books, I certainly appreciate the plain spoken / matter of fact style of Tiny Habits compared to Atomic Habits which felt more hyped.
"Need" isn't really the issue, or, for example, Trump would have divested from his businesses. Instead, he raised prices and has attempted to host the G7 on his own property. Does he NEED that money? No. He WANTS it.
About time. Rdio has such an amazing embed api (I built the JS api for it at the time and a site that was really heavily used). Total shame when Apple bought and shut them down. Maybe I can bring that old site out from the dead. Hmm
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It's not a novel in any sort of modern sense. The different sections are barely even stories themselves, just dry descriptions of imagined worlds.

It's an interesting book for sure.
Seems like a huge point to leave out.

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Yeah we did have Meccano although I never had a set myself or knew anyone who did.

You didn't have Chupa Chups?

I also remember eating lots of square shaped Sugus although these are not from Spain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugus
This is why I've started using regular group chats more and more to keep in touch with people
>>>>their choice of technology and methodology parochial and antiquated (think Java 5-6, Ibatis in 2016 + a lot of in-house built stuff...

Never look at what those guys in the banking industries are still using, you'll have a heart attack. I hear it is something ancient like Fortran and such!

>>no code reviews, no QA etc.

I find it hard to believe that something like this wouldn't collapse under its own weight fairly quickly.
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Unspoken in Buffets letter is the problem that these unrealized gains cannot be realized in a short period of time. The size of Berkshire Hathaway's holdings is such that, if they were quickly sold, they would fetch a lower price - they would saturate the available buy orders and move the reported valuation (average sale price) down.
I bought a couple big technic sets and enjoyed putting them together but I don't really have anywhere to display them. I'm thinking maybe bringing them to the office is ok. They're sort of in our industry. Would that be weird?
Stapledon is the grandfather of science fiction writing and is quite unjustly overlooked!
Google stopped asking logic riddles, so things can definitely improve. Maybe FAANG-style interviews are the least worst option we have right now.
I think that’s a media talking point to drive down wages. There are definitely jobs, the amount quality and reliability are decreasing.
Wait, why not just look at the sun (or more accurately, the shadows it casts) during the day and memorize the direction landmarks/geographic features face?

This is what I do and it almost always works unless I go to a new place at night.
I don't doubt that for most of India, most of the time, vast numbers of people now have new LTE services on their phone that were previously unavailable to them.

Meanwhile, the Indian government thinks it can order ISPs to shut down Internet services in wide geographic regions for long periods of time:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50819905

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/how-the...

Government attempts at censorship are constant and ongoing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

Doesn't exactly seem like a bastion of Internet freedom to me.
Arguably, the existence of nuclear reactors which don't fail safe under any contemplated crisis is a hardware bug. It's possible to design a reactor that can be ruptured by a bomb or earthquake, which will then dump core into a prepared area and cool down.

This kind of physics-based safety is obviously not possible for airplanes.
If one political party is promising to kill you on their first day in power, and the only other party is promising to kill you on their second day in power, you should vote for the latter.

If the stakes aren't quite as high as that, you could try voting for a third party or a write-in candidate.
The “hopeless list”, no. 3:

“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.”

This pretty much sums up my impression of these hiring managers that crank the bar sky-high: they are assholes through-and-through, and are full of shit to boot.

If you crank the bar sky-high, all you will get are two kinds of people: those that interview/test well, but fail at the job, or those who can do both but will put a crater a mile wide into your payroll due to their high demand garnering an equally high paycheque.

Anyone who isn’t quite at nosebleed levels of competency can grow into their roles and skill sets. Yes, they won’t be able to hit the ground running, and yes, they will have a higher than comfortable drag-to-thrust ratio, BUT THAT CLEARS UP IN TIME, WITH SUFFICIENT GUIDANCE AND MENTORSHIP.
I interpret that quote differently. To me, it says, “some people mistake being right for being impolite; don’t listen to those people.” I can imagine that someone could confuse being right for impoliteness would happen if the other person were right about an inconvenient truth.

I don’t think the quote says anything about ways of being impolite that don’t consist solely of being right, such as being impolite by swearing at someone.
But, there are large-scale new things trundling down the pike. Global climate change, for one. I don't know if BH is involved with flood insurance damages, but large regions of the world are likely to be exposed to them that had not been before. There aren't any statistics to cover those changes. It's gonna be interesting.

As long as they have a granular understanding of the perceived vs actual risk profile across geographies over time, they'll be able to make huge sums of money by staying just adjacent to the high-risk areas.

Imagine three houses in a row. The risk of fire may be the same for all three. That changes as soon as the leftmost house catches fire. They would never insure that house; it's already on fire. The middle house has a statistically higher chance of catching fire than the rightmost house, yet the relative proximity to the fire drives fear up among both adjacent owners—actual risk vs perceived risk in a nutshell. Both are more likely to want to buy insurance, with the middle owner willing to pay more. The insurance provider can set premiums that take into account both the actual risk profile and the perceived risk profile.

It's reductive, but it illustrates a point: money is made when there is a delta between the perceived value and actual value. That usually happens when there's a fundamental transition that is unrecognized by the market. If you can spot the wave, you can ride it.

Climate change isn't a random event—it's an observable transition. And it's going to cause one hell of a wave.
This week I had a five hour on-site interview and then few days later be told they won't give a job offer because they think I will get bored within a few months at the job. Thanks for deciding for me :/
What's difficult to ascertain about all of this is meta-cognition in general.

Is this really measurable past fleeting binary states self-awareness about your own self-aware state?

Past that, I like your connection between naive idealist + self delusion, however I think you have described the human condition of curiosity, in which our conscience mind is able to imagine future states. Then, while we reverse engineer how to possibly do that, we create an ad hoc hypothesis (conscience or not) to end up in that future state. Therefore delusion is almost a necessity, as the mind has little way to tie this hypothesis causation to the ad hoc hypothesis.

If a conscience mind accepts the imaginary future state of enlightenment as being one that they ought experience. The following question is ... how? This moment is exactly how I see your point fitting in especially with psychedelics.
Lots of reasons view points could be different:

- Worth is subjective. I'm sure we've all had conversations about someone where some view the person as great and others view the same person as meh or under performing. Value is also determined based on information, which usually people don't have the same amount of. So very possible the hiring person or committee sees different value in a person than fellow engineers or teammates.

- Value judgement, especially for hiring is also point in time. Could very well be the person as presented during interview is a rockstar, but after landing on the team doesn't perform well for whatever reason.