skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And you have to write your "code" in SQL? Where do you draw the line? Do you put authentication there too? slugify for urls?

Although security is a big deal, tools evolved tremendously and databases just aren't as flexible as other languages to do most task.
Off the shelf solution is just pulling you favorite news website's RSS feed and running it through a full text filtering service, if the publication don't already give you the full text feed from the get go.
Because of their recruiters. It is arguably better to hire through referrals as well.
Apple Arm Wrestles TLS Certificate Validity Down to One Year
An article about fashionable mathematics and no mention of category theory?
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I didn't mean to assert that young Ramanujan was clearly not a mathematician — rather the opposite!

Perhaps in practice my definition of "a mathematician" is "someone who, when wrong, responds to disagreement by changing their mind rather than becoming defensive or downvoting you", an event I see on a daily basis in lectures on mathematics and very rarely outside of them.
Well-tested code doesn't necessarily lead to code quality. Leaky abstractions will eventually show their hand, in an environment that's not as sanitized as a unit test.
An array of pointers you call a virtual method on is indistinguishable in "pointer-chase" time (with current caches, at least), to an embedded linked list. Embedded linked lists have better insertion/deletion costs, and are easier to manage, so they're used quite frequently in games.
I also was excited by the promise of Blendle and stopped using it, but for different reasons to you: the main way i consume news is by finding links to articles on twitter and reddit. with blendle, those links didn't take me to the "blendle version" of the article, but to the paywalled version, and there was no easy way to jump from the paywalled version to the blendle version. To see an article on blendle, i'd have to go out of my way to find it on blendle, and their browsing experience wasn't especially great.

Scroll looks really nice because you don't have to access the content through scroll. You're still on the original source, and you get the benefits of your Scroll subscription no matter how you found the article.

The downside here is that because Scroll isn't re-hosting the content, you're stuck reading it on the generally awful websites of the original publishers, which are only made marginally better by the lack of ads and trackers.
And if you had to liquidate all of Apple's assets, or Google, or Microsoft, or any public company in a short period of time, you'd realize a much lower value than their reported book values. Your point?
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I weight just around 70kg and I broke two in an hour by just standing on them. I'm quite scared using them now.
No alternative, or AFAIK, no better alternative (yes I've experienced other style of interview like take home test, project, trial work, etc, all bullcrap). Keep doing it. I'm at my 300th Leetcode questions now, I just need 700 more (half joking).

Jokes aside, my point is, you can only get better, and when you get better, a non FAANG interview is actually a piece of cake, and you can just job hop every year until you maxed out your salary band, rinse and repeat.

Repeat after me: It can only get better, and one day you will actually conquer FAANG.
All of these sites also offer RSS feeds, by the way.
By standardizing the hiring process aren’t you then just optimizing for a very specific perception and/or perceptional ability? Isn’t that at the core of principles relating to diversity in the first place?

I personally find some of the current (if I can call them) standards of tech hiring to be very narrow in which skills and capabilities they test. It presumes a lot—particularly that one has time and resources to commit to spending time studying enough of the spectrum of CS subjects in order to pass a given question from the rather large field. (By this I’m referring to the classic “white board a <somekindof>sort algorithm purely from memory” process that has become the de-facto standard)
I used to love using Rdio and thought their site was the best designed music app at the time! Was bummed when it shut down.
This reads like satire. Surely there are better ways to deal with the problem than using the police. The police probably also have better things to do. In fact, this reads like it's a parody of the US war on drugs. It's so misguided.

The article is from 2011. Has the situation improved in South Korea? Because I can see that their results in PISA 2019 were still very good.
Mmm, I disagree. I do a fair amount of mucking around in notebooks/containers, but I also drop them (when they’re refined enough) into a pipeline where I (not another person dubbed a DE) can evaluate the integrity of the results on an ongoing basis. Though I do defer pipeline design dilemmas to our architect I do some of the implementation / testing work myself, I firmly feel that for a data scientist to be effective in their role they must also be part Data engineer (and visa versa). It’s hard to compartmentalizations those duties and get results efficiently.
The very first versions of TeX did fewer things, but they did them really perfectly.
Economies of scale work when you have end to end supply chains and can save incremental transaction costs on raw-ish materials.

They don't work when you concentrate power in large companies that waste human resources and continue to have large blind spots. Our tech sector would be way more robust in all dimensions if it were made up of thousands of entities rather than these monoliths. As HN as this sounds, we need microservices and service meshes to make capitalism work. Anything else and you get myopic, calcified monopolies, that while they dump huge sums of money into projects, that money is largely wasted.
In this[1] article, they show how one can estimate the distance using only measurements of the gravitational wave signal. It uses the fact that we can estimate the masses[2] based on the change in frequency of the chirp signal.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.04666 (pages 15-16)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirp_mass
My insight from this article is our understanding of the human brain is so lacking that, if we were Brain Support Technicians, we can't even tell people to turn it off and back on again.
You'll suck your own resource doing this, with no end goal in sight, or not even better end goal rather than DS&A interviews. And in the end, you will concede and search for a few DS&A interview questions, tell the candidate(s) to solve it, and evaluate them, and call it a day.
Hell of a handshake: abusing TCP for reflective amplification DDoS attacks
We tried this before and failed. It was a browser-extension called Sterling that would block ads on every site with a monthly subscription. Payment to sites would be based on the ratio of time spent across domains.

The problem isn't technical, it's that people just don't want to pay for general content. They might accept subs for netflix or spotify or specific newspapers but paying for "the internet" is still an unknown and unaccepted model. Until that changes, no amount of new apps are going to fix this.
There is some minimum level of intelligence and conscientiousness it takes to learn to pass these things. People who have it are at least better positioned than a random selection of the population to learn whatever else is required.
> If the usage is "construct a bunch of nodes" and then nothing, then you should be using a vector-type structure anyway.

Not if the nodes are variable-sized.
It's not like the system is fundamentally better in other countries. In Britain there's a colossal effect from landing a place at a few good schools / universities.

We mainly handle that by setting low expectations for most of the populace (e.g. the class system) and gate it by cost.
As a DS, I collect and clean my
own data (sometimes literally as they’re coming off the upload line, if I’m not building the upload pipeline in question too), serving the raw data AS WELL AS metrics/models/algorithms Generated by notebooks/containers from raw data in from hive via Spark queries.
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If you traded in your old car, and paid for a lemon, their buying back the lemon is fine - but you probably want your old car, too.

The ISA is only one part of what they “paid” to attend. The other thing is months of opportunity cost, loans, etc. An ISA release does not make one whole with regard to those other losses.
If you have "Sync Library" turned on (the feature's gone through several renames by now), it will also let you play local mp3s that have been uploaded.
If these children only knew what they are losing to 'win', they could respond by failing exam 1.

I can only begin to imagine the psychological future for SK. I'm already concerned for parents that would tolerate this hyper-rat-race.
What better way would there be than the police? This seems like just the job for them. In the US at least, it is the police's job to enforce curfew.

The situation is, from what I understand, very much the same as it was a decade ago. An interesting article on the topic is here
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-education-dram...
Why pay for the atlantic and pay for scroll when you can just pay for atlantic, or not, and read their RSS feed however you like w/o ads?

I don't know who the target audience of this product could be. There's probably 40 people on earth who fall in the venn diagram of not knowing about ad blockers, not knowing about RSS feeds, and willing to seek out a service like scroll for their 30-odd supported websites.
There are several tickets related to math handling. See https://github.com/sile-typesetter/sile/pull/578 and other tickets referenced there.
Interesting side note: The Chupa Chups logo was designed by Dali in 1969. Check the 'Marketing' section[1].

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupa_Chups
I don't think standing on them is what they're designed for, that strains even the best built chairs. The interesting thing about this chair I think is its relative strength compared to the absolute dearth of materials used, not its absolute strength, in my opinion — it won't ever be a strong as a steel chair, sure, but that is not why these things are remarkable.
Actually they are definitely not always <= 8 characters, but usually they are.
Chairs are designed for someone to sit on, not stand on. When the first chair broke due to the extreme concentration of weight in one spot, that should have been a sign not to abuse the second chair in the same way.
This is about prison labor, not historical slavery.
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> I personally find some of the current (if I can call them) standards of tech hiring to be very narrow in which skills and capabilities they test.

What would you propose as an alternative?

I’ve been involved in training new engineering managers how to hire and interview. Everyone starts with the best intentions, but reality quickly forces some compromises.

The bottom line is that you only have a number of hours in which to evaluate the candidate. The longer and more comprehensive you make your interview processes, the stronger signal you get. However, the longer your interview process, the more you’ll find people dropping out of the hiring pipeline due to lack of time or willingness.

I’ve worked with companies that tried to implement week-long paid interviews where candidates pair with employees to solve real problems. It’s great! But only when it works for the candidate. You can’t realistically expect busy professionals to take an entire week off of their current job to spend time with a company that may or may not hire them. Monetary compensation only goes so far when you’re forcing someone to choose between spending a week of their vacation interviewing with your company or spending a week taking their family on vacation.
LEGO made a set called X-Pods around 2005. Each one is a little pod with around 50 themed pieces (wheels, etc.). Because of the limited selection, making cool things is less about digging through a massive pile of LEGO bricks on the floor looking for "that one piece" than it is creatively thinking how each specific piece can be used.

More about X-Pods here: https://lego.fandom.com/wiki/X-Pod

I also like the idea of making "mini-scenes" with LEGO that depict a small slice of something with a small number of pieces. Here are a few examples:

https://flickr.com/photos/127745496@N03/27230802250/ (Harry Potter Waiting for the Knight Bus)

https://flickr.com/photos/iridescentnohow/8187261324/ (Back Alley in micro-scale)

https://flickr.com/photos/pbpancho/3081120968/ (Factory in micro-scale)
I feel the term "Data Engineer" gets used for a lot of catch-all "we have problems that need an owner" situations.

There's not much consistency across job postings and interviews for this kind of thing.

I just interviewed for one "Data Engineer" position which consisted of nearly 100% stored procedures. No one knew what else to call it, and they didn't want to advertise for a DBA, because there were no real DBA responsibilities. So "Data Engineer" was chosen.

Another "Data Engineer" position was almost entirely Spark. There was no SQL involved - they expected all applicants to be Spark experts, with a deep knowledge of Scala.

It's hard to know what to expect out of "Data Engineer" positions until you walk into a place and start asking questions in the interview.
Then there are people like Gustl Mollath: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustl_Mollath

You make it sound like this is only used for good and that nothing can ever go wrong with this system. That's not true. While you do get reevaluated, you get reevaluated by colleagues of the person (or the same person) who initially committed you. Furthermore, you're forced to take mind altering substances at their say-so and are imprisoned in a place, where any sign of fear or anxiety is counted against you.

Also, in some places it's possible for the psychiatrist to determine that contact with an attorney would "exacerbate your condition" and can bar you from seeing one.

I would much rather be on the street and free than indefinitely locked up and treated as poorly as people in mental institutions are.
> The difference in standards between the startup universe and the 'real world' is actually scary.

The 'real world' is scary too. Also, you can't really compare the financial statements of startups with established blue chip companies. Investors do not expect nor are they looking for the same things from them. Just like people who buy into VC funds have different goals and expectations from those who invest in an index fund. VC funds, index funds, startups, blue chips all have different "standards".

> Am I alone in thinking this?

No, I'm sure a lot of people agree with you. It's just that Buffet and Munger aren't one of them.

Whatever the accounting standards, I believe it was buffet who said you won't know who has been swimming naked until the tide pulls out ( we won't know how healthy the balance sheets are until we have a recession ). Enron, Washington Mutual, etc all had "healthy balance sheets" until they didn't. And all of them even had the seal of approval from the 3 or 4 major auditing firms too.
I'm not defending ALEC, but ALEC supporting something isn't evidence that Walmart benefits from it. You have to show me Walmart is using prison labor directly or indirectly. What specific products and vendors.
There's a pretty low ceiling on engineering talent, and an even lower ceiling on that talent being an important differentiator for your company. If that's your goal, then it's not hard to see how companies just keep ratcheting up the difficulty with little to negative gains.
> Mathematicians are perfectly capable of doing all those self-care things, as monks do in every monastery

Are they, though? In the pursuit of my PhD, I met plenty of mathematicians who could barely wipe their own ass, let alone cook a meal or, god forbid, build a simple hut. Did you know that most mathematicians use computers? Do you expect these same people to manage the chemistry, physics, engineering, mining and logistics necessary to build their own computing devices?

> I think the downvoting of my "tirade" to -2 has shown that non-mathematicians hate and fear mathematicians, think that all those killings of mathematicians I listed were reasonable and justified, and would like to silence any criticism of them.

That's quite a chain of conjectures... you may be a mathematician, but you certainly aren't holding yourself to mathematical standards here.

Here's a counterexample. I downvoted you. I'm a mathematician. And fwiw Galois died in a duel, which is, by definition, a consensual affair. His killing was an unreasonable, unjustified tragedy, but he brought it on himself. Oded Schramm did himself on a mountain; by the way -- you're shit-talking "non-mathematicians" for taking senseless risks, but missing the obvious and playing victim while referring to non-mathematicians as "torch-wielding villagers."

I downvoted you for your insufferable superiority complex and mindboggling narrow-mindedness.
New Chinese study indicates novel coronavirus didn't originate in seafood market
Rust's official documentation on FFI ( https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/ffi.html ) recommends using an external crate 'libc' to facilitate even the minimal FFI functionality. This crate is not part of Rust itself. It is apparently maintained by some of Rust's developers, but again, this is not an official Rust component. To me this does not seem like the kind of mature design you would rely on for interoperability with other languages.
Complexity Is the Constant
> “you can only build the one thing?”

No you can build anything you can imagine! You don't have to build it like the front picture or the instruction book. If you even turn the box around you'll often see alternative ideas on the back.
Data Engieneet to Data Scientist what Fullstack to Developer, aka more work responsabilities while paying the same ?
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Yeah and failing an interview like that is dodging a bullet. Probably best to politely walk out at that point.
Context: The Global Times is a CCP publication.
As a musician this would be incredibly difficult, because (at least for me, but I've noticed it to be common among (and not to toot my own horn) high-skill players) music is intractably linked with the movement produced from the rest of my body. Not being able to express that while playing would be frustrating to say the least!
You can test skills relevant to the job. If you're mostly doing js /css do that, not algorithms questions.
Dark colors protect somewhat against plastic decomposition by light.
Right, but this entire discussion is predicated upon questioning if perhaps the hirers are wrong. Are their interviewing practices serving their organization? A lot of the employers themselves have expressed difficulty at hiring and dissatisfaction with the process. Are they screening for the optimal qualities? There's no shortage of engineering projects that have gone bad. Could that be because the candidates being hired with current practices are suboptimal?

Hiring is still an on-going debate. Google SVP of People Ops Laszlo Bock has admitted previously that internal studies revealed that the interviewing practices at the time didn't really correlate to employee success:

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196974

We're having a debate here. You can claim the current practices are best, that's fine. But you can't just state it and take it for granted without providing evidence.
even if blendle would just let you search for an actual URL, that'd be great.
I think a decent amount would trade "no technical interviews" for credential hiring (degree required for job). The degree would be a well-known, long-standing target vs. the vague moving target of technical interview competence.

This isn't unlike other professions, but you would lose self-taught developers who don't have the time/money to afford the credential. That is currently something special about development compared to many other professions.

This assuming you prevent people who can't do something like fizzbuzz from graduating with a CS degree.
Tex is like a programming language, you have to "run" the program to generate output, and that execution is tightly tied to producing output on paper pages. This means it is extremely difficult to produce good looking HTML, or accessible output.
How does that work? Aren't options taxed as income on the difference between strike price and share price at the time of exercise? Capital gains require you to have shares first, right?
My experience mirrors yours, with some exception. The company I recently accepted a role at was great throughout the interview process. A friendly, knowledgeable person from HR conducted my phone interview. The on-site interview was conducted by a manager and the development team I'll be working with in pretty equal parts. They asked thought-provoking questions to see how I approach problems and skipped the code golf/write a linked list from memory on a whiteboard type of questions.

On the other hand, another company I applied to that seems really desperate for developers (no fewer than 9 open dev positions when I applied) completely dropped the ball. During the screening process they asked me to do an online test that took me about 2 hours. I got 100% on the test but it took the HR rep an entire week to respond. The response? The same canned email I received when instructed to take the test. From the same person. After a back-and-forth it was confirmed that they did receive my initial test score and I didn't need to retake it. About a month later and they never did get back to me. Sometimes I wonder if companies even want to attract good talent.
Yes, that's the point. I should have been more clear. It is a joke to use it as a reference to support the claim about benefitting from prison labor since it doesn't have any information on it. It may well be an accurate list of companies that have some relationship with ALEC.
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I'll agree with you on that.

Take PHP as an example. I'd say from a technical perspective not many people would go with it from a technical standpoint but we can't ignore that massive companies like FB for example were build on that (no matter if they grew out of it at a later date).
Non-paywalled version on MAPS:

https://maps.org/news/media/8046-fortune-business-gets-ready...
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Once my Mgr needed to reject a dev who had said something that did not vibe well with another manager, engaged the candidate in another round of tech interview with a L1 candidate who was working as a dev in the same team. (L1 is supposed to be a Mgr but worked as dev to sideline the immigration process). The candidate was asked offbeat Mockito unit test questions with the intention of rejecting. Speak of Hazing, some interviews are setup to reject candidates for the sake of rejecting.