skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I was talking about actually waiting (like in "while(!condition)yield();") with more code to execute at the _same_ (&#42;) virtual time after the wait, not taking care of having some code executed _later_, which is indeed a proper approach in our case, and what "waiting" could mean in some informal specification.

(&#42;) When doing deterministic virtual time scheduling, computations are scheduled to take place at given times, and are processed exactly at the time they are supposed to be. The time can only change once everything that had to be computed at current time has been computed (if in "as fast as possible" mode, the scheduler then just jumps the clock to the next time something is scheduled to happen) (if you want to read more about that, see "time advance request" and "time advance grant" in the HLA norm).
Yes and no. That is one phrase in a larger sentence where the important part is the 'government steps in during crisises to pick winners and losers'.

The world has seen at least 3 currency regimes since 1914 (pre-Bretton Woods, Bretton Woods, post-Bretton Woods) and possibly more. Exactly what 'monetary creation' means changes depending on the system and isn't as much a problem as government interference when the market tries to purge big chunks of the economic elites from power.

If the market is blocked from getting rid of idiots, it is expected that idiots will end up in charge of important things. Anyone can see these banking collapses a mile away; look at Uber's valuation vs losses! The problem is that blindly optimistic idiots are being given far too much money to play with and big players are allowed to dodge the pain when obvious risks become realities in a crisis.
These are basically disposable chairs that break easily and sit in landfills forever. I'm shocked that over a billion have been sold in Europe alone. They are aesthetically offensive in my opinion.
In college I had a UML class and used Rational Rose.
I did not like it for software development. I am very happy I have not had to use this for software development in the wild.
> Please keep sending me info on what you’re seeing in terms of supply chain disruptions. I think that is one of the biggest stories in the world right now

Preceding the article and not directly related to it, but imho I also find this subject one of the biggest stories right now and it's a pity that it hasn't yet been discussed on HN the way it should have been (or at least I didn't see it discussed that way), probably because of some active moderation efforts concerning covid-19.
Yes, which is not impossible to tackle. There is structured and systematic way to attack it. Tons of study guide and materials on the net to help you. Not to mention tons of people successfully get hired.
The test example literally has a double hyphen "--" in place of an em dash, which begins a line, provoking an unjustified momentary appearance of being an utterance by a character quoted in the French or Spanish style; and the author's name in body-text type right-aligned at the top of the page looks like a typographical error. Still, it's eminently readable, with reasonable hyphenation. My typographical sins in the PDF rendering of Dercuano were, in many cases, far worse (no hyphenation at all!), but I hacked together Dercuano's PDF renderer in 5 days as a last resort, and I don't claim that the result is "beautiful", although I wish it were.

Thank you helping me be slightly less of an arrogant jerk!
Sure, that's what Trump is doing too. Showing that that the executive branch has grown to have too much power and giving us an example of what an evil president might be able to accomplish. It's all just a conspiracy to make the world a better place!
Exactly. Design is code, construction is compilation.
Not sure if TeX is “terrible” or not, but the syntax here looks very similar.

On a practical note, it may be worth exploring other options: groff and TeXMacs (no affiliation with TeX or emacs).
> Why do all these weird terms even matter to anyone else besides a self selected group of mathematicians?

Why should anyone care about anything?
Another reason for companies that can’t find people, is to show proof that they’ve been looking for a while so they can apply for overseas worker visas.
The problem is twofold:

1. False positives: you get folks who do really well at DS&A yet who are really bad developers. I mean really bad. I wouldn't have believed it if I had not seen their interviews and then subsequent performance. I'd wildly guess that it's about 20-30%.

2. False negatives: you get folks who are really good developers, and yet for whatever reason, perform badly on DS&A algorithms despite practicing. I think this number is higher than false positives, probably around 50% or more.

If you're a FAANG company, you can afford to play these odds. If you're not FAANG, then you're killing yourself by requiring DS&A interviews, almost inevitably.

Both are contributing to destroying the profession for huge numbers of people, IMHO. I mean, that's good for me, because I'm almost certainly sticking around and generally do OK on DS&A interviews with adequate practice (which is a waste of time, since anything beyond a broad knowledge of the performance characteristics of various DS&As is totally unneeded for 99% of us). But it's not right, and I really don't like it.
Linking my comment from elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22393723
What is "legal" scale? He just says "and then there's legal scale" and doesn't define it.
> I don't have a better way of doing things

This is my least favorite part about discussing interview techniques.

It's taboo to say anything other than "interviews are broken", as if there is some alternative perfect practice that companies are voluntarily choosing not to use.

If no one, including the author of the linked article, can think of anything better, doesn't that mean that companies are already using optimal practices? At least from our current knowledge of interviewing practices. I always have my eyes open for new research, new suggestions, and new trends, but it's getting old to hear the constant chorus of "interviewing is broken" with zero attempt to suggest improvements.

That doesn't mean current practices are perfect or that we should stop trying to improve them, of course. It does feel a bit like politicians going on record saying that they're "deeply troubled" by something without proposing alternatives, though. It's the safe thing to say.
> Once you have a singular authority you can just let them decide

There are still a few benefits of crypto here:

- the “service” can stay up even when gov’t servers go down

- you can even make some transactions without network access at all

- transparency about money supply
Not too surprising given the demographics of BBS users of the era. Wonder how it would compare to the amount of bullying those same users dished out and received in physical space during the same period.
It's still the preferred shipping method of jewelers, last I checked. The government takes the security of the mail very seriously, and you can insure registered mail packages for up to $50k.
Yes, that is what I meant.

Your last line jumps the shark.
To be fair, as the original author of JACK and the lead author of one the main DAWs on Linux, we no longer encourage the use of JACK with Ardour.

JACK is an exceptional powerful tool (if I do say so myself) but it is overkill for the majority (maybe even the vast majority) of users. We try to encourage most Ardour users to use its builtin ALSA audio/MIDI I/O support rather than JACK these days.
You're limiting it to "I want to do something, I need reminders" but it also applies when you're trying to convince people to do something as well, such as sales or particular behavior in apps. I can't begin to count the number of times that someone ignores the level of motivation and requisite "ability," in most cases mental/time costs, in something like account creation on a site. A barrage of fields irrelevant to the actual necessities of account creation get shoved in because "we want marketing data" or some other idiocy because either they discount the barriers they're erecting or wildly overestimating the motivation.
> the gateway to a $200k+ job then it's a good thing for applicants,

For most of us outside the Bay Area and NYC, it's quite unlikely that we'll secure a $200k/year job unless we go into management.
Been there, done that, for over 40 years.

And like I said, I'm tired of it.
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Every time I see one I'm reminded of how uncomfortable they are.
Are the newer compilers truly that much better? I've been working in tech since the 90's, and I can't say that for the tools I've used I've noticed any great improvement in overall quality- bugs get swatted, new ones created in what feels like a constant measure. I am assuming that many optimizations are turned off regardless, due to wanting to keep the resulting assembly as predictable as possible, but I do not work in the embedded space, so this is perhaps a naive question.
I read it all again with your interpretation in mind and it looks like that one was intended.

I think I missed or skipped past that interpretation to another because I think luord's original framing was a very misleading/unuseful way of looking at a situation. The post he linked to (elsewhere in the thread, that prompted his original post) wasn't complaining just about someone's certainty, but their impoliteness while being so certain. It seems very misleading to reduce this down to being a complaint about being "too certain", rather than being about tone/politeness:

>Y'know, you can have all the valid points in the world and still come on a _bit_ too strong.

>I get the point the author is making re: LARPing, but this kind of attitude and tone is bordering (or, bluntly: is) condescending to anyone who doesn't know as much as you.

Sure, they phrase it as "coming on too strong" at first, but then they get specific and talk about the tone/attitude problems. They suggest things that could be changed other than the certainty level.
Oh you’re right I actually read his original tweet wrong. They do have a space outside of Lambda School but it’s not sanctioned by Lambda School.
It's almost always attributed to the lack of quality candidates.

But when you reach the final stage with 3 people who you know can pretty much do the job, who you know have successful careers working in successful companies, and you drop them because they didn't exactly behave the way you would prefer them to in a high stress scenario, and keep looking, I think you effectively forfeit the right to claim that's your problem with hiring.
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As mentioned elsewhere, this is discriminatory against people with families and and commitments that prevent them from spending hundreds of hours in prep. Not to mention it affirms Goodhart’s Law, where a single metric- the ability to answer DS&A questions- overrules qualified applicants from becoming hired.

Not to mention such interview styles can be gamed. Suppose a Flatiron bootcamp for DS&A questions becomes big in response. What then? An arms race for more and more difficult weeder questions?

Such questions aren’t necessarily bad, but focusing on them to the exclusion of all other skills is becoming an anti-pattern.
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> ClickHouse come to mind for wholly different use cases than a time series database.

ClickHouse works fine as a TSDB if you don't mind getting a little dirty
One cool trick here is to use a restricted subset of a programming language as your rules configuration format. That way it still feels accessible to stakeholders, but you also have access to the other software development paraphernalia (tests, static analysis, version control, etc) if you want it.
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How is TeX terrible? I’d appreciate it if you could calibrate your response roughly to my level of discernment, which is to perceive LaTeX documents as better looking than Microsoft Word, but not be able to articulate why, or have much finer grained resolution than that.
That doesn't add anything to the conversion. Could you specify what you find implausible/problematic?
That's like saying "antibiotics don't work without bacteria".

In my opinion, open source is so successful because the current copyright laws have overreached. My feeling is saner copyright duration would probably make open source all but disappear.
This is an enforced invariant. This results in proposals that it should be done by adding a system for general invariants and design by contract features. Those are then rejected as too complicated and something for the far future.

So, the usual answer is "use unsafe code." What could possibly go wrong?
the discovery age is what makes new tech so fun and exciting. I loved the 90s internet because i was a young kid making all kinds of stuff online. very trivial by today's standard but it served it purpose of exploration and creativity. Today's kids are getting creative with the use of snap and tiktok. i guess i cant judge much
Blendle has them on a "pay for what you read" basis, that I really like
> Because if the SEC’s interpretation stands, any purchaser of a security issued by a non-public company could be deemed to be an underwriter.

As very non-knowledgeable person in this are I believe this is where the argument falls apart.

The interpretations is specific to Gram tokens, not "a [arbitrary] security issued by a non-public company".

I.e. it's about the "innate" nature of this specific security (Gram token), which is different to e.g. the security normally involved in VC.

_At least if it's not VC business mean to "scam" later investors, in which case it very well could apply._ (And probably should?)
The reasons why a tool like Live exists or does not exist on a platform has essentially zero relationship to the APIs used for audio and MIDI I/O.

As others have noted, Bitwig already exists - in some ways, it is more powerful than Live (and in others, less). It is also proprietary.

Also, Live is not the kind of tool that most people would associate the term user friendly with. It's quite hard to get started using Live, despite the program being basically 100% awesomesauce. Live is extremely friendly towards a certain kind of workflow for "in-the-box" music production, and has fundamentally changed the entire zeitgeist surrounding making music with computers. But it's not a replacement for linear timeline DAWs (like ProTools, Logic, Sonar, Ardour etc. etc.) and has its own foibles and certainly its own complexities and limitations.

I anticipate that the next major release of Ardour will have some Live-like features starting to arrive.
I can see this. Offer to meet them at a police station.

If it's a phone, meet them at your carrier's store and have a rep confirm that the phone will work and can be activated on their network (no IMEI block, correct frequencies, etc.).
Legal scale is being big on paper, such as a single corporate entity owning multiple others. This implies, but does not require, efficient operational amassing of men and capital.
> There is no other sane and effective way to filter the insane amount of FAANG applicants, only DS&A.

Then why do they also apply this to candidates they reach out to? I've never applied to FAANG, only interviewed after (in-house) recruiters or internal referrals. It always seems to be the same bullshit.
It's very much a library.
This is certainly a valid observation, I don't necessarily agree that "why" would be ranked as most important. And why I don't agree with that could use some elaboration.

I see governance as having two primary missions, preventing harms and preserving rights. That said, rulemaking is a policy action, it creates rules much like a programmer does, that are provided input and act based on that input.

An example of the latter that many readers here are familiar with would be sanitizing user input prior to displaying it on a web page. The programmer creates a rule like "always change the '<' and '>' characters to &lt and &gt." That is a rule and the 'why' is implicit. Without making that change, a user might type in their input an arbitrary piece of javascript which when displayed becomes part of the page. So the 'rule' prevents the 'harm' while preserving the 'right' for users to put < and > in their input, like we do here in comments all the time.

The other aspect of policies (or rules) is that making them consistent allows users or clients to not be surprised when something they think should be allowed, isn't. This is sometimes shortened to the principle of least surprise.

In this case the FCC is rule making in what is, relative to there original mission around RF spectrum, a new communication medium, the Internet.

To someone at the FCC, within the context of their past policy/rule making and their understanding of the Internet as a communication mechanism, they have the tools to understand that ruling against interference to other legitimate users of the spectrum is a core principle of their rule making in the RF world. This is particularly true in the portions of the spectrum that are unlicensed, like the 2.4GHz ISM bands.

My comment was written for a commissioner to read and to tie the 'old' with the 'new' and to perhaps dent a little bit the argument that ISPs use of "my wires, my house." Such a commissioner will already have heard hundreds, if not thousands, or arguments which stress the harm that is caused when one entity using spectrum and interfere with another using the same spectrum.

Using our WiFi examples it would be trivial for Cisco access points to recognize Ubiquity access points nearby and jam their channels. That would give Cisco users a "good" experience, and Ubiquity users a "bad" experience. And no doubt there have been examples of access points that had this sort of behavior, intentionally or not, and have been brought before the commission and adjudicated as being interferers and causing harm.

My hope is that one or more commissioners will have that context and read my comment and think, "Hmm, he has a point, it is just like spectrum and we treat people who interfere there as the 'bad guys', why should it be ok here?" And with that thought will come many, many, "Why equal access is the correct policy choice" examples from their work in the management of RF spectrum.
That break easily? These things are nigh indestructible in my experience. It’s possible that you had ones that weren’t rated for the appropriate weight, they have slightly different sizes and larger ones are beefier.
In my opinion it isn’t wishful thinking at all. Software is getting more complex each year, yet the time to build complex software decreases due to existence of better libraries/tools/knowledge-base.

So at the end of the day you can build more complex software with lesser amount of developers but there is a catch, and that is developers now need to be much more talented.

Right now a good developer can easily develop what a team of 10 average developers could build 10 years ago. This is especially true in GameDev field. Right now there is a silent revolution going on with procedural art-work so that a good programmer/artist can create huge amount of content in very short-time but procedural art generation is really complicated.

So if you are a talented developer you can compete with mid-sized companies right now!

I believe it will get to a point in future that even a small team of talented developers will be able to out-compete companies with 100s of average developer.

Large companies will have no option but to scale back and change their HR practices but large companies, like large ships, are harder to turn, hence some of them will definitely go bankrupt in near future.
I tend to basically forget how to use a computer when people are watching. To prep for interviewing I also have to try to memorize a bunch of stuff about some relevant language because otherwise, without surrounding stuff to crib from, I'll straight-up forget basic shit about it, and that doesn't always stick. I'm talking like "what does method invocation look like in this language?" Under pressure it can and does happen for languages I've been working in 5 days a week for the last year. And I guaranfuckingtee if I write more than a few lines I'll end up using the wrong name for some standard library function I don't use daily—again, I drill these around interview time just in case, but it doesn't always stick. I'll also get really timid about using editor features, if I'm using a real computer and not whiteboarding, because I start second guessing every keystroke.

Further, most interviews I encounter don't do this and the ones that do tend to be all goddamn cagey about what to expect so I never know in advance, so I don't have a home whiteboard to spend hours and hours practicing on and if I did I wouldn't know which interviews need such prep and which don't so I'd probably end up not bothering, since it's just a few that do it.

I don't even have significant social anxiety or anything, and I have been told I come off as very confident and competent—unless the whiteboarding algo shit comes out, at which point there's a 50/50 chance I'll look like a total dunce (Nb. I can and do get The Actual Work done, no problem, once hired—that part's easy)

Since I only interview every few years and, again, this problem hasn't stopped me from landing jobs at about the same pay rate as the other ones that rake me over the coals (though not FAANG or near it) I've not spent the significant time it'd take to fix this. We'd be talking lots of hours to prep for FAANG tier, and probably a year. Don't care enough to do that. I did spend the time & effort to improve how I come off in more conversational parts, gradually, over the years, but that was relatively easy and doesn't rust as fast (since, you know, I don't get to practice interview-type coding on the job, but I do frequently have opportunities to practice relating to people).

[EDIT] I don't mean to be whiny or call the grapes sour—I simply haven't put the work in to (as I posted elsewhere in the thread) turn my efforts at leetcode from practice to performance. And again, for the roles I'm applying for I'm not losing any money by occasionally being rejected because they decided to give me a puzzle expecting a recursive & memoized (DP) solution rather than ask me whether I know WTF recursion and DP are and when they're usually useful, so the worst they do is waste a day of my time (honestly, why the hell are places so secretive about what's going to happen on interview day? Fucking Google's not, Jim Bob's Software Widget factory can afford to tell applicants the sorts of things they'll be talking about and the kinds of exercises that may come up)