skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> starvation abroad (due to local hoarding, which has begun)

Is there any evidence that this could happen? I live in a small Northern European country and there have been absolutely no shortages of TP or food items here. Even at peak toilet paper demand, when I went to the supermarket one brand was sold out, but there were plenty of other brands available - the same happens if they have a promotion, so maybe it was just a coincidence.

It seems that most of these issues are caused by supply chain problems, not a lack of available food, and the bigger a country, the harder the impact is felt.

A lot of the common produce items are grown locally, it's mostly out-of-season (tomatoes) and more exotic fruits (mandarins, avocados) that are shipped from the other side of Europe or Africa. Almost all meat, dairy and grain items are produced locally. If we were only able to eat food grown within our country, I don't think we would be faced with mass starvation.
Totally agreed. More often than not, I have failed the automated graded filter tests. I seem to have better results when I know that the company is also taking the process seriously for e.g., allocating an employee's time to evaluate me over the phone / in-person
It is trivial to convert DRM'd Kindle e-books you own into epub or other formats. Check out Calibre and the Apprentice Alf plugin.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/
"I failed my technical interview, so here's a blog post".

Software is one of the very few industries where lying on your resume and lying through your teeth about your prior accomplishments can be very easily tested.
Yeah, but if you read: https://www.lynalden.com/great-depression/ That spells out the case pretty clearly that this time is different.
Well spotted ;)
Literally any single person can aspire to be a Software Engineer at a major tech company by studying online, on their own, with resources that are either free or modestly expensive.

I disagree that it is a broken process. I do not want the software world to also start selecting for non-hard-work metrics like who your parents were.
And if you don’t want to participate in the market that has the most money to spend, I am sure other companies would love to.

I no more want a web app on my phone than I want an Electron app on my computer.
And, if you have both software people and machinists, do you do embedded software?
Yes, mobx state tree is great and should be use more frequently.
What we do is just that, so we're trying to see if a potential hire will be able to work with what we have.

Non-senior SE candidates don't have to do this exercise.
One of the most surprising things to me after seeing the inside of large tech companies was the amount of utterly incompetent politicians who were hired and constantly promoted due to pedigree, nepotism etc. However, at least for the more junior programmer levels I think you're vastly underestimating the amount that merit matters and gives people opportunities they wouldn't dream of having in non-tech fields.
Good lesson to take out of a negative experience.
> The majority of the demand is down due to government action.

If government action didn't kill demand, the ensuing death toll from letting the virus spread unchecked would eventually do it anyway.

"Travel is illegal" is only the proximate cause of the woes of the airline industry. The root cause is a lack of preparation.
I’m not sure where there’s a structured rebuttal, but the main reason why commodities are generally priced in dollars is due to currency liquidity and the forex markets. There are only a handful of currency pairs that don’t involve USD. If I have Japanese Yen and I want to buy Saudi Riyals, that trade needs to settled twice, JPY -> USD and then USD -> SAR adding both currency risk and settlement overhead. Pricing in USD cuts all of that out, along with the inertia of everybody being comfortable with dollars and the extremely liquid and large market for both dollars and dollar denominated debt. It’s just easier.
The Face Mask Debate Reveals a Scientific Double Standard
> and pedophiles that are the most dangerous are using far more sophisticated means of communication

Tiktok?

That has a ton of content that can be considered CP if reviews on reddit/yt are believed. Which given its sordid past as Musical.ly its totally believable.
It’s a contentious point, but plenty of formats and standards use lng, lat ordering.

https://macwright.org/lonlat/

https://macwright.org/2016/07/15/longitude-latitude-is-the-r...
Hey I feel I would be a great fit and I live in the South East of England but I have preference for working late hours (EST).

Is that a deal breaker?
So if Apple single handedly ports native APIs to WebKit, how does that reduce lock in if Chrome doesn’t have the same standard?
OPNSense requires AES-NI, which is an intel feature so you're stuck with an Intel CPU. Atoms are one of the more efficient intel options if you want passive cooling. as a sibling comment mentions, another option is an odroid-h2.

either way, i'd rather over-provision for an extra $150 than discover i need all new hardware when my requirements change.
No, but I get to write real code at my job.
Clearly they were doing nothing useful, because despite them being laid off, I can still open my Yelp app right now and browse around just fine. Most office jobs are "adult daycare", even in tech (blasphemy, I know).
That doesn’t invalidate the idea that half, or some other portion, don’t.
For the purposes of entropy, you need only consider 10 valid choices for each symbol of a phone number so it's closer to 33.21 bits (10 * (log(10) / log(2))) and smaller still when discarding impossible area, trunk & subscriber numbers.
I have never been able to get EPUBs to reliably work on remarkable. My solution is to convert them to PDFs.
I have Rift not a Quest so I don't know if they're the same but you can pull your desktop and every window in your desktop up in VR on the default Rift OS, even in the middle of running another VR app. I had a browser open in the middle of playing Half Life: Alyx. Did the same on No Man's Sky VR

Someone asked if I could watch all the Star Wars movies at the same time. I got 6 trailers running at once in 6 separate virtual monitors with the default built in OS feature.
I did resume screening for about fifteen years for different small companies, it’s first because if I phone screened everyone who sent an letter or email expressing interest there would be no time for anything else and I would be wasting a lot of candidate time when I could look a resume and know if someone was ballpark decent and just let both of us off the hook early with rejection (a lot of people swing for the fences with applying for jobs) if this was easily ascertainable from the resume. I am assuming candidates are making the best argument for themselves in their resume.
> I think it's safe to say that most people consider "no images"

These can be done via attachments depending on the rules of the newsgroup

> or "no UTF"

That's entirely a client-side issue. Thunderbird, for example, has no problem rendering UTF-8 characters in email or newsgroups.

> Btw I said "discourse" not "discord"

Ah, I thought you had made a typo. I have not heard of discourse, and it doesn't appear that you can use it in offline mode (like you could with an email/news client. As for the other features like images, url embedding, etc., they are features I don't personally find very useful and they also detract from the actual content (based on my experience using Slack). In fact, I disable all those features in Slack so that I don't have to deal with constant visual distraction of animated gifs or emojis. Looking at discourse.ubuntu.com, it doesn't make it obvious who replied to whom via a nested threaded structure like you would see here on HN or on reddit, and there's no thread overview pane where you can jump to a post you're interested in.

It also seems to rely on central based moderation rather than allowing for client side moderation. That is, moderation that's entirely within the client's control rather than relying on an administrator.

> The former is likely the best forum implementation around).

Yet, sites like HN or reddit that don't normally show images, animated emojis or show URL previews work well for their intended audience. But even those websites make it difficult to see new posts since you last viewed the thread and jump to posts you're interested in.
That's a whole lot of bold, unsubstantiated claims.
It's weird, I've programmed Everything from Random Forest in VBA to full stack apps to embedded, but I can't get an interview. "Just do projects" they told me.

Maybe I'm asking for too much money? 90k/yr.

I want to switch from Engineering(120k/yr) to programming, but I've been unable.

SE Michigan.
You conveniently ignore Korea and Taiwan, where the curve has been flattened without shutting down the economy or closing "non-essential" businesses.
That wasn't my experience at a FANG - the joke was that we spent most of our time moving protocol buffers around. Very rarely encountered anything as challenging algorithm wise as leetcode medium.

On the other hand working at FANG encourages developing soft skills (cross team wrangling etc) that no amount of leetcode would teach you.
> Why that is the case in every business, I haven't been able to figure out. I suspect it's because when businesses reach that size, the efficient market effects become greatly overstated in the short term, so these businesses naturally acquire a lot of fat.

i think it's more likely that no business will know in advance who those 100 employees that create value are. It might even be that the combination of those 100 creates value beyond the sum of them individually (lets say, they are in one team).

There are also mundane work - fixing bugs or upgrading libraries, as well as keeping up the infrastructure running.

And then there's the middle management - that comes from the mis-trust that upper management generally have for the "grunts", and this happens all the way thru the organization.

> private equity exists...

and if you look at those companies that did this - very few of them becomes the next big thing. Very few of them actually innovate. Very few of them, even survive.

Private equity is really about taking risks with a failing business, e.g. buying it really cheap, and cut the fat and ride out the storm for hopefully a better future. I dont think any private equity will buy a company that isn't failing in some ways, and try to "make it better".
What is the “certain way” I’m supposed to behave? Sorry, I’ll listen to the governments perspective and weigh it like everything else. I don’t have a gun to defend against the government - I have it in case an individual who thinks they are entitled to my money and my resources get carried away and take it a step too far and try and take it by force.
Why the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theories don’t make sense
This was my same thought. Bar exam is an exam that leads to holding a professional license, I’m not seeing the comparison either other than “people are committed to the process”. Which...seems flimsy given (among other distinctions) the earning potential over the lifetime of a licensed attorney and the lifetime of someone who interviews for a Google job.
Or the GameBoy Advance and Advance SP. The Advance SP had a toggle-able front light, but was very usable without it.

(A later version of the Advance SP had a regular back-lit LCD screen.)
If it's not ready I don't see much sense in discussing it. Google betting on it does not inspire much confidence either. Google managed to screw up Tensorflow so bad no one I know uses it anymore. So if this Swift project is going to be tied to TF in any way it's not a good sign.

As for Julia, I like it. Other than the fact that it counts from 1 (that is just wrong!). However, I'm not sure it's got what it'd take to become a Python killer. I feel like it needs a big push to become successful in a long run. For example, if Nvidia and/or AMD decide to adopt it as the official language for GPU programming. Something crazy like that.

Personally, I'm interested in GPU accelerated Numpy with autodiff built in. Because I find pure Numpy incredibly sexy. So basically something like ChainerX or Jax. Chainer is dead, so that leaves Jax as the main Pytorch challenger.
They might be out due to COVID-related supply issues, I remember seeing them in stock a few months ago. You might have better luck ordering from the company directly.
Onyx boox note pro is expensive but fwiw I really like it.
very well said ! I am wondering if anyone here has recommendations on where to go next after I finish this course ?
The real answer is that it's a publicly traded "tech" company that has to maintain a charade of growth. They can either give their profits back to shareholders (violating the growth charade) or they can hire more people and hope they figure out how to create actual growth.

Corona spoke up and pointed out the Emperor had no clothes.
Do you get sick in all VR? It was my understanding that VR generally only gets people sick when there is motion. So any stationary 6 DOF VR experience should generally not make anyone sick.
Dropping little apocryphal information here:

Basically all 16-bit ISA PC Card(w/o bumped golden shield) can only handle WEP and 802.11b.

32-bit PCI CardBus card does WPA/WPA2 and 11g.

CF cards don’t seem to be bound by this but I haven’t tested.
In my experience, this has been rather selective.

Some people have very little idea about load-balancing, DNS, database scaling (replication, sharding, etc), fault tolerance, graceful degradation, queues, throttling, caching, you name it.
It is entirely possible. Econo locally, we will be revisiting how we handle risks and what acceptable margins are.
Any evidence? People were already starving in poor countries. Imposing lockdown measures makes the hunger situation worse. If you don't have food today then dying of an infection next week is the least of your concerns.

https://www.concernusa.org/story/worlds-ten-hungriest-countr...

Industrialized countries will have sufficient food for a while, but if major sectors of the economy are shut down for months then supply chains will break down and we'll start to see empty grocery shelves.
Are there any widely analyzed implementations that I can use today? Got any links? I'm interested, but I don't think I'd understand without seeing code.
In the US, if you have a General class ham radio license, you could do it on the 7Mhz frequency if your antenna is relatively close (less than 1/4 wavelength) to the ground. See https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

At higher frequencies (such as the 432 MHz used in this trans-Atlantic contact), the radio waves will not be reflected by the ionosphere and will disperse.
The sculptor’s resume is their portfolio, and having worked on screening artists for jobs, that is the first thing we examined, and for online hires, the only thing we could examine. This is a false equivalence.
I think VR desktops look really cool, but I'm not sure I'd want to have to wear a VR headset every time I used my computer. Monitors will surely stick around in parallel.
Good people may. But if you work at FB or Google, and you realize that you're less talented than many of the others there, but they're willing to keep paying you FB or Google salaries... you probably don't leave.
My favorite interview process was with Wikimedia. It was a take-home coding project, which I then had to discuss with multiple engineers on the team over the course of four interviews (it was a remote position). I didn't get the job, but it was very enjoyable being able to work on something without someone watching me, and then being able to discuss my design decisions with different engineers who had different opinions about how I could improve my work. It was clearly valuable regardless if I got the position.

When presented with white-boarding interviews, I'll usually feel physically sick. This includes intense sweating and weirdly enough, gassy-ness. I found this old blogpost pretty relatable: https://aneccodeal.blogspot.com/2014/02/interviewing-for-anx...
That paints an astonishingly bleak picture. I'm not an economist, but that seems almost unreal.

We have a lot of levers (some unpleasant) that we can tweak that aren't mentioned. Getting into a cold war with China and shaping trade seems like something America is uniquely positioned to do.

It may even be possible to cancel US treasury debt to China if the entire world gets on board with that plan (suing the CCP over covid-19 coverups and unanimously agreeing to prevent credit rating downgrades). I've seen this idea floated around the internet, and it doesn't sound implausible.
That's why I don't work for FAANG any more.
Turns out that I don’t actually need to. For us, as developer you will almost certainly run into tech that you know very little about but need to work with it anyway. So ability learn quickly and solve problems is more important. So intellectual horsepower, analytical and problem solving skills and most importantly a sense of agency and willingness to do what it takes to ship code out is more important. If the developer’s code isn’t beautiful and idiomatic, I will go and refactor it to make it so after we’ve shipped product. And given that the developer is a quick learner and has experience with writing good code it the past they will pick it up quickly. So I essentially screen on credentials: where did they go to school, where have they worked. and then make decision on the interview.
that's the joke; ggp proves the point
> Why do you say Google discriminates on the basis of race?

Google told their recruiters to actively not hire white or asian males for certain roles.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/2/17070624/google-youtube-wi...
I met this kid 20 years younger than me at my last company. He had a thick country accent that made him sound like a redneck, and he never went to college, he only graduated from high school.

One of the best programmers I've ever met.

He couldn't do complex big-O analysis because he never learned it having started to work straight out of high school, but other than that, his code was meticulous, he gave excellent code reviews, and just had this natural understanding of technology and how to program. Probably the best programmer on our team, much better than me and I often sought out his opinion on things, even though I could have been his dad. I always learned things every time I talked to him.

He is a multi-millionaire now, and still works as a programmer but does it for fun.
It would require Apple it care about VR and gaming and VR capable GPUs. Except for a MacPro, no Apple devices are powerful enough for VR. Even the top end MacBookPro at $19000 still has an underpowered GPU below the lowest VR specs.
1. Fizzbuzz

2. If you claim SQL: Explain LEFT JOIN ... IS NULL pattern. Do you know about little bobby tables (injection exploit).

3. "How does the internet work?"

4. "Tell me about a hard / interesting / instructive bug you had to handle.

5. What would you do differently if you were the lord high poobah on your last job?

6. Tell me about something you helped finish and ship to users.

7. What do you have to say about OUR product?

Those questions have helped me hire some great people. They apply to anybody from a fresh-out to a self-taught to famous programmers.

You CAN shove into their face some strange line of code that depends on arcana of operator precedence. But the only useful answer there is "I would never write something so obscure."
No, not really bringing us back where we were. Back then in the beginning it was a federated XMPP implementation and you could talk with G Chat accounts from outside the Google ecosystem and that's not changing.

Also, there's another "Chat" in Google stables right now - Google's RCS messaging app.

My guess would be Google is just doing its periodic itch thingie that it does with messengers and social networks.
Can't help you on the YC front, but have you tried doing an unclaimed-property search in California (their HQ) or whichever state you were in when you made this investment?

https://www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money
You can also install KOReader on remarkable as a reader. Works better IMHO. https://github.com/koreader/koreader
On the other hand, the amount of "Our covid19 response is..." emails have skyrocketed, even amongst things that I had unsubscribed to
I think we all like to complain when we don't get the job we want.

It doesn't matter what the process is, some form of song and dance is needed.
> What disease has ever infected 100% of the population?

Most people are infected with some form of Herpes virus AIUI, from Chickenpox to Cold Sores, it's very common.
> It may be that we've all been driven into a panic about hiring, by the hiring industry.

My theory is that the people who have the worst interviewing experiences are the loudest and write the most blog posts about it.
Ah. Still, it would have been nice to say something like "No paywall: " with the URL.
ask them what they've built in the past and start digging in from there.
Regarding

>all the top community contributors left

Please don't pass on misinformation.
Any idea if bugsnag can do this too?
Some patents seem to indicate that some companies have developed solder solvents. I don't know how prevalent it is but it exists.
I took it about 6-7 years ago, so I totally believe you
Sure here's the source. The 66% - 90% death rate on ventilators appears to be accurate but there's a lot of variance in the data and no rigorous studies yet.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/Some-doctors-mov...
People still acting like we all live in silicon valley and the dot com bubble hasn't bursted twice, software engineering is over as a high impact career, the meta has shifted from solving problems to finding problems.

There are too many smart people in this industry who won't/can't code but act as gatekeeper to valuable problems. My advice is to search out these problems yourself, its a much more challenging problem then any programming.

Or spend two weeks preparing for your technical interview to learn stuff you won't ever use again and then do the bitch work of someones over-engineered vanity project while the plebs are doing "research", "marketing", "design", and "business development".
The Yellow Pages used to do the same thing before the internet. There is always money in being a monopoly of something. The problem for Yelp (and really, most other platform companies) is they are beholden to G, the mother of all monopolies, who can cut off their gravy train at a moment's notice.
I have my doubts about your conclusions given your statements. It seems you have 3 steps in your interview process: code assessment, architecture assessment, and CTO interview. And the candidate who does well on all three gets the job? So, does your funnel filter to exactly one candidate every time? And if it does not, then what criterion are used to funnel all candidates who finished this process successfully? Perhaps, you will argue it comes down to whomever did better on one of the exercises. But that is never a guarantee and would seem a trivial differentiation if multiple candidates had viable and correct solutions.

So, genuine question then: What are the final and most important criterion that would be used to differentiate between two completely successful candidates being equal in their performance in your pipeline?

I think the answer to that will give more credit to the comment you are trying to negate.
would you hire a sculptor by asking them a random trivia question about the birthday of an Italian architect? FANG would.