skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with take home interviews is that it could take one candidate an hour, and another every evening for a week.

Ideally the interviewer shouldn't be concerned about absolute code correctness, such as syntax or argument position, and should be interested more in how you're able to solve the problem, which should be a novel, yet simple task that doesn't require studying up on 200 level algorithms.

You want to hire developers (for permanent full time roles, at least) who have a good conceptual grasp of programming and logic, rather than their particular knowledge of a language or framework, or their ability to search on stackoverflow and run their code through a linter.

The worst interview problem I've been given was to write an AngularJS directive, I think literally to simply take an attribute and display it. I can't remember at the best of times the syntactical oddities of AngularJS, let alone when writing with pen and paper in an interview with no resources.

One of the better problems I was given was around parsing XML, from memory validating that opening tags matched closing tags, while allowing for self-closing tagsI remember the problem specifically didn't include any more complex facets of XML. Another was to reverse a string in-place ("hello world" -> "dlrow olleh"), and then to modify the algorithm to reverse the words but keep them in place ("hello world" -> "olleh dlrow"). Obviously in the real world you'd just use built in methods, but it's a problem that should be solvable without digging up your old lecture notes.

I've always felt comfortable writing code (or at least psuedocode) with a pen, but I think it's unfair to require a candidate to solve the problem on paper or whiteboard if they feel more comfortable typing on a computer instead, all that achieves is disadvantaging otherwise capable candidates who for one reason or another can't write code with a pen and paper. As long as they aren't googling "how to reverse a string in place", it immaterial what writing tool they use. If they feel more comfortable using a brush and papyrus, or carving a runestone, then that should be perfectly acceptable too (provided they bring their own writing material).
60:1 is not realistic for a 100G plan. See my other comment.
By the way, the Bing Covid PWA has been published to the Microsoft Store using Pwabuilder.com ;)
Whiteboard coding interviews are a hazing ritual for initiation and not really a filter for programming proficiency. The headline is nonsense, and since they don't try to establish anything intrinsically feminine or masculine that this process is against, it is very misleading.

However, whiteboard architecture interviews for solving certain higher level classes of problems do provide a signal for problem solving ability. Design is a narrative process that you make concrete with diagrams, so it's more suited to an interview situation.

The trial-by-trivia approach of coding interviews creates a culture where you get a company full of people who shared copies of the exam answers with the people they referred in for the hiring bonus. A company succeeds on the quality of its products, which is the effect of the quality of design and architecture thinking, and not on the ability of its staff to perform live optimizations on fizzbuzz.
> I highly recommend it.

So do most parents. Why? Misery loves company.

The entitlement of parents knows no bounds.

Have kids to make yourself happy.
Have kids to experience true joy.
Have kids to take care of you when you’re old.
Have kids to know real love.
The first 2-3 I had were for 15 and I will say yes the last 4-5 seconds does get uncomfortable but not a big deal.

The more recent tests have also been 5 seconds.bone in each nostril and nothing in the throat. I've definitely had different style of tests but I do not recall the names. They are also using a better style of swab in my opinion that makes it substantially more comfortable.

Even for the more uncomfortable longer time style tests it's something you forget about pretty much immediately afterwards.
A free browser game site that generates revenue for food banks
(1) I’m curious if part of the problem is that the marginal cost of gathering information through Twitter is so much lower, that it’s practically irresistible for increasingly cash constrained media outlets. Traditional modes of journalism are costly and myopic: traveling a journalist around the country, and interviewing people individual by individual.. it’s no wonder they’re drawn to a (free!) place that aggregates public sentiment from the comfort of your desk

(2) Too much in comparison to what. I can assure you they pay too much attention to Twitter in comparison to my preference, but I’m not sure that’s a meaningful comparison. How should journalists decide “how much” attention to pay to any source? I don’t think there’s consensus on this, which is a deeper problem than twitter itself
When can we get 3:2 aspect ratio laptops with zero (>95% screen to body ratio) bezels? So far the Surfaces have one part of this, and the XPSes have the second part.
I don’t think any expert agrees with that vaccine timeline. Can you point to one?

Alone with producing and testing a vaccine, you then need to manufacture, distribute, and administer the vaccine.

That takes a while, especially considering the dysfunction the US has shown in other respects in terms of PPE etc.

Anti vaccination movements will also slow uptake.
They do for lower tier plans. Not 100G plans.
That 'heatmap' looks suspiciously like the blurred brightness channel of the image.
I haven't played This War of Mine, but "Papers, Please" is probably second only to "A Dark Room" in making me 'feel' something that could only have been achieved by masterfully combining gameplay with a clever theme/storytelling.

There are plenty of games that do a decent job combining gameplay with a particular theme or feeling or experience (Bioshock, Planescape: Torment, Thief, and a whole bunch more), but there's always some 'gap' between the two. But with these two games (and I'm sure there are others) both aspects elevate each other.
Aroostook War
I had to do a timed exercise to write code on paper IN PEN at a job interview. Talk about feeling like I had to get it correct the first time. Glad they didn't give me an offer because I would've had to consider accepting it.
I read Deschooling Society after taking a job at a school that is modeled after The Sudbury Valley School in MA. I agree with the critique about the design and function of school in our society, and think that democratic self directed education is a viable starting point for a future educative system. At the school I work at, we have created a democratic community that is focused on learning as opposed to teaching. Kids are able to learn whatever they would like without interference or coercion. The rules and limitations are decided by the community according to democratic principles. It is the best example of a functional educational environment whose goal is true education that I have encountered so far.

I would also recommend people check out "Energy and Equity", I was impressed and influenced by the assertion that energy consumption is an important window to understanding class and society. The idea that we could have chosen to increase all human's speed to 20mph, but have instead allowed a small minority to travel at 70 mph, and an even smaller minority to travel at nearly 600 mph, has deeply influenced my view of structural inequality and violence.
...or even if you don't, but have a cough
Going by https://time.com/4621185/worker-productivity-countries/, the US is more productive than most countries in Europe.

Going by https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/ , figure 2.2, the US is happier than the majority of European countries.

>Who are you optimizing for?

I'm not trying to optimise for anything, rather I'd prefer people are given the chance to optimise for themselves how they spend their time and money, and the less bureaucracy they have to deal with, the easier it is for them to do this.
This is not a very long time in evolution. We may have "adapted" to deal with more animal products (meat/dairy/eggs): those that did not take this food very well have had less offspring and now we're generally more adapted to it (though lactose intolerance is still huge in humans).

But evolving to thrive on diet that's so far off what we started with will take much longer.
> This advice doesn't work though

It does work in the vast majority of cases. "biological/environmental factors" that may make this harder are the exception, not the norm

> The main advantage of the low-carb diet is that it may cause you to want to eat less

But this isn't unique to low-carb diets. You can also swap out a portion of your food for vegetables and get similar satiety while eating less calories. Eating slower can also help you eat less. The point is, an extremely restrictive diet is not necessary to achieve the same results.
Or use US international without dead keys. No need to switch when you can just use right alt for the non-ASCII characters.
There is nothing wrong with code generation, what do you mean by "or worse"?
Communities are interesting things - I grew up in a small fishing village in the north of Scotland which was extremely socially integrated - everyone went to the same school regardless if their parents were worth millions (and some were, although I only realised this years later) or were unemployed.

Then I lived in Edinburgh's New Town for over 20 years which is utterly gorgeous but a bit lacking in community as there is a fairly narrow band of people who live there and school attendance is largely private and even more stratified.

Now I am back living near a old small town and to me the whole place just feels more "organic" than where I lived in Edinburgh (although I dearly love the place).
I have a Huawei matebook x pro, which is 3:2 and has a 91% STB ratio in a 14" form factor. Unless you want the bezels to disappear completely, I don't see things getting much better.
Does anyone know of an alternative to Airbnb that's somewhat more ethical/sustainable? I strongly dislike hotels and I've really enjoyed the home feeling of some Airbnbs I've stayed at. If there was some alternative that didn't promote the rental property culture that'd be great.
Do you avoid red meat? Also, do you worry about cholesterol intake from the meat and eggs?
The second order effects are catastrophic too.

Think of all the companies that built their entire business model around helping airbnb owners manage their bookings / rental

For examples,hostmaker, which was heavily advertising in London (transport mainly) has gone bankrupt (1). They raised ~24M (2)

(1) https://hostmaker.com/gb/london/
(2) https://angel.co/company/hostmaker/funding
Programming Language Foundations in Agda – Part 3: Denotational Semantics
That's where I grew up - amid the polykatoikies!

It's very strange to see such a positive view of Athens. I mean, growing up, I can't remember anyone ever having a good thing to say about our own homes. Looking down from Lycabetus hill, Athens -rather the entire Attican basin from Penteli to Piraeus and from Parnitha to Hymmetus- looks covered with gray, frayed, books or document binders, or perhaps a mille-feuille without its top. That's the effect of all those balconies and floors stacked on top of each other in houses stuck next to each other, 6 to a building square.

In the summer, all this concrete makes the heat of an already pretty hot place unberable. At the same time, the city is at its best in the height of summer, the 15th of August (δεκαπενταύγουστος, dekapentavgoustos), when most Athenians take their holidays to coincide with the national holiday of the Dormition of Mary (Jesus' mother) by the Orthodox calendar. Those days, the bustling life described in the article disappears and the streets are deserted of people and cars both, so much so that when I found myself in Athens on the dekapentavgoustos, I would casually walk in the middle of the largest streets of the city, without fear of being run over.

But most of the year, Athens is an ugly, unbearable shithole. I appreciate what the article says, about the constant, but not overwhelming, presence of people, about the constant activity that makes the city look alive, etc. And the summer evenings are magickal. But it's also a city of grey concrete covered in a yellow-brown soup of smog, where there is never a quiet place that the noise of cars stuck in kilomter-long traffic jams or the Ilektrikos (the overground metro) doesn't reach, where trash bins overflow (even more when the binmen are on strike) where the air smells of burned fuel and dust, where black dust covers every surface inside a home unless one dusts and brooms and slops every single day.

So, I miss it, yeah :) But it's an awful place to live and nothing makes it more obvious than travelling a bit around Europe and seeing the cities and towns of the Europeans, most of whom have preserved their beautiful architecture, like our neoclassica, instead of replacing it with boxy concrete monstrosities. When I was growing up in Athens, I thought everyone, in all the world, lived in polykatoikies. Turns out, they don't.
even worse, no universal health insurance in the States, so often no job means no insurance:

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/trumps-praesidentschaft/...
That simulation only takes into account the satellite delay. Fiber delay will be another 20-30ms.
Sounds a bit excessive, put might be justified by occupation, location and personal/family risk status?
Can you specify with what you mean by Airflow introduced unnecessary and unhelpful constraints? I'm very interested.

I'm currently working on a standard format for defining such workflows [0] and my own scheduling engine, which hopes to be as non-imposing as possible. It's supposed to be a "cron" for task scheduling with a dependency graph. Only added thing is that you can specify on what kind of environment you want to run your tasks.

So I would appreciate if you could tell me what were things that annoyed you in particular. I use airflow at work and I can list a million, but I don't know exactly with what you meant with that sentence.

[0] https://github.com/OpenWorkflow/OpenWorkflow
$0-$1M ARR in 12 Months Bootsrapped
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23843145
No, I'm not overwhelmed by documented/structured config files.

20 years ago I was a Windows admin, discovered Linux, and it blew my mind how much easier it was to configure, experiment, validate, and roll-back config changes. GUIs are nice for discovery and exploration, but there's a very good reason they're not used for server and infrastructure configuration.
I suggest two systems.

1. Long term notes - in your website - non blog - just a website, keep them small, cheatsheet but long term.

2. Short term notes - where you dump your stuff into - for this you can use tiddlywiki.
> yml/json configurations for [...]

We learned this lesson the hard way with XML back in the early naughts when behind everything was a nauseating morass of xml with overcomplicated designed-by-committee schemas.

People moved out of development and tried hard to forget it, but neglected to instruct the next generation about the pitfalls of shitty configuration files that get out of control.

Now we got json and yaml. No more </>'s, yay, but somehow worse, less maintainable and less understandable.
>Most people can't maintain a caloric deficit

1. Do you have an evidence or is this just an assumption based upon your perceived "feeling"?
2. Why?
Overall, I agree with the decision, that Tesla did falsely advertise by overstating what their autopilot could do. The point I was attempting to make was that that was not the only issue wrong. Specifically, the "their fault" in the GP's parenthetical I took to be referring to the safety driver, implying that the crashes were the fault of the human in the car not paying sufficient attention. I disagree with that statement, as paying high levels of attention to tasks that require zero attention the majority of the time is fundamentally not something that humans can do.
The benefit of low carb is the reduction in your body's production of Insulin.

Insulin resistance after decades of high carb diets, regardless of the # of calories consumed, is the source of all metabolic disease.

Low carb is going to reverse this, a simple reduction in calories won't.

The low carb diet also has access to your entirety of fat stores.

Insulin resistance will result in a huge amount of insulin in your blood stream. Insulin prevents fat from being removed from your fat storage so a reduction in calories, while it does show a short term (i.e.6 week) reduction in body weight, it also reduces your BMR which is why people regain the weight lost.

Once the alpha cells in your pancrease are insulin resistant, they will be producing glucagon causing elevated blood sugar compounding the problem.

tl/dr; - Insulin resistance is the source of all metabolic disease. Reduce it via a low carb/fasting lifestyle.
Free will is an illusion.

She had a set of evolutionary drives paired with societal pressures that made the choice inevitable.
Nobody I ever worked with cared for LoC.

They had a shitty bug. It took me a month to find and fix in the code. Wrote about 5 LoC. Nobody asked how I fixed it, they just were happy that I did.
funny thing: firefox is using ~433mb of ram with ~15 tabs (including gmail, graphql playground, youtube).

slack alone is using 300mb. discord is using another 300mb.
This is true, but an ISO UK keyboard also "provides four easily accessible pairs of single-character symmetrical 'brackets'"; for this particular purpose there is no distinguishing factor between the two layouts.
Does anyone know of a well written review that compares potential carbon capture methods? (with a healthy amount of references)
I also missed it, I'd say it's not a good example. Apple is not a generic word, it's very specifically about fruit or tech which are concepts with little-to-no overlap. Element is a word that appears throughout life and technology with both specific and generic usages which will often closely relate, in a confusing way.
Visual Studio is definitely still the ideal environment for writing C#, but JetBrains Rider is a solid alternative, and VS Code with the right set of extensions is probably "good enough" for most things.
You should try http://roamresearch.com/ and follow #RoamCult on Twitter - they are way ahead on note taking.
Cheatsheets are a very helpful resource and you need to have a tool to keep, interlink, retrieve and organize them. A physical notebook is not the optimal choice because of some limitations like fast retrieval of topics and almost impossible filtered searching etc.
Organize your "new things" and resources to cheatsheets in a Zettelkasten like tool. You can use a simple text editor or there are applications and plug-ins available to get a Zettelkasten-like app. I personally use Passfindr (https://passfindr.com), a freemium Personal Information Manager with powerful and fast search capabilities.

Learn what a Zettelkasten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten) is, how it can help you and make yourself familiar with its concept.
Yeah. Every year or two we get deluged by “haze” fro
Indonesian farmers mass-burning their fields in preparation for planting palm oil trees. It sucks. Days or weeks of foul air, stink, and blight. Can’t imagine Californians tolerating that.
Do you have these stats on that?

It seems like a lot of unmarried couples live together these days. Anecdotally, I know more unmarried couples that live together than I do unmarried couples that live separately, at least if we're talking about the kind of relationship that is anywhere close to "making babies".
You’re right. But what are you trying to prove with on the spot coding challenges? That the candidate can implement a hash table from scratch in 15 minutes with O(1) performance?

Is that something they’re going to do on the job? Very unlikely. So why are you not only testing for it but testing for it in a fake time-pressured stressful situation that also rarely exists on the job? (Yes , we all have deadlines but when are they ever 15 minutes on the spot?)

Perhaps you should have entered the education field where you could give such exams day after day to your heart’s content?
I’ve tried everything, and my latest iteration is a single textfile in markdown for everything (topical notes, personal TODOs, work TODOs, random paste snippets etc) which then gets turned into HTML for easy viewing (I may style it in the future). It’s also in git, and on the hour, cron commits the changes themselves as the git message itself so changes are searchable via git log.
This is true, very few would object to a finger-prick, and there was talk of a "spit test" a few weeks back; that would push testing rates to close to 100%
Open source implies that the law doesn’t prevent you from doing whatever you want with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Chesky [AirBnB Co Founder] - Net Worth: $4.1billion

Yeah, I'll chip in some extra after working all year for my two weeks in the sun. The fucking entitlement of Silicon Valley is unbelievable.
Especially considering it being one of the cheapest (financially, legally, impact on freedom) measures we have at our disposal.
> The only news here seems to be that newspapers will publish articles with verifying who is writing them.

Perhaps you meant, "_without_ verifying who is writing them"?
I mean I bet they even just used thispersondoesnotexist.com until they got a picture that they thought would work.
The evidence that high cholesterol “causes” heart disease isn’t very good. There appears to be an association, but that’s really all we can say.
I am a native speaker (UK) and concur. My grandmother would always threaten to "read us the riot act" if we were in real trouble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Act
This is pretty cool - very close to https://shipula.userbugreport.com/ that I've been cooking up to make my own life easier.
Stopping all human CO2 emissions stops global warming (on average, bad valvano you years will make it worse that year), and reverses it. Plants convert more CO2 than gets converted back by a small amount every year.

You just want something that doesn't need a million years to get back to normal.
We really need to buy 8 fighter jets right now for over $1Billion.

Definitely a higher priority than Americans not being able to afford rent.

/s
Messaging is written by marketing and sales departments.

Employees there usually don't have depth of technical expertise or experience to draw from, and are incentivized to make the product sound as easy to use as possible.

This combination results in {really complicated thing} -> {simple abstraction}. Ultimately, everyone internalizes this and starts forgetting that {simple abstraction} is actually {really complicated thing}.

Happens with any popular technology. Networking, DB, cloud, ML.

Unfortunately, this flies because the primary buyers are also non-technical.