skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
German winters are quite windy, especially near the coast.

Solar (photovoltaic) has its maximum around noon, when there is high demand.

The irony is that in summer, it has happened in several warm years now that nuclear power plants in France had to shut down - they are cooled by rivers and when the water level becomes too low, they need to shut off to maintain safety and avoid ecological damage. These are the times when Germany exports most electricity to France.
What causes anxiety is wasting numerous weeks of your life that you could have used to pay your rent or spend with your friends, family or do something meaningful with your time. That's how much this people think you're worth!

Tinder generation, swipe next.
What? Is this a cry for help? Is it ax-grinding? Are there "unorthodox and true" statements that pg would like to make but is afraid of "terrible trouble"?
I find the idea of "orthodox privilege" an oxymoron. I don't understand what the phrase captures that isn't just "privilege". Maybe the whole essay is just going over my head. Or perhaps I don't hear the same "high-pitched noise"?

Look, I do something called "Reiki". For some people it's commonplace, for others it's crazy-town. I also do something called "computer programming". For some people it's commonplace, for others it's crazy-town. (Being a computer nerd used to be cause for abuse and shunning, now we're celebrated. So it goes.)

My point is, there are lots of ways to rile up the mob and get them to pick up their pitchforks and torches. In some places all you have to do is exist and be black or gay or a woman or white or straight or a man or neither a man nor a woman, or both-at-the-same-time (hermaphrodite), or be both black and white (Trevor Noah's autobiography of his childhood in S. Africa, "Born a Crime", is worth reading, IMO), or be a computer nerd in the locker room at the wrong time, or wear the wrong kind of hat.

Mob-ism, with the pitchforks and torches, is a problem (this is hardly news though, eh?)
Wikileaks actually redacted a lot of (personal) data to protect people (tho some people like to claim again and again they did not).

BlueLeaks, it appears, does not, and contains home addresses and other personal information of cops.

Create transparency, investigate and show police misconduct? Great!

Put cops and their families at risk? Nope!
How I got my internship that converted into a full time job and everything that followed from it. I literally gave the interview and went to the sports stadium. To this day I've been job hopping without interviews. Everyone who works with me knows my skills (and my drawbacks) and they're the ones who hire me or recommend highly of me to lead to a job. My next job may not be so lucky so I'm starting to dust off my "interview skills". It's frustrating. I'd rather be building something usual than solving these. But that's the nature of it today.
Safe mode still crashes for my users.
Broken Arrow Accidents
Including Fortran.
kudos to Paul for this one. Writing about a very very charged and divisive social phenomenon and putting out a meta-conception that casts a better light in a very adroit, objective angle. True free thinker stuff. This is prolly how enlightened individuals had to softly tread their way also in other times, although one on one and small groups allows more forgiveness and time to practice wording your conception than big bad internet.
TFA says this could compromise user's password. I worked for a City and handled the police dept. You could go far by just using username as password...

Nobody wanted to hear about security.
Bell's inequality was used to prove incompatibility between local and hidden variable theories. What's the point of fancier Bell's inequalities?
I was similarly once hired in the back of a shared cab.

Another time, apparently saying the phrase "binary tree" was enough to clear the whiteboard and move along to the next question with a gold star.

Another time I was hired after doing zero programming exercises and just telling the company that I had a competing offer (which I did).

I've had some baffling rejections as well.
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitHosting
I think this is obvious, but look at the alternatives.

* Resumes can be exaggerated, falsified, or perhaps more often often leave out important details or relevant experience. Reviewers often also put unconscious emphasis on formatting or style (I had one colleague that I swear would accept anything in Computer Modern).
* Take-home projects (if not carefully designed) can be a considerable time sink and reviewers may be biased toward particular coding styles or languages.
* Prior employers are often not allowed to provide meaningful references, and even when able to, won't often have the time or motive to do so.
* Referrals will be biased towards the friends of your current workforce, making it hard to improve the diversity of your workforce, and are a pool that will become exhausted as you scale or if your employees stick around.
* Behavioral interview questions are biased towards candidates that know to prepare for an even more contrived corpus of questions with even less bearing on day-to-day job performance.
* Candidates may not have prior code that their are able to share; certainly most employers make that difficult or impossible. Expecting side projects or open source contributions biases towards candidates that have means or desire to program outside of work.

I think it's ridiculous to think that a programmer should be hired without any part of the process evaluating their programming ability. The key is to do this while minimizing stress for the candidate. Explain the format of the interviews up front. Tell them about the people they are interviewing with. Let them have breaks. Help them through tricky parts if you have to. Avoid things that aren't realistic (whiteboard coding) but don't shy away from things that are (whiteboard a system design). If leetcode doesn't represent what you do at work, don't make them do it.
Haha yes I did!
I was recently interviewed by a Google bet with a referral from a well-liked VP level employee for a job I was well qualified for (IMO) and didn't make it past the phone interview. /shrug I just blame it on Covid.
Youtube videos. You need to have a youtube channel and put up videos for people to discover if you want to grow.

With twitch alone it's easy to get lost among the other streamers, and I'm not necessarily going to dig through VODs either.

Putting a condensed version of your stream to a youtube playlist and having links to your twitch will help a lot.
Also the author has not used state of the art compilers like XL, Intel and PGI.
wait so Google did the entire red black tree interview thing again, even though you already worked for them for 6 years?

lol this industry is hopeless
This is a gross oversimplification and simply wrong. There are number of unsolved problems with nuclear energy, including:

* Safety – e.g. we don’t trust Iran to operate a nuclear power plant).

* Waste – There are some expensive solutions that can store the waste (and the problem) for the foreseeable future, but we lack a permanent solution.

* Time – Global warming is already out of control, we simply don’t have time to build all the new plants required.

* Cost – Nuclear plants are really expensive, spending that money elsewhere is probably cost effective for the battle against the climate disaster.

A more apt analogy is probably GMO. Sure there are concerns about the safety, pollution, and marketability of GMO product, but what grosses most environmentalists about GMO is the false promise that GMO will safe humanity from a potential food shortage. It doesn’t. Food shortages are a problem of distribution, not quantity. There are other safer, cheaper and quicker ways to solve the problems. Focusing on GMO is simply derailing us from talking about actual solutions.
I got my first salary job this way. After that I did my typical analysis seeing if I couldn't learn from the situation and improve beyond it.

My conclusion was if I interview to gain interview experience, not to get the job, I do far better, and I gain interview experience. This is the local maxima I found from that, but there could be better.
I certainly wouldn’t trust the webcam or microphone indicator, if one exists, to be truthful, vs a hardware switch or an Apple product (who doesn’t have skin in the game).
To a first approximation, that conflation is fine; software engineering is stressful work where the tasks to be solved often involve known and unknown unknowns, and it's important to observe how a candidate performs under pressure because the job will include pressure.
First, just to clarify: if I say "Please stop using HN for X" it means that there's a pattern rather than just an isolated comment, and the request is to stop the pattern. If it were a one-time violation I'd say "Please don't".

With this particular comment: it's taking the thread into a generic ideological tangent, away from the topic, on a classic flamewar theme. Also, "the US supporting gangsters" is flamebait. Please avoid denunciatory rhetoric on HN generally. It kills curious conversation, which is the purpose of this site. And it usually triggers people on the other side of the issue into doing worse.

Also, although you used the words "lots of evidence", the comment is shallow and uninformative.

Also, the link you linked to doesn't support what you said, so calling it "relevant historical documentation" is misleading.
Is this the worst mobile game ever made?
This is why internships are so important. Sometimes it’s still hard to tell after 10 weeks. It’s very naive to think we will know after a 30 minute interview.
Engineers create a wireless camera that can ride atop an insect
Turkey leadership may well be sympathetic to the Saudis to some extent. Freedom of press doesn't exactly seem like their biggest concern, and they have an authoritarian Muslim ruler.
If landlords need money, they can always sell their properties. Lowering the cost of living would be the best thing for the average person.
As far as I'm aware, this is the article that broke the story: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-headless-t.... I first saw it around 5AM Lagos time. As a bonus there's no paywall.

I am not sure but I think the coverage might come across as a bit tabloid-y however.
I'm guessing that there are a lot of people who will angrily return this when they realize that Zoom is only Zoom and they won't be able to use it for all the other videoconferencing stuff that they think of as "zoom" even though it's not.
There is absolutely no problem being gay and going to Iran. There isn't some magic gaydar they can scan you with to discover your nature. I'd recommend not trying to find hookup partners while you're in Iran, but that is different than them just figuring out you're gay and deciding to harm you. Being an American in Iran is a far bigger burden IMHO, because of the required government minders.
What? Where is this good string support in Fortran 2003, 2008 and 2018? I must have missed it in the manual. Now you can allocate a string of a non fixed size - simply amazing technology! Actually, one of my compiler crashes was trying to use this revolutionary feature.
Gitea + Drone also comes close...
Related: All of Europe’s existing and planned coal power plants:

https://beyond-coal.eu/coal-exit-tracker/

France has one of the lowest number of coal plants compared to other European countries. The links on the left of the page let you filter the map into different data sets.
That was certainly true during the Cold War, with two implacably opposes factions that have no dependencies on each other and no real understanding of each other either. It was terrifying, and mistakes were made that brought us extremely close to catastrophe.

I think that less of an existential threat now. The works us a lot more interconnected and interdependent. What would Russia be without the west to export its oil and gas to? What would China be without foreign markets? We all need each other. Proliferation means the risk of nuclear terrorise or limited conflict us still significant, but not at the globe killing level we had 40 years ago. A limited or regional nuclear exchange would be catastrophic, but not species killing.
The best technical interview I've had:

- Take home: 2 days to read a newly released Deep Learning paper.

- On site: explain the paper to the hiring manager.

- Evaluation: (1) Did the candidate understand it? (2) Did the candidate go farther, and look into the cited papers and understand that? (3) Can they explain Deep Learning concepts and talk their way through related problems?

In 5 months of searching for a job, this felt like the most relaxed interview, because it was really a conversation between people in the field. It was also the most demanding and interesting job I encountered in these five months. I got the job, but this happened especially because the manager actually did the work of respecting my experience and talking to me, instead of going for the traditional and "safe" BS.

An opposite experience:

Technical Interviewer asks me whiteboard SQL question. I answer it, only to be corrected on a minor point. Turns out, when I tried it out on my own, I was actually correct. This person was to be my manager.

I did get an offer from them, but this and other red flags made me decline.

Takeaway for managers who actually care about hiring well:

- Don't force your candidate through one off tasks that don't represent their day to day. Is your Data Scientist really just running SQL queries and optimizing computational complexity of their algorithms? Isn't the main point that they can think critically?

- Hasn't their previous experience shown they can code? Their Github? Sure, give them a (quick) take home project if you really want to make sure. In the rare case they faked their way through the whole thing and you really couldn't tell after talking to them for a few hours, you will surely notice in the first few weeks.
This is an accurate view of take home assignments. Most of the take home assignments I've done were "supposed" to take 5 hours. Most of them too around 20.

The worst take home assignment I ever had was an extremely tricky brain teaser, the answer to which could not be found on google, and had to be done in the not very popular language this company used. So I not only had to write useless brain teaser code, but I couldn't do it in a language I was already comfortable with.
"I'll meet you in the Matrix".

How cooler than that can it be? I wouldn't be surprised if matrix-based apps get popular at first by using the protocol name, and only them using the app name as a differentiator.

"My niece installed me this app for chatting in the Matrix, what was it called? Ah yes, Element Matrix."
Dang that is wild. Didn't know that.
I loved this series. I even made a Rust version of it with very little compilers knowledge (this one is written in Python): http://github.com/sgmarz/ttrust
> What would change is that incentive of the non-ads company would become purely protecting their users against the ads company

[citation needed]. Apple should fit that category, and while they have added features to throttle how users can be tracked they haven't exactly gone thermonuclear on tracking in Safari.
I'm not quite willing to accept the US' ideas on science and safety as entirely unassailable at the moment.

Nor, for that matter, should the most lenient regulation always dictate other countries'. That could just result in endless ping-pong of extensions, and it make lobbying so much easier if you only needed to convince one country and then shame all others into following.
How has DeSean Jackson not been terminated?
> The UK is rapidly developing HVDC undersea cables to import clean hydro from Denmark and Norway

That struck me as odd, because Denmark is flat as a pancake - it's basically an overgrown sandbank laid down by Norway's fjords. But the article explains that the cable will carry power from Norwegian hydro plants, which for some reason comes via Denmark. There is a direct cable from Norway to the UK, but i suppose this adds some redundancy, which is good. And, as the article notes, allows the UK to export surplus power (from wind?) to Denmark.

On Denmark being flat, here is its highest point - note that in the photo, the highest point isn't visible, because it's behind a barn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B8lleh%C3%B8j
There is this survey from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15088840

Answers here: https://goo.gl/X45Dtt

Maybe worth a re-post on HN.
They could have abducted or blackmailed him but killing him like that makes no sense from an investors POV, they get nothing back and the risk of getting caught.

Hope he will get justice
> They are buying power from abroad

In 2019, Germany was the biggest power exporter in europe. In 2018, Germany exported 50 TWh of energy, enough to power all of Portugal for an entire year [1]. In fact, neighbour countries had to install devices to prevent Germany from swamping their own networks with excess energy.

Maybe there are days where Germany has to buy power. And yes, we have to import things like oil, LNG or coal (for which the newly built coal plant is btw). But the electric power production of Germany over an entire year is more than its demand, so Germany is a exporter.

[1]: https://www.unendlich-viel-energie.de/themen/strom/verfehlte...
I don't know that I have any thoughts, but I do have
Agree. The most pro-Wal-Mart economists will tell you that Wal-Mart as a firm has boosted the US economy by at least 1% of GDP, by being more efficient, and forcing its competitors to be more efficient as well. Suppose for a moment that we accept that claim uncritically -- it is still very clear to see that these gains do not accrue through the vehicle of employment. Indeed, the non-logistics savings from Wal-Mart comes in no small part from reducing the number of workers involved in retail. As with many economic situations, the losses are simply concentrated and obvious, while the gains are diffuse and spread across many transactions from many shoppers. In this case, the gains accrue as part of every grocery-store transaction in the country (and particularly to the poorest in the country, who are most price-sensitive).

One can hold many opinions
about the matter, and one can dispute that there is a net benefit at all, but it is clear that referring to this as "good for workers" is not particularly enlightening.
> So you would work directly with them and have the choice of either keeping the sample frozen there, or transferring it to a facility of your choice

That reads pretty much as "good luck with that!" to me, I'm sorry. People would pay you exactly because they would never have a facility of their choice and in case it goes sour they would probably have to face a ridiculous price tag from some other new company not truly interested in keeping their sperm but that just happened to be part of your risk hedging or simply of a insurance deal.
it would seem it might be 'letting in' a whole load of people who don't have appropriate anxiety responses. There are some situations where anxiety is perfectly normal, and perhaps even useful, but if you screen out people who have normal anxiety, what impact does that have on your company operations and culture?
It is well known: it is a "political" deal between two party: the PS, that ruled between 2012 and 2017, and IIRC EELV, a "green" political party, one of the kind that do not like nuclear. The "green" party even wanted to completely dismantle the mox industry, but the PS eventually told them niet.

Then it has not been reversed by the current ruling party.
I've had Google correctly identify location for photos taken on a dumb camera with no location Metadata.
git remote set-url --add origin git@somewhere.else:my-project

This will make it so that every time you push to "origin", it'll push twice, to two places. You can repeat this to add a third or more.
Software engineers are not commanders or generals and it is NOT difficult to fire someone in the United States of America. Everyone in this industry has a at-will contract.
> I'm not making an argument about beliefs, but about perception.

* sigh * I miss the day when we could state our beliefs and defend them on principle rather than on perception, trying to guess which groups may choose to be offended.

I guess I'm old fashioned.
Summary at the top: "The government has taken the extraordinary step of giving prosecutorial power to a law firm that has worked for Chevron — and is allowing that prosecutorial power to be aimed at Chevron’s chief adversary, who has been under house arrest for the past year."

Does anyone know how common it is for prosecutorial power to be given to a private law firm?
No, that's ridiculous. The twitter mob didn't fire them, their employer did. This premise is flawed.
there is converse.js: https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js
> And, as the article notes, allows the UK to export surplus power (from wind?) to Denmark.

Correct. Quite a bit of offshore wind potential Great Britain.

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/2020/06/12/great-britai...
They're also "2014 Rust" specific; Rust changed a bunch between then and 1.0. Which doesn't mean they still wouldn't apply, just it gets harder for anything earlier than may 2015.
Turning the world into a 'safe space' – but at what cost?
It just says an "electric saw". Probably a reciprocating saw or something. You'd get even more attention from neighbors (who apparently heard a violent altercation, and didn't call police-- instead calling his sister??) using a chain saw.
most European countries use Sars (stock appriciation right) tax is collected at the very end. against a 50% tax cut though (in most EU countries)
Your assertion that "Hence Chinese government has no power over the US subsidiary" is incomplete. Tiktok's policy of sharing user data allows the Chinese government all of the power they need, at least in terms of data collection.

Re: the influence argument your points are stronger, I think. Thompson's article felt a bit like scaremongering there.
Thank you for this response, it really echoes my feelings.

Before I started my transition, preserving my sperm was a top priority. At the time, my financial situation was dismal, and it took me almost a year to save up enough to afford it. That’s a whole year my transition was delayed.

When I finally went through with it, the whole experience was pretty awkward. The folks at the cryostorage place were nice, but I felt like I was not 100% welcome. The actual “sample collection” process was very awkward and uncomfortable.

If there had been a trustworthy service like Legacy back then, I definitely would have jumped on it.

As it stands, the site and branding definitely feels targeted totally to men, which isn’t super welcoming to people in my position. It’s a sad fact that I have to deal with feeling unwelcome a lot when it comes to healthcare related things, so if I have to go through that I’d at least like to be able to do it from the comfort of my own home, not needing to physically interact with someone.

If you did find a way to balance your branding to make trans people feel more comfortable, I think that would be a wonderful thing and I think there is a pretty large market there. As odomojuli said, I think using more “family-centric” language would be a great start. If you don’t feel comfortable explicitly catering to trans people, fine, but lowering the emphasis on “MAN” would go a long way.
This is something I find so disturbing, and I experience similar.

I feel extremely little of what I'm doing in my real, actual, job, helps me in advancing in my career. Unless maybe if I choose to stay at my current company until retirement lol.

Otherwise, why bother doing anything more than the bare minimum to get by at work? It would be a far better investment of time and effort to grind leetcode and practice for interviews, instead of going above and beyond to excel at my job. At least until I get into an "endgame company" where I feel it's worth staying long term.
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