skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then some poor soul gets to wrap the old patterns into the new patterns!

This isn't always an option. Google's C++ guidelines generally forbid using exceptions, but concede that you might have to if you're dealing with existing code, particularly on Windows.

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Windows_Co...
"Technical interviews are feared and hated in the industry, and it turns out that these interview techniques may also be hurting the industry’s ability to find and hire skilled software engineers."

It doesn't hurt "the industry", there's a competitive edge to hiring otherwise superior engineers that are passed up by poor hiring practices at certain companies.

Not everybody needs to work at FAANG, or worse, companies that act like they're FAANG. Less money, less bullshit.
AI Seeks ET: Machine Learning Powers Hunt for Life in the Solar System
The small N is addressed by the authors.

To acquire a larger N would mean recruiting more participants, which would require either compensation/extra credit or rely on people volunteering ~1 hour of their time. Likewise, collecting that data would require time and money. It is an time/resource issue with human research. You can require a small N and get some results or require a large N and not have enough funding to support it.

Also note, what is a "large N"? There is no set in stone amount and I've even seen reviewers say a sample size of 10,000 is too small.
It's moving slow, but France does have planning working through how to manage nuclear going forward. Replacment with renewables as studied by the French gov't seems not only promising but cost effective.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/french-po...
Future of 3D Printing Is in U.S. and Europe Patenting
This thread strikes me as a material lesson in Poe's Law
I gotta say I really don't see a lot of 'arguing other people are being silenced' as much as alluding to it, and then citing their own circumstances, so that's still kinda Group 1.

As far as 'they came first for the communists'... I just don't see that as a situation ... at least not generally in the geography or areas I'm thinking of outside big state sponsored acts. Not at scale, and not anything more than people disagreeing or wanting to host someone else's content ... and frankly when you dive into it, it's often not just some banal content, or just someone with a new idea. It just never pans out that way...

I'm not sure I buy into any friction anywhere being 'orthodox privilege' or persecution.
> why would they then commission one this year, as stated by the article

Unfortunately, that really happened[1]. Commission as in started running, not as in started constructing, which they did in 2007. The usual argument is that a modern coal power plant replaces older ones and more efficient/less polluting. Obviously, it's all very controversial.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/climate-activists-protest-germanys-new...
Belling the Cat
Virtual Reality System for Small Animals Based on Raspberry Pi
Do these companies not have live error reporting and tracing? Like surely github got alerts that things weren't working? Why don't they just hookup their status page and their alerts? Or is it a political/relationship thing, and they want to have a human give out the status page updates?

This could have been caught with a cron job and some curl requests :\
Some of the software I write must work on various different Linux releases (with different kernels), FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku and Windows. This is realistically only possible because I have all these running in different VMs.

I'd like to add macOS to the mix but it's something of a pain to virtualize. I'm aware of hackintoshes but there seem to be a bunch of gotchas and it seems you can never upgrade them.

I also have some VMs where I need decent security guarantees and confinement, such as running different web services.
Cisco WebEx was generally what I'd consider 'hot garbage' but the one thing that I did think we cool was their giant monitor/whiteboards with speaker-focusing cameras.
I see your point...but I think the NYPD does not send their Barney Fife to this particular crime.
This is described in http://carlos.bueno.org/2014/06/mirrortocracy.html

Some companies stress interpersonal fit over technical ability, as you are initiated in "the Culture."
> It’s true that gay rights have led towards the push for other things like trans rights

I fail to see the equivalence between trans rights and "adults marrying children"-rights. What you're saying is closer to "it's true that abolishing slavery has led towards the push for other things like voting rights for everyone". Which is technically true but is also the way things should be going in order to have a more just society.

> And it’s true that liberal media will run front page stories on (relatively rare) police brutality against black people but don’t run stories on (relatively common) black on black violence.

One is a crime committed by law enforcement. The other is just regular crime. You figure out which one is more newsworthy or in the public interest (not that most media care about the latter).

Also if "all lives matter" we shouldn't be talking about "black-on-black" or "x-on-y" crimes. Crimes are crimes and the skin color of the perpetrator or victim is irrelevant (unless it's specifically a hate crime, for which there are legal definitions).
Yes, hence the term. But nobody is canceled from their job or social media for not being a virgin.
Threads is a very good movie. Potential viewers should know that it's old and the special effects have not held up well, but it very much captures the terror of nuclear conflict quite well.
That can help a lot with anxiety. If you think it's pointless and you'll never get the job, you have a chance to just have fun with it and do what you can do.

My first time interviewing with Google (in 2008), the press was reporting that they were in a hiring freeze, I had no big names on my resume, so I figured it was basically hopeless and I'd just do the best I could and enjoy my trip to Silicon Valley. After my interview, I was like "Well, I did okay, but you really have to be perfect to work at Google and I wasn't perfect. I'm never coming back to California anyway, so I might as well do all the tourist stuff [I'd held an extra day to interview with Twitter, but they ended up not moving forwards with my candidacy] and just treat it as an all-expenses paid trip to SF." So I just went to Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf, treated myself to a nice dinner, and took the red-eye home to Boston. As I'm groggily waking up after a post-red-eye nap, the Google recruiter called me to say "Your interview feedback looks great. We'd like to fast-track your application on the assumption that the hiring committee will say yes."

Been living in California for 11 years now, and I just started back at Google after working there for 5.5 years, leaving, and doing startups for another 6. The most recent round of interviews was the same - I was super nervous for Lyft, Stripe, Coinbase, Netflix, etc. and ended up not getting the job, but with Google it was like "Hey, I worked there once, I know people who also know my interviewers, I used to give interviews like the one I'm sitting in now, what's the big deal?"
I work in an interesting tech career that does need to assess this: Pre-sales Engineering.

At my current job, we have our candidates do a short take-home assignment to assess coding skill, but we also have them do a live presentation to assess their pre-sales skills and ability to present under pressure.

We try to separate the two tests to get a better read on the two skill sets we're looking for. So far we've hired strong candidates. We prioritize avoiding false positives over false negatives; in other words, we prioritize turning candidates away over hiring someone we're unsure about.
> "Cancel culture" [is an important tool] to defend against these bad faith exploitive uses of public communication

I would say it's more like a social cytokine storm. If distrust in general is an immune-system, we're reaching a point of autoimmune disease.

But I do think deplatforming is an important tool. At the risk of stretching the metaphor, it's more like antibiotics. It reduces inflammation instead of increasing it, and while some non-destructive entities may get caught up in it, they're generally nonessential, it's generally a small portion, and they'll recover.
AgeOfBlocks – Minecraft Server
A company that picks up the tab would have to compare the cost to the IT guys they already have to help users.
Yeah, it's obvious. What's revealing is the collection of the articles in MSM.
I think people are operating with incomplete, non-overlapping sets of information.

A day or two ago, a police officer in my area was killed on duty in a gunfight. Some of the reactions on Twitter were deranged and vile, literally celebrating that an officer was killed. I saw the same shit the day or two before when a police department near me tweeted about one of their police dogs dying, apparently of old age.

People deliberately try to ambush and murder police on a fairly regular basis. It doesn’t get reported much—partly because it doesn’t fit any popular media narrative, partly, I suspect, to not encourage copycats, and partly because it’s not really news. In 2013 a man in Southern California—you might recognize his name but I won’t give him the dignity of using it—carried out a brief campaign of murdering police officers and their families in a self-declared campaign of “unconventional and asymmetric warfare” against the LAPD.

I used to personally be very strongly biased against the police. I’m less so now, and part of the reason for that is that I’ve had the opportunity to see dozens of dashcam and bodycam videos of actual officer-involved shootings. The vast majority of the shootings I’ve seen were situations where the officer’s life was very much at risk.

I can even pick out patterns when people post videos of police not shooting people, presumably because those people are white. It’s not because they’re white, it’s because while they might have a bladed weapon and occasionally lunge in an officer’s direction, cops usually hold their fire and maintain distance until the guy breaks into a full-on sprint to try and close that distance.

I’m not trying to minimize or dismiss the actual police brutality that takes place, and I agree that we need higher standards and accountability. But from actually listening to some of the people on that side of the issue and seeing their evidence, I can understand where they’re coming from.
Here is an article going over the person with the adverse reaction [1]. Its a pretty scary read as the patient was 29 and seemed healthy. Like others have said this dose will not be used going forward. And these phase 1 trials are meant to find cases like that so the correct dose can be found.

[1] - https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/26/moderna-vaccine-candidat...
Lol... always amusing when someone asks HNers what changes they'd like to see and why, and they respond with crazy analogies that are totally unactionable... not the first time this has happened, won't be the last.
What are the consequences of the inevitable natural gas or coal power plant that will replace it? There's always a lot of talk about renewables, yet it seems that we still end up with a fossil fuel based powerplant. It's not like France is building new nuclear plants to replace the ones that are shutting down.
I believe the Austin plant is owned/operated by Flex / Flextronics. Although I see some news blurb that Apple are building a campus out there too, so perhaps that's going to change in the future? As I understand it, it's all contracted out in various places - save Cork as one very odd exception.

For the UK - possibly. The only product I'm aware of, is that they build configure-to-order iMacs. I have no idea how far they distribute from there, but I think it's a safe assumption that they don't maintain this facility just to ship CTO iMacs to Ireland. So I'd consider the UK a safe bet, and most likely most of EMEA. Could they be shipped from China? Most probably - my CTO MBP was. I have no idea what their reasoning is. (Although I'm almost certain it's not all they do in Cork - they have a second campus in the city centre, which wouldn't make sense for manufacturing.)

But for Cork being a foothold into the EU - Cork is their EU headquarters. The company operating there is Apple Distribution International Ltd, not Apple Inc. This is a large factor in how the finances are set up (at least as I understand it) - a mac sold in the UK goes on the books at ADI Ltd, Ireland - not Apple Inc, Cupertino. And this is how "Apple" ends up holding huge amounts of cash outside of the US. Their right hand is an American company, but their left hand is an Irish company. So the US only taxes them on funds held in their right hand.

If you're in Europe, and you have any email receipts from buying things from the mac/ios app stores - scroll to the bottom and check the address. There's a very strong chance it's not Cupertino.

While I'm on a ramble - I also find it curious that Apple don't have a single physical retail presence in Ireland. There's an Apple store in Belfast, but not in Dublin - despite Dublin having 5x the population. I have a strong suspicion this is not a coincidence either.

(I have absolutely no relationship with Apple other than as a customer - this is all just my understanding based on paying attention, and absolutely no inside knowledge. Obviously, else I'd be screwed right about now, eh?)
EV isn't always negative!

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/how-mit...
Totally true that people with no self-doubt/impostor syndrome overperform their ability level in whiteboard interviews compared to people with more self-doubt, who are often the better engineers. I am personally a beneficiary of this. It also contributes to all of the terrible dick-swinging culture in a lot of tech companies since these are the people who pass the interview.
> Put differently, in 2019 Fessenheim Unit 1 and 2 generated more electricity than all the solar panels in France combined

I learned a term recently called "base load supply". Essentially, something like a nuclear plant is hard to ramp/up down with changing grid demands, but it great at steady-state operation and can run like that for years. This takes care of the minimum load placed on the grid which is fairly predictable.

Nuclear strengths' play an important role in an "all of the above" approach.
"Detain me"??
We changed the url from https://abc7chicago.com/ny-tech-entrepreneur-found-decapitat... to one with more information and no autoplaying video.

If anyone can suggest a better URL, we can change it again.
For a company whose main claim-to-fame is indexing the web (rather than mirroring it in their databases), Google sure doesn't seem to understand that CS learning is done by mentally indexing textbooks (rather than mirroring them in your brain.)
That sounds really complicated and makes me wonder...

How do you rotate passwords?

How do you store all the keys to the safe?

How do you give 3rd party access to the deposit box?
I went through the interview gauntlet last year. When my extended family would ask what it is like I would say:

Imagine you want to hire a comedy writer for a TV show. However, you conduct your interview by having your candidate perform stand-up improv comedy like "Who's Line is it Anyway". While you want to hire someone funny, you don't need to hire a performer.

In my experience, programming interviews are basically an improv programming performance. I didn't pass an interview until I had enough practice performing while others watched.
Agreed. I planned on moving my money over the next few weeks but now I’m just going to close my account.

About the support, (of course) it was two different people who responded. Even though I kept the same email chain.
I think the reason it short-circuits their expectations is that what they're actually trying to do is "cancel" Islam on your behalf. Like: "wait a minute, I'm trying to defend/protect you here, isn't that what you want from a majority, to stand up for you?" And what you're doing, ignoring their protective effort, becomes a kind of betrayal. Which has got to be so frustrating -- the idea that you're not qualified to have your own opinion, that you have to conform to what the majority says simply because they're "helping" you.
Github actions has been a huge let down for me. Between uptime issues and the lack of support for so many basic CI features is killing it for me (and has been for a year).

The only reason we're using it is because it's free..
Hunter's Point also did some goofy stuff, like paint all the piers with radioactive paint so it would glow.
> Consider, for instance: where will you live while your apartment is under construction?

It many parts of the world where this is practiced, there are strong familial ties and obligations. No one would think twice of living with a parent or sibling while the apartment was under construction.
Please elaborate on how this comment is a political or ideological battle? A person asked a specific question about US history, and I replied with relevant historical documentation.

How could I have answered their question in a way that does not destroy HN?
'Game Boy' gadgets used to steal cars by imitating key fob signals
It’s on by default for 1:1s _and_ private rooms. Though nothing in the protocol demands an encrypted room so unencrypted 1:1s, say, are entirely possible.
All of your arguments might be correct, and none of them matter to public opinion and politics. Maybe if they were less transparent, there would have been less political pressure from Germany...

And I totally agree this is as dumb as it gets.
The thing is, you don't magically get a foreign company to just move to your country and start paying taxes for no reason.

If Apple is 'stealing taxes' from a country, then it almost definitely not Ireland. It is US.

Why would Apple just randomly move to Ireland and start paying taxes there? Why not to Portugal or somewhere else?
I was going to ask the same question. Besides reading every line of machine code?

The only way I can think of is monitoring its traffic and looking into anything fishy from there. But even that isn't conclusive.

Maybe the backdoor listener is behind a complex port knocking sequence? There's really no way to tell.
Here we are again. Me taking a break on Hackernews because all my webhooks and pull requests are fucked and I have no idea where my devops tools are relative to what the real state of affairs is. I have pretty much had enough of this. It is too disruptive to our process. It is causing fragility and loss of confidence in our build pipeline.

At this point, we would probably be better off just bolting some lightweight git solution onto our devops tools (which are 100% custom in-house developed), rather than fighting with some more-durably-hosted offering of GitHub, et. al.

Anyone who posts that "but you cant make it more reliable than microsoft" line is not thinking about the dependencies between systems and the considerable impact incurred on a service just by virtue of it being a publicly-accessible platform without any cost barrier to entry. Sure, bringing it in house might bring additional difficulties, but I think I can eliminate a shitload of existing difficulties if we moved from webhooks across the public internet to a direct method invocation within the same binary image.
Agreed. When I'm conducting interviews, the actual code produced is less than half of what I'm looking for.

I want to assess if the candidate can communicate their thoughts effectively, if they can identify alternative approaches and justify their decisions, how they receive and incorporate feedback.

Locking someone in a room to write on a whiteboard is not a coding interview.
For background Hunter's Point situation had nothing to do with radioactive waste from a power plant. It had to do with careless handling of nuclear materials following experiments. The Verge had a good video on this a couple years ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouzU08Byrwk
In my first year at Facebook, I saw an opportunity to use a priority queue to improve a service my team supported. It ended up saving something like 30 machines.
The YouTube of My Youth Is Gone. That's a Good Thing.
This is already present in iOS and Windows
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/214629303-Direct-s...
Particubes: Lua + Cubes
I had a quick phone screen with a recruiter the other day. For unreleated reasons the night before I hadn't slept much. That morning I was clambering about in the woods and stumbled on a wasp nest and got about 15 stings all over my body. I took 3 Benadryl anti-histamines before I remembered that I had the interview that afternoon. I was a complete space cadet.

Somehow the recruiter was still interested.

Maybe this should be my strategy for every job application? :-)
I think a hybrid model (create solution in private, then present it and answer questions) might be better. That way you can assess the person's communication without looking over their shoulder.
Seems like an advert for Gitea which isn't necessarily bad... didn't know there was an alternative to Github written in Go.

Is there a comprehensive list of Github alternatives out there?
talk about synchronicity... sam harris recently released a podcast entailing the ever-present threat of nuclear war:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DbMBiOYCCr7LRObkqfffe
A lessor version of this happens in the US where previous phases of a development pay for later phases. A cash strapped developer may offer initial phases at especially low prices.
Depends what's classified by an "incident". Aviation has "incidents" all the time. And yet we are not grounding planes based on this. We learn about them, and improve.
> For example, Germany is shutting down their coal plants gradually until 2038 (why would they then commission one this year, as stated by the article?).

Corruption? Stupidity? At any rate, the article is right.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
>food, weather, nature, jobs, art, culture, proximity to other interesting places (further drive but more interesting when you get there), universities, international diversity

With a little either self-starting or help from the local authorities, there's no reason another town/city/state couldn't have these unless there is such destitution it's in some kind of death spiral.

Every place has it's own niche, their own culture, and not to put the blame on you but too many people go "I'll move to a place that is already nice" and escape trying to build up where they come from or another small place.

And don't get me wrong, it would take more than an individual or a small group to turn a place around and you may be genuinely moving away from an unfixable, bad situation, but too many people I graduated with from high school/college think everyone needs to pile on the Golden Coast to make it and live an enjoyable life.

But maybe I'm curmudgeonly and a little antisocial even at 23.
We've trained people to be unable to install apps.
If I had infinite Nuclear energy I would pump fresh water to irrigate northern rockies. They are just getting drier and drier, the fires are going to drastically change everything.
I think this is a big problem, though. If someone could really convince me that everything on the info-graphic was "Whiteness," I don't see how I could possibly draw a non-racist conclusion. Clearly this is false, and people who are not white can enjoy hard work and the scientific method. But once again, suppose I believed the info-graphic? This is just insanity.
Or, you know, some people are just naturally anxious?

People have lives outside of a job interview. Family, children, jobs, or otherwise. All of those add to anxiety and can creep into your interviews.

They're not just robots that can turn off their emotions when they walk in the door.