skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem to be the issue in this case:

> One of the law enforcement officials said a surveillance camera had captured video of Mr. Saleh in the building’s elevator with another person who was wearing a black suit and black mask.
On the video, the elevator door opens and Mr. Saleh goes into the apartment, the official said. The masked person follows directly behind him, and the two immediately start to struggle, the official said.
> The Principle of Charity can work in open-membership communities, like HN, but only for as long as the community remains a niche community with linear growth.

> The Principle of Charity probably fails within society as a whole, or in open-membership forums with exponential growth, e.g. Reddit or Usenet.

I disagree. It likely won't maintain itself naturally, but I see no reason why it couldn't be maintained with a more substantial enforcement/education initiative. Similarly with overall society - I agree achieving this in a widespread fashion down to the individually is likely possible, but if we could even achieve some compliance from the media, politicians, and experts, I reckon it would go a long way toward improving the current state of affairs.

>> Alt-righters (the real ones) can use the Principle of Charity as cover, cherry-picking their talking points...

Members of every tribe do this, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly. It seems to be an "unavoidable" artifact of the evolution of the human mind. But with some work, I believe this too could be dramatically improved.
Quarantine has also taught me Amazon is just terrible at handling some stuff. I ordered a new French press from them, which came broken both times. Ordered from Crate & Barrel and it came wrapped and packaged beautifully. Special bubble wrap with creased edges for folding to the contours of the box, and a box that actually fit the product (as opposed to Amazon: "let's toss this in a box 3 times the size of the item, with 3 squares of inflated plastic. Surely nothing bad will happen as it bangs around in there.") I'll never order any glassware or glass products from Amazon again.

And before I tried Crate & Barrel I actually was making excuses for Amazon. "Well, shipping glass and ceramic is hard. I knew there was a chance it would break in shipping." Still valid concerns, but easier to stomach a bad experience when it shows they put forth effort and thought.
Violence in retaliation is not an appropriate response to property damage.
Two Very New Findings Linking Covid-19 and Fat Metabolism
Three very interesting articles about the relationships between fat metabolism and Covid-19 were published yesterday and today:

"Statins may help older coronavirus patients avoid symptoms; COVID-19 more than respiratory illness":

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-science-idUSKBN22R2WA

and two related articles:

"Israel-US team find drug that can stop Covid-19 in its tracks":

https://www.israel21c.org/downgrading-covid-19s-threat-to-that-of-the-common-cold/

AND

"Cholesterol-lowering drugs show promise to lower COVID-19's threat":

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200715/Cholesterol-lowering-drugs-show-promise-to-lower-COVID-19s-threat.aspx
> it was invalid from the day it was signed

Shouldn't then Ireland pay it (or act as if it was paid, and paid whatever it would have paid from it to the EU budget).
But the maintainer can still make decisions based on the telemetry which is available.
It's not unreasonable to assume that the the smaller sample of uses will still be a representative sample.
That is 100% a matter of opinion. To use the example from the first comment, the Tesla Spotify integration isn't perfect. That doesn't mean it is a better choice to simply not integrate Spotify into the infotainment system. It also doesn't mean that non-Tesla drivers simply aren't using Spotify. They might be fiddling with the playlists on their phone which is even more dangerous than fiddling with the playlists on the infotainment system.
5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23786339

3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22939116

9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21198326

Also, your account's posting history is egregious: https://news.ycombinator.com/posts?id=mdszy. This is not a borderline call. Accounts that post like that get banned here, regardless of what they're espousing.
They laid off thousands of testers in 2014[0].

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that quality plummeted afterwards.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...
Ha. $2M is definitely well above the median. Most homes are under a $1M still. Bloomberg has these interesting charts comparing the citywide median, to Astoria and Tribeca.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/property-prices/nyc/
This approach also works realy good when interviewing with other companies. I used the STAR [0] principle everytime after Amazon, it almost always worked. Having interviewed a couple of people at Amazon myself definetly helped.

[0] Situation - Task - Action - result, basically your story tellling format for Amazon interviews. Back the day it was even covered on their interview prep page.
Damn it, back to grinding leetcode!
I can only speak for myself, but I’m in a group of ≈50 working on prime software R&D (as you term it) in a very trendy space in Dublin for a large multinational. I don’t want to say too much beyond that - and you’re probably right that it’s the exception rather than the rule - but it does exist.
I don't get it, is there something special about Platonic solids in this context, or can you construct Bell inequalities that are maximally violated along any set of vertices? Randomly gluing two things together isn't "beautiful mathematics," beautiful mathematics is when you discover a connection.
This is why I really go out of my way to try and dissipate the anxiety as much possible. And because I feel anxiety myself when I interview people, so I remember that we may share that perspective and we'd both have a better conversation if we could relax a bit.

My interviews therefore end up being conversational, and definitely non-confrontational. I want to hire someone who the team will get along with, who knows what they are doing, but in the end I have to remember that if we hire them I'd prefer we didn't start off our relationship with an over-the-top technical interview.

So far I've been successful at finding good candidates this way. Maybe it's just luck. But I don't think leetcode interviewing is the only way to get well-qualified employees.
Thrasio Reaches $1B Valuation, Sets New US Speed Record for Unicorns
Your example likely wouldn't even compile. Get back to me when there's a compiler and testing framework for resumes. Nobody misunderstands when you write "Javascript" once and then "JavaScript" later on. And, even in code, where there are compilers and testing frameworks, bugs happen, even in code written by excellent engineers.

I'm not saying a resume littered with typos is a good thing. But, a couple here and there? Whatever. Tell me you've never made a typo in a document you've written for work.
That's why I think take-home exercises are a much better way to evaluate candidates. Give them the exercise and enough time and you will figure out:

1) How good they are
2) How much they actually care about the job offer -- the more detail and the more passion they put in the exercise, the more into the job they are.
Not really, most questions have answers and discussion threads - during an interview you can see people just writing up solutions flawlessly - they just memorised them. I have interviewed 100+ people.

I don't think regular coding questions, LC tell you anything meaningful in an interview.

I'm more experienced now, so refuse doing it and recruiters and interviewers get all funny about it. But please, please interview. I know I'm pretty privileged compared to others but I won't ever do a LC question anymore and tell that upfront to Google and the likes. I have canceled loops because of the inflexibilty of some companies in that regard.

Sometimes they tried sneaking it in last minute - also tells you much.
The nuclear family is an American white cultural norm. It may also be a norm for other groups. You are seeing black as the opposite of white and blackness as defined as the opposite of every white norm. That seems pretty extreme; a deductive fallacy even. The infographic didn't say anything about black culture though it would be interesting to see the identical format used to describe black culture.
Total opposite here. Before lockdown, I felt overwhelmed by driving. Having to do it every day, sitting in deadlock traffic, the general stress of anticipating everyone else’s movements, timing lane changes in extreme congestion, etc.

After quarantine, I feel elated driving. I am rarely forced to, traffic is much lighter, I put on a podcast or audible book, and it has gone from stressful to relaxing.
My point was not to draw a moral equivalence between two tribes, but rather point out that neither is a monolith, and both are currently controlled by their more extreme elements.
You didn't live through communism. A lot of the left rejects Cuban, or Russian (USSR) communism.

You lived through a dictatorship. Very different things.

There are various leftist thoughts that are more libertarian than whatever system we have right now.

The fact that you're equating nazism which isn't even an economic school of thought to communism, which is, means you frankly don't know what you're talking about.

Your experiences are valid, and I would hate to live in USSR or Cuba, but your experiences aren't the end-all of communism.
> Since the pandemic I started getting up around 6 am without an alarm clock. I never did that before. A big part of that is I go to bed earlier, as there is nothing worth staying up late for.

I was the same way until daylight hours started getting longer and I found a good page turner. Before that I was out by 9:30 or 10 and up with the sunrise.
The popularity contest package is checking which packages are actually actively in use[1]. It keeps track of file access time with a 12 hour resolution and any package used in the last thirty days is considered active.

I think this might be interesting for packages that are part of the default install, server side statistics would always show those even when they are not used.

[1]https://popcon.debian.org/FAQ
i'd say that is a great "English humor" level joke, and i can only respond in Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smn8CFhV3Mg

Seriously, though, i wonder why would Russia be developing coronavirus vaccine if most people these days die there from "atypical pneumonia" and not from coronavirus ... at least if one is to believe the official info.
Are you pushing to master branch?
Is there any kind of navigation app for this?
I don't mean to imply that humans are terrible. I just mean that we think we have a lot of answers when we don't.

I came up with my theory when I read about Norman Borlaug and how he developed GMO semi-dwarf wheat which is purported to have saved a billion lives from starvation.

But people now blame GMO crops for all manner of problems like unhealthy gut, Autism Spectrum Disorders, gluten sensitivity, etc.

In sum, we're just trying to do the best we can, and we can't see all the possible consequences of our actions.
Either pontificate doesn't mean what you think it means, or you're being an asshole.
It appears to at least sum up a (possibly non-random) sampling of non-mask-wearers' views. Certainly more than one view, since multiple people were interviewed.
I stopped driving about 6 years ago. I live in a very walkable city and work from home so I sold my car. The few times I do drive it's now very overwhelming. I'm just glad to know it's not just me.
This cyclist agrees.
Ive hear the wheel bearings are garbage because they use special ceramic ball bearings, rather than roller or spindle bearings which are like a bajillion times better at handling wheel loads and shocks. Maybe they have changed it in newer versions but I havent heard anything about it since.
Totally agreed. I've been in the position to evaluate several take-home exercises during the years and they always produced good results
I have been working from home last 6 years. And can't agree more about the overstimulation and feeling overwhelmed by how much is going on every time I am in an office setting or busy streets
"... I had to pay close attention to what all the other cars around me were doing..."

Jesus H. This is what you should be always doing when you're driving. This is how driving has always been, but people turn off their brains and pick up the cell phone. Too bad it only takes people a week to get back to complacency.
It seems to me absolutely ethical. Any country can make whatever tax laws they want to get an advantage over other countries. If the EU and its population want to ban this practice, they should reorganize the tax laws.
Likewise! It's a huge stress reliever for me. I get to get out of the house but still be isolated from everyone else.
Memory pooling is irrelevant for DL training. 24 GB is enough to run batch size of 1 for Bert-Large so honestly this is a good choice. Some folks are saying that 2x 2080 Tis would have been better and that's true if you're doing convnets but any large scale language model fine-tuning you'll want to have at least 24 GB of vRAM.
With Khashoggi we had a clear motive for the killing, though. It's not at all clear who wanted Saleh dead, and in particular why Saudi should be involved at all. It's merely where he was born, not the target of his opinion writing (note also that per the article he's Bangladeshi ethinically, not Saudi).
The best I've ever seen is the way my current boss does it. We do a two-hour interview (they've already passed a phone interview before we bring them in). We spend the first half hour just talking to them personally.

Then we give them a piece of code on paper. It's fairly simple - half a page. The function name is foo(). It's written in C#, but we don't expect them to actually know any C# details. The function takes an array of Strings as input, and returns an int. The questions are, what values does it expect for the Strings, what value does it return, what would they name the function, and what can go wrong (what exceptions can it throw - but we don't expect them to know the details of C# exceptions, so what might cause exception-like circumstances). This shouldn't take more than half an hour.

Also, it's the same code for every candidate, and we've seen a few dozen over the years, so we are fairly calibrated on how a quality candidate should do.

Then we ask them to write some code on the whiteboard. We give them a simple problem (again, same problem for every candidate). They can use any language they want. We don't expect them to be a compiler - we don't care if they get the parameters a bit wrong on a function call, as long as the code would be sound if the system accepted the syntax they expect. Again, this should take half an hour.

Then we give them a simple design problem. How would you design software to do this? It's a problem that is not rigidly specified, so they can have to flesh out the requirements (hey, welcome to the real world). It's got enough corner cases that we can ask them about one that they skipped, and watch them try to modify the design to handle it. We don't expect perfection - there is no perfect answer for this question. But we want to see them have some kind of reasonable taste or sanity in their design, and some ability to iterate the design as more requirements emerge. Once again, this takes half an hour. They're not done with the problem at the end of half an hour, but we've seen enough to know how they did.

Other than allowing them to ask any questions they want, that's it.
I don’t think the person you were arguing with was expressing, as a value statement, the idea that black and white people should be policed differently purely based on their race. I think you’re jumping to that conclusion a little. And I don’t really want to continue this because I have a hard time trusting that you’re going to listen to me in good faith, either.
It is helpful to know the internals of SHA-2. It helps to make sense of the "Length Extension Attack" [1] on this kind of hash function construction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack
Yes, sorry, that not commercialy viable to get this uranium.

> Additionally, France never had to even prospect for uranium ore

But this is false. (There is no english link sorry for that).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/UraMin
I think it's people feel safer driving faster than they normally would, along with less police presence. Especially when the lockdowns first started, /r/maryland would joke about I-75 doubling as a speed limit (normally it's 55).
Interestingly, there's a famous study showing those doing the judging "can't think when hungry" either. (Or, at least can't think unbiasedly).[1]

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/108/17/6889
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Opt-out telemetry does not create informed decisions, it creates decisions based on the subset of people who don't care or don't know enough to opt out, and I have seen real instances it adds a dangerous overconfidence to the applicability of the decisions made from that data. And it's important to note that little telemetry is often enough to do a decent amount of statistical analysis–in fact, one of the first things you'd learn in a course is that you don't really need to collect data from everyone, and most sample sizes don't go above 10% of the population unless you're doing some kind of census.
Right, this sort of scheme is a great way to get things done without a lot of formal banking & legal machinery. And it's pretty resilient: if building is interrupted by (say) political unrest, or there's an episode of hyperinflation in the middle, everyone understands the deal -- the landowner still gets his 2 flats when it's done.
30% of USA and especially Trump voters won't take the vaccine.
+1. Either this, or I have an offer in hand and so I don't have to care anymore.

The role of anxiety in interviewing became very clear to me during a season when I failed all my interviews until I got my first (and a very good) offer. Suddenly I started passing all of them. It was night and day. I was very surprised having always had much longer and frustrating recruiting processes.
This a really bad outage because it happened to my partner and there is nothing obvious about what went wrong. It just...closes.
I think if it this way (very simplified): there are candidates that like challenges and who don't mind imperfect interviewing situations, and i had my fair share of people who dislike it would fare better if we just let them work on a real world problem. We did both for each candidate for some time, but the latter was much more costly and didn't provide such a good signal in the end.

Open-mindedness goes a long way. Also typically our interview questions are set up in a way where it's expected you won't finish but try, which reveals a lot about personality and how problems are attacked.
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> You could also argue that Tesla is misleading since it won't allow customers in 15 states to fill out surveys.

What? Can you go into more detail?
The claim (which the above comments are seemingly ignoring, and I kind of believe myself but am not asserting) is that low-carb diet decreases hunger, making it naturally less effort to eat less (or at least requiring less willpower)
They don't need to -- ADA requires accommodation, not the wild west.

In my state, emergency order requires masks in public spaces, and exempts retailers/others from any state liability. The Feds have the power to do the same.
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You can tell when someone's broken your window
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> When it comes to creating wealth, taxation doesn't do anything but redistribute it. In order to actually generate wealth, you need capital, and people who use that capital more efficiently & effectively will become richer. It is a virtuous spiral.

Sure, it's a virtuous spiral if you're one of the minuscule number of people that the spiral is pointing to. Otherwise, you see it for what it is, wealth being siphoned from Us to Them.

Also, the level of political control that huge companies almost automatically exert greatly minimizes democracy, leading to things like the bottom 50% of Americans having almost no bearing on the political sphere, at least at the federal and state levels.
Good choice on the 24 GB Titan RTX (so you can do at least batch size = 1 for Bert-Large). Not sure if that's the reason it was chosen though to be honest. If you want to do convnets only then you would do better with NVLinke'd 2080 Tis.

Secondarily, I would suggest that you guys not use windows but instead Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 LTS and just install Lambda Stack (https://lambdalabs.com/lambda-stack-deep-learning-software). It's a debian PPA that we maintain at Lambda to keep all of your deep learning drivers, CUDA, CuDNN, TensorFlow, and PyTorch up to date with just apt. It's free!
I am torn on this.

I want to agree with the logic.

But many of the best software engineers I know can't spell or format English consistently.

Of course resumes are higher stakes than code comments.

But I care #1 that your resume communicates clearly to me what I need to know to judge whether you would benefit my team. If you typoed something, or your formatting is a bit wonky, even if I notice, I am not likely to care.

(Obviously, an excessive amount of errors can demonstrate a communication issue.)

Another aspect to consider is that weighting English errors strongly can introduce bias against many demographics.

Rather, I find it best to assume good faith, that the candidate prepared their resume to the best of their circumstance. Only evidence to the contrary should hold weight.
I'm 15 minutes into this video and just had to pause to thank you.

This guy is fantastic. He has changed how I see the world.

Thank you.
Not a license to practice, but how about some sort of exam I can pass that would let me never have to do the whiteboard dance ever again?

As it is, I'm basically studying for an unknown and nowhere near standard "certification", more or less, in the form of the technical interview, with only an inkling of what I might have to study for every single interview I go on.

I guarantee my career has been stunted because I delay my job search because I just don't want to go through that bullshit all over again, and stick with jobs long after I've stopped being passionate about them, despite there being a huge demand for software engineers.

Not everyone has to take the standardized exam, but if you do, you can show that to someone and they go "okay, I'm going to skip the technical pop quiz, let's move on to other things".

That's supposed to be what my degree was for, but apparently no one trusts that anymore, so why did I waste the time and money in the first place?
Exactly agreed, and because my inclination is to say "I've never used this in previous jobs and will never use it here", I don't think it's useful for me to be interviewing for jobs.

A friend of mine, when asked to implement an AVL tree, actually asked an interviewer when the last time he had to implement an AVL tree on the job was. He wasn't hired.
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Me: "I'm a software developer, so I would let a material science engineer figure it out."
You: "You can't do that... All the material science engineers have drowned."
Me: "That's not very realistic..."
You: "Thank you for your time. Don't call us, we'll call you."
This is very difficult to read and understand.
Member of group X chooses to vote for party A instead of the "Kill all X" party.