skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From exercise and nutrition to sleep and mental health, fitness has become the front door to personalized healthcare. And Apple is well-positioned to seize this opportunity.
Idea:

Assign a short coding challenge and rank candidates on their solutions.

Then, one at a time, hire each candidate as a contractor for 20 hours of work. Let them fix bugs and do code reviews. See how effectively they communicate through code and in code reviews. Invite them participate in the weekly standup meeting.

Finally, have team members who worked with the person write confidential feedback with a hire/no-hire rating and justification. Hire the first candidate who gets all 'hire' ratings.
So after having a vasectomy, you also provide a sample to ensure the tubes are really tied. There's a few stories one can tell about vasectomy prep, procedure, and recovery, none of which I'll share here. Anyone who's had the procedure probably has the same stories.

Anyway, generating that sample was something I did at home, but it was still an odd experience driving it to the doctor's office, ringing the bell for the receptionist, and handing over the sample (inside approved collection container which was inside a brown lunch bag as I recall).

Weird for me, but if your a medical office receptionist, you're used to receiving all sorts of samples.
Not yet, it is on the list of features to implement.
While to us on HN, who by all accounts are computer experts, these things are trivially obvious, they aren't to the average user. Remember that the average person isn't tech literate. We do see literacy increasing but a lot is because there's been abuse of this illiteracy. Unfortunately people aren't learning from actual experts, but the person in their social circle that is the "smart person." I'm not sure there is a great solution, but we can at least understand that these things aren't obvious. Especially since most people still don't understand anything about how they are tracked across the web. Saying something like "how you use your mouse is used to determine if you're human and can be used to identify you" still sounds crazy to many people, yet we all here know that Google captcha does this.
Paid trials also have the issue that they might interfere with unemployment earnings while also being too short to earn unemployment afterwards. So they probably don't work for people with a job and don't work for people without a job.
What's wrong with it? Just curious, I use Outlook for work and my main pet peeve is that

i) local search isn't great and

ii) in general, the application UI is very 'delicate' -- e.g., I have mail rules that move mailing lists to a folder. I browse through them from time to time but housekeeping those is a nightmare-- Outlook consistently freezes while deleting larger numbers of email.
Rental companies can and will (eventually) rent out EVs. And when they do, I'll likely never have to drive another gas car again.
Whoever hacked Twitter today definitely got major access to their backend: https://twitter.com/whoisjuan/status/1283502962103455744?s=2...
Those are some big names. I got notified about Elon and bill gates, figured there was some large scale hack. Crazy times
why wouldn't they just hire contractors who don't expect to ever be hired?
> can get the home addresses of all their co-workers

When mammoths roamed the earth, there was this "phone book" thing listing the full name and address of anyone with a phone line in the city, except for unlisted numbers (those could be had by request).
Pics of tweets: https://twitter.com/TheHackersNews/status/128350208126595072...
> which typically means it's a bug where the program accidentally is trying to read outside of its memory space.

I tracked this down with process explorer the other day. What I determined is that outlook is trying to load it's DLLs but the permissions on the FS prevent the DLLs from being read by the user.

I reset the permissions for all subfolders in C:\Program Data\Microsoft Common and c:\Program Files\Microsoft\Office and it started working again for me.
> At least some of the compromised accounts have multi-factor authentication enabled, including CoinDesk's.

Interesting. I wonder if it was a SMS hack, and if not, then a new kind of vulnerability?
i was looking for both - thanks for the rec!
Could also be attributed to more cutting edge and complicated features expanding the surface area for more issues.
Add that and a read-mode, where the tweet you just typed appears word by word, so you read your goddamn rant before you post it ;)
> The international investors with deep pockets own very, very, very few properties compared to regular people.

Doesn't matter, a rising tide raises every boat.

The point is that property prices have diverged from rental income, because low-interest credit from around the world is chasing properties, while stagnant wages imply stagnant rental income.

> What if you lose the ability to pay rent? How does that make you any better off?

I don't have to foreclose.

> I have a mortgage with 75% of the principal left to pay, where the interest on the loan is somewhere between the third and the half of what I'd pay in rent for equivalent property.

Between a third and a half? That sounds like a lot.

> If I was renting instead of paying mortgage, I wouldn't have any cash to keep to invest elsewhere anyway.

So you're saying your mortgage payment, taxes, insurance and upkeep is equal to rent? Where the hell do you live?

> You can also sell your house/condo and move somewhere else, at any time.

At any time? Yeah, good luck with that.
When I last did a serious job search a few years ago, I thought I was pretty hot stuff. Nonetheless, I spent a few months reviewing algorithm text books and practicing code interview problems.

Then my first phone interview came, and I totally bombed it. And the next one. And the one after that. All in all, I think I bombed about seven code interviews (didn't even make it to an onsite) before I started to get some traction. One of the interviewers outright told me that I wasn't a very good coder.

After that I managed to get a couple of decent offers, but the process was quite humbling. If I interviewed again today I'd probably be in the same boat. Whiteboard interviewing is definitely an acquired skill.
You haven't been on left twitter enough if you think that's the case.

There's plenty of leftist fights. Trots vs Leninists, Authoritarians vs Anarcho-syndicalists, Red Scare vs TrueAnon, etc.
I own a model 3. It is a great car, far ahead of the competition. I've had more issues with it than i did with my previous car (honda accord). Eg, blackscreen - many times, and once an unintended acceleration.
Headline seems pretty editorialized.
Do you just process events it for analytics or do you actually perform rehydrating application state or replicating application state?
> Roots of primes and functions or digits of transcendental numbers (e, pi, etc) make good random-ish numbers which don't provide much room for manipulation.

Those are termed "nothing-up-my-sleeve numbers":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing-up-my-sleeve_number
No Trump?
That is a very well-written paper and an interesting topic! Kudos to the authors! I'd really like this to turn into a thesis and further research.

Edit: it also follows the de-facto standard for the naming of cs-papers, which demands a pun followed by a quick explanation. Brilliant!

I also just saw that it might be too late for the thesis part. A pity.
You are absolutely correct, I should have been more clear that I meant they would be too expensive to go to the number of ANG squadrons that currently fly the C/D, I think they would have to double current F-22 numbers.
Resumes are much harder to enforce, so they tend to be juicier. But if someone comes in and starts spewing clearly proprietary stuff, its a huge red flag during hiring.
Place your bets, phishing or bug exploit. Some of these targets are too high profile to all fall for it and probably have teams that manage these accounts securely. Edit: 2fa was bypassed, interesting. https://twitter.com/tylerwinklevoss/status/12834920178892595...
This sounds like the thinking that led to the 737MAX produced by the same manufacturer.
If you had an actual, authentic Confederate battle flag to sell me, at a price I could afford, I would buy it. There are only a few in existence, and it would be an amazing historical artifact I'd love to help preserve.
The point I'm making is, this robot is being sold on the idea of some magical do-all machine around your house, when the reality is far different.

The problems I stated are really some of (but not all) the key problems that need to be solved in order for it to do as the advertising suggests. To put the problem into perspective, with billions of dollars man could send people to the moon, but is still unable to solve some of these fundamental robotics problems with similar funding.

I agree though, if this is ever to be a consumer product then it needs a massive reduction in scope and price drop (depending on what problem it solves). It's hard to think of a problem that is as commonly shared and simplistic in scope as hoovering without being a gimmick though.

You've got cooking which is basically automated through meal prep (e.g. microwave meals or even fast food services). You've got cleaning clothes - but the scope is enormous. Dusting and putting small items back in their correct location may be the only real possibility.
The LSAT too. It's just a giant test-game. By the end of studying for it, I was reminded of how I used to approach StarCraft. Once you figure it out and spend enough time on practice, scoring in the top percentile isn't very remarkable. Nothing you learn will help you in law school but you will have proven your ability to study. (Rare exception: I had a friend who didn't study and just took the test and scored in the 97th percentile. This is very uncommon and I am just taking him at his word that he didn't study.)
You are cussing me out in another comment, so you also don't seem to care about the community much.

I wasn't hiding. But I'm definitely not revealing who I am now because you are hostile and unhinged.
OK, what is the scenario where a single madman causes a complete simultaneous nuclear conflagration by the USA and USSR, the only countries with enough bombs to cause a global nuclear holocaust?

Russia and the USA have no interest in destroying each other. All the other nuclear powers are too small fry to cause more than regional damage.
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I haven't seen that. On the teams I've been on, you would quickly get put on a PIP if you don't work extra overtime (unless you are politically connected, then you get away with doing nothing).
In my experience, every company wants to be a FAANG-like company and so they've all picked up the same BS interviewing style.
A clear use case of Blockchain for the cryptocurrency detractors \s
Is it broken up that way? Do the US sales of Apple get taxed in the US, and European sales of Apple get taxed in Europe?
Seems useful, but my feedback is it's almost unusable slow. So much lag on input.

I'm using FireFox on Mac
>Office 365/Click-to-Run-based installations. If you buy your software instead of subscribing to it...

I've never been clear on what CtR describes. The first CtR Office was Home & Student 2010, which was a purchase.
One of the things I've liked about freelancing/contracting is that I know I'm going to get "fired" (we call it "successful completion of the project" but its the same thing, just that they would like to have me work for them again). And since it happens on a regular basis, I also am practiced in finding a new job and I know about how long it will take and what types of prospects to look for. It's really reduced job anxiety for me, although I never had too much.

Although as a counterpoint, it's also easier to get work, because part of the value I'm providing is that you "fire" me whenever you want and no hard feelings. So nobody does "leetcode interviews", because it's not like we're getting married, like an employee. So there's much lower risk to hiring someone, because a bad hire doesn't infect anything, because you expected it to be temporary in the first place.
In times of Covid, I've found that serendipity can be found in online parties - I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat (no affiliation). This is able to mimic in-person social interactions in a way that it's not 10 people speaking one at a time.

Instead, you can organically form smaller groups according to their camera/avatar X,Y position (volume is inverse to distance).

In these "parties" I can meet friends of friends, who I wouldn't normally meet by myself or online. There's enough social pressure to actually listen to someone I don't know that might end up being very interesting.
It wasnt really 100% clear in the article. Does the USB issue apply to current/new orders from them as well?
Yes, that's the whole point. Advice "Eat less, move more" does not work because people won't follow that advice, so it's ineffective advice and we need something better.

The appropriate measure for effectiveness of public health recommendations is whether the recommendations get results. It doesn't matter if simply eating less and moving more would get results, if advising people "eat less, move more" does not result in them actually eating less and moving more.

It's not useful to compare diet A with diet B, you need to compare the effect of "tell people to follow diet A" versus "tell people to follow diet B", because the likelihood of actually following the advice (influenced by ease, convenience, and compatibility with natural urges) is probably the most important part that determines what results (if any) it will achieve.

If one system or diet is much more difficult to follow than another, if "it takes a LOT of effort and discipline" then that's a serious limitation, a legitimate flaw of that system or diet. It's worthless to evaluate the effect of a process that almost nobody will do.

And this is a key argument in favor of the keto diet - that people who don't manage to achieve a calorie reduction through simply eating less or calorie counting find it easier to get a calorie reduction through this system, because it better aligns with our normal satiety mechanism.
Well, one uses Google Maps to look at maps and to upload photos of places; those are two features that app has.
Other people have mentioned the logistical/financial problems this incurs, but one other important consideration is that you are competing against other companies that don't do the trial-to-hire process and can thus offer more stability. And to be honest, given the state of the software engineer market (in tech-heavy cities), you already get to spend a couple of months trying out a company and then leave if you want. The difference is that the employer isn't similarly able to get rid of you after 3 months (it's too short a time to evaluate a new employee, the company has already invested heavily in onboarding costs, it's much slower to backfill a position than it is for a software engineer to find a new job, etc).
To me, the bigger question is, why do these interviews require every candidate to prove their programming/design skills from scratch? Say I have worked at a respected tech company for N years, my record there should provide a lot more signal than a day’s worth of interviewing would.
I think we need some sort of standardized metrics for different dimensions of tech skills, and those metrics update over years of experience. Then companies don’t need to assess tech skills - they just need to look at your record, knowing that it is objective. Certifications, open-source contributions are some examples. The problem is the work you do closed-door in a company cannot be objectified or standardized easily. If we can solve that, that would go a long way here.
Interviews can then focus on soft and behavioral skills solely. Not to say that those interviews are any more useful or signal-deducing as they happen today.
does it mean that take home interviews as the best form of interviews ?
Agreed. People know the difference between hyper attention to detail for code and lax attention to detail in English.

You can go pretty far down this rabbit hole and be a grammar Nazi. All it shows is that you’re a grammar Nazi.
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I feel these companies prefer to promote internally so losing senior talent doesn't bother them as much. Fairness is not a quality I associate with them.
Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
Scientists strapped a tiny camera to a beetle
Some folks are saying some of these accounts had 2FA, so can be the case but I guess if it was a system thing, we might have seen tweets from more prominent accounts.
This is looking really bad, I wonder what they used to get access to all these high-profile accounts?

It's worth noting these types of blackhat crypto scammers make millions a year from this already, but this is definitely making it a lot worse.

EDIT: Still going on after 30+ minutes, seeing people like Bill Gates tweet crypto scams still. Amazed they got all the crypto exchange too.

And it's not just Bitcoin, they got RIpple too and posted XRP addresses.
If I was told that from a company I was looking at, I would drop them like a hot rock. Health insurance is not optional in the US, and COBRA is a giant ass-pain. This really sounds like very little benefit to me for a whole lot of benefit for the hiring company.
I've been doing this for a LOOONG time. Early on, the core skill for a programmer was intensive in-depth knowledge of the language being used. We all talked a good game about what we called "reusable software," but yeah. Talk.

Now things are TOTALLY different. Doing a good job requires extensive, encyclopedic, knowledge of what's out there, how well it works, and how to integrate it. npm, nuget, maven, anaconda, we all know the drill. In a day's work it's much less necessary to implement an algorithm from memory.

What should programmers know from memory? Simple stuff like fizzbuzz. The difference between TCP and UDP. What DNS is for. If SQL data's involved the difference between JOIN and LEFT JOIN.

And, if they're experienced, they must be able to describe intelligently how their own stuff fit into the bigger system they worked on. Because there's always a bigger system.

If they're being hired to be a tech rep to an *sshole customer, possibly their performance under pressure matters a lot. Otherwise, not.

This business of high stakes quiz questions serves just one purpose: feeding the ego of the interviewer. "We have high standards!"

Yeah, so high that we wouldn't hire Jesus of Nazareth to be a storyteller.
Same for their OS, it seems to ignore power users completely. Just a few months ago I was going to connect to an SMB share by using \\nas\Downloads and it just wouldn't work, started a network troubleshooter that couldn't troubleshoot anything.

If it had just told me that the name could not be resolved I would have figured out that I needed the full domain suffix because ipconfig wasn't showing it.

This issue goes way back in Microsofts history, always getting on my nerves as a power user. But at the same time probably the best OS for any other type of user.
I think it's worth looking at how deplatforming happens here. Whether it is someone being fired or a tweet deleted or a community banned, the "cancellation" is almost always done by a company.

Companies operate more like amoral optimization functions than they do moral beings. In this case, the incentive driving them is bad press...companies are terrified of being on the wrong end of a media cycle. The driver of bad press, in an era where tweets are constantly used as primary sources in news articles, is social media.

The result of all this is that speech in society is now partially governed by twitter outrage. There is some benefit to this, as the loudest voices on twitter are willing to stand up to power (as opposed to letting the elites determine who should be fired for speaking out on their own), but it's also horrifying to think that twitter anger is, to a growing degree, governing speech in our society and setting the standard for right and wrong.

Twitter mobs are incapable of handling nuance, and yet productive policy discussions can't happen without it. That's a pretty serious problem.
The Saudi government is corrupt AF and doesn't need much in the way for justification for killing people?

Also the US leadership is so incompetent at the moment, seems like a good time for other countries to do whatever TF they want.
Impostor syndrome is most present in elite environments though. It's a syndrome because someone is genuinely talented but surrounded by high talent for each person it's easy to identify an area where they are better than you. In some cases it's easy to feel like you're not the best at anything in your work social circle.
I'm not entirely sure that rent control proponents believe it will lower rents. In my experience, most of them acknowledge that it will reduce supply and may increase prices in some areas.

My experience with rent control proponents (being one myself despite the pure economics problems with it) is that most of them believe that there needs to be a "reserve" of properties that are available for lower income people...service workers, teachers, etc...to rent in or near the place where they work.

The basic reason for that is, until recently, the number of people who want to live in a city like SF, NYC, etc. greatly outstrips the supply of housing. Basically, no matter how much housing you build, there is an endless supply of people willing to pay $X to live here, but $X is way over what is reasonable for a cashier, barista, bartender, teacher, etc. to afford.

Now, there might be better ways to solve that problem, but one of the "easier" and more politically possible ones in cities like SF is rent control. The reality is that SF basically can't build enough housing to satiate demand in any realistic timeframe. So what do you do? Bitch about zoning laws and NIMBY's all day and make more and more workers move to Stockton and Tracy? Or do you actually try to do something that is possible to accomplish about that problem (recognizing it isn't perfect)?

Anyway...rent control is interesting in many ways. Just felt like the number of people I've spoken to about it who believes it lowers rents generally rounds to basically zero.
No it's not dishonest. Where are the storage facilities? Is Hanford a disaster or not? Were there fundamental quality and safety issues in the 70s(and before) around nuclear facilities?

Pointing out that other stuff is "just as bad as nuclear" is not helping the argument for nuclear.
I think there are a lot of people who wouldn’t break a window to steal from a house but who would steal from a house if they found the door key.
You would think they would do something with Trump if it was arbitrary accounts. But maybe his has additional protections
One theory is it's a tweet scheduling platform, rather than Twitter itself that was hacked.
Yep. If you create enough awards, everyone's a winner. My understanding is that the data itself and the surveying services they offer is actually rather good, and many automakers actually pay for the raw data and that service.

It's the marketing/awards side that's quite literally garbage. And certain automakers will pay for this as well.
I don't think this logic is beneficial for humanity. If you take the worst parts of any organization or group and generalize it across the entire group, you end up with stereotypes, bias, and discrimination...the very things that led us down this path in the first place. There are better ways to approach this.
Yes, the brown lunch bag! Because no one knows what's in the brown lunch bag that you are carrying into the fertility clinic...
This is going to be a hilarious postmortem. If we ever see it.
Elon Musk's Twitter got hacked [July 15, 2020]