skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just you :)
A much more realistic way to test people is to tell them to bring their laptop, point to a problem on the whiteboard and say "here, solve it, and use whatever resources you need."

I'm somewhat like you; I do a wide variety of tasks every day and simply can't keep all the different rules and syntaxes in my head. I'm terrible at tests anyway and would probably bomb a FAANG interview badly because of my lousy memory.

As an interviewer, I would rather someone be generally smart, have a good work ethic and lots of experience solving problems. In the long run that seems more useful than being able to write computer programs on a piece of paper in a conference room.
I know nothing about GP, but note that it is possible that English is not his first language, and the subtleties of the story and vocabulary might be lost in translation.

In my native language (French), as you describe it, there is no word for "average" (the technical and the common terms "moyenne" are exactly the same). Until your comment, in English, I assumed you could use "average" and "mean" interchangeably.
I feel like that selects against innovative people. Memorizing problems that have already been solved is basically the definition of re-inventing the wheel.
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Does that make their ratings for the chosen categories incorrect?

If you care about a category specifically (like 1st year reliability), it still seems valuable.
Not necessarily one gene, per se. More like a set of characteristics and pre-dispositions that make kids seem fun and desirable will be selected for, while the opposite will be selected out.
I'm relieved it's not only me. For the time being I resort to safe mode
Nothing will change.

I think the problem often lies with the interviewers’s ego that results in this strange paradox where they’re trying to demonstrate their competence to the interviewee by way of technically “outwitting” them.

That way, in the event the interviewee is personable enough to get hired, the working dynamic is that much closer to being formed between the two, and chances are reduced that the interviewer is hiring a potential rival.
I start every git commit with "Should ..." :-)
Yea, the lockdown was incredible. Never any traffic, I loved it.
That's going to be difficult to organise in a plutocracy.

There are insane sums being spent in organised campaigns to limit the ability of governments to interfere with this ethic of systemic financial capture.
Google backs Reliance's Jio Platforms with $4.5B India investment
The answer to your question: The AES mode AMD SEV uses is similar to XEX. AMD computes a tweak value based on the physical memory address and performs an xor-encrypt-xor operation. The tweak algorithm used on Rome (2nd gen EPYC) is based on GF math and uses a random value that is changed on each boot.
> $129 and lesser quality than most ear buds

I don't know if that's true. I bought my pair on the day they were released, and they're decent quality. They're not cheaply made, and everything works. (pairing took a little bit to get right, but not a deal breaker).

What do you mean when you say they're of "lesser quality"? What dimensions do you mean?

The fact that they might overheat alone? (but it got patched today; it's amazing to me that you can patch firmware on ear buds)
A superpower doesn't go to war over an isolated assassination of (with all due respect to the victim and his family) some random rich kid. Casus belli is invoked only where there was a pre-existing ambition. I don't think the US have any ambition to take over Saudi Arabia, when they couldn't even run Iraq.
On top of what many users have stated here, shadow blocking! If the malicious user doesn't know that they're blocked, they'll keep using their account. If you shadow ban them, you just don't show their comments and posts to anyone else than themselves and they can't harm anyone.
So you’re afraid of coming home and there’s someone hiding in the house? How often does this actually happen compared to homes secured differently? It’s not like most houses have some impossible to pick locks...
The walking part is healthy through.
This practice seems common. I've had recruiters at several top tech companies (including two of the FAANGs) tell me this during initial chats.

I imagine recruiters actively want you to succeed and get hired because that benefits them too, so they do what they can to aid you in your chances. They'll tell you the official, pre-canned lines about "we're interested in what your thought processes are and how you think", but then they'll also tell you the truth and recommend you take some time to grind leetcode.
With the numbers shown "the entire internet" is really more than exaggerated and thus the title seems pretty clickbait-y.
> You start registering to new services with your new account and gradually migrate old services

Try doing this with with thousands of employees with multiple devices and varying computer skills, at the same time, while keeping a business running. Don't forget to factor in multiple 2FA systems, that you also have more service accounts than you probably think, and that your spam filters will change behaviors (for that added bit of uncertainty).

Helpdesk needs valium, badly
Googlers tend to use their Mac laptops as glorified remote desktop terminals, because they aren't allowed to so much as check out code to portable computers that can leave the office.

It's a running joke that $2k top-of-the-line Apple laptops are being used as remote desktop terminals when much cheaper hardware would be perfectly sufficient.
It was amended probably because of the comment here.
Lasts about a day, but there are further software fixes on the way to enable lower power states. Really excited to get usb host working, pecking away at the touchscreen (with no haptic feedback yet!) was getting very old very quick.
Is the blog post fake too? Seriously, this was hard to read...
I don't know about 20%, but here's an earlier non-partisan research on medical staff wearing masks:

http://scielo.isciii.es/pdf/neuro/v19n2/3.pdf

Some rebuttals on the current concerns I've seen are just some doctors on their own doing a self-test (under god knows what standards and not peer reviewed).
They still use a lot of brown coal, which is dirty as hell. The way I see it, they could have had reduced the CO2 output more by keeping nuclear and investing into renewables. Missed potential really.

The debate is not renewables vs nuclear. It's nuclear vs fossil .
Wow. That modem is a hog. Do you know if there is still room for it to be optimized, or is this about as good as it will get?
Can you post the source of system design videos ?
Apparently this is a common practice at IBM, I had a friend tell me even the printers are assigned a public IPv4 addr even behind the NAT
Do you really need samples from that many users? Wouldn't a sampling of a few thousand users give you more or less the same results as a sampling from a few million? And if not, is it worth the bad will you're earning from your users by treating them like this?
My dad pays something like $80 a month for his 1.5mbps DSL line from CenturyLink. It's such a scam, but he can't get anything else. $80 a month for something decent would be a no-brainer. I even signed him up for the beta, since he's in a rural area. I'm just hoping he is rural enough though, because he is only about 6 miles from the city. 6 miles though should be close enough to get decent wired internet...
I used to be a fan. Now they should change their name to shameless. Time to support braver.
Amazing. That's 4x what I get on a Pixel 3. :)
This follows a 5.7B investment by Facebook
I'm a ex-FANG dev that started a recruiting company, so I am VERY familiar with the arbitrary tech interview process. I'm a huge proponent of contract-to-hire. Even started a company* to make it easier for companies to offer contract-to-hire.

Now before you dismiss the idea because you are "too good" to do C2H hear me out. Everyone knows that actually working with someone on the job is the only way to get an accurate evaluation of an engineer. Everything we currently do in technical interviews (whiteboard coding, pair programming, take home assignments, etc) are just attempts to recreate a working environment. If you are hiring a contractor first, you can do a light-weight interview process and then just bring them on and start working together.

As the dev being brought on you can prove your value before you negotiate your salary. You can also try out the company and manager before committing to an offer.

It's crazy, I know, but I think it would drive dev salaries up if it weren't so hard to change jobs because of the tech interview gauntlet we've created for ourselves.

[*] https://www.facet.net
> boy do I have some fun stories from that experience

Not gonna lie, I'm kind of dying to hear them.
The Bay Area freeways are so open now that the general flow of traffic in the left lane is over 90. It's kind of nuts, but also kind of nice. Being able to run out for takeout near the airport at dinnertime and not having to worry about traffic has been nice.
> The company seems to be doing well, so something must be working with their hiring.

People use this argument often, but is technical competence of engineers- specifically at passing their interview process -the explanation for their economic success? And not market penetration, near-monopoly positions, great UX, etc.?

Not to mention, as we've seen in the high-profile Facebook SDK crashes this past week, share price doesn't necessarily mean product quality.
Make a distinction between the BLM organisation and the BLM movement. The BLM organisation is an openly marxist group who are riding the coat-tail of the movement to "overthrow" western civilisation. And if you don't think so go read their statement of purpose on their website and tell yourself that is just "reforming the police".

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
> Galileo was a progressive flouting conventional regression—most (not all) whiners about cancel culture are regressive flouting conventional progression.

> If you think about the broader context in which this article was written you really have to wonder what the so-called “unconventional views” being defended are. As many views that are positive, progressive, evidence based, and generally in service of a more equitable world are in this period finally reaching the status of being “orthodoxy”.

Replace "whiners about cancel culture" with "counter revolutionaries" or "reactionary forces" and this could have been written during the stalinist purges or the cultural revolution.
>Maybe we should interview with small take-home tasks to be submitted with some write-ups to test how people research, reason, and write-up problems, rather than writing code on the spot on a whiteboard. ...but maybe that's just me.

I'm a huge fan of giving people tasks that somewhat resemble a real world problem they'd likely encounter or at least aligns categorically with their proclaimed resume feats and more importantly on top of that giving them the same environment they're comfortable working in on a daily basis which might be on a laptop in a quiet room from 6am to 10am in the morning.

However, I'm usually instantly met with the "oh well we don't want to expect too much of our interview candidates" mentality as if asking them to do a "take home" (rather than telling them to figure out how to take a day off of work for an onsite panel) is somehow grotesquely disrespecting their time and would make the company look bad if the broader community even got a whiff that it had been considered. I'm so confused. People easily identify that white-boarding interviews suck for more than just the interviewee. And yet any time a solution is proposed that involves doing something other than putting the candidate in a room in front of a whiteboard for an hour, it's shot down.

I've concluded it's a generational thing and the problem won't be fixed until we get a wave of hiring managers that weren't schooled on the Google interview process. But, also note it's a self perpetuating issue too so :shrug:.
I agree with that, but saying "I think x will happen" is not the same as saying "I promise x will happen."

Keep in mind the word "promise" is being used repeatedly and emphatically on forums like this one.
Who you tax is more important than how much you tax. If you levy your tax burden entirely on the poorest aspects of society than of course its going to look bad.

The US is largely socialism and profits for the corporations and free market absolutism and costs for the working poor.
I had a similar experience. They wanted me to do 4 phone interviews before even bringing me on-site, stretched over a month. Don't really understand the rationale for dragging it out so long.
Does complex imply harder to use? I find Tesla’s system easier to use than most infotainment systems. I would argue more features != harder to use.
Normally you should do that automatically without additional effort. It is difference between new driver who has to think about everything.
Exactly, it's an interesting example how quickly our brains can seem to lose access to skills without actually 'forgetting' them, considering how quickly people can get pack to normal.
Depending on what you are doing(!) users stuck on a platform OR users who don't do links might or might not be the desired audience.
> You're missing the quality they're actually testing for: ability to study and dedicate yourself to a task. Or in other words work ethic

TIL I've been "hacking" all their "tests" :D acing them just by curiosity & interest in computers in general, a bit of intelligence and a lot of laziness!
Only a tiny fraction of people is in a position to do this. If it were really an issue, using the pattern `shopname_n`, where nn is different for every address, should do the trick. It's similar to encrypting serial numbers so they don't [German Tank Problem](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem) them.
Convert the leaves of a binary tree to a doubly linked list
Do you have any references to back this up? There are many large US and European companies doing business in China, and it is very hard to believe they all hand over all their IP willingly.
Thank you! As of right now, I am working on publishing it as an npm package. Once thats done, I will update the docs and that should hopefully address your question about using it with React/Vue/Angular etc. So please keep an eye out on the repository.
Thanks for the answer.

> Then we ask them to write some code on the whiteboard. We give them a simple problem

Can you share what kind of problem?

This actually sounds pretty close to what we did at my previous company, except that candidates were given a computer (nothing had to compile, it's just that we don't expect anyone to be able to write code on whiteboard) and two coding problems.

First one was pretty simple, such as printing a folder structure with nice indentation (given some predefined input data structure). The second one was harder, although we hired plenty who did not manage to completely solve that one, but if they did it was a plus.

Also had some design questions after that. Some people still complained that the interview was abstract algorithmic nonsense without relevance to real life.
Not true, 3200 CL16 can be nearly as cheap as slower RAM nowadays, with multiple brands at sub-$60 per 16GB stick[1]. OP is paying extra for RGB, as another commenter points out.

[1] https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#sort=price&U=4&Z=1...
A counterpoint: I work with a lot of ex-Amazon employees who continue to conduct interviews exactly in this way. Even my own interview, if I hadn't prepped a story for each of the LPs, I would've bombed.
> And, as you said, every interviewer will be different. But I don’t see a way to fix that without eliminating technical interviews altogether. You are being judged, the interviewers are subjective, they do disagree about the rubric, and a bunch of money is on the line. It’s completely reasonable to be anxious. I don’t really see a way out.

Perhaps what we should be working towards is making it more transparent- it's still ubiquitous for candidates to be rejected without feedback- and more objective, and improving the technical interview process further. I'm not arguing for throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
They do not have cross-links. They were in the original public announcements, but none of the current satellites have them, nor have they announced when they would be launching some that do. It's likely years away.
The issue is a utility app doing anything other than what the user explicitly requests. I use a maps app to look at maps; it has no business doing anything with my photos.

Other people may use it for other things— that’s fine, as long as it behaves itself on my device when I don’t use those features.
> Nobody wanted to hear about security.

System/network security. I guarantee physical security would get someone's attention at a police department. The police in my family are paranoid and have even broken lesser laws to increase their own physical security.

I suspect this mismatch is because police (like average consumers) don't know the impact of a network security breach. It's a failure of imagination. Hopefully BlueLeaks helps to change this.
Absolutely! My smartwatch was quite happy today. I just wasn’t used to it anymore I guess :D
Twitter accounts of Coinbase, Gemini and Binance hacked
Employers abuse contract-to-hire to get temporary employees with no intention of hiring.
I think the problem is HR itself. Few companies should be large enough to warrant full time HR, but even small companies need many.. HR are specialist in expanding the disconnect between people the company thinks it needs and people who are willing to work for it.
I'm been seeing more speeding the last few months (which I am fine with). More recently thought, I've seen more overly-aggressive driving than I'm used to. People are speeding up when someone tries to pass, that sort of thing.

I was caught up in a road-rage thing yesterday. As a recovering hothead, I get being on the bad end. When he was tailgating I accelerated where he'd have plenty of room to get by. I kept my cool & didn't react when he break-check'd me. I really was trying to defuse the situation but he couldn't stop escalating it. It's unusual to have it go past the 1st revenge thing, as long as I don't react.
There are 4 kinds of lies.

Lies

Damn lies

Statistics

Selectively chosen video snippets
As others have mentioned, the highest dose did have some adverse events, and has been withdrawn from consideration. Here's his own words on twitter.

https://twitter.com/ichaydon/status/1265275383798050819
Plus with their announced usb-c hub, it seems that one could connect to a screen+keyboard+mouse and work on things for a bit if one forgot the laptop.
Aurora Store is a FOSS Google Play app store client that can spoof the device model, language, and location. It does not a require Google Play Services or a Google account, and it might work for your use case.

https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.aurora.store/
Just hire better programmers and keep the scientists focused on science. It's just much more efficient. Its like wasting time getting your pitcher to improve his batting skills. Don't mix roles up.
This makes sense if you’re at a FAANG organization you shouldn’t need to make breakneck code changes with people breathing down your neck.

At a lean startup or smaller team though this isn’t unheard of. I’ve had to debug and code up multiple things while everything was on fire around me.

Mistakes are guaranteed to happen no matter how many precautions are in place. You can reduce the probability of a mistake happening but when it does whoever is fixing it needs to understand how to stay calm and work well under pressure.
CEL7: A 60kb single-executable grid-based game framework
Are you offering insurance to every C2H prospect? Otherwise, this seems like it basically works for healthy people without families.
You haven't seen most people use slack then
That's actually quite impressive, unlike the exploitative dumpster fire that is Medium.
I'm pretty sure that says more about your lack of imagination than the economics of Starlink. There are already multiple geosynchronous satellite internet providers that provide incredibly shitty (and expensive) internet service that you would only pay for if it's literally your only option. If Starlink can provide service at less than $100/month, it's going to put all of those companies out of business in a matter of just a few years.
My Almost Paperless Office
Yeah, I felt like a dupe when I read the ending. I'd rather read some alt-right drivel that makes no pretense about who they're attacking; at least it's honest on some level.
Orthodoxy is the domain of conservative and reactionary forces, it's not a true synonym of ideology or conformity.
Graham blithely repurposes the term as a pejorative against so-called "cancel culture" participants, which is clever until you think about it for more than five seconds.
>Spying on users by default is actually the user-friendly thing to do, because then we know what they're doing and can help them do it better.

Don't drive so fast bro.
I can attest to this. A number of years ago, after fifteen years as an engineer getting jobs through my reputation, I went into my first white board coding interview, with one of the FAANGs. It was a Boggle like problem to find possible words. While at the board my back was killing me, and I had a horrible time thinking due to anxiety. I knew that I wanted a trie, but I blanked on how to implement it properly. A couple hours later at home I remembered all of it.

That said, it did filter out people who had trouble handling the new stress of a whiteboarding interview and people who did not practice whiteboarding. If I ever interview for a FAANG again I'll make sure to do a lot more preparation.
I think they switched to Atlassian StatusPage[1] a while ago.

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage
Would this be killed by security requirements? My company allows email on my Android only if I install MS Intune which made me choose a longer passcode and doesnt allow unlocked screen while charging. Banking apps prevent rooted phones. Will major apps boycott this platform?
Considering many people are reporting issues, according to that study, it seems to be hard to use.
Well, a 1970s 172 is cheaper than a new light sport aircraft, so it's not really a fair comparison.

I was hoping with the part 23 rewrite we might get cheaper new aircraft, but that hasn't happened.
I don't know the physics well enough, but having skimmed the paper it looks like it has something to do with crystallographic point groups[1]. The point sets are invariant under some of these groups, and that symmetry can help you do some calculations. They also seem to make some use of dualities of the solids, which correspond to polyhedra with the same point group. It might have been more interesting to consider all of the point groups, but, again, I don't understand the physics to know why they did what they did.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic_point_group
> If somebody incurs damage to government property

There has been so much argument on the lines of "It's just property."

I guess "They're just laws," as if they don't mean anything; as if laws were not the way we evolved socially to protect individuals from other individuals who wanted to cause harm.

She set a car on fire! That is literally violence. It's literally destruction. Saying "oh, it's a thing and not a person" doesn't hold a candle stick to the fact that it is still literally violence!

Words are literally not violence. Speech is literally not violence. Silence is literally not violence.

Setting things on fire, that you don't own, destructively, is violence. I can't believe 2020 is the year in which we have no idea what terms like "violence" and "non-violence" have literally meant for decades if not centuries.

Orwell had a term for this. It was called Double-Think.